text: Joe Landman wrote: > Hi Jon > > Jon Forrest wrote: >> First of all, I like Microsoft, and I voluntarily use >> Vista as my desktop of choice. I've built and run the >> Windows environments for the top CS and Civil Engineering >> departments in the US, and I was the first to port >> Postgres to Windows NT. > > Postgres is nice. Did you do a native (ms C compiler) port or a cygwin > port? It's an interesting story, which is OT to Beowulf. I was working for Mike Stonebraker in his research group. Jolly Chen and Andrew Yu and just added SQL support to Postgres. Mike and I had been to Microsoft several times to see about them supporting us, and other research. I was very interested in Windows NT and very impressed by Microsoft. This was back in about 1994 or 1995. Anyway, I had NT 3.51 running on a 16MB 486 and I decided to try to port what was to become PostgreSQL. I used the MS Visual C compiler, not cygwin, which I'm not sure existed back then. The Postgres code was surprisingly easy to port, although the porting went much faster when Mike was able to get a 64MB MIPS machine donated. The big accomplishment was that I was able to run the infamous Wisconsin Benchmark. > Oddly enough, for a long time I have believed (and we have proposed > privately to Microsoft) ways in which I think it could make a > difference. In short, there are codes that are now and will always be > windows based, and that is fine. They may need to run on a cluster, and > they should be able to. What kind of reaction have you received from them? What code are you thinking of that is now and will always be Windows based? > It needs to adapt. But not necessarily "compete" the way it has in the > past. How can they adapt to an Open/Free Software world? > The big question that needs to be > answered (by Microsoft) is whether or not they need to displace or take > over for Linux to be successful in this space. I believe the answer to > this is "no". But how will they be able to make any money? > It might be worth engaging John West (InsideHPC.com), and a number of > others in this conversation, as there are some good and informed views > about this out there. I hope they read this thread. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest at berkeley.edu

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OK, I admit it. I have a Google Alert on the title Flunking Sainthood, so that the search engine lets me know when there are new reviews or discussions about the book. In the last few weeks it has been exciting — and humbling — to see the many different kinds of people who are reading and talking about the memoir and about spiritual practice. What's astonishing to me is that the book is finding its ways into churches and book groups I've never even heard of:
* In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Baptist church is spending an entire year on the book, undertaking different spiritual practices each month according to the book's schedule.
* In Princeton, Indiana, a Methodist congregation is using the book for a short-term study group on spiritual practice.
* The bishop of an Anglican diocese in England recommended the book to his flock a few weeks ago, and last weekend an Episcopal priest in Oregon preached a sermon that talked about it.
* And then there are liberal Mormon women–my peeps!–who are thinking about what the book says about prayer.
Yeah, I'm aware that there's an element of massive hubris to these Google alerts. In fact, I am giving them up for Lent, as well as reading book reviews, checking sales figures, etc. But until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21, I am going to enjoy all these updates! And I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the readers who are recommending FS to others and getting copies for their friends.
From the feedback I receive I can tell that it's not the book itself that is winning people over — not the writing per se, or even the humor. It's the honesty. And that's something I never could have predicted when I was writing the darn thing.
Working with the theory that there hasn't been nearly enough attention to Mormonism and politics this year, what with it being in the news every single day and all, Randy Balmer and I are co-organizing a scholarly conference on the topic next weekend at Columbia University. Here is a brief description:
With two Mormon candidates for the presidency and the recent unprecedented media attention given to Mormons recently, this conference will take a broad view of the history of Mormon participation in American political life, from Joseph Smith's 1844 run for the presidency to the Reed Smoot trials of the early 20th century and to the rise of Ezra Taft Benson during the Eisenhower administration, which ushered in a new era of Mormon identification with the Republican Party.
Speakers include Randall Balmer, Philip Barlow, Richard Bushman, Claudia Bushman, Joanna Brooks, Matthew Bowman, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jan Shipps, Trevor Hill, Meredith LeSueur, David Campbell, Russell Arben Fox, Max Perry Mueller, and Peggy Fletcher Stack. The Religious Test, a documentary about American voters' perceptions of Mormons, will also be screened.
The conference will take place February 3 and 4 in the university's International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (420 W 118th St.). It is free and open to the public, but we have limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis, so get there early if you're planning to come for all or part of it. Below is the schedule of speakers. Every session is in plenary format with two 20- to 25-minute papers.
