text: Oops, sent the reply just to Jeff. Here's a copy for the list. Dave V. -----Forwarded Message----- From: Dave Vehrs <davidv at aspsys.com> To: jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 32-port gigabit switch] Date: 07 Mar 2003 10:54:24 -0700 On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:46, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > > I'm not trying to start a flame war, and I'm really curious. I suggest > > that you're starting the flame war with your attacking tone and lack of > > any facts (or even one example) backing up your statements. Just saying > > "it depends" doesn't help the rest of us learn. When is Gigabit better? > > Where's RGB when you need him? :) I think enough people have > pointed out that your statement is wrong. Have you looked in the > beowulf archives? How about a googling? I'm still trying to work through the links RGB posted this morning, I'll have to find some time this weekend. > > In my experience the computation portion of a Beowulf will always > > require low latencies for optimal performance. > > OK. We have 3 MPI applications. Two are internally written and > one is from NASA. We have extensively tested these 3 codes with > many varying data sets on all kinds of HPC equipment (Cray's, > SGI Origin's, SP's, clusters, etc.). However, I'll focus on clusters > (beowulf's in particular). > We have tested on equipment with Myrinet, GigE, and FastE. The > nodes were the same and only the network changed along with > some tuning to get the best performance out of each. Here's what > we have found: > > Code 1 - First internal code. Running on Myrinet compared to GigE > only gives you about 20% better wall-clock time for some cases. For > other cases, Myrinet is slower than GigE (still trying to explain that > one :). Myrinet is about twice as fast as FastE. > > Observations - We think this code is more constrained by latency > than bandwidth when you compare Myrinet and GigE. We have > looked at the message sizes and they are fairly small (tiny). This > pushes this code down the bandwidth/mesage size curve almost > to the point where you measure latency. So latency appears to be > a driver for this code. Also, not much overlapping communication/ > computation in this code. > > Code 2 - Second internal code. Running on Myrinet compared to > GigE is only about 3% faster for just about all cases. Myrinet is > about twice as fast as FastE. > > Observations - Although we should see better performance with > Myrinet compared to GigE due to better bandwidth, we think this > code is limited by bandwidth instead of latency. The message sizes > for this code are very large, pushing the code way up the bandwidth/ > message size curve. We're still working on identifying all of the > bottlenecks, but from a networking standpoint, this is what we > have concluded so far. Also, not much overlapping communication/ > computation in this code. > > Code 3 - NASA code. This code only runs about 2-3% faster on > GigE and Myrinet compared to FastE. The code appears to be well > thought out with respect to overlapping communication/computation. > > Obsverations - This code appears not to be constrained by either > latency nor bandwidth. > > Disclaimer - There are lots of things I ignored in this simple analysis > such as memory bandwith, etc. The data to support these observations > also came from testing on other systems and on testing with other > types of networking (Quadrics, Scali, etc.). All of the numbers are > wall-clock times. OK. So to put a slightly different interpretation on it, under certain applications, Gigabit and Myrinet can have equal performance. So it becomes a price issue. > With these general rules of thumb (we always test before we > buy) and knowing the mix between the codes, we do a price/performance > to configure the best system. Right now (and this is subject to change), > GigE provides better price/performance for our code mix. I'm 100% with you on test before you buy. We've seen some big performance differences after simple changes. > Of course, this also depends on what GigE equipment we're talking > about. I think Mark has pointed out in the past, as well as others, that > not all GigE equipment is created equal (this is also generally true for > FastE as well). However, for the GigE equipment we have tested on > and also have in production we have found GigE is the way to go for > us for our mix of codes. FYI, Aspen Systems is an authorized Myrinet reseller so my experience may be heavily weighted in that direction. Additionally the only large clusters (up to 768 nodes) that I have worked on have been Myrinet. > > On the other hand, when I have applications that need to transfer a lot > > of data as well, I find that having two networks is the way to go. One > > for control and messaging traffic (low latency - Myrinet) and one for > > data traffic (high throughput - Gigabit). > > What kinds of applications? > So you run control and MPI messsage traffic over Myrinet and > NFS over GigE? Myrinet has better bandwidth than GigE, so > it appears that if data transfer is important I would switch NFS > to Myrinet and MPI traffic to GigE (unless of course you see a > big difference in performance). If you do see a big difference in > performance, what about using two Myrinet networks (trying to > get you some sales Patrick! :)? Never seen two Myrinet networks in one cluster... > If latency is that important, have you tried Quadrics? In our > experience it has lower latencies than Myrinet. What MPI > implementations have you tried? Do you run 1 ppn with single > CPUs, or 1 ppn with SMP nodes, or 2 ppn with SMP nodes, > or something else? All of things can have a large impact on > performance. Personally, I haven't gotten much time with Quadrics yet. I hope to in the near future. > > > If you would rather take it off list, then feel free to email me > > directly, but I would really like to know because I can't think of one > > example that works. > > I hope my response answered your question. Anybody care to > present another example where bandwidth is more important than > latency? Greg? Mark? RGB? Doug? Don? Yes, I think I understand better. Still need to work through RGB's docs. Thanks, Dave V. > Jeff > > > > -- > > Dr. Jeff Layton > Senior Engineer > Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Company - Marietta > Aerodynamics & CFD > > "Is it possible to overclock a cattle prod?" - Irv Mullins > > This email may contain confidential information. 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Shelby County Election Commissioners could complete the ballot for the May Shelby County primary elections Wednesday, March 5, by deciding on challenges to the residency of three candidates in the Democratic primaries.
