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text: Hi Christian If you already set up passwordless ssh across the nodes OpenMPI will probably get you up and running faster than MPICH2. OpenMPI is very easy to install, say, with gcc, g++, and gfortran (make sure you have them installed on your main machine, use Ubuntu apt-get, if you don't have them). Just configure with something like this: ./configure --prefix=/your/OpenMPI/install/dir CC=gcc CXX=g++ F77=gfortran FC=gfortran You can add optimization flags if you want, but their defaults are good. This will give you the C,C++,Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 MPI bindings. You can install OpenMPI a NFS mounted directory, and set your PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and MANPATH on your .bashrc/.cshrc file to point also to the OpenMPI sub-directories. This way you do a single install, no need to install on the other computer nodes also. A more laborious alternative is to install on all nodes. For details check the README file and their FAQ: http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/ I prefer OpenMPI because it is easier to handle and is more flexible, but that is a matter of personal taste and needs. I hope this helps. Gus Correa PS - If this is a Beowulf discussion, please Cc. your messages to Bewoulf <beowulf at beowulf.org>. christian suhendra wrote: > yes..the input is on the txt file..matrix A an matrix B > i didn't send you the file because its to large. and i can't attached it > from my PC.. > > > oh thanks.. > i will try to use mpich2 or openmpi.. > what do you prefer of this mpich2 or openmpi?? > i mean for easy configuration,,,.. > thank you very much Mr.gus > > > > regards > christian

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Bluegrass band to play at library
The Delta Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., recently presented needed items to Jasper Mewborn, director of Friends of the Homeless shelter in Kinston. The sorority also provided assistance and filled stockings for children at the Salvation Army. Above, Mallie Stocks, left and Joan Bannerman present items to Mewborn.
Bluegrass band to perform at library
One of the most widely-recognized bluegrass bands in the music industry will return for a special performance hosted by the Kinston-Lenoir County Friends of the Library.
Al Batten and the Bluegrass Reunion will be in concert at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 12, 2014 in the Schechter Auditorium of the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library.
This group has performed before standing-room-only crowds in venues throughout the Southeast and is a regular on the bluegrass festival circuit.
The Friends of the Library sponsor the group�s annual appearance as part of its series of musical, entertaining and educational programs throughout the year.
�We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring such a talented and popular musical group for a return visit to our library,� said Agnes Ho, Director of Libraries for the Neuse Regional Library System.
In previous visits to the library, Al Batten and the Bluegrass Reunion drew capacity crowds to the Schechter Auditorium. The program promises to fill quickly. For reservations, please call the library at 527-7066, Ext. 120.


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|My Uncle with my Cousin Jenny, Summer 2014
Uncle Gary, who was sitting at the table with my Aunt Michelle, was having none of it. He made the case for a high school diploma, saying it was something I just needed to get done and over with and I would always have it, "in the bank" he said. It was only one more year, after all, and even though I had never attended public school, for various reasons, it would just be that year, and then I could do what I wanted, he reasoned. There were some more reasonable points he brought up and I couldn't really dispute them. At one point there was a lull in the conversation and he looked me square in the eye and said, "You know what you need, Stevie? You need some sticktuitiveness." The word rolled off his tongue as if it were an everyday idiom, not something he had probably either a) invented on the spot or b) already possessed as a concept he believed in. But I got it. That discussion that afternoon removed any objections I had to attending public school and for better or worse I was a part of the Loara High School class of 1997. That path changed my life for various reasons, not the least of which was my meeting a friend who would one day send me a job posting for my first SAT tutoring job, a career pursuit that has in large part given me the life and happiness I possess today. Could he have seen that at the time? No, and it didn't matter. His nephew was going to do something incredibly stupid and there was no way he wasn't going to be heard on the matter. I'm glad he was just being who he was.
But the first time I met Uncle Gary was in 1986, on a first visit to the United States from my place of birth, Singapore. He was warm and welcoming, and 2 years later he and my Aunt Michelle generously welcomed our family into his home, with all my cousins. It was quite a scene but we had an absolutely amazing time. Something I will remember for the rest of my life, as will my sister Clare, were his "Lone Ranger" stories. Every night, before we went to bed, Uncle Gary came into our room and told us stories of the Lone Ranger. I never got the chance to ask him where these stories came from, or how he made them so fun and engaging, but we were spellbound every single night. It was a ritual. The lights were out. We were in our bed, wide-eyed and awake, sheets up to our necks in anticipation, and he would spin yarns involving Tanto, the Lone Ranger, and his famous steed, Silver. I wish I could tell you specifics, but I remember vivid details of bad guys, chases through the desert, and gun battles. And he would end every night with the Lone Ranger riding off, saying, "Hiyo Silver, awaaaaayyyyyy!" My sister and I were nowhere near sleeping. It certainly wasn't a ritual to help us go to bed, as we were just as wide-eyed and excited at the end of the story as at the beginning. But that wasn't the point. The point was that he loved us and welcomed us into his home, and I'm not certain our family could have come to America at that time, in 1988, without living with relatives. And that was another way my life would have been completely different.
And while this morning I am a world away, on another continent, living another life, I feel his loss, and I mourn him. But I will always be grateful for how he impacted my life, in little ways, and large ones.


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South East Europe Six: Growth, please!
Just six months ago, in the previous South East Europe Regular Economic Report (SEE RER) covering the six Western Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia (SEE6), we looked at the double-dip recession in this region, and structural policies needed for recovery.
Now, we are happy to report that recovery is, indeed, under way in each of these countries. In 2013, the SEE6 region is projected to grow 1.7 percent, thus ending the double-dip recession of 2012. Electricity, agriculture, and even some exports are helping with this rebound of output. Kosovo is leading the pack with a growth rate of 3.1 percent, with Serbia (which accounts for nearly half of the region's GDP) expected to grow by 2 percent on the heels of increased FDI, exports, and a return to normal agricultural crops. (In 2012, by contrast, agricultural output in Serbia dropped 20 percent on account of a severe drought). Albania, FYR Macedonia, and Montenegro are all expected to grow by between 1.2-1.6 percent. Rounding out this group is Bosnia and Herzegovina – with expected growth of 0.5 percent.
So, are things finally looking up in the Balkans? Not exactly.
Figure 1: SEE6 Unemployment Rates, 2012
Source: LFS data and ILO. Kosovo's tentative data suggest unemployment as high as 35 percent.


