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This is a story of the Buddha as told by Ajahn Chah that I really like. He describes how in a former life, as King Mahajanaka, the Buddha learned of the dhamma from a mango tree...
This story fits well with my experiences so far, in that while I have learned much from advanced practitioners, teachers, life events, books, nature and spiritual friends I have yet to cultivate a one-to-one teacher/student relationship with a Buddhist teacher in this life. I am not adverse to the idea, it just hasn't happened yet. Still, i feel i have constantly learned things from life, and the natural world all around us. I feel like dhamma lessons are being thrown my way constantly...Dhamma Nature
The Buddha understood the uncertain nature of things. He observed the phenomenon of fruit in the wind and reflected upon the monks and novices who were his disciples. He found that they, too, were essentially of the same nature - uncertain! How could it be otherwise? This is just the way of all things.
Thus, for one who is practicing with awareness, it isn't necessary to have someone to advise and teach all that much to be able to see and understand. An example is the case of the Buddha who, in a previous life, was King Mahajanaka. He didn't need to study very much. All he had to do was observe a mango tree.
One day, while visiting a park with his retinue of ministers, from atop his elephant, he spied some mango tees heavily laden with ripe fruit. Not being able to stop at that time, he determined in his mind to return later to partake of some. Little did he know, however, that his ministers, coming along behind, would greedily gather them all up; that they would use poles to knock them down, beating and breaking the branches and tearing and scattering the leaves. Returning in the evening to the mango grove, the king, already imagining in his mind the delicious taste of the mangoes, suddenly discovered that they were all gone, completely finished! And not only that, but the branches and leaves had been thoroughly thrashed and scattered.
The king, quite disappointed and upset, then noticed another mango tree nearby with its leaves and branches still intact. He wondered why. He then realized it was because that tree had no fruit. If a tree has no fruit nobody disturbs it and so its leaves and branches are not damaged. This lesson kept him absorbed in thought all the way back to the palace: ''It is unpleasant, troublesome and difficult to be a king. It requires constant concern for all his subjects. What if there are attempts to attack, plunder and seize parts of his kingdom?''
He could not rest peacefully; even in his sleep he was disturbed by dreams. He saw in his mind, once again, the mango tree without fruit and its undamaged leaves and branches. ''If we become similar to that mango tree'', he thought, ''our ''leaves'' and ''branches'', too, would not be damaged.'' In his chamber he sat and meditated. Finally, he decided to ordain as a monk, having been inspired by this lesson of the mango tree. He compared himself to that mango tree and concluded that if one didn't become involved in the ways of the world, one would be truly independent, free from worries or difficulties. The mind would be untroubled.
Reflecting thus, he ordained. From then on, wherever he went, when asked who his teacher was, he would answer, ''A mango tree''. He didn't need to receive teaching all that much. A mango tree was the cause of his Awakening to the Opanayiko-Dhamma, the teaching leading inwards. And with this Awakening, he became a monk, one who has few concerns, is content with little, and who delights in solitude. His royal status given up, his mind was finally at peace.
In this story the Buddha was a Bodhisatta who developed his practice in this way continuously. Like the Buddha as King Mahajanaka, we, too, should look around us and be observant because everything in the world is ready to teach us. With even a little intuitive wisdom, we will then be able to see clearly through the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is a teacher. Trees and vines, for example, can all reveal the true nature of reality. With wisdom there is no need to question anyone, no need to study. We can learn from nature enough to be enlightened, as in the story of King Mahajanaka, because everything follows the way of truth. It does not diverge from truth.
If we have awareness and understanding, if we study with wisdom and mindfulness, we will see Dhamma as reality. Thus, we sill see people as constantly being born, changing and finally passing away. Everyone is subject to the cycle of birth and death, and because of this, everyone in the universe is as One being. Thus, seeing one person clearly and distinctly is the same as seeing every person in the world.
In the same way, everything is Dhamma. Not only the things we see with our physical eye, but also the things we see in our minds. A thought arises, then changes and passes away. It is ''nāma dhamma'', simply a mental impression that arises and passes away. This is the real nature of the mind. Altogether, this is the noble truth of Dhamma. If one doesn't look and observe in this way, one doesn't really see! If one does see, one will have the wisdom to listen to the Dhamma as proclaimed by the Buddha.
I would think that even with a teacher this is often true, no?


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Mr. John Long has been a Maryland Parole and Probation Agent for 35 years. He has a 30 year interest in the Shroud and is past president of the Holy Shroud Task Force, a professional group devoted to research and education on the Shroud of Turin. With "95% confidence," the three C-14 labs concluded that the cloth was manufactured between 1260 and 1390, over a thousand years too late to have been Christ's burial shroud (Damon, 1989:114). However, those who had followed closely Shroud research in the 20th century realized there were too many reasons from science, history, art history and medicine to accept those results at face value. Especially strange was the wide divergence of dates for Shroud samples among the labs (each lab ran numerous tests on the sample they received), so wide that the results could not pass a standard statistical analysis called the Chi Square test (Marino and Benford, 2000:4). Such an inordinate spread did not occur among the other three cloths tested as controls. Something was not right, but what? In the 17 years since then many theories have been proposed (for brief descriptions and analyses, see Chapters 18 and 19 of Frederick Zugibe's The Crucifixion of Jesus – A Forensic Inquiry), but until recently scientific testing of those theories has not produced much promise. Joe Marino was an agnostic working as a government clerk in 1977 when he read of the work being done by the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) scientists. "It changed my life," he admitted, and "brought me back to the Scriptures and prayer" (Shroud News, 1997:56). Marino went on to collect a world-class library on the subject and publish the newsletter Shroud Sources, and is an example of how an informed, persistent layman can make a major contribution. Skeptical as many were of the 1988 C-14 results, Marino and co-researcher M. Sue Benford noticed how some experts had warned that the area selected for the 1988 C-14 sample showed signs of textile repair. The scientist who actually cut the 8 square centimeter sample remarked that he had to remove 1 cm of material from it due to fibers of an origin different from the Shroud (Marino and Benford, 2000:2). STURP chemist Dr. Alan Adler produced a peer reviewed paper in 1996 demonstrating that the area adjacent to the C-14 sample had significantly different chemical characteristics from the rest of the cloth (Adler, 1996). He also complained in an earlier interview:
You have no way of knowing if the area you took the C-14 sample from represents the whole cloth. That's an area which has obviously been repaired. There's cloth missing there. It's been rewoven on the edge. The simplest explanation why the date may be off is that it's rewoven cloth there. And that's not been tested (Case: 73).