Shelby County Election Commissioners could complete the ballot for the May primaries Wednesday when they decide challenges to the residency of three candidates.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
The three contenders – two for the Shelby County Commission and one for trustee – are the last question marks in setting the May ballot. The rest of the ballot was certified by the commission at its Feb. 27 meeting, the day of the deadline for candidates in those races to file their petitions.
Hours after the noon deadline there were three challenges to three contenders – Edith Ann Moore, a former county commissioner running in the Democratic primary for new commission District 6; E. Jefferson Jones, also a Democrat, for new commission District 11; and M. Latroy Williams, running in the Democratic primary for county trustee.
Election Commission attorney John Ryder said the commission has the authority to hear the challenges and make a decision. A decision either way could be appealed to Chancery Court.
Moore said she lived in the Raleigh-based commission district when she opened her campaign last month at Raleigh Springs Mall.
"I live in District 6," she said. "I have a house in District 6."
But Moore also said she had considered running in several commission districts.
"I chose to come in and work in District 6 after looking at all of the other districts," she added. "What I like about District 6 is it's multiethnic."
When she was appointed to the commission in December 2009, she served in a South Memphis-Whitehaven district that went to current Commissioner Justin Ford in the 2010 county elections.
The commission, with the 2014 elections, converts to a set of 13 single-member districts that replace the current set up of one single-member district and four much larger multi-member districts.
The conversion puts Ford in the new commission District 9.
Meanwhile, the August county general election ballot still has some gaps, notably the structure of the Shelby County Schools board.
The plan to convert it from the 13-member school board plan now on the ballot to a nine-member school board, approved by the County Commission last month, showed up Friday in the case file of the federal court case over the schools reformation.
U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays has the final say on the switch, which essentially would restart a filing period for school board candidates that began in January for the 13-member school board.
The Election Commission is expected to file a brief that does not take a position on the plan but instead urges Mays to act as quickly as possible in his decision because of the April 3 filing deadline for candidates in the non-partisan and judicial races on the August ballot.
The August ballot also includes the winners of the May county primaries as well as independent candidates for those offices. And the August ballot includes primaries for state and federal offices including seats in the Tennessee legislature as well as a race for Tennessee governor and one of the state's two U.S. Senate seats.
All of those races should start to take shape shortly as the filing deadline nears.
For instance, eight contenders have pulled petitions to run for judge of Division 1 of Shelby County Circuit Court. But to date, none have filed, according to the Shelby County Election Commission's list. And some of the contenders in that race also have petitions out for several other open judicial races with no incumbent anticipated.
Of 11 contenders who pulled petitions for Chancellor Part 2 of Chancery Court, only attorney Ken Besser and state Sen. Jim Kyle had filed by early Tuesday. Chancellor Arnold Goldin is not seeking re-election following his appointment by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam to a seat on the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
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PictureAustraliahttp://www.pictureaustralia.org/National Library of AustraliaReviewed by: Kirsten McKenzieUniversity of Sydney January 2003
This site allows users to search through the digitized image collections of 43 participating agencies. All of the cultural agencies involved, bar the National Library of New Zealand, are Australian institutions. They range in size and scope from small regional libraries and private galleries to state and national libraries and art galleries. The site currently has access to more than 600,000 images. A list of the participating agencies outlines the contents of each collection. The attraction of this site is that it allows for a centralized search across the accumulated resources of all participating agencies.
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PictureAustralia's collection can be used in a variety of teaching situations. The images can be incorporated into lecture presentations (although quality varies). The very clear reproduction of "Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay," for example, can be used to discuss popular representations of transportation as well as images of women, criminals, and the poor at the end of the 18th century. Students can find primary-source material for research papers on subjects as diverse as Antarctic exploration, changing kitchen technologies, or the Ballets Russes. Searches by subject allow images from the Pacific region to be incorporated into world history courses in a thematic way, from European encounters with Indigenous peoples to the Pacific as a site of war. The "Picture Trails" that have been set up within the site make this easier and are an especially useful teaching resource. They bring together highlights from the collection on particular themes. Certain themes are self-contained such as "Indigenous Australia" or "Trade and Industry." Others trails, such as "Society" and "History," are broader and contain subthemes, including "Bushrangers," "Magic, Oddities, and Travelling Shows," "Blind Australia," and "Murder and Mayhem." As these examples suggest, some theme titles are more self-explanatory than others. PictureAustralia encourages users, especially teachers and exhibition curators, to suggest new picture trail themes.
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A crane hoisted a U.S. flag-covered spire to the top of New York's One World Trade Center, under construction at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks. (May 2) AP
Construction crews at the World Trade Center hoisted a flag-bedecked spire to the top of the site's signature One World Trade Center building Thursday.
