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|A snippet of a letter written by Philip Kuhn telling his wife about the attack on the City Belle.
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3. Peter Kuhn - Peter is my immigrant ancestor and furthest ancestor to have been found in my Kuhn line. He was born in 1748 in Germany and came to America around 1760. If I could meet Peter I would ask him why he chose to leave Germany and I would sneak in a question about where he was from and who his parents were.
4. Bertha Kuhn - Bertha (Cutler) Kuhn was my 3rd great-grandmother and wife of Philip (No. 1). I have written previously about my desire to meet her. I feel a connection to Bertha because she was a military spouse at home while her husband went to war. If I could ask her one thing I would ask her if she ever had her photo taken and if so where it is now!
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|Marcellus White's headstone (1832-1895)
7. Samuel O. McGuire - Samuel was also a Civil War veteran, fighting for the Confederates. He was also captured and spent time at Fort Delaware prisoner of war camp. I think I would ask Samuel why he chose to fight for the Confederate side. He was born and raised in Kentucky, which I'm sure had a strong bearing on his choice. But I would like to know if he was fighting for States rights or for maintaining slavery or both.
Lois Burnett Kuhn - Lois was my grandmother and she died when my father was only 18. I was never able to meet her, but my father has spoken of her so much I feel like I know her well. I think she would have made a terrific grandmother and I would give anything to be able to sit down with her for an afternoon and just talk. I don't have any specific questions for Lois, I just want to be with her.
|This is possibly a photo of young Bettie Knupp, later Coffman. (1857-1887)
James was killed in the early hours of November 11, 1918, just hours before the armistice was signed. If I could meet James I would ask him about his war experiences.
11. Leroy Philip Kuhn - A distant uncle, Leroy is the only blood relative I have found that participated in WWI. He was assigned to Surgical Team No. 7, A.E.F. To date I have found no information about his actual service and whether he was sent overseas. So, the obvious question is: Tell me about your WWI service.
12. William White - William White was my Mayflower ancestor. He arrived in America but died the first winter, leaving a wife and two small children. I would ask him this: Would you do it again?
Here are 12 questions I would ask any relative I was fortunate enough to meet.
1. Who were your parents?
2. Who were your grandparents?
3. Why did you immigrate/move cross country?
4. Did you ever have your photo taken and where can I find a copy?
5. What was your most prized possession?
6. What modern day invention would you most like to have had in your day?
7. What moment in my life are you most proud of?
8. What moment in your life would you like to re-live?
9. What moment in your life would you like to do over and change?
10. What historical moment will you always remember?
11. What was your favorite activity or past time?
12. What is your favorite memory and why?
And finally, here are 12 things I would tell my ancestors (in an assumption they have not been following the saga of my life!):
1. I wish I could have known you.
2. I love genealogy because it is important to me that your story is remembered.
3. I have a wonderful husband and two great (albeit crazy) sons.
4. My parents did a great job in raising me.
5. I think I received some of your traits: work ethic, desire to help my community, importance of family
6. I'm not religious, but I'm still a good person (important, I think, to let all of my uber-religious ancestors know).
7. I really enjoy working and especially love public relations.
8. My favorite invention is the Internet.
9. I enjoy sewing and especially quilting.
10. Service to country is very important to me and I appreciate your military service.
11. I would love to step back in time and live life in your shoes.
And last but not least,
12. I hope I make you proud.


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Dunno how summer's treating you where you are. Here in BKLN NYC, the weather's been unpredictable all summer. Be that as it may, here's a great drink for your Labor Day weekend.
I'm calling this the Flying Cucumber because of its obvious origins in the Aviation. The Martin Miller's is good for this because it has definite cuke notes, but Hendrick's would probably work well, too. Here's a piccy of it; the recipe's after the jump.
photograph by Jennifer Hess
Flying Cucumber
Technique: Muddle two cucumber slices in a mixing glass, and then add:
- 2 oz. Martin Miller's gin
- 1/2 oz. lemon juice
- 1/4 oz. St.-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
Shake over ice and fine strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with cucumber slices or strips of peel.

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Scouting is a family activity. There are many ways in which parents can help their son make the most of the opportunities provided by Troop 39 – and at the same time, share in the learning and fun!
First and foremost, it is important that parents encourage their son to participate in all aspects of the troop program. Many times this means scheduling other activities so that they don't conflict with Scouting events. Secondly, parents should support their son's involvement by taking an interest in his Scouting activities. By attending Courts of Honor, helping with advancement, and participating in troop outings, parents send a message that Scouting is important. Last but not least, there are many volunteer opportunities for parents to help Troop 39 operate as a quality unit. The adults who plan and supervise the many activities of the troop are volunteers and need the help of parents to raise funds, plan programs, organize events, and help with communication.
Troop 39 sponsors a number of fundraisers which help pay for charter dues, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and other expenses. All parents can help by volunteering to work on these projects:
Touch a Truck – Our largest fundraiser of the year, held since 2009, supports the troop and the N.C. Children's Hospital's Promise Grant program. Touch a Truck provides a unique opportunity for children to explore vehicles of all types – public service, emergency, utility, construction, landscaping, transportation, delivery and just plain cool – all in one place!
Mulch Delivery – Drivers are needed to haul mulch in troop trucks from the landfill to delivery sites. This service runs year-round, but most business is in the fall and spring. Satisfy that macho urge to get behind the wheel of a big truck!
BSA Popcorn Sales – Held in the fall, this is a continuation of the national program that your son probably participated in during Cub Scouts
Several committees assist the Scoutmasters with the operation of the troop. Parents are needed to help with the projects coordinated by these committees:
Troop Committee – This parent-run committee develops policies and programs, coordinates fundraising activities and allocates funds, and provides support to Scoutmasters.
Other volunteer positions: Groups of volunteers are needed to coordinate fundraisers, facilitate communication, and provide other important services which help the troop operate efficiently:
Eagle Scout mentors – Counsel Scouts through the various steps along the Eagle Trail.
Mulch delivery coordinators – Receive calls from clients and schedule delivery, schedule drivers, track payments.
Recruitment coordinator – Coordinate efforts to interest youth in Troop 39.
"Meet and Greet" parents – Meet youth and parents who visit meetings, provide information about Troop 39.
Webmaster – Contribute to the development and maintenance of troop website
Troop directory editor – Maintain a database of troop members.
Court of Honor coordinator – Supervise set-up and clean-up; order refreshments.
Publicity coordinator – Work with local news outlets to publicize service projects and other activities of Troop 39.
Vehicle maintenance coordinator– Provide routine maintenance and schedule repairs for troop vehicles.
Merit Badge Counselor – The counselor's job is to act as a coach and an examiner. As a coach you help the Scout over the hurdles of the requirement developing his self-confidence as you proceed. Through your expertise and experience, you also make him aware of the broader and deeper aspects of the subject, developing in him an interest which may lead to further explorations of his own. As an examiner the counselor must be satisfied that each Scout meets all requirements for the merit badge and that all youth are treated equally. This position is registered with the BSA, at no cost, and requires training.