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Joseph Jenkins
Charles Walker
A statewide review was ordered Thursday of Florida's prison records to determine whether anyone has filed forged documents like the ones used in an elaborate escape.
Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both 34, are considered "escapees" by authorities after investigators discovered forged motions to reduce their respective sentences and forged court orders granting the request, according to authorities.
A "vigorous and thorough review" will be conducted of other such prison releases to ensure no others have been freed with falsified documents, Department of Corrections Secretary Michael Crews said.
Both motions bore the forged signatures of the Orlando-area state attorney or the assistant state attorney, according to a statement released on behalf of Ninth Circuit State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton.
The judge's order granting the release of Jenkins and Walker bore the forged signature of Judge Belvin Perry, who gained national attention while presiding over the Casey Anthony trial. Ashton served as the case's chief prosecutor.
Perry told CNN he wasn't entirely surprised by the alleged ruse.
"People, particularly people with criminal minds, come up with ingenious ways to beat the system," said Perry. "They have nothing but time on their hands to think of things."
The orders to release the two inmates were both filed with the Orange County Clerk's office, Ashton said. The documents, which contained the county seal among its markings, appeared legitimate, he said.
Ashton, meanwhile, ordered a review of records in an e-mail to his prosecutors to determine whether anyone else filed "similar forged documents or other suspicious activity."
Walker and Jenkins, both serving life without the possibility of parole sentences for murder, were released from the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle community of Carrabelle, Crews said.
Jenkins went free on September 27, and Walker was released on October 8, authorities said.
It is unclear whether the two men -- both former residents of Orlando -- knew each other, and the Orange County Sheriff's Office worries that at least one of them may have returned to the area.
Jenkins was convicted in the slaying of Roscoe Pugh Jr. some 15 years ago. The victim's son saw his father gunned down during a home invasion robbery.
"Our lives would be totally different, I've said that since I was 9 years old," Roscoe Pugh III told CNN on Thursday. "... I said my life would have been different if I wouldn't have saw it. I saw it."
His mother, Crystal, said of Jenkins, "... To know he's free on the streets is frightening, is terrifying."
Law enforcement learned of the prison escapes on Tuesday after a family member of Jenkins' victim contacted the State Attorney's Office to ask about the convict's release, Ashton said in the statement.
"They committed violent crimes," Orange County Sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves told CNN. "The best thing for them to do is to turn themselves in."
The discovery of the forgeries comes as Florida is prosecuting another inmate, Jeffrey Forbes, for an allegedly similar scheme.
Forbes is accused of forgery and attempted escape after a police detective who initially helped convict the man discovered he was due to be released despite being sentenced to life in prison for the attempted first degree murder of a law enforcement officer, according to Ashton's statement.
The investigation revealed someone had forged Ashton's name on a bogus court order reducing the sentence and a circuit court judge's name on the order reducing Forbes' life sentence, the statement said.
"It is now clear that the use of forged court documents to obtain release from prison is an ongoing threat which all law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, court clerks and prison officials must address and stop," it said.
CNN's Kevin Conlon, John Zarrella and Kim Segal contributed to this report.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Dan Warthen and the Mets have apologized after the team's pitching coach used a racial slur in describing the translator for New York pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.
Warthen approached translator Jeff Cutler, a Japanese-American, on Monday and apologized for jokingly calling him a "Chinaman" the previous day, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Warthen's conversation with Cutler occurred in front of Journal reporter Stu Woo, who is Chinese-American. Woo spoke with Cutler on Tuesday and asked the Mets to respond, and Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said Woo should meet with Warthen and Horwitz on Wednesday. Horwitz told Woo on Wednesday that Warthen would not comment.
The Mets released apologies from Warthen and general manager Sandy Alderson shortly after the Journal posted its story Wednesday.


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Beth A. Bradley, 48, Wabash, died at 12:10 a.m. Thursday, May 16, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne.
She was born Oct. 26, 1964 in Bryan, Ohio to Arnold and Barbara (Lavens) Brown.
Beth was a graduate of Central Local High School, Sherwood, Ohio. She married Ron Bradley. She worked at Hardees and McDonalds in North Manchester for 14 years. She attended New Journey Community Church in Wabash. Beth enjoyed playing cards, Bingo, and fishing.
She is survived by her husband, Ron Bradley, Wabash; her father, Arnold P. (Nancy) Brown, Bryan, Ohio; five children, Justin Brown, and Dustin (Sam) Cloud, both of Wabash, Tyler Cloud, Rensselaer, Amanda Nelson and Jordan Bradley, both of Wabash; three grandchildren, Raymond Nelson, Wabash, Violet Cloud, Rensselaer, and Ryan Brown, Wabash; and several brothers and sisters. She was preceded in death by her mother, Barbara.
Funeral services were held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave. Wabash on May 20, with Pastor Tom Cochran officiating. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. in Ney Cemetery, Ney, Ohio with Rev. Ron Adkins officiating.
The memorial guest book for Beth may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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The kids over at VODCars have assembled a tight little package of explosive Prancing Horse goodness in honor of the marque's 60th anniversary. In fact, we're just playing it over and over, listening to the engines while we write. Seriously. Yum. We think we might be high. We're at the very least lightheaded.
Ferrari Celebrates 60th Birthday With Live-Action Shell Commercial!; James Glickenhaus Shows off His Toys; James May's First Ferrari [Internal]


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OCCA strengthens the arts by ensuring that the Oregon coast has a rich and vibrant arts community through support and promotion of arts organizations and individual artists.
This directory represents the coastal areas of Oregon, which include Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Coos, and Curry counties and the coastal towns of Lane and Douglas counties. OCCA is the regional arts council for this area. Learn more about OCCA's regional arts activities.
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, on the Oregon Coast north of Lincoln City, is located in the center of a United Nations Biosphere Reserve designated by the United States Congress as the only National Scenic Research Area in the country.
Founded in 1970, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology fosters creativity, intellectual inquiry, and education. By helping others discover more about their core creative selves and their connections to nature, the Sitka Center works to fulfill its mission of expanding the relationships between art, nature and humanity.


