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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – MeShalon Moore, who will join the Gaucho softball team this fall, was named the ESPNHS Cal-Hi Sports State Athlete of the Week on June 1 following a phenomenal stretch of games in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Division I playoffs.
Moore, who is the younger sister of current UCSB freshman DeJanee, plays for Sheldon High School in Sacramento, Calif.
The catcher was unstoppable in an 8-1 victory over Shingle Springs Ponderosa, going 4-for-4 at the plate with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored. For the entire six-game playoffs, Moore was 14-for-22 with one long fly, six doubles, 11 RBI, and nine runs scored.
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Terms of the deal announced late Friday were not disclosed.
State-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, said it will now team up with Chevron to exploit the reserves in that area of Venezuela's Deltana Platform.
PDVSA will control 61 percent of the joint venture, and Chevron 39 percent. Some 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves have been discovered, and the project is expected to produce some 750 million cubic feet per day.
ConocoPhillips spokesman Charlie Rowton at headquarters in Houston confirmed the sale but declined to discuss the price or other terms.
He said the sale is unrelated to separate World Bank arbitration over the nationalization of ConocoPhillips' assets in heavy oil projects.
President Hugo Chavez's government nationalized four major oil projects in 2007, including ConocoPhillips' operations in the nation's heavy-oil-producing Orinoco Oil Belt, after the two parties failed to agree on terms for a minority stake.
But ConocoPhillips continued to explore for offshore natural gas deposits and had worked with Chevron since 2003 in the Deltana Platform.
Chevron spokesman Scott Walker said the San Ramon, California-based company is pleased with the deal.
"We look forward to working with PDVSA on developing this project," Walker said in an e-mailed statement.
Chavez's government said last week that it may sue ConocoPhillips for exercising an option to purchase PDVSA's 50 percent stake in a joint refinery in Sweeny, Texas.
ConocoPhillips says PDVSA has failed deliver heavy crude as required under contract to the refinery since the beginning of the year, while PDVSA says it stopped shipping 166,000 barrels of oil a day to comply with OPEC production cuts.
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CBC has recently launched a brand new show The Big Decision which is a spinoff of The Dragon's Den.
What we like about the show is the substantive business acumen that can be derived from the show.
Canadian business owner's can actually learn something about the running of a business and get a handle on how business investors think without the theatrics of The Dragons Den. (I am sure some businesses are chosen on the Dragons Den because it makes good television and not necessarily a good business idea)
The candidate's on CBC's The Big Decision program have to date; been well vetted and weekly they bring the different struggles of running a business in Canada to the forefront.
The present format has Arlene Dickerson and Jim Treliving alternate weekly, with both having the opportunity to invest in the companies that they are examining. All companies are given specific direction and have approximately 2 to 3 weeks to accomplish the tasks.
The format of the show is as follows:
Each 1-hour episode of The Big Decision documents two Canadian businesses desperately in need of expert advice and a cash injection. With the banks calling in their loans and financiers tightening their wallets, Jim and Arlene are their last hope.
If the companies can rise to the challenge of changing their ways, they could be given a life-changing investment from two of the most revered business leaders in the country. At the conclusion of each episode, Jim and Arlene have to decide whether they'll invest in one, neither or both of the companies vying for their cash.
So let's examine week 3 episode:
Jim Treliving has very considerable business skills, and an ability to get to the heart of business problem in very short order. On CBC's Big Decision, Treliving met with a brewery in Aldergrove BC., and a manufacturer of screws and bolts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Overview: Dead Frog Brewery – Independent Brewery
Jim chose to invest in the brewery because he could roll in some financial controls very easily and the owners still had a passion for the business.
They needed sales help – the NEW campaign they designed was innovative but amateurish. They responded well to Jim asking for reduction in the number of labels they manufactured from 10 to 6 (Like a sample 6 pack …no charge for the marketing idea!!!).
Their 10 lines of beer surely contributed to the quality control problems that bedeviled the small brewery and quickly they made an effort to make their production line more efficient by eliminating unnecessary product movement and by making the line flow naturally and smoothly from vat to door.
The absence of good financial information and a business plan were exactly the things that Treliving could bring to the table and make the company perform well so he decided to invest.
Overview: Westland Steel – manufactures screws and bolts
The fastener company on the other hand could have been salvaged but only by an injection of very hard work. After Treliving asked his questions and poked around the plant, the plant managers tinkered with the sales incentives. But the sales people had just gone on record as saying they had nothing to sell. They didn't have the cash or credit to buy the raw materials for their orders.
Jim sensed the company's lack of direction. The complete absence of leadership from anyone in the plant, the deadness behind the eyes of management and the energy to find to find a solution was missing. Jim knew that. To save the company he would have to drop in tons of cash and parachute a new General Manager into the building with a remit to overhaul the company from top to bottom. That would have taken months and perhaps years.
Further, the state of the company's finances would have meant a partial receivership (a Chapter 11 in US speak) in order to buy time to re-arrange the finances and seek accommodation with suppliers and landlords. . At the very least Jim's money would have had to finance the purchase of raw material.
What intrigued me about the fastener company is that in spite of the huge slowdown, nothing for the salespeople to sell, and no plan, they still had revenues of $200,000 per month. With that kind of revenue most companies are salvageable. With that kind of revenue, jobs could have been saved. It would have been a long turnaround project with some pain all around but do-able.
At the fastener plant, there could have been the satisfaction of seeing the back end of delivery truck shipping to a customer. At the brewery, you could always crack open a beer on a bad day!!!
What is evident so far in the first three episodes this season of The Big Decision is the lack of direction by management for any business plan, sales plan, marketing plan and company direction.
It is very interesting to watch the reaction of business owners when they are asked to do specific tasks by Arlene and Jim. Some of them cannot take direction and due to their inflated view of themselves lose the opportunity to get investment money and put their whole livelihood at risk.
Jim and Arlene are very successful business people who know how to run successful businesses and they are not willing to put up with people who are not keen to change and grow. A solid business turnaround begins with asking for help.
I highly recommend this show for any business that is looking to expand their knowledge and get great incite to what will help you Build Your Business.
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Lester U. LaBar, 84, of Middle Smithfield Township, died Friday, March 22, at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg. He was the husband of Doris (Lesoine) LaBar with whom he shared 57 years of marriage on April 23, 2012.
Born on Sept. 16, 1928 in Analomink, he was a son of the late Russell C. and Mary (Yaggie) LaBar. He grew up in Craigs Meadows and was a lifetime resident of Monroe County.
He worked at Worthington Mower as a machinist and later at Patterson-Kelly from where he retired in 1990. He was also the third generation in the family business of wallpaper hanging and painting of which he also taught adult education classes at the Monroe County Vo-tech School.
Lester was a member of the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church where he was a Trustee and served on the cemetery board. Lester was also a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles 1106 in Stroudsburg.
In addition to his wife he is survived by a daughter, Donna LaBar Long and her husband, Scott, of Moscow; a sister, Miriam Smith of Telford; three nephews, Steve Smith and his wife, Pam, of Telford, Todd LaBar and his wife, Brenda, of Bangor and Mark LaBar and his wife, Donna, of Stroudsburg; a great-niece, Erin Curtolo and her husband, Phil, of Nazareth; two great-nephews, Jason Smith and his wife, Andrea, of Nazareth and Michael Smith of Hatfield; great-great-niece and great-great-nephew, Nathan and Talia Curtolo; and an uncle, Raymond LaBar of Craigs Meadows.
He was preceded in death by his infant son, David L. LaBar; a brother, Russell C. Labar Jr. and Russell's longtime companion, Beth Fisher; a sister, Helen LaBar; a brother-in-law, Elwood J. Smith; and a nephew, James R. Smith.
There will be a viewing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the William H. Clark Funeral Home, 1003 Main St., Stroudsburg. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 27, at the funeral home with the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brower officiating. Burial will follow in the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Memorial remembrances can be made to the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, 5205 Milford Road, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301.
