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Edward J. Pierce, 87, Port Edwards, a town of Linwood native, died Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at Riverview Hospital in Wisconsin Rapids.
Private family services will be held at a later date.
Mr. Pierce was born Oct. 13, 1925, in the town of Linwood, a son of the late Joseph and Helen (Kubowski) Piorkowski.
Ritchay Funeral Home of Wisconsin Rapids assisted the family with arrangements. Condolences may be offered online at www.ritchayfuneralhome.com.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War.
He was married to June E. Nieman on Nov. 20, 1950, in Stevens Point.
He was a civil engineer for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for 31 years, retiring in 1989.
He was a member of the Church of Christ in Rudolph.
Survivors include his wife; one son, Jeffrey (Mary Ellen), Dodgeville; one daughter, Marsha Kay (Russell) Draeger, Marshfield; one brother, Bob (Barb) Beckis, Tucson, Ariz.; two sisters, Jeanette Hoffman, Port Edwards, and Irene Fritsche, Wisconsin Rapids; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- "Of Gods and Men," the Cannes Film Festival grand prize-winning feature now debuting across the country, had a "monastic adviser" on the set to help faithfully depict the lives of the French monks whose story is at the heart of the movie.
Henry Quinson, who lived for six years at a Cistercian monastery in France, knew two of the monks portrayed in the film.
The subject matter is not typical for a movie: the lives of seven Trappist monks in turmoil-ridden Algeria in the mid-1990s. All seven were kidnapped in 1996 and ultimately beheaded.
"It's very difficult for me to make a movie that would be cheap -- the kind of movie that would only be about blood," Quinson told
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Xavier Beauvois, who directed and co-wrote "Of Gods and Men," approached Quinson after seeing his memoir on monastic life; Quinson had earlier translated into French an English-language book on the murdered monks.
Quinson said Beauvois e-mailed him asking, "I need someone to be with me on this movie. ... When it's written (in the script) 'the monks pray,' how are they dressed? What do they do? Do they sing? I need someone who knows the monastic life from the inside."
Quinson, who had been considering making a movie himself on the French Trappists, agreed to help Beauvois.
"My little job," Quinson said, "was to tell their story, ... be faithful to the brothers, and reach out to as many people as we can."
Quinson said Algeria in the mid-1990s was struggling through many of the same issues today roiling Muslim-majority nations in North Africa and the Middle East.
"The murder of the monks was a turning point in Algeria. That doesn't mean there's no violence in Algeria today. Things are shaking up in Algeria right now," he told CNS. "What is true is that no Christians were murdered after '96, and I think that Algerian people started to come to terms with the idea that violence is not going to beget any bright future and another way to solve the problems would not be terrorizing people, not only for their religious faith -- most people who were murdered in Algeria were Muslims themselves -- but questions were raised about who murders whom."
Quinson said, "For the two months when we shot the movie in Morocco, I was there every day. Beauvois would have me very close to him -- 'Henry, are you sure this is right?' -- to re-create the atmosphere of the monastery."
Then came the bombshell from Beauvois when it came to the chapel scenes: "Henry, for these parts you are the film director. I cannot direct something I know nothing about. What are they going to do? What are they going to think?"
"I found all the songs, and all the dialogue, which makes up about 15 percent of the movie. I rewrote one of the speeches about being a martyr, which was a very important part of the movie," Quinson told CNS. "We spent several days in a monastery" coaching the actors, working with Beauvois on the setting, and re-creating the monastery in Morocco for filming.
Quinson, the son of a banker, was born in New York City but has lived in Europe, primarily France and Belgium, since age 5.
"I'm not a real monk in the sense that I'm not a part of a monastic order. But I'm celibate, working within the church," said Quinson, who turns 50 March 8. "I worked as teacher here in Marseille. I managed to have part-time jobs so I would have a lot of time to help out the neighbors" in a Muslim enclave in Marseille with "a lot of educational help and now a lot of financial help. ... A lot of these kids were considered not very able to go far in their studies" for academic or financial reasons.
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The film received a classification of A-III -- adults -- for brief gory violence, some unsettling images and a single instance each of rough and crass language. But Mulderig said older teens could profit from seeing the movie.
