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Oral Health
Cold Sore Treatment
Cold sores are a common nuisance. Although there is no cure for the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2) that causes them, cold sore breakouts can be managed and avoided. Cold sores, sometimes called fever blisters, appear around the lips and mouth and are often associated with red, swollen and irritated skin around the breakout areas.
Symptoms of Cold Sores:
- Pain around the mouth
- Fever and sore throat
- Swollen neck glands
Causes of Cold Sore Outbreaks:
- Stress
- Chapped Lips
- Extreme sunlight exposure
- Physical exhaustion or illness
Even though no cure exists for the cold sore virus, Family Dentistry of Largo can provide you with antiviral medication to control the outbreaks and relieve any pain or irritation you are experiencing. You can also avoid developing cold sores by avoiding sharing utensils and drinking cups with others that may be infected.
For advice and treatment of cold sores, call Family Dentistry of Largo at 727-536-5787.
Night Guards
If you're experiencing chronic headaches and migraines because of involuntary night-time teeth clenching, let Family Dentistry of Largo help you with a night guard. A night guard is a thin, transparent device that is worn over the biting surface of your teeth while you sleep to prevent contact between the upper and lower teeth. Night guards have also proven to be an effective remedy for patients who are suffering from the effects of grinding and clenching their teeth while sleeping.Read more about Night Guards
Oral Cancer Screening
The dental community is the first line of defense in early detection of oral cancer. The goal of oral cancer screening is to detect mouth cancer or precancerous lesions that may lead to mouth cancer at an early stage — when cancer or lesions are easiest to remove and most likely to be cured. When found at the early stages of development, oral cancers have an 80-90% survival rate. Early detection is imperative!Read more about Oral Cancer Screening
Periodontal / Gum Disease Treatment
Periodontal disease, commonly known as gum disease, is caused by bacteria in plaque. If not consistently removed, this bacteria builds up, infecting your teeth, gums and eventually the bone that supports your teeth, a common cause of tooth loss. Gum disease has three stages of progression: gingivitis, periodontitis, and advanced periodontitis; the longer the disease has to advance, the more damage it causes. With advancements in detection and treatment, Family Dentistry of Largo can discover periodontal disease early and begin treatment before complicated issues arise.Read more about Periodontal / Gum Disease Treatment
Sleep Apnea
Struggling with snoring and sleeplessness? Call your dentist. Snoring and sleep disturbances are often signs of obstructive sleep apnea, and your oral health could be to blame. The condition causes repeated breathing interruptions throughout the night; the pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes and may occur 30 or more times per hour. They happen because the airway is obstructed.
The first sign of sleep apnea is often tooth grinding (bruxism). Dentists look for worn tooth surfaces, a sign that a patient grinds his or her teeth. Grinding is just one oral health sign of sleep apnea. Other signs are a small jaw, a tongue with scalloped edges, or redness in the throat (caused by excessive snoring, which is another symptom of sleep apnea).Read more about Sleep Apnea
Smoking Cessation
Congratulations! Just by clicking on this page, you've made your first step toward overcoming your nicotine addiction. At Family Dentistry of Largo, we're here to assist and support you. We'll discuss your goals, educate you on smoking cessation methods and present the treatment options available to help you quit smoking for good.
If you have experienced cosmetic problems associated with tobacco use, ask us about the treatment options available that counter the effects of tobacco use on your appearance, such as whitening agents, porcelain veneers, and crowns.
Make an appointment today by calling us at 727-536-5787 and make a positive impact on your oral and overall health!
TMJ / TMD Treatment
Your temporomandibular joint is a hinge that connects your jaw to the temporal bones of your skull, which are in front of each ear. It lets you move your jaw up and down and side to side, so you can talk, chew, and yawn. Problems with your jaw and the muscles in your face that control it are known as temporomandibular disorders (TMD). But you may hear it wrongly called TMJ, after the joint.Read more about TMJ / TMD Treatment


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I'm a learning and development consultant, I train, coach, consult and deliver keynote speeches about leadership, interpersonal skills and behaviour.
I'm now setting up a life coaching business to compliment the work that I do already in business. As I see it that I'm the behavioural equivalent of a Personal Trainer: helping healthy people to achieve maximum 'fitness' - well being and quality of life! My coaching is to help people balance their 'busy' life, grow and live consciously.
Busy people who are settling and surviving rather than creating and thriving in their life.
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Last couple of days of the competition - I'm open to new ideas and different formats - be creative and fun!
I will use the logo on my website and for marketing so would like higher and lower resolution formats.
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Buchholz rewarding Red Sox's faith in his abilities
Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz already has a no-hitter under his belt, so it's not like that's a huge hole on his resume that needed filling anyway. Besides, he appears to be building something way more significant than one magical afternoon.
After all the years of promise and disappointment, after all the stops and starts in his career, Buchholz finally may have arrived at a place where the Red Sox always believed he'd get to.View Full Game Coverage
Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz already has a no-hitter under his belt, so it's not like that's a huge hole on his resume that needed filling anyway. Besides, he appears to be building something way more significant than one magical afternoon.
After all the years of promise and disappointment, after all the stops and starts in his career, Buchholz finally may have arrived at a place where the Red Sox always believed he'd get to.View Full Game Coverage
At 28, Buchholz appears to be a bona fide No. 1 starter. If you're unclear on the definition of that, that's OK, because a dozen baseball people probably will give you a dozen different answers. He's most likely the guy who wants the ball when the stakes are the highest, the guy teammates count on to break losing streaks, give the bullpen a night off or figure out a way to win when he doesn't have nearly his best stuff.
At the moment, the Red Sox have two guys like that. Left-hander Jon Lester is the true No. 1, an eight-year veteran who has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows -- on the field and off.
In terms of stuff and composure and all that, though, there's almost no one in baseball performing better than Buchholz. He has won all three of his starts this season, allowing one earned run in 22 innings. On Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park, Buchholz won his third straight start by taking a no-hitter into the eighth inning, broken up when Tampa Bay's Kelly Johnson dumped a broken-bat leadoff single into right field.
Here's hoping Buchholz took a moment to step off the mound and soak in the moment. He had a no-hitter in just his second Major League start, that in 2007. Buchholz was 23 years old and two years removed from being a first-round Draft choice. He'd flown through the Minor Leagues, and with instant success, couldn't have understood the magnitude of his accomplishment.
Buchholz surely knows now. Six years later, there have been times when it looked as if he might not ever fulfill all that promise. A year after the no-hitter, he tore a fingernail and was eventually sent back to Double-A. He began 2009 in Triple-A.
Buchholz won 17 games in 2010, but he sustained a stress fracture in his back that sidelined him the final three months of 2011. Buchholz needed about seven starts to feel comfortable last season, but was solid after that.
Now he's part of the rebirth of the Red Sox. In one offseason, general manager Ben Cherington remade his club from the inside out, beginning with the hiring of John Farrell as manager.
As the Red Sox's pitching coach between 2007 and '10, Farrell helped Lester and Buchholz begin their Major League careers, and it was under his guidance that they had the most success.
Farrell returned to the Red Sox with immediate credibility, not just in the hope that he could help Lester and Buchholz have success, but also in the respect in which he was held by Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz, among others.
Cherington then gave the clubhouse a different look with the signings of Jonny Gomes, Mike Napoli, David Ross, Ryan Dempster, Stephen Drew and Shane Victorino. In terms of professional and work ethic and a team-first attitude, he could hardly have had made six better signings.
Cherington knew there was a gamble in adding six 30-somethings, but he also knew they'd help build the right environment. No one would question the Red Sox's attitude or effort.
All the GM had to do was getting the pitching straightened out. The Red Sox are 5-1 in games started by Lester and Buchholz, and at 7-4 overall, they sit alone atop the American League East.
Buchholz is not doing it by re-emphasizing his fastball, which means he's pitching with confidence, feeling good about his stuff and unafraid to challenge hitters. His 10 walks in 22 innings is still too many, but considering how he has struggled in past Aprils (5.19 ERA compared to 3.92 after April), it's a step in the right direction. Once focused on strikeouts, Buchholz has learned that an out is an out is an out.
"It's been a tough transition," Buchholz said during Spring Training. "[In the Minor Leagues], I was more a guy who would go out there and strike a lot of people out. I think I've gotten past that."