I. 9:00-10:15 Richard Lyman Bushman and Sarah Barringer Gordon
II. 10:45 -12:00 Jan Shipps and Max Mueller
III. 1:00-2:15 Phil Barlow and David Campbell
IV. 2:45-4:00 Claudia Bushman and Joanna Brooks
V. 9:00-10:00 Film screening, "The Religious Test"
VI. 10:30 to noon Russell Arben Fox, Peggy Fletcher Stack, and Matthew Bowman
P.S. Any media inquiries or interview requests should be directed to email@example.com.
Sometimes peace can only be obtained when we set firm boundaries.
Friends, I will be offline until January 23 for a writing retreat. I'm bringing my computer, but the place where I am going doesn't have email access, which is one of the reasons I love it. So if you are of a praying mind, please pray that this week is both productive and restful. I am hoping to tear through two writing assignments, make a dent in the stack of books by my desk (which now actually reaches the desk), and get some sleep in the bargain.
It's a strange feeling, stepping back from constant communication. It's both thrilling and scary to be unreachable for a week. My inner social media guru whispers that I might miss something important.
My better self answers back that making a retreat is doing something important. And that I am not so important that the world can't get along just fine without me for a while.


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Madonna appears to be a slave to her celluar phone, and business apparently, as her fervent texting has led to her ban from a movie theater chain.
The Material Girl seems to believe she's above movie theater etiquette — namely not texting during a movie — and reportedly texted continuously during a New York Film Festival premiere screening of Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," according to several reports.
Charles Taylor, a film writer for Salon, partly catalyzed the media maelstrom when he shared an eyewitness account of the incident, which was originally posted on Facebook by one of his former NYU students who chronicled the dispute.
PHOTOS: Madonna's life in pictures
"Tonight at the New York Film Festival premiere of '12 Years A Slave' (a masterpiece, by the way), I sat behind the unholy trifecta of Jason Ritter, J. Alexander from 'America's Next Top Model,' and Michael K. Williams from 'The Wire.' Plus, a mysterious blonde in black lace gloves who wouldn't stop texting on her Blackberry throughout the first half of the movie," the student wrote (via IndieWire).
"Eventually, a woman next to me tapped her on the shoulder and told her to put her phone away, and the blonde hissed back, 'It's for business... ENSLAVER!' I turned to the shoulder tapper and loudly said, 'THANKS!' and gave her a thumbs up. The rest of the movie, I kept thinking about how I wanted to tell the blonde what a disgrace she was. During the standing ovation, the blonde ducked out and Jason Ritter turned around to make commiserating eye contact, as J. Alexander asked, 'Who WAS that?!' Jason then looked down at the floor. His eyes got wide, and he picked up an envelope and showed it to us and J. And it said: '2 screening tix MADONNA.' And sure enough, we looked to the side of the theater and standing against the wall in black lace gloves was Madonna. The worst person in America."
The incident got the 55-year-old barred from the Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse chain of upscale cinemas until she cops to her bad behavior, according to a tweet from theater founder Tim League.
"Until she apologizes to movie fans, Madonna is banned from watching movies @drafthouse," he wrote.
The theater's website states that it has "a zero-tolerance policy towards talking and texting during the movie. If you talk or text, you will receive one warning. If it happens again, you will be kicked out without a refund."
When Entertainment Weekly reached out to League about his public shaming of the singer, he said it started off as an "offhand joke, a spur of the moment 140 characters."
But he then said, "Yeah, I'm serious, but I don't think it really affects her life that much," adding, it was "more of a means to get the issue out there, that it is rude to text during movies."
Madge reportedly enjoyed the film and was also photographed with the director, but her lack of theater etiquette is alarming since she's a filmmaker too. Forbes' top-earning celebrity just wrapped her second directorial effort, the short film "secretprojectrevolution." However, the 17-minute film about freedom of expression (surprise, surprise) was released via BitTorrent Bundle, so it won't need to have its run in a movie house anytime soon.
She has yet to respond to the incident.
[For the record, 10:30 p.m. Oct. 14: A previous version of this post said Charles Taylor was an eyewitness to the incident. He was not. The eyewitness was one of his students who posted about the account on Facebook, and Taylor shared the post. It also said Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League's last name was Alamo.]
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Record Labels Basically Admit That Statutory Damages Out Of Proportion As They Ask For Third Jammie Thomas Trial
from the groundhog-day deptI guess it's fitting that this happens in early February. Slashdot points us to the news that, as was widely expected, the record labels have opted for a third trial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, rather than accept the reduced award of $2,250 per song, as set by the judge. Not surprisingly, the labels are doing this because they disagree with the precedent of a judge changing the jury award, and the new trial is limited solely to the damages question. But, honestly, the whole thing is a bit weird. If the judge can reduce the older jury award, and a new jury sets a higher rate, can the judge just reduce it again, and we go through this entire process for the fourth time? The Slashdot post, written by Ray Beckermann claims that the labels "could only win a verdict that is equal to, or less than, $54,000," in the new trial, but I'm not sure why he says that. Is it because the judge would reduce it again? This is not at all clear.