Director Beauvois, according to Mulderig, "finds a path to the heart of the Gospel through simplicity, a compassionate sense of brotherhood and an atmosphere of prayer enriched by sacred music and potent silence."
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Composed by Joel Davies & Reuben Morgan Intro: B E B E B There is no height or depth Abm Neither Life nor death E That cant take me from all B That I find here now in you glory Lord B No other powers or love Abm The things of now or to come E Theres nothing on earth in this life B That could ever separate us Lord Pre-Chorus Abm B Your love is never ending E To Your hands we surrender Abm Where all our sins are washed away B Your grace beyond reason E Has paid for our freedom F# Were made alive in You Chorus: B F# We run to your throne, Abm where we belong E Every heart will sing B that Jesus is Lord F# Casting all else aside Abm For the joy of our Christ E Let your glory fall B - E Our hearts are filled with your fire (Repeat Verse 2) (Repeat Pre-Chorus & Chorus) Instrumental: B E B E (2x) (Repeat Pre-Chorus) (Repeat Chorus 2x) Copyright: 2008 Hillsong Publishing (Admin. in U.S. & Canada by Integrity's Hosanna! Music) Theme: Adoration, Glory, God's Attributes, Lordship Of Jesus, Jesus, Proclamation
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Ch: Don't Tell, but Show
There's an old adage in writing: "Don't tell, but show."
What does this actually mean? It means don't tell us about anger
(or any of those big words like honesty, truth, hate, love, sorrow, life, justic, etc.); show us what made you angry.
We will read it and fell angry.
Don't tell readers what to feel. show them the situation, and that feeling will awaken in them.
Writing is not psychology. We do not talk "about" feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.
When you are present at the birth of a child you may find yourself weeping and singing. Describe what you see: the mother's face, the rush of energy when the baby finally enters the world after many attempts, the husband breathing with his wife, applying a wet washcloth to her forehead. The reader will understand without your ever having to discuss the nature of life.
When you write, stay in direct connection with the senses and what you are writing about. If you are writing from first thoughts—the way your mind first flashes on something before second and third thoughts take over and comment, criticize, and evaluate—you won't have to worry. First thoughts are the mind reflecting experiences—as close as a human being can get in words to the sunset, the birth, the bobby pin, the crocus. We can't always stay with first thoughts, but it is good to know about them. They can easily teach us how to step out of the way and use words like a mirror to reflect the pictures.
As soon as I hear the word about in someone's writing, it is an automatic alarm. "This story is about life." Skip that line and go willy-nilly right into life in your writing. Naturally, when we do practice writing in our notebooks, we might write a general line: "I want to write about my grandmother" or "This is a story about success." That's fine. Don't castigate yourself for writing it; don't get critical and mix up the creator and editor. Simply write it, note it, and drop to a deeper level and enter the story and take us into it.
Some general statements are sometimes very appropriate. Just make sure to back each one with a concrete picture. Even if you are writing an essay, it makes the work so much more lively. …
Several years ago I wrote down a story that someone had told me. My friends said it was boring. I couldn't understand their reaction; I loved the story. What I realize now is that I wrote "about" the story, secondhand. I didn't enter it and make friends with it. I was outside it. (it was a story she was Re-Telling in Her story.. so she was removed); therefore I couldn't take anyone else into it. This does not mean you can't write about something you did not actually experience firsthand; only make sure that you breathe life into it. Otherwise it is two times removed and you are not present.
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An ugly stretch of basketball has led to an appropriate amount of pessimism among New York Knicks fans in the previous couple of weeks. It isn't breaking news that this has been a .500 basketball team for the bulk of the season and that they haven't inspired much confidence as a serious contender in the Eastern Conference. The bar was set higher this year than getting blown out in the first round of the playoffs and the peak for this team was set tantalizing high in the early weeks of the season when they ran off a 18-6 start that included a pair of wins over the Miami Heat.
So what is this team?
There has been plenty of talk of "these being the guys" and due to that, the current level of play shouldn't be expected to improve much. However, this reality isn't as daunting as it appears and improvements can be made with a few tweaks and improvements in certain areas.
