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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota State's Nate Wolters was selected as The Summit League Men's Basketball Player of the Year in a vote of the league's nine head coaches, sports information directors and select media members as announced Thursday. The league's five individual awards were spread among four different teams.
Newcomer of the Year honors went to Oakland's Duke Mondy, Defensive Player of the Year to Western Illinois' Terell Parks and Sixth Man of the Year to North Dakota State's Mike Felt. Western Illinois' Jim Molinari was named Coach of the Year.
Wolters, SDSU's initial Player of the Year selection, leads the league in scoring (22.8 ppg), assists (5.7 apg) and assist/turnover ratio (2.5) for the season. He ranks fourth in the NCAA in scoring average and collected a record seven Player of the Week honors, including an unprecedented run of three consecutive in February. In league games, Wolters leads in assist/turnover ratio (2.7, is tied for first in scoring (23.9 ppg) and ranks second in both assists (5.4 apg) and steals (1.9 spg). He is on pace to become the first player in NCAA history to average 20 points, five assists and five rebounds per game in two separate seasons. Wolters is The Summit League's active career leader in six categories (points, assists, field goals made, field goals attempted, free throws made and free throws attempted) while ranking second in rebounds.
Mondy led The Summit League in both assists (6.0 apg) and steals (3.4 spg) during league play in his first season after transferring from Providence College. He ranks second in the NCAA with 3.13 steals per game for the season.
Parks is the second consecutive Western Illinois player to earn Defensive Player of the Year honors after leading The Summit League in both defensive rebounds (7.9 per game) and blocked shots (2.5 per game) during league play. He averaged a league-best 10.4 rebounds per game during league play and his season totals for both rebounds and blocked shots each rank 24th in the NCAA.
Felt, the Sixth Man of the Year, is North Dakota State's first individual honoree since the 2008-09 season. His 2.2 three-point field goals per game rank fifth in the league overall while his 1.9 per league game tie him for ninth.
Molinari earned his second Summit League Coach of the Year award after having received the honor while at Northern Illinois in 1990-91 during the league's Mid-Continent Conference era. He guided the Fighting Leathernecks to a share of their second league title, and first since the league's inaugural 1982-83 season, after being tabbed fourth in the preseason poll.
Joining Parks and Wolters as first team All-Summit selections is Oakland's Travis Bader, the co-leader with 23.9 points per league and NCAA leader with 4.33 made three-point field goals per game this season. North Dakota State's Marshall Bjorklund, the league-leader in field goal percentage (.733 in league games), Western Illinois' Ceola Clark III, who ranks among the league's top six in seven different categories, and Fort Wayne's Frank Gaines, the league's No. 3 scorer (19.5 ppg in league contests) round out the first team.
Mondy leads the second team, consisting of all junior and sophomores, along with the North Dakota State duo of Lawrence Alexander and Taylor Braun, South Dakota State's Jordan Dykstra and Omaha's Justin Simmons. Honorable mention honorees include a pair of players from both South Dakota (Brandon Bos and Juevol Myles) and Oakland (Corey Petros and Drew Valentine) and one from South Dakota State (Tony Fiegen).
The Summit League's All-Newcomer team features Mondy, Fort Wayne's Luis Jacobo, Western Illinois' Adam Link, Myles and Simmons.
The Summit League Tournament begins Saturday, March 9, at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, S.D., and will be televised nationally on Fox College Sports (FCS Atlantic Channel) and regionally on Midco Sports Network. Eight teams will vie for the NCAA automatic bid, which goes to the winner of the championship game on Tuesday, March 12, on ESPN2 at 8 p.m. (CT).
Name, School Pos. Yr.
Travis Bader, Oakland G Jr.
Marshall Bjorklund, North Dakota State F Jr.
Ceola Clark III, Western Illinois G Sr.
Frank Gaines, Fort Wayne G Sr.
Terell Parks, Western Illinois F/C Sr.
Nate Wolters, South Dakota State G Sr.
Lawrence Alexander, North Dakota State G So.
Taylor Braun, North Dakota State G Jr.
Jordan Dykstra, South Dakota State F So.
Duke Mondy, Oakland G Jr.
Justin Simmons, Omaha G Jr.
Brandon Bos, South Dakota G So.
Tony Fiegen, South Dakota State F Sr.
Juevol Myles, South Dakota G Sr.
Corey Petros, Oakland C So.
Drew Valentine, Oakland F Sr.
Luis Jacobo, Fort Wayne F Jr.
Adam Link, Western Illinois F Jr.
Duke Mondy, Oakland G Jr.
Juevol Myles, South Dakota G Sr.
Justin Simmons, Omaha G Jr.
Nate Wolters, South Dakota State
Duke Mondy, Oakland
Terell Parks, Western Illinois
Mike Felt, North Dakota State
Jim Molinari, Western Illinois


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The week-long teachers' strike in Chicago has drawn national attention because it affects 350,000 children and pits two Democratic forces against each other. But it also represents a broader struggle over education reform and union power, and the results could reverberate elsewhere.
If the Chicago Teachers Union wins enough concessions, then it's a victory for the labor movement and a potential guide for similar battles underway in other parts of the country.
If Mayor Rahm Emanuel emerges with enough of his demands intact, then it's another setback for labor and validates the push to impose stricter measures of teacher accountability.
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"This is being looked at very carefully by school districts across the country," said Kathleen Hirsman, who teaches education and labor law at the Loyola University School of Law. "There's the issue of the diminishing strength of teachers unions and who is going to come out the winner. And how the Chicago Public Schools resolves this will be very instructive to other school districts now looking at implementation of state laws requiring teacher evaluation based on student performance."
All over America, states and cities are trying to figure out how to respond to federal initiatives aimed at improving the public school system. They come down to a series of carrots and sticks. There's money for districts that implement the Obama administration's ideas on teacher evaluations and testing, and there's the threat of closure or other sanctions for underperforming schools.
That challenge has resulted in elected officials trying to impose new standards for teachers, who resist having to give up control over their work.
"It comes down to who's going to decide how kids are educated," said James Wolfinger, an associate professor of history and education at DePaul University. "Who is the expert? Who should have the greatest voice?"
Chicago is just the latest of several big cities - including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Cleveland - where that tension has come to a head.
Illinois lawmakers have set a schedule to implement new teacher evaluation methods, and Chicago must start making those changes this year. Illinois also happens to be a state that allows teachers to strike.
That makes the four-day-old walkout, which has captivated the country and could impact the presidential election, an ideal opportunity for labor to show that it's no pushover.
"This is a very important strike for the teachers union," said Richard Kearney, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. "If they can come out of this thinking they've made up some ground, that should give some encouragement to teacher's unions elsewhere who are facing similar situations."
Then again, Emanuel could end up on top.
Or: each side will concede, ending the strike in a draw.
What then?
"Then the fight just goes on elsewhere," Kearney said. "And none of this meant a great deal."

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A video workshop on how children learn for K-12 teachers and administrators; 8 one-hour video programs, workshop guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
This series was discontinued on July 1, 2018.
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In this introductory workshop, you will meet the guest educators featured in the series and hear why they think it is important to continually examine the learning process. You will also have an opportunity to reflect on your own personal beliefs about learning and see clips of classrooms that will be presented in more detail in later workshops.
Workshop 2. Intellectual Development
Explore the power of the mind and consider the notion that every child can learn everything. Harvard Professor Eleanor Duckworth discusses the importance of teaching for a deep and lasting understanding and explains why it is important to give students time to work through their own ideas and experience confusion in order to achieve such understanding.
Workshop 3. Conceptual Thinking
In this workshop, the focus is on concept maps as tools for helping students learn. Joseph Novak, Professor of Biological Science, explains how students learn by assimilating new concepts into their already existing frameworks and takes a teacher step-by-step through the design and process of concept mapping. You will see concept maps being used in a variety of ways in mathematics and science lessons and will even have an opportunity to make some concept maps of your own.
Workshop 4. Inquiry
Science Education Professor Hubert Dyasi discusses inquiry-based learning in science and explains why it is essential in all subjects. In this workshop, you will see several classrooms where inquiry learning is taking place and explore numerous strategies you can use in your own classroom.
