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Meditations on Love and Death (or "Day Spa")
By Shana Cozad
July 19, 2011
I remember when I was growing up, my pediatrician father used to come home and drink himself into oblivion; a place I always wondered why he frequented so often. One day, he said plainly that as a doctor that he just hated all the dying and that he thought that by him becoming a doctor that he would have a hand in helping the dying of innocent lives come to an abrupt stop.
He was so sad. His patients were all children with cancer. I remember making rounds with him at Children's Hospital. The children did not look sad to me, almost the opposite in fact. There was pain, yes, and no child liked being bald, but mention the idea of death to a child and you will find and amazing grace and acceptance and excitability to the very idea. They were not sad, like my dad, or like their own parents.
So death is a promise, for each of us. Don't you ever wish there was a prettier word for death, rather than death? Like say, "Day Spa"; you instantly get all relaxed inside and know it's such a good thing. There needs to be a better word for it someday, like Day Spa.
So, I might die from getting hit by a bus. Or I might die by getting stung by a fatal spider bite. Or perhaps, I'll fall off the roof one day. Maybe I'll die laughing, maybe I'll die having an orgasm, maybe I'll die in prayer, maybe I'll die in my sleep, maybe I'll die sitting on the potty. Or maybe I'll die of old age and/or AIDS. And it's all okay, I know and you know that my "Day Spa day" is coming eventually. Let's hope I get a late morning/early afternoon booking.
Going back to the part about the opportunities this disease presents, love and death are the big ones. Loving, with this disease, becomes so incredibly profound. My parents did not know how to love me after they found out I had AIDS. I was dead to them for the first seven years and the sickest years of my diagnosis. We had no contact with each other during those seven years. And the strangest part is, they still loved me and I still loved them, even though our hurt prevented us from overcoming our fears and our shame.
Loving partners, now there's a subject I could go on and on about, but it all boils down to "can you love me for me." So many lovers fear our bodies, fear our intimate abilities and freak out at the very idea that we are and can still be sexual human beings. And so the pain and fear that prevents couples from being able to embrace a person with HIV, gives rise to abandonment, loss, and lots and lots of being alone.
So, then there is also death. And with my raw, open feelings bleeding a woesome familiar pain because today I found out about another person in my HIV+ community who died just yesterday.
We humans were not meant to be alone. I believe we all have incredible gifts. I think I have learned many of my blessings because of this disease, called AIDS. I have learned who my friends are. I have learned that you can still love your family from afar. I have learned that love and relationship is totally possible. I have also learned that listening to your body, first and foremost is a vast and intelligent resource to learn from. Your body always knows what it needs, even if it does not say it in the language you like to hear. There are so many lessons and opportunities to be learned from this disease. So many lessons ... I realize we all have different lessons in life and that my lessons are not the same as yours ... but somewhere in between, there is still a common thread that runs through us all in the soul lessons we must each learn and embrace.
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Shana Cozad is a full-blooded Native American enrolled with The Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. She is also of Caddo, Delaware and a smidgen of French decent. Shana has been a noted, recognized public speaker, HIV/AIDS prevention educator and CTR counselor since 1994. Shana has spoken at numerous schools, universities, AIDS memorials, AIDS Walks and World AIDS Day events. Highlights include POZ Magazine, Keynoting for the 3rd Annual Circle of Harmony Conference and (Keynote for) the Mississippi State Department of Health HIV/STD Service DIS Conference and Update. Shana's story is also among the women's voices in River Huston's book A Positive Life. Shana is currently married to a wonderful lawyer and together they are raising three children in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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A Thesis Thing:Free Play and Democractic Education for A Better World
Posted by Roc in Free Play, Free Schools on November 20, 2010
Schools today don't play fair. We're on a crooked path educationally because of an addictive dependency on academics. Unmistakably our reliance on experts, instruction, and anything curricula related has caused a destructive path to our society and the way in which we relate to each other and the natural world. We're an "uptight" and "rigid" society that has almost forgotten how to play.
Our traditional school system in archaic, unsustainable, and fails at preparing students as citizens to take utmost responsibility with their education and in facing the critical issues and concerns of our times. Play barely makes the class schedule or curriculum agenda. Little time in schools is devoted towards providing non-structured and uninterrupted activities for kids to freely choose. Conventional schools have the home field advantage on academics and play is usually the first to be ejected, suspended, cut from the budget or other wise broken up into chunks of time on the school bell schedule, we call recess. Recess, a time when youth common freely play, has culturally become marginalized by the high demand of standardized testing, prescribed curricula, methodologies, and surveillance measures sprung forward from bureaucratic policies and demands. In school the pupil is "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value (Illich, 1972)." In a world of academics there is no balance, imagination, creativity, and our natural pull in childhood to freely play receives a crushing blow. The purpose of these pages is reexamine the value of free play as a trusting way for youth to follow their interests and guide themselves towards taking on more responsibilities.
The free play 1that I widely address throughout the following chapters, students have the freedom to choose their own activity or method of interacting with each other, materials, and can opt out of any prescribed curriculum, classes, or curricula. Free play is a simple principle of youth having choices about the activities they engage in, unfettered and uninterrupted by adults. In free play young people have the freedom to choice their own activities guided by one's intrinsic interests and curiosities about the world. I have discovered in my personal experience and research that when schools have the courage to fuse free play with meaningful full participatory student governance then students become more engaged participants in school community. The problem is that our current school system has a long ways to go to resemble some of the core democratic principles, in which the U.S. was founded on.
The school system has failed miserable to uphold democratic principles. "Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled (Gatto, 2002, 23)." Schools were originally designed to run parallel with the demands of the factory or the precise calculation of the input and output of an assembly line. There are fundamental human principles and values that are amiss is our state public schools that not only fail to address our times, but can be repressive to our energies for creating, playing, and learning to live more democratically. Not that all teachers take up authoritarian and mechanical like order in the classroom, but the education system is designed to leave free play and democratically local governing of schools by students, parents, and teachers, at a dead last. I do not for a second rule out truly inspiring teachers that have a deep appreciation for children and allow a generous amount of time alloted to free play, but schools generally as a social institution has failed to portray a democratic model for students that promotes more free play. Wendell Berry author, farmer, and activist suggests that the industrial age of schooling be simply replaced with this next politically coined age of information, but one that takes on a different meaning.
"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not primarily an industry and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. Its proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means first things first (Berry, 2002).
This is a book about putting play as first thing first in childhood and not secondary to academic subjects. I want to bring into question any school design that simple indoctrinates whatever is shifting within economical and political interests, with a one size fits all ideology. This is outmoded thinking and design that has not serve the complexities of our times with oil gushing in deep seas at an unprecedented rate in the Gulf of Mexico, banks getting bailouts, a downward spiral in the economy, climate change, a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the list goes on.
