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Two proposals, one retirement, and a sex machine added up to a whole lot of drama at Seattle Grace on last week's "Great Expectations."
Meredith and Derek continue their recent drama with a mini-fight, complete with an apology. But it seems that they're both staying committed to each other, at least for the time being.
Izzie decides to fund the free clinic that Bailey has contrived at such an opportune time.
It remains to be seen, however, how much this will affect her life as an intern, and if she will completely devote herself to doing good things with Denny's money.
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Alex surprises Addison with the revelation that he's just not that into her. Maybe this is true, and maybe it's not. Either way, it's clear that Alex Karev has his sights set on a new career path.
However, since the chemistry is obviously there between the two of them, and since it seems they're going to be working in close proximity, it's really only a matter of time until something happens again.
Saving the best for last as usual, Burke's proposal to Cristina at the end of the episode was both shocking and romantic. But it seemed a little out of character for him. Wouldn't someone as composed and controlled as he is have planned out every detail of such an important step?
Like, maybe, having a ring? But that is what love does to people - makes them act on impulse.
Cristina's clearly shocked at his impulsive proposal. She was expecting a fight, and instead, Burke asked her to marry him. But she does love him in a transparent way that surprises even her. So of course she will accept his proposal. If she doesn't, she could lose him forever.
George gives us the other shock at the end of the episode, getting down on one knee in front of Callie. It's so George to do things the traditional way. But again, where's the ring? And why so hasty?
George and Callie have been back together for what, like, a week? For most of that time, they have been busy with the types of things that do not involve talking. And he's already spouting off to her how he can't live without her, and how much he loves her.
It's too sudden. He just lost his dad, and he clearly still needs to deal with that grief. Jumping head first into an engagement to Callie is a way for him not to have to deal with it right now. But sooner or later, it will show up. And if Callie's smart, she'll realize that and put things on hold for the moment.
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February 1st, 2007 3:38 PM
Burke/Yang - I absolutely adore these two characters, also. I loved Burke's "marry me" and hope Christina says "yes". Oh, yes, in true Yang fashion, I can see her dragging her feet - she'll string us along a bit but, not too long Yang or Burke will walk!
George/Callie - How could he possibly ask her to marry him? Number 1, I absolutely do not believe these two belong together - they just do not fit at all. I know George's dad said "Callie gets him" but, I just do not like them together at all. Put George back with Olivia - she is a truly good fit with him. To be honest, I am a bit insulted that the writers think it was the right time for him to ask her to marry him. Have they ever been on a date? They screwed once at her place at the hospital……isn't that it? She has spent more time with Mark Sloan than she has George! This marriage proposal is stupid and I hope Callie has sense enough to say "no". Most people at least have a date or two before they ask someone to marry them…� -
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January 31st, 2007 9:47 PM
I'm rooting for a Burke and Cristina wedding, too. They just seem to belong together to me. It will be interesting though, I think. Marriage is something that would seem important to Burke and scarey to Cristina. Can't you see her dragging her heels and trying to figure out if this is something she can do without losing herself? Then I can see him getting hurt having to wait for an answer. They never do anything easy, so it would be a real surprise if she simply thought it over and said, yes. But that is what I'm hoping for.
January 30th, 2007 7:21 PM
Burke and Cristina have always acted like a married couple anyway, they should make it official.
January 29th, 2007 10:49 PM
I'm really pushing for a Burke Cristina wedding and of course more love scenes good ones we were cheated by the last one.
January 29th, 2007 9:44 PM
actually, i am kind of confused about this whole wedding/marriage proposal thing..i think it is kind of out of line with the characters..
i mean..what does getting married mean? to people, and to the characters on set?
Burke And Cristina...they ARE practically married..i mean they live togehter...they have sex all the time (ok, i didn't say this one, the wrtier on Grey said it on his blog), and she told Burke she is not in to win, she is in for the long haul...
so what does it mean to get married? it doesn't really mean anything practical, does it??? -
January 29th, 2007 9:34 PM
I hope alex and addison get together, and not just for a hook up, but for a relationship.
addison may have cheated, but she's been through a lot as far as marks baby goes. and i think she's learned her lesson.
and as far as alex goes...he's cheated on izzie with olivia before but i think that addison intiminates him.
i think that the two are totally compatible.
and i know addison was lonely that night at the bar, but she had recently apologized and yet was attempting it once more.
i hope they work out cuz addisons and alex= cute couple -
January 29th, 2007 9:24 PM
you know what?
forget it..i am so tired of the speculation..
i just hope ABC would show us some decent steamy sex/love making scene between Cristian and Burke..
I am dying for that!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
January 29th, 2007 7:56 PM
Callie and George will be engaged by the end of the next 2 episodes.. No doubt.
January 29th, 2007 7:41 PM
im still rooting for addison and alex, i think even though he says hes not into her, he totally is. he just wants her to chase him, not the other way around. and i think callie and george should wait on an engagement and burke and christina should get engaged
thats all i had to say so.....
oh on abc.com there is a clip of a new greys moment with alex and addison.....watch it
its funny :D k bye -
January 29th, 2007 3:17 PM
i think it is more likely with burke and cristina..
george just turned into a sex machine, remember that :)
also, i would like to see a friendship blossoming between Callie and Cristina...The 2 of them are actually a lot a like, they are both no nonsense...
and Callie could become a big sister figure for Cristina..since she is open minded and honest and charming...
