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"Way back at the beginning of the year when we did our goal setting, they had two goals: they wanted to one, go undefeated in the conference, and two, try to go undefeated in sets," said Fessler. "We lost a set to Pella Christian and we haven't dropped one other than that. So we've readjusted a little bit, and now our goal is to go 7-0 and only lose that one set."
Pella's final regular season match, and their last in the Little Hawkeye Conference, will pit the Little Dutch against the Indians of Oskaloosa. Pella makes the short trip down Highway 163 tonight with action starting with the freshman match at 5:30 p.m.

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My husband supports me, but not to the point of making initiatives to help me change. He's not ready to change himself so that has to come from him first, and I guess it is impossible for someone who is not willing to change to help change another person. He needs to start with himself. It's hard for me though because I need the support. In starting to work on myself, I could be motivating him and we could motivate each other if he was on board, but we are not at the same place.
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In order to keep current with latest changes in Linux, computer security issues, and computer code writing there are major changes in OM Lx4. A Fresh install is recommended. Upgrading from OM Lx 3 is not recommended. We strongly advise not to try upgrading from earlier versions.
In order to keep current with latest changes in Linux, computer security issues, and computer code writing there are major changes in OM Lx4. A Fresh install is recommended. Upgrading from OM Lx 3 is not recommended. We strongly advise not to try upgrading from earlier versions.
= Changes to Hardware Support =
= Changes to Hardware Support =
Revision as of 03:16, 12 May 2019
These Release Notes are a work in progress and can and will change as we develop OpenMandriva Lx 4
This is a RC product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment. It is released for testing and bug hunting. It may have problems. If you download and test this product, please report your findings and problems in the forum and in our issue tracking system. Thank you very much.
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 RC
The OpenMandriva Lx teams are pleased to announce the availability of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 RC. OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 is a new release. In order to keep current with latest changes in Linux, computer security issues, and computer code writing there are major changes in OM Lx4.
Detailed below are some of the advances that the distribution has incorporated since OpenMandriva Lx 3.03.
Available Media
This section is a work in progress and changes can and will be made as development of OM Lx 4 proceeds.
This release is available as a live media DVD, downloadable in ISO format. These are available on our downloads page.
Live media means you are able to run OpenMandriva Lx straight from a DVD or memory stick (see below) and try it before installing it. You may also install the system to hard disk either from the running live image or from the boot manager.
For the RC release, only the KDE Plasma edition is available:
1. KDE Plasma desktop only, somewhat full featured (Includes applications that will do most things for most users including multimedia and office software.)
Some time after the Plasma version is released we plan to release Basic and text-only versions (Plans subject to change):
2. Basic GUI with minimal desktop and only basic system packages with Falkon browser.
The concept is for user to then install only packages they wish to use after installing basic system. Also for users with less robust hardware.
3. Text only
Just a minimal system without GUI, e.g. as a base for installing servers. This (obviously) expects the user to be able to handle command line interfaces.
All versions are released for several architectures:
x86_64 Runs on any 64-bit x86 machine - this covers virtually all currently available PC hardware.
znver1 znver1 is a special build for current AMD processors (Ryzen/ThreadRipper/EPYC). While the generic x86_64 version will run on znver1 compatible processors, the znver1 build is known to be both faster and smaller, by optimizing specifically for znver1 processors. We recommend using this build on hardware with current AMD processors.
We are also working on aarch64, armv7hnl (32-bit ARM processors with NEON unit) and riscv64 (RISC-V boards such as SiFive Unleashed) and possibly i686 builds. The armv7hnl build is essentially ready to use (packages are available, but there is currently no install image).
Recommended Hardware
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 requires at least 2.0 GB of memory and at least 10 GB of hard drive space (see below for known issues with partitioning).
Release is available for x86_64 and znver1 architectures, the 32-bit ARM, aarch64, RISC-V, and i686 architectures are being worked on, but are not yet available for this release.
Important Note: Graphics Hardware
The KDE Plasma Desktop requires a 3D graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or above. We recommend using AMD, Intel, Adreno or VC4 graphics chips.
Internet Connection
Calamares Installer checks if an Internet connection is available, but OpenMandriva Lx 4 will install just fine even without. It is perfectly OK to simply install as you normally would and proceed to use your new system as normal.
Updating such a system would require being temporarily connected to the internet or downloading the packages elsewhere and transferring them to the installed system and installing the updated packages. But as you are not connected to the internet you could simply use the system and not update for how ever long you see fit.
Virtual Machines
At this time the only virtualization software that OMLx ISOs are tested on is VirtualBox. The same hardware requirements apply when running in virtual machines.
For VirtualBox, however, you must always have at least 2048 MB of memory or OpenMandriva Lx will fail to boot.
Also for VirtualBox it is advisable to install to a fresh VM, as trying to install to an existing one may occasionally fail.
What is Calamares ?
Calamares is an installer framework.
By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. It aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic.
Calamares includes an advanced partitioning feature, with support for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing.
At this time partitioning LVM and Raid setups with Calamares (the installer) is NOT supported.
Installer and EFI Support
This release of OpenMandriva Lx supports booting and installation with and without UEFI.
Note that secure boot is NOT supported.
If you wish to perform an EFI installation on an existing MBR disk it will be necessary to convert the disk partition table to the newer GPT partitioning scheme. To do this you need to use the gdisk tool. A typical invocation would be 'gdisk /dev/sda': the existing partition table will be converted in memory to the GPT scheme. Warnings will be issued about potential data loss, the disk will not be altered until you write the partition table by pressing "w". You are advised to back up any important data.
