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Week Number 4 down and I'm already to count me out.
Somehow I managed to ruin my weekend before it even started. I carted home photography projects to grade which, according to my higher level math skills, gives me 210 pieces to shuffle through, divine a grade for, mark the rubric and smack myself upside my head for being such a big, fat… (nope, you're not going to get me to say that. No siree, Missy.)
Earlier I mentioned we had our first official "Tiara Tuesday." Yep, the call came out from one of our computer teachers to proudly dust off our tiaras and wear them in honor of surviving the first three weeks of school, the first issuance of progress reports and a general overall good work/attitude of the kiddos. Of course, I proudly wore mine and even lent out two spares --one to my hall-monitoring, chicken-loving health teacher compadre and the other to my counselor friend (who I always refer to as "The Other Carol" because she also is blessed with the same name).
Now, here's an interesting aside--my students didn't even blink when they saw me wearing my tiara. For them, well, it was just business as usual in Richie's classroom.
Of course, that whole Tiara Tuesday got me to thinking, and well, one thing naturally led to another thing. And we all know how I feel about things, and with all that thinking (which btw made my brain hurt), I thought we couldn't very well just have one day of the week with a fancy, schmancy designation.
No siree. We obviously needed something for every single week day.
So after Tiara Tuesday last week, here's what I came up with (with, of course, some help from my first period journalism class and a few teacher peeps)…
Woo-hoo Wednesday… Sometime during the day participants had to find one nice thing to say to (1) a teacher and (2) a student. All nice statements had to begin with a Woo-hoo. For example, "Woo-hoo, you have nice hair today!" or "Woo-hoo, that's a great question!" See how easy this is?
Thankful Thursday… Thank a teacher and a student. It's quick and easy and goes like this… "Hey, thanks Mr. Principal for that $10,000 bonus check!" (Y'all got yours didn't you?) Or, "Thanks for behaving today, John." Or, "Thanks for that very interesting comment, Doris."
Fiesta Friday… Find one thing to celebrate and rejoice in (as if Fridays ever needed a reason for celebration…)
Now, I just know you want to know what Monday will bring. Although my lunch buddy in the Art Department strongly advised me against it, I just have to set aside Monday as…can I pah-leese have a drum-roll?…Moron Monday.
Moron Monday… Now before you start hatin' on me, let me explain. We all do, say or think something stupid. (I know I do, and I bet you do, too). So, I thought, "Let's just devote the first day of the week to getting that stupid thing out of our system. Just think how cathartic it would be to run around saying, "Why that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Or, "Stupid is as stupid does!" Or, "How moronic!"
You see, once we get rid of the stupid, well, we should be good to go, don't you think? Imagine all the learning that could occur once we got the stupid out.
Well, that's my theory, any way.
So now I'm looking at the 210 project pieces to grade, the stack of Journalism I journals still not read, the first yearbook deadline submissions, the upcoming newspaper deadline and my unfinished purchase orders. On top of that, I'm stressed over the we-must-launch-our-website-ASAP-or-bad-things-will-happen-to-me, and, most importantly, I just remembered that I forgot to replenish the almost empty ECD (Emergency Chocolate Drawer).
I don't even have to wait until Monday to say, "What a moron."
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Mondays, Morons & Me
Week Number 4 down and I'm already to count me out.
6 comments:
- Veteran Teacher said...
Enjoyed your ideas...especially moron Mondays.
I left my work to be graded in the car, but I am feeling some guilt. If I sit here long enough, maybe it will pass...
Have a great week!
- September 21, 2008 at 5:42 PM
- ms-teacher said...
Now I don't feel so bad with my 33 history student notebooks that I collected on Wednesday and have procrastinated until today to grade!
(However, I showed a movie, which did pertain to what we are studying in history, in said history class specifically so that I could grade the notebooks, but still found other things to do. )
- September 21, 2008 at 7:09 PM
- askthehomediva said...
Veteran teacher & ms-teacher,
Jeez Louise! I wish I had left my grading in the car or someplace… SEVEN hours later, it's done. I need another weekend to recover from my weekend!
- September 21, 2008 at 9:38 PM
- Melissa B. said...
You always manage to get me giggling...even though I'm draggin' from back-to-school nite! Spartan parents haven't changed one bit since you were up here. Still very "hands on." I think they call that "helicopter parenting" now, right?
- September 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Grading projects on the weekend? Woo-hoo, you really earned that $10,000 bonus!
- September 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM
- loonyhiker said...
My problem is that sometimes Moron Monday comes every day! :)
- September 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM


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Boys hockey tops Fairfield Prep 3-2 in OT
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DARIEN -- If there was any doubt this was a special season for the Darien High School boys ice hockey team, wonder no longer.
The Blue Wave have accepted every challenge while playing their most demanding schedule in recent memory.
And with the exception of a season-opening road loss to Hamden, it has been clear sailing for Darien.
No obstacle proved insurmountable for the Blue Wave Thursday afternoon as they rallied from a two-goal deficit to conquer Fairfield Prep 3-2 in overtime before a capacity crowd at Darien Ice Rink.
It was Darien's second victory in two meetings against vaunted Fairfield Prep (8-3-2).
It was Darien's eighth consecutive triumph as well as the 12th straight contest where the Blue Wave (11-1-1) allowed two goals or less.
"A lot of us (11 seniors in all) have worn this uniform for four years," said defenseman Nicholas Allam, who scored the game-winning goal 33 seconds into overtime. "This season is all about making a difference and making a statement."
The statement Fairfield Prep made in the opening 9:14 of the clash was don't sleep on us.
Ken Kochiss scored on a knuckleball shot with 8:10 left in the first period. Matt Wikman put home a rebound of a Steven Bayles shot with 5:46 left and the Jesuits led 2-0.
"Our execution was great in the first period," Fairfield Prep head coach Matt Sather said.
Darien head coach Chris Gerwig smartly used his timeout at 2-0 and the Blue Wave players settled in.
Although Prep's attack made Darien senior goalie Michael Colon (22 saves) work hard, the Blue Wave slowly mounted their comeback.