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Jubinville shows independent streak as new governor's councilor
MILTON — When he ran for Governor's Council last year, Milton attorney Robert L. Jubinville promised to be an independent voice on the state panel that considers judicial nominees. In his first month on the job, he appears to be making good on that pledge.
On Jan. 23, he was one of two members of the eight-person panel to vote against Governor Deval Patrick's Superior Court nominee, Brockton District Court Judge Angel Kelley Brown. Jubinville said he did not think she had sufficient legal experience.
"You don't do any favors to somebody by putting them there when they are not ready,'' he said. Kelley Brown's nomination carried the day, however.
A few days later, Jubinville came to the governor's defense, calling for Patrick to re-nominate Shannon Frison, whom the Governor's Council had failed to confirm for a judgeship in December. Jubinville said Frison's initial nomination had been sabotaged by false reports that she had performed poorly as a judge in the military. "The council had received misinformation,'' Jubinville said. "She is eminently qualified.''
A prominent criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts, Jubinville, 66, had never run for public office before his 2008 run for Governor's Council, also known as the Executive Council. He lost that year and again in 2010, but last year, following the death of incumbent Kelly Timilty, Jubinville, a Democrat, won the vacant seat.
Although he put together campaign teams and did some fund-raising during each of his bids, Jubinville used much of his own money to run for the part-time job that pays $26,000 a year. His state campaign finance reports indicate he personally loaned his three campaigns more than $400,000 over five years.
In his campaigns, he did not have the backing of powerful established political machines in the sprawling Second Governor's Council District, which spans five counties and includes part of Boston, as well as all or part of 38 south and west suburbs.
"I vote the way I want to. I don't owe anybody anything,'' Jubinville said. "The voters of District 2 put me here, and my job is to protect all citizens.''
The divorced father of two adult daughters — one is a lawyer, the other a probation officer — lives and works in his home office in East Milton Square on Adams Street next to the post office. He also has small satellite offices in Falmouth and Holyoke.
A former State Police trooper who has practiced law for the past 33 years, Jubinville is much in demand as a defense lawyer. His work takes him to courthouses across the Commonwealth, and he has represented defendants in high-profile cases, including the murder of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley of Somerville in 1997 and the 1999 rape and murder of teacher Melissa Gosule.
Jubinville said he has no aspirations for higher office and hopes to continue to practice law for another 20 years.
He said that in reviewing judicial candidates he will study nominees carefully and look for experience and balance. He said that on the tough-on-crime vs. soft-on-crime spectrum, he falls somewhere in the middle.
"You get judges at each end — too lenient, too hard — they usually don't make the best judges. The ones in the middle, who call it fairly one way or the other, they really do tend to make better judges,'' Jubinville said.
State Senator Brian A. Joyce, a Milton Democrat and a longtime critic of the Governor's Council, said he believes Jubinville will be an independent voice on the panel.
"I would not expect him to have any ideological litmus tests,'' Joyce said. "He is an extraordinary practitioner of his craft.''
Joseph P. McEttrick of Milton, a retired Suffolk University Law School professor and an unsuccessful candidate for Governor's Council in 1996, said of Jubinville, "His interest in the Governor's Council is based on his profession. He has a substantial practice and has been in the courts a lot. A lot of people on the council don't have that profile.''
The Massachusetts Governor's Council is one of only two such councils in the United States. A carryover from Colonial days as a check on the power of the governor, the panel has seen its duties trimmed over the years, and there have been calls for its abolition. Its primary role today is to vote on all judicial nominations of the governor.
Governor's councilors are elected by district, each of which is made up of five state senatorial districts. Governor's Council districts are each one-eighth of the state and are slightly more populous than a congressional district.
Because the districts are so large, campaigning door-to-door is impossible, and because the office is obscure, a big media campaign is too costly. Jubinville said that in each of his campaigns he relied heavily on direct mail.
"The only way to reach this type of a voting population is to put something in their hands,'' he said.
Jubinville said that after his losses to incumbent Timilty in 2008 and 2010, he was prepared to abandon his quest for the office, but when the seat became vacant in 2012, he decided to try again.
"I knew that I had built up my name recognition already, so thought I would give it a shot,'' he said.
Jubinville topped a four-person field in the September Democratic primary, and then in November captured 60 percent of the vote to defeat Republican Earl Sholley of Norfolk.
Jubinville said he believes the council remains an important check on the power of the governor.
"Of course, all governors want free reign to appoint whoever the hell they want. There have been governors along the way who wanted to try to get rid of the council. I believe it is a very important position to protect the citizens,'' he said.


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Wash. Post revives Obama the arugula-munching elitist
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I thought we might have moved beyond this point, but, as my colleague Jamison Foser points out, one can never underestimate the Washington Post's propensity for inanity.
One of the stupider campaign '08 narratives originated when then-candidate Barack Obama, making the point that increased produce prices at supermarkets didn't translate to higher prices for growers, asked a group of Iowa farmers if they had been to Whole Foods to "see what they charge for arugula," adding: "I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff." Following the Republicans' lead, media outlets seized on arugula as a symbol of Obama's aloofness and detachment from the common man, who had never heard of this exotic leaf. Absent from the gleeful mockery and concerned hand-wringing over Obama's supposed predilection for the peppery-tasting salad green was the fact that arugula, in addition to being grown and sold in Iowa, is proudly served at appropriately non-elitist eateries like the Olive Garden.
And, of course, the election results proved the "out-of-touch Obama" narrative to be bogus -- exit polling found that 57 percent of voters thought Obama was "in touch with people like you."
But now, well over a year later, the Washington Post is bringing back the "elitist" Obama narrative, and once again propping up arugula as a mascot of the president's alleged aloofness:
But during his campaign for the presidency, Obama bungled some of his early attempts to connect with blue-collar workers, complaining about the price of arugula at Whole Foods and visiting a bowling alley only to roll an embarrassing score of 37. Some political rivals continue to disparage him as an elitist. Even his aides have sometimes worried that his intellect can be mistaken for condescension and that his composure can seem like detachment.
And as Greg Sargent points out, the Post diagnosis of Obama's "disconnected" nature runs contrary to their own polling, which finds that 57 percent of respondents believe Obama "understands the problems of people like you."
Articles like this help to convey just how intractable certain narratives become among Beltway journalists, particularly narratives that impart the dreaded "elitist" label to Democrats, despite their shaky (or nonexistent) factual basis. That's why now, after many years, you still hear DC journalists joking about Al Gore the pedant and Michael Dukakis' Belgian endive. So don't be surprised if in 2024 you hear journalists warning the Democratic presidential nominee that he needs to avoid looking like an elitist like Barack Obama with his arugula.
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The IDC MarketScape assessed the 11 largest datacenter transformation (DCT) systems integrators based on the parameters considered most conducive to short- and long-term success.
As part of the research, IDC surveyed service buyers on the most important strategies and capabilities, determining the three most highly rated as: Functionality or offering road map; Marketing strategy; and Financial/funding management.
The result: the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Transformation Consulting and Implementation Services 2016 Vendor Assessment.
SOURCE: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Transformation Consulting and Implementation Services 2016 Vendor Assessment, by Chad Huston and Ali Zaidi, Dec 2016, IDC Doc#US42020516.
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.
The IDC MarketScape noted that our DCT business, part of Accenture Operations, centers on helping customers in their journey to cloud.
To make it happen, we offer a full life cycle of cloud services, including strategy, application analysis and remediation, implementation and migration and managed cloud services.
We offer both business process and operational transformation capabilities, and we utilize our industry partnerships and our cloud integration layer to provision and manage services across clients' public, private and on-premise data centers.
Buyers rated us highly for providing technical insights and competence, integrating our project teams with customers' teams and handling changes in project scope. We were also rated highly in functionality/offering road map and in growth strategy.