I'm not just suggesting that a school need to be "green" or "sustainable" or that a school offer a class in environmental education to be on par for course in cultivating socially responsible students that genuinely care about each other, equality, justice, human rights, and sustainability, but this is a start. But I think there are two human values that will enable us to get back on course to being utmost citizens and more responsible of our actions, one is free play and the other is a democratic process in our schools. The democratic process is a value that goes as far back (and further) before the infancy of our current school system and in which ordinary people met at town meetings to take on extraordinary responsibilities to build a democratic platform in our country. And play has been around since the dawn of human-kind.
This is a book is about examining what happens socially when free play becomes restricted, condemned, or not considered a meaningful part of learning in schools. This is also a book that explores democratic free schools as a not just an alternative to mainstream schooling, but a more sustainable and responsible way for youth to take ownership of their education and of their lives. And last but not least, this is a book that has been personally brewing for the past few year in two particular schools that put play in center of the curriculum – the Community School of West Seattle and more recently the Village Free School in Portland, Oregon. Both of these unique schools have reminded me of the power of play in our every day lives, as a means of fostering greater care, respect, and responsibility to each other and the natural world.
We're living in new times that reflects some complex issues that can not simple be ignored or what Al Gore points to as the Inconvenient Truth. There is a common voice being echoed that there is a strong urge to put the breaks on burning up nonrenewable resources, on perpetual and preemptive wars, to stamp out all that is "wrong about the status-quo, to learn to consume less, conserve more resources, and organize our selves to generally live more sustainable. The problems socially are pressing, evident, inconvenient, but real across all partisans, religions, and social divides. My hopeful side would like to suggest that we've entered into a "sustainable age," an age that puts nature first, rather than machines or production, and there is a growing awareness among the public to curb this idea as "business as usual." But there is looming evidence among scientists, environmentalist, intellects, and the like that we're on a destructive path that may not be reversed. How can we as adults and young people take better care of ourselves, the people around us, and the planet?
I believe schools can be grandiose places for experimenting with democracy to creatively prepare future generations, with students, teaches, and families involving themselves equally in the governance of their school, while at the same notion, honoring self-directed approaches to learning, as I commonly refer to throughout these pages, as free play. The movement to making school more playful and democratic is mainly the result of concerned families making responsible choices to get involved or to create schools that reflect more of their values. Families that recognize that taking a socially responsible stance moves beyond just casting a vote during another year election year, when one comes of age, but involves a clearer devotion to consciously share in community, expresses genuine interest in wanting to get involved, and makes important decisions governing their own lives.
No longer in our modern times can we afford to rely on schools that do not represent a democratic form of governance on a local level, and rank play last on the lesson plan. What I am calling for is for schools to operate with two main principles, free play and democratic governance, in that order. Free schools emerged in response to a destructive pattern of traditional schools in the 19th century. Today democratic free schools throughout the nation have an education philosophy built on equal relationships among students and teachers, freedom to choose activities (free play) and responsibility to govern the daily operations of the school. Free schools in general have withstood the test of time, and have embarked on creating environments honorable of free play and democratic governance. The challenges of this is not that there is one particular model that exists among democratic free schools that suits all communities, but there are two noticeable distinct principles in my research and personal experience among free schools, that I find give them a leg up for nurturing more humanistic, holistic, and democratic practices.
In the end we can look at democratic free schools as an educational alternative that strives to put individualism, self -directive learning, free play, and the democratic process front and center not only to optimizing learning, but for building more meaningful ways of engaging with each other and the world. There is a common thread among these schools that I find relevant to being experimental grounds, yet a reliable means for harnessing greater social responsibility.
When children have "opportunities to make decisions about their own learning and about daily life in their school communities, they show surprising maturity, creativity, and thoughtfulness (Miller, 73)." Throughout these chapters I will concentrate primarily on schools that I believe optimize the level of social responsibility among families, students, teachers, and community members. Schools that have committed to a democratic process that has been customized to meeting all the real needs, interests, of the students, parents, teachers, and active participants of the school community. Schools that also place much trust on free play, not just a means to improve cognitive ability and health, but as a substantial element for fostering independence, critical thinking, healthy conflict resolution, and caring response to others and the natural world.
There has been much evidence collected on the subject of free play (which I will address more of in Part 1) as brain boosting strategies to enhance the performance of youth in schools. My emphasis, is rather on the social attributes that emerge through free play, however I don't dismiss the relevance of free play to cognitive and social development, nor do I discount some of this importance, but I think it would be a mistake not to delve deeper into this magic of play. Why is it that we're a culture that puts all other subjects before play? And what is lost in an ideology that ranks play at the bottom of the school day "to do list"?
Let's begin by examining some of the core systemic, social, and cultural obstacles in the way of free play. In later chapters we will look towards potential solutions in schools that may get us back on track through inviting more play and cultivating a democratic process honorable of creating greater social responsibility.
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Hard at Work
Caught with the Camera
A Soft Song
I love taking short videos to see what magic flares up during free play. A song emerges from this moment. Yet, the play switches to a serious tone as they sit down to recite there is still a playful nature.
Wade Again
A Wading We Will Go
Science and Color
Scouring the shelves of the curriculum closet I came across a "contraction" that had a tag on it that read: "For mixing, paint and potions." This I thought, sounded mysterious and deserved to see the light of day. I thought I start with running water through the mechanical mixer just to see how it actually works. After testing it out, I thought it would be interesting to use this as a vehicle to introducing children to the the simple mechanics involving air, pressure, and water. And we added our own color to the water one could observe the actual flow of water as it channeled through the tubes. I still don't think we used this apparatus as for what it is intended for, but without any directions included, we got to make this one up. I think the next time we will experiment with making paint and adding it directly to the their art work This should make for an interesting way of combining science with art!

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Meeting of May 16, 2007 - Employment Testing and Screening
Rae T. Vann first joined the EEAC staff as counsel with the Washington, D.C. law firm of McGuiness, Norris & Williams, LLP in July 2000. Rae served as counsel to EEAC from July 2000 to December 2003, and in 2007 returned to the organization to as serve as EEAC's general counsel. As general counsel, Ms. Vann supervises the preparation and filing of EEAC amicus curiae briefs in important EEO cases.
Prior to rejoining EEAC, Ms. Vann was associated with Shipman & Goodwin, LLP, a major Connecticut law firm, where she practiced Labor and Employment and School Law. She also worked for Chubb Specialty Insurance as an Employment Practices Liability (EPL) severity claims examiner.
