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Presidio Social Club pulls foie gras
A San Francisco restaurateur who garnered national headlines saying he was exempt from a new California law that bans the sale of foie gras and served it with much fanfare has abruptly pulled it off the menu.
Ray Tang's Presidio Social Club is in San Francisco's Presidio, a national park under federal jurisdiction. For that reason Tang - and many other legal experts - don't believe the law applies.
But Tang and the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that oversees the park, came to an agreement late Thursday that the restaurant would stop advertising the duck liver delicacy. But it's unclear whether the restaurant will stop serving it altogether.
When Tang initially decided last week to serve foie gras sliders at his American-style restaurant, Craig Middleton, the trust's executive director, told The Chronicle he was not happy with the decision.
"We are concerned that this action is inconsistent with the values that we promote in the Presidio - sustainability, respect for our environment, responsible stewardship," he said. "We will engage with the Presidio Social Club on these concerns."
Tang disregarded the trust and served the mini duck-liver burgers last weekend to a packed house of diners, while a handful of animal-rights protesters picketed outside.
But in a turnaround, he's agreed to take it off the menu.
In a statement to the Trust, Tang wrote, "Presidio Social Club respects and empathizes with the Presidio Trust and their position on the California state ban of the sale of foie gras. As a result, Presidio Social Club will not have foie gras on the restaurant's menu nor will it be promoted."
Tang would not tell The Chronicle whether he intends to serve foie gras to diners who merely ask for it.
"Without reading into it too much, diners can determine that on their own," he said.
In the meantime, Chez TJ in Mountain View has been slapped with a letter from the Santa Clara district attorney's office for allegedly attempting to skirt the law by making foie gras a chef's gift to diners, said Joey Elenterio, the restaurant's chef. The restaurant and its owners have not been charged with a crime.
"It's a sketchy situation to know what's right and what's wrong; the law is so vague," he said.
The animal-welfare statute, which outlaws force-feeding birds for the purpose of enlarging their livers and selling products made from them, went into effect July 1. Since then, a lawsuit has been filed to overturn the statute, calling the law unconstitutional. The suit is pending in Los Angeles' U.S. District Court.
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SCITUATE – Before becoming a high school senior, Christian Brady twice led the Scituate Sailors to winning football seasons.
The All-Scholastic quarterback first did it as a sophomore, starting the last three games of the 2012 season, while his Sailors went 6-5.
Last year, Brady threw 12 touchdown passes and rushed for 701 yards and nine scores. Scituate finished its 2013 campaign with a 7-4 record, which included a Patriot League Fisher Division title and a playoff berth.
But the 6-3, 195-pound star has yet to win a playoff game, which is exactly what he aims to accomplish this fall, in his final year as a Sailor.
"Expectations are really high here," said seventh-year head coach Herb Devine, whose team lost a last-second heartbreaker – 44-39 to Holliston – in the Division 4 South quarterfinals last season. "This group of seniors isn't going to settle for anything less than making a run and having a great year."
Brady agreed with his coach: "Expectations are high, but the confidence is very high, too. We know how good we can be, and now we want to show everyone else how good we can be."
Brady will pilot Devine's spread offense this fall – a slight change from last year's pistol formation, which flashed the spotlight on All-Scholastic running back Dawayne Kirton, who graduated as the program's all-time rushing leader with 3,491 yards.
Devine says the spread offense will feature "more four-receiver sets, with Brady in the shotgun 95 percent of the time."
This new high-octane style will open up the field, allowing Brady to work quickly, everywhere, and pick up yardage on the ground, too.
Brady can't think of anything better.
"I'm very excited," he said. "I'm going to throw the ball a lot ... and I like to roll out of the pocket and run a bit, too. We'll put a lot of points on the board. It'll be fun for the whole team."
Devine's offense is exciting, but it wouldn't be effective without a player of Brady's caliber.
"Christian is really dynamic," said Devine. "He can run, but he's also a very accurate thrower. He's the guy who's really going to move our offense forward. Everything revolves around him."
Of course, Brady needs targets to throw to, as well. Standout receiver Noma Okundaye has graduated, but Scituate has a mix of smart veterans and athletic underclassmen, all of whom bring something different to the table.
Devin Gantt, a 6-3, 170-pound junior, should open up the field by being Brady's go-to vertical option. Colin May, a sophomore, is expected to step in and contribute right away despite his inexperience. And Travis Kelly, a 6-1, 180-pound senior, has been Scituate's "top receiver all summer long," according to his head coach.
Brady can't wait to get out and throw to these guys.
"We have a lot of athleticism (among the receivers)," he said. "A lot of returning guys and new ones who are fast with good hands. They make my job easier. I trust them, knowing I can throw the ball to anyone and they'll make a play ... and we have depth, too, in case someone goes down."
Alongside Brady are three more senior captains: tight end/linebacker Scott Radding, fullback/linebacker Chris Bearce, and left guard Brian Cochran.
Devine expects big seasons from all four of his captains, calling them "the nucleus of our team, on offense and on defense."
Such strong veteran leadership has upped the ante in Scituate.
Aware that the fall of 2014 presents a prime opportunity for success, coaches and players alike are aiming high.
"The league title is our focus here," commented Devine. "But these guys want to make a deep run. We've made the playoffs, but we've lost ... now our goal is to make a run in the playoffs."
Brady agreed: "Our goals are winning our league, going undefeated in our league, to get a playoff bid ... (but) the biggest goal is to win our first playoff game."
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The Value of Media Literacy Education in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Tessa Jolls (Part Three)/
Henry: I really appreciate the work the CML does in translating research into awareness and action, in trying to build a more sustainable and scalable movement for media literacy. As someone who sees themselves first and foremost as a researcher, I am deeply committed to translating our research into language that can be broadly accessible and providing resources which can be deployed within important conversations; I see this blog as part of the work I try to do to broker between different groups of people who should be talking to each other. My team through the years has done a fair amount of applied work with educators, trying to get our materials out in the field. We've come to the same conclusion you have that media literacy is at least as much about rethinking education as it is about rethinking media. We found very early on that developing resources were never enough unless you also helped to train the teachers who would be using those materials. This took us down the path of developing and running teacher training programs in New Hampshire and California, and then publishing a series of white papers which dealt with what we saw as best practices in fostering participatory learning, practices that both dealt with how to integrate the new media literacies into school curriculum but also how to couple them with progressive pedagogies that are very much in line with those that Masterman describes above -- pedagogies that are very much informed by thinkers such as Dewey and Freire. See, for example:
We are back in the trenches again with the latest phase of our work, this time emerging from extensive research (interviews with more than 200 young activists) about the political and civic lives of American youth: We've now built an archive featuring videos produced by young activists around a range of causes, many of them appropriating and remixing elements from popular culture, many of them using tools and tactics associated with participatory culture. This time, we are testing these materials in collaboration with the National Writing Project, and working with their teachers (as well as the organizations we study) to develop activities and lesson plans which might allow educators to integrate our materials and insights into their teaching. One thing we've learned through the years is that our core strength is ultimately in cultural theory and research and thanks to my move to USC, coupled with media production capacities; we have some understanding of core pedagogical issues; but we do better working hand in hand with classroom teachers to develop the actual activities that make sense in the public schools. And we count on the power of various networks -- including both the Media Literacy Movement and those folks involved with the DML world -- to get word out about what we've created. This is why I place such a high priority in building partnerships which can help us work together to achieve our shared goals.
The issue of whether representation remains the core of contemporary media literacy is a complex one, it seems to me. Representation is a powerful principle, one which helps to explain the ways we use media to make sense of ourselves and our lives, and it remains very pertinent in a world where we are encouraging young people to develop a stronger sense of their own public voices, to tell their own stories, to create their own media. Looking critically at existing representations, thinking ethically about the choices they make as they create their own representations as media producers remain core to any understanding of media literacy, but young people are also participating in media which are more focused on social exchanges and personal interactions in which the creation of texts is secondary to the cementing of social bonds. If we were developing media literacy in response to the telephone rather than television, would we be asking different questions, have different priorities?
Representation is itself a process, to be sure, but we also often use it to refer to a product or text: a representation. The disciplines which do much of the heavy lifting on media literacy education -- especially language arts but also arts education -- tend to focus heavily on texts, and so as the term representation gets translated into their vocabulary, it is not surprising that it comes to circle around texts. This focus on texts can lead us to think in terms of readers and writers/producers but not in terms of participants in an ongoing communication process. And this is a key reason why my vocabulary tends to place a greater emphasis on notions of participation than on notions of representation.
TESSA: Ah...and so down the rabbit hole we go. And we are going on a slippery slope because as you said, it's complicated. I'm enjoying the ride!
Which universe are we describing? The physical world that surrounds us and that we perceive on a local and physical level -- the world that surrounds us with physical media like logos and traffic signs and billboards and movies and music and candy wrappers -- or the alternative global village or digital media that we access only through the assistance of hardware and software media like the internet in general or Instagram or Facebook or games? In each case, the media are man-made, which means that men (and oh yes let's be sure to be inclusive and say women too) construct these media messages and devices. Construction always calls for decisions on the part of the creator(s), who sets the initial limits and boundaries through which we may experience his or her creation -- media construction, whether digital or not, is a physical representation of the creator's intention.
So fundamentally, construction and (implicitly) representation must take place before participation is possible. And participatory culture (whether we participate online or off) is both an input to and an outcome of construction/representation -- and the fusion constantly changes the nature of and the expression of the construction, which always has emotional, social and cultural implications. There is a chicken-or-egg quality to the cultural issues and their intersection with media, but it can also be argued that an individual's mind and group culture itself are also constructions/representations.
But back to media...As an example, let's think about video games. The games are media constructions and they provide a software "box" in which players operate, and this software box is constrained by the hardware platform. The creator of the game designed the game intentionally -- to share a worldview and/or to profit from game purchases. Players engage with the game text itself and interact with each other to experience the game in a myriad of ways -- visual, verbal, social, emotional -- and often players invent new ways of experiencing the game through mods or hardware and they amplify their experiences together. But because the construction itself is constrained, there are inevitably frames and experiences that are included and excluded.
So much depends on how we parse the world we live in! But at the same time, to take a scientific approach towards media literacy, we need boundaries and concepts that define and describe a specific field of inquiry -- that of media, in this case. While the cementing of social bonds through media use may be a primary goal for youth or adults, media are still the means toward an end, while also acknowledging that digital spaces (constructions) multiply possibilities for and the nature of social engagement exponentially.
I agree with you, Henry, that the focus on the word "texts" -- because of its traditional association with physical media -- generally limits people's perceptions about participating in an ongoing communication process that digital media enable. In today's context in the global village, the notion of text expands so that "text" may become the entire "box" that encompasses the digital world itself, and the cultural representations within the box and outside it. We now have the physical world and the digital world and their intertwining and as Steve Jobs famously espoused, we need to "think different."
Henry: Your phrase above, "construction and (implicitly) representationmust take place before participation is possible," hints at the core hesitation which I am trying to flag here. I absolutely agree on the term construction in this sentence and with your discussion of the many different ways that construction takes place on the level of technological constraints and socio-cultural conventions. I have always been drawn to Lisa Gitelman's definition of media: she argues that a medium is a technology that enables communication and also a set of associated 'protocols' or social and cultural practices that have grown up around the technology. She writes, "Protocols express a huge variety of social, economic, and material relationships. So telephony includes the salutation 'Hello?' (for English speakers, for example) and includes the monthly billing cycle and includes the wires and cables that materially connect our phones...And protocols are far from static." These features change over time, work differently in different cultural contexts, and are influenced by the other media that intersect with them at any given moment. So, our models of different media and of the media ecology have to be very nimble to respond to those transitions. But, all of this can be described in terms of the construction of media messages, audiences, and contexts. I would just expand contexts to include not simply forms of production but also the terms, the social norms, that shape our participation.
However, I do have some questions about whether "representation" can stand in for the totality of the communication process. We might start with the distinction art critics might draw between representational and abstract art: surely, an abstract painting is a media text, but does it fall under the category of representation. Sure, in an abstract or "implicit" way, such a painting represents the artist's vision but at some point, we need to agree either that representation is not the only thing going on here or that the word representation has been stretched so thin that it no longer serves a useful purpose. So, I would absolutely agree that representation is an important concept to draw into discussions of media literacy, especially given the links between representation (as a mimetic process) and representation (as a political concept) so that we can speak of the struggles of marginalized groups to gain media representation as a struggle that impacts their power in society.
But, if we go back to my earlier question about what would have happened if media literacy had taken shape in response to the telephone rather than radio, film or television (depending on which strands we are discussing), we should think about the properties of the telephone (as Gitelman invites us to do here). We do not talk about telephone calls as texts -- unless of course we are talking about transcripts or recordings of them. We might ascribe to phone calls a broader range of motives besides power and profit. We do not talk about telephone calls in terms of authors and readers -- but rather in terms of participants. There are certainly all kinds of representations involved in telephone calls -- from Goffman's performance of self in everyday life to the narratives we are recounting with each other -- but we might well argue that the call allows for communication that operates on other levels and that perhaps the most important thing going on through the call is the establishment of interpersonal relations between the participants. When we say to each other, "I just wanted to hear your voice," we are speaking about the telephone call as something much closer to pure expression -- like the abstract painting -- than representation (in much the same way that Marshall McLuhan argued that the light bulb was a medium of "pure information"). Not quite, of course, which is why this is complicated.Yes, there is interpretation involved in the telephone call and definitely construction. In no sense do I mean to imply that the telephone call is somehow transparent. But the media literacy skills we need to understand the telephone call may focus much more on the social relationships being performed and the ways they are embodied through Gitelman's protocals than they have to do with any notion of texts or audiences which seems to go hand in hand with representation as it is being discussed here.
As we turn towards digital media, some of it does generate texts in the classical sense of the term -- a podcast or a YouTube video or a blog post, though it matters that these are forms which we can directly engage and respond through the same medium to the same audience and that these tools enable many-to-many forms of communication. Some forms and uses of digital media are much more important because of the communication processes they enable than they are in terms of the product of that communication -- text messaging, for example, or Twitter, come to mind, as having more in common with the telephone than with television. So, what I would argue for is not the displacement of media literacy's historic focus on representation but an expansion of concepts to be able to more fully capture the roles that these new media platforms and processes play in our lives.
I know in doing this I am edging back towards the idea that you are obejecting to, the idea that media literacy has historically been framed in terms of mass media literacies -- and this is somewhat unfair on the conceptual level. Yes, media literacy covers a broad array of different media in theory but the fact remains that if I went to a media literacy conference at the time that our white paper was first published, the over-whelming majority of talks would have centered around various forms of mass media, including film, television, advertising, and print based media, with some noteworthy exceptions. What gave Media Literacy its urgency throughout most of its history was the pervasive role of television in American culture just as the digital is what gives new media literacies their urgency. When I looked at the production projects being proposed, most of them were modeled on the public service announcement, itself a product of the one-way communication practices of broadcast media, rather than the kinds of dialogic production practices we are finding on Youtube or Tumbler. I like Jessica Clarke's term, "public-moblizing media", which stresses a different dynamic between those participating in these media exchanges. This has changed dramatically over the past decade, we are seeing more work done on the participatory dimensions of media, we are seeing more projects that involve remix practices, though there is still a tendency to think about media in terms of texts rather than process, practices, or to use your word above, relationships that are being mediated through various kinds of communication technologies. Organizations like NAMLA have more than caught up with the changing media environment, but I would argue there needs to be a process of continuous questioning of core assumptions as we work through what if anything is different about the media environment today than at the time some of the founding work in media literacy was first produced.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
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July 1, 1916 is remembered as the day the best and brightest of a generation of Newfoundland men were virtually wiped out. From every bay, cove and town, from fishing stage to merchant's home, they marched off to the Great War, proud members of their own Newfoundland Regiment, never suspecting what one terrible morning of treachery would bring. Our soldiers were part of the immeasurable toil of war, yet as they travelled to distant lands they were never without the spirit and humour they brought from their homeland. You will see why this July morning will never be forgotten.


