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Posted September 11, 2000; 03:48 p.m.
At Opening Exercises Sunday, President Harold Shapiro encouraged Princeton's newest students to seek out the unfamiliar, take intellectual risks and take "full advantage of the new beginnings" that the University can offer.
The ceremony welcomed new students and honored returning ones, as six undergraduate and graduate students received awards for their academic achievements at Princeton.
Jared George Kramer, a senior from Atkinson, N.H., received the Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, which is given to the undergraduate with the highest academic standing at the end of the junior year. A B.S.E. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, he has a record of academic honors at Princeton, including the Freshman First Honor Prize for the Class of 2001 and the President's Award for Academic Achievement in the freshman and sophomore years. He is a member of the Princeton University Glee Club and the Human Value Forum.
Sophomore Peggy Ping Hsu, who is pursuing pre-medical studies, won this year's Freshman First Honor Prize, which recognizes exceptional academic achievement during the freshman year. Hsu, from Bethelem, Pa., has a strong interest in chemistry and molecular biology. Outside the classroom, she has participated in the Manna Christian Fellowship and plays the violin.
Junior Abbie Boggiano Liel of Portland, Ore. won the George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize for exceptional achievement during the sophomore year. Liel is concentrating in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is pursuing a certificate in the Woodrow Wilson School. She plays the bassoon in the Princeton University Orchestra and provides computer assistance to the university community as a consultant on the CIT help desk.
The George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional achievement during the junior year was awarded to senior Vance Foster Serchuk of Katonah, N.Y., who is concentrating in the Department of History and pursuing certificates in Russian Studies, European Cultural Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Outside the classroom, he is a leading member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and serves on its governing council. He serves as co-executive director of Princeton Model Congress and is a peer advisor in Wilson College.
Two graduate students also were recognized at Opening Exercises, representing more than a dozen graduate students who receive honorific fellowships each year.
Manfred Laubichler, a graduate student in the History of Science, is a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter fellow. A native of Austria, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vienna and studied in the Ph.D. program in biology at Yale University. He has written research publications and book reviews, and twice has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Graduate student Jayanthi V.J. Wolf, of Sri Lanka, is a Harold W. Dodds fellow. She graduated summa cum laude from Susquehanna University and is studying molecular biology at Princeton. She won awards for the quality of her precepts two times, and was a visiting scholar at the Curie Institute in France.
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The biggest advantage of us is the green area. The City Park is the oldest memorial park of Budapest where beside the Hereoes Square you can find lots of interesting sights. In the evening the park gets young and provides a lot of entertainment facilities from the disco to the alternative ruin pubs. For shopping there are two food stores, one bakery and one nonstop grocery near to our house. For getting to the city center there are 5 bus lines, two trolley-bus lines, and the underground so it takes 10-15 minutes. Bring your bike with you we can store it safely!
If you would like to experience the hospitality of a real Hungarian family and get a taste of our everyday culture then feel free to choose us! In case you have questions don't hesitate to ask me!
ps.: the room is non-smoker but you can smoke in the kitchen if you want
Ev kurallarıOur new Residents will be always welcome as old friends but please try to adopt to us, to the everyday life and customs of our family!
Please give priority to family members if they would like to go to the kitchen, bathroom or lavatory (regarding lavatory it's negotiable :) If you decide to sleep here you will get an own key to a separate entrance door of the apartment to enable you leave and come back whenever you want. Please take care of those keys and guard our property!
As it's mentioned in the description we spend our time in another part of the apartment so it's not difficult to pay attention to each other. To sum it up, nothing extra just a kind of attention is needed. Thank you
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The Familiy Konya is a wonderful,helpful andere welcoming Familiy!It was a great time in a amazing city.It wasn't my last Time in Budapest andere at the Konyas!!!
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Bence was very kind and helpful and his english skills were very good. Before our arrival he told us how to reach the apartment, where we could exchange our money and any other questions we had he also answered very quickly. As soon as we arrived we felt at home. Bences family was very friendly and we were always greeted with a big smile.
The room was secluded and the loft bed was big and cosy. With the seperate key we had no trouble entering and leaving whenever we wanted to. The apartment was also near bus stops and a beautiful park.
We highly recommend this apartment
We really recommend this room because we had a great time here! In short, the room is clean and big enough for 2 people, it's near to the city centre and Bence and his family are very nice and friendly.
A short time after booking this room we recieved an email with directions to the apartment and phone numbers that we could call in case of any problems. When we arrived we had a warm welcome from the whole family and we immediatly felt at home. If we had any questions or something else they were willing to help us and their english is very good. Because there is a seperate entrance we could go out and come back when we wanted. Near the apartment is a busstop and all day buses are going to the city centre, it's 5-10 min to the city centre with these buses. Also by night it is easy to come back to the apartment with a nightbus. When we would visit Budapest again we would certainly go back to this apartment.
I liked staying with Bence and his family very much. They are friendly and helpful people!
Bence is very communicative, friendly and very helpful guy. Even though I sent an inquiry to the day before arrival, I received a quick, factual answer. Subsequent contacts also proceeded smoothly and kindly. Bence and his family are really nice people. We were very warmly welcomed.
The room is small but enough convenient for two people. The bed is quite big and comfortable. The whole house is cozy and quiet. We were able to sleep a long time and have never heard of votes for the wall :) Despite of the kitchen and bathroom are shared, was never a problem getting to them.
Thanks to a separate entrance we felt free going out and getting back to the house whenever we wanted. I really recommend this place. It was a great pleasure to get to know Bence and his family. And, of course it was pleasure to visiting lovely Budapest :)
We have booked this apartment just a couple of hours before arriving but Bence was quick with accepting it and sending us a mail with the route direction to find his home, wich was very easy to find.
Bence and his family were giving us a warm welcome and let us make it feels like home. The whole family is more than willing to help you find your way in Budapest and Bence even told us all the nice spots to visit.
The room is located in the house, so you share the bathroom and kitchen. But we could go our own way and could use everything we need. The room is clean, the bed is nice and big and because its located on the other side of the house, we had a lot of privacy.
We stayed for three nights and were almost sorry to leave again because we had a really good time here. We definitely recommend this room.
I was very satisfied with my stay at Bence's place. The room is nice and quiet, the flat has all the necessary facilities and Bence's family is very friendly, helpful and willing to answer all your questions. The house is situated in a pleasant area and public transportation to go to the city centre is easily accesible. The atmosphere gets 5 stars and the location/facilities 4 stars. With other words I would definitely recommend it.
400 m. Lopen is het vervoers museum. En op 900 m. Lopen nog 3 musea!!
Namelijk 2 op heroes square en 1 in het park. Geboekt voor 3 personen, wij hebben allen genoten van het grote huis, alles netjes schoon, gezellige relaxte mensen. Als er iets niet in orde is, willen ze het graag voor je in orde maken.
Je bed is opgemaakt als je komt, handoeken liggen klaar. Gastvrijheid. Wat wil je nog meer?
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Mazda's videos tease front design of new Mazda6
LOS ANGELES -- Mazda is teasing the production 2014 Mazda6 with videos on YouTube showing glimpses of the redesigned sedan's grille, headlamps and front fenders.
The first video, posted earlier this week, is a darkly-lit close-up of the Mazda6's new hexagonal, open-mouth grille that will be the face of Mazda's redesigned vehicles for the next few years. It also offers a glimpse of the headlight design. The video garnered nearly 213,000 views on YouTube as of Saturday morning.
The second video is similar in style and shows the arching silhouette of the front fender's creased sheet metal that flows down towards the beltline before fading into the door panel. Mazda says three more such teaser videos will be posted on YouTube by July 25.