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We didn't do that bad. One of our original correspondents, for example, mentioned the brass bands, but we just put the pieces together wrong.
is this La Paz?
It sucked to see the boys go, but I'm so glad the girls made it....
Quote from: Michael on October 12, 2008, 10:30:25 PMIt sucked to see the boys go, but I'm so glad the girls made it.... I know this is so hard! I'm telling you this cast is like family, I want no one to go!!
Quote is this La Paz? Don't laugh but it looks like a minaret to me. I looked around Almaty but didn't see anything similar.
From an interview with Anthony and Stephanie over in the Racers thread where they are talking about Anita and Arthur in Sequesterville,"Anthony: We couldnt have asked for a more accepting, warm welcome. I think they were a little more welcoming than we were to the next couple that showed up."Maybe a hint that the next elimination is a M/F team?
So they took an entire day to get to La Paz?
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Pfizer Animal Health announced on March 19, 2008 that it will acquire two market-leading livestock genomics companies: Catapult Genetics, Pty., Ltd., focused on developing and commercializing innovative livestock DNA tests and gene markers to assist global food producers, processors and retailers in improving profitability and quality in the global food chain; and Bovigen, LLC, which markets DNA technology, including Catapult's products in the U.S. and throughout Canada, Central America and South America.
Terms of the agreements were not disclosed. The acquisitions are expected to close by the end of March. The two companies will continue to market products and services to their own customers as well as Pfizer Animal Health customers.
"This is a strategic initiative that places Pfizer at the forefront of livestock gene marker R&D and enhances Pfizer's ability to offer more complete solutions to global livestock producers," said Juan Ramon Alaix, president, Pfizer Animal Health.
Current genetic tests are focused on productivity and carcass quality, while future genetic tests may one day allow producers to better predict disease in individual animals, thus helping veterinarians and producers target medicines to livestock that need it most, Alaix said.
"Catapult's ongoing product R&D is based on core technology platforms developed in collaboration with research groups in Australia and New Zealand," said Gerard Davis, chief executive officer, Catapult Genetics. "Now with Pfizer's added resources and capabilities, we expect livestock producers will begin to see an enhanced range of genetic tools. For sheep and beef cattle producers in Australia and New Zealand there will be benefits from a continued focus on their needs as well as access to new and improved products," Davis said.
As novel marker panels are discovered and developed, Pfizer plans to introduce new products and services to livestock producers. "In the U.S., Pfizer also will be able to enhance the development and uptake of new genetic markers identified through Bovigen's participation in The Carcass Merit Project with Texas A&M University and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. This project, partially funded by the Beef Checkoff Program, is designed to generate new and important markers for U.S. cattle producers," said Victor Castellon, chief executive officer, Bovigen.
"DNA markers allow beef producers to make better management decisions, to improve the quality of their herd by selecting animals with certain high-valued genetic traits, and to create a long-term, positive economic impact for their business," said Nigel Evans, senior director of business innovation for Pfizer Animal Health, who will lead the Catapult and Bovigen businesses for Pfizer.
Genetic information also can help guarantee food quality – beef tenderness or well-marbled beef. Gene markers help beef producers to identify better breeding stock.
"Our move today expands Pfizer's already strong commitment to promoting livestock health and safe, high-quality food around the world," Evans said.
Catapult Genetics, Pty., Ltd., was formed in December 2006 with the merger of Catapult Systems, based in New Zealand, and Genetic Solutions, based in Australia. Catapult is a global innovator and leader in sheep and cattle DNA testing technologies for meat and carcass quality and production efficiency under the GeneSTAR® Quality Grade, Feed Efficiency, the SureTRAK® system, and the SireTRACETM product brands. In addition to co-founders Gerard Davis and Jay Hetzel, shareholders include AgResearch, CSIRO, Kestrel Capital's Nanyang Innovation Fund, and Meat & Wool New Zealand. For more information on Catapult Genetics visit www.catapultgenetics.com.
Bovigen, LLC, based in Harahan, Louisiana, is a global genetic technology company founded by Vic Castellon in 2003. Bovigen will continue to market and service Catapult's products throughout the Americas. For more information visit www.bovigen.com or in the U.S., call 877.BEEF.DNA


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Get [fake] Involved With Party Fundraiser App for iPhone
According to the Federal Election Commission, President Obama has raised around $755 million while Governor Romney is close behind at approximately $710 million on the current Presidential campaign. Want to get in on some of that action and raise money for your campaign of choice? You still have to do it the old-fashioned way by volunteering at a phone bank, or going door to door asking for your neighbor's support. If you want to pretend to raise ridiculous amounts of money while sitting on your couch, the Party Fundraiser app lets users navigate around a Pac-Man like maze to collect gold coins for either the Democrats or Republicans.
The object of the game is to choose the party you want to raise money for, and instead of guiding Pac-Man, or Mrs. Pac-Man...to be more PC, you will control the head of either President Obama or Governor Romney around the maze to collect gold coins while avoiding a group of either Republican elephants or the Democratic donkeys who want to thwart your fundraising efforts. You have the choice of either finger-swiping in the direction you want to go, or using the accelerometer to tilt your iPhone in the direction you want to go.
The more coins you collect, the more you contribute to your party. 90% of the money you raise goes to your party and you get to keep the 10% as commission. You can use that commission to by more characters to control, gadgets to help complete levels, party gifts, etc. On the Fundraising Summary page, you will see the real total amount the party has raised, and your [fake] contribution, plus other game stats. The app also gives you a chance to learn just a little something by displaying a countdown timer to the election and a snapshot of the percentage each party has raised so far.
The game music is kind or cheesy, but other than that, this is one of those certified "time waster" apps to goof around with while you wait. So if you wish you could do more to support your party, besides actually going out and supporting your party? Try downloading the Party Fundraiser app and pretend to make a difference.


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What can you do with some computers and a shipping container.../
Ship it to Zambia and help a villiage get connected to the net of course. Over at TechRadar.com they have a great article talking about how this idea and Linux is changing lives. This is a great use of Tech and an inspiring example of how we as Tech's can change the world.
What's your favorite use of Technology for the Public/Greater Good?


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There are few cities in German history that experienced Dresden's level of destruction during the Second World War. At the end of the war, the city was practically reduced to rubble. So it is hardly surprising that the city is home to the Bundeswehr Military History Museum. Featuring 1,950 square metres of modern exhibit space, this is the largest military museum in the world.
The building that currently houses the museum has been previously occupied by numerous arsenals and museums. It not only used to house a Saxonian armoury, but has also served as the Nazi Museum and Army Museum of the former DDR. Inaugurated in 1897, the museum acquired a modern look after an expansion in 2011. The revamped look was been designed by top architect Daniel Libeskind, who added a huge steel triangle to the neoclassic facade. Libeskind also designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
The current Bundeswehr Military History Museum puts war in a very unusual perspective. The Imperial War Museum in London and the Musée de l'Armée in Paris are as much a tribute to war as a careful reflection on the consequences of military action. But instead of displaying tanks, canons and shiny medals as relics of honourable battles, this museum discusses the purpose and origins of violence. Considering that this museum is administered by the German army, it is quite remarkable that it provides a visual representation of the inhumane consequences of military interventions. Exhibits include the wreck of a German army vehicle damaged by an explosion during the recent war in Afghanistan. Next to it you will find the voting cards of German leaders Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel, who approved Germany's participation in the war. The museum certainly sheds a whole new light on any future military interventions.
The museum was reinaugurated in 2011, after a major renovation and expansion by American architect Daniel Libeskind. His wedge-shaped design breaks up the imposing formal symmetry of the building. This is a symbolic reference to the far-reaching consequences of war. The metal wedge – an enormous bow of a ship in steel and glass – is 5-storeys high and points in the direction of where the first bombs fell. From the observation platform, visitors can see how Dresden has risen from the ashes.


