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Sitecore on Thursday announced that MongoDB will power the Sitecore® Experience Database™. Built on MongoDB, and available on premise or in the cloud via Microsoft® Azure®, the Sitecore Experience Database integrates seamlessly with the Sitecore® Experience Platform™, collecting all data from every customer interaction in the moment, and connecting that data to a single-person profile summary, viewable through the Sitecore® Experience Profile™. Now, marketers can access a complete view of their customer's entire brand engagement history to understand the experiences that matter most and action these insights in real-time to continually drive highly engaging and relevant experiences.
"Marketer's need to be able to manage a wide variety of ever changing data sources and types as they interact with prospects on their preferred platforms," said Max Schireson, CEO at MongoDB. "MongoDB enables Sitecore to stand out from the competition, using flexible modern data infrastructure that easily adapts to its customer's requirements."
Thousands of organizations use MongoDB for its agile and scalable approach to data management. Common use cases include operational and analytical big data, content management and delivery, mobile and social infrastructure, user data management and data hub.
Today, global brands are increasingly handling terabytes of customer information, so having an experience database that can readily and cost-effectively scale is vital. Non-relational databases are a proven technology architecture designed to support exactly this kind of big data capability. In cloud deployments, Microsoft Azure's elastic scaling architecture complements MongoDB's high-performance data management capabilities. Azure's global data centers enable customers to put their data close to their users for speed, reliability and redundancy.
Key benefits include:
- Scalability and Agility: MongoDB is uniquely suited to support high volumes of data and flexible record structures, enabling the Sitecore Experience Database to scale as the volume of data grows, and to run in real-time at the pace of real-world conversations. By being able to easily and cost effectively scale out, customers can grow smoothly and economically with no limits on data capacity.
- Real-time Performance: The best customer experiences respond in real-time to the data received in the moment to tailor and fine-tune each next step. Sitecore delivers true real-time experience management.
- Flexibility and Fast Deployment: With a flexible data model, the Sitecore Experience Database can run either on premise or in the cloud via Microsoft Azure.
- Native Integration: The Sitecore Experience Database integrates seamlessly with the Sitecore Experience Platform, providing a single source of customer intelligence that powers every interaction across every channel.
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Robert Christopher Pierce, PhD
Robert Christopher Pierce, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience in Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry
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Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Translational Research Laboratory
125 South 31st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Translational Research Laboratory
125 South 31st Street
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Office: 215-746-8915
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PhD (Neuroscience)
Indiana University, 1993.
PhD (Neuroscience)
Indiana University, 1993.
Description of Research ExpertiseDr. Pierce's interest in the neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse began while he was an undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky. Working with Dr. Michael Bardo in the Psychology Department, Dr. Pierce studied the effects of amphetamine on the mesolimbic dopamine system. He continued to pursue his interest in the effects of psychostimulants on brain dopamine systems through graduate school at Indiana University, where he worked with Dr. George Rebec. Dr. Pierce received post-doctoral training from Dr. Peter Kalivas at Washington State University. Their work indicated that glutamate, in a complex interaction with limbic dopamine, plays an important role in both the development and long-term expression of behavioral sensitization to cocaine, an animal model of addiction. Dr. Pierce established an independent laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology at Boston University School of Medicine in 1997. Dr. Pierce joined the Department of Psychiatry's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior in October 2008.
Currently, there are no effective therapies for cocaine addiction, which directly affects over two million people in the United States alone. This reality is the driving force for Dr. Pierce's research program. The major hurdle for abstaining from abuse of cocaine is intense drug craving, which can be triggered months and even years following the cessation of drug use. The most widely accepted model of craving in animals involves self-administration followed by extinction and the subsequent reinstatement of drug seeking. Using this animal model, Dr. Pierce's research team pursues a strategy to identify novel neurobiological adaptations produced by cocaine. This information then can be used to formulate potential cocaine addiction therapies.
For additional information see www.piercelab.org
Selected PublicationsYee Judy, Famous Katie R, Hopkins Thomas J, McMullen Michael C, Pierce R Christopher, Schmidt Heath D: Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the nucleus accumbens core and shell contribute to cocaine priming-induced reinstatement of drug seeking. European journal of pharmacology 650(2-3): 596-604, Jan 2011.
Briand Lisa A, Vassoler Fair M, Pierce R Christopher, Valentino Rita J, Blendy Julie A: Ventral tegmental afferents in stress-induced reinstatement: the role of cAMP response element-binding protein. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 30(48): 16149-59, Dec 2010.
Pierce R Christopher, Vanderschuren Louk J M J: Kicking the habit: the neural basis of ingrained behaviors in cocaine addiction. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 35(2): 212-9, Nov 2010.
Sadri-Vakili Ghazaleh, Kumaresan Vidhya, Schmidt Heath D, Famous Katie R, Chawla Prianka, Vassoler Fair M, Overland Ryan P, Xia Eva, Bass Caroline E, Terwilliger Ernest F, Pierce R Christopher, Cha Jang-Ho J: Cocaine-induced chromatin remodeling increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor transcription in the rat medial prefrontal cortex, which alters the reinforcing efficacy of cocaine. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 30(35): 11735-44, Sep 2010.