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Lester U. LaBar, 84, of Middle Smithfield Township, died Friday, March 22, at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg. He was the husband of Doris (Lesoine) LaBar with whom he shared 57 years of marriage on April 23, 2012.


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People in California voted to let marijuana be used for people who were in pain. The proposition said that people who are sick or dying can smoke marijuana. The marijuana helps get rid of the pain.
Some people really wanted the proposition to pass. They were happy when it did. One person said that it shows how much people care about others who are sick and dying.
Now people in California can smoke marijuana if they are sick. They need to have a doctor say that it is okay first. The federal law still says that it is illegal. The two courts not agreeing causes a problem. California is getting ready to work it out in the courts.
The new laws allow almost anyone who is suffering to smoke marijuana. No written note from the doctor is needed to smoke it. The new law also says that it is legal to grow marijuana for medical use.
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This has always been one of my favorite paintings by one of my favorite artists. "Tamalda" by Carmen Lomas Garza depicts the Latina tradición Navideña of tamal-making as a family.
Every year as I make tamales by myself, I think wistfully what it would be like to be surrounded by generations of women, each of us with our own task, but sharing laughter and conversation, working together to make tamales and memories.
Growing up in an Anglo household means my grandmothers, my mother, aunts and sisters do not know how to make tamales. This is not a family tradition from my side of the family that I am continuing, rather it is one that I'm trying to start for my own children – although they are boys. Maybe I will teach their wives, or their daughters some day – but when they think of Navidad, I want them to close their eyes and taste tamales – I want them to have that connection to their roots.
I've been asked why I don't making tamales with my Suegra, which is logical since Suegra has certainly participated in many "tamaldas" with her sisters – but she goes back to El Salvador each year for the winter, so it isn't something I share with her and it's not something I learned from her. Our recipes are very different; Suegra favors the green banana leaves for wrapping her mild-flavored tamales, and I prefer corn husks to wrap my spicy tamales. Like many things between us, making tamales together probably wouldn't work out.
I'm not as saddened about making tamales by myself anymore though, because this past weekend, my mother, sisters and nephew came to my house for our annual cookie-baking. As I watched my mother alternate between rolling out the dough and moving galletas in and out of the oven, while my sisters and the boys sat around the table decorating the trays of cut out sugar cookies she provided, I remembered the Carmen Lomas Garza painting.
Maybe an annual "tamalada" is not possible, but our "galletada" is close enough.


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A Cape Coral teen who is allergic to food but dreams of being a chef is getting the chance to try on the hat at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
Samantha Pecoraro, 15, was diagnosed five years ago with eosinophilic esophagitis, a rare disease that makes her allergic to most foods. To reduce her pain, she stopped eating last year and now relies on a feeding tube.
Pecoraro first turned to cooking as a way to continue to be a part of what would no longer be a daily activity - meal times with family and friends. She found passion for it and is now a culinary arts student at Oasis High School.
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On Sunday, Pecoraro will co-host a benefit dinner and silent auction with Executive Chef Aaron McCloud at Cedar restaurant. One hundred percent of the proceeds collected from the event will benefit the CURED Foundation.
"We are so excited and overwhelmed that strangers would open up their hearts and homes to help," Ellyn Kodroff, who founded CURED with husband Fred after their daughter was diagnosed with the disease, said via e-mail.
CURED, or the Campaign Urging Research for Eosinophilic Disease, is committed to finding a cure for the various eosinophilic disorders. The one that Pecoraro has - eosinophilic esophagitis - is also known as EoE.
"Samantha touched their hearts, and they are raising funds for CURED," Kodroff said.
McCloud learned about Pecoraro and her situation earlier this year and decided that he wanted to help. He came up with the idea of flying her and her family to D.C. and giving her a weekend "apprenticeship" at Cedar.
The weekend would culminate with a benefit dinner for CURED, in which Pecoraro would help develop the five-course tasting and help cook it.
"It's Samantha's dinner, after all," McCloud said, adding that the meal will encompass a lot of different techniques.
Pecoraro spent Friday at the restaurant learning from McCloud and will return to Cedar today for further instruction. He wanted to focus on her using her other senses to cook, relying on texture and aroma elements.
"There are a lot of things we use as cooks," he said. "Taste is not where it stops."
The apprenticeship also puts her inside a working professional kitchen.
"A lot of it is just going to be absorbing what a downtown D.C. kitchen is all about, the environment and getting a feel for what that's all about," McCloud said. "It shows Samantha a lot about what a professional kitchen's about."
A shocked Pecoraro cried when she first learned of McCloud's offer.
"I was speechless when I got that call," she said Friday, adding that she is overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone who helped put it together.
"I am so thankful to be given this opportunity to do what I love," Pecoraro said.
Asked about her first day as an apprentice, she said she has "just been taking it all in" - learning how to work the line, get food out the door.
"I'm finding it takes a lot of determination from start to finish with each meal. I find it fun to have to do something and need it done now," Pecoraro said, calling the energy and hustle and bustle in the kitchen "her calling."
"It's coming naturally to me, and I'm really enjoying myself," she said.
As for Sunday's menu, McCloud and Pecoraro are trying to develop the dishes so that they emphasize the senses of sight, smell and touch.
"I cook off my other senses, so he's really trying to do a play on that," Pecoraro said.
Her biggest fear for Sunday's dinner service?
"Since the floor does get slippery when cooking, I'm so afraid I'm going to slip and absolutely mess something up," she laughed.
The silent auction features donated items from D.C. businesses and individuals, including restaurant tasting menus and theater tickets. The suggested dinner donation was $150 for adults and $120 for children.
"We just wanted to raise as much money as we could," McCloud said.
For those who cannot attend but want to donate, visit: www.cedardc.com for a link or check out CURED's Web site at: www.curedfoundation.org.
Asked about his community's initial reaction to the fund-raiser, McCloud explained that people were unaware of the disease and a little confused. But after learning about Pecoraro's story, they were "blown away," he said.
"She's a really inspiring kid," McCloud said. "The incredible irony, and inspiring part, of her story is that she loves to cook."
He called the event a way to raise more awareness about EoE.
"Sam's an incredible ambassador for that," McCloud said.
Pecoraro recently was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease on top of the eosinophilic esophagitis. Mitochondrial disease deals with energy generated for cells, and she is currently on a new prescription to help mitigate that.
"I honestly feel a lot better on the pills," she said.
Cedar is at 822 E. St. N.W., Washington, DC 20004.
For more information, call (202) 637-0012.


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Generating an Autoencoder
genFunc.py code can be used to generate a more complicated autoencoder that provides more floating-point operations per byte fetched from main memory and will get closer to peak performance on the Phi coprocessor. Copy the
simpleExample directory to
auto2x10x1x10x2 and generate the new
fcn.h source code shown in Example 11.
cp -r simpleExample auto2x10x1x10x2 python genFunc.py > auto2x10x1x10x2/fcn.h
Example 11: Commands to generate and build a PCA autoencoder.
The PCA version can be built by simply changing the command-line argument to the
BUILD_LINEAR_TIMING script in Example 12. The nonlinear version can be built with the
BUILD_NONLINEAR_TIMING script.
sh BUILD_LINEAR_TIMING auto2x10x1x10x2
Example 12: Using the BUILD_LINEAR_TIMING shell script to build an autoencoder.
Runtime Results
To facilitate testing, the
PCA_TIMING and
NLPCA_TIMING shell scripts always create binaries of the same name. It is important to pay attention to what binary is being used and to the output that reports the function being evaluated. The binaries created are:
- timing.omp: an OpenMP executable that runs on the host processor
- timing.mic: a native mode Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor executable
- timing.off: an offload mode executable that will run on both the host and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor
Running a linear PCA function using the timing code in
auto2x10x1x10x2 in offload mode generates the output in Example 13.
