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Public Comment
Homosexuality And Christian Arrogance
It is unfair, if not outright wicked, to condemn or judge somebody for who they are without ever walking in their shoes. And it is arrogant, if not dishonest, to pretend to understand something that is beyond human comprehension. Sadly, that's what conservatives have done to the gays in the name of Christianity. They judge the homosexuals and say vile things about them without knowing what it feels like to be attracted to same sex.
The Bible says in Isaiah 40:28 that God is the Creator of all the earth (and that includes the gay people, by the way) and his understanding no one can fathom. In 1Corinthinans 2:7, the word "mystery" is used to describe God. If that is not enough, in Romans 11:33, the words "impossible", "unsearchable", "inscrutable", and "unexplainable" are used in various Bible versions to describe God.
If, as Christians, we truly believe in the above Bible verses that God is, indeed, mysterious, then we must accept the fact that there are certain things about God and his creations that we just cannot understand—and for a man to be sexually attracted to another man in a world full of beautiful women is one of such mysteries. The fact that we don't understand it is not a reason for us to be self-righteous about it.
Trying to frame a sexual orientation we don't understand as a "choice" doesn't make sense. To say that homosexuality is a choice is tantamount to saying that being left-handed is a choice, or being a midget is a choice. There are people who are left-handed in a world where most people are right-handed. But we don't question their humanity. We would not say to the left-handed, "You better start using your right hand or go to hell"; nor do we say to the midget, "You evil midget, you better get taller or you go to hell".
Yet some Christians, by their intolerance and discrimination, have questioned the humanity of gay people as if they were not created by God! How arrogant of us!
I'm a Christian. I'm not gay. But I do have gay friends and I love them wholeheartedly. I have heard their stories, some of which moved me to tears.
My friend, Fred, is one of them. He was former pastor of a popular Presbyterian Church. I remember the day he invited me for lunch, saying he was going to make an important announcement to the congregation but wanted to give me a heads-up as a friend.
"I'm gay. I don't even know if I'm still going to have my job after telling the church, but, Peter, I'm tired of running away from myself".
With tears in his eyes, the married father of three told me about how he had always known himself to be gay, but have had to pretend otherwise. Why? Because of the hostility and godless discrimination against gay people.
Needless to say, his wife was devastated. The congregation was shocked. Some left the church in protest, others called for his resignation. He was insulted and called names. Not surprisingly, he resigned shortly after.
I have known Fred for almost seven years and I've never seen a more loving and caring minister. He is a very thoughtful and compassionate man. Having served with him in different situations, I knew Fred would not hurt anyone. Therefore, for him to have come out after so many years knowing full well people are going to feel crushed, especially his children and wife—that tells me there's something about being gay that a straight man cannot understand. Otherwise, what sane person would want to bring such opprobrium upon themselves, not to mention jeopardize their own career?
It makes me wonder: What would it take for churches to learn to accept people the way God created them? Why can't sanctimonious Christians just humble themselves and admit that homosexuality is something beyond their comprehension instead of arrogantly playing God? How embarrassing to the Christian faith that those who are supposed to model the love and compassion of Jesus are the ones sowing the seeds of hatred against gay people! Where is the love of Christ?
The world would be a better place if we start loving and stop judging.
Peter Opa, a writer / speaker, lives in the Bay Area. *To protect his identity, the name of Fred was changed.


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Arsenal sign Spain international left-back Nacho Monreal from Malaga
Arsenal have completed the signing of Spanish international defender Nacho Monreal from Malaga.
Last Updated: 01/02/13 3:08pm
Boss Arsene Wenger wanted to bolster his defensive options on the left-hand side, particularly in light of Kieran Gibbs' injury.
The 26-year-old has nine caps for Spain and joined Malaga on a five-year deal from Osasuna in 2011.
He will now link up again with former team-mate and compatriot Santi Cazorla, who made the same move in the summer.
Wenger, who is believed to have paid in the region of £8.5m for Monreal, told the club website: "We are delighted that Nacho Monreal has agreed to join us. We have been monitoring him for some time now and are really pleased that we've been able to agree this move today.
"Monreal is a strong left-sided defender with good experience at both club and international level.
"He is a technically gifted player, a good crosser in the final third and strong in the air. Monreal will add quality to our squad and of course, to our defensive unit. We all look forward to him playing for us."


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An Anne Arundel County man was arrested Friday after police said he threatened violence against a county councilman and the presiding officers of the General Assembly — an incident allegedly touched off by his outrage over the construction of a drainage pond.
Paul David Grimm, 58, of 100 block of Tarks Lane in Severna Park, was charged with three counts of threatening a public official. Police said the threats came after Councilman Dick Ladd visited Grimm's neighborhood to discuss his concerns about the project in his community.
"While Councilman Ladd was speaking to Mr. Grimm's daughter," police said, "Mr. Grimm pointed his finger at Councilman Ladd and made reference to 'taking him out.'" According to police, Grimm also said he would have a weapon.
Authorities said in a news release that Grimm also threatened Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch.
"He continued by advising 'it would be a fantasy of his to see Mike Miller and Mike Busch' knock on his door because 'they would come out in body bags,'" police said.
Grimm did not have a lawyer listed in online court records late Friday.


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As the inventor of the three-layer principle, Odlo is a brand synonymous with high quality technical baselayers and sports underwear. The Norwegian company combines typically Scandinavian, minimalist design with cutting edge technologies to produce stylish and functional apparel across six categories: technical underwear, running, training, cycling, Nordic disciplines and outdoor.
Odlo was founded in 1946 by the eccentric, and brilliantly named, Odd Roar Lofterød. Lofterød began by manufacturing lady's underwear, but soon began to produce sports training kit as demand for his garments grew. In 1963, now under the banner of Odlo, Lofterød developed a revolutionary new suit for skiers and speed skaters, made from a cutting edge synthetic fibre which gave the fabric an elasticity and fit unlike anything else on the market at the time. The suit was adopted by the Norwegian ski team for the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck and by the time the Winter Olympics in Sapporo came around in 1972, there were 22 national teams competing in Odlo gear.
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This is a later thread I wrote that show a lazy way to multi boot with the Grub menu prepared prior to the additional Linux installations. As an example I had 20 empty partitions ready for receiving Linux shown in this thread.
Here are simple steps to add additional Linux distros to a bootable system using either Lilo or Grub.
(1) A computer already with an existing Linux ( or any number of them) loaded and has its bootloader in the MBR. Lets assume the bootloader owner Linux reside is Partition hda6
(2) The new Linux when install, say at Partition hda7, replaces the original bootloader causing a panic to the user (instead to the kernel!).
(3) The system now boots with the new Linux in hda7 but not the previous alternatives in hda6.
Steps to restore the previous bootloader and include the new one for booting.
(a) Boot to new Linux in hda7 as usual.
(b) Drop in terminal mode, by clicking terminal or konsole
(c) Log is as the root user (su then follow by password)
(d) Replicate the bootloader in root partition (grub-install /dev/hda7)
(e) Make a new directory for mounting hda6(mkdir /mnt/here)
(f) Mount the previous hda6 there ( mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/here)
(g) Change root to hda6 (chroot /mnt/here). Now you are in side hda6.
(h) Use desktop to edit hda6s /boot/grub/menu.lst to include hda7 for booting with lines
(i) Restore hda6s bootloader in MBR (grub-install /dev/hda)Code:title My Linux in hda7 root (hd0,6) chainloader +1
(j) Exit hda6 (exit)
(k) Reboot (reboot)
The above works if both the old hda6 and new hda7 have Grub as the bootloader.
If the old hda7 uses Lilo then the following replacement is necessary
(d) Replicate the bootloader in root partition (lilo b /dev/hda7)
If the new hda6 uses Lilo then the following replacements are necessary
(h) Edit hda6s /etc/lilo.conf to include hda7 for booting with lines
After /etc/lilo.conf has been saved type "lilo" to update the system.Code:label=Linux_hda7 other= /dev/hda7
(i) Restore hda6s bootloader in MBR (lilo -b /dev/hda)
The user can recover his previous bootloader and includes the newly installed Linux in hda7 as another booting choice. That is the method I use to build up more than 20 bootable Linux distros. Lilo and Grub can be mixed together as suggested.
It should be pointed out that the current Lilo appears to have a maximum of 27 bootable entries. Grub can boot over 100 systems.


