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Consensus Report
Lessons and Legacies of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (2012)Polar Research Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
View the webinar recording with authoring committee co-chairs, Julie Brigham-Grette and Robert Bindschadler (1 hour 9 minutes).
International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) was an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. IPY engaged the public to communicate the relevance of polar research to the entire planet, strengthened connections with the Indigenous people of the Arctic, and established new observational networks. Overall, IPY was an outstanding success. Activities at both poles led to scientific discoveries that provided a step change in scientific understanding and helped translate scientific knowledge into policy-relevant information—and at a time when the polar regions are undergoing a transformation from an icy wilderness to a new zone for human affairs, these insights could not be more timely or more relevant. From outreach activities that engaged the general public to projects that brought researchers from multiple disciplines and several nations together, the legacies of IPY extend far beyond the scientific results achieved, and valuable lessons learned from the process will guide future endeavors of similar magnitude.
Key Messages
- Starting from the efforts of a small number of enthusiasts and agencies and building on existing multinational collaborations and science programs, IPY developed into a world-wide, community-based effort that brought together more than 50,000 researchers, local residents, educators, students, and support personnel from 60 nations and numerous scientific disciplines. The project facilitated a major expansion of polar science capabilities in terms of the number of researchers, tools, and systems devoted to this endeavor, and inspired a new level of engagement from educators, students, the residents of polar regions, and the public at large.
- Reaching across the science spectrum, IPY's 228 projects ranged from the first high-resolution images of whole mountain ranges buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet to modeling studies of the poles' geologic past that helped advance understanding of the risks and uncertainties of global change.
- People were the engine that powered IPY. Without the enterprise and commitment of the myriad of participants in IPY, the wide-ranging and significant achievements of the project would not have been possible. Notably, IPY projects encouraged international collaboration that allowed the polar science community to become more connected and leveraged infrastructure and intellectual assets from multiple nations to make research projects more efficient.
- IPY projects helped empower the next generation of polar scientists through the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and built diversity into the polar research community by engaging more women and increasing the participation of racial and ethnic minorities. IPY also created new connections between science and the public through a broad spectrum of education and outreach activities such as Polar Palooza, which engaged audiences with big-screen video presentations, music, and opportunities to interact face to face with dynamic polar researchers and Arctic residents with powerful stories to tell.
- IPY helped develop new collaborations that enhanced scientists' observational capacity in many of the poles' most remote areas. For example, numerous satellite data enabled international teams to study large changes occurring in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
- During IPY, new tools were deployed that will remain in place long after IPY is over. A number of observing networks established during IPY combined or extended data collection capabilities beyond what single countries or projects could install or sustain.
- IPY activities, particularly in human health, community vulnerability, food security, and local observations of change, sought to convert scientific data into societally relevant information to be shared with polar communities, local agencies, and grassroots organizations, particularly in Alaska and the Arctic.
- Looking to the future, IPY-related predictive modeling will continue to play a crucial role in helping commercial enterprises, individuals, and governments assess the regional and global risks associated with ongoing melting ice, sea level rise, permafrost degradation, and other effects of rising polar temperatures in a warming world.
- Coming at a time of rapid polar and global change, IPY investments enabled the scientific community to observe and benchmark the state of the polar system. The concept of an "international year" undertaken once in a generation's lifetime proved as valid today as it did decades ago.
- However, not everything worked perfectly during IPY. Despite efforts by the IPY Data Committee and several coordinating workshops, the development and accessibility of IPY data products is not optimal. A further disappointment has been the lack of continued support to coordinate programs initiated during IPY. It has been hard to maintain some networks developed and nurtured during IPY, and valued components of the large IPY structure—such as the international IPY website, its publication database, and educational and outreach efforts—have struggled to find alternative resources.
- On balance, IPY achieved its goals and was an overwhelming success. The world will continue to change, and processes of polar amplification will continue the rapid transformation of the high latitudes in coming decades. The legacy of IPY will help society to understand these changes and put knowledge into action, forging new frontiers in the protection and management of the planet's resources at all latitudes. Lessons learned from this IPY will provide a guide for planning and carrying out future international science projects.

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What Chipotle did for Mexican food and Five Guys did for burgers and fries, the Pie Five Pizza Co. is hoping to do for pizza.
"Pie Five is unchartered territory for fast-casual pizza," said Jeff Mengel, who has been awarded the rights to develop up to 12 franchise units in the Baltimore metropolitan area. "We think it will change the way people will order their pizza in the fast-casual space."
Along with expected sauce, cheese and toppings options, customers at Pie Five have a choice of four different crusts - including a gluten-free option. "Customers will have every opportunity to have it every way they want," said Mengel, who operates four Five Guys Burgers and Fries franchises in the Baltimore area.
Five Guys and Pie Five are not related. The "five" in Pie Five refers to the number of minutes the company says it takes to prepare a customized pizza.
"What we are doing is individualized and personalized," said Madison Jobe, chief development officer for Pie Five. All of Pie Five's pizzas are meant for one person. The pizzas are between nine and ten inches, according to Jobe. "We've found that's about the right size for most individuals."
Based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas, Pie Five Pizza Co. operates 10 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The first franchise operation was opened in April in Salt Lake City.
Mengel, who grew up in Glen Burnie and graduated from Mount Saint Joseph High School, said that he's currently searching with a broker for Pie Five locations and hopes to have the first Baltimore-area unit opened in early 2014.


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Intel has already waged war on ARM with its Medfield Atom processors, and it has now revealed more details on its attempt to derail ARM's move into Windows 8 tablets too — the Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor.
Microsoft developed Windows RT, a slightly cut-down version of its new desktop operating system, expressly for use on ARM-based tablets, which in turn was a response to the popularity of cheap-to-buy, long-battery-life Android tablets and the iPad. The full version of Windows 8 also has a home on tablets, but it needs Intel's X86 architecture to operate, which comes with a considerably higher price tag than Windows RT machines.
The Atom Z2760 is Intel's answer, and it was the star of an Intel showcase event last week. Intel says the new processor allows manufacturers to build the thinnest and lightest Intel tablets yet, measuring as little as 8.5mm thick and weighing 680 grams. Complete specs are still foggy concerning Windows RT tablets, so as a comparison, the new iPad is 9.4mm thick and weighs 652 grams.
Low power consumption
This isn't the important part though, as what counts here is the Clover Trail's ability to provide the full Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro experience on a tablet, with a quoted three weeks of "connected standby" and "more than 10 hours of HD video playback." Low power consumption, and therefore longer battery life, is a staple feature of ARM-based devices, and Intel has taken a while to catch up.
With Windows 8 onboard, Clover Trail-powered tablets will offer a greater degree of software support, remote access, Intel's security features and secure booting too. In other words, these are potentially business-level tablets with ARM-based power benefits at a similar price point.