Ms. Vann previously served as Special Counsel to the New Haven Board of Education, where she represented the Board in various matters, including state and federal employment discrimination claims, federal compliance reviews, termination proceedings, and labor disputes before the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and the State Board of Labor Relations. Prior to that, Ms. Vann was an associate attorney with Hartford, Connecticutbased Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, representing clients in labor and employment litigation matters. She also provided in-house and external training on compliance with equal employment opportunity laws and responding to discrimination claims.
Ms. Vann began her career in the position of Staff Attorney for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ("CCHRO"), where she was involved in all aspects of the discrimination complaint investigation process, including pre-investigative review, expedited factfinding, full investigation, conciliation and mediation. During her tenure at CCHRO, Ms. Vann also provided training on diversity and discrimination complaint investigation methodology.
Ms. Vann received her B.S. in Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon and her law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, the State of Connecticut, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts.
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sbdki needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
(la) vie en rose
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Miami Heat's LeBron James might team with David Beckham on MLS franchise
Every step along the way in his quest to make Miami care about Major League Soccer, David Beckham has tried to tangentially tie LeBron James to the project.
When Beckham first floated the idea of another MLS franchise in South Florida, he did it while also making public appearances at Heat playoff games. With the Heat leading the Pacers 91-65 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, James made time during a stoppage in play to shake Beckham's hand and give Beckham's billionaire backer, Marcelo Claure, a fist pound.
The handshake was a welcoming to the city just as this latest tie between Beckham, James and the MLS is an important, albeit mostly symbolic, gesture. James confirmed Monday he is involved in an "open dialogue" with Beckham about possibly owning a share of an MLS franchise in Miami. The Daily Mail first reported the story.
"There is some interest on both sides," said James, who already owns a small share of Liverpool FC. "David has become a good friend of mine over the last few years and I think it would be great for this city to have a football club. There is interest on both sides, but it's preliminary talks."
For Beckham, having one of the most recognizable athletes in the world on board to market the MLS to Miami is just another important step in a very difficult and complicated process of making sure the product thrives in South Florida. James was wise to call it a "football club," because the verdict is still out on whether or not Miami will support "soccer."
So far, James likes what Beckham is selling, but he isn't completely sold on the idea. Asked what he thought of the potential for MLS in Miami, James said, "We don't know."
"The research is still being made out, but I think it could be huge," James said. "But, you never know. I think this is a great town for soccer. There are a lot of soccer players here. There's a great youth [system] of soccer here. And people love the city as well, so that definitely will help."
If anyone can bridge the divide between Miami's love of international soccer and the city's tepidity for the sport's domestic variant, it's Beckham, who first created a buzz for Major League Soccer when he signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007. Beckham's deal with MLS, which owns all players' contracts, gave him the option to start a franchise at a discounted rate upon his retirement. Beckham retired this summer and almost immediately began laying the groundwork for an MLS club in Miami.
But plenty of work remains before MLS awards Beckham and Miami with an expansion franchise, including the most important aspect of the bid. Securing a permanent home for a potential team in an attractive part of town could make or break the deal.
James, now apparently an insider to Beckham's plans, indicated nothing is certain at this point. Asked if he felt like Miami is definitely going to land a team, he said, "We don't know. I don't know."
"It's like buying a house," James said. "You don't know until you sign the papers."
Dwyane Wade said Monday he didn't plan on playing in Saturday's game against Charlotte but was called into emergency service when the NBA suspended Mario Chalmers. Wade went 1 of 7 from the field, scored four points and went to the locker room in the third quarter.
"I've just got to be smart," Wade said. "The other night with Rio going out, it made my decision harder. I didn't plan on playing on that [second night of the] back-to-back but I did and you continue to learn and understand that my knee wasn't ready for that."
Wade had OssaTron shock wave therapy to his knee this summer. It's a process that ultimately stimulates healing but also causes soreness similar to tendonitis during the rehabilitation period. Rashard Lewis had the procedure last summer and struggled through much of the 2012-13 season. This season, Lewis has returned to form.
"It's great to have a teammate who just went through it," Wade said. "You can kind of talk to him and say, 'Man, what the hell is going on?' and he can kind of give you a little bit of information if you're feeling the same way. It will give you a little hope as well, knowing that it did turn around."
Lewis said Wade initially is going to struggle on the second nights of back to backs, but "he'll feel a lot better off come January and February."
"It's a six-month healing process," Lewis said. "Right now he's still going through that process of rehabbing and healing. I did the same thing last year during the season. My knees weren't as strong as they are this year, but it's going to take time and patience but next year he'll be feeling a lot better."
Lewis said it was tough for him to practice last season, never mind trying to star in games like Wade.
"You can't spring off your knees, you can't cut, you can't jump," Lewis said.
Wade set a career high for steals (eight) on Friday before struggling Saturday.


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By Ed Harris
Activate Southington has received a $10,000 continuation grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to continue to pioneer an active lifestyle in town.
"It was pretty competitive," John Myers, a founder of Activate Southington and the executive director of the Southington YMCA said about the grant process. "It's a great validation."
Myers said that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation only gave out 11 continuation grants nationwide. Only one other grant, for the Torrington area, was awarded in Connecticut, Myers said.
This is the second round of funding that Activate Southington has received from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The group was originally founded and funded through a $35,000 grant from the foundation in 2009.
Myers said the group would use the recent grant allocation to keep a part time staff member that has been helping to keep Activate Southington moving forward.
Since its inception, Activate Southington has played a part in moving the farmers market to the town green, playing the lead role in the Safe Routes to School program, Project ACES, the Healthy Family Funfest and more recently with the physically active classrooms.
The group has also recently put together an active living guide for the town. It involves a comprehensive listing of the various active businesses, areas and activities in Southington. The guide is available on the websites for Activate Southington and the town's website. The Southington YMCA also has hard copies.
"Our overall goal is to create a healthier Southington," Myers said. "We want to get people moving."
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Phaedra Brody
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The face of the forlorn and melancholic character is redundant in Phaedra Brody?s work. The photograph Malaparte was taken on the estate of the eponymous villa. A tribute to the film Contempt (Le Mépris) filmed in the same place, the couple represents the modern Camille and Paul. Yesterday?s lovers continue, through habit, to take the same path but are already no longer linked. The woman seems the most detached. Inward looking, she seems vacant. Brody?s feminine figure is a Hitchcock blonde. With an icy beauty, she is unapproachable and trivial, as well as sacred and savage. If not sensual, her sexual dimension is suggested and associated with dangerousness.Read more Read less
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Clearing Debris at the Pool of Siloam
The picture has the following caption: "Dr. Willie Dye and team working at the Pool of Siloam, Jerusalem (The steps are being carefully excavated)".
