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School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Bylaws (Amended September 16, 2009)
- Purpose: The purpose of this document is to provide the governance framework for the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and defining the organizational framework of the School. It provides a framework into which Bylaws of the departments within the School must fit.
- Faculty: The Faculty of the School is defined as persons having at least a 50% appointment for nine months at the rank of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Senior Lecturer. All members of the Faculty are entitled to attend and participate in School and Departmental faculty meetings. Faculty members with joint appointments may vote only in the Department in which they have the largest fractional appointment or, in the case of equal splitting, in the Department in which they choose to be enfranchised. At the start of each Fall semester, the Senior Lecturers in each department shall meet to elect voting representatives equal to 10% of the Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors in the department, rounded to whole numbers. These elected representatives join all Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors to form the Voting Faculty and may vote in matters that come before the Department and/or School.
- Meetings: The Faculty of the School will meet in general session at least once each academic year, at the call of the Dean. Meetings must be announced at least one week in advance of the meeting and a written agenda must be distributed at least two days in advance. Items may be placed on the agenda upon petition by at least two members of the Voting Faculty. The Dean will chair faculty meetings.
The Dean may call a special meeting of the Faculty at any time on two-working-day notice and shall call a special meeting upon petition by one third of the Voting Faculty. The agenda of a meeting called by petition must specify at least one topic to be placed on the agenda.
For purposes of voting, a quorum is defined as 50% of the Voting Faculty.
Except as specified elsewhere in these Bylaws, all business in the School will be conducted in accordance with Roberts Rules of Order. Minutes of the meetings shall be taken by the Secretary of the Faculty, as defined herein, and maintained by the Deans office, and are to be accepted by the Voting Faculty at the next meeting. The Secretary of the Faculty will act as parliamentarian. It will be in order to amend any matter brought before the Faculty to request a written electronic vote. Such amendments must be accepted by a supermajority (60%) of those attending the meeting. The result of the subsequent email ballot will be binding.
- Dean: The Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics serves at the pleasure of the President of the University of Texas at Dallas and reports directly to the Provost. The Dean is a tenured member of the faculty of the School with the rank of Professor.
The Dean has responsibility for the administration of the School in accordance with these Bylaws, including responsibility for preparing and managing the School budget, approving all personnel actions and, in consultation with Department Chairs, assigning duties to the members of the faculty. The Dean will consider the recommendations of the faculty regarding curricular matters, appointments, promotions and tenure decisions.
The Dean may appoint faculty members to committees that he/she determines to be useful to the effective management of the School, and will recommend to the Provost the composition of ad hoc committees for faculty reviews and promotions. The appointment of an Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies or an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies requires approval of the School Executive Committee as described in Section 9. All administrative officers serve at the pleasure of the Dean.
The Dean will represent the School, both within and outside the Campus. At the Fall semester faculty meeting, the Dean will report on the State of the School.
- Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education: Appointed by the Dean with the approval of the Voting Faculty, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education has responsibility for training and supervising undergraduate advisors and ensuring that students receive timely, accurate academic advice. He/She has the final faculty authority on School and Departmental policies on undergraduate degree programs and works with the Dean of Undergraduate Education. The Associate Dean represents the School on the Council for Undergraduate Education and as a member of the School Committee for Effective Teaching. He/She has responsibility for the accuracy of catalog listing and assisting the departments with course scheduling. The Associate Dean manages the summer advising program and takes part in campus recruiting efforts.
- Associate Dean of Graduate Education: The person appointed by the Dean to this position must be a tenured faculty member and must be approved by the Voting Faculty. The Associate Dean coordinates the advanced degree programs within the school including assisting with catalog entries and scheduling of courses, exams, and thesis defenses. The Associate Dean will assist in the development of proposals for graduate fellowship support, and will administer School-wide Graduate Fellowships. He/she will serve on the Graduate Council, and will provide close coordination with the Dean of Graduate Studies.
- Department Heads: The Dean appoints Heads of the academic departments in the School in consultation with the faculty of that Department and with the approval of the Provost. The Head is the chief administrative officer of the unit and serves as the liaison between the faculty and the higher administration. The Head is expected to provide leadership in the department while managing the day-to-day administration of the unit. In accordance with Departmental Bylaws, the Head will appoint faculty committees, oversee faculty recruiting, promotion and retention, perform annual evaluations of faculty and staff, provide teaching assignments to faculty and lecturers, manage the scheduling of courses, and manage course evaluation and accreditation. In accordance with University policy, the Dean will conduct an evaluation of the Head by the faculty every five years the results of which will be made available to the Head and used by the Dean in evaluating the overall performance of the Head.
- Other Officers: With the approval of the Provost, the Dean may appoint other members of the faculty to administrative positions such as Center Director, Program Head, and Program Coordinator to administer research and interdisciplinary programs as opportunities arise. Such officers serve at the pleasure of the Dean and are subject to annual performance reviews by the Dean in consultation with the appropriate Department Head.
- Faculty Personnel Review Committee: This (FPRC) Committee is mandated by UT Dallas Policy Memorandum 75-III.22-3. This Committee is chaired by the Dean, and is composed of one member, elected annually in the Spring by secret ballot, to represent each Department. The members must be tenured faculty members and are appointed for two year terms. Upon adoption of these Bylaws, three departments will be chosen at random to elect members for only a single year, the others to elect members for full terms. Members of the Committee may succeed themselves only if no other tenured faculty member in the department is available to serve. Each Department should select an alternate to serve in the event the elected member is unable to serve a full term. The Committee will select one of its members to serve as Secretary of the Faculty whose duties were described in Section 3.
The Committee will conduct Periodic Performance Evaluations of Tenured Faculty as described in Policy Memorandum 97-III.22-79 as revised and amended. Associate Professors on the Committee do not participate in the evaluation of Professors. The Provost's Office will provide the Committee with the files of those faculty members selected for review. The Dean will consult with the FPRC on third-year reviews of untenured faculty members and will consider the comments of the Committee in the review process. The Dean will consult the FPRC on requests for Faculty Development Leave.
The FPRC will serve as the School's elected Executive Committee and will advise the Dean on matters of curriculum, degree programs, and accreditation matters as needed. The approval of a majority the Executive Committee is required for the appointment of the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and the Associate Dean of Graduate Education.
- School Council: The School Council consists of Department Heads, Directors, and Associate Deans in the School and serves as its administrative committee. The Council will meet regularly to discuss administrative matters and to bring issues affecting the departments to the attention of the Dean. The School Financial Officer will serve ex officio as the Council Secretary and will prepare an agenda in advance of each meeting and provide minutes of the previous meeting for approval.
- Committee on Effective Teaching: This committee is mandated by Policy Memorandum 96-III.21-70. The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education serves as chair. It has the responsibility for oversight of the teaching evaluation within each Department. It will ensure that uniform procedures are in place that include student course evaluation, peer evaluation through classroom visits, and take account of course load, course development, and dissertation supervision. Each Department will appoint a member of the Committee, typically the Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies. Non-voting student members will be appointed as described in Section 12. The Committee will provide input into nominations for teaching awards.
- Dean's Student Advisory Committee (DSAC): Departments may name one undergraduate and one graduate student to serve on this Committee. This Committee will elect among its members a graduate student and undergraduate student to serve as non-voting members of the Committee on Effective Teaching. The Dean will convene this Committee at least once each semester to consult with students about policies and procedures in the School. DSAC members may request additional meetings with the Dean as the need arises.
- New Hires: Each Department will conduct open searches for faculty positions, whether at the junior or senior level, through the efforts of ad hoc search committees. Each search committee will be appointed by the Department Head and charged with advertising the position, collecting nominations and evaluating applications. In consultation with the Head, the search committee will invite prospective candidates to campus, arrange for public seminars, and ensure that the candidates meet with as many faculty members as possible. The Committee will recommend to the Department Head a ranked list of acceptable candidates. The Department Head will recommend candidates to be hired to the Dean, including salary, start-up costs, and space needs in the recommendation. In the case of hiring into a tenured position, an ad hoc committee, which may be the search committee, should prepare a report based on the candidate's record and recommendations, voting for or against a tenured appointment. Before an offer can be made, it must be approved by the Dean and Provost. Non-tenure track hiring is the responsibility of the Department Head in consultation with the School's Committee on Effective Teaching and with the approval of the Dean. Draft Policy Memorandum 08-III.22-96 will serve to guide the appointment of senior lecturers.