The Atom Z2760 is built using the 32nm manufacturing process, has dual-cores with a potential clock speed of up to 1.8GHz and Intel's Burst and Hyper-Threading technology; plus features such as NFC, GPS, 3G and 4G connectivity and the ability to support a pair of cameras.
Considerable manufacturer support
Asus, Lenovo, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Acer have all signed on to produce Clover Trail tablets. We've already seen the ElitePad and the Envy X2 from HP and the Samsung 5 Series, but as with everything Windows 8-related, no firm prices have been made public yet.
So, while the features and battery standby time certainly seem to be a match for ARM-based Windows RT tablets, the full Windows 8 support and all the business-use garnish will make Clover Trail tablets attractive to customers who want the best of both worlds. It's going to be fascinating to compare the two, side-by-side, once all the products and software go on sale.


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Sunday, 10 April 2011 08:00
It shouldn't surprise that on April 8, he repeated what's become a habit - breaking every major campaign pledge by backing reactionary Republican measures, harming working Americans most, besides governing lawlessly at home and abroad and much more, hurtling the nation dangerously far right, tipping it toward neoserfdom enforced by repressive harshness.
Last December he said:
"(W)ithout a willingness to give on both sides, there's no reason to believe (the current) stalemate won't continue well into next year....I am not willing to let that happen....it would be the wrong thing to do. As a result, we arrived at a framework for a bipartisan agreement," what, in fact, was assured well in advance of his announcement.
Obama's notion of "tough choices" includes:
- permanent wars;
- greater super-rich enrichment;
- temporary social benefit crumbs; as well as
- class warfare through neoliberal austerity for working Americans, mainly middle class ones, targeted for elimination.
Neither Obama or congressional allies explain, or that both parties accelerated it in recent years, most recently on April 8, again betraying loyal constituents who support him, besides America's most needy.
On April 9, a White House Office of the Press Secretary announcement said:
"Obama praised the agreement reached to avert a government shutdown, which will invest in the country's future while making the largest annual spending cut in history."
In other words, Obama claims credit for benefitting working Americans by depriving them of vital social services. It's the corrupted logic driving both parties in lockstep to hand America's wealth to powerful interests by stealing it from all others.
In his weekly radio address, Obama said:
Cutting spending will "invest in our future." How he didn't say. "This is good news for the American people," naming supposed benefits, in fact, entirely absent.
Disingenuously he added:
"Reducing spending while investing in the future is just common sense. That's what families do in tough times. They sacrifice where they can, even if it's hard, to afford what's really important."
With Main Street in deep depression, they've sacrificed plenty because Washington ignores them, spending recklessly on militarism, imperial wars, and lavish handouts to Wall Street and other corporate favorites - sacrosanct untouchable budget (off-budget, and hidden) priorities excluded from compromise.
A real one would have waged war on concentrated wealth and power, slashed defense spending radically, notably by ending imperial wars and occupations, replaced today's dysfunctional tax code with a progressive one, guaranteed a living wage for everyone and enough income for the indigent, as well as other socially beneficial measures. In fact, no responsible policies were considered, just reactionary ones agreed to with much more to come.
On April 8, New York Times writer Carl Hulse headlined, "Deal to Cut $38 Billion Averts Shutdown," saying:
Republicans and Obama "headed off a shutdown of the government with less than two hours to spare Friday night under a tentative budget" sellout to working Americans hurt most, described as a "compromise."
Even Obama admitted, "Programs people rely on will be cut back," saying they'll have to begin "liv(ing) within (their) means" or, in other words, do without vital services eroded or lost ahead of much greater ones coming. He practically bragged, in fact, about "making the largest annual spending cut in our history" on the backs of those least able to afford it.
The "deal" involves social spending cuts for a stop-gap continuing resolution to fund government through April 14, as well as a broader agreement to do it through September 30, the end of the fiscal year. Next week, Congress will finalize the details, pass the measure and send it to Obama for his signature.
At least $38 billion in mostly unspecified social spending cuts were made, perhaps more, a down payment before greater ones coming, involving Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Along with other vital programs, they're headed for incremental elimination to return America to 19th century harshness, an idea Republicans, Democrats, and Obama support.
A previous article explained his sellout to Republicans last year on extending tax cuts to America's aristocracy, accessed through the following link:
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'TUF' Recap: Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones Get Dirty
It's down to the last preliminary fight on this season of TUF, Zak Cummings vs. Dylan Andrews. Cummings had the most impressive performance in the elimination matches in episode one, needing just :07 to finish Nik Fekete and earn his spot in the house. So the fastest winner of the season is the last to enter the Octagon in the preliminary round.
Dylan Andrews described how he got into martial arts when he moved to Australia. He was looking for some UFC DVDs at a video store when the ceiling started raining some dust on him. He heard some pounding, left the video store and saw that 'The Lion's Den Academy'. He quickly made that place his home and stayed there for six years. That's a cool twist of fate.
But even more interesting is that Andrews said that he grew up in a hydroponic room. "So that means, around my bed, I was surrounded by marijuana plants." Andrews also said that he tries not think about fighting even while at the TUF house because he hates the experience. Which is a bit odd seeing as he just said in the previous scene that when he first walked in 'The Lion's Den Academy' that he thought it was the greatest place in the world. He does probably get hit in the head a lot though, so we'll let it slide. "I feel like I can't be successful without fighting, which is why I can't walk away from it," Andrews said. "Could be the death of me, man," Andrews tells Uriah Hall. "As much as I hate it I have to do it."
Cummings explains how he thought he would pursue a job in engineering or something similar as he was always good at math. He says growing up he was sort of the "anti-fighter". "I don't think I've ever been in a street fight in my entire life. I've got along with everybody," Cummings said. Apparently the seventh time is the charm, at least for Cummings. His coach on the show, Chael Sonnen, said that this season was the seventh time Cummings has tried out for TUF, and he finally made it.
This episode of TUF brings us the vaunted coaches' challenge, Dana White's favorite part of the season. Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones will compete against each other in three different competitions while driving excavators. The winning coach receives $10,000 while the fighters on his team each receive $1,500. Game on!
The three challenges consist of filling a 14-yard dumpster with dirt, building a pyramid with huge tires, and finally, scooping up a basketball from a large cone and then placing in the hole of the big tire. I'd have personally rather seen Jones and Sonnen compete in a 'Wipeout'-like obstacle course, but this will have to do. Maybe next season, Dana?
Jones got off to a quick start in the dumpster filling competition, which coincidentally could be the next new show on Spike, but it was Sonnen that filled his dumpster first. Finally, Sonnen starts to talk some trash to Jones, and we can't believe it took this many episodes for him to finally crack wise. "You can start the competition anytime," Sonnen tells Jones. Not his best work, but it's a start. But Jones took the lead when he beat Sonnen in stacking the tires.
Jones made his way over to the cones and scooped up the basketball, but he missed when trying to put it in the tire. Sonnen capitalized, putting it dead center to win the money for himself and his team. "Chael won the bowling tournament, he has won the coaches' challenge, but we're here to win fights," Jones said.