Workshop 5. Idea-Making
Student idea-making in mathematics is the subject of this workshop. Professor Constance Kamii, who studied under Jean Piaget for 12 years, explains how you can adapt your teaching to help students construct their own mathematical ideas. You will see video of students engaged in "mind mathematics" articulate and defend their strategies to classmates, and you will consider the value of using games to facilitate mathematics teaching and learning.
Workshop 6. The Mind's Intelligences
This workshop considers Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and shows his theory being applied in a range of classrooms. As Gardner shares his thoughts on educational reform, you will learn how to create learning environments that support the full spectrum of students' abilities. Go to this unit.
Workshop 7. Design, Construction, and Technology
MIT Professor Mitchel Resnick guides this workshop exploring technology as an aid for learning. He discusses the impact of technology on learning when students design and construct tools to support their own inquiries. Teachers demonstrate technology in their classrooms and provide a sneak peek at Resnick's newest learning tool the cricket.
Workshop 8. The International Picture
This workshop offers an opportunity to investigate various aspects of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), other than the test scores themselves. Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology William Schmidt presents differences in curricula, textbooks, and teaching practices around the world, and a group of community members discuss how the TIMSS results reflect societal and cultural values.
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Today The Fightins featured a blog I happened to stumble upon the other day on my own, and it has some fantastic stuff, namely the drawing of Cliff Lee riding a unicorn that I saw on The Fightins. It also has a great drawing called "Summer of Love," which seemed to have been a big project for the author in the off-season, as well as even a drawing of Kanye West, of whom I may have mentioned before that I am a fan. Here are some pictures of the aforementioned below; click to enlarge and then definitely check out AlrightMike to see the rest of this talented "drawer's" collection of work:
"Cliff Mounts Unicorn with Rainbows…"
"Summer of Love"
(Here is a link to a dope full-resolution version of the "Summer of Aces" drawing he made that is displayed above in the middle…big enough to posterize it, if you will…)
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Color snow in the yard as a fun, art activity in the winter!
We were graced with a warm day (32 degrees) with a light dusting of snow (a couple inches) just before Christmas. My Christmas wish came true! We barely had a white Christmas, but we did!
The morning the snow fell, Henry and I took a look outside the window…
… and I asked him, "Isn't it pretty?"
Henry's response…
"No. It needs color to be pretty."
So we did and activity to color snow that afternoon to have a beautiful yard of colored snow!
I stocked Henry up with some supplies:
- A spray bottle with water and a few drops of green food coloring.
- A container of water with red food coloring added.
- Syringes, scoops and a turkey baster.
If it was super cold, I would have probably stuck to just the spray bottle so his fingers wouldn't get wet. But since it was a nice day and the sun was shining, I let him dip in the water and have a good time.
Henry took the color all over the yard.
I even made a Ho! Ho! Ho! writing in the snow, just in time for Santa to come.
Just be careful of cold fingers if they're getting wet. Once we get snow again, we'll definitely be adding color to it some more! We'll have to get creative with how we do it if its too cold!
Snow painting is nothing new I created.
Lots of kids color snow!
- The Chocolate Muffin Tree painted snow here and here, and again here.
- Really Quite Lucky uses squeeze bottles of all sorts of colors to paint the snow.
- {Share & Remember} colors the snow with lots of kids!
Have you colored snow yet?


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The powder contains photo-reflective pigments which help to disguise imperfections such as scars or black heads. It really is amazing how flawless it makes your skin look while absorbing shine, and best of all you don't have to reapply multiple times a day. It comes with a powder puff, that may help in setting makeup, but a brush will do the same, it comes down to personal preference.
I recommend everyone add this to their makeup bag immediately, it will be a great help as we lead into spring with more natural beauty looks.
Have you tried Chanel's Natural Finish Loose Powder?
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Drummer David Eagle is still in ICU after his open heart surgery over 6 weeks ago. Join CP, Pag, and the amazing Nick Menza (from Megadeth) on drums to lend a financial hand through these hard times!
Thursday, July 9th
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Thank you. We appreciate everyone's support.


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In a new series, we go behind the stats on a Movescount Move and ask an athlete to tell us what the numbers can't. This week: Emelie Forsberg talks us through a mountain run she made last summer.
"This Move was from the Summer when I went home to Sweden to Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain. It was eight days after I had been running the 85 km Sky Running World Championship in Chamonix so this was my first 'good' training after some days of recovery and some days of very easy running. It really woke up my legs this run!
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I started in a pretty fast pace. It was not too steep and my pace was controlled, we can see that on my heart rate which is 10-15 beats under the threshold. In this zone I can run for a long long time. When it started to get steeper my heart rate stabilized around 172-175 which is a little under my threshold – here I can run for 2-3 hours, which means I should have been able to run a little faster, with a little higher heart rate. But I might have been a little tired from the long race I had done eight days before. Also it's always harder to push yourself really hard alone! I had company the first five minutes but not after that..!
Skárttoaivi, Singitjåkka, Tuolpagorni, Vierranvárri and the foot of Kebnekaise .© Tobias Radeskog
Thats why I like the technical runs – when you have to start scrambling, like I did here, the closer I got to the summit. Here I go as fast as I can in this kind of terrain – where you need to watch the steps and use the hands! Both up and down my heart rate is pretty similar which means I was also fast on the downhill. The terrain featured cliffs and then I crossed a glacier, after that a big field of big boulders and after that a trail I could run fast on!
Towards the end I realized I could almost make it under two hours! So I tried to speed up and towards the end I reach higher plus, bit still far away from my maximum. It was a very nice run!"


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Carrots give carrot cake a health-halo effect—people think it's health food, but it's usually very high in fat and calories. But our version has about 40 percent less calories and 50 percent less fat than most. First, we use less oil in our batter. Then we skip the butter in the frosting (don't worry, it's still light and smooth). To ensure the cake is moist, we add nonfat buttermilk and crushed pineapple.
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'Give It To Your Woman, It's Her Job' Laundry Tag Doesn't Wash With Many
When Emma Barnett saw the laundry tag in her boyfriend's pants she was shocked.
"Give It To Your Woman," it read. "It's Her Job."
So Barnett did what you would expect the digital media editor of The Telegraph would do. She posted the photo online and started tweeting.
One day later, the twitterverse was in a tizzy and she had turned up the name of the company responsible.
"The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse's flagship Oxford Street store last month," Barnett reported Tuesday. And a company spokesman told her "the care instructions on this product were not proofed by our buyers who normally concern themselves with quality, style and price of the products they order. ... The wording is clearly meant as a joke but now it has been pointed out to us it is something we will need to be more careful about in the future."
If you're interested in following the Twitter debate, which continues, the proper search term is #sexisttrousers.


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With two national conventions concluded, you might be thinking that this costly and historically unpopular election is about to wrap up.
Think again: there are still 100 days until the general election on Nov. 8, NBC News reports.
That's longer than usual. The gap is 40 days longer in 2016 than in 2012. Both conventions were moved up nearly a full month this year, in hopes of giving candidates more time to raise money and campaign before the general election and to accommodate the Summer Olympics in August, which will eat up a lot of voters' attention.
The extra month is sure to spice up what's already proved to be an unusual race. NBC News rounds up how.


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Ideas based on my personal experiences in learning how to manage type 2 diabetes. I stress that I am a diabetic, not a doctor nor a dietician. I have no medical qualifications beyond my own experience. Nothing written here is intended as medical advice, and any ideas you may decide to use should be discussed first with your doctor.
I don't know if you spotted this link I posted on ASD a couple of days ago about medical bills causing about 60% of bankruptcies in the U.S. The Tiny url link doesn't work I'm afraid it hasn't been working properly the last couple of times I have used it.
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Thanks. A very sad report.
After my husband retired in 1985, we had good health insurance paid my his company though Travelers Insurance. Several years later they dropped Travelers and took Met Life for their provider. This cost us $139 a month and it had a $1350 deductible. So for the next seventeen years, we paid the premium and never received a penny assistance for his health care. We also paid all medical bills. Through two surgeries for melanoma, and radiation treatments and surgeries for seven squamous cell carcinoma, the insurance paid nothing. Finally, I dropped it.