- Promotions: The Department Head will recommend to the Dean an ad hoc committee to examine the credentials of each faculty member being considered for promotion to tenure or promotion to the rank of professor. The ad hoc committee will prepare a report on the merits of the case under consideration, weighing internal and external reference reports, research output, teaching evaluations, and service to the profession, the University, and the community. Policy Memo 75-III-22-3 will govern promotion procedures within the School. Promotions of senior lecturers to the second level will be guided by Policy Memorandum 08-III.22-96.
- Faculty grievances shall accord with the "Faculty Grievance Procedure" approved by UT DALLAS and spelled out in the Faculty Handbook (Policy Memorandum 92-III.21-54). Student grievances shall be in accordance procedures specified in the UT DALLAS Handbook of Operating Procedures Title V, Chapter 51.
- These Bylaws, after circulation to the faculty for comments and corrections, will be scheduled for a vote of the full faculty. This will be carried out by electronic balloting and must be adopted by a 2/3 vote of the current tenure/tenure track faculty members in the School. After adoption of the Bylaws, they may be amended by placing the amendment on the agenda of a meeting of the faculty for discussion and then presented at a second meeting for a vote. A 2/3 majority of the Voting Faculty at the meeting is required for amendment.
Officers of the School
Grievance Procedures
Adoption of these Bylaws and Amendments to them
- Updated: February 10, 2014
Adopted Tuesday, September 25, 2007; Amended September 16, 2009.


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LONDON Warren Buffett did it. Bill Gates did it. Now a little-known billionaire from Britain is doing it too.
Albert Gubay has fulfilled a divine pact he made at the start of his entrepreneurial career and put his business empire, worth around $1.1 billion, into a charitable trust.
The 82-year-old British retail entrepreneur made a "deal" with God several decades ago, when he barely had enough capital to get his business ideas off the ground, to share half his fortune with the almighty in return for some divine help with his finances.
Five decades later nearly all of his fortune is going into a trust from which half of all the funds will be spent on projects connected to the Roman Catholic Church. The other half will be given away to whomever the trustees deem appropriate. Gubay, a lifelong Catholic, will reportedly keep 10 million pounds ($15 million) to tide him over during his old age.
Gubay ranked at No. 880 in Forbes 2010 list of the world's billionaires, with a total fortune worth $1.1 billion. He currently lives on the quiet British tax haven of the Isle of Man and has two children with his first wife.
Gubay started building his fortune when he established KwikSave, a retail chain selling cheap goods, in the 1960s. He sold the business in 1973 for $28 million. Not stopping there, he replicated the KwikSave business model in New Zealand, Ireland and the U.S., and invested the profits from those business into real estate in the United Kingdom. The move proved savvy: Property prices in the U.K. had been on a steep upward trajectory up until about two years ago.
The tycoon then moved into leisure. In 1995, while recovering from a bad back, he established the gym chain Total Fitness. Less than ten years later he sold the chain to the British venture-capital firm L&G for $154 million.
"I'm not one of these people that takes everything out and puts nothing in," the frugal and media-shy Gubay said in a television interview with the BBC In 1988. At that time he had put money towards building a new parish church for the Isle of Man's Catholic community.
John Nugent, the chairman of the Albert Gubay Foundation, said that Gubay was now trying to maximize the asset base of his company. "He is confident he can push the worth to 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) before he dies," he recently told The Sunday Times.
Gubay is not alone in donating most of his multimillion dollar fortune to charity. Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest man, pledged in 2006 to give away 85% of his money, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates himself has given about $28 billion of his wealth to charity. (See "Billion Dollar Donors.")
The Scottish entrepreneur Thomas Hunter, who featured on the Forbes billionaires list in 2008 but has since dropped off, also pledged in 2007 to give 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) to charity.
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U.S. wins Arab League backing as plans emerge for strike against Syria
The Arab League on Tuesday declared the Syrian regime "fully responsible" for an alleged chemical weapons attack, giving the Obama administration symbolic regional cover to proceed with a punitive offensive that could begin within days.
Two U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity so as to discuss sensitive military plans, told McClatchy that military commanders were ready to execute a sea-based strike but were awaiting orders from the White House. The officials said the attack would be carried out exclusively by the four destroyers currently based in the eastern Mediterranean and would not include airstrikes to supplement the expected missile barrage.
U.S. officials emphasized that any military action would be punishment for the Syrian government's apparent use of chemical weapons, and not an operation to remove President Bashar Assad. That distinction is important to the Obama administration as it searches for a response that deters Assad from chemical warfare but doesn't drag the United States into a devastating conflict that's already spilling across borders and inflaming the Middle East.
Vice President Joe Biden told the American Legion National Convention in Houston that there was "no doubt" the Assad regime was responsible for the "heinous use of chemical weapons."
"Chemical weapons have been used. Everyone acknowledges their use. No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria," Biden said Tuesday.
Biden, who met with Secretary of State John Kerry for breakfast and also spoke with British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, didn't allude to any specific intervention, but he warned that "those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women and children should and must be held accountable."
Limiting military action to punitive strikes is also important to nervous Arab states that already are feeling trickle-down effects of the Syrian civil war: huge refugee populations, sectarian flare-ups and the regrouping of al Qaida-style extremists. Should Assad be ousted abruptly, all those problems are only expected to metastasize, as no credible opposition authority is prepared to take charge, according to U.S. military and foreign policy analysts' assessments.
Pushed by influential Persian Gulf states, the 22-member Arab League issued a strongly worded five-point statement after a two-hour session in Cairo. It called Syria "fully responsible for the ugly crime and demands that all the perpetrators of this heinous crime be presented for international trials."
There was no discussion at the Arab League about the potential U.S. strike, though the tone of the statement suggested that the possibility of one drove its tough rhetoric. The league also said the United Nations Security Council should put aside internal differences and pass the "necessary resolutions against the perpetrators of this crime," a reference to a suspected chemical attack a week ago that killed hundreds of Syrians in an eastern suburb of Damascus.
Without directly blaming the Assad regime, Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Araby said that what happened was a "flagrant violation of international humanitarian law." That language echoed the words of Secretary of State John Kerry, who twice spoke with Araby by phone Monday, before the league convened.
While the Arab League is generally derided as an ineffectual organization, its tacit endorsement of a U.S.-led strike against Syria is important as the Obama administration cobbles together a coalition of Middle Eastern and European allies to avoid the delays and vetoes of trying to authorize action through the U.N. Security Council.
"I think it's very significant because it shows there are countries in the region that are concerned and want NATO to act," said Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "I think of what happened with Libya a few years ago. There was a resolution from the Arab League to intervene. It makes it easier for the administration and provides cover because there is support."
While U.S. officials hint of impending action, the timing is proving tricky. Wednesday is unlikely because it would force President Barack Obama into the awkward position of attacking Syria on a day commemorating the nonviolent March on Washington by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, too, would be problematic because that's when the British Parliament convenes to discuss a Syria response, and the U.S. is counting on British backing.
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Parliament back as news agencies reported that commercial pilots near Cyprus had spotted British C-130s and radar images of small formations of fighter jets heading to Britain's Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, which is only about 150 miles from Syria.
Still, in the United Kingdom not everyone was sure that the time for intervention had arrived. The Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander told the BBC that as far as committing British troops, neither he nor other members of Parliament were "prepared to write the government a blank check."
An Istanbul-based Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicate politics of an intervention, also said it's unclear when a strike might occur, speculating that it could take up to a month before the United States and its allies reach an agreement on specific action.
The diplomat noted that the Saudis and the Turks, two regional heavyweights, were scheduled to meet in Riyadh this week, followed by a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting on Sept. 2 and a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Sept. 3. Then there's the U.N. General Assembly and the St. Petersburg G8 summit at the end of September, when the Americans might try one final push to get the Russians and other holdouts on board.
"The Americans are interested in creating an international legitimacy" for the intervention, the diplomat said. "They don't want to be alone. They don't want to be accused of being a unilateral power."
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney declined to say whether Obama would seek permission from the United Nations for any potential action on Syria. He gave no hints as to timing or scope, but he made it clear the administration would act against Assad.