Jack Pardue beat Fairfield Prep senior goalie Chris Gutierrez (18 saves) to the top left corner off a Connor Davis pass with 9:02 left in the second period for 2-1.
Darien's Tommy Watters forged a 2-2 deadlock with 6:35 left in regulation, snapping the puck from the left circle past Gutierrez off a Nicholas Tuzinkiewicz pass.
"We started slow but we kept our focus. We didn't get worried down 2-0," Allam said. "We just got to work."
"I didn't think our execution was good in the second period. But we played well in the third period," Sather said. "We just couldn't get that third goal that would have broken it open for us."
The overtime was a blur.
Darien won a faceoff to the right of Prep's net. Pardue made a beautiful diagonal pass from the right boards to Allam, who was wide open at the left point.
The Blue Wave defense had gotten precious few point shots through to the net in regulation.
But Allam's blast landed under the crossbar, touching off yet another blue and white celebration.
"I was wide open," Allam said. "In OT you're looking for any funny bounce of the puck or any scramble in front of the net. It was a great pass and I just got the puck to the net."
Darien took sole possession of second place in the Division I state rankings from Fairfield Prep with the win.
Notre Dame of West Haven remains No. 1 due to its overall strength of schedule despite two losses to New Canaan and one loss to Darien.
"What impressed me the most was we shut down a good Prep offense for two periods," Gerwig said. "Our kids didn't stop playing down 2-0. Resilient is the word for this group. They did what good teams do. They found a way to come back and win."
And Prep will have to wait for the 16-team Division I state tournament in March to get a third try at stopping the Darien express.
"The first time we met was very early in the season. Probably too early for either of us to know what we really had," Sather said. "But at this time of the year, we know and this contest had meaning. Darien is a tough, veteran squad that has answered every challenge. We take our hats off to them. But there's still a lot of hockey to be played before we might see them again."

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The King, The Dragon and the Secure Cloud
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This was too good to pass up. For many, there is a perception that cloud computing lacks security. IBM is working on fixing that perception, with this [cute 2-minute video].
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IBM Pulse - Smarter Computing
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Wrapping up my week's coverage of the IBM Pulse 2011 conference, I have had several people ask me to explain IBM's latest initiative, Smarter Computing, which IBM launched this week at this conference. Having led the IT industry through the Centralized Computing era and the Distributed Computing era, IBM is now well-positioned to help companies, governments and non-profit organizations to enter the new Smarter Computing era, focused on insight and discovery.
To help clients with this transition, IBM's Smarter Computing initiative has three main components. This is a corporate-wide strategy, with systems, software and services all working together to realize results.
The IBM Watson that competed on Jeopardy! is an excellent example of all three components of Smarter Computing at work.
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IBM Pulse Keynote Speaker - Dean Kamen
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This week was the IBM Pulse 2011 converence in Las Vegas, Nevada, with over 7,000 attendees. I wasn't there, and my on-the-scene correspondent was too busy running the hands-on lab to get out and attend sessions. Fortunately, I was able to watch some of the [IBM Software live stream], and here are my thoughts and observations.
Fellow inventor [Dean Kamen] was the keynote speaker. His inventions help people, making the world a better place. Here are three examples I found interesting during his talk:
If you attended IBM Pulse this week, please comment on your thoughts and observations!
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IBM Pulse: Day 1
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The expo opened last night. There are so many fantastic demos and product experts. Las Vegas has a Tivoli buzz on right now.
I'm working in the Hands On Labs room. Pulse labs kicked off Sunday. The hot topics included Cloud, Storage, Automation, Asset Management, and BigFix (a company IBM [acquired and products will now be called Tivoli Endpoint Manager])
I'll try to get you a few updates along the way.
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IBM Scale-Out NAS Sets World Performance Record
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My series last week on IBM Watson (which you can read [here], [here], [here], and [here]) brought attention to IBM's Scale-Out Network Attached Storage [SONAS]. IBM Watson used a customized version of SONAS technology for its internal storage, and like most of the components of IBM Watson, IBM SONAS is commercially available as a stand-alone product.
If you are not familiar with SONAS, here are a few of my previous posts that go into more detail:
This week, IBM announces that SONAS has set a world record benchmark for performance, [a whopping 403,326 IOPS for a single file system]. The results are based on comparisons of publicly available information from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation [SPEC], a prominent performance standardization organization with more than 60 member companies. SPEC publishes hundreds of different performance results each quarter covering a wide range of system performance disciplines (CPU, memory, power, and many more). SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 is the industry-standard benchmark for NAS systems using the NFS protocol.
(Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary. As with any performance benchmark, the SPECsfs benchmark does not replicate any single workload or particular application. Rather, it encapsulates scores of typical activities on a NAS storage system. SPECsfs is based on a compilation of workload data submitted to the SPEC organization, aggregated from tens of thousands of fileservers, using a wide variety of environments and applications. As a result, it is comprised of typical workloads and with typical proportions of data and metadata use as seen in real production environments.)
IBM wanted a realistic "no compromises" configuration to be tested, by choosing:
Congratulations to the SONAS development and test teams! Scale-Out NAS is a competitive space. SONAS can handle not only large streaming files but also small random I/O workloads extraordinarily well. Just in the last two years, to compete against IBM's leadership in this realm, [HP acquired Ibrix], [EMC acquired Isilon] and [Dell has acquired what's left of Exanet's assets], THey have a lot of catching up to do!
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More 1Q2011 storage-related announcements
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It's Tuesday again, and that means one thing.... IBM Announcements! On the heels of [last week's announcements], IBM announced some additional products of interest to storage administrators.
Next week is [IBM Pulse2011 Conference] in Las Vegas, February 27 to March 2. Sorry, I don't plan to be there this year. It is looking to be a great conference, with fellow inventor Dean Kamen as the keynote speaker. For a blast from the past, read my blog posts from Pulse2008 [Main Tent sessions] and [Breakout sessions].
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IBM Watson -- How to replicate Watson hardware and systems design for your own use in your basement
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For the longest time, people thought that humans could not run a mile in less than four minutes. Then, in 1954, [Sir Roger Bannister] beat that perception, and shortly thereafter, once he showed it was possible, many other runners were able to achieve this also. The same is being said now about the IBM Watson computer which appeared this week against two human contestants on Jeopardy!