Workers raised the spire to a temporary work platform, where ironworkers can permanently attach it to the roof in coming weeks, said Steven Plate, head of construction at the site.
"It's a 22-ton structure that will house a state of the art lighting facility as well as a beacon that will be seen for miles around," Plate said. It will "give a tremendous indication to people around the entire region and the world that we are back and we are better than ever."
When the spire is fully installed, One World Trade Center will stand a symbolic 1,776 feet high, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The 408-foot spire will serve as a broadcast antenna.
The raising of the spire had been scheduled for Monday, but was postponed because of weather issues.
One World Trade Center is the primary building of the new complex at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It is being built at the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, which is deep into reconstruction with the 72-story Four World Trade Center and other buildings.
The 104-story One World Trade Center skyscraper replaces the eight-story Six World Trade Center, which was torn down for the construction.
The work comes just more than a week after a piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the 9/11 attacks was discovered wedged between a mosque site and another building. It was found by surveyors inspecting the Lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center about three blocks from Ground Zero.
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Earlier this week, there were reports that former Titans head coach Mike Munchak would interview for the Lions' head coaching job on Friday.
Those reports turned out to have half the story correct. The Lions were planning to interview Munchak, but it happened sooner than expected. The team confirmed that the interview with Munchak occurred on Wednesday.
It's the third interview the Lions have conducted as they look for Jim Schwartz's replacement. Like Jim Caldwell and Gary Kubiak, Munchak has previous head coaching experience and an offensive pedigree.
Tim Twentyman of the team's website reports that Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, who shares those traits with the other candidates, is also expected to interview with the team before the week is out. Numerous reports have pegged Whisenhunt as the favorite to get the job, although he can't be hired until the Chargers' season comes to an end.


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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is one of only 21 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence in the first round of the 2009 Associations Advance America (AAA) Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) & The Center for Association Leadership, Washington, D.C.
SIAM received the award for its role in organizing and administering Moody's Mega Math Challenge, and is now in contention to receive a Summit Award, ASAE & The Center's top recognition for association programs, to be presented in ceremonies at ASAE's 10th Annual Summit Awards Dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on September 29, 2009.
Moody's Mega Math Challenge fulfills a need in the K-12 education community for innovative ways to help students succeed in math, science, and technology. The Challenge is designed to inspire high school students to become more interested in solving real-world problems using computation and modeling skills. It spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, as a viable and exciting profession, and as a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. There are no financial barriers for participation in the Challenge--no entrance or participation fees; teams need only sign up and have access to the Internet. The M3 Challenge is funded by The Moody's Foundation and organized and administered by SIAM.
The Challenge is an entirely Internet-based applied mathematics competition open to high school students in New England and Mid-Atlantic states. Scholarship prizes total $80,000 in 2009. Teams choose a day to work on Challenge weekend as well as the location(s) where they work. The competition requires as little or as much preparation time as the students and coach choose. Teams have 14 hours to solve an open-ended, realistic, and challenging modeling problem focused on real-world issues. More than 30 professional applied mathematicians serve as judges throughout the three levels of judging, which is blind until the final round, during which teams must present their solution papers to a panel of Ph.D.-level mathematicians.
Now in its 19th year, the prestigious Associations Advance America (AAA) Awards program recognizes associations that propel America forward--with innovative projects in education, skills training, standards-setting, business and social innovation, knowledge creation, citizenship, and community service. Although association activities have a powerful impact on everyday life, they often go unnoticed by the general public.
"SIAM's program truly embodies the spirit of the Associations Advance America campaign. It is an honor and an inspiration to showcase the M3 Challenge as an example of one of the many contributions associations are making to advance American society," remarked 2008-2009 Associations Advance America (AAA) Committee Chair Janet C. Gibbs, chief financial officer for Feeding America.
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Are your fellow job seekers leaving you in the dust, nabbing the great jobs because they have educational credentials that you lack? Follow these tips to put your best foot forward on your resume and compete with others who have more impressive educational backgrounds.
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If you continue to hit roadblocks because of your educational background, it might be time to hit the books again. Do whatever it takes to reach your goal: Enroll in night classes, take online courses or start a distance-learning program. The fact that you are pursuing further education could make you more marketable to employers, plus you will be taking steps to ensure you have the credentials to succeed in a competitive job market.
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Today, we're taking the tinker-with-nature experiment even further as we genetically modify plants to handle the barrage of chemicals, producing GMOs with questionable benefits to anything but mega-companies' pocketbooks. And as they grow larger and stronger, it's harder to find any food in the stores that hasn't been grown on massive farms and shipped thousands of miles from where it's grown.
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.....I swear I'm not going to take myself seriously. It gives me a friggin' headache, anyway......... 8-D
Without stretching the limits excessively, I'm a "war baby", a Pre-Boomer, if you will. There really is such a thing.
While my mother lit a candle on the cake marking my first birthday, American B-29 Bombers were lighting up Tokyo, Japan. More than seven decades later, I'm still celebrating birthdays and the United States is still lighting up foreign cities.
We share a tidbit of reality, the United States and I. We are both finite. That's just the way it is. No man, no nation has ever lived infinitely.