There may be occasions where the conversion cannot be performed, this will usually be due to insufficient space at the beginning or end of the disk to write the partition table. It may be necessary to delete or resize a partition to create the needed space, gparted is your friend in these circumstances.
There is still a need to create an efi partition to contain the boot equipment and this must be created while running the Calamares installer. When the installer reaches the partitioning stage the / (root) partition should be removed and a small (330 MB) FAT16 or FAT32 partition created at the start of the drive. If diskspace is critical then a smaller partition may be used, but be sure to set it as FAT16 or FAT32 in Calamares otherwise the installation will fail. If you fail to observe these steps the installation of the boot loader will fail. Subsequently partition the disk in the normal way. Please share your experiences on the forums so that we may improve this aspect of the installation.
If you are installing beside Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or similar EFI booted OS as a precaution please ensure that you have recovery disks and you have backed up any important data. Our testing has been limited with this configuration, but successful installations have been performed with no issues. We would welcome any feedback in this area.
Changing Partition Type
Please note that Calamares cannot convert one partition type to another and preserve partition data. If you run Calamares from the live image it is not possible to change an existing partition type. Trying to do this generates an error message. In order to do this you must first delete the partition and recreate it as the type that you wish.
Booting from USB
It is also possible to boot this release from an USB storage device. To transfer the live/installation image you may:
- Use the ROSA Image Writer available from our repos
sudo dnf --refresh install rosa-imagewriter
Or, if you do not have OpenMandriva Lx yet, you can get ROSA Image Writer download links at this page
At least 4 GB of flash drive capacity is recommended. Persistent storage is not necessary. Note that this will erase everything on your USB!
- Via dd
You may alternatively dd the image to your USB stick:
dd if=<iso_name> of=<usb_drive> bs=4M
<iso_name> with the path to the ISO and
<usb_drive> with the device node of the USB drive, i.e.
SUSE Studio ImageWriter has also been tested and works for burning ISO images to USB storage device.
Booting from ISO file
Grub2 entry ( to be added in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg)
submenu "OpenMandriva (64 bit)" { set isofile=/home/user/OpenMandrivaLx.4.0-PLASMA.x86_64.iso set isoname=OpenMandrivaLx_4.0 loopback loop $isofile menuentry "OpenMandriva" { linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=${isoname} iso-scan/filename=${isofile} rd.live.image toram -- initrd (loop)/boot/liveinitrd.img } }
New Features and Major Changes
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 is a new release. In order to keep current with latest changes in Linux, computer security issues, and computer code writing there are major changes in OM Lx4.
Package Management (change from URPMI to DNF)
Major changes for OM Lx 4 include switching from rpm5/URPMI to rpm.org/DNF for package management. This will require users to get used to new commands if they use command line, DNF. There is an overlay package for those used to urpmi/urpme called dnf-URPM. It will translate a lot of the more common urpmi and urpme commands to dnf while users get use to the dnf commands. This is meant to be a transition package while users get used to dnf. This package will need to be installed by user. To install dnf-URPM open Konsole and run:
sudo dnf install dnf-URPM
In addition to dnfdragora mentioned above Discover is working with dnf.
OpenMandriva provides LLVM/clang 8.0.1 as the default compiler, GCC 9.1 is also available. Over 98% of packages in our main repository are now built with LLVM/clang.
Benefits for end user:
- Faster compiles and Low Memory Use
- Expressive Diagnostics
- GCC Compatibility
- Better object code generation compared to others
- Object code is optimized for its size
- OpenMP support enabled by default
More information can be found here.
OpenMandriva Lx uses the latest stable kernel, 5.1.0, by default BFQ is set up as a default I/O scheduler to achieve best performance.
By default an UKSM is enabled to manage memory efficiently.
Default init system is systemd with version 242
We have upgraded Xorg to version 1.20.4, and Mesa to 19.0.3, which brings the latest free drivers for the best performance. A Compose cache is now incorporated which speeds up application startup time and reduces memory usage especially in locales with large Compose tables (e.g. all UTF-8 locales).
We are using modesetting driver by default for nVIDIA, Intel and AMD graphics cards as well as Adreno GPUs.
With end of 02 October 2017 a S3TC patent has expired, and we have included S3TC texture compression in our Mesa.
We are working on many new and interesting shells using new display technology based on Wayland 1.17 version.
KDE Plasma 5 running on wayland is still experimental and not recommended for daily use. Testing and feedback of Wayland is welcome.
All the input devices like keyboard, mouse, touchpad and others are now handled though libinput 1.13.1 version library by default.
oma-welcome or Welcome to OpenMandriva Lx application introduces the users to OpenMandriva Lx and shows them some of the features we have, as well as providing quick links to common tasks such as updating, installing new software, and configuring the desktop.
KDE Plasma 5.15.5
We have upgraded to the latest and greatest version of the KDE Plasma desktop. Learn more at KDE Plasma website.
KDE Frameworks are updated to 5.57.0 version. We have implemented full KDE Frameworks that allows user to get all of benefits of Plasma 5 desktop
KDE Applications are updated to 19.04.1
Our distribution is running with Qt 5.12 version.
Important notice! Plasma 5 make heavy use of Qt5 OpenGL. This means that the minimal system requirement is to have a graphics card that can support OpenGL 2.0 or newer version.
Calligra Suite 3.1.0
Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite written in Qt5 and supports KDE Plasma 5. It is possible to install whole calligra suite after installation is finished.