(2014 Update: A lot has happened since I originally wrote this blog post! I intended this as a fun project for college students to work on during their summer break. However, IBM is concerned that some businesses might be led to believe they could simply stand up their own systems based entirely on open source and internally developed code for business use. IBM recommends instead the [IBM InfoSphere BigInsights] which packages much of the software described below. IBM has also launched a new "Watson Group" that has [Wat
Often, when a company demonstrates new techology, these are prototypes not yet ready for commercial deployment until several years later. IBM Watson, however, was made mostly from commercially available hardware, software and information resources. As several have noted, the 1TB of data used to search for answers could fit on a single USB drive that you buy at your local computer store.
But could you fit an entire Watson in your basement? The IBM Power 750 servers used in IBM Watson earned the [EPA Energy Star] rating, and is substantially [more energy-efficient than comparable 4-socket x86, Itanium, or SPARC servers]. However, having ninety of them in your basement would drive up your energy bill.
That got me thinking, would it be possible to build your own question-answering system, something less fancy, less sophisticated, scaled-down for personal use? John Pultorak explained [how to build your own Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) in your basement]. Jay Shafer explains [how to build your own house for $20K]. And a 17-year-old George Hotz figured out a [hack to unlock your Apple iPhone] over the summer in his basement.
It turns out that much of the inner workings of IBM Watson were written in a series of articles in [IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3]. You can also read the [Wikipedia article]. Eric Brown from IBM Research will be presenting "Jeopardy: Under the Hood of IBM Watson Supercomputer" at next month's [The Linux Foundation End User Summit].
Take a look at the [IBM Research Team] to determine how the project was organized. Let's decide what we need, and what we don't in our version for personal use:
(Disclaimer: As with any Do-It-Yourself (DIY) project, I am not responsible if you are not happy with your version for personal use I am basing the approach on what I read from publicly available sources, and my work in Linux, supercomputers, XIV, and SONAS. For our purposes, this version for personal use is based entirely on commodity hardware, open source software, and publicly available sources of information. Your implementation will certainly not be as fast or as clever as the IBM Watson you saw on television.)
There you have it. By the time you get your implementation fully operational, you will have learned a lot of useful skills, including Linux administration, Ethernet networking, NFS file system configuration, Java programming, UIMA text mining analysis, and MapReduce parallel processing. Hopefully, you will also gain an appreciation for how difficult it was for the IBM Research team to accomplish what they had for the Grand Challenge on Jeopardy! Not surprisingly, IBM Watson is making IBM [as sexy to work for as Apple, Google or Facebook], all of which started their business in a garage or a basement with a system as small as this version for personal use.
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IBM Watson - Business Intelligence, Data Retrieval and Text Mining
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The IBM Challenge was a big success. One of the contestants, Ken Jennings, [welcomes our new computer overlords]. Congratulations are in order to the IBM Research team who pulled off this Herculean effort!
Some folks have poked fun at some of the odd responses and wager amounts from the IBM Watson computer during the three-day tournament. Others were surprised as I was that the impressive feat was done with less than 1TB of stored data. Here is what John Webster wrote in CNET yesterday, in hist article [What IBM's Watson says to storage systems developers]:
"All well and good. But here's what I find most interesting as a result of what IBM has done in response to the Grand Challenge that motivated Watson's creators. We know, from Tony Pearson's blog, that the foundation of Watson's data storage system is a modified IBM SONAS cluster with a total of 21.6TB of raw capacity. But Pearson also reveals another very significant, and to me, surprising data point: "When Watson is booted up, the 15TB of total RAM are loaded up, and thereafter the DeepQA processing is all done from memory. According to IBM Research, the actual size of the data (analyzed and indexed text, knowledge bases, etc.) used for candidate answer generation and evidence evaluation is under 1 Terabyte."
To better appreciate how difficult the challenge was, and how a small amount of data can answer a billion different questions, I thought I would cover Business Intelligence, Data Retrieval and Text Mining concepts.
Let's start with Business Intelligence. [Seth Grimes] pointed me to this quote from [A Business Intelligence System], written by Hans Peter Luhn back in October 1958 IBM Journal.
"In this paper, business is a collection of activities carried on for whatever purpose, be it science, technology, commerce, industry, law, government, defense, et cetera. The communication facility serving the conduct of a business (in the broad sense) may be referred to as an intelligence system. The notion of intelligence is also defined here, in a more general sense, as the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal."
Ideally, when you need "Business Intelligence" to help you make a better decision, you perform data retrieval from a structured database for the specific information you are looking for. In other cases, you might be looking for insight, patterns or trends. In that case, you go "data mining" against your structured databases.
And that's not including more ethereal questions, such as:
This is just for a small set, two market segments (by gender) and two products (apples and oranges). However, if you have many market segments (perhaps by age group, zip code, etc.) and many products, the number of queries that can be supported is huge. For small sets of data, you can easily do this with a spreadsheet program like IBM Lotus Symphony or Microsoft Excel.
Second, you had to be skilled at SQL to phrase your queries correctly to retrieve the data you are after. What ended up happening was that skilled SQL programmers would develop "canned reports" with fixed SQL parameters, so that less-skilled business decision makers could base their decisions from these reports.
IBM has fully integrated stacks to help process structured data, combining servers, storage, and advanced analytics software into a complete appliance. IBM offers the [Smart Analytics System] for robust, customized deployments, and recently acquired [Netezza] for pre-configured, and more rapid deployments.
However, the bigger problem is that more than 80 percent of information is not structured! Semi-structured data like email provides some searchable fields like From and Subject. The rest of the information is unstructured, such as text files, photographs, video and audio. To look for specific information in unstructured sources can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and trying to get insight, patterns or trends involves text mining.
IBM is a leader in Business Analytics and has made great progress in dealing with unstructured data. This includes [IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition], [IBM e-Discovery Manager] and [IBM Cognos Business Intelligence].
This, in effect, is what IBM Watson was able to perform so well this week. Finding the needle in the haystacks of unstructured data from 200 million pages of text stored in its system, combined with the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of meaning and subtle nuance, resulted in an impressive technology demonstration. Certainly, this new technology will be powerful for a variety of use cases across a broad set of industries!
