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Oops. One key typo here: This is the IMB-MPI1 gather test, not barrier. :(
On 9/16/2010 12:05 PM, Steve Wise wrote:Hi,
I'm debugging a performance problem with running IMB-MP1/barrier in an NP64 cluster (8 nodes, 8 cores each). I'm using openmpi-1.4.1 from the OFED-1.5.1 distribution. The BTL is openib/iWARP via Chelsio's T3 RNIC. In short, a NP60 and smaller run completes in a timely manner as expected, but NP61 and larger runs come to a crawl at the 8KB IO size and take ~5-10min to complete. It does complete though. It behaves this way even if I run on > 8 nodes so there are available cores. IE a NP64 on a 16 node cluster still behaves the same way even though there are only 4 ranks on each node. So its apparently not a thread starvation issue due to lack of cores. When in the stalled state, I see on the order of 100 or so established iwarp connections on each node. And the connection count increases VERY slowly and sporadically (at its peak there are around 800 connections for a NP64 gather operation). In comparison, when I run the <= NP60 runs, the connections quickly ramp up to the expected amount. I added hooks in the openib BTL to track the time it takes to setup each connection. In all runs, both <= NP60 and > NP60, the average connection setup time is around 200ms. And the max setup time seen is never much above this value. That tells me that its not individual connection setup that is the issue. I then added printfs/fflushes in librdmacm to visually see when a connection is attempted and when it is accepted. When I run with these printfs, I see the connections get setup quickly and evently in the <= NP60 case. Initially when the job is started, I see a small flurry of connections getting setup, then the run begins and at around 1KB IO size I see a 2nd large flurry of connection setups. Then the test continues and completes. With the >NP60 case, this second round of connection setups is very sporadic and slow. Very slow! I'll see little bursts of ~10-20 connections setup, then long random pauses. The net is that full connection setup for the job takes 5-10min. During this time the ranks are basically spinning idle awaiting the connections to get setup. So I'm concluding that something above the BTL layer isn't issuing the endpoint connect requests in a timely manner.
Attached are 3 padb dumps during the stall. Anybody see anything interesting in these?
Any ideas how I can further debug this? Once I get above the openib BTL layer my eyes glaze over and I get lost quickly. :) I would greatly appreciate any ideas from the OpenMPI experts!
Thanks in advance,
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These kids are now getting help. They're hiding their identities, but telling you their stories.
Their parents say they never in their wildest dreams thought this could happen to them.
One parent told us, "There were days where I thought if I got a phone call after 9, it was going to be from the police to identify his body."
A second said, "A lot of parents I've spoken to have been in denial saying that their children don't do drugs... wouldn't do drugs."
A third explained, "It's everywhere. It's saturating District 20, I know for sure."
Police and School District 20 administrators confirm drug dealers have found a niche in the north part of Colorado Springs. We're told dealers from Mexico are marketing black tar heroin to those who can afford it, and it's impacting everyone from jocks to the most studious.
One student explained, "It's not just the druggie crew, you know the druggie crowd, it's the jocks and you know, some nerdy people are doing it. It just became so available."
Jim Grayson, the assistant chief of security for D-20 learned, "It can range from athletes to cheerleaders to Honor Society members and it really doesn't know a boundary."
Grayson says they discovered heroin was a problem last October and immediately stepped up patrol as well as educational efforts.
These brothers asked their mother for help after realizing they were hooked. Their wake up call: getting caught stealing to support their habit and being threatened by a drug dealer for not paying up.
The older brother told us, "I gave him the money and he lifted up the center console and there was a gun in it and he said you screw up like this again, and it was implied what he would do."
The younger one explained, "We were stealing Ipods, stealing DVDs, stealing laptops, stealing stuff from our parents, stuff from our friends."
Parents say their children's' addictions have left them in financial ruin.
Treatment is expensive. Some programs cost upwards of $40,000.
In tears, one parent said, "I lost everything I had, but it's worth every penny, everything I gave up."
Another said, "Treatment centers are expensive, you know, but you throw everything you have into it because what else are you going to do."
One father said, "I'll be in debt for the rest of my life."
And even expensive treatment doesn't always work.
Dr. Judith Reynolds is one of only two addiction medicine specialists in El Paso County.
She says there are very few treatment options in Colorado Springs for young people and treatment is a lifelong commitment.
Dr. Reynold says, "I've had people say, well just quit...You know just tell them to quit. Well, you need help with that because of all kinds of physiological symptoms that are going to happen in the process of withdrawal."
Another struggle for young addicts, many drug treatment programs won't take minors. Sometimes their best bet is getting arrested so the legal system will cover treatment when they're locked up.
Dr. Reynolds adds, "It's frustrating for providers because we have no place to send people."
She believes high schools should be proactive and teach stress management classes to help young people learn skills to cope with stress.
Parents and kids both say: pay attention and learn the warning signs and symptoms.
One user says, "You'll have a real raspy voice, pinpoint pupils."
Another says, "Real drowsy, falling asleep, throwing up for no reason."
They go on to say, "Real lethargic, it's totally like a sedative, numbs your whole body... crazy mood swings."
One father explains, "There's no longer anything in their eyes, they're numb to the world."
A mother emphasizes, "Parents who think their kids are using, do get in there and fight for them!"
Parents I spoke with suggest getting your teens drug tested if you're suspicious. Test kits like one I purchased from Walgreens are available for less than $20.
They say the most important thing is to get help ASAP.
School District 20 conducts a drug survey among its middle and high school students every other year.
It shows drug use below the national average ... below 10 percent for 23,000 students.
The district says if students ask an adult for help for themselves or for someone else... they aren't punished. Their parents are called and counselors try to help them get treatment.
Part II of Hooked on Heroin focuses on the tactics dealers are using to lure students.
We asked Colorado Springs Police about their efforts to fight this growing problem.
Officers say any information given could compromise their current investigations.
To see Hooked on Heroin II click on the link below.
Colorado Treatment Services is a drug addiction treatment center specializing in treating opiod addiction. It offers counseling, mental health services and group therapy. All of its counselors are certified by the state as addiction counselors at the second or third level.
Dr. Judith Reynolds has been in the addiction field for more than 30 years. Colorado Treatment Services offers methadone and suboxone treatment.
Colorado Treatment Services:
2010 E. Bijou Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
(719) 434-2061
Insight Services, PLLC says it will help parents navigate the difficult terrain of finding the right form of treatment for their child.
It offers an outpatient program for adolescents specifically
geared towards black tar heroin. Phone calls are free. A fee is charged for an assessment.
Insight Services:
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Phone: 719-447-0370
Fax: 719-447-0371
Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo offers an adolescent substance abuse program for those 18 and under. We're told some insurance companies will cover some costs if you have a "Substance Abuse Benefit." Parkview says it will work for those without insurance coverage.
Parkview Medical Center
56 Club Manor Drive
Pueblo, CO 81008
Phone: 719-584-7327
Urine Analysis ($17 - $20 charge) as well as outpatient counseling are available at:
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Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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Obama, Lawmakers Pledge Action on Tea-Party Scrutiny
President Barack Obama said Monday those responsible for any improper scrutiny of conservative groups' tax status would be held "fully accountable," hours before it emerged that the current and former heads of the Internal Revenue Service were informed last May that tea-party groups had been targeted.
The IRS said in a statement that acting Commissioner Steven Miller was first told by the agency staff on May 3, 2012, that some specific groups' applications for tax-exempt status were improperly selected for extra scrutiny based on their names.
But two top GOP lawmakers said Mr. Miller, who was named to the top IRS post in November, didn't disclose the problems in subsequent letters sent to them—even as they and other congressional Republicans had raised questions about IRS scrutiny of tea-party groups' applications for tax-exempt status. Mr. Miller couldn't be reached for comment on Monday.
Separately, investigators told congressional staffers Monday that Mr. Miller's predecessor, Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008, was informed of the problems in May 2012, according to an aide. But Republicans say Mr. Shulman—who had previously testified that there was no IRS targeting—never told them of what he subsequently learned. Mr. Shulman couldn't be reached for comment Monday.
Mr. Obama, in his first public comments on the controversy, echoed the anger expressed by Republican and Democratic lawmakers. "If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on, and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous," he said during a news conference with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
The president, who said he first learned about the alleged abuses Friday, added that he wanted to reserve judgment on the matter until after release of an investigation by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The IRS controversy, combined with a continuing GOP focus on the administration's conduct before and after the death of a U.S. ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, and the increasingly bloody Syrian civil war are among a litany of issues threatening to disrupt the administration's second-term agenda. Already, Congress has rejected Mr. Obama's preferred gun-control legislation. On deck is a complex immigration-law overhaul.
On Friday, Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division, apologized for "inappropriate" actions by workers in subjecting applications of some conservative groups that had "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, among other criteria.
"I wrote to the IRS three times last year after hearing concerns that conservative groups were being targeted," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said Monday. "Yet it didn't occur to anyone at the IRS to let us know that this targeting was in fact happening? Knowing what we know now, the IRS was at best being far from forthcoming, or at worst, being deliberately dishonest with Congress. These are the facts and the questions we need answered."
In a letter sent in September to Mr. Hatch and posted on the committee's website, Mr. Miller said, "Revenue agents use sound reasoning based on tax law training and their experience to review applications and identify the additional information needed to make a proper determination of an organization's exempt status."