"One more for the bad guys!" Sonnen yells to his team.
Both fighters make weight and it's on to the fight. Cummings tries to score a single-leg takedown, but Andrews stuffs it with some solid defense. Cummings lands the first hard shot of the fight, a left cross that staggers Andrews. Andrews tries to shoot on Cummings, but he sprawls, and immediately circles toward Andrews' back and throws on a D'Arce choke. It's not tight though and Andrews is able to get out of it. But Cummings then lands some nice ground and pound.
Andrews is finally able to sweep Cummings and ends up in his guard on top with about 2:20 left in the round. But Andrews is also bleeding from the right side of his head, courtesy of the elbows Cummings landed. Andrews is starting to land some elbows of his own and we've got a good fight brewing here. Sonnen yells for Cummings to open his guard and get up, but he either can't or won't do it. Meanwhile, Andrews' blood is leaking all over him making it harder for him to cinch up his guard and hold on to Andrews' arms.
The round ends and Jon Jones tells Andrews he stole that round. That's when we get our first clean look at the gash on Andrews' head and it's a big one. Cummings face shows the disappointment in ending up on his back for the last half of the round.
Round two begins and Cummings tries to land a spinning heel kick. It slightly connects to Andrews' face and both fighters smile about it and touch gloves. Cummings then tries for a flying knee but Andrews bounces off the cage and takes Cummings to the ground. Andrews is not landing as many big shots as he did in round one, but he is scoring and also keeping Cummings on his back for a long time. Cummings can never get off his back as the round comes to an end. Andrews takes it by majority decision.
On to the wild cards, which White lets the coaches select. Sonnen is quick to select Kevin Casey as a wild card from his team, but Jones needs some time to think about whether he should pick Bubba McDaniel or Clint Hester. Jones tells those fighters he wants to flip a coin, but they don't want it chosen that way. They ask for Jones to let Sonnen pick, but he says he can't do that. In the end, Jones picks McDaniel. So McDaniel gets the fight he wanted all along -- a match against Casey.
Who do you like in this fight, McDaniel or Casey? Let us know in the comments and we'll see you here next week for another TUF Recap!


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By Andria Cheng
It's a humbling day for the Container Store /quotes/zigman/22608280/delayed /quotes/nls/tcs TCS , at least when it comes to its stock price.
The newly-minted public company — whose stock had surged about 27% (compared to the S&P's 4% growth) through Tuesday following its IPO on Nov. 1 — tumbled 14%. Its implied traffic decline in the fiscal third quarter raised investor worries after it reported late Tuesday its first quarterly report since becoming public.
The Container Store's numbers looked impressive, considerably so when compared to the downbeat expectations for retailers in general. Chief Executive Kip Tindell repeated on a conference call that the company has a customer base that doesn't just "like" it, but "loves" it. Its adjusted profit also topped analysts' average estimate as it widened profit margins — and the company's expense control bested Wall Street expectations.
Its comparable store sales rose 4.7%, the 14th-straight increase, topping analysts' 3.5% average estimate in a Retail Metrics poll. The company said demand was driven by a 5.8% increase in average transaction amount to about $60. However, investors reacted to what it didn't specify: An implied traffic decline of 1.1% in the quarter ended Nov. 30. The company's full-year same-store sales forecast of a 3.4% growth also was lower than the previous quarter's.
"Most retailers have experienced traffic declines for several years," said Tindell on the conference call in response to an analyst question about traffic. "We don't accept that. We're working very hard to make sure there's a big difference between a minus-one and plus-one when it comes to traffic even if we have a 4% or 5% average ticket increase. So, we spent most of our history with about half of our comp store increase comprised of average ticket and about half of them on traffic. And we're working hard in any climate to get that traffic up, as well."
Tindell added that the Container Store's loyalty program, pilot-tested in California in 2013 and expected to roll out nationwide this year, is one of the tools the company is using to improve its store traffic. The company, which plans to eventually open more than 300 stores, many times its current number of 63, also said new stores have exceeded its sales expectations.
Still, Jefferies & Co. analyst Dan Binder said on a two-year basis, the retailer's traffic was "slightly worse" quarter-over-quarter and its fourth-quarter guidance doesn't suggest any improvement in traffic.
Analysts also have said the money-losing company will have to answer questions about how it plans to return to profit while competing in a fragmented home-furnishings market against rivals like Bed, Bath & Beyond /quotes/zigman/68991/delayed /quotes/nls/bbby BBBY , Crate & Barrel on the specialty retail side, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. /quotes/zigman/245476/delayed /quotes/nls/wmt WMT — as well as Target Corp. /quotes/zigman/253872/delayed /quotes/nls/tgt TGT on the lower end of the industry's spectrum.
The company "has a long runway for unit growth ahead and management has distinguished (the Container Store) in the market as the premier specialty storage and organization store," Binder said. "However valuation appears to fairly reflect growth prospects."
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If you're accessing the Internet, be warned: You may be surrendering any expectation of privacy protection from authorities and leaving yourself open to being tracked without a search warrant, according to a new legal ruling issued earlier this month.
A federal court in Pittsburgh last week ruled against a request to suppress evidence in a case surrounding the possible downloading of child pornography, explaining that the man making the request "could have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the signal he was sending to or receiving" from the wireless router he had connected to. The man in question is Richard Stanley, who was indicted earlier this month for possessing child pornography after having been tracked down using a program called "Moocherhunter" that allows users to measure physical distances between wireless routers and devices connected to it.
Stanley was apparently connected to the wireless signal of a neighbor (without said neighbor's knowledge) when he was downloading the pornography; authorities initially tracked the IP address of the account downloading the porn, which led to the identification of the owner of the wireless router in question, who was soon ruled out of the investigation. From there, police used Moocherhunter to locate Stanley's signal, and then his actual location, leading to his arrest. Post-arrest, Stanley argued that the authorities should have needed a warrant to use Moocherhunter… but the courts, apparently, disagree.
In her ruling, District Judge Joy Flowers Conti explained, "An internet subscriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his IP address or the information he provides to his Internet Service Provider, such as Comcast, in order to legally establish an internet connection, and likewise, a person connecting to another person's wireless router does not have an expectation of privacy in that connection." Conti likened it to a 1979 case where the Supreme Court ruled that no search warrant was needed to use a device that records what telephone numbers are dialed by a suspect; in both cases, the information is being voluntarily surrendered to a third party, she pointed out, and are therefore not being treated as private or secret information by the suspect.
That's not enough for everyone, however; the distinction may rest upon whether people are actually even aware that they're surrendering information in the first place. While it's clear that someone is dialing a phone number, for example, not everyone understands that connecting to a wireless router means that their computers are releasing identifiable information about their location, after all. Orin Kerr, a law professor and Fourth Amendment expert at the George Washington University, puts it like this: "When you're connecting to the wireless network, you're broadcasting a signal, even though you might not know it… This gets to the black box problem. Do you assume the user knows how computers work or not?"