To learn more, read the Arizona Daily Star's article [After 'Jeopardy!' win, IBM program steps out].
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IBM Storage Announcements for 1Q 2011
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements!
IBM thought the week that everyone is watching IBM Watson compete against humans on Jeopardy! would be a good week to launch new storage products.
For more on this, see the [1Q2011 Storage Announcements page].
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IBM Watson - Tucson Watch Event for Jeopardy Day 1
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IBM Challenge: Tucson Watch Event for Jeopardy!
The Tucson Executive Briefing Center hosted 20 dignitaries from local companies and academia. This is a historic competition, an exhibition match pitting a computer against the top two celebrated Jeopardy champions:
One of the members of the audience had never seen an episode of Jeopardy! in his life.
(Note: there are NO SPOILERS in this blog post. If you have not yet watched the show, you are safe to continue reading the rest of this post. I will not disclose the correct responses to any of the clues nor how well each contestant scored.)
Day 1 was only able to cover the first round of Game 1. This allowed more time to talk about the history and technology of IBM Watson. Tomorrow, the contestants will finish Game 1 and head into Game 2.
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IBM Watson - What's In that 1TB ?
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In my post [What is the Smartest Machine on Earth?], I described the storage inside [IBM Watson], the computer that will compete against two humans on the quiz show Jeopardy!
"When Watson is booted up, the 15TB of total RAM are loaded up, and thereafter the DeepQA processing is all done from memory. According to IBM Research, the actual size of the data (analyzed and indexed text, knowledge bases, etc.) used for candidate answer generation and evidence evaluation is under 1 Terabyte (TB). For performance reasons, various subsets of the data are replicated in RAM on different functional groups of cluster nodes. The entire system is self-contained, Watson is NOT going to the internet searching for answers."
I had several readers ask me to explain the significance of the "Terabyte". I'll work my way up.
For those of us in the IT industry, 1TB is small potatoes. I for one, was expecting it to be much bigger. But for everyone else, the equivalent of 200 million pages of text that IBM Watson has loaded inside is an incredibly large repository of information. I suspect IBM Watson probably contains the complete works of Shakespeare as well as other fiction writers, the IMDB database, all 3.5 million articles of Wikipedia, religious texts like the Bible and the Quran, famous documents like the Magna Carta and the US Constitution, and reference books like a Dictionary, a Thesaurus, and "Gray's Anatomy". And, of course, lots and lots of lists.
For those on Twitter, follow [@ibmwatson] these next three days during the challenge.
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Homework Assignment for Jeopardy: Results and Observations
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Homework Assignment: My Results
We are only days away from the big IBM Challenge of Watson computer against two human contestants on the show Jeopardy!
I watched two episodes of Jeopardy! on my Tivo, pausing it to follow the [homework assignment] I suggested in my last post. Here are my own results and observations.
To find out when Jeopardy is playing in your town, consult the [Interactive Map].
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Homework Assignment: Understanding Jeopardy!
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With all the excitement of the [IBM Challenge], where the [IBM Watson computer] will compete against humans on [Jeopardy!], I thought it would be good to provide the following homework exercise to help you appreciate how challenging the game is and the strategies required.
If you are really brave, take the [Jeopardy Online Test]. If you do this homework assignment, feel free to post your insights in the comments below.
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Watson: What is the Smartest Machine on Earth?
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Tonight PBS plans to air Season 38, Episode 6 of NOVA, titled [Smartest Machine On Earth]. Here is an excerpt from the station listing:
"What's so special about human intelligence and will scientists ever build a computer that rivals the flexibility and power of a human brain? In "Artificial Intelligence," NOVA takes viewers inside an IBM lab where a crack team has been working for nearly three years to perfect a machine that can answer any question. The scientists hope their machine will be able to beat expert contestants in one of the USA's most challenging TV quiz shows -- Jeopardy, which has entertained viewers for over four decades. "Artificial Intelligence" presents the exclusive inside story of how the IBM team developed the world's smartest computer from scratch. Now they're racing to finish it for a special Jeopardy airdate in February 2011. They've built an exact replica of the studio at its research lab near New York and invited past champions to compete against the machine, a big black box code -- named Watson after IBM's founder, Thomas J. Watson. But will Watson be able to beat out its human competition?"
Craig Rhinehart offers [10 Things You Need to Know About the Technology Behind Watson].
An artist has come up with this clever [unofficial poster].
Dr. Jon Lenchner from IBM Research has a series of posts on [How Watson "sees", "hears", and "speaks"] and [Selected Nuances].
Like most supercomputers, Watson runs the Linux operating system. The system runs 2,880 cores (90 IBM Power 750 servers, four sockets each, eight cores per socket) to achieve 80 [TeraFlops]. TeraFlops is the unit of measure for supercomputers, representing a trillion floating point operations. By comparison, Hans Morvec, principal research scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) estimates that the [human brain is about 100 TeraFlops]. So, in the three seconds that Watson gets to calculate its response, it would have processed 240 trillion operations.
Several readers of my blog have asked for details on the storage aspects of Watson. Basically, it is a modified version of IBM Scale-Out NAS [SONAS] that IBM offers commercially, but running Linux on POWER instead of Linux-x86. System p expansion drawers of SAS 15K RPM 450GB drives, 12 drives each, are dual-connected to two storage nodes, for a total of 21.6TB of raw disk capacity. The storage nodes use IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) to provide clustered NFS access to the rest of the system. Each Power 750 has minimal internal storage mostly to hold the Linux operating system and programs.
When Watson is booted up, the 15TB of total RAM are loaded up, and thereafter the DeepQA processing is all done from memory. According to IBM Research, "The actual size of the data (analyzed and indexed text, knowledge bases, etc.) used for candidate answer generation and evidence evaluation is under 1TB." For performance reasons, various subsets of the data are replicated in RAM on different functional groups of cluster nodes. The entire system is self-contained, Watson is NOT going to the internet searching for answers.
On ZDnet, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols welcomes our new [Linux Penguin Jeopardy overlords]. I have to say I share his enthusiasm!
