text: Tim Cutts wrote: > on between the two. We've been looking at iSCSI for our VMware setup in > the future. As people have been saying, performance isn't stellar, an > to get it decent you still end up paying a lot of money on networking > kit, because ideally in that scenario you still want the storage traffic Hmmm... Our sub $10k USD units sport 10GbE/IB interfaces and do more than 500 MB/s over iSCSI, sustained. We've been demonstrating this for ~1.25 years. No more expensive than other technologies. Much less expensive than some others. Yeah, I know, the vast majority of iSCSI users use it over GbE. Most of the units on the market from others have trouble keeping that single GbE pipe filled, and they are expensive kit. > But for HPC? Nah - can't really see its utility. It is in use and its use is growing. Look at iSCSI as glue logic between systems. You can use SAS to connect arrays, then you need an expander chip in the backplane for the array (talk about a performance killer ...). You can use FC to connect arrays, with the same types of issues (no expander chip, but a massive oversubscription of bandwidth, and really expensive networking kit). Or you can use point to point iSCSI, or iSCSI over a switch. We've done and seen both the point to point and networked version. Works great for its use cases. For massively oversubscribed SAS/FC networks, the iSCSI systems come in less expensive. For point to point connections (using iSCSI as a wire protocol to directly attach RAIDed arrays or JBOD arrays, or mixtures, to a server) it works great, and you can do multipathing without additional switches ... as well as doing fail-over connections, including background replication over a private iSCSI to iSCSI network to have HA storage. It has lots of utility. Its relatively cheap, and if you get from the right vendors, its as fast as some others "fast" and expensive solutions. Of course, we are biased given what we sell. > > Tim > > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/jackrabbit phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615

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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. –Georgia College men's basketball's (7-9, 3-6 PBC) bid for a season sweep against Young Harris College (10-5, 4-4 PBC) fell short Saturday, as the Bobcats lost 79-71 at YHC Basketball Arena.
The Bobcats battled throughout the contest, but never led after the 16:24 mark of the first half. That being said, YHC struggled to get away from Georgia College, holding double-digit leads on a few brief occasions.
Junior Larrentis Thomas (McDonough, Ga.) matched his season high with 18 points to lead the Bobcats. The forward kept Georgia College in the game in the first half, netting all but two of his points. Sophomore Terrell Harris (Indiantown, Fla.) scored 17 points off the bench, including 7-of-8 from the charity stripe.
Seniors Aaron Robinson (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Royal Thomas (LaGrange, Ga.) rounded out the double-digit scorers with 15 and 10 points, respectively. Royal Thomas has now scored in double figures for each of the last 10 contests.
Both teams shot well, hitting 50 percent each from the floor, but Young Harris nabbed the advantage thanks to seven more shots made from long range (9-2).
Isaiah Johnson led all scorers with 19 points, followed by 17 from Steve Viterbo. C.J. Wilson added 11 and Kevin Altidor 10.
The loss puts Georgia College at 3-7 in Peach Belt Conference (PBC) play, positioned sixth in the west division.
The Bobcats are back in action Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m., playing host to Clayton State University (6-11, 2-8 PBC). Wednesday's game will serve as "Salute to America Day".
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Rams Gear Up for DIII Regionals
- Atlantic Regionals will be hosted by SUNY Geneseo -
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's cross country team, the 2009 Skyline Conference Champions, are preparing for the Division III Cross Country Regionals on Saturday, November 14th. The meet is hosted by SUNY Geneseo and will take place at Letchworth State Park in Mount Morris, N.Y.
The Rams are competing in their first NCAA Regional after winning a first-ever Skyline Championship on Sunday, November 1st.
At the Regionals, 16 teams (including the top two teams from each region) will automatically qualify for the Division III National Championship, while 16 at-large teams will be selected by the Championship committee, only the top five teams in each regional will be considered. The committee will also choose 56 individual qualifiers, seven per region, to run as individuals in the Championship.
The National Championship field will be posted online on Sunday, November 15th at 3:00 p.m. The Division III Cross Country Championships will be hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in Highland Hills, Ohio on Saturday, November 21st.
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Teams (32 per gender) will be selected to the NCAA Championships in the following manner:
16 teams will automatically qualify (two per region);
16 at-large teams will be selected by the committee to be determined using the published criteria in the championships handbook. Only the top five teams in each regional will be considered. Forms for the at large entries can be found on the forms page.
Individuals (56 per gender) will be selected in the following manner:
56 Individuals will automatically qualify (7 per region)
All 7 members from the two automatic qualifying teams will be removed from the results and the remaining individuals (not with a qualifying team) will be renumbered to determine individual national qualifiers.


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Comedian Andy Dick has vowed to stay out of trouble during his upcoming stint on "Dancing With The Stars," insisting he is now "completely sober" after finally kicking his drink and drug problems.
Dick has spent years battling substance abuse issues and has been in and out of rehab on numerous occasions, while his various arrests and headline-grabbing stunts have gained him notoriety.
Last summer, concerned friends and co-workers staged an intervention during filming for his Internet TV show "Andy Dick Live!" and got him back into treatment, and he now insists the program helped him clean up his act for good.
He is set for a comeback after joining "Dancing With The Stars," and Dick is adamant fans will see a different side to him.
Dick says, "(My previous problems) were probably alcohol-induced, so in that respect (on the show) there's no alcohol. That's out! (I am) completely sober, if you are asking. Am I going to be showing up on the dance floor with my penis in my hand? That's not going to be happening."
Dick's previous antics include being ejected from an adult entertainment awards ceremony in Las Vegas in 2011 for pestering a porn star and allegedly flashing his genitals in a Los Angeles coffee shop in 2010.