Marketa Sims, the assistant federal public defender who worked with Mr. Stanley on the case in question, is thinking along similar lines: "When Stanley connected to the other person's router, he didn't [intentionally] reveal his location," she said. "The question here is whether the government needs a warrant to find your location when you haven't broadcast it." Or, perhaps, the question may be, is ignorance of transmission the same thing as not transmitting at all…?
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Slean searching for answers
Now that she's nearing completion of a degree in music and philosophy from the U of T, Sarah Slean's been asked...
Now that she's nearing completion of a degree in music and philosophy from the U of T, Sarah Slean's been asked a few times to compare the two fields.
She said both come from the same desire to answer the amazing, spectacular, terrifying questions that pepper our lives. And the characters Slean creates — like the energetic, red-dress-wearing Baroness of her new album — exist to help her grapple with these issues.
"(The Baroness) is spectacular, larger than life — every time she enters a room there's a 13-piece orchestra there," says Slean. "I considered myself shy and too bookish, and at times socially retarded, so (the Baroness) was helpful as a way of being on stage."
Some characters fit precisely within a single song or short story, while others demand more attention. Asked what made the Baroness a larger-than-song figure (she also appears in Tales of the Baroness, a three-part short film and paintings and poems), Slean said it's not the character itself, which doesn't really fit with the songs. Instead, the goal is to share feelings and experiences through a persona. Comparing her approach to Tom Waits', Slean quoted from his song Cemetery Polka: Uncle Verlin, Uncle Verlin, independent as a hog on ice. He's a big shot down there at the slaughterhouse, plays accordion for Mr. Weiss.
"The Baroness character didn't really seem to fit the songs — she was more vivid and bigger. Then I reconsidered the word 'Baroness' (and came up with) 'Barren-ness', and that totally captured I think what I was telling," she said. "(Waits is) a master at creating 3-D characters. They really come to life in his songs. I'm not doing that at all — I'm consciously moving away from it."
To gather material, Slean occasionally detaches herself from the everyday. She's embarked to a backwoods cabin during her mid-20s ("the existential crisis everyone seems to have in their 20s," she said) and more recently, to Paris for seven months. The object of these trips isn't escape, but rather an immersion in the temporarily foreign.
"If everything is stripped away ... what it is like to be alive — is it worth it?" she said. "Yes it is — and that's what music is about, what people are singing about."


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Impotence is the inability to attain or maintain an erection of the penis that is firm enough for sexual intercourse.
To initiate and maintain an erection, the penis must fill with blood. One type of blood vessel opens wide to allow blood into the penis. Meanwhile, a second type of blood vessel squeezes down to keep the blood from leaving the penis. Nerve signals cause the proper changes in the blood vessels.
The following factors can cause erectile dysfunction:
The blood vessels that keep the blood from leaving the penis may be injured or have disease. This can cause a leak in these vessels. Blood can escape through these leaks during an erection. This means that an erection cannot occur or may not last long.
Problems with the nerves and blood vessels can cause impotence. Conditions that can cause problems include:
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Many of the nerve signals needed for an erection come from the brain. Emotional problems may play a role in men who suddenly develop impotence.
Impotence is more common in men who are 65 and older. It is also more common in men of Hispanic descent.
Factors that increase your chance of developing impotence include:
Symptoms include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Expect questions about the frequency, quality, and duration of your erections. Your answers may help the diagnosis.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with blood tests.
This test will monitor erections while you sleep. Involuntary erections during sleep are normal. If you have impotence but have normal erections during sleep, the problem may be emotional. If you have problems with an erection even while you sleep, the problem may be physical.
imaging is used to look at the blood flow. The test is done to check for blood flow in the penis. It will also look for blockage in the arteries or veins that supply the penis.
Treatment options include:
Your doctor may prescribe:
Do not take these medications if you are also taking nitrates.
Use caution and talk to your doctor before taking any over-the-counter medications for impotence. Some of them may be unsafe.
A vacuum device
pulls blood into the penis. A band will then be placed around the penis to keep the erection.
A vacuum device may include:
Vascular surgery is done to repair the blood vessel leaks. This has been shown to be effective in some cases.
Implants may be placed in the penis. The implants can be inflated to simulate an erection.
Sex therapy may help impotence resulting from:
To reduce your chance of becoming impotent:
Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians
Urology Care Foundation
Canadian Urological Association
SexualityandU—Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Erectile dysfunction. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated July 15, 2015. Accessed August 17, 2015.
Erectile dysfunction. National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases website. Available at:
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/ED/index.aspx. Updated March 28, 2012. Accessed August 17, 2015.
Erectile dysfunction. Urology Care Foundation website. Available at:
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Many tasks essential to proper maintenance of service equipment require de-energization. To perform those tasks, you must schedule an outage. Unfortunately, production departments can agree to only a limited outage window. Consequently, the work proceeds on a compressed schedule.
Don't underestimate the amount of this compression when planning the outage. Overly-optimistic job estimates combined with scope creep can easily result in too many tasks being attempted in too little time. People take dangerous shortcuts in response to the pressure.
For example, you can "save time" by eliminating a step or two in the tool count. A "100%" approach to the tool count takes time. But it provides a sure way to prevent energizing a bus bar that's shorted to ground by a forgotten wrench.
The solution to the time crunch isn't eliminating safety measures (e.g., tool count steps) or "working faster." Furthermore, simply throwing more people at a job can actually slow progress.
So what's the solution? Plan realistically what can be done within the limited time available, allowing for contingencies and cleanup.
To know what can realistically be done, conduct dry runs and walk-throughs. Bonus: These help you identify and address such issues as lighting, ventilation, temporary power, housekeeping, and safety problems ahead of time rather than during the outage window.


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Paraphrase and Summary
Paraphrase and summary are different writing strategies that will help you understand what you are reading. Both ask you to put the information you are reading into your own words. Both should be cited using the appropriate format (MLA, APA, etc.) See KU Writing Center guides on Citing/Documenting Your Sources.
When you paraphrase, using your own words you are explaining your source's argument, following its line of reasoning and its sequence of ideas. The purpose of a paraphrase is to convey the meaning of the original message and, in doing so, to prove that you understand the passage well enough to restate it. The paraphrase should give the reader an accurate understanding of the author's position on the topic. Your job is to uncover and explain all the facts and arguments involved in your subject. The paraphrase:
- Alters the wording of the passage without changing its meaning.
- Retains the basic logic of the argument.
- Retains the basic sequence of ideas.
- And it can even retain the basic examples used in the passage.
- Most importantly, it accurately conveys the author's meaning and opinion.
A summary restates in your own words only the author's main ideas, omitting all the examples and evidence used in supporting and illustrating those points. The function of a summary is to represent the focus and emphasis of a relatively large amount of material in an efficient and concise form.
In your own words:
- State the thesis,
- main arguments and
- conclusion of the original material.