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Freshman Denis Nguyen won the matches final singles competition to help secure a 4-3 Crimson victory over No. 34 Vanderbilt.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Freshman Denis Nguyen saved five match points during Harvard's final singles competition, to secure the victory for Harvard over No. 34 Vanderbilt, 4-3, at the IU Tennis Center in Bloomington, Ind., Friday afternoon.
Harvard began the match going 1-2 against the Commodores in doubles play with the No. 45 ranked team of Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster falling to the team of Gonzalez and Bazamik, 8-5. Andy and Denis Nguyen won its doubles match against Jones and Offerdahl 8-6 but sophomore Christo Schultz and freshman Henry Steer fell 8-6 in their matchup, as Harvard lost the doubles point.
The Crimson rallied in singles competition, as it got stellar play from its four through six spots as freshman Alex Stienroeder defeated Joe Dorn (6-1, 6-4), Schultz defeated Offerdahl (6-2, 3-6, 6-4) and freshman Shaun Chaudhuri took down Divalerio (6-1, 6-4). The Crimson and Commodores were tied going into the final match with Nguyen facing Austin in the two spot. The freshman from Anaheim, Calif., lost the first set 5-7 but was able to rally in the second, winning 6-4. Nguyen was able to fend off defeat five times during the match to seal a 7-5 third set win, and secured Harvard's fourth victory of the season.
Harvard will continue its road swing tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. when it takes on Indiana at the IU Tennis Center. Full Results from today's match are listed below:
Felton/MacMaster lost to A. Gonzales/Bazarnik 8-5
Nguyen/Nguyen def. C. Jones/Offerdahl 8-6
Schultz/Steer lost to Divalerio 8-6
1. Pearlman lost to Charlie Jones 6-4, 6-1
2. D. Nguyen def. G. Austin (saved 5 match points - last match on court) 5-7, 6-4, 7-5.
3. Steer lost to Blake Bazarnik 6-7, 6-4, 6-1
4. Steinroeder def Joe Dorn 6-1, 6-4
5. C. Schultz def Offerdahl 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
6. Chaudhuri def. A. Divalerio 6-1, 6-4