"There must be a response," Carney said. "We cannot allow this kind of violation of an international norm, with all the attendant grave consequences that it represents, to go unanswered. What form that response will take is what the president is assessing now with his team."
Youssef reported from Cairo; Allam reported from Washington. James Rosen, Lesley Clark, William Douglas and Anita Kumar contributed from Washington. Matthew Schofield contributed from Berlin; Jonathan S. Landay contributed from Cairo and Roy Gutman from Istanbul.


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LOS ANGELES - For the second straight match the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team needed extra time in the fifth and deciding set. Unfortunately for the Gauchos they were unable to replicate the magic from last weekend as UCSB fell to Loyola Marymount in a non-conference match on Friday night at Gersten Pavilion.
Playing for match point, UCSB's Kara Sherrard had an attack error, opening the door for LMU to steal the set, and thus, the match from the Gauchos.
LMU's Kara Keil had a kill to break a 17-17 tie and then an attack error by UCSB ended the match, allowing the Lions to escape with a 25-22, 20-25, 25-21, 18-25, 19-17 victory.
The loss, only the Gauchos' third in the past nine contests, seemed almost like the volleyball gods were paying UCSB back after the Gauchos stunned UC Davis last Saturday with an improbable five-set win after Santa Barbara was down 14-11 in the fifth set.
UCSB falls to 10-7 overall while LMU improves to 10-8.
Stacey Schmidt led four Gauchos with double-digit kills as she racked up 17 and Leah Sully added 16. Lily Lopez, who had a career-high with 17 kills vs. Davis, had 14 on Friday and Sherrard added 11.
Sully, Schmidt, Sherrard and setter Hanna Nielson all had double-doubles. Sully totaled 15 digs while Schmidt and Sherrard each had 11. Nielson, who did not start, had 51 assists and 12 digs. Haley Uhland added 11 assists for UCSB while Chelsey Lowe had 23 digs.
UCSB's stat line looked better than LMU's as the Gauchos hit .255 as a team, dug 87 balls and totaled 10.0 team blocks but it was not enough.
The Gauchos, currently in first place in the Big West, will play at UC Irvine on Saturday at 7 p.m.
UCSB returns to the friendly confines of the Thunderdome on Saturday, Oct. 15 match with UC Riverside at 7:30 p.m. That will be the night UCSB inducts volleyball star Judy Bellomo as a Legend of the 'Dome. Join us for this historic event. Click here for more information.
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The New England Patriots gave the football world a glimpse of the future on Sunday, running an unprecedented fast-paced, no huddle offense en route to a 31-21 win over the Broncos.
The Pats gained a team-record 35 first downs, ran 30 more plays than the average NFL team, and hung 31 points on the board before running out the clock in the fourth quarter.
Today, Greg A. Bedard has a big article in the Boston Globe about how the Pats' offense is a revolution in the NFL.
There's a whole bunch of great stuff in there, but the most interesting nugget is this: If you want to know what the NFL will look like in 10 years, you need to watch college football, because that's where all the innovation is taking place.
Here are the three basic things Bedard outlines that make the Patriots' offense new and different:
- The overall philosophy: run as many plays per game as possible
- A simplified terminology where plays have just one name
- Running practices at a faster pace than ever before
They're keeping the defense on its back foot, not worrying about time of possession, and trying to score as many points per minute as possible.
All of those things are more or less standard operating procedure in college these days.
Oregon coach Chip Kelly — who visited the Patriots multiple times and talked to Bill Belichick about his offensive philosophy — is the visionary who pioneered the no-huddle offensive style at the University of New Hampshire in the mid-00s that dominates college football today. But he is hardly alone. Teams like Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and Arizona all copied Oregon's success and are now running their own mutant versions of the no huddle.
For the first time, the NFL is taking note.
We've written before about how the NFL is generally apprehensive to do anything experimental. Even though the NFL is a copy-cat league, there are relatively few new concepts to copy-cat because everyone is afraid to break the conventional wisdom.
The Patriots offense isn't new for football. In fact, any college football fan watching the Broncos game on Sunday would probably think it's pretty tame.
But it's new for the NFL. And if it continues to be successful, it's only a matter of time before everyone is doing it.
Read the entire Boston Globe story here >


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|System: X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Vigil Studios
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: THQ
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Jan.5, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Andrew Groen
December 16, 2009 - It's been five years in the making, and hopes are high for Vigil Games' upcoming action-adventure title, Darksiders. The developers themselves have even poured gasoline on the fire, going so far as to compare their gameplay to that of the legendary 3D Zelda games. We recently got a chance to go hands-on with this title for ourselves to find out once and for all if the anticipation is warranted. We already know that Darksiders looks great, but does the gameplay stack up?
More than any other game we've played in a long time, Darksiders is a product of its influences. While the developer has mentioned Zelda among its inspirations, that's really only the beginning. This is a game which very clearly has roots in many different classic games from the action-adventure genre. The combat is often very reminiscent of God of War, the exploration and pacing sets you back to the Legacy of Kain games, battles are often reminiscent of Devil May Cry, and the bosses will remind you of Ocarina of Time in a very good way.
During our extensive play time, comprising about 8-10 hours, we got a very good feel for Darksiders and came away more than a little impressed. It's not going to shock you with drastically new gameplay innovations, but it's definitely going to surprise you with its quality. Most games that aim this high usually end up falling tragically short, but perhaps due to its extremely long development cycle, Darksiders has fulfilled much of its potential and promises.
It might look like another straight-forward, linear action-brawler trying to be the next God of War, but looks can be deceiving. As you travel deeper and deeper into the game, you'll find that Darksiders continuously opens up to reveal new layers and expand on its original formula. Before you know it, this simple button-mashing slasher has turned into an all-new, complex hybrid, sporting both the grace of God of War's combat system and the complexity of a Zelda dungeon. And that's all before you reach one of the several truly enormous bosses.
At first, the game can lull you to sleep with its beginnings as a basic hack-n-slash brawler, but after a few hours, you'll find yourself smack in the middle of some pretty nefarious dungeons which require a lot of exploration and puzzle-solving. If this was a simple God of War clone, you'd plow through the puzzles one at a time, most of them posing little serious cognitive threat. But in Darksiders, the dungeons are somewhat Zelda-like in that there are small, individual puzzles, but all of those tie into an overarching, meta-puzzle.
The best example comes in one of the early dungeons, which places you in a hub room with several doors around the perimeter and a pool of lava separating them. You have to constantly be manipulating a series of nine platforms to cross the pool to the next door, and then solve the puzzles in the next room to get the object you need. The goal is to retrieve a huge ornamental sword from each area and bring it back to the original room to solve another puzzle involving those swords.
In a video game landscape which includes less complexity every year, Darksiders refuses to hold your hand. It's never quite as complicated as a traditional Zelda dungeon, which might take you hours to finish, but it's refreshingly complex and forces you to think and evaluate your surroundings.
In a game world like Darksiders, so full of bleakness and gray, it would be justifiable to suspect that its underground dungeons would be extremely bland and boring to walk through. However, that never ends up being the case. Comic artist Joe Madureira - who has been on board with this project since its very beginnings - has really crafted an intensely interesting world. Even the underground bits manage to be interesting and full of dead life.
Vigil Games has stated before that they wanted to create a world devoid of humanity; this is not your average super-powered-human-fights-evil-and-saves-humanity story. These glorified superhero tales are worn out. Which is why in Darksiders, humanity itself doesn't even seem to be much of a major player at all. This is not a story about the benevolence and innocence of the human spirit, but rather it's a straight up war story between Heaven, Hell, and the forces that keep the balance.
We're very excited to get our hands on the final product, because if our time previewing the game is any indication, this is going to be a very satisfying gaming experience that fills a gaming niche that hasn't been addressed in years. If you've been yearning for the same type of gameplay that made the N64 era so special, Darksiders will definitely appeal to you; it has a lot of the same sentiments but with the polish and graphical prowess of a modern title.
Andrew Groen
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How to set up OpenCL in Linux
- Want to install OpenCL to compute on CPUs and GPUs
This guide:
- shows you how to easily set up a functional OpenCL environment on just about any Linux box
How to set up OpenCL in Linux
- Overview
- Installing the AMD ICD loader and CPU ICD (from the "APP SDK")
- Installing the AMD ICD loader and CPU ICD (from the driver package--probably unsupported)
- Using the AMD ICD with GPUs
- Installing the Intel CPU ICD
- Installing the Nvidia ICD
- Debian
- Tips and Tricks
- Related Resources
- Testing
To use OpenCL, you need three things:
- libOpenCL.so -- the "ICD loader"
This library dispatches your OpenCL calls to OpenCL implementations. It is what you link into your OpenCL-using program (or into PyOpenCL, as the case may be). Individual implementations are called ICDs ("Installable Client Drivers").