Schmidt Heath D, Pierce R Christopher: Cocaine-induced neuroadaptations in glutamate transmission: potential therapeutic targets for craving and addiction. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1187: 35-75, Feb 2010.
Vanderschuren Louk J M J, Pierce R Christopher: Sensitization processes in drug addiction. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences 3: 179-95, 2010.
Schmidt Heath D, Famous Katie R, Pierce R C: The limbic circuitry underlying cocaine seeking encompasses the PPTg/LDT. The European journal of neuroscience 30(7): 1358-69, Oct 2009.
Kumaresan Vidhya, Yuan Menglu, Yee Judy, Famous Katie R, Anderson Sharon M, Schmidt Heath D, Pierce R Christopher: Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) antagonists attenuate cocaine priming- and cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Behavioural Brain Research 202(2): 238-44, Sep 2009.
Sadri-Vakili G, Janis G C, Pierce R C, Gibbs T T, Farb D H: Nanomolar concentrations of pregnenolone sulfate enhance striatal dopamine overflow in vivo. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 327(3): 840-5, Dec 2008.
Famous Katie R, Kumaresan Vidhya, Sadri-Vakili Ghazaleh, Schmidt Heath D, Mierke Dale F, Cha Jang-Ho J, Pierce R Christopher: Phosphorylation-dependent trafficking of GluR2-containing AMPA receptors in the nucleus accumbens plays a critical role in the reinstatement of cocaine seeking. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(43): 11061-70, Oct 2008.
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Oops! I appologize to you and the others for leaving the pattern recipe out of the post. I should not have done that.
The Kelson Sun Fly is tied thus:
hook: salmon iron #8 to #12
tip: fine oval silver or small flat silver tinsel
tag: yellow floss (yellow version)
tail: G.P. crest (known as a G.P. topping)
body: red, yellow, black yarn spiralled and in cigar shape
hackle: black cock
wing: G.P. crest (topping) feathers, 4 to 6
horns: blue and gold Macaw (1 single fiber on each top-side of
Red version: red floss tag and scarlet Macaw horns.
Orange version: orange floss tag, orange yarn instead of red
in body, and scarlet Macw horns.
Purple version: purple floss tag, purple instead of yellow yarn in
body, and scarlet Macaw horns.
blue version: blue floss tag, blue instead of red yarn in body, and
blue and yellow Macaw horns.
The materials are tied in the order given. The topping wings will prove to be the hardest part of tying this fly. The need to be tied on so that the first topping sits on the top center of body, and then the next one sits right on top of the one below, and so on until 4 to 6 have been tied in. Flattening the stem of the topping where it will be tied in with smooth jaw pliers helps in this immensely. Also, the toppings need to be tied in so that the first one tied in is the shortest and the last one is the longest or the wing will not look ballanced or full enough.
One last thing to keep in mind with using toppiings for wings or when added to the top of a feather wing is make sure you tie them in with only 2 wraps of thread per topping. Then after the last one is tied in, add just 2 more wraps of thread and hold on to the topings with your thumb and fingers of your left hand (ringt hand if tying left-handed) before cuting the stems as close to the tie in point as possible without cutting the thread (trust me, if you cut the thread, you will cuss a blue streak because it will ruin the set of the toppings). Then add some glue to the very short (nearly non-existent) topping stubs, tightly wrap the flattened thread (done by spinning the bobbin conter clockwise until the thread looks like a very fine strand of floss) while the glue is wet until the stubs are covered with thread, take one wrap of thread bak to the root of the wing, and whip finish. This lkeep the head small and ensures the wing will nor pull out.
|in those small sizes that fly should work for trout also
That is one very cool fly!
Can you print up the tieing instruction? Can guess at most but not sure of the 'topping.'
Kelson Sun Fly (yellow version)
Here is a Kelson Sun Fly (yellow version) as I told Fred to check out. It is a very good fly in bright sun, low-water conditions during summer and fall. I fish it on dry line with a long leader of about 17 feet. It works best in riffly water and tail outs that are less than 4 feet deep. Also, remember to tie it small, this is tied on a #10 hook. It should never be tied larger than a #8 and I found it works best in #10 and #12, which incidently coincides with the size Kelson recommends (he says it should be never larger than 3/4" and that is is better when tied 1/2" or smaller).
The Kelson Sun Fly is found is his book "The Salmon Fly" published in 1895 and republished several times since. The book is available through Fly Fisher's Classic Library, which is where I got my copy 8 years ago when they first released it. It is well worth the money for anyone interested in Featherwing, full-dressed flies.
The "Sun Fly" by Kelson can be tied in red, blue, orange, yellow, and purple variants. To change it to the other variants: 10 change the floss tag to the color of the variant (i.e. to red for the red variant or purple for the purple variant); 2) change the red body yarn to orange or blue for the orange and blue variants respectively; 3) change the yellow yarn to purple for the purple version; and 4) change the blue and yellow Macaw horns to scarlet macaw on the red, orange, and purple versions if you tie the horns on the fly.
The blue and yellow Macaw horns tied over the wings on the original (as it was tied on pictured fly and my prefered way to tie and fish it) can be left off with little or no change to its effectiveness.
Anyhow, here is the Kelson Sun Fly (yellow version)
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Description Back is marked with 13 alternating stripes that are either solid pale or dashed and dark. Tail and back are mixed brown and white. Has a white eye ring. Heaviest just before hibernation in September and October.