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FRIDAY, April 6, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Three months into 2012, chances are good that those grand plans for self-improvement hatched at the start of the new year have become more of a dead weight.
Many people vow to eat less and exercise more; stop smoking, drinking or spending too much; and better organize our wayward lives.
Research in the Journal of Clinical Psychology has found that only 64 percent of New Year's resolutions are maintained after one month and, six months later, less than half still stand.
Why the swift breakdown?
"People make resolutions that are not necessarily well-coordinated to either their ability or to reality," said Peter Herman, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto. "We know that when people make resolutions in the first place, merely making the resolution energizes them. That emotional positivity is really hard to sustain when you get in the hard slog. It tends to decline and shift into negativity."
One of the top problems with most resolutions, Herman said, is that they're too broad, not firmly defining what it is you're seeking to accomplish. "If you resolve to lose weight, what does that even mean? How much weight?" he asked.
"Clearly, concrete resolutions would be better," agreed Daniel Akst, a columnist for Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y., newspaper, and author of We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess. "Don't resolve to be a great novelist, resolve to finish a novel."
All isn't lost, however, if you find yourself backsliding on your pledges about a quarter of the way through 2012. To get back on track, Herman and Akst said, people should:
Structure strictly
Resolutions are much easier to follow when the steps to achieve them are almost brainless. That's why Akst is a big fan, for example, of diets that cut out entire food groups, such as the Atkins diet (which eliminates carbs) or veganism.
"If you're ever going to succeed at something, I think you need a pretty detailed plan to offer fairly low-level instructions to yourself," Herman said. "Even saying that you're going to go to the gym twice a week is vague. You want to say, 'I'm going to use the elliptical machine for X number of minutes,' and you probably have to talk to a trainer about what is a sensible plan for you."
Make it public
Up the ante by telling loved ones, friends, co-workers and even your Facebook friends what you plan to accomplish, Akst recommended. Faced with embarrassment if you fail, this kind of kick in the pants is a well-known psychological tool, he said.
"Tell people to chide you when you're doing the wrong thing -- it can help a lot," Akst noted. "Just as Odysseus got men to help tie him to the mast so he wouldn't succumb to the Sirens' song, you can do that."
Set 'proximal' goals
So-called proximal goals are more realistic simply because they set the bar lower -- like aiming for a half-pound of weight loss a week instead of two pounds. But success is also more frequent and tangible.
"If my resolution is to write a novel," Akst said, "a better resolution would be that I'm going to write two pages a day, five days a week. That way, each day you get to succeed, and success builds success."
Herman also pointed out that "we live in a culture not noted for training people to persist in the face of tremendous odds. We want things to come fairly easy for us. Trying to do something less ambitious is a rational thing to do, but people are not very good at saying, 'I bit off more than I can chew.'"
Plan for failure
Many resolutions get derailed because of small, potentially temporary setbacks that compel us to chuck our big plans altogether. Going off a diet at a party, for example, doesn't mean you can't get right back on the wagon the next day, with little damage done.
"If you decide to stop smoking but have one cigarette for some reason, does that cigarette represent a failure of your entire resolution or is it simply a blip you can get past?" Herman said. "It's not very difficult to anticipate that sort of thing, but some people don't think that far ahead."
More information
The U.S. General Services Administration offers a list of resources to help achieve common goals.


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Stocks Slip on Cliff Concerns
U.S. stocks pulled back after two days of strong gains as investors reassessed the latest smoke signals from the fiscal negotiations in Washington. Brendan Conway has details on The News Hub.
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Brandon and Erik in "Kill or Be Killed" Episode 4 of Season 26
Brandon Hantz and Erik Reichenbach of the Bikal Tribe during the fourth episode of SURVIVOR: CARAMOAN – FANS VS. FAVORITES, Wednesday, March 6 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. #Survivor. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS© 2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Things I didn't realize I would miss until they were gone.
AOL CDs
These were so handy to use as coasters, or to cover your drinking glass when sitting on the patio (to keep the bugs out). Sure, it had that little hole in the center, but most of the flying insects we have around here aren't stealth bombers. The disc kept them out.
They also came in handy for keeping squirrels away from the bird feeders. I couple of those CDs hanging right above the feeder was enough to thwart even the most determined squirrel.
I still remember most the jingle:
"I'm Sir Celery! I'm Miss Parsley! We are the Onion Twins! … Tuna Twist makes tuna taste fresh as a garden."
Tuna Twist was a little packet of dehydrated veggies with some sort of seasoning. You would add a bit of hot water to the mix and let it sit for a few minutes, then add it to your tuna and mayo. One of their tag lines was something like "It turns 4 ordinary tuna sandwiches into 6 tasty ones". It came in a Garden Vegetable variety, Onion variety, and as memory serves, a cheesy variety. This was the best thing since Tang and Space Food Sticks. I wonder why they took it off the market? Someone needs to contact Nabisco and have them resurrect this culinary marvel.
Side note: You gotta love that far-out 70s font on the box. Groovy!
Yes, hiccups. They're a right pain in the neck (pun intended) when you have them, but am I the only person that doesn't purposefully try to hiccup once they're gone?
It seems like there are as many cures for hiccups as there are grandmothers. The scare-tactic never worked for me, nor did the laughing technique. I've had people advise me to burp, fart, pee, run, hold my tongue, rub my eyes, pinch myself and stand on my head. You know, you finally come to the realization that *some people* are simply using you to entertain themselves.
About the only "cures" that have worked for me were A) drinking a full 8oz of water as slowly as possible without stopping -or- B) placing a spoonful of sugar on my tongue and letting it dissolve slowly.
So that's my advice. However, if you want to spin in a circle until you fall to the ground in an attempt to cure yourself of hiccups, be my guest… and send in the video link, please.
I'm proud to be a mstie.
It's the one TV show I miss the most. Oh, I know there is RiffTrax and Cinematic Titanic, but I want the old shows back. I can't find them anywhere. They were on the SciFi Channel after leaving Comedy Central, but now they seem to only exist in multi-episode DVDs.
I long for another Turkey Day Marathon.
Thanksgiving is less than 4 months away. Surely someone can make this happen.
Turkey Day Marathon '09!!!
NOAA Weather (Local Cable)
NOAA Weather used to have a place on our local access cable TV channel lineup. It was a simple concept: rotating radar images of the US, our state, our county, our city and weekly forecasts. There was no sharply-dressed meteorologist, no Action Weather Team, and no commercials. It was simply THE WEATHER. Served up quick and dirty.
The only "personalities" were the voices coming from NOAA Weather Radio, The Voice of the National Weather Service. We didn't know their names, we had no idea if they were sitting at a desk or recording from the bathroom… and we didn't care. When you were in a hurry, and wanted to see a radar map — BAM! — there it was.
I have no ill-regard for the Weather Channel and their "Local on the 8s", but in this fast-paced world, sometimes 8 minutes seems like a long time.
Especially if you live in Tornado Alley.


