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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
On the Art of Reading
> XI. Of Selection
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
On the Art of Reading.
Of Selection
Wednesday, October 23, 1918
us hark back, Gentlemen, to our original problem, and consider if our dilatory way have led us to some glimpse of a practical solution.
We may re-state it thus: Assuming it to be true, as men of Science assure us, that the weight of this planet remains constant, and is to-day what it was when mankind carelessly laid it on the shoulders of Atlas; that nothing abides but it goes, that nothing goes but in some form or other it comes back; you and I may well indulge a wonder what reflections upon this astonishing fact our University Librarian, Mr Jenkinson, takes to bed with him. A copy of every book printed in the United Kingdom isor I had better say, should bedeposited with him. Putting aside the question of what he has done to deserve it, he must surely wonder at times from what other corners of the earth Providence has been at pains to collect and compact the ingredients of the latest new volume he handles for a moment before fondly committing it to the cellars.
Locked up, not lost.
Or, to take it in reverseWhen the great library of Alexandria went up in flames, doubtless its ashes awoke an appreciable and almost immediate energy in the crops of the Nile Delta. The more leisurable process of desiccation, by which, under modern storage, the components of a modern novel are released to fresh unions and activities admits, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, a wide solution, and was just the question to tease that good man. Can we not hear him discussing it? To be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration To burn the bones of the King of Edom for lime seems no irrational ferity: but to store the back volumes of Mr Bottomleys
John Bull
a passionate prodigality.
Well, whatever the perplexities of our Library we may be sure they will never break down that tradition of service, help and courtesy which is, among its fine treasures, still the first. But we have seen that Mr Jenkinsons perplexities are really but a parable of ours: that the question, What are we to do with all these books accumulating in the world? really
a question: that their mere accumulation really
heap up against us a barrier of such enormous and brute mass that the stream of human culture must needs be choked and spread into marsh unless we contrive to pipe it through. That a great deal of it is meant to helpthat even the most of it is well intentionedavails not against the mere physical obstacle of its mass. If you consider an Athenian gentleman of the 4th century
connecting (as I always preach here) his literature with his life, two things are bound to strike you: the first that he was a man of leisure, somewhat disdainful of trade and relieved of menial work by a number of slaves; the second, that he was surprisingly unencumbered with books. You will find in Plato much about reciters, actors, poets, rhetoricians, pleaders, sophists, public orators and refiners of language, but very little indeed about books. Even the library of Alexandria grew in a time of decadence and belonged to an age not his. Says Jowett in the end:
He who approaches him in the most reverent spirit shall reap most of the fruit of his wisdom; he who reads him by the light of ancient commentators will have the least understanding of him.
We see him [Jowett goes on] with the eye of the mind in the groves of the Academy, or on the banks of the Ilissus, or in the streets of Athens, alone or walking with Socrates, full of those thoughts which have since become the common possession of mankind. Or we may compare him to a statue hid away in some temple of Zeus or Apollo, no longer existing on earth, a statue which has a look as of the God himself. Or we may once more imagine him following in another state of being the great company of heaven which he beheld of old in a vision. So, partly trifling but with a certain degree of seriousness, we linger around the memory of a world which has passed away.
Yes, which has passed away, and perhaps with no token more evident of its decease that the sepulture of books that admiring generations have heaped on it!
In a previous lecture I referred you to the beautiful opening and the yet more beautiful close of the
Let us turn back and refresh ourselves with that Dialogue while we learn from it, in somewhat more of detail, just what a book meant to an Athenian: how fresh a thing it was to him and how little irksome.
Phaedrus has spent his forenoon listening to a discourse by the celebrated rhetorician Lysias on the subject of Love, and is starting to cool his head with a stroll beyond the walls of the city, when he encounters Socrates, who will not let him go until he has delivered up the speech with which Lysias regaled him, or, better still, the manuscript, which I suspect you are carrying there in your left hand under your cloak. So they bend their way beside Ilissus towards a tall plane tree, seen in the distance. Having reached it, they recline.
By Hera, says Socrates, a fair resting-place, full of summer sounds and scents! This clearing, with the
agnus castus
in high bloom and fragrant, and the stream beneath the tree so gratefully cool to our feet! Judging from the ornaments and statues, I think this spot must be sacred to Acheloüs and the Nymphs. And the breeze, how deliciously charged with balm! and all summers murmur in the air, shrilled by the chorus of the grasshoppers! But the greatest charm is this knoll of turf,positively a pillow for the head. My dear Phaedrus, you have been a delectable guide.
What an incomprehensible being you are, Socrates, returns Phaedrus. When you are in the country, as you say, you really are like some stranger led about by a guide. Upon my word, I doubt if you ever stray beyond the gates save by accident.
Very true, my friend: and I hope you will forgive me for the reasonwhich is, that I love knowledge, and my teachers are the men who dwell in the city, not the trees or country scenes. Yet I do believe you have found a spell to draw me forth, like a hungry cow before whom a bough or a bunch of fruit is waved. For only hold up before me in like manner a book, and you may lead me all round Attica and over the wide world.
So they recline and talk, looking aloft through that famous pure sky of Attica, mile upon mile transparent; and their discourse (preserved to us) is of Love, and seems to belong to that atmosphere, so clear it is and luminously profound. It ends with the cool of the day, and the two friends arise to depart. Socrates looks about him.
Should we not before going, offer up a prayer to these local deities?
By all means, Phaedrus agrees.
(praying): Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, grant me beauty in the inward soul, and that the outward and inward may be at one! May I esteem the wise to be the rich; and may I myself have that quantity of gold which a temperate man, and he only, can carry . Anything more? That prayer, I think, is enough for me.
Ask the same for me, Socrates. Friends, methinks, should have all things in common.
So be it . Let us go.
Here we have, as it seems to me, a marriage, without impediment, of wisdom and beauty between two minds that perforce have small acquaintance with books: and yet, with it, Socrates confession that anyone with a book under his cloak could lead him anywhere by the nose. So we see that Hellenic culture at its best was independent of book-learning, and yet craved for it.
When our own Literature awoke, taking its origin from the proud scholarship of the Renaissance, an Englishman who affected it was scarcely more cumbered with books than our Athenian had been, two thousand years before. It was, and it remained, aristocratic: sparingly expensive of its culture. It postulated, if not a slave population, at least a proletariat for which its blessings were not. No one thought of making a fortune by disseminating his work in print. Shakespeare never found it worth while to collect and publish his plays; and a very small sense of history will suffice to check our tears over the price received by Milton for
Paradise Lost.
We may wonder, indeed, at the time it took our forefathers to realiseor, at any rate, to employthe energy that lay in the printing-press. For centuries after its invention mere copying commanded far higher prices than authorship.