Mr. Miller also sent a letter to Rep. Charles Boustany (R., La.) in June that said IRS officials saw an increase in applications from groups that were "potentially engaged in political advocacy" and took steps to "coordinate the handling of the cases." The letter mentioned delays in processing, but not targeting.
Groups granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code are allowed to engage in some political activity, but their primary focus is supposed to be promoting social welfare.
Details of the investigation that emerged over the weekend showed that by June 2011 IRS workers had identified applications from more than 100 groups that would be targeted based on concerns the groups had about government spending, debt or taxes; or if they planned to lobby to "make America a better place to live"; or if they criticized how the country was being run.
The findings, which were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, showed that after Ms. Lerner was briefed on these proposed guidelines, she ordered that such criteria be immediately revised. But investigators found that the IRS unit continued to press ahead with other politically sensitive requests, including asking applicants for donor information.
It still isn't clear how the scrutiny of conservative groups got started. A timeline prepared by investigators for the inspector general's office suggests that it began in 2010. But the first entry in the timeline is redacted.
The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing Friday to look into the IRS allegations.
Rep. Dave Camp (R., Mich.), chairman of the committee, and Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.), the ranking Democrat, said the only witnesses would be Mr. Miller and the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George.
"The American public expects the Internal Revenue Service to be apolitical in its enforcement of our tax laws," Mr. Camp said. "News that the agency admits it targeted American taxpayers based on politics is both astounding and appalling."
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, promised to investigate as well, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid termed the allegations "very troubling."
Late Monday, Republicans on the Ways and Means and Finance committees released their own timelines of their interactions with the IRS, detailing how they say they were stymied in their efforts to find out what had happened to conservative groups.
Treasury inspector general reports often include recommendations for policy changes or further review. If this report includes recommendations, the Obama administration could decide to act on them, ignore them or launch its own review.
IRS officials have maintained that the problem was localized among lower-level employees in the Cincinnati office, which oversees approvals of many tax-exempt organizations. They also have characterized the problem as a bureaucratic snafu that resulted from taking shortcuts. The agency said in a statement Friday that the special treatment didn't stem from "any political or partisan rationale."
But Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer representing a number of the conservative groups, said several of her clients received IRS letters early in 2012 that came from Washington, not Cincinnati. Two were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Both asked for additional information.
One asked 13 questions, including identities of all contributors of more than $2,000 for 2009-2011. It also asked for "copies of emails you distributed and indicate the key issue, date and target audience for each." Another asked about the group's planned lectures, classes and workshops; websites; rallies and exhibitions; lobbying; and voter education and registration efforts.
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5 Jobs You Wanted as a Kid (And Why They Suck)
#2. Pilot
Why Kids Think It's Cool:
Basically, being a pilot has the two most essential components a child looks for in a job. Big machine? Check. Motherfucking flying? Check. Furthermore, if movies are to believed, flying a plane involves a lot of pulling levers, flicking switches and pushing buttons, and kids love that kind of shit. It's as if someone put wings on an arcade.
Why the Job Actually Sucks:
In general, pilots fly either passenger or cargo planes, which involves three stages: Takeoff, Landing and A Long Time of Being Bored, when pilots have to sit in a chair for hours on end and they can't get up except to go to the bathroom.
If that sounds familiar, it's because we just described the experience of everyone on an airplane. Kids hate flying in airplanes. In fact, every kid who has ever sat near us on a plane seemed to believe that flying was somehow poisonous, and the only antidote was for them to scream their friggin heads off for the entire six hours from New York to L.A. Kids, at least, can go to sleep or watch the in-flight movie; not pilots. Pilots can't sleep at all, and their in-flight movie is… the sky.
#1. Astronaut
Why Kids Think It's Cool:
Where should we begin? First you get to fly on the world's largest bottle rocket from planet to planet, where you meet all kinds of aliens. Remember, at the age when kids want to be astronauts when they grow up, they still haven't seen movies where aliens rip out of your chest or hunt you for sport. As far as little kids are concerned, aliens are fun and playful, like dolphins in outer space.
Dolphins who own ray guns.
Even if your child is a bit more practical and understands that being an astronaut is not the same as being a Jedi, all they've ever seen astronauts do is float around in anti-gravity, doing somersaults and squirting their food out of tubes before chasing it down and eating it mid-air. Astronauts are professional food fighters, and as we all know, they eat nothing but freeze-dried ice cream and Tang. That kind of nutrition gives them energy to do their jobs, like when they fly to the moon and perform vital scientific experiments such as golf, and jumping around like they're on a great big bouncy castle.
Why the Job Actually Sucks:
Because you need a Ph.D. just to do an astronaut's dry cleaning. To be an actual astronaut, a person has to be two-thirds Stephen Hawking, and one-third someone who has perfect vision and awesome hand-eye coordination. To make sure they have the right guy, NASA subjects their astronauts to an endless series of grueling tests.
Before they go to the celestial trampoline we call the moon, astronauts spend about ten years keeping themselves in peak physical condition while essentially taking the SAT every single day. Even if your kid's some rare breed of super genius who enjoys both tests and pushups, it's still not all it's cracked up to be. To give your kid an idea of what an astronaut's job is truly like, do the following:
Step 1: Go buy a van - preferably a 1976 Peugeot.
Step 2: Have the owner's manual translated into Russian.
Step 3: Tell your child to pretend the van is a space station, and that his or her assignment is to rotate the tires.
Step 4: Push the van to the bottom of a swimming pool. Hand your child the translated owner's manual, a toolbox and a balloon full of air.
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Using EBS with OpenSolaris 2008 AMI on Amazon EC2
By Prateek Parekh on Apr 23, 2009
Amazon describes the functionality provided by EBS as follows:
"Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with
Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists
independently from the life of an instance. Amazon Elastic Block Store provides highly
available, highly reliable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2
instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for
applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage."
In this article, we will list all the necessary steps involved in creating new EBS volumes and attaching them to an existing instance. The following commands were run on an OpenSolaris 2008.11 instance. The disk device name may change in other AMIs.
Set the Environment Variables on local machine
export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=$EC2_HOME/keys/pk-\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*.pem
export EC2_CERT=$EC2_HOME/keys/cert-\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/latest
export EC2_URL=https://ec2.amazonaws.com
Note: Replace the values of the environment variables accordingly.
Start an OpenSolaris 2008 Instance
ec2-run-instances ami-7db75014 -k prateek-keypair
Login to the Instance
ssh -i /PATH/TO/keypair-file firstname.lastname@example.com
Note: Replace the value of the public host name of the above instance accordingly.
Create a keys directory
mkdir /opt/ec2/keys
Transfer your Private key and certificate to the Instance from local machine
scp -i /PATH/TO/keypair-file /PATH/TO/KEYS/\*pem root@firstname.lastname@example.com:/opt/ec2/keys
Set the Environment Variables on the EC2 instance
export EC2_HOME=/home/EC2/ec2-api-tools-1.3-19403
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/home/EC2/ec2-api-tools-1.3-19403/keys/pk-\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*.pem
export EC2_CERT=/home//EC2/ec2-api-tools-1.3-19403/keys/cert-\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/latest
export EC2_URL=https://ec2.amazonaws.com
Create a new EBS Volume
The following command can be repeated as needed to create additional volumes.
ec2-create-volume --size 128 --availability-zone us-east-1a
VOLUME vol-b1dc3fd8 128 us-east-1a creating 2009-04-22T01:23:00+0000
ec2-describe-volumes vol-b1dc3fd8
VOLUME vol-b1dc3fd8 128 us-east-1a available 2009-04-22T01:23:00+0000
You can list all the volumes along with their status as:
ec2-describe-volumes | cut -f2,3,5,6
vol-7208ed1b 2 us-east-1c available
vol-99dc3ff0 128 us-east-1a available
vol-0f2ecb66 1 us-east-1a available
vol-b1dc3fd8 128 us-east-1a available
Attaching Volumes to an OpenSolaris EC2 Instance
The command for attaching volumes to an instance is:
ec2-attach-volume -i <instance-id> -d <device-id> VOLUMENAME
In Solaris, devices are named from 0 to 23. Device number 0 and 1 are used for ephemeral storage. Therefore, we can use the devices starting from 2 until 23.
I have attached 2 volumes to the current instances below:
ec2-attach-volume -i i-ed573f84 -d 3 vol-6123c008
ec2-attach-volume -i i-ed573f84 -d 4 vol-b1dc3fd8
The list of the attached volumes can be displayed as:
ec2-describe-volumes | grep attached
ATTACHMENT vol-99dc3ff0 i-ed573f84 2 attached 2009-04-22T02:46:24+0000
ATTACHMENT vol-6123c008 i-ed573f84 3 attached 2009-04-22T02:47:22+0000
ATTACHMENT vol-b1dc3fd8 i-ed573f84 4 attached 2009-04-22T02:47:57+0000
ATTACHMENT vol-6e23c007 i-ed573f84 5 attached 2009-04-22T02:48:16+0000
Using EBS volumes from the Solaris Instance
You can view the mapping of the Solaris devices to the EBS volumes that we created earlier.
NOTE: Use c4d\*p0 for OpenSolaris 2008.05 (ami-41e70328 )and c0d\*p0 for SXCE Build 79 32 bit image (ami-eb7a9f82)
ls -l /dev/dsk/c3d\*p0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2008-12-14 23:32 c3d0p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@0:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2008-12-22 18:54 c3d1p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@1:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-04-22 02:46 c3d2p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@2:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-04-22 02:47 c3d3p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@3:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-04-22 02:47 c3d4p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@4:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-04-22 02:48 c3d5p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@5:q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2008-12-14 23:32 c3d6p0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf@6:q
Now, you can use these EBS volumes just like you would use any other attached storage device.


