text: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Jeremy Baker wrote: > How CS has used the island model to extrapolate the design of a model for > software/hardware dynamics is beyond my knowledge base. Biology has been my > learn'n. The point of Island models in GAs is that how well a GA works is a rather delicate balance between population diversity, population size, mutation rate, and the underlying projective dimensionality of the problem being solved (which in many cases is not known except as an upper bound). The solution being sought is typically a parametric vector that is mapped by some process (the one being optimized) into a scalar landscape function -- a fitness function, a cost function, a benefit function, a free energy function (in the case of physics). This vector is the analog of a "chromosome", and each entry can be thought of as a "gene". The problem is to find the best possible gene for each slot in the chromosome by means of a genetic process whereby each member of a trial population exchanges some part (say, half) of its parametric vector with another member of the population to produce and "offspring". Both parents and children then go through a "natural selection" process that compares their "fitness" -- the scalar landscape function. Losers "die" and are eliminated from the population; winners go on to reproduce again. Most GAs eliminate a parent after (say) three generations anyway no matter how fit they are because otherwise everybody starts to look like grampa and the population prematurely converges. The information-theoretic part of a GA is very interesting. Let us imagine that each number in the vector is an integer in the range 0-10, although of course in many cases it will be an essentially unbounded real number. Just to make it clear that a GA can solve problems that other algorithms have a very hard time with, we'll also assume that the landscape function has no local (parametric) gradient, although it does have a genetic gradient. That is, if a digit in some position is correct, the landscape function increases by a small amount relative to incorrect, but incorrect values all lead to the same landscape function. Gradient search on the parameters is thus impossible because there ain't no gradient except between the right answer and the wrong one(s), presuming that you've already found the right one, but you CAN identify the right one one gene at a time. If the problem dimensionality is 1, and the optimum answer is (say) "3", then a randomly drawn population with more than ten members is likely to contain the optimum solution already and using a GA at all is foolish -- an exhaustive search is cheap. If it is 2, with answer "3 1", you need >100 members of the population to have a good chance of actually hitting the answer directly. Still within the bound of exhaustive search or (if you know the optimum you are searching for) a monte carlo where you just generate random trials until you hit it. If it is 3, with answer "3 1 4", things start to get a bit nasty, and by the time you hit 10 and the answer is "3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3" you no longer have the physical memory to HOLD an exhaustive search and if the fitness function is "expensive" to generate you start to have to wait long times to run through this many numbers. HOWEVER, a much, much smaller population is likely to contain the answer in the following sense. A population of only a few hundred is almost certain to contain a "3" in position one many times over. It will also contain a "1" in position 2, a "4" in position 3, and so on, but for the MOST part they won't be assembled in anything like the digit string for \pi. A very few -- maybe only one or two -- will have "3 x 4 x x x..." or "x x 4 x x 9 2 x..." -- two or more lined up correctly. These will be the "fittest" members of the population. Similarly a few will have NO genes correct -- they will be the least fit members. At each step the GA has a chance of taking two strings from the population and generating an offspring that has e.g. "3 x 4 x x 9 2 x..." (four in right position). If it does, it will likely be signficantly more "fit" than either parent, and MUCH more fit than the population members with 0 or 1 genes correct. It therefore will replace one of the 0's or 1's and be "favored" somewhat in breeding. Somewhere else one HOPES one is making members like "x 1 x 1 5 x ..." and that eventually random chance will get these two scions together to produce solutions with still more of the solution correct. However, it doesn't work THAT efficiently. It could well be that only 10 or so members of the population have a "1" in position two, and that by chance none of them have any more genes right. The "1" is then in a precarious position. In spite of it being in "unfit" individuals only, if you lose those individuals you lose any possibility of ever getting that gene right! Here is where population size and >>mutation<< start to be important. If you have a large population (compared to some measure of problem dimensionality) there are a lot of copies of the "1" around and at least SOME of them are likely to be in halfway decent individuals. It will take a long time for that gene to be eliminated, and there is a decent chance that it will end up eventually being incorporated by a suitable differential gene crossover step into the "most successful" individuals before being lost forever. If your data dimensionality is >>fifty<< though, this is not likely to be true for >>any<< population you can likely afford to run. genes in any single slot, gene pairs in slots taken two at a time, gene triplets etc WILL disappear before they are "discovered" and incorporated into the "best" individuals. If you make the best individuals too good, they paradoxically are TOO efficient at eliminating the "unfit" individuals that >>nevertheless act as a reservoir for critical genetic information<< and yeah, everybody looks like grampa even though grampa isn't really all that good looking. If you don't make the best individuals "good enough" (successful enough in reproduction) then the best schema (genetic patterns) you've found so far similarly have a rather high chance of disappearing from the population before they are "fixed" by appearing in enough individuals that they spread out and eventually appear in all individuals. Mutation is one way of recovering lost genes. Even if all the "1"s in slot 2 have been eliminated as unfit, in every generation you roll dice and subject random genes in random individuals to a random reselection of their values. In a population of a few hundred, every hundred generations or so you might set the probabilities such that at least one individual with a "1" in slot 2 is likely to be generated (recalling that MOST mutations are likely to be BAD, and that mutation can actually destabilize the process and prevent the conservation of good schema if it occurs to rapidly). As the population starts to shuffle out the good genes in the good slots, you have a decent chance of eventually taking "3 x 4 1 5 9 x x " -> "3 1 4 1 5 9 x x" to a small differential increase of fitness, and then conserving the new scheme. However, if you work out the numbers, mutation can only really help with distribution tails and usually only with single genes. In many problems the fitness doesn't increase linearly (as I'm presuming here) but in a correlated way -- you only get an increase in fitness if you find BOTH a "1" in slot 2 AND a "4" in slot 3 at the same time. This is geometrically less likely, making it "infinitely" unlikely as far as random processes are concerned (for an expensive to evaluate fitness function) all too fast. ALSO if you work out the numbers, if you have a large population it takes a long, long time for any superior gene set to take it over. There are simply too many competing schema, and in REAL problems these schema may be incompatible -- that is, there may be patterns that lead to good comparative fitness in (say) four out of ten slots that are NOT in the actual optimal answer. Those "false" patterns can be quickly resolved and dominant in the population and constantly try to "mix" with the members of the population that have the true solution encoded. This can actually PERMANENTLY block the correct solution from emerging all too easily -- the population either fails to converge in any time you can afford to wait or converges to a false solution where there is simply no differential or crossover-linked path to the "right" one (or even a "better" one). This is the problem that people are constantly looking to fix. How can you maintain the diversity of the population (so that good genes are conserved, and good gene schema are conserved) AND eventually converge (so that populations cannot be too large) AND not get locked into locally stable but false solution patterns (at least ones involving less than N genes -- it simply isn't possible to prevent this for a really complex problem but you can work to ensure that your answer is at least "halfway decent". The Island model seeks to solve the problem by splitting a large population up into several distinct subgroups -- Islands -- that do the GA separately. Then it seeks to selectively mix the results. I'm sure there is all sorts of black magic in the selective mixing -- if you let the islands develop completely independently you'll get distinct "species" that will NOT mix for many kinds of problems, so you have to somehow ensure that the schema that emerge are interbreedable. HTH, rgb > The following is an intuitive guess and may be redundant: > In ecology, an oversimplified island model is a theory that details why > diversity varies between islands. Island size is a direct relationship to > genotype diversity. Island's distance from the main land and/or other > islands is inversely related to the island's diversity. Other factors could > be included such as island's global location, climate's seasonal > temp/wind/current patterns that may also alter specie migration patterns, > human impact, etc. This aforementioned model may include predator prey > relationships, inter/intra specie competition for resources, and other food > web facts and specie relationships. > At best, a software program will only be as good as the data derived from > good field work. Traps that are not properly set will yield poor results, as > well as animal behavior not accounted for or known/observed. Field methods > may enhance or impair how the target animal behaves. Data may be precise but > not accurate. Building a model on limited research might be a waste > of computer resources when a less interesting but statistically accurate > environment might better merit data mining, to dwell on how to mitigate > hardware needs and software design. Where field data produces copious > results that fine tune statistical curves, I would think a population could > be grouped such that individual calculations could be avoided for each > organism when a subroutine wants to find out how many birds with small beaks > fail to eat enough food when the weather impairs their food source. > However, individual computations may create enhanced results, that is if the > average wave height at 60 fathoms forty feet from a shoal on the north side > of an island, during high tide in a fixed hector^2 area is found at 2PM when > the moon is new and water temp is 27C, the frequency of the rouge wave > height can be modeled using RND and an S curve, but it doesn't tell you > where this wave occurred in the measured zone. If the birds that die off are > individually computed, then other field factors may be altered such as how > that bird's death impacts its immediate territory. The bird population