The shots are close-proximity, panning shots of still images. It's unclear if actual photographs of the car, or renderings were used. A Mazda spokesman was unavailable for comment.
But judging by these, Mazda seems to have succeeded in transferring much of the design details of its Takeri concept car shown at the New York auto show last April into production.
Mazda will reveal the production 2014 Mazda6 at the Paris Motor Show in September. U.S. sales will begin in early 2013.


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Today i've found another implementation of unix sockets, this one from the gnu java team, http://www.nfrese.net/software/gnu_net_local/overview.html.
Both implementations, the one i posted yesterday and this one, work fine and they have almost the same features wich allowed me to get through dbus authentication mechanism and get an authenticated session with whom I will be able to send/receive messages (or at least it seems).
So, this project is feasible and the only native part is reduced only to unix domain sockets.


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7.6: Consistent and Inconsistent Linear Systems
In Economics, a line representing supply and a line representing demand are often graphed on the same coordinate plane, and the lines intersect at one point. How many solutions does this system of linear equations have? Is the system consistent, inconsistent, or consistent dependent? After completing this Concept, you'll be able to identify how many solutions a system of equations has and classify the system accordingly.
Solutions to a system can have several forms:
- One solution
- Two or more solutions
- No solutions
- An infinite number of solutions
Inconsistent Systems
This Concept will focus on the last two situations: systems with no solutions or systems with an infinite amount of solutions.
A system with parallel lines will have no solutions.
Remember that parallel lines have the same slope. When graphed, the lines will have the same steepness with different intercepts. Therefore, parallel lines will never intersect, so they have no solution.
Example A
Algebraically, a system with no solutions looks like this when solved.
The first equation in this system is "almost" solved for . Substitution would be appropriate to solve this system.
Using the Substitution Property, replace the variable in the second equation with its algebraic expression in equation #1.
You have solved the equation correctly, yet the answer does not make sense.
When solving a system of parallel lines, the final equation will be untrue.
Because and you have done your math correctly, you can say this system has "no solutions."
A system with no solutions is called an inconsistent system.
Consistent Systems
Consistent systems, on the other hand, have at least one solution. This means there is at least one intersection of the lines. There are three cases for consistent systems:
- One intersection, as is commonly practiced in linear system Concepts
- Two or more intersections, as you will see when a quadratic equation intersects a linear equation
- Infinitely many intersections, as with coincident lines
Coincident lines are lines with the same slope and intercept. The lines completely overlap.
When solving a consistent system involving coincident lines, the solution has the following result.
Multiply the first equation by –3:
Add the equations together.
There are no variables left and you KNOW you did the math correctly. However, this is a true statement.
When solving a system of coincident lines, the resulting equation will be without variables and the statement will be true. You can conclude the system has an infinite number of solutions. This is called a consistent-dependent system.
Example B
Identify the system as consistent, inconsistent, or consistent-dependent.
Solution: Because both equations are in standard form, elimination is the best method to solve this system.
Multiply the first equation by 3.
Subtract the two equations.
This is an untrue statement; therefore, you can conclude:
- These lines are parallel.
- The system has no solution.
- The system is inconsistent.
Example C
Two movie rental stores are in competition. Movie House charges an annual membership of $30 and charges $3 per movie rental. Flicks for Cheap charges an annual membership of $15 and charges $3 per movie rental. After how many movie rentals would Movie House become the better option?
Solution: It should already be clear to see that Movie House will never become the better option, since its membership is more expensive and it charges the same amount per move as Flicks for Cheap.
The lines that describe each option have different intercepts, namely 30 for Movie House and 15 for Flicks for Cheap. They have the same slope, three dollars per movie. This means that the lines are parallel and the system is inconsistent.
Let's see how this works algebraically.
Define the variables: Let number of movies rented and total rental cost
Because both equations are in slope-intercept form, solve this system by substituting the second equation into the first equation.
This statement is always false. Therefore, the system is inconsistent with no solutions.
Guided Practice
Determine whether the following system of linear equations has zero, one, or infinitely many solutions:
What kind of system is this?
It is easier to compare equations when they are in the same form. We will rewrite the first equation in slope-intercept form.
Since the two equations have the same slope, but different -intercepts, they are different but parallel lines. Parallel lines never intersect, so they have no solutions.
Since the lines are parallel, it is an inconsistent system.
Sample explanations for some of the practice exercises below are available by viewing the following video. Note that there is not always a match between the number of the practice exercise in the video and the number of the practice exercise listed in the following exercise set. However, the practice exercise is the same in both. CK-12 Basic Algebra: Special Types of Linear Systems (15:18)
- Define an inconsistent system. What is true about these systems?
- What are the three types of consistent systems?
- You graph a system and see only one line. What can you conclude?
- You graph a system and see the lines have an intersection point. What can you conclude?
- The lines you graphed appear parallel. How can you verify the system will have no solution?
- You graph a system and obtain the following graph. Is the system consistent or inconsistent? How many solutions does the system have?
In 7 – 24, find the solution of each system of equations using the method of your choice. Please state whether the system is inconsistent, consistent, or consistent-dependent.
- Peter buys two apples and three bananas for $4. Nadia buys four apples and six bananas for $8 from the same store. How much does one banana and one apple cost?
- A movie rental store, CineStar, offers customers two choices. Customers can pay a yearly membership of $45 and then rent each movie for $2, or they can choose not to pay the membership fee and rent each movie for $3.50. How many movies would you have to rent before membership becomes the cheaper option?
- A movie house charges $4.50 for children and $8.00 for adults. On a certain day, 1200 people enter the movie house and $8,375 is collected. How many children and how many adults attended?
- Andrew placed two orders with an internet clothing store. The first order was for 13 ties and four pairs of suspenders, and it totaled $487. The second order was for six ties and two pairs of suspenders, and it totaled $232. The bill does not list the per-item price but all ties have the same price and all suspenders have the same price. What is the cost of one tie and of one pair of suspenders?
- An airplane took four hours to fly 2400 miles in the direction of the jet-stream. The return trip against the jet-stream took five hours. What were the airplane's speed in still air and the jet-stream's speed?
- Nadia told Peter that she went to the farmer's market, that she bought two apples and one banana, and that it cost her $2.50. She thought that Peter might like some fruit so she went back to the seller and bought four more apples and two more bananas. Peter thanked Nadia, but he told her that he did not like bananas, so he would pay her for only four apples. Nadia told him that the second time she paid $6.00 for the fruit. Please help Peter figure out how much to pay Nadia for four apples.
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- A football stadium sells regular and box seating. There are twelve times as many regular seats as there are box seats. The total capacity of the stadium is 10,413. How many box seats are in the stadium? How many regular seats?
- Find an equation for the line perpendicular to containing the point (2, 7).
- Rewrite in standard form: .
- Find the sum: .
- Divide: .
- Is the product of two rational numbers always a rational number? Explain your answer.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Packers' Thanksgiving Day had been a colossal disappointment, and in the Ford Field locker visitors' room in the moments after the loss to the Detroit Lions, the road ahead appeared daunting. One could've argued the season was lost.
"There was very little room for error before the game," the Packers head coach said. "And there's even less room now."
Nothing had gone right. The bruising starting running back, who'd been so productive in previous weeks, was shut down.
"We couldn't run the ball worth a (expletive)," the tell-it-like-it-is left guard said. "It was a terrible game."
The defense had made a few plays, but not enough, and committed costly errors at inopportune times.
"We just didn't do enough to get the job done," the veteran cornerback said. "We needed big plays, we needed to stop them from putting points up on the board altogether. I hate to say it, but we found a way to lose this one."