Writers gave authorised editions to the world sometimes for the sake of fame, often to justify themselves against piratical publishers, seldom in expectation of monetary profit. Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing
Religio Medici
Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. And truly had not the duty I owe unto the importunity of friends, and the allegiance I must ever acknowledge unto truth, prevailed with me; the inactivity of my disposition might have made these sufferings continual, and time that brings other things to light, should have satisfied me in the remedy of its oblivion. But because things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth, in this latter I could not but think myself engaged. For though we have no power to redress the former, yet in the other, the reparation being within our selves, I have at present represented unto the world a full and intended copy of that piece, which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously published before.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press .
The men of the 18th century maintained the old tradition of literary exclusiveness, but in a somewhat different way and more consciously.
I find, Gentlemen, when you read with me in private, that nine out of ten of you dislike the 18th century and all its literary works. As for the Women students, they one and all abominate it. You do not, I regret to say, provide me with reasons much more philosophical than the epigrammatists for disliking Doctor Fell. May one whose time of life excuses perhaps a detachment from passion attempt to provide you with one? If so, first listen to this from Mr and Mrs Hammonds book
The Village Labourer,
A row of 18th century houses, or a room of normal 18th century furniture, or a characteristic piece of 18th century literature, conveys at once a sensation of satisfaction and completeness. The secret of this charm is not to be found in any special beauty or nobility of design or expression, but simply in an exquisite fitness. The 18th century mind was a unity, an order. All literature and art that really belong to the 18th century are the language of a little society of men and women who moved within one set of ideas; who understood each other; who were not tormented by any anxious or bewildering problems; who lived in comfort, and, above all things, in composure. The classics were their freemasonry. There was a standard for the mind, for the emotions, for taste: there were no incongruities.
When you have a society like this, you have what we roughly call a civilisation, and it leaves its character and canons in all its surroundings and in its literature. Its definite ideas lend themselves readily to expression. A larger society seems an anarchy in contrast: just because of its escape into a greater world it seems powerless to stamp itself in wood or stone; it is condemned as an age of chaos and mutiny, with nothing to declare.
You do wrong, I assure you, in misprising these men of the 18th century. They reduced life, to be sure: but by that very means they saw it far more
than do we, in this lyrical age with our worship of fine excess. Here at any rate, and to speak only of its literature, you have a society fencing that literature aroundI do not say by forethought or even consciouslybut in effect fencing its literature around, to keep it in control and capable of an orderly, a nice, even an exquisite cultivation. Dislike it as you may, I do not think that any of you, as he increases his knowledge of the technique of English Prose, yes, and of English Verse (I do not say of English Poetry) will deny his admiration to the men of the 18th century. The strength of good prose resides not so much in the swing and balance of the single sentence as in the marshalling of argument, the orderly procession of paragraphs, the disposition of parts so that each finds its telling, its proper, place; the adjustment of the means to the end; the strategy which brings its full force into action at the calculated moment and drives the conclusion home upon an accumulated sense of
I do not see how any student of 18th century literature can deny its writersBerkeley or Hume or GibbonCongreve or SheridanPope or CowperAddison or Steele or JohnsonBurke or Chatham or Thomas Paynetheir meed for this, or, if he be an artist, even his homage.
But it remains true, as your instinct tells you, and as I have admitted, that they achieved all this by help of narrow and artificial boundaries. Of several fatal exclusions let me name but two.
In the first place, they excluded the Poor; imitating in a late age the Athenian tradition of a small polite society resting on a large and degraded one. Throughout the 18th centuryand the great Whig families were at least as much to blame for this as the Toriesby enclosure of commons, by grants, by handling of the franchise, by taxation, by poor laws in result punitive though intended to be palliative, the English peasantry underwent a steady process of degradation into serfdom: into a serfdom which, during the first twenty years of the next century, hung constantly and precariously on the edge of actual starvation. The whole theory of culture worked upon a principle of double restriction; of restricting on the one hand the realm of polite knowledge to propositions suitable for a scholar and a gentleman: and, on the other, the numbers of the human family permitted to be either. The theory deprecated enthusiasm, as it discountenanced all ambition in a poor child to rise above what Sir Spencer Walpole called his inevitable and hereditary lotto soften which and make him acquiescent in it was, with a Wilberforce or a Hannah More, the last dream of restless benevolence.
Also these 18th century men fenced off the whole of our own Middle English and medieval literaturefenced off Chaucer and Dunbar, Malory and Bernersas barbarous and Gothic. They treated these writers with little more consideration than Boileau had thought it worth while to bestow on Villon or on Ronsard
enfin Malherbe!
As for Anglo-Saxon literature, one may safely say that, save by Gray and a very few others, its existence was barely surmised.
You may or may not find it harder to forgive them that they ruled out moreover a great part of the literature of the preceding century as offensive to urbane taste or as they would say, disgusting. They disliked it mainly, one suspects, as one age revolts from the fashion of anotheras some of you, for example, revolt from the broad plenty of Dickens (Heaven forgive you) or the ornament of Tennyson. Some of the great writers of that age definitely excluded God from their scheme of things: others included God fiercely, but with circumscription and limitation. I think it fair to say of them generally that they hated alike the mystical and the mysterious, and, hating these, could have little commerce with such poetry as Crashaws and Vaughans or such speculation as gave ardour to the prose of the Cambridge Platonists. Johnsons famous attack, in his
Life of Cowley,
upon the metaphysical followers of Donne ostensibly assails their literary conceits, but truly and at bottom rests its quarrel against an attitude of mind, in respect of which he lived far enough removed to be unsympathetic yet near enough to take denunciation for a duty. Johnson, to put it vulgarly, had as little use for Vaughans notion of poetry as he would have had for Shelleys claim that it
feeds on the aëreal kisses
Of shapes that haunt thoughts wildernesses,
and we have only to set ourselves back in Shelleys age and read (say) the verse of Frere and Canning in
The Anti-Jacobin,
to understand how frantic a lyristlet be how frantic a political figureShelley must have appeared to well regulated minds.
All this literature which our forefathers excluded has come back upon us: and concurrently we have to deal with the more serious difficulty (let us give thanks for it) of a multitude of millions insurgent to handsel their long-deferred heritage. I shall waste no time in arguing that we ought not to wish to withhold it, because we cannot if we would. And thus the problem becomes a double one, of
as well as of
Now in the first place I submit that this
should be free: which implies that our
must be confined to books and methods of teaching. There must be no picking and choosing among the recipients, no appropriation of certain forms of culture to certain stations of life with a tendency, conscious or unconscious, to keep those stations as stationary as possible.
Merely by clearing our purpose to this extent we shall have made no inconsiderable advance. For even the last century never quite got rid of its predecessors fixed idea that certain degrees of culture were appropriate to certain stations of life. With what gentle persistence it prevails, for example, in Jane Austens novels; with what complacent rhetoric in Tennyson (and in spite of Lady Clara Vere de Vere)! Let me remind you that by allowing an idea to take hold of our animosity we may be as truly possessed by it as though it claimed our allegiance. The notion that culture may be drilled to march in step with a trade or calling endured through the Victorian age of competition and possessed the mind not only of Samuel Smiles who taught by instances how a bright and industrious boy might earn money and lift himself out of his station, but of Ruskin himself, who in the first half of
Sesame and Lilies,
in the lecture
Of Kings Treasuries,
discussing the choice of books, starts vehemently and proceeds at length to denounce the prevalent passion for self-advancementof rising above ones station in lifequite as if it were the most important thing, willy-nilly, in talking of the choice of books. Which means that, to Ruskin, just then, it was the most formidable obstacle. Can we, at this time of day, do better by simply turning the notion out of doors? Yes, I believe that we can: and upon this
I believe that while it may growand grow infinitelywith increase of learning, the grace of a liberal education, like the grace of Christianity, is so catholic a thingso absolutely above being trafficked, retailed, apportioned, among stations in lifethat the humblest child may claim it by indefensible right, having a soul.