$ ./timing.off 10 1000 60000000 TIMING TEST: generated_PCA_func LINEAR() Runtime 8.41651, aveObjRuntime 0.00841619 number OMP threads 240 DataLoadTime 1.86613 AveObjTime 0.00841619, countObjFunc 1000, totalObjTime 8.41619 Estimated flops in myFunc 128, estimated average GFlop/s 912.527 Estimated maximum GFlop/s 979.096, minimum GFLop/s 319.506 Double check based on overall runtime maxTime 0.0240381, minTime 0.00784516, aveTime 0.00841639 per call maxGFLOPS 978.947, minGFLOPS 319.493, aveGFLOPS 912.505 per call
Example 13: Example of output for a linear offload run.
The output tells us that we are running a linear PCA function. In this example, the data transfer to the Phi coprocessor achieved 257 MB/second. This timing information should be reliable as the average runtime is consistent between both
overall and
perCall measurement methods. The Phi coprocessor utilized 240 threads.
The key floating-point metrics show that average performance is 912 GF/second. The fastest offload runtime achieve nearly a TF/second. However, there is almost a factor of 3x difference between the fastest and slowest runtimes even though the code performed 10 warm-up runs.
The timing executable can run natively on the Phi coprocessor after copying the executable and
libiomp5.so to the device plus setting the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly (or the micnativeloadex script could be used or keep one window open on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, see Example 14.)
DEV=mic0 LIBDIR=/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.0.079/compiler/lib/mic scp $LIBDIR/libiomp5.so mic0:/tmp scp timing.mic $DEV: ssh $DEV "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp; export OMP_NUM_THREADS=240; \ ./timing.mic 10 1000 60000000"
Example 14: Commands to prepare and run on mic0.
Even though the number of threads is the same, the same code running in native mode was on average 1.173x faster than offload mode in Example 15. Offload mode can be nearly as efficient as native mode when the time spent performing the computation is large relative to the latency of the data transfers on the PCIe bus. The runtime difference will increase as the problem size decreases.
$ sh RUN_NATIVE_TIMING libiomp5.so 100% 956KB 955.6KB/s 00:00 timing.mic 100% 36KB 36.5KB/s 00:00 TIMING TEST: generated_PCA_func LINEAR() Runtime 7.17827, aveObjRuntime 0.00717398 number OMP threads 240 DataLoadTime 0 AveObjTime 0.00717398, countObjFunc 1000, totalObjTime 7.17398 Estimated flops in myFunc 128, estimated average GFlop/s 1070.54 Estimated maximum GFlop/s 1086.89, minimum GFLop/s 1032.81 Double check based on overall runtime maxTime 0.00743794, minTime 0.00706887, aveTime 0.00717716 per call maxGFLOPS 1086.45, minGFLOPS 1032.54, aveGFLOPS 1070.06 per call
Example 15: Output from a native mode linear run.
In addition, the operating system jitter discussed in the first article appears to be the cause of much of this variation. (An excellent starting paper on this topic is "The Case of the Missing Supercomputer Performance.") In offload mode, small latencies as the device driver moves the parameters onto the Phi and the single floating-point error estimate off the device decrease performance.
Running the OpenMP version on a 12-core 3.3 GHz Intel X5680 Westmere chipset shows the linear code runs on average 8.5x slower than the offload code and 10x slower that the native mode; see Example 16.
$ ./timing.omp 10 1000 60000000 TIMING TEST: generated_PCA_func LINEAR() Runtime 71.2253, aveObjRuntime 0.0712247 number OMP threads 24 DataLoadTime 0 AveObjTime 0.0712247, countObjFunc 1000, totalObjTime 71.2247 Estimated flops in myFunc 128, estimated average GFlop/s 107.828 Estimated maximum GFlop/s 121.569, minimum GFLop/s 54.8578 Double check based on overall runtime maxTime 0.139998, minTime 0.063174, aveTime 0.0712251 per call maxGFLOPS 121.569, minGFLOPS 54.8578, aveGFLOPS 107.827 per call
Example 16: Output from a linear run on a conventional processor.
fcn.h in
auto2x10x1x10x2 shows that the processor core is performing a large number of dot products that utilize the fused multiply-add instruction. Changing to a nonlinear function illustrates the impact of adding a division and absolute value to the calculation with the Elliott activation function, G(x) = x/(1+|x|), as can be seen in the following table where the timing programs were built with
NLPCA_TIMING script:
timing.mic: maxGFLOPS 360.278, minGFLOPS 281.438, aveGFLOPS 358.51 per call
timing.off: maxGFLOPS 349.66, minGFLOPS 326.766, aveGFLOPS 348.257 per call
timing.omp: maxGFLOPS 91.4893, minGFLOPS 71.9806, aveGFLOPS 90.8493 per call
The key point is that the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor in native mode runs the nonlinear problem with a performance comparable to the offload mode. This indicates that the runtime is dominated more by the computation runtime rather than latency-limited operations such as the summation spinlock and PCIe data transfers. Note that there is still significant variation between minimum and maximum performance. Performance profiling with Intel's profiler, VTune, will help identify the reasons for these performance changes.
Peak performance is a useful marketing metric that condenses the complexity of any machine from a cellphone to a leadership-class supercomputer into a single number that people can easily grasp and categorize. While peak performance has its place, sophisticated performance competitions such as the TOP500 and GRAPH500 attempt to more realistically evaluate system performance for specific problem domains.
The key to entering the high-performance arena with the Phi product family is to express sufficient parallelism and vector capability to fully utilize the device. Optimized libraries such as MKL can achieve very high performance. Matrix multiplication is a useful computational tool that also makes a great benchmark because it can show how close a device can get to peak theoretical.
The massively parallel mapping utilized in this article has proven to be an excellent framework for solving real-world problems, as a teaching tool, and as a performance evaluation tool. The autoencoder objective functions used in this tutorial solve real-world PCA and NLPCA problems, yet they can also be modified to stress either the memory subsystem or floating-point capability of a device. It is also possible to define an autoencoder architecture that is not limited by memory bandwidth or computation, but rather by the synchronization required to perform a reduction on a parallel computer. The heavy use of the fused multiply-add instruction means that it is possible to fully utilize the floating-point capability of some devices, and achieve high-performance across a wide range of devices. The near-linear scaling of this mapping means that you can run it with high-performance on a single device or on a supercomputer over a wide range of problem domains.
I encourage you to explore the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor performance envelope through the use of the provided Python code generator and by writing your own functions. My next article will demonstrate that these objective functions can indeed solve real optimization problems with high performance.
The current source code needs to be compiled with the older 13.0.0 Intel compiler. While the code can be compiled with the more recent compilers (13.0.1 and 13.1.0), care must be taken that the loop in the objective function vectorizes.
Rather than generating
myFunc(), it is more convenient to write a single function that loops over the connections between neurons in different layers. Using loops in
myFunc() appears to prevent vectorization and results in a significant performance drop. Unfortunately, loop unrolling does not appear to help.
The article "Optimization and Performance Tuning for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors Part 1: Optimization Essentials" is a useful reference for high-performance Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor programming. It notes that alignment of the vectors with
__declspec(align(64)) is important. Utilizing
-vec-report=6 when compiling confirms that the values are aligned. The Intel article also notes, "Code will run best when data are accessed in sequential address-order from memory. Frequently, developers will change the data structure to allow this linear access pattern. A common transformation is from an array of structures to a structure of arrays (AoS to SoA)." Users can test the performance effects of AoS versus. SoA by changing the
IN() macro.
The article "Test-Driving Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors with a Mastic N-body Simulation" is a good additional resource to consult when evaluating how to write high-performance code for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
Rob Farber is a frequent contributor to Dr. Dobb's on CPU and GPGPU programming topics.
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Leave it to Matt Lauer to steal the spotlight in a swimsuit. With Halloween-themed morning shows cancelled in 2012 due to Superstorm Sandy, the Today show celebrated the holiday, full force on Thursday, Oct. 31 to compensate for last year.
