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Avengers vs. X-Men series(1), mostly for the side story where Rogue ends up trying to mediate a conflict on another planet after she angers Illyana and gets herself exiled. In the bulk of the book, everyone is continuing to demonstrate the magnificent negotiating skills they displayed when the fight first began, which is to say toddlers in a playground manage better.
In the main story arc here, the Avengers send a group of B-listers to the Jean Grey School to keep an eye on the mutants there to ensure that none of them decide to sneak out and fight--or something. I'm not really clear on what, precisely, they hoped to accomplish, but they did make sure to include at least one hothead on the team, so fireworks quickly followed.
As with the core title, it was amusing enough. I enjoyed it on a certain brainless level, and I got to see She Hulk in action--I'm starting to get more and more curious about her--and the eventual trigger for this battle is more believable than that of the big starting battle in the core title, but all the same, one would prefer the Earth's Mightiest Heroes & co. to be able to think somewhat more clearly than they do here. I mean, really, why would Captain America send anyone at all, and if he did, why not make sure the people involved were actually capable of keeping their mouths shut and their fists down when verbally provoked? But, hey, I don't think one is supposed to think too much about these things.
There were segments here--Rogue's and Frenzy's in particular--that showed how seductive the mutant utopia was. That part really helped. It makes the initial battle no easier to understand, but does show why more mutants joined the cause after the Phoenix five took over running the earth. They got to be heroes, unambiguous and beloved for the first time. That's pretty potent stuff.
I enjoyed the side story most, though. Rogue's B-story, where she is sent offworld by an angered Illyana and finds herself trying to resolve a conflict there has a clear beginning, middle, and end and Rogue gets to build something that will last2. There were a couple of after-the-Phoenix tales as well, but I find I'm already forgetting them.
I did like the art. I find I prefer the more detailed, finished faces that Sandoval and Beldeon provided than the less-finished, more emoting versions the big guns gave in the core collection.
In short, I haven't given up on the big superheroes yet--for one thing, I still have a pile of books waiting for me--but I'm sticking to my initial conclusion on this Summer of the Graphic Novel: I prefer the shorter, more contained series to the big, sprawling, emotions-off-the-scale stuff that I keep finding in Marvel and DC. I'll revisit the thought more later (probably).
(1) At least, I'm assuming the book with the unadorned Avengers vs. X-men title is the "main" title with the others being optional(?) side-titles. I'd rather like Marvel to include some sort of easily accessible diagram in the back showing what happens where and when in the timeline so that readers who either never read it during its original run or who have forgotten can look back and say "Yes, there!" Wikipedia helps, but I always take a certain number of points off mentally for books or TV shows that require outside aid for the basics.
No, I don't actually have a point system as such. One day I might write a post explaining why, but all the same--if I have to look outside the text for no special reason, it's a mark on the negative side.
(2) I admit, my cynical self says that was waaay to easy, but hey, it worked, and it's unlikely Rogue will revisit the planet, so we can all pretend it lasts, unlike all the "permanent" changes in various comic books that keep sort of unhappening themselves (Magneto's a villain, no , he's a hero, no...; Jean is dead, alive, dead... Superman is married to Lois Lane, no he's not...)
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The Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of January 17, 1995: Performance of Lifelines
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This report describes the damage to lifelines caused by the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in Japan. It begins with a summary of the earthquake's seismological characteristics which is followed by separate chapters that focus on the performance of lifelines in the affected region. In order of presentation, individual chapters discuss the damage to: 1) electric power networks; 2) gas delivery systems; 3) hospitals (considered as a system composed of building/architectural components, as well as communication and support systems); 4) telecommunication systems; 5) transportation systems; and 6) water supply systems and wastewater systems. The transportation section includes three subsections: airport facilities, highways and bridges, and underground rapid transit systems. For each lifeline, an overview of the system is given, indicating the owner/operator, the location and extent of the service area, the number of households and industrial/commercial customers served. In addition to descriptions of the individual system, design criteria for the physical components of the individual systems are provided, including a comparison of the differences between the US and Japanese systems. The performance of each lifeline system is discussed with reference to seismic damage, emergency response, service interruption and restoration. (Adapted from authors' abstract).

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The World's Largest Pension Funds
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The World's 1000 largest pension funds between them have assets under management (AUM) exceeding $15trn. To rank in the top 20 biggest funds requires a size of over $100bn in AUM.
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The world's 300 largest pension funds - year ended 2015 (Willis Towers Watson, 2016)
This comprehensive paper by Willis Towers Watson provides invaluable insights into the financial state of the largest 300 pension funds in the world.
From Big to Great: The world's leading institutional investors forge ahead (McKinsey, 2016)
The world's top-tier of institutional investors has evolved into a heavyweight grouping with trillions of dollars under management, growing quickly and expanding globally, with increasingly complex internal structures. This new report from McKinsey, based on in-depth interviews with senior executives, examines the future plans of these organizations, revealing a significant rethink of asset allocation and portfolio construction processes. It reveals how the world's largest institutional investors plan to grow their capabilities and performance over the coming years.
Survey of Large Pension Funds and Public Pension Reserve Funds Long-Term Investments (OECD, 2016)
This comprehensive 56-page report by the OECD provides interesting insights into the performance and investment behaviours of the world's biggest institutional investors, examining in depth the trends observed at a national and regional level.
Mercer Global Pension Buyout Index 2016
This index examines trends in the pricing of bulk pension annuity transactions in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany. Increasingly, pension risk transfer transactions involve an international element. Pricing is subject to domestic requirements for insurer reserving and international financial markets.
UBS Asset Management - Pension Fund Indicators 2016
This annual publication aims to put current pensions-related topics into their long-term context. It is a useful source of data and has practical explanations on industry trends.
The Coming Pensions Crisis (Citi, 2016)
In this report, Citi examines the scale of the global pensions problem, and recommends a number of solutions. In particular, the authors identify the opportunities that this situation creates for corporate plan sponsors, asset managers and insurers.