The Knicks still have one of the 3 or 4 best pure scorers in basketball in Carmelo Anthony. He is prone to inconsistencies but also prone to hot streaks where he is simply unstoppable. They have one of the best defensive centers in the NBA in Tyson Chandler, which helps mask for some of Anthony's issues on defense. They are in capable hands at point guard with Raymond Felton and now have a pair of scorers off their bench in Amare Stoudemire and JR Smith who can take over games for stretches if Anthony and the first unit is getting cold.
There is no ignoring how poorly key role players like Jason Kidd and Iman Shumpert have been playing but similar to how Kidd's play has regressed to the mean after a hot start, his shooting is inevitably going to pick back up to a somewhat respectable rate. Shumpert can't play any worse right now. He is gradually going to get more comfortable and move closer to resembling the player he was last year.
Inconsistency is the recurring theme here. Theoretically the Knicks should be able to go shot for shot with any team in the East. Their defense should get better if Kenyon Martin can give them any thing along with having either Rasheed Wallace or Marcus Camby come back to a productive role. But are all the pieces going to click at the right time? There are going to keep being bumps in the regular season but if the Knicks can hold on to a #2 or #3 seed, they are going to put themselves in a favorable spot in the playoffs. They have a legitimate home court advantage. They have an elite scorer. They have two elite bench scorers. They have an elite defensive center and they have a capable point guard. There is depth throughout the roster. This team is exactly the kind of team who can get hot in a 7 game series and make some noise.
In the meantime, let's hope Mike Woodson is prudent enough to make a few small tweaks where necessary in this line-up: A little less Jason Kidd, so he is fresh for the playoffs and a little more Pablo Priogini. An effective work in to the rotation for Kenyon Martin and Camby or Wallace when they are back healthy. Keeping Amare at his 30 minutes per game limit so he stays fresh and effective. A change to the starting line-up if Kidd continues to flat-line like this on offense. There is enough depth and moving parts on this roster that tweaks to the rotation could make a difference.
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U.S. News and World Report's Rankings of Schools of Information and Library Science are out. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill's School, where I am on faculty, finished Number One (again). We did tie with University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign and were a slight bit above Syracuse.
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This ranks my second favorite book on audible so far. My first is "Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage". Only bad part of the book was I felt as if I was missing some material because at the end of the audio book it said "Edited for children" and there is also 3 hour longer unabridged version(In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Unabridged)). Nevertheless, the story is top notch. Highly recommended!
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VIENNA, Va, July 27, 2011 — The big battle reenactment and other activities out at Manassas National Battlefield this past sweltering weekend brought to mind a book I read not long ago about the inimitable General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, hero of Bull Run. It made me see him in a different light from only the brilliant commander and man on a horse.
The book is about Jackson's beliefs as he sought to bring the word of God to the slaves of the antebellum era, furnishing the fuel for the fire of salvation. "Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend" was written by Richard G. Williams, Jr. with a foreword by James I. Robertson, Jr.
Historians and history buffs alike have long struggled with the ambivalence of a man of Jackson's moral fiber, who came from a slave holding family, owned slaves himself, and yet broke the prevailing laws of Virginia to conduct a weekly Colored Sabbath School, where slaves were taught to read and write while bringing them to a personal knowledge of the Christ.
Contradictory as that may seem to many, Williams' book reconciles the contradiction. It begins with the uncertain years of Jackson's orphan-like childhood and his devotion to "Miss Fanny," who raised him from childhood into his teenage years and then on to his years at West Point and the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Each aspect of his life showed his relationships with and care for the slave families he was exposed to.
Jackson himself struggled with the morality of a system that enslaved men and women with whom he shared a brotherhood as children of a loving God. Yet those same scriptures which taught salvation, also recorded centuries of slaveholding all over the world. For Jackson the rationale was simple in the extreme: If it is condoned by the Bible, it must be acceptable.
Williams' book clearly points out that modern readers of books about Jackson and other figures of that era should view them through the lens of the 19th century, not that of the 21st, a mistake made by many students of the "peculiar institution." Many difficulties in comprehension of the actions and feelings of Southern heroes arise from modern readers' failure to view that period with 19th century eyes.