Injuries remained a factor.
"But we have guys who have to step in and make those plays and make that adjustment," the coach said. "And I fully expected us to."
And to top it off, the former MVP quarterback wouldn't be 100 percent healthy the rest of the season.
"Do I feel like I can take this team and carry them by myself? I think every individual should feel that way," the quarterback said. "If you want to (ask), can I still carry this team? Fine. But until they tell me I'm not the quarterback here anymore, then I will do my best and feel confident that I can do what needs to be done to win."
And yet, despite it all, they knew they had four games left to play, and they weren't ready to give up, despite being 1 1/2 games behind the NFC North leader.
"We have to win out," the veteran right guard said. "We've got four games left. We're definitely not out of anything. We still have a shot."
Added the head coach: "You never know how things are going to pan out. You just don't. So you have to win each game as you go. The margin of error has now been minimized even more so because of our ineptness (against Detroit). We have to overcome that."
Sound familiar? It should.
Except, this wasn't Mike McCarthy, Josh Sitton, Tramon Williams, Aaron Rodgers and T.J. Lang talking after Thursday's 40-10 Thanksgiving loss to the Lions. This was Mike Sherman, Mike Wahle, Mike McKenzie, Brett Favre and Marco Rivera talking after the team's 22-14 loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving 2003.
And you know what happened next.
The Packers, 6-6 entering the final four games, won out. Favre took the field in Oakland in the second-to-last game of the season, having lost his father Irv to a fatal heart attack, and played the game of his life. In a sublimely bizarre final day of the season, the Packers whipped the Denver Broncos, 31-3, at Lambeau Field while most of the crowd spent the second half turned around watching skybox TVs to see the Arizona Cardinals stun the Minnesota Vikings, 18-17, and send the Packers to the NFC North title and a berth in the playoffs.
"Something's going on here," Favre said after that game.
Once there, they beat Matt "We Want The Ball And We're Going To Score" Hasselbeck and the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Wild Card round. The Team of Destiny came up short, of course, its miraculous run ending with the infamous Fourth-and-26 loss at Philadelphia in the NFC Divisional round.
But that's not the point. The point is that a team seemingly out of contention went on a run, with its quarterback bringing his teammates together, and made the playoffs. The 5-6-1 Packers, who are 0-4-1 since Rodgers broke his left collarbone against Chicago on the opening series of the team's No. 4 loss, have four games left – at home against Atlanta (3-9) on Sunday, at Dallas (7-5) on Dec. 15, at home against Pittsburgh (5-7) on Dec. 22 and at Chicago (6-6) on Dec. 29.
On Friday – the last time McCarthy spoke to reporters, as Monday evening's scheduled press briefing was canceled by the club – McCarthy acknowledged how bad Thursday's loss had been and the scenario it created.
"There's not a man that's coached or played in this league that hasn't had his ass beat. OK? And that's what happened to us. We got drilled by a very good football team that played very well. So we'll take that hard lesson, swallow. They'll be accountable for it. And we'll be ready to go when Atlanta comes in here.
"We're in a hole. We felt like we were in a hole going in to the Detroit game. We've got two division losses and a tie. That's not where you want to be. This league is exciting each and every week. And that's the way you have to approach it. So we have a big opportunity (against the Falcons). It's an NFC game, it's at home, to get back to .500. And we'll see what happens."
While Rodgers' collarbone injury is obviously different than the personal tragedy Favre dealt with, his return could conceivably galvanize the team. In addition to everything else the Packers overcame in 2003, Favre played the second half of the season with a broken thumb on his right (throwing) hand, suffered in October.
Will the Packers be able to ride Rodgers to a similar finish? Of course, past performance is not a guarantee of future results. But asked on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com last week whether the team could run the table, Rodgers said he believed it could. In fact, Rodgers had just talked with injured running back DuJuan Harris about it a week earlier.
"I think so. I really do," Rodgers replied. "I think we've been through so much as a team this year, faced a lot of adversity, a lot of injuries, we should be getting healthy at the right time. We still have guys who are playing through injuries.
"It would be exciting to see, as DuJuan actually mentioned to me in the locker room last week, what it would be like if we'd have been able to stay relatively healthy this season. Obviously he's been out for the season and (left tackle) Bryan Bulaga out (is) for the season and there have been a number of other injuries throughout the year that have dealt us some tough blows.
"We've, in the past, been able to make runs in these types of situations. Everybody's banged up at this point in the season, but we feel if we can just stay in the hunt here and just get into the tournament, anything can happen."
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In this video, Karin M. Kohl, adjunct instructor, Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT), Master Equinology® Equine Body Worker (MEEBW), Certified Equine Rehabilitation Practitioner (CERP), and manager of the Morrisville State College Equine Rehabilitation Center (MSCERC) narrates a demonstration on how and why the center's swimming pool is used to treat equine athletes.
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barf! He had the best offensive line and an even better lead blocker working for that daisy sniffer.
Now this sequence, this brings a tear to my eye...
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2 LP's reissued on one CD- 'Learning To Be Silent' and 'Heaven Comes To Town'. 'Learning' is a collection of quiet, simple and fragile pieces, 'Heaven' is the erstwhile Recommended Records 'RR 39', including the remarkable title track (26 minutes long), which, I think, alone is worth buying the CD for.
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The Android's Dream
|This is a Scalzi book, so its clever and funny, and has possibly one of the best first sentences I have read ever. It is a light read, and I finished all of it apart from the last 50 pages or so on a single flight. Scalzi also plays again with the idea of transferring consciousness, which is something which he deals with a lot in the Old Man's War series. I liked this book.
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 165, April 05, 1999
VAMPIR Images of Parallel IO
VAMPIR is a performance analysis tool for parallel MPI programs. It does more than display just the message passing taking place. User-selected parts of code activity can also be inspected.
In this article, we use VAMPIR and last week's example code for MPI_GATHERV to illustrate the potential benefit of doing IO in parallel.
Given last week's test code, the IO activity can be plotted by adding calls to three routines from the VAMPIR API. The first call defines a new symbol for IO activity, the second and third mark the start and end of IO processing. Here's the modified IO section of code:
call VTSYMDEF(10,"IO_ACTIVITY","IO_ACTIVITY",ierr) call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) call VTBEGIN(10,ierr)!! write data out on host processor. if(myid.eq.Uroot) call var_dump(iuchan,ipglb,uglb) if(myid.eq.Vroot) call var_dump(ivchan,ipglb,vglb) if(myid.eq.Wroot) call var_dump(iwchan,ipglb,wglb) if(myid.eq.Troot) call var_dump(itchan,ipglb,tglb) call VTEND(10,ierr)
Comparing the single-processor IO versus parallel IO versions is now easy. For the following examples a problem size of 5,000,000 integers was used.
In the single-processor IO version, all the data is gathered onto one root processor and written out there. The IO requires over three seconds. Here's the VAMPIR "global timeline" plot of this method:
In the parallel IO version, the data is gathered and written out on four different roots. The IO now takes just over a second, as this plot shows:
Two caveats are in order. First, since the files are on the same filesystem, there is a point of diminishing returns as additional processors are enlisted to perform IO. This effect was determined to occur at about the eighth processor, as shown in newsletter #157:
Second, this approach of gathering single variables together for IO activities limits the parallelism to the number of variables.
Despite these caveats, there is clearly a reward to implementing this simple form of parallel IO, greatest when codes need to write many sets of data during a run. Such simple multi-processor IO is used to great effect in some codes currently running at ARSC.
