text: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Douglas Eadline wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Hey, I followed some links off the windoze $2000 site and came across > > some 32 way/64gb systems from Unisys! (Xenon) > > > > It would surely outperform a PC cluster and be WAY easier to program > > than today's beowulf software... Though I'm not sure about the price or > > linux compatability, these are really extreme. > > Maybe. Write some code, run benchmarks, get a price. This is what really > matters. You're being too generous, Doug;-). Permit me to rant just a moment (hit "d" now if my rants bore you:-): First of all, the statement is absurdly argumentative and hardly an attempt at serious discourse. Outperform a PC cluster at doing what? Outperform a PC cluster at doing computational fluid dynamics using code X is a specific quantifiable statement that can be falsified by means of an objective test, so it is an admissible hypothesis in a rational discussion. Outperform a PC cluster of comparable cost in completing my Monte Carlo work, no way in hell unless they are bloody giving the box(es) away (but still an admissible hypothesis as it can be -- easily -- falsified by tests). "Outperform a PC cluster" is meaningless from the beginning. My dog can outperform a PC cluster at eating chunks of dogfood. Probably (technically) smarter, too as my PC cluster never figured out how to drag a forty pound plastic box of chunks fifty feet out of my garage and worry it open in the yard. (Did I mention that my dog is a bit fat?) Way easier to program is even more absurd. In one sense it exactly as easy or difficult to program as it almost certainly is programmed using the same basic parallel environment and tools, for example, MPI. MPI is MPI is MPI -- that't the whole POINT of MPI. Cleanly written MPI code should both require about the same effort to develop for any parallel environment as the resulting code should in many cases be more or less transparently portable (again, that's the whole reason the interface library was created). Now there are, I admit, minor variants on "ease of programming". Maybe the windows interface to MPI is a bit easier to use, or the commercial MPI comes with a bigger better manual. On the other hand, if the big old Unisys box only allows a single user at a time to program (not an unreasonable hypothesis for an integrated big-iron style system), it might be a LOT more difficult for a team of programmers to write a parallel project on it -- they might have to buy a linux cluster just to enable the programming team access to a cluster environment for rapid code development and testing and prototyping by more than one person at a time. Then there are many possible opinions as to whether a Windows-based interface to a compiler and other code development tools is better or worse than the collection of programming tools available in linux. My own opinion (and I started using Microsoft compilers with version >>1<< of their PC-DOS Fortran, also got the first version of their C compiler, also got one of the first versions of their assembler, and for a brief while thought their QuickBasic compiler was the best programming environment the world has ever seen:-) is that I personally would rather have an unanesthasized appendectomy than use any of of the crufty, topheavy, impossibly poorly documented Windows compilers, while I find the linux/unix development tools extremely powerful for complex and simple tasks alike and extremely well documented. Still, I'm open minded enough to recognize that there are those who think the opposite, as long as they acknowledge that is a semantically null matter of opinion and not a real argument (which requires a falsifiable statement like "easier to program BECAUSE its windowing interface anticipates your needs and writes your subroutines for you three minutes before you realize that you'll need them.":-) The claim that the Unisys will be "way easier to program than a beowulf" is not falsifiable in any meaningful way, certainly not any more than "steak is way better than lobster" is. Some might find it so, some might not, and again, there is nothing concrete cited to base such a comparison on -- is MPI somehow easier/different on one than on the other? Are there statistics that show that project development time on the Unisys is less (on average) than the project development time on a PC/Linux cluster of comparable size (true beowulf or not)? I doubt it. I am therefore free to prefer lobster. Or linux. To conclude, there is indeed the (unknown) price. While lambasting linux because it doesn't run any big iron multiprocessor systems, why stop with the Unisys? There are Crays/SGI's, IBM SP's, Suns, and more out there contending for the big iron championship, all offering their own "superior" support, service, fancy value added program development tools, big memory, shared memory, fast disk, fast communication channels, fast CPUs, huge caches, or whatever else the sales groups of their manufacturers can convince you is true? Goodness, why does the beowulf concept exist at all, given that this has >>always<< been true? Because for many, if not most, people who use beowulf-style clusters it is NOT about the raw performance, it's NOT about the service, it's NOT about the warranty, or the CPU speed, or the size of memory, or any other single hardware feature of a parallel system, it's NOT about the ease of programming, it's NOT about the reliability of a big name. The only thing that matters to us (and to most folks making purchase and design decisions, even in the business world) is the ratio of (overall) performance to (overall) price on a system configuration that can accomplish the work that you wish to accomplish. It is (when you get right down to it) the PRICE that matters most of all. Given several alternatives all of which meet or exceed a specification, we like to minimize PRICE because that way we can use all that lovely leftover money for something else. True, a proper comparison of the cost includes the cost of downtime, maintenance, warranty, service and all of that, but there is a tremendous body of evidence in the list archives that these factors favor linux clusters, overall, by as much as an order of magnitude. If one likes argumentative statements (that might still be falsifiable with enough effort) I'll bet that this list alone is a better resource for serious parallel program developers than all the Microsoft cluster staff put together (including their best developers) and stuck on the service lines. If you post a serious technical question to the list, you often get the answer or some help that can lead you to the answer in minutes to hours. For free. With the sources handy, you can sometimes even FIX things the same day all by yourself. In that much time, if you had some good luck with the phones you might actually have a ticket from an unnamed by very large commercial service provider, and a week later you might get the attention of one of their "experts" on staff. On the all important price to performance RATIOS, beowulf and simple cluster designs typically beat equivalent big iron by a factor of 3-10 (or even more), for problems where either solution can be used. This includes all costs -- hardware, software, code development, service -- not just the iron itself, as any of a variety of turnkey vendors will contractually cover you as tightly as Microsoft itself ever could. In fairness (and to keep Walter happy:-) there may well be a subset of the (fine grained/synchronous) "accessible parallel problem space" that is still accessible to big iron solutions and inaccessible even to a high end beowulf design, although some work I've seen presented by Greg Lindahl convinces me that this region is a lot smaller than most folks even on this list (but probably NOT Walter:-) realize, with the big iron-win region under constant siege as COTS hardware and the linux software continues to develop and prices continue to drop. A high end alpha/myrinet beowulf, built and tuned by experts, continues to be pretty damn competitive with big iron even on fine grained problems and still is considerably cheaper. Therefore, do I really care if Unisys has a really big, undoubtedly really really expensive multiprocessor system (probably developed for the webserver or DB server marketplace, where pockets are deep and where certain bottlenecks are unimportant)? Not really. As I said, unless they are selling it at the same price/CPU as the cheapest systems on the market it won't be price beneficial to ME, as MY work is embarrassingly parallel to merely coarse grained and scales way, way past 32 CPUs even on a 10 Mbps network. To me (and to many people on the list) the Unisys is a (figurative) apple. I need oranges. There is no way to even begin to compare the two and most definitely no way to condemn the one in favor of the other more meaningfully than the statement "I like oranges and hate apples" does. > > Linux REALLY REALLY sucks in a lot of ways... =( > > Well this is pretty much a general statement about many things :) It reminds me of an old Gary Larson cartoon. A man is standing on his front porch steps wearing a ratty tee shirt. His loving dog is looking up at him expectantly. The yard is a mess of ragged mowed strips and the lawnmower is sitting at the end of one of them. The caption: "You call that mowing the yard? Bad Dog! No Biscuit!" You call that an operating system? Bad Linus! No Biscuit! ;-) Rant terminated, I'll stop beating the dead, fat, bad dog now. Hope I didn't offend anybody. Too much, anyway:-) rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Haitians Turning to Christ, Abandoning Voodoo Practices 2 Years After Earthquake
Two years after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people in Haiti, Christianity is fast replacing Voodoo in the lives and practices of the people, a missionary has revealed.
According to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, there is a fusion of beliefs in Haiti – 80 percent of people profess to be Catholic, and another 16 percent are Protestant yet roughly half of the population still practices Voodoo.
However, it is no secret that Christianity has been expanding as a religion in Haiti – and a host of Christian missionaries and charity organizations who flew to the Caribbean nation to help the millions in desperate need have also contributed to a large conversion movement.
One such group, the Haiti Foundation of Hope, a Christian organization addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people in the impoverished rural communities of northern Haiti, has built a number of community health programs in local villages and has seen firsthand people giving up their Voodoo beliefs and turning to Christ.