The source material is well researched and comprehensive, ranging from actual correspondence of Jackson and his contemporaries, to written material about the slave trade, to the output of black writers such as Ervin Jordan of the University of Virginia and Carter G. Woodson, considered to be the father of Black History month. If additional support for the book's scholarly weight is required, the foreword by eminent Jackson biographer James I. Robertson, Jr. provides it.
Interspersed through the text are anecdotes and stories by and about former slaves and their families, as well as free blacks, all pointing to the fact that not only did Jackson broaden their literary knowledge, but also worked to save their souls. The fact that their descendants to this day praise his name further attests to the profound impact of the efforts of the Confederate general, a man best known for his lack of humor, utter dedication to work, and his strange eating and health habits.
Jackson secretly yearned to go into the ministry but felt he did not have sufficient education for it. In 1852 while he was in Lexington, VA, he wrote to his Aunt Clementine:
"The subject of becoming a herald of the Cross has often engaged my attention, and I regard it as the most noble of all professions. It is the profession of our divine Redeemer and I should not be surprised were I to die under a foreign field, clad in ministerial armor, fighting under the banner of Jesus. What could be more glorious? But my conviction is that I am doing good here, and that for the present I am where God would have me. Within the last few days I have felt an unusual religious joy. I do rejoice to walk in the love of God."
Here is a different Stonewall, the man and the legend all wrapped in one, with his singular devotion to the highest of callings and his ongoing efforts to spread the gospel to the slaves.
In the vernacular of modern religious leaders, Jackson epitomized the concept of "thinking globally and acting locally." He first held a Colored Sunday School for slaves in his own home, and later at the local church. These were well attended, even by neighborhood blacks, who wished to learn both how to read and how to learn about the Savior as explained by Jackson. It was his own quiet method of civil disobedience, but the blacks in the area knew that every Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., they could gather to learn more about their salvation.
Jackson was then serving as a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Virginia and his minister ultimately let him use a room in the church for his Sunday ministry to the local black population.
This is the Stonewall Jackson who would not go into battle on Sunday, if it could be avoided, and would not even post mail on the Sabbath. He considered himself to be on God's business, wherever it might lead him. His life reminds us of the incomparable words of St. Francis of Assisi: "In everything you DO, preach Christ. If necessary, use WORDS."
The story is told of the minister of Jackson's church, who received an envelope from the general a few days after the Battle of Manassas, but before any authentic news of the battle had reached the people there.
The local post office was thronged with people as the mail arrived, and when the minister opened the letter from Jackson, hoping for the latest news, he read, "My dear pastor, in my tent last night, after a fatiguing day's service, I remembered that I had failed to send you my contribution for our colored Sunday-school. Enclosed you will find my check for that object, which please acknowledge at your earliest convenience, and oblige yours faithfully, T.J. Jackson."
The check was for $50.00, to be used to buy books for Jackson's black Bible students. There was no mention of the battle.
Williams follows Jackson's brief forays into Catholicism, the Baptist church, and the Methodist faith, before returning to his Presbyterian roots.
Possibly the most outstanding chapter in the book describes the author's visit to Lexington, where he visits the descendants of some of the attendees of Jackson's Colored Sunday School. From the white haired barber whose ancestor cut General Robert E. Lee's hair, to other elderly descendants of the beneficiaries of Jackson's religious devotion, their stories provide a rare look into the heart and soul of the Confederate general.
A special insight is also provided into the relationship between Jackson and his personal manservant, Jim Lewis, whose last duty was to hold the reins of Jackson's horse during his funeral. Assigned thereafter to Colonel Alexander "Sandie" Pendleton, his service was brief when Pendleton died.
The author's arguably simplistic explanation of the dichotomy that existed between Jackson the moralist and Jackson the slave-owner was that he was "…no defender of slavery. He accepted it as the mysterious providence of God and worked to lift the existence of the slaves within his sphere of influence."
The author lives in the Valley and states he has been a Sunday School teacher "to both white and black boys for over 20 years." He comes from a Christian background similar to Jackson's, so it's easy to see why he is passionate about his subject and tireless in his research.