Krita 4.1.8
Krita is a creative sketching and painting application. It was part of Calligra up to version 2.9 and became a project independent from Calligra since then. It has already been ported to Qt5 and is included in the install image.
SDDM is a new and lightweight displaymanager written in Qt5 with QML and provides new features and benefits to enduser compared to KDM.
LXQt 0.14.0
We have prepared LXQt for our Release. LXQt is a lightweight desktop fully written in Qt5.
By default SDDM is used as display manager.
LibreOffice 6.2.4
The latest LibreOffice featuring much faster load times and many bug fixes.
LibreOffice 6.2.4 has much improved KDE Plasma integration.
Falkon 3.1.0
Falkon is a full featured web browser using Qt5WebEngine as a rendering engine. More information can be found here.
We encourage you to give Falkon a try as a new experience in the web browsers world.
Firefox 66.0.2
The latest Firefox Quantum with its new graphical interface and all the latest features.
You may wish to suspend desktop effects when running Firefox is in full screen mode, as it speeds up scrolling.
Chromium 74.0
A Chromium web browser is available to install it on running system either by using dnf, Discover or dnfdragora.
sudo dnf --refresh install chromium-browser-stable
If you wish to try an experimental version with newer features (but not quite the stability), you can also try
sudo dnf --refresh install chromium-browser-dev
The -stable and -dev versions can coexist on the same installation.
Java 12
The OpenMandriva Lx Java stack has been rebuilt on top of OpenJDK 12, and we have added support for Java Modules and JAR libraries in the RPM provides/requires generators. We have also started adding module information (module-info.class) to packages providing JAR libraries. Migrating the remaining Java packages to newer systems will happen over the next releases (adding module support to any related package that gets an update). This should enable much better packaging of Java related packages in the future.
Printing support is based on Cups 2.2.10 and ghostscript 9.26.
ALSA is updated to version 1.1.9
Pulseaudio version is 12.2, you can find more information about features here.
The SMPlayer media player is included, using MPV as its default backend.
If you live in a country that allows it, you may want to install the various codecs from the
restricted repository for improved codec support.
We have enabled LAME support by default. With 2017 start all the patents related to MP3 are expired. By default our ffmpeg, gstreamer, and other media frameworks now supports LAME.
We have decided to make better use of libarchive, and starting from OM Lx 3 release by default we use:
- bsdtar as a default tar program
- bsdcpio as a default cpio program
Detailed features and benefits can be found here.
Perl base package has been updated to 5.28 version. All perl related software in main repository has been rebuilt to meet new version.
Python has been updated to 3.7.3 version and starting from now it became the default python interpreter over python 2.x. Python 2.x is no longer included in the default ISO, but continues to be available in the repositories for people in need of legacy applications.
We provide support for:
- qemu
- docker
- virtualbox
You can install and run these out of the box.
We provide many of the games which have been developed for or ported to Linux.
By using of PlayOnLinux you can also play games usually available only on the Windows(tm) platform.
Of course Steam package is also available and can be installed using dnf, dnfdragora or plasma-discover.
To give it a go, enable the non-free repositories, and
sudo dnf install steam
ISO build tools
Previously livecd-tools were used to build OpenMandriva ISO images. Due to code complication and its limits, we moved to build own ISO image build tool.
omdv-build-iso is written as a bash shell script, which works out of box on ABF and in userland.
Upgrading from previous OpenMandriva Lx Releases
Currently a fresh install is recommended.
In order to keep current with latest changes in Linux, computer security issues, and computer code writing there are major changes in OM Lx4. A Fresh install is recommended. Upgrading from OM Lx 3 is not recommended. We strongly advise not to try upgrading from earlier versions.
Changes to Hardware Support
Graphics Support
Graphics support has improved with the latest drivers. We managed to reduce issues by using by default DRM subsystem and modesetting driver for AMD, intel and nVIDIA graphics cards.
If any users have special needs they will need to be configured from command line. If you need help please contact us at our forum or IRC room.
NVIDIA Graphics Cards
This release includes the reverse engineered nouveau driver, which gives moderately good support for most NVIDIA cards. For some dual-screen work it is actually better than NVIDIA binary driver as it supports screen rotation on a second monitor, which is useful for monitors with rotatable screens.
The drivers from nvidia website are not supported. This is not possible for a number or reasons.
We strongly recommend against using the proprietary drivers. They are impossible to support, and break frequently. If you install them, you do so at your own risk.
AMD/ATI Graphics Cards
AMD closed source driver is not supported (abandoned upstream) , Open source drivers are fully supported and only limited by Kernel/mesa BUGS or missing upstream (AMD) firmwares for newer Cards.
If you need help please contact us at our forum or IRC room.
Intel Graphics Chips
Intel graphics chips are fully supported.
Miscellaneous Graphic Cards
We have not had feedback from users. Should you have an unusual graphics card that is not performing as it should please contact us at our forum or IRC room. If issue persists please file a bug at issues.openmandriva.org.
Proprietary Drivers
Proprietary drivers not available for Lx 4 RC release. When they are available user will need to install and configure these from command line.
The drivers from nvidia web site are not supported. This is not possible for a number or reasons.
We have since OM Lx 3 used firewall-config, which relies on firewalld.
The service responsible for starting the firewall is enabled by default.
Booting with systemd
Systemd has now been moved into the initramfs and the result is super-fast booting. Switching runlevels has changed. Instead of adding the target runlevel, as before, there are now specific boot options. Namely, the following options must be appended to the kernel command line:
- Rescue Mode:
- Text Mode:
- Graphical Mode:
Desktop Environments
This release offers the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment. LXQt is available in repos for users to install and test.