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U.S., U.K. Vow to Pursue Hostage Takers
The British and U.S. defense leaders vowed Saturday to go after the perpetrators of the Algerian terrorist attacks as well as Islamist militants fighting in Northern Mali.
At a joint news conference with his British counterpart, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said no terrorist group can attack the U.S. and "get away with it."
"Just as we cannot accept terrorist attacks against our cities, we cannot accept attacks against our citizens and our interests abroad," Mr. Panetta said at a London news conference with his British counterpart as the three-day crisis was ending on a tragic note. "Neither can we accept an al Qaeda safe haven anywhere in the world."
Philip Hammond, the British defense minister, added Britain's pledge: "The full force of the United States, United Kingdom and African countries will bear down upon them," he said.
But as U.S. officials and their allies consider their next steps in Africa, the Algeria crisis demonstrates the outer limits of U.S. influence in Africa's al Qaeda fight.
Neither defense leader on Saturday spelled out precisely what their response would be. U.S. officials have said privately in recent days that the Algerian attack may require that they step up a counterterrorism campaign against militant groups in Africa, potentially including special operations forces or increased surveillance by unmanned drones.
Mr. Panetta mentioned U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen and added: "Now we will do it in North Africa." He offered no specifics.
Officials have linked the attack in Algeria with the militant groups in northern Mali, in particular Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, that are waging a war against the central government based in the country's south, and face a week-old French intervention.
To stem a rise of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, the U.S. has dispatched military advisers and trainers to a swath of countries from Senegal to Chad.
But those officials enjoy little influence over how terrorism is fought in Algeria, the largest country in Africa, and the birthplace of AQIM, which arose from Algeria's decade-long civil war.
U.S. officials complain privately that the former client state of the Soviet Union is both too heavy-handed in its pursuit of Islamists, and simultaneously too lax at stopping the cross-border flow of foreign fighters and weapons into Mali's north.
"They've always done Soviet-style intelligence, Soviet-style operations, Soviet-style everything," said CEO Rudolph Atallah of D.C.-based risk consultancy White Mountain Research, a former Africa counter terrorism director for the U.S. Defense Department. "They see a problem, they bring a mallet, not a hammer. That's how they've always operated, and probably they'll continue."
In recent months, Algeria's stance appeared to show bending room, as Mali's civil war escalated, U.S. officials said. The partnership, at least publicly, warmed.
As Algeria sought to try negotiations with Mali's AQIM sect, the U.S. backed those talks, with Hillary Clinton echoing Algeria's pro-negotiation stance in a September speech to the United Nations. Mrs. Clinton visited Algeria in October, with counterterrorism a major issue on her agenda.
"Definitely, there's a greater openness," a U.S. State Department official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly, said at the time. "It's an opportunity to move things forward."
Mrs. Clinton spoke several times this week with Algerian leaders, but this week's crisis raised questions about the rapprochement.
"Western countries are going to have to work with the neighboring countries… Mali, Mauritania, Niger," said Mr. Atallah. "They [Algeria] would rather do it on their own, without any outside intervention."
Earlier this month the French launched a military campaign against AQIM and other militant groups, aiming to roll back the Islamists' advance from Northern Mali.
French officials have been requesting aid from allied countries, including the U.S. U.S. officials have endorsed the French campaign, but Washington thus far has placed strict limits on its support for the intervention.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE David Lucas was sworn in this Friday as the new sheriff of Belmont County. He thanked the voters for their faith in electing him and his supporters for their help during the campaign.
He pledged to take a pro-active stance on crime during his four-year term. He noted the importance of working with communities and local law enforcement to combat issues of drugs, drug related crimes and home invasions.
"It's a joint effort and working with everybody is going to give us a better outcome than what we could do alone. We're going to be aggressive attacking these issues and working hard going after the problems," he said. "We're all here for the same thing. We have to work together."
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Judge John M. Solovan II swears in David Lucas as the new sheriff in Belmont County.
He stressed communication and sharing intelligence as a vital tool in investigating and preventing crimes.
"The key is being pro-active. We're going to be out there looking for crime before it happens," he said. "I think one of the biggest deterrents to crime is the uniform officer in the car out there. We're going to be out there looking for it, not waiting for it to happen."
Lucas retired from the sheriff's on Oct. 31, 2007. He continued working with the department in training and the special operations branch.
Lucas begin his career in 1979 at Barnesville Police. During his time with the sheriff's office, he was a founding member of the Sexual Assault Taskforce. He also formulated and oversaw the special operations branch.
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School of Architecture
Marywood University has committed significant resources to create a new School of Architecture- the first to open in northeast Pennsylvania.Visit Website
Mission Statement
Professional Education in a Liberal Arts Setting: The mission of the School of Architecture is to educate a new generation of architects and interior architects who engage the world passionately and intelligently. As a professional school in a liberal arts university, our programs set a rigorous studio-based curriculum within an educational environment that encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and speculation.
Architecture as a Disciplined Practice: From interior objects to urban environments, we value architecture as a disciplined practice -- the means by which we engage the world at a range of scales with conceptual and formal clarity, disciplinary consciousness, social agency, and material speculation. We believe that architectural education offers a way of making and thinking that enables our students and graduates to do good in the world. Our shared values allow differences between and among our programs to become opportunities for productive exchange, collaboration, and growth.
Architects and interior architects shape the physical environments in which we live, work, worship, play, and shop. They design physical worlds that directly impact people at many different scales and in many different contexts—from interiors, buildings, and streetscapes to consumer products, graphic designs, and furniture. As licensed practitioners, they are entrusted with the health, safety, and welfare of those they serve.
Students pursuing their architectural studies at Marywood's School of Architecture are educated to recognize the important leadership roles they may assume as design professionals. At the undergraduate and graduate levels, our curricula are designed to reinforce this sense of social responsibility. For our graduates to deal effectively with the many future challenges they will inevitably confront, our programs include the study of the significant intellectual, cultural, and historical antecedents of the varied disciplines and their appropriate application to the needs of contemporary society.
The School offers students curricula that are values-based and professional in their objectives and content. While students are exposed to courses necessary in their individual disciplines, their programs of study also include a core curriculum of Liberal Arts courses to provide a well-rounded professional education. These core courses augment the student's professional studies and collectively furnish an enriched context in which to better understand architecture's important societal role.
Architects must be educated to think critically, to assess holistically, to synthesize comprehensively, and to design with environmental responsibility. The School's programs—in both Architecture and Interior Architecture/Design—recognize that architecture, as both a discipline and a profession, engages the realms of art and science. Buildings and spaces created by architects involve design and aesthetics, along with laws of gravity and requirements of constructability. When designing, therefore, architects must consider spatial organization, building program, proportion, and beauty, as well as materials, budgets, codes, and structural/environmental systems.
The School of Architecture has programs in Architecture and Interior Architecture/Design, and offers the following degree tracks:
• Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture (B.E.D.A.) (Four-Year Pre-Professional Degree)
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.ARCH.) (Five-Year Professional Degree)
• Master of Architecture (M.ARCH.) (One- to Two-Year Post-Professional Degree)
• Bachelor of Fine Arts-Interior Architecture/Design (B.F.A./I.A.) (Four-Year Professional Degree)
• Master of Arts in Studio Art (Concentration in Interior Architecture/Design) (M.A./I.A.) (One- to Two-Year Post-Professional Degree)
The Center for Architectural Studies
The School of Architecture occupies The Center for Architectural Studies, the spacious, extensively-renovated former Health and Physical Education Building located in the heart of the campus next to the University's highly acclaimed Insalaco Center for Studio Arts. The close proximity of these two places of creative exploration encourages cross-disciplinary learning and discovery, and students in our programs are encouraged to pursue art courses as electives.
Because the School is committed to the ethic of environmental stewardship, The Center for Architectural Studies has been designed to showcase a number of sustainable design features, including a geothermal passive cooling system, daylight harvesting, roof water capture/reuse, and a green roof. The Center features a primary circulation/exhibition area connecting two sides of the campus, two levels of studios, classrooms, shop facilities, and a central three-story-high Commons with clerestories that admit abundant natural light throughout the day. The Commons which runs the entire length of the building and is located on both sides of the building's major cross axis, serves as the building's agora (in ancient Greece, the place of public assembly), open, shared, central spaces for exchange among all faculty and students. Here, learning is dynamic and often un-programmed—flexible places for formal and informal design critiques, serendipitous encounters, collective discussions, debates, displays, and exhibitions.
Special Features
Design Studios—Centers of Holistic Learning
Architecture education must seek, generate, transfer, and question knowledge with breadth and imagination. The fundamental place of learning is the design studio —long considered the armature of an architect's education. It is the place of creative exploration, research and discovery, and the testing of ideas, theories, and concepts. Through a sequence of studio projects, students develop means of critical thinking and a design process that enables them to effectively address various design issues, from problem-solving and aesthetics to building assemblies and environmental systems.
The School's curricula favor the notion of quilted knowledge—the idea that students learn most effectively when concepts are woven together with their meaningful applications and that learning is both interwoven and holistic. Consequently, both classrooms and studios form the contexts in which interdependent learning should occur.
Each student has an individual, custom-made work space designed to accommodate a laptop computer, drawing board, personal storage cabinet for equipment and supplies, and integral pin-up space.
Shop Facilities
The School of Architecture maintains a deeply-rooted commitment to the act of making (material fabrication) as a means of understanding material properties and their applications to design. To support this understanding, well-equipped wood and metal shop facilities are available to extend and enrich any design explorations that might begin in the studio and/or the classroom. Studio projects are often formulated to involve the use of these shop facilities to investigate material, form, connection, joinery, detail, and space. Digital media courses may also use the shop facilities to investigate the relationships between digital media and analog representation/ fabrication.
The materials currently used in these facilities include plaster, wax, paper, concrete, wood, composite boards, cardboard, plastic, steel, and aluminum. The shop facilities also include a large CNC router, 3-D printers, laser cutters, spray booth, sandblasting room, and a space for material demonstrations and assembly. Metal shop facilities include an MIG welder, a shear break and roller, bench grinder, bandsaw, angle grinder, 16-ton hydraulic pipe bender, and a manual tubing roller.
All School of Architecture students are allowed access to the shop facilities upon completion of a safety orientation and tool-specific training sessions. The shops are managed by a full-time shop technician who oversees safety training and skills development, and is responsible for machinery maintenance.
CAD Lab
The School's CAD Lab, located on the second floor of the adjacent Visual Arts Center, provides computing equipment and facilities necessary for students to explore virtual design. The 24-seat lab operates with all site licenses required for classroom teaching in basic and advanced digital media classes. Output devices for student use include laser printers, plotters, and scanners.
Study-Abroad Program
The School's Study-Abroad Program is available to students in the spring of their third year or the fall of their fourth year. The venue for this educationally- and culturally-enriching program is the International Studies Institute (ISI) in Florence, Italy. Headquartered in the Palazzo Rucellai located in the heart of the historical center of Florence, this program has an international faculty, and design studios are taught by local practicing architects.
Students have opportunities to take courses unique to their foreign experience in Italy while being pertinent to their growth and maturation as architects and designers. Students must apply to this program, have a 2.75 GPA or above, and be accepted by both Marywood and the ISI.
Studio Reference Library
A reading area surrounded by reference books and monthly periodicals is positioned at one end of the first floor studios and provides students with immediate access to information materials that augment the University's central Learning Commons.
Student Laptop Program
All first-year Architecture and Interior Architecture students are required to purchase their own laptops for use in the spring semester of the first year of studies. Computers function as important digital tools in the design process, and they have become nearly as omnipresent as textbooks. As computer software becomes more varied and sophisticated—offering programs ranging from two-D drafting and three-D modeling to rendering and energy performance analysis—the computers required to run these programs demand certain specifications for optimal performance. Our laptop program is similar to that in many schools of architecture and ensures that students will be suitably equipped with a flexible, portable means of basic computing in the classroom, dormitory, and/or apartment, as well as in the studio to work on design projects. Student desk storage modules have an adjustable shelf for the secure storage of a laptop.
For current laptop specifications, please see the School's website.
Additional Enrichment Opportunities
The School of Architecture believes that students must be exposed to ideas, designs and viewpoints occurring beyond the confines of the campus. We are therefore committed to bringing diverse people and ideas to the Marywood campus, while we also introduce our students to new urban/cultural experiences.
In addition to public lecture series each semester, exhibitions, guest critics, visiting faculty, and field trips to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other locales expose our students and faculty to new points of view, cities, building designs, theoretical positions, and a wide range of professional achievements. Together, these opportunities serve to heighten the students' awareness of the built world and the breadth of professional challenges and opportunities they will encounter upon graduation.
In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.
Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.
The NAAB grants candidacy status to new programs that have developed viable plans for achieving initial accreditation. Candidacy status indicates that a program should be accredited within six years of achieving candidacy, if its plan is properly implemented. In order to meet the education requirement set forth by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, an applicant for an NCARB Certificate must hold a professional degree in architecture from a program accredited by the NAAB; the degree must have been awarded not more than two years prior to initial accreditation. However, meeting the education requirement for the NCARB Certificate may not be equivalent to meeting the education requirement for registration in a specific jurisdiction. Please contact NCARB for more information.
Marywood University's School of Architecture was granted candidacy for the following professional degree in architecture:
B.ARCH degree (165 credits) — 2012
Continuation of Candidacy Granted: 2014
Projected Year of Initial Accreditation: 2016
Interior Architecture
The B.F.A. degree in Interior Architecture/Design is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
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I want to train on rollers, and I figure once I get rolling it will be pretty easy, but how do I get my wheels turning fast enough to keep me upright before I fall over?
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Until you get the hang of it, set up in a hallway, where you can brace yourself on the walls around you until you get up to speed and while you learn your balance.
Other than that, you just have to keep trying.
Get the floating rollers and you will be steady in about a minute.
Floating rollers look like this:
The rollers are attached to the inner frame which allows for rotation of the wheels and the inner frame is attached to an outer frame which allows forwards and backwards motion by the bicycle as a whole. This should help cyclists accelerate quicker than on traditional rollers, where there is a chance that you hop over the rollers and head forwards into the tv.
Started with mine in a door frame (since my house has no hallways) with shoulders aligned with the door jamb. Of course I didn't want it there or have to keep moving it. So not perfect.
The lasting solution... I have a spot in my basement where I attached a metal handle securely on the ceiling. Works much better to get started and just leave the roller there. I'm lucky to have a permanent spot for the rollers; so this method may not work for everyone. Basically I just hang onto the handle to get on the bike and get spinning. Once spinning it's pretty much just normal cycling balance.
The main thing is to be able to support yourself externally so that you can get clipped into the pedals, onto the saddle and build up a little speed so that you can maintain balance. I got my rollers several years ago and pretty sure that I took a tumble or two before I got the hang of it.
It's also much easier to learn if you're comfortable riding with no hands. (not that I do that on the rollers ;-))
As some of the other comments have mentioned I got started by putting the rollers in a doorway and using that to get up on the rollers.
Once I got the basic feel of it I moved the rollers to a spot where there was a full length mirror in front of me and put chairs on the side. The full length mirror was really helpful because I could look forward and see where my tires were on the rollers. I could see when I was drifting over to the side.
Another helpful tip is to put lots of pillows around for when you fall. It isn't a question of if, it is a question of when. :)
Door frame is useful but in addition keep looking up, straight ahead rather than down at a TV or even worse your feet and keep your cadence high.