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Fries with that? Venus likes food alive
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK
Q. You just bought yourself a carnivorous Venus fly-trap, terror of the botanical world. Would it like a little hamburger? –R. McDonald
A. "Clerks at grocery, hardware and department stores where they sell the plants will advise this, but it's all wrong," says Barry Meyers-Rice, editor of the "Carnivorous Plant Newsletter." Feed a Venus fly-trap hamburger, and it will die. It needs bugs, bugs, bugs, and there is far too much non-bug energy and protein in cow meat.
If you want to feed your plants, try flies, spiders, crickets or slugs. Maggots will work too. "Apparently you can buy them at stores selling fish bait. Disgusted?
Wait, it gets better! The maggots, I've been told, can usually escape, so first they must be pierced with a toothpick!" Bugs out of season? Try crickets from a pet store (people feed them to their lizards). If it's dormant winter, withhold all feed.
Dead bugs might seem easier, but these won't spark the plant's digestion, so you'll need to tickle the trigger hairs with a toothpick to get the juices flowing.
"My favorite trick is to pop a bug into the refrig briefly. This'll make it go dormant, easier to maneuver into Venus' maw. Then when the bug awakes, its scuttling will stimulate the trap's digestion phase. Mwa-haw-haw!"
Q. Why 40 days and 40 nights for Noah's flood, 40 thieves with Ali Baba, and the 40-day quarantine? M.T. Ararat
A. The Bible contains many references to events that lasted 40 days, which is just an expression meaning a long period of time, says Richard Phillips in Numbers: Facts, Figures and Fiction. For Semitic peoples, 40 is frequently used as a convenient round number.
Originally, "quarantine" referred to the period during which ships arriving in 14th century Venice were held in case there were diseases on board. "The choice of 40 days was probably made more for Biblical rather than medical reasons."
Q. When you tell a lie, what body part is most apt to give you away, like Pinocchio's lengthening nose? –J. Kinnard
A. Shifty eyes or looking away won't do it, in spite of what most people think, says psychologist Paul Ekman. Nor are twisting one's hair, biting the lips, or stroking the chin reliable indicators.
Most of us learn to control our facial expressions, covering up with a masking smile where needed, says Dennis Coon in Introduction to Psychology. But "even a good con artist may be too busy attending to his or her words and face to control certain bodily clues."
For example, if you typically "talk" with your hands, these gestures may cease when you're telling a lie. Or other gestures may leak out, such as slowly shaking your head while uttering, "Sure I'd love to try some of your homemade candied pig's feet."
Most damning, says Coon, are signs of strong emotion, including blinking, pupil dilation, irregular breathing, sweating, speech errors, and a loud-pitched voice. These are hard to self-censor. But like a polygraph, they're not totally reliable either, because strong emotion does not always mean the person's lying. "Remember, J., good liars can fool most people most of the time– and that's no lie."
Q. When might a buffalo be mistaken for an ant? –M. Lewis
A. When anthropologist Colin Turnbull took his African Pygmy guide for his first trip ever out of the dense forest, Kenge peered far across the wide plain and asked: "What insects are those?" Told they were buffalo, Kenge roared with laughter, but as the two drove closer and the "insects" loomed larger, the mystified Kenge grew frightened. Having never learned about visual perspective, he didn't know about objects shrinking at a distance.
Missionaries also report that people who have never seen photos or drawings may initially be confused by them, says psychologist David G. Myers. Shown a painting of a familiar animal such as a tortoise, the inexperienced person may at first just not get it. "Our taken-for-granted perceptions of the world depend on our experience. We perceive the world not just as it is, but as we are."
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As of Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center had revised its prediction of Hurricane Irene's path, placing it directly over Long Island Sunday. This course is strikingly similar to that said to have been taken by the 1938 Hurricane, which killed an estimated 600 people.
That earlier storm that arrived without warning on Sept. 21, 1938, was considerable stronger than Irene is predicted to be. However, the damage from the 1938 storm may give an indication of the kinds of effects that will begin to be seen on Long Island Sunday.
Unlike today, in 1938 there were very few methods to predict a storm's path or intensity. On the two days before that storm, the Weather Bureau had only two reports from ships at sea on which to base its forecast. Though that hurricane has been said to have moved with an unheard-of 60 miles-per-hour forward speed, the paucity of actual scientific observations has lead some experts on the 1938 Hurricane to conclude that its movement may have been in fact somewhat less rapid.
|Slideshow: Images from after the 1938 Hurricane
In any event, what is known is that the 1938 Hurricane slammed ashore on Long Island at about 4 p.m., with its eye centered about Patchogue. This trajectory placed the strongest winds on eastern Long Island, eastern Connecticut, and the Rhode Island shore.
In the Northern Hemisphere, hurricane winds blow counter-clockwise. Because of this, a storm centered at mid–island will probably most powerfully effect the area to the east of the eye. Its winds will come first from the east and northeast, but as it moves inland, they will shift and blow from the northwest.
The circling pattern of wind combined with a surge of high water can lead to flooding in surprising places. In 1938, as the wind began to shift to the northwest, Fort Pond Bay rushed into the Montauk fishing village, wiping out many of the lightly built houses and destroying dozens of boats. Residents sought shelter on high ground at the Montauk Manor.
The East Hampton Star reported this in its issue of Sept. 22, 1938: "The 100-mile-an-hour hurricane which lashed the Atlantic seaboard from Cape Hatteras through New England, struck eastern Long Island with full force on September 21, taking a heavy toll of lives and causing damage far into the millions.
"From Westhampton to Montauk Point the lashing fury ripped and tore at everything in its path, inflicting heavy damage upon substantial dune estates and reducing beach cabanas and frame buildings to kindlingwood."
Because, unlike today, there was no warning of the impending storm, the human toll of the 1938 Hurricane was fearsome.
Six men aboard the menhaden steamer Ocean View out of Promised Land died when it foundered off the Connecticut shore.
Twenty-nine people in Westhampton Beach were reported drowned as the surge rose over the dunes and swept away nearly all of the houses there.
Train and mail service was interrupted for two weeks due to washouts on the Long Island Rail Road tracks. Swathes of Napeague and what is now Beach Hampton disappeared under the surge waters.
On Main Street in East Hampton Village, alone, from Woods Lane to the Hook Mill, 164 large trees -- many of the town's emblematic elms -- came down.
Across New England and Long Island, 1,754 people were injured, and more than 93,000 households suffered reportable losses, according to insurers; 7,000 vacation houses and "cottages" were destroyed, as were 2,000 permanent, year-round houses. Flooding ravaged inland New England for days.
Precautions are being taken today that were impossible in those days. And while it remains to be seen just how similar or dissimilar Irene will be to its wrathful predecessor, authorities are advising residents and visitors to err on the side of caution and prepare for the worst. The Long Island Rail Road has canceled eastbound trains; highway departments on the East End are preparing tree-removal equipment, and citizens are being warned to put aside thoughts of wave-watching and keep away from beaches and other low-lying areas for the duration.


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Matthew Marshall Taylor surrendered to FBI agents Wednesday morning following an investigation that accuses the former Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) trader of defrauding the Wall Street bank out of $118 million in 2007 by hiding a massive futures bet.
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The surrender comes after the Commodities Futures Trading Commission unleashed a lawsuit against Taylor in November that alleged he intentionally concealed an $8.3 billion position in the S&P 500 e-mini futures. The CFTC had been seeking civil penalties of $130,000.
A person with knowledge of the matter told FOX Business that Taylor surrendered to FBI agents shortly after 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday following a securities fraud probe.
Taylor's legal counsel, Clayman & Rosenberg LLP, said in a statement that Taylor "has accepted responsibility for his conduct," calling the events in 2007 "an aberration."
In a statement, Goldman Sachs said it is "very disappointed by Mr. Taylor's unauthorized conduct and betrayal of the firm's trust in him."
Taylor racked up $118 million in losses for Goldman after his camouflaged trade was discovered by the company.
The Wall Street bank also agreed to pay $1.5 million in December to settle charges that it failed to have policies in place to detect and prevent fabricated futures trades. At the time Goldman said it has enhanced its controls and noted the Taylor trades didn't impact customer funds.
The CFTC lawsuit alleges that Taylor obstructed Goldman's discovery of his trading scheme by "providing false, misleading or deceptive information and reports" to employees about the e-mini futures position.
Taylor jumped to Goldman rival Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) following the wayward trade but left that company in July 2012.
FOX Business reporter Adam Samson contributed to this report.