UK Pensions - Milking & Dumping: The Devices Businesses use to and Shed Deficits in Their Pension Schemes and Exploit Surpluses (2016)
This paper gives examples of UK DB schemes suffering losses in the 1980s and early 1990s, mostly by fraudulent practices. It sketches briefly the changing legal bases over employers' contributions and funding obligations.
Reducing Pension Risk: Five Myths Holding Back U.S. Plan Sponsors (Prudential, 2016)
Many companies have decided to reduce pension benefits as a result of the increasing cost of DB plan maintenance. In spite of greater knowledge of risk management alternatives, the market has not yet to seen large organisations devise de-risking strategies, particularly risk transfer solutions. While a number of plan sponsors are currently examining their de-risking alternatives, a gap very clearly exists between the plans and actions of some companies with regard to defined benefit risk reduction.


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JESUS is the REASON for the SEASON! Please join us in the Welcome Center between morning services on Dec 24th to Celebrate Jesus's Birthday. Help us sing Happy Birthday and enjoy a cupcake on behalf of the Education Committee! Joy to the world, the Lord is come! So come help us rejoice and celebrate our King!
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My Favourite Marquess(2006)
A novel by Alexandra Bassett
A Marquess on a mission to secure a piece of land and the stubborn widow who owns it find themselves battling wills and surrendering to passion in this lively historical romance. After conventional means fail, Sebastian, Marquess of St. Just, takes reckless measures to secure the crumbling monstrosity known as Trembledown - a haven for local smugglers and moonlighting spies. He plans to scare, not seduce, its owner, but when a midnight encounter leaves them soaked, stranded, and possessing just one blanket for warmth, Sebastian, a.k.a. Robert the Brute, discovers that the widow Violet Treacher is not only wilful and unafraid, she is maddeningly desirable...Though the wilds of Cornwall hold no allure, Violet won't give the arrogant Marquess the satisfaction of a sale, so here she shivers, in a wreck of a house, with lips still burning from the passion of a masked smuggler. She knows he's near - for her own bit of real estate is quite the magnet for secrets, danger, even treachery. But how will she recognize the gentleman by day...with only the memory of his kiss in the dark?
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I never felt magic crazy as this. I never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea.I never held emotion in the palm of my hand, or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree.But now you're here. Brighten my northern sky
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The Great Lessons
The Great Lessons are an important and unique part of the Montessori curriculum, proving a captivating and integrated introduction to the full spectrum of Lower Elementary subjects. The Great Lessons are designed to awaken a child's imagination and curiosity and are presented every year in Lower El. This annual repetition allows students to accumulate different levels of knowledge as they grow and develop over the school years. The Great Lessons are large, awe-inspiring concepts about the natural and human world, which students then learn to connect with smaller topics. For example, in the first Great Lesson, students learn about the origins of the universe, which leads to studies of the solar system, planets, land forms, geography, and so on.
- The First Great Lesson: Coming of the Universe and the Earth.
- The Second Great Lesson: Coming of Life
- The Third Great Lesson: Coming of Human Beings
- The Fourth Great Lesson: Communication in Signs, the story of writing
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Before bringing up his 'haters' while visiting Canada for the G-7 summit before his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the current occupant of the White House blasted the media, because of course he did. Donald Trump, while meeting with world leaders at the summit, said that he invented the term 'fake news' as if that's something to be proud of. He did not invent that term, by the way. It began during World War I then it was resurfaced by the Nazis in Germany.
A reporter asked Trump about tensions at the summit between him and other world leaders. Trump asked him what network he was with so the reporter told him he was with CNN. Trump, of course, responded by saying, "I figured. Fake News CNN. The worst."
President @realDonaldTrump: "Who are you with out of curiosity?"
Reporter: "@CNN."@POTUS: "I figured – Fake News CNN. The worst." pic.twitter.com/8T5txRkU4J
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Trump told reporters that most in the media are very unfair, then he blasted a reporter who was there to do his job. You can't launch a war on the free press and then expect a pass after telling over 3,000 lies in just a year and a half. Of course, Trump's supporters love it when he attacks networks that don't always report favorable coverage of the alleged president. Trump's supporters are as thin-skinned as he is and yet, they're the ones against political correctness. To that, I say, fuck your feelings, because if that amateur can't handle questions from the press like all of his predecessors did, then he's not fit for the job.
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AT the National Biscuit Company complex, begun in the 1890's in what is now west Chelsea, the ovens baked everything from Saltines to Oreos. Those ovens went cold a half century ago, when the company moved out, but newer ovens have been working over the last decade in part of that old complex -- at Chelsea Market, from Ninth to 10th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. A visit to the market offers ghostly evocations of the site's history.
In 1890, eight large eastern bakeries amalgamated to form the New York Biscuit Company and soon absorbed a dozen more firms. It was competing against another consortium, the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company in Chicago.
The New York Biscuit Company immediately began building a Romanesque-style complex of six-story bakeries on the east side of 10th Avenue, running from 15th to 16th Street, designed by Romeyn & Stever -- some of these survive at midblock. The rivalry was potentially ruinous, and in 1898 the two groups, along with others, combined to form the National Biscuit Company, which soon provided half the biscuit production in the United States.
In late 1898, the new company brought out a new product, the Uneeda Biscuit, and it followed with many biscuits and cookies that are still familiar: Premium Saltines, Vanilla Wafers, Fig Newtons, Barnum's Animal Crackers (now Barnum's Animals) and, in 1913, both the Oreo (originally Oreo Biscuit) and the Mallomar.
The company was painstaking about consistency, shelf life and packaging, and used extensive advertising to establish a national market.
Within a few years of the merger, the bakery complex covered most of the block back to Ninth Avenue, with elements like the series of orange brick structures at the northwest corner of 15th and Ninth. Designed by the staff architect for the company, Albert G. Zimmerman, these slightly classical structures were built over the period 1905-12.
In 1913, Zimmerman designed the most prominent building in the complex, the 11-story full-block structure from 10th to 11th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. It was built on landfill -- the timbers, chain and anchor of a two-masted schooner were found during excavation.
