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Literature and Chemistry: Elective AffinitiesActivity by Margareth Hagen | added on Oct 25, 2011 | Norway
Sponsor(s): University of Bergen
This Interdisciplinary Conference held at The University of Bergen, 27-28 October addresses a range of approaches to the encounters and affinities between literature and chemistry: historical, theoretical, ethical and aesthetical.
Invited speakers include:
Luigi Dei, Professor of Chemistry, Università di Firenze, on Primo Levi's bridging of chemistry and literature
Robert Gordon, Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge University, on Primo Levi
Bernard Joly, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Université de Lille 3, on the figure of the alchemist in 19th and 20th century fiction
Marek Krawczyk, Rector of Medical University of Warsaw, on the life and scientific achievements of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
George Rousseau, Professor of History, Oxford University, on science-politics, nostalgia and Ludwig Boltzmann
Sharon Ruston, Professor of English Literature, University of Salford, on Humphry Davy and British Romanticism
Leiv K. Sydnes, Professor of Chemistry, Universitetet i Bergen, on Oxygen
Conference topic
Chemistry is the art of separating, weighing, and distinguishing: these are three useful exercises also for the person who sets out to describe events or give body to his own imagination. Moreover, there is an immense treasure of metaphors that the writer can take from the chemistry of today and yesterday, which those who have not frequented the laboratory and factory know only approximately. […] Even a layman knows what to filter, crystallize, and distil means, but he knows it only at second hand: he does not know "the passion infused by them", he does not know the emotions that are tied to these gestures, has not perceived the symbolic shadow they cast. These are the words of the Italian novelist and essayist Primo Levi (1919-1987), chemist and survivor of Auschwitz, who wrote extensively on chemistry.
Designated the UNESCO International Year of Chemistry, 2011 also commemorates the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for her ground-breaking studies in radium and polonium. The relationship between literature and chemistry has a long history, reaching back to the time before the existence of chemistry as a scientific discipline, to alchemy and natural philosophy, and to philosophers and poets like Epicurus and Lucretius. Goethe's novel Elective Affinities(1809) represents one of the most notable metaphoric explorations of chemistry; with its suggestion of human connections as originating at a biochemical level. The chemist Humphry Davy had a direct influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge. In his 1880 essay "The Experimental Novel", Emile Zola stated that his great source of inspiration as a novelist was the physiologist Claude Bernard, who studied the chemistry of the body. Other authors who have treated and explored alchemy and chemistry are E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, Poe, Dickens, Turgenev, Yeats, Joyce, Strindberg, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Asimov, Pynchon, Updike, not to mention philosophers as different as Comte, Jung and Bachelard. Chemistry also plays an important role in crime and detective fiction, in apocalyptic literature and in SF literature.
Together with its ancestor alchemy, chemistry has always had a darker and troubling side, infected with the guilt of hubris, of artifice and contamination, faults that, since Plato, have also been associated with literature. A hybrid science, posed between the technological and the theoretical, between observation and experiment, chemistry can be said to share with literature many of its fundamental processes of creation and epistemological problems of representation. The French chemist Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) stated that, like literature and art, chemistry creates its object, and that the creative faculty forms an essential distinction between chemistry and the other natural or historical sciences.
- Literary representations of the chemical sciences
- The nomenclature of chemistry; tools and languages of representation (chemical terms as literary metaphors)
- The cultural and intellectual history of chemistry
- The philosophy of chemistry
- The symbolism of the elements
- SF and chemistry
- The chemical mind and body in literature
- Chemistry and hubris – the ethics of chemistry
- Artificiality and naturalness
- Contamination, pollution, radiation
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During the summer of 2013, 15 Barry University students traveled to research-intensive universities across the country to complete summer research internships. The students, a mix of biology, chemistry and psychology majors, spent anywhere from 8 to 10 weeks at their respective research sites working alongside faculty and graduate students, carrying out research in the areas of molecular biology, psychology, physiology, neurobiology, cancer biology, microbiology and marine biology.
Participating universities included the University at Buffalo, the University of California, Riverside, Harvard University, Howard University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the University of Missouri, MIT, the University of Nebraska—
Lincoln, the University of South Florida and Yale University. In addition to these participating universities, one student completed a summer research internship with the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration.
"The internship helped me to think and live like a scientist does," said Peter Rodriguez, a sophomore at Barry majoring in biology, who completed a 10-week summer research program at Harvard University studying functions of ribonucleic acids specific to the nervous system. "The connections I made were amazing."
The cohort of students included Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) students, Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) U*STAR students and ROADS Research Club members, among other undergraduate students. Both RISE and MARC students are required through their programs to take part in annual summer research programs at research-intensive universities and then present their research at Barry's Biomedical Seminar Series and Annual STEM Symposium, as well as at professional national conferences.
"It [presenting] is important, especially in chemistry, because it can allow others who are currently doing research for the Department of Physical Sciences to see what methods other people outside the university are doing, and it lets us see whether this method or idea can work for their research project here," said Hangny Dao, a senior at Barry majoring in chemistry, who completed a 10-week summer research program at the University of South Florida studying organic synthesis of catalysts and methodology.
During the summer programs, which are fully funded either through the host institutions or Barry's MARC or RISE programs, students are partnered with faculty members, specific to their major, and work in research laboratories assisting faculty members with their research.
"I think the hands-on experience and the total immersion in the research lab outside of classes gives students a good appreciation of what research is as a career," said Flona Redway, Ph.D., director of Barry's MARC U*STAR and RISE programs. "It also prepares them for graduate school and allows them to become more independent as researchers and more confident."
Barry MARC U*STAR students have been completing summer research at research-intensive universities for nearly 30 years, beginning in 1984 when the MARC U*STAR program was established at Barry. Barry RISE students have been taking part in off-campus summer research programs since the RISE program started at Barry in 2001.


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Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems
Programmers are taught from the very outset of their study of computing that concurrency — and especially parallelism, a special subset of concurrency — is hard, that only the very best can ever hope to get it right, and even they get it wrong. There is invariably great focus on threads, semaphores, monitors, and how hard it is to get concurrent access to variables to be thread-safe.
True, there are many difficult problems, and they can be very hard to solve. But what is the root of the problem? Shared memory. Almost all the problems of concurrency that people go on and on about relate to the use of shared mutable memory: race conditions, deadlock, livelock, etc. The answer seems obvious: Either forgo concurrency or eschew shared memory!
Forgoing concurrency is almost certainly not an option. Computers have more and more cores on an almost quarterly basis, so harnessing true parallelism becomes more and more important. We can no longer rely on ever increasing processor clock speeds to improve application performance. Only by exploiting parallelism will the performance of applications improve. Obviously, not improving performance is an option, but it is unlikely to be acceptable to users.