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|Description: open source CFD software package
|SHARCNET Package information: see OPENFOAM software page in web portal
|Full list of SHARCNET supported software
OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package produced by a commercial company, OpenCFD Ltd (http://www.openfoam.org/). It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organisations.
OpenFOAM in SHARCNET
Due to a variety of versions with third party installation for each group/user, SHARCNET does not provide the module for this software and instead we support the users to install his or her own version in the user's working directory. If you need a support for installation, please see below for instance or open a ticket for the help.
Version Selection
As of Feb 2017, version 4.1 is the latest version.
Here is a short instruction about how to install the package. Here the package is installed in /work/$USER.
0. Make directory
[isaac@orc-login2] cd /work/$USER [isaac@orc-login2] mkdir OpenFOAM
1. Download the package (source + third party) and unzip the package
[isaac@orc-login2] cd OpenFOAM [isaac@orc-login2] wget http://dl.openfoam.org/source/5-0 [isaac@orc-login2] tar zxvf 5-0 [isaac@orc-login2] mv OpenFOAM-5.x-version-5.0 OpenFOAM-5.0 [isaac@orc-login2] wget http://dl.openfoam.org/third-party/5-0 [isaac@orc-login2] tar zxvf 5-0.1 [isaac@orc-login2] mv ThirdParty-5.x-version-5.0 ThirdParty-5.0
2. Download 'boost' and 'CGAL'
[isaac@orc-login2] wget https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.10.1/CGAL-4.10.1.tar.xz [isaac@orc-login2] wget https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.65.1/source/boost_1_65_1.tar.gz [isaac@orc-login2] cd ThirdParty-5.0 [isaac@orc-login2] tar zxvf ../boost_1_65_1.tar.gz [isaac@orc-login2] tar xf ../CGAL-4.10.1.tar.xz
3. Setting up the compilation configuration
[isaac@orc-login2] cd /work/$USER/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.0/etc [isaac@orc-login2] vi bashrc
This file is the core file to setup all relevant working/compilation variables in OpenFOAM. It has been known that OpenFOAM is working well with Gcc compiler + OpenMPI. Here is an example to change modules and change 'HOME' directory to install by setting the new location as 'NEWHOME'. Don't forget to change all 'HOME' variable in the file have to be changed into 'NEWHOME' in the following setup.
module unload intel module unload openmpi module unload python module load gcc/6.3.0 module load openmpi/gcc630-std/2.1.1 export NEWHOME=/work/$USER
Furthermore, you also need to comment out the following two lines
# USER EDITABLE PART: Changes made here may be lost with the next upgrade # # FOAM_INST_DIR is the location of the OpenFOAM installation which defaults to # the directory containing this file if sourced by a bash shell. # # Please set to the appropriate path if the default is not correct. # #[ $BASH_SOURCE ] && \ #export FOAM_INST_DIR=$(cd ${BASH_SOURCE%/*/*/*} && pwd -P) || \ export FOAM_INST_DIR=$NEWHOME/$WM_PROJECT
Since we use different version of CGAL and boost from what is installed in system. Two files need to be modified as followed.
[isaac@orc-login2] cd ThirdParty-5.0 [isaac@orc-login2] sed -i -e 's=boost-system=boost-1_65_1=' makeCGAL [isaac@orc-login2] sed -i -e 's=cgal-system=CGAL-4.10.1=' makeCGAL [isaac@orc-login2] cd ../OpenFOAM-5.0/etc/config.sh [isaac@orc-login2] sed -i -e 's=boost-system=boost-1_65_1=' CGAL [isaac@orc-login2] sed -i -e 's=cgal-system=CGAL-4.10.1=' CGAL
Finally, we need to source the bashrc file
[isaac@orc-login2] source /work/$USER/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.0/etc/bashrc
We can make sure the setup by checking environment variables as shown
[isaac@orc-login2] env |grep WM WM_LINK_LANGUAGE=c++ WM_ARCH=linux64 WM_COMPILER_TYPE=system WM_OSTYPE=POSIX WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR=/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.0 WM_CXXFLAGS=-m64 -fPIC -std=c++0x WM_CFLAGS=-m64 -fPIC WM_PROJECT_VERSION=5.0 WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH=64 WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR=/work/isaac/OpenFOAM WM_CXX=g++ WM_PROJECT_DIR=/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.0 WM_LABEL_OPTION=Int32 WM_PROJECT=OpenFOAM WM_LDFLAGS=-m64 WM_COMPILER=Gcc WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI WM_CC=gcc WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Opt WM_DIR=/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.0/wmake WM_LABEL_SIZE=32 WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/isaac-5.0 WM_OPTIONS=linux64GccDPInt32Opt WM_PRECISION_OPTION=DP WM_ARCH_OPTION=64
4. Build boost
[isaac@orc-login2] cd /work/isaac/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.0/boost_1_65_1 [isaac@orc-login2] ./bootstrap.sh [isaac@orc-login2] ./b2
4. Submitting a job to compile
[isaac@orc-login2] sqsub -r 1d -o log -e err --mpp=4G /work/isaac/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.0/Allwmake
Submitting Parallel Jobs
Before submitting a job, you should load the appropriate working environment by
[isaac@orc-login2] source /work/isaac/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/etc/bashrc
You may setup an alias to load the working environment by inserting the following into '~/.bashrc'
[isaac@orc-login2] vi .bashrc alias of41='source /work/isaac/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/etc/bashrc'
To submit a job,
sqsub -q mpi -n {No of Subdomains} -r {Run Time Required} -o {Log File} -e {error reporting file} --mpp {mem required per processor} {OpenFOAM Solver} -parallel
Pre/Post Processing
To generate the grid, you may want to run the 'blockMesh'. Here is the example for cavity case in incompressible solver,
[isaac@orc-login2:/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/isaac-2.3.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity] blockMesh /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\ | ========= | | | \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox | | \\ / O peration | Version: 2.3.0 | | \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org | | \\/ M anipulation | | \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ Build : 2.3.0-6b88e07ba67e Exec : blockMesh Date : Aug 12 2014 Time : 00:47:49 Host : "orc-login2" PID : 23077 Case : /gwork/isaac/OpenFOAM/isaac-2.3.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity nProcs : 1 sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE). fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // Create time Creating block mesh from "/gwork/isaac/OpenFOAM/isaac-2.3.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh/blockMeshDict" Creating curved edges Creating topology blocks Creating topology patches Creating block mesh topology Check topology Basic statistics Number of internal faces : 0 Number of boundary faces : 6 Number of defined boundary faces : 6 Number of undefined boundary faces : 0 Checking patch -> block consistency Creating block offsets Creating merge list . Creating polyMesh from blockMesh Creating patches Creating cells Creating points with scale 0.1 Block 0 cell size : i : 0.005 .. 0.005 j : 0.005 .. 0.005 k : 0.01 .. 0.01 Writing polyMesh ---------------- Mesh Information ---------------- boundingBox: (0 0 0) (0.1 0.1 0.01) nPoints: 882 nCells: 400 nFaces: 1640 nInternalFaces: 760 ---------------- Patches ---------------- patch 0 (start: 760 size: 20) name: movingWall patch 1 (start: 780 size: 60) name: fixedWalls patch 2 (start: 840 size: 800) name: frontAndBack End
Since all SHARCNET machines are targeted to run the CPU-intensive jobs, all Pre- and Post-processing has to be done via our Visualization machines.
Isaacs-MacBook-iPro:~ isaac$ ssh -Y email@example.com
Instead of paraFoam, there is the 'PARAVIEW' installed in our visualization machines. To run it, simply type
[isaac@localhost:/work/isaac/OpenFOAM/isaac-2.3.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity] paraview
Note that the grid generation 'blockMesh' must be done in the main cluster and paraview is only used to check the grid and results. The details for paraview can be found in our wiki page[[1]].
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For a lot of consumers a zero percent car loan beats out higher gasoline prices when it comes time to buy a new vehicle.
At summer's end, you might think auto showrooms would be virtually empty with fuel prices peaking near $4 a gallon in many places during the Labor Day weekend -- and way higher in some -- but you'd be wrong.
U.S. auto sales reached 1.28 million in August, the best in more than four years with consumers buying pickups and small SUVs as well as more fuel-efficient passenger cars to replace aging -- and less efficient -- vehicles.
The average mileage of all new vehicles sold in the United States last month was 23.8 mpg, up 0.2 mpg from July, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute said in a release.
By year's end, the North American assembly plants of all three Detroit car companies will have added shifts to crank out more cars and trucks. An analysis of North American auto plant capacity utilization conducted for The Detroit News found Ford will run its plants a 113 percent of capacity, GM at 108 percent and Chrysler at 104 percent -- based on the industry standard of two eight-hour shifts five days a week.
That means overnight and weekend shifts for autoworkers -- lots of overtime -- and a better return for companies that invested heavily in new equipment and tooling for popular new models.
The Federal Reserve said auto sales are expected to reach 14.2 million to 14.3 million vehicles this year, easing concerns of a sales slowdown during the second half of 2012. General Motors estimates industry sales of 14 million to 14.5 million this year because of pent-up demand.
The average passenger vehicle on U.S. roads is more than 11 years old.
Autodata reported a 19.9 percent jump in August vehicle sales compared to August 2011, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 14.52 million vehicles.
Chrysler led the Detroit Three with a 14.1 percent sales gain last month, followed by 12.6 percent at Ford and a 10.1 percent increase in sales at General Motors. Among foreign automakers, Honda sales rose 59.5 percent for the month from a year earlier when Japanese carmakers were still crippled by an earthquake and tsunami, followed by Volkswagen with sales up 48.2 percent, Toyota at 45.6 percent and Nissan with a 7.6 percent gain.
The industry's next challenge is to attract "I want" buyers instead of "I need" buyers.
"Small cars did well due to continuously high gas prices and full-size trucks did well," TrueCar.com vice president of market intelligence Jesse Toprak told the Detroit Free Press.
Sales of the best-selling Ford F-150 pickup were up 19.3 percent with many buyers opting for V6 engines rather than less-fuel efficient V8s.
GM reported a 6 percent increase in sales of full-size pickups from a year ago, and 31 percent higher than July. GM had a 122-day supply of full-size trucks at the end of the month and wants to get inventory down to an 80- to 85-day supply of vehicles, the News said.
Sales of fuel-efficient Chevrolet Sonic, Cruze and plug-in hybrid Volt models set monthly records.
"Auto sales have been a bright spot for the economy all year long, and we see that trend continuing," Kurt McNeil, GM vice president of U.S. sales, told the News.
One popular sales incentive being offered to some buyers with excellent credit is the return of zero percent financing, which does not impact a manufacturers' profit margin like cash rebates or discounted financing does.
Toyota began offering zero percent loans on its flagship Camry sedan this month. Nearly 10 percent of all new vehicles were financed with a zero percent loan in August.
"This is the best of both worlds ... automakers can offer low interest-rate programs at little cost to themselves and consumers can take advantage of these offers and get a lot of car for their money," said Toprak.
Saab deal sealed, electric car expected in 2014
The first Saab-branded premium electric car could hit showrooms in about 18 months.
That's the timetable of National Electric Vehicle Sweden, the Hong Kong-owned company that purchased assets of Sweden's Saab out of bankruptcy earlier this year.
The performance all-electric cars will be called Saabs but will have a different logo than the iconic red, white, blue and gold-crowned griffin, Gas 2.0 said.
Best and worst cities for drivers
Survey says: Drivers in Sioux Falls, S.D., are the best in the United States, while Philadelphia motorists are the most likely to be in an accident.
The findings come in the eighth annual "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report," which looks at Census Bureau annual estimates of the population for 200 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 residents.
Based on the statistics, an average driver in Sioux Falls will be involved in a vehicle collision every 13.8 years. The national average is once a decade.
After Sioux Falls, the safest driving cities included Boise, Idaho; Fort Collins, Colo.; Madison, Wis.; Lincoln, Neb.; Huntsville, Ala.; Chandler, Ariz.; Reno, Nev.; Knoxville, Tenn. and Springfield, Mo.
The safest driving city with a population of more than 1 million was Phoenix. Indianapolis was the safest driving city with a population of 750,000 to 1 million residents.
"We want to recognize the city of Sioux Falls for being the safest driving city in America [for the fifth time in survey history], and whether you drive in a large city, small city or a rural area, we encourage all Americans to practice safe driving habits and good car safety," said Mike Roche, Allstate senior vice president of claims.
Allstate offers this advice to avoid accidents:
-- Allow plenty of time to reach your destination.
-- Know what's happening in the city during the time you're driving
-- Stay alert
-- Get directions to where you're going.
-- Watch the speed limit.
-- Look out for pedestrians, especially children.
-- Know the rules of the road.
-- Keep a safe distance -- especially around large vehicles.
"Minimizing distractions, obeying traffic laws and using your car's safety features like turn signals and headlights are all ways to be safer, no matter where you drive," Roche said.