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USB pen drive UbuntuCE install.
Tags, USB, pen drive, flash drive, install.
This post is about installing UbuntuCE on a 16 gigabyte Sandisk Cruzer.
This post is intended for the person who is absolutely new to Linux.
Ergo, if the gentle reader is an experienced Linux person, he or she need not read this post in terms of anything new. And for the experienced Linux person, one can cut to the chase and merely mention that the install went as normal for a usb pen drive.
The drive originally had another Linux distro on it formatted to Ext 4..
1) Why do it?
a) Very simply it is convenient.
b) the resulting install is very fast.
c) it is tres kewl to brag that one did it!
2) Why not?
a) One will not have a lot of "drive space" upon which to dump files at will so that one will need an other, external storage drive. However, that is a good thing. One should try to not mix data and an OS on one drive.
b) One will have to go to the trouble to actually make sure that one does not install to the Windows drive if one does not want to do a "dual boot".
a) The install can be made as a "clean install" or as a "dual boot".
b) If one is not completely at ease with doing an install in terms of "possibly installing on my Windows hard drive", then this author would recommend either unplugging the existing Windows hard drive manually or taking it to a friend or small business to have it unplugged. And having the person show how to plug it back in. If one is going to go to a business, one will have to pay, probably, for a "bench fee", but one would then be able to do it onesself so the cost can be amortized over many installs of free (no cost) distros.
c) Physically unplugging the hard drive while the computer is turned off will in no way create a situation in which the Windows hard drive will "know" that it was removed and then "complain" after replugging it and starting Windows.
d) HOWEVER, if one is willing to actually read the installer, and to do a "custom" install, then one will be shown that there is a hard drive and a usb drive, and one would install to the usb drive.
e) the installer will NOT make a mistake but the person making the decision might.
f) If one is not familiar with the terminology, one can default to look at the SIZE of the drives shown in the installer, by and large the smaller "drive" will be the USB drive.
4) An unusual thing about this particular install.
A rather amazing thing occurred in the install. The latest Ubu, apparently, does, indeed, get rid of Sandisk's very small file that it reserves to itself.
5) If the computer will not SEE THE INSTALL, after it is made, one will have to get into the "BIOS" and change the "boot order".
This particular install required changing both "the boot order" and also "selecting" "DOD recognize USB" in another part of the BIOS.
Since different manufacturers can arrange this information in different ways in the BIOS screen, one will have to manually hunt around for where to make the changes. Please remember that if one gets scared in the middle of this then just "save without changes".
6) The install.
a) It is recommended, by this author, to not install, "directly" from the live cd.
Run the live cd and make sure that the wireless is working so that one can have extra stuff installed during the initial process.
b) One needs at least 4.4 gig of space for the install. So, a 16 gig drive is large enough if one does not load it up with other applications.
c) The install went as is usual for a modern Ubuntu install.
d) It checked for the minimal drive space, 4.4 gig, and for an internet connection.
e) It asked whether to install 3rd party software, etc.
d)_It asked whether to erase the previous install or to do a custom install. The custom install would mean keeping the original OS and one has to make some decisions(these are not discussed in this post).
e) The author chose "erase" and it installed to the full 16 gig and erased the SanDisk partition.
f) It installed with Ext.4 file system.
g) It automagically found the correct time zone and the language(English in this case).
h) Since it was installing over a previous install it searched for original files that would be applicable to the new install and this reduces install time.
i) The install was 12.04 LTS.
j) An ODDMENT during the install was in the little textual notes there was a sentence that said something really odd about asking questions at the forums:
"You'll be sorted in no time at all".
Possibly a developer might comment upon this. However, it is irrelevant to the actual install process.
k) The total install took about 50 minutes.
l) The initial splash screen has "Christian Edition" in small, neat, letters over the word Ubuntu. The usual dots cycling through colours indicates that the OS is being activated.
m) Immediately upon the first boot up one sees a "script" running in a white terminal. This script says that it wants to do a "distribution upgrade" which actually just is a flash plugin installer, gstreamer, etc. for media codecs etc and Skype and DropBox. This takes quite a while to run. Dropbox complains that it is running "from an unsupported location" and wants to install from the website, but will not do so. The interactive boxes that deal with the DropBox install are somewhat confusing.
n) At first blush this author thought that going to a website and downloading a .deb file and letting the installer install it would be a salutary lesson for the absolutely new user but....when it did not install...well that is a bad thing.
o) However, again, upon reconsideration, it was a good thing anyway because the absolutely new user from Windows is exposed to the absolutely gorgeous screen for Ubuntu Software store. The inclusion of a pretty game advert at the top is especially nice.
a) One sees the Unity interface with three customized icons in the left panel, in addition to the usual suspects, for Xiphos, Bible Time and Bible Memorizer.
b) One gets an obligatory Ubuntu coloured wallpaper that is actually very nice and Christian. This author personally prefers ANY colour other than the obligatory Ubuntu "brown". To ameliorate this the developers have provided a very large selection of Christian themed wallpapers that are of a variety of styles and colours so the situation was easily remedied.
c) The author decided to install a Bible through Bible Time and was initially confused by the app.
i) When one opens the installer, and selects "bookshelf" there is a LONG wait. The window "goes transparent black". And then one waits.
After up to a minute, the database is populated.
This time delay occurs each and every time that the application is NEWLY opened, but if one wants to install multiple items in one session then one can do it quickly, just one at a time.
After the database is populated, all of the boxes are ticked for install. But, as previously stated, one cannot install more than one item at a time.
One should go to the very top of the list and untick the top "box" and all will be unticked.
One can then tick a certain Bible or book and it will download and install in a relatively short while.
The popup installer window will stay open and one needs to close it manually. The best way to determine when the Bible/book is onboard seems, to this author, to be to move the popup to one side so that one can see that the box ticks as to being installed.
The Bibles and books are installed through Crosswire and there seems to be no way to change the source. If anyone would care to comment on this please do so.
ii) The only way to add another item that is not in Crosswire is to download it manually. The files have an extension which is ".bblx". This file can be copied to the hidden folder: .sword.
However, it seems, that one cannot just install "a file" for a Bible. There are associated files to the actual "Bible" file itself; so one really should just go to a source and download "all of the stuff" in one file.
iii) A NOTE, however, about going to a "source" site. One cannot actually download an external file without "joining" the site. One will then get, possibly, unwanted "donation nags" from the site.
iv) This author chose to not do so and will be content with the materials from Crosswire for the time being.
v) This author downloaded the Tyndall Bible and is having a pleasant time reading it.
d) Subsequent to downloading the Tyndall Bible,; BibleMemorizer fully accepted the Bible and provided an easy way to work with memorizing stuff.
e) Xiphos also accepted the Bible and the author was able to interact with the Bible through Xiphos.
f) The other default software of UbuntuCE are the usual suspects; but some pieces are worthy of note.
E- mail client
g) The author was surprised to see the default e-mail client was not an integrated one, and that "contacts" is some kind of generic nameless app which is not connected to the e-mail client. But, after perusing the forum the author was able to determine why the decision was made.
At least the "atheist detractors" of UCE do not have any justification in the aspersions from several years ago that the developers have not gone to a lot of trouble to actually produce a "different" distro. I have seldom seen an application which does not have a "help" file or other attribution.
h) The default Rhythmbox has been "customized" by providing a very short list of "radio stations" that seem to be oriented toward Christian music.
This is a good thing in that people who may not have heard different Christian music than the "mainstream" will be exposed to some creative stuff.
One cannot play a ".pls" stream from a site such as Shoutcast.
Rhythmbox found a music cd automagically, offered Musicbrainz to supply track information and played a music cd.
i) VLC media player
1) Did play a .pls stream, by selecting VLC from the "open with" when the file was right clicked.
2) VLC offered to play a DVD but failed. An attempt was made using Movie Player with the same results. After the below mentioned update the video still did not play. There are "codecs" which are available that will play an encrypted DVD but they are not legal in some countries and, evidently, the developers opted on the side of legal caution.
j) Curiously, synaptic was also included, but that may have been because it is provided by Ubuntu. Since the Ubu installer is locked into the left panel, one might assume that it was "left" there so that people could move beyond the Ubu installer.
k ) The updater provided 235 updates.
l) WineTricks is provided, I assume for people that want to use the Win version of Esword.
A NOTE to new users of "Linux" from Windows.
a) If one does not actually NEED to interact with MS products then one does not...need....a MS program in Wine.
Apple people have spent a long time not using MS products.
In other words, if one is going to do e-mail, produce self-made "word" documents, etc. then Linux can do all of that stuff, so there is no actual need to run a MS product in Linux, except for that of "familiarity".
b) If one has not actually used Photoshop then learning G.I.M.P. does not have a very much longer learning cycle than Photoshop. G.I.M.P. has a "skin" that emulates that of Photoshop for those who have used Photoshop.
vi) HARDWARE observations
a) An old HP printer, parallel, was found and added by going to "printing" and "add".
b) a wide screen LCD screen was found automatically.
c) a set of external speakers were found automatically, including the Bass.
d) an Nvidia 5200 video card was found and configured automatically.
e) usb mouse and keyboard were found and configured automatically.
a) The install was a normal Ubuntu install, almost effortless, except for the "script" which did it's work with some small fiddling.
b) the install to a USB stick worked as if installing to a "hard drive" with the addition of having to enable in BIOS "DOS USB". This would probably not be a problem with most folks.
c) the default "Bible" apps work as expected.
d) Some customization has been done for the icons on the left panel, the wallpapers, of which there are many provided, and the "radio" section of Rhythmbox.
d) What was not addressed by this author was installing in the presence of UEFI(secure boot).
e) Thumbs up to the developers.