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text: Li, bo wrote: > .. > From: "Li, Bo" <libo at buaa.edu.cn> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] gpgpu > > Hello, > It seemed that you had got a very good example for GPGPU. As I said before, it's not the time for GPGPU to do the DP calculation at the moment. If you can bear SP computation, you will find more about it. > NVidia just sent me some special offer about their Tesla platforms, which said that the workstation equipped with two GTX280 level professional cards costs about $5000, not bad. But my intention is still to lower the core frequency of a gaming card, and use it for computation. > Regards, > Li, Bo > Looking at AMD/ATI Firestream and 4850 pricing, it is not too bad: AMD FIRESTREAM 9250 STREAM PROCESSOR (P/N: 100-505563) $880 VISIONTEK RADEON HD4870X2 2GB PCI-E (P/N: 900250) $575 VISIONTEK RADEON HD 4870 512MB PCI-E (P/N: 900244) $355 The 4870 and X2 also run the AMD code. So, given a decent machine, with 4 cores and a pair of the 4870X2, one can achieve some pretty amazing GPU performance levels for a system well under $4,000. With dualX2s ( 4 GPU engines) around $4700 ( extra PSU capacity and cooling is needed for that level). I hear that AMD have a new Firestream coming, with the 48x0 family chips on it, but that will likely be a bit on the pricier side.. Anyway, the Firestream has GPUs with Double-Precision Floating Point. Something the nVidia offerings do not. Worth considering. http://ati.amd.com/technology/streamcomputing/product_firestream_9250.html SDK: http://ati.amd.com/technology/streamcomputing/sdkdwnld.html -- With our best regards, //Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771/ /Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772/ /11060 - 166 Avenue email:maurice at harddata.com/ /Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com// / T5X 1Y3/ / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20080903/90d3f915/attachment.html>


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This year I haven't been on a Pacific Island holiday but I have been away for two of the three Wellington on a Plate weekends (having a lovely time up the mountain and in Auckland and Waiheke, I might add) and my weekdays have filled up with meetings and appointments and a general sense of oh-my-god-so-busy that I haven't even gotten to a fraction of the things on my list.
Still, I've managed to fit in a bit, including the opening of the New Zealand Chocolate Festival last weekend, where I met up with fellow food bloggers Rosa, Shirleen & Emma and wandered around tasting chocolate for a while before I (sadly) had to head back to work.
I have to admit I'm not a chocolate-mad person. I don't go weak at the knees at the mention of truffles or ganache or devil's food cupcakes. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't like chocolate - but I feel the same way about it as I do about all food: if it's done well, it's the best thing in the world; if done half-heartedly, I can take it or leave it.
So the best thing about the Chocolate Festival was seeing so many of New Zealand's artisan chocolatiers in one place, seeing so many people so passionate about what they do. I was definitely wowed by several of the stallholders. I won't list them all, but here are a few highlights:
She Chocolat are one of my favourite chocolate-makers... I was won over by their Decadent Dates years ago and have been out to their shop & cafe in Governor's Bay, Christchurch a couple of times. Here they were tasting nutty and rich dark-chocolate covered cacao beans.
RQute is a relative newcomer on the chocolate scene. Rochelle roasts and grinds the cacao beans herself in the back of Ernesto on Cuba St before making adorably colourful, almost cartoon-like chocolate creations, including a range of chocolate lollipops and chocolate puzzles (which would make great gifts).
Criollo chocolates were down from Auckland selling a range of exquisite-looking moulded chocolates. The highlight for me, though, were these pralines. Light and crunchy and sweet but not overwhelming. I nearly bought a box until I realised I'd probably eat them all before I got back to work.
I'm glad I was able to attend the chocolate festival, even if I did miss out on some of the demonstrations because I had to run back to work. Other highlights included the tasting session run by Swiss chocolatier Rene Fellman (it makes sense, but I never stopped to think that slowing down and breathing in could bring out so many layers of flavour) and the warm, gooey pain au chocolate I messily ate while the opening formalities took place (and quickly ran away to wash the melted chocolate off my hands as soon as I could... oops!).
The organisers said they're hoping to make the NZ Chocolate Festival a regular event, and it might move around the country... here's hoping it's in Wellington again soon!


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We posted a tiny update 6.24.2 on the website this month; the change are tiny compared to 6.22.
Bigger news is that I finally got VEDIT to compile under Visual Studio 2012 (VS2012) and have fixed the problems related to the newer-style File-Open/Save dialog boxes which have the Favorite-Links pane on the left side. All previous versions were compiled with ancient Visual Studio 6.0.
I hope that the libraries in VS2012 will better handle the permission issues related to using e.g. "c:\Program Data\Vedit" and other problem related to Win 7/8. I am working on those now.
I had a junior programmer create an .msi installation package, but it took too long, the result was not very good and I let him go.
The goal is to create a basic installation where the first time VEDIT is run, it will complete the installation.
So far, I cannot get the InstallShield-lite built into VS2012 to give me the option of installing VEDIT into c:\vedit, the location many people like and the location we recommend for EBCDIC conversion customers.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT women's track and field competed in its final tune-up before the New England Division III Championships in a split-squad weekend. While some of Tech's elite battled at Boston University's Valentine's Classic, the rest of the team hosted 13 other schools in the region at the MIT Coed Invitational.
Freshman Maria Monks made the biggest impact at the Valentine's Classic, shattering the indoor school record in the 5000-meter run with an NCAA provisionally-qualifying time of 17:30.19. Her time placed her 12th in the extremely talented field. Andrea Bradshaw also raced well at BU, falling one-tenth short of an Institute record in the 800m (2:24.39).
Freshman Amy Magnuson highlighted MIT's effort at home. Magnuson took the top spot on Saturday in the triple jump, while securing second-place finishes in the long jump and 55-meter hurdles. Sophomore Emily Hwang served as the Engineers' other event winner, finishing first overall in the pole vault. Junior Aline Thomas grabbed second in both the shot put and weight throw.