Further, I believe that Humanism is, or should be, no decorative appanage, purchased late in the process of education within the means of a few: but a quality, rather, which should, and can, condition all teaching, from a childs first lesson in Reading: that its unmistakable hall-mark can be impressed upon the earliest task set in an Elementary School.
I am not preaching red Radicalism in this: I am not telling you that Jack is as good as his master: if he were, he would be a great deal better; for he would understand Homer (say) as well as his master, the child of parents who could afford to have him taught Greek. As Greek is commonly taught, I regret to say, whether they have learnt it or not makes a distressingly small difference to most boys appreciation of Homer. Still it does make a vast difference to some, and should make a vast difference to all. And yet, if you will read the passage in Kinglakes
in which he tellsin words that find their echo in many a readers memoryof his boyish passion for Homerand if you will note that the boy imbibed his passion, after all, through the conduit of Popes translationyou will acknowledge that, for the human boy, admission to much of the glory of Homers realm does not depend upon such mastery as a boy of fifteen or sixteen possesses over the original. But let me quote you a few sentences:
I, too, loved Homer, but not with a scholars love. The most humble and pious among women was yet so proud a mother that she could teach her first-born son no Wattss hymns, no collects for the day; she could teach him in earliest childhood no less than thisto find a home in his saddle, and to love old Homer, and all that old Homer sung. True it is, that the Greek was ingeniously rendered into English, the English of Pope even, but not even a mesh like that can screen an earnest child from the fire of Homers battles.
I pored over the
as over a story-book, hoping and fearing for the hero whom yet I partly scorned. But the
line by line I clasped it to my brain with reverence as well as with love .
The impatient child is not grubbing for beauties, but pushing the siege; the women vex him with their delays, and their talking, but all the while that he thus chafes at the pausing of the action, the strong vertical light of Homers poetry is blazing so full upon the people and things of the
that soon to the eyes of the child they grow familiar as his mothers shawl .
It was not the recollection of school nor college learning, but the rapturous and earnest reading of my childhood, which made me bend forward so longingly to the plains of Troy.
It is among the books then, and not among the readers, that we must do our selecting. But how? On what principle or principles?
Sometime in the days of my youth, a newspaper,
The Pall Mall Gazette,
then conducted by W. T. Stead, made a conscious effort to solve the riddle by inviting a number of eminent men to compile lists of the Hundred Best Books. Now this invitation rested on a fallacy. Considering for a moment how personal a thing is Literature, you will promptly assure yourselves that there isthere can beno such thing as the Hundred Best Books. If you yet incline to toy with the notion, carry it on and compile a list of the Hundred Second-best Books: nay, if you will, continue until you find yourself solemnly, with a brow corrugated by responsibility, weighing the claims (say) of Velleius Paterculus, Paul and Virginia and Mr Jorrocks to admission among the Hundred Tenth-best Books. There is in fact no positive hierarchy among the classics. You cannot appraise the worth of Charles Lamb against the worth of Casaubon: the worth of Hesiod against the worth of Madame de Sévigné: the worth of Théophile Gautier against the worth of Dante or Thomas Hobbes or Macchiavelli or Jane Austen. They all wrote with pens, in ink, upon paper: but you no sooner pass beyond these resemblances than your comparison finds itself working in
impari materia.
Also why should the Best Books be 100 in number, rather than 99 or 199? And under what conditions is a book a Best Book? There are moods in which we not only prefer Pickwick to the Rig-Vedas or Sakuntalà, but find that it does us more good. In our day again I pay all respect to Messrs Dents
Everymans Library.
It was a large conception carefully planned. But, in the nature of things, Everyman is going to arrive at a point beyond which he will find it more and more difficult to recognise himself: at a point, let us say, when Everyman, opening a new parcel, starts to doubt if, after all, it wouldnt be money in his pocket to be Somebody Else.
And yet, may be,
The Pall Mall Gazette
was on the right scent. For it was in search of masterpieces: and, however we teach, our trust will in the end repose upon masterpieces, upon the great classics of whatever Language or Literature we are handling: and these, in any language are neither enormous in number and mass, nor extraordinarily difficult to detect, nor (best of all) forbidding to the reader by reason of their own difficulty. Upon a selected few of theseeven upon three, or two, or onewe may teach at least a surmise of the true delight, and may be some measure of taste whereby our pupil will, by an inner guide, be warned to choose the better and reject the worse when we turn him loose to read for himself.
To this use of masterpieces I shall devote my final lecture.
Note 1.
Charles Reade notes this in
The Cloister and the Hearth,
Note 2.
The loose and tautologous style of this Preface is worth noting. Likely enough Browne wrote it in a passion that deprived him of his habitual self-command. One phrase alone reveals the true Brownethat is, Browne true to himself: and time that brings other things to light, should have satisfied me in the remedy of its oblivion. [
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Israel began moving troops toward the Gaza Strip and authorized the call-up of reservists for a possible ground invasion of the Palestinian territory.
At least a dozen trucks carrying tanks and armored vehicles were seen late Thursday moving toward the border area, while buses ferried soldiers.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that he had authorized the army to draft reserve forces for possible activity in Gaza. The army said as many as 30,000 troops could be drafted. Military officials said the moves were preparations for a possible ground operation, but no decision has been made on whether to enter Gaza.
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Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai says nothing landed on the ground, raising the possibility it fell in the sea.
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"The battle between us and the occupation is open and it will end only with the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem," he said.
Thousands of angry Gazans chanted "Retaliation" and "We want you to hit Tel Aviv tonight."
Witnesses said Jabari was traveling in a vehicle in Gaza City when the car exploded. Crowds of people and security personnel rushed to the scene of the strike, trying to put out the fire that had engulfed the car and left it a charred shell. The Israeli military released a grainy, black-and-white video of the airstrike. It shows a sedan moving slowly along a road before exploding in a powerful blast that sent a large piece of the car flying into the air.
Dovish Israeli lawmaker Dov Hanin condemned the killing.
"Assassinating leaders is never the solution. In place of the leaders killed, others will grow, and we will only get another cycle of fire and blood," he said.
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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
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Oracle Workflow roles are stored in the database, in the Oracle Workflow directory service. Currently, new workflow roles cannot be created in Oracle Workflow Builder, but Oracle Workflow Builder can display and reference the roles stored in a database.