As the hosts of the program slowly trickled out in their costumes — Al Roker as Mr. T, Natalie Morales and Savannah Guthrie as Laverne and Shirley, Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb as Flintstone characters, Carson Daly channeling Larry Wilcox' CHiPs character Jon (with the show's former star Erik Estrada in tow) — the clear and apparent winner of Halloween 2013 was Lauer dressed as Pamela Anderson's Baywatch character C.J. Parker.
The Today show host made a memorable entrance as he mimicked C.J.'s opening credit run in slow motion. Dressed in the iconic form-fitting red swimsuit, Lauer completed his Halloween costume with a makeshift tan and long blonde wig — his face caked with make-up. The crowd outside Rockefeller Center roared in response.
But that's not all! Willie Geist accompanied Lauer dressed as David Hasselhoff's character on the show. The dynamic duo was then joined by real-life Baywatch cast member Carmen Electra.
With the Today show pulling out their biggest Halloween surprise yet, the theme of classic TV show costumes worked out well for the group. The hosts of ABC's Good Morning America, meanwhile, celebrated its Halloween "Buzzy Awards" with George Stephanopoulos dressed as George Clooney's character in Gravity, Robin Roberts channeling Oprah in The Butler and the best of this bunch? Lara Spencer coming in like a wrecking ball.
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Parliament has failed in holding the Department for Transport to account – Southern Rail passengers have nowhere left to go but court.
After five months' intensive work on our legal case, we lodged an application to court this Wednesday and now await permission from the judge to proceed with our judicial review. We will be holding the Department for Transport (DfT) to account for its failure to properly oversee the Southern Rail management contract, and insist that it is well past the point where the Transport Minister's 'hands off' approach can possibly be justified.
After long delays in the legal process, caused by the DfT's complete resistance to transparency on this issue, it is only right that it will now be passengers leading the call for justice on the rail crisis after all other mechanisms of representation have failed us.
Our case is due to be precedent-setting in two areas. Our first ground takes on the DfT's unreasonable delay in determining whether Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is in breach of its management contract. For the government to continue in this fashion is as good as saying that rail franchise agreements are subject to indefinite revision, which would indicate, quite frankly, that such contracts are not worth the paper they are printed on.
Our other grounds relate to the Secretary of State's refusal to acknowledge his duties under the Equality Act 2010; regarding equality of access for disabled passengers. The question of whether the DfT or the train operating company is responsible for compliance with the act is still a grey area in law, and a victory on this count will set a precedent for enforcing the act in future.
Our disability grounds go further than this theoretical point, however. The breadth of the case encompasses the very real effect that excessive overcrowding, communications failures and lack of onboard staff have had upon disabled passengers; many of whom say they are now "too scared to travel". A recent story in the Eastbourne Herald reports that one local wheelchair user has been left behind on station platforms three times in January alone.
With the announcement of our legal case, the pressure on the DfT is likely to have reached its peak. The leading industry publication Rail Business Intelligence broke a rumour last week that Govia Thameslink Railway is already confirmed to be in default of its contract, and that there are ongoing discussions of a 'managed exit'.
The DfT has so far refused to confirm or deny this, calling the report only 'speculation'.
A further leak was then reported by Graeme Paton of The Times, suggesting that the long-awaited Chris Gibb report into Southern Rail is damning of the DfT's role in the crisis. His source said: "GTR and Network Rail don't come well out of this but [the report] is scathing of the DfT. It is dynamite."
Chris Gibb was appointed to investigate the causes of the crisis by the Transport Minister back in September and it will be extremely embarrassing for the Department if the contents of his report are as suggested. It has also been revealed that Parliamentary watchdog the National Audit Office will be conducting an investigation into the Department for Transport's handling of Southern Rail. The news has been quietly added to the NAO's website as an update to the Thameslink investigation, without an official announcement. News of the investigation comes soon after senior civil servant Peter Wilkinson was exposed by an investigation in The Guardian for an apparent conflict of interest relating to Govia.
With so much going on behind the scenes, our application to court comes at the perfect time, and we feel confident in saying that our case is most urgently in the public interest. We expect the court to issue imminently, and it is vital that MPs now raise an urgent call for government accountability, and a determination on the future of Southern Rail.
Emily Yates is an independent journalist, campaign organiser, and co-founder of the Association of British Commuters. Twitter @MsEYates


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March started low on the reading and watching but picked up in later weeks. I also started writing a new series of articles about Trends in Current Science Fiction that seems to have gone down well.
Most popular posts have been First look at Felicia Day in RED that got some 3000 hits, followed in popularity by Major Casting Change in HBO's Game of Thrones, Interesting TV Pilots Round Up, New Science Fiction Books in April 2010 and 18 Science Fiction Podcasts.
Reading has been good, though I am a bit behind in my review writing as you can see. Of the books I enjoyed Oath of Fealty, Shadow Prowler, The Crucible of Empire and Gardens of the Sun best, in that order. None of the books where really bad, though I was a bit disappointed with Trade of Queens it didn't give as much closure as I wished for.
Books read in March 2010 in reading order:
- The Quiet War by McAuley, Paul (The Quiet War & Gardens of the Sun Series)
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Earth Strike by Ian Douglas (Star Carrier 1)
- This Paper World by Jeff Lane
- Shadow Prowler by Alexey Pehov (Chronicles of Siala 1) *1st review copy ever
- Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon (Paladin's Legacy 1)
- The Crucible of Empire by Eric Flint & K. D. Wentwoth (Empire 2)
- Coyote Destiny by Allen Steele (Coyote Chronicles 2)
- Trade of Queens by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes 6)
- Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley (The Quiet War 2)
- The Myriad by R. M. Meluch (Tour of the Merrimack 1)
- Wolf Star by R. M. Meluch (Tour of the Merrimack 2)
I took on myself to write down some of the idle observations I make while I read Science Fiction and call it an article Series on Trends in Current Science Fiction. So far I have written three articles, and I plan on writing about one a week until I run out of trends.
Arrived or shopped books is always interesting. You can always check out my latest arrivals if you like. You should also know that I didn't receive any free books for review this month (I reviewed one I received in February), I put my money where my Science Fiction is.
- The Crucible of Empire by Eric Flint & K. D. Wentworth
- Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon
- Coyote Destiny by Allen Steele
- Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley
- Trade of Queens by Charles Stross
- Geosynchron by David Louis Edelman
- Xeelee an Omnibus by Stephen Baxter (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring)
- Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher (an agent Cormac novel)
- A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda (The Trade Pact Universe #1)
- Ties of Power by Julie E. Czerneda (The Trade Pact Universe #2)
- To Trade the Stars by Julie E. Czerneda (The Trade Pact Universe #3)
- Dust by Elizabeth Bear
- Chill by Elizabeth Bear (sequel to Dust)
- The Myriad by R. M. Meluch (Tour of the Merrimack #1)
- Wolf Star by R. M. Meluch (Tour of the Merrimack #2)
- Servants of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard (Obsidian & Blood 1)
It's been a good month, I haven't finished quite all I would have liked to do but it is a good start.
Next month will have quite a few more books, you can see what I ordered in New Science Fiction Books in April 2010. I also have some Elizabeth Bear, David Louis Edelman, Aliette de Bodard and more to look forward to.
Don't forget Walker of Worlds upcoming Sci-Fi Appreciation Month starts April 1. I have made a contribution and will let you know when it's there.
I will also guest blog a few reviews for Temple Library Reviews starting April 6th with my review of Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley.


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What do you think about having some one come to your house, set up 3 or 4 quickstart mini courts and give a 1 hour group lesson to you kid and friends all for $100 ??? sound like a fun idea ?
input please :)
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Javier, that's a brilliant idea man! It's like entertaining/catering for the tennis fans & community. Clients can host parties/events at the convenience of their own home/location, and gain quality instruction and fun drills/games in a setting that's organized and executed by you (so they are basically worry-free). The considerations you need to have are whether there is enough space to set up the # of mini-courts the client desires, how many party-goers you can handle per court, and bringing all that equipment (including 21", 23", 25" and regular-sized demo frames for people at the party without their own racquets) to the site. Sounds like a very fun idea, if I had children, I would definitely throw a tennis birthday party and hire you. Fun, active, learning a new skill, unique.
thanks man, yea i would probally just have one size racket ( 21) and use it for all the kids, becuz it really wouldnt matter, and courts? some duct tape and caution tape and your set !
thanks sunny i feel good about this now
The 21' is solid for a range of children, but if you have some older kids (including brothers, sisters) show up at the party, they would definitely feel silly swinging a tiny racquet (you know how self-conscious teens are) - so you might want to grab some junior and full frames as well.