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Chula Vista is exploring a potential requirement for residential builders to include water recycling systems in new homes.
A proposal calls for new homes to include plumbing that allows wastewater produced through dishwashing, laundry and bathing — called graywater — to be used for irrigation, saving families money and preserving a natural resource.
Residents' rising water bills have been putting increased pressure on their pocketbooks in recent years.
The ordinance, if adopted, would advance the city's goals for environmental sustainability, and would fulfill one of the city's 11 climate adaptation strategies.
By 2050, a March 5 staff report stated, San Diego County's demand for water is expected to increase by 37 percent as a result of population and economic growth. Meanwhile, prolonged droughts and climate change could reduce the water supply by 20 percent, further increasing water costs for local residents.
Under the proposed ordinance, all new free-standing single-family homes and duplexes would have to include a graywater outlet for the clothes washer and an outside stub-out to allow for the installation of an irrigation system, reducing flow to the wastewater system and reducing the need for fresh water to water lawns. The system could save a family up to 7,000 gallons of potable water per year, the staff report states.
Installing the stub-out during new-home construction is estimated to cost between $200 and $350.
Councilwoman Mary Salas said she is concerned that the proposal does not address where any excess graywater would go. She pulled the item from the City Council's consent calendar at its March 5 meeting, and asked staff to examine that potential problem.


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This is what my kitchen table looks like this morning:
We are now completely entrenched in our journey of becoming foster parents in hopes of adopting through foster care. Y'all, this is only about 1/6 of the paperwork I'm working on. And I kinda LOVE it! I like forms. I like the way that print looks on a page and I love how when I get done with one of these babies that I put a little check next to that item on my checklist and I'm that much closer to having another daughter in my home.
But more than that, I LOVE that this time my husband and I are in this together. With our first adoption, I drug him kicking and screaming the whole way. I filled out every single stitch of paperwork by myself and just had him sign on the dotted line. It was all me. This is a tactic that I don't at all recommend. I'd be lying if I made it out to sound like this fourth child is all his idea. It's not. It is still overwhelmingly me who is wanting to add to our family this time as well. (That and our older children begging for a sister.) But this time, well, this time we are doing the whole thing (paperwork and all!) together and it just feels so much more "right". We came to the decision jointly that if adoption was how our family was going to grow that foster care seemed the most right for our current needs and for the children that we already have. It was not me strong arming all the way and having done it now both ways, this is a way more enjoyable process! Going to these classes and learning together and being forced to do surveys on one another's parenting techniques has been (dare I say it) fun.
We are on coming up on week 3 of our ten weeks of foster parent training. This stuff is just fascinating to me. In Kentucky, when we chose to do an international adoption, we were not required in any way to do any kind of classes, watch any kind of videos or got through ANY kind of preparation whatsoever to bring a child into our home. We were sorely wrong to be under the assumption that babies and toddlers "never had any psychological problems". We knew about attachment issues and had read some books, but we'd never listened to a lecture on why trauma affects children the way it does and how that related to development and a child's ability to form meaningful relationships. We thought that if we just didn't bring in a teenager with severe sexual abuse, we would be on smooth sailing. Boy, were we naive. In short- we were grossly unprepared.
Going through these foster parent preparation classes is so eye-opening for me. It is all information that we had to learn when we suddenly found ourselves with a son with severe PTSD and attachment issues, but it is so awesome to have a refresher and hear it presented in a new and unique way. I wish wish wish that we had taken something like this before we brought Miles home. It would have eased so much frustration in our home and in many ways I feel like we failed our son in those early days because of how unprepared we were. The good thing about making mistakes, though, is that you don't have to make them twice. We are going into this one with our eyes wide open and find that we leave challenged from every single class.
In working through this mountain of paperwork, I've discovered so many new things about our family and my husband. It's making us talk about aspects of parenting that we've never talked about before. And this is going to be beneficial to all of our children, not just the new one that will come to live with us. So in a weird way, I'm kind of grateful to the state of Kentucky for now being so up in my biz-nass.
In other news, our case worker is a blog reader and recruited us to foster care that way. (Holla, Shelley!) How do you think that's going to play into our homestudy? If I read through my homestudy and find a blurb in there about my desire to complete Christine's sex challenge or how I get nekkid in front of strangers in the Congo, or how my kids tell their teachers that I've been in jail, I may have a bone to pick. (Just kidding, Shel!)
|If I suddenly go missing, look for me under the stack of papers. If I'm not there, the children were probably being psychotic and I'm hiding from them in the bathroom.
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I have two vector maps. The two maps cover the same area but are split up into polygons differently (i.e. if you were to imagine one map placed above the other, the lines defining the polygons would not line up).
Map1 has its polygons colored red where crime is greater than some threshold, else white.
Map2 has its polygons colored red where poverty level is greater than some threshold, else white.
I wish to create a single map with polygons coloured red where either crime or poverty are above their thresholds. As the polygons from each map are different, new polygons would have to be created. I'm using GRASS.
Each file has an attribute table with several columns describing the polygons.
v.overlay with an 'OR' operation looks like a good candidate, but I can't figure out how to specify the correct attribute column to use for the OR merge.