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MS 'disappointed' with Xbox Live connectivity woes
Offers free game in compensation
Microsoft is to offer gamers a free game download to compensate them for all the connectivity problems many of them experience accessing its Xbox Live service during the past few weeks.
The software giant blamed the problems on the sheer number of Xbox gamers trying to get online at the same time, including what the company claimed was the largest sign-up of new members to Xbox Live in in the service's five-year history.
Microsoft's Xbox Live General Manager, Marc Whitten, claimed Live wasn't ever entirely offline during the Christmas period, but it admitted it was "disappointed in [the service's] performance"
The free download will be made available in the comping weeks, Microsoft said - as will details of what it plans to offer punters.
The big problem may not have been numbers per se, however. John Alden, VP of Business Development at online gaming infrastructure company GameRail, this week suggested them trouble may have arisen from the volume of software updates all these new users, and others, were being pushed as soon as they logged on to the Microsoft service.
Alden told Light Reading that gamers experienced similar issues when Microsoft released Halo 3.
"The initial onslaught of Halo 3 players saturated the network with updates, which are fairly large files," he said.
Microsoft last gave Xbox Live subscribers a free game in November 2007, to celebrate the service's fifth birthday.
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President Bush Signs Omnibus Bill Including $300,000 for GMHC Crystal Meth Prevention
Bill Also Advances Syringe Exchange, Comprehensive Sex Education
December 28, 2007
New York, NY -- Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the world's oldest HIV/AIDS organization, has been awarded $303,150 in the Federal Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill to fund a comprehensive program combating the growing role of crystal methamphetamine use in the HIV/AIDS epidemic on a national level. The appropriation, signed by President Bush on December 26, was sponsored by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
"We are deeply grateful to Senators Schumer and Clinton for their hard work to ensure this appropriations bill passed," said Dr. Marjorie J. Hill, GMHC's Chief Executive Officer. "Their leadership in addressing the rising rates of crystal meth use will help us prevent further HIV/AIDS infections."
Studies have shown rising rates of crystal meth use among gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) over the last few years. Various studies show a clear link between crystal meth use and unsafe sex. In a 2004 study conducted by the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) and the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), crystal meth users were more than twice as likely to be HIV infected, nearly twice as likely to contract gonorrhea, and five times as likely as non-crystal users to be diagnosed with syphilis. Further, though crystal meth is most commonly smoked, injection use is on the rise. This is disturbing because of the increased potential for HIV transmission through shared needles.
GMHC views its first-ever federal appropriation as a unique and unprecedented opportunity in the agency's work to reach out to individuals who are struggling with crystal meth use and provide them with the information and tools to help them prevent becoming infected with HIV and other STIs.
"HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men in the United States are up 13% since 2001. In New York City, infections among young MSM are up by one third. Crystal meth is one factor fueling this rise in HIV infections among gay men," said Janet Weinberg, Senior Managing Director of Development and Legislative Funding. "This funding will allow us to warn people of the risks of crystal meth before they start using and to get users into treatment."
The omnibus spending bill was also historic in that it advanced several key aspects of evidence-based prevention policy -- syringe exchange and comprehensive sex education. Specifically, the omnibus bill:
"We're disappointed that this omnibus bill still contains millions for harmful and ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage education and still contains the restriction banning the use of federal funds for syringe exchange," said Sean Cahill, Managing Director for Public Policy, Research and Community Health at GMHC. "However, President Bush signed a bill that allows, for the first time, the District of Columbia to spend its local funds for syringe exchange. He signed a bill that removed abstinence-only restrictions in foreign HIV prevention and flat-funded abstinence-only domestically. These are significant advances that we celebrate and welcome."
This article was provided by Gay Men's Health Crisis. Visit GMHC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Coker men's and women's cross country teams both finished in the top 10 at the Conference Carolinas Championships on Friday afternoon. The Cobra women placed ninth, while the men finished 10th. Queens University of Charlotte came away with the championship in both the men's and women's races, with Mount Olive College finishing second in both races as well.
The Cobra men had one of their best races of the season as all five runners came in under 30 minutes in the 8k race. Austin McJunkins (Walhalla, S.C.) led the way finishing at 29:14, followed by Quinn Wegner (Sumter, S.C.) at 29:18. Britain Tomlinson (Rock Hill, S.C.) came in at 29:38 with Thad Sulek (Hilton Head, S.C.) and Joel Bristol (Palm Bay, Fla.) coming in at 29:53 and 29:59 respectively.
In the women's 5k race it was Kendyl Seawright (Manalapan, N.J.) leading the Cobra women with a time of 20:57, followed by Samantha Fletcher (Pompton Lakes, N.J.) coming in at 21:08. Ashlyn Barnwell (York, S.C.) had a time of 21:18 and Alex Ochoa (Pamplico, S.C.) finished at 22:17. Aliese Gregory (Aiken, S.C.), Ashley Meador (Union, S.C.) and Caitlyn Driscoll (Grand Island, N.Y.) rounded out the field of Coker runners with times of 22:32, 23:43 and 23:49 respectively.
The Cobras will now break for the holidays before returning to the trails and roads once again in the spring for their off-season workouts.