A second thing we share in common is that our respective potentials for longevity are greatly influenced by our behaviors.
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There is also something less important happening in BC at the moment. We are in the midst of a provincial election campaign. I heard that the provincial party leaders are engaged in a series of debates. Naturally, I checked out the comedy network for the full schedule. No luck. But I did find a summary here of some recent "highlights."
The cast of characters are in the finest tradition of BC politics (they are all nuts). But I think that NDP leader Carole James really takes the cake. Here is a quote:
"We're doing that (lowering taxes, increasing spending) within a fiscally responsible plan, a balanced budget in four years, and putting you and your family first. That's what people are looking for in these tough times."
That's right: she will put you and your family first. The presumption, I suppose, is that the other leaders are promising to put you and your family second.
Ms. James' platform reminds me of the fabulously funny radio campaign put on by my favourite London hangout Joe Cools in the 1980s: "Come to Joe Cools...where we'll screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you!"
Relative to Ms. James, Mr. Cools is to be commended along three dimensions. First, Mr. Cools understands the concept of feasibility (it is impossible to put everyone first; unless, of course, everyone is simultaneously put last). Second, Mr. Cools is honest. And third, Mr. Cools was actually trying to be funny. I vote for Joe Cools!
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > February 2006 > Wayland Faculty Honored with Temporary Chairmanship Professorship
Wayland Faculty Honored with Temporary Chairmanship Professorship
PLAINVIEW – Members of the Wayland Baptist University faculty have taken on new roles due to recent changes.
Dr. Niler Pyeatt, professor of history, has been named interim chairman of the Division of Social Sciences at Wayland. Pyeatt is filling the shoes of chair Dr. Estelle Owens, professor of history, who is on sabbatical for the spring and summer completing research for the university's centennial history book.
Pyeatt has been teaching history at Wayland since 1992, starting with the assistant professor role and named full professor in 2002. He primarily teaches the U.S. History survey courses and World Civilizations as well as upper-level British and European history classes.
Before coming to Wayland, Pyeatt taught part-time at Texas Tech University while finishing his doctorate. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Master of Arts degree, both in history, from Tech and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Eastern New Mexico University.
At Wayland, Pyeatt has been honored for his contributions, receiving the Janis Davis Faculty Appreciation Award and the Faculty Scholarship Award, both in 2004. He serves as sponsor of the College Republicans organization and co-sponsor of Phi Alpha Theta history honor society.
He has published articles, reviewed other articles and made several presentations about history topics.
Dr. Bobby Hall, vice president of academic and graduate services, said the interim choice spoke well of the division's talent.
"It is an indicator of the strength of Wayland's faculty that someone of Dr. Pyeatt's talent is available to serve in the capacity of interim division chairperson," Hall said. "Dr. Pyeatt has positively impacted the lives of many students as an advisor, as a teacher, and as a member of the Wayland community. We are appreciative of his willingness to serve in this role and Wayland will benefit from both his academic and administrative contributions during the interim period."
Christa Smith, associate professor of modern languages and literature, has been named the Joachim Professor of Languages and Literature at Wayland. In her 37th year at Wayland, Smith has taught French and German as well as English courses in the Division of Languages and Literature.
Dr. Don Cook, professor emeritus of English, held the Joachim Professorship for more than 30 years and upon his retirement, the title was handed down. Smith was chosen by a vote of the division faculty for the honor, which comes with a monetary stipend.
"Christa Smith is most deserving of this recognition. She has dedicated her career to teaching and has done so with distinction. In addition, she has effectively contributed in many ways to the life of the University and to the Plainview community," said Dr. Bobby Hall, vice president of academic and graduate services at Wayland. "It is most appropriate that she has been recognized in this way by her colleagues."
Smith said the professorship was a welcomed honor.
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Smith has a bachelor's degree from Wayland and holds two master's degrees from Texas Tech, one in comparative literature and one in German. She has also done post-graduate work at Tech as well. She has taught at Wayland's campus in Kenya for five summers and at the Alaska campus.
Smith is active in the Soroptimist Club of Plainview and the First Baptist Church. She has volunteered as an interpreter/translator for various entities in French and German.
In other staff changes, Priscilla Edwards has moved from the admissions office to the position of institutional research analyst in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. Under the direction of Penny Poole, the office completes reports and research data for accreditation and study purposes.
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Did you know....that 3 out of 100 rapes actually get prosecuted?
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97 of Every 100 Rapists Receive No Punishment, RAINN Analysis Shows
While the percentage of rapes reported to police has risen in recent years, a majority — 54% — still are not reported, according to the Justice Department. But increasing reporting alone won't solve the problem: only about one out of four reported rapes leads to an arrest, and only about one out of four arrests leads to a felony conviction and incarceration.
RAINN's new analysis is based on the most recent available Justice Department data, using an average of the five most recent years when available. Based on older data, RAINN had previously estimated that about 6% of rapists ultimately go to prison for their crime.
"This staggering statistic sends a clear message to offenders that they can commit this horrible crime and get away with it. The single most important thing we can do to prevent rape is to put more rapists in prison," notes Scott Berkowitz, RAINN's president and founder. "That's why we have made it a priority to pass the SAFER Act and eliminate the backlog of untested DNA evidence from open rape cases." [/admin edit]
How can this be in the US?