Still, the actual filing from the RIAA's lawyers has some interesting claims (pdf):
While Plaintiffs do not believe that either verdict was improper under the law, or that the second verdict should be remitted, they would have considered accepting a remittitur simply so that this case could finally come to an end. However, any remittitur must otherwise be consistent with the law and be guided by what actual juries have awarded under similar circumstances. Unfortunately, Plaintiffs find it impossible to accept a remittitur that could be read to set a new standard for statutory damages -- essentially capping those damages at three times the minimum statutory amount of $750 (or $2,250) for any "noncommercial individuals who illegally download and upload music." (Id. at 2, 25.) This far-reaching determination is contrary to the law and creates a statutory scheme that Congress did not intend or enact.It's a bit of a stretch to claim that this would be a cap on "any" unauthorized noncommercial file distribution. I would imagine that any court still has the right to take into account the specific circumstances to make sure the award is proportionate to the rights being violated. The labels' lawyers are stretching what the judge said here.
Indeed, Congress has spoken on this very topic. Congress deliberately and purposefully established a range of statutory damages that applies without regard to the commercial motivation of the defendant.I find this statement funny, because they then cite what Congress said way back in 1999. Fair enough, Congress (which basically just took RIAA talking points and put them into the Congressional record) did make those comments -- but these are the same entertainment industry lawyers who supported a "secondary liability" or inducement standard in the Grokster case, even though Congress had specifically rejected an attempt to put an inducement standard into the law. And when confronted, how does the RIAA explain that? Well, they say "the situation changed." Ah, so it's okay to have the courts change copyright law when the situation changes in one direction, but not the other?
What the judge was doing here was recognizing that the amount the jury awarded was clearly out of proportion to the actual infringement -- just as the courts in Grokster supposedly recognized that an inducement standard made sense in shutting down third parties (something I disagree with, but it's how the court felt). It seems that the RIAA and its lawyers have a massive double standard here.
A rule that the maximum permissible award in cases involving so-called "noncommercial" infringers is three times minimum statutory damages also ignores the harm caused by such infringers. From an economic perspective, individuals who give away copyrighted works illegally can cause as much harm as those who sell those works illegally, particularly when the so-called "non-commercial" infringer uses a P2P service. The notion that an infringer who does not make a profit should automatically be entitled to better treatment than an infringer who does make a profit is found nowhere in the law. The "not for profit" infringer is hardly entitled to special protection, which is why Congress conferred no such protection.Again, Congress also conferred no such thing as an inducement liability, but the courts -- at the urging of the RIAA -- conferred exactly that via the courts. Why such a double standard?
The Court's cap would set a new ceiling such that no copyright owner could effectively enforce their rights unless they could and did sue on numerous works. No copyright owner would be motivated to enforce its rights where it could only sue on a handful of works because the potential recovery would be too limited. Congress set a wide range of statutory damages for copyright cases precisely because plaintiffs need to be incentivized to bring appropriate cases to enforce their rights -- even those who own a small number of copyrights or those who only have a limited number of works infringed. Conversely, the Court's artificially depressed cap compels parties with a large number of copyrights at stake to sue on all of them, rather than a more modest number. This serves only to increase the discovery and trial burdens on parties and courts. Yet the Court's inflexible "three times" cap would invariably penalize plaintiffs with a small number of works at issue, and would force those with a lot of works to add to their complaints unnecessarily.Woe is the RIAA. If the awards for unauthorized sharing of a $1 song that might help promote their artists and help them make more money (if only the RIAA were to adapt to a changing market place) might "only" be 2,250 times the market price of the song? Cry me a river. And, even more ridiculous is the claim that this is some undue burden on the RIAA that it might have to actually sue over all of the songs someone distributed in an unauthorized manner, rather than just selecting a handful as it does now. This is a major issue. Technically, the RIAA has been able to just pick a couple dozen songs and sue over those, knowing that the totally disproportionate statutory damages will "cover" the rest. But does that seem right to anyone? The idea that rather than proving the actual harm done by the actual distribution, the RIAA is allowed to just pick a "sampling" and without proof get back many times the price without even presenting any actual evidence of the wider damage or the wider distribution of more files?
It seems perfectly reasonable to expect the RIAA should have to actually include what they claim was infringed, rather than being able to just pick a handful, knowing that the totally out of proportion statutory damages will "cover" the rest.