The doctors, upon learning that he had no supplemental insurance, all discounted the bills. So far, we have had no problem paying the medical bills ourselves. He is 79 and has diabetes, just diagnosed last fall. The metforum he takes for that cost us $4.00 at Wal Mart. We are both on Medicare.
I have a supplemental insurance that I bought from Blue Cross/Blue Shield. When I took it out at age 65, it was $87. a month. Now at age 73, it is $161. a month and goes up each year as I get older.
I have no health problems and take no meds so all that is outgo and is not used unless I get sick...which I very seldon do.
Neither of us has the prescription plan which was designed for the insurance companies to make massive profits because of the famed donut hole. It was also designed for Big Phama to make huge profits. The cost of meds are astronomical in America.
America's health care is not the best.
Except for the VA, Medicare and Medicaid (for the very poor) their health insurance is all through private companies.


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Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal has published the final lists of nominees for the 2006 Search Blog Awards. You can preview the lists at Search Engine Journal and you can vote here. (Hopefully for TopRank!)
Categories include:
SEO Blog of the Year
Search News Blog
Best Search Marketing / Contextual Ad Blog
Best Link Building Blog
Best Search Agency Resource Blog
Best Search Engine Blogger of 2006
Best Social Media Optimization Blog
Best Black Hat SEO Blogs
Best Local Search Blog
Best Affiliate Marketing Blog
Best Web 2.0 Blog
*BONUS* Best Search Engine Marketing Community / Forum
*BONUS 2* What's your favorite Search Podcast?
Every year these things run there's more and more competition. I have to say, there are some really, really excellent blogs in these lists. Competition is fierce in the SEO category and some of the categories are no brainers.
TopRank was nominated in the "Social Media Optimization" category and my name (Lee Odden) is listed in the "Search Engine Blogger" category. Whichever your favorite blogs are, please be sure to vote!


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GOP returns Mitt 'gifts'
A handful of prominent Republicans criticized Mitt Romney for his disparaging remarks about President Barack Obama's "gifts" to core constituencies, saying that it was the wrong message to send voters as the party tries to rebuild itself after a bruising defeat.
"I don't think it's helpful," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad told POLITICO at the Republican Governors Association conference on Thursday. "I guess my feeling is that we need to turn the page, and we need to focus on the future and not make excuses for the past."
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Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio — a prominent Romney backer during the campaign and a possible 2016 candidate — also distanced himself from the remarks on Thursday, calling them "an analysis to donors."
( Also on POLITICO: Jindal vs. Romney)
Rubio said that as a party, "our mission should not be to deny government benefits to people who need them," but the GOP should work to ensure "less people need government benefits."
"I don't want to rebut him point by point," Rubio said of Romney. "I would just say to you, I don't believe that we have millions and millions of people in this country that don't want to work. I'm not saying that's what [Romney] said. I think we have millions of people in this country that are out of work and are dependent on the government because they can't find a job."
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The chorus of pushback from Republican officials grew louder this afternoon regarding Romney's remarks on a donor conference call yesterday. The former GOP presidential nominee told donors that Obama had won reelection because of "gifts" to "especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people," including loan programs for students and free contraceptives for women in Obama's health care bill.
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The criticism comes as the party is recovering from a thumping defeat in the presidential and Senate contests on Nov. 6. By all accounts, Romney and his team expected to win, and were stunned by higher-than-expected turnout among African-Americans and Latinos, who voted for Obama by huge margins. Romney's camp underestimated the amount of Democrats that would ultimately turn out to vote and was overconfident about enthusiasm on its side.
In the wake of the elections, many commentators — including Republicans — have criticized Romney for turning off Hispanic voters with harsh language about self-deportation and not making an aggressive push to win that voting bloc, where he was creamed.
In Las Vegas to attend the RGA conference, Florida Gov. Rick Scott called Romney's comments "inappropriate."


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NAMD is a parallel, object-oriented, molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems.
Versions and Availability
Softenv Keys for namd on supermike2
|Softenv Key
▶ Softenv FAQ?
The information here is applicable to LSU HPC and LONI systems.
A user may choose between using /bin/bash and /bin/tcsh. Details about each shell follows.
System resource file: /etc/profile
When one access the shell, the following user files are read in if they exist (in order):
- ~/.bash_profile (anything sent to STDOUT or STDERR will cause things like rsync to break)
- ~/.bashrc (interactive login only)
- ~/.profile
When a user logs out of an interactive session, the file ~/.bash_logout is executed if it exists.
The default value of the environmental variable, PATH, is set automatically using SoftEnv. See below for more information.
The file ~/.cshrc is used to customize the user's environment if his login shell is /bin/tcsh.
SoftEnv is a utility that is supposed to help users manage complex user environments with potentially conflicting application versions and libraries.
System Default Path
When a user logs in, the system /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc (depending on login shell, and mirrored from csm:/cfmroot/etc/profile) calls /usr/local/packages/softenv-1.6.2/bin/use.softenv.sh to set up the default path via the SoftEnv database.
SoftEnv looks for a user's ~/.soft file and updates the variables and paths accordingly.
Viewing Available Packages
The command softenv will provide a list of available packages. The listing will look something like:
$ softenv These are the macros available: * @default These are the keywords explicitly available: +amber-8 Applications: 'Amber', version: 8 Amber is a +apache-ant-1.6.5 Ant, Java based XML make system version: 1.6. +charm-5.9 Applications: 'Charm++', version: 5.9 Charm++ +default this is the default environment...nukes /etc/ +essl-4.2 Libraries: 'ESSL', version: 4.2 ESSL is a sta +gaussian-03 Applications: 'Gaussian', version: 03 Gaussia ... some stuff deleted ...
Managing SoftEnv
The file ~/.soft in the user's home directory is where the different packages are managed. Add the +keyword into your .soft file. For instance, ff one wants to add the Amber Molecular Dynamics package into their environment, the end of the .soft file should look like this:
To update the environment after modifying this file, one simply uses the resoft command:
% resoft
The command soft can be used to manipulate the environment from the command line. It takes the form:
$ soft add/delete +keyword
Using this method of adding or removing keywords requires the user to pay attention to possible order dependencies. That is, best results require the user to remove keywords in the reverse order in which they were added. It is handy to test out individual keys, but can lead to trouble if changing multiple keys. Changing the .soft file and issuing the resoft is the recommended way of dealing with multiple changes.
Depending on which cluster it is installed, NAMD may or may not need MPI to run.
On SuperMIC, use "charmrun" to run NAMD. Below is a sample script which runs NAMD with 4 nodes (80 CPU cores and 8 Xeon Phi co-processors):
#!/bin/bash #PBS -A hpc_smictest3 #PBS -l walltime=2:00:00 #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=20 #PBS -q checkpt cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR module add namd/2.10/INTEL-14.0.2-ibverbs-mic for node in `cat $PBS_NODEFILE | uniq`; do echo host $node; done > hostfile charmrun ++p 80 ++nodelist ./hostfile ++remote-shell ssh `which namd2` apoa1.namd
Use "mpirun" to run NAMD (e.g. on QB2). Below is a sample script which runs NAMD with 4 nodes (80 CPU cores):
#!/bin/bash #PBS -A your_allocation_name #PBS -l walltime=2:00:00 #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=20 #PBS -q checkpt cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR module add namd/2.10b1/CUDA-65-INTEL-140-MVAPICH2-2.0 mpirun -n 80 -f $PBS_NODEFILE `which namd2` apoa1.namd
On Super Mike 2, first make sure that the proper keys are loaded in .soft file:
+fftw-3.3.3-Intel-13.0.0-openmpi-1.6.2 +NAMD-2.9-Intel-13.0.0-openmpi-1.6.2
Then run NAMD using scripts similar to this one:
#!/bin/bash #PBS -A hpc_your_allocation #PBS -l walltime=2:00:00 #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=16 #PBS -q checkpt cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR mpirun -n 64 -hostfile $PBS_NODEFILE `which namd2` apoa1.namd
To run NAMD with GPU support (e.g. on QB2), please use the below script as a reference, the example data and detailed instructions can be downloaded from the namd tutorial titled "GPU Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Visualization, and Analysis" from here.