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Kessler and Frodeno Rise to the Top in St. George
World-class athletes set new records at the U.S. Pro Championship in Utah.
by Jennifer Ward Barber
Frodeno fights for another win
American Andy Potts led the men's field out of the water in 21:49 with his race-best swim. A tight pack exited the water a minute back, containing Jan Frodeno (DEU), defending champion Brent McMahon (CAN), Clayton Fettell (AUS), Terrenzo Bozzone (NZL), and Olympians Bevan Docherty (NZL) and Tim Don (GBR). As winner Frodeno said later of Potts' swim, "Andy was phenomenal in the water today. His pace was just shocking—I couldn't hold it."
Out onto the bike, Potts maintained his lead until mile 20, finally surrendering to American Andrew Yoder, who would go on to lead the race until the first mile of the run. Behind Yoder, a large group of over 20 men meant gaps would be at a minimum; just seconds separated the group of world-class Olympians and IRONMAN champions for the entirely of the bike. Minor shuffles in position saw Potts, McMahon, and Fettel take second behind Yoder, and by the end of the 56-mile bike ride, Belgian Marino Vanhoenacker had moved up to second. Unusually absent from the group was super-cyclist Sebastien Kienle, who also had difficulty nailing this course last year.
Yoder exited transition just a minute ahead of some of the fiercest runners in the sport. Behind him, his biggest worries, Gambles, McMahon, Bozzone, Potts, Don, and Docherty exited T2 together. The race would come down to the runners on one of the most difficult courses on the circuit.
Related: IRONMAN 70.3 St. George Photo Gallery
The group overtook Yoder by mile one, with Don leading the charge. The Brit led through mile six, with defending champion McMahon storming up for the pass at mile seven. A mile later, it was clear the final few miles would feature a dramatic finish between new leader McMahon, Don (10 seconds back), and Frodeno at (one minute back).
As if burying any doubt over his dominance this year, Frodeno used his race-best run split of 1:09 to make up a minute on McMahon in the last 5km. He sailed through the final downhill miles with his long stride, making the pass less than a mile from the finish line and taking the win in a course-record time of 3:45:21. McMahon and Don fought until the very end, finishing 20 and 30 seconds behind Frodeno respectively.
"I'll be honest, that was probably the toughest thing I've ever done," said Frodeno. The German has already notched victories this year at IRONMAN 70.3 races in Auckland and Oceanside. "That bike course, I don't have words for it. I couldn't even hold my own," he said. Frodeno added that he was inspired by Braydon Nielsen, a triathlete who was struck by a vehicle while on a bike ride this past September. (Nielsen's tri club set up a foundation called Booyah!, who placed his white ghost bike in each transition.) "It sounds really cheesy but it got me through the day," Frodeno said.
Kessler grips St. George
San Francisco-based Meredith Kessler (USA) used her power across all three disciplines to show one of her favorite courses that she's still boss. Kessler led similarly strong swimmers Jodie Swallow (GBR), Julie Dibens (GBR) and Mary Beth Ellis (USA) out of the water, and the four stormed out of Sand Hollow Reservoir eager to duke it out on the roads. Behind them, Amy Marsh (USA) led a chase pack two minutes back.
With cycling powerhouse Dibens back in the mix after a few years off due to injury, the women's race was bound to be interesting. By mile 10, Dibens had overtaken Ellis and Swallow, taking second position behind Kessler. Heather Wurtele (CAN), who didn't come out of the water with the leaders, moved quickly to take her spot at the head of the chase pack. The four leaders maintained their position for the rest of the race, with Dibens and Swallow jockeying for second throughout. As Kessler would later say that the bike was much more technical this year, with the women having to jockey for position among each other and pro men. "It felt like you were riding in a video game, it was nutty," she said. "But we learn from these things."
Swallow and Dibens powered out of T2 as Kessler served a penalty. A minute back, the defending champion was back in the mix, with Ellis a minute behind her heading into the hot and hilly run. Wurtele, always a fighter, had her work cut out for her four minutes back.
With sixth place almost nine minutes back of Kessler out of T2, the women's run was far more spread out than the men's. Kessler used her third-best run (1:20) to storm back up to Swallow, and by mile five was running in her shadow. The pass came at mile six, a point at which the two had put three minutes on a fading Ellis and a determined Wurtele.
Over the final 5km, Kessler extended her lead on Swallow by about 20 seconds, securing her second U.S. Pro Championship finish in 4:11:53—almost six minutes faster than her time last year. Swallow took second in 4:12:29, with Wurtele picking up speed in the home lap to take third in 4:14:31.
"What I love about Jodie and Heather is that they're consistent all the time and that they really put up a fight every single race," Kessler said after the race. "Every race I go into I say 'this is the most stacked.' " Runner-up Swallow summed up the day with her post-race statement: "The standard of racing is just getting higher and higher, and the people just seem to be getting nicer and nicer! I'm just really proud to be in amongst it."
The race here continues to grow in numbers of world-class competitors, highlighting the kind of racing we can expect at the debut IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.
Top 10 Men
1. Jan Frodeno (DEU) 3:45:21
2. 1 Brent McMahon (CAN) 3:45:43
3. Tim Don (GBR) 3:45:50
4. Joe Gambles (AUS) 3:47:10
5. Andy Potts (USA) 3:47:33
6. Terenzo Bozzone (NZL) 3:48:39
7. Ben Hoffman (USA) 3:48:39
8. Kevin Collington (USA) 3:48:42
9. Bevan Docherty (NZL) 3:49:05
10. Sebastian Kienle (DEU) 3:49:38
Top 10 Women
1. Meredith Kessler (USA) 4:11:53
2. Jodie Swallow (GBR) 4:12:29
3. Heather Wurtele (CAN) 4:14:31
4. Mary Beth Ellis (USA) 4:16:10
5. Julie Dibens (GBR) 4:23:21
6. Rebekah Keat (AUS) 4:25:22
7. Margie Shapiro (USA) 4:25:55
8. Sarah Piampiano (USA) 4:26:08
9. Ruth Brennan Morrey (USA) 4:28:00
10. Linsey Corbin (USA) 4:28:17
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From a programmer's point of view, building a blog application with PHP can be an extremely educational experience. This process generally requires working with MySQL, as well as creating scripts that must handle several result sets, update and delete database records, and so forth.
Developing such a web application is something that most programmers would love to do, as long as they don't have to spend a lot of time writing new code. Fortunately, there are several PHP frameworks available on the web that allow users to develop PHP programs with minor hassles. Code Igniter (http://codeigniter.com) is one of the friendliest to use and learn.
So, if you're interested in learning how to take advantage of the functionality provided by Code Igniter to build a blogger, then this series of articles might be what you're looking for.
If you had the chance to read the previous article, then you're becoming familiar with building a blogger using Code Igniter. In that tutorial I explained how to combine the functionality of a couple of files to display blog entries previously stored in a MySQL table.
In this specific case, the first of these files was defined as a basic controller, and was provided with the ability to paginate the aforementioned blog entries via the corresponding pagination class included with Code Igniter.
However, in its current incarnation, the blog application is pretty limited. It doesn't let users post comments on each blog entry. Thus, in the next few lines I'll be improving the signature of the controller class to address this important issue.
Are you ready to continue learning how to build a blogger with Code Igniter? Then let's get going!
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Before I proceed to modify the signature of the controller class that I built in the previous article, I'd like to list it in its current state, along with the corresponding view file. This will remind you of how these two source files looked before we make the appropriate changes to their respective signatures.
That being said, here are the definitions for the files in question:
// definition for 'blogger.php' file (located at /system/application/controllers/ folder)
class Blogger extends Controller{
function Blogger(){
// load controller parent
// load database class and connect to MySQL
// load pagination library
// load helper
// display all blog entries
function blogs(){
$data['title']='Blog Entries Listing';
// set pagination parameters
$config['full_tag_open']='
';
// create pagination links
// load 'blogger_view' view
// definition for 'blogs_view.php' file (located at /system/application/views/ folder)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title><?php echo $title;?></title>