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This paper describes a developer-led conversion to agile methods where the software team themselves recorded detailed data throughout the project. They used a very simple home-made unit test framework for development in C. Since the close of that project the senior members of the software team built a better unit test framework intended for doing agile software development in C. This paper gives a brief overview of the Catsrunner framework (CATS = C Automated Test System).
More analysis has been done on the data collected during the project, and some additional work has been completed to compare the team's results with the software industry in general. The purpose of this paper is two-fold:
1) close the gap in
quantitative understanding of Agile methods for embedded software
development (at least, as much as can be done given that the scope
covers only one project).
2) describe a test framework for embedded C that was developed based on our agile experience.
Project Context
The Grain Monitor System (GMS) project entailed building a ruggedized, mobile spectrometer initially for farming applications. Using spectroscopy principles the technology could quantify the components of a material, e.g. how much protein is in a wheat sample.
The team size varied between 4 and 6 members, and development went on for three years. The initial field units were ready about 6 months into the project but so much was learned in the process of deploying them with a partner farm equipment company, that the team continued on to support further work and implement many more new features.
At the start of the project there were many unknowns and technology risks that made it impossible to use waterfall techniques for this work. They include:
1) New scientific algorithm
to decode near infra-red signals from grain samples
2) Early customer for new MPC555 microprocessor
3) First use of this operating system by the team
4) First customer of operating system port to 555
5) New prototype near infra-red sensor hardware
6) Early algorithms use too much MIPS for any known microprocessor
7) Must handle extremes of temperature, vibration
8) Very low-noise circuitry required
9) No experience with CAN bus protocol
10) CAN bus protocol standard not in finalized form
11) Difficulty getting early MPC555 chips
12) Team lacked experience in multitasked apps
The team used generic agile practices at first " strong unit tests, iterations, common ownership of the code " and transitioned to full Extreme Programming methods during the project. As with the vast majority of agile teams, this one didn't implement every practice fully or flawlessly.
This was a "green field" project. Using the practices described here for legacy software would not be easy but might be worthwhile, especially if it is a safety-critical application. The advantages of agile methods for safety critical applications are covered in another paper [2]. Whether to back-fit agile unit tests to a legacy code base is a question that can only be answered case by case, and is outside the scope of this paper.
Data Gathering Methods
My role in the project was as Software Technical Lead. As such I compiled a list of all the defects that were found in integration test or later stages, including any found after delivery to our customer (the partner company that was conducting field trials of the GMS units on real farm machinery). For each defect I wrote up a root cause analysis at the time the defect was resolved.
We had independent testers engaged for the later part of the project, but for most of it, the software team delivered their code directly to internal users and to the partner company. Labor data was reported weekly by the team members themselves, and tracked by the team. The company's official time records were not available to us, and weren't broken out in categories useful to us. Data on source code size and cyclomatic complexity was obtained using C-Metric v. 1.0 from Software Blacksmiths.
The Results
At the end of three years of development the product was fully ready for manufacturing. There had been a grand total of 51 software defects since the start of the project (see Figure 1, below). There were never more than two open defects at any one time throughout the project. The team had produced 29,500 (non comment) lines of tested, working embedded code, plus several sets of related utility software that is outside the scope of this paper.
|Figure 1. Defects and software releases over three years
The embedded GMS C code was equivalent to 230 function points (per the conversion given here. The team's productivity in the first iteration was just under three times the industry norm for embedded software teams. The team became increasingly adept at delivering code on time according to the commitments made at the start of each iteration. Early iteration lengths varied from two to eight weeks but two weeks became typical, and toward the end of the project, a new release could be turned around in one day.
Team size varied during the project from 4 to 6 people, and is shown in the below staffing profile, in Figure 2, below.
|Figure 2. Staffing profile for the GMS project
The team used the following set of categories in Figure 3 below to track labor through the first two years of the project. Year three's labor was not tracked, but there is no reason to think it would vary much from the rest.
|Figure 3. Labor tracking categories used for GMS software
The labor distribution charts below in Figure 4, Figure 5, and Figure 6 give a view into the activities of the first iteration, first full year (including first iteration), and the second full year. Note that the labor in iteration 1 reflects the activities of a new team that has not worked together before, e.g. much time spent working out team processes.
|Figure 4. Team's labor distribution for first iteration
|Figure 5. Team's labor distribution for first year of the project
|Figure 6. Team's labor distribution for second year of project
Code Size
The code base for the GMS embedded software grew from zero to a raw lines count of 60,638 (see Figure 7, below). C-Metric does a count that omits blank lines, comment lines, and lines with a single brace "}" on them. That filtered count of "effective source lines of code" (ESLOC) was 29,500 for the software at the end of the project. Short header files with long preambles, and lengthy change history blocks in all files is mainly the cause for the high percentage of non-code lines.
|Figure 7. Growth of the code base over three years
It isn't possible to directly compute a figure for labor per line of code for two reasons: Much of the coding was change activity, not net additional code; and the team worked on utility applications to let users create and load calibration tables, exercise the hardware for test, or import new algorithm test data into our test harness. The labor for those utility code bases was not broken out separately.
Early in the project, before changing to Extreme Programming methods, the team had difficulty delivering by a target date. There aren't any figures to illustrate this. One of the reasons that Extreme Programming seemed appealing is its practice called "the Planning Game", which brings developers and management into partnership to negotiate the deliverables for each iteration.
The early use of the Planning Game gave us some difficulty. That experience is described in detail in an earlier paper [1]. Once the team mastered the Planning Game technique, their releases were never more than a couple days late unless there was some drastic unforeseen circumstance (happened only once).
The defect rate remained fairly constant over the development period, despite the growing size of the code base. The team averaged about 1.5 defects per month. The open bug list never held more than two items all through development. In the below Figure 8, defects are grouped according to the quarter in which they were reported.
|Figure 8. Absolute number of defects per quarter
Because the defect rate stayed low, independent of the code size, I conclude that the team's techniques of software development were effective at handling complexity. C-Metric was used to take a look at cyclomatic complexity. Four of the later releases were analyzed and the result was an average cyclomatic complexity of 6 or 7 for each of the releases. For more detail on this metric in our code, refer to [3].
Although we used agile development, the software still had phases such as detailed design, coding, test, and so on. In agile there is a tight loop of doing requirements, design and coding all in short increments of time so that you can re-run your unit tests about every 10 to 30 minutes.
Illustrated in Figure 9 below is a look at the phase where bugs were inserted and where they were found. This information comes from the root cause analysis of each defect. More discussion on the nature of the defects found is given in [3].
|Figure 9. Defect life span, year 1 of project
It should be mentioned that the numerous software releases shown toward the end of the project (in Figure 1) do not represent panicky bug fix activity. Rather this was the software team creating custom releases to help electrical and optics engineers to isolate difficult system-level problems that only appeared when the whole system was running. The software was very stable and the team could deliver well-tested releases on a 1-day turnaround.
Comparison With Software Industry
I was able to make use of three industry sources of data for comparison of this team's performance. The first two are covered briefly since they will not be generally available to readers for measuring their own team's capability. The third (the data from Capers Jones) is something that anyone can make use of if their code can be characterized in terms of function points. This paper will therefore discuss that in some detail.
SEER SEM Estimation Data. Before the start of the project, our management considered an estimating tool called SEER SEM from Galorath. Consultants from that company did an estimate as part of demonstrating the tool. It gave a breakdown of staffers needed for each waterfall style phase and the hours that would be used by each, all based on a figure for lines of code at completion, which they got from me.
The one thing the prediction software could not foresee is the completed size of the application. The point is that with this data I could figure out the value for ESLOC/developer-hour that their database uses for this type of project. It was 1.2 ESLOC/hour. That's for fully tested, working embedded code in C. When iteration 1 was complete, the numbers showed the team had delivered 3.5 ESLOC/hour, or 292% of the industry norm, as given by Galorath's database. 9.2.
QSM Industry Data. QSM Associates Inc. also supplies software planning tools, and used to offer a free service via their website to compare your team's project data with their database of thousands of projects. I took the opportunity to input data for our iteration 1, such as the number of people on the team, duration, lines of code delivered, defects found, etc. The result was that the "Productivity Index" they calculated for the GMS Iteration 1 ranked us in the 90th percentile! This index, as they compute it, covers code complexity (based on size), schedule, efficiency, effort, and reliability.
Capers Jones Industry Data. Capers Jones, a principal at Software Productivity Research has accumulated data from a wide variety of software projects, expressed in Figure 12 below.
|Figure 10. Software defect data from Capers Jones with GMS data point added
The only thing necessary for anyone to compare their team's data with the information from Capers Jones is to be able to state their defects per function point. We did not count function points in our project. Knowing the ESLOC, you can simply look up a conversion to function points on the SPR website. See http://www.theadvisors.com/langcomparison.htm
The data in Figure 12 can be expressed in terms of defects delivered to the customer. The "Best In Class" software teams had 2.0 defects per function point (FP), and a defect removal efficiency of 95%. Defects to customer = Total FP * defects per FP * (1.0 - defect removal efficiency).
|Table 1. Defects delivered to customer per Capers Jones, tabular form
Let's look at how the "Best In Class" teams would perform if their code was the same size as GMS, that is, 230 function points. Their total number of defects would be 230 * 2, or 460. Then they'd remove 95% of those: 460 *(1.0 " 0.95) = 23 per Table 1, above. They would deliver 23 defects to the customer. The GMS embedded team delivered 21 bugs to their customer, according to Figures 9 - 11.
How to Achieve These Results for
Your Team
Lean Thinking is the fundamental concept underlying Agile software development practices [4]. The two essentials you must have in place to succeed with this approach are:
1) You must match the amount
of work undertaken to your capacity
2) You must mistake-proof the steps you use to produce the work
The first item is satisfied by using agile iteration planning techniques, and is outside the scope of this paper. For a developer-led agile conversion, regulation of the work stream is often very difficult to achieve because management must support it " or at least tolerate it. The second item is covered by a previous paper on agile test techniques for embedded software [5].
The remaining sections of this paper discuss the most powerful way of mistake-proofing your software:; the use of an appropriate test harness to efficiently catch bugs early.
Dual-platform Unit Testing as Key
For embedded software the hardware represents an extra dimension that must be addressed in the testing strategy. The GMS team built all the code as "dual target" software. It could run on a desktop PC as well as on the target MPC555 microprocessor, through the use of compile-time switches.
This strategy allowed the software to be tested first on the PC where hardware was stable. Timing would be incorrect but the logic could be fully exercised. Other compile-time switches would bypass sensor hardware and inject dummy grain data to drive computations.
The team's unit tests consisted of a conditionally-compiled "main()" within each file that held a set of related functions. This 'tester main' had calls to each function in the module, often multiple calls to the same function but with parameters intended to test boundary cases.
There were perl scripts to execute the 'tester main' routines of all the modules and report the pass-fail status of all the tests. This simple test framework had tests designed to run on both platforms, and was used throughout the duration of the project.
Catsrunner " A Better Technique
The experience gained via the simple unit test framework of GMS led, a few years later, to the development of Catsrunner and CATS (C Automated Test System) by the partners at Agile Rules, some of whom were on the GMS project. Catsrunner has a more consistent way of inputting test parameters, and its output is easier to interpret. It allows separation of test code from production code. Also it behaves exactly the same on the PC and the target platform.
In short, it's the test framework we wish we'd had time to write during the GMS project. Catsrunner is a C software unit and acceptance testing suite based on CATS (see Figure 11, below). CATS is a cross-platform testing framework for C, especially designed to work well in embedded and multi-platform environments. Catsrunner provides the wrapper that calls the test and reports the results. Catsrunner is open source software released under GPL 2.0. See [6] for downloading the Catsrunner software.
|Figure 11. Top: Catsrunner executing on Host, Bottom: executing on Target
Catsrunner does three basic things: 1) Reads, from the host PC, a list of unit tests to be run; 2) Runs each unit test, in turn, and 3) Sends the results of each test back to the host PC The middle step " running each unit test " can occur on either platform. Platform is determined by environment variable settings when building the Catsrunner executable. The present version of Catsrunner runs on a PC and on an ARM7 core.
Catsrunner calls CATS, which looks up the name of the test in a table holding pointers to the testing functions. At the heart of the CATS unit testing framework is an array of structures associating the names of functions with pointers to those functions.
When the name of a test function and its input parameters are passed to CATS, it looks up the function name in this array. When Catsrunner executes on the target hardware, it must communicate with the host to know which test to run next, and then to store the result of the test.
A module named "Hostops" is part of Catsrunner, and in the case of the ARM7 target, hostops makes use of the Angel background debug monitor to accomplish the data transfer to the host. A user wishing to port Catsrunner to a new target will have to create a version of hostops that makes use of its I/O capabilities to do the equivalent data transfers.
A Catsrunner Test Examined
Catsrunner's approach to testing divides all the software into two categories: software that is inherently platform-independent, and software that "touches hardware". Platform-independent code can easily be run in an automated fashion but when software drives a motor or turns on a LED, the result of that test cannot be captured without special test hardware (which was out of the question for us).
When testing hardware-related code on the target platform, we used manual tests. That is, the test code is contained in the unit test file, but when testing actual hardware we'd step through it by hand to watch the behavior of the hardware. Catsrunner uses this philosophy, as illustrated in Figure 12 below ("pure software" indicates platform-independent code).
|Figure 12. Unit test concept for software that drives hardware
When testing hardware-related software on the PC, we'd capture outputs that would otherwise go to hardware, and the tester code could validate their correctness. For sensor input data, we'd just bring in dummy data in order to let the software continue on.
These practices are reflected in the code by having some modules with layered directories. For a LED module, the main directory would contain the platform-independent parts of the code and be called "led". Below that are directories for each platform, in this case ARM and PC, which contain functions having the same names which are implemented differently on the platforms.
The linker will bring in the platform-independent code from "led"
directory, and only one of the code sets from the lower directories,
either "ARCH_ARM" or "ARCH_PC". The prefix "ARCH" indicates
architecture-specific software. The directory layout is illustrated in Figure 13 below.
|Figure 13. Directory of LED driver
It would seem that manually stepping through hardware-related code would slow development unacceptably. In practice, the GMS team found it to be no problem because those parts of the code changed little once they were written, and they were well encapsulated. (The team used a more primitive test framework that had this same philosophy for testing hardware-related code.)
This has been a brief introduction to the Catsrunner agile test framework. A complete user manual with much more detail is available with the open source download package [6].
The GMS team was a group of ordinary developers who achieved highly extraordinary results through the power of an idea. The team did not work excessive hours. Most needed to learn some significant skill on the job. They didn't follow the agile practices 100%, and didn't have any outside coaching or mentoring in how to use agile development practices.
It has been said that in order to do Extreme Programming you need a team of hand-picked gurus. Not so. All you need is people empowered to govern their work. The powerful idea is simply this: If you make it easier to find bugs than it is to create new ones, you have the possibility of producing bug-free software.
Bug-free software lets you build trust with your sponsors and customers, spend more of your time productively (troubleshooting is waste!), and stay in control of your project. These results are within reach for every software team whose management will support sufficient empowerment.
Nancy Van Schooenderwoert of Agile Rules / XP
Embedded, has extensive
experience in building large-scale, real-time systems for flight
simulation and ship sonars, as well as software development for
safety-critical applications such as factory machine control and
medical devices.
[1] Van Schooenderwoert, Nancy "Embedded Extreme Programming: An Experience Report", Embedded Systems Conference Boston, 2004.
[2] Poppendieck, Mary with Ron Morsicato "XP In A Safety-Critical Environment" Cutter IT Journal, Boston, Sept. 2002.
[3] Van Schooenderwoert, Nancy "Embedded Agile Project by the Numbers With Newbies", Agile 2006 Conference, 2006.
[4] Poppendieck, Mary and Tom, Lean Software Development, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
[5] Van Schooenderwoert, Nancy, and Morsicato, Ron "Taming the Embedded Tiger " Agile Test Techniques for Embedded Software", Agile Development Conference, 2004.
[6] Catsrunner test framework for embedded C software is available from http://www.agilerules.com/projects/catsrunner/index.phtml
This article is excerpted from a paper of the same name presented at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2006, and is used here with permission.