Good stuff man!
true, but if there are playing on a 36 foot court, its gonna be hella hard to keep it in, if anything ill let them use one of my sticks if it bugs em haha
Interesting Idea Javier...if you ever get a chance to try it out definitely let us know how it goes....how is your singles tournament plans coming along?
yea def. im still looking for someone to let me try it out first, and ok theres still time and people dont know if they will be in town but theres a few ppl
Well, if there is still a chance this could be a doubles thing lemme know, i might be able to get a few more people together...like 4 or 5 ... we are pretty burned out from tennis so i dunno if i can convince them to play singles but doubles for sure...i think this will be a good opportunity to wind down and just to hang out with other tennis players :) ... if not i understand...just wanted to throw it out there...
if we can get enough people for double we totally can .... mins 5 teams and ill change it to doubles
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This is the blog for 3/7 MiTT. We are a team of eleven Marines from various backgounds and four interpreters. Our team consists of the following Marines: Team Leader - Major Morris; Assistant team leader - Captain Lewis; Infantry - 1stLt Clever; Logistics - 1stLt Hatfield, Sgt Luna; Fires (artillery) - 1stLt Milligan, GySgt Sextone; Intelligence - 2ndLt Goo, Sgt Gaitan; Communications - Cpl Martin; Corpsman - HM2 Macias. We also have our four interpreters: Hadji, Khalid, Mike, and Ahmed.


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The University of Tampa is fortunate to have a variety of unique performance spaces on campus. With over 80 concerts per year, including ensemble performances, master classes, student and faculty recitals, and guest artists of international renown, the concert facilities at UT offer performers a variety of acoustics and ambiance suitable for all types of music.
Once used as a music room for the Tampa Bay Hotel, this charming, 100-seat space is located directly across the lobby from the Grand Salon. The Music Room also houses a small hardwood stage with a balcony above each side. The Music Department uses this space for student recitals, master classes and chamber music performances. The lively acoustic makes it a great space for concerts. The stage houses an historic, rebuilt Steinway piano.
Located on Kennedy Boulevard just across from the University's main entrance, the David Falk Theatre is a fully equipped,1,000-seat historic theater built in 1928. Mainly used for theatrical and musical productions, Falk Theatre makes a great venue for the UT Wind Ensemble and Orchestra.


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For five decades, the Friends of the Salt Lake City Public Library have been forwarding initiatives to support the library system of Utah's capital city. By spearheading fundraising efforts, volunteering, and advocacy, the Friends are a vital sister organization to The City Library. The Friends organization holds 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service.
The Friends of The City Library is a recipient of the 2010 Baker & Taylor Award from the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), for outstanding Friends organization support.


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Police seize cache of weapons from Greenwich home
A Bushmaster assault rifle, a stockpile of nearly 50 high-capacity magazines and a long history with Greenwich Police have landed a local man behind bars after reports he threatened to shoot his mother and himself last month.
Edward Koller, 34, of Stonehedge Drive turned himself in to police Monday morning after learning of a warrant for his arrest on dozens of weapons charges and drug possession, police said.
Reports indicate Koller is well known to Greenwich Police -- despite having never been convicted of a crime in the state of Connecticut. Police said they have made more than 25 recorded contacts with Koller going back as far as 1995, including for violent threats made against family members last year.
In state Superior Court in Stamford on Monday, Judge Thomas Collin set Koller's bail at $250,000, a move his lawyer called "outlandish" and "stunning."
Koller could not post bond and remains in state custody.
Matthew Maddox, the Stamford attorney representing Koller, said his client is neither a danger to himself nor the community and that the forceful action by the court is an example of anti-gun paranoia gone too far.
Monday's arrest stems from an incident that occurred in late April.
Inside Koller's home, which he shares with his mother, police seized a Bushmaster .223-caliber XM15 assault rifle -- the same weapon used by Adam Lanza to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, now banned in the state -- a semiautomatic shotgun, a sniper rifle and a loaded Glock pistol as well as nearly 5,000 rounds of compatible ammunition and 49 unregistered high-capacity magazines, police said. Police also seized a second loaded pistol from Koller's Jeep Grand Cherokee, they said.
Despite the sensational details of the case, Maddox said Koller was never a threat to the public.
Koller is scheduled to appear in state Superior Court on May 15.
"Police were dispatched on a medical call," said Greenwich Police Lt. Kraig Gray. "The weapons came to the attention of the police officer there. The subsequent investigation determined he was not in compliance with weapons laws in the state of Connecticut."
According to arrest warrants, on the morning of April 23, Koller had been agitated and depressed. His mother, Judith Koller, listened as her son grew "intensely angry" and discussed using one of the several guns that he owned to shoot himself. Disturbed and concerned, she left the home for work, but detailed the incident to a friend of hers on the way there.
Shortly before 9 a.m., the friend reported to police that Judith Koller had told her Edward "threatened to kill her and whoever came into the house."
Special Response units and crisis negotiators quickly responded to the western midcountry home, setting a large perimeter around the house.
At that time, Koller had been about to leave the house. Driving down Stonehedge Drive, he saw the police units, turned his white Jeep Grand Cherokee around and reentered the house on foot.
About 50 minutes later, at 10:10 a.m., Koller voluntarily exited the house and reportedly surrendered himself to police. Officers took Koller into custody and transported him to Greenwich Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said.
Maddox said Koller was released from the evaluation when psychiatrists found him "not to be a threat to himself or others," after three hours.
As Special Response units cleared the house, they found dozens of magazines and rounds alongside SWAT-style gear fitted for a large man like Koller in a room police knew he used from a prior incident. Police eventually received a search and seizure warrant, finding the stash of weapons and ammunition littered throughout the house.
Police also found almost seven grams of cocaine hidden inside an ottoman in Koller's bedroom, they said.
Police contacted Judith Koller, who refused to sign off on the account given by her friend, but related the events of earlier that morning. According to court documents, Koller told police her son suffered from anxiety and depression.
Koller originally had a pistol permit, but had it revoked by state police after a similar incident last year, when he threatened to shoot other family member.
Koller is now facing a number of charges, including possession of an assault weapon, 49 counts of failure to register high capacity magazines, carrying a gun without a permit, possessing a weapon within a motor vehicle, possession of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving a motor vehicle without a license.
contesting initial reports to police made by the friend of Judith Koller.
"He made no threat to the community and made no threat to the neighborhood," he said. "Part of the allegations here are made on hearsay from a woman who was told by Mr. Koller's mother, who herself has trouble with cognitive issues."
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Keeping Romance Alive
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Life has a way of chipping away at our marriages: jobs and job related travel, in-laws, church activities, activities with the kids, conflict and misunderstandings. Most of us run at the speed of light, wake up one day and realize, "Huh. I don't feel very close to my spouse anymore." The truth is that it happens to the best of us.
Here are a few simple methods I have learned throughout the years to revive romance in a stale marriage.
Start Dating Again
Go out at least once a week. It doesn't have to be an expensive date — just something simple.
A brown bag dinner in the park, a walk around the lake, a cup of cappuccino at a coffee shop or simply putting the kids to bed early and just talking will often do the trick. Or, revisit the things that you did when you were dating, like going to a movie, the theatre or a nice relaxing dinner for two.
After being "pulled apart" by all the pressures of modern life, it is imperative to reconnect each week. If you don't, you won't feel close.
Make Yourself Attractive
Here's the irony: If you make yourself more attractive, your spouse will often become more attractive to you. Quite often, changes that you make in your appearance can precipitate changes in your spouse just as positive actions often breed positive reactions.