National Biscuit also acquired outlying property, like the old American Can Company building at 447 West 14th Street. That structure extends through to the south side of 15th Street, and National Biscuit erected a pedestrian bridge to join it with the main complex on the north side of 15th Street. Designed by a later company architect, James Torrance, it has a somewhat classical character and looks to be made of lead-coated copper.
The company filed plans in 1926 for what would have been the centerpiece of its empire, a $3 million, 16-story bakery on the full block from 14th to 15th Street and 10th to 11th Avenue, but that project did not go ahead.
In 1932, the architect Louis Wirsching Jr. replaced some of the 1890 bakeries on the east side of 10th Avenue with the present unusual structure, which accommodates an elevated freight railroad viaduct. Its great open porch on the second and third floors was taken by the railroad as an easement for the rail tracks that still run through it.
Wirsching, by that time the staff architect for National Biscuit, presumably also designed the faceted, aluminum-covered Art Deco pedestrian bridge connecting the two National Biscuit buildings facing each other across 10th Avenue.
In the 1930's, a new generation of ovens -- long, continuous "band ovens" -- were remaking the baking industry, superseding the old vertical ovens. According to William Cahn's company history, "Out of the Cracker Barrel: The Nabisco Story from Animal Crackers to Zuzus" (Simon & Schuster, 1969) National Biscuit installed some band ovens in the existing complex, but long horizontal industrial processes adapted better to the low single-story buildings that were going up in outlying areas.
By 1958, National Biscuit was producing its line from a plant in Fair Lawn, N.J., and in 1959 it sold its New York complex -- 22 structures, with 2 million square feet -- to the investor Louis J. Glickman. Telephone listings from the 1970's and 80's list no baking operations, only light industrial tenants, in an area that was sliding into a sort of Rust Belt-like graveyard.
In the 1990's, the investor Irwin B. Cohen organized a syndicate to buy the principal National Biscuit buildings, from Ninth to 11th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. Over the next several years Mr. Cohen reinvented the older complex, between Ninth and 10th Avenue, re-renting the upper floors to an emerging group of technology companies.
On the ground floor, he and his designers, Vandeberg Architects, created a long interior arcade of food stores, now a well-known destination in west Chelsea -- an area that itself is oven-hot these days, with million dollar lofts being created in the onetime leftover factory district. To walk through the Chelsea Market is to stroll through a sort of postindustrial theme park, carefully festooned with the detritus of a lost industrial culture, interspersed with food stores and restaurants.
The old factory floors weave and bob, and the central hall is a jumble of disused ducts, an artificial waterfall, the original train shed, old signboards and other elements.
Mr. Cohen's group remade the 1913 building on the west side of 10th Avenue into a regular office building, but the lobby is just as astonishing as Chelsea Market's, an amalgam of old cast iron light poles, plate girders, portholes and banks of television sets -- it could be the Nautilus, Captain Nemo's submarine in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Fragments of the National Biscuit heritage are sprinkled all over the complex, like the trim, elegant "NBC" monograms in the mosaics in the little entryways along 15th Street. But the entrance to the 1913 building at 85 10th Avenue is among the most haunting sights in New York.
Mr. Cohen says that when he first began work, he pulled off a 1960's mosaic affixed to the entryway. But whoever had installed the work had chiseled off the raised NBC letters, as well as the first inch or two of the surrounding field of brick.
He says that, in keeping with the theme of industrial archaeology that runs through his project, he wanted to showcase the damage, not conceal it, "to show New York that this was like the excavation of a mining site."
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August 21, 2012
Community Affairs- August 20th 2012
Attendance: Charlie Clappis, Stefan Ochman, Brad Anholt, Catherine Thompson, Jean Richardson
Start: 7:45pm
Committee Reports:
Catherine Thompson for BCSA- The BCSA has just finished 5 successful weeks of summer camps. The kids enjoyed trips to BMSC, nature walks, science experiments, learned about traditional Huu-ay-aht song and dance and had 3 days of ballet classes. Photos coming soon.
August 21st- Outdoor Movie. 8:30pm. Unless raining.
September 11th- Back to School BBQ. 4:30pm. Welcome the students back to School and help us celebrate International Literacy Day by joining us for burgers, hot dogs and games.
September 20th- 7:00pm at the School. The BCSA will be celebrating Essential Skills Day with a resume writing workshop led by Hana Kucera.
In October, the BCSA and 2 facilitators from Royal Roads University will be working with community members to create 10 digital stories about life on the rugged West Coast. The workshop is scheduled from October 1st-5th. During these 5 days there will be 3 days of video production and 1 day of standard training for interested community members to learn how to use the digital storytelling equipment and software (which will be housed in the BCSA office so that we can continue creating these stories in our community.)
Standard training in digital storytelling and equipment is valued at between $495-$695. If you are interested in taking part in the training and video production please write 1 paragraph expressing your interest in the project.
If you would like to learn more about the digital storytelling project "Experiences from the West Coast" taking place in the community there will be an information session at the School at 6:30pm on September 10th or contact Catherine at 250 728 1220 or email@example.com.
The winners of the BCSA "My Community" photo contest are Poppy Butler and Marc Phillips. The winning photos are on the portal, Facebook and in the September newsletter.
Meeting adjourned: 7:48pm
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Trudeau's Environmental Promises at Risk in Support of Keystone Pipeline
On October 19th, the election of Justin Trudeau, leader of Canada's Liberal Party, as Prime Minister left many Canadian citizens ripe with hope for change. They were ready to see the nearly ten-year reign of Conservative Party member Stephen Harper come to an end. This campaign captured many records, being, at 78 days, one of the longest in Canadian history and putting into office the second-youngest and first prime minister to follow in the footsteps of a parent. Trudeau is in many aspects the polar opposite of Harper: young and charismatic, liberal, and willing to throw himself down a flight of stairs in the name of comedy. Only 43 years old, he is the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Growing up in the spotlight and shadow of his father gave him visibility rarely afforded to political candidates early in their lives. A politician only later in life, Trudeau dabbled in acting, teaching, and advocacy before seeking the Liberal Party nomination in the Papineau electoral district in 2007.