may > encompass territory shared by species that are niche or mutually exclusive > to other species or in defined zones depending on many relationship factors. > The death of a bird(s) where it competes for certain resources (including > nesting sites) with a niche community may just help (or hurt) that niche > community's population, approaching a new population limit which would alter > your diversity model and CPU/memory needs. Also, learned behavior in certain > animals might not be accounted for in a program, such as a cat that doesn't > forage past a boundary of a competitive neighbor (although that neighbor has > gone/died) before another competitor takes advantage of the resource. > I would think a good program would divide the model into several programs, > some suggestions: [most to least predictable] i) weather, ii) geography, > iii) botany, iv) animal profiles excluding prokaryotes unless the animal > needs it, v) tags for profile attributes that use similar calculations, vi) > uncommon computations, and vii) monitor for CPU/memory needs between > programs at n cycle. I imagine the weather modal would easily merit > predictable CPU/memory power, as well as the geographic model (physical > attributes as well as effects caused by animals/plants/time such as how much > nitrate is in soil, hard/soft water, pH, water/soil cohesion tension, etc), > and to a less extent the botany model (current plant surveys and > known/recent trends). The aforementioned models will be using data that is > by far easier to obtain than when compared to animals, so I would find > good/meaningful curves to represent these items for the program (so knowing > what kind of animal would alter the number of variables needed for a > profile). The variable CPU/memory power would most likely need to be fluid > when approaching animal relationships. Perhaps generalized curves could be > used for populations or regions at n cycle unless an event merits itemizing > each organism's profile (ie, approaching a limit where a virus bloom may > occur as augmented by an organism's profile, weather, geography). > Some animals are easy to study while others are obscure, so profile > variables would need to address the info known about the genotype. Without a > keystone organism, the continued computing of profiles for other species in > the shared domain would be pointless, so to speak. A library of curves could > be built for certain species, so individual profiles may not be necessary > when field data is solid. How and by what standards field research is > measured would need to be a collective discussion to establish a benchmark > as to when a specie population can be statistically infused in the code vs a > population with individually computed profiles, or what kind of event would > merit itemizing a statistical population into a collection of individual > profiles. > Perhaps R species might warrant greater use of statistics vs K species with > individual profiles? > If RND generation takes more time than to access when compared to seeking an > address holding a preset RND, then I would harvest idle CPU time to stack > RND numbers such that when an event requires use of curves or heavy profile > calculations, the call uses the stack. [I don't know if this is good > application of CS.] > > > On 3/9/06, Eric Thibodeau <kyron at neuralbs.com> wrote: >> >> I happen to be working on just this subject ;) >> >> Island model can be more than one thing, it depends on your >> implementation. >>> From your description, you seem to be implementing a "multiple-deem" >> approach >> while retaining the same GA parameters across these islands. David A. Van >> Veldhuizen addresses the parallelisation issues in his document entitled >> "Considerations in Engineering Parallel Multiobjective Evolutionary >> Algorithms" >> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1197689 >> >> Even though his article is oriented towards MOGAs, most if not all issues >> brought up in his article also apply to GAs. To give you an idea, here are >> four points brought up in his article specifically about island model: >> >> Four basic island pMOEA variants are seen to exist, each with >> appropriate migration operators. >> 1) All islands execute identical MOEAs/parameters (homo- >> geneous). >> 2) All islands execute different MOEAs/parameters (hetero- >> geneous). >> 3) Each island evaluates different objective function subsets. >> 4) Each island represents a different region of the genotype >> or phenotype domains. >> >> My masters is actually geared at trying to "answer" or "reply" to >> some of the >> unanswered questions brought up in this same article (providing >> quantitative >> results with a clearly defined/detailed environment specification as well >> as >> some sort of recipe for parallelising a specifically given MOGA). >> >> I hope this reference helps! >> >> Eric >> >> Le Dimanche 5 Mars 2006 03:30, purnima a écrit: >>> hi, >>> I've to implement island model genetic algorithm using MPI. the >> problem is I've already implemented a parallel Genetic Algorithm using MPI >> where i divide population into subpopulations and distribute it 2 all the >> processors, and each processors performs sequential GA on its >> subpopulation >> after some iteration these processors migrates its best chromosome toe ach >> other and again proceed. >>> >>> My problem is that i dnt understand what exactly is island model? what >> island represents?? how shud i implement it.. >>> Plz reply soon.. >>> thanx >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------- >>> Yahoo! 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A high-profile Silicon Valley sex discrimination lawsuit moved closer to a trial after a panel of justices ruled that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers cannot take a former partner's claims to arbitration.