One example of how roles are referenced in a workflow process is when you include a notification activity in a process as a node. You must assign that node to a performer. The performer can be a designated role or an item type attribute that dynamically returns a role. To assign a performer to a role, you must initially load the roles from your Oracle Workflow database into your Oracle Workflow Builder session. See: Setting Up an Oracle Workflow Directory Service, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide and To Define Nodes in a Process.
Note: Referencing roles in a workflow process is currently supported in Oracle Workflow Builder, although the Roles tab page seen in the property pages of certain workflow objects will not be supported until a future release. The purpose of the Roles tab page is to give a role access to a certain object.
Oracle Workflow allows you to create new ad hoc users and roles within a workflow process, to add to your directory service. To do so, you define a function activity that makes a server-side call to the appropriate WF_DIRECTORY API and include that function activity in your process diagram. See: Standard API for PL/SQL Procedures Called by Function Activities
and Workflow Directory Service APIs, Oracle Workflow API Reference.
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Product placement goes back to the earliest days of film. The first movie ever to win a Best Picture Oscar was a silent 1927 film called Wings, which featured Clara Bow, Gary Cooper and, in one scene, a prominently placed bar of Hershey's chocolate.
The practice lives on today, as companies place their products in movies in the hope that filmgoers will buy what they see onscreen. But which cases of product placement in the movies have really worked?
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text: Chris Sideroff wrote: >I'm sure posing this may raise more questions than answer but which >high-speed interconnect would offer the best 'bang for the buck': > >1) myrinet >2) quardics qsnet >3) mellanox infiniband > > Just as a data point, I've recently seen IB prices as low as $600 a port including HBA's, cables, software, etc. To also had a little fuel to the fire, if you are using your own codes, try a different MPI. There are a couple of MPI's with really good performance over GigE. Another option is to look at a RDMA NIC. For example, Ammasso has a low-latency GigE NIC. I don't know prices, but be sure to do some testing on these NICs vs. IB and Myrinet. Then you can make a better decision. Good Luck! Jeff


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Dr. Lynn Gitlow, associate professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, was recently named a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
This honor is given to occupational therapists who, with their knowledge and expertise, have made significant contributions to continuing education and the professional development of other members of the AOTA. Gitlow was one of just 36 people named a fellow in 2014.
Fewer than 850 people have been given this honor nationally since 1973. Gitlow is the second Ithaca College faculty member to earn this honor. Carole Dennis was the first in 2012.


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By Ed Harris
The Town Council returned an ordinance update on sidewalks used as school access ways back to a subcommittee after hearing about a dozen residents speak out against the proposal during a public hearing earlier this week.
Town Councilor Cheryl Lounsbury chairs the Council's subcommittee that was tasked with updating several town ordinances. Monday night, Lounsbury said her subcommittee had worked with the Board of Education to create a list of sidewalks that are no longer used for school purposes and that the plan was to return these sidewalks to the homeowners.
In all, nine areas were designated for return.
Close to a dozen residents, mostly from or around Frost Street in Plantsville, spoke out against the proposal, citing the deplorable conditions of the sidewalks due to years of neglect.
"You own the sidewalks, you clean it," Richard Ahern told the Council.
Several residents, including Roger Peterson, brought up an agreement between the homeowners and the town from 1970 that said the town would take care of the sidewalks. It appeared that this was the first time that the Council was made aware of the agreement.
"You should be honoring your agreement," Peterson said.
Residents also brought up issues of liability, snow issues and the removal of the sidewalks, if they deemed fit.
Following a motion, the matter was tabled for a return to the subcommittee, but action on several other ordinances, including sewers, the naming of buildings and fines and fees were passed unanimously.
Some of the councilors appeared shocked about the state of disrepair of the sidewalks in question.
"It's totally unfair," said Town Councilor John Barry.
Lounsbury said her ordinance subcommittee would schedule a special meeting to take another look at the sidewalk issue. Another public hearing will take place following the special meeting.


text: Hi FJ:You're right. The most recent U Toledo #s are16 employers at OCIand only 1 from NY/DC/CA(see lawschoolnumbers.com)Ouch! Very low numbers for a school that was flirting with T2 just a couple of years ago.I still stand by what I said upthread--Detroit employers are impressed w/ the top of the UT class. But the school as a whole has fallen fast.


text: Hi, Trent Piepho schrieb: > Tim Small wrote: >> I use mythtv, and this periodically opens DVB cards to check for new EIT >> data. Because of this, I end up with hundreds of: >> >> mt352_pinnacle_init called >> >> lines in my kernel log. >> >> The attached patch makes saa7134-dvb quieter. > > This patch looks to be against an older version of the saa7134-dvb driver. > The current version already has a dprintk macro and a debug parameter. > > I've made a patch against the current version of the driver which should > clean up all the printk()s. There were several that are changed from > printk to dprintk, and some others that have a level like KERN_WARNING or > KERN_ERR added. I also tried to make the format consistent. The dprintk > macro wasn't safe. e.g. > if(!working) > dprintk("foo"); > else > whatever(); > > Wouldn't do what you might expect! That's been fixed too. > > Patch is here: > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~tap/v4l-dvb?cmd=changeset;node=b7320b447a26;style=gitweb > ACK Will you ask Mauro to pull this or should i apply it to my repository? Hartmut


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Talk Mobile 2013 is still underway and if you haven't been following the debates, discussions and community interaction, where have you been hiding?
We spent an entire week focusing on gaming already, but today we've got a sweet infographic to share with you, based on data accumulated through suggestions, comments and votes from you guys - the community.
Covering all of the hot topics, including mobile gaming vs. consoles, the dark side of mobile gaming, multiplayer mobile gaming, and finishing with how mobile gaming could get better and what the future of mobile gaming looks like, our team managed to cover important points surrounding mobile gaming and where we see it going in the future. But we were also interested in what consumers believe.
Instead of simply hosting spreadsheet for you all to get bored looking through, check out the sweet infographic below. Some rather unique results are included, for example: 73 percent play mobile games in the bathroom, which actually stole first position from playing games in bed (62 percent).
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Question of the Day from Marlins.com for January 29th:
Name: Freddy Galvan
Question for Natalie P:
Well I am actually a soldier here in Iraq, we transported you all to Camp Bucca Iraq. I just wanted to ask u if u enjoyed the trip and pics u took with the guys that are originally from Bravo Co. 3/141 Infantry?
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text: Dear Beowulfers, I came back to doing product-research on jumbo-framed switches, since I need to get one for our cluster. Since our cluster is primaraly load-balancing (nobody runs MPI), for now I just bridged few nodes through the other nodes 2nd interface (I didn't use them for bonding). Now we are about to extend a cluster a bit and I hate my bridging solution so I am in the market for relatively good, inexpensive 48-port switch (we need at least 30 ports for now) with Jumbo frames support (which supposed to help NFS server). Browsing the web I've found http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DGS-1248T&sec=2 which seems to be of a right price tag and claims to support jumbo frames (and I doubt that I really need managed switch for internal cluster network :-)). Strange enough the online comparison to managed switches on the same page ftp://ftp10.dlink.com/pdfs/products/switches/dlink_websmart_vs_L2_4_managed_switches.pdf shows that it DGS-1248T doesn't support Jumbo frames. I am waiting on reply from D-Link presales which could clarify this issue. Unfortunately this model wasn't investigated by http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbo-clean-gear.html so I am not sure on how reliable claim on Jumbo frames support of this particular piece. Can anyone recommend any other suitable product? Thank you in advance! -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20060227/fd447caf/attachment.sig>


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Silence on Hepatitis: Where's the Leadership?