Media Sources
- main
main is the core packages maintained by the OpenMandriva Lx team. This includes anything included in the install images as well as many more applications considered important.
- unsupported
unsupported represents community maintained packages. These are not supported by the core OpenMandriva Lx team, and depend on package maintainers to update it. There are many packages in unsupported that will not install and others that install but do not work properly. Users are welcome to use whatever they find in this repository that is working.
- restricted
restricted contains libraries that aren't installed by default due to legal concerns (such as patent issues). The usage of these packages vary by country - OpenMandriva Lx is not responsible for their usage! If you believe that their usage is disallowed in your country, please disable the restricted repositories.
- non-free
non-free contains applications and drivers that are distributable, but do not meet the definitions of Free Software. While we can adjust the packaging of such applications, we do not have the source code and therefore can not fix problems caused by anything in this repository.
Helping the Project
The OpenMandriva development teams (Cooker & QA) are always looking for new contributors to assist in creating and maintaining packages and to assist bugfixing and testing. You are welcome to join us and help us in this work which is not only rewarding but also tremendous fun!
If you feel that your talents do not lie in the realm of software, then the OpenMandriva Workshop group, which is made up from the artwork, documentation, translation and Communication teams, is always open for the submissions of artwork and translations. New contributors who would like to help with these wide-ranging tasks should see the wiki for more details, and to learn how to join! Alternatively you may use our Forum.
It also costs time and money to keep our servers up and running. If you can, please donate to keep the lights on!
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Bringing a Hostess Gift
When you've been invited to someone's home, giving the host a small gift (often called a hostess gift) is always a nice gesture, even if the invitation instructs you not to. Offering a bottle of wine, a flowering plant, or a gourmet food item is a considerate way to show your appreciation and display superb guest etiquette.
When presenting the host with the gift, the ideal way is to send it ahead of time or give it to him as soon as you arrive.
Think about the host's hobbies when you select a gift. If you know that the host loves to garden, listen to music, or read, for example, consider a gift or memento for that special interest. Select a hostess gift that suits the recipient and not one that you would like for yourself.
Don't allow your hostess gift to be a burden to the host in any way. For example,
If you want to give cut flowers, make sure they are already in a vase so the host doesn't have to hunt for one and then arrange them. Remember that the host will be busy and may have carefully planned the party decor. If your flowers conflict with the color or theme, you'll have put your host in the awkward position of deciding where to place them.
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"Shrek 4" won the box office this weekend. It's the third straight week that movie has reigned supreme, yet it feels like "Shrek" has dominated more by default than anything else. Deadline notes June film grosses are already lagging way behind last year, and it's easy to see why, given the movies that have already come out. Thus far, the June release slate has felt like an August release slate, complete with expensive video game epics no one asked for ("Prince of Persia"), horrific family comedies based on comic strips ("Marmaduke") and so much less.
So why is this? Why is Hollywood struggling right now, in June, their peak season? Well, we can blame three things. First, the movies. They're crummy. Second, let's also blame May. We all know that the summer movie season now unofficially begins in the first weekend of May now, as opposed to Memorial Day weekend. Ever since "Spiderman" grossed over $100 million during it's opening weekend in early May at the beginning of the decade, May has now virtually stolen all of June's thunder.
Now, you might think to yourself, "Well, just because they release cool movies in May doesn't mean they can't in June. Shouldn't we be getting a whole extra month of cool summer movies now that May is in the mix?" And the answer to that question, of course, is NO. Hollywood can only exert so much effort, people. You can't honestly expect them to give you quality movies YEAR ROUND, can you? All they have access to is a deep pool of acting and directing talent and billions of dollars in capital. YOU try making five great blockbusters a year with just that to work with.
Kidding aside, studios only have so much in the budget for one year. So anything they spend extra in May has gotta come from somewhere. And that's how you end up with a Katherine Heigl/Ashton Kutcher vehicle released in June.
Next weekend's big releases are the remakes of "The Karate Kid" and "The A-Team," which means you get a full weekend of warmed-over 80's leftovers. Ah, but there IS hope for you, young moviegoer. Go ahead and circle June 18th on your calendar. Yes, I know "Jonah Hex" comes out that day, and it looks putrid, but that's the day "Toy Story 3" also arrives to reboot the summer season. A week later comes "Knight And Day" for the three people that still take Tom Cruise seriously as an actor, and then comes "Eclipse" a week later, if you're into that Twilight stuff. Then July is here and we get "Inception" on the 16th, and all will be right with the world.
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Kinks and curves at the nanoscale
One of the basic principles of nanotechnology is that when you make things extremely small—one nanometer is about five atoms wide, 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—they are going to become more perfect.
"Perfect in the sense that their arrangement of atoms in the real world will become more like an idealized model," says University of Vermont engineer Frederic Sansoz, "with smaller crystals—in for example, gold or copper—it's easier to have fewer defects in them."
And eliminating the defects at the interface separating two crystals, or grains, has been shown by nanotechnology experts to be a powerful strategy for making materials stronger, more easily molded, and less electrically resistant—or a host of other qualities sought by designers and manufacturers.
Since 2004, when a seminal paper came out in Science, materials scientists have been excited about one special of arrangement of atoms in metals and other materials called a "coherent twin boundary" or CTB.
Based on theory and experiment, these coherent twin boundaries are often described as "perfect," appearing like a perfectly flat, one-atom-thick plane in computer models and electron microscope images.