In both the paraphrase and summary, the author's meaning and opinion are retained. However, in the case of the summary, examples and illustrations are omitted. Summaries can be tremendously helpful because they can be used to encapsulate everything from a long narrative passage of an essay, to a chapter in a book, to an entire book.
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Migrations are among the potentially most disruptive, costly and risky IT endeavors, which is why many organizations have delayed moving off Windows XP, even though support will end on April 8, 2014. Companies of all sizes are now grappling with how to clear the toughest roadblocks, including application compatibility; lost user productivity; repackaging, remediating and deploying apps; user training and support; and available time to perform migrations amidst other IT priorities.
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Employers in South Carolina are required to post two employment notices from the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation in a place or places where employees can see them.
The LLR Workplace poster, which includes OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health) and the Labor Law Abstract (Payment of Wages and Child Labor) and the Right-to-Work poster.
State Required Posters
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S.C. Workers' Compensation Commission, (803) 737-5700, www.wcc.sc.gov
Federal Required Posters Topic listing http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/posters.htm
Employee Polygraph Protection – Must be posted by all employers
Notice to Employees Working in State and Local Governments – Must be posted by employers in government agencies
WH Pub. 1313 "Notice to Employees Working On Government Contracts"
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HONOLULU (AP) — A tsunami advisory for Hawaii is being canceled after a large earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile.
Hawaii's tsunami advisory was lifted about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported a slight rise in tide levels for the Big Island and Maui, stemming from the 8.2-magnitude quake that struck Tuesday off northern Chile.
Tsunami wave heights across the state are continuing to diminish, the weather officials said.
Honolulu officials closed Oahu's popular Hanauma Bay Wednesday as a precaution.
Boaters and swimmers were cautioned about smaller sea-level changes and strong currents.
On Tuesday night, U.S. officials said they found no threat of a tsunami along the coasts of Alaska, California, Oregon or Washington.
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Joan Biskupic is a biographer and veteran journalist, and is one of the nation's most respected and astute observers of the United States Supreme Court.
Named by National Public Radio (NPR) as a top five current affairs book of 2009, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is an example of Biskupic's enlightening, well-researched, comprehensive, and careful reporting. Her 2005 book, Sandra Day O'Conner: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice, established Biskupic as an insightful biographer about the Supreme Court.
Her education, experience, and curiosity about people uniquely qualify Ms. Biskupic to explain what goes on inside the third branch of our federal government. A Chicago native, she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1978, a master's in English and Renaissance drama from the University of Oklahoma in 1986, and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1993 — both advanced degrees earned while working full time as a journalist.
For 20 years Ms. Biskupic has reported on the Supreme Court for influential news organizations, first as a legal affairs reporter for Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, focusing on the work of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. She earned the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas nomination in 1991.
For eight years beginning in 1992 she was Supreme Court correspondent for The Washington Post, writing more than 1,000 articles and co-authoring two Pulitzer Prize-nominated series: "Sentencing by the Numbers" and "The Secrets of the Marshall Papers." Ms. Biskupic initiated a monthly feature, "Full Court Press," and established one of the Post's first weekly online conversations, "Holding Court."
In 1997 Biskupic and co-author Elder Witt wrote the two-volume Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, and related books on the court and individual rights, the power of government, and the work of the court. She was series originator and author of the first three volumes of The Supreme Court Yearbook, a Congressional Quarterly Press publication that began in 1989.
Since 2000 Biskupic has been legal affairs correspondent for USA Today, where she is the author of frequent cover stories focused on the internal workings of the court and the consequences of court rulings in American life.
She has had three public policy fellowships for work on judicial biographies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., is a regular panelist on PBS's Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and NPR's Diane Rehm Show and is an occasional guest on NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline, and CBS's Face the Nation. Ms. Biskupic is a frequent speaker on law school campuses and before civic and government groups.
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Via Drudge, we learn of a Washington woman who responded to a would-be sex criminal with a Ruger .380:
A Longview woman who was walking at Lake Sacajawea with her 6-year-old son pulled a gun on a man who exposed his genitals to her Wednesday evening, according to police.
The 35-year-old woman was near Martin Dock around 8:10 p.m. when the man approached her "aggressively," sat down and began performing a sex act, then suggested she should watch him, according to the woman and accounts from police.
"I put the magazine in my gun. I cocked it," the woman said in an interview Thursday night. "I said, 'You need to leave or Ill shoot you. I'm going to blow your brains out.'"
"Oh, [expletive]!" the man declared, before running away.
She wasn't done yet. Next, she sic'ed her dog on the miscreant:
As the man fled, she said she sent her dog, a well-trained Norwegian Buhund Hound, after him. In time, the dog had the man cornered at the gate to Lions Island near Kessler Boulevard. She called her dog back, and the man disappeared into the darkness.
But not before she got a good look at him:
The woman called police later in the evening, saying she was looking at an online database of local sex offenders and believed she recognized the man she encountered at the lake.
What a woman! I believe this is the gun she used:
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Song of the Year winners the Band Perry turned the lights down low for their performance at the 2011 CMA Awards of their very folk-inspired new single, 'All Your Life.'
The Perry brothers donned their best peasant-style attire to leave room for Kimberly Perry to shine and shimmer in a ruby red dress -- not that she needed the help. The lead songstress brought the big guns to the Bridgestone Arena in the form of a hearty voice and seemingly no nerves, which was surprising given that the band joined the country music big league as newcomers only two years ago.
We imagine that prior to taking the stage to perform, the Band Perry were still riding high from the evening's big cleanup. Earlier in the evening, the sibling trio walked away with Song of the Year and Single of the Year for their smash hit 'If I Die Young.'
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Senior Consultant, Project & Portfolio Management, Technology Strategy & Transformation
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is designed to provide IT and business leaders with insight into the many projects underway across their portfolios, and helps strategize on how to best align their resources and finances to move their organizations forward. PPM gives senior leaders the enhanced ability to monitor, control, and make intelligent adjustments to help fulfill their strategic goals. Deloitte s PPM practitioners work with CIOs, CFOs, and other senior leaders to develop the people, process, and tool capabilities needed to effectively manage portfolios of diverse, complex projects.
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Client Management: Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
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Implementation and Delivery: Participate in the PPM related client engagements that identify, design, and implement technology and creative business solutions for large companies. Understand and explain the various lifecycle components of the PPM space, including:
Demand Management - Receiving, evaluating, and deciding upon the execution of project requests
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Results Management - Managing, tracking, and reporting project results in comparison to the approved business case
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Responsibilities include, among others, managing teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
Business Development: Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
People Development: Perform role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices
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From leading practice to business necessity, every business recognizes the need for a strategic cloud integration platform. At Deloitte Consulting, our technology strategy and architecture specialists help organizations develop the strategies and implement the systems that build business value and drive performance. We have the in-depth knowledge and experience gained from working on some of the most complex IT challenges around the globe, everything from system replacement to full IT transformation. Learn more about our Technology Strategy & Transformation practice.