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I'm waffling enough to be a politician, although I offer the defense of an ever-shifting situation.
I took Alabama left tackle Andre Smith on "Chronicle Live" Friday night on behalf of the Raiders, after going with Boston College run-stuffer B.J. Raji for ESPN Radio only to switch to Texas Tech's Michael Crabtree when told he had become available.
In a mock draft conducted by host Greg Papa, with media types (announcers, beat writers, radio hosts) doing the selecting for their own cities, the top six selections went like this:
1. Detroit–QB Matt Stafford, Georgia. (Hope you made the right call, Lions, you just spent $41.7 guaranteed to make it happen).
2. St. Louis–OT Jason Smith, Baylor. Rationale: The perfect longterm replacement for Orlando Pace.
3. Kansas City–OT Eugene Monroe, Virginia. Rationale: Chiefs would love to trade down, but if not, Monroe, along with 2007 draftee Brandon Albert, gives Kansas City two long-term solutions at tackle.
4. Seattle–WR Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech. Rationale: Jim Mora has a man-crush on Crabtree. Honest.
5. Cleveland–QB Mark Sanchez, USC. Rationale: Coach Eric Mangini loves him (there we go with man crushes again) and wants to start his regime with a QB of the future. The Browns would trade Brady Quinn and play Derek Anderson until Sanchez was ready _ probably in 2010.
6. Cincinnati–LB Aaron Curry, Wake Forest. Rationale: He's the best player available, the Bengals would be stunned he was available, and Marvin Lewis would want him over Andre Smith, although not by much.
That left me at No. 7, choosing for the Raiders. My first choice is to trade back, depending on the deal. Short of that, my choices are Andre Smith, B.J. Raji and Jeremy Maclin (who is probably the Raiders consensus picks when you total up all the mock drafts).
I gave Tom Cable his "Cadillac," believing he could sell Davis on the idea that they just got what might be the most talented player in the draft and a guy who could anchor the left side of the line for the next decade.
Why would Davis go for it?
For one, once upon a time in 1997 he wanted Orlando Pace, and even maneuvered to the second selection to get him, only to have the Rams and Dick Vermeil trade up to No. 1 and get him instead.
Considering who was available, Smith would be the player who would seem to have the capacity for "greatness." By that, I mean a chance to join the pantheon of great Raiders as a true dominator. Don't think that doesn't carry some weight.
So I took Smith, and the rest of the draft went like this.
(Because it was a one-hour show, the NFL in this case consisted of 10 teams _ no time for the remaining 22).
8. Jacksonville–WR Jeremy Maclin, Missouri. Rationale: After failing miserably with first-round picks Reggie Williams and Matt Jones, plus free agent Jerry Porter, the Jaguars need help.
9. Green Bay–DT B.J. Raji, Boston College: The perfect player to plug into the middle of their new 3-4 defense.
10. San Francisco–DE Tyson Jackson, LSU; and OT Michael Oher, Mississippi: No, the 49ers don't really get two players, but the panel guests were Matt Maiccco of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and 49ers insider blogger Kevin Lynch of the Chroncle, and each got to make a pick.
I'd give their rationale, but since this is a Raiders blog, I'm guessing you don't care.
My back-and-forth selections illustrate how the process becomes once you get past the first few picks.
Here's how I'd rate the Raiders picks, going to the first name on the list that was available at No. 7.
3–Smith (either one)
What about Percy Harvin?
Profootballtalk.com floated the idea of the Raiders taking Florida wide receiver/running back Percy Harvin, taking on a tone of blind speculation.
I've since heard there are some NFL types who are buying into the possibility as well _ that the Raiders are considering Harvin with the No. 7 pick despite the alleged positive marijuana test.
I'm putting that into the same category as the Darrius Heyward-Bey rumors. I'll believe it when I see it. With Darren McFadden already on the team, what would be the point of drafting Harvin?
McFadden's duties go far beyond being a running back. He'll also be a slot receiver, put in motion, and be used as a chess piece in hopes of isolating hin one-on-one. Harvin would only cut into some of those duties. Doesn't make sense.
What about Boldin?
With the Cardinals lowering their asking price, why wouldn't the Raiders offer the No 40 pick overall as well as may be a player or two to acquire Anquan Boldin?
Here are a few reasons:
Boldin is no diva, taking hits and dishing them out. He's one of the toughest receivers in the league, and therefore older than his calendar age of 28 (He'll turn 29 in October).
Boldin wants huge money _ Larry Fitzgerald type money. The kind of money that can throw a salary structure out of whack.
Boldin is a run-after-catch receiver, rather than a downfield receiver. It's not a pass JaMarcus Russell throws particularly well (yet), nor one which is preferred by the owner.
Boldin would not be playing for the wide-open spaces Arizona Cardinals. He'd be playing for the Raiders, which under Cable are planning to be a predominantly running team with McFadden, Michael Bush and Justin Fargas.
His opportunities to catch passes will be fewer, because rather than "long handoffs," the Raiders will really hand the ball off to one of their three backs.
At the 11.7 yards per catch Boldin had last year, if he were to catch, say, 60 passes for the run-oriented Raiders, he'd gain 702 yards. Not exactly the numbers of a wide receiver who wants to be paid among the NFL's elite.
I'm not saying it's a horrible idea, just that it's not as much of a slam dunk as it sounds.