The caption leads the uninitiated to assume three things: 1) Dr. Willie Dye has a legitimate degree and professional experience in archaeology; 2) it somewhat implies that he is in charge of the excavation and has a "team" (also implying some degree of prefessional expertise in archaeology) working under him; and 3) they are all engaged in careful, methodologically excavation that requires some degree of expertise.
My biggest issue with so-called evangelical/fundamentalist "Biblical Archaeologists" is the relatively large number of them who have no legitimate degree in the discipline, no formal training in its methods or theory, and absolutely no track record of producing viable data in publication. Yet they continue to portray themselves as "archaeologists" to the masses of uninformed waiting breathlessly to hear that the "professionals" have verified their belief system with "science". This picture and its caption reminded me that both Willie Dye and Carl Baugh visited my little corner of the world years ago (invited by two local boys who had joined Baugh and Dye's "team") and hawked their creationist and "bible-verified-by-archaeology" snake oil to our local community. Never ones to miss an opportunity to proselytize, the editorial staff at The Lassen County Times ran a number of articles on the trip and made every effort to imply that these guys were legitimate archaeologists, conducting important archaeology that was proving the bible correct in every way, and that they were leading the excavations because of their expertise in the field.
Willie Dye and Carl Baugh have no legitimate credentials in archaeology. They have no professional experience in archaeology. They have no publications in archaeology. They are not archaeologists. They and their "team" were volunteers (or part of the many "bible" tours offered by vendors looking for a quick buck). The photo shows them clearing debris, not "excavating carefully". They probably helped out quite a bit and enabled the directors of the project (who were not Baugh or Dye) to get some work accomplished, but their "expertise" was nothing you couldn't have taught a bright ten-year-old in an afternoon. This picture further reminded me of a previous post on the subject of archaeology and its abuse by creationists. Here's a short passage on the nature of public archaeology, volunteerism and the potential for non-professional fraud:
Third, archaeology's greatest public benefit can also be its greatest weakness. Some aspects of archaeology, unlike other disciplines, are quite amenable to non-professional public involvement. Volunteers are not only welcomed, but frequently encouraged to participate in professional excavations. Digging square holes is not quantum physics, and most people with an interest in the past can be taught to dig and screen dirt with the best of us. Don't get me wrong: there are frequently times when finesse, experience and skill are required for intricate excavation of special features and the skill level of most non-professionals is inadequate to the task – it is here where the professional archaeologist will usually take over. But a significant part of most large scale excavations is removing lots of dirt and not finessing the excavation of intricate features. Volunteers certainly make valuable contributions to archaeology and some gain a measure of expertise (I work with a few) – but they are not professional archaeologists. Excavation is really only a minor part of archaeology: it is the analysis and interpretation that requires significant expertise in the method and theory of archaeology, the ability to adhere to the methods of science, and skill at formulating cohesive arguments. Most non-professionals know the limits of their often significant contributions. Some, however, pick up a piece of pottery and suddenly become self-proclaimed experts in the field…and creationists will rush in and create expansive expertise out of shoveling dirt for a day faster than you can say "Indiana Jones". We certainly have the usual creationist cast such as Carl Baugh, Willie Dye, Richard Fales and Clifford Wilson claiming to be professional archaeologists when they have no academic training, no professional field experience, and no track record of having produced reviewable contributions to the discipline. But there are also a growing number of Christian volunteers, willing to pay to participate in archaeological fieldwork in the Holy Land, who then return home to go on the "lecture circuit" and recount how their archaeological experiences are "proving the Bible correct". Many clearly participate in order to gain a measure of professional authenticity that they then parade in front of home audiences. This is bad enough for archaeology, but it also broadly translates into the perception that these people can speak authoritatively on science in general. After all, they've participated with professional archaeologists on professional excavations. If they know something about potsherds, they must also know something about the failings of "macroevolution", right?
As I said, archaeology's greatest benefit, but also its greatest weakness. It is unfortunate that archaeology is not subject to the same strict legal consequences for quackery as medicine. If that were the case I suspect that Baugh, Dye and most other fundamentalists would have lost their licenses or been jailed long ago.
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I did not see YOU on the History Channel with Dr. Willie Dye.
- Christopher O'Brien said...
Nope. But you still didn't see a professional archaeologist, just a charlatan. Willie Dye is not recognized as a legitimate, professional archaeologist by anyone with any credibility. He has published nothing professionally; he would not be granted a research permit to excavate on any public land in the US precisely because he lacks the credible credentials and professional experience necessary to claim the title "archaeologist". The man's a fraud - if he got on the History Channel that tells me more about the inability of the History Channel staff to conduct proper background research than anything else.
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OCC Reminds Consumers to Read Gift Cards' Fine Print
WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reminds consumers to read the terms and conditions when you receive or purchase gift cards this holiday season.
Gift cards can have expiration dates, fees, and other terms that can reduce their value. Other terms may limit where cards can be used or explain handling complaints and lost or stolen cards.
Last year consumers lost $8 billion by not using the gift cards that they received or purchased. This year, 88 percent of Americans will buy two or more gift cards and, according to the National Retail Federation, the projected value of those cards will surpass $26 billion.
Consumers should know the following terms before purchasing a gift card and pass on that information to the recipient:
If these disclosures are not stated on the gift card or its packaging, check for a toll-free number or Web site.
For national banks that issue gift cards, the OCC has issued guidance about "stored value cards," such as gift cards. The guidance requires banks to clearly disclose the fees and terms associated with the gift card. The guidance also states that banks should avoid any marketing that misleads people about the terms, conditions, or limitations of the gift card.
If you have a complaint or problem involving a gift card issued by a national bank and have not been able to resolve the issue by contacting the bank directly, contact the OCC's Customer Assistance Group by calling (800) 613-6743 or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. For more about gift cards, visit www.HelpWithMyBank.gov.
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PlayStation Plus' Free Games for March Revealed
Lady Croft, Thomas, the undead and even more monsters are going to be the free offerings for PS Plus members during the month of March.
The PlayStation Blog has unveiled the free downloadable titles offered for PlayStation Plus members for next month, and it is quite the collection. First, we have Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition for PlayStation 4. This title brings the run-and-gun to next-gen as you play a frenzied top-down shooter. The Apocalypse Edition of Dead Nation streamlines its graphics engine and offers extra game modes that were never seen in the previous versions of Dead Nation.