You have no way of knowing if the area you took the C-14 sample from represents the whole cloth. That's an area which has obviously been repaired. There's cloth missing there. It's been rewoven on the edge. The simplest explanation why the date may be off is that it's rewoven cloth there. And that's not been tested (Case: 73).
Benford and Marino decided to test. From pictures of the C-14 samples they found differences in thread size and weave patterns. They showed C-14 sample pictures to three textile companies in blind tests and were told that one side was different from the other, "touched up to prevent unraveling" and "it is definitely a patch" (Marino and Benford, 2000:7). The two researchers also noticed that radiographs of the Shroud changed as they approached the sample area, indicating different chemical/physical characteristics. Finally, they identified a seam running through the sample apparently dividing the original Shroud material from what they believed to be a 16th century patch. Because this seam ran diagonally through the C-14 sample, each lab received either more or less of the patch and original Shroud textile, explaining the labs' divergent dates and Chi Square test failure. As the C-14 sample appeared to represent 60% of new material (patch) and 40% of original Shroud, Benford and Marino learned from the firm Beta Analytic (the world's largest C-14 dating service) that such a ratio would produce a date very similar to the 1988 results (Marino and Benford, 2000:7). Their paper, "Evidence for the Skewing of the C-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Due to Repairs," was introduced at a conference in Italy in August, 2000, and soon was to receive strong support from an unlikely source. Dr. Ray Rogers was a renowned chemist and former STURP scientist who had made major contributions to understanding the images on the Shroud. He also was weary of Christians involved in Shroud science, believing that they were prone to want to see "miracles" where science could find natural explanations. When he read Benford and Marino's paper he was skeptical of their conclusions, but soon changed his mind. Having acquired Shroud material both adjacent to the C-14 site and threads from the sample area, he was surprised to find "colored encrustations (or coatings) on their surfaces" that were present nowhere in the main body of the cloth. After considerable testing he concluded, "the color and distribution of the coating implies that repairs were made at an unknown time with foreign linen dyed to match the older material." He also opined, "The radiocarbon sample was thus not part of the original cloth and is invalid for determining the age of the shroud" (Rogers, 2005:191,193). Just before he died in March, 2005 these findings were reported in a scientific paper, which also disclosed one more major revelation. Nowhere on the main part of Shroud could he detect vanillin, a compound in linen which slowly dissipates over great periods of time. No ancient linens contained vanillin, and the only place he could find it on the Shroud was in an area adjacent to the C-14 sample, again consistent with Benford and Marino's patch theory. Calculating the likely loss rate of vanillin suggested to him that the Shroud actually was somewhere between 1300 and 3000 years old (Rogers, 2005:190-193). Benford and Marino's theory is becoming the favored explanation for the C-14 dating results among many Shroud watchers, but still has its critics. Some complained that the textile specialists present at the sample cutting would have recognized a patch. One radiocarbon expert also claimed that the percentages of patch and original Shroud would have produced a date of AD 665 and not the 13th century date Benford and Marino claimed. In a 2002 paper they answered their critics with evidence from other knowledgeable authorities (Benford and Marino, 2002a). In a second paper in 2002, they discussed the expertise of 16th century European weavers and the motives of the Shroud's owners, the rich Savoy family (and future kings of Italy), for making "Invisible Repairs" to textiles like the Shroud (Benford and Marino, 2000b). When in 2005 textile expert M. Flury-Lemberg continued to insist that such reweaving did not exist and that the patch would be recognizable on the reverse side, Benford and Marino produced a fourth paper. In it they quoted the owner of a textile repair business, Mr. Michael Ehrlich, stating that "French Weaving [a textile repair practiced in Late Medieval and Renaissance periods] involves a tedious thread-by-thread restoration that is undetectable" and therefore invisible from both sides (Benford and Marino, 2005:2). The paper then went on to discuss the Shroud's historical circumstances in the early 16th century that may have led to repairs at the cloth's corner that was later to be radiocarbon dated. William Meacham is a professional archaeologist who has followed Shroud research since 1981 and was involved in some of the planning for the 1988 radiocarbon tests. In his new book, The Rape of the Turin Shroud, he concludes: "...reweaving is the scenario best supported by the data" to explain the 1988 test results (Meacham, 2005:137). He and Rogers used it as part of a request made to Shroud custodian Cardinal Poletto for a new C-14 test. However, he still has serious reservations. Meacham agrees (in this instance) with Flury-Lemberg that any patched area ought to have been identified by trained textile specialists. He also wonders whether ancient weaving wouldn't produce the changes in weave pattern and thread size to be seen in the C-14 sample. Nevertheless, he finds Rogers' chemical work supporting the Benford-Marino theory to be very strong (Meacham, 2005:138). His own historical research on Shroud repairs turned up two 19th century books documenting the work of the Venerable Sebastiano Valfre (1650 – 1718), known to have made repairs on the cloth. Valfre spent "many hours" in his work and specifically "...near the edges of the cloth certain areas were unraveling … Valfre repaired the unravellings between the border and the cloth of the Shroud" (Meacham, 2005:137-138). This is a fair description of the area where the C-14 sample was taken. Presently a committee working for the Catholic Church has finished a five-year review of various proposals for more Shroud testing. Recommendations will go to the Vatican and, at some unspecified date, new tests (not necessarily C-14) will be conducted. Benford and Marino also have learned recently that Professor Piero Savarino, Cardinal Polleto's current scientific adviser, had co-authored a booklet in 1998 declaring that "invisible mending" had been used on the Shroud in the past. The booklet admitted that if the C-14 sample came from such a mended area, the 1988 results would be invalid (Benford and Marino, 2005:2-3). The force of the patch theory appears strong and continues to attract support. "Test everything; hold fast to what is good" (1 Thes. 5:21).
Recommended Resources for Further Study
50 Proofs for the New Testament
In Their Sandals How His Followers Saw Jesus
Archaeology and the New Testament
Adler, Alan 1996 Updating Recent Studies on the Shroud of Turin. Pp. 223-228 in M.V. Orna (ed.), Archaeological Chemistry: Organic, Inorganic and Biochemical Analysis. ACS Symposium Series, vol. 625. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society.
Shroud News, Feb. 1997, No. 100; Reprint of an article originally written by Charlene Scott for The Catholic Herald, Aug. 7, 1996.