Nobody is able to get under Cristina's skin like Callie did..
"Yeah, you too, impressive....uh..not that we are friends or anything"
"Silence is overrated!!"
see, these 2 quotes are just priceless..


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text: On 03/09/2009 07:27 PM, Bryan Atsatt wrote: > After giving this issue more thought, it seems to me that 1) the > requirement is misstated, and 2) there is another requirement. :^) > > Revised requirement: > > It must be possible for two or more modules to share types privately. > > The original version assumed a solution, but clearly should not (and > yes using the term 'share' in the requirement may not be explicit > enough, but is probably ok for now). I think what we are all after > here is a mechanism by which multiple modules can cooperate using > types that are not available to "outsiders". We can choose to define > 'available' as either visible or accessible; my assumption is that we > would prefer the latter, as it is a stronger guarantee. > > This requirement might then be thought of as "group access". And we > should probably consider whether satisfying this requirement is worth > creating an entirely new mode, with new access flags, etc. So far, > however, we've discussed solutions that: > > 1. Restrict visibility (permits/"friends") > 2. Extend module private access to others (isAncestor() or > hasModuleAccess()) > 3. Define "runtime module" such that it can span class loaders (and > hence deployment modules). > > > My initial reaction to #3 was that it was somehow "wrong", but I > couldn't articulate why. In my proposal, I had a partial answer: it > breaks the intuition that a runtime module is directly related to a > deployment module, the concrete thing that you manipulate > (download/transport/install/start/stop/uninstall). IOW, it violates > the principal of least surprise. Are you saying there is a one-to-one mapping between runtime modules and deployment modules? > I now think there is another, stronger reason: visibility assumptions. > There exists an *implied visibility within a module*; no explicit > configuration (e.g. import/export) is required to gain visibility to > member types. This is obvious, if unstated, when you consider a single > deployment module. And the principal of least surprise would clearly > be violated if it did not apply across multiple deployment modules in > the same runtime module. Wouldn't OSGi be in violation of this then, since it requires a Bundle-ClassPath to gain visibility to member types? -> richard > > I believe that this is worth elevating to a new requirement: > > Member types must share visibility without configuration. > > Or, stated in a perhaps less ambiguous way: > > Member types must be visible to one another without configuration. > > > So... Before we define a solution, can we please try to reach > agreement on these two requirements? > > 14. Member types must be visible to one another without configuration. > 15. It must be possible for two or more modules to share types > privately. > > // Bryan > > Bryan Atsatt wrote: >> Peter, sorry, but your response is quite puzzling to me: I am seeking >> a simple model that enables the more complex one you propose (and >> simultaneously addresses BJ's layering requirement). >> >> First, I think you are confusing "access" with visibility; my >> proposal says nothing about visibility, only access. >> >> Second, Alex's spec defines "runtime module" as "the pair of its >> module name and defining classloader". I think we have agreed that >> "runtime module" can be defined instead by the association of a >> Module object to each Class during defineClass(). Unless I >> misunderstand, this is precisely what your proposal relies on, as >> does mine. >> >> Your proposal requires the VM to defer part of the access check to >> Module.isAncestor(). Mine simply generalizes this concept. >> >> Your proposal extends module private access to all "child" modules, >> but does not provide a way for siblings to share. BJ's extends this >> to any deployment module that has it's Classes labeled with the same >> Module instance, regardless of ClassLoader, but introduces a >> significant disconnect between the meaning of a deployment and a >> runtime module. >> >> My proposal seeks to rectify both shortcomings, while retaining the >> benefits. >> >> // Bryan >> >> >> Peter Kriens wrote: >>> Brian, >>> Your approach makes modules and visibility a module system aspect, >>> it is no longer defined in the language. >>> I therefore feel this is the wrong direction. >>> >>> In this phase we should only design things that have a well defined >>> meaning in the language. Membership and visibility are clearly in >>> that domain. The easy cop-out in a design by committee is to make it >>> optional or opaque it, means you no longer have to fight about it >>> and it looks like we all agree. However, it wreaks havoc for our >>> customers and the whole idea of a Java component market. >>> >>> The fact that we will end up with two module systems is already bad. >>> I would like 294 not to fall victim to this fragmentation. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Peter Kriens >>> >>> On 5 mrt 2009, at 23:39, Alex Buckley wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for sketching the Module comparison logic I mentioned in the >>>> minutes. I don't see how a Module is restricted to one ClassLoader. >>>> A module system could pass the same Module object M to >>>> CL1.defineClass(..., M) and CL2.defineClass(..., M). What am I missing? >>>> >>>> Alex >>>> >>>> Bryan Atsatt wrote: >>>>> Requirement: >>>>> 14. It must be possible for two or more modules to share module >>>>> private types. >>>>> Rationale: >>>>> Modules are a relatively fine-grained unit, and module private >>>>> access as originally envisioned is scoped within that unit. >>>>> However, larger scale compositions of modules may have a similar >>>>> requirement to share types within that composition, but prohibit >>>>> access from classes