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Gray is one of Mini's sons and one of my very favorite people on earth. I can't tell you how much I adore her kids. This one in particular always seems to make me laugh. Today, he says that if you have an extra second, you should check out Mozi Esme's site. She published one of my essays on Mozambique.
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Taylor Swift, the Band Perry Nominated for Billboard Milestone Award
Taylor Swift and the Band Perry are among the artists nominated for the 2013 Billboard Milestone award. The newly-announced multi-genre award will be handed out at the Billboard Music Awards in May.
The Milestone award will go to "an innovative artist that achieved a notable chart milestone over the past year," according to Billboard. The six nominees are rounded out by Justin Bieber, Miguel, Bruno Mars and Pitbull.
Fans can vote online to narrow the six down to three, who will be announced in mid-April. Voting will continue all the way through the live Billboard Music Awards broadcast, with the winner announced toward the end of the show.
"The addition of the Milestone Award gives us the opportunity to recognize truly creative artists that are breaking boundaries with their contribution to today's musical landscape," says Billboard Editorial Director Bill Werde. "These awards are for artists who have created music and accomplishments that are part of history. It's an honor to work with a historic brand like Chevrolet to bring them into focus as part of this year's Billboard Music Awards."
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Opinion-editorial article by IUCN, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
This week, movers and shakers from the worlds of politics, business and civil society are descending on the picturesque Swiss village of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
In these turbulent times for the world's decision makers, it is hardly surprising that the 2013 Forum takes the theme of "Resilient Dynamism", with the focus on minimizing risks and boosting the resilience of our economies and societies.
As the precarious state of the global economy and the ongoing political upheavals in many parts of the world are grabbing headlines, there is one neglected—yet absolutely critical—feature of successful risk management: playing safe with our planet.
A few years ago, a group of 28 scientists at the Stockholm Resilience Centre identified and quantified a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive. In the last 200 years we've already overshot three of those.
At the moment, however, ensuring a safe operating space for humanity just isn't top of minds as austerity tightens its grip on our planet and its seven billion people. As a result, financial and political crises have all but wiped out resources allocated to other types of risk — be it poverty, health, biodiversity loss or climate change.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
The organizations we lead all share the vision of a world where people are living well and also within the safe operating space of the planet. We are not propagating limits to growth. Instead, relying on science and taking escalating risks seriously, we conclude the world needs a new development paradigm of growth within limits. To get there, there are certain must-haves.
First, we need to develop a planetary dashboard where safe boundaries are defined for critical environmental processes that directly affect human prosperity. Such a dashboard will allow us to see which areas are approaching unacceptable tipping points. Some of us are starting to call these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the planet.
Second, our consumption and development need to fit into our planetary boundaries, and we need to recognize that some resources are, in fact, finite. To achieve this, we need to understand the true cost and true value of ecosystems services and make them visible in GDP accounts and companies' balance sheets. Smart public policy solutions can accelerate this.
Last but certainly not least, we must change our mindset. For many years, we have viewed nature either as something in need of protection or something that defies human control as in "a force of nature". In reality, maintaining a healthy natural environment can provide a cost-effective solution to boost social resilience, fight poverty and climate change, and propel greener and inclusive growth in order to safeguard human wellbeing on our planet for future generations.
A world transition to global sustainability is not a choice. It is a necessity. All evidence indicates that our current route of ever increasing environmental risks is too costly and dangerous. It is time to start investing in our natural capital now. And that's one risk — or, rather, opportunity — that world leaders gathering in Davos would be wise to take.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General
Peter Bakker, WBCSD President
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Portugal winger Nani is the latest high-profile player to see his World Cup dream ended by injury, after suffering cracking his left shoulder whilst attempting 'an acrobatic shot' during a training match last week.
The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) issued the following statement to confirm the news;
"After tests we conclude [Nani] is unfit to participate in the World Cup. He picked up the injury in training on Friday in Lisbon before flying to South Africa.
Following the injury to the left clavicle suffered by Nani, a daily assessment of the damage and the completion of medical tests, we have concluded he is unable to be competitive. The medical file will now be presented to the medical department of Manchester United."
The FPF have already called up a replacement for Nani in the shape of Benfica midfielder Ruben Amorim.
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text: ________________________________________ From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown [rgb at phy.duke.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:31 PM To: Prentice Bisbal Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Moores Law is dying ...On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > I disagree with the sonic barrier wall analaogy. Is it that clearly > technical barrier the slowed down jet research, or did the nuisance of > sonic booms to people on the ground just make supersonic R&D less > convenient? I've heard that supersonic travel over land is restricted in > the US. .....Yes, indeed, supersonic flight over land in the US is restricted. Exceptions for military training flights in designated areas (e.g. desert wasteland) and things like shuttle landings (characteristic double sonic boom from leading and trailing shock waves.. the shuttle is big and fast). Kind of put paid to useful Concorde flights except from New York and DC (not to mention that Concorde was just plain old LOUD on the ground) ....Sonic booms are also used as a tactical weapon of sorts in, e.g., Gaza. Actually, historically, it was absolutely the technical barrier, which was profound. Pilots in WWII not infrequently went into a dive, and of course diving one can approach the sound barrier quite easily. They died. With very few exceptions, and they were lucky ones. One of two things killed them. At near-supersonic speeds, the equations that govern airflow and lift completely and nonlinearly change form. All of a sudden, the pilots discovered that they were unable to actually move the yoke of their aircraft against the enormous forces that locked them in, and they discovered that the lift they were counting on to pull them out of the dive (in particular the lift generated by the aircraft tail) suddenly disappeared. A few clever pilots thought to put on their airbrakes, slowed to subsonic speeds, and managed to pull out. The rest didn't. The other problem that plagued the deliberate attempts to break the sound barrier were harmonics that appeared and were nonlinearly amplified as the aircraft approached the barrier.\ ...I don't know that they're harmonics, per se, but just the phenomenon of aerodynamic flutter, which was very poorly understood and is basically a resonance thing. (the nonlinearities in the state equation for air doesn't help with understanding, of course). Flutter can occur at lower speeds, too (it's what sets Vne on some small planes), but at lower speeds, how to deal with it is easier to solve empirically AND it's testable by gradually creeping up on it and waiting for the evil moment. When you get close to sonic speed (and actually, it's localized sonic speed over part of the airframe that's troubling), then you get very fast changes. One needs to be a manly man test pilot. BTW, demonstrating sonic flow is easy. Your run of the mill air nozzle is probably in "choked flow" with a shock wave in the throat. If you have a usual shop air compressor, and the air is damp (bad for the tank, but good for the demo), and vent it through something like an 1/8" hole, you'll probably see a nice Mach cone, as the rapid change in pressure causes the water to condense. An old style non-OSHA safe air blowing nozzle does nicely, so does a 1/4" or 1/2" ball valve feeding a pipe cap with a hole drilled in it.