<?php echo $title;?>

<?php foreach($result->result_array() as $blog):?>

<?php echo $blog['title'];?>

<?php echo $blog['text'];?>

<?php echo anchor('blogger/comments/'.$blog['id'],'View Blog Comments >>');?>

<?php endforeach;?>
<?php echo $links;?>
As you can see, the above "Blogger" controller class implements a method called "blogs()," which not only retrieves all the entries from the pertinent "blogs" MySQL table, but splits this data into several chunks. In this way it implements an effective pagination mechanism.
Finally, the controller loads the view file shown above, which is used to display all of the blog entries on screen, along with the corresponding pagination links.
Okay, at this point you hopefully recalled how the two previous files do their business, right? Therefore, it's time to see how to modify the signature of the controller class, and provide it with the capacity for displaying all of the comments submitted by users.
The full details of this process will be discussed in the following section. Thus, click on the link below and keep reading, please.
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To be frank, providing the previous "Blogger" controller class with the capacity for displaying all of the comments that have been made on each blog entry is only a matter of adding to the class a simple method which performs that specific task.
However, it's probable that this concept will be easier to understand if you look at the modified signature of the controller class. It includes a brand new method, called "comments()," tasked with showing all the comments posted for each blog entry. Here it is:
class Blogger extends Controller{
function Blogger(){
// load controller parent
// load database class and connect to MySQL
// load pagination library
// load helper
// display all blog entries
function blogs(){
$data['title']='Blog Entries Listing';
// set pagination parameters
$config['full_tag_open']='
';
// create pagination links
// load 'blogger_view' view
// display all blog comments
function comments(){
$data['title']='Blog Comments Listing';
// load 'blogs_comment_view' view
As I mentioned before, the above "Blogger" controller class now includes another method, not surprisingly called "comments()." It is responsible for fetching, from the pertinent "blogs_comments" MySQL table, all of the comments that have been posted about a particular blog entry.
In order to perform this task, the method executes a WHERE conditional clause against the table using the active record pattern. It's worth noticing, by the way, that there are no SQL statements coded explicitly here.
And finally, once the corresponding database rows has been retrieved, then they're embedded into a view file so they can be displayed at a later time. Obviously, if you analyze this process pretty closely, you may now be asking yourself the following question: how can users post their comments on one or more blog entries?
Well, I'm glad you asked! As I explained a few lines above, the "comments()" method inserts the data retrieved from the "blogs_comments" MySQL table into a view file called "blogs_comment_view.php," right? This file will include a simple HTML form which let users submit several comments on different blog entries. Now, are you starting to realize how this method does its thing? I bet you are!
However, to dissipate any possible doubts that you might have regarding how the "comments()" method works, in the section to come I'll be listing the signature of the "blogscomments_view.php" file. You'll be able to study it in detail.
In the meantime, save the modified version of the previous "Blogger" controller class to the Code Igniter /system/application/controllers/ folder as "blogger.php," then click on the link that appears below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Creating a view file to display user-submitted comments}
As I stated in the previous section, to finish developing this blog application with Code Igniter, it's necessary to create another view file. This file will be charged with printing, on screen, all of the comments that have been submitted for each blog entry.
To demonstrate how this file really functions, I'm going to assume that a few trivial comments have already been stored in the pertinent "blogs_comments" MySQL table. However, in a typical situation, users should be able to post their comments via an HTML form. Since this topic will be covered in depth in the next tutorial of the series, for now I'll keep the blog application working this way.
Now that I have explained the functionality of the "blogs_comment_view.php" file, please take some time to study its signature, which looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title><?php echo $title;?></title>

<?php echo $title;?>

<?php if($result->num_rows()>0):?>
<?php foreach($result->result_array() as $comment):?>

Author: <?php echo $comment['author'];?>

<?php echo $comment['text'];?>

<?php echo anchor('blogger/blogs/','<< Back to blog');?>

<?php endforeach;?>
<?php endif;?>
As illustrated above, the previous view file is responsible for performing a few interesting tasks, such as displaying all the comments that have been made on a particular entry, and including a link that takes users to the blogger's main page.
In addition, you can see that each comment includes the author that submitted it and the corresponding text as well. Nonetheless, as I stated before, this operation should be performed through a typical web form; the details of this topic will be discussed in the next article in this tutorial series.
For now, the only step that remains undone is to save the previous view file to the Code Igniter /system/application/views/ folder, so go ahead and do that. Then, if you test the blog application and click on any of the links that points to the comments web page, you should get an output similar to this:
Naturally, the above image exemplifies a situation where some blog entries have already received comments, so you can see more clearly how the blogger works.
Okay, at this point, the initial functionality of this blog application has been slightly extended; it's now capable of displaying not only all of the existing blog entries, but the comments that have been posted on each of them. As usual with many of my articles on PHP development, feel free to tweak all the code samples developed in this tutorial to expand your existing Code Igniter skills.
Final thoughts
In this third part of the series, I explained how to improve the functionality of this blogger by providing it with the capacity for displaying a bunch of comments that correspond to each blog entry. However, as I explained earlier, for entering new comments it is necessary to code a typical HTML form.
Therefore, in the following article I'll discuss how to achieve this with Code Igniter. Now that you know what will be covered in the next tutorial, you don't have any excuses to miss it!