outside the composition. >>>>> An existing proposal to address this requirement (Nested Modules) >>>>> introduces the concept of a container, a hierarchical relationship >>>>> between modules within that container, and a model for extending >>>>> module private access to any child module; further, it requires >>>>> rules for merging identically named hierarchies. >>>>> Proposal: >>>>> The new terminology in VM 5.4.4 Access Control uses the phrase "is >>>>> a member of the same runtime module". This proposal defines >>>>> "runtime module" as an instance of the Module class, and defers >>>>> the meaning of "same" to the Module implementation, decoupling >>>>> details of the policy from the language and VM. Specifically, a >>>>> public non-final method is added to class Module: >>>>> public class Module { >>>>> public boolean hasModuleAccess(Module m) { >>>>> return this == m; >>>>> } >>>>> } >>>>> To perform the access check, the JVM must invoke this method at >>>>> least once for any pair of Module instances, and may cache the result. >>>>> Instances of the Module class are created by a module system and >>>>> passed to ClassLoader.defineClass() for association. An accessor >>>>> method is added to java.lang.Class: >>>>> public class Class { >>>>> public Module getModule() {...} // Passed in at defineClass(). >>>>> } >>>>> Further, this proposal defines the relationship between Module and >>>>> ClassLoader: a ClassLoader may have many Module instances, but a >>>>> Module may have only one ClassLoader. >>>>> Discussion: >>>>> This proposal preserves the simple conceptual model in which there >>>>> is a 1:1 mapping between: >>>>> 1. A deployment module and a runtime module. >>>>> 2. A runtime module and a ClassLoader. >>>>> while providing a flexible access model for module private types, >>>>> methods and fields. >>>>> Given a source class 's' that is attempting to access target >>>>> class 't' (or its fields or methods), the access check is simply: >>>>> s.getModule().hasModuleAccess(t.getModule()) >>>>> A module system may override the default ("same module instance") >>>>> policy. 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2 November 2006
Dear Airlines,
In case you were wondering why I cut back on my flying, you might want to think about the following.
- False Authority Syndrome (via)
- Forge Your Own Boarding Pass
- The Virus That Ate DHS
- FBI Raids Fake Boarding Pass Creator's Home
It's not you: it's them.
(P.S. You might want to do something about this.)
3 November 2006
Presentation Zen: Boom!
What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland � "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
The West | � |
Boston | � |
North Central | � |
The South | � |
Philadelphia | � |
The Inland North | � |
The Northeast | � |
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Yeah, that's true enough. You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
6 November 2006
Anyone know a good traffic lawyer in Spotsylvania county, VA? I've got a traffic summons I need to fight.
(And I may have a turbo VW to sell shortly.)
7 November 2006
Dooce: Monthly Newsletter: Month 33
9 November 2006
jwz: Hacking Democracy.
10 November 2006
Ugh. Spam. I hates it.
So I'd cranked my SpamAssassin preferences down, lowering the threshold to a 3.0 points a while back. All was good. No false positives, some false negatives. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Today I discovered someone was trying to get in touch with me all week, and her emails just kept getting caught in the spam trap.
Some days I don't know about this email thing.
And, for your amusement, more reasons why I don't read digg.
evan morris: tastes like surrender.
12 November 2006
parenting hacks: tell strong-willed toddlers what to do.
iPod Playlist: 2006-11-12 Shuffle.
13 November 2006
troubles come in threes.
- Two weeks ago Monday, Merrystar had a backup accident that erased 4 years of data. Poof.
- Last Monday, I was pulled over for violating certain state traffic laws.
- Today, I thought we'd escaped with nothing more than some bad days at work. Foolish me! Troubles come in threes!
- Tonight Merrystar hit a deer on the way home this evening on US Rt. 60. We are both okay, and very, very lucky.
My car? Well…
Let's just say that YAH was carried off on the wrecker yelling "I got him!"
(Merrystar's only comment was, "what will I tell Trip? I killed Bambi?")
14 November 2006
Thank you, Edouard Benedictus, for giving us safety glass.
deer impact.
In the light of day, the damage isn't as bad as we feared.
I mean, every body piece on the driver's side will need to be either replaced or repainted, and the hood, windshield and roof too, but YAH is structurally just fine. State Farm has been good to deal with so far, and everything looks to be covered under Comprehensive.
Full picture sets are available on Flickr or Zooomr. The neat thing about these newfangled photo sites is that you can show where things happen.
Now, on to the important matter of the evening. I have to find a deer kill sticker for my car. Four more, and she's an ace. Any ideas where I can get them?
15 November 2006
I need to stop brooding over my car.
- Mileage log is updated. I'll count these as spa days for now, even though they're really not her fault. (Spa days are really a reliability indicator, not an accident one. Hmmm. Will have to consider a different metric next time.)
- Calamity has been discussed on the 'tex.
- Pictures have been tagged, reviewed, and discussed, leaving me glad that both of us walked away.
However, I need to stop brooding over my car.
17 November 2006
Dudes already know about chickens.
Like the man sayeth:
Instead of a quantum encyclopedia, with vandalism and falsehoods peppered throughout at various locations AND at various times, Wikipedia becomes a consistently RELIABLE encyclopedia that covers every topic in the universe, except chickens. We say it again: dudes already know about chickens.
- Boing Boing: Patriot act makes it harder to get real Sudafed.
