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With the season over for the Orlando Magic, it's time to hand out team awards. We asked our panel to hand in their picks for the 2013-14 season.
1. Who's the 2013-14 most valuable player?
Ryan Drawdy: Arron Afflalo. He may not factor into the future plans of the organization, but if we're zooming in on this year alone, there's no other answer. Afflalo gave the team an offensive punch it hardly possessed otherwise. The only other option here would be Vucevic, but he played in 16 less games and wasn't as consistent a threat to defenses.
Jacob Frankel: Arron Afflalo. Nikola Vucevic has been close in quality of play, especially with Afflalo's late season lull, but just hasn't played enough games to be in contention for the Magic MVP.
Spencer Lund: Arron Afflalo. He shot over 42 percent from beyond the arc, and while his performance on a game-by-game level dropped significantly in March and April, he was the biggest reason other Magic players got open looks offensively. His shooting had to be respected, but that tapered off at the end (like the Magic) and his defense is overrated at this point.
Andrew Lynch: Arron Afflalo. Value was hard to come by for the Magic this year, but Spell Check managed to give the people a show. He garnered legitimate All-Star consideration, which is not an easy task for a team on its way to a top-three pick.
Tim Sartori: Arron Afflalo. Afflalo was huge for the Magic this season, particularly through the first half — prior to the All-Star break, he averaged 19.4/4.1/3.7 on excellent shooting percentages. He slowed down a bit in the second half of the season, but he was still without a doubt the Magic's best player.
2. Who's the 2013-14 sophomore of the year?
Drawdy: Kyle O'Quinn. If only because his main competition, Andrew Nicholson, took steps backward. O'Quinn was a spark of energy and a much needed defensive help.
Frankel: Kyle O'Quinn. O'Quinn's emergence has been one of the biggest storylines of this tanking Magic season. His passing is sublime, he has soft touch around the rim, and he's a vicious shot-blocker. His versatility is especially useful too, as he can play both big positions.
Lund: Kyle O'Quinn. But only if I'm forced to between him and Maurice Harkless. He might have been their best defender this year and Moe's 11.8 PER is hard to ignore (though his improved 3-point shooting is the reason he had an argument). He was the only rotation player with a positive net rating on the whole team!
Lynch: Kyle O'Quinn. Orlando's sophomore class disappointed to some extent, with Maurice Harkless unable to take any significant steps forward in his development and Andrew Nicholson coming back to earth after a fun opening week to the season. O'Quinn wins as much for his beard as for his steady play in the middle for the Magic.
Sartori: Maurice Harkless. However, if you picked O'Quinn, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Maurice didn't really have much of a bump stats-wise, but he provided the same solid production that he did all through his rookie year (with a major bump in 3-point shooting), which was excellent to see.
3. Who's the 2013-14 most improved player?
Drawdy: Kyle O'Quinn. He improved in every statistical category from last year (except TS%, because he shot more). He's gone from a second-round end-of-the-bench player to a fan-favorite who has a chance to be a staple of Orlando's core for years to come because of his defense and energy.
Frankel: Maurice Harkless. I'll give the MIP to him based not on his improvement from last season to this, but on his in-season improvement. He started off the season tentative. He was slow with his decision-making and seemingly unaware on how to use his athletic gifts. He's gotten more confident as the season has progressed, especially making decisions and finishing in the drive-and-kick.
Lund: E'Twaun Moore. He finally shot over 40 percent from the field for the first time in his career. I thought he'd definitely be relegated to the D-League by now, and he's just continued as a steady backup with better shooting.
Lynch: Victor Oladipo. This is cheating, since Oladipo's a rookie and obviously didn't improve from a season past that never happened. But his progress through this season deserves to be highlighted. He grew more comfortable as a ballhandler and showed the flashes of defensive prowess that made him Orlando's first pick in 2013.
Sartori: Aaron Afflalo. There aren't too many candidates for this, with Tobias Harris and Nikola Vucevic both making their big jumps last season. However, Afflalo was very much in the conversation for an All-Star appearance this year, which he wasn't last season, and posted career highs across the board, while having a lower turnover percentage than last season despite his higher usage rate.