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My five year old wants me to be a Princess Zombie this year. I'd like to point out this will be the third year I've been asked to dress up like a princess. I guess a zombie princess is cool.....If you're thinking of going with something topical for your Halloween costume this year, this should help. Google just released a list of the Halloween costumes that have gotten the most searches on Google Shopping so far this year.
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After arriving at your hotel, meet for guided sightseeing of Manaus to view vestiges of its glory days during the rubber boom. Your first stop will be the famous OPERA HOUSE, built in 1896 with materials imported from Europe. Next, visit a bustling LOCAL MARKET, abundant with local foods and wares. (D)
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Amazon Jungle.
Accompanied by a Naturalist, enjoy a guided WALK to see the flora and fauna that thrive in the Amazon. After lunch, depart the lodge and sail up the river to visit an AMAZON NATIVE CABOCLO VILLAGE to learn about their traditions, costumes, and culture. Also try your hand at piranha fishing! Later, visit the MONKEY JUNGLE RESERVE, where researchers work to rehabilitate primates like spider, squirrel, woolly, and capuchin monkeys and reintroduce them to the jungle. This evening, venture back out on canoe with your Naturalist to appreciate the sounds of the jungle at night, with the possibility to spot small alligators (or other night creatures). (B,L,D)
Day #4
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This morning, depart the Ecopark for a flight to Rio for an overnight. (B)
Day #5
Rio de Janeiro.
Today is free in Rio to explore as you please. This afternoon, meet your Tour Director and traveling companions for a drive along famous Ipanema and Copacabana Beaches to the base of 1,300-foot-high SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN. Ascend by cable car to its summit, where you can savor spectacular vistas of the city. Next, toast the start of a memorable vacation at a local restaurant with caipirinhas, a favorite Brazilian cocktail. Cap off the evening with a welcome dinner. (B,D)
Day #6
Rio de Janeiro.
Today, visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer crowning CORCOVADO MOUNTAIN, a rounded peak rising 2,300 feet from the bay below. Take the scenic cog railway ride to its top, where a 360-degree panorama affords sweeping views. Proceed to bustling downtown Rio. View the Sambodromo and visit the CATHEDRAL. This evening, it's off to a CHURRASCARIA for a feast of barbecued meats marinated and roasted over charcoal in true Brazilian style. Later, experience a SAMBA SHOW, where the sheer vitality of this country explodes in a colorful extravaganza. (B,D)
Day #7
Rio de Janeiro.
A day of leisure or you may wish to enjoy a Guanabara Bay cruise, offering spectacular views of Rio and its beaches. This afternoon, consider an optional trip to historic Petropolis, once the former summer palace of Emperor Dom Pedro II and now a mountain resort. (B)
Day #8
Rio de Janeiro–Iguassu Falls
. A flight from Rio takes you to IGUASSU FALLS. Experience the clouds of spray, the incessant roar, and the surrounding luxuriant tropical growth that make this an unforgettable natural wonder. Spend the afternoon enjoying the magnificent panorama of waterfalls from the Brazilian side. Your Local Guide introduces the spectacle of this 2-mile-wide torrential downpour, with some cataracts as high as 250 feet, which is nothing short of hypnotic. (B,D)
Day #9
Iguassu Falls.
Today, journey to the Argentine side of IGUASSU FALLS, where you will take the ECOLOGICAL JUNGLE TRAIN and enjoy a closer perspective on a walking tour of the falls. Meander along the walkways from atop the falls, and enjoy an exhilarating perspective looking over the precipice of the falls as the water plunges to the rocks below. You will also have the chance to walk through the rainforest on the lower falls trails that will bring you up close to some of the smaller cataracts. Return to the hotel, where the remainder of the day is at your leisure. (B)
Day #10
Iguassu Falls–Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Today, fly to Buenos Aires. After arriving, an orientation walk acquaints you with the "Paris of South America" and its wide boulevards and outdoor cafés. (B)
Day #11
Buenos Aires.
Your sightseeing starts in La Boca, a colorful district and site of the city's first port. Take a short walking tour of this unique neighborhood and then on to San Telmo, famous for its late-colonial buildings and a popular gathering spot for artists. At Plaza de Mayo, see La Casa Rosada (the President's Pink House) and the METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL, housing San Martin's Mausoleum. Drive past the ornate Colon Opera House before reaching the CEMETERY OF THE RECOLETA, burial site of Eva Peron. After an afternoon at leisure, top off the evening at a famous TANGO CLUB. Start with a [LF] DANCE LESSON followed by dinner of Argentine steaks and other local specialties and end with a show featuring flawless performances of Latin America's most sensuous dance—the Tango! (B,D)
Day #12
Buenos Aires.
Enjoy a full day at leisure, with an optional excursion to visit another South American country—Uruguay. Travel by catamaran to the World Heritage City of Colonia del Sacramento. Founded by Portuguese settlers from Brazil in 1680, this town held a strategic position as a smuggling outpost for transporting British goods across the Rio de la Plata into the Spanish colonies throughout the 17th century. Today, its charm lies in its narrow streets and colonial buildings. (B)
Day #13
Buenos Aires. Excursion to the Pampas.
Today, head into the heart of the pampas (grasslands) and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of rural, country life at a working [LF] ARGENTINE ESTANCIA (ranch). After a traditional welcome with empanadas and local beverages, get acquainted with the lifestyle of real gauchos (cowboys) on a horseback ride or carriage ride through the pampas. Later, at lunch, enjoy a colorful feast, complete with world-renowned Argentine beef, salad, desserts, local wine, and live music and dance by the gauchos themselves. Top off the day with a horsemanship show by the gauchos before saying adios to the countryside and heading back to the city. (B,L)
Day #14
Buenos Aires–Bariloche.
Fly south to Bariloche in Patagonia on the shores of fjord-like Lago Nahuel Huapi in the heart of Argentina's Lake District. Arrive in the early evening, with time to enjoy a leisurely stroll through the picturesque town center. See the city hall, the clock tower in Municipality Square, and the famous chocolate factories. (B,D)
Day #15
This chic alpine resort boasts some of the most glorious scenery in the country. Cameras should be ready for today's chairlift ride to a lookout point at CERRO CAMPANARIO. You'll want to capture the vistas of surrounding lakes and Andes mountain peaks. The tour continues with a leisurely drive around the Llao Llao Peninsula, Lago Moreno, and Lopez Bay. (B,L)
Day #16
Bariloche–Puerto Varas, Chile.
Set out today for your [LF] ANDES LAKE CROSSING! Board a boat for the CRUISE across Lago Nahuel Huapi to Puerto Blest. Proceed by motorcoach and see emerald lakes, thick pine forests, and the snowcapped peaks of the Andes Mountains. Look out for soaring Osorno Volcano as you cross Lago Todos los Santos by CATAMARAN. Skirt the southern shore of Lago Llanquihue on the way to Puerto Varas. Drive to your hotel along the rosebush-lined streets of this lakeside resort. (B,L,D)
Day #17