Dimensions 170-310mm, 60-132mm, 110-270g
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 407, September 28, 2009
Gnuplot Magic, Part 2 -- Color Tricks
Let us talk a little about how color represents values of a function. If we have just two colors: black and white, we could mix these two colors in some proportion to represent different values in some range (creating a grayscale palette). Suppose our function ranges from 0 to 1. We can write a mapping of this function range [0:1] to a color range [black:white] so that every value from the function range has its own representation on the [black:white] range. If we use numbers from 0 to 1 to represent the intensity of white, a map of [0:1] to [0:1] will represent the mapping between function values to the grayscale. If the function range is different from [0:1], it can be rescaled to [0:1], and the previous mapping will apply. This is how gnuplot actually does the grayscale function values representation.
The color mapping is a little bit more tricky. Indeed, now we need to make a mapping between a 1D range of function value variation and its 3D (for example RGB, red-green-blue) color representation. Actually, gnuplot allows 2 different models of color representation: RGB and HSV (hue-saturation-value). We need to define some continuous change in colors when changing function values.
There are 2 different ways to define the mapping from the plot range into the color spectrum in gnuplot: (1) We can rely on gnuplot's sense of color and define some basic values and their corresponding colors and allow gnuplot to interpolate smoothly in between. This is arguably the easiest way to define the palette. The palette can be defined either in the script or in a separate file using a special format. The last option is useful when a specific color scheme needs to be emulated in gnuplot or different color schemes are to be evaluated. (2) We can define three functions that map [0:1] to [0:1] similar to the technique for grayscale demonstrated above but for 3 distinct color dimensions either in RGB or HSV model. Usually, it is easier to define smooth and natural functions in the HSV model rather than in RGB. Of course, HSV and RGB representations are absolutely interchangable.
Let us run gnuplot and try a few relatively simple examples. Let us use the second way to define the mapping. Type the following line into gnuplot:
set palette model HSV functions gray,1,1
The set palette command is used to define a palette. Keyword model accepts one of two arguments: RGB or HSV. We used HSV in this example. Keyword functions defines the mapping from [0:1] to [0:1] using method 2 above. The dummy variable name in all of these three functions separated by comma, is gray, not x. Thus, the functions that we use define hue as a linear function varying from 0 to 1, while saturation and value are fixed at 1. We can run:
test palette
to see the exact color mapping. You can see a nice rainbow in the strip below the graph. You also can see three plots of red, green, and blue for every color. The same rainbow with logarithmic scale can be displayed as follows:
set palette model HSV functions log(gray+1)/log(2),1,1 test palette
You can experiment with other functions and with the RGB model.
Let us now try the first method to set the palette. For example, we would like the middle of the range to be yellow, the minimum of the range to be blue, and the maximum to be red. In this case, we can try the following command:
set palette model RGB defined ( 0 "blue", 0.5 "yellow", 1 "red" )
We just use the keyword defined instead of functions and specify the list of pairs. Use
test palette
to see the color representation. It seems gnuplot does a pretty good job of interpolating the colors in between.
We can use predefined keywords for colors. To see the list of predefined color names, type
show palette colornames
We can represent colors either by hexadecimal code or by three digits varying from 0 to 1 which are just intensities of the three values in the RGB or HSV models. Generally, the most convenient way besides names is hexadecimal representation. Usually, your favorite bitmap editing software like Photoshop or Gimp can return the hexadecimal code for any color. I usually prefer to run Gimp and pick the color to see its hexadecimal value. For example, red in the RGB model can be represented either by #FF0000 in hexadecimal or by a triple 1 0 0. Thus, the following commands are equivalent:
set palette model RGB defined ( 0 "blue", 1/3. "green", 2/3. "yellow", 1 "red" ) set palette model RGB defined ( 0 #0000FF, 1/3. #00FF00, 2/3. #FFFF00, 1 #FF0000 ) set palette model RGB defined ( 0 0 0 1, 1/3. 0 1 0, 2/3. 1 1 0, 1 1 0 0 )
Try this with test palette. By the way, this is a pretty and very natural coloring for 3D functions. I suggest you take the example from part 1 of this series (see Example #2 in HPC News Issue 406) and use this palette for the plot. Just add one of the previous lines somewhere before the splot command there to create a beautiful picture.
I suggest you to do a simple exercise: Using the functions and defined keywords, define a grayscale scheme. You could accomplish this with the set palette gray command of course, but try to achieve the same result using colors.
We will continue the color discussion in the next part of this gnuplot series.
Debug Output for C Applications
When initially developing a new application it's not uncommon to want to print extra output so you can ensure that your code is doing what you expect. However for production codes, it makes sense to minimize the amount of output for the sake of performance. In the past I've used pre-processor tricks to allow the compiler to optimize out unnecessary "printf" statements.e.g.
#ifndef DEBUGGING #define DEBUGGING (1) #endif #define dprintf if ( DEBUGGING ) printf
When you want to disable the "dprintf" statements, simply compile with -DDEBUGGING=0.e.g.
gcc -DDEBUGGING=0 some.c -c
The pre-processor directive method works well if you are diligent about using an opening "{" and closing "}" (i.e. curly braces) when using "if" statements with dprintf. If you don't use curly braces consistently, you can run into an "if/else" ambiguity which can cause your code to run in unexpected ways.