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63-year-old killed crossing East Lucas
Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at 7 a.m., a red 1998 Ford F-150 pickup operated by a by a 23-year-old Beaumont man was traveling westbound in the 3900 block of E. Lucas. According to witnesses, Terry Breaux, a 63-year-old Beaumont man, was attempting to cross East Lucas from the south side of the roadway to the north side when he was struck by the truck. Breaux was transported by ambulance to Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital where he died. The next of kin has been notified and the Traffic Unit is investigating the incident.


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More often than not, family doctors receive little or no information about the harmful effects of medicines during clinic visits by pharmaceutical sales representatives ("sales reps"), according to an international study involving physicians in the United States, Canada and France. Despite the lack of information, those same physicians indicated that they also were likely to prescribe the promoted drugs, which is consistent with previous research about the influence of pharmaceutical promotional visits.
Results of the study, titled "Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives and Patient Safety: A Comparative Prospective Study of Information Quality in Canada, France and the United States," are published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In the most comprehensive study to date regarding the quality of pharmaceutical sales representative promotions to family physicians, researchers surveyed doctors in Sacramento, Montreal, Vancouver and Toulouse. They found that in 59 percent of the visits to doctors' offices sales reps failed to provide information about common or serious side effects from their products or the types of patients who should not use their drugs.
"We found that interactions between doctors and drug sales reps failed to meet even a minimum standard for the information needed for safe prescribing," said Michael Wilkes, a UC Davis professor of medicine who is an expert on drug promotion and one of the study's co-authors. "Since physicians are heavily influenced by promotional sales visits from drug company representatives, patient safety is being compromised by what we found to be a real lack of adequate information about drug risks and dangers."
In the study, 255 physicians were asked to fill out a questionnaire following each encounter with drug sales representatives, who regularly visit doctors' offices to promote their products and provide free samples -- as well as free food and invitations to events in some cases. The study focused on how often information was provided about a drug's safety profile.
Overall, the physicians reported on 1,692 drug promotions, which included medications for hypertension, osteoporosis, depression and Type 2 diabetes. Serious risks were rarely mentioned, in only 6 percent of promotions, although many times the promotion was for a drug with a U.S. Food and Drug Administration "black box" or Canadian boxed warning. In the U.S., a black box label warning indicates serious or life-threatening risks. Canada also has boxed warnings in labeling; France does not. In more than half (57 percent) of the promotions involving drugs with governmental warnings, no harm was mentioned to physicians.
Compared to U.S. and Canadian doctors, those in France were more likely to be told of a harmful effect in a promotional visit. However, at all the research locations physicians were rarely informed about serious adverse events from a promoted drug. Despite this, the physicians surveyed typically judged the sales information as positive and said they were likely to start or increase prescribing a promoted drug after sales visits, even though they received little or no safety information about the drug.
"Laws in all three countries require sales representatives to provide information on harm as well as benefits," said lead author Barbara Mintzes of the University of British Columbia and an expert on drug advertising. "But no one is monitoring these visits, and there are next to no sanctions for misleading or inaccurate promotion."
This is the first study to compare the information provided by drug sales reps in different regulatory environments and the first to systematically focus on safety information. Wilkes and the study co-authors suggest that stricter regulatory oversight could help ensure doctors receive more accurate and complete information. Unless oversight is improved, they say, limiting sales representative interactions with physicians may be the most effective way to ensure that drug treatment decisions are based on adequate information about patient harm as well as on patient benefits.
"Some doctors choose to have a 'no sales rep' policy to guard against being unduly influenced," said Wilkes. "But others find the offer of free drugs and free food too good to pass up even when they know they are being told only half the true story about a drug. Our first obligation is to our patients' safety. That means doing our own homework about every drug we prescribe to avoid the subtle persuasion that takes place during conversations with sales people."
In addition to Wilkes and Mintzes, the other study authors were Joel Lexchin, School of Health Policy and Management, YorkUniversity, Toronto, Ontario; Jason M. Sutherland, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia; Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Department of Family Medicine, University of Montreal; Geneviève Durrieu, Department of Medical and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toulouse, France; and Ellen Reynolds, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia.
This study was funded by the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Michael Smith Health Research Foundation.