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Havelock Island
Clear water near one of the beaches on Havelock. Andaman Islands, India, 2013.
Tropical Bech on Havelock Island
Path to the idyllic beach on Havelock, Andaman & Nicobar Island in India
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Beach on Havelock Island, Andaman & Nicobar Islands in India.
One of the paradise beaches on Havelock. Andaman Islands, India, 2013.
House Boat in Kerala
House boats In Allapey, Kerala, India
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Misty tea plantation in Munnar, India
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Fishermen returning from their trip at sunset. Andaman Islands, India.
Back from fishing trip
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Crystal clear water on the beach.
Buddhist Man Meditating
Buddhist Man Meditating in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India
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Palm trees on Andaman Islands
Palm tree on tropical coast
Coconut palm tree on tropical Andaman Islands
Tropical Beach
Sunny tropical beach and crystal clear water.
Rocky mountain
Rocky mountain in Hampi, bouldering capital of India.
Sunset beach
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Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Paradise lagoon
HDR tonemapped picture taken on andaman islands
Taj Lake Palace
Taj lake palece in Udaipur, India
Munnar Panorama
Cludy Munnar Panorama, Kerala, Western Ghats, India
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Mangrove trees, Neil Island, Andaman & Nicobar, Idnia
Seaview from cliffs of Varkala. Kerala, India, 2013.
Seafront. Varkala, Kerala, India, 2013.
Virupaksha Temple
Virupaksha Temple has 49 meter height and is the oldest temple in Hampi. Karnataka, India, 2013.
Temple. Hampi, Karnataka, India, 2013.
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Wading through propaganda and subterfuge in eclectic contexts, from science and religion, to comedy and law, Rex Sorgatz has explored it all. He has sifted through various conspiracy theories, the complex construct of internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, gathering them together in one humorous collection. His book covers deliriously diverse subjects including auto-tune, Chilean sea bass, false flag operations, kayfabe, laugh tracks, Rachel Dolezal, and more.
Rex Sorgatz is a writer and technologist based in NYC whose reflections on the intersection of media, technology and culture have appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, and Backchannel.


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2011 Engine Masters Exhaust Connection
Participants and Alternates,
In the Amended Official Rules of June 30, 2011 and a bulletin dated July 1, 2011 we announced that Flowmaster products were the official mufflers for the 2011 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge at the University of Northwestern Ohio. The specified muffler by Division was noted and this bulletin is provided below for reference. Participating Teams header collector and or pipe are to attach directly to these event provided mufflers with a BAND CLAMP which are then attached to 14 feet of 6-inch flex pipe that directs spent gas to the outside.
Measurements in regards to width of exhaust and general hook up lengths were provided in the COMPETITOR'S Guide. They are attached to this message for added clarification.
To insure that all participants and their systems are prepared for this direct connection, we are providing some photos for reference.
STREET Division-
* FLOWMASTER Super 40 Series Muffler- Part Number 953045
* 3-INCH ID (Inside Diameter) muffler. PARTICPANT's must fit inside or directly on top of EMC provided MUFFLER for BAND Clamp connection. See Photo below
* Connection is from 0 inch to a maximum of 39 INCHES from the flywheel
* Competitors can add a length of their own pipe (shown below) provided the total distance from flywheel is 39 INCHES
Example shows Participant's header and/or pipe to EMC provided BAND CLAMP and MUFFLER.
XTREME STREET Division-
* FLOWMASTER Outlaw Series Muffler- Part Number 15450S
* 5-INCH ID (Inside Diameter) connection to provided muffler. PARTICPANT's must fit inside or directly on top of EMC provided MUFFLER for BAND Clamp connection. See Photo below
* Connection is from 0 inch (directly at flywheel) to a maximum distance of 39 INCHES from the flywheel
* Competitors can add a length of their own pipe provided the total distance from flywheel is 39 INCHES.
Example shows Participant's header to EMC provided BAND CLAMP and MUFFLER.
We provide this information to each TEAM prior to the competition so that Team Leaders and Members are aware with of these measurements and connections. It is the participant's responsibility to be ready with a direct fit connection.
The very best in the coming competition to all Teams and their Members.
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July 1, 2011
AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge Participants and Alternates-
We are pleased to announce today that FLOWMASTER Mufflers has joined the program and is our Official Muffler for the 2011 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge. This new official product status is in both STREET and XTREME STREET divisions. Official Rules have made updated as of June 30, 2011 and posted to www.enginemasters.com by division.
Unlike previous years, Participants will not be required to bring mufflers as their entries will run in the dyno cells on provided mufflers already attached to the exhaust system. Connection to each competitive entry will be made at the header collectors. Additional details will be provided in the August Participant's Package sent to all participants and posted to the web site.
Mufflers that will be in used in competition are:
Super 40 Series Muffler- Part Number 953045
Outlaw Series Muffler- Part Number 15450S
For any questions in regards to this change, please send in writing to firstname.lastname@example.com
We are extremely excited for this addition to the program that will be in place at the University of Northwestern Ohio and their fantastic facility, faculty, and amazing student help staff for the AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge. We thank FLOWMASTER Mufflers for their joining our group of distinguished company product and event supporters.
Thank you again for your support,
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StationeryOnline necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We would like banner designs for three products - Our new Wedding Stationery brand, Save the Date Magnets and Party Invitation Designs.
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to your creativity
Desired Style:
Professional. Match the overall look of our existing site.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Stationery Online provides office stationery supplies, printed stationery and print services.
We would like a professional looking banner set for our web site.
Your designs will replace the existing banners (100% satisfaction guarantee, magnetic party invitations and 2008 diaries) To see where the banners will be located, check out our site - http://www.stationeryonline.com/jop…=1&class=1
We would like the banners to:
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- Look coordinated (but contrast so that each can be identified as independent)
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Text- Magnetic Save the Dates - From just $1.10ea
Please see our site for Save the Date designs that could be used as part of the banner. http://www.stationeryonline.com/jop…=1&AREA=26
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Sarah Rose – Personalised Wedding Invitations (60 from just $2.15 each)
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We would like this banner to depict one of our new party invitation designs. Please feel free to select any kids party invitation for your banner. Please note that we would like to be able to alter the design within this banner once a month.Â
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Conventional, Thirty-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
The traditional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has a constant interest rate and monthly payments that never change.
Conventional, Fifteen-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
This loan is fully amortized over a 15-year period and features constant monthly payments. It offers all the advantages of the 30-year loan, plus a lower interest rate—and you'll own your home twice as fast. On the other hand, with a 15-year loan, you commit to a higher monthly payment. Many borrowers opt for a 30-year fixed-rate loan and voluntarily make larger payments that will pay off their loan in 15 years. This approach is often safer than committing to a higher monthly payment, since the difference in interest rates isn't that great.
FHA Loan
An FHA loan is one of easiest types of real estate loans to qualify for because it requires a low down payment and borrowers with a limited credit history may be able to qualify. For example, a borrower who currently has reliable credit, but had a bankruptcy more than two years ago or a foreclosure more than three years ago may qualify for an FHA loan. FHA mortgage loans are insured by the government through mortgage insurance that is funded into the loan. First-time home buyers may also be good candidates for FHA loans.
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This type of government loan is available to active duty military and veterans who have served in the U.S. Armed Services and, in certain cases, to spouses of deceased veterans. The requirements vary depending on the year of service and whether the discharge was honorable or dishonorable. The main benefit to a VA loan is the borrower does not need a down payment. The loan is guaranteed by the Department of Veteran Affairs, but is funded by a conventional lender like Security Federal Bank.
USDA, Rural Development Loan
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EU Nobel peace prize: No minor achievement
Europe's officials could scarcely believe their good fortune today. Unexpectedly, the EU was given the Nobel Peace Prize. The citation praised the EU for "over six decades" contributing to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
Europe's leaders fell upon this rare piece of good news with an almost desperate embrace. If there is a core justification for the European project, it is to make war impossible again on the continent. That has been the EU's outstanding achievement. When under attack, Europe's leaders fall back upon 60 years of peace in Europe. It is no minor achievement.
Secondly, after and just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EU acted as a beacon for democracy, for human rights and a civil society. Many Eastern European countries rejected communism because they had before them a clear example of an alternative. Young people wanted to be part of a normal European society. Eastern Europe today is testimony to the spread of democracy.
It is also true that the existence of the EU enabled countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece to make the transition from dictatorship to democracy. Even today, in the midst of hardship and austerity, there is a deep attachment to belonging to Europe. That is the legacy of history.
But the Nobel committee's decision will puzzle many. Despite the EU's successes, it failed in the Balkans. It lacked the will and determination to intervene and save lives. The massacre at Srebrenica happened in Europe's backyard.
And the prize comes at a moment of violence and tension on the streets of many European capitals as a young generation endures years of hardship and high unemployment. For them the European dream has not delivered.
It should not be forgotten that the committee in Oslo awarded US President Barack Obama the peace prize when he had few achievements to his name. It was a prize offered more in hope.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the prize was an inspiration. She said it was a "wonderful decision" and said it would inspire her personally to press ahead with closer integration.
That, of course, raises an intriguing question. Will "ever closer union" deliver more democracy and peace or will it sow tension and division?