Plenty of pitchers make a similar transition, and if Buchholz hadn't had to deal with two serious physical issues, he might have gotten there sooner. That he took a bit longer to arrive is not important in these first days of a new season. The Red Sox are feeling better about their team by the day, and it begins with Lester and especially Buchholz.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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Political slogans and pictures from the past can sometimes be confusing because modern times suggest a different meaning. In the 1900 U.S. presidential campaign, William McKinley used the slogans "Protection and Prosperity" and "Four more years of the full dinner pail." His campaign often pictured a workman's lunchbox as a symbol of jobs.
One of his most famous buttons, if first seen today, would startle a 2013 voter. The button shows a strange boxlike container -the lunch pail of the day. Inside the pail is a building with smoke pouring from the smokestacks and the words: "Do you smoke? Yes, since 1896." The smoking chimneys on the building represent work being done inside, just as the lunch pail means jobs.
Today the smoke could be misinterpreted as pollution, and the answer given to "Do you smoke?" would suggest a health problem.
The rare button sold for $1,948 at a recent Hake's Auction.
It's a reminder that both language and symbols can change with time and events, so collectors should be careful not to interpret objects or words from the past through modern eyes.
Q: My small electric mantel clock has a metal embossed design under the dial. The design includes a seaplane with a propeller that rotates when the clock is running. There's also a sailing ship, a man standing near a tepee and the words "Polar Bird." The case is Bakelite and like new. I can't find a manufacturer's name. Do you know who made it and what it's worth today?
A: A clock matching yours auctioned last year for $119. Clocks like it, with extra parts that move when the clock is running, are called "animated clocks." Yours probably dates from the 1930s, the decade following Adm. Richard Byrd's first flights to both the north and south poles. Some sources say the clock was manufactured by the New Jersey Clock Co. of Newark, N.J., with an electric motor made by the Hammond Clock Co. of Chicago. Others say it's a Chronart clock, which may have been a trade name used by the New Jersey Clock Co.
Q: I inherited a ceramic tile mural made up of 24 4-inch tiles. The tiles are not cemented together, but when laid out they picture a large sailing ship, two smaller sailboats and a lighthouse. One tile is signed "Pillsbury." I think the tiles came from a pottery in Ohio. Any information and present value would be appreciated.
A: Hester W. Pillsbury (1862-1951) was a decorator who worked at Roseville and Weller, both Ohio potteries. Roseville Pottery was organized in Roseville, Ohio, in 1890 and opened a plant in nearby Zanesville in 1898. Roseville made pottery until 1954. Weller Pottery started out in Fultonham, Ohio, moved to Zanesville in 1882 and closed in 1948. Hester Pillsbury began working in about 1904 and worked at Weller after 1918. A tile picture like yours, made up of 24 signed tiles, could be worth $1,000 or more.
Q: I just bought a piece of Brooklin Pottery. I thought it was from New York but I am told it is Canadian. Do you know anything about it? Are there many popular collectibles from Canada that aren't well known in the states?
A: Of course. Collectors in the United States and Canada started looking at their own countries after soldiers saw all the antiques in Europe during World War II. The first books and publications about collecting in the United States concentrated on English porcelains and furniture, Georgian silver, prints, Staffordshire figures and Chippendale furniture that could have been made in many countries. American pieces were wanted by very few. Our trip to Eastern Canada from Ohio in the late 1950s was disappointing because we hoped to see Canadian things in antiques shops. We found a few in Nova Scotia selling early Canadian furniture, but shops in the large cities looked like ours -they were filled with mainly English or Asian pieces. But by the 1970s, Canadians had become interested in their own antiques and history and there were Canadian publications and shows. Brooklin Pottery was founded in 1952 by Theo and Susan Harlander. They had emigrated from Germany. Some of their best-known studio pottery is made with incised pictures of people and geometric designs in pale earthtones. The business was closed by 1987.
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Singer sewing machine trade card, Romeo & Juliet, c.1890, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. $10.
Avon after-shave bottle, Liberty Bell shape, amber, 1971, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in., $25.
Elfinware trinket box, piano shape, blue flowers, green moss, Germany, c. 1900, 2 1/2 x 1 x 2 inches, $50.
Czechoslovakia glass pitcher, Queen Anne's Lace, 10 x 7 inches, $90.
Cookie cutter running horse, tin, signed C.H. Swink, c. 1860, 4 x 7 1/2 inches, $175.
Delft plate, woman holding cornucopia and flower stem, 1700s, 8 7/8 inches, $180.
Chinese export armorial plate, Renny arms, spearhead flower borders, octagonal, 1770, 8 1/2 inches, $450.
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2014 Outdoor: Ran the 800m for the Retrievers during the spring season, finishing in 15th at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships… Helped the 4x800m relay team capture the gold medal with a school record time of 7:34.11 at the conference championships meet at Vermont… Clocked a top season time of 1:54.47 in the 800m event at the Mason Spring Invitational… Finished fourth in the 1,500m event on his home track at the Big Dawg Invitational.
2013-14 Indoor: Competed in the 1,000m run at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships, placing 14th… Set a career-best time of 2:29.83 in the event at the Armory Collegiate Invitational which ranks as the ninth-fastest time in program history… Also helped the UMBC 4x800 and distance medley relay teams capture bronze medals at the conference meet in New York.
2013 Outdoor: Competed in the 800m run and the 1,500m run at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium.
2012-13 Indoor: Helped lead the Retrievers to a gold medal in the 4x800m relay at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Ran the 800m at the Patriot Games, finishing ninth with a time of 1:59.82.
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Michelle Obama arrives in Beijing with her mother and daughters in U.S. 'soft power' push
Landing on an unusually blue-sky Beijing afternoon, Michelle Obama launched a six-day trip to China on Thursday, aimed at smoothing Sino-U.S. relations with a carefully orchestrated exercise in soft diplomacy.
Obama, joined by her mother, Marian Robinson, and two daughters, Malia and Sasha, was greeted on the tarmac at Beijing Capital International Airport by Chinese officials and newly installed Ambassador to China Max Baucus and his wife, Melodee Hanes. Also on hand were three busloads of mostly Chinese media, some of whom were there to scrutinize the Obamas' fashion choices, which have been the subject of media speculation for the past week.
The White House signaled many days ago that this will not be a political trip. No discussion of China's tensions with Japan. No lectures on China's human rights record. The goal is to elevate Michelle Obama's international education agenda and see some of China's great sights, while also developing a relationship with her counterpart, Peng Liyuan, spouse of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who shares Obama's interests in education and public health.
Numerous commentators have criticized Obama for not using her international celebrity status to advance a more ambitious agenda. But some say that, in a time of tension, stronger personal connections between the first families could go a long way toward a more productive dialogue between the United States and China.
"It seems like a no-brainer that this kind of one on one could produce some positive diplomatic results," Damien Ma, a fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago, said in an email exchange with McClatchy.
Ma noted that a meeting between Michelle Obama and Peng has been talked about for some time, partly because Obama was unable to join her husband at the Sunnylands Summit last June, which Xi and Peng attended.
In the United States, Beijing's use of "soft power" is getting increased scrutiny as China pumps money into U.S. universities, including the establishment of dozens of Confucius institutes. Such institutes feature arts and language programs aimed at projecting a benevolent image of Asia's rising superpower.
The United States has its own instruments of "soft power," and the Obama family is a big part of that toolbox. Over the next six days, China's television audience _ the largest in the world _ will be inundated with images of an attractive multi-generational U.S. family, the feminine influence on the first African-American to be elected president. The optics can't help but advance the U.S. image in China, even if the Obama doesn't make speeches about the virtues of democracy.
Marian Robinson's attendance also surely will resonate in a China, where grandmothers play an essential role in child rearing and other family priorities.
During her first day in Beijing on Friday, Obama and her family will be hosted by Peng, a famous singer in China, a celebrity and a behind-the-scenes political force in her own right. They will visit Beijing Normal School, which prepares Chinese students for study abroad, tour the Forbidden City and attend a ceremonial dinner and evening performance.