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I have always believed that the Shroud of Turin was authentic. The news that the Carbon 14 tests were "flawed" was music in my ears! We know that in the last days, there will be many things revealed that will "prove" the Bible true. These things will "bear witness" of Jesus. I also know that there will be scoffers who will attempt to discredit the Bible. The mysteries surrounding the Shroud stand to tell us that: "His ways are not our ways'!
Personally, it matters not that you believe in the Shroud, but that you believe in Jesus Christ himself! These things are only signs and wonders to show us that He is the great "I AM"!
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text: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jim Lux wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alpay Kasal" <eno at dorsai.org> > To: "'Bari Ari'" <bari at onelabs.com>; "'Jim Lux'" <James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov> > Cc: "'Dean Johnson'" <dtj at uberh4x0r.org>; <beowulf at beowulf.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:26 PM > Subject: RE: [SPAM] [Beowulf] powering up 18 motherboards > > > > I think you hit the nail on the head Bari, I'm in Brooklyn, New York. So I > > suppose it should be 15amp circuits but every circuit breaker in the box > is > > clearly a 10. This is an old house, seems like any renovations over the > > years have been only for aesthetics. The wiring in the walls is probably Circuit breaker? What's wrong with good old fuses? Good enough for my granddaddy.... actually, CB's suggest that the wiring has been messed with sometime in the last twenty or thirty years. That's a good thing! In my last house, the fuses DID feed directly into 14 Ga wire pairs that went through the house six inches apart in porcelain insulators and through porcelain tubes -- until I got to it and replaced it all, a circuit at a time, with 12 Gauge three wire PVC. The fabric coating those old wires DOES tend to disintegrate after 70 years or so... if your house has it it is probably a midlevel electrical fire trap. > > disintegrating - that would explain why the new looking circuit breakers > are > > rated for 10 amps. > > Ahhh yes.. New York, where some of the (mostly undocumented) distribution > wiring dates from Edison himself, and dogs are electrocuted when urinating > on the street from stray currents in connection boxes. The wiring is > probably knob and tube. > > > > > I think I can get use of 3 circuits which gives me some room to play with > > all the nodes and hopefully the assortment of switches and power supply. I > > have to figure out what the draw will be on the rest of the equip. Now > where > > the hell am I going to plug in this air conditioner???? > > > > Any advice on how to gang up 3 10amp circuits into a single 30amp? Sounds > > like a job for an electrician? Thanks for the help guys. > > Why gang em up? Just run three extension cords or plug strips, one into In case Jim didn't make it clear, DO NOT GANG THEM UP. In principle one can do this, IF all three of the circuits have the same phase. If they don't have the same phase (and aren't correctly connected in phase) you will observe a brief, interesting flash while the circuit breaker does bad things when you power up after trying it and see "midlevel electrical fire trap" above. However, the "right" way to gang them up is to go to the box and run brand new, clean, NEC-compliant wire from the box to your cluster location. The only thing you'll have to worry about is removing as much total amperage from the box as you add (or at least, staying withing the distribution box's total capacity). Here knowing what your house's total service capacity is, and what the total capacity is of the main distribution panel is (hopefully they are the same, but one never knows) is useful. Maybe the box already has spare capacity and you just don't know it. The rule with electrical wiring is that if you don't know EXACTLY what you're doing, hire a professional electrician. That is, if you have to ask how to gang up circuits (thereby demonstrating an ignorance about 2 and 3 phase delivery, hot, neutral and cold/ground wires, ground loops, etc) you have an unpleasantly high probabiliby of either killing yourself or burning down your house (possibly months or years after your renovation), and are probably breaking the law besides when you do it. Jim's suggestions below are excellent for living with what you have. Also consider stripping down the machines. A cluster node these days can be built out of a motherboard loaded with CPU and memory and with an onboard, PXE-capable NIC (or at most a PCI PXE NIC). No floppy, CD, hard drive, video card, or other peripheral stuff. A few weeks ago, there was a lovely discussion on clusters made by mounting bare motherboards on shelving and powering them off of shared large power supplies strung together with simple extensions, three motherboards per 450 W supply. This saves on both heat and power, as EACH peripheral draws a base current when turned on, including each power supply. There are pictures out there if you look. If you do this, you'll probably drop your load by as much as 30 watts per node, and this should be enough to push you safely within the capacity of your circuits at six nodes per circuit with room to spare. rgb > each circuit. 6 machines on each circuit. If the startup surge is too much, > stagger the spin up of the disk drives (maybe some sort of BIOS power > management option?). Seriously think about cobbling together some > collection of relays. The W.W.Grainger catalog is your friend, even if you > don't buy your stuff from them, you'll at least have a good description to > go googling for surplus places. > > If that gets too dicey.. Honda and Yamaha make very nice, quiet inverter > generators. 2kW for about $700. > > Good luck... > Jim. > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Do you check out Roger Ebert's movie reviews? Scan Rotten Tomatoes' ratings of both current and past movies? Well fuhgedaboudit. Instead, ask William "Bill" Mercer, film connoisseur extraordinaire. Most days, you'll find him behind the counter at the Video Library, 7141 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy.
It's one of those cold, rainy Saturdays. A woman asks for a movie that'll appeal to her 14-year-old son, 11-year-old daughter and herself. Bill, a 50-ish Germantown resident with a salt-and-pepper beard, lists a dozen films, from 1940s' classic capers to contemporary, child-friendly dramas. The family happily accepts "Big" with Tom Hanks. A man hurries in, looking for "that documentary about the Spanish Civil War." In the back of the store, a lively party gathers to watch a movie in The Little Theatre, outfitted with 25 comfy seats and free popcorn. The man looking for the documentary isn't in a rush anymore; he's in an animated discussion with Bill.
Bill has worked at the Video Library since the mid-1990s, when he left a career in printing and marketing to care for his ailing mother. The original store (now the home of Mi Puebla Restaurant, 7157 Germantown Ave.) had four registers and about 25,000 movies; currently, there is one register and about 17,000 DVDs and VHS tapes.
At first, the flexible hours appealed to Bill, but he soon enjoyed interacting with the community. "People are surprised you'll actually help them," he says. "If we don't have a movie, I'll call downtown, and I try to read about films even if I don't see them all."
I ask him why "one of the last remaining video rental stores in the galaxy," as the store's website says, endures. "People want to hold the physical DVD, really browse," Bill says. "Have personal contact. And they have idiosyncratic requests. Besides, technology has its limits. One time, this woman calls to say she's streaming a video, and it froze; do we have the movie? She races in," he laughs. "It was right at a suspenseful point." And during "small catastrophes, hurricanes, snow storms, everyone wants to hunker down with a film."