May 15, 2008
On Monday, May 19, Project Inform will join hepatitis advocates around the globe in recognizing "World Hepatitis Awareness Day." This day will highlight the severity of the hepatitis pandemic, through media campaigns, rallies, and educational events. We will also call on elected officials to take action and leadership in creating hepatitis education, prevention, diagnosis, care, and treatment programs.
In the United States, the statistics are staggering. There are an estimated 6 million people with the hepatitis B or C virus. Most Americans living with hepatitis C are unaware of their infection. Chronic viral hepatitis is the leading cause of liver cancer, now among the top 10 killers of Americans over the age of 25. In addition, around 30 percent of people living with HIV are co-infected with hepatitis C, and end-stage liver disease is now a leading cause of death for people with HIV/AIDS.
Almost everyone is affected by the hepatitis epidemic in some way and the LGBT community is no exception. My partner Gil passed away seven years ago at the age of 33 from chronic hepatitis B and liver cancer. Two of my family members are living with hepatitis C and many of my HIV-positive friends are co-infected with the virus. The disease has hit our community hard and we don't talk about it as much as we should.
Tragically, the federal response to this epidemic has been abysmal and reminiscent of the early years of HIV/AIDS. Despite repeated requests from advocates, President Bush has refused to offer a proclamation or statement recognizing even one hepatitis awareness day during his tenure. The entire federal budget for all viral hepatitis programs is a mere $17 million per year and, despite growing need, the president has called for a cut in next year's funding.
Only a handful of members of Congress have co-sponsored the Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act, a bill that would mount a comprehensive national testing and prevention strategy. Uninsured and underinsured people living with hepatitis B and C have no assistance with the expensive drugs and care necessary to maintain their health. Media outlets around the country have refused to air public service announcements about hepatitis C because of the stigma associated with the disease and injection drug use.
Does the slogan "Silence Equals Death" come to mind?
In response to this failed leadership and the devastating impact of the disease, Project Inform is actively engaged in hepatitis advocacy, with a strong focus on hepatitis C. We have partnered with advocates around the country to demand more federal funding and a comprehensive plan to fight the epidemic.
As a member of the California Hepatitis Alliance, a statewide advocacy coalition working to improve California's response to hepatitis B and hepatitis C, we are working at the state level as well. We strongly support Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's (D-San Francisco) tireless efforts to fight hepatitis B and legislation recently introduced by Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally (D-Compton) that would require California to create a strategic viral hepatitis plan.
We also work closely with some amazing local hepatitis advocates -- including representatives from the American Liver Foundation, the Drug Policy Alliance, City College of San Francisco, Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, and the Hepatitis C Support Project. Our team has worked with Mayor Gavin Newsom's office to recognize Hepatitis Awareness Day in San Francisco and will advocate for the city to serve as a model in providing hepatitis education, prevention, care, and treatment services.
We have brought our extensive grassroots organizing experience to the national hepatitis C movement. Last year, we co-founded Hepatitis C Advocates United, the first national grassroots network focused on urging the federal government to take action against the disease. This network, now over 300 members strong, has brought together people living with hepatitis C, service providers, and other advocates to create grassroots strategies aimed at convincing Congress and the Bush administration to provide funding and legislation needed to combat the epidemic. The group is participating in World Hepatitis Awareness Day by organizing people to call Congress on May 19 to demand action on fighting the disease.
You can be a part of this important awareness day by making a few phone calls or sending a few e-mails. Ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to prioritize increased hepatitis funding in next year's spending bill. Urge Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to co-sponsor the Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act. Thank Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) for co-sponsoring the bill and ask her to be the Senate's champion on all viral hepatitis issues. Thank Ma for her leadership at the state level and ask how you can help.
To learn more about World Hepatitis Awareness Day, go to www.aminumber12.org.For more information about getting involved in hepatitis advocacy, contact Ryan Clary at 415-558-8669, x224 or by email.
Ryan Clary is Director of Public Policy for Project Inform.
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Classic cool Cornerstone Roots continue their summer club tour with a performance at the Yot Club in Raglan on February 1st, 2013. After a busy winter of writing, rehearsals and targeted events, the band is looking forward to playing crowd favorites and new tunes off their fourth coming album this summer.
Cornerstone Roots classic cool approach has seen them stay true to their inspiration, the colossal world of Jamaican reggae, while bringing a Pacific consciousness to their music. After three critically acclaimed albums and two EPs the band will release their fourth album in early 2013.
Cornerstone Roots are soon to release their latest single and video Take Me that was filmed by Adventure Artists crew in Raglan at the beginning of December. Take Me is a soulful reggae groove with a simple commentary on spirit and guidance.
After a decade of performances the current line up is seven strong with family members Brian Ruawai on vocals, Naomi Tuaopepe on bass guitar and their son Reiki Ruawai on vocals. The band also features Andre Peri on drums, Reti Hedley on samples and guitar, and Nick Stevens on keys and Aaron Bush on percussion.
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It's harvest time and, in honor of that, we'd like to introduce you to the work of Harvest Audio – under the direction of Joe Stofko.
It's harvest time and, in honor of that, we'd like to introduce you to the work of Harvest Audio – under the direction of Joe Stofko.
Maybe you didn't see what you think you saw. (We revisit our first scary short – and one of our top 3 most downloaded episodes of all time.)
Maybe you should keep on driving.
It's almost too dark. It's definitely too quiet.
I don't get scared driving at night.
The beating heart of any IT department – its inner sanctum – is the server room, kept a crisp and machine-friendly 50-60 degrees. Not hot enough to feel like summer, but not chilly enough to be inhospitable … until maybe you find … y'know … a body … We present: Cold Storage.
"Knock at the Door" was originally broadcast in January of 2010 and we believe it deserves a second chance to be heard. It has the distinction of being the only Precarious production recorded in a single take; that hadn't happened before and it hasn't happened since. It's 1938 and tensions are running high at the Kruger household, where anger turns to something darker … and the dead don't want to stay dead.
Life is frequently complicated by death, although it must be said that the dead are rarely inconvenient. That is, unless you live in Unseemly Lake, Minnesota, where the ground is more than willing to give up its secrets. We present the latest installment in our "Tractor Triangle" series – "Salt".
Wanting and needing – being wanted and needed; it seems the search for someone who loves us in spite of knowing us well has preoccupied humankind since its arrival on the planet. Three tales show us that love is a many-splendored, if somewhat awkward and extremely dangerous, thing: "Rescue", "Normalcy" and "Evolution – or "Frannie, Parts 1, 2 and 3″.