(For details, examples, and help on VAMPIR, see ARSC's tutorial at:
cache_bypass Accelerates Co-Array Fortran Programs
The CACHE_BYPASS directive specifies that local memory references in a loop should be passed through E registers. This can speed co-array data transfers.
An example. Given these declarations:
real :: c(1000000)[*], a(1000000)[*]
Here are two ways to move n elements from array "c" on image 1 to array "a" on image 2. They use explicit DO loops:
CAF "get" loop version:
if (THIS_IMAGE () .eq. 2) then do i=1,n a(i) = c(i)[1] enddo endif
CAF "put" loop version:
if (THIS_IMAGE () .eq. 1) then do i=1,n a(i)[2] = c(i) enddo endif
We found through testing that the above CAF methods using explicit DO loops benefit tremendously by addition of the "cache_bypass" directive:
if (THIS_IMAGE () .eq. 1) then!dir$ cache_bypass a,c do i=1,n a(i)[2] = c(i) enddo endif
Here are two more ways to move n elements from array "c" on image 1 to array "a" on image 2. They use Fortran 90 array syntax:
CAF "get" array syntax:
if (THIS_IMAGE () .eq. 2) then a(1:n) = c(1:n)[1] endif
CAF "put" array syntax:
if (THIS_IMAGE () .eq. 1) then a(1:n)[2] = c(1:n) endif
Neither array syntax version benefitted from cache_bypass. Also, both array syntax versions were slower than their explicit loop counterparts when cache_bypass was used with the latter. This is similar to the finding given in newsletter #127:
that array syntax is slower for processor to local memory transfers.
Finally, here are the SHMEM equivalents of the same transfer:
if (SHMEM_MY_PE () .eq. 1) then call shmem_get (a, c, n, 0) endif
if (SHMEM_MY_PE () .eq. 0) then call shmem_get (a, c, n, 1) endif
SHMEM bypasses the cache by definition, and, as expected, achieves the fastest transfer rates. However, CAF get, with an explicit DO loop, and with cache_bypass, is nearly as fast as SHMEM.
For reference, there's documentation on cache_bypass in the Cray on-line docs. (ARSC users, read "news documents" on any ARSC system to see how to log onto the doc server.") It's in: "CF90(TM) Commands and Directives Reference Manual," section 3.4.3.
Book Reviews: MPI and PVM News
The cover of first edition of 'MPI, The Complete Reference', was a somewhat calming blue color. However, the new two volume set, a second edition of the first book and a volume covering many of the MPI2 extensions, are alarming orange and yellow colors respectively. (Another good text on MPI, 'Using MPI,' was also blue in color. This often caused confusion when helping users over the telephone: "Have you got an MPI book?" "Yes, which one?" "The blue one.") So, what else has changed apart from color!
Volume 1, The Complete Reference.
The MPI2 meetings revised MPI and added some new features which are in the core of the language. All calls and examples have been updated to comply with MPI2 and a C++ binding is now added along with C and Fortran. Layout is also improved with a cleaner distinction between the MPI function argument lists and the text. The conclusions section still covers many important parallel processing issues and should be compulsory reading for all programmers who intend serious work with MPI or any message passing system. As in all books which are frequently referenced an updated edition is always welcome. (The first edition of the MPI book is frequently referenced during daily work here. Editor's note, perhaps the bright colors will help finding the books when they have been borrowed.)
Volume 2, MPI Extensions.
The second volume covers the majority of new features discussed and added in the MPI2 meetings. These cover the following topics.
- MPI and threads and mixed language programming are now covered.
- One sided communications have been added, these will be of particular interest to anybody who has worked with shmem on Cray systems.
- Process creation and management has been added, building on one of the most popular features of PVM not carried across to MPI in the first specification.
- There is now a set of parallel IO routines which will allow a portable mechanism to express the parallelism of data access and hopefully reduce the effort needed by programmers. An aim was to reduce the effort needed to write general code or tune code to each different configuration of filesystem found.
- An interface to F90 has been added to try and smooth the use of new language features from F90 and MPI and should be read before starting an F90 and MPI programming project.
Overall, both volumes provide an essential reference and day to day survival guide to any programmer developing MPI programs.
From the basic programmer trying to determine if there is a function which performs a needed collective operation to advanced programmers trying to get different programs to work together on heterogeneous networks, these books cover the important issues. One of the most useful features is the advice to users and advice to implementors notes for each MPI function. The former helps the user know what was behind the minds of the committee when the function was considered necessary, the implementors advice is also useful for the programmer since it gives some idea of how the MPI function should work.
The orange one:
MPI - The Complete Reference, Volume 1, The MPI Core, Snir, Otto Huss-Lederman, Walker and Dongarra. MIT Press, 0-262-69215-5
The yellow one:
MPI - The Complete Reference, Volume 2, The MPI Extensions, Gropp, Huss-Lederman, Lumsdaine, Lusk, Nitzberg, Saphir, Snir, MIT Press 0-262-57123-4
The other blue MPI book is:
Using MPI, Gropp, Lusk and Skjellum, MIT Press, 0-262-57104-8.
As is mentioned above, MPI2 does go some way to adding the desired features from PVM, but there is still much to recommend PVM as a parallel language for certain applications.
A good website to catch up on PVM activity is:
Here there are tutorials, news of latest releases, conference announcements, a summary of project activity and many useful code examples and libraries to use in your own programs.
Of particular note are the Harness and CUMULVS projects. Harness is a next generation PVM aimed at large heterogeneous networks of systems and is looking a better control and fault tolerance of large scientific applications. CUMULVS eases adding visualization and steering to PVM and MPI programs.
EPCC Survey on HPC
We received an announcement of the following:
> > EPCC is co-ordinating a project for the European Commission to > determine which of the facilities and services provided by HPC centres > are most relevant to their users. > > This short questionnaire will take you around 10 minutes to complete. > > By participating, you will ensure that your views and opinions are > taken into account in determining the future provision of services at > HPC centres like EPCC. The closing date for responses is 30 April > 1999. >
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Math Trio Named Nation's Best in Modeling Contest
[ This just arrived... Congrats to the UAF Math Department and the "trio"! ]
April 2, 1999Fairbanks, Alaska - With long pony-tailed hair, pierced body parts and Teva sandals, University of Alaska Fairbanks seniors Gregg Christopher, Orion Lawlor and Jason Tedor could pass for MTV musicians, not award-winning mathematicians. But don't let their appearance fool you. When it comes to math muscle, these guys are simply the best in the nation. This Alaskan trio of brainiacs just won top honors in the 1999 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, one of the most grueling competitions in the country, and earned bragging rights over teams from powerhouse schools like Harvard and Yale. Winning the competition is nothing new to Nanook mathematicians. UAF has ranked in the top two percent of all schools participating a record number of six times. "No other school in the universe can match this record," said Clif Lando, UAF mathematical sciences department head. The MCM, held each February for college undergraduates, is designed to improve problem-solving and writing skills in a team setting. Students have 89 hours to come up with the solution to real-world problems involving natural sciences and mathematics. More than 400 universities from around the world compete. This year's triumphant triumvirate have all competed on modeling teams in the past few years, so they knew what challenges they faced. Their coach, assistant math professor Chris Hartman, could empathize with the team's anticipation of the event- he was on the winning 1990 modeling team. Hartman, who got his bachelor's degree from UAF in 1991, went on to get a Ph.D. with a focus in graph theory from the University of Illinois. He now holds a joint appointment at UAF's Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and the Department of Mathematical Sciences. At precisely midnight Thursday, the UAF team tore open an envelope containing this year's problems. Teams across the nation were synchronized to open their envelopes at the same time, with the same 89-hour deadline. UAF decided to tackle the problem of how to demonstrate people evacuating from rooms during an emergency, based on how many occupants were in the room. The trio modeled two scenarios for the problem. One was a mathematical tree using fractions to show how quickly people move through parts of a room. The second was a simulated room designed on a computer with people represented as red discs. The discs were programmed with many human foibles- they shoved and bounced off one another, navigated around furniture, and were indecisive about where to exit. In 89 hours, the team researched everything from fire safety codes to psychological profiles of World Trade Center bombing escapees. They measured the dimensions of several campus facilities- Schaible Auditorium, the olympic-sized pool and gym at the Patty Center, the Wood Center Ballroom- to use as parameters for their models. Then, they created a computer program to crunch numbers and visually display the models. As the competition ran down to its last critical hours, the team wrote their paper explaining their techniques- a whopping 90-page mathematical modeling manifesto. "After the competition last year, I was so tired I couldn't even lift a nacho chip to eat at the Pub," said team member Gregg Christopher, from Anchorage. "At least this year I was able to eat my nachos afterwards." Teammate Orion Lawlor, from Glenallen, didn't worry about food. He slept for 21 consecutive hours after the competition. And Jason Tedor, the third member, slept on and off for two days after their winning paper was postmarked and in the mail. "We've all been through this competition hell multiple times and ask ourselves, why do it again?" said Tedor, who hails from North Pole. "The answer is simple. We did it for the challenge."