- /etc/OpenCL/vendors/*.icd -- the "ICD registry"
These files tell the ICD loader what OpenCL implementations (ICDs) are installed on your machine. There's one for each ICD. Each file is a one-line text file containing the name of the dynamic library (aka shared object, aka ".so" file) containing the implementation. The single line may either be the full absolute path or just the file name, in which case the dynamic linker must be able to find that file--perhaps with the help of setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. The names of the .icd files themselves are arbitrary, but they must have a file extension of .icd.
- One or more OpenCL implementations -- the "ICDs"
These are dynamic libraries pointed to by the .icd files, plus perhaps a few supporting files. They may reside anywhere on your file system. You can (and likely want to) have more than one installed.
Each implementation typically ships all of these components. They will tend to step on each other's feet if you're not careful. Avoiding such accidents is what this guide is about.
Installing the AMD ICD loader and CPU ICD (from the "APP SDK")
The AMD ICD works on both AMD and Intel CPUs. And is recommended even for Intel CPUs not providing SSE3/SEE4 support which is required by more recent versions of the Intel OpenCL SDK. Note that version 3.0 only runs on newer processors. Version 2.9 supports a wider range of CPUs.
As of 2017 or 2018, the AMD APP SDK has been deprecated and removed from AMD's website. However, an archived copy may be found here. Older versions are available here. Download the appropriate TGZ file, untar it and (modifying the version number if necessary) run
sudo ./AMD-APP-SDK-v188.8.131.52-GA-linux64.sh
If you want to build code using OpenCL, you probably also want the OpenCL headers. See #headers.
Installing the AMD ICD loader and CPU ICD (from the driver package--probably unsupported)
The AMD ICD works on both AMD and Intel CPUs.
Download a driver from this page.
- Unzip the .zip file you got from the page.
- Run
bash ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-*.run --extract .
Don't leave out the lone "." at the end.
- For 64-bit:
TGT_DIR="/opt/amd-opencl-icd-VERSION.MINOR/lib" mkdir -p "$TGT_DIR" cp ./arch/x86_64/usr/lib64/* "$TGT_DIR" echo "$TGT_DIR/libamdocl64.so" > /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amd.icd
- For 32-bit:
TGT_DIR="/opt/amd-opencl-icd-VERSION.MINOR/lib" mkdir -p "$TGT_DIR" cp ./arch/x86/usr/lib/* "$TGT_DIR" echo "$TGT_DIR/libamdocl32.so" > /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amd.icd
You probably want to change VERSION.MINOR to the version you actually downloaded. The cp might complain about leaving out 'fglrx', which is a directory--that's fine.
The $TGT_DIR will then contain the AMD ICD and the AMD ICD loader. If you want to build code using OpenCL, you probably also want the OpenCL headers. See #headers.
Using the AMD ICD with GPUs
Note that the above procedure only works for the CPU ICD. To use an AMD GPU, use the regular driver installation procedure of your Linux distribution, and do not follow the instructions above. The GPU driver will automatically install and set up everything above.
Running OpenCL code remotely on AMD GPUs (via SSH) without sudo
To use an AMD GPU from OpenCL, the X server has to be running, and the OpenCL code has to have access to it. If you're running your code from within the X session, everything should just work. If you want to run code remotely, the following might help:
Create an amdgpu group, with all the users that need to run code remotely.
Create /etc/enable-amd-compute with the following contents:
#! /bin/bash XAUTHPORT=$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -d'.' -f1 | cut -d':' -f2) xauth extract /tmp/x11-auth-file ":$XAUTHPORT" chmod 660 /tmp/x11-auth-file chgrp amdgpu /tmp/x11-auth-file cat > /tmp/enable-amd-compute <<EOF export COMPUTE=$DISPLAY unset DISPLAY export XAUTHORITY=/tmp/x11-auth-file EOF
Call /etc/enable-amd-compute from your X11 display manager init script. Just add
to the end of /etc/gdm3/Init/Default for gdm3, or as
display-setup-script = /etc/enable-amd-compute
in the per-seat configuration for lightdm.
Everyone in the amdgpu group now has full access to the X11 display. If someone else is doing sensitive work in the X session, remote users can spy on them.
Before running GPU computations remotely, you then have to run
source /tmp/enable-amd-compute
For lightdm users, sometimes, just changing below variable(s) in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is enough to use AMD ICD remotely.
xserver-allow-tcp=true autologin-user=USERNAME #optional
Multiple GPUs
To use multiple GPUs via OpenCL, use
aticonfig --initial --adapter=all
to create the Xorg configuration file.
Installing the Intel CPU ICD
Intel offers CL downloads in multiple spots:
http://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/irc_nas/13793/l_opencl_p_18.1.0.013.tgz (Direct link)
Of those, you want the "driver download" page.
- There, grab the "OpenCL™ Runtime 15.1 for Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processors for Red Hat* and SLES* Linux* OS (64-bit)" (does not just work on Red Hat/SLES)
- Unpack: (your version number may vary)
tar xvf ~/Downloads/intel_sdk_for_ocl_applications_2013_xe_runtime_3.0.67279_x64.tgz
If your system is based on rpm (i.e. SuSE, Redhat, Fedora, CentOS, Mageia...), and if you want to install both Intel's ICD loader and ICD, simply type
cd intel_sdk_for* ./install-cpu.sh
- and you're done.
- For other systems (Ubuntu, Debian, ...) and to install only the ICD, do the following:
TGT_DIR="/opt/intel-opencl-icd-VERSION.MINOR/lib" mkdir -p "$TGT_DIR" rpm2cpio intel_sdk_for_ocl_applications_*/opencl-*-intel-cpu-*.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv cp ./opt/intel/opencl-*/lib64/* "$TGT_DIR" echo "$TGT_DIR/libintelocl.so" > /etc/OpenCL/vendors/intel.icd
You probably want to change VERSION.MINOR to the version you actually downloaded. You also need an ICD loader. See the AMD instructions for that.
Installing the Nvidia ICD
Whatever procedure your distribution uses for installing the Nvidia GPU driver should automatically also install the OpenCL ICD. It might also overwrite your system-wide ICD loader, if you have one.
Note that you need the permission bits on /dev/nvidia* set to allow access if you want remote (SSH) GPU access. Since many Linux distributions play idiotic games with those permission bits as well as the ownership of the device, the most robust solutionn I've found is to use POSIX ACLs:
setfacl -m g:gpu:rw /dev/nvidia*
Debian packages OpenCL very well and makes installing this much easier.
Packages of ICD loaders: (you just need one of these)
amd-libopencl1 (recommended)
ocl-icd-libopencl1 (the reference implementation)
Packages of ICDs:
amd-opencl-icd (Jesse only)
pocl-opencl-icd (Cross platform CPU implementation)
mesa-opencl-icd (Currently has partial support for older AMD/ATI graphics cards)
Package for headers:
I would recommend using the latest versions (perhaps from the 'experimental' repository). Those are usually the least buggy.
In particular, Debian makes it straightforward to use both AMD and Nvidia GPUs in the same computer. Just let the AMD driver drive the display, for Nvidia only install the ICD.
The Intel CPU ICD is not packaged. Install it manually as above.
beignet is a project initiated by Intel to provide OpenCL support for their Ivy Bridge GPUs.
Tips and Tricks
Per-user ICD registry?
It's sometimes annoying that /etc/OpenCL/vendors is system-wide, i.e. individual users cannot install their own OpenCL ICDs. Here's a workaround.
- Extract the AMD ICD (and ICD loader) as above, somewhere in your home directory.
Link against that libOpenCL.so when building your code.
Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that this libOpenCL.so gets picked up.
Make a new directory with a few .icd files as described above.
Set the environment variable OPENCL_VENDOR_PATH to that path.