In fact, the paragraph above is effectively the RIAA admitting that it knows the statutory damages are out of proportion, but it believes it's fair because the RIAA is too cheap and too lazy to actually sue people for what it claims they infringed on.
Talk about a sense of entitlement.
Still, as we've said for a while now, this is a really bad case all around. It's pretty clear that Thomas-Rassett was involved in widespread infringement, and then lied about it. If people are going to challenge ridiculous statutory rates and other aspects of copyright law, this is really bad case to do that (ditto for the Tenenbaum case). This is one where it seems like she really might have been better off settling early and moving on. And the oddity of the judge reducing the jury award just makes this whole case into something of a circus...
Filed Under: appeal, constitution, copyright, jammie thomas, jammie thomas-rasset, settlement, statutory damages
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text: I have spotted an anomaly when comparing b_eff results with PMB: http://www.hlrs.de/organization/par/services/models/mpi/b_eff/ http://www.pallas.com/e/products/pmb/ The former uses 1.e6 when displaying 'MBytes/s', where that latter appears to use 2^20. (aka 'Mebibytes/s') viz from PMB's Output.c: static double MEGA = 1.0/1048576.0; if( tmax > 0. ) throughput = (Bmark->scale_bw*SCALE*MEGA)*size/tmax; SCALE=1000000 (declare.h) size is in bytes, tmax in usec, and scale_bw=2 if say doing PingPong The result is that PMB figures appear *lower* than equivalent b_eff figures. Do we have a concensus of what units we should be using? So does a 1GB/s interconnect transfer 1 Gigabyte in a second or 1,000,000,000 bytes in a second? (As interconnects move from Kilo though Mega to Giga the gap is of course widening) -- Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger at quadrics.com One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com --------------------


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Let's say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy.
It's like the turducken of gaming handhelds. Goteking supplies a fake monochrome screen and cartridge to complete the look. He even built a case out of a clear Game Boy, which kind of ruins the surprise but hey, it's still pretty cool.


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Some day we will learn that Asian soybean rust is not as bad a disease as we first thought — nor is it completely harmless either.
But I imagine that sometime this season, a farmer will fail to spray for the disease, which will result in a complete disaster and some dreadful photographs and will put enough of a fright into other farmers that they'll never stray from proper caution again.
As you know, spores of the disease are believed to have entered the United States from Brazil on the winds of Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, and have been the topic de jour for U.S. soybean producers ever since.
Despite the hoopla, I believe that by the end of this season, we will have had our rough spots with the disease, but knowledge, research and good sense will prevail and U.S. farmers, like those in Brazil, will have learned to control the spread of this dreaded disease.
In the meantime, we journalists must work through our own paranoia. I recently returned from a trip to Brazil to see how their growers were coping with rust. I saw a completely defoliated field that had not been treated with a fungicide for Asian rust symptoms. It was right next to a field that had been treated and was completely free of the disease. This tells me that the disease is controllable if treated at the right time with the right product. It also showed me that the disease can be fatal.
I know that as I wandered through the field which was infected with Asian rust, the spores had to be clinging to my clothes and shoes. This may be a discomforting thought to you as I have now returned home to Tennessee, but don't worry, I am making sure I err on the side of hysteria.
And so, wink-wink — here's my story.
Because I was told that 24 hours of below-freezing temperature will kill Asian rust spores, the two pair of blue jeans I wore in Brazil are resting comfortably inside a plastic bag in the freezer — between a chuck roast and the orange sherbet.
My shoes are on my feet this morning, thanks to a customs agent at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Ga., my first entry point from Brazil into the United States.
I had checked a box on my customs form indicating that I had been on a farm. For this, I was directed toward a customs agent armed with a spray bottle. She asked for the shoes that I wore on the farm, which I had placed in a plastic bag inside my suitcase. I removed the shoes, she sprayed them thoroughly, placed them inside another plastic bag and gave them back to me.
I wanted to ask her if she had ever heard of Asian soybean rust, and if the product she sprayed actually killed rust spores, but I didn't, figuring this would be like asking an airport security agent searching my carry on luggage if he was looking for a bomb.
Besides, customs agents are people you want to leave behind very quickly. I didn't do anything wrong, filled out all the forms correctly, truthfully stated that I had been on a farm, and said, "no ma'am," politely, but she nonetheless made me feel like I was sneaking something into the country. She could have taught Unsettling Stares 101 — which I believe is a mandatory course for customs agents.
The blue jeans have another 22 hours to go before any Asian soybean rust spores will succumb to the cold. And probably another day or two before I can put them on again. As for the shoes, I still have some questions. Did the customs agent's disinfectant really kill the spores? Or should the shoes go in the freezer, too? If they do, could they be mistaken for the chuck roast and end up getting slow-cooked?