When Bill rents you a DVD, you forget that the pizza's getting soggy at home. He starts talking about Quentin Tarantino's films: "'Django Unchained' is a parody of a spaghetti Western. The dialogue's funny, but it doesn't work as well as 'Pulp Fiction.' And 'Reservoir Dogs'? Shock value only. Sure, entertainment's fine; it's fun seeing 'X-Men' movies with my nephews. But people today seem to just want the noise." He gestures an explosion. "Superheroes instead of characters. Even 'Zero Dark Thirty' — a smart, well-written film with complex characters and moral problems — some viewers wanted more about Maya's (Jessica Chastain) personal life!"
Although Bill's own taste runs less to the "commercially driven movie," if you're in the mood for spectacle, he enjoys finding you the perfect diversion. And in the process, you'll learn something.
He vividly describes scenes from Tarsem Singh's "The Fall." "It's visually beautiful, filmed in out-of-the-way places around the world. There's a parallel to the 'Arabian Nights' but with a sinister twist." Akira Kurosawa's films have "subtle stories, excellent direction. With foreign films, we really pay attention, take nothing for granted. Even the humor's different; we get perspective on our own society."
We talk about controversies regarding race. "Viewers complained that 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' romanticized a harsh life, poverty, but they didn't get it! It's the child's point of view, how she survives, copes. Pre-conceived notions inform opinions," he says. "Look, 'Tropic Thunder' offended some. It's not a particularly good film, but 'racist'? Yeah, Robert Downey, Jr. is in brown-face." He laughs kindly. "But it's a parody of method acting, of how actors do anything to get a part, of making a war movie."
Bill is passionate about film, but his real love is literature. As a fiction-writer and avid reader, he worries that the new "Anna Karenina," based on one of his favorite novels, "doesn't translate to film. How do you capture the relationships among the brothers? Film has its own grammar." For Bill, movies that come close to literature's power include "On the Waterfront."
Bill's involvement with movies extends beyond the Video Library. He has critiqued screenplays and assisted in productions for Michael "Mike D." Dennis, founder of Reelblack, the local production and promotion company dedicated to African-American film.
Media and the arts run in the family. When Bill, who has no wife or children, was growing up in West Philadelphia in the 1960s, his father, William "Rosko" Mercer, was an innovative radio announcer in Pennsylvania, New York and California. (Bill graduated West Catholic High School and completed some coursework at LaSalle University.)
Bill recently found letters describing the challenges his father faced as a black man breaking into radio at that time. "There's always a gap between the persona and who people really are," Bill notes. "He seemed so relaxed. I hadn't known how hard it was."
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ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County human services providers are using superlatives these days in describing the state of food and fuel assistance resources available for needy families.
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"I have been here 10 years, and it has never been nearly this bad," Helping Overcome Poverty's Effects (HOPE) Executive Director Jeanne Montross said on Monday in describing the emptiness of her agency's emergency food shelf.
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"The CCMD sets the priorities and provides general tasking...". All plans and their pieces flow from this authority level. Title 10 operations and campaigns - which I believe will become increasingly important - are born here. The point I was making is our component cyber activities cost more time and effort than standard Title 10 operations (conventional). Something conventional goes from COCOM - Component - to units assigned for execution (everything in the life lines of the same COCOM). Incorporation of cyber seems a different story, as it requires coordination between COCOMs (CYBERCOM and another), special authorities, and SROE which complicate and slow the process (already slow enough) relative to operations without cyber. My concern is that the pace of world events move at such a speed that the processes we have are not able to keep pace. Unifying C2 of cyber with conventional efforts, simplifying and reducing the number of processes can generate a more efficient, flexible response with less cost.
As for owning mission - after more thought, I can easily concede we own mission. But, in a Title 10 context those missions presumably are part of a broader operation (maybe owned by the other COCOM). We don't want the missions we own to lag behind, as doing so risks their marginalization/applicability to the operation/campaign and/or increases the time/effort required to execute the broader operation. We put forth tremendous effort to ensure this doesn't happen - perhaps there is a better way. To FCC/C10F credit, I do see efforts to move elements out forward, and I think this could help a bit.
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Modernising universities
The Commission proposes stronger action at European level to implement the necessary reforms to modernise European universities. As key actors in a knowledge economy and knowledge society, universities face many challenges and have to make the necessary reforms to fully participate in the global market place in the fields of teaching, research and innovation. These reforms, which seek to restructure universities, concern in particular mobility, recognition of qualifications, autonomy, skills, funding, excellence and partnership with business.
Communication of 10 May 2006 from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament – Delivering on the modernisation agenda for universities: education, research and innovation [COM(2006) 208 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
With 4 000 establishments, over 17 million students and some 1.5 million staff – of whom 435 000 are researchers – European universities have enormous potential. However, the Commission has identified certain challenges which the Member States and universities must face in order to modernise and restructure higher education and research and compete in the global competition:
In this context, European universities are lagging behind in an increasingly competitive market to attract the best researchers and students. However, they need to develop their own potential fully and be able to do so. Even if they share certain values and objectives, it is not necessary to follow an identical model in terms of the balance between education and research, have a similar approach to research or research training or offer similar academic services and subjects. Research must remain a fundamental mission of every education system, but it must be restricted to a limited number of establishments so as to better mobilise resources.
Reforms to develop the potential of European universities
Removing obstacles faced by universities is vital to encourage and speed up mobility, both geographically and between sectors. This relates in particular to researchers.
Advantage should be taken of the opportunities offered by mobility, a source of enrichment for study and work, but it must be made simpler by way of student grants and loans which are portable throughout the EU. The full transferability of pension rights and the elimination of all types of obstacles to occupational mobility, between countries or between sectors, will also facilitate the mobility of staff and researchers, thus stimulating innovation.
Essential reforms for the implementation of the Bologna Process are needed by 2010 throughout the EU. The main aspects are comparable qualifications (short cycle, Bachelor or equivalent, Master, Doctorate); flexible curricula which meet the needs of the labour market; and trustworthy quality assurance systems.
These reforms should not only be based on best practices but also be launched by the national authorities to guarantee their implementation. In parallel, the recognition of academic qualifications should be simplified to ensure rapid procedures, following the example of the system for the recognition of vocational qualifications, which has recently been modernised and simplified.