Other suggestions:
- Go to the gym together.
- Walk with your spouse three to five times a week.
- Buy new clothes, and throw out those ugly sleep shirts/pajamas.
- Change habits.
- Shave the beard (men only), or change your hairstyle.
- Get new eye glasses, or try contacts.
Make a List
Determine what it is that makes you feel attracted to someone. What attracted you to your partner in the first place? What are the things that you find attractive that you would like to see in your spouse? What gets your attention?
Communicate Your Desires to Your Spouse
Do so in non-threatening, non-judgmental ways.
For example, you could say, "Honey, let's make some changes. We are both in a rut. We've changed over the years and lost some of the spark in our marriage. Let's change how we treat each other. Let's call each other during the day at work. Let's change how we look. Let's walk together each evening."
Avoid using "you" statements. Use "I feel" or "I need" instead.
Try writing a letter as an alternative to face to face communication, especially if you feel he or she will react negatively.
Do Your Research
Attraction doesn't just occur in a marriage. It is something that must be worked at. Often the process of bringing attraction back begins with education and basic communication. Read books and research articles on the Web that discuss reviving romance and attraction.
Do Good Things — Daily
Doing goods things doesn't necessarily require spending a lot of money. Simple things, like picking up your dirty underwear, giving a free back rub, preparing dinner, writing an appreciative note, hand picking flowers or taking on a chore that your partner normally does, build intimacy and closeness in your marriage like nothing else.
Attraction often follows on the heels of serving each other like you did in the early years of your relationship. Often it's the little things that count – not the big ones.
Scripture teaches that marriage is ordained by God and part of His original design for us as well as a foreshadowing of our eternal relationship with Him. Focus on the Family is primarily a donor-funded ministry.


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Religious leaders shouldn't duck their responsibility
On a Sunday morning last fall, leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other faiths led the third annual "blessing of the waves" in Huntington Beach, Calif. The event celebrated the ocean's spiritual value and also protested marine pollution, including the rapid acidification of the world's oceans associated with climate change. Over 3,000 people participated, and at its conclusion, priests and rabbis were among the throng diving into the ocean with their surfboards.
Earlier in the year, Buddhists, Hindus and other people of faith met at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles for an "evening of interfaith environmental solidarity." A cardinal concern was resisting the attacks of oil companies on California's landmark climate bill.
Meanwhile, the Mormon Church is building LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) chapels in Utah, Arizona and Nevada, reflecting a trend among churches to curb energy use. One Seattle-area church recently installed a charging station for electric cars. "Driving electric cars is a great way to better care for our planet," read the pastor's press release.
So do these examples point to an awakening among the West's people of faith about climate change? Certainly there is movement, but it's short of a great awakening. Not just in the West, but across the country, too many prominent religious organizations still either resist the scientific consensus on climate change -- that burning fossil fuels is driving a dangerous global warming -- or support politicians who ridicule the threat.
A high-profile example is the 1,500-member Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, which calls itself "America's leading voice of faith on stewardship issues." Founded and headed by E. Calvin Beisner, it equips churches nationwide with a "biblical approach to climate change." This amounts to decrying the science and slamming proposals like wind energy projects that can decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, Chuck Colson's Center for Christian Worldview, and other leading conservative religious organizations support the group's recent mini-series, which directs followers to "resist the Green Dragon" of environmentalism -- especially about climate change.
Meanwhile, in 2010, many of America's most outspoken religious organizations worked hard for the Republican gains that shifted the balance of power in the West and across the country, throwing their support behind a political party (and its more strident Tea Party faction) in lockstep opposition to addressing climate change.
Many religious leaders vocally reject climate science, but the more widespread reaction is silence. This is troubling, because tens of millions of Americans, including many Westerners, look to their religious leaders for moral guidance. And at their core, climate change and the associated ocean acidification are deeply moral problems.
Putting aside the ecological catastrophes under way -- including a climate-related extinction rate scientists warn matches the one that wiped out the dinosaurs -- the human costs of climate change are becoming more severe and harder to ignore.
Consider our neighbors in coastal Alaska, where melting sea ice is dramatically increasing floods and erosion. Like the victims of an incremental Katrina, people are losing property, livelihoods, even their history. The Yup'ik village of Newtok, for example, recently decided to relocate, which will cost taxpayers millions.
Farther from home, rising heat and aridity in Africa are wiping out critical water sources such as Lake Turkana on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya, increasing conflict within an already stressed human population. Meanwhile, rising seas contaminate water supplies in Pacific Island nations, prompting Oxfam to predict that 75 million people will flee over the next 40 years.
In each example, the victims are generally poor people who've made little contribution to climate change. Their plight is driven by energy consumption in industrial countries, mainly China and the United States, which emit a combined 40 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.
But even as climate change threatens millions of people, polls reveal less than half of Americans believe it is related to fossil fuels. Whatever the leaders of the major faiths may say in their annual addresses, the message of dangerous climate change has failed to percolate down to the pews. And newly empowered Republicans promise to block mandated reductions of U.S. greenhouse pollution at both the regulatory and legislative levels, even though this assures that our nation will continue to contribute to the problem.
All Americans bear the weight of our nation's major contribution to the momentous changes happening to our world. Still, religious leaders have an important role to play in this moral dilemma. Priests, rabbis, imams and others provide a moral compass for millions of Americans, an influence that carries with it responsibility as well. And those in the West are especially well positioned to raise their voices, as melting glaciers, beetle epidemics and other climate-related maladies become plainly visible across our region.
In 2010, some religious leaders set strong examples as they met at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, but with climate dangers increasing, it's time for others to speak up.
Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a wilderness ranger in Alaska.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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This simple vinaigrette works for any salad, all year round.
- 1/2 cup of any Citrus oil: Blood Orange, Persian Lime, Lisbon Lemon
- 1/4 cup Stonehouse White Balsamic Vinegar
- 1 shallot, peeled and minced fine
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Combine the vinegar, salt, pepper and shallot and let stand for 5 minutes. This time allows the vinegar to gently "cook" the shallot, thus mellowing the flavor. Slowly whisk in the olive oil until completely blended, and enjoy!
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April 2014
Brand New studio album released by Chris Zanardi & The High Beamz Titled "Be Nice,Or Go Home" recorded in November 2013 in Sacramento with James Whiton -standup electric bass, Erin Cassidy on the drums, Cecil P'Nut Daniels on the Midi Horns, Sam Phelps on the Organ and Keys and Chris Zanardi on the Electric Guitar. Check out the upcoming CD release tour for the spring & summer of 2014. The album has been released on Cd Baby for Cds in the mail or Itunes for Downloads.
Master World Bass Player of Jazz & Fusion performing with the High Beamz on Bass in SF at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall. Kai has been a teacher,mentor & inspiration to me for many many years. Kai has travelled the world travelling and recording with John McgLaughlin Trio,Garaj Mahal,Stanely Jordan,Zakir Hussain & now High Beamz. This video also features Jeff Miller on Guitar from New Monsoon, Cecil P'Nut Daniels,Jefferson Bergey, Waheed Jones.
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When you're short on space, shoes and bags are some of the hardest items to give a proper home. It seems like they're always hanging around in the wrong rooms, getting crushed together in a too-small bin, getting tangled together on a top shelf, or gathering dust at the back of a closet. Here are some lovely and clever ways to put those shoes and bags in their proper place.
Top row (shoes):
1. Bookshelves with glass doors make for a great display option and dust-free storage. Berta Pfirsich via Pony Anarchy
2. Decorative molding makes for an architectural shoe rail. Via Living in a Nutshell.
3. A repurposed wine box makes for a handy shoe holder. Via Real Simple.
.4. Wall storage from old crates. Via Decor Hacks.