I don't want to overreact to Asian soybean rust, but then again I don't want to be this year's Hurricane Ivan, either. I imagine that most U.S. soybean producers know exactly how I feel.
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Nick Jonas Is Shirtless in Trailer for 'Careful What You Wish For'
Jonas Brothers fans need some good news for a change -- how about finding out that hunky Nick Jonas takes off his shirt in a new movie clip?
The youngest JoBro -- who just performed his first solo show since the band's breakup last week -- appears shirtless in the teaser trailer for upcoming film 'Careful What You Wish For.' In the clip, which was released online today (Nov. 4), Nick is rocking the same buff body he showed off in that famous shirtless selfie he posted over the summer.
In the flick, Nick plays Doug Martin, a man who has an affair with a neighbor (Isabel Lucas) that turns tragic when her husband (Dermot Mulroney) is killed. The teaser is only 23 seconds long, but with the sexy skin on display and a steamy kiss between Nick and Isabel, so far this movie looks gooooooood!
'Careful What You Wish For' is scheduled to hit theaters in 2014.


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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Grim news grabs more headlines than good works but deeper probing will find a world of love and service hidden in the shadows, Pope Benedict said at his traditional end-of-year Mass on Monday.
The 85-year-old pope, marking the eighth New Year's Eve of his pontificate, celebrated the Vespers and "Te Deum" Mass of thanksgiving in St. Peter's Basilica, during which he urged the faithful to take a step back from negativity in the media.
"Evil makes more noise than goodness: a heinous murder, widespread violence, serious injustices make the news; on the other hand acts of love and service...commonly remain in the shadows," he told thousands of people who attended the Mass.
"We can't just stop at the news if we want to understand the world and life, we have to be capable of standing in silence, in meditation, in calm and prolonged reflection, we have to know how to stop and think," he said.
In the past year the pope has been on visits to Cuba, Mexico and Lebanon but the trial of his former butler, convicted of leaking sensitive documents that alleged corruption in the Holy See, won particular prominence on newspaper front pages.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics had also urged people on Christmas Eve to take a step back from their fast paced lives, and try to find a space for God.
Benedict is due to make his traditional New Year address on January 1, the day the Roman Catholic Church calls its annual World Day of Peace.
The pontiff sent his World Day of Peace message to heads of state, government and institutions such as the United Nations earlier in December, calling for a new global economic model and ethical regulations for markets.
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Tim Richards, owner of Orchard Hills Athletic Club, Lancaster, MA, died on Jan. 4. He was 69.
Richards founded Orchard Hills in 1983. He was one of the founding directors of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), which is the association for for-profit health clubs. He received the Dale S. Dibble Distinguished Service Award from IHRSA in 1989.
"He was an early leader of IHRSA and a major proponent of industry research, especially the financial benchmarks that help club operators and owners to better understand industry metrics," Rick Caro, president of Management Vision, says.
Richards helped IHRSA develop its annual industry survey, now called "Profiles of Success," which reports operating data so club owners can measure their performance against industry standards.
Cindy Curley, general manager at Orchard Hills, had worked for Richards for 26 years. She called him a visionary who took a six-court club and turned it into the largest multipurpose fitness facility in their area.
"He enjoyed the industry," she says. "He thought it was great that we were in a business that helped people."
Caro says that Richards created a leading-edge business with devoted staff over many years, but he also became a community leader, one who made a difference with a variety of needy local segments.
During the last few years, Richards had left much of the club's operations to his staff, focusing instead on community activities, Curley says.
"He was a great hands-off manager," she says. "Very supportive of their roles. Just a great mentor."
Richards' involvement in the Fitchburg, MA, community included founding the North Central Mass Boys & Girls Club. He also was a former trustee of the Community Foundation of North Central Mass and Fitchburg Art Museums, and a former director for both the North Central Mass Chamber of Commerce and the Fay Club in Fitchburg.
"He was compassionate, caring, patient and persistent," Curley says. "He always wanted to know what Orchard Hills could do for a staff person in need or a member of the community."
His community work led to him receiving several awards: the Philanthropist of Distinction Award by the Association of Fund Raising Professionals on North Central Mass, the President's Award from Fitchburg State College, the Service Above Self Award from Mount Wachusett Community College, the Nashua Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Award and the Ginny's Guardian Angel Award.
Despite those awards, Richards always took great interest in his staff, too, Curley says. In particular, he enjoyed hearing where the children of his staff members were going to college.
According to his obituary, Richards enjoyed hiking, astronomy and tennis. He ran his first marathon at the age of 57.