Over the last decade, a body of literature has shown these coherent twin boundaries—found at the nanoscale within the crystalline structure of common metals like gold, silver and copper—are highly effective at making materials much stronger while maintaining their ability to undergo permanent change in shape without breaking and still allowing easy transmission of electrons—an important fact for computer manufacturing and other electronics applications.
But new research now shows that coherent twin boundaries are not so perfect after all.
A team of scientists, including Sansoz, a professor in UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere, write in the May 19 edition of Nature Materials that coherent twin boundaries found in copper "are inherently defective."
With a high-resolution electron microscope, using a more powerful technique than has ever been used to examine these boundaries, they found tiny kink-like steps and curvatures in what had previously been observed as perfect.
Even more surprising, these kinks and other defects appear to be the cause of the coherent twin boundary's strength and other desirable qualities.
"Everything we have learned on these materials in the past 10 years will have to be revisited with this new information," Sansoz says
The experiment, led by Morris Wang at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, applied a newly developed mapping technique to study the crystal orientation of CTBs in so-called nanotwinned copper and "boom—it revealed these defects," says Sansoz.
This real-world discovery conformed to earlier intriguing theoretical findings that Sansoz had been making with "atomistic simulations" on a computer. The lab results sent Sansoz back to his computer models where he introduced the newly discovered "kink" defects into his calculations. Using UVM's Vermont Advanced Computing Center, he theoretically confirmed that the kink defects observed by the Livermore team lead to "rather rich deformation processes at the atomic scale," he says, that do not exist with perfect twin boundaries.
With the computer model, "we found a series of completely new mechanisms," he says, for explaining why coherent twin boundaries simultaneously add strength and yet also allow stretching (what scientists call "tensile ductility")— properties that are usually mutually exclusive in conventional materials.
"We had no idea such defects existed," says Sansoz. "So much for the perfect twin boundary. We now call them defective twin boundaries."
For several decades, scientists have looked for ways to shrink the size of individual crystalline grains within metals and other materials. Like a series of dykes or walls within the larger structure, the boundaries between grains can slow internal slip and help resist failure. Generally, the more of these boundaries—the stronger the material.
Originally, scientists believed that coherent twin boundaries in materials were much more reliable and stable than conventional grain boundaries, which are incoherently full of defects. But the new research shows they could both contain similar types of defects despite very different boundary energies.
"Understanding these defective structures is the first step to take full use of these CTBs for strengthening and maintaining the ductility and electrical conductivity of many materials," Morris Wang said. "To understand the behavior and mechanisms of these defects will help our engineering design of these materials for high-strength applications."
For Sansoz, this discovery underlines a deep principle, "There are all manner of defects in nature," he says, "with nanotech, you are trying to control the way they are formed and dispersed in matter, and to understand their impact on properties. The point of this paper is that some defects make a material stronger."
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Using RFID to Improve the Customer Experience
Today, RFID technology is so much more than an IPass or a race-timer. The technology has changed the way big corporations such as Wal-Mart handle their supply chain management, the way retail stores prevent shoplifting, and the way experiential marketers make use of their spaces. Here are a few ways events are utilizing RFID technology to improve experiences:
Tomorrowland Music Festival:
This Belgium music festival took to the wristband trend over the traditional admission ticket. When guests received their wristbands in the mail they could register their band to connect with their Facebook page. During the course of the two-weekend event, if any two guests pressed the button on their wristband at the same time while they were close to one another, the other person's Facebook info would be shared via email. Every day that the guest attended the festival, they received an email of all the people they met that day.
Taste of Toronto:
The Taste of Toronto used RFID a little differently than just an admission ticket. They said goodbye to the dated ticket method for paying for food and drinks and instead provided each attendee with an RFID card. The guests could load money on the card and use it to pay for all food and drinks at the event. At the end of the day, if there was money left over on the card it was donated to Second Harvest Food Rescue.
C2MTL, the Commerce and Creativity conference in Montreal, used UHF tags (similar to RFID but functions from as far away as 30 feet) to help staff the event. The tags were on each badge of the guests and the chandeliers were UHF-enabled to receive information from the guests' badges. Producers knew when people entered the building and passed security successfully, and they also knew when to add extra staff to popular food stations.
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival:
Bonnaroo draws thousands of guests to Tennessee each June. Guests registered their RFID wristbands online before attending the event, and in Bonnaroo's partnering with Microsoft, linked them with a Microsoft OneDrive account. Every time the guest visited a photobooth or viewed a performance, they could scan their RFID band and have photos sent and saved to their account.
Checkout more smart uses of RFID in the BizBash article "6 Events Using R.F.I.D. Technology to Improve the Guest Experience."


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Marcellus Caldas selected as the director of international research and faculty
Marcellus Caldas, assistant professor of geography, is the new director of international research and faculty collaborations. His appointment was announced by the office of international programs. The office conducted an internal search seeking qualified applicants for this position, which will report to Marcelo Sabates, interim associate provost for international programs.
Sabates said that this new position will maximize faculty opportunities to include interdisciplinary international research and grant elements; seek new international opportunities for faculty activities; track and document faculty global endeavors to include travel, conferences and sabbaticals; and move forward engagement for the K-State 2025 Internationalization Strategic Plan.
"Our institutional ambition expressed in Vision 2025 and the great recent success in terms of international institutional partnerships requires a coordinated effort so faculty members across all colleges can be engaged at the highest level," Sabates said. "We had a pool of highly qualified candidates and Dr. Marcellus Caldas is the ideal catalyst to make this happen."