The heavens shook in an epic battle, followed by an uneasy forever. Millenia from the Conundrum, Dark and Light negotiate a delicate balance of power … somewhere over a lake in Misfortune, Wisconsin. Another tale in our "Tractor Triangle" series, we present "Angels"


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Handed our Lunch? Really? They're up because of their PP's (and we get the make-up as I type this).Meds wrote: Canucks are still playing soft and not really earning any PPs. Getting handed our lunch by a team in the back end of two in two is embarrassing when it is because we are being out worked.
If Tootoo had any balls, or any liver, or any indian, left in him he would've obliged Kassian after taking a run at Tanev. Nobody on Detroit will fight us. We are the tougher team and we need to play a skilled game or we'll spend the whole game in the box.


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Stator blade in the turbine stage of a jet engine is heated by combustion gases, where the resulting temperature gradients introduce significant stresses. To prevent the stator from melting, air is passed through a cooling duct in the blade.
The COMSOL Desktop is a powerful integrated user interface environment designed for cross-disciplinary product development with a unified workflow for electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical applications.
COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose software platform, based on advanced numerical methods, for modeling and simulating physics-based problems. With COMSOL Multiphysics, you will be able to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. With more than 30 add-on products to choose from, you can further expand the simulation platform with dedicated physics interfaces and tools for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Additional interfacing products connect your COMSOL Multiphysics simulations with technical computing, CAD, and ECAD software.
COMSOL Desktop® is a powerful integrated environment designed for cross-disciplinary product development with a unified workflow, regardless of the application area. The add-on modules blend in seamlessly with COMSOL Multiphysics, and the way you operate the software remains the same no matter which add-on products are engaged. The model tree in the Model Builder gives you a full overview of the model and access to all functionality – geometry, mesh, physics settings, boundary conditions, studies, solvers, postprocessing, and visualizations. With COMSOL Multiphysics you can easily extend conventional models for one type of physics into multiphysics models that solve coupled physics phenomena – simultaneously. What's more, accessing this power does not require in-depth knowledge of mathematics or numerical analysis.
With COMSOL Multiphysics® FEA software, you can simulate virtually anything you want, thanks to the underlying flexibility that complements the intuitive and easy-to-use COMSOL Desktop® interface.
For instance, in COMSOL Multiphysics®, you are able to arbitrarily include your own equations that may describe a material property, boundary, source or sink term, or even a unique set of partial differential equations (PDEs). You can then create new physics interfaces from the equations you entered. When creating apps with the Application Builder, you can design your own user interfaces based on your models. These user interfaces can be simplified versions of the model or include only some of the input and output fields you want to give the user of the app access to. COMSOL Multiphysics® also includes a COMSOL® API for use with Java® that adds extra flexibility for connecting your COMSOL Multiphysics® models with other applications.
Physics and Equation-Based Modeling Interfaces
Using COMSOL Multiphysics provides you with a significant amount of physics modeling functionality, including multiphysics ability. By adding application-specific modules, the modeling power is increased with dedicated tools for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. COMSOL Multiphysics includes a set of core physics interfaces for common physics application areas such as structural analysis, laminar flow, pressure acoustics, transport of diluted species, electrostatics, electric currents, heat transfer, and Joule heating. These are simplified versions of a selected set of physics interfaces available in the add-on modules.
For arbitrary mathematics or physics simulations, where a preset physics option is not available, a set of physics interfaces are included for setting up simulations from first principles by defining the equations. Several partial differential equation (PDE) templates make it easy to model second-order linear or nonlinear systems of equations. By stacking several equations together, you can also model higher-order differential equations. These equation-based tools can further be combined with the preset physics of COMSOL Multiphysics or any of the add-on modules, allowing for fully-coupled and customized analyses. This dramatically reduces the need for writing user subroutines in order to customize equations, material properties, boundary conditions, or source terms. Also available is a set of templates for classical PDEs: Laplace's equation, Poisson's equation, the wave equation, the Helmholtz equation, the heat equation, and the convection-diffusion equation.
Coordinate Systems
Users enjoy the ability to define any number of local coordinate systems. There are shortcuts for common coordinate systems such as cylindrical, spherical, and Euler-angle based, and a method for automatic coordinate system creation makes it easy to define anisotropic material properties that follow curved geometric shapes. This curvilinear coordinates tool, included in COMSOL Multiphysics, can be applied for any type of physics, like anisotropic thermal conductivity in heat transfer, orthotropic materials for structural mechanics, and anisotropic media in electromagnetics, for example.
Model Couplings
The COMSOL Desktop® allows you to work simultaneously in 3D, 2D, 1D, and 0D. So called Model Couplings can be used to map any quantity across spatial dimensions. For example, a 2D solution can be mapped to a 3D surface or extruded throughout a 3D volume. This functionality makes it easy to set up cross-dimensional simulations. Furthermore, systems of algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), or differential algebraic equations (DAEs) – referred to as 0D models – can be combined with spatially dependent 1D, 2D, and 3D models.
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COMSOL Multiphysics includes advanced moving mesh functionality, based on the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, where you can define physics with respect to a moving frame of reference. This can be either a material frame or a spatial frame depending on what is relevant for the physics at hand. The technology is also included in some of the add-on modules, where moving meshes are coupled to other physics: fluid-structure interaction (Structural Mechanics Module and MEMS Module), corroding surfaces (Corrosion Module), electrodeposition (Electrodeposition Module), electromechanics (MEMS Module), and two-phase flow (Microfluidics Module). The ALE functionality included in COMSOL Multiphysics also makes it possible to perform custom-built simulations in cases where a built-in option is not available.
Automatic and semi-automatic meshing tools are available in COMSOL Multiphysics, including free tetrahedral meshing and swept meshing. The default algorithm is automatic tetrahedral meshing for physics defined in solids, and a combination of tetrahedral and boundary-layer meshing for fluids. You can also take full control over the sequence of operations used for creating the mesh by defining a so-called mesh sequence. A mesh sequence allows for a mix of tetrahedral, prismatic, or hexahedral elements and can be made parametrically driven. In addition, when importing a mesh on one of the NASTRAN formats, pyramid elements are also supported. A mesh imported on the NASTRAN format can be subsequently partitioned on the domain, boundary, and edge levels by additional coordinate-based operations.
COMSOL's unique approach to multiphysics separates the geometric shape (in 3D: tet, prism, hex, pyramid) of the finite elements from the "finite element shape functions". This provides maximum flexibility, and each geometric shape supports first, second, third, and, in some cases, higher-order shape functions, corresponding to traditional linear, quadratic, or cubic finite elements respectively. Many types of physics utilize Lagrange finite elements, also know as isoparametric nodal-based finite elements. This includes heat transfer, structural mechanics, electrostatics, and more. For CFD, specialized elements and numerical stabilization schemes are also used. For vector-field electromagnetics, curved and higher-order curl elements, also known as edge or vector elements, are used.