In the days to follow, the Obamas will visit part of the Great Wall near Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Xian and the Chengdu Panda Base, home to about 50 pandas under study. Mixed in will be education roundtables and school visits with students, which will be blogged and broadcast through a White House collaboration with PBS LearningMedia and Discovery Education.
On her opening blog post, Obama said she hopes to hear about the challenges, hopes and dreams of the Chinese learners she meets. "I'll be talking with students about their lives in China and telling them about America and the values and traditions we hold dear," she wrote.
Obama's approach to overseas trips _ she's described it as "do no harm" _ has been compared to that of Barbara Bush, who avoided overtly political statements, unlike the presidential spouses who succeeded her.
Laura Bush once criticized China for its support of the previous military junta in Myanmar. Hillary Clinton, at a 1995 United Nations conference in Beijing, spoke about mistreatment of women in a set of strong comments that didn't directly name China but were clearly aimed at it.
In a briefing with reporters early this week, White House officials acknowledged the importance and sensitivity of relations with China on human rights and other issues. But they said such concerns were best expressed by President Barack Obama, rather than his spouse. One of those opportunities will come next week, when Obama and China's top leaders are scheduled to see each other at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.
"We have differences with China, on human rights, on trade, on cyber," said Ben Rhodes, the administration's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. "I am sure President Obama will be raising a number of those issues directly with President Xi Jinping."
Several human rights activists and China watchers have expressed disappointment that this week's visit by a "modern first lady" is being so cautiously scripted.
"The simple truth is that it would not take much for Mrs. Obama to link her powerful public diplomacy moment with real political issues," Elizabeth C. Economy, director of Asia Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in a recent blog post.
In discussions with Peng about culture and education, said Economy, Obama "could raise the issues of visa denial for American journalists, greater access within China for American films, and the political challenges faced by American universities establishing partnerships with Chinese institutions in China."
Such partnerships appear to be at least a partial focus of Michelle Obama's trip. According to Tina Tchen, Obama's chief of staff, there are 200,000 Chinese students studying in the United States, and 20,000 U.S. students studying in China. President Obama, she said, seeks to increase that number through an initiative she calls "100,000 Strong."
On China state media this week, the focus has been largely style over substance, however. Several news sites ran photo galleries comparing the fashion statements made by the first ladies of the United States and China.
To prepare for the trip and generate a little buzz beforehand, Michelle Obama stopped in at the Yu Ying public charter school in Washington, where students who had visited or grew up in China offered her some advice. One warned her about China's toilet facilities. Another said she should be prepared for people to stare at her.


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By Dennis A. Espinoza, KF10, El Salvador
Imagine you are a mother or a father to both a son and a daughter.
If you only had enough money to send one of your two children to school, which one would you send?
This question was asked to potential microfinance borrowers at a training session led by GHAPE, a microfinance institution (MFI) and Kiva Field Partner based in Bamenda, Cameroon.
The most common answer among the group of 30+ prospective borrowers was my son but I also heard my daughter, the oldest, none and a few others.
The "right" answer was the smarter of the two children.
Although this is a very real situation for many Kiva borrowers, the scenario isn't as much a practical exercise as a way to emphasize gender equality. You may have other thoughts on how to resolve the matter but evaluating each child's talents and overall potential is an attempt to explain that two individuals of the opposite sex should be viewed objectively and equally. The lesson focuses in on GHAPE's goal of encouraging fair treatment of women. The organization conducts this exercise with all new borrowers in order to establish a basis for relationships within a lending group as well as the overall GHAPE community.
It's been a few months since I sat through GHAPE's training session and first heard the exercise but the goal of empowering women came to mind as I was sitting in a recent meeting here in El Salvador working with Kiva field partner, Apoyo Integral. As I met with the four people who currently have the most influence on Kiva's strategic impact on the alleviation of poverty in El Salvador, I realized I was the only male in the room. As I sat there and quickly reflected on my four months as a Kiva Fellow I realized that most of my co-workers have been women.
GHAPE, founded by a woman who overcame numerous social, economic and cultural barriers, is currently led by a female field coordinator and a female office manager. Apoyo Integral's coordinator for all Kiva related tasks manages all of her professional responsibilities while enrolled in college courses and commuting a total of three hours the six days a week that Integral's offices are open. Similarly driven women fill three levels of management above her. Beyond my co-workers, I would estimate that 70 to 80 percent of my client interviews have been with female microentreprenuers.
My direct involvement has only been with two MFIs worldwide and thus very limited but microfinance is recognized as an industry generally inclined towards the empowerment of women. The financial limitations and cultural mores of countries with developing economies have resulted in limited income generating opportunities for women and thus the industry's emphasis on self-employment. The focus has its share of controversy. Sociologists question the external influence on a local culture and the effects on the role of a man and a woman in the home as well as in local society. From a similar perspective, I've sat in borrower training sessions interrupted by men protesting that women should defer all financial decisions to their husbands or fathers.
While I recognize the need to respect a local culture and customs, studies have shown that microfinance is having a significant impact on the advancement of entire families living in poverty by focusing efforts on women. Sitting in the homes of these borrowers and talking to women about their businesses, progress, financial independence, and economic potential, I've had an opportunity to see unique advancement firsthand. It has also become obvious, after having worked out of the offices of two separate MFIs, that the impact of the microfinance industry on the progress of women worldwide isn't limited to those in poverty. The professional opportunities for women within an industry generally focused on the needs of daughters, mothers and grandmothers is inspiring and another step forward in the advancement of gender equality around the world.
So today, International Women's Day, I would like to specifically thank all of the women within this industry who have paved a path for me to be here today. I look forward to a day when gender equality is universally recognized and discrimination of any type is no longer an issue but until then a simple note in appreciation of anyone who has overcome the prejudice and abuse that can be encountered when working through gender, socioeconomic and cultural barriers, to advance the field of microfinance to what it is today.
- "Women constitute around 60–80 percent of the export manufacturing workforce in the developing world, a sector the World Bank expects to shrink significantly during the economic crisis" (UNIFAM)
- "the result of the financial shock is estimated to be between 200,000 and 400,000 additional infant deaths per year on average in the 2009 to 2015 period– or a total of 1.4 million to 2.8 million more infant deaths, if the crisis persists. Negative shocks are more harmful to girls than to boys: one or more unit fall in GDP increases average infant mortality of 7.4 deaths for 1,000 births for girls compared to 1.5 deaths for 1,000 births for boys." (World Bank)
- Percentage of Kiva loans made to women entrepreneurs: 82.35% (Kiva.org)
Join Kiva Field Partner, Women for Women International, today in celebrating International Women's Day with a global event as featured on the Kiva blog.
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The struggles Mark Kirk endured during his yearlong recovery from a major stroke were worth it Thursday as the Illinois Republican marked his long-awaited return to work by climbing the 45 steps to the Senate's front door.
"I've been dreaming about this day for months," Kirk said Tuesday in a sit-down interview with NBC Chicago in Washington.
Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Dick Durbin, Kirk stopped several times and waved as colleagues cheered him on. Rep. Bobby Rush and others greeted him on the top step with hugs and handshakes.
"Just finished Capitol step climb, It is the honor of my life to represent the people of #IL. Thx for all the support!" Kirk tweeted.
It was a feat he didn't think was possible a year ago.
"There was a time with my left leg when my doctors said, 'It will bear weight,' and I thought, 'You know, I'm the owner of this leg. Yeah, right. It'll never bear weight,'" Kirk said. "They were right and I was wrong."
Kirk's massive stroke limited movement on the left side of his body and affected his speech. He spent months learning to walk and climb stairs, along with speech therapy. He credits his staff at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for pushing him when he thought he couldn't do it.
Kirk needed three brain surgeries to help him heal. At one point he was so close to death he recalled angels speaking to him.
"I felt like there were three angels in the room. And, interestingly, they had New York accents, probably because the last movie I'd seen was on Channel 11, was the original 'Ocean's 11,'" he said.
Kirk now speaks more slowly and deliberately. He also uses a cane and may need a wheelchair. When he returns to work, he is expected to have a scaled back schedule and won't keep the same busy travel schedule he once did.
He said the stroke gave him a renewed sense of purpose, deepened his faith and the experience made him vow "to never, ever give up."