- Slate: Meth madness at _Newsweek_.
LinuxWorld: Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft.
"Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly for intellectual property from Microsoft," he said. "We are willing to do a deal with Red Hat and other Linux distributors." The deal with SUSE Linux "is not exclusive," Ballmer added.
This has pretty much guaranteed that I will be stripping SuSE Linux off of every machine I own. And that's on top of no more money to Microsoft, ever!
Nicely done, Steve! Good job with that marketing.
My mom pointed me toward the talented Leslie Riley's blog today. Leslie taught a class ("Mixed Media Art") in Houston that my mother attended and raved about.
My mom's quilt (which she calls "in progress," of course) is in the last row, far right. Her work never fails to impress me.
18 November 2006
Evan Morris reminds me why Ballmer deserves his moniker.
19 November 2006
OmniNerd: 2006 Leonid Meteor Shower.
Astronomy buffs in Europe and America's East Coast will be treated to a particularly powerful meteor shower this year. Barring weather, at 11:30pm EST on November 18th, viewing conditions will be excellent due to the new moon. If skies are overcast, however, try "listening" to the radio signals generated by shower's electrified trails. Practiced observers say that even more meteors can be detected via radio waves than can be seen with the naked eye. For more information on this annual event, check out the Top 10 Leonid facts.
20 November 2006
It's Monday, which means, you know, Bad Karma Monday.
Went to work anyway.
Drove a lot. Worked a bit.
We saw one deer, in exactly the same place as last week. It was a big buck.
We did not hit it.
We came home.
Going to sleep soon.
That's it.
Sometimes, happy stories aren't very interesting.
But they're happy nonetheless.
22 November 2006
Whoba!: Fog Bows.
There really is no way to say that birdwatching is a manly activity.
More Wohba!, this time: Ski-gliding:
23 November 2006
Don't forget to claim your Federal Excise Tax Refund Credit next year. If, for some reason, you've kept your phone bills for the last 4 years or so, you might want to dig them out when doing your 2006 taxes.
Otherwise, there's a standard deduction you can take.
25 November 2006
(Via jwz.)
(Also, if this plot doesn't show up in a movie in the next year, I'll be seriously disappointed.)
Via Wohba —
Why has no one pointed me to del.icio.us before?
26 November 2006
Two weeks too late for me, but: How to Avoid a Moose or Deer Collision - WikiHow.
(Rule of thumb remains: Don't Swerve.)
27 November 2006
More from Wohba: The Sorting Algorithm Demo.
Watching a bubble sort is actually painful in comparison to the other algorithms. Very good visualization.
28 November 2006
Doug serves us some compelling reasons to not see Borat in Match Frame: the problem with Borat.
There's no question that BORAT is, more than occasionally, really damn funny. It's also in my mind incredibly problematic. The difference between BORAT and the (even funnier) JACKASS 2 is that, after JACKASS 2 did something in public in front of unsuspecting people, they copped to who they were, and got release forms signed, and if you wouldn't sign one, they'd pixelate your face or not use the footage. BORAT, by contrast, claimed to be a small production not intending to distribute in the States, and often not only set things up under entirely false pretenses but maintained those false pretenses well after the fact. […] This is a massive breach of filmmaking ettiquette (and, most likely, law); further, expect people who aren't nearly as funny to duplicate the same kinds of stunts in the near future; further, as a result, expect any serious but seriously underfunded short-film or documentary filmmakers to have increasing amounts of trouble getting releases to film places.
a simple lunch.
It was 70 degrees at noon today in Williamsburg, VA.
Sometimes, lunch must be taken outside, even if you're working at home.
29 November 2006
Welcome to the club, Thomas Hawk!
(Pssst… Don't forget to turn on Software Update. There's a new patch out tonight.)
The MPAA continues to reach new heights, er, lows, and is Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations:
MPAA head Dan Glickman says this needs to be regulated before things start getting too far out of control, "We didn't act early enough with the online sharing of our copyrighted content. This time we're not making the same mistake. We have a right to know what's showing in a theater."
The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown.
"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.
yahoo tv screws up. badly.
Merrystar and I are both relatively content Yahoo! partisans; Merrystar even more so than me, I think. Which makes this post that much harder to write.
Yahoo! really fucked up, and badly. They released a new version of their TV listings pages - one of the only pages I could be reliably counted upon to hit, night after night - that not only gives worse performance than the old version, it doesn't work in Safari.
Or Firefox.
No, seriously. Let me show you. This is what it looks like in Safari:
And this is Firefox:
By the way, the performance in Firefox is absolutely terrible. In the time it's taken to write this post, I still haven't gotten the new page to load.
I rarely call a site redesign absolute shit, but I think this might qualify. This is absolute shit. Did they not test it? What the hell were their QA people thinking?
Yahoo!: If you are reading this, please bring back the old TV listing. Please, please, please. Call this a beta, give us a link to the old stuff that actually worked. Otherwise, we're switching to Google. Or TV Guide. Or anyone else.
Thank you.
(Please feel free to give the Yahoo! TV team a piece of your mind. They say they're listening.)
sweet geotagging revenge.
I feel better.
I just geotagged my screenshots of the tv.yahoo.com rant to Yahoo!'s corporate headquarters on both Flickr and Zooomr.