#PBS -A your_allocation_name #PBS -l walltime=2:00:00 #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=20 #PBS -q checkpt cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR module add namd/2.10b1/CUDA-65-INTEL-140-MVAPICH2-2.0 nprocs=`wc -l $PBS_NODEFILE | awk '{print $1}'` mpirun -n $nprocs -f $PBS_NODEFILE /usr/local/packages/namd/2.10b1/CUDA-65-INTEL-140-MVAPICH2-2.0/namd2 apoa1.namd
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In this way continued the golden chain of existence of the Jewish people. This
issue occupies a distinguished place in our historical registers. It was like
this from the beginning of my childhood. I was in almost all chadarim schools,
night classes and later I was became a faculty member of the Yavneh cultural
school, and therefore I feel obligated to write for posterity these pages in
our symbolic stone.
I remember a case in point: At one time a policeman with a book under his arm
entered the cheder for a matter related to tax payment. The rebe talked to him
in Russian mixed with Yiddish and said, "Mr. Police, sit down in the
He also owned a printing [picture of the czar]. In spite of being slightly assimilated, the teacher Girashov went twice a year to synagogue on Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur. He prayed for two hours wrapped in a silk talit. When he talked with his best students, he expressed his critical thoughts as for example: "Jews don't come to temple to pray, but to talk among them". Or he asked: them how they would interpret the paragraph "You must have conscience in front of whom you are." The cycle in his school lasted three years, and I made it in two. It is interesting to note that in spite of his Russian patriotic behavior, he was a Jew with deep national feelings.
The following event demonstrates his czarist Russian patriotism. One day, when we were in his classroom, policeman Krilchuk suddenly entered, who was a tall gentile of wide back. He was sent by police chief Timinsky for a routine issue. The policeman forgot to take his cap off. The teacher screamed with fury "Take off your cap" and pointed out the Czar's and Czarina's picture. The confused policeman asked to be forgiven, and stayed firm. Teacher Girashov showed him the door and the policeman left the classroom embarrassed. Did the teacher perhaps want in this way to retaliate on the gentile?
This teacher was a mathematician and wrote a mathematics study book. He published it. The book had great success in its time and was widely recognized all over Russia. Their two children, Nioma and Fima, both students, were also proud of their Judaism in front of gentile friends. After the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and after the beginning of WWI, their destiny was tragic. They escaped toward deep Russia fearing the Germans, and left everything behind. After the revolution they returned to Kartuz Bereza, but the Polish regime did not give them citizenship and they were sent to the Soviet border. The Soviets, on the other hand, didn't receive them because of their having been faithful to the Czar and the opponents of the revolution.
Finally after many request and efforts by the Jewish Community to government
authorities, they were granted temporary status until they had the opportunity
to travel to the land of Israel. To get the certificate was a very difficult
task. Meanwhile they lived in poverty and deprivation in a gentile's house.
They stayed but with difficulty, thanks to the support of their admirers' from
the past. When we left Bereza in 1925 and traveled to Argentina, they were
still there. What was their destiny? I do not know.
Teacher Vainshtein was a young man, of delicate manners, and had a cowlick of
gray hair, possibly for the pogroms that suffered in Russia and other difficult
situations during czarist domain.
Today I still remember my childhood, when my father took me on Saturday winter
nights to the old Bet Medresh [academy of Jewish religious studies], which was
well heated, to listen to judge Aizik's classes. The room was illuminated with
a chandelier brought by his assistant Michl. In a dimly lit corner, dominated
by shades, children brought blocks of ice that were taken out of Yanke ben
Ytshe's basement. The ice melted from the heat, and the next day the Bet
Medresh was filled with water children's pranks. For me it was a mystery
how the water came to the Bet Medresh.
They repaired the public bathrooms building, which was made of stones in Cemetery St., and, transformed it into a modern school. In this school were gathered the group of idealistic fighters, and among them activists such as Shloimke Vainshtein, Meir Fodostroitza, and Director Yoine Reznik, educator, with a degree of Grodno famous courses. With them worked a team of seven to eight teachers. They occupied all the classrooms of the new building, and left only two for Tarbut .
Tarbut got two additional classrooms in the building in which the Talmud Torah was located. The ideological distance between the two groups hindered the school's development. Only after the Balfour Declaration, with the bloom of political Zionism, was the Yavney school enlarged and Hebrew dominated. It was directed by Zionist activists Yshaia Zaltsman, Leib Dantzig, Ythak Shtuker and others. They also formed a young Zionist group that attended night courses.
Two groups of youths, the Yiddish's and the Hebrew's, held meetings to discuss
actions to carry out and to prepare cultural nights. Then a Hebrew Corner was
founded in which classes in Hebrew were held, chats and discussions under the
direction of Manievitz who was a fanatic of Hebrew language. He was from
Lemberg and his instruction and culture was acquired as a student in Moscow.
Teachers at the Yavneh school were Portnoy, Parpeliutshik and Puterman, who
were from Baranovitch and had studied in Vilna Hebrew Teachers Seminary. The
Polish teacher was Mrs. Shulgin from Warsaw. At various times teachers Vais,
Rabinovitsh, Kogan, Rosenfeld, Himelfarb and others worked there. Thanks to
competition among groups, there began cultural discussions. Each group brought
its speakers, and each one wanted to overtake the other one.
As for teachers of tanach, there were the distinguished young Yosel Brainsky and in later years Moishe Cheshes (I believe he is now in US). This group called themselves tiferet bachurim [flowered youth], and was created by a maguid [preacher] who from time to time came to our city.
To conclude this chapter in which I told about educational and cultural institutions, and about individuals that were active in this field, I want to acknowledge other teachers and, in general, good Jews, responsible for offering their support in favor of education for the young generation of Kartuz Bereza. During my time, and although I personally didn't study with them, they were:
Shmuel Bam; teacher, brown young man, of black beard and mustaches, expert in tanach and grammar.
Faivel Baidatz (Tzekernik): religious teacher, emigrated to US before WWI.
Nima ha"Melamed": religious teacher, also a couples matchmaker, emigrated to the US before WWI.
Mordechai Gedalia y Nuska: both religious teachers in the Talmud Torah.
Henoch Rabinovitz: famous teacher of tanach and erudite in grammar. Was considered as one of the best adolescent teachers. Not all had the privilege of studying with him; only children of rich families could study with him. At the beginning he gave private classes, then he taught in the Talmud Torah.
Moishe Elie Meir: taught beginners.
Arke The Teacher: Teacher of previous times prototype. Taught letter writing in Yiddish to maids, cooks, poor children, and cart drivers' children. He was very accepted by women whose husbands were in America. Wrote letters to their husbands and read to them the answers they received.
Mendel Rishes; The judge, tall Jew, long and white as snow beard. His aspect
was severe, huffy, and detailed. Was known as follower of Bet Shamai [orthodox
very severe tendency]. Constantly tried to interpret, according to Moses' laws,
all type of problems and social discussions. As Aizik the judge mentioned
above, was serene, and contrary to previous comment, he was as pious as the
followers of Bet Hillel [school of permissive moderate tendency].
Another veteran activist in Bereza was Sheike Berkovitz who was a fervent Jew, full of life. Many times he appeared and read interesting speeches filled with Zionist content and mentioned words of our chazal [wise men of blessed memory]. In his youth he was a yeshiva boy, and later become a partner of Mr. Goldstein, proprietor of the steam engine flour mill, and the sawmill that was the most important in town, inherited from his father-in-law Shamai Berezovtzky.
Goldstein came from the city of Pruzhany. He was an affectionate man and great supporter of Jewish causes. He always was among the first for any purpose, and he was a model for other Jews. His contributions to KKL consisted of high amounts. His hand was also open for all town needs.
With the Balfour Declaration, the Zionist movement was reinforced in all fields. One of the personalities that occupied an important function in the diffusion of Zionist thought and Hebrew language among Bereza youth, was Guzalka (today Goraly in Israel). Among other things, he opened up night courses for youth, and was founded KKL group which maintained an intense activity.
Until the last day when I left my native city, I had the position of KKL Secretary. I want to remember fellow activists: Rabnitzky, Velvel Minkovitz (student of the Seminary Mizrahi in Vilna, today in US), Fodostroitza (in Israel), Tuchman, Grosman, Eidlsberg, Etl Schwartz (I believe he is now in Canada).