Puerto Varas–Puerto Montt–Santiago.
Your morning tour of the nearby seaport of Puerto Montt in Chilean Patagonia takes you to the harbor brimming with fishing vessels and along a busy waterfront lined with seafood stalls. Transfer to the airport for your flight north to Santiago. Perched between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, Santiago has evolved as the country's political, commercial, and cultural capital. Tonight, dinner is at the hotel. (B,D)
Day #18
Today, your Local Guide traces the city's history and heritage on a guided city tour. Start at La Moneda, the official Government Palace, before heading to the Plaza de Armas, the main square, with a visit to the 18th-century CATHEDRAL. Your afternoon is at leisure. This evening, you may opt to join a Chilean Folkloric Dinner Show. (B)
Day #19
The day is free for independent activities. You may want to take advantage of an optional excursion to the beautiful coastal region west of Santiago. Drive through the hills of Chile's wine country to the historic port of Valparaiso, and continue along the coast to nearby Viña del Mar. Tonight, your Tour Director hosts a special farewell dinner to celebrate a great touring adventure. (B,D)
Day #20
Your tour ends with breakfast this morning. (B)
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Four starts with a teenage boy and a man in a hut in the jungle. The man is killed, the boy runs for his life, but he doesn't make it far. We then cut to another teenage boy at a pool party in Florida, who suddenly has a burning pain around his ankle as a charm warns him that another of his kind has been killed. This is our introduction to Number Four, who we come to know as John, an alien refugee whose race was nearly exterminated by a terrible enemy race. His race, the Lorien, is divided into to castes that worked together – the Garde, who have special abilities, the Cepan who help and teach the Garde, and run the government of the planet. Nine Garde children escaped on a ship to Earth, each with an adult Cepan to protect them and teach them until their abilities or legacies manifest when they are teens. It appears they are the only Loriens left. We follow John and his guardian, Henri, as they continue to run and hide, waiting for John's legacies (read superpowers) to develop and preparing for the day when they will fight to reclaim their planet.
As his powers develop, John begins training to fight the enemy – the Mogadorians. He also manages to fall in love with a human girl and become best friends with a schoolmate who believes his father was abducted by aliens. Henri remains vigilant, always watching for signs the Mogadorians may have found them, even as John begins to resist the idea of running again. News comes from an unusual source – John's alien obsessed best friend has a newsletter that has an article about Mogadorians planning to invade Earth. When Henri goes to check it out, the Mogadorians pick up their trail and they and their human friends have to fight for their lives against a horde of alien monsters. That fight by sucking the life out of everything around them – their weapons are literally powered by the life force of surrounding trees and plants.
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Cornell is an unusually complex institution and that complexity can be traced to the founding vision of Ezra Cornell. To incorporate practical and vocational education into an institution of higher learning was unprecedented, as was the idea of opening up classical education to the masses of American society. Today Cornell remains unique among institutions of higher education, as a distinguished private Ivy League institution that also is the land grant university of New York State. To provide context for this strategic plan, this section presents the mission of the institution and makes explicit the core values and enduring commitments of Cornell University.
University Mission
The official mission statement is as follows:
Cornell is a private, Ivy League university and the land grant university for New York State. Cornell's mission is to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge; produce creative work; and promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of our students, the people of New York, and others around the world. [Strategic Plan 2008]
This mission statement follows a standard form for research universities, capturing in general terms the nature of Cornell University. This strategic plan draws on the mission in two respects. First, the three dimensions of the mission (knowledge creation, education of students, and public service or outreach) are umbrella goal areas within which this strategic plan develops more specific objectives and actions. Second, becoming a model university for interweaving fundamental and practical knowledge is an important component of the aspiration for Cornell proposed by the plan.
The university also has a statement of vision, used in some communications, as follows:
Cornell aspires to be the exemplary comprehensive research university for the 21st century on the basis of our distinctive status as a private university with a formal public mission. Faculty, staff, and students will thrive at Cornell because of its unparalleled combination of quality and breadth; its high standards; its open, collaborative, and innovative culture; the opportunities provided by beautiful, vibrant rural and urban campuses; and programs that extend throughout the state of New York and across the globe.[Strategic Plan 2008]
In this vision there are noteworthy references to Cornell's exemplary breadth and quality as well as its collaborative and open culture. The plan assumes and builds on these qualities.
Core Values
Core values are defined as inviolable commitments that express "who we are as an institution" and what principles or qualities should infuse all practices and activities within the institution. The nature and implicit values of Cornell University were the theme of President Skorton's "State of the University" address on October 23, 2009. He argued that Cornell University is supported by four fundamental pillars:
- Classical and contemporary inquiry, "shaped by the founder's commitment to liberal and practical education." In other words, Cornell values the arts and humanities as well as advanced scientific and technological research; in broader terms, the university is committed to the interweaving of fundamental knowledge and practical education. The strategic plan builds on this unique combination.
- "Thinking otherwise" Cornell's faculty members have a history of being intellectually diverse and entrepreneurial and as Carl Becker indicated, "thinking otherwise." This reflects a deep commitment to academic freedom and a belief that such freedom is essential to creativity and innovation. The One Cornell theme of this plan stresses the value of creative collaborations that emerge from the "bottom up" rather than from the "top down."
- Student access , which expresses a central principle of Ezra Cornell's original vision, namely a university open and accessible to all who merit entrance ("any person"). The longstanding and recently reaffirmed commitment to need-blind admissions reflects this value, as does the commitment of the university to diversity and inclusion and the notion that diversity and excellence are interrelated (see Appendix B). The university's commitment to student access has been tested in recent years, given significant competition with peer institutions, and Cornell has addressed this challenge successfully with a program to reduce the costs of a Cornell education for students from families in lower income quintiles.