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:{{ Sourdough Sam sells moose for $10 each, reindeer for $3 each, and ducks for $0.50 each. He floats his raft down the Yukon River to the Chilkoot Pass Trading Post one spring morning and sells exactly 100 animals for exactly $100, selling at least one of each species. How many of each did he sell? }} The contest is now officially closed and we'll be sending awesome prizes to seven winners next week. Here's my favorite reply: > He sold 0 Moose, 20 Reindeer (Totaling $60), and 80 ducks (Totaling > $40). I responded that, nope, there had to be at least one of each critter, and then received a second reply: > Ok, > > How about 5 moose ($50), 1 reindeer ($3), and 94 ducks ($47). > > > program farm > do i=0,10 > r1=100 - (10 * i) > r2=100 - i > ducks = (3*r2 - r1) / 2.5 > deer = r2 - ducks > print *, i, deer, ducks > enddo > end > Guy lamented that this wasn't a parallel program. Q: What simple change can I make to improve my code's performance on the T3E?
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The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) reports that while radio ad revenue was essentially flat in Q3 2012, for the first nine months of the year it was up slightly over the first three-quarters of 2011. In the third quarter, spot revenue was flat at $3.648 billion and off-air revenue was flat at $388 million, but digital revenue grew eight percent to $205 million. Overall ad revenue for the quarter was flat at $4.241 billion.
For the first nine months of 2012, spot revenue has been essentially flat at $10.455 billion, while digital grew seven percent to $561 million and off-air revenue is up by two percent to almost $1.12 billion. Total radio ad revenue so far in 2012 is up by one percent at $12.133 billion.
"While on-air advertising represents the core of Radios revenue stream, its most encouraging that advertisers are taking advantage of expanding digital opportunities offered by stations," stated Erica Farber, RAB President/CEO. "More marketers are tapping into the multi-platform aspects of Radio to reach our active and highly engaged audiences. These expanding platforms afford Radio broadcasters additional avenues to bolster Radios growth."
Growth in spending by domestic and import automobiles, national grocery, clothing and big box retailers helped fuel revenue for the quarter. "Radios Q3 and year to date results reflect the American economic picture," Farber said. "Categories that are rebounding based on renewed consumer confidence have made Radio a greater part of their marketing plans." Radio also received an increase in ad dollars based on this year's election season, with the RAB reporting that spending was up six-fold over Q3 2011, due to pre-primary race spending.
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Singapore: Tianyin Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical company that specializes in patented biopharmaceutical, modernized traditional Chinese medicine (mTCM), branded generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), has completed the construction of Qionglai Facility (QLF).
The construction of QLF was completed in mid April as previously projected, which was immediately followed by equipment installation and a series of procedures that prepares the plant for the final GMP certification. The company is aiming for GMP certification process initiation for the QLF TCM pre-extraction facility to begin by mid June.
The pre-extraction facility will conduct initial processing of TCM raw material, separation using alcohol or water precipitation, filtration, centrifugation, concentration and purification of TCM pharmaceutical ingredients which will be further processed for the production of mTCM at the formulation facility.
In preparation for the new GMP standards stipulated by the PRC government in early 2011, TPI initiated the process of optimizing the manufacturing facilities in compliance with the new GMP standards. Due to the redesigning of the industrial parks in the suburbs of Chengdu, TPI's manufacturing facility at the Longquan district, east of Chengdu, is scheduled to be relocated to Qionglai city, south of Chengdu, which is designated for pharmaceutical industry.
The QLF is approximately 18 miles from the company's recently completed Jiangchuan macrolide (JCM) facility. The proposed relocation project also includes our TCM pre-extraction plant which is located near the center of Chengdu surrounded by rapidly expanding residential area. The QLF is estimated to be 80 mu or 53,000 square meters. The combined QLF plant, designed and constructed according to the latest GMP standards, is expected to relieve the current capacity saturation at TPI's facilities.
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Seven days away and Dallas/Ft Worth is a Zoo. Some roads already blocked off. Traffic rerouted. Good thing Obama is not coming or it would be even worse having to contend with that. Prices going sky high. One place reportedly wants $900 for parking. Several friends in the Arlington area have rented their homes for $5000 for 5 days. Hotels have tripled rates on average. A buddy of mine in staying with Tom Bodet at Motel 6 Friday night ffor $98 plus tax. No charge for the mold.
Should be a good game. I'm rooting for the Pack and NFC so you better put your dough on the Steelers.


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Today we're talking with Margaret Brownley, author of Dawn Comes Early, Brides of Last Chance Ranch (Thomas Nelson, March 2012).
Thrills, mystery, suspense, romance: Margaret penned it all. Nothing wrong with this—except Margaret happened to be writing for the church newsletter. After making the church picnic read like a Grisham novel, her former pastor took her aside and said, "Maybe God's calling you to write fiction."
So that's what Margaret did. She's now a New York Times bestselling author and a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist with more than 25 novels to her credit.
The first book in her Brides of Last Chance Ranch series, Dawn Comes Early, releases March 2012. The book will be followed by Waiting for Morning in December, and her California Gold Rush book A Long Way Home will soon be available as an eBook.
Margaret's also excited to announce that her non-fiction book, Grieving God's Way: The Path to Hope and Healing, will be published in July—not bad for someone who flunked 8th grade English. Just don't ask her to diagram a sentence.
Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
--My office is painted Monet purple for creativity.
--I'm an early riser (4 a.m.).
--When I'm not writing you'll find me at the beach.
--I love waterfalls, Italian food and children.
--I think I just proved that I also can't count.
We'll just count that last comment as Number Five. Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Dawn Comes Early.
Heiress Wanted. Looking for hard-working, professional woman of good character and pleasant disposition willing to learn the ranching business in Arizona Territory. Must be single and prepared to remain so now and forever more.
Her latest dime novel banned, 29-year old Kate Tenney answers an advertisement for heiress to an Arizona cattle ranch. It seems like the perfect solution for a disgraced novelist with no intention of getting married—ever.