Petty? Perhaps. But it's because they changed something I used that didn't need to be changed. Sometimes, progress isn't.
(And I would kill for users as passionate as the ones who use Yahoo!, by the way.)
By the way, I picked up my car from the body shop this evening. Will have to look her over in natural sunlight before I report fully, but she seems to be in good spirits.
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Twisting tides, roaring rapids, wonderful waterways and relaxing rivers can be found at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon in the most wonderful water adventure known to man…or fish.
The wettest and wackiest attractions imaginable are available to you with your Disney tickets at the incredible Typhoon Lagoon Water Park! Twisting tides, rushing rapids, winding waterways and restful rivers are there to be enjoyed and explored at your leisure. Navigate 9 thrilling water slides and streams, swim with real sharks and conquer man-made waves with your Disney tickets to Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, where you will experience the wettest water adventure known to man or manta ray!
Fun for little ones:
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The Disney Water Parks are subject to closure in the winter for their annual maintenance. Only one water park will be closed at any one time.
Minimum Height - 48" (1.22m)
Defy gravity and discover surprise after surprise as gushing jets of water rush your raft through this white-knuckle thrill ride. Up to 3 guests can ride at once, or you can take the plunge yourself! Each of the 3 waterslides propels you approximately 400 feet through hairpin turns, sudden drops and gravity-defying uphill climbs.
Get carried away aboard a giant inner tube with room for the whole family! Hop onboard and whoosh through caverns down a 300-foot long waterslide. Enjoy the view on your crazy, curvy way down the mountain and watch for special effects and rock formations. This ride is dripping with fun so get ready to laugh your rafts off!
Minimum Height - 48" (1.22m)
Seize your courage and shoot almost straight down Mount Mayday in any of 3 side-by-side, 214-foot long enclosed speed slides. You won't see where you're going as you zip downhill in the dark, drop 5 storeys in seconds then splash down to a surprise ending. Drop in if you dare to take the plunge!
Take a tropical whitewater adventure on a scenic, palm-lined course on Keelhaul Falls. Grab your single-rider inner tube and get ready for a curvy waterslide through caverns and waterfalls before splashing down in a refreshing pool at the bottom. Look for some surprises along the way down the mountain!
Ketchakiddee Creek is a special aquatic play area just for young kids. Full of sloshy, small scale slides, fun-filled fountains, watery whales, slippery seals, crawl tubes, waterfalls, a leaky tugboat and a mini ripply-rapids ride. There are 10 different activity areas with tons of fun for little ones who are less than 48 inches tall.
Mayday Falls is the longest waterslide in Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, and the highest and most intense waterslide of the 3 Falls raft rides. Careen down this swervy, curvy waterslide through caves and waterfalls. Brave the rapids for a fast, turbulent trip down Mount Mayday and remember to hang on - this one's a rush!
Sandy White Beach offers a beautiful spot to rest, relax and unwind against the setting of a white-sand beach with scenic waters, magnificent palm trees and picturesque landscapes. With soft sand, enticing waters and close access to food and beverages, this relaxing location feels like a tropical island vacation.
Shark Reef is a snorkeling adventure where guests swim freely with leopard and bonnethead sharks, stingrays and schools of colorful tropical fish in this fascinating coral reef environment. Anyone who just wants to get a spectacular view of the sharks without snorkeling can enter a tanker and view the undersea creatures through the portholes.
Minimum Age - 8 years
Ever wanted to try surfing but found the ocean intimidating? Guests can learn how to surf in a fun, controlled environment. Have the bay to yourself before the Water Park opens to master the fine art of shooting the curls. Small classes at Cocoa Beach Surf School can help improve technique during a 2-hour session.
Take a dip in the azure blue waters of one of the world's largest wave pools, Surf Pool. The surf's up all day long so you're sure to catch a wave! Whether you're a body-surfing enthusiast awaiting a wave or seeking relaxtion in the gentle waters away from the shore, there's something here for all water lovers. Dive right into the excitement!
The whole experience was first class.
Bit chili the day we went but still had a great day.
Fantastic water park, favourite out of the two
Could do with a bit more shade. But thats about my only criticism.


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August 12, 2010
Dr. Tim Killeen, representing the National Science Foundation (NSF), last week addressed the annual TeraGrid '10 conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. His keynote emphasized the urgent need for sustainable cyberinfrastructure in the geosciences and across all domains of science.
"The geosciences is a domain in which cyberinfrastructure is incredibly important," Killeen, the NSF assistant director for geosciences, said. "There is need for end-to-end cyberinfrastructure that is accessible to brilliant young career professionals across the country. We need the capabilities now."
The NSF and funding agencies from countries including Brazil, Australia, Russia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan one year ago declared that they would work collectively "to deliver knowledge to support human action and adaptation to regional environmental change" for global issues such as climate change and the availability of fresh water on the planet.
"We don't have a century to get this right," Killeen said. "We need the resources, sustained investments, smooth transitions, and accessibility of these resources to the brain trust of the nation and internationally. It's amazing when you look at the strategic plans of other countries and see how parallel they are to our own."
The crux of the challenge is developing an earth-human knowledge management system (aka "Earth-Cubed") to support a more complete understanding of the earth system and the human interactions with that system. "It's a scientific and technical challenge for the 21st century."