4. Who's the 2013-14 defensive player of the year?
Drawdy: Victor Oladipo. He interrupts my Kyle O'Quinn man-crush. Oladipo led the team with 1.6 steals a game, but my choice is more subjective. He looks like he's going to be a pest in the league, and I mean that in the best way possible. He has the potential to be a defensive x-factor when games become significant. That's exciting stuff.
Frankel: Victor Oladipo. He's not the best defensive player on the Magic, but I'll give it to Oladipo for how good he's been on defense for a point guard. He has a +0.96 defensive real plus-minus, 10th in the league for point guards. That's especially impressive considering how other young point guards like Damian Lillard and Kyrie Irving have struggled on D.
Lund: Victor Oladipo. I was tempted to go with O'Quinn again, but I'm taking the rookie, who led the team in defensive Win Shares (2.8) on the year, per Basketball-Reference. He's big, strong, fast and totally buys into the two-way player mentality, which is a good sign for Magic fans moving forward.
Lynch: Nikola Vucevic. Centers tend to be the most impactful defenders by default, and such is the case for Vuc and the Magic. Nikola still has a ways to go before he'll be considered even a good defender, but the instincts seem to be there. Now, it's a matter of developing them.
Sartori: Victor Oladipo. Kyle O'Quinn was probably the Magic's best defender this year, but it's hard to give the award to a guy who only played 17 minutes per game. Oladipo took some big strides in terms of defensive awareness throughout the year, which was great to see, and the solid defense on-the-ball that we saw in college appears to have translated well to the NBA.
5. Who's the 2013-14 sixth man of the year?
Drawdy: Tobias Harris. This one's fluky. The starting lineup featured only three consistent figures in Afflalo, Nelson, and Vucevic. Because the lineup was in flux all season, I'll put Harris, who started just over half of his games played, in this category. Harris was the team's best offensive threat off the bench.
Frankel: Kyle O'Quinn. This one is more by default however, as he's one of the only steady Magic players to start fewer than half his games.
Lund: Tobias Harris. I wanted him to be the Magic's stretch four, but instead he's turned into a pretty decent sixth man — someone that still can't play defense (he should be Scottie Pippen with his body), but can still drop buckets and create his own shot with the second team.
Lynch: Kyle O'Quinn. This is as much a reflection on O'Quinn as it is an indication of how fluid Orlando's lineups were this season. The only players to appear in more than 50 games and start fewer than half of them for the Magic were Doron Lamb, E'Twaun Moore, and O'Quinn. Of the three, the bearded one is the easy choice.
Sartori: Kyle O'Quinn. Kyle became a starter with around 20 games to go, but played a vast majority of his games off the bench. He was great on both ends of the floor, providing solid rim protection as well as an improved offensive game.


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Dive deeper into the field of marine biology!
Based on our popular Junior Biologist classes, this camp will feature elements of our traditional Day Camp program, including crafts, games, special behind-the-scenes privileges, animal interactions, and more.
Ages: 10-12
Offered: June 23-27 and August 18-22, 2014
Times: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 pm. Monday-Friday
Topics (subject to change without notice):
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Monday | Birds | Geology |
Tuesday | Invertebrates | Ocean Exploration |
Wednesday | Food Webs | Sharks |
Thursday | Whales | Plankton |
Friday | Coral Reefs | Waves |
Morning Highlights include:
- Tour Lorikeet Forest and feed the birds along the way.*
- Observe how snails eat during a unique feeding experiment.
- Learn about ocean food webs through a fun interactive puzzle.
- Test your whale knowledge with Whale Jeopardy.
- Prepare food and feed jellies and sharks. *
- Take a guided tour of a local wetland to bird watch.
- Animal touch time in our private classroom touch pools.
Afternoon Highlights include:
- Search for fossilized shark teeth in a fossil dig experiment.
- Practice exploring the deep sea with a ROV.
- Feed bamboo sharks in Shark Lagoon.*
- Feed Sea Jellies behind-the-scenes.*
- Collect plankton in Rainbow Harbor and investigate under a microscope.