While his youth, relatability, and visibility may seem refreshing to younger voters, it was these qualities that gave cause for smear campaigns by his opposition. The Conservative Party launched attack ads that questioned Trudeau's ability to run a country with relatively little experience and policies that looked to secure votes from the younger generations. They beg Canadian voters to consider: is he a celebrity or a politician?. If his campaign, wisely tailored to millennials and the middle class, is anything to go by, the answer is politician. A focus on tax cuts for the middle class and social issues currently important to liberal Canadians gave Trudeau an edge in a political climate turning sharply left. Intentions to legalize marijuana, opposition to the anti-Islam policies of now-former Prime Minister Harper's time, such as the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, and pledges to face climate change quickly and efficiently have raised expectations of a liberal and progressive Canada under the Liberal Party.
Trudeau's election comes only weeks before the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Paris, where hundreds of key players will be searching for an agreement ammenable to every country to keep average global surface temperature below two degrees Celsius. Trudeau will be attending and has himself made promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, a welcome change for Canadians used to Harper's conservative environmental policies. In 2014, we saw Harper green light the Northern Gateway pipeline, a project of which Trudeau steadfastly disapproves. A project that was first introduced to the public in 2004, the Northern Gateway pipeline was proposed to stretch from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia, carrying natural gas condensate to the east and oil sands to the west. The pipeline, developed by Enbridge, Inc., was to cost CND 7.9 billion, and has received criticism from environmental and First Nation aboriginal groups due to economic and environmental risks. Trudeau firmly believes that the northern coast of Canada is no place for a pipeline and that the economic costs to the aboriginal peoples of the area would far outweigh the future gains. But despite his opposition to this project, Trudeau is in no way opposed to the idea of pipelines in Canada and remains dedicated in his support of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Harper was a strong proponent of the XL Pipeline and Trudeau follows in his footsteps in this regard. A project that would carry petroleum from the oil sands of northern Alberta to the border of Nebraska then connect with various other Keystone pipelines to carry it down to Texas for exportation, this pipeline is one that the Obama administration is highly skeptical of. Obama's veto of the bill has come as a relief to environmental groups throughout the United States and Canada. Highly regarded among Democrats and liberals as a project that puts the progress of reforms aimed at slowing climate change at risk, even Trudeau himself realizes that his support comes as a shock. But when considering his dedication to investments in national infrastructure , his support follows the reasoning one can find in any argument for the construction of the pipeline: the Keystone XL Pipeline will create thousands of jobs. But this dedication is incompatible with his promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many environmental groups say. Not only would the pipeline disrupt the unique boreal forests of northern Alberta, but it would also travel over the United States' largest freshwater aquifer. While it is hard to ignore the need for job creation in both countries, it is even harder to look past the environmental issues that may come up should this project be approved.
Trudeau's seemingly contradictory stance on crude oil pipelines speaks to a greater contradiction within his role as prime minister: how can he pay homage to his promise to boost the Canadian economy and protect the middle class while staying in line with his party's position on environmental issues? An argument that permeates the Republican rhetoric on the XL Pipeline in the United States is that its construction will provide relatively long-term jobs in an economy that is desperate for them. In Canada, this holds true even more so. Canada's unemployment rate is higher than that of the United States, 6.9 percent compared to our 5.5. But the State Department tells us that TransCanada, which would build the pipeline, plans to hire only 50 people during its operational phase, only 35 of which would be permanent employees. The construction phase would only create around 2,000 jobs over two years, not nearly enough to even act as a bandaid on the unemployment problem that the U.S. and Canada face. So rather than having to compromise on one of his winning points of focus, Trudeau should recognize that the benefits rarely outweigh the costs; the U.S. State Department estimates that Canadian energy production will grow at the same rate regardless of the pipeline's construction. His support of the project already got him the votes he needed in Alberta, an area particularly hard hit by unemployment, and now that he has secured his position as prime minister, Trudeau can focus on fulfilling his promises of working towards a more environmentally friendly Canada.
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Structural and electronic properties of Fe3+ and Fe2+ centers in GaN from optical and EPR experiments
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This work provides a consistent picture of the structural, optical, and electronic properties of Fe-doped GaN. A set of high-quality GaN crystals doped with Fe at concentrations ranging from 5× 1017 cm-3 to 2× 1020 cm-3 is systematically investigated by means of electron paramagnetic resonance and various optical techniques. Fe3+ is shown to be a stable charge state at concentrations from 1× 1018 cm-3. The fine structure of its midgap states is successfully established, including an effective-mass-like state consisting of a hole bound to Fe2+ with a binding energy of 50±10 meV. A major excitation mechanism of the Fe3+ (T14 → A16) luminescence is identified to be the capture of free holes by Fe2+ centers. The holes are generated in a two-step process via the intrinsic defects involved in the yellow luminescence. The Fe3+/2+ charge-transfer level is found 2.863±0.005 eV above the valence band, suggesting that the internal reference rule does not hold for the prediction of band offsets of heterojunctions between GaN and other III-V materials. The Fe2+ (E5 → T25) transition is observed around 390 meV at any studied Fe concentration by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Charge-transfer processes and the effective-mass-like state involving both Fe2+ states are observed. At Fe concentrations from 1× 1019 cm-3, additional lines occur in electron paramagnetic resonance and photoluminescence spectra which are attributed to defect complexes involving Fe3+. With increasing Fe concentration, the Fermi level is shown to move from near the conduction band to the Fe3+/2+ charge-transfer level, where it stays pinned for concentrations from 1× 1019 cm-3. Contrary to cubic II-VI and III-V materials, both electronic states are effected by only a weak Jahn-Teller interaction. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
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Andy is psyched for tonight's Watch What Happens Live. Find out who's stopping by.
I feel like it's a big day. Lots going on, which is why this blog is being posted so late today. I have been 24/7 workworkwork the last couple days so I don't have a ton of news to tell you - it all comes back to Bravo.