Killeen asked each conference participant to consider their role and the TeraGrid's role with regard to "Earth-Cubed" and cited the geosciences as an example of the domain requirements and cyberinfrastructure needs put on the TeraGrid community.
"I have yet to see a high-performance computing center that doesn't use the geosciences as a driver or rationale as to why we need this type of capability," he said.
Yet, focusing on sustainability is going to stretch the NSF and other agencies to do this in a robust way, Killeen said. "It's going to place demands on the types of products and services that come out of TeraGrid. Cyberinfrastructure's interface with science and society is going to be challenging -- no question about it."
Currently, the NSF's Geosciences Direcorate invests 10 percent of its overall budget in cyberinfrastructure in addition to the investments made by the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI). "We like to invest in multiple approaches with multiple outcomes...things that enhance productivity and capability. We look to the community for direction and priority. We like to understand the full life cycle costs and process. We want to anticipate increases in demand, make new investments, and address workforce issues."
It's a very exciting time for the geosciences, according to Killeen. There are new ways of looking at the Earth system and new methods by which much tougher problems that require advanced computing simulations are addressed. In addition, the data volumes are large and the data return is in the upper 90th percentile. "It's about the data and the value that data brings to understanding. Data-intensive computing is a very high priority," he said.
According to Killeen, on-demand, global experiments in the geosciences are becoming the norm. But, the changing context as it relates to human interactions with the Earth system is much more complex. It requires another level of integrated assessment models that can only be achieved through advanced computing simulation.
The next generation of models will be able to resolve detailed processes in the oceans, atmosphere and land. "We've reached this threshold, in part, by TeraGrid's efforts in building the appropriate cyberinfrastructure and computational capability. We're coming to a point where the sensor arrays and the development of the earth models are maturing at the same time. Models have become substantially more complete; they drive the most capable computation."
Killeen said the common architecture for cyberinfrastructure includes hardware, software, data provision, networking, sensor deployment, model assimilation, middleware, tools, Web services, cloud computing, free global access to information, and single-password authentication, as well as integrated services (data and instrument services, governance activities, computational expertise).
"Overall, it's a sustained investment and a balanced approach to drive transformation in the scientific disciplines. This is what NSF wants to get to...it involves training people to address incredibly important societal challenges with all the tools at our command. It's going to be the cyberinfrastructure that transforms the geosciences and takes it to the next level. We're now poised to do it in the next 10 years."
May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | "50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less." How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today's and tomorrow's ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel's Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.


text: Sturgis 1942- James Howard was born in November 1942 in Sturgis, a small town in Western Kentuckys Union County. From kindergarten through 9th grade, he attended the all-black school in Morganfield, riding a bus 11 miles each way because Sturgis had no black school. In 1956, at age 13, James joined other students in attempting to integrate the all-white Sturgis high school, which was only blocks from his home and offered science and foreign language programs not available at the Morganfield school. Their campaign to desegregate the schools received international media attention when protestors against integration blocked the streets, burned a cross in an evening demonstration, and generally harassed blacks in the community. A judicial order led to school integration a year later. Howard served in the U.S. Air Force, including intelligence duty in northeast Thailand during the Vietnam War. A graduate of Oklahoma State University with skills in management, mediation, human resources, and employee labor relations, he is the executive director of the Oklahoma state agency that conducts administrative hearings, arbitration, and mediation for more than 30,000 state employees. Living the Story > Biographies > James Howard |


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The California Highway Patrol have filed criminal charges against a paparazzo named Paul Raef who was involved in a high speed chase incident earlier this month with Justin Bieber. Mr Raef was charged with 4 counts of reckless driving. if convicted he could face up to one year in jail and $3500 in fines. As for Justin, he was cited for speeding and is schdeduled to appear in court in September. This is the first case filed under the new paparazzi law in California.
From Shaw News 26/07/2012
Apparently the paparazzi law allows the courts to add another layer of punishment onto the usual penalties for traffic violations.
Edited to add: whether it will a challenge under the first amendment is another matter. The scumbags who do this sort of thing ususally hide behind that to jsutify their actions.
There shouldn't be a second layer.
It's as if to say speeding to get to a movie in time isn't as bad as speeding as a pap. If the occupation isn't illegal it shouldn't be punished under other laws.
Speeding is speeding. The court will allow you to quote mitigating circumstances like medical emergencies. It's as if the state was full of rich Hollywood types with their own agenda...
Quote: It's as if the state was full of rich Hollywood types with their own agenda...
Now what on earth leads you to that conclusion, Chris?
I agree with your comments on the twin approach to this - I am sure their reckless driving laws are severe enough and the circumstances of their breaking the laws (self profit, greed etc) would enable them to go straight to the severe end of the punishment.
Don't see why a new law needs to be added. Speeding to show off or get somewhere quicker is potentially just as dangerous. Some may say that if the Biebster didn't speed then the paps wouldn't need to .... so he is possibly equally responsible. Anyway, the paps break existing laws and can be dealt with effectively already. Maybe I'm just missing something here .. It all seems a little unecessary.
Quote: Paparazzi are NOT photographers, but leeches on society
What makes someone a photographer?