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We Could Offset the Need for the "Sequestration" Budget Cuts By Stopping Nuclear Subsidies
We've previously documented that even top nuclear executives admit that nuclear energy is expensive, and only survives due to massive government subsidies.
Time noted in 2008:
Lovins [a veteran energy expert and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute] notes that the U.S. nuclear industry has received $100 billion in government subsidies over the past half-century, and that federal subsidies now worth up to $13 billion a plant — roughly how much it now costs to build one — still haven't encouraged private industry to back the atomic revival. At the same time, the price of building a plant — all that concrete and steel — has risen dramatically in recent years, while the nuclear workforce has aged and shrunk. Nuclear supporters like Moore who argue that atomic plants are much cheaper than renewables tend to forget the sky-high capital costs, not to mention the huge liability risk of an accident ….
The conservative Cato Institute reported in 2003:
With federal government spending through the roof and projected deficits setting new records every day, it is perhaps surprising that the Bush administration and Congress want to use billions of taxpayer dollars to single-handedly resurrect the moribund nuclear industry. Old habits, however, die hard. The federal government has always maintained a unique public-private partnership with the nuclear industry, wherein the costs of nuclear power are shared by the public but the profits are enjoyed privately. [crony capitalism, anyone?]
A recent report by Scully Capital Services, an investment banking and financial services firm, commissioned by the Department of Energy (DOE), highlighted three federal subsidies and regulations — termed "show stoppers" — without which the industry would grind to a halt. These "show stoppers" include the Price Anderson Act, which limits the liability of the nuclear industry in case of a serious nuclear accident — leaving taxpayers on the hook for potentially hundreds of billions in compensation costs; federal disposal of nuclear waste in a permanent repository, which will save the industry billions at taxpayer expense; and licensing regulations, wherein the report recommends that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission further grease the skids of its quasi-judicial licensing process to preclude successful interventions from opponents. But even these long-standing subsidies are not enough to convince investors, who for decades have treated nuclear power as the pariah of the energy industry.
The most egregious proposal in the energy bill has the federal government providing loan guarantees covering 50 percent of the cost of building 8,400 Megawatts of new nuclear power, the equivalent of six or seven new power plants. The Congressional Research Service estimated that these loan guarantees alone would cost taxpayers $14 to $16 billion. The Congressional Budget Office believes "the risk of default on such a loan guarantee to be very high — well above 50 percent. The key factor accounting for the risk is that we expect that the plant would be uneconomic to operate because of its high construction costs, relative to other electricity generation sources." But that's not all. The bill also authorizes the federal government to enter into power purchase agreements wherein the federal government would buy back power from the newly built plants — potentially at above market rates.
Keeping this provision in the energy bill will result in a double taxation: once to build the plants and then to buy back the power from the newly built plants. This would be like paying for your kids' education and then agreeing to pay them a salary once they graduate.
The Union of Concerned Scientists pointed out in 2010:
The nuclear power industry is seeking tens of billions in new subsidies and other incentives in federal climate and energy legislation that would shift massive construction, financing, operating and regulatory costs and risks from the industry and its financial backers to U.S. taxpayers. Congress should reject these overly generous subsidies to this mature industry whose history of skyrocketing costs and construction overruns already has resulted in two costly bailouts by taxpayers and captive ratepayers—once in the 1970s and 1980s when utilities cancelled or abandoned more than 100 plants, and again in the 1990s when plant owners offloaded their "stranded costs." [The "stranded costs" totaled more than the entire Saving and Loan scandal.]
Too late …
Beyond Nuclear reports:
In 2005, the Energy Policy Act provided another $13 billion of subsidies, tax incentives and other support for the nuclear power industry. It also created the energy loan guarantee program.
In December 2007, Congress and George W. Bush approved $20.5 billion in nuclear loan guarantees under this program ($18.5 billion for new atomic reactors, $2 billion for new uranium enrichment facilities).
During the week of May 25, 2009, the US House approved a "Clean Energy Bank" that would include nuclear power loans, loan guarantees, and other subsidies.
Physicians for Social Responsibility – which won the Nobel Peace Price – noted that – as of 2010 – nuclear companies received tens of billions of dollars in new subsidies, including:
Research and Development
- Generation IV program to develop new reactor designs
- Research and development of radioactive waste reprocessing and transmutation technologies
- Investment in human resources and infrastructure in the nuclear sciences and engineering fields through fellowships and visiting scientist programs; student training programs; collaborative research with industry, national laboratories, and universities; upgrading and sharing of research reactors; and technical assistance
- Nuclear Power 2010, a taxpayer-industry cost-share program to fund Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing of new reactors, as well as the certification of Generation 3.5 reactor designs
- One-step construction and operation license application process that limits public participation
Construction subsidies ~ $3.25 billion + $18.5 billion in loan guarantees
- $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for new reactors. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the default rate is "very high – well above 50 percent."
- Authorization of $2 billion in "risk insurance" to pay the industry for any delays in construction and operation licensing for 6 new reactors, including delays due to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or litigation. The payments would include interest on loans and the difference between the market price and the contractual price of power.
- Authorization of more than $1.25 billion for a nuclear reactor in Idaho to generate hydrogen fuel
Operating subsidies ~ $5.7 billion + Limited Liability
- Reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act, extending the industry's liability cap to cover new nuclear power plants built in the next 20 years
- Incentives for "modular" reactor designs (such as the pebble bed reactor, which has never been built anywhere in the world) by allowing a combination of smaller reactors to be considered one unit, thus lowering the amount that the nuclear operator is responsible to pay under Price-Anderson
- Production tax credits of 1.8-cent for each kilowatt-hour up to 6,000 megawatts of nuclear-generated electricity from new reactors during the first 8 years of operation, costing $5.7 billion in revenue losses to the U.S. Treasury through 2025
Radioactive waste subsidies ~ $22 billion thus far + guaranteed waste removal
- DOE-utility contracts guaranteeing that the nuclear waste will be removed from the site within 10 year of shutdown or the US taxpayer pays for spend fuel storage costs
- One mil (one-tenth of one cent) per kilowatt-hour paid by ratepayers receiving electricity from nuclear reactors to pay for a geologic repository for the spent fuel; the Nuclear Waste Fund currently has $22 billion
Shut-down subsidies ~ $1.3 billion
- Changes the rules for nuclear decommissioning funds that are to be used to clean up closed nuclear plant sites by repealing the cost of service requirement for contributions to a fund and allowing the transfer of pre-1984 decommissioning costs to a qualified fund, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion
The government has paid out substantial sums in new subsidies – including loan guarantees – for expensive new reactors at Vogtle. The reactors are already way over budget … and are plagued by Solyndra-like issues of cronyism, secretive non-disclosure, and mismanagement.
Moreover, the American government has been wholly subsidizing the nuclear industry for decades through its concerted campaign to hide the dangers of radiation … and to cover up the number and scope of accidents. That's a subsidy worth … as much as all nuclear profits ever. In other words, trillions.
And politicians – including Obama – are also subsidizing the American nuclear industry by lobbying foreign countries like India to impose American-style government insurance for their reactors.
And perhaps the biggest taxpayer subsidy of all is that nation our nation could spend trillions – or go bankrupt – in the likely event of a major nuclear accident (and see this.)
The bottom line is that if we want to reduce the debt, we should stop all nuclear subsidies.
Important Note: Claims that nuclear is good for the environment and reduces climate change are entirely false claims pushed by the nuclear lobby.


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Call for Organized Oral Session Proposals
95th ESA Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 1 - 6, 2010
Call Open: July 20 - September 24, 2009
We invite proposals for organized oral sessions for the 95th ESA Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held August 1-6, 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Pittsburgh Convention Center.
Organized oral sessions are organized around a specific topic with most of the speakers invited by the organizer. These sessions are distinguished from symposia in that 1) there is less emphasis on breadth of appeal and overall synthesis; 2) they may be comprised largely of related case studies; 3) talks are set at 15 minutes each, with 5 minutes following for discussion (as in contributed oral sessions); and 4) at least 2 time slots out of the 10 available in an organized oral session are reserved for placing related talks from the contributed abstracts by the Program Chair.