Universities must be autonomous and responsible in order to encourage innovation and resist change. This calls for a division of tasks between the Member States and universities. The Member States should establish the general framework (rules, policy objectives, funding, incentives). The universities should establish new governance systems based on strategic priorities and on the professional management of human resources, investment and administrative procedures. They should also reduce the fragmentation of their services and entities and assume responsibility for their results.
Incentives to encourage structured partnerships with enterprises will be needed to bring universities closer to the world of business. Beyond their original mission, universities must realise their role as economic actors and be better equipped to meet demand from the market in order to increase the impact of their research. These structured partnerships must strengthen interactions between universities and enterprises (funding, opportunities for researchers, etc.). Incentives will therefore be essential to establish the necessary structures in universities, develop entrepreneurial spirit and management, business and innovation skills.
Universities must also provide knowledge and skills geared to the needs of the labour market. In other words, graduates' qualifications must meet the needs of the labour market. All levels of education are concerned, including adult education. This approach must be in line with the agenda on lifelong learning. Innovative curricula, teaching methods and continuing or refresher training courses combining general and specific skills will help to meet these needs. Universities must also embrace an enterprise culture, and placements in industry must be recognised so that they can be fully integrated into courses. In this context, access to the labour market should serve as an indicator of the quality and performance of universities.
This means, for example, that doctoral candidates wishing to work in research must acquire, in addition to their research training, skills relating to the management of intellectual property rights, communication, working in a network, entrepreneurship and team working.
University funding must be reformed so that a level of teaching and research excellence can be achieved in accordance with the Lisbon Strategy, the aim of which is to commit 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) to a modernised higher education system by 2010. Moreover, universities should fully assume their role in European research by way of more investment (the objective is to invest 3% of GDP in research and development by 2010). In parallel, the funding of students should be amended to ensure greater fairness between students, in particular those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, as regards university admittance and chances of success.
For this reason, the funding should be results-oriented, rather than resources-oriented. It should also be more diverse and include more private funding, especially for research. A good balance between basic funding and funding resulting from calls for tender or linked to results will therefore be necessary. Moreover, this second category of funding must be based on performance indicators in order to clearly measure the relationship between resources invested (inputs) and results obtained, both economic and social (outputs). In this way, universities will be more responsible for their own financial viability.
Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are vital for universities, which have to adapt to new opportunities and new issues arising from trends in each field. Universities will therefore have to redefine their education and research priorities by focusing more on research fields than scientific disciplines. They must also encourage student, researcher and research team mobility in order to generate more interactions between them. To this end, universities will have to revise their structures and organisations (staff management, evaluation, funding, teaching, etc.).
Universities must promote knowledge by achieving greater involvement of all parts of society. In a knowledge-based society, it is vital for universities to step up communication and dialogue with those affected by their activities and with the whole of society, by way of conferences, open days or forums. They will thus gain credibility and attract more investment. They must also offer lifelong learning opportunities.
Universities must also concentrate on the development of excellence. The attractiveness of universities will be enhanced by the concentration of resources, mobility and increased competition. However, whilst attracting researchers and students, they must also establish flexible and transparent recruitment procedures, ensure research independence and offer attractive career prospects. Excellence also means favouring certain fields.
Excellence encourages the development of networks of postgraduate or doctoral institutions which must meet certain key criteria, such as critical mass, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, the European dimension, the support of public authorities and enterprises, identified and recognised fields of excellence, a range of post-doctoral studies and a reliable quality assurance system. The creation of the European institute of technology and the European Research Council is in line with this strategy.
The visibility and international attractiveness of the European higher education area and the European research area are essential to strengthen the role of universities and European research in the world. However, to be competitive, their role, openness and quality have to be stepped up. In this context, experience gained by universities in cooperation (consortia, agreements, double degrees), networking and mobility deserve to be further developed beyond Europe. Cooperative ventures should be better structured and supported by appropriate funding and bilateral or multilateral agreements. Openness to the world also means attracting non-European students, teachers and researchers and encouraging European student, teacher and researcher mobility outside Europe.
In this context, it is vital to simplify and speed up the administrative and legal entry procedures for students and researchers from outside the EU. The entry and residence of researchers from third countries have already formed the subject of a package of measures for the issue of visas for researchers in 2005. Recognising qualifications is another essential aspect of the global visibility and attractiveness of European higher education and research. Following the example of the recognition of vocational qualifications, the recognition of academic qualifications should also be encouraged. The European qualifications framework and compatible quality assurance systems mark the beginnings of this. Moreover, double degrees and joint degrees issued by consortia of universities could also be extended and built upon.
Action at European Union level
The Commission is providing political backing with the open method of coordination which Member States use. This allows the identification and dissemination of good practices and support for Member States in the pursuit of more effective university systems.
The Commission can also provide funding to step up the quality and performance of universities. This funding includes the programmes for the period 2007-2013 (the 7th framework programme for research and development, the lifelong learning programme, the Competitiveness and innovation programme), the Structural Funds, focusing on the least developed regions, and loans from the European Investment Bank.
Moreover, the creation of the European Technology Institute will meet the objectives set out in this communication, in particular because it will be focusing on excellence, interdisciplinarity, networks and cooperation between the academic and business worlds.
The Commission also emphasises the importance of coordinating all those concerned in the restructuring and modernisation of universities. The Member States must take these challenges into account when they implement the Integrated guidelines for growth and jobs and the national reform programmes. Universities must make strategy choices to respond to them. Moreover, both the Lisbon programme and the Education and Training 2010 work programme offer support at EU level.
At the informal meeting at Hampton Court in October 2005, research and development and universities were acknowledged as key factors in the EU's competitiveness. The European Council in the spring of 2006 called for stronger action to drive forward successive reforms aimed at modernising universities and research.
Communication from the Commission of 21 February 2007 – "A coherent framework of indicators and benchmarks for monitoring progress towards the Lisbon objectives in education and training" [COM(2007) 61 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission to the Council and to the European Parliament of 8 September 2006 - "Efficiency and equity in European education and training systems" [COM(2006) 481 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Commission Communication of 20 April 2005 – "Mobilising the brainpower of Europe: enabling universities to make their full contribution to the Lisbon Strategy" [COM(2005) 152 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission, dated 5 February 2003 – "The role of the universities in the Europe of knowledge" [COM(2003) 58 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
Detailed work programme on the follow-up of the objectives of Education and training systems in Europe [OJ C142/02, 14.6.2002].
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - "Towards a European Research Area" [COM(2000) 6 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Bologna declaration of 19 June 1999, adopted by 29 countries with a view to achieving convergence between higher education systems in Europe.