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Step 4 :- Click on Fix Threats button to delete Searchunique.com permanently.
Recover Your Data Automatically
Well, we all know that some certain malware such as Trojans, Ransomware etc. compromises users personal files and can result in serious data loss issue. In case, if your important files are encrypted or delete by Searchunique.com then you will need to take the help of a powerful data recovery tool in order to restore your files. Data Recovery Pro is one very reliable and powerful utility that can easily recover all kinds of important data. It is capable to restore locked, encrypted, deleted or inaccessible files from all versions of Windows OS PC.
Steps To Recover Your Data
Step 1 :- Download the Data Recovery Pro software on your computer.
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Step 3 :- Now select all your important files and click on Recover button to get back your data.
|Method 2 : Remove Searchunique.com Manually
If you are a computer geek then you shouldn't have any kind of problem while removing Searchunique.com virus from your system. You will need to go through a certain set complex process manually in order to remove this virus from your computer. However, it is seen that manual methods sometimes fails to remove certain malware completely and users continue to experience same issues even after following all manual removal steps multiple times. So, if you have any kinds of doubts regarding manual removal then you should better look for Automatic Malware Scanner Tool to remove Searchunique.com virus permanently from your computer.
Part 1 : Boot Your Computer In Safe Mode
- Close all running program properly and Restart your PC.
- Keep tapping F8 button on your keyboard to open Windows Advanced Option.
- Use Arrow keys to navigate and select Safe Mode with Networking option.
Part 2 : Remove Searchunique.com From Browsers
Remove Malicious Extension
- Open browser and click on (⋮) icon from the top right corner of your browser.
- From the drop-down list of browser menu select More Tools option.
- Now click on Extension.
- Here you can see the list of all extension, Select Searchunique.com and click on Trash icon.
Reset Browser Settings
- Open browser menu by clicking gear (⋮) icon from the top right corner of your browser.
- Open Settings and the click on Show Advanced Settings option.
- Click on Reset Setting option and Restore your browser settings to default.
Remove Searchunique.com From Browser Homepage (Optional)
Since, Searchunique.com alters your browser default home page as well as search engine hence it would be sensible to undo all the changes that has been made by Searchunique.com virus. However, this step is optional for users.
- Click (⋮) icon to open browser menu >>> Navigate to the "Settings" >>> click on "Appearance" >>> check "Show Home Button" box.
- A "New Tab page" option will appear >>> Select "Change" to set your desired home page.
Remove Malicious Search Engine
- Open Google Chrome >>> click on menu (⋮) icon >>> select "Settings" option.
- Find out the "Search" option >>> click on drop-down menu >>> select your default Search Engine to replace malicious search provider set by Searchunique.com.
Remove Malicious Extension Created By Searchunique.com
- Open Mozilla Firefox and click on Browser Menu by clicking (☰) icon.
- Select Add-ons option from drop-down list of browser menu.
- From the left panel of your browser click on extension.
- Now select and remove Searchunique.com and other unwanted extensions from your browser.
Refresh Browser Settings
- Open Mozilla Firefox and click (☰) icon.
- Select Help option from drop-down list of browser menu.
- Now Click on "Troubleshooting Information" option.
- Click on Refresh Firefox to restore your browser settings.
Remove Malicious Homepage Infected By Searchunique.com
- Open Mozilla Firefox browser >>> click on menu (☰) icon >>> Navigate to "Options" >>> Select "General".
- Under "When Firefox start" option >>> Click on "Show my home page" >>> enter you desired URL address for homepage to replace malicious homepage created by Searchunique.com.
Reset Default Search Engine
Open Mozilla Firefox browser >>> click on magnifying glass located in the "Search bar" on your toolbar >>> click on "Change Search Settings" option.
Choose your Default Search Engine from "Search Preferences" window.
Well, Edge does not include extensions hence users will have to clear your browsing history and undo all changes made by Searchunique.com virus in your web browser.
Clear Browsing Histrory
- Open Edge browser and click on More (…) icon to open Browser Menu.
- The drop-down menu will appear, click on Settings.
- Click on Choose What To Clear option.
- Make the selection and click on Clear button.
Reset Search Engine
- Open Edge browser then click on More (…) icon and select Settings.
- Click on View Advance Settings option.
- Click on <Add New> option to reset default search provider.
- Now enter your desired search engine and hit Add as Default button.
Remove Malicious Extension
- Open browser >>> click Tools menu >>> select Manage Add-ons option from drop down list.
- Go to Toolbar and Extensions from left panel.
- Now select Searchunique.com and click disable tab.
Reset Internet Explorer Setting
- Open Internet Explorer >>> Click on "Tools" menu >>> "Internet option".
- Choose "Advanced tab" and hit "Reset" button.
- Click on "Delete personal settings" check box and hit on "Reset" button.
Reset Malicious Home Page
- Open Internet Explorer >>> click on Tools icon >>> navigate to "Internet Options" from the menu.
- Click on General >>> Under "Home page" section >>> enter the URL of your desired homepage >>> click on "Apply" button and tap "OK" to save your changes.
Set Desired Homepage In Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer >>> hit the Tools icon to open browser menu >>> Click on "Manage Add-ons" option from drop down list.
- Click on "Search Providers" select your default search provider >>> click on the "Set as default" button.
Part 3 :- Kill Searchunique.com Related Process Via Windows Task Manger
- Press Ctrl+Alt+Del buttons simultaneously to open Windows Task Manager.
- Select Process tab to see all running process in your PC.
- Select all malicious process related with Searchunique.com and click End Process option.
Part 4 :- Uninstall Searchunique.com From Control Panel
- Click on Start button and select Control Panel from Start Menu.
- Click on Uninstall a program option.
- From the list of all program select and remove Searchunique.com.
- Click on Windows icon and select Control Panel option.
- Go to Programs section and choose Uninstall a program option.
- Now select Searchunique.com from all programs list and click Uninstall tab.
- Turn the cursor to lower-left corner of your system screen and click Start button.
- Now search for Control Panel in the search box and then click Control Panel.
- From the list of all programs select Searchunique.com and hit Uninstall tab.
- Go to Start and click on Setting icon.
- Under Setting page click on System option.
- Here click on Apps & Features option.
- From the list of all programs choose Searchunique.com and hit Uninstall tab. Confirm the action if asked.
Part 5 :- Remove Searchunique.com From Registry Editor
- Press "Windows + R" button together on your keyboard.
- Type "regedit" and click on OK button to open Registry Editor.
- Find and delete all malicious registry entries created by Searchunique.com virus.
Malicious Registry Keys Created by Searchunique.com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msmpeng.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore "DisableSR " = '1′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\ekrn.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msascui.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "3948550101?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "xas"
|Prevention Tips To Avoid Searchunique.com In Future
After using the above methods careful you should not have any problem while removing Searchunique.com virus from your PC. However, it is important to know for the users of these kind of attacks are very common nowadays. It is very much possible that your system may get infected again with some other malware and hence you need to be very careful. Well, we all know prevention is always better than cure. Hereby, it would be quite sensible for users to follow essential prevention steps in order to keep your PC safe and healthy for a long run.