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Like Sands in an Hourglass
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As time progresses, things change, sometimes for the better in the right direction, sometimes a step backwards, and sometimes just different enough to be annoying. I wrote my blog post about [A Box Full of Floppies] a week ago, and posted in Monday. Let's take a look at how time and change impacted that one post.
For my readers who follow American Football, enjoy the [SuperBowl]!
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Icons of Progress - The Floppy Disk
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Continuing my week's theme on the Floppy Disk, IBM has published its latest [article about the floppy disk] on IBM's [Icons of Progress] as part of the Centennial celebration.
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A Box Full of Floppies
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The weather has warmed up here in Tucson so I started my Spring Cleaning early this year and unearthed from my garage a [Bankers Box] full of floppy diskettes.
IBM needed a way to send out small updates and patches for microcode of devices out in client locations. IBM had drives that could write information, and sent out "read-only" drives to the customer locations to receive these updates. These were flexible plastic circles with a magnetic coating, and placed inside a square paper sleeve. Imagine a floppy disk the size of a piece of standard paper. The 8-inch floppy fit conveniently in a manila envelope, sendable by standard mail, and could hold nearly 80KB of data.
I've been using floppies for the past thirty years. Here's some of my fondest memories:
So while this unexpected box of nostalgia derailed my efforts to clean out my garage this weekend, it did inspire me to try to get some of the old files off them and onto my PC hard drive. I have already retrieved some low-res photographs, some emails I sent out, and trip reports I wrote. While floppy diskettes were notorious for being unreliable, and this box of floppies has been in the heat and cold for many Arizonan summers and winters, I am amazed that I was able to read the data off most of them so far, all the way back to data written in 1989. While the data is readable, in most cases I can't render it into useful information. This brings up a few valuable lessons:
So what will I do with the floppies I can't read, can't write, and can't format? I think I will convert them into a [retro set of coasters], to protect my new living room furniture from hot and cold beverages.
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In keeping with the spirit to be a more kinder, gentler 2011, I decided last week to refrain from being the rain on someone else's parade that occurs immediately before, during or after a competitor's announcement or annual conference, and let EMC have their few moments in the spotlight last week. This of course allows me more time to learn about the announcements and reflect on marketplace reactions. Here's a quick look at the [EMC Press Release]:
I will have to dig deeper into all of these different technologies in separate posts in the future.
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Since so many personal and corporate users are still on [Windows XP], Microsoft announced that it would provide [Extended Support until 2014]. A ComputerWorld article back in 2007 offered tips on [How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years]. From May 2009 to April 2014, all support is fee-based and non-security hotfixes are produced only for corporate customers.
If we have learned anything from last decade's Y2K crisis, is that we should not wait for the last minute to take action. Now is the time to start thinking about weaning ourselves off Windows XP. IBM has 400,000 employees, so this is not a trivial matter.
Already, IBM has taken some bold steps:
I am not going to wait for IBM to decide how to proceed next, so I am starting my own migrations. In my case, I need to do it twice, on my IBM-provided laptop as well as my personal PC at home.
Hopefully, this will position me well in case IBM decides to either go with Windows 7 or Linux as the replacement OS for Windows XP.
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Actually, if the title confuses you, it is because it has a double meaning.
I am looking forward to a year-long celebration on both counts!
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A British family's 2004 Christmas on a Thai beach paradise is spoiled when a massive tsunami devastates Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Maria (Naomi Watts: J. Edgar) and her eldest son Lucas (Tom Holland: The Secret World of Arrietty) are dragged by the wave through a battered countryside. Stranded in the middle of a foreign country, Lucas must figure out how to get his mother help before she succumbs to injuries.
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Will the family ever find each other? Can they all survive this ordeal? Where are all the Thai people?
The Impossible is a moving, beautifully acted story of one family's ordeal. It's also mildly disturbing how few native people feature in the film. In fact, director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) seems to think the worst part of the tsunami disaster is that it ruined a lot of vacations and killed so many tourists. We hear stories of European (actually, just white European) vacationers, who lost family and friends. We watch them band together to search for their loved ones. We see the severity of their injuries.
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Based on a true and very compelling story, film stumbles on scope.
It's a shame, because The Impossible conveys the horror of the tsunami. Murky walls of water uproot trees, toss cars and fracture bodies. Bayona has a knack for disaster cinematography, conveying the vastness of the surging water and just how helpless people were to stop it.
The Impossible also features two fantastic performances. Watts, as a terrified and gravely wounded mother, is a wonder to watch as she fights to stay alive for her son. As teenager Lucas, Holland has the unenviable job of switching from sullen teen to petrified child. Only his mother's need keeps him from breaking down.
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Nirvana had a hit song, "Rape Me." Do you know you can actually download that song so your cell phone rings to that? Hmmm. "Rape me...Hate me...Waste me..." Ooo, he was one angry child!
I first heard of Nirvana when I was skiing in Vermont on a rainy day. I was soaked, cold, and had just hurt my leg when my skis abruptly stopped on slush. Karen, a cool lady with frizzy wild red hair, gave me her headphones and said, "Listen to this! It is really amazing." I absolutely, positively hated it.
However, there's something about death. When someone famous dies, I take notice. For instance, I never appreciated Frank Sinatra because my mother didn't like his voice. But when he died, va va voom! I fell in love with his music.
So when Kurt Cobain of Nirvana died, I really listened to his music, and well, it really struck a note with me. If he were a doctor, do you think he could have converted his song, "Rape Me," to "Page Me"?
Both of my parents practiced medicine in Ohio. Before the days of pagers and cell phones, patients would call our home. If my parents weren't home, I would take a message and give it to them later. Their patients were almost always very polite and called only if something was important.
Today, we now live with DSL, Blackberry, and "Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?" More patients are demanding that doctors respond faster to everything, including pages. It's turning doctors into Carl Lewis, Bonnie Blair, and Bode (without the hangover). Worst of all, often the pages are over things that could have been taken care of during office hours.
In Charlottesville, I think the vast majority of patients know when to page the on-call doctor, when to wait until the next business day to speak to their own doctor, or when to go to the ER or urgent care center. However, there are always a handful of people who act like Courtney Love on a shopping trip: "I want it now, bleeper!"