Tonight we are live at 11pm EST again (we're going to be on at 11 through May just to vibe it out) with Alex and Simon. The next 2 episodes are biggies for Alex, so you're going to want to hear what she has to say. Also - we'll be checking in with "Tardy for the Party" songstress Kim Zolciak, who's going to give us her exclusive review of the Countess' new song. I am curious to hear what she has to say...
Bravo announced today that we're broadcasting live on Bravotv.com and Ustream from the Manzo's New Jersey Housewives premiere at the Brownstone. Many Housewives will be there, including Vicki from OC and a few NY ladies, as well as Caroline, Teresa and Jacqueline. Dina is hosting an event at Splash in NYC and Danielle has one going at Barracuda (both are fun NYC gay bars), so everybody should be able to get in on the action - either virtually or in person.
I got some tweets last night that we had an issue with a promo running during "Top Chef Masters"... I am getting into that today. Thanks for letting me know.
OK I have a lot to do before tonight's show, and then heading to the Derby tomorrow! See you at 11 EST.
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In this year, we are happy to announce to you about our first exhibition in Barcelona. At Mobile World Congress 2018(MWC2018), We exhibited our ongoing research project, Holodash and more about mixed reality(MR) explorations, Loopspace. Have you already been there? If you were not, keep your eyes on upcoming events.
Doubleme exhibited at Mobile World Congress(MWC)2018 in Barcelona. The place was located in Hall 5 Stand 5I75.
Also, at the place, we exhibited our new version of Holodash hardware prototype, Holotube, which has the 8inch display and interactive systems on it. The visitors could experience more interactive gestures with volumetric holographic contents.


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Birmingham mark their second pre-season match of the summer, with a below par performance against the harriers this afternoon. A draw was rescued thanks to a glancing header in the 84th minute by trialist, Shane Lowry.
Blues boss Rowett used the fixture as an opportunity to give the whole squad a decent run out by changing the XI who started the match at half time. The first real opening for Blues came in the 15th minute when Demarai Gray used his pace to take it around the outcoming goalkeeper, leaving an open goal. Demarai could only find a kiddy defender with the cross who put it behind for a corner. The following corner resulted in Jonathon Spector heading just wide.
Lee Novak had two half chances in the first half. One came in the 17th minute which was fired straight at the keeper. The second was an audacious overhead kick which went just wide of goal.
The hosts should have took the lead in the 20th minute with the best chance of the first half, but scuffed it just wide.
Birmingham city first half never really got into a rhythm, and the harriers looked organised and resilient. Highlight of the first half for entertainment value was the Birmingham fans in the standing terraces singing: "Sit down if you hate villa". The 800+ blues fans behind the goal all sitting down on the floor.
Half time 0-0
Second half seen a complete change in XI. It also seen the trialists of Lowry and Griffiths. For you blues fans who didn't have a clue who either were, like me today, Griffiths is a 6ft 2 defensive midfielder who has spent the majority of his career in Australia. Lowry, the goal scorer, is a defender who played for Leyton Orient last season and was also at that claret and blue team previously in his career.
Wes Thomas had the first half chance of the half where he found space on the edge of the box, but failed to keep his powerful shot down.
On the 68th minute came the games first goal. Tomasz Kuszczak scuffed his clearance and presented it straight to Dawson, who showed a neat bit of footwork and calmly slotted it home.
The 69th minute seen man of the match, a drunken blues fan, running onto the pitch. The stewards didn't even attempt to catch him he had to run off himself!
Birmingham's second XI failed to get into any real tempo. However the well deserved equaliser came in the 84th minute by trialist Shane Lowry. Stephen Gleeson floated over an inch perfect free kick, which was met by the powerful leap of Lowry.
With the game drawing to a close, Clayton Donaldson missed an absolute sitter in the 88th minute when he found himself unmarked with just a 5 yard tap in needed.
An average performance for Birmingham who will be looking to improve against Northampton Tuesday night. Koby Arthur was probably the liveliest blues player.
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Blues XI First half- Legzdins, Eardley, Grounds, Spector, Robinson, Davis, Brown, Cotterill, Shinnie, Novak, Gray.
Blues XI Second Half- Kuszczak, Caddis, Lowry, Morrison, Hancox, Gleeson, Griffiths, Arthur, Thomas, Maghoma, Donaldson.
Attendance- 2,801
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The group was brother John Turpin, brother in-law Russell Hill, and myself. That Monday, they had flown from Texas to visit me, to explore Scotland and the unique church I was working with.
Now Thursday, we stood halfway up the climb to The Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye, soaked to the bone and grinning ear to ear. 45 minutes earlier, we had been sitting in a cafe in Portree enjoying hot coffee and the 4 meats that comprise a full Scottish breakfast. Looking out the window at the blustery gray, we talked of heading south; leaving the islands in hope of drier pastures. And now here we were, slopping through the heather in the northernmost part of the isles, nothing between our stinging faces and the North Sea. Let it be known that there was no rational persuasion that changed our minds, no clearing of the sky; just the shrug of the shoulders and the words, "We've come too far not to try".
That was day five in the Highlands. The three of us had climbed some of the wildest landscapes in Scotland, made friends and fools of ourselves with the locals, and would finish that climb with the the Old Man's blackstone castle suddenly materializing out of the mist, looming far over our craning necks (pictured). The next day, we would retreat back to Glasgow for Upper Room Church, a Friday-night gathering of 60 or so Iranian refugees who want to know more about Jesus. There we sang and danced. We ate steaming ghormeh sabzi. We prayed for each others needs and we celebrated the love of Jesus that united us all. The night could be described as divine.
The next day, we toured Edinburgh, perusing the Impressionist paintings at the National Gallery and eating hamburgers. The day after that, we parted ways.
John, Russell and I had spent 5 days adventuring together as friends, building relationships through shared experience. Then we saw the love of Jesus first hand, hugging men and women who spoke a different language but loved the same God. Finally we reflected, allowing the truths we had encountered to marinate before jumping back into the saddle of "regular life".