Aren't we supposed to serve justice?
We have a long way to go.
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...even with this law there are tons more woman who are raped and their rapist gets away with it.
It's a valued legal principle that it's far better to let a crime go unpunished than to convict an innocent person.
If that was the case then we would convict no one as we know statistically that there are plenty of innocent people in jail.
No, Rocky, we ideally only convict people who meet the applicable standards of proof as determined by a jury.
I think it is a bit unfair to accuse me of misogyny though. I just don't like being legally classified as a rapist just because i have slept with a girlfriend when both of us were drunk/high even though it was entirely consensual and we were not even all that drunk/high.
I can understand why this law exists, but it does mean any guy who has had sex with a woman after she had anything to drink( no matter how little) is legally a rapist. Even if it was entirely consensual .
I'm not accusing you personally. I simply said that this is a misogynistic perspective. I really don't like to label people based on their ideas and perspectives and opinions because these things change.
We simply cannot dismiss an argument because we don't "like being classified" that way. The reality is that your girlfriend may have been raped by you. She may have woken up one morning next to you and realized that she was raped. She may not have talked about it. And not liking it does not make it any less real or make you any less responsible. You may have also had been raped by a person while drunk... excuse my explicitness but an erection does not necessarily mean that a person wants to engage in sex. I understand that people are not children, but it is extremely difficult to give consent and make decisions while drunk... I mean can you testify in court, sign a legal contract, drive...? Why do we look at rape like it's less important than these things? People drink and drive all the time, but just because people do it, that doesn't mean that what they're doing isn't wrong. Same goes to people having drunk sex.
Not every guy who had sex with a woman who had something to drink is a rapist, but every man who had unwanted sex with a woman who had something to drink and was therefore unable to consciously refuse could be. So the reality is, if it was not unwanted, your sex partner will not report it so you don't even have to worry about the classification. However, it could have been unwanted and your sex partner could be too afraid to speak about it, so it is best to make sure that your partner consents and that you both do not get drunk before sex. I, on the other hand, should not have to wake up naked next to a man that I had a few drinks with... whether he's a stranger or my boyfriend. I should not have to have flashbacks of that night and how uncomfortable and unsafe and hurt I felt.
In terms of the law, it could use a lot of changes. I'm not an expert, but a few feminist and lgbtq' groups have been pushing for certain demands and changes that I think you should check out.
Leila-Where have i ever once said having sex with a woman that was not consensual was not rape?
I am simply arguing against over vague US laws in some states .That law can even be argued to be misogynistic as men who have been drinking, even considerably, are able to consent to sex while a woman cannot give the same consent after even one or two drinks.
Here In the UK the law says that woman have just as much right to consent to having sex while drunk as a man. Obviously if they are incapacitated or passed out due to intoxication it is a different story, but that is not what i have been arguing against at all.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the legal age and consensual sex. Could you please clarify? sorry.
@Belle Rose - You've heard "statutory rape," I'm sure. That's sex with a person under the age of sexual consent, which can be as low as 14 in the US, but more typically is 18. "Statutory rape" means basically "rape according to the law" as opposed to violent/assaultive rape.
To answer your last paragraph first, "roofies" are generally slipped into a drink without the knowledge of the victim.
If a guy and girl sit down and polish off a bottle of wine and sex happens, is one party more responsible than the other? Well, I might say that she is because she is putting herself in a situation where she is more at risk because (a) women for a variety of reasons tend to get more drunk on the same quantity of alcohol, (b) women in general are less physically capable if a tussle happens, and (c) because she's the one who can get pregnant.
I don't know what to say about a female who is unable to say "no." I don't see how the male can be held legally responsible in such a situation.
I actually did not specify any gender in my statement. This should apply equally to male, female, gender queer, and trans victims.
The sad reality is that A LOT of people get rapped and do not speak about it. I don't see what is wrong with asking the person that you are with if they would like you to touch them or have any form of intercourse with them.
Rape is not always when someone is beaten and gagged and raped. Rape can happen based on pressure or fear or shame. It is still rape. And it is still violent. And just because your partner said yes to have sex, does not mean that they can't change their mind during it. If your partner does not say yes to sex, that is a problem (whether woman or man or gender queer or trans folk).
Demanding explicit consent does not have anything to do with the female gender. The way you perceived the argument was gendered. You assumed that I was talking about consent in reference to women alone, and based on that you assumed that consent somehow makes women more childish? Mind you that children cannot consent anyway (yes from a child is still a no).
Well, I might say that she is because she is putting herself in a situation where she is more at risk because (a) women for a variety of reasons tend to get more drunk on the same quantity of alcohol, (b) women in general are less physically capable if a tussle happens, and (c) because she's the one who can get pregnant.