I have been paged 1, 2, and 3am for unnecessary things that include "Do I need to fast for my cholesterol test this morning?" "My [censored] opens in the water when I take a bath and closes when I get out. Is that normal?" "Ms. X is constipated. Can she have a laxative?" (Who poops at 3 in the morning? Can't it wait?)
What really amazes me is when I call people back as soon as I receive the page, and they have wandered off somewhere. Folks, at 4 in the morning, I'm not at the grocery store or at the movie theater. I'll call you back right away, so please stay by the phone!
At least half of the patients who page me don't want to take my advice— especially the ones in denial about having a heart attack, stroke, or an acute abdomen. I know they aren't paging me to hear my high-pitched voice. If someone is going to page me during my time at home, I would think they would listen to what I have to say. One person had to stop arguing with me to go to the ER for his asthma attack because he was too short of breath to argue. (I ended up calling 911 for him.)
My advice: if you page your doctor, please allow 15-30 minutes for a response. Don't page the doctor again because it can be irritating to be repeatedly paged when you're in the shower, doing something personal, or trying to maneuver through heavy traffic. Also, do you know the doctor's office is charged for each page? If there is a true emergency, call 911 or go to the ER. Don't be the boy who cried wolf!


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The FF conquers Asia. Ferrari's new four-seater four-wheel drive car unveiled at the Shanghai Show by Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa and Felipe Massa.
Shanghai, 19 April – The FF is enjoying huge success on the Asian market having already won over a plethora of clients in the Far East. The new car made its official debut in the Asia-Pacific region today at the Shanghai Show where it was unveiled by Prancing Horse CEO Amedeo Felisa and Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver Felipe Massa. The latter couldn't hide his delight with Maranello's latest creation: "I'm very pleased to be here in Shanghai for the presentation of the FF," he told journalists. "It's a car I like very much indeed: the perfect combination of performance and usability. I have a son who's just over a year old now, and this is a Ferrari that you can use with the family without having to compromise on the driving pleasure that only our cars can deliver." Massa also went on to emphasise the very special relationship between Ferrari and China: "I was very impressed by the warmth and passion that the Chinese have for the Ferrari brand –that's also something I've seen every time we come here to race, in fact."
For his part, Amedeo Felisa spoke about the growing importance of the Chinese market to Ferrari: "Last year, we broke all previous records by reaching the 300-car mark," he said of the company's sales there. "In 2011, we intend to continue to grow by at least 30% and exceed the 400-car threshold. I am convinced that the Greater China area will be our second largest market by the end of this year."
Ferrari's Chinese market has been growing strongly since 2004. Sales have been excellent across the entire range, but the 8-cylinder Ferrari California and the 458 Italia have performed particularly well. In previews, our Chinese clients were greatly impressed by the technological innovations offered by the FF as well as the generous size of its four comfortable seats and roomy boot (the capacity of the latter can extended up to 800 litres).
The FF is a whole new interpretation of the sporty Grand Tourer concept. It is not only the very first four-wheel drive Ferrari but, more significantly, hails a major break with the past by reconciling extreme performances with the usability and versatility of an authentic GT and a highly innovative design.
The FF features innovations throughout, starting with the fact that it is fitted with our first GDI V12 which is coupled with the seven-speed Dual Clutch gearbox. The new engine punches out 660 hp at 8,000 rpm and delivers maximum torque of 683 Nm at 6,000 rpm, 500 Nm of which are available at 1,000 rpm. The FF boasts the blistering performances of an extreme sports car too: 0-100 Km/h acceleration in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of 335 km/h. It also delivers excellent results in terms of efficiency with fuel consumption cut to just 15.4 litres per 100 km and CO2 emissions to 360 g/km, a 25% reduction on the previous V12s. These achievements come in part thanks to the HELE (High Emotions-Low Emissions) system which also incorporates Stop&Start technology.
The FF also guarantees this exceptional performance on terrain with very low grip coefficients, thanks to Ferrari's own patented 4RM four-wheel drive system. Torque is still delivered by the rear wheels, but the PTU (Power Transfer Unit) ensures that as much as is required is also transferred to the front wheels when necessary on low grip surfaces. The FF intelligently distributes torque to each of the four wheels individually, thanks to the fact that all of the dynamic vehicle controls (E-Diff, F1-Trac and PTU) have been integrated into a single CPU.


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Anderson has pins inserted in broken finger
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SAN DIEGO -- Rockies left-hander Brett Anderson had four small pins inserted into his left index finger to help speed the healing of a broken bone, which he suffered Saturday while batting against the Giants.
The pins, which will stay in Anderson's finger for about six weeks, will allow him to move the finger in a way a splint would not. After healing, Anderson will rehab.
No return date has been predicted, because Anderson will have to rehab and build his pitch count after healing.
Anderson was off to a solid start before the injury, with a 3.60 ERA in three starts.
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People taking one of several drugs commonly prescribed to treat Alzheimer's disease are more likely to be hospitalized for a potentially serious condition called bradycardia than patients not taking these medications.
Researchers from St. Michael's Hospital and Ontario's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) analyzed data from 1.4 million people aged 67 and older to see whether the risk for bradycardia was higher for those taking drugs called cholinesterase inhibitors.
Bradycardia is defined as an abnormally slow resting heart rate (under 60 beats per minute). Although it can be asymptomatic, it can also cause fainting, palpitations, shortness of breath, or even death.
"We wanted to see if there was a link between initiation of a cholinesterase inhibitor and subsequent hospitalization for bradycardia," explains lead author Laura Y. Park-Wyllie, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital .
The three cholinesterase-inhibiting drugs currently approved for use in Canada are donepezil (brand name Aricept); rivastigmine (marketed as Exelon and Exelon Patch); and galantamine (branded Reminyl).
Most of the patients whose records were analyzed for the study had been prescribed donepezil.
The results of the study showed that older patients hospitalized with bradycardia were more than twice as likely to have recently started on a cholinesterase inhibitor such as donepezil for Alzheimer's disease compared to those without bradycardia.
The findings appear in the September 2009 issue of PLoS Medicine, an open-access online medical journal.