5. Two Expedits make double as a headboard and shoe storage. Via The Order Obsessed.
Second row (shoes):
1. Two IKEA Hyllis units are hacked into one multipurpose shelf. Via Ikea Hackers.
2. If you've got some lovely shoes to show, an ornate china cabinet holds them in style. Via The Selby.
3. A repurposed ladder serves as shoe and scarf storage. Via Stylizimo.
4. A storage ottoman lined with shoe pockets serves double or triple duty. ViaLiving in a Nutshell.
5. Another handy way to use a pallet. Via Decoist.
Third row (bags):
1. Why not treat your bags as art and place them front and center? Via The Everygirl.
2. Hanging storage designed to maximize space. The Iglu via Rakku Designs.
3. The IKEA Bygel system is just as handy for closets as for kitchens. Via Design Build Love.
4. Flea market wire baskets make handy clutch storage. Via Lovely Cupboard.
5. A wine rack moves to the bedroom. Via Salvage Life.
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Ahmad Bradshaw has been a bystander during the free agency carousel to this point. That might be about to change.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday night that Bradshaw is set to visit the Steelers on Thursday, according to a source. Rapoport reported that Bradshaw could fly in to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night, but his visit and physical evaluation will happen Thursday.
If he's recovered from offseason surgery, Bradshaw would be a perfect fit for a Steelers team in need of some fresh talent in the backfield. Although doctors cleared him for OTAs, his health remains a question mark.
CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora first reported the news of Bradshaw's visit.
Wary of a bad medical report sabotaging his attempts to catch on with a team, Bradshaw chose to wait on visiting teams until his foot was further along. Bradshaw represents a potential steal in free agency, and he would fit well in Pittsburgh's offensive scheme.
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President Barack Obama plans to commit $70 million for a manufacturing institute to be located in Canton Township that will focus on "lightweight and modern metals manufacturing," the administration said Saturday in a statement.
The Michigan institute will be one of two manufacturing innovation initiatives led by the Defense Department in the Midwest. The federal funds will be matched with $70 million in funds from nonfederal sources, according to the White House.
Aluminum, titanium and high-strength steel manufacturers will work with universities and labs on research and development at the institute.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggans said the selection of the Detroit area for the institute is "great news for our city and our region."
"We are especially glad that Focus:Hope is a key member of the consortium because it means Detroiters will be among the first in the world to develop the skills needed to manufacture these lightweight metals," Duggan said in a statement Saturday evening. "I look forward to working with the consortium to make sure as much work as possible is done in the city of Detroit in order to maximize the job opportunities available to Detroiters."
A second institute, in Chicago, will be the host for manufacturing and software companies to develop interoperable software and hardware for supply chains and to reduce manufacturing costs. That institute also will get $70 million in federal support.
The 41 companies that will be part of the consortium include Boeing Co. and Caterpillar Inc.
Obama will announce the plans Tuesday at a White House event. The president's budget, which will be released early next month, will include funding for manufacturing hubs, one of Obama's priorities, Josh Earnest, deputy White House press secretary, told reporters this week.
The $140 million will be matched with money from what the White House said would be non-federal sources. The statement didn't specify where that funding would come from.


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I just turned 95 years old on my birthday, Christmas Day, 2012, and in all those years I have never seen such a small tail wag such a large dog.
Two tails, actually, but same dog.
The population of the big dog, the United States of America, is 300,000,000-plus people and, the tail, a 61-member Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, is shaking the hair of the big dog so hard the dog might end up hairless.
The other tail, a 4,000-plus membership of the National Rifle Association, headed by a guy named Wayne LaPierre, is making the other big dog, President Obama, so nervous his hair is turning grey.
This tail wagging is not new to the United States, but dog tamers always seem to come to the rescue.
Would Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn or Tip O'Neill (former Speakers of the House of Representatives) put up with all this baloney?
You'd better believe it wouldn't happen.
And, our big dog tamers - George Washington, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt - kept our kennels clean, shipshape and in good working order. Will President Obama be able to wield a "cat o' nine tails?"
A simple fix will satisfy gun concerns
Lately there seems to be a consolidation of the gun control crowd around the contrived issue of face-to-face sales of firearms.
The claimed concern is that a person who is prohibited from owning a weapon is buying them without a background check and would otherwise be denied if he went through official channels.
What is proposed is that all sales must go through a licensed dealer, so that the "background check" is performed as prescribed by law. While this may seem reasonable, it does not take into account the infringement, cost and utter pain that it would become.
Burdening legitimate buyers with additional regulations and hoops, backed up by criminal penalties, is not the way we should approach this concern.
A simple alternative is within our grasp and will satisfy both sides. We already have in place a system to ID "prohibited persons" from buying alcohol that does not involve any paperwork or electronic identifiers at the "point of sale." It is our driver's license.
Currently, a Georgia Firearms License holder is exempt from a background check, and he has already subjected himself to one at his own expense.
If you are not allowed to own a firearm, then you get the "Scarlet Letter" on your license. If you don't have it, then you are presumed to be allowed.
Richmond Hill
Country must go back to its fundamentals
One day, many years ago, there were two people and one law. It was broken. Some years and thousands of people later, 10 laws were given. They were also broken.
We now have thousands of laws for the millions of people, and they are broken everyday.
You cannot legislate morality. The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer as well as anything else "religious" have been removed from public property. These are the only laws that seem to be fairly well followed.
The laws against drinking and driving, stealing, murder, etc., seem to be working so well, why don't we outlaw cancer and heart disease and any other thing that kills someone. Only when the American people wake up and realize that their greed and sense of being "owed a job or food or insurance" is ridiculous, and they look back to what made America great and the fundamentals that the USA was founded on, we will continue on this downward spiral.
Start by obeying the laws and teaching your children to do the same, and the ones that we have now will be more than enough.
For your time here at least, if you want to see Heaven, it will take more than obeying a few laws.
Identifying a 'special kind of stupid'
In order to start the new year fresh, I've decided to get a few things off my chest while I still have freedom of speech - starting with Obamacare.
In the paper a few days ago, I read that the "morning after pill" was to be covered under Obamacare. So really it will be paid for by the taxpayer, just like abortions and contraceptives.
I'm not anyone's moral compass but my own, so I don't care what women do regarding these things. What I do care about is paying for it.
Birth control pills have been free a long time. So unless you're a victim of rape or incest, it's your problem. Take a pill, use a condom or keep your knees together, but take responsibility.
Next, gun control. There are plenty of laws on gun control. Every law-abiding citizen has a right to own one. But if you think criminals are going to obey any kind of gun control laws, then you really are a special kind of stupid, aren't you.
And last, but not least, President Obama - just another Hitler, only he's targeting Christians, instead of the Jewish people. We'll be lucky if all symbols of Christianity aren't banned in the next four years. He wants to take God and freedom out of our lives, so don't expect him to step down in four years. He's just getting started.
Richmond Hill
Santa's magic helps kids cope with world
To make life better, everyone needs to believe in a little magic. There is still some goodness in this old wicked world.
Santa's magic and caring is especially important these days to our children, some of whom can find a little else to believe in, such as a world increasingly filled with danger and problems.
Kids should be able to have an imagination. Do you parents remember your own childhood? Do you think you were psychologically maimed by your own discovery that Santa doesn't really make it down that tiny chimney?
That's part of the enchantment of Christmas. The world is too serious not to have some make-believe.
Everybody knows Dec. 25 may not be the actual birthday of our Prince of Peace. We just have a universal day of observance in His honor.


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We here at the AAVSO always like to try something new!
In honor of our 100th Anniversary Meeting we've decided to try an experiment in Internet Broadcasting.
We will be attempting to broadcast the Building Dedication Ceremonies on Thursday, 6 October, starting around 10:00AM ET.
We will then will attempt to simultaneously broadcast and record for later viewing the Membership Meeting on Friday, 7 October, starting at 9:00AM ET.


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Anna May Wong and Asian American Popular Culture
Shirley Lim
Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905–February 3, 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Wong broke the codes of yellowface in both American and European cinema to become one of the major global actresses of Asian descent between the world wars. She made close to sixty films that circulated around the world and in 1951 starred in her own television show, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, produced by the defunct Dumont Network. Examining Wong's career is particularly fruitful because of race's centrality to the motion pictures' construction of the modern American nation-state, as well as its significance within the global circulation of moving images.