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Do we know any neutron stars just below the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit?
And how are they different from most other neutron stars?
Do we know any neutron stars just below the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit?
And how are they different from most other neutron stars?
I assume you mean the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit (TOV limit). Proceeding accordingly:
The most massive neutron star yet found that I know of is 1.97 solar masses. It is presently unknown how close that is to the real TOV limit.
The value that one calculates/predicts for the TOV limit is dependent on the equation of state, i.e., the relationship between pressure and density, which for the incredibly dense matter found inside a neutron star, is still an open field of research. If your preferred EOS is relatively squishy, i.e. pressure is relatively small for a given density, then the neutron stars you calculate will be bad at supporting themselves, so the TOV limit in that EOS will be low. Demorest's very heavy neutron star eliminates the entire squishy end of the spectrum of EOS theories, which is kind of a bummer, actually.
A big factor in the stiffness of an EOS is how many different degrees of freedom matter has as it gets denser. For instance, if an exotic new phase of matter comes into play like strange matter, pion condensate, hyperon phases, or quark-gluon plasma, then at the transition, particles can be in both regular matter states and the exotic states, which acts to reduce stiffness (technically speaking, I am referring to density of states for Fermions). Since the real EOS is apparently very stiff, it makes a lot of these cool theories much less probable.
Demorest's neutron star is different from others only in its significance to the field of extreme EOS research, as far as I know. It's kind of the point of giving the TOV limit a name that everything below it is only quantitatively different, not qualitatively. Its binary system is also fortuitously aligned for observations taken from Planet Earth, but that's also not an intrinsic or physical thing.
Browsing the wikipedia article on Neutron Stars brings up a recent arXiv posting on the known mass distribution which suggests one possible hit (B1516+02B) at $2.10 \pm 0.19$ solar masses, the $1.97 \pm .04$ solar mass NS that Andrew writes about, and another (see table 2) and another at $1.91$ solar masses.
Figure 3 is very interesting in that it shows the central values and one sigma bounds all together.