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Switzerland and Germany
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The French prefer dark roast coffee, and enjoy the caf au lait, half milk and half coffee mixture.
Coffee with a touch of cinnamon is a favorite in Mexico. In addition, Caf de Olla, or spiced coffee, with brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, orange peel and coffee is another coffee recipe that is popular in Mexico. http://www.foodbycountry.com/Kazakhstan-to-South-Africa/Mexico.html
Coffee with a pinch of salt anyone? If you ever travel to Ethiopian, the birthplace of coffee, you can try this coffee concoction.
Espresso is popular in Italy which is not surprising as Italy is actually home to espresso. In general Italians dink their espresso with sugar.
In Thailand the coffee is strong with a chicory tinge, and is actually served with ice and sweetened condensed milk.
In Morocco they spice up their coffee by adding peppercorns.
Middle East
The spices of the Middle East come to life in coffee, as many Middle Easterners prefer to add cardamom and other spices to their coffee.
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Coffee, whipped cream and water... Ok, not all added together, but in Austria they add whipped cream to their coffee and have a glass of water as a side. A Viennesse roast or blend of two-thirds dark roast beans and one third regular roast is popular.
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Sweden's Kate Boy are set to release their debut EP Northern Lights on IAMSOUND Records on January 22, 2013. They have kindly released two songs in advance, one a video for Northern Lights and the other, a b-side called In Your Eyes via SoundCloud. Both songs are infectious and have been on repeat since they landed in my inbox late last week.
With the success of Lykke Li, First Aid Kit, Robyn and more recently Niki & The Dove, Kate Boy is destined to be the next big think out of Sweden!