"I am very honored to be selected," Caldas said. "I accepted this position because I think international research collaboration has become a key element in successful globalization strategies by many top universities and K-State is working aggressively to increase its international engagement vital to achieving the goals established in the 2025 Plan."
"Marcellus' enthusiasm for teaching and international opportunities at K-State resulted in several study abroad courses in collaboration with the Division of biology and department of English," Sabates said. "His dedication to international matters was evident in 2012, when he was recognized by the office of international programs and presented with the International Educator of the Year Award."
Caldas said, "I believe I can build upon the office of international program's established initiatives and incorporate my various past experiences in research and working with scholars and global academic institutions. I have worked with partners in Brazil and Paraguay developing collaborative grants with Michigan State University, Federal University of Bahia and Federal University of Parát, the U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program supported by the U.S. Department of Education. I continue to maximize relationships with the National Science Foundation and K-State departments."
Caldas came to Kansas State University in 2008. He will retain a part-time teaching appointment in the geography department and begin his assignment as director of international research and faculty collaborations in the office of international programs this month.


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You need some special software on the computer to send data to the parallel port to control the functions of your electronic circuit. Fortunately, you don't have to be a programmer to create this software, because software that does this job is readily available on the Internet.
The simplest software available, called Kit 74, is designed to work with a popular kit that lets you connect relays to the parallel port. To find the software, just search for "Kit 74 software." The software is contained in an archive file named k74_dos.zip. Download it to your computer and extract its contents to a folder on your hard drive named C:k74_dos.
To use the commands, click the Windows Start button, type cmd, and press the Enter key. (In versions prior to Windows 7, you must click Run after you click the start button; then type cmd.) An MS-DOS command window opens.
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Facebook's Open Stream: More Third-Party Apps?
As expected, Facebook on Monday further opened the site to developers with the Facebook Open Stream API.
The social networking site already has an active developer platform, but this announcement focuses on APIs for the homepage news stream.
"With the Facebook Open Stream API users will be able to use applications to read and interact with their stream," Facebook's Ray C. He wrote in a blog post. "As a Facebook developer you'll also be able to access the posts you've published into the stream and display them in your application, whether it's on a mobile device, Web site or desktop."
Facebook has been working with developers for several months to develop the API, according to He.
"We think that working alongside our peers to create an open standard for accessing and consuming streams is the future," he wrote. "We'll continue to make contributions to the standards community and related technologies and are happy to be one of the first companies to implement Activity Streams at scale."
The release also includes new APIs stream.get, stream.publish, and new FQL tables which allow direct access to the stream.
"With these new methods, you can access the stream on behalf of a user and then filter, remix, and display the stream back to that user however you choose, wherever you choose, in the manner most relevant for the user experience," He wrote. "Other new API methods will allow users to both publish into the stream and to add comments and "likes" to posts in the stream."
Facebook worked with several beta partners, including Seesmic Desktop and Adobe, which created a stream Notifier using its AIR development framework.
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Former Tri-City Hospital CEO failed to report Chicago trip
Former Tri-City Hospital CEO Larry B. Anderson has agreed to pay a $200 fine for a violation of the California Political Reform Act, a settlement with state regulators that was approved last week.
The penalty stems from Anderson's failure to report that a trade publication paid for his travel to Chicago, including limousine rides and a $569 a night hotel stay at the Ritz-Carlton.
U-T Watchdog revealed the omission in July, and Anderson said at the time he was not obligated to report his acceptance of the gift. In August, he changed course and filed an amendment to his state-mandated economic disclosure form to report the trip.
The state requires the disclosure forms so the public can monitor the income, investments, gifts and other financial interests of public officials for possible conflicts. The travel for Anderson was funded by Becker's Hospital Review, which has highlighted Anderson's accomplishments and those of the hospital.
Anderson's penalty was significantly less than other fines on the agenda for the state's Fair Political Practices Commission, some of them reaching tens of thousands of dollars. But the fine, which included an admission that the law was violated, was more serious than the warning letter the ethics agency sends to many officials whose conduct comes into question.
The Watchdog has left a message for comment with Anderson and will update this post if he responds.
Anderson was fired last month after the agency accused him of pressuring the hospital's former finance officer to misstate financial reserves, of conducting an inappropriate investigation of Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall, of creating an "improper work environment" for employees, of spending district money for online image enhancement services and of inappropriate interactions with a private company hired to help Tri-City build a medical office building on its Oceanside campus off Highway 78. Anderson called the allegations false.
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Central and eastern Europe make history with small satellites
The first satellites entirely designed and built by Hungary, Poland, and Romania are now orbiting Earth after today's successful maiden flight of ESA's small Vega launcher.
The latest addition to Europe's versatile family of space launchers, Vega carried nine satellites, seven of them built by European universities.
This group of ESA-sponsored educational CubeSats included Goliat from Romania, PW-Sat from Poland and Masat-1 from Hungary.
The unique opportunity to launch the first satellites from these countries was made possible by a fruitful collaboration between the ESA launcher and education programmes.
"Since Vega's first mission was a qualification flight, ESA decided to offer the chance to European Universities of a free ride into space for small scientific or educational payloads," noted Antonio Fabrizi, ESA's Director of Launchers.
Following the agreement to include an educational payload, including up to six CubeSats, on Vega's first flight, ESA issued a call that led to a flood of proposals from universities all over Europe.
As a result of the overwhelming response, the number of available CubeSat slots on Vega was increased to nine. Seven university teams eventually made it in time, including UniCubeSat-GG and e-st@r from Italy, XaTcobeo from Spain and Robusta from France.
The student teams took advantage of a rare and invaluable hands-on opportunity to design, develop and operate their own space missions.