In 2007, Richards and his wife, Sheila, were featured in a story about being fit after 50 that ran in their local newspaper, The Telegram & Gazette.
Richards' death was unexpected, and the family is not releasing the cause of death. He is survived by his wife, four children and six grandchildren.
Richards was majority owner of the club, and he had structured the company so that it could continue to operate with the same management team when he was gone, Curley says.


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I've got a couple of announcements.
1) I have created a Wiki for the Coleco ADAM. It's url is http://adamwiki.info and its accompanying blog is http://adamwiki.info/blog
2) After all these year a usable Windows disk image manager has been created to manipulate ADAM DSK and DDP image files. ADAMDsk is available on CodePlex at http://adamdsk.codeplex.com
Let me know if you have any questions or want more details.


text: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:01:58PM +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote: > Mark Hahn wrote: >> being able to check and interpret bios settings (from the normal OS) >> would be a major advantage. being able to set them would be very nice >> as well, even if the change didn't take effect until the bios ran again >> (next boot). > > +1 on both counts. > > I hope some vendor(s) are reading this. Reading BIOS settings (never mind > writing them) is a total pain at the moment. It'd be great to see a tool > for doing this in a human-readable fashion. Since most systems purchase their BIOS we need to communicate with BIOS vendors. I suspect that the BIOS vendors hold some set of locks on a critical patent set but I never looked under the hood very hard to know. It may be that they just have more experience and connections (Common manufacturers, American Megatrends Insyde Software, Phoenix Technologies, Byosoft, Phoenix Award ....) I do know that most of the critical chip documentation is under NDA (bridge chips with IO and memory controllers) . What I would like is a single 'setting dump' command that can be captured from an ASCII serial line. No escape characters, no screens, no color, something simple that can be parsed with awk/ python with little pain. Perhaps harder to get are the settings that cannot be set. One tool "lspci" does dump most all the bits and if you have the vendor documents it is the richest source of info. "dmidecode" decodes a lot more but depends on the dmi table being correct. "biosdecode" sounds like the right tool but is less informative. There is an open source BIOS project.. The good news is that once the system has booted, the BIOS can be left behind. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what?


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Clinical Efficacy of TNFa Kinoid in Crohn's Disease Patients
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01291810
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 8, 2011
Last Update Posted : September 18, 2014
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The safety and immunogenicity of the TNFα-Kinoid (TNF-K) have been evaluated in a phase I-II clinical study conducted in subjects with Crohn's Disease (CD). Preliminary results of clinical efficacy are promising.
The principal aim of the present study is to confirm the clinical efficacy of the TNF-K in subjects with moderate to severe CD. Subjects with secondary resistance or intolerance to anti-TNFα monoclonal antibodies will be enrolled in this trial. In addition, the immune responses and the safety elicited by TNF-K will also be evaluated.
|Condition or disease
|Crohn's Disease
|Biological: TNF Kinoid Biological: WFI
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|66 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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|Official Title:
|A Phase II, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Clinical Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of Neovacs' TNFα-Kinoid in Adult Subjects With Crohn's Disease
|Study Start Date :
|February 2011
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|October 2012
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TNF Kinoid
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- Clinical remission, defined as a CDAI score ≤ 150 points at week 8. [ Time Frame: Week 8 ]
- Clinical responses, defined as a decrease of at least 70 points (CDAI-70) and at least 100 points (CDAI-100) in the CDAI score at week 8 vs baseline [ Time Frame: week 8 ]
- Endoscopic response, defined as a reduction of at least 50% in the Crohn's Disease Endoscopic Index of Severity (CDEIS) score or in the Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) at week 12 vs baseline [ Time Frame: week 12 ]
- Biological response as defined by a decrease or normalization of calprotectin levels in stools [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]
- Safety assessments will be conducted throughout the study and will include physical examinations, vital signs, 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs), clinical laboratory evaluations, and the recording of adverse events (AEs). [ Time Frame: Week 28 ]
- Immunogenicity: o Anti-TNFα antibodies by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) o Anti-TNFα neutralizing antibody activity o Anti-KLH antibodies by ELISA [ Time Frame: week 12 ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female aged 18 to 65 years, inclusive.
- Have had a diagnosis of Crohn's disease for at least 6 months.
- Moderate to severe active Crohn's disease defined as a Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) score ≥ 220 and ≤ 450, and presence of colonic mucosal ulcerations in at least 2 segments, or ulcerations on ≥ 10% of the mucosal surface if only one segment is involved.