- Avoid downloading freeware application or updates from any unauthorized websites.
- Users must not click on any misleading and fake advertisement.
- Try to avoid visiting malicious or pornographic websites.
- Keep your system and all important program updated.
- Download updates from authentic and official websites.
- Always keep and updated and powerful anti-malware tool in your PC.
- Scan your PC for hidden threats, malware and viruses on regular intervals.
- Do not use any external USB drives in your PC without scanning.
- Select custom installation process to install any software in your PC and avoid bundled malware and PUP.
- Avoid any spam emails from unknown sender as it often carry any malicous attachments.
- Avoid using any open or public wife network.


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Military personnel allowed to register early for May Mini, Summer and Fall classes at LU
Active duty and military veterans will be able to register early for Lamar University classes beginning with the May Mini, Summer and Fall 2013 terms.
"We wanted to honor our service members for their service and dedication to our country and make them feel welcome," said Norma Cumbaa, coordinator of veterans affairs.
Additionally, early registration will make it easier for military personnel and veterans to ensure that they are able to enroll in classes required for their degree programs during the times and terms they find most convenient.
Active duty military and veterans have been added to the "special populations" category for priority registration. Registration for special populations – which also includes athletes, honors students, seniors and students with disabilities – begins Tuesday, April 9.
Veterans who are enrolled at Lamar University but who are not using veterans benefits to pay for their education should bring a copy of their DD 214 Member 4 to the Office of Veterans Affairs in Wimberly 101 to take advantage of priority registration.
Open registration for all current students will begin Tuesday, April 16, for May mini, summer and fall classes.
For links to class schedules, a list of academic advisors and instructions on how current students can register, please look online atwww.lamar.edu/schedules. If students are required to meet with an academic advisor, they should do so before registering for classes.
The May mini-session will run from May 17 to June 4.
Four summer sessions will be offered. Early Summer (Summer I) will be June 5 to July 10. Late Summer (Summer II) will be July 11 to Aug. 14. Full Summer (Summer III) will be June 5 to Aug. 14. Mid Summer (Summer IV) will be June 19 to July 24.
Fall classes will begin Aug. 26.
New students must apply and be admitted to Lamar University and meet with an academic advisor before registering for classes. For more information on becoming a Lamar University student, call (409) 880-8888 or visit BeACardinal.com for admission information.


text: Chris, Thank you for your comments. I just want to clarify that the SOLiD system from Applied Biosystems ships with Scyld ClusterWare not Rocks. Regards Arend -----Original Message----- From: Chris Dagdigian [mailto:dag at sonsorol.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:52 AM To: Michael Will Cc: Beowulf List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Michael Will wrote: > What features differentiate SGE in support of life science workflow > from LSF/PBS/Torque/Condor? > > Michael They all have their pros and cons, heck I'm still an LSF zealot when cost is not an issue as Platform has the best APIs, documentation and layered products for the industry types who need to stand these things up in full production mode within enterprise organizations that may have varying levels of Linux/HPC/MPI experience. The short list of why Grid Engine became popular in the life sciences: LSF: great product but commercial-only and a pricing model that can get out of hand (I remember when having more than 4GB RAM in a Linux 1U pushed me into an obscene license tier ...). Condor: Did not have the fine grained policy and resource allocation tools that make life easier when you need to have a shared cluster resource supporting multiple competing users, groups, projects and workflows. The policy tools for LSF/SGE/PBS were more capable. When I saw condor out in the field seemed to be mostly used only in academic sites and in situations where cycles from PC systems were being aggregated across LAN, metro and wan-scale distances. Bio problems tend to be more I/O or memory bound rather than CPU bound so most bio clusters tend to be closely situated racks of gear. PBS/TORQUE: I'll ignore the FUD from back in the day when people were claiming that PBS lost jobs and data at high scale and concentrate on just one key differentiator. At the time when life science was transitioning from big SGI Altix and Tru64 Alphaservers machines to commodity compute farms, PBS did not support the concept of array jobs. If there was one overwhelming cluster resource management feature essential for bio work it would be array tasks. This is because we tend to have a very high concentration of batch/serial workflows that involve running an application many many times in a row with varying input files and parameter options. The cliche example in bioinformatics is needing to run half a million blast searches. Without array task scheduling this would require 500,000 individual job submissions. The fact that I never met a serious PBS shop that had not made local custom changes to the source code also soured me on deploying it when I was putting such things into conservative IT shops who were still new and fearful of Linux. We also don't make heavy use of the globus style WAN-scale capital "G" grid computing as much of our workflows and pipelines are actually performance bound by the speed of storage rather than CPU or memory issues. It was always easier, cheaper and more secure to colocate dedicated CPU resources local to fast storage rather than distribute things out as far as possible. The big news in Bio-IT these days is actually the terabyte scale wet lab instruments such as confocal microscopes and next-gen DNA sequencing systems that can produce 1-3TB of raw data per experiment. Some of these lab instruments ship with software pipelines developed to run under grid engine. A popular example is the Solexa/Illumina Genome Analyzer which alone has driven SGE uptake in our field. A notable exception is the SOLiD system which (I think) ships with a Windows front end that hides a back end ROCKS cluster running either PBS or torque under the hood. And from Mark: > how about providing some useful content - for instance, what is it > that you think is especially valuable about sge? Hopefully I've done some of that with this message. It basically boils down to the fact that at the time our field started using compute farms in a serious manner, SGE offered the best overall combination of features, price and fine grained resource allocation & policy control. I think what made us a bit different from some other use cases is our heavy use of serial/batch workflows combined with our tendency to require that our HPC infrastructures support multiple (and potentially competing) workflows and pipelines which made the policy/allocation features a key selection criteria. We also do little if any true WAN- scale "grid" computing due to workflows that tend to be more storage/ IO bound than anything else. For people starting fresh with a cluster scheduling layer who did not have an investment in time, expertise and/ or software licensing costs, Grid Engine turned out to be a popular choice. With that popularity came a good set of people in the community who can now support and configure these systems (as well as evangelize them) so the cycle is fairly self perpetuating. General life science cluster cheat sheet: - Workloads tend to be far more serial/batch in nature than true parallel - Policy and resource allocation features are very important to people deploying these systems - Storage speed is often more important than network speed or latency in many cases - Fast interconnects are often used for cluster/distributed filesystems rather than application message passing - Our MPI codes are often quite horrific from an efficiency/tuning standpoint - gigE works just as well as Myrinet or IB - Exceptions to the MPI rule: computational chemistry, modeling and structure prediction (those fields have well written commercial MPI codes in use) - Huge resistance to improved algorithms as scientists want to use *exactly* the same code that was used to publish the journal paper -Chris


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Commuting tips
Going to work by bike? Welcome to the growing group! Some are doing it by obligation, for health, because of money, political reasons, because it feels good or to save the earth. The following are but tidbits of ideas on commuting.