Trouble begins the moment she steps foot in Arizona Territory. The west is nothing like she wrote about in her books. Not only does she have to deal with a hard-nosed ranch owner, and nefarious outlaw, but a traitorous heart. Kate does not trust men and has no intention of falling for Luke Adam's charm. She's determined to learn the ranching business and prove to the doubting ranch owner that she's up to the task—if it kills her. If only she could stay away from a certain handsome blacksmith and his two matchmaking aunts.
What is it about Kate that will make your readers care about her?
Kate has had a hardscrabble life. Deserted by her father and neglected by her mother Kate longs for something permanent in her life. She thinks land will always be there for her, which is why she decides to choose the ranch over a man. I think readers will root for her as she learns the error of her ways.
Please share with us one quote that either inspires you or simply amuses you as you go about your efforts as a writer.
I like this quote from Hemingway: "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof [malarky] detector." Now if I could only keep mine in good working order!
What are you working on now?
I've completed book two of the Brides of Last Chance Ranch and am now working on Book three. I also have a novella in the works.
Where else can readers find you online?
You can find me on my website at www.margaretbrownley.com I'm also on Twitter and Facebook.
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1. What is translational research?
Translational research transforms currently available knowledge into useful measures for everyday clinical and public health practice. Translation research aims to assess implementation of standards of care, understand the barriers to their implementation, and intervene throughout all levels of health care delivery and public health to improve quality of care and health outcomes, including quality of life. (from Narayan et al. "Diabetes Translation Research: Where Are We and Where Do We Want To Be?" in Ann Intern Med, 2004; 140:958-963).
2. What type of projects does BRIDGES support?
BRIDGES supports 2 types of projects:
- Short-term projects for a maximum duration of 2 years and a maximum amount of USD 65,000.
- Long term projects for a maximum duration of 3 years and a maximum amount of USD 400,000.
3. What should the budget for each project include?
The budget for each project submitted must include both the direct and indirect costs (ie. overhead costs including the financial audit).
4. Can the purchase of drugs (eg. insulinosensitizers or anoxerigens) be included in the budget?
No, the purchase of drugs may not be included in the budget.
5. How should salaries be accounted for in the budget?
Only salaries directly linked to the project can be included in the direct costs (for example, the salary of the principal investigator can be included in the direct costs). The salary of a person dedicating a limited amount of time to the project (eg. the accountant of the institution dedicating 5% of his/her time) will be included in the overhead costs.
6. What are the criteria for selection?
The Review Committee will focus on the following criteria when considering an application:
- Programme objectives
- Significance of the research to the wider diabetes community
- Investigator qualifications and demonstration of competence for conducting work in the area
- Appropriate facilities and operational infrastructure to conduct the proposed project
- Demonstration of appropriate project financial management
- Participants welfare/ethical approval and practice/potential benefits for the participants
7. In what currency will the grants be allocated?
All grants will be allocated in US Dollars.8. Is it necessary to have completed a short-term grant in order to apply for a long-term grant?
No, a project does not have to have succesfully completed a short-term grant to apply for a long-term grant.
9. What is a financial audit?
A financial audit, or more accurately, an audit of financial statements, is the examination by an independent third party of the financial statements of a company or of any other legal entity (including governments) resulting in the publication of an independent opinion on whether or not those financial statements are relevant, accurate, complete and fairly presented. Financial audits are typically performed by firms of practising accountants due to the specialist financial reporting knowledge they require. The financial audit of the project must be realized by:
- An external auditing firm with all the necessary national accreditation(s)
- An internal auditing department providing that this department acts independently and with all the necessary national accreditation(s)
Upon termination of the grant period, each selected project is required to send a financial audit for approval. The cost linked to the financial audit must be included in the original budget proposed to the BRIDGES Review Committee. The final installment of 10% will be delivered within 60 days of reception and acceptance by the BRIDGES Executive Office of the final report and the financial audit.
10. Are project applications limited to specific locations?
No. The International Diabetes Federation represents more than 220 associations in more than 160 countries. Therefore applications from all over the world are encouraged.
11. Are letters of reference required when submitting an application?
Yes. When applying for a BRIDGES grant, each applicant is requested to provide 2 letters of reference. Ideally, one should be dedicated to the institution/organization, the other to the main investigator. For the letter of intent, the letter of reference concerning the main investigator is not requested.
12. Can an institution/organization subit more than one application?
Yes, an institution may submit more than one application. However, each project must be independent and not related to any of the other projects submitted by the institution.
13. When are the next round of funding?
The fourth round of funding will begin in May 2011 and will end in February 2012. It will be dedicated to short term projects.14. What is the involvement of Lilly Diabetes in BRIDGES?
BRIDGES is supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes. Lilly Diabetes does not have privileged access to applications or to funded projects. Any results, including data and intellectual property rights, from funded projects will become the property of the International Diabetes Federation, which will put them in the public domain to the extent permitted by applicable data protection and privacy laws.
Lilly Diabetes has one representative, as an observer with no voting rights, in the Executive Committee of BRIDGES and no representative in the Review Committee. Lilly Diabetes is not informed of the composition of the Review Committee.
15. Can a project be submitted in successive rounds of funding?
Yes, applicants are allowed to make successive applications in subsequent rounds of grant funding. If a project is not initially selected, the Review Committee will make comments as to the rationale for non-selection and provide recommendations for improvements on the application.


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There seems to be some honest disagreement on whether the 09-11 Jets were an "Elite" team. Hopefully this poll will enable an objective consensus we can hang out hats on going forward.
Merriam-webster defines "elite" as "the best of class; the choice part, the cream; a group of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence. Granted "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and just what constitutes the "cream" is largely subjective but let's make a go of it anyway:


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Fairewinds: Safety Problems In All (Mark I) Reactors Designed Like Fukushima – Introducing A Japanese Language Edition
YouTube Added: 21.09.2011
Gundersen expresses concerns that the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are not addressing major safety issues that have become evident since Fukushima. These issues include serious design flaws in the BWR Mark 1 containment, fundamental flaws in the Boiling Water Reactor vessel design, and problems with detonation shockwaves. The NRC and the nuclear industry are using a flawed cost benefit computer code that underestimates the value of human life and minimize property damages after an accident, which has the effect of justifying continued operation of reactors without safety modifications.
Also, Fairewinds announces the launch of the Japanese language version of its site, Fairewinds.jp.
Fairewinds Introduces a Japanese Language Edition and Identifies Safety Problems in all Reactors Designed Like Fukushima
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The 76ers have confirmed that they have traded power forward Reggie Evans to the Toronto Raptors for sharp-shooting guard-forward Jason Kapono.
The Sixers issued a press release at 2:43 p.m. Here's what Sixers General Manager Ed Stefanski said:
"We are very excited to add one of the league's most prolific three-point shooters in Jason Kapono," Stefanski said. "We feel that this move addresses our goal of improving our shooting from the perimeter.
"I want to thank Reggie Evans for his contributions to the team for the past two seasons and we wish him only the best."
The deal appears to be financial for Toronto: Evans will make $4.6 million this upcoming season and $5 million in 2010-2011. Kapono will make $6.2 million this coming season and $6.6 the season after. The deal will be finalized when both players pass their physicals.
Evans played sparingly this past season, but is one of the league's most physical players and usually makes a big impact on the defensive end. Evans averaged 3.3 points a game last season.
In Kapono, the Sixers get one of the top three-point shooters in the league, which is the area in which they have struggled the most for the past two seasons – finishing last in the NBA both those years.
Kapono shot 42.8 percent from three last season, averaging 8.2 points a game.


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Subcutaneous emphysema occurs when air gets into tissues under the skin. This usually occurs in the skin covering the chest wall or neck, but can also occur in other parts of the body.