So can we eschew shared memory? Definitely.
Instead of using threads and shared memory as our programming model, we can use processes and message passing. Process here just means a protected independent state with executing code, not necessarily an operating system process. Languages such as Erlang (and occam before it) have shown that processes are a very successful mechanism for programming concurrent and parallel systems. Such systems do not have all the synchronization stresses that shared memory, multi-threaded systems have. Moreover there is a formal model — Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) — that can be applied as part of the engineering of such systems.
We can go further and introduce dataflow systems as a way of computing. In a dataflow system there is no explicitly programmed control flow. Instead a directed graph of operators, connected by data paths, is set up and then data fed into the system. Evaluation is controlled by the readiness of data within the system. Definitely no synchronization problems.
Having said all this, languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, and Groovy are the principal languages of systems development and all of these are presented to programmers as languages for developing shared memory, multi-threaded systems. So what can be done? The answer is to use — or, if they don't exist, create — libraries and frameworks that provide process models and message passing, avoiding all use of shared mutable memory.
All in all, not programming with shared memory, but instead using message passing, is likely to be the most successful way of implementing systems that harness the parallelism that is now endemic in computer hardware. Bizarrely perhaps, although processes predate threads as a unit of concurrency, the future seems to be in using threads to implement processes.


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The Monks Barlaam the Wilderness-Dweller, Joasaph the son of the Emperor of India, and his Father Abenner:
The emperor Abenner ruled in India, which had once received the Christian Faith through the evangelization of the holy Apostle Thomas. He was an idol-worshipper and fierce persecutor of Christians. For a long time he did not have any children. Finally, a son was born to the emperor, and named Joasaph. At the birth of this son the wisest of the emperor's astrologers predicted that the emperor's son would accept the Christian Faith which was persecuted by his father. The emperor, in an effort to prevent the prediction from being fulfilled, commanded that a separate palace be built for his son. He also arranged matters so that his son should never hear a single word about Christ and His teachings.
When he was a young man, Joasaph asked his father's permission to go out the palace, and he saw such things as suffering, sickness, old age and death. This led him to ponder the vanity and absurdity of life, and to engage in some serious thinking.
At that time a wise hermit, St Barlaam, lived in a remote wilderness. Through divine revelation he learned about the youth agonizing in search of truth. Forsaking his wilderness, St Barlaam went to India disguised as a merchant. After he arrived in the city where Joasaph's palace was, he said that he had brought with him a precious stone, endowed with wondrous powers to heal sickness. Brought before Joasaph, he began to teach him the Christian Faith in the form of parables, and then from the Holy Gospel and the Epistles. From the instructions of St Barlaam the youth reasoned that the precious stone is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he believed in Him and desired to accept holy Baptism. Having made the Sign of the Cross over the youth, St Barlaam told him to fast and pray, and he went off into the wilderness.
The emperor, learning that his son had become a Christian, fell into rage and grief. On the advice of one of his counsellors, the emperor arranged for a religious debate between the Christians and the pagans, at which the magician Nakhor appeared in the guise of Barlaam. In the debate Nakhor was supposed to acknowledge himself beaten and thereby turn the imperial youth away from Christianity.
St Joasaph learned about the deception in a dream, and he threatened Nakhor with a fiercesome execution if he were beaten in the debate. Nakhor not only defeated the pagans, but he himself came to believe in Christ, and he repented and accepted holy Baptism and went off into the wilderness.
The emperor also tried to turn his son away from Christianity by other methods, but the youth conquered all the temptations. Then on the advice of his counsellors, Abenner bestowed on his son half the realm. When St Joasaph became emperor, he restored Christianity in his lands, rebuilt the churches, and finally, converted his own father Abenner to Christianity.
The emperor Abenner died soon after Baptism, and St Joasaph abdicated his throne and went off into the wilderness in search of his teacher, Elder Barlaam. For two years he wandered about through the wilderness, suffering dangers and temptations, until he found the cave of St Barlaam, laboring in silence. The Elder and the youth began to struggle together.
When St Barlaam's death approached, he served the Divine Liturgy, partook of the Holy Mysteries and communed St Joasaph, then he departed to the Lord. He lived in the wilderness for seventy of his one hundred years. After he buried the Elder, St Joasaph remained in the cave and continued his ascetic efforts. He dwelt in the wilderness for thirty-five years, and fell asleep in the Lord at the age of sixty.
Barachias, St Joasaph's successor as emperor, with the help of a certain hermit, found the incorrupt and fragrant relics of both ascetics in the cave, and he brought them back to his fatherland and buried them in a church built by the holy Emperor Joasaph.


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WASHINGTON -- Everywhere 10-year-old Gabriella Miller went, from Philadelphia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, she brought along a frying pan, and used it to smash a walnut.
It was a tradition that started about a year ago, when Gabriella's father broke the news to his young daughter that she had a terminal brain tumor.
"They told us it was about the size of a walnut in her head," recalls Mark Miller.
"We went from store to store to store to find a whole bag of walnuts, found them, took them out to the deck outside, and got a frying pan out, and said we're going to visualize ... smashing the walnuts. Smashing the tumor inside your head," Gabriella's father said.
"I'm Gabriella Miller, I'm 10 years old, and I have brain cancer," she would say after smashing the walnuts.
It's one example of how a little girl's devastating news transformed her into a warrior -- against her own cancer and on behalf of other children.
"We told her that we live in an amazing country, and we have access to great medical care, and great doctors, and they'll help us. But you also have to be part of your recovery. And she embraced that," Gabriella's mother, Ellyn Miller, recalled.
Searching for clinical trials as Gabriella suffered from toxic treatments, the Millers quickly learned how little was available for kids with cancer.
"Gabriella questioned, all the time, 'Why they don't have a real drug that will help us kids? Why are they using us as guinea pigs?'" Ellyn Miller said.
Less than four percent of $5 billion in cancer research goes to childhood cancers.
"There's no money in it for the drug companies, which I understand. It's capitalism. There's only a couple hundred kids a year in North America that get diagnosed with what Gabriella had. So all of the millions of dollars it would take to find a drug to fix it, they wouldn't make their money. And I get that," Mark Miller said.
"But that's where we also hope the federal government can step in."
Gabriella embraced activism -- gathering 250,000 letters for Macy's Make a Wish campaign last Christmas, and later giving speeches and making online videos that have gone viral.
"It's not fair that us kids get so little from the world, just because we're smaller, just because we don't know as much," Gabriella said in one of those videos.