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VIDEO: Thomas shines in Kings' rare road win in Denver
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – This makes three seasons of being dismissed in the rotation or replaced as the starting point guard only to survive as the last man standing, so many shifts on the depth chart that Isaiah Thomas says he honestly cannot remember all those who showed up with the expectation of winning the job only to soon disappear.
He is defiant in all the right ways, refusing to play like the No. 60 pick in 2011, and a survivor, not merely making the league at 5 feet 9 but about to get big money as a restricted free agent in July. And paranoid. We can't forget paranoid.
Thomas keeps proving people wrong, all right, except that it's the Kings most of all. That would be interesting enough as the real truth while fans wonder why he doesn't get enough respect around the league — hint: his own organization isn't sold on him as a starter – except that now it comes with the defiance on full display.
There were doubts about how a scoring point guard would fit on a team that needed to get the ball to DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay, and Thomas answered by averaging 6.7 assists against 2.9 turnovers in January and another 6.7 against 3.3 turnovers the first 10 games of February.
There was enough skepticism about whether he could be a full-time starter that the Kings installed Greivis Vasquez in the opening lineup after acquiring Vasquez in the Tyreke Evans sign-and-trade. Thomas responded by posting 21.9 points, 7.1 assists, 3.0 turnovers, 37.8 minutes and 45 percent from the field in 38 games in that role, compared to 17.8 points, 4.9 assists, 2.6 turnovers, 27.7 minutes and 45.8 percent in 18 games in his previous life as an early candidate for Sixth Man of the Year. Vasquez got dealt again, to the Raptors as part of the Gay swap, and Thomas, with free agency approaching in July, got richer.
So when he is asked if he genuinely believes that the Kings look at him as the man for the permanent job and says, "Right now I do," it is the perfect answer. Confidence countered with reality, the proper understating that his current role is built on soft sand. The franchise will want him back and expects to match any realistic sheet, but that's very different from committing to him as the starter of the future. They will have cap space to acquire a front-line ball handler, by trade or free agency. They will likely draft in the neighborhood of Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State (no upgrade as a distributor but a very good defender at a time Sacramento needs to make that a priority) or Dante Exum of Australia.
Thomas thinks the Kings believe in him. Thomas also thinks the Kings could make another move to replace him before next season. That is some contradiction.
"It is," Thomas said. "But at the same time, that's how the business is. They might believe in you, then the next day they go out and get another guard, go out and get somebody else. That's just how it is. I always say myself just to stay paranoid."
Stay paranoid?
"Stay paranoid," he repeated. "Stay on my toes and be ready for any battle, anything that happens. It's three years. They brought in three different point guards, every year."
Jimmer Fredette was supposed to start in 2011-12, before the final pick in the draft lapped the 10th pick into the ground. Aaron Brooks signed before last season, and Thomas beat him out too. And the Kings traded for Vasquez before this season with the expectation Vasquez would run the point. Nope. Traded. That's the list Thomas said he couldn't remember.
The problem is that the latest run as a starter hasn't provided a final answer to the Kings about whether he can run the offense well enough when the priority is getting the ball to Cousins, Gay and, likely one day, 2013 lottery pick Ben McLemore. Plus, he is part of the problem with the perimeter defense. The other part of the problem for his chances to keep the job is also a positive: Thomas is a very good scoring punch off the bench.
"Every offseason I go into the new year thinking, 'OK, we had a losing season, so nobody's job is secure but DeMarcus Cousins' and now Rudy Gay's," Thomas said. "And I'm 5-9. So I understand. I understand. Five-nine, there's not another 5-9 starting guard in this league. You haven't seen one and you can probably name on your hand, on your five fingers, a starting point guard in the history of the NBA that's been this short. I understand it. But at the same time, I'm just willing to work and willing to showcase my skills."
Coach Michael Malone has talked to him about the delicate balance of staying aggressive as a scorer while running the offense with Cousins as the No. 1 scoring option and Gay as No. 2. Thomas gets all that and hopes he has made a convincing case to hold the spot this time. Maybe another threat will be brought in during the summer, though. That's why he has to stay paranoid.


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Shaun White has pulled out of the Olympic snowboarding slopestyle competition, he told the "Today Show" Wednesday morning.
He will still compete in the halfpipe — his best event.
"With the practice runs I have taken, even after course modifications and watching fellow athletes get hurt, the potential risk of injury is a bit too much for me to gamble my other Olympics goals on," he said.
Since Monday, when the riders got their first look at the course, there have been widespread complaints that it's too dangerous.
Norway's Torstein Hormgo, one of the favorites in the event, broke his collarbone in practice and won't be able to compete. Finland's Marika Enne suffered a concussion on Tuesday.
Riders say the jumps are too big, even after alterations were made in response to Hormgo's injury.
"It looks pretty sketchy," Finland's Roope Tonteri told The New York Times. "I think they wanted to make big kickers, and it's not really good for riders and it's not really safe anymore. I just don't want to get injured. It's not a really fun course to ride."
Canada's Sebastien Toutant said one of the jumps was so big it was "like jumping out of a building."
Others called it "obnoxiously tall."
This is the first time slopestyle has been in the Olympics. The sport involves riding down a slope and doing tricks off a series of ramps.
White jammed his wrist in practice, and called the course "intimidating" before pulling out.
The ramps are just too big.
Shaun White (jammed wrist) latest hurt on slopestyle course. Kickers seem built to launch riders to Black Sea. http://t.co/WRPjo2ezae— John Branch (@JohnBranchNYT) February 4, 2014
The Sochi slopestyle course is HUGE. #tothemoon#teamusa#landsonthemoonpic.twitter.com/qmiyXZXHte— Nick Goepper (@NickGoepper) February 1, 2014
Other riders are slamming White for his decision. They say he's only pulling out because he knows he can't win.
Shaun knows he won't be able to win the slopes, thats why he pulled out. He's scared! — Maxence Parrot (@MaxParrot) February 5, 2014
Mr. White... It's easy to find excuses to pull out of a contest when you think you can't win... — Sebastien Toutant (@SebToots) February 5, 2014
White is much better at halfpipe than he is at slopestyle.