The book is very readable and generally well-laid out, save for redundant handling of Jim Lewis stories, which might have carried greater weight were they grouped together. A more comprehensive index would have been helpful to the reader, rather than an index only of names and places. Philosophical explanations and sermonizing are unnecessary: Jackson's life and legacy speak quite well for themselves.
The 224-page book, published by Cumberland Press in Tennessee, is a fresh addition to the Civil War buff's library and well-worth reading.
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A little polish would have been nice...
posted by Senorsnoo (PALM COAST, FL) Apr 22, 2011
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4 out of 4 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
The game misses in a few areas though, and it's a shame. It feels like this title was rushed, and, given a few more months, could have been a respectable remake of an awesome game.
-Same fun stealth play as CT's single player campaign.
-3D effect is very cool in some areas (the focus effect when using guns is particularly nice.)
-Voice acting is on par with console Splinter Cell titles (however, there are more than a few discrepancies in the script and the voices. This gives more evidence to the "not quite polished" theory.)
-The loading times will make you want throw your fancy new 3DS out of a window. If you die in this game, you might as well go grab a drink and maybe take a bathroom break, you're gonna be waiting a while. Often.
-Saving is a strange beast in this game. It would have been nice to incorporate a system where I could save anytime.
-The AI feels very dumbed down. These guys are morons. I played on Hard mode, but there really isn't much of a challenge to this game, at least compared to some of the other Splinter Cell titles.
-The graphics could have used a shine here and there. I understand that this is new (3D) technology, but really, the bad guys faces reminded me of the Goldeneye days. Just a big ol' smiling polygon face, being dragged into the darkness. Kind of weird.
All in all, if you're a Splinter Cell fan, definitely give this a rent. It'll be nostalgic, if nothing else. A co-op mode and some smarter bad guys could have bumped this game up to an 8 or 9.
What a Pity.
Milking the Cow.
posted by indierocker774 (NAPLES, FL) Apr 16, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
3 out of 7 gamers (43%) found this review helpful
-Textures look their from a PS1 era game for the most part. It really can get that bad.
-The game suffers from random lag. It's obvious from the begining that the game is definitely not ever running at a full 30fps, even with 3D disabled.
-The light is tacked on. I've only come across two areas in the game so far that I've said to myself "Now that looks like the lighting the Splinter Cell franchise is known for!". For the most part of the game, the lighting is fixed. Meaning it can't be shot out or manipulated.
-Ubi reworked all of the levels, cutting out sections, adding sections and rearranging others. For 85% of the time, the level won't be the same for those that have played the original. And that's just a sad fact.
Verdict- If you've played the original, stay away. If you just can't resist, do yourself the favor of renting. And if you've never played Chaos Theory in any form, buy it for PC, PS2, XBOX or GameCube on an e-tailer and enjoy it to it's fullest. Even the PS2 version is vastly superior to this crud.
Very Good
posted by zachdude (FINKSBURG, MD) Apr 12, 2011
Member since Sep 2007
3 out of 13 gamers (23%) found this review helpful
posted by FatherDoom (MIAMI BEACH, FL) Apr 27, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
1 out of 5 gamers (20%) found this review helpful
but you still want to give splinter cell a chance think again
i rented this game convinced that i would enjoy it
despite what others said i am a splinter cell fan
and have beat chaos theory multiple times
point is
this game is a cash in
it is terrible trash
graphics wise
it looks like a low budget psp game
3D does nothing in this game
it adds no depth it just does nothing
bad camera makes moving stealthy unenjoyable
short sloppy it just should not have been made its that bad
it was okay?
posted by christchex91 (COTTAGE GROVE, OR) Sep 20, 2012
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posted by dsiwilliam (SCHLATER, MS) Jun 17, 2012
Member since Jun 2012
Might have promise, couldn't find it.
posted by Qender (SANTA MONICA, CA) Oct 18, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
To start out. There's a video that was poorly converted into 3D. When will game designers learn how completely unacceptable bad 3d is to the human brain. It's painful to see and it's totally distracting. Distant buildings appearing closer than the parking lot in front of them and people who are flat against walls and bend along with the floor make me want to shut my eyes and rub my face until I forget what I just saw.