- Public engagement , which expresses the university's commitment to search for knowledge-based solutions to societal and world problems. Public engagement is an interpretation of the university's outreach mission that emphasizes being proactive (actively engaged) and having a public impact. It implies a broadening of the historic land grant mission of the university. This strategic plan adopts and develops this concept of the university's outreach mission.
These four pillars of Cornell imply a set of core values that stand at the center of Cornell as an institution. At the beginning of the strategic planning process, the Strategic Planning Advisory Council asked: What are the core values of Cornell? They developed an initial list and then solicited feedback from university leaders and members of the community.
The resulting set of core values is as follows:
- Seek knowledge
- Support free and open intellectual inquiry and expression
- Sustain excellence in teaching, research, and public engagement
- Use knowledge to enlighten ourselves and benefit the world
- Reward and recognize merit, creativity, and innovation
- Treat all individuals with dignity, respect, and fairness
- Embrace difference and diversity
- Promote cross-cultural and cross-national understanding
- Be a collaborative, collegial, and caring community
- Be accessible and affordable to all who meet high academic standards
Themes in the values, echoed throughout this plan, include excellence; diversity and inclusion; openness; and collaboration.
Umbrella University Goals
Cornell University has broad, overarching goals that are timeless and enduring. All universities have such goals, whether they state them or not, and when stated, they express long-term commitments within which planning tends to occur-hence the term "umbrella goals." The Strategic Planning Advisory Council developed the set of umbrella goals below, based on widespread consultation with members of the university community.
- Enroll, educate, and graduate the most deserving, promising, and diverse student body possible. Provide all students (undergraduate, graduate, professional) with an education that is innovative, distinctive, and of the highest quality, and that inspires in them a zest for learning.
- Maintain and enhance world leadership in research, scholarship, and creativity.
- Maintain and enhance efforts to recruit, nurture, and retain a diverse faculty who are outstanding scholars and teachers and an excellent, diverse staff who provide outstanding support to faculty and students.
- Strengthen the public engagement of the university's education, research, and clinical programs with local, national, and international communities, consonant with its stature as an academically distinguished private university with a public mission.
- Establish and maintain organizational structures and processes that promote and support academic excellence.
These five goals represent general areas within which this plan develops objectives (ends) and actions (means) to achieve them. These goals are similar to those of other research universities, but there are signature ideas about Cornell here: a distinctive education, world leadership, outstanding scholars and teachers, public engagement. These are guiding principles for the subsequent sections of this planning document.
University Aspiration
Having an overarching aspiration for the university is consistent with the One Cornell concept. Many of Cornell's departments or schools are in the top five or ten of their fields and some are of unequaled stature (#1). For the university as a whole, we suggest the following: 8
Cornell University will be widely recognized as a top-ten research university in the world, and a model university for the interweaving of liberal education and fundamental knowledge with practical education and impact on societal and world problems.
The first phrase of the aspiration, being among the top ten research universities, is an important and worthy longer-term goal. The second phrase in the aspiration communicates the importance of pursuing the top-ten aspiration in part by taking further advantage of Cornell's special qualities.
The aspiration articulates the centrality of research, scholarship, and creativity (Goal 2 above) to a research university, yet implies the importance of the interconnections between the creation of fundamental knowledge and use of that knowledge to have a positive impact on the world. In no way does this aspiration diminish the centrality of teaching and education at Cornell. The Strategic Planning Advisory Council accepts no trade-offs between the research or application emphasis of this aspiration, and excellence in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.
This aspiration should be pursued through a strategy of greater focus and connectivity within and across basic academic areas: humanities and the arts; life sciences and agricultural sciences; social sciences; physical sciences and engineering; and Cornell's professional schools and colleges. Cornell has consistently had humanities and science disciplines ranked in the top ten or even higher among peers in addition to contract and specialized colleges of very high or unequaled stature in their respective fields. Life sciences is a critical area of emerging and growing strength, and the social sciences have a realistic prospect of growing significantly in strength and stature over the next ten years.
A diverse mix of academic areas, and distinctive professional schools and programs, are essential sources of Cornell's special character and eminence among research universities. This combination needs to be nurtured. However, the university does not need to be strong in every discipline or field within these broad academic areas, or necessarily even retain all of the subfields within these areas as currently represented on campus. The proposed strategy of focus and connectivity suggests that, in pursuing the above aspiration, the university should create and maintain academic leadership across all of the broad areas but do so selectively and strategically within each and be prepared to consolidate or even, under some conditions, eliminate departments or programs that are no longer critical, as constituted, to the university and its colleges.
At the implementation stage, the aspiration requires that the university define a set of criteria or dimensions-objective and reputational - upon which it will judge where it currently stands and how much progress it makes over time. It also should identify its primary competitor institutions and track those institutions over time on these dimensions. Finally, the university will need to make ongoing assessments of the strategically important or critical academic areas for Cornell - i.e., to identify current academic strengths or emerging strengths and to determine how the diverse, college-based strengths can be efficiently and effectively built upon.
8The appropriate aspiration for particular colleges or programs should be higher if at all possible. Each college or department should have aspirations that are challenging.
- Preamble
- Cornell's Enduring Commitments
- The Institution and Its Environment
- Goal Areas: Objectives and Actions
- Strategic Initiatives for 2010-2015
- Excellence in Organizational Stewardship
- Cornell at its Sesquicentennial
- Appendices
Appendix A: Structure and Process of Strategic Planning 2010Appendix B: Cornell's Statement on DiversityAppendix C: Student Learning OutcomesAppendix D: Assessing Progress 2010-2015
- Strategic Plan Summary
- Posted June 8, 2010
- Strategic Plan (final)
- Posted May 27, 2010