An improvement to this idea would be a debug printing routine that:
- Lets the user change the amount of output produced without recompiling the application.
- Allows you to recompile and completely disable output if it's not needed to eliminate any performance issues caused by the print statements.
In this example we will use an environment variable to set the debugging level, but you could just as easily use a command line argument or get this information from a file.
To match the style of printf, we'll make the debug printf statement a variadic function (i.e. a function that can accept a variable number of arguments).
The new debugging printf definition looks like this:
int dprintf(int min, const char * format, ...)
The "min" value is the minimum value at which a debugging message should be displayed. The "format" and "..." arguments match the standard printf definition. The elipsis operator in C specifies that a routine should accept a variable number of arguments.
To simplify the implementation of dprintf, the vprintf routine is used. The vprintf function handles a va_list (variable argument list).
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdarg.h> #ifndef DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED #define DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED (0) /* allows dprintf to be disabled */ #endif int dprintf(int min, const char * format, ...) { if ( DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED != 0 ) { return 0; } /* allows dprintf to be optimized out */ if ( min >= get_debug_level() ) /* should message print? */ { int status; /* return status */ va_list ap; /* variable argument list */ va_start(ap, format); /* macro for variable args */ status = vprintf(format, ap); /* use va_list format of printf */ va_end(ap); /* required to call va_end */ return status; /* return status from vprintf */ } return 0; }
To avoid the overhead of the getenv call in the "get_debug_level" routine a static int is used. The getenv function only needs to be called one time, otherwise the previously retrieved value is returned.
#define DPRINTF_MIN_VAL (-100000) /* initial value for debug level */ int get_debug_level() /* returns the debug level of the application */ { static int level=DPRINTF_MIN_VAL; /* initialize a static variable */ if ( level == DPRINTF_MIN_VAL ) /* if it's the default read env var */ { char * dbg=getenv("DEBUG_LEVEL"); /* read DEBUG_LEVEL env var */ if ( dbg != NULL ) { level=atoi(dbg); } /* convert to an int */ else { level=0; } /* otherwise return 0 */ } return level; /* return the level */ }
Here's an example showing the use of dprintf:
midnight % cat test.c #include <dprintf.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { int ii; for(ii=-3; ii<3; ++ii) { dprintf(ii, "debug message level=%d\n", ii); } }
Set the "DEBUG_LEVEL" environment variable to show more or less output:
midnight % export DEBUG_LEVEL=1 midnight % ./test debug message level=1 debug message level=2
To completely disable debugging output compile with -DDPRINTF_OPTIMIZED.
midnight % gcc -I. -DDPRINTF_OPTIMIZED test.c -o test
At higher optimization levels, the compiler should completely remove the call to dprintf.
# # For an overview of how to do something similar with Fortran namelists, # see: # /arsc/support/news/hpcnews/hpcnews371/index.xml#article1 # # /* complete code */ #ifndef DEBUG_PRINTF__ #define DEBUG_PRINTF__ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdarg.h> #define DPRINTF_MIN_VAL (-100000) /* initial value for debug level */ #ifndef DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED #define DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED (0) /* allows dprintf to be disabled */ #endif int get_debug_level() /* returns the debug level of the application */ { static int level=DPRINTF_MIN_VAL; /* initial a static variable */ if ( level == DPRINTF_MIN_VAL ) /* if it's the default read env var */ { char * dbg=getenv("DEBUG_LEVEL"); /* read DEBUG_LEVEL env var */ if ( dbg != NULL ) { level=atoi(dbg); } /* convert to an int */ else { level=0; } /* otherwise return 0 */ } return level; /* return the level */ } int dprintf(int min, const char * format, ...) { if ( DPRINTF_OPTIMIZED != 0 ) { return 0; } /* allows dprintf to be optimized out */ if ( min >= get_debug_level() ) /* should message print? */ { int status; /* return status */ va_list ap; /* variable argument list */ va_start(ap, format); /* macro for variable args */ status = vprintf(format, ap); /* use va_list format of printf */ va_end(ap); /* required to call va_end */ return status; /* return status from vprintf */ } return 0; } #endif /* DEBUG_PRINTF__ */
Lee Higbie Retirement
This week ARSC said "goodbye" to HPC Specialist Lee Higbie. Lee and his wife Betty packed up a motorhome and headed down the Alaska Highway to enjoy their retirement in Colorado after five years at ARSC. Lee was a frequent contributor to this newsletter and we will miss not only Lee but his well-written articles. Lee and Betty are both writers and we look forward to reading their published work, hopefully soon. In addition to writing and enjoying (another!) retirement, Lee plans to work with his son in a new business venture. We wish all the best to Lee and thank him for his friendship and service to ARSC.