She spoke eloquently, like someone well beyond her 10 years, about the gravity of her situation and that of other children with cancer.
"Sometimes at night, I'll be with my mom and dad and I will be absolutely crying and I'll be saying, 'I don't want to leave you. I want you to go first,'" she said in a video.
"Once you get cancer, you kind of have to be all grown-up," Gabriella said, in tears, "you don't really have a childhood."
But she combined very adult concepts with little-girl ideas. She made a list of things she wanted her parents to do after she passed away, including going to the haunted mansion at Disney World, and always saving her a piece of birthday cake.
And her message for politicians was simple enough for anyone to understand.
"Stop talking and start doing," she said.
Two weeks after Gabriella made that blunt statement, her condition worsened, and she was placed in hospice care.
Six weeks ago, on October 27, she lost her 11-month battle with cancer.
But her message got through to some in Congress.
Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Mississippi, and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, crafted a bipartisan bill to take $126 million in federal money over 10 years, set aside for political conventions, to direct it to pediatric research.
After meeting Gabriella's parents, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, named the Kids First Research Act after Gabriella Miller and brought it to a vote on Wednesday.
The measure passed, 295-103.
This "could be a really inspiring story for so many people," Cantor said in an interview.
"Instead of spending money on political conventions for the political parties, shouldn't we have as our priority medical research for kids?"
Still, it's not without controversy. Democratic leaders pressed their members to vote against the legislation, and a majority of House Democrats opposed it.
Leaders of the Democratic-controlled Senate currently have no plans to bring the bill to a vote.
"This bill of Leader Cantor is an absolute fraud," said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-New York, ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
Lowey says the bill would not do what Cantor says it would. She says not only is $13 million a year a drop in the bucket when it comes to cancer research, she also notes it would not appropriate money, so it's not even guaranteed.
She and others senior Democrats oppose it as a publicity stunt, to paper over billions in cuts to federal cancer research.
"As a mother and a grandmother, my heart goes out to Gabriella's mother. To lose a child is the most pain any person could suffer. So what Leader Cantor should do is have the Republicans bring back the $1.55 billion that they cut from the National Institutes of Health, and the almost $300 million cut as a result from the National Cancer Institute, so we can really focus on saving lives for the future," Lowey told CNN.
After the House vote, Mark Miller said, "We took into consideration that it may be a publicity stunt to use Gabriella's name."
"But they're talking about it," he told CNN. "They're talking about the lack of funding for pediatric disease research, pediatric cancer research (and) brain cancer research like Gabriella had."
"So as long as they're talking about it, we felt comfortable letting them use Gabriella to help build support and momentum for it."
As for the bill's long political odds, Ellyn Miller said she and her husband "thought that if it didn't pass (the House), that's fine. It's the first step and it's raising a lot of awareness."
But "Gabriella's hand" was "in there" for the House vote, she said. And now Gabriella's "thinking, 'OK Senate. It's your turn now!'"
Welch, the Democratic sponsor, says he too wants billions reinvested for cancer research, but says you've got to start somewhere.
"We've got to learn to work together. Gabriella found a way to work for other people, even though she was a little girl who knew she was going to die. But every day, every moment of her life -- her young, small, short life -- was spent trying to help other people, so why don't we?" Welch asked.
"Can we just put the battle axes down for a while and take a step forward? I think we can," said Welch.
Gabriella said these words just a few weeks before she died:
"If I lose my battle, then I want other people to carry on the war, and we're going to win this war. I'll be in a good place, and it won't be all that bad."


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Halcyon Marketing needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
I'm looking for someone to create a design that will go on a Longevity (health) product that consists of a Book, DVD, CD. It will be sold online and mailed to people. I can create the digital representations for the product but need just the designs that will go with each product piece sent.
Longevity Now Program
The product will revolve around health and logevity so the look and feel needs to have colors and elements that are energetic. This design will be consistent on all elements of the product (CD, DVD, Book). This product will be physical and mailed to people. One design that will translate to all elements will do.
- "Longevity Now Program"
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After a little delay, the team finished work on the 0.13 release of scikit-learn.
There is also a user survey that we launched in parallel with the release, to get some feedback from our users.
There is a list of changes and new features on the website.
You can upgrade using easy-install or pip using:
pip install -U scikit-learn
easy_install -u scikit-learn
There were more than 60 people contributing to this release, with 24 people having 10 commits or more.
Again many improvements are behind the scenes or only slightly notable. We improved test coverage a lot and we have much more consistent parameter names now. There is now also a user guide entry for the classification metrics, and their naming was improved.
This was one of the many improvements Arnaud Joly, who joined the project very recently but nevertheless wound up being the one with the second most commits in this release!
Now let me get to some of the more visible highlights of this release from my perspective:
- Thanks to Lars and Olivier, the Hashing Trick finally made it into scikit-learn.
This allows for very fast vectorization of large text corpora and stateless transformers for the same.
- Sample weights were added to the tree module thanks to Noel and Gilles. This enabled the implementation of a smarter resampling for random forests, which leads to a speed-up of random forests of up to a factor of two! Also, this is the basis of including AdaBoost with Trees in the next release.
- I added a method to use totally randomized trees for hashing / embedding features to a high-dimensional, sparse binary representation. It goes along the lines of my last blog post on using non-linear embeddings followed by simple linear classifiers.
- I also added Nystroem kernel approximations, which are really easy to do but should come in quite handy. They still need some more work, though. For details, see my post on kernel approximations.
Thanks to the team for working on this together. I am really happy with the way everybody joins forces, this is an amazing project!


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Will Genia dropped, Ben Mowen to captain Wallabies
The Wallabies have a new captain with Ben Mowen to lead the team into action against Argentina on Saturday night after Will Genia was dumped from the starting XV on Wednesday.
Mowen becomes the Wallabies sixth captain in two years and will take over the reins in just his seventh Test, making him one of the most inexperienced skippers in Australian history.
Halfback Genia has been axed to the bench with rookie Nic White to take over the No.9 duties.
Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie revealed the decision to bench Genia was not taken lightly, "The fact that Will has captained his country shows what high regard we hold him in, and while he is naturally disappointed, I also know how competitive he is and I've got no doubts he will train himself to a standstill to bounce back as a better player," McKenzie said.
"We've spoken about what areas we believe he can continue to improve and evolve his game and he was receptive to going back and addressing those things.
"In the end, it wasn't an easy decision because he is undoubtedly a world-class player."
In other changes, prop Ben Alexander returns to the starting XV at tighthead while Quade Cooper retains his place at five-eighth.
White has only played 16 minutes of Test rugby and made his Wallabies debut last month.
Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie has made changes as the team searches for a win to snap its four-game losing streak.