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Minnesota technology pioneer Erwin Tomash helped develop and sell one of the early computers used by business, founded a major printer and peripherals company and left behind an endowed institute to study the history of information technology.
The St. Paul native died Dec. 10 in California, where he had resided since 1953. He was 91 and had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Tomash was among the bright electrical engineers who helped launch Minnesota's computer industry after World War II.
One of his early jobs was as a project engineer for Engineering Research Associates (ERA), working with William Norris, who later became CEO of Control Data Corp., and Seymour Cray, who later invented the supercomputers bearing his name. Like them and others from ERA, Tomash went on to lead computer companies.
"They were the anchor that the Minnesota computer industry sprang from," said historian Thomas Misa, director of the Charles Babbage Institute, a center for the study of the history of information technology founded by Tomash. It is at the University of Minnesota.
Tomash, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, attended St. Paul schools, graduated from the University of Minnesota with an electrical engineering degree in 1943 and served as an officer with the Army Signal Corps in Europe during World War II.
After the war, while working for ERA in Washington, he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland. He moved back to St. Paul in 1950 to work on a military version of the computer later called Univac.
Tomash urged Remington Rand, which acquired ERA, to market the computer to business customers. Tomash moved to Los Angeles in 1953 to lead that effort for the company, which later became Sperry Rand.
In 1962, Tomash founded Dataproducts Corp., a printer and peripherals company that had its first manufacturing plant in St. Paul. The plant was acquired in a spinoff from Telex, which had tried unsuccessfully to develop a computer printer. Dataproducts solved the technical problems and began selling the first "low-cost" printers -- at about $7,000 apiece, equivalent to more than $50,000 in today's dollars.
"Those are big prices now, but then those were breakthroughs," Tomash said in 1983. A 1960s-era competitor, he noted, sold printers for $35,000 each.
Dataproducts grew into a Fortune 500 company that was acquired by Hitachi in 1990. Tomash left the company's board in 1989, after ending his executive role several years earlier.
Tomash had long seen a need to preserve the computer industry's history. He collected more than 3,000 books on the history of computation, and published a three-volume bibliography of the collection in 2008.
Tomash died in his home in Soquel, Calif. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Barbara Tomash of Berkeley, Calif., and Sarada Diffenbaugh Watsonville, Calif.; three grandsons, and five great-grandchildren.
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About two months ago it occured to me, out of nowhere, that I should google some of my surnames and see what popped up. I didn't want to bother with my Bajan last names since they are all very "English" and thus too widespread for such an open-ended search to yield anything specific about my Thomas, Lewis, and Beckles family lines. I had googled Vallee a couple times in the past and not found anything very useful.
Then it occurred to me, what about Cadignan, my other Martinican surname? I don't know anything about French names but it seems a bit more unique than Vallee. Google eventually led me to Facebook, which led to the following update e-mail I sent out to my extended family on 6-29-09.
Hi Familia,
I'm reservedly excited about some progress I've made with the family history research I vowed to take on about a year ago and thought I'd share with you. After months of neglecting the project, I randomly googled the last name Cadignan, which was Hilarion's mother's maiden name. Well this quickly led me to facebook…
…there were only about 30 Cadignans on facebook, and of those who had pictures up, almost all of them were black. CHECK! I contacted a good number of them and have heard back from a few. I quickly learned that I would have to communicate with many of them in French, so with the help of my old roommate who is from Paris and online translators (which are definitely not perfect, but better than nothing) I was able to make the first contact.
For the few of those that have responded so far, all have connections to Martinique either because they were born there or their parents or grandparents were born there. DOUBLE CHECK!
…there are two who speak English and have shown great enthusiasm. They have even already started to ask older members of their family if they know anything about any relatives that immigrated to Panama…One of them did find out that his grandmother had two cousins that were sisters that migrated to Panama. He didn't mention their names, but said their father's name was Joseph Cadignan…I did not tell him that our Cadignan was named Josephine…Of course, the fact that the father he spoke [of] is named Joseph does make me wonder if Josephine was named after him. But those are very common names, so again, I don't want to assume things.
Oh, the other thing that is interesting to note is that all of the Cadignans that I have had contact with so far are from one town in Martinique called Le Francois. So there definitely seems to be a concentration in that area…
Who would ever thought I would get such exciting and potentially concrete leads from a social networking site? And now that I have obtained all of this information, what do I do with it? One of the keys to obtaining quality research results is basing your theories and conclusions on facts. Oral history is a crucial source of information for family history research, but the most seasoned family historians emphasize how important it is to find other sources (documents, mainly) that substantiate this qualitative data. I have listed below a few of the ways in which I hope to learn more about Josephine and her possible connection to my Facebook Cadignans from Le Francois.
- Write to Martinican government offices to request public records pertaining to Adele/Josephine.
- Identify which Panamanian ministries would hold emigration information from when Adele/Josephine, and my other great-grands, arrived in Panama. Write to request records.
- In order to find these documents, it may be crucial to deduce which year or years my great-grands were most probably born and when they left their islands for Panama.