CLE 2.2 Slated for Pingo
On October 1, 2009 Pingo will be taken down for an update from Cray Linux Environment (CLE) 2.1 to CLE 2.2. CLE is the Linux-based operating system of the Cray XT systems. Cray recommends that users recompile applications that were compiled on CLE 2.1. The downtime is scheduled for 0900 - 2200 AKDT.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I have a cron job that invokes a script, update.pl, every hour. [[ Sometimes this script takes more than an hour to run, causing two [[ of these script processes to overlap, which makes them interfere with [[ each other. Is there a way I can tell this update.pl cron job to run [[ ONLY if there is not already an update.pl process running, to prevent [[ the processes from overlapping? # # Why make things complicated? Greg Newby's solution shows that # straight-forward solutions are effective: # It's old-school, but an easy solution is to add three simple pieces to update.pl: a) check whether an arbitrary file (such as $HOME/.update.pl.running) exists. If it does, exit. b) otherwise, create the file c) remove the file upon exit The danger is that if update.pl bombs, the file won't get removed and the next program won't run. So, add some output to step (a) that will get sent via email from cron, so you know when this happens. # # There are other means to achieve interprocess communication, as Rich # Griswold points out: # You can modify update.pl to use a lock file or some other interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism to check if an instance is already running. There are a lot of tips for doing this in Perl at http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=280064. # # With no modifications to update.pl itself, Ryan Czerwiec shows how # shell tricks can be used to accomplish this: # Cron typically runs sh unless you override it, so you can include sh commands to modify its behavior. You'd have a line that looks something like this: * * * * * $PATHNAME/update.pl You can modify it to something like: * * * * * a=$(ps -elf grep -w update.pl grep -cv grep) ; if [[ $a == 0 ]] ; then $PATHNAME/update.pl ; fi Then, a new update.pl will run only if there isn't another in the process list. If you want to account for the possibility that you might be running multiple cron jobs, and you only want to avoid a job overlapping itself, but it's ok for update.pl's from different cron jobs to run simultaneously: * * * * * a=$(ps -elf grep -w update.pl grep -v grep gawk '{print $5}' grep -cw $$ ) ; if ... will work. # # Finally, Jed Brown's response adds new tricks and reliable solutions: # The quickest solution is to put pgrep update.pl update.pl --whatever --required-args --here in your crontab. The pgrep program is part of the handy procps package which is available/installed on many distros, procps.sf.net. For this purpose, you can replace it with $(ps xo comm= grep update.pl) or similar. The trouble with the quick solution is that you can get false positives which might prevent your job from running at all. A more reliable solution is to use lock files. For example, update.pl writes it's PID into /tmp/$USER-update.pl.lock with failure if the file exists. In the case of failure, you confirm that the PID in the file corresponds to a running instance and exit early. The lock file should be removed at the end of update.pl. It gets messy if, e.g., it is valid for a user to have multiple update.pl instances running as long as they are called with non-conflicting arguments. If this is necessary, you could use a daemon to keep track of the running update.pl instances and only let new instances execute if they don't conflict. Q: At the start of each semester, I need to show a new wave of students the basics of using Linux. I usually start with commands like cd, cat, cp, vi, etc., but I know they would benefit from learning dozens of other commands I use frequently but can never remember off the top of my head. Do you have any tips or tools I could use to help brainstorm what commands to show them?
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Graduate alumnus wins Nobel Prize in economics
Posted October 11, 2000; 04:58 p.m.
James J. Heckman, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971, has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Heckman is now the Henry Schultz Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973.
Heckman was honored along with Daniel L. McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley for his work in developing "theory and methods that are widely used in the empirical analysis of individual and household behavior, within economics as well as other social sciences," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel Prize.
His research evaluates the impact of a variety of social programs on the economy and on society at large. He has written on the impact of civil rights and affirmative action programs, taxes, unionism and other issues.
At Princeton, Heckman was involved in the industrial relations section of the economics department.
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Filipina actress Katrina Halili met Dr. Hayden Kho when she went to the Belo Medical Group to have liposuction. Theyfirst laid eyes on each other at the clinic owned and operated by Hayden Kho's cougar lover and sugar momma, Dr. Vicki Belo, the most prominent cosmetic surgeon in the Philippines. Katrina said her liposuction was performed by Hayden. Katrina said their courtship immediately started with an exchange of text messages until they finally became fuck buddies in August 2007. As lovers, Hayden and Katrina would discretely see each other and they would engage in fuck sessions at the Holiday Inn, Ortigas Center.
Katrina said she ended her relationship with Hayden out of respect for Dr. Vicky Belo but still continued to exchange text messages. However, Katrina said their relationship ended January 2008. Katrina has claimed before NBI probers and at a hearing of the Senate that she did not know that their sex act was recorded. The fuckalicious actress said she even lost television projects and endorsements since rumors about the sex video spread. As for Hayden Kho, medical license was revoked due to ethical reason.
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By Tiernan Ray
Bernstein Research's Stacy Rasgon today reiterates an Underperform rating on shares of Intel (INTC) and an $18 price target, writing that unit growth projections for the company's microprocessor sales the latter half of this year are unrealistic, assuming current trends in personal computer sales.
Probably, writes Rasgon, Intel is betting not only on its "Core" family of mainstream PC processors, but also on new chips for mobile, such as the forthcoming "Bay Trail": "We believe the company has high hopes for their forthcoming Bay Trail quad-core Atom chip."
"We hope so too, as the company will need to sell huge amounts of them to achieve growth goals for the year," he writes.