- Meet Aquarium SCUBA Divers in our Dive Locker.
- Animal touch time in our private classroom touch pools.
Not Included:
- Snacks (Parents, please 2 snacks each day )
- Lunch (Parents, please provide a lunch each day)
*The Aquarium reserves the right to change the animal interactions without notice due to animal safety, exhibit maintenance, or animal health reasons.
Note: Due to behind-the-scenes access and game time, we ask that your child wear comfortable closed-toe shoes everyday. Please avoid sandals and flip-flops.
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June 23-27, 2014 | 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. August 18-22, 2014 | 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
Cost | Weeklong: $300; $270 for Aquarium Members |
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Ages | 10-12 |
RSVP | (562) 951-1630 Pre-registration and pre-payment required on all classes unless noted. Pre-registration and pre-payment required on all experiences unless noted. Cancellations made 72 hours before the program will receive a full refund. Cancellations made less than 72 hours before a program will still be charged the full program price. |
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If your child has food allergies, please inform the Guest Support Center at (562) 951-1630 and bring a completed Food Allergy Protocol with you on the first day of camp.
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Each month I am going to award a mom and tell you little bit about her. Her journey, her tips, her funny stories. I am really excited to showcase these mothers because I believe we all have a lot to offer each other. I can't wait to share with you these wonderful women!
The first Mom of the Month is of course, my mom!! My favorite mom. Right around the ripe age of 23 I think I started to see my parents as actual people not just "my parents". And although I have always had a pretty good relationship with my parents growing up, it wasn't until I became a mother that I truly appreciated my own mother and our relationship really started to develop.
I honestly consider my mom to be one of my best friends. She is usually one of the first people if not the first one I call to give news to, ask advice, invite somewhere or just want to hang out with.
She has ALWAYS brought me back down when I wasn't thinking clearly or given me another way to look at things. She helps me when a "mothering" issue comes up or a "wifey" issue comes up. And believe me, I know now that when you are 12 and want to chop your hair off and your mom says, " "uh it's probably not the best hair cut for you Mandy", you need to listen to her. Your mother is always right!! There I said it..... take it from me and my horrible hair cut.
So without further ado....my mom!
Mom -
Linda: Age 29
Tisha Age 29
Kristy Age 29
Mandy Age 29
(No I am not a triplet :) ) It's just that we are all 29. It can happen!
prepares you for motherhood. Not the books, experts, your friends
or your own mother's or mother-in-law's suggestions. I'm not
a perfect mom, and have made my share of mistakes along the way,
but there is nothing more important to me than my daughter's and their
well-being. You never relinquish the role of mom.
I've laughed with them; played with them; prayed with them; dried their
tears; bandaged their cuts; sat in a steamy bathroom when one
had the croup at 3am; been their staunchest supporter against mean girls,
bullies, bad boyfriends and teachers that didn't appreciate their
individuality; pushed them to be better at school, dance and
sports; broke up fights by putting them on either side of the siding
glass door each with a rag and a Windex bottle; and embarrassed
them more times than I can count. I've looked the other way when the
white shoes did not go with the black hose with the pink prom
dress; I've softly sung the "Good Morning to You" song many times to the
one that hates mornings and I came to grips with the belly button
piercing. Being a mom is being able to make changes and not be so rigid.
It's being able to say "no" when it protects them, and to let them safely find
their own way in life. I've changed my rules I had made on "potty trained by 15 months", "eat all your vegetables",
"when you can wear makeup", "clean your room", and "when you can
date" for the good of the household, and to know which battles are
really worth fighting. I've been overwhelmingly
proud when they learned to walk and talk, when they hit the baseball, made a
goal in soccer or scored a point in volleyball, were on the honor
roll, graduated from kindergarten, high school and college, when they
showed respect to their grandparents and extended family, when they were
the most beautiful brides ever, when they thought enough to ask for my advice
and when they became mother's themselves. I thank God every day for the
blessing of these beautiful babies who became the most amazing young
women who love God, themselves, their husband's and children,
family, me, their dad, step-dad and their sister's. I'm
never more proud to be included in their lives, and being their mom……forever.