Meshing: The meshing methods of COMSOL Multiphysics includes free tetrahedral mesh, swept mesh, and boundary layer mesh. The picture shows the mesh of a flow simulation using higher-order elements.
COMSOL Multiphysics provides 1D, 2D, and 3D geometry modeling tools with a COMSOL native geometry kernel. A number of primitive objects are available, as well as the capability of extruding general 2D geometry objects into 3D. Additionally, 2D objects can be revolved or swept along parametric curves. Boolean operations such as union, difference, and intersection are used to form more complicated shapes involving combinations of solids, surfaces, curves, and points. Free form modeling capabilities include parametric surfaces, parametric curves, and interpolation curves. All geometry operations are organized in a parametric sequence of operations in the Model Tree. For access to more advanced CAD functionality, there are the add-on CAD Import Module and the LiveLink™ products for CAD. These boost the geometry modeling capabilities by including the Parasolid® geometry kernel, and they provide a range of CAD import/export formats as well as CAD interoperability with leading CAD systems. For a list of geometry modeling functionality and import/export formats, see the CAD Specifications page.
Geometry Modeling: COMSOL Multiphysics includes a geometry modeling engine that allows for parametric models in 1D, 2D, and 3D. More advanced geometry modeling is available with the CAD Import Module and the LiveLink products for CAD.
COMSOL Multiphysics assembles and solves models using state-of-the-art numerical analysis methods. Several different methods are used in the add-on modules, including finite element analysis, the finite volume method, the boundary element method, and particle tracing methods, but the emphasis of COMSOL Multiphysics is on the finite element method. Many types of finite elements are available, and fully coupled elements are automatically generated by the software at the time of solving. This patented method of generating finite elements "on-the-fly" is precisely what allows for unlimited multiphysics combinations – something that is unique to COMSOL Multiphysics.
The physics software runs the analysis together with adaptive meshing (if selected) and error control using a variety of numerical solvers: direct and iterative sparse matrix solvers, algebraic and geometric multigrid methods, as well as a range of preconditioners. Solver defaults are used that depend on the physics combinations. The user can view the solver settings and also manually configure low-level settings. When available, the solvers and other computationally intense algorithms of any COMSOL license make use of multicore computing. Cluster and cloud computing are enabled by the floating network license option. A set of solvers is organized in a higher-level Study; one Study can hold a sequence of solvers, such as for stationary, eigenfrequency, frequency-domain, and time-dependent analyses. The application-specific modules have additional solver options, such as those for pre-stressed or small-signal analysis, and combined frequency and time-domain analysis. Sensitivity analysis is included in COMSOL Multiphysics and a suite of optimization solvers is available in the add-on Optimization Module.
COMSOL creates sequences to record all steps that create the geometry, mesh, studies and solver settings, visualization, and results presentation. You can therefore easily parameterize any part of the model, by simply changing a node in the Model Tree and re-running the sequences. The program remembers and reapplies all other information and data in the model. In addition, the connection between the geometry and the simulation settings is fully associative – a change in the geometry will automatically propagate changes throughout the model. If you prefer a command-driven environment, you can also run COMSOL Multiphysics in batch mode.
Parametric Models: Models can be parametric with algebraic relationships between parameters. Parameters can represent geometric dimensions as well as physical properties.
COMSOL Multiphysics comes with a built-in interpreter for mathematical expressions. Expressions can be assigned to variables for later use in material properties, boundary conditions, or sources. This means that most of the time you do not need to write code to adapt the software when there is a need for a custom expression. The coordinate variables x, y, and z can be used to define spatially varying quantities, for instance, distributed loads. In a similar way, lowercase t is reserved for time, and can be used in expressions to shape time-varying pulses for transient simulations.
A number of operators are available for smoothing, linearization, differentiation, and more. In addition to a set of built-in function templates, like Gaussian and rectangle pulses, you can define look-up table functions either directly in the COMSOL Desktop® or read them from file. Inhomogeneous material properties can be represented by referencing a volumetric look-up table with properties as a function of spatial coordinates. As an alternative to numerical tables, you can use image data on a number of common image formats as a basis for an interpolation function. This can, for example, be used to map image pixel values to material property values. You can also combine mathematical expressions with function calls into composite expressions involving both types. For representing topographic geometry data, you can import digital elevation map (DEM) data and use it in combination with parametric surfaces.
Variables and Expressions: The COMSOL Desktop® allows you to define and use variables with expressions in unknown field components, their derivatives, spatial coordinates, and time.
The Application Builder allows you to quickly create specialized and easy-to-use simulation apps based on your COMSOL Multiphysics models, for use by your colleagues and customers. The Application Builder desktop environment provides two important tools for creating apps: The Form Editor and the Method Editor. The Form Editor includes drag-and-drop capabilities for easily accessing and including user interface components such as input fields, graphics windows, and buttons. The Method Editor is a programming environment that allows you to modify the data structure representing a COMSOL Multiphysics model. In this editor, Java® code can be written to extend and enhance the user experience of a simulation app.
Applications can be created in the Windows® version of COMSOL Multiphysics® using any of the features and functionality from the simulation platform and its add-on products. These can then be run using either a license of COMSOL Multiphysics or COMSOL Server™, which supports the add-on products that were used to create the original app. COMSOL Server™ does not include the Application Builder, Physics Builder, and Model Builder tools that come with the COMSOL Desktop environment.
Apps can be run from COMSOL Desktop® in the Windows®, Mac OS X, and Linux® environments. For running apps from a different machine than where COMSOL Server™ resides, you can download COMSOL Client for Windows® from the download page (requires COMSOL Access) on COMSOL's website and install it to your native Windows® environment. The COMSOL® client enables you to run apps that have been built using any of the LiveLink™ for CAD programs. It also supports better graphics performance and rendering, allows you to include the ribbon interface in your apps, and provides the same look-and-feel of the COMSOL Desktop® environment. Alternatively, apps may be run using a standard web browser on platforms such as Windows®, Mac OS X, iOS®, Linux®, and Android™ with a COMSOL Server™ license.
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The COMSOL Desktop environment and Application Builder make it easy for you to customize your models and apps. For more advanced customization, there are also a number of different Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) available to extend your modeling. The COMSOL® API for use with Java® is included with COMSOL Multiphysics® and provides a programmatic way to manipulate and drive the software through compiled object-oriented code. Alternatively, LiveLink™ for MATLAB® allows you to work with COMSOL Multiphysics® in combination with the MATLAB® technical computing language. Getting started with the COMSOL® API for use with Java® and LiveLink™ for MATLAB® is almost immediate, as you can easily save a model that has been set up in COMSOL Desktop® to the Java® or MATLAB® file formats, respectively.
The Physics Builder, which is also included in COMSOL Multiphysics, allows you to create your own physics interfaces using the COMSOL software's equation-based modeling capabilities. You can extend the physics modeling capabilities by creating interfaces within COMSOL Desktop that have the same look and feel as the pre-packaged physics interfaces. To achieve this, you work directly in COMSOL Desktop from the Physics Builder tree to define new user interface components -- no programming required.