Intel announced on April 16th, following its Q1 report, that it expects revenue growth this year "in the low single digits," after a decline of 5% or so this quarter.
To achieve the year's target, writes Rasgon, Intel needs to see shipment growth of 12% to 20% in PC microprocessors in the back half of the year.
However, "Given atrocious PC results in Q1 (down ~14% YoY, the worst quarter since data collection began), it seems unlikely that this kind of growth could be driven by PCs."
"Rolling normal seasonality out would suggest total PC unit growth down 5-12% YoY, which would suggest unit growth for Intel that is flat, to down 10% YoY in the second half."
Even server microprocessors and mobile chips don't seem likely to make up the difference, he writes. For server chips to grow by Intel's suggested "low double digits" this year, the business would have to see 20% or more unit growth the latter part of this year, but "the business has never seen growth on that order for two quarters in a row."
And for mobile, "Intel will need to ship 20-50 MILLION of the chips [Bay Trail, etc.] all in the second half to make up the shortfall from traditional PCs assuming roughly seasonal outlook for Core products."
Rasgon models $53.82 billion in revenue this year, which would be a fraction of 1% growth from last year's $53.34 billion.
Intel shares today closed down 62 cents, or 2.5%, at $23.58.


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Sign Scratches or gashes on trees used as scratching posts, longer and higher than those left by Bobcat or Lynx. Remains of a kill, often conspicuous, to which the cat may return; may be loosely covered with branches, leaves, and litter.
Scrapes and scent posts: Piles of dirt in home range kicked up by hindfeet; 618" (1545 cm) across, 12" (35 cm) high. A more conspicuous scrape may be a scent post, where a male Mountain Lion has loosely piled leaves or debris and urinated on the pile to mark his territory.
Scat: Usually copious; varies from masses to irregular cylinders and pellets; frequently contains traces of hair or bone scraps. Sometimes covered with earth, but often left exposed or partly exposed as a scent post; if covered, scratchings on the ground probably indicate general direction of movement, as Mountain Lions habitually face their line of travel as they scratch.


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By Ben Levisohn
Macau gambling revenues keep growing at a lightning-fast pace. RBC Capital Markets John Kempf has the details:
Gross gaming revenue, excluding electronic table games (ETG's), for the first 17 days of March increased 34% over the prior year run rate. The average daily win rate for table games over the period was HK$1,002, down slightly from HK$1,036 last week, but still very strong. There is little evidence of a slowdown since Chinese New Year ended.
Casino stocks have held up well, considering market's selloff today. Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL) has fallen 0.2% to $20.50, Las Vegas Sands' (LVS) has gained 0.1% to $53.63 and MGM Resorts International's (MGM) has dipped 0.7% to $13.07. Wynn Resorts (WYNN) has gained 0.5% to $120.56.
Can the the good news continue for Macau? Nomura's Harry Curtis, Louise Cheung and Brian H. Dobson say it can.
We met with all but one of the concession holders. All are enjoying strong demand trends in 1Q but look forward to even greater EBITDA growth over the next 30 months, as high margin (mass) demand growth outpaces supply growth by 10-15 points. Consensus market growth of 11%-12% could be low for 2013 by 200-400bps. Most operators believe that flat VIP volumes ytd should improve in June-July, once the Central Government appointments have been made.
The analysts' favorite: Las Vegas Sands, which has the most upside to first quarter earnings estimates.


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By Floyd Ingram/Chickasaw Journal
HOUSTON — The Sappers wants to say thank you to Houston
The 288th Engineer Company of the 223rd Battalion of the Mississippi National Guard has invited the community to a welcome home ceremony set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Houston High School.
"This will be our first weekend drill since we returned from deployment," said Capt. Brenton Montgomery, spokesman for the 288th. "Houston showed up on the Square to see us off and we wanted to thank them for their support while we were in Afghanistan."
The 223rd left from Houston in October 5, 2011 for Ft. Killeen, Texas and then Afghanistan. They returned to Tupelo Airport on Sept. 25, 2012.
"The welcome home at Tupelo was great, but our guys were ready to see their family and get home," said Montgomery. "Sunday's ceremony will be our way of formally saying thank you to this community."
Sunday's event will be in the auditorium of Houston High School and is expected to last about an hour. All veterans — regardless of branch or time of service – will be asked to stand at Sunday's ceremony.
The City of Houston will also rename a street in Houston as Veteran's Boulevard in honor of the 288th and all veterans from Houston.
"Most of the families did not want a banquet and we chose to do this as a way of thanking Houston for supporting our troops," said Miriam Garner, whose husband Jesse was deployed with the unit. "This community did a lot for the families while the troops were gone and they also kept in touch while they were overseas.
"That meant a lot to those of us left behind and it meant a lot to those deployed," said Garner. "This really is going to be more of a thank you ceremony than anything else. I hope churches, businesses and families will encourage people to come out and be part of this."
Montgomery said the ceremony will be simple and not as big or formal as the sendoff on the Square.
"We will have a speaker and our top officers will have a part on the program," said Montgomery. "This community has a history of supporting this guard unit and that's not something you see in every town. We want to thank the community for that."
Montgomery pointed out just about everyone in Houston is kin to someone who is in the unit or at least knows a Sapper.