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THE little church stood in the shadow of acacia trees. A narrow gravel path lined with cucharita hedges led from the street into its cool, quiet yard with the moss on the dim boles of the trees and the dew on the grasses. The roar of the dusty, blindingly white city surged and broke like a sea along the concrete pavements that skirted the churchyard, but went no farther.
At the whitewashed wooden gate, the young man stood diffidently. Nervously fingering his battered felt hat, he pushed in the gate, stepped inside, allowed it to swing back, and then slowly walked down the path.
The chilly dampness of the place rested like a cool hand upon his fevered brow, and he expelled a breath of relief. He walked as slowly as he could, savoring through all the pores of his lean young frame the balm of this sudden reprieve from the heat and brutal impersonality of the big city.
Three concrete steps led up into the vestibule. At the top step he saw the congregation inside the heavy hardwood doors, and hesitated.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that , and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
The voice was long and sonorous, and it struck a responsive chord in the young man's heart, but he could not see the speaker. The last pew hid the altar from him. Over the pew he could see the fluted row of organ pipes, the massive rivet-studded rafters, light that streamed down at a deep angle from a tall window of colored glass.
"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
For perhaps an hour the young man stood at the door, feeling deeply unhappy, frightened, and lost. He dared not enter. He looked down at his torn, dusty shoes, his stained clothes, felt the growth of beard on his chin, and already he could feel the cold eyes of the people in the church examining him. He retired quietly to one side of the vestibule, where he could not be seen from the inside, and leaned against the wall to rest his trembling limbs.
And then the people began streaming out, and he felt relieved that they did not even glance his way. After a while, he looked into the door. There was no one in. He crossed himself quickly and entered.
For a long time he sat there staring dully at the sounding emptiness before him, for breaking against the wall still was the reverberation of bells tolled a long time ago.
Through all this he could hear his heart beating in a weak slow measure, and again the beatific sense of completeness and of being filled his soul like mellow wine. The seat was deep and restful. The wood was firm and cool. He sank back and fell asleep.
When he woke up, he saw that his hat had fallen to the floor. The five-centavo pancit mami that he had eaten last night had already evaporated, and he felt a shot of pain in his middle as he stooped down to recover his hat. After the pain, a weakness and trembling seized his limbs, and cold sweat beaded his forehead. The church swam before his eyes.
Sunlight streamed through the west windows. From its angle he knew it must be late in the afternoon. He had been asleep in the church for the greater part of the day, and now he felt again vaguely forsaken, and the chill and the solitude were no longer very soothing but were almost terrifying.
Rocking from one foot to the other, he got up hastily and made for the door, and it was then that he saw the girl standing at his back.
"I've been watching you," she said, smiling gently, and her hair looked like a halo for the sunlight crowned it with gold. "You've been asleep," she continued.
"I'm sorry," he began weakly. "I didn't mean to--"
"Yes? But let's take a seat, please."
He licked his dry lips. "I didn't mean to sleep here. I just fell asleep, that's all."
"There's no harm in that, I'm sure," she said reassuringly taking her seat beside him and pulling him down. "You're a stranger here?"
"I came to the city about a week ago."
"Staying with relatives?" Her voice was direct and cool.
"No relatives, ma'am. I thought I could get a job here. I had heard so much about opportunities here, and I wanted to work myself through college…"
She listened quietly. The quick responsive look in her eyes brought his confidence back and made him give details about his life and his recent misadventures he would not have revealed otherwise.
"We are from the same province as you," she said. "My father works in the city hall. He got transferred here because my mother wants to see us through school. Come home with me, ha? We want you to tell us about the province. It was five years ago when we were there last. Yes, they will like to see you. Don't be ashamed. You can't blame people for not knowing any one in the city."
She was only sixteen, or thereabouts, he could see in the calesa which they took; she was dressed in white, simply and cleanly, almost to the point of the anaesthetic severity of the nurse, but there was a subtle perfume about her like that of rosal and then again like that of sampaguita, and the lines of her face were clean and young and sweet.
"Why, I'd be ashamed--" he began again, looking at himself with horror.
"No more of that, ha?" She flashed a smile at him, her lips a light rose like her cheeks, her eyes crinkling at the corners.
The horses' hoofs beat a tattoo on the street cobbles, round this corner, round that corner, ancient Spanish houses under acacia trees, rows of tenements, sounding walls of old Intramuros, a tangle of horse-drawn and motor traffic.
Everything went suddenly white at once.
The first thing that he knew was the mildly pungent smell of rubbing alcohol and liniment. The place he was in was dark, except for a street light that came in through the billowing curtain in the window. He was in a bed, a deep wide bed, with mattress and cool covers fragrant with soap and starch and ironing. From beyond the darkness to one side came to him the faint sound of voices and the tinkle of a piano.
He jerked up with a great consciousness of guilt, but he sank back again, dizziness swamping him back and overpowering him. Lying back there, accusing himself of imposing on a stranger's hospitality, he began to cry, but he wiped away his tears quickly when he saw the door slowly open and a head showed in the opening.
"Oh, you're awake now."
It was the girl, and she ran softly in. He felt greatly disturbed within. She was looking down now and her hand was upon his brow and he could feel the warmth of her and get the smell of her.
"Good!" she exclaimed and ran lightly out, closing the door behind her. In a minute, she was back with two other persons. A switch clicked and the room sprang into light, and he could see there was an elderly woman whom she resembled closely, and an elderly man in pajamas.
"Well!" said the man heartily. He had a pipe gripped by the bowl in one of his hands. "So this is the cababayan. Well!"
The woman came over and laid her hand on his forehead. A wedding ring shone on one finger. He looked up into her eyes, and all at once he knew he need not be afraid…
The girl's parents, it later developed, were among the more influential of the parishioners, and he was able to get a job through them as church janitor, with bed and board provided free in the servants' quarters of the rectory. Besides sprucing up the church, he had charge of the lawn which he mowed and the hedges which he trimmed. Out of his pay of twenty pesos a month he managed to send home ten pesos to his mother in the month's-end mail.
"Good morning," he would say humbly to the girl, Lita, when Sundays came and she was in the church. Then he would hurry before her to dust the pew she always took with her parents.