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Like most webmasters, you face a constant uphill battle every day in your attempts to increase your Google PageRank. You see other websites with PageRanks of 5, 6, 7, and even more, and wonder why it's such a struggle for your website. You are searching for a way to add those all important incoming links, to add those precious points of PageRank. If you are seeking a low-cost solution to the problem, perhaps a weblog (more commonly referred to as a blog) may be just what you are looking for to help.
Before you dismiss blogs as unimportant, take a closer look. They have come a long way from their early online diary days and have brought some strong PageRanks along with them. Now part of the mainstream, blogs are everywhere — from business websites to political campaigns. Blogs are becoming a powerful tool for strengthening a website's Google PageRank.
What is Google PageRank?
Google PageRank (one word) is the measure of an Internet page based on the number and importance of a site's incoming links. It is expressed as a numerical value, from PR0 to PR10, with PR10 being the highest possible PageRank (PR). Very few websites achieve that PR 10 level, of course.
Each level is more difficult to reach than one previous. The system is based on an exponential scale, similar to the earthquake Richter Scale. The only difficulty with the Google PageRank scale is no one is entirely certain how the numbers are calculated.
Incoming links for web pages are, in the opinion of Google, votes in favor of that page. On the other hand, Google considers some votes to be more important than others. The simple number of incoming links to a page is calculated by Google, but the relative importance of the "voting page" is given even more weight in the mathematical formula.
The pages that are considered to be more important votes, in turn increase the importance of the page they link. More important pages pass along more voting power. This is measured numerically as PageRank.
Note carefully, that PageRank is for each individual web page, not the entire web site as a whole. Every page in the Google data base has its own PageRank. Sites don't have "rank". Every separate page, however, on your website has its own PageRank.
Always keep in mind that PageRank is not the same thing as your site's ranking on the search engine results pages (SERPs). They are entirely separate items. PR is the relative importance of a page on the web, expressed as a number. The SERPs are where your site appears on a search for your keywords.
{mospagebreak title=Why do Blogs have Such High Google PageRank?}
Blogs tend to have very strong Google PageRanks. These high PageRanks are achieved through one of the hallmarks of the blogging technique. People who maintain blogs (called bloggers) are free and generous linkers. If gaining link exchanges was ever a problem for you in the past, you need to consider a starting a blog.
Incoming links are the determinant of PageRank. That is the strength of blogs. They attract both theme-based link exchanges and natural links from other blogs. There are also a number of special blog-only directories that supply an additional PageRank boost. That extra set of directories is not available to traditional websites unless they add a blog component. Blogs are also well represented in the important mainstream web directories, including The Open Directory Project and by extension the Google Directory, and the Yahoo! Directory as well. (For more on directories, see Hurlbert's article Blogs and Internet Directories: The Same and Different.
Blogs attract links because of several important factors. One of those factors is fresh, constantly updated content. It's an old adage already that good content will attract links. With blogs, it is a fact. By providing your readers with quality daily posts, other bloggers will link to them, and comment upon them in their own blogs.
That linking achieves two goals. First of all, it adds a strong natural link. Secondly, due to the discussion of your blog post, in the linking blog, your incoming link is quite possibly themed. Because the linking blog is probably in the same general topic area as your blog, the theme is consistent. If it's not a related blog, the context of the linking post itself can help to theme the link. In either case, your blog benefits from a solid boost in PageRank.
Bloggers are generous linkers to other blogs they enjoy and posts they believe will be of interest to their readers. Google PageRank is an issue for very few bloggers. There is little concern in the blogging community (sometimes referred to as the "blogosphere") about hoarding PageRank. It is simply not on the radar of a huge percentage of bloggers. Because of that lack of concern, some very highly PageRanked blogs will freely exchange links, or link to another blog, with a much lower PageRank.
{mospagebreak title=How can a Blog Enhance your Site's PageRank?}
A blog can easily be added to an existing website. Many off-the-shelf blogging tools can be imported directly to your site. They can be easily modified to suit your requirements. On the other hand, a blog can be coded from the ground up, to provide a unique tailored look for your site. A blog can be set up as a separate free standing site as well.
Because of the daily, or at minimum three times a week updates, your blog has constant fresh and interesting content for your readers. That content will attract natural and unreciprocated incoming links. They bring valuable PageRank transfer, along with fresh visitor traffic.
If your content is sufficiently interesting and informative, two types of blog links will occur. One is the home page permanent link. The other is the themed link from a blog post. That themed link will slide off the home page, but will bring PageRank from an internal page. Bloggers routinely read other blogs and link to their selected posts, passing along valuable PageRank as a matter of course.
Bloggers like to make link exchanges and often they have no idea or concerns about Google PageRank. Many have never even heard of the concept. Some very good PR5 and PR6 home page blogs are blissfully unaware of that fact. They care about exchanges for traffic and interest to their readership, and will readily swap with blogs they or their readers might enjoy.
Google is thought to be discounting reciprocal links on many static websites, especially link exchange pages. On blogs, that discounting does not appear to be evident. Because blog links are heavily reciprocated, any penalties would show up quickly in a reduction of blog backlinks. That does not appear to be the case.
A quick glance at any number of blog backlinks will display many reciprocated links. One reason for that may be the fact that blog links are almost universally placed on the home page. Another is bloggers, in general, make link trades with other bloggers who write about the same theme. The on page text usually contains similar content, and often the same keywords, in both exchanging blogs.
The blog section of your website will add PageRank very quickly, often achieving a PR4 or PR5 within only a couple of months of existence. You can link that page, to any pages of your existing website, and provide that page with a PageRank boost. This is especially helpful if you are in a highly competitive keyword area.
{mospagebreak title=Problems with Blogs and PageRank}
Everything is not perfect with blogs, but then nothing is ever without some flaws. Blogs have some shotcomings too.
One major problem to address with blogs, especially if you are utilizing a preset blog template supplied by one of the major blog platforms, is internal PageRank transfer. Blog PageRanks are heavily skewed to the home page. Many of the blog templates are not written with strong internal linkage. Because of that weakness, many internal pages in the archives, do not possess strong PageRanks.
To correct the internal link and PageRank distribution problem, the blog will often require some major changes in the sitemap structure. Since most bloggers have their most recent posts scroll off the front page, and into the archives, many bloggers are not concerned with the problem. That is a concern, however, if you are attempting to maximize PageRank. Some system of categorizing and highlighting, important and heavily searched blog posts, is needed.
Another area of concern are the incoming links themselves. If the link comes from a blog post, that has slipped off the home page, it may take the PageRank boost with it. That is another result of some blogs' weak internal linking structure. The power of blog links is skewed heavily toward top page links. On the other hand, blogs with strong PageRanks will have some natural PageRank transfer to the internal pages, despite the blog template limitations.
Long term, there may be some potential for concern, about the heavy use of reciprocal linking between blogs. Any possibility of penalties, for excessive reciprocal links should be seriously considered. Adding more natural links and directory links could certainly help in that regard. Over dependency on link exchanges should be avoided. Some degree of balance is needed to maintain a solid ratio of incoming and outgoing links.
{mospagebreak title=Conclusion}
Blogs are a powerful tool for developing Google PageRank. They can be utilized as part of an existing website, or as a free standing independent entity. In either case, PageRank accruing to the blog pages can be transferred to any other website pages that need an influx of PageRank. Transfer can be accomplished through internal linkage, if the blog is part of the existing website. PageRank can flow from a free standing blog by standard linking practices from another website.
Blogs receive strong Google PageRanks because they gain many powerful incoming links, in a surprisingly short period of time. PR4 and PR4 rankings within the first two to three months of a blog's existence are commonplace.
Bloggers are free and generous linkers, who happily link to other blogs they enjoy, or as a service to their own readership. Along with those links comes a healthy boost of PageRank. The constantly updated postings to blogs will add many natural and unreciprocated links as well. The fresh content and high PageRanks get many blogs crawled by internet spiders on a daily basis.
The current concern with reciprocal links being downplayed by Google and the other search engines doesn't appear to be evident with blogs. Because link exchanges among blogs tend to be between blogs with similar themes, the reciprocal links are not a problem at this point. That could change, however, so diligence in gaining natural and unreciprocated links is still necessary.
To give your website a much need PageRank shot in the arm, try adding a blog.
It could be the biggest boost to your site's Page Rank yet.


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The curtain has lifted in Frankfurt for the 65th International Motor Show, a chance for automakers from around the globe to show off their latest models.
Nearly 100,000 visitors are expected at the Messe Frankfurt trade fair, including drivers, developers and manufacturers. Last year the show featured presentations from over 1,000 exhibitors from 32 countries, and 183 new products were unveiled.
Growth is the key word on every executive's lips at this year's event. While the U.S. auto industry has been restructured — with massive job cuts and cuts to production levels — the European industry is still suffering from overcapacity. Although there are signs of "green shoots", sales for the region have slumped to near 20-year lows.
(Read more: Auto CEOs: 2014 will not be an easy year)
Despite the gloom, the world's automakers are still showing off their shiniest and most technologically advanced vehicles this year. Trends include cars powered by either batteries or hybrid gas-electric systems. SUVs — sport utility vehicles — have also made waves in Frankfurt, as well as outlandish concept cars that won't even be available on the market. CNBC highlights these and other new releases on show at this year's event.
—By CNBC's Bianca Schlotterbeck with Matt Clinch


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King reluctantly votes for aiding East Coast
U.S. Rep. Steve King started his work in the 113th Congress Friday by moving to eliminate the federal income tax and trying to place restrictions on automatic citizenship for babies born in this country.
The Republican from Kiron introduced three bills and voted to support aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy, although he said he wished there were some budget cuts to offset the money approved for storm relief.
One of the bills King introduced would start the process of repealing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives the government the power to levy an income tax. That amendment has been in place since 1913.
"The Founding Fathers envisioned a robust market based economy and our current tax policies do not encourage that system," he said in a written statement. "Replacing the current income tax with a consumption tax will ensure that productivity is not punished in our country, but rewarded."
The congressman also introduced what he calls the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2013.
"The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of anchor babies must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country," King said.
The third bill he introduced Friday would repeal the health care reform he calls ObamaCare. During last year's election campaign, King listed the repeal of ObamaCare as his top priority.
King was among the representatives who voted for the aid to storm victims. The storm assistance bill allows the National Flood Insurance Program to borrow $9.7 billion to cover claims related to the catastrophic storm that struck the East Coast last fall.
"Because Congress has created its own monopoly over flood insurance and mismanaged the risk/premium ratios, we have no ground to stand on to deny legitimate insurance claims to the victims of Sandy," he said. "I would have liked to have seen offsets, and I will continue to fight for offsets in any future disaster relief bills."