"The background of the religious belief in Haiti has been Voodoo. This came from Africa, and has been integrated into Catholicism. My experience is that as Haitians have come to know the love of Christ, there has been a huge number of people who have left the Voodoo and turned to Christ," Linda Markee told The Christian Post. Markee is the secretary, board and founding member of the Haiti Foundation of Hope and has spent two years living and working in the Caribbean nation.
"After the earthquake especially, people were turning to the Lord. Every single person that was in Haiti felt the earthquake – it wasn't just people in Port-au-Prince that felt it. Everyone has been affected by it – most have lost family members. In a country where there is no real decentralization of the government – they all felt it. And I have seen people come to Christ, and have not gone back to Voodoo."
"Most of the people who are following the Voodoo know that the Voodoo gods have no power – and most of them see that they get nothing from Voodoo. As Christians have come to work in different villages, and especially those that start a Holistic ministry, there are some definite changes taking place," she continued.
Markee noted that while the country is growing more and more toward Christianity, there still exists a certain level of conflict between the Christian missionaries and people who are unwilling to accept the changes taking place.
"The conflict is going to come from the witch doctors, rather than from the people. In our village, one of the things we started was a community health program – we had three villages that were fairly close together – so we had 10 community health workers that we trained in these three villages."
"Last year, they heard about a woman that had a baby and suffered from a severe infection after the baby was born. She was dying – the baby too, because she had no milk, and was languishing in this hut of a witch doctor," the Haiti Foundation of Hope founding member said.
"Our community health workers heard about that – and they had to climb very high into the mountains (to reach the hut) and they had to confront the witch doctor. In years past, no one was able to confront a witch doctor – because there was so much fear. But they were able to talk to him and tell him that the woman needed to go to a clinic, or she was going to die," she continued.
"Finally, the witch doctor threw his arms in the air and said 'Fine, but if you leave here, you will die.' The workers, however, lifted the bed with the mother and the baby, and carried them down the mountains. They brought her to a hospital, where they gave her antibiotics, and she survived. I have seen her recently with her baby – they are both fine and are now church members."
According to Markee, there is such a strong movement of people in Haiti converting to Christianity because they have been affected by the missionaries and see the love of God through their work, and also because they realize that Voodoo has no real power.
"We have even had a woman at the village who was a witch doctor – it took time for her to convert, she was 70 years old, but she did convert and it was a wonderful, joyful time. And even before she converted – she admitted that they (Voodoo witch doctors) did not have the power of the Christian church – I think they know that," she concluded.


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International Business Courses
881-26500 International Business Operations NLA 1b,g
A survey of the major functional areas of managing international business operations. Emphasis is on how decisions are influenced by cultural, economic, financial, marketing, administrative, and legal conditions. Prerequisites: 306-12100; 306-12200; sophomore standing. Also offered at the Ithaca College London Center. Business majors who plan to study in London should confer with their faculty advisers early in their programs; otherwise, they may not be able to fulfill all program requirements in four years. 3 credits. (F,Y)
881-36000 International Management of Human Resources NLA
Discussion of structural, cultural, and legal implications of human resource management in multinational companies. Topics include different organizational structures for international operations and how firms from different nations manage their staffing, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, and labor relations. Prerequisites: 885-34000; junior standing. 3 credits. (IRR)
881-39700 Selected Topics in International Business NLA
See 880-39700. Offered on demand only. (IRR)
881-48000 Export-Import Operations NLA
Overview of the major considerations involved in the export-import process. Exploration of documentation, transportation, marketing, and finance of export and import operations. Discussion of legal aspects and legislative constraints confronting exporters and importers, along with governmental support programs, where available. Concentrates on the relevant issues in exporting from and importing into the United States; parallel examples from other countries are given where information is available. Prerequisites: 881-26500 or 884-38000; junior standing. 3 credits. (IRR)
881-49000 Seminar in International Business NLA
A capstone course in international business that analyzes a number of cases using knowledge and skills from previous courses in international business or those with global/comparative content. The main objective is to develop a clear understanding of problems and practices of decision making in international business operations. Prerequisites: 881-26500 and any other international business course; senior standing. 3 credits. (S,Y)
881-49700 Selected Topics in International Business NLA
See 880-39700. Offered on demand only. (IRR)
881-49800 Internship: Business NLA
See 882-49800. Also offered at the Ithaca College London Center by business discipline, using course numbers as follows: for accounting, 880-49800; for management, 882-49800; for finance, 883-49800; for marketing, 884-49800. Internships in London are limited to 3 credits. Business majors who plan to study in London should confer with their faculty advisers early in their programs; otherwise, they may not be able to fulfill all program requirements in four years. Pass/fail only. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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G's Top Albums of the Decade (Part 1)
This is the first of two installments on my favorite albums of the first decade of the 2000s. These albums are not in any particular order of greatness because I love them all. With the invention of the Ipod, we've developed musical ADD. The albums on this post and the next one (check back tomorrow) will make you want to throw your electronic devices in a tub filled with water and listen to albums in their entirety. Check out my list after the jump.


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February is such a short month I can hardly believe that it's time for our Lates with MasterCard again. But here we are and it's looking like a really fun line-up. This month we have our first late night opening of Extinction: Not the End of the World? our latest special exhibition taking a look at the role of extinction in the evolution of life.
I had the chance to look around it just before it opened and can honestly say I was blown away. There are some fantastic specimens and fascinating interactives, including videos on conservation work, voting booths where you can have your say on big questions relating to extinction and an extinction computer game (that I probably spent far too long playing!).
Special exhibitions usually sell out at Lates but if you book early and bag yourself a ticket I'd recommend you spend a bit of time reading messages on the 'wishing tree', a place designed for visitors to write down their thoughts about life on Earth and leave them for others to see.
Of course this month also is the time of year that we bid a fond farewell to Wildlife Photographer of the Year at Lates. This Friday is your last chance to see the amazing photos from this year's competition after hours so if you haven't seen it yet and would like to, this could be your chance. It's hard to choose a favourite image amongst such an impressive and diverse selection of photos but I think the one that stands out for me is the commended 'Relaxation' by Jasper Doest (below).
But Lates isn't all about the exhibitions. This month our Crazy Artistes are back to put your speed-sketching skills to the test with real Museum specimens. Find them in the galleries and see if you can draw a dinosaur skull or a badger in just ten minutes. They've been squirrelling away prizes from all over the Museum so who knows, you might even win something.
We've also got a truly fascinating discussion event taking place in the Museum's Restaurant. Addressing huge questions about extinction, this month's we'll be considering whether or not we could, or indeed should, bring extinct species back from the dead.
Bringing Back the Dead has three brilliant expert speakers and you'll be able to have your say and ask questions directly to the experts. Charlotte in our Nature Live team has been busy preparing the content and you can read more about it on the Nature Live blog here.
Once again, our increasingly popular open mic night will be returning in Central Hall. I'm getting more and more emails from musicians wanting to play and now spend most of my lunchtimes watching spectacularly talented people performing on YouTube. We've narrowed it down to our favourite eleven for this month and some of their videos are below. Make sure you check them out below.
So, if you're free on Friday (and even if you aren't) you should definitely pop along and visit us at Lates. We'd be delighted to see you there!
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Andy Glynn
Miranda Quammie is a singer, songwriter, piano player and native of Stoke Newington who combines elements of folk, classical and pop to captivating effect on her debut album, Tempest.
Acoustic London-based duo, August and After, weave abundant vocal harmonies onto a bed of intricate guitar arrangements and story-telling lyricism.
Ki Yoshi is a soulful singer-songwriter from Camden.
Australian born singer/songwriter/guitarist/ukulele enthusiast Angela Ashby brings joyful acoustic melodies with occasional rocking rhythms to your ears.
Hailing from the south coast, Tom Bradley blends his laid back beach sounds with his soulful vocals, drawing comparisons to the likes of Jack Johnson and Paolo Nutini. His songs range from reggae tinged summer anthems, to harmony-laden Fleetwood Mac throwbacks.
Winnet's background as ballet dancer and actress gives her a unique charismatic quality as a performer on stage, which compels her audiences and embellishes both the style and subject of each song. This coupled with her own individual vocal timbre marks her as a tremendous new comer to the business. An utter delight to watch.