Downloading the OpenCL headers
If you would also like the OpenCL headers, do the following:
TGT_DIR=/opt/opencl-headers/include/CL mkdir -p $TGT_DIR && cd $TGT_DIR wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-Headers/master/opencl22/CL/{opencl,cl_platform,cl,cl_ext,cl_gl,cl_gl_ext}.h
Related Resources
apt-get install clinfo
clinfo Number of platforms 1 Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA Platform Vendor NVIDIA Corporation Platform Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0 Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE Platform Extensions cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts Platform Extensions function suffix NV Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA Number of devices 1 Device Name Tesla K80 Device Vendor NVIDIA Corporation Device Vendor ID 0x10de Device Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA Driver Version 375.26 Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.2 Device Type GPU Device Profile FULL_PROFILE Device Topology (NV) PCI-E, 00:03.6 Max compute units 13 Max clock frequency 823MHz Compute Capability (NV) 3.7 Device Partition (core) Max number of sub-devices 1 Supported partition types None Max work item dimensions 3 Max work item sizes 1024x1024x64 Max work group size 1024 Preferred work group size multiple 32 Warp size (NV) 32
Manual Method
Download this file and unpack it:
curl https://codeload.github.com/hpc12/tools/tar.gz/master | tar xvfz -
Then compile the code:
cd tools-master make
If your ICD loader and its header files (CL/cl.h) are in non-standard locations, you can say
make OPENCL_INC=/somewhere/include OPENCL_LIB=/somewhere/lib
Then run the following:
On my machine, this prints the following
platform 0: vendor 'Intel(R) Corporation' device 0: ' Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz' platform 1: vendor 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.' device 0: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz'
If the output is empty, then no ICDs were found, i.e. something went wrong with the installation.
To run a simple functional test of a device, do the following:
./cl-demo 1000000 10
You will be prompted for where to run. A sample session might look as follows--make sure it says 'GOOD' at the end:
Choose platform: [0] Intel(R) Corporation [1] Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Enter choice: 0 Choose device: [0] Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz Enter choice: 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz VENDOR: Intel(R) Corporation PROFILE: FULL_PROFILE VERSION: OpenCL 1.1 (Build 31360.31426) EXTENSIONS: cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_icd cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_intel_printf cl_ext_device_fission cl_intel_exec_by_local_thread DRIVER_VERSION: 1.1 Type: CPU EXECUTION_CAPABILITIES: Kernel Native GLOBAL_MEM_CACHE_TYPE: Read-Write (2) CL_DEVICE_LOCAL_MEM_TYPE: Global (2) SINGLE_FP_CONFIG: 0x7 QUEUE_PROPERTIES: 0x3 VENDOR_ID: 32902 MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS: 4 MAX_WORK_ITEM_DIMENSIONS: 3 MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 1024 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_CHAR: 16 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_SHORT: 8 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_INT: 4 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_LONG: 2 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_FLOAT: 4 PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_DOUBLE: 2 MAX_CLOCK_FREQUENCY: 2700 ADDRESS_BITS: 64 MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 2067921920 IMAGE_SUPPORT: 1 MAX_READ_IMAGE_ARGS: 480 MAX_WRITE_IMAGE_ARGS: 480 IMAGE2D_MAX_WIDTH: 8192 IMAGE2D_MAX_HEIGHT: 8192 IMAGE3D_MAX_WIDTH: 2048 IMAGE3D_MAX_HEIGHT: 2048 IMAGE3D_MAX_DEPTH: 2048 MAX_SAMPLERS: 480 MAX_PARAMETER_SIZE: 3840 MEM_BASE_ADDR_ALIGN: 1024 MIN_DATA_TYPE_ALIGN_SIZE: 128 GLOBAL_MEM_CACHELINE_SIZE: 64 GLOBAL_MEM_CACHE_SIZE: 262144 GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 8271687680 MAX_CONSTANT_BUFFER_SIZE: 131072 MAX_CONSTANT_ARGS: 480 LOCAL_MEM_SIZE: 32768 ERROR_CORRECTION_SUPPORT: 0 PROFILING_TIMER_RESOLUTION: 1 ENDIAN_LITTLE: 1 AVAILABLE: 1 COMPILER_AVAILABLE: 1 MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZES: 1024 1024 1024 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Kernel compilation resulted in non-empty log message. *** Set environment variable CL_HELPER_PRINT_COMPILER_OUTPUT=1 to see more. *** NOTE: this may include compiler warnings and other important messages *** about your code. *** Set CL_HELPER_NO_COMPILER_OUTPUT_NAG=1 to disable this message. 0.001980 s 12.119479 GB/s GOOD
The package also contains a simple interface helper (cl-helper.h and cl-helper.c) for OpenCL. Feel free to use it under the terms of the MIT license.


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Jan 16, 2005
Jan. 16, 2005
The Bulldogs were swept by Cornell and the Naval Academy in a meet hosted by the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
In the dual meet against Navy, the Elis were bested 136-107. Cornell defeated Yale 126-117 and was also the victor over Navy by a close 122-121 score.
Yale travels to local Fairfield Friday for their next meet.


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Should Muslim Quran be USA's top authority?
Paper stands by story citing 'mainstream' leader pushing for Islamic America
A former newspaper reporter says she stands by her story claiming the chairman of a leading Muslim lobby group declared the Quran should be America's highest authority.
In a press release accusing WND of "demonizing Muslims," the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, denied its chairman of the board, Omar Ahmad, made the statement and said it is seeking a retraction from the newspaper that published the story July 4, 1998.
However, Steve Waterhouse, editor of The Argus in Fremont, Calif., since 1997, told WND his paper has not been contacted by CAIR. The article also was run in a sister publication, the San Ramon Valley Herald. The paper's city editor, Dave Boitano, said he would have known if CAIR had sought a retraction.
The reporter who covered the event, Lisa Gardiner, told WND she remembers the strong statement by Ahmad, who was one of several speakers at a session at an Islamic conference in Fremont titled "How Should We As Muslims Live in America?"
Gardiner, regarded by her former editors as a reliable reporter, is now a legislative aide for California Democratic Assemblyman John Dutra. She said the statement in question is her paraphrase but insisted it is accurate, and she will not retract the story.
Her article also paraphrases Ahmad saying, "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant."
WND Editor Joseph Farah referred to Omar's remarks – which have been cited by other critics of CAIR – in a column last week on the Muslim group's campaign to derail President Bush's nomination of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace.
In its press release, CAIR said Farah's most recent articles "smeared" the Muslim group with numerous "falsehoods and distortions" in an attempt to support Pipes' "controversial" nomination. The group claims that WND stories "prompted" readers to write "hate-filled" messages to CAIR and that some are being examined by the Justice Department.
Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer responded yesterday to a question by WND's White House correspondent about CAIR's opposition to Pipes.
"The nomination continues to stand," Fleischer said.
Living in America
Ahmad's remarks have been cited by CAIR critics in the context of charges the group is tied to a radical element of Islam rather than the "mainstream" it claims to represent.
Its press release says: "CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, is a mainstream organization that regularly works with national law enforcement authorities, elected officials and other civil liberties and minority groups."
Gardiner's original article, provided to WND by Waterhouse, said in part:
Omar M. Ahmad, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic relations, spoke before a packed crowd at the Flamingo Palace banquet hall on Peralta Boulevard, urging Muslims not to shirk their duty of sharing the Islamic faith with those who are "on the wrong side."
Muslim institutions, schools and economic power should be strengthened in America, he said. Those who stay in America should be "open to society without melting (into it)," keeping mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam, he said.
"If you choose to live here (in America) … you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam," he said.
Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant, he said. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth, he said.
CAIR confronted
When asked by WND whether CAIR had contacted the newspaper for a retraction as indicated by its press release, national spokesman Ibrahim Hooper insisted Ahmad "never made the statement, and we have sought a retraction."
Pressed several times to specify whether CAIR already has contacted the newspaper, Hooper repeated the statement then finally said someone from CAIR's California affiliate made the contact.
When confronted with the fact that the newspaper's editors say CAIR has not contacted them and the reporter stands by the story, he abruptly ended the call.
"If you are going to use distortions, I can't stop you; it's a free country. Have a nice day," he said before hanging up.
Hooper called back only a minute later, however, and said he wanted to change his statement to say, "We will seek a retraction, and we have spoken to the reporter about it in the past."
Justice probe?
Although WND did not solicit or encourage the virulent e-mails, CAIR's press release ties them to the newssite, and Hooper told WND the Justice Department is "looking into it."