For PlayStation 3 owners, there are three free games being offered. Tomb Raider was one of last year's best titles, which is a perfect example of how to properly reboot a fallen franchise. Thomas Was Alone is a solid indie platformer that revolves around guiding rectangles through a course of obstacles and platforms where jumping, planning and protection are essential. Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut is a survival horror adventure title where you must escape a disease-ridden city. Lone Survivor gives you a variety of options in trying to escape. You can use stealth or go through levels guns-blazing. Mental health, sleeping and eating are all attributes your character must tend to as you continue to look for an exit from the city.
PlayStation Vita owners with a PS Plus member are in luck as they get both Unit 13 and Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite. Unit 13 is a fast-paced, dual stick tactical shooter that is meant for on-the-go gameplay. Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite offers 100s of hours of gameplay as you try to take down gargantuan monsters, collect their spoils and use what you find to create new sets of armor and weapons to hunt down even bigger beasts. If you have a save from Monster Hunter: Freedom 2, you are able to transfer it to Freedom Unite.


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100 x 100 cm, Oil on canvas
The most fascinating period is from 2012 on. Mitkov highlights two particular dates in it: 21.12.2012, supposedly the end of the world, and 10.02.2013, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the Chinese New Year. According to the artist, that was the time when the mankind chose its future 2000-year cycle and the good prevailed. Always positive, always filled with a lot of energy, Mitkov turned his latest period into a life mission. It is not about just composing paintings but rather about creating and putting enormous love into canvases. The painter believes a painting can make a real difference in a man's life.


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Gujranwala (Wednesday, August 15, 2012) – Board of intermediate and secondary education (BISE) Gujranwala will announce Annual Examination IX Class Result SSC-I 2012 on today 15/8/2012 at 10:00AM PST.
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Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a 13-year-old plucked from her rustic home in Russia and dropped into the center of bustling Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. Girl Model is a lyrical exploration of a world defined by glass surfaces and camera lenses, reflecting back differing versions of reality to the young women caught in their scope.
After screening Girl Model all over the world we have found the most prominent question has been, "What kind of action can I take?" It's not always an easy question given the lyrical films we make, but it's not an impossible question given how the documentary is hitting an emotional chord with audiences.
During production we began working with model Rachel Blais. She took on the important role of our fashion industry adviser. She is also featured in the documentary. So far Rachel has booked the film at theaters, garnered important national press, and passed out surveys after screenings for audience reactions. The first law Rachel is recommending is no more minors (under 18 years old) represented in adult fashion, and additionally to stop granting work visas to underage models. Her passion to change industry-wide standards is exciting! We want Rachel's passion to become a reality. Our goal is to work with Rachel and an experienced outreach coordinator to organize an audience engagement campaign alongside the September US theatrical release. We want to target educational (University/High Schools) and non-profit audiences with the hopes of raising awareness.
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Our goal is to raise $12,000. The funds will be used for the following:
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David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have produced, directed, edited and photographed six feature documentaries: Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005), Kamp Katrina (2007), Intimidad (2008), Invisible Girlfriend (2009), Girl Model (2011) and Downeast (2012). Their intimate and intricately crafted documentaries have won a variety of film festival awards. Their work has aired on television stations throughout the world. Redmon received his PhD in sociology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is a former Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and the Film Studies Center. Sabin received her BA in Art History from Pratt Institute.
Rachel Blais started her international modelling career in 2002. After a trip to India where she did volunteer work, Rachel met Girl Model co-directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin in Tokyo in 2009. Since then she has acted as the fashion consultant for the film and has been assisting on it's development. Since Girl Model premiere at Tiff in September 2011 Rachel has been actively attending film festivals with Girl Model. She's also helped organize the premiere screenings of Girl Model in London, Uk and Montreal, Canada. By speaking out at screenings and to the media, Rachel has become a spokes-person for the film and for the fight against child labor practices in the fashion industry. Rachel has been on the model committee for the Trade-Union Equity in the Uk since 2011 as she feels strongly about the importance of creating regulations to protect models in the fashion industry, but even more to stop using children, under 18 years old, to models as adults. With her experiences and observations of the industry she believes laws banning children to model in the adult fashion world is the only way for certain very negative practices within the industry to change and for regulations to be respected in the industry for adult models.
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"Eerie, visceral horror haunts every scene." Indiewire (Girl Model @ top of Indiewire TIFF poll)
"A must-see movie as intriguing as it is disturbing." Marie Claire
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A grocery store in Brussels has installed a fully automatic vending machine that dispenses fresh-cooked French fries with a Belgian twist.
The precooked and frozen fries are dropped into hot beef fat, considered by many Belgians to be the frying fat of choice for a golden brown finish. The new machine prepares a half-cup serving of fries in 90 seconds for $3.50. After a 90-second wait, the serving emerges from the vending machine accompanied by a fork, salt, ketchup or mayonnaise.
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Army & SMU post-game quotes
December 30, 2010 at Gerald J. Stadium
Stephen Anderson, Army linebacker and Rich Ellerson, Army Coach
THE MODERATOR: Coach Ellerson, if you could make an opening statement and talk about Stephen a little bit.
COACH ELLERSON: Well, first, what a hard-fought football game that is and how fortunate we were to win. That's an awfully good football team we played.
With respect to our guys, this is our football team represented by Stephen Anderson and this senior class. What I want to say to those guys is, you can't appreciate how much those guys have accomplished in their time here, because some of the big things they did, some of the things that will have the longest impact, longest legs, greatest impact over time, you can't see except for what happens out there between the white lines.
I'm so happy for them that they had this day, that they got this seventh win. We've been saying, Bring winning football back for two years, and they did. So they've earned a place. We talk about the pantheon of great Army football teams.
T his senior class and this football team has earned a place with that pantheon of great Army football teams. They've brought something back to West Point that has been absent. It will flourish there because of the culture these guys have created for Army football.
My point about Stephen is he's a great player. He loves to play the game. But the best things about Stephen aren't going to be left on the football field. The best things about Stephen are going to go with him in life. The best things about Stephen are going to be with him as a lieutenant next year, and it's going to continue to pay dividends for all of us.
That's why we play football at West Point, so guys like Stephen have this developmental journey, because they're going to take it on and take it to another place, to another sphere where they have tremendous influence and responsibility for all of us.
Stephen is one of these guys, but he represents who those guys are. You need to sleep well at night k nowing these guys are out there.
THE MODERATOR: Stephen, make a comment about your play today and the victory.
STEPHEN ANDERSON: That's the position I'm in. I'm the Mike linebacker in the double eagle flex defense that's supposed to be a player that can run sideline to sideline and make plays. I don't try to deviate from the defensive scheme. I just try to do my job.
We had 11 guys doing their job today. That's the best part about playing the game, you get to play next to your brothers who trust you to do your job, and of course you trust them to do their job. It's a great feeling.