The Wallabies are already without regular captain James Horwill (hamstring) while leader David Pocock is still recovering from a knee reconstruction.
McKenzie hasn't won a match as Test coach after taking over from Robbie Deans in July.
A defeat at the hands of Argentina would be a massive blow to Australian rugby.
McKenzie remains confident of avoiding any banan skins against the Pumas, "Rugby is a game of chess and we will look forward to the challenge of getting the right balance and our first Rugby Championship win," the coach said.
Mowen only made his Test debut in June against the British and Irish Lions. In his six Tests, he has won just one match.
The ACT Brumbies captain has been outstanding at the Canberra franchise.
He moved to the capital at the start of the 2012 season for a fresh start after years at the NSW Waratahs trying to break into the Test squad.
Mowen feared his international window had closed.
But switching to the Brumbies has reinvigorated his career and he is widely regarded as one of the best leaders in Australian rugby.
At the start of the year Mowen turned down lucrative offers from Japan to stay in Australia and chase his Wallabies dreams.
It has paid off.
He helped guide the Brumbies into the Super Rugby final, made his international debut against the Lions and has established himself as a crucial cog in the Wallabies forward pack.
White will fill the hole left by Genia.
His kicking game will be a massive boost for the Wallabies but Genia's absence leaves a gaping hole in Australia's experience.
White sat on the bench behind Genia last year, but was never given a chance on the field.
When White made the tough choice to have shoulder surgery instead of playing in the Rugby Championship last year, Genia suffered a season-ending knee injury and Nick Phipps was given a chance in the Wallabies No.9 jersey.
But White continued his impressive rise from club rugby this season and has earned the right to test himself against the Pumas.
Wallabies team to play Argentina on Saturday in Perth: 1. James Slipper, 2. Stephen Moore, 3. Ben Alexander, 4. Rob Simmons, 5. Kane Douglas, 6. Scott Fardy, 7. Michael Hooper, 8. Ben Mowen (c), 9. Nic White, 10. Quade Cooper, 11. Nick Cummins, 12. Christian Lealiifano, 13. Adam Ashley-Cooper, 14. James O'Connor, 15. Israel Folau. Reserves: 16. Saia Faingaa, 17. Scott Sio, 18. Sekope Kepu, 19. Sitaleki Timani, 20. Ben McCalman, 21. Will Genia, 22. Matt Toomua, 23. Tevita Kuridrani
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"I just always wanted to do that," John C. Hughes, 55, said after his arrest for speeding on the interstate early Thursday morning, The Montana Standard reported, citing a Butte police report.
During the chase, police used "stop sticks" to deflate Hughes' tires. Police said he was driving through the interstate in excess of 100mph, according to the Standard.
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The Fondazione Cariplo Award was established to recognize exceptionally innovative ideas; its goal is to fund unconventional and high-risk research studies still to be carried out. In the 2011 edition, will be funded new research frontiers in the field of Chemistry.
Fondazione Cariplo - an Italian grant making organization - wishes to celebrate the IYC with a special edition of Fondazione Cariplo Award, hence the 2011 award's edition shall fund unconventional and high-risk in the field of Chemistry.
The Fondazione Cariplo Award for the scientific exploration of new research frontiers was established to recognize exceptionally innovative ideas. The goal is to fund research studies – still to be carried out – that would develop new scientific concepts, unconventional research hypothesis, out of the box experimental approaches, new methodologies or techniques, which could ultimately result in turning around current research paradigms or bring about new ones. Fondazione Cariplo wants to offer a funding scheme for ideas and projects, which fail to attract funds because of their unconventional content. The ultimate objective of the award is setting the scene for the development of the "off the beaten track" research - a fundamental driver of scientific and social progress - and to stimulate researchers to undertake unorthodox and transformative lines of research.
The 2011 edition is the fist edition of the Award. The advisory board of Fondazione Cariplo decided to start this new programme funding new research frontiers in the field of chemistry because reputed chemistry a strategic area of knowledge. Actually, it offers the opportunities to understand and build up scientific research notions, methodologies and techniques that could be employed to develop drugs, to create new materials and products, to support agriculture and to propose solutions to face climate change, transport and energy issues. For this reason, the subtitle of the 2011 edition will be: Chemistry supporting progress and humankind well-being.
The award prize will be a sum of money that will enable projects to make it off the ground. In fact, the award is meant to fund feasibility studies geared to demonstrate or test a particular approach or methodology, with the objective of funding the initial development stage of a research concept. The total amount to be awarded in the 2011 edition is € 500,000. The Foundation intends to assign one or more awards; each award should not be lower than €100,000.
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June 30: publication of the Call on the Fondazione Cariplo web site
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February 22-23 (2012): consensus meeting
April 2 (2012): award ceremony
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First of all, the Fondazione Cariplo award offers a unique opportunity to boost researchers to undertake unorthodox and transformative lines of research in the field of chemistry in order to discover exciting new principles and applications. High innovative researches often fail to attract funds and, for this reason, talented researchers prefer to propose mainstream research. Conversely, the scientific research and the chemical research need dynamism and innovative ideas to generate new opportunities and to overcome the challenges today's world is facing. In other words, unconventional and transformative research is a fundamental driver of future progress.
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1. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Jul 18, 2010 7:54 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
Use these download links (without download manager)
- for Internet Explorer: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
- for all other browsers: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe
Save the installer(s) to disk, then close all browser windows and run the downloaded installer(s).
2. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?Stevie.W Aug 15, 2010 1:30 PM (in response to pwillener)
Good grief guy's,
We can't get it any faster than this ?
I even tried the links above and guess what, they didn't even register on the download speed!
The flash player manager up-date is still on 15.8%, and has taken 25 mins to get to that.
I'm on a 50Mb Connection?
Whats happened?
3. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?Bored-waiting Oct 11, 2010 2:00 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
Months later and its still as slooooooow as hell to download anything from Adobe....... maybe they dont actually want you to use
their software ? Been waiting 40min for a 2.9mb file to download and its still at 3%
downloading at 60bytes/sec....
Dire, absolutely dire....
4. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Oct 11, 2010 6:04 PM (in response to Bored-waiting)
I don't know what is taking you so long to download; I just tried it and it took less than 10 secs to complete the download.
Try to download from this site http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html
5. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?FC360 Oct 26, 2010 12:22 PM (in response to pwillener)
yep same problem here, was having issues with adobe flash so decided to reinstall it, bad idea, after an hour It's still not downloaded this is pretty pathetic. I know it's nothing to do with my connection as I can download files that are 10MB in a few minutes from other websites and speed tests say my internet speed is what it normally is, so it has to be Adobe's servers and needs to be fixed.
6. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Oct 26, 2010 8:18 PM (in response to FC360)
All of these installers download in less than 1 second to my machine, and I am more than 8,000km away from the Adobe servers.
Maybe the servers are too busy during US daytime?
7. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?ukmshine Nov 11, 2010 2:37 PM (in response to pwillener)
I have same problem here. Dload speed on my PC 340 bites at moment lol. But I just used my laptop and download completed in less than 90 seconds.
I've had virus/malaware problems this weekend that seemed connected in someway to the flash player (hense my uninstall and this download). May seem far fetched but I'm wondering if something is interfering with any connection i make to Adobe downloads.
Busy traffic is no explanation for 340 bites/second.
Anyone have any other ideas?
8. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser Dec 3, 2010 12:26 PM (in response to pwillener)
Well, I see this problem has been bouncing around on this forum since July. It is now December 2010 and - you guessed it - it is doing it to me. It was even slow letting me set up an account to reply on this forum. I tried downloading the file directly from that page that you listed (rather than via Adobe Download Manager), but it is still as slow as molasses - only 24 bytes a second. Whoa, baby! My guess is that it is an Adobe server problem, and that you are actually downloading it from a mirror site (or we are downloading it from a mirror site). I'm in London, England, so maybe I am directed to a European site.
Oh, and I have not installed any anti-virus on my laptop yet - it is a completely clean wipe with Win7. Only thing I have installed if Office 2003, Java, 7Zip, Adobe Reader (I actually got that to download fast - the hangup is downloading the Flash Player). I'm surprised Adobe hasn't fixed this.
9. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser Dec 3, 2010 2:57 PM (in response to pwillener)
A couple of hours later and I am now up to 58% . . . . . but now it is bouncing back between "downloading" and "connecting" (spending most of the time trying to connect).
This is junk.
ukmshine, your name indicates you might be in the UK - maybe that is the problem - I am also in the UK.
10. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser Dec 3, 2010 3:20 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
Okay, I killed the Flash Player installation and tried putting Adobe Shockwave on - that downloaded in just a few seconds, so it has something to do with their Flash Player download, maybe having to do with where it downloading from, but it's garbage and I'm really surprised that Adobe has not fixed this yet.
Adobe seems to have had so many problems with Flash Player in the last 6 months or a year or so.
11. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?FC360 Dec 3, 2010 3:43 PM (in response to authoriseduser)
I've actually been thinking about downloading the file and putting it on my own server, but the problem is I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, and also when a new version is released I would have to download that and upload to my server manually.
12. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Dec 3, 2010 6:01 PM (in response to authoriseduser)
Alternate direct download links:
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe (ActiveX)
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe (ActiveX)
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe (plugin)
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe (plugin)
13. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Dec 3, 2010 6:07 PM (in response to FC360)
FC360 wrote:
I've actually been thinking about downloading the file and putting it on my own server, but the problem is I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this
No problem if it is for use inside your company. Not sure if it is for the general public (all download sites like Filehippo, Majorgeeks, CNET ultimately redirect to the Adobe download site).
14. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?poppyboom Jan 24, 2011 12:28 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
oh my god guys, what are you up to, someone at your HQ should get a serious kicking about this.
Same problem on my small samsung nc-10 laptop with win xp sp2. Just tried uninstalling flash player because, for some reason
, thie latest autoinstaller didnt install properly, causing my mom's notebook to constantly display the warning information bar every time flash player was in the source of the page.
After trying to find the download on cnet, i was redirected to macromedia homepage, which by the way is TOTALLY not optimised for anything smaller than 1200x800 pixe displays. The main "download" button you have on that fancy new design someone over there thinks is great, is offset and literally took me 10 minutes to find. I clicked on every other "get flash player" button on that page which just leads you back to the same page before i finally noticed the main button in the middle, which looks more like a flash ad than a download link - and i should know I'm a professional web-designer. And so should you, being the biggest supplier of web dev products in recent history.
Finally noticing the button i proceeded with the installation, hey ho, same problem i encountered several moons ago - incredibly slow dowload!
I tried using the links in your posts, all having the same crappy low download speed.
Whats happening over there? Have you all decided to cut costs even though your products get more and more expensive year to year? Replaced those fancy server farms with old skool dialups for delivering the latest flash player, which gets updated every bloody 10 days for absolutely no purpose at all other than to annoy you with those "latest flash player is ready for download" messages (joke)
SOme serious usability issues here boys, better rethink your product delivery strategies. Adobe downloader... wow what a great idea, serve ads down our throat whilst we wait for the neverending flash player download?
Well, i took time to write this out, but i wont take any more time installing flash player on this machine, my mum can live without it now that this whole affair has upset me so much. And im late to see a girl because of you. Shame on you.
15. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?AndyRixon Jan 30, 2011 1:59 AM (in response to Darkscamp)
I was having the exact same issue, and got fed up with it after reading some of the replies in this topic.
So I tried a proxy website, and it downloaded in seconds, I am from the UK, so there must be a problem, and it ain't my connection.
So, for those having trouble, I have setup a mirror for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, I will also update this mirror when new versions are released.
[url removed]
If this is not allowed, delete this reply and fix your servers.
Kind Regards,
Andy Rixon
Message was edited by Jochem van Dieten
16. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener Jan 29, 2011 9:31 PM (in response to AndyRixon)
AndyRixon wrote:
I do not think that Adobe will allow that; all download sites (including CNET, Majorgeeks, Filehippo, etc.) do not have their own downloads, they all link back to the Adobe download servers. Also, your "mirror" is of no use for those needing the ActiveX installer.
I have flagged your post so that a moderator can have a look at it.
AndyRixon wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the Adobe download servers; I have again just downloaded all four Windows installers, and each downloaded within one second. And I am at the other side of the Pacific ocean.
But since many of you who posted here seem to be in the UK, maybe there is something wrong with the route between the Adobe servers and the UK. Can some of you issue a traceroute command to find out where the problem lies? Issue one of these commands (from Command Prompt):
tracert fpdownload.adobe.com
tracert fpdownload.macromedia.com
The traceroute output from here is
Tracing route to e526.d.akamaiedge.net [184.108.40.206] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.1.1 2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms Tok5B8.vectant.ne.jp [184.108.40.206] 3 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 163-139-126-158.rv.vectant.ne.jp [220.127.116.11] 4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 163-139-68-53.rv.vectant.ne.jp [22.214.171.124] 5 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms 126.96.36.199 6 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms 22.214.171.124 7 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms otejbb204.kddnet.ad.jp [188.8.131.52] 8 20 ms 24 ms 11 ms cm-ote251.kddnet.ad.jp [220.127.116.11] 9 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 220.127.116.11 10 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms a125-56.201-250.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [18.104.22.168] 11 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms a69-192-242-70.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [220.127.116.11] Trace complete.