That is extremely ridiculous. First, are you speaking about sex or rape? And why are you only speaking about heterosexual relationships? Rape and sex do happen among other genders... If two people (or more in this case) are drunk, i would think that would mean that consent is required on both sides. Now if consented sex happens, I don't see how either of them would be more responsible than the other. If rape happens, I don't see how the woman is more responsible than the man. It's funny how you are applying the very same mentality of religious conservatives who force women to wear burqas and to not leave their homes because apparently they are weaker? You don't see the misogyny in that at all? Because according to you, for a woman to avoid rape (or at least be able to have her rape counted as rape) she would have to refrain from drinking (because he weaker body cannot handle it?), she would have to not surround herself by men (because apparently women are generally physically weaker then men... haha... define female please.) lest he/they (who apparently is not human enough to control himself and not use physical strength to coerce someone into sex) break into a fit and decide to rape the woman, and perhaps get rid of her uterus (because apparently you're more responsible when you're the one who has to bare the impact?)....???
Let's not forget, you are only talking about heterosexual relationships, between two cis people. If you were to calculate in the true definition of gender and sexual orientation, your entire "arguments" (I don't know, are they really arguments?) would fall.
Furthermore, yes some females, males, gender queer and trans folks are unable to say no in so many different situations. And sadly, rapists are more often than not, get away with it, bearing no legal responsibility. If you are in a situation where you feel unsafe saying no, then it is a situation of no consent. If you were in a situation where you are not capable of giving a conscious answer (be it yes or no), then you are in a situation of no consent.
I would suggest these sources for you to look over before replying.
This person works with victims of abuse and is a rape surviver: http://feminishblog.tumblr.com/search/consent
This is just a few articles about rape and consent:
On gender and sex:
I don't need to consult the DOJ to dislike the definition. I'm not sure what your point is. It couldn't be that because it's the DOJ definition it's a good definition. Only God's pronouncements are true because He said so.
Belle- I can perfectly understand that but it is still a bad definition as a woman who has had anything to drink(2 or 3 beers, not even black out drunk) is by definition unable to give informed consent due to being intoxicated. That means that even if she does give consent and is all over the man she can still turn around the next day and charge him with rape. I mean have you never had consensual sex while being even the slightest bit drunk or high? If so you were technically raped then no matter how much consent you gave at the time.
Or what about if this happens to a man. There was one time when me and some friends went out clubbing. My one friend got rather drunk and was on xtc at the time when he met an older woman who was not drinking as she had to drive home. One thing led to another with them all over each other and he ended up sleeping with her. Now since he was drunk and high( even though he was not in the blackout stage) he was legally unable to give he's informed consent even though he was all over her and gave plenty of consent that night . Now would it have been right if the next morning he had charged her with rape, ruining her life, sending her kids to foster care and sending her to jail where she would have likely been violently raped?


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Add 2 ounces of the room temperature butter and mix on low speed. Increase the speed to medium and mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and you are able to gently pull the dough into a thin sheet that light will pass through, about 8 minutes.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and roll and shape with hands to form a large ball. Return dough to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and set aside in a warm, dry place to rise until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
Remove the dough from the bowl and roll into a 16 by 3-inch log. Use a bench knife to cut the dough into 1 3/4-ounce portions, about 16 rolls. Using your loosely cupped hand, roll each portion on the counter until they tighten into small balls. Working 1 at a time, use a rolling pin to roll each small ball into a 3-inch circle or oval. Use the side of your hand or a small dowel to make an indentation across the middle of the circle. Place a small pat of chilled butter into the center of the indentation, then fold in half and gently press to seal the edges. Place the rolls, top-side down, onto the prepared sheet pan, spacing them evenly. Melt the remaining 1 ounce butter and brush the tops of the rolls. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm, dry place to rise until doubled in size, 30 to 40 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Remove the plastic wrap and bake until the rolls reach an internal temperature of 200 degrees F, 8 to 10 minutes. Rotate the pan halfway through baking.
Remove the pan to a cooling rack and cool for 2 to 3 minutes before serving.
For Brown and Serve option:
Assemble rolls as above, but bake as follows.
Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.
Bake until the outside of the rolls just begin to set but have not browned and the internal temperature is 185 degrees, about 30 minutes. Remove and cool on the pan for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, remove the rolls from the pan and place on a cooling rack until they are room temperature, 30 to 40 minutes. Place the rolls in bags and freeze for up to 3 months.
To Finish:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Thaw the rolls for 60 to 90 minutes.
Spray a sheet pan with nonstick spray. Place the rolls on the prepared sheet pan and bake until the rolls reach an internal temperature of 200 degrees F. Rotate the pan halfway through baking, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the pan to a cooling rack and cool for 2 to 3 minutes before serving.


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How does bank addiction start
People about resort to bank for assorted reasons, like curiosity, aggravating already and acceptable and accepting hooked, but mostly bank addiction is the escape avenue from claimed accord problems or any accomplished or accepted abortion in life. The simplest way anyone gets absorbed is to try already or twice, and with beginner's luck, he wins, but afterwards that he starts losing. In an accomplishment to accretion aback the absolute money, the charlatan goes on playing, till he is larboard with nothing. Addicts do not alternate to beg, borrow or abduct money to abide their accepted of gambling.
This bearings accept to be tackled afore it moves above control, but the a lot of difficult assignment is to locate and analyze an addict. An aficionado charlatan is actual acute to adumbrate his appropriate traits. However, one evidence can accord them abroad – they consistently try to bastard around, lie about their abode and ask humans to accommodate money.