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LAS VEGAS - In true Vegas fashion, former mayor Oscar Goodman is blaming it on the booze.
Sin City's ubiquitous cheerleader made headlines when he threatened to go home Sunday night after waiting 20 minutes for an interview with Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN's travel show "Parts Unknown."
Bourdain was in town filming an episode. He responded via Twitter on Wednesday that he had not been late for the meeting with the former mayor at Oscar's Beef Booze Broads Steakhouse at the Plaza.
Both men denied a column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that ran with a headline suggesting Goodman was "broiling" over the incident. Columnist Norm Clarke told The Associated Press that Goodman thought Bourdain was late and was grousing about it in front of reporters and hotel officials.
On Wednesday, Goodman said if he gave the impression that he was mad, it was only because he was three martinis in. He said he should not be held accountable for his actions after 5 p.m., and that at least he wasn't smoking crack, unlike a certain Toronto official.
"We were hugging each other like two long-lost soul brothers who hadn't seen each other for 30 years," said the mob lawyer come city official, who has a fondness for borscht belt jokes even before 5 o'clock. "I was hugging him because I was trying to stand up."
The long-lost brothers have still not cleared up the timing issue. Goodman said he was about to go home and have his fourth martini after showing up at 8 p.m. and waiting 20 minutes, but decided to stay after Bourdain's producers told him the host was delayed at Caesars Palace.
Bourdain said he doesn't mind being portrayed as a jerk - using a more vulgar term - but he doesn't like being called the kind of jerk who makes people wait.
The Food Network alum said he arrived at the agreed-upon time, and Goodman was making an honest mistake.
Goodman was Las Vegas' mayor from 1999 to 2011 and now works with tourism officials.


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The Lamar High School golf team participated in their fifth tournament of the season at the Trinidad Miners Invitational on Tuesday, Aug. 19.
The Savages finished in third place in the team standings with a score of 263.
Cody Campbell led Lamar with an 87 and followed by Keaton Buxton and Kaylen Montoya, who both fired identical scores of 88.
All three Savage golfers finished in the Top 12 individual standings.
Lamar was scheduled to play at the Canon City Invitational on Wednesday, Aug. 20 but decided not to make the trip.
The Savages will compete in the first of two Tri-Peaks League tournaments on Monday, Aug. 25 at the Hollydot Golf Course in Colorado City.


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Just a thought,
A feed rim and a flat migratory cover.
One side is the feed rim and the other side is for the patties.
The feed rim side has 3/4" plywood on both ends and a 2" wide plywood side for stability.
Just flip the cover for it's intended use.
August -September use the feed rim side down so that it encloses the patties.
Later on when you want to feed between the brood chambers you can flip the cover over and have the flat side down.
Comments are needed.
I will make a prototype to see what problems occur.


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Wal-Mart reduces dairy business with Prairie Farms
Retail giant switches to out-of-state dairy for house brand
Carlinville-based dairy producer Prairie Farms will no longer supply milk under Wal-Mart's Great Value brand, but Prairie Farms chief executive officer Ed Mullins says the company will certainly survive, even if it has to make a few cuts.
Prairie Farms has provided dairy products to Wal-Mart for more than 20 years, Mullins says, and Wal-Mart sold some Prairie Farms milk under its own Great Value label, along with normal Prairie Farms-branded products. But Wal-Mart has now decided to purchase milk sold locally under the Great Value label from a company in Texas, effectively reducing its business with Prairie Farms.
"We have an at-will business arrangement with Wal-Mart," Mullins said, explaining that there was no contract between the companies. "It is a loss, and nobody likes losing any business, but it's a small bump in the road, and we'll recover."
Though he declined to divulge how much milk Prairie Farms provided under both labels, Mullins did say that Wal-Mart remains his company's largest customer.
"We did lose some volume from them, but we are also maintaining a significant volume with them, and we'll try to make up the lost volume through other retailers," he says. Prairie Farms also provides dairy products sold under Walgreens' house brand, according to Mullins.
Prairie Farms maintains 20 production plants in Illinois, including two facilities in Springfield and others in Carlinville, Decatur and Peoria. Mullins said there is a possibility that the company might have to lay off workers to cut costs due to the lost volume, but it's too early to tell how many workers would lose jobs, where jobs might be cut, or even whether that is a certainty. Mullins said Prairie Farms might even have to close a plant.
"That is a possibility, but we don't know where," Mullins says. "It's a complex decision that has to do with raw milk production costs, future growth, expansion potential, population growth – it's a decision that would not be taken lightly."
The decision by Wal-Mart was apparently based on supply costs, according to Ashley Hardie, spokeswoman for Wal-Mart.
"We review our portfolio on an ongoing basis as we strive to save our customers money on the products they want and need," Hardie says. "Prairie Farms continues to be a valued supplier and will have their products in a significant number of our stores."
In November, Wal-Mart announced it was the largest purchaser of locally-grown produce in the country, estimating that more than 70 percent of its produce is locally grown. (See "Is Wal-Mart the new local?" Nov. 12, 2009.)
"Buying local has always been a part of Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart has been buying local ever since its founding," said Zelina Bazan, local sourcing buyer for Wal-Mart, at a Nov. 10, 2009 press conference inside the new Wal-Mart on South Sixth Street in Springfield.
Both Wal-Mart and the Illinois Department of Agriculture define "local" as produced within the state, but Wal-Mart's switch to a Texas-based company will likely mean locally-sold Great Value milk will no longer be locally-produced.
Hardie declined to comment on whether shifting suppliers conflicted with its local-buying initiative.
Despite the reduced business with Wal-Mart, Mullins is optimistic about his company's future.
"We're continuing to grow," he says. "We're expanding market share, picking up volume with other customers. We have a new redesigned carton, a new ad program and sales are growing. The outlook is bright."
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MONTREAL - Members of a Catholic religious order in the Quebec City area were shocked to hear a colleague had been shot to death in Haiti just one week before he was due to return home.
Richard E. Joyal, a 62-year-old member of the Marianist order, was killed as he left a bank in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Police said Joyal had just withdrawn $1,000 at about 10:30 a.m. when two men on a motorcycle approached and grabbed a bag he was carrying.
The passenger shot him three times in the back.
Father Marc Turcotte, a Marianist priest, said his colleague was in Haiti to help relocate students after the earthquake of January 2010.
"It's terrible news, it's dreadful," he told The Canadian Press. "I don't understand."
The religious congregation is in the process of closing its mission, which first opened in the early 2000s.
"We were trying to find places for a number of young people, seven or eight, where they could continue their studies," Turcotte said Thursday. "He (Joyal) was there in Haiti to take care of them."
Father Irenee Breton, another Marianist priest, said the mission was told it should close down its operations.
"He (Joyal) was due to return here May 3," Breton said.
Authorities later found the $1,000 in Joyal's wallet and confiscated the money.
The contents of Joyal's billfold included a driver's licence showing he was from Quebec. A priest who knew him said he was originally from St. Boniface, Man.
An identification card showed he worked as an administrator for the Canadian congregation in the Delmas district.
Police investigating the shooting in Delmas redirected traffic on one of the busiest thoroughfares in the capital.
Joyal was a religious brother with the Society of Mary, a congregation of priests and brothers known as the Marianists.
There are about 1,200 Marianists in 38 countries.
Canada sharpened its travel advisory to Haiti in December, citing high crime rates in various parts of the country and ongoing political tensions.
— With files from The Associated Press
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. Some earlier versions had the wrong name for the victim and wrongly said he was a priest and a member of the Marian order.