Bluesy, big-voiced singer-songwriter Hayley Tucker writes songs with a story. Accompanying herself on her acoustic guitar, expect some folky soul with sass.
Ben Lim writes and sings songs, only to slow his inevitable transformation into a robot, by way of his day job.
Also playing is:
- Sophie Kilburn, a singer-songwriter originally from the Derbyshire Dales who describes her own unique style as a blend of Adele, Eva Cassidy and Lily Allen.
- Autumn Fox, an acoustic songwriter from Memphis Tennessee promising to bring a flavour of the south into folk / pop music
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The Original Star Wars Burlesque Parody is coming to Harvelle's Long Beach for the first time ! This internationally critically acclaimed show has been running for 7 years in Hollywood and has travelled worldwide .
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UConn Hosts Colgate In Second Game Of The Night
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A busy first week of the season continues when the Bulldogs travel to Storrs, Conn., for the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-off. Yale plays Hofstra on Monday night at 6:30 p.m. and then either Colgate or UConn on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs, who dropped their season opener to Sacred Heart 92-86 on Friday at the inaugural Connecticut 6 Classic, are guaranteed four games in the NIT. They will play two more games next week after hosting Quinnipiac on Saturday. Yale will be making its second appearance in the Preseason NIT. The Bulldogs led No. 1-ranked UConn at halftime before dropping a 70-60 decision to open the 2003-04 season. Senior Alex Zampier had a memorable opening night this year, scoring 35 points against the Pioneers, the most by a Yale player since Butch Graves had 39 against Harvard in 1983. Yale features a number of new faces in the starting lineup from last year's team that finished in a tie for second place in the Ivy League. Seven different players had career-highs in points against Sacred Heart and five players had the most minutes of their careers. The Bulldogs, who were 13-15 overall last year, have finished in the top half of the Ivy League in each of the last nine years.
Yale and Hofstra are playing for the first time since 1995, a 60-54 Bulldog win in New Haven. The Pride, though, leads the all-time series 3-2. This will be the second time the teams have played at a neutral site. Hofstra edged Yale 52-51 at the 1993 Lapchick Tournament at St. John's. The Bulldogs haven't played UConn since the 2003 NIT game. The Huskies hold a 43-21 edge in the series. Yale and Colgate last played in 2001, an 87-75 Red Raider win. The Bulldogs are 18-7 all-time against Colgate.
The Pride (0-1) had about a tough a
season-opener as is possible, taking a trip to Allen Fieldhouse to
play Kansas. The Jayhawks topped Hofstra 101-65. Charles Jenkins
scored 18 of his team-high 23 points in the second half to pace the
Pride. Hofstra finished 21-11 last year, its fourth 20-win season
in the last five years. The Pride was picked to finish sixth in the
Colonial Athletic Association in a preseason vote of the league's
coaches, sports information directors and media representatives.
The 12th-ranked Huskies opened the season with a
75-66 victory over William & Mary on Friday night. Jerome Dyson
scored 27 points and added eight assists to lead UConn. The Huskies
have a record of 126-17 in regular season contests at Gampel
Pavilion since it opened in 1990.
The Red Raiders will be playing their season opener on Monday against UConn. Colgate was picked fifth in the 2010 Patriot League preseason coaches and sports information directors poll. The Raiders made the Patriot League semifinals for the second straight time last season and have five starters back in the lineup. That group includes the top three scorers from last year, as Mike Venezia (10.8 ppg), Ben Jonson (10.4) and Yaw Gyawu (10.2) all averaged in double figures.
The Bulldogs were picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released on Oct. 28 during a media teleconference. Yale has finished higher than projected in three of the last four years. Two-time defending champion Cornell is the overwhelming favorite. The Big Red received all 16 first-place votes. Princeton is second followed by Penn and Harvard. Columbia (sixth), Brown and Dartmouth round out the poll. The Bulldogs, who finished in a tie for second place with Princeton last year, lose four starters but return Alex Zampier, an honorable mention All-Ivy selection. Zampier led the Ivy League in free throw percentage (.848) and was eighth in scoring (13.2 ppg.) and second in steals (1.6 per game). In addition, Yale welcomes back four other players who averaged at least 10 minutes per game.
2009-10 Ivy League Men's Basketball Preseason Media Poll1. Cornell - 128 points (16 first-place votes) 2. Princeton - 96 3. Penn - 92 4. Harvard - 86 5. Yale - 59 6. Columbia - 55 7. Brown - 41 8. Dartmouth - 19
James Jones has made quite an impact on the Yale basketball program. In 10 seasons, Jones has guided Yale to success not seen in New Haven in 40 years. In 2001-02, Jones led the Bulldogs to their first Ivy League title since 1962-63 and the first postseason tournament victory in the 107-year history of Yale basketball. The team won 21 games, the second most in the modern era of Yale basketball, and reached the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. Jones, the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League, earned his 100th victory at Yale when the Bulldogs beat Columbia on Feb. 9, 2007. He is only the fourth coach in school history with at least 100 wins. His overall record at Yale is 130-149, including a 77-63 (.550) mark in Ivy games. The Bulldogs have won at least 10 Ivy games twice during his tenure and have had a .500 or better record in league play in each of the last nine years. Three assistant coaches who worked under Jones have gone on to become head coaches - Isaiah Cavaco (Oberlin), Mark Sembrowich (Academy of Arts University) and Mark Gilbride (Clarkson).Jones served as an assistant coach to Villanova's Jay Wright for the 2007 USA Basketball Men's Pan American Games Team.
Six Yale graduates, all coached by James Jones, are currently playing professional basketball. Edwin Draughan '05 (FOS Ouest, France), Dominick Martin '06 (Illescas CLM, Spain), Matt Kyle '08 (Tunisia), Eric Flato '08 (Plymouth Raiders, England) and Ross Morin '09 (SAM Massagno, Switzerland) are playing overseas, while Travis Pinick '09 was was selected in the eighth round of the 2009 NBA D-League Draft by the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Pinick is currently in camp trying to earn one of 10 roster spots on the D-Fenders.
• The 2009-10 schedule features 31 regular season games, including 12 in the friendly confines of the John J. Lee Amphitheater. It will mark the most games Yale has played in a season since 2001-02 when the Bulldogs finished 21-11.
• The Bulldogs will be making their second appearance in the Preseason NIT. Yale fell to No. 1 ranked UConn in the tournament to open the 2003-04 season. The Bulldogs are guaranteed four games in this year's tournament.
• The game with Quinnipiac on Nov. 21 will cap a busy day on the Yale campus. The 126th edition of the Yale-Harvard football game will be played at noon at Yale Bowl. Yale and Quinnipiac have met only once before, an 87-69 Bobcat win in 1999 in the Phoenix Classic at the Hartford Civic Center.
• Senior Alex Zampier has a homecoming when the Bulldogs visit Albany on Jan. 3. Zampier, an East Greenbush, N.Y., native, graduated as the second all-time leading scorer at Columbia High School with 1,381 points. Yale head coach James Jones is a 1996 Albany graduate. He played for and coached with the legendary Dr. Richard Sauers, one of only seven coaches to win more than 700 games.
• The Bulldogs open the 14-game Ivy League schedule at home against Brown on Jan. 15. Three of Yale's first four Ivy games will be at Lee Amphitheater.
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Perrin Park is a local park with great facilities for kids. Located in the inner-city suburb of Toowong, there are bicycle tracks, picnic areas, a rebound wall and a playground with a pedal powered cars on on a circular track. There is also an area for dogs to be let off their leashes.


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CLARK, NJ –Four Cuts for Women clubs will be the first and only women's express circuit facilities to use the new Kinesis products by Technogym. Cuts for Women are the franchised facilities launched by Cuts for Men founder John Gennaro. The clubs will open in mid November—two in New Jersey and one each in Ohio and Georgia—and will offer the traditional cardio workout combined with hydraulic strength training equipment. However, the facilities will add a third-element: Kinesis equipment by Technogym.
According to Technogym's Web site, Kinesis uses "four panels of grips, cables and weight stacks patented by Technogym as 'Full Gravity Technology,' [to] allow for 360-degree, three-dimensional resistance-based multi-plane motion."
This added third element comes with a price. The women's facility startup costs are $69,950, which is $30,000 more than the Cuts Fitness for Men start-up costs. The men's facilities don't use the Kinesis products, but that could change in the future. Gennaro will be testing the Kinesis system at his corporate men's facility early next year. If it works in his club, he may offer Kinesis to current and new men's facility franchisees.