Crepitus; Subcutaneous air; Tissue emphysema
Subcutaneous emphysema can often be seen as a smooth bulging of the skin. When a health care provider feels (palpates) the skin, it produces an unusual crackling sensation as the gas is pushed through the tissue.
This is a rare condition. When it does occur, possible causes include:
This condition can happen due to:
Air can also be found in between skin layers on the arms and legs or torso after certain infections, including gas gangrene.
Most of the conditions that cause subcutaneous emphysema are very severe, and you are likely already being treated by a doctor. Sometimes a hospital stay is needed, especially if due to an infection.
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One of the older slate mines in the Blaenau Ffestiniog area of North Wales, much of Diffwys is now flooded. I took this pano while friends braved the freezing waters to explore otherwise inaccessible chambers that hadn't been visited since miners left perhaps 150 years ago. Approx 100 images stacked and stitched. 10-30...


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A hallmark of the Spoleto Festival, this popular series of concerts feature piano sonatas and violin concertos, string quartets and wind instrument duos composed by Beethoven, Debussy, Shubert, Vivaldi, and other classical masters. Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St. Days & times vary. $25. (843)579-3100, www.spoletofestivalusa.org


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By Ben Levisohn
Yesterday, I discussed the possibility that emerging markets could be setting up for a repeat of the 1997 financial crisis. You remember that one, don't you? Here's how the New York Times described it back in November 1998:
The global financial crisis has thrown 20 million Asians back into poverty over the last year, made 40 percent of the Russian population poorer than ever, and produced growing unemployment in Brazil, a country already racked by some of the greatest disparities between rich and poor in the world.
Oh yeah, and MSCI Emerging Markets plunged some 58% from it July 1997 high through its September 1998 low.
So while things look tough now–growth is slowing, markets are falling and investors are fretting about a credit crunch–a repeat of that crisis is not necessarily in the offing, says HSBC's Frederic Neumann. Here's why.
Current Account Surpluses
True, these have come down sharply in recent years. Also true, surpluses do not render financial crises impossible (remember Japan in the late 1980s). But, unlike 1997, most countries in Asia save more than they invest, which should cushion the blow from departing funds.
More Local Currency Debt
…the region no longer suffers from a glaring currency mismatch between its assets and liabilities. In the 1990s, most external borrowing was contracted in dollars. In recent years, with the search for yield driving investors to take on ever more risk, most debt (though not all) was taken out in local currency.
Stronger Banking Systems
Capital buffers are higher, loan-to-deposit ratios lower, and, presumably, the regulatory and risk control frameworks more advanced than they once were. Take Korea. Compared to the mid-1990s or even 2008, funding for the country's banks appears a lot more stable, and the regulator much more eager in recent years to prevent imbalances from emerging.
So Asia's in the clear, right? Not quite, Neumann says. While Asia's in better shape than it was in 1997, other problems could emerge to derail it. One possibility: volatility.


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Race and discrimination; Political Correctness
Rarely do I go into discussion on what I believe to be off-topic issue but this needs to be said because I have eyeballs. Race and discrimination as an ongoing issue doesn't interest me as I feel many strides have been made. Many more will be made and the topic in and of itself seems to be on level with religion. Every side is right and if you are on the opposing side, you are wrong. It doesn't seem any one side can take a critical look at themselves or offer valuable critique of the other and that means it is just a general morass of mess. It just keeps popping up in my life, most likely because I am a black male living in the United States of America.
Unfortunately the discord continues here in the USA and currently the flames are fueled by rhetoric from what many have deemed to be the "Right" wing of American politics. Sometime ago, if asked, I would of said it's simply safe to ignore it as intelligent people tend to ignore such things or at the very least collectively work towards marginalizing the behavior. Over the last decade, this theory has been proven wrong to me numerous times over. So after revisiting this and thinking about response it became clear that organizations such as the NAACP and others are wholly inadequate at dealing with the issue. Personally I suspect they are able to hire appropriate PR people but maybe that idea is wrong. I've not seen a solid formal response to many things from them. So, should you be planning to respond to some racial rhetoric it's important to note several things.
- There is no need to get emotional. It is indeed what the other party is looking for and as we all know an emotional response is not effective. The response should not be argumentative because it is not an argument.
- Persuasion happens by not persuading. Persuade by your actions and not by conversation or argument. It is also wholly ineffective in this case.
- It is ok to be angry if you feel injured or hurt. You should channel that energy into something positive.
- Stand-ins, sit-ins and civil disobedience works for some things. For others it doesn't. The notion that standing somewhere will change something is idiocy. What will change something is collective organization and changing it by all means available until it is so. Stand-ins worked when people didn't want you to stand where you were. I think as far as civil rights go we are past that.
- It pays to be smarter. Know your position and every detail, know their position and every detail. Refute anything that is inaccurate; improve any weakness.
- Timing is everything, so bide it.
- It is safe to ignore some things. Not every piece of racial rhetoric deserves a remark. Realistically, very little of it needs remark, you can generally pool most commentary into a pool and provide one response to that.
- Some will claim that violence is a proper form of response. For instance shooting an unarmed human being 50+ times and then being fully acquitted is unacceptable in any conceivable context. It evokes a feeling of rage. However the proper response isn't a stand-in, march, or protest. See 4. You'll be surprised to see how effective anger can be for fuel; it is very focusing. Obviously, i'm not saying you should not protect your families or loved ones. In the United States of America that is every free mans right. I'm saying calculated behind the scenes efforts are wholly more effective; combined with 6 they are even more precise and deadly.
- Nothing is ever one groups problem. Ever. So for instance, the racially motivated discrimination or killing of one group should be every groups problem. We all have our preconceived discriminations based on race. We should work toward eliminating those beliefs when they are clearly invalid.
- It's safe to realize that first we are human beings and secondly that as a group we have our collective fair share of idiots, scumbags and people who should really not be apart of our species. Unfortunately, they come in all color and sizes. Weed them out; See 8.
- Not everything is racially motivated. It's safe to say that sometimes I just don't like a person for whatever reason. That is fine, we are all human beings and that is a fair position to have. It's also fair to note ones experience or reaction to something. Sometimes I wonder why senior black people are so racist? Then I realize that some of them were children of slavery, racism, discrimination, they lived through riots, attacks on their families and such. I have to take this experience into context and be fortunate enough to realize that I haven't had to deal with race and discrimination in this way in my lifetime.
Onto Political Correctness or PC. If you have to be "PC" about something it usually means there is an underlying issue that needs to be addressed. So it's better to address the issue than to be PC about it. Should someone feel offended by something you've said then humbly and gracefully apologize if that wasn't your intention. If you have to validate an apology then it's not really an apology, try to take their experience into context and avoid doing so again.
We are humans and as much as we think we all fit a mold of behavior, feelings and passion we are highly unique and complex in the universe. Also, feel free to stop saying I have "black, asian, white, indian or whatever friends". That doesn't validate or excuse you being an idiot or discriminating against someone at the time. Anyway.. I guess I'm gonna just call this end of lunch for me.. cheers.
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Both Swain and Lamb noted the heavier music they were listening to while recording Fits of Reason, from Middle Eastern psych-rock bands of the '60s and '70s to Metallica and Mastodon, and Lamb and I enthusiastically praised the first Queens of the Stone Age album as one of the greatest rock records of the last 20 years. That led me to referencing Fits of Reason as perhaps Brown Bird's "Desert Sessions," which got a hearty chuckle from Lamb, while Swain declared, "I don't know if I would call this our 'loud' record, because the next one may be louder!" Lamb's six-string keeps pace with the galloping tambourine on "Seven Hells," and his snake-charmer riff on "Nine Eyes" won't leave my head. The duo get rocking on the instrumental "Iblis" (an Islamic reference to the devil), while "Hitchens" opens up with Swain's jazzy bass line before Lamb comes in with a subtly ominous riff.