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Detectives investigating the rape of a 27-year-old woman have released a CCTV image of a taxi, whose driver they believe could be a witness.
The victim was attacked at the Ascot Grange Hotel, in Otley Road, Headingley, overnight between Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30.
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of rape and is currently on police bail pending further enquiries.
Police are trying to trace the driver of a taxi that picked the victim and suspect up in the Lower Briggate area of Leeds city centre.
The vehicle is believed to be a Skoda Octavia or similar sized saloon car with a black bonnet.
It arrived outside the hotel at 11.13pm. The man entered the hotel and left a short time later. He ran across the road to the BP garage opposite before returning to pay the driver and go into the hotel with the woman.
The taxi, which was filmed on CCTV, leaves the hotel car park at 11.32pm, having waited there for 19 minutes.
Acting Detective Inspector Mark Atkinson, of Leeds District CID, said: "We are currently working with the council's taxi licensing department to identify the vehicle and trace the driver but we also want to appeal directly for them to come forward if they recognise from the circumstances that they were the driver involved.
"We would ask them to contact us urgently as we believe they may have important information that could assist the investigation."
The driver is asked to contact Detective Constable 5795 Daniel Tingle at Elland Road on 0113 385 9410 or via 101 quoting log number 641 of January 30.


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Google gets Nevada driver's license for self-driving cars
(AP) CARSON CITY, Nev. - Nevada has issued the country's first license to test self-driving cars on public roads, and Google's name is on it.
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday that the worldwide technology company met the state's requirements after demonstrating the cars in the capital of Carson City and on the Las Vegas Strip.
DMV Director Bruce Breslow says the cars will display easily recognizable red plates. They'll also feature an infinity symbol, which Breslow says best represents the car of the future.
Once the autonomous cars are out of the test phase and on the market, the plates will be green.
Nevada is the first state to regulate self-driving cars, which work like an auto-pilot to guide a vehicle with little or no intervention from the human driver.


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Genndy Tartakovsky has been responsible for some of the best, most creative, and most iconic animated series of the past two decades, including Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (you know, before it was CGI).
Most recently, Tartakovsky created Sym-Bionic Titan, an animated series about an alien princess, her bodyguard, and their robot, sent to Earth disguised as American high school students to escape the war ravaging their home planet. Frankly, it's a fantastic show, which is why it deeply saddens me to learn that it has not been renewed.
According to a "Cartoon Networker" who spoke to the TAG Blog:
"Genddy's moved on to Sony Pictures Animation. Titan got competitive ratings with other action shows, but what shut it down was it didn't have enough toys connected to it. If you don't have the [toy sales], the studios don't want to renew for another season."
Sym-Bionic Titan is a hilarious, action-packed, and beautifully-rendered homage to anime such as Voltron and Castle in the Sky and 1980s John Hughes films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. (There's even an episode entirely dedicated to satirizing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.) Though the action and adventure portions of the show would appeal to animation fans, young and old, the humor is geared toward teenagers, as well as twenty-somethings and above – hence the obvious jokes at the expense of shows like Gossip Girl or The Vampire Diaries.
Check out an awesome clip below:
I think it goes without saying that, if this turns out to be true, Cartoon Network has made a massive mistake. So what if Titan doesn't have enough toys for the merchandise-addicted children of America to purchase? And so what if the show's ratings weren't particularly amazing to start? Let it breathe! Let it grow! Produce more toys, if you must! Advertise this show to those adults who watched Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack when they were kids. Genndy Tartakovsky is a brand name unto himself, and it's a shame that Cartoon Network cannot comprehend that. Which is to say, if this turns out to be true.
For fans heartbroken about the rumored cancellation, myself included, keep in mind – Cartoon Network hasn't officially canceled the show as of yet. That said, they haven't renewed it either, and with a full series slate next year that includes Green Lantern: The Animated Series, DC Nation (a show that spotlights various DC Comics properties), the Thundercats remake, Level Up, How to Train Your Dragon, The Looney Tunes Show, and more, it's looking more and more likely that this top-notch series is doomed.
One of the rumors, though entirely unconfirmed, is that Tartakovsky has moved on to direct Hotel Transylvania at Sony Pictures Animation, an animated film utilizing the classic movie monsters of yore (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolfman, et cetera).
If true, I've suddenly become interested in Hotel Transylvania.
Sym-Bionic Titan airs the last two episodes of the season – and probably the series – on April 2nd and April 9th @9:30AM on Cartoon Network.
Source: TAG Blog [via Bleeding Cool]


text: Widely recognised as the first high fashion label to create a ready-to-wear line, Chloé was founded by Gaby Aghion in 1952. The world renowned French label is famed for beautifully executed pieces and now produces flattering clothing in fine fabrics with an inherent bohemian sensibility. Clare Waight Keller has taken to the helm, continually offering modern and coveted apparel while staying true to founding trademarks. Chloé earrings provide a perfect contemporary finish to all outfits. Hoops, drop earrings and studs instantly standout with embossed company branding and chic adornments. Largely based in gold and silver, each design adds a lavish statement.