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Advent opens with a great cry, and a great promise:
"Oh that you would tear the heavens open and come down!"
is the cry, of a people who need God.
"...The master is coming"
is the promise, not to breed fear, but to answer our cry. Advent begins, not with thoughts of the past, with the coming of the Lord we celebrate at Christmas, but with the future, and the promise that He is coming back. We are encouraged to treat every day as the day the Lord will come; we do not do this out of fear for a Master who beats his servants, but out of love of a Master who always treats us with love and mercy. Nevertheless we must always be watchful, because we can grow sleepy and complacent, saying that we can leave this prayer or that confession or the other change in the way we live to tomorrow. Even as we look forward to the tomorrow of the Lord's coming, we must remember that it might be today !
Notes for Readers
First Reading: Isaiah 63:16-17; 64:1.3-8.
This is a great prayer and cry, of confession, of trust and hope. There are four parts: first we have the cry or pleading of the prophet - almost upbraiding God for his absence. The reader must allow the "Why?" on line 3 to ring out - and then the same is true of the single, dramatic word "Return!" on line 5. Then the wonderful and powerful line: "Oh, that you would tear the heavens open..."; the power of this line will come from the reader's emphasis. (Use the "Oh!" when you read – don't be apologetic about it!) Secondly, we have a section which praises God for his Presence ("No ear has heard...") Pause slightly before the change of tone, and perhaps speak a little more gently. Then we have the confession of faults: ("You were angry...") perhaps a tone of sadness and regret would help to carry the meaning here. Finally, the last three lines are gentle affirmation of the reason for our hope: "you are our Father." The reading ends on a tone of positive confidence.
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9.
As usual with Saint Paul, it is worth reading this passage out loud a couple of times in preparation - most of the second paragraph is a single sentence, and so is very difficult to read and to listen to ! Look for the reason for this reading appearing on the First Sunday of Advent: the key phrase is "...waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed...". This is what we are doing. The reading reminds us that God offers us help while we wait - the gifts of the Spirit, and his sustaining care. This reading is encouraging. Be every careful with the last part of the reading: you may wish to read it like this:
"and he will keep you steady and without blame /
until the last day -
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ -
because God, /
by calling you, /
has joined you to his Son, Jesus Christ; /
and God is faithful."
Make those last four words especially powerful, by pausing slightly before them and delivering them with a tone of quiet confidence. This reading is important because the tone of comfort is the other side of the coin to the slightly threatening Gospel reading - we must stay awake, but God will help us !
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The final tribulation and Christ's return in glory
"Come, Lord Jesus!"
Humble vigilance of heart
1130: "The Church celebrates the mystery of her Lord "until he comes," when God will be "everything to everyone." Since the apostolic age the liturgy has been drawn toward its goal by the Spirit's groaning in the Church: Marana tha! The liturgy thus shares in Jesus' desire: "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you . . . until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." In the sacraments of Christ the Church already receives the guarantee of her inheritance and even now shares in everlasting life, while "awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus." The "Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come . . . Come, Lord Jesus!'"
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Brussels, 9 June 2010
Digital Agenda: Commission welcomes launch of supercomputing infrastructure for European researchers
The European Commission today welcomed the launch of a €500 million initiative which boosts European supercomputer capacities and opens them up to scientists across Europe. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) unites the European Commission and 20 countries across Europe in a unique initiative which will enable researchers to use super fast computers located in other countries to make up to 1000 trillion calculations per second for their research projects. This could be used for example to speed up the development of more efficient solar cells or help us understand how drugs interact with the human body. Europe's fastest computer, JUGENE in Germany, will be the first machine available to European scientists under the PRACE initiative. By 2015 more supercomputers in Germany, France, Italy and Spain will be available across the EU. The initiative remains open to other countries that can host such supercomputers. The Commission is contributing more than €70 million to PRACE, which strengthens European research and competitiveness, in line with the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe (IP/10/581), a flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy (IP/10/225).
Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said: "I warmly welcome the launch of the PRACE supercomputer infrastructure as scientific computing is a key driver for the development of modern science and technology and for addressing the major challenges of our time like climate change, energy saving and the ageing population."
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) was officially launched in Barcelona today when the major contributors, Spain, France, Italy and Germany, signed the statutes of the PRACE organisation. PRACE, an international non-profit association, will bring together supercomputers of world-class capability across Europe to form a single infrastructure. This will give researchers access to a combined computing power equivalent to more than 100,000 of today's fastest PCs, and will speed up calculation time tremendously to up to 1000 trillion calculations per second.
This means that research can be conducted incomparably faster, at massive scale and far more accurately. It also means we can now address problems that we could not solve before because they were too large and complex. This new way of doing science will be available to scientists from all over Europe on the basis of the scientific merit of the research to be carried out. In this way PRACE helps to expand scientific knowledge which in turn delivers social and economic benefits.
For example, thanks to the capacity of the PRACE infrastructure, researchers will be able to investigate photosynthesis at sub-atomic level, which in turn can improve the way solar cells are built today. Scientists can also investigate 3D protein folding, which helps them understand how drugs interact with cells in the human body. Knowledge of the process of blood flow in cardiac disease could be increased, which will allow doctors to predict heart attacks and take timely actions to save lives.
Spain, France, Italy and Germany have each committed to invest €100 million in the PRACE initiative over the next 5 years. The European Commission is contributing €70 million through the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme. Sixteen other countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and UK) are also taking part with smaller contributions of resources and expertise.
Scientists will be able to fully use the PRACE infrastructure from 1 August 2010, after their application has been approved by a common European Peer Review process. The first supercomputer available to all European researchers is the JUGENE system located in Jülich, Germany. It is the fastest in Europe and fifth fastest in the world. More supercomputers will be made available from 2011 onwards.
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