Then after that, the game starts. except I got to a part where it says to press the up button to jump. I pressed it and nothing happened. I pressed all the buttons and no one jumped. I checked the menus and the settings. I ran in circles and pushed against walls. Nothing would make me jump. So I quit.
I might have tried again if the controls didn't feel like guiding a blind man through a mirror-maze with sign language.
posted by bodiewimer (ARCOLA, MO) Apr 14, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
Fairly good game, better than launch games
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9th Annual School of Architecture Steel Deck Competition
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Closed Jury: Mon, 20 January 2014 at 1:30pm
A Folly for the Strip District
Each of you spent the previous semester studying the ecological flows on the site in the Strip District between the Produce Terminal and the Allegheny River. The third year faculty intend to build upon the knowledge acquired in the fall semester with our projects during the spring semester. The notion of systems thinking, that you engaged by studying ecological flows, will be extended to structural systems, enclosure systems and construction systems this semester. The first opportunity to do so will be this one week competition sponsored by Epic Metals. The City, the URA and the Buncher Company are working on this site to create a mixed use development to bring people back to the Strip District to live, to work and to recreate. The first step, is the creation of a folly that will announce the impending development project from the river, from the 16th Street bridge and from the Strip District.
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Follies have an interesting place in architecture, representing an opportunity for architects to be creative, fanciful and theoretical. Wikipedia might be a good place to start your investigations of this building type. There is no program for the folly, however it:
Epic Metals has agreed to donate the bulk of the materials for the construction of these follies, so the jury will be considering the creative and expressive use of metal deck products in your design submission.
Submission Requirements
Two (2) 24" x 36" Competition Panels (maximum 48" wide when pinned up) with:
One Physical Model
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Ice cream has been around a long time and we don't need any help knowing we like it. But, we do need help understanding why we like it and that's why scientists at the University of Edinburgh are firing up the Cray supercomputer to better understand ice cream.
Ok, you science fans know it's more complicated than that. Supercomputers help us understand complex systems and interactions, right? Well, according to Dr. Alan Gray one of the lead scientists on the program, ice cream is more complex than many of us would believe. Its base substances — including different flavoring elements — interact in a variety of ways. Plus, add time into the equation and that affects the interactions as well.
It's enough to give you brain freeze.
That's where the Cray supercomputers at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) come in. They started with a massive 200 cabinet Cray XT5 supercomputer using 200,000 CPUs, but switched to a 10 cabinet Cray XK6 that uses a combination of GPUs and CPUs that offered better performance and scalability.
The 10 cabinet hybrid system integrated 936 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with standard x86 CPUs turbocharged the process — with performance two and a half times faster than just using the CPUs alone.
So, I'm no computer genius and I am not intimate with the workings of Cray supercomputers but my take away is that not only did the team find out more about ice cream, they found out more about their computing systems as well.
Multitasking is a good thing.
Getting back to the ice cream, the team was using the simulations they ran as part of a larger study on soft matter in general and how it interacts in order to improve a vast number of things we all use every day.
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Is it just me, or does the Edinburgh team seem to have a thing about food? Not that I mind in the slightest…perhaps mashed potatoes can be added to the next test.
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The social welfare research in communication services has its roots in the era of state owned Telco monopolies. In those circumstances the role of the regulator is to ensure that operators set the prices of their services in a socially optimal way. The services need to deliver utility value to consumers and at the same time allow the Telco's to cover their costs and make a profit the price setting was originally studied in a single service set up – the Telco providing a fixed voice service to its customers in a monopoly environment.