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(Back To The Top)…Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America's Cities May Explode In Violence
Matt Bracken
In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in 1968 (MLK assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King). New Yorkers can imagine the 1977 blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights disturbance. In fact, the proximate spark of the next round of major riots in America could be any from a long list cribbed from our history.
We have seen them all before, and we shall see them all again as history rhymes along regardless of the century or the generation of humankind nominally in control of events. But the next time we are visited by widespread, large-scale urban riots, a dangerous new escalation may be triggered by a new vulnerability: It's estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food on hand. In poor minority areas, it may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but zeroes? Or if the government's refusal to reimburse them causes supermarket chains to stop accepting them for payment? The government can order the supermarkets to honor the cards, but history's verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or blinking digits, the food will stop.
In my scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and other government welfare recipients learn that their EBT cards no longer function. This sudden revelation will cause widespread anger, which will quickly lead to the flash-mob looting of local supermarkets and other businesses. The media will initially portray these "food riots" as at least partly justifiable. Sadly, millions of Americans have been made largely, or even entirely, dependent on government wealth transfer payments to put food on their tables.
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A social campaign based on Martin Niemöller's famous dictum First they came… about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
I don't think that those times are coming back, but I feel a rising wave of, not just xenophobia, but discrimination against everyone perceived as different. As Twain said, history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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The Giants' running game took a hit with the loss of Andre Brown to a broken leg that will keep him out for at least the club's first eight games.
With the club's depth thinned behind starting tailback David Wilson, some might suggest it would be prudent for the Giants to lean on their passing game in the Sunday-night opener at Dallas.
At times, that could be a sound strategy. The Giants' passing game can give any defense trouble, and Dallas has some questions at safety. There will be opportunities for quarterback Eli Manning and a deep, talented pass-catching corps to strike. However, the Giants' running game also has a real opportunity to begin the 2013 campaign on the right foot.
The Cowboys' defensive line is already down one starter, as defensive tackle Jay Ratliff (groin) will begin the campaign on the physically-unable-to-perform list. Also, starting left defensive end Anthony Spencer (knee) could also miss the game. The Cowboys' defensive line depth could be a season-long concern.
The club traded for Colts lineman Caesar Rayford after final cuts to bolster in the front four, but Dallas was never especially deep upfront even before the injuries to Ratliff and Spencer. Also, key reserve end Tyrone Crawford suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in July.
The speedy Wilson figures to get the bulk of the carries against the Cowboys. Few backs are more capable of making an NFL defense pay dearly for mistakes in the run game. Surely Dallas is going to school on being sound in its concepts and sure in its tackling.
Third-year pro Da'Rel Scott could spell Wilson on occasion. Scott has just 11 regular-season carries to his credit, and it's hard to see him playing a major role in the offense unless pressed into service. Nevertheless, he needs to make the most of the work he gets as the Giants try to chip away at the Cowboys' resistance.
The Giants aren't built to be a ground-and-pound club, but some persistence in the running game would make a lot of sense on Sunday night. The more stress New York can put on Dallas' front four, the better, and the pay-off could be Wilson getting the small crease he needs to put a big hurt on the defense.
Giants Can Run on Cowboys Even with Andre Brown Out
Big Blue could get running game going against depleted Dallas defensive line
The Giants' running game took a hit with the loss of Andre Brown to a broken leg that will keep him out for at least the club's first eight games.


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Drought could lead Chicago River to reverse course (again)
Given the run-around
In the year 1900, the city's civil engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River, sending Lake Michigan water towards the Mississippi in a famously gutsy feat of engineering. As the city and its industries grew rapidly through the late 1800s, the amount of waste and contamination dumped into the river was threatening to make the lakefront unlivable and deprive Chicagoans of safe drinking water.
When the Chicago River flows in its natural direction, "what you have is a great deal of, for lack of a better word, poo, going into the Great Lakes," said Henry Henderson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
That's how we got the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which served the dual purposes of diverting dirty river water away from the lake, and connecting Lake Michigan – and therefore the entire Great Lakes water basin – to the Mississippi River water system for the first time, opening up the possibility of commercial navigation between the two. Needless to say many to the south weren't happy with the new arrangement, which Henderson has described as turning Lake Michigan into "the tank that flushes our waste thousands of miles away into the Gulf of Mexico."
The new connection between the two water systems has also had unforeseen consequences in the form of invasive species, and lately environmentalists and fishing interests to the north have been calling on the Army Corps to permanently close off the link through the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) in order to prevent a full-fledged Asian carp invasion. That would also restore the river to its natural flow, and force Chicago to think differently about its water infrastructure and waste treatment.
Gravity Rules
Waste treatment or not, the river might re-reverse on its own. After a long drought and one of the hottest summers ever, the water in Lake Michigan only has to go down six inches to sit below the level of the Chicago River. At that point, gravity would send the river back to where it came from.
Flowing into Lake Michigan with it: sewage runoff and only partially-treated human waste (among other things). The Chicago River has been somewhat cleaned up in recent years, but not enough to allow an uninterrupted flow back into the city's main source of drinking water and recreational beaches.
And those suspicious swim advisories you hear about in the summer? The Chicago Park District has warned they will happen more often if the river reverses.
"Anytime you reverse the flow of the Chicago River, you want to monitor and ensure that there's no major impacts on water quality," said Lieutenant Colonel Jim Schreiner, Deputy Commander for the Chicago District Corps of Engineers. He said there are occasions when the Army Corps intentionally (re)-reverses the river to control flooding. All of this is manipulated by the Corps' control over the Chicago Harbor Lock. The Army Corps is tasked both with supporting the massive shipping industry through the waterways and with helping control contamination, in partnership with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
If water levels hit the lowest projections, the Army Corps will regulate lake contamination by closing the locks at Chicago for longer periods. That would limit how often boats and barges pass between the two waterways. According to Lt. Schreiner, over 40-thousand vessels pass through the locks every year in about 11,500 lockages.
This strange scenario will only come to pass if the Army Corps' lowest possible lake level projections for the winter come true; lake levels are almost always at their yearly low in late winter. If significant rain or snow hits the Michigan-Huron region in January or February, the water will still be unusually low, but it is unlikely to lead to a major change of course.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jhoulys Chacin's spring training debut was all about the fastball.
In the first two innings of the Rockies' 6-5 win over the Diamondbacks today, Chacin consistently threw strikes (21 in 29 pitches), and for the most part, he commanded that fastball, consistently hitting 92-93 mph. He threw just one slider and two curveballs.
The Rockies won the game in the ninth inning on a walk-off, solo home run by Ben Paulson. He crushed a pitch by Jonathan Albaladejo deep into the berm beyond the right-field wall.