It isn't just speeding, it's chasing. You can say the person being chased creates the situation, but that's a croc of bullshit. If the pap didn't initiate the chase, the prey wouldn't have reason to speed. Of course, charge the person being chased because they were a danger to others and themselves; but surely any fool can see who the criminal is here. People die as a result of high speed chases, and many times it is some innocent bystander. I say throw the book at the pap and teach them a lesson.
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MARANA - Dove Mountain is not only home to the world's best golfers this weekend, it's also home to some of the world's best hiking trails.
The Tortolita Mountains are a treasure trove for those looking to go "Hittin' the Trails". Beginner hikers can easily navigate the Wild Burro Trail and Tortolita Preserve, which are flat, rambling trails.
Those looking for a challenge can tackle much tougher hikes. Trails like Wild Mustang and Alamo Spring have a decent amount of elevation gain. Signs on the trails are color coded based on difficulty.
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'08 Alpine White BMW 135i 'vert - Stock.... for now.
'98 Black GTI VR6 - Not stock.
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February 2012, Vol. 135, No. 2
Book reviews
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How Does Teacher Pay Compare? Methodological Challenges and Answers. By Sylvia Allegretto, Sean P. Corcoran, and Lawrence Mishel, Washington D.C. Economic Policy Institute, 2004, 58 pp., $9.95/paperback.
Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers. By Jason Richwine and Andrew G. Biggs, Washington D.C. Heritage Foundation, 2011, 23 pp., Free.
Economists from two prominent Washington think tanks have published studies of teacher pay that rely heavily on BLS data. The reports are detailed, thorough, and reach completely different conclusions.
How Does Teacher Pay Compare? Methodological Challenges and Answers
How Does Teacher Pay Compare? takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which required a qualified teacher in every classroom. The authors begin by reviewing several earlier studies on the relationship between teacher pay and teacher quality and note that the evidence is mixed. They conclude that there is little evidence that teacher pay changes matter in the short run, but long run trends in teacher pay seem to track trends in teacher quality. They also point to studies that suggest that local considerations, such as student quality, are likely to be capitalized into wages as a compensating wage differential and that failing to account for differentials "confound estimates of the relationship between teacher pay and student outcomes."
The rest of the book is a detailed, critical review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS) and National Compensation Survey (NCS) data on teachers. The authors use the CPS Outgoing Rotation Group sample to measure teacher pay relative to other occupations over time but with a difference; they argue that the Census Bureau's imputation procedures used for nonresponse adjustment biases the results against teachers because "teachers are assigned wages that are too high and non-teaching professionals are assigned wages that are too low." They also state that the growing problem of nonresponse (affecting all surveys, not just CPS) changes the wage gap over time.
There is a short discussion of how teachers' summers off might be evaluated. Allegretto, Corcoran, and Mishel point out that additional leisure and potential income from summer employment likely overstates a measured wage disadvantage; concurrently, they acknowledge that some teachers use the time to acquire additional professional training or prepare for the next school year. The concept that teachers could enjoy additional leisure and/or potential income from employment outside their field is unique to teaching. In other professions, workers who are not working and not receiving pay are considered unemployed. Off-theclock time spent adding to professional skills is generally not considered employment either. In terms of wages, their analysis of CPS data shows that pay for all teachers eroded 13 percent between 1979 and 2003 after controlling for inflation, age, region, marital status and ethnicity. For women, the change was even larger—18 percent.
The authors then use skill level information from the NCS to identify 16 occupations with similar levels of knowledge, complexity, and supervision, and repeat the comparisons using the CPS data. The list includes most major professional occupational categories that require only a bachelor's degree. The two most populous jobs in the list are registered nurse and accountant. Neither these nor the other identified occupations are particularly like teaching. Only a couple of the jobs (technical writer and reporter) have communicating information as a primary duty and only the health care jobs on the list would normally be expected to work with children. The study does not make comparisons with other occupations that may be more like teaching, such as post secondary teachers, or even occupations with responsibilities for communicating information, such as sales or public relations. Their comparisons show that teacher wages fell 12 percent relative to those regarded as comparable occupations from 1983–2002.
Fringe benefits usually account for about 30 percent of total compensation, so the authors review the data on benefits to determine whether teachers get a "fringe benefit bias." NCS Employer Cost for Employee Compensation (ECEC) data are analyzed from 1994 and 2002 to get a sense of whether the benefit effect changes over time. Their findings illustrate that teachers generally receive lower bonus and vacation earnings than other professionals (attributable to fewer bonuses in the public sector and the shorter work year) but larger health and pension benefits. The larger health costs are due to the need for year round health insurance even though the work year may be only 9 months (the relative share of each benefit category does not change a great deal over the two time periods).
The final chapter is a comparison of CPS and NCS data. On an hourly basis, NCS shows much higher wages for teachers than the CPS and a much shorter work schedule. The authors believe these differences are a measurement problem with the NCS data:
"We investigated further the measurement and work time in the NCS and found that the measurement of work time for teachers is inconsistent with that of other workers and professionals. In fact, this different treatment of work time in the NCS appears to apply to nearly all occupations that do not have regular year round schedules, and it accounts for nearly all the discrepancy between the NCS and CPS measures of weekly and hourly wages."