- Have developed secondary resistance to anti-TNFα therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Primary non-response to a previously received treatment directed against TNFα Or Intolerance related to the primary pharmacological effect of anti-TNFα such as for instance, but not limited to, severe or opportunistic infections and demyelinating or autoimmune diseases.
- History of severe systemic bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic infections within the 3 months prior to screening; or the occurrence of any acute infection within 2 weeks of the first administration of study drug.
- Treatment with immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory drugs
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01291810
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Crohn Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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A sonnet takes different forms with the classical sonnet poets but there are two things that are common and they are the things that make a sonnet instantly recognisable.
- A sonnet has fourteen lines
- A sonnet is written in iambic pentameter
The fourteen lines required for a poem to be a sonnet are made up of rhyme patterns. There are different ways of organising the rhyme patterns. For example, the sonnet can be divided into two sections, each section having its own rhyme pattern. They are an eight line section, called an octet, and a six line section, called a sestet. That is the form used by the Italian poet, Petrarch, the most famous sonnet writer apart from Shakespeare. It's known as the Petrarchan Sonnet or the Italian Sonnet.
The sonnet can also be divided into three four line sections, called quatrains, and a two line section called a couplet. This is the form Shakespeare uses and the form has become known as the Shakespearean Sonnet or the Elizabethan Sonnet.
The sonnet expresses a single idea but the division into octaves, sestets, quatrains and couplets allows the poet to switch the focus, dealing with a different aspect of the idea in each section..
The rhyme patters look like this. The octet is aabbaabba. All the 'a's rhyme with each other and all the 'b's rhyme with each other. The sestet is cdecde or cdcdcd or cddece. All the words ending the lines with the same letter rhyme with each other.
In Shakespeare's sonnets, the quatrain patterns look like this. Abab cdcd efef and the couplet is gg. All the sonnets follow that pattern.
Iambic pentameter refers to the structure of the line. Iambic refers to the name of the foot, which is composed of a weaker syllable followed by an accented syllable. For example the word away has two syllables with a weak stress on the first, a, and a strong stress on the second, way. The word constitutes a foot or an iambus. Pentameter simply refers to the number of feet, in the case of the sonnet, five. So if you look at this line from a Shakespeare sonnet you will see how it works:
I never writ nor no man ever loved
There you have an iambic pentameter. All sonnets use that model and almost all the lines in Shakespeare's plays are written in iambic pentameter as well.
So how do poets use this form? This is an example of a Petrarchan Sonnet written by William Wordsworth. Like other sonnet writers he uses iambic pentameter but, like Shakespeare, he sometimes disguises it to get the rhythm he wants to make it sound like everyday speech.
The Octave
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: – A
England hath need of thee: she is a fen – B
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, – B
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, – A
Have forfeited their ancient English dower – A
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; – B
Oh! raise us up, return to us again; – B
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. – A
The Sestet
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; – C
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: – D
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, – D
So didst thou travel on life's common way, – E
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart – C
The lowliest duties on herself did lay. – E
Wordsworth invokes the spirit of Milton who he thinks lived in a better time and the octet is concerned with all the faults he sees in the England of his own time. He switches the focus onto Milton himself in the sestet to show what greatness was in a past age.
This is Shakespeare writing about love:
First Quotrain
Let me not to the marriage of true minds -A
Admit impediments. Love is not love – B
Which alters when it alteration finds, – A
Or bends with the remover to remove: – B
Second Quotrain
Oh, no! it is an ever-fixéd mark, – C
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; D
It is the star to every wandering bark, -C
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. – D
Third Quotrain
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks – E
Within his bending sickle's compass come' – F
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, – E
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. – F
If this be error and upon me proved, – G
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. – G
The first quatrain announces that love is perfect and can't be affected by anything. The second quatrain elaborates on that, showing that love is something absolutely stable in a tumultuous world. The third quatrain switches the focus on to time and suggests that love lasts forever. The couplet is a final summing up in which the poet stakes his career on the truth of what he's revealed about love.
That's the answer to the question "what is a sonnet?"!
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The White House's explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS's scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday.
Just a day after telling reporters that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior White House staff learned of the situation nearly a month ago, press secretary Jay Carney revealed Tuesday that White House officials had consulted with the Treasury Department on how to make the findings public.
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In addition to McDonough and Childress, Carney has named only one other senior White House staffer who knew of the IRS probe: White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, who made the decision not to inform the president of the forthcoming inspector general report on the issue.
Carney said he hadn't revealed more information about which officials were aware of the situation and when they were informed in previous briefings because he hadn't been asked. "I gave you the information in response to the questions, and we have provided an enormous amount of information about the communication we've had — who learned what about this and when, the fact that the president was not informed," he said.