Self-help for alleviative bank addiction – What are the options?
The aboriginal footfall in abating bank addiction is to acknowledge in the attendance of anyone else. The attendance of anyone abutting would advice the aficionado abide motivated to his efforts. This is the a lot of difficult footfall as one who can accept that he is an addict, is bisected way through the abating action because a lot of addicts shy abroad due to the abhorrence of amusing rejection.
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Following accustomed therapies are bigger and safer than aggravating some affectionate of medicine, because all medicines accept ancillary furnishings and runs the accident of creating biologic dependency. Bank addicts can aswell accompany bank bearding abutment forums, area they can see others like them, aggravating to get rid of this alarming habit.
Another footfall appear a bigger action can be self-hypnosis. An aficionado can either get a astrologer / hypnotherapist, or buy a CD of self-hypnosis, or use a mix of the two methods. A astrologer will not alone hypnotize, but accept to his problems and analyze the affidavit for bank and accompaniment a solution. However, if this advantage is not accessible to account for someone, cocky – analgesic CDs is a acceptable advantage too. Remember, accepting rid of bank addiction is an advancing action that an aficionado has to abide angry unless affairs of relapses end completely.


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Co - founded by four spiritual entrepreneurs, Soul Route is one of its kind life empowerment & transformation center offering full range of psychotherapy & alternative life enhancing services aimed at cultivating healthy & successful lifestyles.
These days our health is more important to us than ever. We are starting to realize though, that traditional medicine may not be the end-all answer. Many people are using Yoga to enrich their lives in several ways. After a stressful day of work, many Yoga practitioners say that doing Yoga helps them relax better than anything else they may have tried in the past. Despite popular belief there is more to Yoga than complicated and painful poses. Yoga can help its practitioners enrich their lives in several ways.
Yoga, as we know it now, came from the Hindu religion. The Hindu traditional elements of moral principles, postures and poses, meditation, and even spiritual philosophies can be found in modern Yoga.
Practitioners of Yoga claim that its teachings have improved their overall health and an overall sense of well-being and mental clarity. Yoga's teachings can even be found in other cultures. The Hindu religion uses Yoga as a sort of physical conduit of god; where as traditional Buddhists use Yoga as a tool in reflective and insightful meditation exercises. While Yoga's influence has crossed borders and oceans, Yoga itself is not a religion. Its practices, techniques and even some common spiritual connections have been used in many religious groups. Regardless of beliefs, one statement that is agreed upon is that Yoga can and does help its parishioners master their mind, body, and emotions.
In the past, the original Yoga teachings were only taught to dedicated students and instructors. In recent years, the techniques and teachings of Yoga can be found as close as your nearest local gym, many of whom offer traditional Yoga classes.
Yoga has been found to be helpful in both physical and emotional stress. Its many benefits and the ease of its practice are the reason that the "Yoga phenomenon" has stepped out of new-age bookstores and into living rooms all over India.


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PHILADELPHIA – Police are looking for a convertible seen driving down the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps made famous in the movie "Rocky."
Several people posted online videos showing the car driving down the steps in fits and starts at about midnight Thursday. The car then speeds off.
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Game sometimes need to solve Inverse Kinematics (IK) for more realistic look like foot placement on a terrain. There are different methods to solve an IK problems, some are numerical methods which can be used for general cases, and analytical solution exists only for simple cases like the case for 2 joints. I implemented the analytical method to handle the foot placement in my engine.
2D case
For simple case such as 2 joints in 2D case. In the following figure, suppose we want to rotate the blue leg to the position of the red leg so that the leg is aligned to the ground:
Since we know the pelvis joint position, target position, length of upper leg and lower leg, we can solve the angle α using law of cosines. Then, we can calculate the vector PK' by rotating the vector PT with angle α. Hence angle δ can be calculated with the dot product between the vector PK and vector PK'. The angle at knee joint can be solved either by law of cosines or dot product.
3D case
For the 3D case, it is similar to the 2D case except the rotation may not be on the same plane in order to make to IK results look good.
As there are infinitely many solutions to make the leg reach the target position (because the leg can rotate around the axis a highlighted in red), so we can first calculate one of the solution using law of cosines just like the 2D case (i.e. find the angle α in 2D case), hence we can calculate the upper leg vector v. As this is an arbitrary solution, the result may sometimes look funny:
So, the next step is to find a solution which is close to the pose made by the artist, in other words, we want to minimize the angle δ in the above figure, which is the angle between the arbitrary solution found in the above step and the thigh position posed by the artist. To minimize angle δ, we need to rotate the vector v around the axis a (the red line in the figure) with an angle θ to a new vector v'. In the below equation, v is rotated to v' using quaternion:
As minimizing δ is equivalent to maximizing cosδ (i.e. v'.k), we need to calculate the first derivative of cosδ and the maximum/minimum value is achieved when equals to zero (all the vectors are normalized):
Then we can get two values of θ within a range of 2π, which correspond to maximizing and minimizing the cosδ. To distinguish whether which solution is maximizing cosδ, we need to substitute θ into the second derivative of cosδ to test whether it is greater than 0, if so, then that θ will minimize cosδ, otherwise, it will maximize cosδ.