Born near Los Angeles's Chinatown, Wong began acting in films at an early age. During the silent era, she starred in films such as The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first two-tone Technicolor films, and The Thief of Baghdad (1924). Frustrated by Hollywood roles, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several films and plays, including Piccadilly (1929) and A Circle of Chalk (1929) opposite Laurence Olivier. Wong traveled between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. In 1935 she protested Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's refusal to consider her for the leading role of O-Lan in the Academy Award–winning film The Good Earth (1937). Wong then paid her one and only visit to China. In the late 1930s, she starred in several B films such as King of Chinatown (1939), graced the cover of the mass-circulating American magazine Look, and traveled to Australia. In 1961, Wong died of Laennec's cirrhosis, a disease typically stemming from alcoholism. Yet, as her legacy shows, for a brief moment a glamorous Chinese American woman occupied a position of transnational importance.
New Women in Early 20th-Century America
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women's role in society.
Identified by contemporaries as a Gibson Girl, a suffragist, a Progressive reformer, a bohemian feminist, a college girl, a bicyclist, a flapper, a working-class militant, or a Hollywood vamp, all of these images came to epitomize the New Woman, an umbrella term for modern understandings of femininity. Referring both to real, flesh-and-blood women, and also to an abstract idea or a visual archetype, the New Woman represented a generation of women who came of age between 1890 and 1920 and challenged gender norms and structures by asserting a new public presence through work, education, entertainment, and politics, while also denoting a distinctly modern appearance that contrasted with Victorian ideals. The New Woman became associated with the rise of feminism and the campaign for women's suffrage, as well as with the rise of consumerism, mass culture, and freer expressions of sexuality that defined the first decades of the 20th century. Emphasizing youth, mobility, freedom, and modernity, the image of the New Woman varied by age, class, race, ethnicity, and geographical region, offering a spectrum of behaviors and appearances with which different women could identify. At times controversial, the New Woman image provided women with opportunities to negotiate new social roles and to promote ideas of equality and freedom that would later become mainstream.
Women and Sexual Assault in the United States, 1900–1940
Mara Keire
In the United States, the history of sexual assault in the first half of the 20th century involves multiple contradictions between the ordinary, almost invisible accounts of women of all colors who were raped by fathers, husbands, neighbors, boarders, bosses, hired hands, and other known individuals versus the sensational myths that involved rapacious black men, sly white slavers, libertine elites, and virginal white female victims. Much of the debate about sexual assault revolved around the "unwritten law" that justified "honorable" white men avenging the "defilement" of their women. Both North and South, white people defended lynching and the murder of presumed rapists as "honor killings." In courtrooms, defense attorneys linked the unwritten law to insanity pleas, arguing that after hearing women tell about their assault, husbands and fathers experienced an irresistible compulsion to avenge the rape of their women. Over time, however, notorious court cases from New York to San Francisco, Indianapolis and Honolulu, to Scottsboro, Alabama, shifted the discourse away from the unwritten law and extralegal "justice" to a more complicated script that demonized unreliable women and absolved imperfect men. National coverage of these cases, made possible by wire services and the Hearst newspaper empire, spurred heated debates concerning the proper roles of men and women. Blockbuster movies like The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind and Book of the Month Club selections such as John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Richard Wright's Native Son joined the sensationalized media coverage of high-profile court cases to create new national stereotypes about sexual violence and its causes and culprits. During the 1930s, journalists, novelists, playwrights, and moviemakers increasingly emphasized the culpability of women who, according to this narrative, made themselves vulnerable to assault by stepping outside of their appropriate sphere and tempting men into harming them.
Women, Gender, and World War II
Melissa A. McEuen
The Second World War changed the United States for women, and women in turn transformed their nation. Over three hundred fifty thousand women volunteered for military service, while twenty times as many stepped into civilian jobs, including positions previously closed to them. More than seven million women who had not been wage earners before the war joined eleven million women already in the American work force. Between 1941 and 1945, an untold number moved away from their hometowns to take advantage of wartime opportunities, but many more remained in place, organizing home front initiatives to conserve resources, to build morale, to raise funds, and to fill jobs left by men who entered military service.
The U.S. government, together with the nation's private sector, instructed women on many fronts and carefully scrutinized their responses to the wartime emergency. The foremost message to women—that their activities and sacrifices would be needed only "for the duration" of the war—was both a promise and an order, suggesting that the war and the opportunities it created would end simultaneously. Social mores were tested by the demands of war, allowing women to benefit from the shifts and make alterations of their own. Yet dominant gender norms provided ways to maintain social order amidst fast-paced change, and when some women challenged these norms, they faced harsh criticism. Race, class, sexuality, age, religion, education, and region of birth, among other factors, combined to limit opportunities for some women while expanding them for others.
However temporary and unprecedented the wartime crisis, American women would find that their individual and collective experiences from 1941 to 1945 prevented them from stepping back into a prewar social and economic structure. By stretching and reshaping gender norms and roles, World War II and the women who lived it laid solid foundations for the various civil rights movements that would sweep the United States and grip the American imagination in the second half of the 20th century.
Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationality in the U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
Mire Koikari
After World War II, Okinawa was placed under U.S. military rule and administratively separated from mainland Japan. This occupation lasted from 1945 to 1972, and in these decades Okinawa became the "Keystone of the Pacific," a leading strategic site in U.S. military expansionism in Asia and the Pacific. U.S. rule during this Cold War period was characterized by violence and coercion, resulting in an especially staggering scale of sexual violence against Okinawan women by U.S. military personnel. At the same time, the occupation also facilitated numerous cultural encounters between the occupiers and the occupied, leading to a flourishing cross-cultural grassroots exchange. A movement to establish American-style domestic science (i.e., home economics) in the occupied territory became a particularly important feature of this exchange, one that mobilized an assortment of women—home economists, military wives, club women, university students, homemakers—from the United States, Okinawa, and mainland Japan. The postwar domestic science movement turned Okinawa into a vibrant theater of Cold War cultural performance where women of diverse backgrounds collaborated to promote modern homemaking and build friendship across racial and national divides. As these women took their commitment to domesticity and multiculturalism into the larger terrain of the Pacific, they articulated the complex intertwining that occurred among women, domesticity, the military, and empire.


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The closer we get to E3, when the Wii U seen there is expected to be the finished product, you can expect rumors on this machine to increase commensurately. Here's another one. The Wii U's parts will cost about $180, with roughly $50 of that going to the controller.
That's according to the unidentified sources of the Forget the Box media collective has reported that the full bill of materials for the Wii U comes to about $180, with roughly $50 of that going to the controller. As Nintendo calculates labor, marketing and other costs, we're to expect a machine costing no less than $300 at retail.
The sources speak in deep specifics, so visit the full article to read and judge it for yourself. Of note, though, Nintendo is said to be greatly concerned "with cutting production costs to maximize profits," says one of the unnamed sources. "Nintendo wants investors to view Wii U as a less risky proposition." As well they should; Nintendo's stock price is at a seven-year low and its president, we assume, still is working at a half-off discount following the 3DS' poor launch.
As for the $300 price, Forget the Box notes that many costs can pile up, such as software, shipping, packaging, among others. So again, $180 is just the raw parts cost. See the link if you want specific prices on the new console's components.
I've reached out to a Nintendo spokesman for comment on this rumor. Any the company makes will be updated here.
[Update] A Nintendo of America representative said that the company does not comment on rumors and speculation.
Rumor: Wii U's Total Bill of Materials Estimated at $180 [Forget the Box. h/t Deer Huntress]


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Hey I heard GSAM shut down a while back (Thread has GSAM disappeared?) and sorry to hear that. However it has made me and a few worried that this place will shut down anytime soon. Is that going to happen or did the original owner took steps to make sure this place stayed up
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