We can see that the longest hop is over the Pacific ocean, but it's still very fast. So where does your problem lie?
17. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?grahamwebb2011b Feb 8, 2011 2:57 PM (in response to pwillener)
Traceroute keep closing command prompt window so can't post you output. But it's about 25ms each entry, from UK.
I'm having same problems with Adobe download. Was told to download flash player 10.1 from youtube. So can't use youtube at the moment. Thanks Adobe!
If it aint broke ..
18. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?wait4itwait4itwait4it Feb 8, 2011 3:00 PM (in response to grahamwebb2011b)
yeah, i'm uk based and same issue. taken about 2 hrs so far and counting... output from traceroute:
C:\Users\John>tracert fpdownload.adobe.com
Tracing route to e724.d.akamaiedge.net [184.108.40.206]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 12 ms 3 ms 2 ms api.home [192.168.1.254]
2 30 ms 36 ms 31 ms 188.8.131.52
3 31 ms 44 ms 35 ms 188.8.131.52
4 32 ms 30 ms 31 ms 126.96.36.199
5 38 ms 36 ms 32 ms 22.214.171.124
6 31 ms 34 ms 32 ms 220.127.116.11
7 50 ms 35 ms 53 ms 22.214.171.124
8 137 ms 89 ms 33 ms acc1-10GigE-0-0-0-4.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [184.108.40.206]
9 157 ms 101 ms 38 ms core1-te0-11-5-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [184.108.40.206]
10 59 ms 203 ms 101 ms core3te-0-3-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [18.104.22.168]
11 124 ms 204 ms 35 ms linxnap.netarch.akamai.com [184.108.40.206]
12 181 ms 99 ms 33 ms a92-123-83-24.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [18.104.22.168]
19. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?shakin11 Feb 8, 2011 3:15 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
im having the same irritating problem and to top it all of, after wasting the past 4 hours of my life waiting for this junk to download i get 'error: installation failed' as soon as it hits 100%. now carlsberg dont do flash players but if they did adobe's would still be more irritating
20. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?amityweb2 Mar 2, 2011 10:49 AM (in response to Darkscamp)
Definatley slow... started to download the 5.5Mb file, then shortly after started another unrelated download from YouSendIt which is 22Mb. The 22Mb downloaded in about 1 minute but had to 5 more minutes for the flash player to download. So probably Adobes servers/bandwidth are either 1) rubbish, 2) overloaded with so many users or 3) intentionally restricted. Either way it makes Adobe look bad so they should sort it out. Took me a while to register on this forum due to slow page speeds.
I am in the UK
21. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?abcuk123 Mar 2, 2011 1:33 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
Agreed. horrible slow download of updater. starts at reasonable speed then tops out at 4 kb per sec. uk mac and firefox user
Adobe, you are lucky you are a monopoly provider.... downloads from other sites coming in at 50 to 100 times faster...
something needs attention - did you piss off anonymous ???
22. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?DanMessenga Mar 2, 2011 1:49 PM (in response to pwillener)
I have tried from 2 machines in my home to download this, it just simply takes forever.
The machines have Win XP and Win 7 on them, I have BT Internet 8mb broadband.
From my house, tracert fpdownload.adobe.com
Tracing route to e724.d.akamaiedge.net [126.96.36.199]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 27 ms 30 ms 36 ms 126.96.36.199
3 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms 184.108.40.206
4 38 ms 35 ms 33 ms 18.104.22.168
5 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 184.108.40.206
6 33 ms 33 ms 37 ms 188.8.131.52
7 39 ms 35 ms 32 ms 22.214.171.124
8 34 ms 36 ms 35 ms 188.8.131.52
9 34 ms 32 ms 31 ms 184.108.40.206
Trace complete.
I have also tried it from one of my works hosted servers. It downloads in a flash (pun intended).
The server runs Win 2003 and is hosted on a Level 3 network in London.
Fom the hosted server, tracert fpdownload.adobe.com
Tracing route to e724.d.akamaiedge.net [184.108.40.206]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 18.104.22.168
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 220.127.116.11
4 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms a88-221-179-24.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [220.127.116.11]
Trace complete.
Far fewer hops and also resolves to a completely different IP address.
For information, if I do Tracert 18.104.22.168 from home I get:
Tracing route to a88-221-179-24.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [184.108.40.206]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 29 ms 29 ms 30 ms 220.127.116.11
3 35 ms 29 ms 26 ms 22.214.171.124
4 35 ms 34 ms 35 ms 126.96.36.199
5 35 ms 34 ms 33 ms 188.8.131.52
6 34 ms 32 ms 33 ms 220.127.116.11
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23. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?DISRETSWEF Mar 28, 2011 2:31 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
It's 22:22 here in the UK on the 28th March 2011 and I'm being asked to update Flash Player to use with Firefox 3.6. The download is reporting a speed of 1.1kB/second and it has so far managed to download 149 kB in about 15 minutes and it says, probably optimistically, that there are 21 minutes remaining.
There is nothing unusual about this PC and speedtest.net gives me a speed of 4.6 Mb/second. All other downloads are very fast and streaming BBC iplayer works well.
So it must be something to do with the servers at the Adobe end. But what can it be? The fact that there don't seem to be any comments on here from Adobe people and there don't seem to be any solutions after all this time tells you that 1) Adobe just don't care 2)They aren't very good at fixing problems even when they try.
At this point with the download at 158 kB of 2.7 MB, I'm going to give it the chop and cancel the download.
Roll on the time when we don't need flash for video embedded in web pages. When is this supposed to happen?
24. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser Mar 28, 2011 4:28 PM (in response to DISRETSWEF)
This problem has been around so long that I am quite sure it is an Adobe problem. Nothing wrong with your anti-virus, or ISP (I also use British Telecom). It's an Adobe problem. Just wonder when they are going to fix it. Don't hold your breath.
25. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?nptonphil May 5, 2011 3:30 AM (in response to pwillener)
I'm UK-based and have had the same download problems many others have reported - not just with Flash Player but also with Photoshop Elements trial. But I may have a (simple) solution! Following a tip from an "IT guy" friend, I changed my Region & Language setting (Control Panel/ Clock, Language, and Region/ Region and Language > Formats) to English Language (U.S.). Lo and behold, the download suddenly worked!
It would be interesting to know if this works for others. If so, it seems surprising that Adobe has not spotted this issue itself. Please localise for UK! (we're a small archipelago off Europe...)