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Football provides a range of benefits to society, producing identifiable results in areas such as health, education, collaboration and community building. Importantly, the game also possesses the power to mobilize people and energize programs that offer direct impact.
Guests at the CONCACAF Sports Summit -- Transformation Through Partnership -- on October 22, in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, will hear from a trio of speakers with global expertise in this critical sphere during a session titled 'Football's Positive Impact In Society'.
As Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Djibril Diallo helps advance the priority of universal access to HIVA/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support. FIFA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jiri Dvorak has vast experience in the broad issue of health and football. Mike Geddes, Managing Director of Street Football World USA, will address the game's potential for bringing about positive social change.
In another summit session, entitled 'Football as an Influential Agent for Positive Change', The Hon. Kenneth Howard Randolph Horton, the Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda, will talk about how the game can help bring about progress for communities. Before his political career, Mr. Horton played professionally with the storied New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League.


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The study is published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology on its web site and later will be published in a print edition.
"Recent research has shown that religion and spirituality are major sources of comfort and support for patients confronting advanced disease," says the study's senior author, Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber.
"Our findings indicate that patients whose spiritual needs are supported by their medical team, including doctors, nurses and chaplains, have better quality of life near death and receive less aggressive medical care at the end of life."
The study involved 343 incurable cancer patients at hospital and cancer centers around the country. Participants were interviewed about their means of coping with their illness, the degree to which their spiritual needs were met by the medical team and their preferences regarding end-of-life treatment.
Investigators then tracked each patient's course of care during the remainder of his or her life.
The researchers found that patients whose spiritual needs were largely or completely supported by the medical team were likely to transition to hospice care at the end of life.
Additionally, among patients relying on their religious beliefs to cope with their illness, spiritual support reduced their risk of receiving aggressive medical interventions at the end of life.
Support of patients' spiritual needs by the medical team was also associated with better patient well-being at the end of life, with scores on average being 28 percent higher among those receiving spiritual support.
"Our findings suggest that spiritual care from the medical system has important ramifications for patients at the end of life, including helping them transition to comfort-focused care and improving their well-being near death," said Balboni.
"Furthermore, they highlight the need to educate medical caregivers in being attentive to the frequent role of religion and spirituality in patients' coping with advanced illness and importance of integrating pastoral care into multidisciplinary medical teams."
Financial support for the study was provided by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Fetzer Institute.
Holly Prigerson, PhD., Director of the Dana-Farber Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research is the study's senior author and principal investigator. The study's co-authors include Alexi A.Wright, MD, Elizabeth Trice Loggers, MD, PhD, Michael J. Balboni, M.Div, PhD, Eldrin F. Lewis, MD, Andrea C. Phelps, MD, of Dana-Farber; John Peteet, MD, and Susan D. Block, MD of Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH); and Mary Elizabeth Paulk, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
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The ticket details are
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A few questions, as it is the first ever live match that I have been too!
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State Chapter Leader – Montana
State Chapter Leaders (SCLs) and state Executive Boards are tasked with engaging activists within their state in an effort to 1) support the national goals and advocacy campaigns of the National Atheist Party and 2) create and support state-specific goals and advocacy campaigns that are in concert with the principles of the National Atheist Party. While SCLs are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the state party to which they are assigned, they are expected to govern equally with other members of the state's Executive Board. To that end, the SCL will initially staff open positions within the state, with the priority being on establishing an Executive Board. The Executive Board will then vote on subsequent board, committee and District Leader appointments.
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- Guiding members to remain politically focused rather than focusing on theological debate
- Recruiting members through occasional postings in other online forums and participation in offline and online secular organizations, including SSA groups, CFI gatherings and other local meetups
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- Engaging members in activist projects, including national party campaigns
- Communicating state chapter concerns and desires to the State Chapter Director and/or Regional Membership Coordinator
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All individuals interested in applying for an SCL position must be tech-savvy concerning social networking, team-oriented, capable of articulate and effective communication, and in possession of great organization and leadership skills. Managerial experience or experience in organizing volunteer activist efforts is a plus.
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The Crimson will compete for national titles beginning Thursday in Indianapolis (Kevin Burns).
The Storyline
Eight competitors from the No. 18 Harvard men's swimming and diving team head to Indianapolis this week to take part in the NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday through Saturday at IU Natatorium.
Crimson athletes are slated to compete in 10 swimming events—including all five relays—and both diving events. Harvard, the Ivy League dual champion and meet runner-up, has a tough act to follow after registering seven top-25 finishes and putting on All-America performances in two events last season.
Each day of competition will feature trials at 11 a.m. and finals at 7 p.m.
- Championships Official Site
- Order of Events (PDF)
- Live Results
- Watch Live on ESPN3
- Individual Psych Sheet (PDF)
- Relay Psych Sheet (PDF)
- 2013 Ivy League Championships Recap
- 2012 NCAA Championships Recap
Watch Live, Online
The Friday and Saturday finals of the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships will air live on ESPN3 by clicking here.
Follow from Anywhere
For updates throughout the meet, fans can follow @HarvardCrimson and @HMSDcrimson on Twitter.
Crimson Competitors
Chuck Katis – 100 Breast (52.49 seconds), 200 Breast (1:54.08)
Katis, a sophomore, earned his first individual Ivy League championship in the 100-yard breaststroke at the Ivy Championships meet, where he also placed third in the 200 breast. He previously set school records in both events, hitting NCAA 'A' qualifying standards in the process, at the UGA Fall Invite. Katis owns Division I's eighth-fastest time in the 200 and the ninth-fastest in the 100. He placed 20th in the 100 and 25th in the 200 last season.
Oliver Lee – 50 Free (19.52 seconds)
Lee set a school record in the 50 freestyle in the preliminary race at the Ivy League Championships, on the way to a third-place event finish. Lee earned a 50th-place finish at last season's NCAA meet, and his best time is good for the No. 13 seed this year.
Mike Mosca- One-Meter Diving, Three-Meter Diving
Mosca, a double diving champion at Ivies, qualified for the NCAA Championships with a second-place finish in the one-meter at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, where he also placed fourth in the three-meter. He holds school records in both events with championship scores of 387.05 in the one-meter and 412.42 in the three-meter. The sophomore, who also won the Ivy one-meter crown in 2012 and finished first in 17 of 18 dual events this season, will make his first NCAA appearance.
Chris Satterthwaite – 100 Free (42.99 seconds), 200 Free (1:35:00)
Satterthwaite won both of his NCAA events at the Ivy League Championships and set a new Harvard standard for 100-yard speed with his leadoff leg in the 400 free relay. He turned in strong performances in both events at last season's NCAA meet, taking 20th in the 200 free and 22nd in the 100. He owns the No. 21 time in the 100 and the No. 23 time in the 200 this season.
200 Free Relay – Griffin Schumacher, Danny Crigler, Oliver Lee, Chris Satterthwaite (1:18.06)
The Crimson placed 20th in last season's NCAA 200 free relay and won the event at this year's Ivy meet in a school-record, NCAA 'A' time. Only 13 schools have posted a faster time than Harvard in the event during the 2012-13 campaign. Schumacher, Lee and Satterthwaite all swam on last year's NCAA 200 free relay squad. Crigler is set to make his NCAA Championships debut.
400 Free Relay – Chris Satterthwaite, Griffin Schumacher, Zach Walters, Oliver Lee (2:52.32)
Harvard returns the same lineup that captured All-America honorable mention with its 16th-place performance at the 2012 NCAA Championships. That group won Ivies in school-record time this season, posting a time good for the No. 9 seed this weekend.
800 Free Relay – Zach Walters, Griffin Schumacher, Chuck Katis, Chris Satterthwaite (6:27.51)
The 800 free relay was Harvard's most successful at last year's NCAA meet, as this same foursome took 13th place for All-America honorable mention. They placed third at the 2013 Ivy meet.
200 Medley Relay – Chris Satterthwaite, Chuck Katis, Oliver Lee, Danny Crigler (1:27.18)
This group took second at the Ivy League Championships. Katis and Lee were part of the school-record-setting squad for this event at the 2013 HYP meet.
400 Medley Relay – Chris Satterthwaite, Chuck Katis, Oliver Lee, Griffin Schumacher (3:12.17)
The same four Harvard swimmers will look to build on their Ivy-winning, Crimson-record-setting performance in their last race.
Harvard National Champions
Crimson swimmers have captured nine individual and one relay national title. The last individual to swim to the top of the NCAA platform was David Berkoff '88-89, who sandwiched 1987 and '89 national titles in the 100 backstroke around his silver medal in the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Harvard's lone relay championship came in 1961, when Bob Kaufmann '62, Alan Engleberg '63, Bill Zentgraf '62 and Bruce Hunter '61-63 won the 400 free relay.
Harvard All-Americans
Harvard has crowned 152 All-American's in program history, with the last individual honor going to Alex Meyer '10 in 2010 when he placed 14th in the 1,650 free. The Crimson has boasted at least one All-American in 12 of 14 seasons under Tim Murphy, the Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving, and a total of 36 in that time. Murphy trails only Harold Ulen's total of 64 All-America honors for most in Harvard coaching history.