THE MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. Coach, you knew they were going to make that comeback in the fourth quarter. After they missed the field goal, you were driving down, it was third down, tell us about the timeout, the play that you called.
COACH ELLERSON: Well, I'm doing a couple things in that moment. First, Ian and I are talking. We're saying, Okay, we converted the first third down with bootleg, so keep the ball in the quarterback's hands, stay in bounds. If we could get the first down, great. Well, we did.
We go back to the well. It was the same thing. Okay, we're going to try this back to the wide side of the field, keep the ball in the quarterback's hands. If we don't get it, we'll keep the clock running. They're out of timeouts. Gonna take a delay of game. So I say, Okay, I'm going down the defense now. If they're gonna take a delay of game, we're gonna punt the ball if we don't get this.
Sure enough, we come out and he throws it. My first thing was, Oh. So there was another discussion that took place after I switched over to the defensive side of the headset, apparently, or you never know.
Again, we always tell those guys, If somebody is standing wide open, throw it to 'em. We've been known to miss wide-open guys before. We always take a deep breath in that situation.
It's a combination of Ian and -- that play doe sn't get made just in that moment. That play, we've been working on that for two years. We've been developing that kind of confidence, that kind of precision, that kind of poise. That's how things like that happen.
Q. From a former cadet Army officer to a future officer, it seemed like your team responded so well. How proud are you of their performance? In today's world, a team that plays together as one, what does that mean to you, Stephen?
STEPHEN ANDERSON: That's what we pride ourselves on. We're not just teammates. We're not just casual acquaintances. We're a brotherhood. When you have a team that believes in one another like we do, it's just a matter of having fun with our brothers.
We all had fun with our brothers our entire lives, so that's something that having the opportunity to be in that situation, come out on the victorious end, is something that's very special to us. I mean, we're always going to remember it.
Q. Stephen, you wer en't shy about saying there was a lot on the line for this game. How sweet is it that this ends your career and you brought winning football back to West Point?
STEPHEN ANDERSON: It's something we said back in prep school. We had a great prep school class. We weren't going into a very successful program. Guys were taking that opportunity to maybe shop around, maybe go somewhere else.
We sat everybody down and said, Look, we have the team that can bring winning football back to West Point. It's just a matter of time. When you have a young team like that that buys into something like that and then you have Coach E bringing what we've always felt inside but just needed someone to push us a little more for it, it's just kind of like a dream come true.
It's a pact we made. It's a decision. Human will is the strongest thing on this earth. When you make a decision, you have to believe in it. That's exactly what we did.
Q. Talk about the importance of this win as far as beating a team with a winning record. Had this streak of 22 consecutive games. Now the monkey is off your back.
COACH ELLERSON: Well, it had to happen this way. We talked about bringing winning football back. One of the things we talked about toward the end of the year, we felt like we were the next evolutionary step, the next obstacle, the next thing we had to realize was how to go on to a big stage against a quality team and play like we can, play as poised and precise and determined as we can.
Frankly, there were some times this year when we stepped onto the stage that we didn't do that. That's not to say we would have run Notre Dame out of the stadium or anything like that.
My point was, we wouldn't handle that situation the way we would expect an Army football team, that poised, precise football team to manage it. So that was going to have to happen if we were going to have that winning tradition back.
This senior class can make that pa rt of their legacy because they stepped onto a big stage. It was an uphill fight. They did the things that correlate with


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Sims Creator Begins Tampering with Real Life
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- Date: Nov 21,2011
Will Wright, creator of The Sims, is moving beyond mere pixels, and taking gamers with him. Instead of letting you play god and housing designer to a group of non-sentient AI, his newest game will actually play games with your life with a little help from GPS, cloud storage, and your friends.
If it sees that you go to car shows frequently, it will mold the game accordingly. The more the game finds out about you, the more it's going to be customized to your life. If you share absolutely nothing with it, you'll be left with what should be a very generic, but perhaps mildly entertaining game. Read the rest of this entry »


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SAMMEROFF needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 250 designs submitted by 86 freelance designers.
Frank Sammeroff Ltd
We are a long established family run first aid manufacturer/wholesaler, breaking into a new customer segment; stationery catalogues such as Lyreco and Claire Clifford, where our current logos and branding are not suitable.
The catalogues our products will appear in will be aimed towards office workers who use them to purchase office and stationery supplies. Our new logo should help our brand become recognisable as the standard for first aid items in this market segment.
We are looking for a logo to represent our company in Office Stationery Catalogues.
1. The logo must scale down to a rough size of 10mm tall by 10-20mm wide without losing clarity.
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3. No cartoons, clipart or stock images - we are looking for a contemporary twist on traditional first aid.
No colour restrictions. Ratings and feedback will be given.
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You know, like "Ode to the Lint I Found in my Navel This Morning." Or, "A Treatise on the Lower Digestive Tract of Aardvarks."
Then the masochists would be in here looking for some Vogon poetry.
The dead getting a piece? Well, that's an unusual take on zombies.
Ahh thats disgusting... thread necrpophilia , just let the dead have there peace.
You know.. realy.. what the hell is wrong with some Necro.
Some states regard it as desecration of a corpse and some zombies call it rape?
Unless it's the zombie that's the agressor. What can I say? Some zombies like brains, others like tail.
this mean management dont have any power over us?
-huffs-What's wrong with a little bit of necro here and there?
.....and putting on Vek's bunny slippers.(Dirty: A boy fell in the mud)(Clean: He took a bath with bubbles)(Dirty: Bubbles was the girl next door)
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For the Cobras, Chris Marsh led the way with a total of 144, giving him even par for the tournament. He was followed by Blaine Rogers at 145, +1, while Stephen Thomson tied for tenth with a score of 146, +2. Rounding out the Coker "A" Team were Keith Wallace with a 154 and Steve Frisch with a 159.
Coker's "B" Team faired well finishing eighth of 14 teams. They were led by Benoit Gordon with a 150, followed by Jay Goldenberg with a 151. Jimmy Gillam finished with a 153, while Andrew Efird shot a 156 and Patrick Kirby fired a 157 two day total.
The Cobras have now completed their fall season and will begin preparing for the spring semester, where they will be on the hunt to retain their CVAC Championship and return to the NCAA National Championship.