"How do you do?" Lita would ask, and sometimes she would say, "Pedro, you must come and get your Sunday dinner with us. You don't do it so regularly, now."
From the back of the congregation, dressed in his best white-cotton suit, his eighty-centavo necktie, his tan-and-white Gandara shoes, he would listen raptly to her sing in the choir. He could always tell her voice, and he could always see her lovely radiant face magnified among the rows of others.
Three afternoons a week, a calesa would halt at the church gate, and Lita would alight in her plain white dress. She would come down the cucharita-lined path, and she would enter the church where for an hour she would sit or kneel, just looking at the altar, and her lips would move silently. Then would Pedro hush his steps, and he would put aside his lawnmower and his shears and look at Lita longingly through the window, at her profile outlined against the lighted side of the church.
On her seventeenth birthday, Lita gave Pedro a picture. It showed her with eyelashes swept up and lips half-parted in a smile. A stray lock fell against one cheek. One dainty end of a lace bow curled against the straight line of her throat, while the other reclined against the swell of her bosom.
"I can keep this?" asked Pedro wonderingly, and Lita said with a thrill of laughter. "Why yes, it's yours. Why do you have to ask?"
He had enrolled in a night collegiate course prepared especially for working students, but out of the money for school fees and books he managed to save as much as fifty centavos at a time. He spent his savings for a neat little picture frame, painted black and silver, and put Lita's picture before him as he pored over his textbooks at home.
"How are you getting along in school?" said Lita one afternoon, after she came out of the church.
"At least I passed in all my subjects last semester."
"That's fine. I'm sure you'll make an engineer yet." She hesitated at the gate, and turned back to him slowly. "Don't let anything distract you from your work," she said. "put your mind on it and keep it there."
He thought, she looks very young, but too deadly serious. That frown on her face. That mature cast of her mouth. But he only said, "Thank you, Miss Miel."
"Miss, still?" She laughed again, and the world was shining once more, no longer full of problems and dark and weighty hues, but full of the silvery ringing of bells and the light patter of dancing feet.
"I think I can help you," she went on. "About trigonometry now. It's my favorite subject."
"I cannot understand the cosine of--"
"You mean Thomas' theory? It's easy. Like this." And thereupon she knelt on the path and with a twig traced figures in the light fluff.
"You should make a good engineer, there are such things as women engineers, you know," he ventured.
"My father said I should," Lita confided. "But my greatest interest does not lie in that way, Pedro. It lies somewhere else. Should I tell you?" She crinkled her nose at him, but again she was suddenly grave. After a pause: "I've never wanted to grow up," she suddenly shot at him and hurriedly picked herself up, ran out of the gate, hailed a calesa and drove away.
Pedro's perplexity was solved the following afternoon when Lita came again to the church to pray. It was Saturday afternoon and Pedro was dusting. This time she had on a black veil that fell to the tip of her nose. She was a tiny figure kneeling at the far end of the church. Her head was bowed low, but he thought he could see her lips moving. He moved about on tiptoe, used his mop gently.
He was on the floor reaching under a remote corner when he heard her light "H'lo" behind him. He rose up hastily and nodded his greeting, "Good afternoon, Miss Miel."
"Good afternoon, Mister Deño."
"Er, Lita"
"That's better. Did I startle you yesterday afternoon?"
"You did."
Then Lita was telling him she was going to be a nun.
"But why?" asked Pedro incredulously.
"Does it sound foolish to you?" Her lashes swept down on her cheek, and for the first time he noticed that she had the pallid look as of one in cloistered, moss-grown nunneries.
"I don't know," he said, "I don't know." And then he went on, feeling foolish, "But you can't want to give up all this for life imprisonment."
"It is not life imprisonment," she said gravely, "but the essence of what I've always wanted. All my life I've wanted complete communion with God."
He shook his head to clear it of the cobweb of pain and dizziness, and her hand crept to his. The touch of it sent an electric shock through his whole frame.
"Even as a child," she went on, "I had always wanted to have a room that looked much like a church, with a hard, bare floor, and hard, bare seats, and an altar, and an image of Mother and Child."
She was looking down kindly at him, red spots in her white cheeks. "Now, as I live from day to day, it seems as if I'm being swept farther and farther away from that childhood dream. I want my childhood back. I hunger for its simplicity and its faith. It seems as if deep inside me I'm parched and thirsty, and I need the coolness and dampness of seclusion. You understand, don't you?"
Again it seemed as if the church rustled with the prayer and devoutness of a congregation, and there was again, that sonorous voice saying, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God."
"Good-bye," said Lita, her long, white, shapely fingers tightening on his rough, dark ones.
"I'll not see you again?"
She shook her head slowly. Suddenly she bent down and kissed him on the cheek, and as suddenly she ran down the aisle and out of the door.
As he sat in a pew, the bells were silent, but still they seemed to be tolling from far away, the air vibrating with their ringing. He sat in the pew and stared dully in front of him. Light streamed in from an eastern window. The ghostly congregation still rustled with its faith and sacrifice. On his cheek her lips were still warm.
But suppose, he thought, it had been some other way. Suppose:
"I'VE been watching you," she said, smiling gently, and her hair looked like a halo with the sunlight crowning it with gold. "You've been asleep," she continued.
"I'm sorry," he began weakly. "I didn't mean to--"
And then they were walking down to the whitewashed gate, and he was vaguely surprised that there was no calesa waiting there. But he went on to cross the street nevertheless, keeping in his eyes the slim, white figure, with the clean, young lines of face.
Outside the churchyard, the traffic was heavy as usual, and the lorry drivers swore mightily at the broken-down old man, with that vague half-smile on his face, who was crossing the street and breaking all rules of pedestrian traffic and all the laws of self-preservation.
"That engineer, Pedro Deño, you know," said one of a couple driving a car near the scene. "Dirty rich, but damned absent-minded, too."
"That's the matter with these successful people," said the other. "They put their mind on a thing and keep it there, to the exclusion of all others, even motor traffic."
"Yeh, Deño, for instance. Must be thinking of house plans and bridges."