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Welcome to The Center for Rural Policy and Development
Our website is the gateway to all of the Center's research, publications, the Atlas of Minnesota Online, Rural Minnesota Radio, and the Rural Minnesota Journal. For more information on the Center, check out our Contact page. We welcome your questions and comments.
In the News
A quiet crisis
A crisis is brewing throughout Minnesota and the nation: people have been getting out of the in-home family child care business at a disturbing rate, creating a severe shortage over most of the state. The impact is being felt beyond the family, reaching to employers and communities. We look at the root causes and results.
Bringing broadband to rural Minnesota
Many factors go into making broadband work both technically and economically, but the discussion over broadband has grown so complex and is so fast-changing, it can be difficult to keep track of the issues. To help with that, we'll discuss the basics of bringing broadband to Greater Minnesota and some of the points of debate. We also have a Broadband 101 glossary of terms.
City transit, rural transit
Public transit is important to all communities across the state, but the form it takes and who uses it varies a lot depending on location. With this fact sheet, City Transit, Rural Transit, and the accompanying article, we look at the top things to know about public transit in Minnesota, including who operates it, how it's funded, and most importantly, who uses it and why.
Diversity in Rural Wealth
As the Baby Boom generation retires and their children move away, rural communities are becoming concerned about the future of the financial capital of that generation. U of M Extension's Ben Winchester writes, though, that besides financial wealth, there are a number of other types of capital that rural communities hold and should be using.
The coming workforce squeeze
Rural counties in Minnesota have been experiencing the workforce squeeze for years. As Baby Boomers age and retire from their jobs, employers have a hard time finding younger people to replace them. According to the Minnesota State Demographic Center, though, it's not just a challenge for rural counties anymore.
We've produced two fact sheets. The first is on the workforce squeeze and goes over the numbers, the impact, and potential answers to the issue. The second fact sheet takes a look at what communities should keep in mind when it comes to attracting workers and where those workers may come from.
Rural grocery stores by the numbers
For many small rural towns, the grocery store is central to the community. It's not just quick, nearby access to food, it also serves as a community hub, a "third place" for people to gather between home and work. Demographic changes in Greater Minnesota have been hard on local grocery stores, however. Between 2000 and 2013, Greater Minnesota lost 14% of its grocery stores. We've put together a fact sheet on the reasons, the implications, and some possible strategies for new models when it comes to one of our most basic services.
Challenges in building a long-term care workforce
The age wave we've been expecting for the last 30 years is here now. Baby Boomers began turning 65 in 2011 and they're only getting started. Between now and 2040, the 65+ population is expected to double, and communities both in Greater Minnesota and the Twin Cities metro will be facing the problem of where to find workers, particularly in the field of long-term care. The Center has prepared a collection of slides outlining the issues for Greater Minnesota when it comes to finding people to care for our seniors, some takeaways, and some suggestions on what can be done to help.
Untangling the issues of freight rail
The Center has a new brief out, this time on freight rail, the role it plays in the state's economy, and the complicated issues that go with it. The state of rail: Untangling the issues and a key findings summary are online now.
The State of Rural Minnesota
Learn more about the demographic and economic factors of Greater Minnesota in the Center's annual State of Rural Minnesota presentation.
Rural Reality: Tourism
This Rural Reality infographic takes a look at tourism in Greater Minnesota from an economic impact standpoint and from the community development side of things. We also present a few examples of towns around the state doing big things.
Two new reports: Immigrant farmers and shared services
Two new studies are available on our web site: The Continuing Education Needs of Immigrant Farmers, examining what the state's newest farmers want and need in continuing education, and Identifying Best Practices for Collaboration, a look at shared services projects around the state and makes them work — or not work.
Rural Minnesota Journal, summer issue
This summer, the Rural Minnesota Journal looks at the unique and often confusing nature of Indian land ownership. In one article, we look at how the Leech Lake Band and Cass County were able to settle differences when it came to buying land and putting it in trust. The other article traces the path of the Mille Lacs Band law suit of the the 1990s that set a national precedent for determining Native American property rights.
The State of Water
This major article takes a look at the complex relationship between rural communities and one of our state's most precious resources—water.
Who Owns Rural Minnesota?
The Rural Minnesota Journal 2014 is all online now. Throughout the year we'll be addressing the question "Who owns rural Minnesota?" The first quarter's issue is here, addressing the topics of mineral rights and forestry.
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Many people, including the developers of Haskell (see here) and OCaml (see here) compilers, have been quick to dismiss the shadow stack algorithm for performance reasons.
Despite these concerns, we chose to use a shadow stack in HLVM for several reasons:
- GC performance is low on the list of priorities for HLVM.
- Shadow stacks are easy to implement entirely from within HLVM whereas conventional strategies entail injecting stack maps into stack frames on the normal stack and that requires low-level hacking with LLVM's experimental GC API in C++.
- Shadow stacks are easy to debug because they are just another data structure in the heap.
- HLVM provides typed nulls and the ability to read array lengths or type constructor tags without an indirection. This requires the use of an unconventional struct-based reference type that is incompatible with LLVM's current GC API that can only handle individual pointers.
Consequently, it is interesting to use HLVM to measure just how expensive its GC and shadow stack implementations are. This cannot be done directly because the shadow stack is essential for garbage collections to work so removing the shadow stack must also remove the whole GC. However, we can benchmark with full GC enabled, with shadow stack updates but no collections and with GC completely disabled:
The difference between the last two measures gives an estimate of the time spent updating the shadow stack and we can present that as a ratio of the original running time:
This is only an estimate because disabling the GC affects the performance of the rest of the system, most notably leaving more allocated blocks for malloc to handle and degrading cache coherence by cold starting all allocated values.
These results show that the time spent manipulating the shadow stack is:
- Insignificant for the fib, ffib, mandel and mandel2 benchmarks, which is expected because their inner loops act on value types that the GC is oblivious to.
- Between 10 and 25% for the sieve, Array.fold, List.init and gc benchmarks, which is expected because they use reference types in their inner loops.
- Around 70% in the case of the 10-queens benchmark, which was entirely unexpected!
We can also see that the List.init benchmark is spending most of its time performing collections.
These results are very encouraging for two reasons:
- HLVM's comparatively poor performance on the List.init benchmark is not due to the shadow stack but, rather, is due to inefficiencies in our collection algorithm. Specifically, the mark phase uses a hash table with a fixed number of buckets that scales poorly when the heap contains many allocated blocks. Increasing the size of the hash table provides a 36% performance improvement.
- HLVM's comparatively poor performance on the list-based 10-queens benchmark is due to the presence of reference types in the inner loop: the List.filter function. Specifically, the environment of the predicate closure and the list itself. Inlining and/or CSE will go a long way to eliminating this overhead.
Suffice to say, we are very happy with these results and intend to continue using the shadow stack algorithm.