text: What budget do you have to build that FPGA? As under a few million dollar project team to design that FPGA you won't easily beat a GPU with a FPGA for things like matrix calculations and especially not for double precision floating point calculations in general spoken. Would be interesting to know whether there is exceptions to the rule as of today... ...like a guy like Feng Hsiu Hsu (the deep blue chip programmer) who single handed programmed a chip. Every year that passes the budget you need to beat the latest GPU's is increasing, note i would want to extend the gpu versus fpga discussion a tad more and also include Xeon Phi in this list as well as the latest IBM incarnation, though that isn't a GPU of course, yet it already runs what is it 18 cores @ 72 threads or something (didn't check lately)? IBM so to speak is scaling up their BlueGenes quicker in number of cores than the GPU's currently advance there... Beating these specialized HPC/GPGPU processors with a FPGA seems to get tougher and tougher. Of course you can do it for specific calculations, especially prime numbers... ...but at which budget costs? On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Reiner Hartenstein wrote: > > > which accelerators have the better power envelope? GPUs or FPGAs? > > > Best regards, > Reiner > > > Am 15.03.2013 20:00, schrieb beowulf-request at beowulf.org: >> Send Beowulf mailing list submissions to beowulf at beowulf.org To >> subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http:// >> www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf or, via email, send a >> message with subject or body 'help' to beowulf-request at beowulf.org >> You can reach the person managing the list at beowulf- >> owner at beowulf.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so >> it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Beowulf digest..." >> Today's Topics: 1. Re: The GPU power envelope (was difference >> between accelerators) (Lux, Jim (337C)) >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:52:25 +0000 From: "Lux, Jim >> (337C)" <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] The GPU >> power envelope (was difference between accelerators) To: Beowulf >> List <beowulf at beowulf.org> Message-ID: <CD67E739.2E0F8% >> james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us- >> ascii" I think what you've got here is basically the idea that >> "things that are closer, consume less power and cost less because >> you don't have the "interface cost". A FPU sitting on the bus with >> the integer ALU inside the chip has minimum overhead.. No going on >> and off chip and the associated level shifting, no charging and >> discharging of the transmission lines, etc. A coprocessor sitting >> on the bus with the CPU is a bit worse.. The connection has to go >> off chip, so you have to change voltage levels, and physically >> charge and discharge a longer trace/transmission line. A graphics >> card on a PCI bus has not only the on/off chip transition, it has >> more than one because the PCI interface also goes through that. >> More capacitors to charge and discharge too. A second node >> connected with some wideband interconnect, but in a different >> box... You get the idea.. This is why people are VERY interested >> in on chip optical transmitters and receivers (e.g. Things like >> VCSELs and APDs). You could envision a processor with an array of >> transmitters and receivers to create point to point links to other >> processors that are within the field of view. Only one "change of >> media" On 3/14/13 4:29 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" <diep at xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I think HSA is potentially interesting for HPC, too. I really >>>>>> expect AMD and/or Intel to ship products this year that have a >>>>>> C/GPU chip mounted on the same interposer as some high- >>>>>> bandwidth ram. >>>>> How can an integrated gpu outperform a gpgpu card? >>>> if you want dedicated gpu computation, a gpu card is ideal. >>>> obviously, integrated GPUs reduce the PCIe latency overhead, and/ >>>> or have an advantage in directly accessing host memory. I'm >>>> merely pointing out that the market has already transitioned to >>>> putting integrated gpus - the vote on this is closed. the real >>>> question is what direction the onboard gpu takes: how integrated >>>> it becomes with the cpu, and how it will take advantage of >>>> upcoming 2.5d-stacked in-package dram. >>> Integrated gpu's will of course always have a very limited power >>> budget. So the gpgpu cards with the same generation gpu for gpgpu >>> from the same manufacturer with a bigger power envelope is always >>> going to be 10x faster of course. If you'd get 10 computers with >>> 10 apu's, even for a small price, you still would need an >>> expensive network and switch to handle those, so that's 10 ports. >>> So that's 1000 dollar a port roughly, so that's $10k extra, and >>> we assume then that your massive supercomputer doesn't get into >>> trouble further up in bandwidth otherwise your network cost >>> suddenly gets $3000 a port instead of $2k a port, with factor 10 >>> ports more. That's always going to lose it moneywise from a >>> single gpgpu card that's 10x faster. Whether that's Xeon Phi >>> version X Nvidia Kx0X, it's always going to be 10x faster of >>> course and 10x cheaper for massive supercomputing. >>>> >>>>> Something like what is it 25 watt versus 250 watt, what will be >>>>> faster? >>>> per-watt? per dollar? per transaction? the integrated gpu is, of >>>> course, merely a smaller number of cores as the separate card, >>>> so will perform the same, relative to a proportional slice of >>>> the appropriate-generation add-in-card. trinity a10-5700 has 384 >>>> radeon 69xx cores running at 760 MHz, delivering 584 SP gflops - >>>> 65W iirc. but only 30 GB/s for it and the CPU. let's compare >>>> that to a 6930 card: 1280 cores, 154 GB/s, 1920 Gflops. about >>>> 1/3 the cores, flops, and something less than 1/5 the bandwidth. >>>> no doubt the lower bandwidth will hurt some codes, and the lower >>>> host-gpu latency will help others. I don't know whether APUs >>>> have the same SP/DP ratio as comparable add-in cards. >>>>> >>>>> I assume you will not build 10 nodes with 10 cpu's with >>>>> integrated gpu in order to rival a single card. >>>> no, as I said, the premise of my suggestion of in-package ram is >>>> that it would permit glueless tiling of these chips. the number >>>> you could tile in a 1U chassis would primarily be a question of >>>> power dissipation. 32x 40W units would be easy. perhaps 20 60W >>>> units. since I'm just making up numbers here, I'm going to claim >>>> that performance will be twice that of trinity (a nice round 1 >>>> Tflop apiece or 20 Tflops/RU. I speculate that 4x 4Gb in-package >>>> gddr5 would deliver 64 GB/s, 2GB/ socket - a total capacity of >>>> 40 GB/RU at 1280 GB/s. compare this to a 1U server hosting 2-3 >>>> K10 cards = 4.6 Gflops and 320 GB/s each. 13.8 Gflops, 960 GB/s. >>>> similar power dissipation. >>> _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing >>> list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To >>> change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> ------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing >> list Beowulf at beowulf.org http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> beowulf End of Beowulf Digest, Vol 109, Issue 22 >> **************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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New season, premiering Sept. 30, also features 'Fabulous Beekman Boys'
The wildly popular CBS reality show "The Amazing Race," which makes its season premiere on Sept. 30, has announced its new cast, and it includes two San Diegans.
Meet the team of Abbie Ginsberg and Ryan Danz, dubbed by the show as the "Dating Divorcees." Ginsberg, of San Diego, is a dance instructor at the Carlsbad Dance Centre, while Danz, of Encinitas, is an entrepreneur and owner of a financial services company.