The researchers say that as the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia increases, more people aged 65 years and older will be treated with a cholinesterase inhibitor.
"It will be increasingly more important to prescribe these drugs judiciously as they carry a risk of serious adverse events," Park-Wyllie says. "A careful clinical evaluation is required before and after initiating these drugs, and they should only be continued when there is a definite positive response."
The potential cardiovascular toxicity of these dementia drugs may be underappreciated by clinicians, Park-Wyllie adds. More than half of the patients who had been hospitalized with bradycardia resumed taking their cholinesterase inhibitor after being discharged.
"Our study provides evidence of the potential adverse effect of cholinesterase inhibitors on heart rate. Health professionals need to reassess the merits of continued therapy in patients who develop bradycardia while taking these drugs," she says.
About cholinesterase inhibitors and dementia
Cholinesterase inhibitors are commonly prescribed to delay the progression of symptoms such as confusion and long-term memory loss in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.
It's known that people with dementia tend to have lower levels of a brain chemical called acetylcholine; the drugs work by boosting these levels. Reported side effects—including diarrhea, muscle cramps and abnormally slow heartbeat—may be related to increasing levels of acetylcholine in the body.
The benefits of cholinesterase inhibitors for people with Alzheimer's disease are generally small. The drugs do not reverse the effects of dementia. Other research suggests that in about half of patients, the drugs delay the worsening of symptoms for between six months to a year, although a minority of patients may benefit more.
Dr. Park-Wyllie is a researcher in the department of family and community medicine at St. Michael's Hospital, a visiting fellow at the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, and a research fellow at ICES.
St. Michael's Hospital is a large and vibrant teaching hospital in the heart of Toronto. The physicians and staff of St. Michael's Hospital provide compassionate care to all who walk through its doors and outstanding medical education to future healthcare professionals in more than 23 academic disciplines. Critical care and trauma, heart disease, neurosurgery, diabetes, cancer care and care of the homeless and vulnerable populations in the inner city are among the Hospital's recognized areas of expertise. Through the Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, research at St. Michael's Hospital is recognized, respected and put into practice around the world. Founded in 1892, the Hospital is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.
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- Shape chocolate mixture into 24 balls; insert a candy cane stick into each truffle. In a microwave, melt shortening and remaining chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip truffles in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Roll in remaining crushed candy canes. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set.


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"Devil's Brew and the Danish Atheist Society have entered into an unholy alliance, and the result is 'Godless' – an ale brewed entirely without superstition. [Godless] is an imperial stout with burnt and sweetish impressions, together with notes of licorice. To exercise social responsibility, Devil's Brew donates one Danish Crown to the Danish Atheist Society for each bottle sold."
Hmm... I thought all beers were godless. I've never yet heard of one attending church. Anyway, it'll be available in the US at the end of the month.
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Chris Christie seems poised to cruise to a big victory in New Jersey, setting the stage for a potential presidential run in 2016. He's spent the end of his campaign on a bus tour throughout the state, trying to drum up even more votes and prove that he can appeal to a wide spectrum of voters.
Christie has barely mentioned his Republican party affiliation in the race. His advertisements end with the words "Chris Christie. The Governor," and he has repeatedly emphasized his bipartisan accomplishments.
But it is one thing to underemphasize his party affiliation while running in a Democratic state, and quite another to navigate between the parties on the national stage. As governor, Christie has taken positions that have drawn voters from all ranks, but he has also taken positions likely to alienate both sides. A quick list of the issues that may cause Christie problems:
What troubles the right:
Undocumented immigrants. Until recently, Christie repeatedly said he did not believe people in the U.S. without documentation should receive a discount on in-state tuition. But recently, during a speech at an annual gala for the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, he reversed course, saying he wanted the state Legislature to make sure "that there's tuition equality for everybody in New Jersey." Conservative blogs such as PJ Media called this pronouncement "The final nail in the coffin," saying that there was "simply no room in the GOP for Chris Christie."
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Gay marriage. Christie, a Catholic, opposes gay marriage. He vetoed legislation and appealed a court decision that would have permitted same sex-marriage in the state. But after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state had to let marriages go forward as the appeal went on, his office decided to drop the appeal. Gay marriages began in New Jersey soon after. This enraged many conservatives, including Bob Vander Plaats, president and chief executive of the Family Leader, an Iowa group that has sway in the state's influential presidential caucuses.
Vander Plaats had this to say in a statement issued shortly after Christie said he would not appeal:
"Gov. Christie is not showing leadership. Leaders lead out of conviction. It is one thing to say 'I believe in one-man, one-woman marriage,' but when the judicial branch attempts to legislate from the bench in violation of their constitutional boundaries, and then you back away from upholding the institution of marriage and the Constitution, you aren't a leader."
Working with President Obama. Many conservatives are still angry that Christie toured New Jersey with Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, giving the president a bear hug on television, rather than campaigning for GOP nominee Mitt Romney in the last days before the 2012 presidential election.
Christie also criticized House Speaker John A. Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, earlier this year for refusing to allow a vote on a Sandy relief package until the new year. "Disaster relief was something that you didn't play games with.... It is why the American people hate Congress," Christie said at the time. This, among other things, led to a spat between Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Christie, with Paul accusing Christie of demanding handouts and calling him the "king of bacon."
What troubles the left:
Contraception. Christie holds views on social issues that may isolate him from Democrats. He opposes abortion and has vetoed bills that would fund family-planning groups such as Planned Parenthood. His frequent vetoes of funding for family planning have led facilities to close, women's groups say.
"Chris Christie likes playing a moderate on TV, but when you look at what he's actually done during his time in office it's clear that's all just an act. He has targeted services New Jersey women and families rely on time and time again, and he's proven he's no less extreme than any of his fellow Republicans. You can only play a role for so long before people start catching on," said Marcy Stech, a spokeswoman for Emily's List.
Minimum wag. New Jersey has a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which is also the federal minimum. The Democratic Legislature has passed bills that would raise the minimum wage, but Christie has vetoed them. There is a measure on the Tuesday ballot that would raise the minimum wage in New Jersey and tie it to inflation through a constitutional amendment -- the only way, advocates figured, to pass a minimum wage hike over Christie's vocal objections. His Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, has raised the issue frequently in her campaign, saying at a debate that Christie's veto is "a reflection of him protecting the millionaires and the wealthy and turning his back on the working class and the poor."