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New teacher faces challenges, earns recognition
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
As she prepared for a career in education, Bethany Strasser heard all about the possible challenges she would face as a classroom teacher. Her first year on the job didn't disappoint.
"The horror stories are true about first-year teachers," said Strasser, a 2011 Pittsburg State graduate and engineering technology teacher at Ramay Junior High in Fayetteville, Ark. "It is not easy, and life will throw you curve balls one could not have dreamt about."
Rather than back down from the challenges, however, Strasser faced them head-on. She leaned on her colleagues at Ramay and on the PSU faculty who helped get her there.
"I had a lot of support from the faculty at Ramay and from my professors at Pitt," she said. "The relationships I formed while in college allowed me to ask for help even though I had graduated."
More than survive her first year as a full-time professional, Strasser excelled at high levels. Her work did not go unnoticed and she received two prestigious Arkansas education awards.
She was named the 2012 Outstanding New Engineering and Technology Education Teacher of the Year by the Arkansas Technology and Engineering Educators. This award is meant to encourage new teachers to remain in the profession. Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions toward innovative, unique and novel programs and have shown a professional commitment early in their careers.
Her program at Ramay also received the 2012 Program Excellence Award from the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering classroom teachers on the K-12 level.
Strasser said she was "humbled" by the awards and that they motivated her to continue to succeed.
"It's always nice to be recognized by your peers, especially in your first year," she said. "It makes you want to keep doing well, not only for yourself but also for your students and your school."
Matt Saferite, principal at Ramay Junior High, said he and the entire staff at Ramay are proud of Strasser's early success.
"It's a testament to her work by herself and with her colleagues and it's a testament to her background," he said. "We're very pleased with the education she received at Pittsburg State and how she's applying it here. She's a great teacher, and we're happy to have her."
Growing up in Pittsburg, Strasser said she always looked forward to attending PSU. She said her university experience matched and surpassed her expectations.
"Pitt State was awesome," she said. "I loved my tech ed classes. I could go in there and spend hours working, and the professors never turn you down. They always said, 'You want to build this? Let's do it.' Pitt State really showed me and helped me attain the tools that I need."
Her time at PSU also served to enhance Strasser's desire to teach.
"I am sure that my passion and talent in teaching can be credited largely to the technology education program at Pittsburg State," she said. "Through my time at Pitt State, I learned how to make presentations count and lessons matter. They taught me to take pride in my work. They always pushed me to do better. They taught me the importance of learning by doing."
And in those times when she needs a little boost, she knows just where to turn for help.
"I know that any time I need something, Pittsburg State is there for me."


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Tornado season for 2012 off to early start; deadly 2011 was relatively mild in Colorado
Well, that didn't take long.
Not even two weeks into 2012, the U.S. has already recorded its first three tornadoes of the year.
Monday two EF-1 twisters dropped near Galveston, Texas. One tore the roof off part of the Mall of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas, leaving 2 to 3 inches of rain inside, according to local media reports. No one was seriously injured or killed, thankfully.
That's early, even for coastal Texas, but no unheard-of, says the National Weather Service. It was also unusual Wednesday when a cold front produced an EF-2 tornado in western North Carolina, leaving nearly 20 people injured.
Last year, there were 16 confirmed tornadoes nationwide in January, compared to 758 in April, 326 in May, 160 in June and 108 in July, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
In Colorado, the earliest tornado since at least 1950 was on Feb. 13, 1954, when an EF-1 tornado, estimated at 17 yards wide, was on the ground for half a mile in Custer County, causing $2,500 in damage (more than $21,000 in 2011 dollars), according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Last year was the deadliest tornado season in U.S. history, with 558 deaths, beating the former grim record of 519 set in 1953.
The numbers vary so widely from year to year and records are so faulty and incomplete that there is no official average number of U.S. tornadoes each year, acording to the Storm Prediction Center. Recent trends, however, indicate that there are about 1,300 annually, the agency states.
The Storm Prediction Center confirmed 1,894 tornadoes in 2011, with 25 in Colorado, according this tally.
Demonstrating how numbers vary, Colorado has had as few as 4 reported twisters in 1969, and as many as 98 in 1997.