text: On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:12:54AM -0300, Leandro Tavares Carneiro's all... > We have here an beowulf cluster with 64 production nodes and 128 > processors, and we have some problems like you, about fans. > Here, our cluster hardware is very cheap, using motherboards and cases > founds easily in the local market, and the problems is critical. > We have 5 spare nodes, and only 3 of that are ready to work. All our [..] > I think this kind of problem is inevitable with cheap PC parts, and can > be lower with high-quality (and price) parts. We are making an study to > by a new cluster, for another application and we call Compaq and IBM to > see what they have in hardware and software, with the hope of a future > with less problems... You can always employ the 'maximum tolerable failure rate' concept and buy for that rate. I find in terms of pricing equipment, there is a definite non linear (exponential?) relationship between MTBF and price. For a failure rate thats 3-5 times higher you can spend up to 40% less (or better) on equipment. This isnt a solid number, but feels within the ballpark to me based on what I've priced out before on clusters. Others may dispute this, but I am talking about buying Dell 2U rackmount servers pre-assembled vs a bunch of boards and CPUs and ram you slap together yourself. Using this concept, and setting your maximum tolerable failure rate at a specific level that suits your needs, for eg 1 node per month, coupled with an agreesive RMA schedule with a good vendor, you can get the best price performance out of a cluster. If you can withstand, using my example, 3-5 times higher failure rate which ends up being 1 node per month, you end up with 40% more gear. If you require 100% of all nodes present to be in one mesh involved in parallel calculations and a single node failure is catastrophic to the entire job running since startup, then its obviously not worth it if your jobs have a similar runtime as the failure rate (1 month). A failure rate of 1 node/5 months would work far better in that case, as the average failure would lose you only 10% of the work you do in 5 months, whereas with 40% more equipment and 5x the failure rate you may lose most of your work. (Note I am not considering that your jobs may run in [1 month / 1.4] instead due to the speedup from more gear - which will cause jobs to run in ~70% of the time (~3 weeks) - and therefore have a higher success rate in finishing in the 1 node/mo MTBF environment.) However, if your jobs run on all nodes for only a day, then a failure of a single node once per month nets you a loss of a half day per month lost work average. For this concession you get 40% more equipment (possibly meaning 40% more processing power, depending on your application). You also need to factor in how much personal time you have to deal with RMAing and swapping equipment. This may well make any efforts towards this kind of model impossible if extra time is not available. That notwithstanding, the cost of extra time can be easily factored into the equation (and knowledgeable work-study undergrads can be a REALLY cheap alternative here :) Of course with 40% more power, you may configure two sub-clusters of 70% power of the original HA design (HA = high availability ~ higher price). If this fits your needs, a failure of a single node once per month on average jobs of a day in length will net you the equivalent loss of a quarter-day total possible work. The more you isolate sections of the cluster from eachother, the less you will lose when a failure occurs. If you can manually segment your jobs to run one per node and still achieve near 100% (or more?) of possible capacity vs a more parallelized system, then a single node failure is inconsequential. Considering the amount and types of failures discussed here, there are obviously no guarantee that a certain type of cluster setup will save you from having massive problems. Being able to plan for downtime and manage the costs associated with it is also obviously part of the design and operation of the cluster. Its a seesaw-type of balance - if you want more nodes for less money, be prepared to spend more time fixing them. Of course with any cluster, more nodes of any type will logically translate into more down/service time - so there will probably be a non-linear translation of amount of work when comparing fewer HA nodes vs more cheaper nodes. Of course by this logic, buying fewer bigger nodes would also result in less work. At some point this becomes too expensive because you're buying big Suns that are very expensive per GFLOPS (unless of course, it suits your needs best...). Another problem with this whole situation that makes it even more complex is that many cluster installations are subject to strange pricing/operation cost models. Various parts may actually lie outside your budget responsability: One time costs: - design costs (on paper) - equipment purchase - equipment cosntruction/installation - equipment configuration - softwre installation & configuration Long term/ongoing: - software maintenance/reconfiguration - upkeep/repair - equipment upgrades - power costs - cooling costs There are probably sub categories these could be split into as well. The issue here is that, say in a university, power and cooling may be paid for by the university as well as manual labour for upkeep and repair. If that is the case, then getting very power-inefficient but fast CPUs may work well (AMD thunderbirds, for eg :). If you have to pay for your own power and cooling and manual labour, then you may well just opt for spending more on cheaper gear (Athlon XPs) - and at that point may as well go for HA gear as well (depending on the cost model) to save expensive manual labour (at commercial rates >$50/hr you can quickly rack up a node's cost in a day of work). We have successfully employed the non-HA equipment deisgn in building one of our clusters - and in fact there are added advantages. We have observed that most (for various values of 'most' - 50% to 80%?) failures occur within the first month of usage. Once you start swapping out bad nodes, you have a falling rate of failure (though the age of components slowly catches up over a long time period - things with moving parts, such as fans, especially). With all problems taken together (swapping over NFS included, as these are diskless nodes) we have about 1 node crash/fail in some way every 2 months. Of course, since jobs can be checkpointed, and a single node failing doesnt take down the whole cluster (as jobs are run on subsets of nodes) not much work is lost overall. For the increased throughput from more nodes for the money, and including about 15 minutes of work per month physically messing with the machines thats directly related to hardware problems and crashes (ie unrelated to the time spent maintaining the cluster as per normal operations), its been an overall win on that particular cluster. (We have not had to RMA any equipment since the start of the 2nd month of operation - under our current service agreement, RMA would take 1-3 days, and about 20-30 min of labour, and in the meantime not significantly impact the cluster's performance). As always, designing your cluster customized for your needs and limitations is always the biggest win on price/performance. Limitations to this are having very wide ranges of needs and not having any idea of what capabilities will be required in the future, along with expensive losses when there's downtime, and expensive manual labour to get things working again. Barring these kinds of considerations, commodity equipment with a failure rate that you can deal with can net noticeable gains - having a planned failure cost related to that rate will save you from suprises. No matter what kind of cluster you build you WILL have failures, and designing to be able to mitigate the impact from such to the highest possible extent is obviously good planning. /kc > Em Qua, 2002-04-03 às 18:04, Cris Rhea escreveu: > > > > What are folks doing about keeping hardware running on large clusters? > > > > Right now, I'm running 10 Racksaver RS-1200's (for a total of 20 nodes)... > > > > Sure seems like every week or two, I notice dead fans (each RS-1200 > > has 6 case fans in addition to the 2 CPU fans and 2 power supply fans). > > > > My last fan failure was a CPU fan that toasted the CPU and motherboard. > > > > How are folks with significantly more nodes than mine dealing with constant > > maintenance on their nodes? Do you have whole spare nodes sitting around- > > ready to be installed if something fails, or do you have a pile of > > spare parts? Did you get the vendor (if you purchased prebuilt systems) > > to supply a stockpile of warranty parts? > > > > One of the problems I'm facing is that every time something croaks, > > Racksaver is very good about replacing it under warranty, but getting > > the new parts delivered usually takes several days. > > > > For some things like fans, they sent extras for me to keep on-hand. > > > > For my last fan/CPU/motherboard failure, the node pair will be > > down ~5 days waiting for parts. > > > > Comments? Thoughts? Ideas? > > > > Thanks- > > > > --- Cris > > > > > > > > ---- > > Cristopher J. Rhea Mayo Foundation > > Research Computing Facility Pavilion 2-25 > > crhea at Mayo.EDU Rochester, MN 55905 > > Fax: (507) 266-4486 (507) 284-0587 > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- > Leandro Tavares Carneiro > Analista de Suporte > EP-CORP/TIDT/INFI > Telefone: 2534-1427 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Ken Chase, math at velocet.ca * Velocet Communications Inc. * Toronto, CANADA


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Chesapeake's McClendon Marks Latest Fall of Deal Making Wildcats
Chesapeake CEO's Aubrey McClendon's departure marks the end of the reign of the empire builders in the U.S. energy industry, to be succeeded by the empire dismantlers.