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Finch Scopes Out Mates with Right Eye Only
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For male rainbow finches, that's definitely right. As in right eye. The birds depend on their right eye for scoping out potential mates.
Many males are choosy when picking a partner. And the rainbow, or Gouldian, finch is no exception. Songbirds with colorful and variable plumage, Gouldian males tend to go for a gal with a pretty face, one that pretty much matches his. So males with black faces prefer females with the same. But that bias, it turns out, depends on how they look at her.
Researchers gave black-faced male finches a choice: they could flirt with black-faced females, red-faced females or a fellow male. Males with both eyes open cozied up to the doll with the dark feathers. But when researchers covered the males' right eye, the males sang and danced with everyone, or hopped around randomly looking lost. You can use either eye to see the finding in the journal Biology Letters. [Jennifer J. Templeton et al., In the eye of the beholder: visual mate choice lateralization in a polymorphic songbird]
The right eye feeds info to the left half of the brain. And so it seems, males that are really particular when it comes to choosing a partner are not in their right minds.
—Karen Hopkin
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Listed below are all documents and RMI.org site pages related to this topic.Industry & Materials - Agriculture 3 Items
In this paper given at the World Botanical Congress in 1999, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins describe their concept of the "two botanies." The first botany has been shapped by billions of years of evolution. The second botany comes from recent advances in genetic engineering. Modifications in genetic make-up contradict whole systems by "isolating complex wholes to simple parts." Transgenetic manipulation is worrisome for many reasons. The writers argue that we are incapable of understanding the consequences of these significant manipulations that have been developing for so long. They advocate for seeing "beyond molecules and genes to plants, and beyond plants to ecosystems." They argue that it is the botanist's responsibility to help us understand the biology and biotechnology.


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Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL LLC subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said.
Vitale and co-defendant Todd Moeller, were in contact with a government confidential informant via instant messaging, and agreed to send spam advertisements for a product in exchange for half of the profits, Garcia said in a statement. The pair then sent about 1.2 million unsolicited e-mails to AOL users between August 17 and August 23, 2005. They changed the headers on the e-mails and used various computers to conceal the source of the spam.
Vitale, 26, resides in Brooklyn. Sentencing is scheduled for September 13 before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, who presided over the criminal case, in Manhattan. He faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison and a fine of US$250,000 or double the maximum gain or loss resulting from the offense. Moeller, a New Jersey resident, will stand trial for the same charges.
One observer felt the legal victory was somewhat hollow.
"I think this is a moral victory for AOL, but not much else," said Adam O'Donnell, director of emerging technologies at Cloudmark Inc. "The economic motivations underlying abuse mean some other spammer has already taken his place, and it is likely the spammer's replacement is coming from outside American jurisdiction."


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Today, I did something I rarely do. Today, I watched The Oprrah Winfrey Show Today's show was her annual WEIGHT LOSS show. She had on several people who had lost weight using the Get With The Program diet plan. She also had on several other people who want to lose weight and want to try this program out for themselves. Her guest was Bob Green from Get With The Program
Needless to say I found this show very interesting, yet also kinda disturbing in some ways too.
As faithful rreaders of my blog know, I'm a firm believer in the issue of SIZE ACCEPTANCE. In fact, there's a group devoted to this very issue. It's called the INTERNATIONAL SIZE ACCEPTANCE ASSOCIATION. You can find the link to their website on the left or simply by clicking here
Among the people they had on were people who were tired of their weight and wanted to lose some of it. But there was also a woman who didn't really need to lose ANY weight at all, but simply joined her co-workers in their efforts to lose weight as an incentive to GAIN a few pounds and some strength. This is a disturbing sign because it shows that people will use diet plans for just about ANYTHING these days even though it's for all the WRONG reasons.
Diet plans are for people who want to lose weight, yet there are SCORES of people who use them for things OTHER than weight loss. And that can lead to TRAGIC results.
In fact, I drread to think of how many people with eating disorders who are in a state of denail who watched the program. It's scary because they NEVER mentioned what were the right and wrong reasons for lossing weight or for getting on that diet plan. In fact, it was NEVER discussed.
I mentioned in my LIVE video blog (NOT the one in the link to the left or above) that in order for ANY diet plan to work, you have to learn to ACCEPT YOUR SIZE. That is to accept WHO you are and that there's a VERY REAL probability that you will NEVER be able to achieve the figurre of your favorite role model, idol, etc.). I also said that as you learn to accept your size, you'll also learn WHAT (and sometimes WHO) your enemy forces are AND the fact that you'll have to learn how to deal with them and keep them in check BEFORE you attempt to go on a diet plan. But you WILL come reasonably close though.
But ONLY if you work at it and stick to the diet plan you are on.
Folks, this isn't rocket science. Nor am I some sort of "fitness expert". In fact, I know I could stand to lose a few pounds myself. But BY THE SAME TOKEN, I also realize that I have to learn to ACCEPT MY SIZE as it's WHO I AM. If I lose a few pounds - GREAT. FABULOUS. What I am saying just amounts to good ol' COMMON SENSE.
And until you (and I) learn to FULLY ACCEPT OUR SIZE, who and and/or what our enemy forces are AND how to deal with them and keep them in check, NO DIET PLAN WILL WORK. Not only that, but we'll just keep lying to ourrselves over and over again. And if we're not carreful, we could end up making choices we could end up regrretting in the future.
If you're a heavy-set person like I am, I urge you to check out the International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) and get a membership. I plan to (No, that ain't no bull either). I'll start posting my weight every once in a while as its checked right here on my blog (Don't see any reason NOT to). If I'm going to lose weight, I'm gonna do so REALISTICALLY. How 'bout you?
Cheers for now :-)