My idea is to help fellow commuters to share our combined experiences. Just here at Arkel do 85% of our staff commute to work on a bike, with dedicated indoor parking!! If you don't do it already, by all means try it—for whatever reason you want!
What to wear
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The Flaming Lips may be best known these days for putting on shows featuring bear-costumed dancers and Wayne Coyne's Mad Hatter treks atop the audience in a giant plastic bubble. But they also remain Great Plains acid freaks. Their '80s recordings indulged weirdness and sprawl, before big-hearted pop whimsy and affirming anthems took over on such breakthrough albums as "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart" (1993) and "The Soft Bulletin" (1999). Lately, the pendulum has swung back to the Oklahoma band's less-comforting origins.
"The Terror" (Bella Union/Warner Bros.) is downright existential. It sounds like it was made by the last survivor on a dying planet, a final transmission from an underground bunker. Real-life break-ups and struggles with drug abuse inform the music, saturating it in gloom and heartbreak. Wayne Coyne's disembodied voice floats through a matrix of drone and dissonance. The anticipation suggested by the title of the opening "Look … the Sun is Rising" is quickly undercut by spastic bursts of guitar over churning drums. "Be Free, A Way" and "Try to Explain" melt together, a pair of lost-in-the-void murmurs that give way to "You Lust," in which the sound of a distant lawnmower underlines 13 increasingly annoying minutes.
From there, the murk of keyboards, factory percussion and muffled voices grows only more oppressive. Thin strands of melody surface occasionally, as in the melancholy "Butterfly, How Long it Takes to Die." After the death rattle of "Turning Violent," "Always There in Our Hearts" tries to blast its way to the surface but comes up short.
Incongruously, the mood brightens for the bubblegum bounce of "Sun Blows Up Today" and a hazy cover of the Beatles' "All You Need is Love." Maybe it's the Lips way of pulling the listener away from the ledge. By then, it's too late.


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Were those tears or drops of sweat rolling down Teemu Selanne's face Sunday as he skated around the Honda Center, absorbing and returning the crowd's love after the final regular-season game of his Hall of Fame career?
If he wept, he wasn't alone. Selanne's love for Southern California was mutual from the day he joined the Ducks in February 1996, traded here by the financially strapped Winnipeg Jets. One sunny breakfast under palm trees, and he was home. "This is my kind of place," he recalled thinking.
He made it his own, and not just with the dazzling speed that earned him the nickname "Finnish Flash," and the quick shot that helped him rank 11th in NHL career goals, with 684, and 15th in points, with 1,457. His prime seasons, with linemate Paul Kariya, exemplified the ultimate that hockey can offer. They did drills together in practice before their teammates, talked after each shift about what they could do better, knew each other's thoughts.
Their bond remains so strong that Kariya, retired and reclusive, attended Sunday's game. He was the only former teammate Selanne invited.
"I've been very lucky that I've been playing with unbelievable players, pretty much my whole career. But nothing has been even close to playing with Paul," Selanne said. "Everything was so easy. We played the same way. We were thinking the same way about the game. It was just like unbelievable."
Selanne, 43, holds the probably untouchable NHL rookie record of 76 goals in a season, won the first Rocket Richard trophy as the NHL's goals leader in 1998-99, and got his name on the Stanley Cup with the dominant Ducks in 2007. After two stints with them — he was traded to San Jose in 2001 but returned as a free agent in 2005 following career-saving knee surgery — he is central to their history. He can add to it when the Ducks, seeded No. 1 in the West, face the Dallas Stars in a playoff series that begins Wednesday in Anaheim.
Beyond numbers, Selanne brought to the rink a luminous joy in what he did. And he carried that goodwill to the many hospitals he visited and youngsters he cheered up, the onetime kindergarten teacher always able to connect with kids.
If Selanne did cry Sunday, it's understandable if his tears mingled with the sweat of exertion after he played a season-high 18 minutes 42 seconds. Though set up often, he didn't figure in the scoring in the Ducks' 3-2 overtime victory over Colorado.
If the fates were kinder, he would have scored a dynamic goal or two, but those were rare this season. He had nine goals and 27 points in 64 games, a good deal of his time spent on the fourth line. He averaged 14 minutes 7 seconds' ice time and only once played both ends of a back-to-back game sequence.
"It's a tough situation," Coach Bruce Boudreau said. "I think his presence makes our team better just by him being Teemu. When he's passionate and everything it gets the team playing better.
"It's not like I'm sitting here saying, 'OK, Teemu's skills have diminished.' I played until I was 38 but I wasn't the same player at 38 that I was at 25. Things change a little bit."
Boudreau told Selanne last summer his role might be reduced, and Selanne weighed that heavily. He has taken it year by year for a while but said this was his toughest decision, one ultimately swayed by the lure of representing Finland at the Sochi Winter Games.
"The Olympics and the whole package was there but my role was still, you know, I wasn't really, I didn't know. I still don't know," Selanne said last week.
Selanne, whose 255 power-play goals are the third-most in NHL history, was most bothered by not playing on the first power-play unit. But the numbers simply weren't there on the power play or on rare occasions he played on the top line. He was energetic to start his shifts but couldn't sustain that in an ever-faster game.
Publicly, he was diplomatic. "It has been sometimes a little tough to sit out," he said, "but hopefully it's going to be something which, when we go a long ways, a little bit more extra energy here and there, I think that could be a big advantage for me."
He lobbied Boudreau for more playing time after his team's bronze-medal performance at the Sochi Games, where he was voted the tournament's most valuable player and extended his Olympic scoring record to 43 points in 37 games. Boudreau briefly put him with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, but it didn't click.
"I feel about him like everybody else does. I love him," Boudreau said, but that didn't stop him from keeping Selanne's line on the bench when he occasionally went down to three lines.
"My toughest assignment is to make sure he's getting enough ice and at the same time, he's in a positive ice," Boudreau said. "And understanding I'm just a peon as compared to what he is. I know the icon. You look out there and he scores a goal in practice and the guys are all cheering for him. He's just loved everywhere, and I understand that. There's tough decisions you have to make for the team, for the benefit of 22 other guys. But you're still considering the effect of one. I think we've done an OK job there."
No matter what happens in the playoffs, Selanne intends to live in Orange County with his wife and their three sons and daughter, who speak unaccented English. He's not sure what challenge he will take up next, but he has already succeeded at strengthening hockey in Southern California and will leave the Ducks in better shape than when he arrived.
"It has been a mission here to try to create the reputation for this organization that free agents and guys like to come here to play," he said. "Before, like when we didn't have a good team, you have to pay so much more to get somebody to come here. But now I think the reputation around the league is that guys want to come here. It's a big difference."
A difference he's still creating.
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