Organized oral sessions are limited to half-day sessions (3.5 hours long); full-day organized oral sessions will not be considered. Proposals addressing the meeting theme, "Global Warming: The legacy of our past, the challenge for our future" are especially welcome, but any timely and coherent subject of broad interest will be considered. We also welcome proposals that explore interdisciplinary connections with areas of social and natural science outside of ecology or that relate to ecological education at any level.
Applications must be received on or before Thursday, September 24, 2009. You must use the online submission site athttp://eco.confex.com/eco/2010/cfp.cgi that will be available from the ESA website (www.esa.org/pittsburgh) as of July 20, 2009.
- Evaluation Process and Criteria
- Endorsements
- Presentation Rules
- If Your Proposal Is Accepted
- Application Format
- Cancellation Policy
- Summary of Deadlines
- Begin Submission Process
A. Evaluation Process and Criteria
Organized oral session proposals will be assessed under the following criteria. Weighting of particular criteria may vary depending on the nature of proposals, but proposals should explicitly address these criteria, as appropriate.
Decisions will be made by December 17, 2009.
Scientific strength: Sessions may receive higher priority if they:
- feature significant contributions to or advances in ecological understanding
- present innovative and original work
- provide examples of how ecological research benefited from attention to public policy concerns, outreach or educational activities.
Structure and organization: Strong proposals will describe sessions where:
- individual talks clearly contribute to a coherent whole
- the collection of speakers offers a range of perspectives; organizers should carefully avoid the appearance of biases toward their own perspectives
Integration: Proposals may receive higher priority if they are clearly linked to the meeting's overall theme, or to other sessions proposed for this meeting or presented at recent ESA meetings.
Speakers:Invited speakers may be a mix of well-established scientists, rising stars, and newcomers, but each speaker should bring new contributions to the session, not simply reviews of previous work. Inclusion of experienced or particularly engaging speakers can strengthen a proposal, but new voices are also important. Proposals with a larger proportion of confirmed speakers will be favored. All speakers will be required to submit an abstract by the February 25, 2010, abstract submission deadline.
B. Endorsements
There are no official endorsements of Organized Oral Sessions.
C. Presentation Rules
In the interest of broadening participation, an individual is allowed to be an organizer (either a principal organizer or a co-organizer) for only one organized oral session.
Persons agreeing to present papers in organized oral sessions also should be aware that the one-paper-rule will be enforced. That is, anyone who is first author or presenter of an organized oral session paper cannot also be first author or presenter for another paper whether for a symposium, organized oral session, contributed oral session, or poster session. Organizers should make certain that speakers they recruit understand this rule and make no conflicting commitments.
Exceptions to the one-paper rule may be made for participants in special sessions, workshops, and for plenary speakers. Also, an author may submit an abstract for a second presentation ONLY if the second abstract is directly related to ecology education or scientific outreach. Moderators for organized oral sessions may not serve as speakers in those sessions. A moderator may, however, be a speaker in another session.
D. If Your Proposal Is Accepted
After organized oral sessions are accepted and the scheduling for the meeting is underway, cancellations and schedule changes are very disruptive to meeting planning. Hence, organized oral session organizers should obtain firm commitments from as many of their invited speakers as possible before submitting their proposal.
If a proposal is accepted, the organizers must submit a final summary description of the organized oral session to the Program Assistant no later than January 21, 2010. This summary will appear on the meeting website, should have a description written so as to stimulate interest and promote attendance by a general audience, and thus is different in focus from the longer description in the original proposal. This final summary must include a complete and current listing of organizers' names and their affiliations, addresses, telephone, fax, and email addresses; a 250 word description of the session, a single-sentence (up to 50 words) description of the session, and a final, confirmed speaker list.
It is the responsibility of the organized oral session organizers to see that each speaker submits an individual abstract of his/her talk through the Abstract Submission site by the February 25, 2010, deadline.
ESA is not able to provide any financial assistance, stipends, free registration, travel assistance, or paid lodging to organized oral session organizers or to individual session participants. Organizers are responsible for making this clear to the participants.
E. Application Format
All proposals MUST follow the format of the online submission form on the ESA meeting website. Incomplete and inaccurate information provided on these forms may result in the proposal not being accepted.
Note that the following information must be entered on thehttp://eco.confex.com/eco/2010/cfp.cgi. It is provided here to assist you in planning your submission. Also note that the web page format may differ slightly from the format listed here.
All proposals must include:
- Title of organized oral session
- Principal organizer (Name, institution or affiliation, e-mail)
- Co-organizers (Names, institutions or affiliations, e-mail). Indicate which of the organizers will serve as moderator. The moderator may not serve as a speaker in the session.
- Speakers (Names, affiliations, and tentative titles or topics). Indicate which speakers are committed and confirmed and which are tentative.
- Description (< 400 words) and justification (<250 words) of the session: Background information, goals, objectives, importance, and interest to the membership of ESA. The description should focus on the theme and structure of session (including anticipated sequence of speakers and topics), while the justification should focus on how the review criteria are met by the proposal and should not simply repeat the description. Keep in mind the evaluation criteria in preparing your description and justification.
When you submit your proposal on the website submission form, you will be notified of receipt by email to the address that you provide. If you do not receive such notification within 2 days of submitting your proposal, please contact Program Assistant Jennifer Riem at firstname.lastname@example.com. Organizers of accepted Organized Oral Sessions will be notified by the end of February regarding the date and time for their sessions at the Annual Meeting. Organizers are responsible for notifying all participants in their session concerning the date, time, and place of the session.
F. Cancellation Policy
Once an organized oral session has been accepted and listed on the meeting website, cancellation causes serious disruption of meeting planning. Do not submit a proposal if you are uncertain that you will be able to fulfill your obligation to organize and conduct the session.
G. Summary of Deadlines:
September 24, 2009: Deadline for proposal submission
December 17, 2009: Notification of acceptance sent out
January 21, 2010: Deadline to submit final revisions and confirmed speaker lists
February 18, 2010: Notification of date and time of symposia sent out
February 25, 2010: Deadline for speakers to submit abstracts for their talks (required)
|Dr. Frank S. Gilliam
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (304) 696-3636
|Jennifer Riem
Program Assistant
Ecological Society of America
1990 M Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Phone: (202) 833-8773 x 218
Fax: (202) 833-8775


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Lunatics are pleased to announce the availibility of the v0.40 installer in the Lunatics main download area
Please take care you use the right installer (32/64 bit) for your system.
Should you have any questions or problems - ask! Post in this thread or open a new one.
New in this installer:
Update of all Astropulse applications to support AP v6.01.
How to use the installer:
For the CPU applications, you need to know what your CPU supports. Either check the Boinc startup messages or check with CPU-Z downloadable from http://www.cpuid.com
Tick or untick CPU AP and MB applications as desired. Tick CUDA MB if desired.
Tick ATI (OpenCL) AP or MB if/as desired.
More details further down.
NB We use default values throughout the app_info.xml. If you have previously installed optimised applications and manually edited app_info.xml (e.g. <count> for multithreading GPUs, <flops>, <cmdline> for ATI) you WILL lose those edits on running the installer and have to redo them. You may wish to make a note of them. You will also lose all other manual edits to app_info.xml such as beta applications.
Known issues - general:
The installer is supposed to shut down the BOINC client whilst leaving the Manager running - noticable from the red 'disconnected' dot in the tray. After finishing the BOINC client should restart and the red dot vanish when the Manager reconnects. This make take a few minutes. On some systems however this fails to work. Please ensure BOINC has restarted.
Advanced users only: If you know you are going to edit app_info.xml, it may be easier to shutdown and restart BOINC manually, so you can get the changes into app_info.xml before the restart.
CPU MB apps - AKv8b2
If you have any doubt at all about what instruction sets your CPU supports, download CPU-Z from http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html You will usually find that the SSSE3x application is fastest on the Intel processors which support SSSE3x, except on dual-core CPUs with especially fast memory subsystems,where SSE4.1 may be faster.
However, we have an indication, that on Intel i3, i5 and i7 processor series SSE3 may be the fastest variant at most angleranges. The effect is smallest with VHAR (shorties).
CPU AP apps - r555/r557
The new r555/r557 AP applications support AP v6.01 and v5.05 work.
If your CPU is only capable of SSE choose the r555 SSE application.