A Justice spokesman, Drew Wade, said the department does not confirm or deny the existence of ongoing investigations.
But Paul Bresson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who looked at CAIR's examples of the e-mails when WND forwarded him the press release, said the FBI thoroughly examines the merits of each case, and he could not immediately judge whether they rose to the level of a threat worthy of investigation. He added, however, that if they essentially amounted to epithets, a probe would be unlikely.
With just name-calling, "we would have a lot of work to do" to make a case out of it, he said.
So why is CAIR so upset with WND?
"CAIR's leadership," said Farah, "has an Islamic totalitarian mindset just like their funders in Saudi Arabia and their friends in the Hamas terrorist group. They dish it out pretty well, but they can't take any criticism – not even e-mails! You should see the hate mail I get from CAIR's members. It would make your hair stand on end."
Farah added: "These extremists like to try to intimidate people, but they can't stand up like men and take it. Now they are running to the Justice Department for help. Fortunately for us, we don't have Shariah law in this country; we live free under the U.S. Constitution."
Motivated to promote unity
Gardiner explained to WND that the newspaper's coverage of Ahmad's 1998 speech – well before Sept. 11, 2001 – was partly motivated by the "need to know more about the diversity of religions in California and the world."
"That was something we worked for, and the newspaper was covering many Muslims in the community," she said.
She considered her personal interaction with the Muslim leaders "extremely positive" and enriching.
"I think it would be unfortunate if this [controversy] ultimately ended up creating more hostility and misunderstanding," she said.
Related stories:
Group forces censure for 'Islamophobia'
Muslims try to quash Bush nominee
Christian relief plan riles Muslims
Muslims try to bar terror expert


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Reviewed by Nathaniel A. (age 10)
Will Jack and Annie make it out of the tree house alive? Or will Annie go to jail and never come out? If you want to know what happens, you will need to read the book. If you like adventure books you're going to like this book.
This book reminds me of other books like Civil War on Wednesday. They are similar because they have adventure in them. My favorite part about these books is that they can take me where ever I want by using my imagination. I like this book also because,like jack and Annie, I like to have adventures and experince new thing.


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Everton manager Roberto Martinez has made his first move into the transfer market and has recruited three players he has previously worked with at Wigan: Joel Robles, Antolin Alcaraz and Arouna Kone.
So, what will these players bring to the club? And are the good pieces of business by the manager?
Let's take a closer look.
Joel Robles
Joel Robles has clearly come in as a direct replacement for Everton number two 'keeper Jan Mucha, who has left the club on a free transfer.
Joel is a 23-year-old goalkeeper who has an abundance of enthusiasm for the game and is very committed to every game that he plays. This commitment was seen last year when he helped Wigan win the FA Cup but more so when he cried when Wigan were eventually relegated, even though he was only at the club on loan.
When you look at his reaction compared to some of the players at QPR, it shows that he is willing to play his heart out in every game - an attitude which will be well appreciated by the Everton fans.
He was originally ahead of David De Gea in the Atletico Madrid youth team until an injury meant De Gea took over that position - and obviously he has ended up at Manchester United.
This fact, coupled with his performance in the FA Cup final, shows this player has potential - and by being an understudy to Tim Howard will help to progress his game to the next level.
He will also offer valuable competition for places at Everton and by being signed on a five-year deal should be seen as a long-term investment by the club.
Antolin Alcaraz
The signing of Alcaraz on a free transfer is, in my opinion, a marvellous piece of business for Everton.
Last season he was hit with an injury at the start of the year and only managed to return for the end of the campaign, but his return was pivotal in Wigan winning the FA Cup.
In the final he proved what a quality defender he can be as he managed to keep the attacking talents of Manchester City, which included the likes of Carlos Tevez and Sergio Aguero at bay.
I don't think he will be a regular starter in the Everton team as it will be difficult to break the solid partnership that Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin have created over the last couple of season.
However, what he does bring is strength in depth which could be critical if one of the previous centre-backs picks up an injury during the season. Last year if Distin or Jagielka were injured Johnny Heitinga was expected to fill the void, but his performance were below-par and often he looked out of his depth in the defensive line.
Alcaraz is a seasoned professional, who is calm under pressure and able to slot into the defensive lines to cover injuries to his team-mates.
Arouna Kone
The signing of Kone was the first transfer under Martinez and has been received by mixed emotions by Everton fans.
Last season the Everton attacker was, at times, lacking in terms of quality, with Nikica Jelavic not recapturing his form from the previous season and Victor Anichebe only managing to score six goals in the league.
Therefore the signing of Kone may be seen as a useful addition to the squad and could become the club's first-choice striker in this forthcoming season.
In a team that was fighting relegation, Kone still managed to hit double figures with 11 goals in the league and by playing with a better squad around him this figure could easily increase.
He is a forward who is strong enough to hold the ball up but, more importantly, he has a turn of pace to run in behind and stretch the defensive line.
The issues which have arisen from this transfer is the fee that the club have paid to Wigan for the forwards services. This is a huge investment from Everton, who are a club that have been well documented to have a restricted transfer budget. Therefore many fans will ask is a 29-year-old forward who has just suffered relegation worth the fee which has been paid by the club.
Overall these doubters of Kone will soon be won over if he manages to score the goals in the first few weeks of the season.
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For her second act, alumna merges interests in arts and education
July 06, 2011
Debora Iyall M.A.T. '07, the singer behind the popular new wave band Romeo Void, discusses her professional renaissance in this Sacramento Bee profile. Iyall works as an arts educator in California and continues to pursue her interest in music performance.
Romeo Void formed in 1979, releasing hits such as "Never Say Never" and "Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)" before breaking up in 1985. Since the band's split, Iyall has worked as a freelance art teacher. She completed her master's in teaching, with an emphasis on arts education, at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
Iyall will release a new EP this fall, and she recently offered a large public concert in Sacramento.
"Doing music again…sort of reignited my passion to do the very unique thing I do, which is to write songs, and sing the way I sing," Iyall said in the article. "I am taking the advice I always gave my students, which is emphasize the most unique thing you do, and go with that."
Learn more about the arts education program at Lewis & Clark and read about other students in the program.


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EJB QL as defined in the EJB 2.1 Specification defines certain restrictions for the SELECT clause of an ORDER BY query (see section 11.2.8 ORDER BY Clause). This ensures that a query does not order by a field that is not returned by the query. By default, the EJB QL compiler checks the above restriction and throws an exception if the query does not conform.
However, some databases support SQL statements with an ORDER BY column that is not included in the SELECT clause. To disable the validation of the ORDER BY clause against the SELECT clause, set the DISABLE_ORDERBY_VALIDATION JVM option as follows:
asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.jdo.spi.persistence.support.ejb.ejbqlc.DISABLE_ORDERBY_VALIDATION=true
The DISABLE_ORDERBY_VALIDATION option is set to false by default. Setting it to true results in a non-portable module or application.


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In just six years, the list of beef production and marketing alliances has risen to more than 40 programs. Each year, some come and some go. But, which programs have the best odds of survival and how do you pick the programs that are best for your production system?
The listings included in this insert number more than 40, and a review will illustrate that there's an alliance to fit nearly any production and management environment.
Cattle-Fax estimates that 15% of the cattle in the U.S. are now marketed through some sort of alliance or integrated program. In addition, more than 50% of fed cattle are marketed on a contract, grid or formula structure.
Spurring this growth is the evolution of the nation's beef industry into two distinct systems. The traditional commodity beef system in which cattle are traded based on average pricing is being replaced by value-based marketing. In this latter system, the value of cattle is determined by their performance against a set of quality specifications.
Livestock economist Harlan Hughes, Mankato, MN, emphasizes that as value-based beef producers shop for a program to become allied with, they need to proceed with care. Not all value-based programs are equal, and not all will survive.
Thus, the natural reaction might be to hang tight and let the inevitable shakeout occur. But, take a little over-the-fence advice from some cattle marketing experts if you want to join in the value-based beef production game, don't wait until the players sort themselves out. On the other hand, don't panic and jump in blind the train is not going to leave you at the station just yet.Sorting Out The Differences
With the move toward objective marketing, it is critical that the value differences between cattle are identified. The successful alliance will focus on measuring and compensating for value.