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The firm had argued that Pao's suit, filed in May 2012, should move to the private process of arbitration because Pao signed operating agreements with mandatory arbitration clauses for the funds she was involved in.
Pao's lawyer, Alan Exelrod, argued that the clauses did not apply because Pao was suing Kleiner itself - not its funds. Pao never signed any arbitration agreements with the firm itself, Exelrod said.
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Manuel Neuer has extended his contract at Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich until 2019, it was confirmed on Friday.
The Germany international goalkeeper signed from Schalke at the end of the 2010-11 season and has enjoyed three successful campaigns in Munich, with his trophy haul including two league titles and a UEFA Champions League winners' medal.
Neuer's deal had been due to expire in 2016, but the keeper has agreed new terms that will see him remain at the Allianz Arena for another three years beyond that.
Bayern's chief executive officer, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, was delighted to announce the news.
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If Ethan Hawke knew 15 years ago what he knows now, he might never have made it down the aisle. Reflecting on his past in a new interview for the September issue of Elle magazine, the Before Midnight actor, now 42, admits that he probably wasn't ready to make a commitment as big as marriage when he said "I do" to ex-wife Uma Thurman in 1998. But at the time, he thought it would give his increasingly hectic lifestyle some stability.
"Success when you're young is really overwhelming," he explains to Elle. "The world felt out of control. And I wanted to stop it from spinning so fast. I thought marriage would decrease my variables or something. I was absolutely wrong."
Hawke — 27 when he wed Thurman, with whom he shares daughter Maya, 14, and son Levon, 10 — notes that he was likely too immature, both emotionally and biologically, to make such a huge decision. "There was this discovery that the male brain isn't done until 28. I definitely think my frontal lobe was not finished," he confesses. "I had no business taking vows that would last more than two weeks."
"My personal opinion? The guy who's got it right is Derek Jeter," he continues. "He lives his life like, 'Hey man, I play shortstop for the New York Yankees. And I'm not going to get married until I'm no longer a shortstop for the New York Yankees.' Which is incredibly smart."
Hawke and Thurman were married for five years before separating in 2003. Two years later, in August 2005, they finalized their divorce. Since then, the Taking Lives actor has remarried; he and wife Ryan Hawke (nee Shawhughes) wed in 2008 and have two young daughters, Clementine and Indiana.
The father of four also opens up to Elle about life before Thurman. One particularly fond memory? His first time having sex.
"I was very, very lucky," he recalls. "I lost my virginity to someone I cared for very much and who cared very much for me. The thing that's so important for young people to know is that, if you use protection, sex is one of the few vices you can have as a young person."
That said, you should choose your partners wisely. Hawke tells Elle he struggled early on to find women who liked him for him rather than the romantic characters he played in movies. "I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise,'" he says. "And I'd have to get up and leave."
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AMD Lisbon Opteron 4100 CPUs and FireStream GPUs Launch for Servers
AMD gets more aggressive in the server market
Over the past 6 months or so we have seen AMD's server strategy for the next few years come to fruition starting with the release of the Opteron 6000 series of processors that featured both 8-core and 12-core units configured for the traditional high end server space. Usually consisting of two and four socket machines, the Opteron 6000 parts were met with quite a bit of criticism being the first to a 12-core offering though they were usurped by much more expensive Intel Xeon processors not long after.
After meeting with AMD in their Austin offices early in the spring it became apparent to me that while AMD was taking that market very seriously and still has ambitions to dominate in that field, the real target was becoming apparent: the mid-range 1-2P servers that dominate the landscape in volume. AMD claims that this market consists of buyers looking to expand on the cloud infrastructure that is dominating the news headlines today as well as the small-and-medium businesses (SMB) that are once again growing across the world.