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Been working on the S3 Savage4 XFree86 4.0 driver lately, and hopefully will finish it this weekend and push it off to the Savage3D and 2000 users to get some of their chipset support.
Yesterday I got some decent console acceleration for Riva framebuffer driver, so that looks positive. I'll probably wait until a 2.5 tree is cut before adding it though, I think its pretty late to add things to 2.3.


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The flights are all in the 3rd series. There have been only 2 call backs so far. If you don't have the call backs after the 2nd series, hit refresh.
Also we all need to be patient.
To give one perspective, figure that it takes an average of 7-8 minutes per dog plus down time for no birds, rebirding, and shift changes. If there are 100 dogs running x 8 minutes = 800 minutes. Divided by 60 minutes an hour = 13.33 hours Plus the aforementioned down time.
To compound the issue of trying to keep up with things from afar, there is very little cell service on the property except for inside the lodge.
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Saving the Ocean, One Tip at a Time
Posted On January 31, 2013 by Guest Blogger
Even though we won't know if winter will last another six weeks until Punxsutawney Phil makes headway on Saturday, I'm sure that some of you are hungry for starting up a few DIY projects at home as the weather slowly turns the corner to the long-awaited Springtime. Since we've all heard our fair share of stories about when DIY goes wrong, we here at Ocean Conservancy figured providing a few tips on the subject could prove helpful. With ocean health in mind, we published a recent blog post, "Re-Energize Your Home to Save Money, Energy and the Ocean."


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Wind Mountain Climber's Log
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|Sweat it out!
Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2017
|Wish this one was closer, because it would be the perfect mountain for training/laps. Made it to the top in 32 minutes, on the nicest day of the year so far.
|Posted Apr 16, 2017 5:08 pm
|Wind Beneath My Feet
Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2017
|I went up the Northside "trail". It is almost impossible to follow and I wound up just bushwhacking and following game trails to reach the top. Walk about 200 yds down the road to find the real trail.
|Posted Mar 20, 2017 3:19 pm
|Wind Mountain
Date Climbed: Oct 18, 2016
|Very foggy hike, the rocks were cool up top.
|Posted Oct 19, 2016 3:41 pm
|Cool stuff up top
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2011
|good views, cool ancient native stuff up top.
|Posted Jul 1, 2012 2:53 pm
|After-thought to Dog Mountain
Date Climbed: Mar 3, 2011
|I hiked to the top of Wind Mountain with the Mazamas Basic Climber Education Program (BCEP) team after we finished hiking Dog Mountain too quickly and our leader decided we need an additional challenge. Great views to the east when your on top.
|Posted Apr 20, 2012 10:02 am
|Fun little hike
Date Climbed: Feb 6, 2010
|Did this after Dog Mountain since they are side by side. Nice mild weather for being early february.
|Posted Feb 8, 2010 1:51 am
|Fathers' Day
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2009
|Family hike with my wife and kids (6 and 4). Very windy (no surprise there) and beautiful. Great way to spend Fathers' Day.
|Posted Jun 25, 2009 2:07 am
|Twice is nice
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2009
|Did two laps with my Dad on a windy but sunny day in the Gorge. First lap I had my backpack on. Second lap backpack free! On the way out, just at the trailhead I decided to wander through the only poison oak we saw on the hike. Had to get a bath when we got back home. Yuck. Other than the bath thing and not letting me have any of his McDonalds on the way home, my Dad is pretty cool though.
|Posted Jun 15, 2009 1:04 pm
|Karl Helser
Date Climbed: Feb 9, 2008
|Did Wind after Dog.
Needed snowshoes for only the last .5 mile.
|Posted Feb 11, 2008 12:00 am
Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2006
|Did with Brian after doing Dog, neat pits up top.
|Posted Aug 6, 2007 6:46 pm
|Wind Mtn. Trail
Date Climbed: Jan 30, 2007
| A great hike for when you are strapped for time. The views from the Wind Mountain summit of Defiance, Dog and other mountains are of top quality. And the summit itself is quite an amazing place, it would be worth the trip even w/o the outstanding views. I recommend doing the trail to the viewpoint, the views of Dog from there are even better than from the summit. Be careful though, its fairly steep and a fall from there is a thing to shudder at. 45 minutes up, 35 down with the side trip to the viewpoint.
Edit:Did this again after doing Angel's Rest to get in some more elevation gain. Hazy day so not great views. 35 minutes up, 24 down including a side trip to the viewpoint. There is a spot to park at the actual trailhead and it's an easy turnaround, no need to park up the hill.
|Posted Jan 31, 2007 3:18 am
|A cultural legacy
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2001
|Very easy hike. A great first mountain for young kids and loved by time-strapped gorge-rs. Hardly an hour up at a moderate pace. 30-40 minutes at a brisk pace. Perfect for watching the sun set (or rise) on the fly.
Watch for poison oak covering the trailhead.
This is another hike I do several times every year.