If your CPU supports AVX (Intel Sandybridge and AMD Bulldozer, Windows 7 SP1) choose the r557 SSE2 build as it is faster.
If you have a CPU with SSE2 and above but not AVX the r557 MAY be faster.
We have indication that on most hosts r557 is faster but no guarantees.
As always - your mileage may vary.
NVidia GPU (CUDA) app - x41g_cuda32
For compatible cards see http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
Requires minimum CUDA 3.2 capable NVidia driver: 263.06 (260.99 on notebooks)
Download drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us (or your national equivalent). We recommend you avoid driver versions 295.73 and 296.10, which are not supported at some other BOINC projects.
Should run on all NVidia CUDA cards with at least 512MiB video RAM.
Actual free memory required is in the region of 200-235MB, depending on driver and OS flavour.
Running on a 256MiB card is just possible, but you will have to free up as much VRAM as possible, e.g. by disabling Aero.
Used video RAM can be checked with GPU-Z downloadable from http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2120/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.6.0.html
Watch closely on GPU-Z and in BOINC manager if the application finds enough memory.
Symptoms of insufficient memory are
- in BOINC manager: tasks start up and run a few seconds then go to 'waiting to run' and the next task tries to start
- on GPU-Z: the sensor for memory shows used VRAM ramping up and almost immediately dropping again.
In this case, there may be a BOINC bug putting the app in an infinite loop while it waits for more memory.
If you don't have enough memory, set BOINC to NNT, abort tasks and uninstall the CUDA application by rerunning the installer with CUDA MB UNticked.
If in doubt ask for help on the SETI Number Crunching forum.
To multithread on Fermi cards, find all instances of <count>1</count> in app_info.xml and decrease to 0.5 or 0.3 to run two or three tasks in parallel.
Again, if you are uncertain of how to do this correctly, ask on the above mentioned forum. 'Your mileage may vary' - it depends on your specific system which count will give the highest throughput.
x41g has improved reliability, stability and accuracy over x38g.
x41g_cuda32 has been tested with and is safe to use on Kepler.
ATI MB apps - r390; AP apps - r555
We offer the MB application in two different variants, depending on card:
plain - for most HD4xxx owners and those with HD5xxx and HD6xxx cards who suffer from driver incompatibilities.
HD5 - for most if not all owners of HD5xxx GPUs and HD6xxx GPUs.
The ATI MB application will not work on ATI cards with workgroup size 128 (e.g. HD43xx). To check workgroupsize run CLinfo, downloadable (at present) from {http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/clinfo.zip}
It will, however, probably work on HD53xx & HD63xx with workgroup size 128.
If you have problems running the HD5 flavour (anything from reduced performance to BSOD), you should run the plain variant.
The recommended apps (r555 for Astropulse, r390 for MultiBeam) need OpenCL support from the ATI driver - for recent driver versions, look for a driver *with* APP or OpenCL listed. For compatible drivers see http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
For cards, see http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibility.aspx
On most systems GPU-Z (see above) will tell you if your setup supports OpenCL.
Minimum required driver: Something that is OpenCL capable. You can check with GPU-Z (see above).
Catalyst 10.7b with SDK
Catalyst 10.10 Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology Edition
The following drivers are known to be incompatible with the app:
11.10 and 11.11.
On some drivers the app shows increased CPU usage.
Drivers from 11.12 onwards work.
First official driver for HD7xxx is 12.3.
For cards without OpenCL support (from HD2xxxx on) use the 'hybrid' r555 Astropulse application. NB this is a combined CPU/GPU application and will only use the GPU for some of the calculations, while doing the rest on a CPU core.
Minimum driver version Catalyst 9.x.
NB using this installer will give you arbitrary default cmdline parameter entries.
If you are already running ATI applications: Make a note of what numbers you are using to be able to restore to those values PRIOR to running the installer.
This also applies to setting the <count> variable according to your -instances_per_device variable for multithreading. (i.e. a <count> setting of 0.5 requires a -instances_per device setting of 2)
The Hybrid AP application uses about 80% of a CPU core and does only about 20% of the calculations on the GPU. Parameters have been choosen to reflect this usage. However present BOINC can not reserve '0.8' of a CPU core and therefore reserves none. This means your CPUs will be overcommitted and runtimes and DCF will suffer. You do increase the overall output though.
Summary of available cmdline options (wording partially by Raistmer):
-instances_per_device N how many tasks you want to run in parallel. Inverse of <count>.
-hp gives the app high priority
-no_cpu_lock prevents the app from using only a specific CPU core
AP only:
-v505 to process AP 5.05 tasks
-sbs 128 is the max size of single buffer that can be used in program. Lower limit is 128MB, upper - max size allowed particular card. [Note: not active yet]
-unroll 4 Optimal at half the number of Compute Units of the GPU. Lower values also reduce VRAM use. Decrease if you experience lags.
-ffa_block 2048 defines how many different periods GPU will process per single kernel call
-ffa_block_fetch 1024 defines how many threads will be used in FFA initial fetch kernel
ffa_block should be divisible by ffa_block_fetch. Going too high will result in premature 30/30 exit errors.
MB only:
-period_iterations_num 20 splits calls into smaller portions. Increase if experiencing lag.
General Notes:
With Windows Vista and Windows 7, do not install BOINC in 'Service' or 'Protected Application Execution' mode for GPU crunching, and do not connect to a Vista/7 computer with Windows Remote Desktop while it is running a GPU application.
Switching users can also cause the GPU app to fail [BOINC versions before 6.12.28].
Tuning cmd line parameters:
For AP: If you get lags or worse driver restarts, decrease unroll. If you run stable you can try to increase it. ffa_block should be a multiple of ffa_block_fetch. Start low e.g. -ffa_block 4096 -ffa_block_fetch 2048 and try increasing if it runs fine. Sticking to the power of 2 line at first can help.
There will be a system specific best combination - too low slows you down, too high slows you down as well.
Remember AP runtimes depend on blanking % so only compare runtimes on similar blanking %.
For MB: other way round - if you experience lag or driver restarts increase -period_iteration_num
Thanks go to Jason and Raistmer for their continued work to improve applications and to Josef W. Segur for invaluable help with everything.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our active alpha testers (in no particular order and apologies to anybody we've forgotten):
Claggy, Jamie, arkayn and Mike.
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Thanks Richard. seems to have gone straight in. Slow to reconnect so I stopped/restarted manager but otherwise OK. Will let you know if I see any problems
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And a heads up for those running Boinc alpha clients. We've had reports that the ATI AP app dies when you suspend it on Boinc 7.0.22/.23.
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Are there any indications that the r557 AP application can actually run SLOWER than the r555 on a SSE2, non-AVX processor?
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Are there any indications that the r557 AP application can actually run SLOWER than the r555 on a SSE2, non-AVX processor?
I actually did that test on a Pentium4 (Northwood CPU - very small L2 cache). We use artificially shortened tasks for testing - in some cases 555 was quicker, in others 557 was. There wasn't a lot in it, either way.
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Does the 0.40 installer do the v7 mb wu? I didn't see any reference in the app_info.xml file.
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Just double-checking... Is it OK if I don't install this, since I'm not doing Astro ATM?
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Does the 0.40 installer do the v7 mb wu? I didn't see any reference in the app_info.xml file.
MB V7 has not yet been released to Main!
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No, if you don't want to do AP 6.01 you can skip this one - all other apps are the same as in v0.39
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If you have previously opted out of any application, you will have to opt in to AP 6 work here (i.e. check the AP 6 box)
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Are there any indications that the r557 AP application can actually run SLOWER than the r555 on a SSE2, non-AVX processor?
He is running AMD Phenom with large cache.
r557 will be faster.
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Could this be made a Sticky Thread please ?
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Could this be made a Sticky Thread please ?
I rather suspect that as long as the need is there, it shall stay active enough to remain near the top of the thread list.
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The 'Optimised Applications' announcement thread is kept locked and sticky, so it's always in the top half-dozen threads here. There is a direct link to this thread, should people need it. You can even find the v0.39 release notes that way, even though in under four months, that thread has slipped almost to the bottom of page 5.
I think both mods and users prefer to restrict 'stickyness' to the minimum possible number of genuinely significant threads.