To that end, AMD has tailored the new Opteron 4100 series to fit the niche nicely.
The Opteron 4100 series processors - Lisbon
The Lisbon core is a die built from the ground up to be the most power efficient and power-per-core efficient CPU available. Cloud server infrastructures, and many of the SMB customers that AMD is looking at selling to, have diverse server needs that might differ from what you imagine servers to do.
AMD puts it like this: cloud servers tend to operate at 10-20% of their top performance capacity at any given time and only need to be able to "spike" CPU performance at specific instances. To design a CPU that could do both (have fantastic power efficiency and the best performance available) would mean you would have to sacrifice on both ends of the scale. Instead, AMD is clearly targeting power efficiency with "good enough" top level performance in order to address the largest possible server segments available, all without removing scalability or key features.
With the targeting of the cloud computing infrastructure and the dramatic lowering of prices on the Opteron 4100 series, AMD is making a bold move against the largest segment of the server market. By under cutting Intel so drastically on pricing AMD is obviously will to sacrifice short term profits for long term market share and mind share of customers. Obviously the processor teams at AMD are getting some advice from the graphics division acquired during the ATI merger and I think this is the right move to make based on the technology available today.
AMD definitely needs the Opteron 4100-series to be a success in a big
way - the pricing scheme they have worked up demands high volume. We
have not yet seen design wins from AMD or its partners on this front and
that is somewhat disheartening. AMD claims that any potential "cloud"
customers they have with custom built designs have to remain a secret so
we may never know who is or isn't interested in AMD's new line of
Opteron parts. I assume that we will eventually get basic information
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Saturday, the local church held a big auction to raise money for local charities. The day was a big success with lots of treasures and lots of bidding. Sally and three others were especially pleased with their purchases. Determine the full name of each person, the item each won, and how much each paid for it.
1. Sally, whose last name wasn't Vialle, didn't bid on the gold necklace but she won a more expensive item than the antique clock.
2. Mr. Parson won the most expensive item, which was $100.
3. Abigail's item was more expensive than the one Tom won but less expensive than the music box.
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I know!! Ape week on E! I'm so happy, Mark being on TV all this week is making me very busy(I have no life). But hey, did you see any of those interviews with Mark and Jules Asner? They totally flirted throughout all the interviews, it was so funny! The way they were giggling, and complimenting eachother, it was making me laugh a bit. Did anyone else notice that?
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yeah it was cute. I have not life either im in college and uselly work doing the summer but I have to quit to help take care of my Mom and Brother so my dad could work. Oh well at lest I have the cool people on this board to talk to!
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Wow, you're a real sweetheart (Mark loves sweethearts.tee-hee)! Helping you're family out like that? You're so nice!I hope I can make my family that proud when I get to college... Yeah, that helping your family out would really turn Mark on, you have lots in common!!! Am I talking out of my ass again? Sorry if I am, I try not to do that too much.
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i watched that too! n i was like "OMG! stop flirting!" lol did u see the part where jules is talking to shaq n she asked hima question n hes like "u look very nice today" n thats all he would say n wouldint answer he questions! lol even p.didy was like "its a beautiful da n blah blah ablch " n then he said " n u look very lovely" to jules! looks like everyone was flirting with her! lol
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actually, i've noticed something between Mark and Jules. well, he always flirts (we know that -even with diane sawyer!), but I don't think she does that much and every time she interviews him she is always very giddy. once when they showed a clip of him at the berlin film festival making jokes it cut back to her and she couldnt stop laughing, like it was the funniest thing in the world. steve k. had to talk for her lol. no one can resist ol' marky i guess.
i think they would make such a cute couple, too bad she's got a b/f. o well....
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John Lesser '12 has made a name for himself as the villain or the comic relief in Washington College drama productions, but when he enrolled at the College, the one-time history major didn't foresee a future on the stage.
In fact, he didn't even audition for his first role, as the jealous brother Don John in a friend's senior thesis production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
"They held auditions, but I didn't go," John remembers. "Later, we were talking about the low turnout, and they cast me as the villain on the spot. That was how my career of playing evildoers began," he says.
An engaging performer and self-described "people person," John acted in musicals and sang in the chorus at his high school but planned to study history in college.
That plan was, well, history after he became involved in his first show.