Results can be exported to text files on the .txt, .dat, and .csv formats. With LiveLink™ for Excel®, results can be exported to the Microsoft® Excel® .xlsx format. Images can be exported to several common image formats, while animations can be exported to Animated GIF, Adobe® Flash, or AVI. Get more details on export file formats.
Reports summarizing the entire simulation project can be exported to HTML (.htm,.html) or Microsoft® Word® (.doc) format. Three default report choices are available: Brief, Intermediate, or Complete. However, you can also choose to build customized reports from the different parts of the Model Tree.
Report Generation: Reports summarizing the simulation can be output to HTML or Word® format.
Visualization capabilities include surface, slice, isosurface, cut plane, arrow, and streamline plots, as well as many other plot types. Visualizations are not limited to built-in quantities, but can be expanded with composite physical quantities by typing mathematical expressions in the unknown field variables, as well as their derivatives. As a result, you can visualize just about any quantity of interest related to simulation results. A range of postprocessing tools are available for evaluation and integration. You can compute the max, min, average, and integrated values of any quantity or composite quantities, throughout volumes, on surfaces, along curved edges, and at points.
Visualization: Built-in visualization tools include surface, slice, isosurface, cut plane, arrow, and streamline plots, as well as graphs. The image shows the sound pressure level in an automotive muffler as a surface color plot (top) together with the transmission loss vs. frequency (bottom).
COMSOL Multiphysics is a flexible platform that allows users to model all relevant physical aspects of their designs. Expert users can dig deeper and use their knowledge to develop customized solutions, applicable to their unique circumstances. With this kind of all-inclusive modeling environment, COMSOL gives you the confidence to build the model you want with real-world precision.
Certain characteristics of COMSOL become apparent with use. Compatibility stands out among these. COMSOL requires that every type of simulation included in the package has the ability to be combined with any other. This strict requirement mirrors what happens in the real world. For instance, in nature, electricity is always accompanied by some thermal effect; the two are fully compatible. Enforcing compatibility guarantees consistent multiphysics models and the knowledge that you never have to worry about creating a disconnected model again.
Another noticeable trait of the COMSOL Desktop® is adaptability. As your modeling needs change, so does the software. If you find yourself in need of including another physical effect, you just add it in. If one of the inputs to your model requires a mathematical formula, you can just enter it. Using tools like parameterized geometry, interactive meshing, and custom solver sequences, you can quickly adapt to the ebbs and flows of your requirements. The flexible nature of the COMSOL Desktop environment facilitates further analysis by making "what-if" cases easy to set up and run. You can take your simulation to the production level by optimizing any aspect of your model. Parameter sweeps and objective functions for optimization can be executed directly in the user interface. From start to finish, COMSOL Multiphysics is a complete problem-solving tool.
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Geometry Modeling
Finite Elements
Equation-Based Modeling
Physics-Based Modeling
Other Discretization Schemes
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2Available in the Application Builder, for Windows® only, in the video form object
1Requires one of the LiveLink™ products for AutoCAD®, Revit®, PTC® Creo® Parametric™, Inventor®, PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®, Solid Edge®,SOLIDWORKS®, CAD Import Module, or Design Module2Import supported on Windows® operating systems only.3Synchronization of files between COMSOL Multiphysics® and a linked CAD program supported on Windows® 7, 8, and 8.1 operating systems only4Import supported on Windows® and Linux operating systems only5Requires LiveLink™ for Revit®6Requires LiveLink™ for Solid Edge®7Requires the CAD Import Module (or one Design Module or one of the LiveLink™ products for AutoCAD®, PTC® Creo® Parametric™, Inventor®, PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®, Solid Edge®, or SOLIDWORKS®) and the File Import for CATIA® V58Limited to a single geometric domain9From/To file using linked CAD package, provided the original CAD geometry is created in the CAD package10Writing to file is supported for 2D geometry only
1Requires LiveLink™ for MATLAB® 2Requires LiveLink™ for Excel®, available for Windows® only 3Available for Windows® only 4Available for Linux® only 5Available for Mac OS X only 6Can be linked to a method in an application using the Application Builder
1Requires LiveLink™ for Excel®, available for Windows® only
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What exactly is COMSOL Multiphysics anyway? COMSOL Multiphysics is a simulation environment designed with real-world applications in mind. The idea is to mimic as closely as possible effects that are observed in reality. To do this, there is the need to consider multiphysics.
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Shape Changing Lubricants
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Analysis and Simulation of Rock Properties
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Laser Heating of a Silicon Wafer
A silicon wafer is heated up by a laser that moves radially in and out over time. In addition, the wafer itself is rotated on its stage. The incident heat flux from the laser is modeled as a spatially distributed heat source on the surface. The transient thermal response of the wafer is shown. The peak, average, and minimum temperature during the ...
Micromixer - Cluster Version
This example studies a laminar static micromixer with two parallel sets of split-reshape-recombine mixing elements. The mixer works through lamination of the streams without any moving parts and the mixing is obtained through diffusion. The purpose of this model is to demonstrate how to access the cluster computing functionality in COMSOL from ...
Joule Heating of a Microactuator - Distributed Parameter Version
A model of a thermal microactuator requires the coupled simulation of electric current conduction with heat generation, heat conduction, and structural stresses and strains due to thermal expansion. The purpose of this model is to demonstrate how to access the cluster computing functionality in COMSOL from COMSOL Desktop and use it to submit a ...
Flow Past a Cylinder
The following model examines unsteady, incompressible flow past a long cylinder placed in a channel at right angle to the oncoming fluid. The cylinder is offset somewhat from the center of the flow to make the steady-state symmetrical flow unstable. The simulation time necessary for a periodic flow pattern to appear is difficult to predict. A ...
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Tuning Fork
When a tuning fork is struck, it vibrates in a complex motion pattern that can be described mathematically as the superposition of resonant modes, also known as eigenmodes. Each mode is associated with a particular eigenfrequency. The tuning fork produces its characteristic sound from the specific timbre that is created by the combination of all ...
From Surface Mesh to Geometry: STL Import of a Vertebra
This tutorial demonstrates how to import and create a geometry from a surface mesh saved in the STL format. The instructions detail how to remove isolated faces from the imported STL mesh, how to use the geometry import parameters, and how to create volumes for simulation both on the inside and the outside of the imported geometric object. The ...
Tubular Reactor with Nonisothermal Cooling Jacket
Chemical engineering students can model a nonideal tubular reactor, including radial and axial variations in temperature and composition, and investigate the impact of different operating conditions with this easy-to-use app. The process described by the Tubular Reactor with Nonisothermal Cooling Jacket app is the exothermic reaction of propylene ...
This example uses the Transport of Diluted Species and Heat Transfer in Fluids interfaces as available in the COMSOL Multiphysics base package to study an elementary, exothermic, irreversible reaction in a tubular reactor (liquid phase, laminar flow regime). To keep its temperature down, the reactor also uses a cooling jacket with a nonisothermal ...
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