Cuts for Women has a limited-time, exclusive agreement with Technogym to be the only women's circuit facility franchise using the Kinesis products. Once the clubs prove the usefulness of the equipment in their facilities, the equipment could be available to other women-only fitness facility franchises.
The co-ed Atlantic Clubs in New Jersey and some Equinox facilities already use the Kinesis equipment in their clubs, charging extra for members to use the equipment.


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Welcome to the Cambria Historical Society website. Cambria's history reflects the fascinating story of the American West. It's full of tales about the lives of cowboys, miners, merchants and more. Our website is a place to share many of the priceless stories and photos we have collected over the years from Cambria pioneer families. We're happy to make their inspiring recollections available online for you to enjoy any time you choose. And, we will add to them periodically, so keep coming back for more.
Visit The Cambria Museum
Sharing Cambria's heritage is an important mission of the Cambria Historical Society. For one thing, that heritage belongs to you. With help from the community and visitors to Cambria, we purchased and restored the Guthrie-Bianchini House as Cambria's museum of history for everyone, young and old, to explore and enjoy. Come in and meet the pioneers who have inspired us with the tenacity and energy that reflects America's heritage and values. Our docents and exhibits will take you on a fascinating journey.
The Cambria Historical Museum is located in the heart of Cambria's East Village at 2251 Center Street. New Museum Hours: Friday — Sunday, 1 - 4 p.m., Monday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tour our historic home, learn from our exhibits and relax in our garden. The museum, and Cambria's history, is yours to enjoy.
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Recommending a lung cancer screening
When Charles Hoffman went to see Dr. Laura Howard for a routine checkup, he felt fine. Little did he know that within weeks he would be diagnosed with lung cancer and undergo a lobectomy at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.
"Dr. Howard mentioned that I was a candidate for a new lung screening program," says Charles. "I quit smoking 10 years ago, and I didn't have any symptoms that concerned me, but I thought 'why not?' Better safe than sorry."
Charles' CT screening at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital unfortunately showed stage 1 lung cancer.
"I had no pain, no cough, nothing to indicate a problem," says Charles. "I am so grateful that they were able to spot it so quickly."
After discovering the tumor, the doctors removed it in less than a month. Dr. Christopher Willms, a thoracic surgeon at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, performed Charles' minimally invasive lobectomy. Catching the cancer early meant that Charles didn't require follow up radiation or chemotherapy treatments.
"If Charles hadn't had a CT scan, he could've gone for another year or more before having symptoms, and the cancer would've spread," explains Dr. Willms. "Most patients who have lung cancer don't get diagnosed until they are in the more advanced stages, when the cancer is much more difficult to treat or may not be treatable at all. Studies have shown a decrease in deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent when screenings catch it early."
Charles was pleased with the attentiveness of his doctors and staff, and also with the speed of his care.
"The doctors answered every question and made sure we understood our options. I had no fears at all, he says."
Catching the cancer early meant that Hoffman did not require any follow up radiation or chemotherapy treatments.
Dr. Howard, Charles' primary care physician, continues to speak to patients about the screenings during annual checkups:
"It's so important for Medicare patients to come in and get their annual wellness visits," she says. "It's a time for us to review what screenings patients are eligible for or due for. That was the case with Charlie, and I'm so glad that his cancer was caught, and he's doing so well."


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2 Injured, 1 Arrested After ATV Crash Near Garretson
A Garretson man was cited for drunk driving after an ATV crash around 9:30 Tuesday night.
The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Dusty Neal Risty was driving the ATV on a rural road just south of Garretson when he lost control and the vehicle rolled.
Risty and a 26-year-old passenger were thrown from the ATV.
Neither was wearing a helmet.
Risty was flown to a Sioux Falls hospital with serious injuries.
His passenger was taken to a Sioux Falls hospital by Garretson Ambulance, also with serious injuries.
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Residual Data on Used Equipment
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Used hard drives are frequently a good source of images for testing forensic tools. That's because many individuals, companies and organizations neglect to properly sanitize their hard drives before they are sold on the secondary market.
You can find used hard drives on eBay, at swap meets, yard sales, and even on the street.
Newsworthy Used Hard Drive Stories
There have been several incidents in which individual have purchased a large number of hard drives and written about what they have found. This web page is an attempt to catalog all of those stories in chronological order.
- 2003-01: Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat at MIT publish a study in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine which documents large amount of personal and business-sensitive information found on 250 drives purchased on the secondary market.
- 2006-06: A man buys a family's hard drive at a fleamarket in Chicago after the family's hard drive is upgraded by Best Buy. Apparently somebody at Best Buy violated company policy and instead of destroying the hard drive, they sold it. Target 5 Investigation
- 2006-08-10: The University of Glamorgan in Wales purchased 317 used hard drives from the UK, Australia, Germany, and the US. 25% of the 200 drives purchased from the UK market had been completely wiped. 40% of the purchased drives didn't work. 40% came from businesses, of which 23% contained enough information to identify the company. 5% had business sensitive information. 25% came from individuals, of which many had pornography, and 2 had to be referred to the police for suspected child pornography.
- 2006-08-14: News.com reports on a BBC Real Story program which discussed the sale of bank account information being sold in Nigeria. The identities of British citizens, scavenged from used PC hard drives, are reportedly sold for £20 each. The PCs had apparently come from recycling points run by UK town councils.
- 2006-08-15: Simson Garfinkel presents results of a study of 1000 hard drives (750 working) at the 2006 Workshop on Digital Forensics. Results of the study show that information can be correlated across hard drives using Garfinkel's Cross Drive Analysis approach.
- 2007-02-06: Fulcrum Inquiry, a Los Angeles litigation support firm, purchased 70 used hard drives from 14 firms and discovered confidential information on 2/3rds of the drives.


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To promote my horror novel, AFRAID, which debuts March 31, I'm appearing on different blogs every single day in March.
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In 1989 I published a book about a plutonium-producing nuclear complex in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. The plant is called Sellafield now. In 1957, when it was the site of the most serious nuclear accident then known to have occurred, the plant was called Windscale. While working on the book, I learned from reports in the British press that in the course of normal functioning it released significant quantities of waste—plutonium and other transuranic elements—into the environment and the adjacent sea. There were reports of high cancer rates. The plant had always been wholly owned by the British government. I believe at some point the government bought it from itself. Privatization was very well thought of at the time, and no buyer could be found for this vast monument to dinosaur modernism.
Back then, I shared the American assumption that such things were dealt with responsibly, or at least rationally, at least in the West outside the United States. Windscale/Sellafield is by no means the anomaly I thought it was then. But the fact that a government entrusted with the well-being of a crowded island would visit this endless, silent disaster on its own people was striking to me, and I spent almost a decade trying to understand it. I learned immediately that the motives were economic. What of all this noxious efflux they did not spill they sold into a global market.
Last fall, a court filing in the Eastern District of Virginia inadvertently suggested that the Justice Department had indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other outlets reported soon after that Assange had likely been secretly indicted for conspiring with his sources to publish classified government material and hacked documents belonging to the Democratic National Committee, among other things.
Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city's most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall frequently since its opening two years before, but the local precinct usually tipped off the management and arrived in the early evening. This time they came unannounced, during peak hours. They swept through the bar, checking I.D.s and arresting anyone wearing attire that was not "appropriate to one's gender," carrying out the law of the time. Eyewitness accounts differ on what turned the unruly scene explosive. Whatever the inciting event, patrons and a growing crowd on the street began throwing coins, bottles, and bricks at the police, who were forced to retreat into the bar and call in the riot squad.
The squat warehouse at Miami's 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses—shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot—twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
When I first arrived at the warehouse on a sunny morning last May, a dozen pickup trucks and U-Hauls were waiting outside, piled high with used furniture. Nearby, rows of vehicles awaiting export were crammed together along a dirt strip separating the street from the shipyard, where a stately blue cargo vessel was being loaded with goods.