Fellow Plotdkovksy and I traveled as delegates to the Ushishkin Congress that
was held in Warsaw in 1924. Zionist groups were very active in all fields.
Already being in Argentina, we heard about settlement of collective farms
(those that prepare pioneer immigrant to Israel) in Kartuz Bereza, and also in
the nearby small village of Bluden.
During disorders and in occasions of attacks on Jews, these strong and skillful youths were in charge. The anti-Semitic bands that threatened to harm and damage Jews, received more than once strong punishments. One especially stood out one of them, and he was nicknamed Meilech Pap. His occupation was horse merchant. He was really "a teacher to give them back". It was said of him that when he hit someone, no hair ever again grew in the place that was hit. More than once it happened that he intervened before the police arrived when Jews were attacked in the market, since it is obvious that the police were slow to arrived when called upon to defend Jews from anti-Semitic bandits groups.
If some revolt broke out in any place, Meilech immediately appeared and in his hand he had his famous gnarled stick. Bandits were prisoners of terror, quickly mounted their horses and carts, and returned to their villages.
During national feasts and official ceremonies, as for example May 3rd, firemen were invited to participate in the parade, headed by Yankel Seletzky, the Jewish fire chief. They dressed in their elegant uniforms, and with strong and spread step he introduced his unit to the military commandant.
Many of the Jewish firemen fulfilled their function with respect and pride, as for example Itzl Karolitzky, the siblings Yablonovsky (two of them are living today in Rosario, Argentina), and from my memory I recall the valiant Chanoch Liskovsky who was the firemen's commandant for a time. During the czarist regime, the commandant was a gentile, Adam Posniak. I also remember the Jew Berel Katsher who, during a dispute, opened Posniak's head and he abandonded Bereza for many years.
Frequently the firemen held drills of simulated fire situations. For example they declared that a certain house was catching fire, climbed to the roof, and threw water on neighboring houses so that fire wouldn't spread. This was like a dress rehearsal, because fires occurred frequently, as most of houses were wooden. Our firemen demonstrated agility and efficiency in their work. In later times they founded a wind instruments orchestra. They also bought modern water bombs.
In honor of our trip to Argentina which involved seven families (an
insignificant number considering the total population of the city), the firemen
prepared a ceremony of festival farewell and accompanied us to the train
station with their orchestra, because among the travelers were some firemen.
Our railroad station Bluden (during the czarist regime it was called Fagadina) was five kilometers from the city, and many families made their living transporting merchandise to and from the station. This work was often passed down from father to son. They also had carts that transported heavy items such as horses and cattle.
Cart drivers were right and simple Jews. They were distinguished for their courage and force when it was necessary to make use of it. I want to tell about two outstanding men among our cart drivers. The Mayor family I was told that their last name had its origin in the following episode: during the first German conquest an official of the German army with the title of Mayor died in Bereza. The ceremony was impressive, they buried him with his elegant uniform, his gold watch, and with all rings that he wore in life. I was told that a family opened the coffin, and removed all elements of value from the dead body. In town it was rumored that this act was done by this family, and from then on they were known by that last name of Mayor.
The family head was Shloime Mayor, a fat, tall Jew with wide back, small white beard, a cowlick of gray hair, and two red-as-fire cheeks. He was our neighbor on Kantzelaria Kostziol St.. The wooden passageway trembled when he stepped on it, loaded with packages to celebrate Saturday, full with fish and vegetables. The tchont [traditional meal of beans, potatoes, chicken and animal fat that was made on Friday evening and was cooked until Saturday lunch when it was eaten] of Mayor was very famous. The tchont was closed in an oven until Saturday noon, when the family returned from synagogue. But the boys opened it the on Saturday morning because they were impatient, and they sometimes eat the whole tchont before the family returned.
In bad times, when it was necessary to defend the Jews, Shloime demonstrated his force. If a gentile attacked a Jew, he gave him many blows so as to remember many times. All who were not circumcised spoke of him with respect because of his physical force.
It is convenient to refresh our memory with the stories of my grandfather Shaul
Agoz Z"L.
In a certain village lived a Jew that leased land for milk production, in particular butter and cheese. One day some gentiles got drunk and vandalized the Jew's house. What could a small Jew do in front of a crowd of uncircumcised? At that moment a big cart stopped in front of the inn. It was Shloime Mayor (who during his youth used to wander through villages, buying clothes from peasants, and selling them tapes, bellboys, combs, etc.). He stood in front of the inn's entrance and screamed:Many times gentiles trembled when they saw this brave man, and they respected him much.
- What's the matter here Reb Shaul? The whole inn is full of smoke and there are so many drunk people!
- Shaul answered him: "G-d sends you" exclaimed the stunned the inn owner
- Immediately, Immediately, wait a minute. I will order immediately, answered Shloime
He then went over to the first two gentiles, lifted them in the air in such a way that they were given a kiss one to other, and then threw them outside as if they were two match sticks. In the same way he treated two others, and the remaining ones no longer waited their turn and they dispersed afraid. The inn got clean.
The head of our cart drivers was "Yasha the cart driver". Before leaving Bereza he was already 60 years old. His beard was blond, and he constantly had a pipe in his mouth. Everyone respected him very much. When youths fought, it was enough if Yasha lifted his cane, and quickly order and silence returned.
During Simchat Tora he used to drink a toast. Then he ran out into the streets of the town surrounded by groups of children. He exclaimed "Sacred flock" and children answered him "Baa", and he joined them. Then he took off his boots, took off his clothes, and continued running nude until some neighbor pitied him and took him into his house.
About cart drivers behavior, the following story is a testimony: He worked in the steam engine flour mill of Berkovitz-Goldshtein company, and would stay until the group of cart drivers discharged wheat boxcars, and brought bags to the mill. Sholem, brother of the mill owner Seike Berkovitz inspected the empty carts, and found in Reb Yasha's cart a small wheat bag, maybe five or six kilograms. Sholem broke out angry and screamed "Thieves! Bandits! Does a Jew take these things? It is a shame!" Yasha the cart driver exclaimed "Don't scream this way, Reb Sholem. You are mistaken, it is not a robbery! It is a very old habit for many generations. Ask anybody". And he took the bag of wheat from Sholem's hands and added "This is the cart drivers tithe. It is for our kohen"
Certainly, nobody could oppose this habit of "cart drivers tithe".
After a long letters exchange with JCA representatives in Warsaw and Paris, after navigating 32 days in the ship of the French flag "Ceylon", six families from Bereza arrived in Argentina in March of 1927. In Warsaw we were joined with other families from the Brest and Galitzia areas, and we were all called "Brisker families". From Kartuz Bereza these families traveled to Argentina: Yakov Sokottzky and his family, Aaron Gloz and his family, Eliahu Vorodovsky and family, Biniomin Shtuker and family, Ytzhak Goldfand and family, Yeshayahu Sokotzky and family. Later came Note Gloz and Moishe Gloz. Note Gloz is now in Buenos Aires.
We were taken to Montefiore colony. In the beginning, JCA gave us only 75 hectares of land, and later they increased up to 112 and by the end to 150 hectares and the livestock. Many of those who stayed in the colony bought land with their own money. Others abandoned the place for various reasons, such as climate and nature. For 30 years the colony passed thorough different setbacks. Some left to the cities, either for the children or for desire of looking for a better life.
I should point out that the colony had a brilliant past. There were times when the number of settlers was 250 families. When we arrived there, the colony already had 28 families, and during our stay, the number increased to 120. It was a growth time for the colony. Nowadays there are 60 to 70 families. Another dozen live in a near town, and are owners of their fields.
Today there are few adults. First generation diminishes and youths occupy their place. We should mention with pride that the group of settlers that arrived from Bereza still persists in Montefiore. The Litvaks [as opposed to the Galitzianers] are growing roots more than any other group, and watching that we second generationers do not betray our parents' ideals, as mine, my mother and others who were faithful earth workers in our old home, in our native city Bereza.
From generation to generation, we opposed ourselves to easy economic
sustenance, we highlight Baron Hirsch's vision and we exalt his memory.