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Resources for Researchers
NIAID offers many resources to support your research, including reagents, model organisms, and tissue samples, to name just a few. Use the filters under Filter Search Results to narrow your search, or simply enter specific search terms in the search field.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston National Laboratory
As one of two National Biocontainment Laboratories constructed under grants awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH), the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) enables progress in our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms u
Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch Services
The Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) offers a suite of scientific services and resources for the NIAID research community and its collaborators. BCBB provides expertise and computational solutions to researchers at all levels of experience.
Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources (EuPathDB)
EuPathDB, one of the NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers, is an integrated database covering eukaryotic pathogens.
Functional Lists of Unknown TB Entities (FLUTE)
FLUTE is a Functional Genomics Center funded by NIAID, with the goal of discovering the roles of genes from Mtb with previously unknown functions. In addition FLUTE aims to establish an efficient pathway for identifying gene function that could serve as a paradigm for other bacterial species.
FungiDB, one of the NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers, is an integrated genomic and functional genomic database for the kingdom Fungi.
Genes Unknown in Acinetobacter baumannii (GUNK)
GUNK center is part of the NIAID Functional Genomics Program. This center was created to investigate the role of previously uncharacterized genes of A. baumannii in its ability to cause human disease. Three projects have been established to:
Genomic Centers for Infectious Diseases (GCID) Resources
The GCID use and develop or improve innovative applications of genomic technologies, such as RNA sequencing and metagenomics, and provide rapid and cost-efficient production of high-quality genome sequences of microorganisms, invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases, and hosts and host microbiomes. Multiple strains and isolates of specific microbial species, populations and communities have been and continue to be sequenced.
Heterogeneity in Human Immune Cells
Heterogeneity in Human Immune Cells is a website providing interactive figures (iFigs) for a recent study of protein expression heterogeneity in human immune cells conducted by Dr.
Immcantation Portal
The Immcantation framework is developed as a start-to-finish analytical ecosystem for large-scale characterization of B cell receptor (BCR) and T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires from high-throughput adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) datasets.
Influenza Research Database (IRD)
The IRD, one of the NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers, provides a suite of tools for analysis of all types of influenza data and a personal work bench on which each scientist can store lists of important data selected from that available on IRD.
Nephele is a microbiome analysis engine which brings together microbiome data and analysis tools in a cloud computing environment. It offers robust, multi-step microbiome analysis pipelines, with no setup time or cost.
NIAID Bioinformatics Portal
The portal brings together some exciting features including: links to BCBB's training resources; a section of scripts, code, and programs created by NIAID researchers downloadable from GitHub; and a curated calendar of events with entries focused on bioinformatics and computational biology.
NIAID Microbiome Program: Sequencing
NIAID's microbiome sequencing facility studies the structure and function of the microbiome associated with various hosts and body sites. This facility has one dedicated team and is equipped with an Ilumina MiSeq, which can sequence whole genomes or specific amplicons.
The Orfeome Project is part of the NIAID-supported Functional Genomics Program.
PATRIC (Bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Center)
PATRIC, one of the NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers, is an information system designed to support the biomedical research community's work on bacterial infectious diseases via integration of vital pathogen information with rich data and analysis tools.
QuSAGE: Quantitative Set Analysis for Gene Expression
This Gene Set Enrichment-type test designed for analysis of microarray and RNASeq data is designed to provide a faster, more accurate, and easier to understand test for gene expression studies. QuSAGE extends previous methods with a complete probability density function (PDF).
Structural Genomics Centers for Infectious Diseases: Resources
The Structural Genomics Centers for Infectious Diseases provide the research community with:
Systems Biology Consortium Resources
The Systems Biology Consortium for Infectious Diseases is a community of systems biologists who aim to integrate experimental biology and computational tools and modeling across temporal and spatial scales towards a better understanding of infectious diseases.


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The name seems to have been derived from the Liddel, a river of Roxburghshire." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print. "For the last two centuries the Liddells have frequently filled the offices of High Sheriff of the county and of mayor of Newcastle." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
"There is, however, an old manor of Liddel in Cumberland from which the name may also have been derived. Persons named Lidel or Lidale appear in various records of the reigns of David II, Robert II, and Robert III, and James I, but none of them seem to have had lands in Liddesdale." [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
Another source claims the family "descended from Turgis Brundoz, a Norman, to whom Liddel or Lydale, on the borders of Scotland, was granted by Ranulph Meschin, temp. Henry I. It remained with his descendants till temp. John, when it passed away by an heiress to the house of De Stuteville, and then to that of Wake. The younger branch of the De Liddels settled in Scotland, where John de Lidel in 1292 held the revenues of Dundee in farm, while about the same time William de Lydel was seneschal of the Bishop of Glasgow, and led the forces of the see to the support of Robert Bruce." [5]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)
One of the first records of the name was Richard de Lidel, who witnessed a charter of the church of Largs between 1202 and 1234. Later, Galfridus Liddal was listed in Roxburghshire in 1266.
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How many times have you hung just one too many bags or just one heavy bag on the back of your lightweight stroller sending the entire buggy flipping backwards? Even with a child not in the seat, it can be alarming. That's why we are super excited about our giveaway this week. First, there are three winners! Yep, THREE winners! Excited yet? Second, we are giving each winner a Hamster Buggy Bag 2-pack to add valuable storage space to your stroller without compromising the stability.
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Not a teacher.
a) Yes (if there is but one table as sentence 2 suggests).
b) Probably 1.
Student or Learner
1. The table, whose legs were broken, has been thrown away.
2. The table, the legs of which were broken, has been thrown away.
a) For the first sentence, are the commas needed?
b) Which is the more natural sentence, the first or the second?
Not a teacher.
a) Yes (if there is but one table as sentence 2 suggests).
b) Probably 1.
I am having a debate with myself as to whether I would use "whose" when referring to an inanimate object such as a table.
I think I would be more likely to say:
The table with the broken legs has been thrown away.
The table was thrown away because its legs were broken.
The first suggests there was more than one table so you are being clear which one was thrown away. The second suggests there is only one table and you are making a point of explaining why it was thrown away.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.


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Dossier - The Convict part 4
Walkthrough - Dossier - The Convict part 4
Eventually, you'll be forced back upward out of the ditch, where another YMIR Mech can be found. Whittle down his barriers and shields until you can do damage to his body itself, which will force him to fall rather quickly. The last holdouts here will be firing on you from a bridge on the far end of the room, so take cover wherever it's most convenient, and return fire on their positions until they are no more. Any stragglers left in the room can be dealt with at this time as well. When all is quiet on the enemy front, you should then take the time to explore this wide-open room before proceeding. While you're not bound to find any items per se, you'll find plenty of ammunition. Make sure your primary weapons are chock-full of ammo before continuing onward, as you're going to need all of the ammo you can get shortly. When you press out of the far end of the room, you'll find a room very similar to the one you pillaged before entering the previous area. Hack open the wall safe for credits and grab whatever else is in the room for you to acquire, and then press forward once more.
When you enter this next room, you'll witness a brief cutscene. Warden Kuril snipes at some prisoners going after him, and then binds himself into a protective shield. Meanwhile, some of his most elite guards will do their best to protect him from... well... you. At this point, you'll gain control of your party once more. This is the final battle on the prison ship, so get ready for a bit of a doozy. Immediately seek cover and begin to take out the initial wave of enemies, which should be simple enough to do. It's at this time that you'll no doubt notice that Kuril's shield is being fed by three generators strewn throughout the room. By downing these generators, you'll get to go after Kuril himself, but this isn't something you're going to want to rush into. Rather, you're going to want to eliminate a single generator at a time, taking out the wave(s) of enemies that are catalyzed after each generator's destruction, before eliminating the next one.
In other words, if you eliminate all three generators in sequence, you're going to find yourself heavily inundated with more waves of enemies than you can realistically handle. So, after the introductory group of enemies is killed, destroy one generator, deal with the enemies that show up until they are no more, and then destroy the next generator, and so on and so forth. The enemies will become increasingly more powerful with each wave, until you're dealing exclusively with the prison ship's most elite guard details. When the third and final generator is destroyed, Warden Kuril will be exposed, and you can finally go after him. Killing Kuril will effectively end the prison ship sequence, though you don't want to necessarily rush to do so. The powerful enemies protecting Kuril are worth a good amount of experience, so if you're at all able, deal with everyone but Kuril first, and then go after the Warden only once everyone else is dead. This will maximize the amount of experience you earn, which in a game like Mass Effect 2 is always a good thing.
Following Warden Kuril's death, you'll bear witness to a final cutscene. Jack seems to be trapped, but she deals with the remaining prison guards around her rather easily. When she spots the Normandy docked outside of the prison ship, she realizes that Cerberus is here to get her, and that makes her a little uneasy. When a prison guard is shot as he approaches Jack, she turns around to find Commander Shepard protecting her. It's at this point that a conversation with her ensues. She'll need some convincing to come aboard the ship, so deal with this as a Paragon or Renegade -- it's entirely up to you. She wants to read Cerberus' files on her, which you can let her do, or you can simply lie to her and take back your promise later on. It's up to you. When you ultimately find yourself back on the Normandy, it's time to move on to our next destination. For us in this walkthrough, we're now going to proceed to go after The Warlord.
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