In Lore Segal's short story "The Reverse Bug," a teacher named Ilka Weisz invites her conversational English class to a panel at a Connecticut think tank: "?'Should there be a statute of limitations on genocide?' with a wine and cheese reception." The class is made up of immigrants to the United States. Although Segal doesn't give a date, we are to understand that most came several decades earlier as a result of World War II: Gerti Gruner, who recently arrived in the United States from Vienna, by way of Montevideo, and can't stop talking about her lost cousins; the moody Paulino from La Paz, whose father disappeared in the American Consulate; and the mysterious Japanese Matsue, who tells them that he worked in a Munich firm "employed in soundproofing the Dachau ovens so that what went on inside could not be heard on the outside." He's since been working at the think tank on a "reverse bug," a technological device that brings sound from the outside in. The class takes advantage of his poor English to ignore what he is saying.
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The dirty little secret about Final Cut Pro X are the revisions. I didn't jump on board on FCPX-D-day when many average editors and all the machine operators cried about there precious tools death. I laughed, I blogged and like in any situation I didn't panic. Panic is your enemy, in post especially. I took it easy, tried it and said to myself "wow this is crap". Like Robert Deniro in Wag the Dog said so eliquently, "They just didn't think it through".
I put it on the shelf and prep...
December 17, 2015, 11:13 am
Anybody can edit. Yes, anybody can do it. It's not particularly hard to get your hands on the tools to stitch two images together these days (thanks Steve Jobs) and we have all grown up with TV, movies and now streaming media.
June 23, 2014, 9:03 am
I have blogged about shortcut keys in the past and I am of the camp that customization is more productive than using default keyboard layout, if you primeraly mouser this is probably not something that you need to read since your riding a horse and carriage in a Nascar race. When I was recently on the FCPXGRILL I got lots of great feedback but the squeaky comment creates the most thought provoking. The honorable Chairman Meow had a reaction to my "normal" that made me re-examine a cho...
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Here is the last of my letter "R" Blogs, don't ask me why the letter "R".Rarely in our business do have a chance to produce something that has a one-to-one effect on people. However, this project I could bring what we do best, entertain; and on top of that, this might actually help and educate new dads about being a 21st century father.So, 2014 started with a bang, 3 and a little 1/2 projects, back to back, with lots of overlap,very busy at the Gorilla Productions. The one, I want to fo...
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If your feeling all alone as you edit successfully with FCPX on a professional level, you feel like your going afile:///Users/intelrilla/Desktop/grilljpeg2.pnggainst the grain, your the "Lone wolf" aka Bobba fett and everyone around you is snickering at your screen, well you should be listening to FCPX GRILL hosted by Chris Fenwick. Can't remember how I stumbled on the podcast but I did and became instantly a fan. Every week he has an ongoing conversations about the future of post prod...
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Recently, one of my old time clients moved out there office building in downtown Toronto and it got me thinking about location, location, location of work and do you need to have an official office space. And, completely unrelated, recently lnkedin sent me an and anniversary notification, 15 years of Gorilla productioning full time, creating some pretty compelling content that is most of the time on the creative, interesting and challenging. Time flies when your own boss (and you the only em...
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One tool all good editors and post people should have troubleshooting skills. If you don't, "...your part of the problem and not the solution…" as John McLane would scream.
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It has been a slow rise to Award Winning power but The Guidestones has been on a winning streak for the last six months ending with an International Emmy earlier this year. But wait what about post?Well we got ours last Thursday night at the CCE Awards. The Editing Team got an nod when it got the nomination a few months ago but we won a CCE award for best Editing in a Live Action Webseries.
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Since 1983, the "Old Gang" from Albertville High School has met to play golf once a year.
Since 1983, the "Old Gang" from Albertville High School has met to play golf once a year.
At first, they were the "Aggie Dozen," but over the years the number has started to dwindle. The thing they had in common was that they were teammates on the high school football team — all but one, the principal's son. They all graduated in 1959, sans one, who was a grade behind. But he matched the others age-wise and talent-wise.
Aging, passing and various health issues have narrowed the golfers to a foursome. Teeing it up last week were Pat Courington Jr., Charles McPherson, Roger Williams and Benny Trammell.
Last Saturday night, the late Charley Pell was one of the eight men inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Naturally, his old buddies wanted to be present. So Randy Jones suggested they move their annual golf outing up a week and play it at Shoal Creek, where he is a member and could arrange a tee time.
"We thought that would be a good idea, since we'd be going to Birmingham anyway," said Courington, whose only other opportunity to play that plush course had been rained out.
McPherson owns a place on Lay Lake right outside of Wilsonville and invited the guys to spend the weekend with him. They agreed. One of them rented a van and they drove up to golf on Thursday, then went back up to the induction ceremonies Saturday night. They were joined at the inductions by eight other former football teammates.
"It was just great to see Charley go into that Hall of Fame. I think he was a good enough coach to get in," Cournington said.
He also told about when they were seniors in high school.
"Charley was the regular halfback and sometimes played a little on defense," he began. "Well, one game he was hurt and Jack Decker replaced him in the lineup. Jack had a really good game and the Post-Herald had him as its top back. It just about killed Charley, who was always very competitive."
Another story has been told about a recruiting meeting that was held once at the Reich Hotel in Gadsden. Alabama coach Paul Bryant was looking at films of prospects in the area with boosters who were helping in recruiting. One booster pointed out Decker to Bryant.
"Nah, I don't want him, I want that kid, No. 31," Bryant said. No one at the time knew who it was, but they quickly discovered it was Pell and signed him. He wound up as a starting lineman on the 1961 National Championship team.
Cournington said all the players who graduated high school with Pell who were physically able to attend were at the induction banquet. "I think there were 12 of us there and we were mighty proud," he added.
Pell's two sons, Charles Jr., and Carrick, his daughter, Sloan, and wife, Ward, also were there sharing in the honoring of their dad. One son looks exactly like his father and has his name. The other son is following him as a coach.
Chas, the oldest son, is the look-a-like. Carrick, the youngest, is the head rugby coach at Babson College just outside of Boston, Mass.
"Mom wanted me to coach football, but I've always liked rugby, which is 80 minutes of running and tackling without pads," Carrick said. "I once played on teams at Jacksonville State and in Birmingham, but dad's name is so big down here, especially in Florida, that I wanted to get out from under his shadow, so I moved to Boston."
He plays for the Boston Mystic River Rugby team, which was in the Sweet 16 national playoff bracket over the weekend. He does that in addition to coaching the Babson "Biz-E-Beavers," whose mascot is named Rosie.
Carrick enrolled at Jacksonville State, where his father once coached, when he left the Marines. That's where he became interested in rugby. When he went back in the service, the Air Force this time, he played on a rugby team.
Charley Pell got to see his son play rugby before he passed away, but never knew he would become a head coach. But the father would be proud of his son, so long as he coaches hard and coaches to win.
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Commencement 1997
SOCORRO, N.M., May 9, 1997 -- New Mexico Tech celebrated its 101st commencement, awarding 14 Ph.D.s, 74 masters degrees, 171 bachelor's degrees, and 12 associates degrees.
Tech's top award to a graduate student, the Founders Award, was presented to Alison Peck, who received a master's degree in physics. She was selected for the award for her outstanding contribution in scholarship, research, and involvement in campus affairs. Peck was an active participant in the reorganization of the Graduate Student Association, was active on a committee selecting a new graduate dean of the university, and was twice the recipient of the Physics Deaprtment's Leslie Fallon Award for excellence in research.
Peck has accepted a pre-doctoral fellowship with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro.
Peck is the daughter of Dr. Elizabeth Peck of Kearney, Nebraska. She is a graduate of South Kingstown High School in Peacedale, RI.
Tech's top award to an undergraduate student, the Brown Award, was presented to Lester Hutt, who also received bachelor's degrees in chemistry and biology with highest honors. He was selected for outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service. Hutt, a 1993 graduate of Manzano High School in Albuquerque, received a bachelor's degree in chemistry with highest honors from New Mexico Tech. Hutt has played a leadership role in Tech's chapter of Tri Beta, the national biology honorary society. In 1996, his junior research project, "Gene Suppression in Tobacco," took third place in a regional convention sponsored by Tri Beta. Earlier this year, Hutt's senior research project on "Heavy Metal Remediation by Salt Cedar" took first place at the same convention. Hutt will be attending graduate school at U. C. Berkeley.
The Cramer Awards, to the top male and female students in engineering, went to Kenneth Moreland and Karen Stafford-Brown. The award honors Tom Cramer, an engineer and a member of the Tech Board of Regents for 26 years.