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Scott needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
We are looking for new logo for our line of unique designer fitness clothing. Looking for simple graphical logo, signature 'voodoo doll pins' and text "VOODOOMAGOO fitness couture. Our clothing appeals to mostly fashionable fit men between the ages of 20-38
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We need a unique, modern logo design consisting of a graphical logo and the text "VOODOOMAGOO" or "VOODOOMAGOO fitness couture". We would like the main concentration to be on the brand name text. Our clothing line appeals to mostly the men that like to purchase designer clothing. The clothing designs are very vivid and surreal rocker/mellow images. We are looking for a graphical logo but with concentrate on the name when designing the logo. It is high end so we would like kind of a metalic gold, but please be creative.
- Desired color scheme: Gold, Mirrored, metalic, iridescent
- Desired style: modern, stylish, fashion, rocker, unique, high-end
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Giving to MSE
Naming Opportunities - Endowments - Student Innovation Fund
Originating as two separate schools – Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering and the earlier Materials Science and Engineering – the new School of Materials Science and Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation and education since the day the Textile department first opened its doors almost 120 years ago. As a result of the merger between MSE and PTFE, we now have 55 thesis sponsoring faculty and are the largest materials department in the country. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are routinely ranked among the nation's leading programs by U.S. News and World Report.
Ongoing research in the School has resulted in the creation of the world's lightest, yet strongest armor capable of being shaped to not only better ensure the protection of our nation's troops and police, but to create bomb-proof passenger planes; fibers capable of on-demand ballistics protection; drug delivery vehicles capable of targeting cancerous cells, thus eliminating negative effects of chemotherapy, such as hair loss and nausea; shape memory polymers for use in joint repair; tissue expanders for use in cleft palate repair; fuel cell innovation and energy storage devices capable of creating and storing sustainable energy; and the creation of electricity as a result of the mechanical energy produced by our bodies during normal day-to-day activities. In addition to fundamental research, emerging technologies are routinely being explored in terms of patents and new product development. Numerous industries have been founded based on research originating in MSE and are currently contributing to Georgia economic recovery.
Commercialization is the offshoot of innovation and one of the goals of MSE is to help revitalize Georgia's, and America's, economy by helping it to become a major manufacturing site once again. Taking the innovative technology coming out of the School and bringing it to market is crucial to recreating our manufacturing base. With continued research and the development of new technologies, we will ensure we remain on the forefront of both innovation and manufacturing.
Cutting edge research is just half of what we do here in MSE. Even more important is the education of future generations of engineers capable of creating the technology of the future. Our faculty have been recognized by MSE students as amongst the best educators on campus. We strive to teach our students not only the technical aspects of engineering and innovation but to look at the world with an eye of of improving the society in which we live.
Maintaining our position at the forefront of education and technological innovation does, however, come at a price. Operational and endowed funds are necessary to continue to provide our students with the best, most innovative education and to continue the research crucial to the betterment of our lives. Chaired positions and professorships are needed to attract and retain top tier faculty, scholarships and fellowships are necessary to ensure students of the highest caliber have the funds to attend, and both operational and endowed funds are necessary to support ongoing research.
There are many ways in which you can make a gift to the Georgia Tech Foundation in support of the School of Materials Science and Engineering. To learn more, contact:
Naresh Thadhani
Alyssa Barnes
Your contribution will help to ensure a better future for our children and our planet.


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Nutritional Info
This delicious heirloom tomato and watermelon salad recipe is courtesy of Laurent Tourondel.
1 piece ginger (3 inches long)
3/4 cup olive oil
3 tablespoons sherry-wine vinegar
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 cups heirloom tomatoes, quartered or cut into 2-inch pieces
2 cups seedless watermelon, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 tablespoons Thai basil, chopped plus whole leaves, for garnish
1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons chopped chives
2 tablespoons chervil leaves
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled into large pieces
1/4 cup celery leaves, for garnish
1 small spring onion, very thinly sliced, for garnish
1/2 ripe avocado, thinly sliced, for garnish
1 radish, thinly sliced, for garnish
1 teaspoon mustard oil
Grate ginger on the large holes of a box grater. Wrap ginger in a lint-free cloth and squeeze over a medium bowl to extract juice. You should have about 2 tablespoons.
Whisk ginger juice, along with olive oil and vinegar, until well combined; season with salt and pepper. Add tomatoes, watermelon, chopped basil, and red onion and gently toss until fully coated; season with salt and pepper. Let stand 30 minutes.
Transfer tomatoes and watermelon to a serving bowl. Gently fold in chives, chervil, and parsley; spoon over any remaining marinade. Sprinkle with cheese, and garnish with celery leaves, spring onion, whole basil leaves, avocado, radish. Drizzle with mustard oil; serve immediately.


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I'm proud to sign this bill in response to the industry's desire to have more options for their captives.
Montpelier, VT (PRWEB) April 17, 2014
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed new legislation passed in the State Legislature updating Vermont's captive law, amending the reciprocal insurer section and creating a new "dormant" status for captives. The dormant status establishes an efficient mechanism for a captive that has ceased insurance operations to cost-effectively retain its license should it elect to resume operations in the future. The law takes effect immediately.
"I'm proud to sign this bill in response to the industry's desire to have more options for their captives," said Governor Shumlin. "I commend the Legislature in continuing our long tradition of making sure our captive regulations are the industry gold standard."
Deputy Commissioner of Vermont's Captive Division David Provost worked diligently with the Legislature on the new changes. "This legislation updates several components in our law to keep Vermont at the forefront of domiciles," said Provost. "The updates to our reciprocal law will make it more attractive than ever for educational institutions, health care providers and other not-for-profit organizations to domicile in Vermont."
"We're delighted that once again the Governor and Legislature have joined together to respond to the rapidly changing environment for captives," said Dan Towle, Vermont's Director of Financial Services. "It is just one of the many benefits to domiciling in a proactive jurisdiction like Vermont."
The legislation was crafted with input from the Vermont Captive Insurance Association. A complete copy of the bill will be posted on the Vermont Legislature's website, and in the interim a copy of the bill as passed with amendments can be found here: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/bills/Passed/H-563C.pdf
For more information on Vermont's captive industry, visit http://www.vermontcaptive.com, call Dan Towle at 802-828-5232 or email dan.towle(at)state(dot)vt(dot)us.


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A government survey found nearly 33 percent of adults who saw a doctor in the previous year said they were told to exercise. That was up from about 23 percent in 2000.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found more women got that advice than men. Also, diabetics were more likely to get the advice than those with other conditions.
The report, released Thursday, was based on a survey of nearly 22,000 adults in 2010.
More than one third of U.S. adults are obese, a statistic that's held steady for nearly a decade.
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