MorganEve shines on "Bow For Blade," singing like the Andrews Sisters while delivering the lines, "Toil cheek to cheek and bow for blade/Braced in flame and souls to keep/desire won't let the monster sleep/We burn bright and broil in our crusade." Swain's voice floats perfectly alongside Lamb's on the hellbent waltz of "Wayward Daughter" as well as the hypnotic closing track "Caves."
The Fits of Reason disc will be available at the show (a vinyl release is forthcoming) and is available for download at iTunes and brownbird.bandcamp.com. Get ready to feed off the energy Brown Bird bring to the stage, with Swain thumping away and Lamb in constant motion. Their live show is quickly becoming the stuff of legend. The duo's recent shows have been sold out and downright bananas, so get there early.
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I have said it over and over, the older I get the lighter my pack has to get. The pack I carried out of base camp at Philmont was 55 lbs. That is the heaviest pack I have carried in a very long time. Why was it so heavy? Well, Philmont has not embraced a lighter style of camping yet and I am sure that one day it will start getting lighter gear, but for now, Philmont is under the impression that "it's always been that way, and it works". Well… I am here to tell you that you can go lighter and still have a great Philmont experience. Now before anyone gets the idea that I am bashing on Philmont here.. that is not the case. Knowing what I know now about how Philmont "camps". There are many things that I could have done to shave unwanted pounds. Take for example the food. We just grabbed the food and unlike our at home routine, did not repackage and reduce the containers. That would have taken lots of volume as well as weight out of our packs. We put lots of uneaten and unwanted food in the swap bins at every staff camp. Getting that stuff out earlier would have helped.
But lets talk about shaving weight in our packs. We are on a constant journey to reduce weight in the pack. Getting my base weight down is an effort that I am constantly thinking about and testing and trying new or other ways of packing my gear.
I will never be an "Ultralight" guy. I just don't agree with the basic philosophy of going totally ultralight.
Some argue that Ultralight is defined by base weights that are 20 lbs or less. Some say that you need to get lower than that to be considered "Ultralight". There are those backpackers that are considered "Minimalist" toting pack weights of less than 12 lbs. As much as I would love to carry a pack that was that light, reality kicks in and I am not willing to sacrifice comfort or safety. And there I think is the difference.
Comfort and safety. I read a story once about a guy that ventured off into the wilderness with only a knife. While he did survive and accomplish what he was trying to prove. I find it hard to believe that he was comfortable and in one way or another at some point could have jeopardized his safety.
We make choices in materials like down or synthetic when it comes to sleeping bags. Weight can be shaved by pushing the limits of the rating. Taking a 50 degree bag out when it is in the 30's and just wearing extra clothing is a technique, but lets remember why we camp in the first place. It's not to survive.. it's to have fun. I don't know about you, but freezing my butt off is not fun. So I will carry a little heavier bag and look elsewhere to shave weight.
I make up weight saving in using an alcohol stove. The stove and fuel weigh significantly less than canister stoves and liquid fuel stoves. I don't really sacrifice performance and certainly not my safety.
I do not take a lot of extra clothing. But I don't get wet and dirty either. I wear my rain gear when it is wet and also when I have to do some scrambling. A pair of gaiters keep my pants dry and clean as well as my socks. I use poly materials that wick sweat and keep me warm. Switchback style pants are a great way to reduce the amount of clothing taken.
Toiletries are another way to get weight down. You won't need a whole roll of TP.. so don't take it. Moist wipes are a great way to clean up the undercarriage and reduce the need for bulky and heavy soaps and wash cloths. Camp suds work on dishes, clothing, and your hair and body. Just a drop or two goes a long way. Again, reduce and save on weight without sacrifice.
My goal is to get to 18 lbs base weight. I am hovering in the 25 lb range now. I don't want to be "Ultralight", but I do want to be able to backpack longer and farther and master the gear and packing of it. I will not sacrifice comfort or safety. I won't use my socks as shoulder straps and wander into the woods with only a knife.
According to most experts in the field of backpacking, up to the 30 lbs weight range is emerging as the new sweet spot for mainstream recreational backpackers—light enough to feel reasonably comfortable on the shoulders, yet stocked with a luxury item or 2 (camp sandals, for instance, or maybe some freeze-dried ice cream). I am all for a comfort item or two and won't skimp on food.
I am going to document my quest here on the blog to get the weight down and share some tips that I find work well for me. Remember that you should always hike your own hike and what works for me, may not work for you.
So to start with..
TIP #1. Your pack. The bigger the pack, the more you will put in it. Get a smaller pack, something you think you will be comfortable with, one that will allow you to get what you think you need in it, and a little extra and then start whittling down the load.|
I went from a 5500 cubic inch pack to a 3800 cubic inch pack. Going down to about 60 liters forced me to start looking at the gear I was taking and what I really needed. What I have found is that given the gear that I currently have 3800 cubic inches is about as small a pack as I can go to. I use this pack for all 4 seasons and even used it to carry the 55 lb load at Philmont. The pack is recommended to go up to a 40 lb load. I suppose I was just careful enough to max it out. I will tell you that I have no desire to carry 55 lbs again so I am happy with the pack that I am using. For what it's worth the pack I am using is the Granite Gear Nimbus Trace. It's not the lightest pack out there, but is rugged enough for the type of hiking I do.
So get a pack that is comfortable and meets your needs and start your load from there.
What do you carry? Let is know.
Look for more tips here on the blog.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Illustrated Ke$ha memoir coming in November
NEW YORK (AP) -- Music is not the only way for Ke$ha (KEE'-shuh) to tell a story.
The million-selling singer-songwriter has signed with Touchstone for the illustrated memoir "My Crazy Beautiful Life." It's scheduled to come out Nov. 20, shortly before her new album, "Warrior."
According to Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the book will feature Ke$ha's "thoughts and reflections" and pictures spanning from her childhood to her recent tour.
Ke$ha says in a statement that she will reveal how her life is "not all glamorous" but that it's "all real."
The 25-year-old star is known for such hits as "TiK ToK," "Your Love Is My Drug," "We R Who We R" and "Die Young."
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I had a Mama Cass with Jarlsberg cheese on a multigrain bagel.
I had a Mama Cass with Jarlsberg cheese on a multigrain bagel.
I had a bag of Doritos and a chicken ranch wrap.
It's a blacked-out blur but I'm pretty sure it ruled.
Hot Pockets Calzone Italian-style with 5 cheeses. I was going to have a salad, but after a stressful morning I just wanted to nuke something.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
fresh baked white bread sliced into slabs and spread with full fat full fat butter. luvverly.
Couple of Ball Park franks and a glass of iced tea.
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
I'm having a glazed turd sandwich. Nothing like moose turds smothered in melted sugar, then dipped in sausage gravy.
That's my jacket!
I had that new Burger King Steakhouse burger with onion rings and a Coke.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
I went to a research conference today and got a free breakfast AND lunch. Lunch was a turkey croissant sandwich with swiss cheese, a bag o bbq lays, orange juice and a peanut butter cookie. The sandwich was REALLY good, still full from it
GIGANTA: A robot that automatically produces fun!
I just woke up, so I won't have lunch until 1a.m. (tomorrow). I'm about to barbecue salmon for the family for dinner and I'll take left-overs from that.
Working graveyards can seem strange to outsiders, but it works for me!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!