Once led by trailblazing, spendthrift CEOs bent on soaring production, domestic exploration and production firms are under siege from activist shareholders who stifle under piles of debt, want to rein in costs, and mull unlocking the value trapped in shale assets that could be sold off to other companies.
Case in point: SandRidge, led by Chesapeake alumnus Tom Ward, which activists are pushing for changes.
And Hess became the latest target on Tuesday, when Elliott Management, which owns 4% of Hess's shares, said the hedge fund would nominate five directors. Elliott blamed current directors for failing to hold management accountable and for a lack of focus, similar complaints that have been made against Chesapeake.
In McClendon's resignation, he noted "certain philosophical differences with the new Board," which has been stocked with activist representatives after last year.
Chesapeake shares now up 9% to $20.63 in after-hours trading.


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Battlefield 4 Video: Beta Details Explained
It won't be long until Battlefield 4 lets us engage in ridiculous levolution and multiplayer shenanigans with our friends -- who will soon become our frenemies. If you'd like to get in on the action a little bit earlier, then check out the details for the beta.
The video above features FTW's Matt Cuttle and his interview with Battlefield 4 Executive Producer Patrick Bach. They discuss the details of the beta, such as the single map that players will get to preview: the Siege of Shanghai. If Battlefield 3's beta featuring the Operation Metro map is any indication, the Siege of Shanghai will become one of the toughest maps to play on because of how familiar it will be for players.
One topic of discussion was the issue of bringing the beta to current-gen consoles but not for any of the next-gen machines. Bach said that there's no way to solve this problem and that the best they can do is take everything they learned from the beta and apply it to the next-gen releases.
Bach also said that it was very possible for tweaks to the game to be made before the game's release, depending on what kind of feedback they receive from the beta. And he also touched on the fact that fixes can be downloaded automatically in the near future, without the need for players to be at their consoles.
And, as always, Premium members will get their first crack at the Battlefield 4 Beta on Oct. 1, while all other players will have to wait until Oct. 4. This gives them a few weeks to get accustomed to the game and give feedback before the official release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on Oct. 29, with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions launching with their respective consoles.


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piksla needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We need to find a graphical way to quickly convey our set of five core values. We are heavily focused on leveraging design since we need to roll these out across 46 different cultures and languages and they need to be understood and lived by more than 80,000 employees. The Challenge is to develop 5 original pictures for these 5 common values.
Our mission is to communicate and inspire on a worldwide level through five corporate values.
Our target group includes over 80,000 employees from production to executive top management, in 46 different countries. plus over 1,000 clients from all continents across the world. Imagine your work being seen everywhere!
We want to leverage these values and their related designed images to ensure that all employees understand and apply each of the values in their daily work. Given our global scope and the large size of our workforce, we want to find a set of designs that translate well across cultures and languages and into which we can infuse meaning. We'd like a common theme. It could be the elements (Earth, wind, fire, water) or hands or body parts or tools or whatever you can come up with -- we are game for any and all ideas. They don't have to be exotic but just easy to recognize and ones that will make our values "sing".
Our five values are: Integrity, Respect, Professionalism, Innovation, Commitment. We need one image/idea/icon for each of these values.
Below find each value in more details.
1. Integrity
- Definition: Integrity comprises perceived consistency of actions, values, methods, measures and principles
2. Respect
- Definition: ... It is to recognize the value of the other
3. Professionalism
- Definition: Consistency of the business process and the implementation of global best practices deliver the highest levels of quality of services
4. Innovation
- Definition: Curiosity, information sharing, technology leadership and investments in the future creates a virtual circle, generating Teleperformance's competitive advantage
5. Commitment
- Definition: Constant focus on meeting agreed goals and objectives.
- A creative theme. I am more focused on getting hte right theme than just the right look -- thought htat would be wonderful too. Coming up with a catchy and easy to remember system would be great.
- Make the set of icons coherent. The five need to work together and be easy for people to remember the system. That is, they all fit into some scheme/pattern/organizing principle. We don't want a chair, a wave, a light bulb, a heart and a rock becaues there is no common denominator across all of those.Organizing principles might be the elements, body parts, hands in different poses, tools, shapes or anything else that works together.
• Each symbol (5) must be clearly different from the others.
• Easy to understand: Just by looking at them, you should know what it is and they should be things that are well-known. For example, we could use a ruler but not a slide rule.
• Linked to the meaning of the value. They need to relate well to the words they describe.
• Easy to reproduce on various media/items. We will likely use these on something as small as pins and as large as t-shirts and posters. They also have to work well in print and on-line media.
• Stylish. We value style and a professional look.
• Appropriate to business. Nothing overly personal, suggestive, etc., please
• The symbol must be easy to integrate in our graphical charter (which uses a lot of Red and human pictures in B&W / our logo is blue, white and green.). It doesn't have to be these colors but can't clash.
1. The 5 symbols/pictos cannot be pure leisure (for instance a beach with a person sunbathing would not work). There must be a logic connection between the value, the work and the symbol. HOwever, it need not be work-related theme-- for exmaple finre, water, eartha nd wind owrk and so do hands in different poses.
2. Nothing suggestive or inappropriate for business
3. Nothing to specific too one country, ethnic group, culture, etc.
4. Boring. Please help us make it inspiring