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"Perhaps or for certain?" Bloomberg reporter Hans Nichols asked. "Hans, can I ask — what is it that you're trying to do?" Nichols responded that he was looking to get a clear story from the White House. "Here I am, asking precise questions and you're acting like I'm petulant," the often-aggressive reporter said, to laughs from some in the briefing room.
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The gallery of the De Pree Art Center at Hope College is featuring the work of faculty member Billy Mayer in an exhibition running from Monday, Feb. 11, through Friday, March 7.
"Short and Sweet: Ten New Works and One Old Favorite" highlights work
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A professor of art, Mayer teaches sculpture and oversees the ceramics
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and served as the chair of the department of art and art history from
1987 until 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the
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Habitat: Mix of evergreens and hardwoods, such as maple and birch; interspersion of mature and young forest
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The woman with three heads
Have you heard about Karyl? She had one big beautiful head and two little ones-one on each shoulder. Despite this malformation, historians and scientists marveled at her ability to overcome adversity through fashion (black and white checked apron skirt, with red patent leather pumps, yes please). Of course the constant gabbing of the tiny heads drove her to drink but who could blame her?
Post Script: one of the tiny heads was eventually removed. His name is Matt Hubbard and he still misses his big head.
8 comments:
- Matty Boy said...
This would have been the 1960s. The other photo bomber is my sister Karla.
- March 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- MMTSI said...
oh crap lemme back pedal that tag
- March 18, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- jacquelinemay said...
Ooooo love it!! Lush outfit!! x
- March 18, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Landa said...
hahaha funny!
- March 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM
- Felix Curds said...
three's a crowd- one had to be removed. haha:) This woman looks fierce, heads and all!
- March 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Jennifer said...
Oh my God!! This is my mother, the yoga teacher!!! And I see it first on the internet!!! I had heard there was a picture of her with a cigarette and a drink, this is so classic!
- March 19, 2010 at 4:49 PM
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- March 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Karla McLaren said...
Oh helzyeah that's me. And our mama was mugging for the camera. Because she was a model, and that's what they do! You can see I have no fear in my eyes.
Though I should have. What's all that second-hand smoke? Yeesh!
- March 19, 2010 at 8:50 PM
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So why did he look so cheerful? In part because Team Obama seems to genuinely believe that the president will get his second term. Plouffe and other Obama backers offer at least four reasons why.
First, Plouffe suggested, Obama has an opportunity to improve his standing among independent voters — many of whom deserted the Democrats in the 2010 midterm election — by working with Republicans toward bipartisan deficit-reduction measures.
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Obama certainly has veered back toward the center after two years of enacting liberal-friendly measures like his $787-billion economic stimulus package and his healthcare law. In the current negotiations over raising the $14-trillion debt limit, he has taken pains to move at least halfway toward Republicans' demands.
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Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic strategist who has been critical of White House political strategy, says that so far at least, Plouffe's optimism on this count is justified. The "enthusiasm gap" that drove more Republicans than Democrats to the polls in last year's congressional election, Greenberg said, is no more. At this point, he asserted, "Democrats are more enthusiastic than Republicans."
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently marked its 100th anniversary by commissioning a survey that included questions regarding whether or not the Jews killed Jesus.
The ADL was founded at a time when anti-Semitism was rampant and deadly. Today, however, the latest ADL poll shows that (despite the rise in anti-Semitism particularly among Muslims and militant liberals) it is a dying phenomenon in the United States. According to the poll, "12 percent of Americans harbor deeply entrenched anti-Semitic attitudes," while 26 percent believe that the Jews killed Jesus. Both numbers are down from previous years. Yet, the title of the article published in The Times of Israel says: "26% of Americans believe Jews killed Jesus."
Why _The Times of Israel_ chose to misinform their readers so grossly is anyone's guess. I would think that Jews should be extremely satisfied with this information. After all, a century of relentless Jewish effort to put an end to the collective charge against the Jewish people for killing Christ has, as the ADL poll shows, resulted in resounding success.
However, with an obvious sense of relief, one wonders whether or not it is good to fix one wrong by committing another, namely, ignoring the truth.
It may surprise a lot of Jewish people to learn that the Talmud goes even further than the New Testament on the question of who killed Jesus. While the New Testament asserts that the Sanhedrin (Jewish religious court) sentenced Jesus to death and the Romans carried out the crucifixion, the Talmud takes full responsibility by not mentioning any Roman who was involved in the legal process that ended in Jesus' death.
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Jews are right to be afraid of the "Christ-killer" charge. At the same time, no harm will come of our people owning up to our own history, which is also dotted with regrettable events.
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