Make sure you take a look at the interpretive sign near the top (and stay on the trail...it explains why) to read about Native American "Spirit Quests".
|Posted Jan 22, 2007 8:49 pm
|Wind Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006
|Short and steep climb up this mountain. The trail is unmaintained and there were several trees that had fallen across the trail. It was still in very good condition and easy to follow. I finally had a clear day and could see Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens from the summit. The best views were back down toward the Columbia River Gorge.
|Posted Jun 18, 2006 7:27 pm
|mountain medic
|Great little hike!!
|I hate to say this, but I don't remember exactly when I was up here. The actual trailhead was kind of tricky to find, but it was a really nice hike to the top, with some views that put the gorge in a different perspective. I liked how for an "unmaintained" trail there was an interpretive sign concerning the Indian Pits!
|Posted Feb 17, 2006 4:04 pm
|Karl Helser
|Route Climbed: Standard Trail Date Climbed: Sept. 19th 2005
|I had business in The Dalles today. (Had to see a judge about a ticket. Did you know it was against the law to drink beer while rafting the Deschutes River?) Anyway, on my way home I stopped and tagged this summit. Short but aggressive. Great views.
|Posted Sep 19, 2005 11:46 pm
|Route Climbed: Wind Mountain Trail Date Climbed: November 07, 2004
|I had some daylight left after hiking Greenleaf Peak, and decided to give this one a shot. very easy hike, that took me about an hour up and down. I saw 7 other hikers descending while I was on the way up, and got back to my truck just as it was getting dark.
|Posted Nov 7, 2004 10:41 pm
|Don Nelsen
|Route Climbed: Wind Mountain Trail Date Climbed: Oct. 11th, 2004
|Short but rewarding hike. For an "unmaintained" trail it's in really great shape!
|Posted Oct 25, 2004 8:19 pm
|Route Climbed: Wind Mountain Trail Date Climbed: May 11 & May 25, 2004
|Another one, like Olallie Butte, where the local Indians would rather you stay away. No signs at the trailhead and the trail isn't on any map. Despite its short length, this is a really nice hike and one of the best in the Gorge in my opinion. First time I did this as part of Hamilton/Wind/Dog in a day, the second time I combined Wind and Dog, then headed part way back up Dog for 5k ft of elevation gain.
|Posted Oct 20, 2004 9:45 pm
|Route Climbed: standard trail Date Climbed: fall '03 & summer '04
|Have done Wind Mtn. November 2003 in drizzly weather. Nice quick hike up.
Wind Mountain again with my Mom and brother (August 27, 2004).
|Posted Oct 20, 2004 1:20 pm
|Brian Jenkins
|Route Climbed: Wind Mountain Trail Date Climbed: February 1, 2004 and like a year before
|This is a good first season warm-up to get the legs back in shape if you haven't done anything for a while. Did this sometime in 2003 and then again in 2004 as part of a Dog and Wind Mountain training day. It's a great way to get 4100 feet in a day on low elevation peaks that are usually snowfree in winter. (I said "usually", there was tons of snow and ice on Dog this past winter.)
Can be kind of hard finding the trailhead. Just head down from the parking area and keep looking right until you find a faint trail heading up southwest from the road.
3/26/06-With Anette after doing Dog. Quick easy one to get 4000 in today. Was sunny going up, windy and rainy up top, then sunny again on the way down. Fun day.
Jan 2008 after doing something else to get more elevation.
6/14/09 With Luna, did two laps. Windy. Sunny. Good time.
6/15/13 With my brother and Luna. Warm day, great views.
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I just finished making my bubble coral "happy", now my frogspawn has something going on with it.
Any ideas? Is it water (which I am still tweaking but the frogspawn has CERTAINLY weathered far more than this!) or is that devil spawn from hell velvet damsel of mine poking it!?!
Its been like this for over a week now, its not just a temporary irritation thats causing it.
Oh, and this is about a quarter to a third of the total coral.
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I've been dosing Iodide; Mag; Cal; Alk; Fuel (seachem) in order to bring those into line.
The current has changed there, but not in any way that hadn't occurred before. I added an HOB filter where I used to have my HOB skimmer (to run chemi-pur elite). Coral placement near the frogspawn has not changed.
I really hope it is something so easy to fix as flow! I only shut off the HOB tonight, so I'll leave it off for the week and see if that effects a change.
I've done maybe two water changes since it's been like this, with no change.
No parameters are so far out of whack, except perhaps Iodide (which brand I have is supposed to be safe), so I can't see it being my water...if it was my water I would think the entire coral would be affected.
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For more information on how your bank can participate in the homeownership program, e-mail Nelma Thomas, MRHA 6 Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinator, or call (601) 714-3943.
Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/HOPE Community Credit Union Offers Opportunity to Help Rebuild
ECD/HOPE can bring proven affordable housing, small business lending, and community development expertise to the victims of the hurricanes, as well as, participating financial institutions. ECD/HOPE is headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, with offices throughout Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. ECD/HOPE is a nonprofit certified community development financial institution working to strengthen communities, build assets, and improve lives in economically distressed areas of the mid-South. It does this by providing financial and technical assistance to firms, entrepreneurs, homeowners and community development projects, and by forging strategic partnerships across the public, private sectors, and banks. Since its founding in 1994, ECD/HOPE has generated more than $200 million in financing and assisted more than 13,000 people in economically-distressed communities in the region.
For more information on investment and lending opportunities and how your bank can partner with ECD/HOPE, contact Bill Bynum, chief executive officer, at (601) 944-1100.
Mississippi's New Housing Loan Pool Operational
Contact: Charles Morris (601) 718-4624; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.mshc.com.