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And a heads up for those running Boinc alpha clients. We've had reports that the ATI AP app dies when you suspend it on Boinc 7.0.22/.23.
Not just AP, but MB on ATI as well. Had that happen a couple of times. Exit code 1, latest crash happened this morning when BOINC suspended itself for time-of-day.
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So to be clear, the installer still doesn't have the nVidia OpenCL AP app, only the ATI OpenCL AP app?
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So to be clear, the installer still doesn't have the nVidia OpenCL AP app, only the ATI OpenCL AP app?
Correct. The relatively sudden AP release meant that other testing and bug-hunting took a back seat.
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I'd like to propose a vote of thanks to Richard Hasselgrove, LadyL and others who have worked so damn hard, and under a lot of pressure, to get this latest installer out.
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As far as can be told, the Virginia DMV personalized license plate division seems to be staffed by Puritanical orangutans with shame-addled filthy minds. They've had many grand victories in the past, from the simply humorless to actively calling a soccer mom a disgusting pervert. This time, they're taking Rick Sander's personalized plate after seven years with no known complaints.
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So Allen Iverson is now a Piston. And Chauncey Billiups is heading back to Colorado. And the world now knows the name Cheikh Samb. But what does it mean for Detroit, Denver, Antonio McDyess and the rest of the NBA? Detailed analysis, educated guesses, wild speculation and whatever the hell Woody Paige does below:For starters, McDyess isn't going anywhere. The Nuggets will buy out his contract—which under the league's convoluted salary rules somehow makes them money. Then they will waive him, he'll wait 30 days and re-sign with Detroit for less money. Samb ("as big a project that there has ever been") is headed to the D-League and may never contribute a single thing ever. So essentially, it's a straight-up trade that the Nuggets believe makes their starting lineup into an actual basketball team and saves them cash. As long as no one tells Chauncey that he's 32 years old. The Nuggets players seemed disappointed, but coach George Karl is not. "If you look at my history, I've always had good point guards, and we've gotten away with winning (here) without an all-star caliber point guard." That's a polite way of saying, "You're no Gary Payton." Billiups isn't either, but he will pass the ball sometimes and has "always dreamed of winning a championship with the Nuggets," which is sort of like dreaming that Superman would come to your birthday party, but he was just a kid. For the Pistons, this is a low-risk, high-reward gamble. Obviously, they're good enough to reach the conference finals, but no one believes they're going any further without some change. So they take two big contracts off the books and pray Iverson blows up for the final year of his contract, dribbles circles around Paul Pierce come playoff time, then the Knicks give him $50 million while Detroit polishes another trophy. But in the worst case scenario, they're no better off than they were last year, Iverson leaves anyway, and they start over next summer with a clean slate and more money to play with. Rasheed Wallace now has competition for craziest athlete in the building, but at the very least we'll get a few laughs out of that. Other results from the big trade: Juwan Howard is out of a job (at least until the McDyess situation is resolved) and Woody Paige threw out his tail bone attempting to pull off a very tortured chess metaphor. Seriously, I have no idea what that guy is saying. J.R. Smith is a rook or something?
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And No we didn't win in Nam, but I mean were we even in a War there, never delcared. All I will say about this is Linebacker 2, December of 1972.
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For the last 18 years I have been living in Honduras and working with Africanized bees. They can be managed and they can make honey but it is a much different management style that needs to be used. I work with them and actually enjoy it (most of the time). I am also now in my third year of working seasonally for some commercial beekeepers in Wisconsin (2000+ hives). This has given me a pretty good idea of how beekeeping is generally done on a larger scale in the States and whats involved with it. I also have a dozen of my own hives in Wisconsin with my brotherdoing this more as a hobbyist than commercially (its something to mess around with on the weekends).
So here are some of my thoughts on how beekeeping in the States would change if there were just hives like the Africanized ones I deal with in Honduras.
Beginning with the initial question on this thread, Africanized bees can be bad. It seems like everybody in Honduras has a story about where a horse or chickens were stung to death or somebody got stung up pretty bad. Newspaper stories about stinging incidents are still common even though people have been dealing with Africanized bees in Honduras since about 1985. But there is always a reason that somebody or something gets attacked. Its the horse that rubs up against the hive or the children who are playing too close to the feral colony. You leave them alone and they will generally leave you alone.
Someone mentioned Africanized bees coming at you from 200 yards away. I only see this happening if they are already really riled up for some reason (beekeeper is in there working them or something like ants are messing with them). And then it usually would only be a few buzzing around your head at that distant. I usually walk right into my apiaries and put on my suit there, maybe 20 yards away from the hives. I will even walk around the hives checking entrance activity without putting up my veil (but its tied on and ready to raise over my head if needed, as well as having the smoker on hand and lit). But once I start to really mess with them I make sure Im completely suited up and pouring the smoke on them.
Africanized bees can be managed. They can make a decent amount of honey. Disease problems are not real common--but swarming is. Sometimes they can be pretty docile while at other times they get down right ornery.
Im not real sure how Africanized the bees will become in the southern part of the States. Considering the size of the beekeeping industry here I think having all those hives of European bees will help to buffer many feral hives from becoming truly Africanized. I think many of those feral hives would be more of a hybrid cross and thus a bit calmer. Managed hives can be easily requeened if necessary. That type of beekeeping infrastructure was not present in Honduras (and still isnt present) and I believe helped all colonies there to become Africanized much faster. Something resembling a European honeybee no longer exists there. Everything resembles more of an African bee.
Full-blown africanized honeybees (such as I deal with in Honduras) I believe would be a problem for the commercial beekeepers in the U.S. if they wish to continue running their apiaries as they do now. Hobbiests and sideliners, however, may have less of a problem considering how they work with their hives and go about this activity.
We are now in the middle of pulling honey in Wisconsin. The name of the game for the commercial beekeeper here is to get into the yard, pull off the full supers, load them on the truck and get to the next yard as fast as you can (time is money). It would be a really ugly situation if all those hives we are banging around to get the honey off would be Africanized.
I cant do that when working my Africanized hives in Honduras. I like (and need) to go nice and slow in order to try and keep them somewhat calmmuch as a hobbiest would do in the States. If I dont use some care I will have a bunch of angry bees stinging my gloves and bouncing off my veil. I dont usually worry about myself when they get riled up but you never know who or what might wander by to check out whats going on. Its that odd person or horse or cow that will be in trouble.
My small hives are pretty calm. Nucs and new swarms arent too much of a problem to work with. Just an extra shirt, gloves and a veil are usually sufficient to work with them. But to make honey you want big hives; the same for pollination. Big Africanized hives get defensive and ornery. That means you need a full suit with an extra long sleeved shirt underneath it to avoid all those half stings (not fun in hot weather). Pants legs should be taped down. I use insulated leather winter gloves for working my hives in Honduras (my wife sews the sleeve on them). I would get too many half-stings through the leather bee gloves I use here in Wisconsin. I get enough of them now just working with European bees (especially on a drizzly day like we had today).
Pulling honey from Africanized hives during a flow isnt too bad (as long as you dont bang around on the hive too much). During the dearth my bees can be very robby and ornery. I can imagine that pulling the last of the supers off in the fall from Africanized hives in Wisconsin wouldnt be much fun. It would be even worse on a dreary or drizzly or cool day. Commercial operators cant always wait for the perfect sunny warm day to work the hives.
Im not sure that four-way pallets would work that well either. If one of the hives starts to get riled up Im pretty sure the other three are going to join in also. Keeping Africanized hives further apart (as in on individual bottom boards) with smaller numbers in the yard is better. Forty-eight hives on four-way pallets close to each other isnt the ideal situation for Africanized bees.
For the migratory beekeepers, you dont really want leaky boxes (keep those bees inside). You want to make sure you have decent equipment in good shape. You would probably want to close up all the entrances before you start to move them. I wouldnt load a semi with my Africanized hives while the entrances are open. That would probably also mean using a ventilated top with themsomething many commercial beeks dont bother with in the States. (This means extra equipment, extra investment).
As far as hobbyists, you would not want to have my bees within city limits or too close to the house. Urban beekeeping would probably have to disappear. It would be very difficult, and dangerous, to manage one of my hives in town. They will probably stay fairly calm along as you dont really mess with them. But you may never know what will cause it to go bonkers (neighbors dog or a childs ball or a lawn mower). It is a potential disaster waiting to happen. Again, you usually want a nice, big, strong hive which means they get much more defensive.