First, though, we'll need better tools and technology in place to measure things like red meat yield and tenderness, says Randy Blach of Denver-based Cattle-Fax. We'll keep our present grading systems, but we'll lay some objective measurements over the top of them that will give us a better idea of the true value of each animal.
The best situation is one in which producers get a significant share of the premium pool associated with high-quality cattle, says Wayne Purcell, a Virginia Tech livestock economist. There are vertical alliances that are offering a share in those premiums.
Once a pricing structure is in place, there is a need to help reduce the risk inherent in the cattle business.
An alliance will succeed if it provides adequate risk management tools, Blach, the head of Cattle-Fax says.
It's going to be critical to learn what the risk management tools are and integrate them into your alliance, he says.
Cattle feeder and marketing guru Harry Knobbe, West Point, NE, agrees that risk management is a big part of a good alliance.
A good alliance will work with people who know how the markets move and can take advantage of the highs and lows, he says. But even more, the good alliance will offer a producer a means to be part of something bigger than you are.
The trade-off might be the loss of some independence, says Knobbe. A rancher or feeder might have to follow some kind of production protocol and depend on someone else to do part or all of your marketing.Setting The Specs
Most alliances have preset quality specifications. The challenge for today's value-based beef producers is to match their herd's genetic characteristics to a specific value-based marketing program, says Hughes.
Harlan Ritchie, professor of animal science at Michigan State University, adds that most alliances and programs generating higher-end beef will tend to migrate in the direction of ¾ British breeding and ¼ Continental breeding. Some alliances will look at the feed conversion and cost of gain advantages associated with half-and-half British and Continental breeding.
These breed combinations will hit the targets of most programs and alliances, Ritchie says.
Before you get too deep into an alliance, take whatever steps to find out where your cattle fit, advises Bob Kropp, Oklahoma State University's beef cattle management specialist. He's seen time and again how important it is to first get good performance and production data.
Then use that information to find an alliance that will work for your cattle, Kropp says.
No one grid, contract agreement or alliance will fit every producer's resource base and opportunities, Purcell adds.
The alliances will recognize geographical and other influences on genetic mixes, he says. Purcell adds that individual identification and feedback is essential and will continue to be an important part of a successful alliance.A Better Way
The bottom line for cow/calf producers is that there has got to be a better way of doing business, Blach says.
If you produce average cattle, you break even that's the definition of a commodity market, he explains. The reward, says Blach, will be price differentials between commodity and branded beef.
We're going to see an increasing amount of beef sold under branded names. In five years, one-third of beef sold will be sold under a brand name, Blach says.
Blach lists some basic characteristics of alliances that will be successful:
Vision Short- and long-term objectives must have clear-cut motivations and objectives.
Flexibility They have a plan but are willing to adjust to the cattle cycle and changes in beef demand.
Leadership Strong leaders with a stable well-trained staff will be critical.
Capital Financial stability is a key to making sure the alliance is not going to be run on a shoestring.
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Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller has been denied a request for an emergency restraining order against the actor as they continue to fight over custody of their twin boys.
Sheen's second wife, Denise Richards, has been looking after Sheen and Mueller's 4-year-old sons Bob and Max since Mueller was stripped of custody and admitted to a drug rehabilitation facility in May.
She spent Friday night with her kids for the first time in months, and has since revealed plans to regain full custody – but the news angered Sheen and he launched into a Twitter.com rant that morning to slam officials at the Department of Child and Family Services for their handling of the case.
He unleashed another tirade against Mueller during an interview on "TMZ Live" last week, when he warned there will be a "reckoning" after accusing the recovering addict of putting their boys' lives in danger by allegedly using illegal substances while they were in her care.
He added, "I will exercise every resource at my disposal. I will, I will, I will, I will empty my entire war chest and if I can't get it done, I know a guy who can."
His fiery comments reportedly prompted authorities to ban him from visiting his boys back at Richards' house on Saturday, and prompted Mueller to file court papers for an immediate protective order.
Her motion was rejected by a Los Angeles judge on Monday, although she has been given another opportunity to argue her case at a hearing next month, reports TMZ.com.
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In the wake of Barack Obama's re-election as president of the United States, lawmakers like Republican House majority leader John Boehner and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid took to airwaves to show Americans that Congress will work to bride a partisan budget divide and avert a so-called 'fiscal cliff' scheduled for early 2013.
Less heralded on Wednesday was telecom giant AT&T's
At a telecom analyst conference in New York City, AT&T said it will boost corporate spending to $22 billion a year through 2015 to improve its wireless service and upgrade wireline and fiber networks. The move comes at a time when carriers like AT&T, Verizon
While AT&T's higher than expected spending plan was seen by John Hodulik of UBS as depressing its forecasted earnings, the company also upped its quarterly dividend to 45 cents a share, in a set of announcements that failed to impress investors.
Still, the spending is seen as returning wireless sector spending to growth from forecasts of a decline starting in 2013, and analysts and investors expect that it can drive the earnings of companies like Juniper Networks
An increasing dedication to wireless service improvements are also expected to directly benefit handset makers like Apple, who are relying on carriers to provide data service that will further tether consumers to their smartphone and tablet devices.
Kulbinder Garcha of Credit Suisse expects that AT&T spending plan will account for 35% of overall wireless capital expenditure in coming years, helping to turn an expected 3% spending decline to 6% annual growth. Garcha expects that a turn from a 2013 spending cliff to continued growth will be a boost to Apple and its key suppliers like Qualcomm as more consumers move to smartphone and tablet devices.
Currently, 64% of AT&T's postpaid wireless customers are using smartphones, calculates Garcha, who notes that Wednesday's announcement signals AT&T "continues to expect strong smartphone penetration and adoption of data plans to be a driver of wireless growth." He forecasts AT&T will reach 90% smartphone penetration within its postpaid subscribers by 2015, given that smartphones account for 80% of new handset sales.
Dallas-based AT&T will spend $8 billion a year to continue expanding 4G wireless network it says will reach 300 million people by 2014, and an additional $6 billion on wireline equipment that serves business customers.
Tal Liani, an analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch says Ciena, Juniper Networks and Qualcomm are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of the billions in annual wireless and wireline network spending AT&T now forecasts.
"We believe Juniper and Ciena could be prime beneficiaries from AT&T's spending boost, given the required investment in core network, aggregation and management equipment," writes Liani of AT&T's announcement.
"Such spending could have a significant impact on their financials and both stocks have been under pressure recently due to weak carrier capex. Qualcomm is an indirect beneficiary, with AT&T's announcement likely to drive Verizon and T-Mobile to push harder with their LTE roll outs," the analyst adds.
AT&T isn't alone in making big spending bets on the smartphone and its spending plans may force competitors to quicken costly network upgrades.
On Wednesday, Sprint, which has seen its finances revitalized by an October merger with Softbank of Japan said it will U.S. Cellular's Midwest assets, in a deal that is evidence of the company's improved industry standing.
Already, Sprint is now seen as having the finances to complete wireless network improvement projects and take on subsidized Apple iPhones to its unlimited data plans - in expensive smartphone market bets that once had analysts handicapping the company's bankruptcy.
Quietly, as the telecom industry has consolidated in a string of deals that makes Sprint and MetroPCS-TMobile better competitors to AT&T and Verizon in servicing smarthpones, tower operators like American Tower
AT&T's spending plans may have a windfall on tower operators, says Piper Jaffray analyst Christopher Larsen. "Today's announcement translates to more cell sites... The installations will leverage fiber connections to the towers, which is good for fiber- based players," writes Larsen in a note to clients that highlights American Tower, SBA Communications and Crown Castle as beneficiaries.
All told, AT&T's spending signals that money is still gushing into the wireless market as a swath of industries brace for continued consumer demand for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. While AT&T's plans may tip forecasts of infrastructure spending positive -- averting a cliff that may hit other sectors - there's good reason to expect other large wireless carriers to plow billions more into wireless and fiber networks, in coming years.
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By: Danny Lipford
To find the location of wall studs behind a tile wall in a bathroom:
- Use a standard stud finder above the tile, and plumb down from it.
- Use a special deep sensor stud finder than can go through tile.
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Antwon asks: I'm putting a grab bar in my parent's ceramic tile shower. Is there an easy way to locate the studs without tearing out the tile?