"I had a lot of fun with it, and I was bitten by the acting bug. I started going to more auditions and doing more shows," he says.
Between on-campus productions and local community theater, John has been in more than 15 shows since he came to college, and he has no plans to slow down.
"I just don't sleep!" he jokes. "I always have more than one script on me at any given time, and I'm constantly running lines in my head."
With a busy schedule of acting classes and rehearsals, John quickly learned how to manage his time and though he jokes that classes get in the way of college, he admits he's learned nearly as much in the classroom as on the stage.
"My Improv class helped a lot with my acting; it totally gave me a safety net," he says, explaining, "If a line is fumbled, you have to be able to stay in character and not worry about it. If there's a second of doubt, the audience will see it and you lose them."
Losing the audience is something John never wants to do.
"There's a distinct difference between good applause and 'pity-plause', between 'You were just on stage, clap, clap' and 'You were just on stage and I was there with you,'" he explains.
"My favorite part is having the audience be there with me on stage. If you can make the audience stay in their seats long enough to forget their bladders and their head chatter, then they're yours," he says.
John's goal is to make everyone in the audience enjoy the experience; his enthusiasm even convinced the men's basketball players to come to his shows.
"We met in Acting I," John says. "I go to all their games, and they come to all my shows."
Ever the performer, John exclaims, "If I had a giant basketball costume, I would wear it to the games to show my support!"
Though his favorite place is in front of an audience, John will step behind the scenes to direct his senior thesis. He got a taste of directing in class, and while he's excited to see it all come together on opening night sometime in 2011, he knows it won't be easy.
"I'm going through withdrawal not being on stage!" he says. "It's very different, knowing what you want and what you would do, and being able to take and to give criticism."
But don't expect John to become a fixture in the director's chair.
"I am going to become an actor," he declares, quickly adding, "fingers crossed!"
He's already taken on a few paid acting jobs and hopes to find more after graduation through WC's vast network of alumni involved in theater, but he says the money is a secondary concern.
"I just want to act. From hectic auditions to forcing yourself to learn lines, to the jumpy anxiousness before you go on stage, to being on stage with people who've become your friends—I love it all."
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- Peer Mentor
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Hometown? Arnold
High School? Broadneck Senior High School
First year experience/advice? One mistake I made my freshman year was not attending some of the events during freshman orientation week. I missed out on some bonding experiences.
Favorite place around Washington College? My favorite location on campus is the theatres. Particularly Tawes, the black box theatre. The number of shows I have done in there has made it the most comfortable places on campus for me.
Favorite Dance Move? My favorite dance move has got to be my version of the Dougie. If you run into me, stick around and you'll more than likely see it.
Favorite Class at WC? SpTp Improv-Which is a special topics class that I had once a week for three and half hours at a time, where students became better acquainted with being on stage and creating a funny and free flowing scene. I felt this class helped me greatly with my acting ability and being able to recover from a mess-up on stage.
Recommended Professor? I have no "Recommended Professor" for the incoming first-year students. I honestly feel that every teacher here is overly qualified to be working at this college, and no student will be disappointed.
Most Memorable Experience as a First-Year Student? I can't think of a "most memorable experience as a first-year student" but ask me for a story sometime and you will be thoroughly amused.
If I Could Be Any Animal? it would have to be an albatross. Large awkward bird? Get to fly over the ocean all day? Yeah sure! Why not! Have you seen The Little Mermaid?
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I got to ride the nytro v3 for the first time.
I have no affiliation . the Price was good and I gave it a try.
wind was flukey from 15 to 25.
I weigh 68 kg.
ride since 2006.
134 x 34 board
22 m lines
45cm bar switch v1 bar
Construction is top notch!
turning: what i like the most is that the power thru the turns are smooth and constant.
much different from my 9m bow that has a delay built into it.
the kite is considered médium turning speed but i consider it fast for my taste .
kite drifts very well when depowered and very stable.
feedback on the lines is good,and it lets you know where the kite is all the time without looking.
kite tended to backstall on 15 knots.
this kite shines on upwind 18 knots and up an its a rocket.
Gave 2 jumps one i droped like a rock due to lull and the other i floated nice.
floaty ellevation not jerky like a c.
overall very nice kite!!
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The Mini Cooper Countryman is the only small car to earn a good rating among the latest group of 12 cars subjected to the Institute's small overlap front crash test.