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When I first visited Market 17 in the months after its October 2010 opening, I sensed that sibling restaurateurs Kirsta and Aaron Grauberger had a hit on their hands. But I wondered if their timing was just a little off.
The Great Recession was still raging, and Market 17 promised to use organic ingredients whenever possible. Were we ready to pay for such an extravagance?
We were, and we are.
Especially now that chef Lauren DeShields is in the kitchen, having taken over from opening chef Daniel Ramos 18 months ago. Raised in Boca, she cooked alongside Dean James Max at his 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale while still a culinary student at Johnson and Wales University in North Miami. After graduating, DeShields headed to San Francisco, where she worked at Michelin two-starred Saison and alongside multi-restaurant owner-chef Michael Mina.
She's just 27 years old, but DeShields cooks and presents her food with the confidence of a much older chef. While young toques often rely on overpowering flavors, DeShields is a master of the subtlety inherent in good ingredients.
Even beef tartare ($14) tastes bright coming from her kitchen. She starts with beautifully textured, grass-fed beef, to which she adds a bit of soy and a bit of everything else: micro cilantro, radish, carrot, pickled celery and red onion. Sweet-potato-and-hazelnut gnocchi ($14) with mustard greens and Parmesan nage tastes both nutty and peppery. We ordered it without the red-pepper sausage. Farm-to-table doesn't get much fresher than the fried farm egg ($12), served with grilled ciabatta, bacon, baby arugula, red onion and brulee-cheddar spread. And seafood doesn't get much fresher than in the ceviche ($15), made with shrimp, snapper, dorado, cucumber, jalapeno, tomatillo and cilantro marinade.
DeShields' assistant, Mike Cabrera, is mostly in charge of the house-made charcuterie (three for $15; five for $20; seven for $32), which includes several kinds of salami, as well as chorizo, andouille, cured lardo and chicken-liver mousse.
Choosing which of DeShields' entrees to order can be difficult, and her menu changes frequently. But the menu offers entrees in petite and regular sizes, so tables can create their own small-plate meals by ordering several petites. The smaller portions generally include three to four ounces of protein, which is quite enough for folks with smaller appetites.
You won't go wrong with perfectly grilled local dorado ($19/$35) served with herb-roasted potatoes, sauteed kale, squash, grilled green onion and carrot-cumin puree. Grilled grass-fed beef tenderloin ($22/$42) is served with a red-wine demi-glace along with mashed potatoes, roasted-cauliflower bagna cauda and sauteed kale. These are all familiar ingredients made anew.
Slow-roasted free-range chicken ($17/$30) gets an Asian assist with spiced forbidden black rice, roasted carrots, toasted cashews and coconut-curry sauce. Vegetarians will be delighted eating here. The Market Harvest ($15/$26) is a combination of vegetable-based menu items. One night, it was roasted-red-beet risotto, baby arugula and fresh-herb-tips salad, shaved fennel and orange gastrique.
The Graubergers, both sommeliers, will recommend something from their outstanding 520-bottle list. It's one of the best moderately priced wine lists in South Florida. Tell Kirsta, as we did, that you're wanting to try something light and red and summery, and she might recommend the Passopisciaro winery in Sicily.
Desserts carry on with the ingredient-based freshness from the savory side of the menu in fruity dishes such as blackberry crostata ($10). And the chocolate pudding duo ($12) is a divine combination of dark-chocolate pudding and chocolate-and-spicy-red-pepper whipped cream.
The 185-seat dining room is contemporarily comfortable. Service is consistently excellent. The Graubergers say they hire people who are "genuinely nice people" first and foremost. They figure they can teach skills, but our server one night was among the best waiters I've had in years.
Diners clearly support restaurants that deliver good food and service. And Market 17 has been so successful that the Graubergers are working on a second concept. They're open to a location in Broward, Palm Beach or Miami-Dade. Stay tuned.
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Market 17
Portside Yachting Center, 850 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale
954-835-5507, Market17.net
Cuisine: American
Cost: Expensive-very expensive
Hours: Dinner Tuesday-Sunday; dinner daily October-May
Reservations: Suggested, especially on weekends
Credit cards: AE, D, MC, V
Bar: Full service
Sound level: Conversational
Outside smoking: No
Wheelchair accessible: Yes


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Schools Fight Heat, Prepare For Construction
Students and teachers alike suffered in the heat during the first two weeks of school, according to reports by the principals at the regular meeting of the Glasgow School Board on Sept. 11. The temperature in a high school hallway was 100 degrees one afternoon. With fans and lots of attention to hydration (at Irle School they got Popsicles), everyone carried on and they expect true fall weather soon.
Superintendent Bob Connors said air conditioning is not normally used in Montana schools. It is an expensive item, and usually only needed during a three-week window on each side of the year. New schools are designed ecologically, with improvements to handle the air, to purge the building of hot air during the night and start the day cooler.
East Side Principal Mike Zoanni said parents, students and staff are doing a good job adjusting to the new traffic flow in drop-off and parking. East Side is the first school to be affected by the major renovation and building projects this year. Ground breaking for the new construction at East Side is Monday, Sept. 23, at noon.
Maps of the East Side project have been placed in the four local banks, in each school, at the hospital and in the Cottonwood.
Shane Swandal of Hulteng CCM, the owner's rep for the school district in the construction project, said Sletten Construction wants to start Oct. 1.
Trustee David Irving said the board needs a meeting with the negotiating team about the design contract Hulteng submitted.
"I am not happy with it," Irving said. "It is not designed for the owners. Certain protections are needed."
He said it would probably take two phone calls to wrap it up, just to "amend, tweak and add a couple of sentences."
Connors said they need a special board meeting next week to approve a final contract, which hasn't been presented to the board yet.
The board accepted the programming plan for the New Irle School from the design team of L'Heureux Page Werner. The layout is for 60,000 square feet, to accommodate 432 students. The plan can still be modified. The base cost is $140 per square foot.
High school activities director Willie Thibault said the football squad is down to 41 from injuries and players who decided not to continue. Cross country has 27 runners; volleyball has 31 players.
He said that with the help of Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, 214 students have been given concussion tests to gather baseline information to help prevent brain injuries.
"This is really positive for the safety of our student athletes," Thibault said.
Random drug testing will begin next week, he said.
Glasgow High School Principal Shawnda Zahara-Harris, just a few weeks into her new job, said the school secretaries are doing a great job coping with 23 new students (and eight more waiting to be processed).
University of Montana President Royce Engstrom will visit Glasgow on Thursday, Sept. 26. Zahara-Harris said he will hold an open forum in the GHS library at 3:30 p.m.
The student representative, Josie Braaten, in her first report, said the high school has a different theme each day of Homecoming Week and the Key Club is working on the Homecoming Dance after Wednesday's bonfire.
Connors said the cheerleader room has been remodeled for a special needs student. It has a back entrance and bathroom and minimizes stimulation.
The high school will dispose of three high jump pits that have already been replaced. Hinsdale wants one and Nashua wants the other two.
Enrollment at the beginning of this year, 823, is higher than last year's 817, Connors said.
The next regular meeting is Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the East Side School library.


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