Moreland, a 1992 graduate of Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, graduated with two bachelor's degrees, one in electrical engineering and one in computer science. Moreland is the son of Larry and Brooke Moreland of Albuquerque.
Stafford-Brown is a graduate of East Anchorage High School in Anchorage, AK. She received a degree in environmental engineering with highest honors. She is the daughter of Rita and Robert Stafford of Anchorage.
New Mexico Tech presented its Distinguished Research Award to Dr. Lawrence Werbelow, professor of chemistry. Dr. Werbelow is known for his pioneering work in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Werbelow, who has been at New Mexico Tech since 1980, was nominated by fellow researchers, who described him as a unique voice in the world of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Following unconventional paths, he solved problems that many other scientists considered to be intractable and predicted unexpected effects that were later borne out by experiment.
Werbelow's most significant contribution to physical chemistry has been to more clearly describe interference effects and other features of the properties of nuclear magnetism. He further developed various "Relaxation Induced Polarization Transfer" (RIPT) methodologies that have found useful applications in the chemical, physical and life sciences.
In addition to 80 or so research publications, he has presented approximately 100 papers and/or posters at meetings, colloquia, workshops and conferences and an additional 200 lectures at various universities and research facilities worldwide. His work is regarded as seminal, widely cited in the literature and quoted at meetings.
Although he is a theoretician, Werbelow has collaborated extensively with experimentalists. He has held visiting faculty appointments at universities in Nantes, Paris, and Nancy (all in France), Stockholm and Graz, Austria, and was professeur première classe at the Université d'Aix Marseille - a position rarely made accessible to non French scientists. He has been a consultant at Los Alamos continuously since 1981.
Werbelow received his undergraduate degree from Humboldt State University, Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of British Columbia and a D.Sc. in organic chemistry from the Université de Provence, in France.
Werbelow resides in Socorro with his wife, Catherine, and their three children, Prisca (14), Guilhem (11), and Neil, (10). Currently, he is holding a newly created visiting distinguished professorship at Arrhenius Laboratory in Sweden.
The Distinguished Teaching Award went to Dr. Paul Fuierer, associate professor of materials engineering. Paul came to New Mexico Tech from Penn State, where he earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees in solid state science. He received his bachelor's degree in ceramic engineering from Alfred University in 1984. In 1992, Paul joined New Mexico Tech's Department of Materials Engineering, where he has just been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor.
Paul's students described his courses as "labor intensive" but added that they emerge from these courses with great confidence that they know the subject matter. One student said, "This course synthesizes fundamentals of math and physics with the science of materials very elegantly. Although the organization of the course is not conventional, it is very logical."
The New Mexico Tech Alumni Association presented two awards to distinguished alumni. The first went to Dr. Rafi Al-Hussaini of Mobil Oil Corp., for research in the areas of oil and gas recovery. Dr. Al-Hussainy came to New Mexico Tech in 1960, after having earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics in Baghdad, Iraq. It took him only two years to earn a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from New Mexico Tech, graduating in 1962. Dr. Al-Hussainy went on to earn his master's and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University.
Since 1966, Dr. Al-Hussainy has had a distinguished career with Mobil Oil Corporation. Since 1994, he has been a Senior Consultant with Mobil's Exploration and Producing Technical Center in Dallas, the highest technical position within that division.
During the period 1965 to 67, Dr. Al-Hussainy significantly advanced the science of real gas flow in porous media, by reducing a second-order, non-linear differential equation with variable coefficients to a linear equation. This immediately made a large body of liquid flow solutions available to understand gas flow problems. This concept has become the industry standard in gas well testing, gas reservoir management, and gas production for the past 25 years.
In addition, Dr. Al-Hussainy made important contributions to the solution of problems in the areas of water influx in gas reservoirs; wellbore storage, the skin effect, and type-curve analysis; and estimated average reservoir pressure. He also pioneered the concept and practices of reservoir management and made extensive contributions to practical aspects of oil and gas field development in the North Sea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Middle East. He has presented worldwide lectures on reservoir development, enhanced recovery, reservoir surveillance, and advanced in horizontal well applications.
The second Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement Award went to Dr. Saul J. Escalera, noted metallurgist, distinguished Fulbright scholar, and member of the Bolivian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Escalera is a leader in areas of metallurgy and mining in his native Bolivia. He is currently responsible for the Scientific and Technological Information Center at the School of Science and Technology of the Universidad de San Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he is also a tenured professor and does research in non-metallic mineral technology.
Saul came to New Mexico Tech with a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the Universidad Tecnica de Oruro in Bolivia. He earned two degrees at New Mexico Tech: a master's in metallurgical engineering in 1966 and a Ph.D. in metallurgy in 1971. After graduation, Saul worked in both the United States and Brazil before returning to his native Bolivia in 1982.
In October 1995, Saul was appointed a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia for "significant contributions to the fields of chemistry and metallurgy in the nation" in recognition of his more than 35 research papers, two U. S. patents, and seven academic textbooks published in Bolivia.
Dr. Escalera was chosen as one of 25 outstanding Fulbright scholars who were honored with an award on June 30, 1996, in honor of the Fiftieth anniversary of the Fulbright Distinguished Fellows Program. As part of the celebration, Saul was invited by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to give the summary address at the closing of the Fifth World Congress of Chemical Engineering in July 1996 in San Diego, Calif. He is also the principal editor of the proceedings of the Congress.
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Bradley Manning's treatment focus of WikiLeaks hearing
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Bradley Manning, the Army private charged in the biggest security breach in US history, is trying to avoid trial by saying he has been punished enough by being locked up alone in a small cell and having to sleep naked for several nights.
A UN investigator called the conditions cruel, inhuman, and degrading but stopped short of calling it torture.
Manning is expected to testify about his treatment during a pretrial hearing Tuesday at Fort Meade.
The intelligence analyst has not spoken publicly about his nearly nine months at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., but he has complained in writing about being confined alone in a 6-by-8-foot cell for at least 23 hours a day. For several days in January 2011, all his clothes were taken from him each night until he was issued a suicide prevention smock.
The hearing is scheduled to run through Sunday.
Manning is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
The 24-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., allegedly told a confidant-turned-informant in an online chat in 2010 that he leaked the information, saying: ''I want people to see the truth.''


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In a galaxy somewhere near Hollywood, things are happening right now -- things involving "Star Wars: Episode VII" and Lawrence Kasdan.
According to an announcement on the starwars.com website on Thursday, writing duties for the upcoming installment will be taken over by director J.J. Abrams and Kasdan, the latter previously just a consultant on the project. Kasdan had earlier co-written the "Star Wars" entries "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" but had mostly worked on indie pictures in recent years. (He had been writing one of the stand-alone spin-off movies that's part of the larger scheme to revive the "Star Wars" franchise.)
Abrams and Kasdan take over for screenwriter Michael Arndt, an Oscar winner for his "Little Miss Sunshine" and the writer of the animated blockbuster "Toy Story 3." Though Arndt had previously been a much ballyhooed addition to the project, the announcement seems to suggest his work will be overhauled by Abrams and Kasdan.
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said in a statement that "Arndt has done a terrific job bringing us to this point and we have an amazing filmmaking and design team in place already prepping for production.") It remains to be seen how the final story and writing credits shake out.
Shooting for "Star Wars: Episode VII" is scheduled to begin in spring of next year, which doesn't leave Kasdan and Abrams much time to finish their work on the screenplay, with a release set for 2015.
Though Kasdan had been on the spinoff film, Thursday's announcement moved the filmmaker back to center stage. It's a big move, particularly in light of the fact that the most recent film by the writer -- who also penned adventure tentpoles in a previous generation such as the original Indiana Jones film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- was 2012's little-seen intergenerational family dramedy "Darling Companion."
Kasdan's relationship with the earlier iteration of the franchise could be seen as either a sign of continuity to the new films, or as a filmmaking team scrambling to make sense of an increasingly sprawling storytelling universe.
Kennedy said in the statement that "There are very few people who fundamentally understand the way a 'Star Wars' story works like Larry, and it is nothing short of incredible to have him even more deeply involved in its return to the big screen."