Two electric models and a hybrid also are in the mix, with varied results. The electric-powered Chevrolet Volt (with a gasoline engine "range extender") earns an acceptable rating, while its battery-electric rival, the Nissan Leaf, earns a poor rating. The Ford C-Max Hybrid, a small four-door wagon, earns an acceptable rating. Another small four-door wagon, the gasoline-powered Mazda 5, is rated poor.
Five small cars, all 2014 models, earn an acceptable rating, two earn marginal and four earn poor ratings for occupant protection in a small overlap crash in the Institute's latest round of evaluations. The Institute now has evaluated 32 small cars for small overlap front crash protection. Of them, 19 earn a good or acceptable rating and 13 earn marginal or poor.
Introduced in 2012, the small overlap test replicates what happens when the front corner of a vehicle collides with another vehicle or an object such as a tree or utility pole. In the test, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver's side strikes a rigid barrier at 40 mph (see "Small overlap crashes: New consumer-test program aims for even safer vehicles," Aug. 14, 2012).
The test is more difficult than either the head-on crashes conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or the IIHS moderate overlap test. In the small overlap test, the main structures of the vehicle's front-end crush zone are bypassed, making it hard for the vehicle to manage crash energy. The occupant compartment can collapse as a result.
"The Mini Cooper Countryman gave a solid performance," says Joe Nolan, the Institute's senior vice president for vehicle research. "The Countryman's safety cage held up reasonably well. The safety belts and airbags worked together to control the test dummy's movement, and injury measures indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a real-world crash this severe."
The Countryman, introduced in 2011, is a larger four-door version of the two-door Mini Cooper. The small overlap rating for the Countryman doesn't apply to the two-door model, which hasn't been tested.
To earn the top rating of good, automakers need to focus on overall crash protection. That means an occupant compartment that resists intrusion, safety belts that prevent a driver from pitching too far forward and side curtain airbags that provide enough forward coverage to cushion a head at risk of hitting the dashboard or window frame or things outside the vehicle. Collapsing structures can knock front airbags and seats out of position, exacerbating the problem.
"Collapse of the occupant compartment is the downfall for four small cars in this group, including the Fiat 500L, Mazda 5, Nissan Juke and Nissan Leaf," Nolan explains. "A sturdy occupant compartment allows the restraint systems to do their job, absorbing energy and controlling occupant motion."
In the Fiat 500L, a four-door variant of the much smaller Fiat 500 coupe, intruding structure seriously compromised the driver's survival space, knocking the steering wheel back and to the right of the driver. That put the front airbag out of position so the dummy's head slid off the left side and hit the A-pillar. Although sensors in the head indicate the impact wasn't severe, contact with hard surfaces shouldn't occur. In addition, injury measures taken from the dummy indicate serious injury to the driver's left hip would be likely, and injuries to both lower legs would be possible in a real-world crash of this severity. The Fiat 500L (and 500) earns a poor rating for small overlap front crash protection.
The Mazda 5 shares the distinction with two other cars of being the worst-performing models the Institute has evaluated in the small overlap test. The other two are the 2014 Kia Forte, a small car, and the 2012 Prius v, a midsize hybrid.
"When we tested the Mazda 5 we saw a host of structural and restraint system problems. Parts of the occupant compartment essentially buckled, allowing way too much intrusion," Nolan says.
Injury measures taken from the dummy indicate a high risk of injuries to the left thigh and left lower leg in a real-world crash this severe. The steering wheel moved to the right, and the dummy's head barely contacted the front airbag before sliding off the left side. The safety belt allowed the dummy's head and torso to move too far forward, so the head made contact with the left side of the dashboard. The side curtain airbag didn't deploy at all, exposing the head to contacts with side structure and outside objects. Plus, the driver door unlatched during the test, something that shouldn't happen and puts occupants at risk of being ejected from the vehicle.
The Mazda 5 also is distinct in that it is the only vehicle in this group to earn a marginal rating in one of the Institute's other four evaluations — moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear. The Mazda 5 earns a marginal rating in the side impact test. That also makes it the only 2014-model car the Institute has evaluated to earn anything less than acceptable in the side test. Most models earn a good rating. Measures taken from the driver dummy indicate a likely pelvis fracture, and measures taken from the dummy seated in the rear passenger seat indicate that rib fractures and/or other internal organ injuries would be possible in a crash of this severity.