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Especially when writing 'standard' (non-HPC) applications, do you consider what sorting algorithm to pick, or just settle with quicksort (which is what most libraries just call sort)? To some extent it may be profitable in specific situations, but on the other hand proper optimization requires some time to analyse the problem and make benchmarks.
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In general, using the default methods unless there is a specific need to do something more exotic keeps everything a lot more readable/understandable down the road IMHO.
If you experience (or in some cases, strongly suspect) that you have a performance problem that is the time to add complexity.
On the other hand, if you are using a low enough language that there is not a built-in sort for the kind of objects you need to sort try to pick one or two that cover all your bases and implement those.
Always call the library routines provided, unless you have very, very good reason not to do so (and you need to document why it is so).
This is because sorting algorithms are hard to get absolutely right. There was a bug in the Java quicksort with very large datasets, which was identified, fixed and delivered to customers by Sun, so you didn't have to.
Also the default sort in Java 7 has been upgraded to a newer, better sort. Also for free.
Unless the default sort is provably not good enough for you, stick with it.
At a conference once I heard a nice story about this.
At Microsoft someone was writing a VB app (c. VB 3) and mailed a bunch of people saying that he had a load of values and he wanted them to appear in the combobox in order, how should he go about it.
Everyone dived for their old computer science text books, looking up highly efficient routines and porting them to Visual Basic and mailing them to him. One guys just mailed back "how many values in the combobox?".
"About 50" came the reply.
"Just set the sorted property to TRUE".
In 99.9999% of instances sorting is best done using a library, control or in the SQL select as the performance difference between the library routine and anything you write will be negligible and the effort and maintenance overhead will massively outweigh the consequences.
This is the time to pull out the classic quote about premature optimization. In most cases, it really doesn't matter. Heck, with the speed of CPUs these days, you could probably bubble sort most data sets and not really notice much. But when you're sorting really large data sets, and sort performance starts to become an issue, then you should definitely look at other options.
Although it obviously doesn't matter to the bits and timeslices. I find merge sort to be easier to write and understand than quicksort. So if I'm going to write my own sorting algorithm I'd use that.
At least in a competently written library, I'd expect the built-in
To answer your question, however: yes -- that's what you should usually start with, and until/unless you have profiler results indicating that it's a problem, that's where it should remain.