Gay marriage. Even as it complicates support from the right, the issue also could hurt Christie among moderates. Political scientists say voters are much more likely to pay attention to social issues in a national election than in a statewide one. Christie's veto of the bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New Jersey could turn off independent voters like Craig Drakeford, 44, of Hoboken, who said that although he likes Christie, he wouldn't support him for national office. "I think he's done a good job," he said. "But I don't agree with him socially."
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My main PC recently died, and it was time to build a new one. I ended up putting one together with components from Newegg.com, which worked out really well. One big decision was whether to install Windows XP or Windows 7. I recently discovered that Outlook Express still lives on in Windows 7 by virtue of Windows Live Mail (which also runs on XP and Vista). It turns out that Windows Live Mail is essentially Outlook Express 7 — it can even import OE6 settings and messages. It also has decent junk mail filtering built-in. Since that was the biggest stumbling block for me, I decided to install Windows 7 on the new machine.
Installing Windows 7 (64-bit edition since my new PC has 8 GB of RAM) was painless and fairly quick, and I'm really liking it after using it for a few weeks. Booting is quick and everything feels very snappy. Of course, some of this is due to newer hardware, but I suspect that it is at least as fast as XP. All my critical applications run fine on Win7, and I was even able to eliminate a few programs with the upgrade (Launchy, TaskSwitchXP, MyUninstaller, and SPAMfighter) since their functionality comes baked in. The only thing I haven't solved is finding a driver for my Brother MFC 8840D laser printer.
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Funding cuts for agency to limit testing sites; hunters encouraged to report sick deer
PRATT -- Due to a funding cut to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' (KDWP) chronic wasting disease (CWD) budget, the agency is scaling back CWD testing in eastern Kansas. Testing will continue as usual in western Kansas, where the risk of CWD is highest.
For hunters who wish to test a deer harvested in eastern Kansas, the head must be brought to the nearest KDWP office. If they can wait until the end of January for the results, KDWP will include them in the samples they send to Kansas State University (KSU) at no charge to the hunter. This is not a test of food safety, and the study will close immediately after the December rifle season.
If hunters wish to get the results sooner, they will need to have a veterinarian remove the retropharyngeal lymph nodes and obex, place them in formalin, and ship them to KSU for the IHC testing. KSU will have the test results after three days. The hunter will have to pay the veterinarian, a shipping fee, and the KSU fee of $30 -- about $100 by the time the samples are removed, shipped, and tested.
Hunters may also have the less-expensive enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA) test -- a non-microscopic test in which a color change indicates a positive -- run for about $25. Although the test is cheaper, the samples must be shipped overnight or personally delivered because they must be kept fresh (refrigerated or frozen). Unless the hunter lives near Manhattan and can drop the samples at the lab, this option is really not cheaper than the IHC test.
Hunters and veterinarians can call KDWP at 620-342-0658 or the KSU Diagnostic Lab at 866-512-5650 for more information or guidance on removing and submitting the tissues.
The likelihood of finding CWD in a wild deer harvested in Kansas is small. That small likelihood decreases even more the farther from northwestern Kansas the deer lived. An unknown amount of risk accompanies deer that live in or nearby an uncertified captive deer/elk farm. Hunters can help protect the health of the Kansas deer herd by taking the following steps to avoid accidentally introducing CWD to a new area in Kansas:
- do not transport deer carcasses far from the area where the deer lived, especially from areas where CWD has been detected, such as northwestern Kansas; and
- if a carcass is transported, the hunter should make sure that carcass waste is not dumped into the environment where local deer or elk can come into contact with it. Carcass waste can be disposed of by double-bagging it and taking it to a landfill.
Once the infective agent is deposited into the environment and binds with certain soil particles, it becomes highly infectious and may persist for decades. There is no known cure or prevention for CWD. The only way to control it is to keep it out of new areas. Although an infected live deer can transport CWD as it moves around its territory, man is the most likely reason CWD makes long-distance jumps.
KDWP staff detected CWD in a wild whitetail doe in Cheyenne county in the 2005-06 season. Nonresident hunters should be aware of this is because their home state may be "CWD-free" and have a ban on importing various deer parts from states with documented cases of CWD. State regulations vary, but they generally only allow hunters to bring back the following:
- meat that is cut and wrapped (either commercially or privately);
- quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached;
- meat that has been boned out;
- hides with no heads attached;
- clean (no meat or tissue attached) skull plates with antlers attached;
- antlers with no meat or tissue attached; or
- upper canine teeth, also known as "buglers," "whistlers," or "ivories."; or
- finished taxidermy.
The Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance maintains a clearinghouse of state regulations online at www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/policy.main, but the hunter should double-check with his or her home state for certainty. If a nonresident hunter wishes to find a taxidermist or meat locker to process deer, a handy list of cooperators who help with KDWP's CWD surveillance may be found on the KDWP webpage, www.kdwp.state.ks.us. Type "CWD surveillance" in the search box.
The symptoms of CWD include loss of body weight, stumbling, holding the head at an odd angle, circling, non-responsiveness to people, and pneumonia. Any deer that is acting ill is a CWD suspect, and KDWP staff would like to test it. The deer will need to be euthanized in order to obtain the samples. The hunter may not do this because they will have to use their permit or game tag on the animal. A sick deer or elk should be reported it to the nearest KDWP office or the Emporia Research Office, 620-342-0658.


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First Fridays feature a wide variety of cultural events found in some of the city's best restaurants and cafes, as well as galleries, boutiques, and other small businesses. Many events associated with First Friday take place starting at 5PM although some venues do not open until 6PM.
First Friday is a walkable, close-knit footprint - although a COLTS trolley bus is available for shuttle service at designated stops. First Friday serves as a conduit to artists, connecting them to prospective venues, and to art lovers seeking to buy directly from the artists while enjoying live entertainment, as well as venues looking to attract new customers. All of these are unified under the vision of using the arts to revitalize Downtown Scranton.