This is the first time the Institute has published ratings for the Mazda 5 in the full battery of tests. The small wagon struggled in the small overlap front and side tests. The Mazda 5 is the only 2014 model car evaluated to earn anything less than acceptable in the side test. The Institute has been evaluating models for side impact protection since 2003.
Back in 2011, the Volt and Leaf were the first mainstream plug-in electric models to undergo IIHS crash test evaluations. The 2011 models earned top ratings in the moderate overlap front, side, head restraint and roof-strength evaluations (see "Safety now comes in green: 1st crash tests of electric cars," April 26, 2011). That's still the case with the 2014 versions of both cars.
"Electric vehicles have a unique challenge in the small overlap test because of their heavy batteries. The Volt performed reasonably well, earning an acceptable rating, while the Leaf struggled," Nolan says.
Driver space in the Volt was maintained reasonably well in the test, and injury measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries to a person in a similar crash. In the Leaf, the dummy had a different experience. The Leaf chalked up as much as 16 inches of intrusion in the lower occupant compartment and 14 inches in the upper occupant compartment. The instrument panel, parking brake pedal and steering column were all pushed back toward the driver. Injuries to the left knee and left lower leg would be likely in a crash of this severity, and injuries to the left thigh would be possible.
The Volt, which has a basic-rated optional forward collision warning system, is the only car in this test group to earn a 2014 Top Safety Pick+ award. The C-Max Hybrid, Countryman, Mitsubishi Lancer, and the Scion FR-S and its twin the Subaru BRZ qualify for Top Safety Pick, the Institute's second-highest award. These models miss the "plus" award because they don't have an available front crash prevention system.
To qualify for Top Safety Pick+, a vehicle must earn a good or acceptable rating for small overlap protection, a good rating in the Institute's other four tests, and a basic, advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention. To qualify for Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn a good or acceptable rating for small overlap protection and a good rating in the other four tests.
"Consumers in the market for a small car now have six models to consider on our list of 2014 Top Safety Pick+ award winners, and an additional 13 that earn Top Safety Pick," Nolan says. "Consumers trading the inherent safety of a larger vehicle for the convenience or fuel economy of a small car should focus their search on these vehicles with state-of-the-art safety designs."
All ratings for current small cars (on desktop version of site)
Small overlap front crash test ratings for small cars,2014 models
Two eco-friendly models illustrate how performance can vary in the small overlap test. Driver space in the Volt was maintained reasonably well, and data taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of significant injuries. The Volt is rated acceptable. The story's different for the Leaf. Significant intrusion left little survival space for the dummy, meaning likely knee and leg injuries. The Leaf is rated poor. The Volt has an optional forward collision warning system and qualifies for Top Safety Pick+.
Chevrolet Volt
Nissan Leaf
When testing hybrid or electric models, IIHS follows special safety protocols. Post crash, technicians check for high voltage and high temperature, which could lead to a potentially fatal electrical shock and/or fire. No one can touch the car until given the all-clear. Technicians wear safety gear, including eye protection, rubber boots and rubber gloves. They're tethered at the waist to a long pole, which can be used to pull them away from the vehicle in an emergency. No issues with the batteries or electric systems were seen in the Volt and Leaf tests.
In a new round of ratings, half a dozen cars earn acceptable or higher and the rest earn marginal or poor. Only one qualifies for Top Safety Pick+.
The Mini Cooper Countryman's safety cage held up well, and the safety belts and airbags worked as they should to control the test dummy's movement.
Driver space wasn't maintained well in the test of the Ford C-Max Hybrid due to intrusion into the occupant compartment and steering column movement. However, dummy injury measures were good in this electric model.
In the Fiat 500L, survival space for the driver was seriously compromised by intruding structure. Serious hip and leg injuries would be possible in a real-world crash.
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Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. A tiny puppy with a big name may take the crown for the world's smallest dog. Beyonce was born in an animal shelter in northern California. She's tinier than a teacup. A Daschund crossed, the shelter thinks, with a Chihuahua. At birth, she fit into a spoon. At two weeks, she could sleep on a cell phone. Since she made news, the shelter says adoption offers have poured in for the teeny Beyonce, who may eventually weigh a pound and a half. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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