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I was talking to one of my best friends a year-ish ago about a mutual friend who had stepped way over the line with his words. I needed advice about how to deal with some resentment I had toward this person. We both trusted this person, and we were all pretty close at one point. I figured that if I were to seek counsel from anyone, it should be him. After explaining everything that had happened leading up to the verbal and psychological abuse and humiliation I'd experienced, we ended up being on the same page in a lot of ways. But things took a turn I didn't expect. My friend asked if I'd talked to this abuser about what had happened. I hadn't.
Would you? If you'd been veritably betrayed by someone close, how long would it take for you to let them in again, if ever?
Since I was in elementary school, I've been somewhat difficult to get to know. I learned to put up walls early because I learned the harshness of people early. To not put up walls meant to risk great harm to myself, physical or psychological. Makes sense, right? And I only built them higher with time (and even higher when I'd been hurt by our mutual friend).
The friend I was consulting knew this. He's been one of the greatest instruments of bringing my walls down. Naturally, he knows when they're up, even when I forget they're there--or more accurately, pretend they aren't. "Sure, this is what my face normally looks like! Wait, you're saying normal people aren't covered in bricks and mortar?"
I forget exactly what made the conversation take the turn it did, but something he said stuck with me: "I think maybe you take pride in being hard to get to know."
I had never thought about that before. And of course, as soon as anyone mentions pride, I have a little bit of a knee-jerk reaction. This time, though, I took it to heart. You know what? He was spot on.
After a long enough time, you become good at it. You learn a lot when you lock yourself away from others. Introspection can be a powerful thing and sometimes only happens under low light, but for people like me it's usually at the cost of being around people who can keep you in check. Pride usually comes with the territory of being skilled at anything, even hiding your heart, ironically.
For me, the added irony is that I'm extremely extroverted, meaning that in learning to shut people out for such a long time, I've been living in such a way that my true personality isn't allowed to function. I'm not letting myself be who God made me to be. The younger you lose yourself, it seems the harder it is to find yourself. So for me, it's still taking time to show who I really am.
A while back, I asked my Facebook friends what their walls are made of. I mean, they must be made of something, right? Here's what they said:
"Resentment and lack of trust."
"Pride. Or just downright... 'benchy'-ness haha."
"Fear of embarrassment and ridicule from people. Don't want to let people in case they laugh at or just be weirded out at who I am."
"The walls I normally put up are things that make me not trust people, such as the bullying against me my entire life, or one of the biggest things was the sexual assault against me when I was a child. My walls made me believe that I had to do everything for myself and that I can't trust anyone."
So much pain is wrapped up in these stories of walls built high. It's like the line from "Run Wild" by for King & Country: "Are the walls to lock you in or to keep others away?" That really captures it, doesn't it? No one really wants to feel trapped, but no one wants to be vulnerable either. Vulnerability means people can hurt you. But it also means that you can mend things. The same walls you think are there to protect you are the ones keeping you from sharing life with anyone.
Walls keep you from engaging with anything good.
Walls cut you off from anything needed both to keep you alive and to help you thrive.
Ever heard of a feedback loop? You've probably heard of feedback. Like when you point a microphone at a speaker and it shrieks like a Nazgul (if you didn't get that reference, you need to read The Lord of the Rings). It's called a feedback loop because what goes in the mic comes out the speaker, then the sound is "fed" back into the mic and back out the speaker again and again... so ridiculously fast that it "self-oscillates" (sound-guy talk for produces its own sound wave, and it's usually obnoxious).
Imagine what happens when you cut yourself off from the world and that's what happens to your mind and your heart. It can seem like you're losing your mind. You can get lost in the noise. You can lose yourself in a sea of your own thoughts and emotions.
(I know that the last two paragraphs had nothing to do with actual walls.)
No amount of safety is worth sacrificing the vitality that comes from the love of Jesus Christ and the fellowship of those He has reconciled.
Maybe that seems backwards because we fear what we will lose outside of those walls, like somehow we could ever be separated from His love. But not even our walls can do that. Not when He is fully able to break them down.
For you whose walls are resentment: they are shaky walls, and only those who reside in them will be hurt when they collapse. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
For you whose walls are mistrust: no amount of isolation will ever be able to prove you wrong, just like no fallen human being will ever be able to love you like Christ, and a lot of people aren't even capable of love. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
For you whose walls are regret: don't sabotage yourself by trapping yourself in a headspace where you can no longer move forward with your life, because the opposite of progress is atrophy. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
For you whose walls are insecurity: Jesus made you so beautiful that it's beyond human comprehension, but you can't see such beauty locked away from the light of the sun. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
For you whose walls are self-reliance: you can only carry yourself so far, and that's okay because we were never meant to be God. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
For you whose walls are fear: only love can cast it out. Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.
You are dearly loved.
Don't you dare forget it.
And don't you dare hide it.
Don't lock it away.
Let Jesus show you what it's like outside.


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Benchmarking On Ubuntu Just Became EasierPosted by Michael Larabel on February 17, 2009The Phoronix Test Suite was accepted into the Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) universe repository this morning. What this means is that it's now drop-dead simple to benchmark your system running Ubuntu 9.04 or later. The step of having to go to the Phoronix Test Suite web-site to download the source or Debian package is no more (well, unless you want to grab the latest snapshot). To start benchmarking on Ubuntu it is as easy as running: $ sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite $ phoronix-test-suite benchmark unigineIt's that easy to have the Phoronix Test Suite installed followed by running Unigine tests, which is a great way to check on your system's OpenGL performance. The Phoronix Test Suite will automatically download the needed test files, locally install the test files, and then carry out the testing in an automated and reproducible manner.Additionally, there is about 90 other test profiles shipping with Phoronix Test Suite 1.6. Just run phoronix-test-suite list-tests or phoronix-test-suite list-suites to see some of what's available. You can even just use the Phoronix Test Suite for a consolidated view of your system's key hardware and software components.
Aw man, this is going to open some floodgates...-Edvard (February 18, 2009, 11:27 AM)
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