PS Am using Win 7 and both Firefox and IE
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26. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?Kerloch May 8, 2011 12:24 PM (in response to nptonphil)
Same problem. So very slow to download.
All the above links give a very slow download speed - it is dire
I am in the UK too.
(Changing the regional setting was an interesting idea but it made no difference!)
27. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser May 8, 2011 12:29 PM (in response to Kerloch)
I called this in to Adobe UK about ten days ago, and I posted on this thread that I had done so. Adobe never called me back, and my post on this thread has been deleted. Go figure.
I am using alternative PDF reader products and just leaving Flash Player off my customers' computers. Given what has happened in the last 10 days (no response, and removal of my post), I no longer care. Screw these people.
28. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener May 8, 2011 5:23 PM (in response to authoriseduser)
Your last post is still there http://forums.adobe.com/message/3649753#3649753 (different topic).
29. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?Kerloch May 9, 2011 12:19 AM (in response to pwillener)
I got up early this morning to finish the task.
Flash player downloaded in a few seconds. I was being told last night that it would have taken over 10 hours if I had persisted.
Bizarre! (Just a thought, could the ISP be putting some sort of constraint on the downloads from Adobe at certain times of the day - but I am not sure why they would do that. Other sites were downloading just fine last night. I am with BT in the UK)
30. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser May 9, 2011 3:32 AM (in response to pwillener)
Thanks for that. But, still, they never returned my call (or emailed me).
I just tried calling again - called their Uxbridge "Adobe Systems" office at 11am Monday, 9 May 2011 on telephone 020-8606-1100. Recording came on saying the office was closed (???) and that they were only open from 8:30am to 5:30pm. Go figure. But the recording gave me number to call for Technical Support (020-7365-0735). I chose the "For All Other Enquiries". It rang for ten minutes before I finally hung up. I have now sent them a "Bug Report". But this is the last that I will do. Screw these people. I now install alternative PDF readers on customer computers. I just don't have the time to nursemaid Adobe (it's been over six months since this problem was first reported on these forums).
31. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?DISRETSWEF May 9, 2011 4:55 AM (in response to authoriseduser)
I still get the same problems, sometimes Flash updates download OK,
sometimes they don't and it affects my Ubuntu machine as well. It must
be an Adobe network problem.
32. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener May 9, 2011 6:47 PM (in response to authoriseduser)
authoriseduser wrote:
I can understand your frustration.
Unfortunately the alternate PDF reader won't help your customers who need Flash Player - there seems to be no alternative.
Also, I hope that your alternate PDF reader is not Foxit: that one installed spyware on my computer when I tried it a few years ago. There are other alternatives.
33. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser May 9, 2011 8:50 PM (in response to pwillener)
I usually just follow the review by the in-house reviewer at Download.com. Yes, I install Foxit. It has 4 stars. It mentions the toolbar and the Ask.com stuff. I just do a manual install instead of an automatic install and un-click that stuff.
If FlashPlayer stalls, I just skip it. I never have a problem with Silverlight.
Adobe obviously has some internal management problems (they've got other well-publicized problems with Flash). I don't know what the internal management problems. I am not invested in the stock - and would not do so - until their internal problems are cleared up.
34. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?RhysE1594 May 10, 2011 3:08 PM (in response to Darkscamp)
Had exactly the same problem for the last few updates, downloading painfully slow and in some cases not downloading at all. Turned off Norton anti-virus, tried the download again, it took no time at all. I'm a UK based user too. Give it ago and see if it works for you.
Hope you get it sorted
p.s. after checking back on the download page it says, 'You may have to temporarily disable your anti-virus software.' Teach me for not reading things properly!
35. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser May 11, 2011 12:11 AM (in response to RhysE1594)
Maybe your's was a Norton problem, or maybe it was just random chance that it downloaded after you turned Norton off, because that is not the problem that the rest of us are having, i.e. I don't use Norton - I use either AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials, and I never turn my anti-virus off, and sometimes it downloads fine and sometimes it doesn't. Also, this problem seems to be confined to downloaders located in the UK.
P.S.--Adobe never got back to me. I'm not surprised.
36. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?RhysE1594 May 11, 2011 9:04 AM (in response to authoriseduser)
Hmm well I'm not sure then, it is a really strange problem, I too have had a fairly inconsistent download speeds, some times fast and others very slow- yesterday was the first time after a few attempts I turned Norton off- but if it's not the same for you guys sorry I couldn't shed any more light on it. But your right it does seem to just be a UK problem. I'll try contacting adobe too, see if they reply to me and I'll keep you posted.
Good luck!
37. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?pwillener May 12, 2011 12:02 AM (in response to RhysE1594)
I think it is a good idea if more people contact Adobe in the UK. This problem has been going on for so long that a solution is really overdue!
38. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?authoriseduser May 12, 2011 4:24 AM (in response to pwillener)
Nice idea. They don't care. Here, I give my telephone number to these ******** if they want to discuss 07952-596827. They won't call. They don't care. Neither do I. I recommend other players than Adobe. Screw these people.
39. Re: Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?yoseif May 20, 2011 8:50 AM (in response to Darkscamp)
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The man, identified as 26-year-old Andrew Simonette of Lindstrom, was suffering from hypothermia. He was in fair condition Tuesday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.
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Moalboal is a small town on the South-West side of Cebu island. It's mostly used as entry point to Panagsama Beach, where are most of the resorts, restaurants, bars and dive schools.
Get in
The easiest way to join Moalboal is from Cebu City. The 80km road is in good condition, even in the second part in the mountains.
By van
Most of the resorts/dive shops in Moalboal propose to hire van from Cebu airport to Moalboal. Be ready to pay around 2500PHP for this 2,5 hour trip.
By taxi
Taxis cn be hired at Cebu Airport for 2,400 pesos (fixed rate as of Nov 2012). Many of the hotels and guest houses in Panagsama Beach will send a car or van for pickup for about 2,000 pesos.
By bus
Then take the bus here (the main company is the yellow color buses of Ceres Liner). Be sure to use an already almost full bus to avoid waiting. The no-aircon (most are like this) travel will cost you 107PHP (Jan 2013) + 10PHP of terminal fee if you don't pay directly in the bus. Air on buses are 111PHP (May 2012).
Coming from Dumaguete, it is possible to take the ferry boat between Siluban (ca PHP 100 by tricycle from the city center) and cross to Lilo-An on Cebu island. There, take another tricycle (around PHP 50) to the nearby bus station. Ceres busses headed for Cebu city stop there regularly, and some of them go via Moalboal (ask the driver). The bus fare is PHP65 (aircon, july 2012)
Note: there are no ATM's in Panagsama beach so bring enough pesos for your stay. There is, however (2012), an ATM in the 360 pharmacy in MoalBoal town (about 4 km from the beach, reachable by tricycle). Although sometimes doesn't work.