Thursday's announcement also included a team of below-the-line technicians and craftspeople as well, including director of photography Dan Mindel, production designers Rick Carter and Darren Gilford, costume designer Michael Kaplan, special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, sound designer Ben Burtt, re-recording mixer Gary Rydstrom, supervising sound editor Matthew Wood, visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett. John Williams is returning to score "Star Wars: Episode VII." Burtt and Williams each received an Oscar for their work on the original 1977 "Star Wars."
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Identify herbicide-resistant soybeans
Randy Raque, an Ohio plant pathologist, has a procedure that identifies Roundup-resistant fields to help put an end to spraying nonresistant crops.
By blending about 1 to 3% of yellow soybean seed with Roundup-resistant seed, crops are "marked" Roundup Ready, as you plant.
As the yellow plants emerge, they act as identifiers when a field is ready to be sprayed; when Roundup is applied, the plants are eliminated and subsequently do not produce seed. (If yellow plants do survive, they will produce beans.
Raque is now in his third year of field testing and says retailers and seed companies are showing interest.
Bulk seed handling
Offered in limited testing quantities last year, Pioneer's ProBox bulk seed-handling system is now ready for your farm. The plastic container holds 2,500 lbs. of seed (50 seed bags) and can easily be transported to the field by using a forklift. A flow-control slide and center-drain hopper bottom allows just one person to remove seed. Seamless walls offer complete seed cleanout in 30 sec. Contact Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 1150, Johnston, IA 50131, 515/334-6908.
Soybean inoculant
After testing several new soybean inoculants, Ohio State University reports that with the added cost of $1 to $2/acre in inoculation, average yields show an increase of 3 bu./acre, or, according to Dr. Jim Beurlein, extension agronomist with the university, a profit for you of about $13/acre.
According to Beurlein, the product with the highest, most consistent results (with an average yield increase of 7.1 bu./acre) was HiStick soybean inoculant, from the MicroBio company in Cambridge, England.
Beurlein's test fields were typically in a corn/soybean rotation, had good fertility and appropriate pH values. Both tilled and no-tilled fields showed good results. A 14-oz. pack of the inoculant treats 8 bu. of beans. Price: $17.30 or approximately $2 to $2.50/acre. Contact Helena Chemical Company, 6075 Poplar Ave., Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119, 901/761-0050.
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seven to one in a palatability test conducted at the University of Wisconsin. Dairy cows were offered a choice between hay from WL alfalfa, a Pioneer variety and a Dairyland variety. According to researcher Dr. Dave Combs, not only did the cows choose the WL variety seven to one over the competitors, they also consumed 66% more of it than the competitive products.During the two-day feeding trial, 48 cows were fed uniform rations of two brands (WL 325 HQ alfalfa and a competitive brand) after their morning milking. From a total of 96 observations, 67% of the cows demonstrated a preference for the WL brand, 24% had no preference and 9% preferred one of the other two products. Average intake per cow was 2.87 lbs. for the WL brand and 1.73 lbs. for the competitive varieties. Contact W-L Research Inc., Dept. FIN, 8701 W. U.S. Hwy. 14, Evansville, WI 53536, 608/882-4100.
Monitor and control an unlimited number of irrigation pivots that are equipped with Lindsay's Zimmatic AIMS Advance control panels when you use the company's new AIMS Telemetry, PC-based, remote control system.
Each control panel is linked by telephone or telemetry radio to your PC that is equipped with the Windows-based AIMS Telemetry software. Trips to the field are reduced because all programming, operation and monitoring functions can be performed from your office or home computer, according to the company. There are no limitations on distance: Optional cellular or land phone hookup at the pivot removes radio transmission limitations. The event-driven software displays any pivot trouble, and alarm conditions can be relayed automatically to specified phone numbers at the pivots. Contact Lindsay Mfg. Co., Dept. FIN, Box 156, Lindsay, NE 68644, 800/829-5300.


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What is black magic? In simpler words Kaala Jaadoo is referred as the practice of using supernatural powers by some traditional practices like dua, wazifa, hypnotising etc. The modern definition of the black magic is the practices that the practitioner carried out that the world disapprove as well as state as impossible in real world.
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How do they do it?
In reality black magic is carried out with the help of specific spells or mantras with which one can gain control over the mind of the desired person. In addition to that these practices cannot be carried out with the help of a professional. The most common reasons for using black magic is the jealousy between two people. These people spend years of practice in mastering the techniques to provide the best results. The depths of kaala jadu are unexplainable. The most troubling issues could be taken care off by the black magic specialist babaji-Moulana Rashid khan ji easily. If there is any problem that you feel cannot be solved and feeling upset about it. Then stop being upset, these black magic specialist baba ji in Panchkula are here to help. They could be successful in letting you know that whatever happened might be a coincidence but what you think with regards to your problem is impossible is actually a problem which could be dealt with and there is a solution to your problem
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There is no other thought of black magic not being supernatural. Black magic is a strong force which should be conducted with care because it's power is not known to most people. In today's era people have tend to move forward quickly towards getting their wishes and targets obtained for inappropriate reasons. People want to achieve success quickly with it. Yes it could be done. It is one of the most powerful tools from ancient times which is used for obtaining the out of reach and impossible wishes and wants. This according to modern science and technology is unable to understand. The powerful tools consists of two main parts which are namely vashi and karan. Vashi in simpler words mean to grab the attention of someone and attract someone using the supernatural powers of black magic while on the other hand side karan means the activity or the acts which stands responsible to the rest of black magic. It could be used for the inconsistency in love as well as professional life including business life. The failures of love life, professionalism and business could be a real nightmare to the sufferers. These could be all solved with the slight help of black magic, it might sound impossible but point where the world stops thinking and working is the same place where black magic kicks in and get the odds done for you.


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On September 9, 2008, the Banpo Bridge in Seoul (South Korea) got a major facelift: a 10,000-nozzle fountain that runs all the way on both sides. Immediately after being installed, the bridge turned into a major tourist attraction, as the bridge pumps out 190 tons of water per minute using the water from the river below.
2. Millau Bridge (France): World's Tallest Vehicular Bridge
Towering 1,125-ft above the Tarn Valley in southern France, driving along the Millau Bridge is said to feel like flying. This Foster + Partners marvel is slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower, took three years to build and opened to the public in 2004. While it may provide picturesque views of the valley below, once the mist descends it is not a route for the faint hearted! The Millau Bridge has a total length of 8,071-ft with the longest single span at 1,122-ft and a maximum clearance below of 886-ft; in short the bridge is massively impressive both on paper and in real life. The deck is lofted on 7 pylons and weighs 36,000 tonnes. A series of 7 masts, each 292-ft tall and weighing 700 tonnes, are attached to the corresponding pylons.
3. Henderson Waves (Singapore): Most Beautiful Pedestrian Bridge
At a height of 36 metres or 12 storeys from the road, it is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. The 300-metre bridge links up the parks at Mount Faber and Telok Blangah Hill.
4. Hangzhou Bay Bridge (China): World's Longest Trans-Oceanic Bridge
Across the Hangzhou Bay extends the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the world, with 35,673 kilometres (22 mi) long with six expressway lanes in two directions. The bridge was built to address traffic congestion in the booming region, cutting the driving time between Shanghai and Ningbo from four to two-and-a-half hours.finally opened to the public on May 1, 2008. Total investment on the bridge was RMB 11.8 billion (around US$ 1.4 billion.)
5.Rolling Bridge (UK): The Bridge that Curls Up on Itself
Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the award-winning Rolling Bridge is located Paddington Basin, London. Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self.
Twelve metres long, the bridge is made in eight steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section.
6.Oliveira Bridge (Brazil): World's First X-shaped Cable Stayed Bridge with two crossed lanes
The Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge over the Pinheiros River in São Paulo, Brazil was opened in May 2008. It is 138 metres (450-ft) tall, and connects Marginal Pinheiros to Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue. Its design is unique in that the 2 curved decks of the bridge cross each other through its X-shaped supporting tower.
7.Wind and Rain Bridge (China): Dong people's bridge
The Wind and Rain Bridge is the symbolized architecture of the Dong minority people. The wind and rain bridge in Diping is the largest of its kind in Guizhou Province, where China's biggest Dong community lives. The bridge is over 50 meters long and it was first built in 1894 during the Qing Dynasty over 100 years ago. However, the original structure was destroyed in a big fire in 1959 and the one visitors see today was a recreation finished in 1964.