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During the first 20 years in this role, Rybak didn't have any special problems. His work consisted of issuing passports and of inspecting shepherding fields and collecting special taxes to Jews, as for example meat tax and candles tax. Together with four people, of whom two were gentiles, he forced the population to pay official taxes. The rabbis of Kartuz Bereza didn't intervene in city matters. This was because of rivalry existing between the rabbis the difficulty they had talking with each other.
In 1905 new winds began to blow and, as in other towns, turbulent groups arose in Kartuz Bereza. The police used to come to the City Council to watch the behavior and places where suspects inhabited. It was evident that when they suspected somebody, nothing good was waiting for him. The Town Council was located in Rybak's house and every time a policeman came to receive details about a suspicious Jew from a gentile, they immediatley brought the gentile an appetizing meal and a bottle of alcohol. The genteil ate and drank, and meanwhile somebody of Rybak's family ran to warn the suspect, who already knew what he should do.
The chief of police in Kartuz Bereza received a fixed bribe as annual compensation, so that nothing bad would happen to the Jews of the town.
Of the 1905 events, I remember one related to a Jewish soldier by the name of Horwitz who was stationed in Kartuz Bereza. He was detained by mistake and he was going to be very severely punished. The case came to the attention of youth's that formed the town revolutionary movement, and they decided to free him. They knew the detainee would be transported by the main road. At a preset hour, they left in a sled, and came face-to-face with those that took the detainee. One of youths stopped the guards to ask them something. When they stopped to answer him, he threw tobacco in their eyes. In that moment Horwitz escaped by getting onto the revolutionaries' sled.
The military began to look for the detainee. The revolutionaries arrived at Rybak's house and asked him to help them hide the Jew. Rybak had a brilliant idea: his house abutted the chief of police's house and a door separated the attics of both houses. They hid Horwitz in the police chief's attic! He was hidden there for two weeks, and when the military inspected each car that left the town, they didn't find him. When the military action subsided, Horwitz escaped to a nearby town, and then he left in a train to the German border. After a while, a letter arrived from him in the US.
Shimshon Dovid Shapira, intelligent man, Rybak's son-in-law, helped his father-in-law in complicated cases. With the help of Shapira and with money from Israel Grinberg (one of richest Jews of town), a Jewish state mixed school was founded in 1905, where Russian was taught. About 120 Jewish students studied there. Until 1915 it was directed by teacher Girashov.
With the help of both Shapira and Grinberg, the first Savings and Loan Fund was founded in 1909.
The Library had books in Russian, German and Yiddish, and was directed by Shapira. Many youths gathered there to read.
In February 1919, the Poles conquered Kartuz Bereza. The above-mentioned Naftaly Levinson, was named Mayor. The son-in-law of Shapria, Yechiel Nisan Zakheim was named Vice Mayor. He served for about ten years was in this position until he resigned. He was a studious and arrogant Jew, who defended interests of Jews with great effort. He offer them great support for Jewish institutions.
In 1939 Zakheim returned to Kartuz Bereza. He participated in community life,
and during the Nazi conquest he tried alleviating Jews suffering in ghettos. He
predicted the tragic end of Jews, and together with his wife Libe Shapiro (a
dentist) and other activists, he committed suicide the night before the
ghetto's liquidation. Their two children survived; both are outstanding
engineers who were active in the secret French Jewish movements, and they
fought with courage from there.
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A few Marylanders still follow the hounds that follow the hares
Danny's 12-gauge pump boomed out twice off to my left as a streaking gray rabbit cut in and out of a long, narrow copse of briars parallel to us. Raising my 20-gauge and trying to track the tricky rabbit as it neared my position, I fired twice as well, also to no effect.
Then the cottontail melted into cover. He was gone. Dejected, I opened my over-under to reload when out of the corner of my eye I caught a small motion. The rascal had cut back out of the briars and was now sneaking through some thin brush headed for a couple of downed trees that bridged the creek running off to my right, not 20 yards away.
Lefty Kreh's Tiefest
Hunting Seasons
I barely had time to get one shell into my shotgun when the rabbit leaped onto the trunk of a fallen tree to cross the stream. In two or three bounds, it would be invisible again and in entirely new territory.
Our pack of hounds — Slim, Copper, Junior, Jack and Lou — had been tracking this rabbit for the last half-hour. It was a big runner, taking a wide and circuitous route than most bunnies.
That was because the ground we were hunting was laced with small streams and random pools of water, making for poor scenting and difficult tracking. The terrain also forced the cottontail to run abnormally wide routes, as rabbits are good swimmers but abhor getting wet.
I could hear the owner of our pack, Charles Rodney, off in the distance trying to gather the hounds and move them to the sound of the guns.
Charles knew from the quantity of gunfire and ensuing silence that Danny and I had not only missed but had sent the rabbit accelerating away. If he didn't get the dogs in fast, it could well be a half-hour before we might get another chance at the clever beast. If at all.
Rabbit hunting was once a popular tradition in Maryland, and packs of beagles were as common as tractors on a farm. But in the last few decades, agricultural changes have reduced the areas that harbor rabbits. The disappearance of smaller, family farms planting from fence line to fence line and the increased use of herbicides all eliminate much of the cottontail's natural food and critical cover. Consequently hunting them has almost disappeared from our landscape.
As rabbits are incredibly fecund animals, their numbers have remained resilient in the areas where they do survive. There also remains a hard-core cadre of determined hunters who keep the cottontail flame burning.
A number of hunters also continue to accept the challenge of feeding, training and caring for a pack of five to 10 rabbit hounds. Fortunately for me, my friend Charles Rodney (who is also a talented outdoor writer) is one such. Once or twice a year, he invites me to join him and his hounds.
My first rabbit that day did not make it to the other side of the creek. With a lucky shot, I dropped it at the edge of the water. It was to be difficult hunting the rest of that day, however. The cover was beaten down by the harsh weather, and the rabbits were scarce. But our beagles were flawless, and the three rabbits we did encounter were all brought to bag.
Rabbit for Dinner
Two days later, after cleaning and brining my bunnies, I rolled the sectioned pieces in cornstarch for a crispy and moisture-sealing coating and browned them. Then I transferred them to a bed of sliced, sweet onions in a cast-iron pot, sprinkled them with finely chopped garlic and fresh rosemary, salt and pepper and covered them with a layer of onions and sliced mushrooms, pouring a good strong, brown ale over the lot. Finally I put on the cover and let it simmer in my oven for two hours at 275 degrees. It was exquisite.


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IMF plays down Greek financing fears
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that no financing problems will arise in Greece, if the current review of the country's bailout programme concludes by the end of July.
The IMF put out a statement in response to a report in the Financial Times.
The paper said the Fund was preparing to suspend aid payments to Greece by the end of July unless eurozone leaders plug a funding gap in the programme.
It said a gap of 3-4bn euros (£2.5-3.4bn) had opened up in the programme.
The Reuters news agency had reported on Wednesday that European foot-dragging could leave Greece 2bn euros short this year as some eurozone creditors were reluctant to roll over their Greek debt holdings.
The IMF did not mention any potential funding shortfall in the Greek programme, but in a statement on Thursday, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said a recent mission to Greece had made "important progress".
"There is an ongoing review of the Greek programme," he said.
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4 August 2009
The Bareket Observatory is an educational facility located in Israel. Their mission is to act as an educator's resource for schools and educational institutions. Open to anyone who has an interest in the night sky and wishes to have fun learning about the Universe in a scientific manner, the observatory runs many astronomy courses and classes to inspire curiosity of the night sky.
As part of this effort, and in support of IYA2009, late August will see a live webcast of deep sky objects. Sights such as nebulae, star clusters, planets, and asteroids will all be captured in real-time using the observatory's remote educational telescope system. The event will cover around 1.5 hours, meaning that participants can drop in and out as required. Explanations of the objects being observed will be provided in English. This astro-cast is free and open to all.
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I'm writing from the remote town of Saclapea in the tropical rainforest of northern Liberia, a four-hour drive from the national capital, Monrovia. The lush hills on the edge of town are breathtaking, but it isn't the raw and untapped beauty that brings me here.
This is a largely hidden place that has endured more than its share of sadness and depredations. Not far from where I now sit, the infamous Charles Taylor launched his rebel attack on Christmas Eve 1989, plunging Liberia and its neighbors into armed conflict and gruesome human rights violations that dragged on for more than a decade, killed an estimated 150,000 persons, and forced some two million Liberians to flee their homes before a credible peace was restored in 2003.