The authors point out that several sources of data (including CPS) suggest that teachers work about 1.5 hours per day beyond the official scheduled work day. Allegretto, Corcoran, and Mishel review a number of other studies which indicate that the CPS estimate is at the lower end of what other studies say is "the real work schedule." Their conclusion is that "hourly or weekly wage data from the NCS (as given) should not be used to make comparisons between teachers and other occupations..."
In fact, this reviewer believes that the NCS measure is consistent. NCS calculates earnings based on the official work schedule for all occupations. It does so because the data are collected from employers who have no way of knowing how much unofficial time is worked. Normally this works well, but some occupations follow the work schedule less closely than others. Teachers are very unusual in the amount of unscheduled time they work.
Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers
In Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers, Jason Richwine and Andrew G. Biggs of the Heritage Foundation conclude "that public-school teacher salaries are comparable to those paid to similarly skilled private-sector workers, but that more generous fringe benefits for public-school teachers, including greater job security, make total compensation 52 percent greater than fair market levels " This suggests to them that teacher pay could be reduced without much harm to retention and that more effective teachers could be hired at a comparable cost.
As with the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study, Richwine and Biggs begin with CPS data. In this case, however, they use the Annual Social and Economic Supplement rather than the Outgoing Rotation Group used in the EPI study. There are a number of other differences that may be of interest to econometricians but their initial result is quite consistent despite using a different technique, time period, and dataset. They show a 19.3 percent wage disadvantage for teachers when they control for a number of demographic and human capital variables such as education, experience, gender, and race.
The authors argue that the result of their study reflects a lower value of an education degree: "Given the relative lack of rigor of education courses, many teachers have not faced as demanding a college curriculum as other graduates." They note that while teachers as a group score better than the national average on intelligence tests, they score below average among their college graduate peers. In order to learn more from the model, the authors replace the CPS dataset with the BLS National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that includes scores from the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) which they regard as "similar to a full-scale IQ test." Replacing education with the AFQT score in their regression eliminates the pay disparity for teachers.
The next part of the study looks at teachers who leave their profession for other jobs. Richwine and Biggs contend that teachers who are underpaid should be able to raise their salaries by changing jobs. They use data from the BLS Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to show that teaching to non-teaching job changes actually lead to a 3.1 percent decrease in pay, while non-teaching to teaching job changes lead to an 8.8 increase after controlling for variables such as age, education, and metropolitan area. The authors' analysis also indicates the value of teachers' benefits as more than 50 percent of total compensation, meaning the value of benefits is larger than their salaries (the ECEC puts the value of benefits at about 30 percent of total compensation).
The higher estimate comes from three adjustments to the ECEC data framework: 1) The authors argue that public sector organizations, such as school districts, enjoy relatively generous pension funding rules that allow the recipients to enjoy better benefits than the funding cost would suggest 2) They suggest that the public sector practice of providing retiree health insurance, the cost of which is not included in the ECEC, understates teacher compensation 3) They further contend that the ECEC does not properly account for the shorter work year of teachers.
The next section analyzes the value of teacher job security. Richwine and Biggs examine a report published by the BLS Office of Publications and Special Studies that examines unemployment rates for a list of occupations that Allegretto, Corcoran, and Mishel identify as similar to teaching. This report found that public school teachers had an unemployment rate of 2.1 percent during the period of 2005–2010 compared to 4.1 percent for non-teachers. The authors, relying on their earlier research, determine that the value of this extra job security is worth a compensating wage differential of about 8.6 percent of total compensation.
Interestingly, the final section of the report titled "How Much Should Teachers Be Paid?" never actually answers that question. It merely suggests that lowering teacher pay would free up resources for other areas, but explains that existing salary structures and union contracts may make that difficult. Richwine and Biggs recommend that greater flexibility be given to school administrators and suggest that a market driven pay-for-performance system will move teacher pay more in line with similarly skilled private sector employees.
Most compensation professionals and educators will likely find the EPI study more convincing. It uses standard measures that analysts will be comfortable with and the adjustments made to data are plausible and explained well. To their credit, its authors innovate when they attempt to use skill information from the NCS to create a data-driven approach to comparable occupations, albeit with limited success. They do not resolve the comparison issues of a 9-month work schedule but do provide some insight on teacher hours of work.
In this reviewer's opinion, the Heritage study raises a number of questions that deserve wider discussion, but overall it does not close the sale on the idea that teachers are actually overpaid. By first presenting a CPS result showing that teachers make less than most professionals and then arguing that intelligence (which has rarely, if ever, been used in compensation studies) should replace education in the model, the authors give the impression that they are shopping for data that give a particular result. The turnover data are genuinely interesting but do not really address the issue of whether teacher pay is at an appropriate level. The argument that school districts have a comparative advantage funding pensions might suggest that a relatively generous pension program is to be expected but it does not further the argument that overall compensation is too high. Finally, their point that ECEC does not account for the shorter work year when funding year round benefits is simply incorrect. Those adjustments are made and are reflected in the higher ECEC estimates of cost per hour actually worked.
Reviewing these studies helps one to understand why teacher compensation is such a controversial public policy question. Both sets of authors grapple with genuinely difficult technical issues and neither group settles the argument. Teaching is a unique occupation and any analysis of teacher pay must take that into account. It's harder than it sounds.
Carl F. Prieser
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Office of Compensation and Working Conditions
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