Get around
The easiest way to go around is to use tricycles. From Moalboal to Panagsama Beach, the usual fare is 50PHP by day, but you will have to bargain during long hours to get that. Don't pay more than 80PHP though...To White beach most people were paying 100-150PHP in May 2012.
Kawasan Water Falls
The Kawasan water falls (a three step waterfall) is located in the rain forest approximately 20 km south of Moalboal (past Badian). If you take the bus from in front of the public market in Moalboal (near 360 Pharmacy), you can ask the bus driver or ticket collector to drop you off at the right place. The bus ticket from Moalboal to the water falls or vice versa costs PHP 19.00. You also need to pay an entrance fee of PHP 5.00 and will get an official receipt. Be careful of the 'guides' offer. The walk up to the fall is very easy and you do not need a guide.
Getting to the falls is approximately a 30 minute ascent through an impressive landscape. You can take a nice cooling swim in the natural pools, or take a raft out to the falls. There are resting place tables for a charge, some small restaurants and very simple accommodation available.
The falls can sometimes be a bit crowded (especially on weekends) so if you're looking for more of a nature experience, check out the guided canyoning tours that are offered by some resorts in Panagsama. Tours start in the morning, above the waterfalls, and you make your way down wading along the river, swimming through deeper sections and jumping down waterfalls. Takes about one day, around php 2,500 per person.
White Beach
About 7 kilometres north of Panagsama you'll find White Beach or Basdako, meaning 'Big Sand', a nice white sandy beach lined with a beautiful coral reef about 30 meters out. Pack your mask and snorkel. White Beach is a popular spot to visit, especially during the weekend, so if you're looking for more quiet beach life go during the week or make your way a bit further north up the beach.
There are a couple of restaurants along the beach and also a few resorts if you would like to stay for the night. To the south you have the high-end Dolphin House Resort (from about php 5,500/night) and a bit further north Blue Orchid Resort (from around php 3,500/night) and Club Serena (from around php 5,500/night). There are also some cheaper options for the budget-minded traveller, Barefoot White Beach Resort (around 2,500/night) and HK Beach Resort (around php 2,000/night) are both good options.
Not far out from the beach shore in Panagsama Beach, there is a drop-off. Near that area there are countless reefs, with soft and hard corals, many different species of fish. Sometimes you can spot lion fish, water snakes, and with some luck turtles. White Beach is also a good spot for snorkelling if you want to combine it with relaxing in the sun.
Most divers come for the more famous diving spots in Pescador Island, which offer terrific diving. However, there are a lot more spots do discover around the Moalboal peninsula. In some areas there are fish sanctuaries, and there is a marine preservation program in effect to encourage fishermen not to fish with nets.
Dives usually cost around 1500PHP with gear. There are a few "local owned" dive shops that are 1100-1200 PHP per dive. Most of the dive shops operate 3 dives per day and you can even do your own diving schedule on low season!
Other activities
You are no diver or you want to do something more? For the active vacation, Planet Action Adventure [7] offers a diverse program: Hiking, mountaineering, mountain bike, caves and canyons in untouched rain forest, volcano ascent in Negros.
Freediving is becoming more and more popular in Moalboal, because the area offers great conditions for the sport. Close to the shore, the reef drops off to about 40 meters (sometimes more) and the water is usually calm and clear. There are several diveshops that offer courses and training session.
You can buy any kind of souvenirs on the beaches and locals will remind you if you forget ;)
Maya's Mexican is in the main Part on Panagsama Beach and does excellent Mexican food - a nice change. They do superb fresh shakes (mango) and have a great BBQ. Chili bar also does good food, and has the best pizza in Moalboal according to a sign outside (many are inclined to agree). If you venture a bit further south along the beach you'll find Arista Restaurant, which sits right on the waterfront. They have a decently priced Filipino/German menu, and great service to go with the good food.
A place that can be a bit hard to find, but that's well worth the effort is Food Stop, just next to the road between Moalboal and Panagsama. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but they serve generous portions delicious Filipino and Asian dishes for php 150 each.
Another culinary delight is to pick up a freshly grilled chicken in Moalboal town. You'll find a good place on the left just down the road from the public market, across from the fruit stands. One chicken is php 160.
There are a lot of restaurants along the beach where you can have a drink with a sea view. Chili Bar in Panagsama Beach is the most popular one. You will find two billiards table there (as in almost all the other bars around) and there's a tournament on wednesdays. Across from Chili Bar is 7 Sins Bar, also with a pool table and lots of seating.
As you come down to Panagsama from Moalboal and the road turns left, continue straight on down to the beach and take a left to find Ester's Bar. The nice sea view is accompanied by friendly service.
On Saturday nights, there is a disco in Pacitas, just a short walk south along the beach from Panagsama's center. There are also very often discos organised by locals in different locations. Ask around where it is, everybody knows. On your way to Pacitas you can also stop off at Andi's Talisay for some late night singing at their open-mic night.
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Tonight's Concert Pick: Beat Society feat. Hezekiah, Peedi Crakk and Reef the Lost Cauze at Johnny Brenda's
Local and national hip hop extraordinaires will show off their stuff at Johnny Brenda's tonight for Beat Society. The hip hop gathering features five producers and three performers putting their skills to the test as they switch off playing beats and remixing samples. Tonight's showcase includes producers Ill Mind, Oddisee, Hezekiah, Khrysis and Eric G with performers Peedi Crakk, STS and Reef the Lost Cauze. Tickets and information for the 21+ event can be found here. Check out the Key Studio Sessions curated by Philly Music Mag with Peedi and Reef from last year, and watch the video from Reef below.


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How does Apple's brand new iOS 5 iMessage compare to the stalwart Blackberry BBM on BB OS 6? Check out the video above as Kevin Michaluk and Bla1ze from CrackBerry.com bring their Berrys to the table against the iPhone for a one-on-one instant messaging show down! Does BlackBerry still own the crack, or has iOS just become leader of the pack?
BBM is far more functional -- I joked it's like the FaceBook of IM with groups, comments, and more -- while iOS keeps things really simple and bundles it right into the SMS/MMS app.
They're both really snappy, both show writing and delivered states, and offer read receipts, and both are proprietary (yeah) so no cross-platforming yet. BBM is a huge lock-in on BlackBerry and might be the same on iOS.
Could this be enough to make RIM finally bring BBM to iOS? Which would you prefer?