Then we can rotate the arbitrary IK solution v with angle θ to v' to give a much better look:
This blog post present an analytical 2 joints IK solution in 3D case for foot placement. We first compute an arbitrary solution for the pelvis joint using law of cosines, then rotate that joint to minimize the angle between the joint after the IK solution and the posed joint before IK to give a much better look.
[1] http://www.3dkingdoms.com/ik.htm
[2] www.essentialmath.com/InverseKinematics.pps
[3]: The brick texture is obtained from Crytek's Sponza Model: http://crytek.com/cryengine/cryengine3/downloads
[4] The knight model is extracted from the game Infinity Blade using umodel.


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Harry Fuecks has posted a new item on the SitePoint PHP Blog today dealing with the forming (and first meeting) of a PHP user group in Zurich.
After seeing what these guys have accomplished, met up with Maarten and Christian and got motivated to start PHP Zurich. This is running in parallel to the Swiss PHP user group, which tends to meet less frequently and roves around the country, at the cost of establishing regular faces. Amazingly, PHP Zurich has already got it's first non-founding member - Rolf, who I met in London.
Their first meeting is coming up in March, on the 14th at 6:30pm at the Bitflux HQ. The topic for the evening will be PHP Security, as given by Harry himself.


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How did everyone fare over the weekend? Did Irene leave any Midnight Sun readers without electricity? Did it make you cancel any plans? In local music, the Silopanna Music Festival had to be canceled and Journey and Jimmy Buffett concerts both had to be rescheduled. At least, in Fells Point bars took the storm in stride. Did anyone head to Max's?
This weekend, there won't be any hurricanes, tropical storms, and hopefully, no earthquakes, to intervene with your nightlife plans. The week starts off slow then shifts into high gear - har har - with the Grand Prix on Friday, which will be a major headache, for traffic anyway. Elsewhere: Pictureplane, White Life, Stevie Nicks, and Journey.
On Monday, Pictureplane, Butt Stomach (Dan Deacon and Kevin O'Meara's noise project), Lizz King, Narwhalz, and Mark Brown perform at the Depot, 1728 N. Charles St. 9 p.m. Cover is between $5 and $7. Note, from the event's Facebook page: "LIMITED CAPACITY!"
On Tuesday, Golden West Cafe, at 1105 W. 36th Street, hosts a Super Smash Bros. Nintendo 64 Challenge. 10 p.m. $3 sign-up fee.
On Wednesday, White Life, Moss of Aura (Gerrit Welmers of Future Islands), Breeze, and Schwarz perform at the Floristree, 405 W. Franklin St. 9 p.m. $5.
On Thursday, Jukebox The Ghost, Sam Roberts Band, Ha Ha Tonka perform at Mount Vernon Park, 1300 Charles Street, as part of WTMD's First Thursdays summer series. 5:30 p.m. Free. Also: Jimmy Buffett will be performing at Jiffy Lube Live.
On Friday, the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix kicks off. Concerts are scheduled, but, more interestingly, so are a couple of beer gardens: at Alewife, at 21 N. Eutaw Street, and the new Leinenkugel's, at 20 Market Place, which will open in soft mode. Alewife's beer garden will be open 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday. For Leinenkugel's beer menu, click here.
On Saturday, the great Stevie Nicks performs at Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow, Virginia. 8 p.m. Tickets start at $26.
On Sunday, Journey and Knight Ranger will perform at Jiffy Lube Live. The show had been originally scheduled for this past weekend but had to be rescheduled because of Irene. Because of a scheduling conflict, Foreigner will not perform at the concert. 7 p.m. Tickets start at $25.


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Let the post-games begin. Seahawks fans took to the streets of Seattle to celebrate the team's 43-8 rout of the Denver Broncos on Sunday, despite most viewers' verdict that the 48th face-off was more of a Snoozer Bowl than a Super Bowl.
Thousands of "12th man" locals decided to go sleepless in Seattle, with some setting fire to couches, shooting off fireworks and blocking intersections to express their delight at the city's first major sports win in decades. Naturally, the police came out to keep order.
But was it a real victory riot? Or just "boisterous street celebrations," described by police as "joyful and mostly peaceful," as The Seattle Times portrayed it? Characterizations on Twitter leaned mainly toward the latter, with some users lampooning the city's reputation as a haven for hippies and high-tech dweebs.
The vibe was mainly polite, locals reported, despite reports of widespread drunkenness and University of Washington students' best fire-starting efforts — the damage seemed limited to some smashed glass panes in a 100-year-old pergola by some over-enthusiastic clamberers. Mainly, though, it was a honking drive through downtown.
That, happily, means Seattle's unlikely to make it onto any all-time most-violent sports-victory lists, and is way more low-key than the Baltimore looting that followed the Ravens's Super Bowl win last year. But that doesn't mean the fans don't feel it.
"This is the first time I've really seen Seattle passionate about anything," a fan told CBS News. "It's, like, East Coast. It's very exciting."
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