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Music From the Americas, the newest CD by the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet has been released on the Summit Label. The Pacific connection to this recording is notable. Three of the works were recorded by bassoonist Nicolasa Kuster before she left the LWQ to join the faculty at Pacific. The other two pieces on the disk were completed by bassoonist Scott Oakes, a Pacific Conservatory of Music graduate who now holds the position vacated by Kuster. The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet has firmly established its reputation as a premiere chamber ensemble. More than a regional quintet, the group maintains an active teaching and performing schedule, including concerts, radio broadcasts, seminars, and workshops at home and abroad. The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet takes its name from Thurlow Lieurance, a Kansas composer and noted historian of Native American music, who served as the first dean of the College of Fine Arts at Wichita State University. The members of the quintet serve as faculty artists at WSU and also as principal players in the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble has been received enthusiastically concertizing at major musical venues, including the Library of Congress and Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Merkin and Carnegie Recital Halls in New York City, Composers, Inc. in San Francisco, and throughout Europe and Central America. The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet has recieved the Kansas Governor's Arts Award. "...the Lieurance musicians always sustained depth and sensitivity in their playing." -The Washington Post
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Some Thoughts re: Spirit Mimics
During the last two cases I've been a part of, my team has come across an intruguing type of activity that I had never experienced or heard much about before. In both instances, it seems as if a disembodied voice is impersonating a living person. For instance, in the first case I heard (and we recorded audio of) what sounds like a loud gasp that could not be attributed to any one of us present at the time. At the reveal, our client remarked that it actually sounded like her mother who lives in the house and experiences the most activity.
In the second case, our clients had reported several occasions when they overheard family members having conversations in other rooms when they weren't even in the house. Interestingly enough, during our investigation in that house this past Friday, I heard our group leader talking in the basement only to find out after I called down to him that he had actually been in a room adjacent to me on the first floor.
Surprisingly, I have not been able to track down a lot of documentation on this phenomenon. However, in his book "Shadow World", esteemed para researcher Brad Steiger does talk about a type of entity he classifies as a spirit mimic, which a review on his website describes thusly:
Spirit Mimics: Beings that assimilate a solid form, sometimes mimicking known living people, some just assimilating people. They often mimic human form and voices, but usually speak in outdated lingo and have strange mannerisms.
This seems to be a close approximation of what we've experienced, although it seems that we've only noted audible experiences and not visual thus far.
An alternative explanation might be that the phenomenon is not caused by an intelligent entity at all – perhaps the places where these events occur are particularly prone to capturing residual energy, and tend to record and replay events at random. If this were the case, it would seem to go against the popular theory that residual events are caused by trauma or repetition, since I heard my colleague being impersonated during his first time in the house. On the other hand, much of the other activity reported in these locations (particularly the first) seemed residual, so a proclivity for this type of energy makes sense.
At any rate, I'd like to learn a little more this phenomenon and what others have experienced. Have you encountered a similar phenomenon? Care to speculate at another possible explanation?
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I had several experiences with a spirit mimic–they were about thirty years ago, though. However, I remember them vividly and especially remember how puzzled and confused I was at the time. Several years ago I read Mr. Steiger's book, "Shadow World", and that explained at least some things to me. That was the first time I had ever read ANYTHING at all in print about the subject, and it helped me to feel not so alone about my experiences. Wish I knew more about what they are and where they come from.
hey wow im glad i found this. i cant find much on these spirits. im looking for information on them because the last 1 1/2 years i have been or think i have had one following me around. i feel realy lerie about telling people about it but since i dont know you and you dont know me it doesnt matter if you think im nuts right? my expeirences started about a month after my boyfriend deployed. now i chalked it up to nothing more than missing him and this being the way my mind was dealing with it. but after having experiences of it mimicing others, i started questioning it. now that my boyfriend is back and has been back for a while and im still having the experiences, i know something else is going on… i see this post is kinda old so do you have more info on these spirits??
I was staying with a friend a little over a year ago. He came in from work and went straight to his room exhausted and had to get up early for another shift. I slept in the guest bedroom. I had a strange dream about a fire and a baby being burned. I woke up startled to see my friend laying next to me dressed up in his clubbing clothes. He didnt say a word, just got up and left the room. I went back to sleep feeling uneasy but checked with him the next day and he swore up and down he was sound asleep which I believe him because of how busy he was with work and how long it takes him to get ready for the club, plus he wouldnt do something like that to me. Him and his mom have both told me they experienced similar things in that house. I am a practicing psychic, spiritualist and Clairvoyant and little unnerves me, but that was one of the creepiest experiences I have ever had. I do not believe these Spirits Mimics are good Spirits.


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