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WEIRTON - Chessie Francis Pryor and Gregory Dale Bazzo announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Connie and Brian Koper of Weirton and Christopher and Joan Pryor of Bulgar, Pa. She is a 2004 graduate of Weir High School, and she earned a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology at West Virginia University in 2008. She earned a master's degree in occupational therapy at the University of St. Augustine in 2010.
Her fiance is the son of Don and Debbie Bazzo of North Royalton, Ohio. He is a 2004 graduate of North Royalton High School and earned a bachelor's degree in health sciences at Ohio State University in 2008. He earned a doctorate degree in physical therapy at the University of St. Augustine in 2010.
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A wedding is planned Aug. 31 in St. Augustine, Fla.


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Creating Time
Do you have the time to read this? I know you are busy, and I only have a few minutes, so ...
Well, I guess that's the problem. No one seems to have enough time anymore, except maybe to get another cup of coffee so we can be energized for the next item on our to-do list. We all bemoan the tyrannical treadmill of our high speed, fast food, cell phone, Internet, ATM, Palm Pilot, e-mail, work late, 157 channels-and-there's-nothing-on world. But what can we do it about?
I often consider visiting nearby Walden Pond to experience its famed spiritual renewal, but I went there once and it seemed more like a public beach than a respite for reflection. I had a toothache and was wearing the wrong shoes. Winding my way through the dusty, pebbled paths, I heard Thoreau's voice whisper in my ear, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Our life is frittered away by detail. Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?" But then my cell phone went off and I had to put him on hold.
It seems that previous generations found solace in traditional communities centered around family, religion, local businesses and neighborhoods. We may hold those ideals in high regard, but we can't go back in time. So where can you find community and quiet moments to enjoy the simplicity of living? Where can you go to discover not just more information, but meaning?
The arts have taken on a new significance and value in our technology-driven information age. Art is the antidote to our hurried lives. Art is timeless. Art lasts. Art is ready when you are. Art is best when it is slowly savored and considered. And at Brandeis, art is even more accessible than a walk in the woods.
I invite you to create time and to let art to help you.
I've found time by standing silently, without expectation of an immediate result, in front of a great work painting or sculpture. I've found it in a concert hall as the sonatas of Beethoven wind their way into my soul. I've found it in a theater as actors bring to life the beauty and ambiguity of what it means to be human. Art is imagination and psychology and history and biography and nature all at once. Whenever I attend the arts, I experience a spiritual renewal as profound as that described by Thoreau. I rediscover his belief that, "The world is but a canvas to the imagination … If one endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
So the next time you're feeling hurried and hassled, create time for a Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra concert, a Brandeis Theatre Company production, or a visit to The Rose Art Museum. Don't just do something – stand there. There's no deadline, no grade, no right or wrong response. A voice-mail-instant message-high-priority reply is not required.
The great poet Maya Angelou wrote, "We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present. In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, riddled with racism, rife with huddles of the homeless, we need art in all forms. I suggest that art and art alone can be credited with our attempts, even bowed, to stand erect…I don't think art is obliged to answer the questions of conscience and morality, but art must pose those questions. Art asks us, 'What do we think is our reason for being on this earth?'"
If you create time for the arts at Brandeis, you just might find the answer.
Scott Edmiston
Director, Office of the Arts


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Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
The weather is warming to over 70 degrees today, after an unexpectedly sunny weekend. Our friends over at the Brooklyn Flea, which had their second weekend outside, held a scavenger hunt. They asked flea-goers to search for a silkscreen poster of Bob Dylan and a vintage Rambo parody sweatshirt. Did you find one of the free prizes? Send a picture to our photo pool.
A fight over classroom space in Fort Greene will have to be put on hold now that the New York City Department of Education has canceled a Panel for Educational Policy meeting, originally scheduled for this evening at P.S. 67. The department said it wants to revise its Community Roots Charter School expansion proposal and will schedule an additional public hearing as soon as possible.
In cute baby animal news, the New York Daily News reported that two wallaby joeys made their public debut this Saturday at the Prospect Park Zoo. The baby marsupials, which will grow to a height of 2 feet, have been named Windurra and Canberra. Check out a video of Windurra sticking out of her mother's pouch.
Lastly, we found out that a Local alum, Andrea Swalec, has won first-place honors from the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards in the online reporting category. She received the award for a multimedia report she did on families who were displaced from their 154 Adelphi Street home by a fire last Easter Sunday.
I'll be working from Tillie's of Brooklyn on DeKalb Avenue this afternoon, so if you're out enjoying the sunny day, don't forget to stop in and say hello.


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The wave equation is often written in the form
involving the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\Delta$. However, the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\Delta$ is defined only in the presence of Riemannian metric $g$. Indeed, one can think of $\Delta u$ as of difference between $u$ and its mean value in the balls, and the notion of ball only makes sense in the presence of a metric.
What is the physical meaning of metric $g$ here? My guess is it's connected with the property of isotropy of space: in the vacuum, the waves should propagate uniformly in all directions, and this situation corresponds to Euclidean metric. The case of general Riemannian (= 'perturbed Euclidean') metric should then correspond to the propagation of waves in a medium of some sort, so that the property of ambient space isotropy is not satisfied, hence balls in it do not look like usual 'Euclidean' balls, and wave equation takes its general form $(\partial^2_t-\Delta)u=0$.
Is my guess true? If not, what is the correct interpretation of metric in the general wave equation?


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I've only been a member of Launchpad for about 3 months and I still am having trouble figuring out the terminology.
I have created a project with one branch - trunk. I have committed a few times to this branch.
I created a series called '0.1' and I want to provide a download. Last time I did that, I had to create a milestone or something. Whatever it was, I don't get it.
Can someone please explain:
- series
- releases
- milestones
and the purpose of each?


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McIlroy beats the best to win BMW Championship
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Glaxo studies traditional Chinese medicine
Source: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/glaxo-studies-traditional-chinese-medicine-152606059.html
Scientists from GlaxoSmithKline are to study how traditional Chinese medicine can be applied to modern drugs as part of a revamp of the company�s research and development.
Britain�s biggest drug maker last week unveiled the outcome of a review of its 38 groups of scientists, known as Discovery Performance Units (DPU), saying it would close three units and open four.
The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the new units will look at traditional Chinese medicines, investigating how their principles can be applied to making new, synthetic, molecules.
"Within our discovery organisation in China we have created a DPU that will marry traditional Chinese medicine with modern drug discovery and clinical efficacy,� said Moncef Slaoui, Glaxo�s chairman of research and development. "With modern technology we have the potential to yield new molecular entities with significant efficacy.�
The new unit will be based in China Glaxo launched an R&D centre in Shanghai almost five years ago.
With its pharmaceutical market forecast to mushroom to more than $100bn (£63.5bn) by 2015, China is one of the most important battlegrounds for drug companies facing pricing pressure and more competition from generics.
Glaxo�s move reflects a wish by drug companies to adapt their research to particular regions. Six (SNP: ^SIXY - news) years ago, AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN.L - news) established a centre in China to study diseases prevalent in Asia, such as liver and stomach cancer, and lung conditions.
Last October, Astra also said it planned to invest $200m in a new Chinese factory making intravenous and oral solid medicines.
Astra�s sales in emerging markets, including China, grew 10pc to $5.8bn last year, while Glaxo�s Asia Pacific (Chicago Options: ^RASPUSD - news) revenues grew 7pc to £1.8bn.