Danny Lipford: It is fairly easy to find the wall stud in a wall, even behind ceramic tile like this, especially if the tile doesn't go quite to the ceiling. You can use a stud finder like this, locate exactly where the stud is, level down, and you'll know exactly where to attach your grab bar into that stud.
Now, if your ceramic tile goes all the way to the ceiling. Well, you can buy an enhanced stud finder, called a deep sensor type, that'll go through the density of the ceramic and locate those wall studs. Now, make sure you use a long enough screw, so that you're going through the tile and at least an inch and a half into the wall stud.
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In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei peered through his telescope and reported the planet Saturn as having ears. He was the first to peer at the planet's dazzling ring system, now known to be composed of tiny orbiting particles of ice and dust. Observations of the rings are still yielding surprises.
Recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a luminous dot speeding within the G ring, one of the planet's faintest, least-understood rings. The orbiting body is a moon about 0.5 kilometers (0.3 miles) wide. Particles shed by this moonlet—and perhaps others like it yet to be discovered—make up the G ring. Prior to this discovery, the G ring was the only one of Saturn's dusty rings that was not known to host a moon.


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Intent Media, which publishes MCV and Develop, has been acquired by North American publishing group NewBay Media.
The group has purchased of all of Intent's print and online publications, and both parties involved see it as an opportunity to expand its audiences.
"Intent has constantly expanded, becoming one of Europe's biggest specialists in business media for entertainment markets," said Intent Media founder Stuart Dinsey. "Our entrepreneurial spirits and on-going ambitions fit perfectly with NewBay.
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AHL Game Night: 1-31-14 Crunch at Comets
Have you heard the one about a Latvian and a French Canadian who walk into a diner on the way from Utica to Montreal?
Cedrick Desjardins allowed 3 goals on 29 shots for the loss. After the game, Desjardins and tandem-mate Kristers Gudlevskis were summoned to join the Lightning in Montreal for tomorrow night's came against the Canadiens with Bishop's head injury and Lindback's sprained ankle.
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SYR Sustr, (1) (Angelidis, Panik), 18:55
I suppose the good news is that at least Andrej Sustr was able to get on the board. Sadly, though, the Crunch will be going into tomorrow night with a loaned ECHL goaltender between the pipes, in all likelihood. They've reportedly suspended Riku Helenius tonight for breach of contract. So, things don't appear to be on the way to getting a whole lot better for the Crunch. Perhaps there's a silver lining that there's no recall for Valtteri Filppula's spot as of this posting. It's not exactly something worth throwing a parade over, but Crunch fans have to take what they can get these days.
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As you might have noticed, Peggy's been making the rounds recently with a few travel shows on the Philadelphia air waves and beyond. Earlier this month, she appeared on Ralph Collier's "Tours and Detours" on the WRTI Classical Network. Then, she popped over for a chat with WNRW's Barry Reisman on his radio show "Dining and Destinations."
Well, I've been following quickly in her wake to turn the tables on these iconic Philadelphia radio hosts. Last week, I published my interview with Ralph Collier, and today I welcome you to hit play below to catch my most recent interview with the ever-pleasant Barry Reisman.
As I mentioned before, Barry is the host of his show "Dining and Destinations" on Philadelphia's AM-1540. During each hour-long segment, Barry interviews experts and discusses food, travel, and other aspects of "the good life."
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the award-winning author of "The Vagina
Monologues", which has been translated
into 45 languages and performed in more
than 112 countries. Ensler 's other
plays include Necessary
Targets, Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot,
Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary
Measures, The Good Body, and The Treatment. She is the founder and artistic director
of V-Day — a global movement to end
violence against women and girls, which
has raised more than $440 million in eight
years — and has recently released
two books, Insecure At Last and A
Memory, Monologue, Rant, and a Prayer:
Writings to Stop Violence Against Women
and Girls. www.vday.org
are not some marginalized, insignificant group – we
are the majority of citizens. What happens
to us determines everything.
second highest rate of rape in the world is
in the US Army system.
have reclaimed our stories and our voice but
we have not yet unraveled or deconstructed
the inherent cultural underpinnings and causes
of violence. We have not yet demonstrated the
mindset that somewhere in every single culture
is permission for violence, expect violence,
wait for violence, and instigate violence.
We have not yet stopped teaching boys to deny
being afraid, doubtful, needy, sorrowful, vulnerable,
open, tender and compassionate.
have not yet elected leaders or become leaders
who refuse violence as a possible intervention,
who make ending violence the center of everything.
We have not yet elected or become leaders who
understand that you cannot say that you believe
in women and children, and then support bombing
Iraq. Exactly whose children do you believe
in protecting?
have not yet made violence against women abnormal,
extraordinary, unacceptable, we have not yet
come to see it as a pathological issue.
are the greatest resource of the planet. You
destroy trees and forests, ocean and sky – it
is the same story.
we are to end violence against women, the whole
story has to change.
only point of having power it seems to me is
to empower others. The only point of leadership
is to inspire.
I think we have now come to identify women
and power not as the radicalization of the
mechanism and definition of power, but instead
women climbing to the top of the current patriarchy
and bureaucratic hierarchy at any cost.
question is how can women who have been funded
by the same corporate interest and money, by
the same system of exclusion and corruption,
by the same system, think for one moment it
would be any different in that position.
you accept the argument which I hear lately
that they make about Senator Clinton all the
time, that she needs to say what she is saying,
to do what she is doing, in order to get into
office, I would argue she's already in
office, and she now has a record that reflects
who she is. But secondly I would argue, that
how you travel impacts where you are going,
and how you behave matters every step of the
I hold women to a higher standard? No. I am
holding them to a different standard, a different
structure all together.
my early days of feminism, I did not imagine
a world of Condi Rices. Women who are so cut
off from their own ability to feel what another
person feels, their own to empathize…
had a different vision, which was women becoming
leaders who understood that empathy was as
primary and essential and intellect, who knew
that authenticity and strategy were only effective
as a team.
really don't care if more women are in
power – that in itself means nothing
to me. I care if more women who are fighting
for people over profit are in power.
care if more women are in power who say that
nuclear weapons are never, ever an option,
and they should be taking off not only any
negotiating table, but they should be made
absolete all together.
want women to be in it to end poverty, to rethink
racism, to stop global warming, to make parenting
and sexuality and education and health care
priorities, rather than being in it to win.
happens in touch, in pleasure, in feeling,
in beauty and in nature. We are creating the
other way have to stop minimizing it or doubting
or allowing it to be co-opted.
am waiting for a woman to run as a woman, to
remain a woman, to usher in the values of women.
believe that women can and will manifest the
new kind of power.
am always afraid, I am never afraid.
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The new look for Pigeonbasics is now here; we are aware that there have been a few bugs with still one or two issues outstanding (layout issues).
You may also have noticed the reorganisation of some of the boards.
Racing Pigeons became a Category with the subsections;
- General (this is where the posts from the old one were moved to)
- Race Day (this is for all liberations, weather, etc)
- Old Birds (topics about racing old birds)
- Young Birds (topic about racing young birds)
- Ideas & Theories (moved board from the front page)
The following top level boards have been added also; Breeding, and Introductions.
The 'Notice Board' will now serve the purpose it was implemented for;
- if you are unsure on which board to post, you can post to the Notice Board - however be aware that a moderator may move the topic to the relevant board on their first or subsequent visit (a redirect link will be left).
- all topics posted to the Notice Board will be assessed if they would be better categorised under another heading, and may be moved, but we will leave a redirect link on the Notice Board :)
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However it is only accessible by 'Subscribing' to it. That means if you have not subscribed you will not see any of the boards or topics on the Portal or anywhere else on the site. If you have subscribed topics will be shown in the Portal and you will have full access to the boards.
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Osteria Basilico has been established since 1992. It is extremely popular with local residents, business people and families.
Friendly service with a buzzy athmoshere, all in a typical rustic Italian Osteria settings, matched by home cooking like you would expect to eat in Italy is the key to the success of the restaurant.
For the menu the greatest care is taken by the chef in choosing the freshest ingredients according to season. The home made buffet, pizzas and pastas are a good choice for vegetarians.
Booking a table is strongly recommended. No bookings are taken for Saturday lunch. N.B. please book by telephone rather than email.
Mediterraneo and Essenza our sister restaurants are located in the same street, and they are a good alternative if we are full.
Children are welcome.
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