ESA provided technical expertise and educational support for integrating, testing and preparing the satellites for launch.
"The launch of these CubeSats on Vega, each carrying scientific or technology experiments, represents a huge educational achievement both by ESA, the student teams and their countries," said Giuseppe Morsillo, ESA's Director of Policies, Planning and Control, who is responsible for the ESA education programme, as well as for relations with ESA's Member States.
"This success is particularly important for Romania, Poland and Hungary, as a clear demonstrator that investing in space also means bringing bright young talents – the workforce of the future – to the front line, so promoting and reinforcing from its very basis the competitiveness of our economies."
"Romania, Poland and Hungary have a history of participation in several European space projects and activities," commented Karlheinz Kreuzberg, Head of the ESA Director General's Cabinet, whose team is also responsible for establishing cooperation agreements with non-ESA EU Member States and preparing their eventual membership of ESA.
"The next major step has now been achieved by these countries with the deployment of their first national satellites, extending the ground for collaboration on new, collaborative, European space ventures."
Giuseppe Morsillo concluded, "This step is also very important as it helps in reinforcing the dialogue with European countries from ESA's perspective of increasing the number of its Member States by progressively including other Member States of the EU.
"The transfer of ESA's space knowhow to new partner countries can also definitively pass through an educational exchange."


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A simple accelerometer
You tape one end of a piece of string to the ceiling light of your car and hang a key with mass m to the other end (Figure 5.7). A protractor taped to the light allows you to measure the angle the string makes with the vertical. Your friend drives the car while you make measurements. When the car has a constant acceleration with magnitude a toward the right, the string hangs at rest (relative to the car), making an angle $B$ with the vertical.
(a) Derive an expression for the acceleration $a$ in terms of the mass m and the measured angle $B$.
(b) In particular, what is a when $B$ = 45? When $B$ = 0?
I don't care about the answers, the important thing is the following:-
The book says The string and the key are at rest with respect to the car, but car, string, and key are all accelerating in the +x direction. Thus, there must be a horizontal component of force acting on the key.
That's the reason the book decided to consider a force in the $+x$ direction, but I'm looking for a better explanation: how would I find detect the force in the $+x$ direction in another way? To me, when I draw the free body diagram of the string, there looks to be no force acting on the $+x$ direction! I understand it starts with noticing that the string is attached to the ceiling of the car, and that the car has force causing acceleration in one direction, but I don't know how to go further than that.


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I've always had, at best, a tumultuous relationship with Los Angeles. It's like that with things you love enormously. So when I came across this breathless quote by Michael Ventura, in his essay "Grand Illusion" I knew it was the only place to start my book:
"The beauty [of Los Angeles] is the beauty of letting things go; letting go of where you came from; letting go of old lessons; letting go of what you want for what you are, or what you are for what you want; letting go of so much—and that is a hard beauty to love."
So L.A. –dare I suggest like Los Angeles itself– is fraught with beauty and self-loathing. Not only do the palm trees of Sunset clash with the Central Valley combines that supply L.A. readily with the organic soy for her venti lattes, but I'm readily convinced that the tanned and toned flesh of most every Angelino secretly yearns for the soothing balm of an aloe wrap in San Joaquin starlight. When I first moved to L.A. I was told I would have to give up the levees and lakes of the California where I was raised in order to embrace the wave-crashed beaches of the Los Angeles enigma. Twelve years later, I realize that you can let go without relinquishing everything and that beauty, no matter how hard (or hard earned) is always still beautiful.


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America East Men's Lacrosse Championship Game Notes
For the second consecutive year, the UMBC men's lacrosse team (8-6) will take on top-seeded Albany (10-5) for the America East Conference men's lacrosse championship when the two rivals take the field at Stony Brook University's La Valle Stadium on Saturday, May 3. The Retrievers advanced with a 16-10 semifinal win over No. 2 Binghamton in Thursday's opener, while Albany needed overtime to subdue host No. 4 Stony Brook, 17-16, in the nightcap. The opening face-off is set for 10:00 a.m., with ESPNU providing live coverage. Mark Dixon and Paul Carcaterra handle the play-by-play and color responsibilities. Live stats are available via America East's Championship Central.
THE SERIES/THIS YEAR'S RESULT: UMBC leads the all-time series, 10-8, but the Great Danes have taken the last four meetings.


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These vehicles use a vacuum pump to supply power assist for the braking system. The vacuum pump can fail unexpectedly due to insufficient lubrication. This would reduce braking efficiency, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will make modifications to allow for proper lubrication of the vacuum pump in order to correct this concern.
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Braking power could be unexpectedly reduced increasing vehicle stopping distance.
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The fifth façade - The solar control specialist
Ever wondered what it would be like if you could work on 5 instead of 4 façades? Well now you it's possible using Liquisol on the roof, also known as the 5th façade.
Liquisol is a solar reflective paint for glass and polycarbonate skylights, sky domes and light roofs.
Every industrial building has at least 3 percent of its roof surface as skylights. Many conservatories have roofs that are made of polycarbate translucent sheets. These skylights and sky roofs are the most important cause of overheating of a building. This can best be solved by using Liquisol, a brand of paints, so as a painter, you can become a specialist in applying solar control. No other profession except a painter can provide a solution to the main cause of overheating in these buildings.
Often skylights cause glare effect on people's eyes and industrial buildings become overheated in the summer. Liquisol filters the bright light of the sun, reflects the IR radiation (infrared heat), and enables only a pleasant amount of light to penetrate its surface. Nowadays, with the Graco EasyMax™ WP II, it's so easy to fix this problem. The EasyMax is the perfect tool to spray many square meters of solar control paint. Making use of the backpack and the extension, you can work safely and quickly on any type of roof.