Diplomatic and financial support from the United States -- and from the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) -- played a key role in providing the shelter, food, water, health care and other basic services that helped Liberian refugees survive for years in the refuge of neighboring countries. And today, Liberia's people are busy rebuilding after their country's long nightmare.
Liberian children and their families have benefited from the Shello Health Clinic since it was built in 2008 with U.S. government support provided through PRM. The clinic is located in Lofa County, the region that in recent years has seen the most refugee returns.
Photo by Nnenna Ofobike, PRM Program Officer
I am in Saclapea because Liberia, once one of the largest refugee-producing nations in Africa, has suddenly become a country of asylum. Political instability in neighboring Côte d'Ivoire has pushed more than 35,000 new Ivoirian refugees into Liberia and we are deeply concerned that those numbers could rapidly climb far higher. Saclapea has become the gateway into the world's newest refugee zone, where frightened Ivoirians have congregated in search of protection and assistance at locations not easily reached by the outside world.
It's clear that the resources of the U.S. government and other donor nations are needed here to ensure adequate protection, shelter, sanitation and other basic supplies for the Ivoirian refugees. And after a difficult start, humanitarian operations are well underway and aid providers are preparing for tens of thousands of additional people who might need to flee here if dangers in Côte d'Ivoire continue on their ominous path.
Although I am thousands of miles from Washington, the federal budget debates -- and current proposals to massively cut the kind of U.S. assistance that has helped save Liberians and is helping to sustain Ivorian refugees -- seem very close at hand. As I sit here after a day of visiting a new refugee camp under construction and talking with refugees, I find myself both inspired and reflective about the essential nature of the work that PRM and our implementing partners do to save lives and alleviate suffering. The work not only reflects a moral imperative, but helps to promote peace and security when despair and desperation threaten stability and U.S. national security interests.
UNHCR supports the reintegration of refugees from Burundi as they rebuild their lives after years of conflict and displacement.
Photo by Wendy Henning, PRM Program Officer
For these reasons, I also find myself deeply concerned -- even heartbroken -- by the prospect of proposed humanitarian aid reductions of historic and devastating proportions.
During this month marking the centennial of the birth of President Ronald Reagan, it is fitting to remember that the former president lovingly referred to our country as "a shining city upon a hill," whose morals and values serve as a beacon to all the world and draw others to our leadership and our commitment to do what is right. His eloquent words expressed his core understanding that we serve our national interest best when we help to bring stability to others in their hour of need. More than 20 years later, President Obama made a similar point when he said that "the only way forward is through a common and persistent effort to combat fear and want wherever they exist. That is the challenge of our time, and we cannot fail to meet it."
Our civilian overseas assistance programs, at a cost of less than one percent of our nation's budget, are powerful instruments in our exercise of international leadership. They save lives and create conditions for stability. In short, civilian and humanitarian aid programs are remarkably effective and inexpensive investments, and it is not hard to find examples that reflect this basic reality.
Beyond Liberia, U.S. government aid to all corners of the African continent has been crucial to promoting peace and reconciliation, and averting the kind of large-scale violence that inevitably results in calls for costly and dangerous military intervention. U.S. assistance programmed through PRM has been critical to the peace process in Sudan, assisting the return of some 330,000 Sudanese refugees since the peace agreement was signed in 2005.
Last year, PRM also provided humanitarian aid to the 270,000 Darfur refugees in eastern Chad, addressed some of the enormous gaps in protection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and helped combat xenophobia in South Africa. And over the past 10 years, the humanitarian aid programmed through PRM has been critical to the largely peaceful return of over two million African refugees to their countries of origin throughout the continent.
Working through PRM's NGO partners, U.S. assistance has long supported a variety of programs that teach displaced populations new livelihood skills. Here, a group of Afghan women insisted they be given the opportunity to learn, along with the men of their village, how to weave nets to hold rocks in place during the construction of retaining walls.
Photo courtesy of Shelter for Life.
In Afghanistan, where the U.S. military has shouldered the heaviest responsibilities and paid the highest price in lives lost, U.S. government civilian humanitarian aid providers have an essential complementary role of facilitating the largest peaceful repatriation of refugees in world history -- the voluntary return home of more than five million Afghans since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. Some 100,000 additional Afghan refugees are expected to repatriate this year. PRM-managed support programs for Afghan refugees -- we programmed over $75 million last year alone -- have also helped to encourage Pakistani policies of tolerance and support to the roughly 1.6 million refugees who remain in that country. These wise investments help to promote the future stability in a region of critical national security importance to the United States.
As many of you know, we promote these humanitarian objectives in coordination with important international organization partners, such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as many non-governmental organizations. From Colombia, where 10,000 displaced children now have a chance to be reintegrated into the national school system with UNHCR support, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where ICRC is providing crucial assistance to victims of rape and other abuses, our generous support for these organizations enables us to drive international humanitarian policy and action around the world, while leveraging critically important funding from other donors.
PRM's partners are frequently among the first organizations to respond to emergency situations. Here, International Relief and Development (IRD) works to distribute food, and hygiene and habitat kits to thousands of internally displaced Afro-Colombians in Tumaco.
Photo courtesy of IRD Colombia
To be sure, this is a time of deep concern about the federal budget and all programs -- foreign and domestic -- require close scrutiny. We welcome the scrutiny, as we know from decades of experience at PRM that the work we do makes a critical difference in the world's trouble-spots, and helps to avoid the need for far more costly interventions when prevention fails. Our work reinforces our nation's role as an international leader, a beacon to the rest of the world.
In closing, I suppose it is indeed fitting that I write these words from Saclapea of all places, because the experiences of this town and of Liberia underscore the importance of the work we do. Thanks to our humanitarian and diplomatic help during the past decade, the people of Liberia have returned to their homes, and are engaged in the challenging process of recovery and development as a friend of the United States. But as reflected in the new arrivals just down the road, progress in this region -- as in so many others -- is fragile. It requires that we sustain the engagement, commitment and leadership that have, for so many years, reflected not only our key interests, but our most noble values.


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The original Commission of Inquiry which sat in 1861 laid most of the blame on Mr Brahe, Mr Wright, and the Exploration Committee.
Dr Hendtlass found that the primary cause of the deaths of Burke, Wills and Gray was 'nutritional inadequacy including starvation and beriberi associated with thiamine deficiency', for which Burke was entirely responsible as the person who made the decisons on what and how much food to take. She found that Burke was unsuitable to be the leader of the Exploration Expedition. The responsibility for the appointment of such an unsuitable leader lies with the Exploration Committee, and they must share the blame for the deaths.
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Bibliography Citations in Accordance 8.4
Yesterday David announced the release of version 8.4, and one of our newest features: export of bibliographic citations for tools. Today I'd like to describe this in more detail, and highlight some of its strengths.
As of today we support two citation styles: SBL and Turabian. SBL is the standard for most in the Biblical studies field, but Turabian is widely used in colleges and seminaries. At this stage we felt that these two styles would meet the needs of the majority of our users. But, there's one problem: neither of them has a completely adequate citation type for our resources. While some of our resources are published on an individually licensed CD/DVD, many aren't. Although Turabian 7th edition boasts greater support for electronic sources, many of them are tailored towards online databases and other Internet sources. Because of this ambiguity many people use our resources yet cite the print editions.
For this reason, we decided to develop a modified citation type, which treats our resources as electronic editions of their print counterparts. For SBL we consulted with a specialist in the field of Biblical studies technology, Danny Zacharias, faculty member at Acadia Divinity College, and creator of Deinde.org. Danny has extensive experience with bibliographic software (he has written a review of the leading Mac bibliographic manager, and developed its SBL format), and is actively involved in academic research as a Ph.D. student.
Our SBL citation style is based upon The SBL Handbook of Style For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies. In addition, the Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style (February 2009) was consulted. The SBL style is the most accurate and robust style for handling resources related to Biblical studies. For Turabian we consulted the latest handbook: A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. We went to great lengths to make sure we were as accurate as possible for both of these styles; an advantage that we feel will be evident to those with a keen eye towards detail. Despite our best efforts, this feature is not perfect and you should always consult the handbook for the particular style you are using.