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There are many ways to support WVU–Parkersburg. Besides monetary gifts, the WVU–Parkersburg Foundation greatly appreciates individuals and businesses willing to volunteer time, expertise, and services. You, your employees, or your business can make a gift to WVU–Parkersburg.
- Volunteer your company's talent with corporate sponsorship of events, support of academic program improvement or offering a internship or cooperative learning experience at your place of business.
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Stocks slide; no help from consumer confidence
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors are taking little comfort from the latest deal to deliver financial aid to Greece and increases in U.S. consumer confidence and orders for machinery and equipment.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 68 points to 12,899 as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell five points to 1,401. The Nasdaq composite index lost three points to 2,973. Stocks were moving between small gains and declines for most of the day.
ConAgra advanced $1.29 to $29.58 after it agreed to buy Ralcorp for $5 billion in a deal that will make it the nation's biggest maker of private-label foods. Ralcorp surged $18.61 to $88.84. Corning Inc., a specialty glass maker, rose 83 cents to $12.18 after it said that North American television sales are stronger than expected in the fourth quarter, boosting demand for its products.
While stocks have gained this year as the Federal Reserve has maintained it bond-buying stimulus program, concern about global growth and the "fiscal cliff" in the U.S. may limit further advances, said Uri Landesman, President of Platinum Partners, a New York-based hedge fund. The S&P is up 11 percent this year, the Dow 6 percent.
"The glass is half-empty right now," Landesman said. "With the S&P over 1,400 you're going to need to see really good data for the market to rise, and the data wasn't good enough to really pick us up here."
Two reports that suggested that the outlook for the U.S. economy may be improving failed to encourage investors to push stocks higher.
Consumer confidence rose this month to the highest level in almost five years, pushed up by steady improvement in hiring. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 73.7 in November from 73.1 in October. Both are the best readings since February 2008.
The government reported separately that U.S. companies increased their orders of machinery and equipment last month, a sign that business investment is rising. Orders rose 1.7 percent in October, the best showing since a 2.3 percent rise in May.
Stocks have pared some of the losses that followed the U.S. elections Nov. 6. That decline came as investors fretted over a looming budget crisis in Washington, commonly referred to as the fiscal cliff.
Negotiations are continuing. President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the issue as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
"We're in a bit of no-man's land, we're waiting to hear what comes out of Washington," said Ben Schwarz, chief market strategist at Lightspeed Financial. "Both sides are looking to compromise and that's positive."
The S&P declined as much as 5 percent in the weeks after voters returned a divided government to power, with President Barack Obama returning to the White House and Republicans retaining control of the House. The two parties must agree on measures to trim the U.S. budget deficit before the end of the year to avoid a series of sharp tax increases and spending cuts that will come into force Jan. 1. Economists have warned that the measures could push the economy back into a recession.
The S&P rose as high as 1,465 in September, the highest in almost five years, after the Federal Reserve said it would extend its so-called quantitative easing program and buy more bonds. The program is intended to lower borrowing costs and stimulate hiring.
Stocks initially advanced in Europe after Greece's partners in the euro currency and the International Monetary Fund agreed to release funds the country needs to avoid bankruptcy. They also agreed to introduce a series of measures designed to reduce the country's debts to a more manageable level within a decade.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged down to 1.65 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Las Vegas Sands Corp. rose $2.62 to $46.67 after the casino operator said it would pay a special dividend of $2.75 per share, distributing about $2.26 billion to shareholders before the end of the year.
— Airgas Inc., a specialty supplier of medical and industrial gases, fell $2.20 to $88.84 after disclosing that its chairman sold 1.2 million shares of the company's stock in a privately negotiated block trade.
—Real estate trust Equity Residential rose $1.03 to $55.46 after agreeing, together with AvalonBay Communities Inc., to buy apartment-building owner Archstone Inc. from Lehman Brothers. AvalonBay gained $3.86 to $132.80.


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The one on the Left which has the half triangles is called Afternoon Shadows the one on the right is called Dessert Party both are from a book called 101 Fun-to Quilt Pot Holders by Trice Boerens this is a American School of needlework I got my copy from Amazon UK I know that you can get it at other places depending which country you live in
These will be going to my swap partners one who in Cornwall (UK) the other set will be going to Ireland just hope they like them.
I am not sure what I will start on next have a list of things I want to do just depends on which I choose I do also have some blocks I need to do before I go to the quilting group have to remember to do them.
While I was doing these everything going well until the binding I managed to break 2 needles & was having a lot of trouble but at least I finished them.
I cleaned the machine & put in a new bobbin of thread I think it may be the end of the other one that wasn't helping isn't it always the way that the machine will act up at the worst time if you doing blocks it not so bad but working near the finish don't help lol
We are still having beautiful weather here, tomorrow is my DH birthday so we been out today to get him some good screwdrivers which he wanted well not much else I can get him lol at least now if I need something doing he have some good screwdrivers to screw the screws in lol


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A grape varietal, used in the production of red and sparkling wines, originating in the Burgundy region of France. A difficult grape, countries such as the United States (Oregon, CA), Australia, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand strive to grow a high quality Baluer Klevner. A component of Burgundy Reds and Champagne regional wines, it is also sold as a 100% varietal. Widely known as the worlds best classic red grape. The Baluer Klevner varietal produces some of the worlds most expensive and sought after wines.
Also known as: Pinot Noir, Auvernat Noir, Pinot Droit, Coraillod, Noirien, Schwartz Klevner, Vert Dore, Pinot Gouges, Pinot Musigny, Spätburgunder, Pinot Nero, Blauer Burgunder, Rotclevner, Nagyburgundi, Pineau.
Characteristics: Baluer Klevner varietal wines vary greatly in quality and style, from dry reds to sparkling wines. Color can be light to dark red with a brown rim, and the Baluer Klevner is capable of producing light to medium bodied wines. Typically velvety in texture with hints of floral, berry, butter, vanilla, and earthy tones, high in acid and tannins. Baluer Klevner wines are subject to great characteristic debates.
Ageing: Drinkable young, 2 to 5 years of aging. Benefits from oak ageing, potential of 3 to 20 years.
Serving temperature: Serve at a cool temperature, 55º-65º F.
Food pairings: Food friendly. Grilled fish, beef, beef with rich suaces, grilled and/or marinated poultry, game with rich sauces, lamb, pork, veal, pasta, hard and savory cheeses, bean dishes, soups and stews.


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Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization
Technical Committee
Thursday, September 26, 2013
1:30 p.m.
County/City Building, Room 113
Roll call and acknowledge the "Nebraska Open Meeting Act"
- Review and action on the draft minutes of the August 15, 2013 Technical Committee meeting.
- Review of the Lincoln Travel Options Strategy for the MPO planning area.
- The Study
- The purpose of this study is to identify the existing travel patterns in Lincoln, document existing programs that help people better utilize biking, walking, transit and shared ride options. The study explored opportunities to formalize a Travel Options Program to increase the number of people using alternative modes of travel.
- Travel Options Program
- Travel Options Program is to encourage a shift from the single-occupancy automobile to alternative modes by offering other options. These efforts are to be coordinated between the City of Lincoln, the business community, universities and other institutions, and area nonprofits. The tools include providing educational materials, information, incentives, and other resources to encourage alternatives to driving alone.
- Other topics for discussion.


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What is Window Film?
Window film is a thin layer of style, protection & energy efficiency that fits like a second skin to step up your glass game. It's the only addition you need to make your windows start working in ways you may not have known were even possible.
From your home, office and automobile, to anywhere in between, window film will transform, expand, and elevate your glass surroundings to better suit your real life.


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Restrepo filmmaker Tim Hetherington Dies
Mad Moviegoer had been furious. Fed up. Not with the movies. With myself. It's been ages since I blogged. The last post highlighted the Afghanistan war doc "Restrepo" on The Five. Now I return with a sense of tragic symmetry. News came early this afternoon that "Restrepo" codirector Tim Hetherington was killed in the Libyan city of Misurata. News organizations reported that the award-winning British photojournalist, along with three other journalists, came under mortar fire.
Hetherington and print journalist Sebastian Junger made one of the best films of 2010. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival that year and was nominated for an Oscar. Gritty and pared-down, 'Restrepo" documents 15 months spent with the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne while it occupied the deadly Korengal Valley in Kunar Province. Their mission, Junger told me on the phone before the doc's release, was not to be "informative or instructive. And (the movie) certainly doesn't take a position or tackle an issue." Instead, he said, they wanted "Restrepo" "to be experiential the way Hollywood movies are. You step into that reality… and you exist in it for 90 minutes." Here's an interview Hetherington conducted with PBS last November.


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