Beekeeping is a lucrative endeavor in Honduras. When looking at the overall economic situation there, you can make decent money (within the Honduran economy) off of relatively few hives. Honey is actually a luxury item. It fetches a very good price. And considering what I have to put up with to produce that honey (ornery Africanized bees), I dont feel bad about having to charge a high price for iteven though some people cannot afford it.
It makes me wonder what U.S. beekeepers would want and need to charge in the States for having to deal with the same situation to produce honey. I think costs would definitely go up for the U.S. beekeeper and thus for the consumer. For example, Africanized bees are more labor intensive in my opinion. Consider that in Honduras I usually have one person basically just manning the smoker, always ready when I say I need another puff of smoke on the bees. And, as I indicated, it is much slower to do what needs to be done with the bees. I see the commercial guy getting much less done in a day than what he does now. So that would probably mean they would have to manage less hives or hire extra helpless earnings or more expenses.
Just some thoughts.
Thanks, Tomas, for your very balanced and honest assessment of AHB beekeeping.
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Thanks for the very thoughtful post. In my case the previous owner of the Brazil farm I am at tried hobby beekeeping but allowed his horse to get too close to the hives rubbing against them. The bees killed his horse and he abandoned the hobby and all his equip as this was very traumatic for him. My WI bee guru tells me that it is not particularly hard for any disturbed bee colony to kill a horse as they start to hyperventilate and having large mouth and nostrils inhale many bees and then it's over for them. Anyway beekeeping in AHB countries is a much more serious affair as far as the time and resource dedication typical of commercial guys but requires the care and
gentler handling more typical of the hobby keeper.
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You might also read Thomas' post #62, also from personal experience, and is more in tuned to what the generally accepted experience with these bees than yours. I won't give you my experience as I am sure that since ARS research group must be liars, then surely you would accept my personal experiences either.
I will tell you this, based upon my personal experiences, I will not tolerate anything that resembles AHB. Also, regardless of what the law states, I have to much love for my fellow man to subject them to the risks of AHB.
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Well I am telling you for a fact that AHBs can easily kill your horses as you will also read from other posts in this thread and you would be wise to keep them away from any colony that is showing agression. Troll alert!!!
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if you will notice by name it it called an african HYBRID.
I have read and seen geographical maps of Africa that stated the locations of seven, 7, honeybee species.
Back in the late 60's and early 70's beekeepers coine a new term called disappearing. They would get packages, dump them out, fill the inside feeders and check them later to find out that the bees were gone!
Now, I am talking about 2nd and 3rd generation beekeepers. The location of the bees were in Canada.
Here is what the researchers found out out about the problem:
The African stock is phototropic and will fly even when there is snow on the ground.
European bees are thermotropic and will fly when the temperature is about 55 degrees F.
Try and locate some ABJ publications of that era and you will find a lot of information.
We got reports of seasoned beekeepers being driven back into their truck for safety and later they counted hundes of stingers in the black gasket that seals in the windshield.
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale, 1776
Tomas--Thank you for such an informative post. As a Wisconsinite with family from South America (I know Honduras is central), it is especially interesting for me to hear about beekeeping in both regions.
I helped a friend move his hives, and they had Africanized bees in them. Not too bad, until we went to opening the entrances. They literally covered me up. I must have had 10,000 bees on me. Then the chased me for about 200 yards until my buddy pulled up beside me in his truck and I jumped in the back, and he took off, with me brushing them off. When he stopped, I got inside the truck with the A/C. The ones that were left, got off me and went straight to the windows. I was lucky that I only had about 30 hits through the cloths. There were more that didn't really get in me, just itched a little.
K. Delaplane from Univ of GA has an excellent artictle covering AHBs with a
a good photo of an AHB yard.
From the article ... "Beekeepers may need to re-think the practice of combining several hives on a pallet because the vibration from working one hive disturbs them all. For this reason, beekeepers in Latin America have switched to single hive stands."
This discussion has given me a new appreciation for the challenges some face in having to work this trait. With all the commercial traffic from the South, IYO, is a semblence of these traits inevitable in the local breeder stock? As Tomas mentioned, it may be too much of a liability for small, residential hobbyists to continue.
Don't read too much hysteria into this, but one of the reasons I like living here is that the cold winters keep alot of the warm climate "nasties" at bay. I'd sure miss my gentle Carmies.
As far as the southern US this can easily get very political in a big hurry. Someone like Delaplane at the Univ of GA is telling you the truth but he is not telling you all the truth like many very smart people. When I see that USDA map what I have are big questions about lack of accurate reporting and bias to not report all the facts given the size of the business in the south. But then Lake Geneva WI where I am now is pretty far north of the Mason-Dixon.
Regardless what I think everybody can agree on is that basic bee research is shockingly underfunded in the US given its importance. A prime example is the lack of any kind of rapid field id test kit for AHBs. I would think there is enough DNA tech in the US to make a kit like this since one of the big problems is that even bee experts have a hard time making a visual id.
I will just echo the early posts on this thread and the post from Tomas. AHB really are that bad. I have kept bees here in Los Angeles for about 5 years starting with a wild swarm. My hives were always hot, but manageable. This year all my hives turned into full AHB behavior. As they built up in the spring they got progressively more aggressive. They stung the neighbors, stung the postman, stung my wife, and of course stung me. When I would be working outside, the bees would tap you once. Second "tap" was a sting around your eyes - and they were really fast! I had to move my hives out to a remote location and requeen them. I had to destroy some too. When I managed those AHB hives they would behave as Tomas described. You had to be slow and deliberate, and even with a lot of smoke they would be crazy. Even after I went back into the house they would continue to bang on the kitchen window for an hour trying to attack me through the glass. Bottom line is that urban beekeepers cannot keep full AHB colonies. It is just too much hassle and too dangerous for the neighbors. Most all the swarms showing up this year are fully aggressive AHB as well.
You don't need a DNA test to know if you have AHB. If you aren't sure, then they are not AHB. Maybe some suspect hives may contain bees from an EHB mother and AHB drones. But, if you have full AHB bees you would know it. No doubt!
My sense is that agribusiness will continue to use AHB, but sideline and hobby beekeepers will need to get mated queens from suppliers that do not have the aggressive AHB attributes. Queen producers in the south will need to go to artificially inseminated queens like Glenn Apiaries does.
Agree in general. But with a fast test you could at least have some logical guide so that destroying swams does not get to be the norm. Everyone just expects that a feral swarm is exhibiting killer bee behavior.. KILL THEM! Even beeks on this group who should know better show that attitude. Also, they are not always so hyper agressive. Temp, altitude, humidity, food situation, etc all enter into it.
Ran across some interesting information from this site here:
This is an interesting quote from this study which I would like to delve into here:
"Many experts expected that the farther from a tropical climate AHBs spread, the more they would interbreed with EHBs. But it appears that interbreeding is a transient condition in the United States, according to ARS entomologist Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman. She is research leader at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, and ARS national coordinator for AHB research."
My understanding of this 'transient' condition of inbreeding with ehb is that eventually ahb will eventually displace the ehb in areas where the ahb are established if proper management techniques are not implemented. Apparently there is a false belief that ehb will somehow reduce the aggressiveness of ahb, but this appears to not be the case, as this will only happen on a transient basis. However, there is a saving grace to this, that being that since the ahb do not cluster, the further north they go, the harder time they will have in establishing feral populations. Let's discuss this issue a little if we could.
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I admit that I'm not sure I buy it. I'm very skeptical of any AHB sensationalism. I'm not in denial. I live in a county that our government says has been taken over by AHB yet I still keep bees and I'm not experiencing anything like people are describing as AHB. I may be wrong but I think that AHB can and will be managed. If I am wrong I will buy thicker bee suits, bigger smokers and continue to keep bees. As my handle suggests, I live in a very rural area of a very rural county. My biggest fear (bigger than AHB!) is that the government will declare that all honeybees in our "confirmed" AHB counties will have to be destroyed. That would be a shame but I can imagine, especially, our current regime trying to push something like that on us.
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