So, how does this great feature work? The first step is to go to your preferences, and select Bibliography.
From here you will see the popup menu to select your Format: SBL or Turabian, then Footnote or Bibliography. In addition, you can create markers around your content (the typical being quotation marks), and even markers around your citation. Then, if you are using the footnote format you can opt to have the citation entered as a footnote in your favorite word processor like Word (2004/2008), Mellel, OpenOffice.org, or Nisus Writer Pro. Unfortunately, Pages is not currently supported because of a limitation in how it handles pasted text - this is not a bug in our feature.
After setting your preferences, it's just a matter of selecting the content you want to cite, and using the shortcut key (⌃⌘C), selecting Copy As Citation... from the Edit menu, or right-clicking (⌃ click) and selecting Copy As Citation… . Then, switch to your favorite app and simply paste (⌘ V). That's it. Simple.
In order to highlight some of the strengths of this feature, here are some samples of citations taken from Accordance (N = footnote; B = bibliography):
In this SBL footnote you can see that we account for the Hebrew entry (exported as Unicode based upon my preference setting), the SBL standard abbreviation for HALOT, along with the correct volume and page in which the entry is located (thanks to our recent update of this module).
B. Koehler, Ludwig, Walter Baumgartner, and M. E. J. Richardon, eds. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Accordance electronic edition, version 3.0. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Here, in the SBL bibliography, you can see that we accurately account for all the editors and list the title in full. In addition, the version number of the module is automatically extracted according to your local copy.
"Some understand the thrones as a picture of Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah encircled and under siege (as suggested by 1:15b)."
N. F. B. Huey Jr., Jeremiah (NAC 16; ed. E. Ray Clendenen; Accordance electronic ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 54-55.
In this SBL footnote you can see that the cited text is one coherent sentence, but is actually contained within two pages of the print edition. We have stripped the page marker from the Accordance module, and accounted for the page range in the footnote citation. In addition you can see that the precise volume and abbreviated title are cited.
"In 6:11-18 Paul adds a postscript in his own handwriting."
N. Hans Dieter Betz, Galatians: A Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Churches in Galatia, ed. Harold W. Attridge, vol. 69 of Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Accordance electronic ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1979), 312.
In this Turabian footnote you can see that we are able to accurately extract the proper book title from within a multi-volume Accordance module. Furthermore, you can see that the Turabian style includes the text "vol. 69 of Hermeneia… ." This is a shift from how SBL handles this type of citation, which shows you that we don't simply recycle the citation styles and change the name. The accuracy of the specific citation style is maintained.
"For example, 4QSama contains about three lines introducing chap. 11 of 1 Samuel heretofore known only partially in Josephus."
N. "Aims of OT Textual Criticism." WTJ 51 (1989): 97-98.
This SBL footnote reveals several significant strengths of this feature, but also a shortcoming. Our Theological Journal Library contains hundreds of articles from a number of the leading journals. In this citation we are able, again, to accurately extract the page range, strip the page marker from the module, cite the SBL approved journal abbreviation, and the title of the article.
B. "Aims of OT Textual Criticism." Westminster Theological Journal 51, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 94-108.
In this Turabian bibliography entry you can see the same elements as in the SBL footnote, but note that we properly list the full journal title, the issue number of the journal (not required for SBL), the month or season of publication (also not requried for SBL), and extract the proper page range for the entire article.
But, as you can see in both examples, the author is missing. You will simply have to insert it on your own.
Currently we do not support extraction of authors from multi-article modules that have individual authors. This affects dictionaries like Anchor and NIDOTTE, as well as journals. We realize that this is incorrect formatting, and hope to address this very complex issue in a future update of this feature.
These are just a few examples of this exciting feature. We invested a signficant amount of reasearch and development into this, and hope that it saves you time, and more importantly, further demonstrates our dedication to making Accordance your top choice for a robust, stable, and intuitive Mac Bible software program.
Archived Comments
As always, implemented beautifully. Accordance gets it, and that's why we as users are so happy to use and recommend the software.
Steve Jamieson
This is very exciting. If someone is having Accordance export footnotes as they work on a paper, is there a way to quickly get just the bibliography form for the resource for when they assemble their bibliography/reference list?
Rick Bennett
Robb: Thanks, as always, for your support. :)
Steve: I didn't discuss any future plans in the blog post, but we're already cooking up some intuitive ways on how we may be able to do this type of thing in a future revision (plus some other stuff that you probably haven't thought to ask yet!). For now, you may want to experiment with creating a user tool for all your resources, then copy it to your final bibliography.
David Lang
Steve, there's not currently a way to have your bibliography automatically built while you're copying and pasting citations with footnotes, but we've got some cool ideas we're hoping to implement in a future rev.
One thing that would also be helpful along these lines would be to have these bibliographic records available for import into a program like Endnote, using one of the industry standard export formats. This may also help overcome interoperability issues with Pages, which supports Endnote integration.
This new version has messed up my Yehudit font. I cannot paste the hebrew text into word docs anymore. Anyone else facing this problem?
I don't think that regular pasting into Word should be affected by our update. Maybe you upgraded the system or Word in the meantime. This issue is really better dealt with on the Forum.
Accordance users - I would like to cite Accordance in Turabian format. Does anyone know how to do that?
Rick Bennett
Dawn, can you shoot us an email at: [email protected] with a further description of what you're trying to cite?


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The regular season Atlantic Sun Conference championship is going to be a little harder for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons to obtain after a 3-1 match loss Sundey afternoon to Florida Gulf Coast.
The win gives Florida Gulf Coast the regular season lead two matches into the second half of the conference round robin. The Lady Bisons, last year's A-Sun Tournament Champion, are in second place.
The Lady Bisons lost sets one and two by the score of 25-16. The Lady Bisons bounced back to win set three 25-22, but lost set four 25-23.
Middle blocker Alex Kelly made a team-high 16 kills, but failed to reach double figures in digs. That ended her double--doubles streak at nine matches.
Libero Jessica Turner made 18 digs, tying for the match high. Opposite Erin Pierce made 10 digs.
Ana Kokanovic posted a double-double to lead Florida Gulf Coast with 18 kills and 17 digs.
Catilin Shawver made16 kills and Audrey Campbell added 12 for Florida Gulf Coast.
Holly Youngquist added 11 digs.
The Lady Bisons are 13-9 overall, 10-2 in the conference. Florida Gulf Coast is 12-6 overall, 11-1 in the A-Sun.


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Arts & Culture
The Wilde Boys Read Elizabeth BishopBy Nick Liptak
Elizabeth Bishop only published about one hundred poems during her lifetime, but these days, it's possible to know more about Bishop than ever before. Last month saw the publication of a new book revealing her decades-long correspondence with The New Yorker's poetry department. "What I think about The New Yorker," she wrote to her friend and fellow poet Marianne Moore, "can only be expressed like this: *[email protected][email protected]!*!!" A lengthy volume documenting her epistolary exchanges with Robert Lowell was published in 2008. It's easy to forget that Bishop was a very private person, often refusing to talk publicly or artistically about her personal life. "How stunning," wrote The New York Times, in 2002, of a Bishop biography, "to learn that the love of Bishop's life was a swaggering Brazilian woman, the aristocratic self-trained architect Lota de Macedo Soares." "Art just isn't worth that much," Bishop once wrote to Lowell, after he had published his wife's letters in his work. But for admirers and diehards alike, sometimes an inquiry is.
And so I found myself at a gathering in a downtown apartment last week for an event called the Wilde Boys: a queer poetry salon, where Richard Howard, who knew Bishop, and his former student Gabrielle Calvocoressi, the author of Apocalyptic Swing, were invited to "queer" the writer by talking about the way she coded sexuality into her work.
Beforehand, there was heavy mingling. "We're all poets and classmates, and graduated from different M.F.A. programs in New York around the same time," said Alex Dimitrov, the well-groomed twenty-six-year-old who founded the group in 2009. Liam O'Rourke, an elementary-school teacher who was wearing a pin with a black-and-white photograph of Bishop on it, said he teaches Bishop to his third graders. "I mention that she had a partner, but I don't teach her sexuality as a key to her work," he added.