8.Tower Bridge (UK): Most Famous and Beautiful Victorian Bridge
Completed in 1894 and designed by Horace Jones and Wolfe Barry, Tower Bridge (so named after the two, striking, 141-ft high towers and the Tower of London close to it) is one of the most famous landmarks in London and one of the most beautiful in the world. The 800-ft long bridge has a 28-ft clearance when closed but raises in the centre to a maximum clearance of 140-ft that allows ships to pass down the Thames. Back in the days when goods were moved by sea instead of air the bridge was raised around 50 times daily. Tower Bridge took 432 workers 8 years to build. During that time they sank 70,000 tonnes of concrete into 2 huge piers, lowered 2 counterbalanced bascules into place each weighing 1,000 tonnes and then clad the whole bridge in Portland stone and Cornish granite to disguise the 11,000 tonnes of steel beneath.
9.Magdeburg Water Bridge (Germany): Europe's Largest Water Bridge
The Magdeburg Water Bridge connects the former East and West Germany over the Elbe River, and it was made as part of the unification project. 1 km long, the 500 million euros water bridge enables river barges to avoid a lengthy and sometimes unreliable passage along the Elbe.
10.Ponte Vecchio (Italy): Oldest and Most Famous of its kind
The Ponte Vecchio in Florence is one of the most famous tourist spots in Italy, and is thought to be the oldest wholly-stone built, segmental arch bridge in Europe, although there are many partial segments which date further back. It was originally built of wood until destroyed by floods in 1333, and twelve years later it was rebuilt using stone. Famous for its lining of shops, the bridge has housed everybody from Medieval merchants and butchers to souvenir stalls and art dealers.
11. Suramadu National Bridge ( Indonesia )
Suramadu National Bridge is a bridge across the Madura Strait, connecting the island of Java (in Surabaya) and the island of Madura (in Bangkalan, precisely east Kamal), Indonesia. With a length of 5438 m, this bridge is the longest bridge in Indonesia today. The longest bridge in Southeast Asia is the Penang Bridge in Malaysia. Suramadu bridge consists of three parts of the overpass (causeway), bridge (bridge approach), and the main bridge .
The bridge construction was established early by President Megawati Sukarnoputri on August 20, 2003 and its opening was inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on June 10, 2009 . Bridge construction is intended to accelerate development on the island of Madura, including infrastructure and economic fields in Madura, which is relatively remote compared to other areas in East Java. Estimated cost of construction of this bridge is 4.5 trillion rupiah.
Making the bridge was carried out from three sides, both sides of the Bangkalan and Surabaya. Meanwhile, at the same time also made the development of the middle span of bridge and approach bridge.


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This week, our so-called one percent is made up not of an economic group but of those Kentuckians who are not incorrigibly immersed in college basketball.
Are you thinking of anything other than Saturday's big game in New Orleans? Can you wait? Breath bated? Bets down? Pride bursting? Have family gatherings, civic events and, oh, nuptials and funerals fallen off your Super Doppler?
To heck with Florida vs. the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This is UK vs. UofL in the NCAA semifinals.
Has there ever been anything bigger, a more dominant topic to consume us? Do you think, maybe, more people in this state care about this than who the next president could be?
Yes, this is the stuff that scripts cliches, that fires feuds, that razes relationships. This is a game when not losing may be far more important than winning.
It has the governor trying to play the middle more squarely than on any political issue. Mayors are wagering, tongues are wagging and smack is flowing.
This game is a cottage industry unto itself. Can someone calculate its gross domestic product? If we could monetize Blue or Red pride, we all would be rich.
So, are you contemplating anything else?
No way.
Could there be a greater day for this state than having the Cards and Cats fight it out to make the national final?
Well, yeah, Vern, there could.
And that's why I've been thinking of Terry Howard, the man who decades ago cost the state the potentially greatest moment of its basketball life.
You likely know the story: Howard was a backup on Louisville's team in the 1975 NCAA semifinals.
Kentucky had beaten Syracuse and was waiting for its opponent in the final, and all the Cardinals had to do was run out the clock against UCLA.
The state would have both its most beloved/behated teams playing for the NCAA title. Those of us who care were paused at the top of a great roller-coaster ride, ready for the payoff.
Howard, a star from old Westport High School, had been used regularly by Coach Denny Crum to help dribble out the clock because he was a great free-throw shooter – perfect for the season, even.
But that afternoon in San Diego, he missed the first of a one-and-one, giving John Wooden's last team the opportunity to make the tying shot and to go on and win in overtime, 75-74.
Can you imagine how deflating this was? A dream on the almost-automatic verge of reality only to bounce off the iron.
You see, as consumed as you are about this year's semifinals, that almost game in 37 years ago had more mystique, more mind-blowing mirage, more of everything than this year's.
This time, the teams already have played. We know how they match up. We know their styles and their tendencies and who has the most tattoos.
In 1975, it was like that first date with the school's hottest number: It was all about the mystery, the allure, the unknown.
Who in the world would win a game between these two – much less for the national title? Predictions were much more inferred than informed.
Oh, we peach-fuzzed futurists had our hypotheses. We had watched the few games that had been on TV, listened and read about the rest.
But we were like weather forecasters in the pre-Doppler days: We were guessing, under-tooled and not well-schooled.
These teams neverplayed, at least not since 1959, when Louisville had KO'd Kentucky in an NCAA regional semifinal. To play for the championship would have been ultimate irony.
Kentucky featured Jimmy Dan Conner, Kevin Grevey and Mike Flynn and had conquered undefeated Indiana in a classic regional semifinal.
These Cards composed Crum's first great team, anchored by transplants Junior Bridgeman and Alan Murphy and homegrown Wesley Cox. They finished 28-3.
This would have been a fast-breaking, cool-shooting against fierce defense and better-than-advertised rebounding.
Those perceived strengths and weaknesses became a siege of speculation in the days long before sports talk radio was anything but occasional and Al Gore wasn't yet developing the Internet.
And boys and girls who cut their basketball teeth by pretending to play for one team or another while shoving long-range shots at baskets bolted into wooden backboards in a hayloft or back yard were in awe.
One of those boys had grown up a bit, was working for a living in the newspaper business, had covered UK's first-round game in Tuscaloosa. He had conviction.
On that Saturday, before the semifinals, he was in the office of his newspaper, rolling up the old tickertape that spit out of The Associated Press machines, and he came across a story written by AP Staff Writer Craig Ammerman, a native of Kentucky, predicting what such a final would mean back home.
Sadly, it was never published. Terry Howard saw to that.
I do not mean to be-Satan, Howard, whom I knew to be a very good player and unworthy of anything more than a line on a yellowed play-by-play.
But it took eight more years before the teams would play, then in a regional final, which UofL won in overtime, and the following fall the so-called Dream Game became a politically positioned annual celebration. Coincidentally, they played again the following spring in the NCAA, and UK won that time.
Believe it or not, back in those pre-playing days, the fans argued long and loud about superiority, just not as many people heard them. They talked tradition, style of play and sadly even invoked race to make a decisive point.
There was an immense amount of love and an insufferable amount of hate.
Those partisan lines were even harsher, starker and more uncrossable than today. Intermarriages were frowned upon, and second-generation shifts were seen as thumbs of impudence into the eyes of good upbringing.
That was our world, those were our thoughts, those were the days.
So we arrive now at a new day, new stars, new coaches and a different objective – hopefully fuzzy faces have mellowed with time.
Perhaps a Terry Howard will emerge. Perhaps this will be no contest.
No matter, what we are left with is the second-best moment of the state's basketball life.
And, to me, there is no loser.
No matter who wins Saturday, I'll have someone to cheer on Monday.
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Dzogchen, or "Great Perfection," is a tradition developed within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism but practiced and taught by many. The masters of this tradition emphasize that the nature of the mind is Buddha nature, uncontrived and radiant, and offer instruction to introduce and stabilize this natural awareness.
Like the roar of the dragon, the great name of Buddha resounds throughout the universe, in samsara and nirvana. Constantly vibrating in the minds of the six types of sentient beings, how wonderful that this resonance is not silent a moment!
…The original face of the mind, unborn and primally pure – how wonderful its authenticity and natural perfection! Intrinsic knowledge itself, our naturally liberated nature – how marvelous it is that no matter what occurs it is released by letting it be!
-Shabkar Lama, in The Flight of the Garuda by Kenneth Dowman