Danz posted the announcement on his Facebook page early this morning, joking: "I like these two ... I think I'll root for them. At least her."
Danz is not new to the reality TV show scene: He was a cast member of the 2005 season of "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart," which also featured San Diegan Marcela Valladolid, now a Food Network star and author.
The new cast also includes goat farmers and life partners Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, otherwise known as The Fabulous Beekman Boys from the popular The Cooking Channel show of the same name. Also on the roster: double-amputee professional snowboarder Amy Purdy, heavy metal rocker and former member of White Lion and Megadeth James LoMenzo and Las Vegas Chippendales dancers Jaymes Vaughan and James Davis.
The reality competition series "The Amazing Race" enters its 21st season this year and will once again feature teams — 11, to be exact — racing around the world for a prize of $2 million. This will be the first time in the show's history that it's offering a $2 million prize. The competition will take the teams through three continents and nine countries, spanning a distance of 25,000 miles.
The show airs on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. on CBS (Channel 8).
The teams (and their connections):
Natalie and Nadiya
Connection: Twin sisters
Name: Natalie Anderson
Age: 26
Hometown: Edgewater, N.J.
Current occupation: physical therapy student
Name: Nadiya Anderson
Age: 26
Hometown: Edgewater, N.J.
Current occupation: project coordinator at Bridge2Peace
Josh and Brent
Connection: Goat farmers/life partners
Name: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Age: 43
Hometown: Sharon Springs, N.Y.
Current occupation: goat farmer/advertising executive/author
Name: Brent Ridge
Age: 38
Hometown: Sharon Springs, N.Y.
Current occupation: chief executive officer of Beekman 1802
Rob and Kelley
Connection: Married monster truckers
Name: Rob French
Age: 46
Hometown: Boston, Ga.
Current occupation: professional monster truck driver
Name: Kelley Carrington-French
Age: 50
Hometown: Boston, Ga.
Current occupation: professional monster truck driver
Trey and Alexis
Connection: Dating
Name: Trey Wier
Age: 23
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Current occupation: land consultant/ former college athlete
Name: Alexis "Lexi" Beerman
Age: 22
Hometown: Dripping Springs, Texas
Current occupation: clothing designer
Connection: dating
James and Mark
Connection: Friends
Name: James LoMenzo
Age: 53
Hometown: Burbank, Calif.
Current occupation: professional musician/former band member of White Lion and Megadeth
Name: Mark "Abba" Abbattista
Age: 45
Hometown: Denver, Colo.
Current occupation: entertainment lawyer
Abbie and Ryan
Connection: Dating divorcees
Name: Abbie Ginsberg
Age: 31
Hometown: Encinitas, Calif.
Current occupation: dance instructor/choreographer
Name: Ryan Danz
Age: 35
Hometown: San Diego, Calif.
Current occupation: financial service company owner
Jaymes and James
Connection: Chippendales dancers/best friends
Name: Jaymes Vaughan
Age: 30
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Current occupation: Chippendales MC
Name: James Davis
Age: 27
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Current occupation: Chippendales dancer
Rob and Sheila
Connection: Engaged
Name: Rob Scheer
Age: 52
Hometown: Ketchikan, Alaska
Current occupation: lumberjack and entrepreneur
Name: Sheila Castle
Age: 44
Hometown: Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Current occupation: retail manager
Caitlin and Brittany
Connection: Best friends
Name: Caitlin King
Age: 24
Hometown: Atlanta, Ga.
Current occupation: special ed teacher
Name: Brittany Fletcher
Age: 25
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Current occupation: medical device sales
Gary and Will
Connection: Best friends/substitute teachers
Name: Gary Wojnar
Age: 52
Hometown: Livonia, Mich.
Current occupation: substitute teacher
Name: Will Chiola
Age: 53
Hometown: Dearborn Heights, Mich.
Current occupation: substitute teacher
Amy and Daniel
Connection: Dating on and off
Name: Amy Purdy
Age: 32
Hometown: Summit County, Colo.
Current occupation: motivational speaker/snowboarder (double amputee)
Name: Daniel Gale
|Age: 36
Hometown: Summit County, Colo.
Current occupation: executive director


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The University of North Carolina is the reason there is a Chapel Hill. This was just a spot on a map in the middle of the woods by a spring that someone decided in the 1700's would make a great place for a University. The land around it was auctioned off as depicted in the mural in the downtown post office and thus Chapel Hill was born. UNC was meant as a school for the people, and the campus and the town were built from scratch. They have both grown. UNC is still one of the most respected Universities in the country with over 20,000 students and Chapel Hill is one of the most progressive towns in the south, if not THE most progressive town in the south.
Downtown Chapel Hill by day is a parade of mostly undergrads or UNC professors on their way to work, or to eat or to shop. By night it is a parade of young people on their way to party at the large number of bars, clubs, pool-halls, restaurants and cafes on the 100 block.
West Franklin is where the older people go and it has become a foodie heaven with many wonderful restaurants. Crooks Corner has been serving Southern gourmet food since Bill Neil and Gene Hammer opened it twenty years ago. Elaine's is the kind of place that when customers leave after a meal they want to grab strangers on the street and take them in to experience it for themselves. And we must not overlook The Lantern and award winning restaurant many times over, including the James Beard award for Best Chef in the Southeast for owner and Chef, Andrea Reusing. In addition, there's West End Wine Bar, music venues and other restaurants. And opening this Summer is TOPO, Chapel Hill's very own distillery!
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have a local bookstore, Flyleaf Books, that's thriving despite Amazon, Kindle's and Nooks. Local restaurants, local clothing stores, local hardware store, locally owned movie theatre, locally owned hotels - this town is a haven for localvores.


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What is an eCampus?
Al-Huda eCampus signifies our mission and vision of "Qur'an for all - in every hand, in every heart". eCampus stands for electronic campus, where all courses are taught through eLearning methodology. It is a form of distance education conducted through the Internet, supported by communications media, such as audio and video conferencing software, e-mail and other technologies. eLearning also provides student forums that enable interactive discussions between classmates and between students and their instructors. Al-Huda eCampus shall offer out-of-classroom disciplined educational experiences based on courses and curriculum advancements developed at the institute. Many students choose this form of distance education because it enables them to pursue self-paced education while continuing to work full time, raising a family or simply staying in their homes in any global location.
What is eLearning?
eLearning stands for electronic learning. It comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching methodologies. It essentially involves computer and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge where the content is delivered live or recorded via Internet. It can be self-paced or instructor-led and includes media in the form of text, image, animation, video and audio.
What is LMS?
LMS stands for learning management system. It is a web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. LMS software is used to deliver, track and manage training and education globally.