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The Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Jefferson County offered a holiday thank-you to its volunteers during a Dec. 14 afternoon party held at the Laurels of Steubenville.
The event included cookies, punch, prizes and holiday music courtesy of the piano talents demonstrated by Delores Wiggins.
There also was a brief skit performed by members of RSVP's drama club - a skit entitled "The Magi's Three Wives." The wives were portrayed by Lillian Kestner, Patricia Butler and Donna Joyce. Ron Boyuk was the waiter of the place where they stopped for lunch.
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Desi Gampolo, left, program manager of the RSVP of Jefferson County, presents some of the items collected for the Neighborhood House Daycare & Preschool to Barb Grant, assistant director.
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Ron Boyuk performed in a skit.
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From left, Patricia Butler, Donna Joyce and Lillian Kestner, part of the RSVP of Jefferson County's drama club, were part of a skit.
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Delores Wiggins played Christmas music on the piano.
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Among the attendees watching the skit
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This year's service project benefited the Neighborhood House Daycare and Preschool in Steubenville. RSVP volunteers were asked to bring items such as diapers, bibs, baby wipes, plastic sippy cups, crayons, construction paper, washable markers, play dough, children's gloves and hats, Matchbox cars, blocks and puzzles, according to Desi Gampolo, program manager of the RSVP of Steubenville.
She presented what was collected to Barb Grant, assistant director at the Neighborhood House.
"This is just a little holiday thank-you for our volunteers in RSVP in Jefferson County, to say happy holidays, and we appreciate everything you do," Gampolo said.
The RSVP program is for adults age 55 and over to use their life experience and skills to answer the call of their neighbors in need, according to the RSVP website, which lists its vision as "to serve as a bridge between those who need and those who give" with its mission identified as "to engage men and women age 55 and over in meaningful volunteer service to strengthen the well-being of both self and community."
A member agency of the United Way of Jefferson County, RSVP of Jefferson County has its volunteers providing a variety of services, including tutoring, mentoring, food and medication assistance, community cleanups and health care services. They work at sites that include the American Red Cross Jefferson County Chapter, Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center, Wayne Elementary School, Wells Academy, Trinity Health System, Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Charity Hospice, Urban Mission Ministries, YWCA, Historic Fort Steuben, Tony Teramana Cancer Center and Prime Time Office on Aging.
The RSVP office is located in the Gallery building at 2700 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville. Anyone interested in volunteering can call the office at (740) 346-0771.
The website is www.rsvpjc.org.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Forbes Field transformed into a disaster area Tuesday, but it wasn't as bad as it looked. The scene outside the 190th Air Refueling Wing was filled with car wrecks and bloody injuries, but they were all just props for an emergency response training exercise.
Despite the blaring tornado sirens, it was nothing more than a drill, but members of the Kansas Air National Guard responded all the same. Airmen worked alongside Shawnee County Emergency Management to act out a response to the pseudo-storm's aftermath.
As crews searched the area outside the base for simulated injuries and casualties, officials gathered practiced their media skills inside with a mock news conference.
Drills like the one today happen annually at the 190th to ensure personnel are ready should disaster actually strike.
"There's always some things you see and you tweak when you get back with the results," said Capt. Joe Blubaugh, the 190th's executive director. "And I'm sure we'll find some areas where we can do better."


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Some relatively small text files on my netbook that I use every day 8 hours/day are a week out of sync.
u1sdtool --waiting-content shows a huge number of photos on the list to be uploaded before one of the text file to be downloaded.
Is there a way to move the text file up to get it processed sooner? Seems like it has been taking weeks for the photos to synchronize.


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Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
2070 U.S. Hwy. 278, SE, Social Circle, GA 30025
A convenient but critical way to support Georgia's wildlife needs your help this tax season.
State income tax checkoff contributions to the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund have declined in recent years. While not an all-time low, contributions for the most recent fiscal year fell another 20 percent, or nearly $60,000 from the previous year.
Yet, the checkoff is a key fundraiser for the Wildlife Conservation Fund. The fund is administered by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Nongame Conservation Section and dedicated to the conservation of nongame and endangered animals and plants statewide.
The Nongame Conservation Section receives no state funding for its mission to conserve nongame wildlife. Nongame includes native Georgia animals not legally hunted, fished for or trapped, as well as native plants, from sea turtles to songbirds and pitcherplants.
Jon Ambrose, assistant chief of the Nongame Conservation Section, said the Wildlife Conservation Fund is also used to attract federal and private research and conservation funding to Georgia. By using the fund as match, DNR gained $1 for every 25 cents spent from the fund over the past two years. The Nongame Conservation Section has averaged about $1.5 million a year in federal State Wildlife Grants over the past decade, Ambrose said.
The checkoff "is critical in terms of providing the match we need to get this funding from other sources," he said.
The Give Wildlife a Chance checkoff has been a success since its creation in 1989. Thanks to the generosity of Georgians, more than $6 million has been raised. Contributions played a part in many conservation achievements, varying from the restoration of bald eagle populations to land acquisitions such as the prized Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area near Bainbridge.
That success story can continue with the help of conservation-minded Georgians.
This year, even in the midst of a recession, citizens can reverse the decline in checkoff contributions by filling in any amount more than $1 on line 27 of the state's long tax form (Form 500) or line 10 of the short form (Form 500EZ). Contributions can be deducted from refunds or added to payments.
For more information, go to www.georgiawildlife.com/node/338 [1], or call Nongame Conservation Section offices in Social Circle (770-761-3035), Forsyth (478-994-1438) or Brunswick (912-264-7218). State income tax forms are available online at www.dor.georgia.gov/taxes [2].
The Nongame Conservation Section also benefits from sales of the bald eagle and ruby-throated hummingbird license plates, an annual fundraiser called Weekend for Wildlife, and donations. Details at www.georgiawildlife.com.
The Give Wildlife a Chance checkoff logo and wildlife photographs are available at www.flickr.com/wildliferesourcesdivision [3].
[1] http://www.georgiawildlife.com/node/338
[2] https://dor.georgia.gov/taxes
[3] http://www.flickr.com/wildliferesourcesdivision


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A man has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for burglaries in southern Leavenworth County, a prosecution official said.
Shane Hill, 38, was sentenced Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison for three counts of residential burglary, according to County Attorney Todd Thompson.
Thompson said the charges are related to a series of burglaries committed between August and September 2010 in the Tonganoxie area.
Items from the Leavenworth County burglaries reportedly were found in the Kansas City, Kan., home of Hill and his wife, Jessica.
Hill eventually pleaded guilty to the three counts. As part of a plea agreement, he promised to pay restitution for all of the burglaries he was involved with in Leavenworth County, according to Thompson.
The county attorney said Hill's wife previously was convicted of charges related to the burglaries and sentenced to 19 months.
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A quick note
By ThinGuy on Aug 13, 2012
Hi Think Thin readers,
Just a note to apologize for missing comments over the past year or so. I didn't realize until just now that all comments require moderation and it doesn't seem I have the option to let the conversation flow freely anymore. I also had comment notification going to a long defunct Sun email alias. I'll try my best to stay on top of comments from now on. Happy to see so many came back to read the new articles this blog, I'll do my best to earn/retain your readership by posting content on a more regular basis.


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A few months ago, I wrote about the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London that created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Now they came up with something innovative again: a score system by which medical students can see what they are doing right or wrong while examining a virtual patient.
Further reading:
- Top 10: Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life!
- How and Why to use Second Life for Education?
- Scientific Events in Second Life?
- 23andMe in Second Life: LIVE
- Nature's role in e-Science: Second Life conference LIVE
- Famous Scientific Bloggers in Second Life: LIVE
- SciFoo lives on in Second Life: Web 2.0 and Medicine
- Live Blogging Today: First Medical Simulation in Second Life!
- Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!
- Everything about Second Life and Medical Education
- New Educational Tools in Second Life
- Genetics in Second Life
- Virtual Medical Center: the Future of Medical Education
- NHS London in Second Life
- Interview about the genetic revolution of Second Life
- Electronic Medical Records in a Virtual Hospital: Interview!


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Is there any way to exclude commands like
rm -rf,
svn revert from being getting stored in bash history? Actually I, by mistake, have issued them a number of times even though I have no intent to do, just because I am doing things quickly and it happened. Hence results in lost of lots of work I have did so far.
Is there any way to exclude commands like
You might want
Also, you can add a space at the beginning of a command to exclude it from history. This works as long as
Though going slightly different from OP's question, when I intentionally don't want a command to get stored in bash history, I prefix them with a space. Works in Ubuntu and its variants, not sure if it works on all systems.
I usually kill my bash-instance when I have done things that I don't want in the history.
$$ represents the current process - bash when you run it from the shell. You can use $BASHPID, but that's more typing :-)