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1976 GMC 4x4 Pickup Truck - Miss Misery
Bobby Dodrill's Four-Wheel-Drive Outlaw 10.5 Racer Hauls Like No Other Truck.
Drag racing's version of the Wild West has to be the crazy Outlaw 10.5 action most popular in the Southeast. Run on eighth-mile tracks, the class has few rules, creating some of the most radical race cars you've ever seen with the most ridiculous full-bodied-car engine combinations on the planet. It's awesome to watch. One of the biggest sanctioning bodies for this insanity is the Outlaw Racing Street Car Association (ORSCA), where Bobby Dodrill campaigns Miss Misery, a 3,000hp, blown alcohol, '76 GMC 4x4 pickup. And yes, all four wheels push this truck to a best of 4.95 in the eighth.
Bobby was always a truck guy, but his racing bent was in the mud. He got so good at it that he won an NMRO championship and began building trucks for other people. Then one night, some bench racing smack talk with an ORSCA racer inspired Bobby to build a drag truck, and this version of Miss Misery (which all of his trucks have been named) was born. It debuted at the '09 ORSCA season opening in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where the transmission output shaft sheared into two pieces. By the end of the season, the truck stayed together enough to finish Seventh in points. A laundry list of sponsors (including Edelbrock, Ross Pistons, Liberty Gear, VP Racing Fuel, SCE Gaskets, Victory Circle Radios, Polymatrix Ultracoate, JW Performance, and tire sponsors Phoenix and Goodyear) helps in Bobby and his wife/teammate Lisa's efforts to go after the '10 Outlaw 10.5 championship.


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WASHINGTON – Virginia transportation officials are ready to cut the ribbon on a new interchange — but technically, it's already open to drivers.
The ceremony is set for Thursday to celebrate the interchange on the Fairfax County and Fair Lakes parkways. The interchange opened earlier this year.
"This is part of the parkway that is heavily traveled and was heavily congested with all the traffic lights," says Virginia Department of Transportation spokesperson Joan Morris.
Until now, there was an intersection at the two points with a traffic light, backing up traffic during the morning and evening rush. About 66,000 vehicles travel this stretch of the Fairfax County Parkway each day.
"That intersection is now gone. Several traffic signals are now gone. Motorists are now able to cross over Fair Lakes Parkway," says Morris, who adds that it saves drivers time.
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Removing traffic lights and adding interchanges has been a popular concept to ease traffic in sprawling new major roadways like Route 28 in Fairfax and Prince William counties and Route 29 north of the Beltway in Montgomery County.
Interchanges are raised exit ramps that take only exiting drivers towards a traffic signal, or in this case, drivers wanting to get to Fair Lakes Parkway.
"We also now have three miles with an additional lane, so now we have three lanes in each direction from Route 50 to Rugby Road with a nice, long merging lane to increase traffic safety," says Morris.
VDOT also says the project will improve congestion on the Fair Lakes Parkway by separating local and Fairfax County Parkway traffic.
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Consensus Report
State and Federal Standards for Mobile Source Emissions (2006)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
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Emissions from mobile sources contribute significantly to air pollution in the United States. Such sources include cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks; diesel-powered cranes, bulldozers, and tractors; and equipment such as lawnmowers that run on small gasoline engines. The role of state versus federal government in establishing mobile-source emissions standards is an important environmental management issue. With this in mind, Congress called on EPA to arrange an independent study of the practices and procedures by which California develops separate emissions standards from the federal government and other states choose to adopt the California standards. The report provides an assessment of the scientific and technical procedures used by states to develop or adopt different emissions standards and a comparison of those policies and practices with those used by EPA. It also considers the impacts of state emissions standards on various factors including compliance costs and emissions. The report concludes that, despite the substantial progress in reducing emissions from mobile sources nationwide, more needs to be done to attain federal air-quality standards in many parts of the country. Additionally, California should continue its pioneering role in setting emissions standards for cars, trucks, and off-road equipment.
Key Messages
- CARB and EPA have essentially the same starting point and motivation for setting new or stricter standards: attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Each agency follows a series of procedural steps leading to a finalized regulation. These steps include identification of the need for new emissions standards, evaluation of potential control strategies, publication of proposed regulations, and solicitation of public comments on proposals before promulgating the regulations.
- CARB has demonstrated some flexibility in setting emissions standards for small engines to deal with some of the difficulties inherent in the non-integrated industry.
- Manufacturers of mobile sources have raised objections to the adoption of California standards by other states. Up to this point, adopting states and manufacturers have resorted to the courts to resolve their technical and legal disputes when direct negotiations have failed. Although EPA is an appropriate entity to comment on some of these disputes, it has no authority over states' adoption decisions.
- Recognizing the needs of some states to adopt more stringent mobile-source emissions standards to help meet air quality goals, a desirable objective is harmonization of CARB�s and EPA�s certification procedures.
- The California program has been beneficial overall for air quality by improving mobile-source emissions control.
- The committee finds a need for a comprehensive study of the costs of state standards. This study should include the difference in costs for the states that adopt California standards compared with costs for California, the distribution of those costs, and their cost-effectiveness.
- The committee finds that it is difficult to determine what parties bear what fraction of the costs of emissions standards.
- The waiver review process usually takes several years to complete, and waivers are often granted shortly before the vehicles and engines that meet the standards are in the market.