And to each one of them, I say …. "Yes, you are my favorite"!
So there you have, my mom. Doesn't she make you want her to adopt you as one of her own? Although "coming to grips with the belly button piercing"...???? Yeah I am not so sure she has forgiven me for that one yet :)


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We've had very little rain since BABW first started up three years ago, but now we are getting a refresher on what winter in the Bay Area really looks like. My guess is that this winter will see less backpacking activity than we've had in past winters, but hopefully we'll get some trips in between the soakings....
Be ready for last-minute postings this season, since organizers will be keeping an eye out for sunny weekends. After December's rain, the streams and springs at Henry Coe should be running again, though the trails along the fire roads may be muddy if they don't get a few days to dry out before a trip. Point Reyes is lovely in the winter, even in the rain, and reservations are much easier to get :) If you do a trip out there this time of year I recommend sticking to Coast or Wildcat camps, since Glen and Sky are shady and can get pretty muddy when it rains. The Ohlone Wilderness Trail is another nearby wintertime possibility, though I think it can get pretty cold out there at night.
Car camping can be a nice wintertime option and a good way to try out new gear. There's lots of excellent camping not too far away in Big Sur, plus some nice sites at Pinnacles National Park. I think Point Reyes and Inverness also have some nice campsites.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
This quote by A. Whitney Brown really got me thinking about this again.
What is atheism? Do we really need a special word to describe our lack of belief in something? Why aren't all the people that don't believe in Santa Claus called by a special word? Should we come up with a new word to describe the people that don't believe in flying pigs?
The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning "without god", which was applied with a negative connotation to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society.
If this is true, then we were labeled by our "enemies" but we still use it. What's up with that?
I can see the point of having the term 'antitheism' which is supposed to mean the active opposition to theism, but why do we need the term 'atheism'? Can't we just say something like 'God doesn't exist.' or 'I don't believe in god.'? It sounds cooler when you say 'I'm an atheist.'? I don't get it.
Isn't atheism just advertisement for god? Wouldn't it help more if we just forget about god and live our lives without thinking about it? I'm not saying that we shouldn't take a stand against any harm religion does, but not considering a god wouldn't make it go away faster?
I really need some strong (and founded) opinions on this, as I seem to become more and more confused about it.
"Normal" is a very subjective label, first of all. What's normal in our culture is to believe there is a god. Hence the need for a term to describe what is, like it or not, abnormal (atheism). Rational? Reasonable? Probable? Yes. But normal? No. It is abnormal to not believe in the supernatural.
You're taking issue with an adjective; a word meant to describe. You can't take issue with this one word and not all the other words and labels you just used to write your entire post. One word does not completely nor accurately describe a person. Calling someone a "person" does nothing to help me understand who they are. But you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. Why all these fancy adjectives, yet you want to stick "crazy" on people who believe there is a god. Why not just call them a person like you want to call yourself? Well, I guess you've decided they're abnormal, but you're not the standard by which these things are measured. Statistically, theists outnumber atheists and that makes them NORMAL.
Again, the word "normal" needs more words to define what we mean by it. Does normal, to you, mean rational? Does normal mean common? What is normal can be both irrational and common; it can be both rational and uncommon; it can be both rational and common. "Normal" changes from neighborhood to neighborhood; from state to state; from country to country.
Words were invented to help us communicate. "Atheist" is a quick descriptor that lets someone know that this person does not hold the NORMAL or common belief in a deity. It does not define the entire person; it doesn't tell us about who they are outside that adjective. There is NOTHING wrong with adjectives. Without them, we'd be reduced to grunts and hand-signs.
Sane, rational and uncommon, deviant...
I already said that it was a mistake to use 'crazy' as a descriptor for all theists. 'Delusional' is the more accurate one. A delusion is a false belief or opinion. For them to not be delusional they would have to prove the existence of their god. If you can't agree with that, then maybe we speak different languages, because I can't make it any simpler than that. Delusion is a symptom of mental illness. The "cure" is informing ourselves, like I did to cure myself of all that, and like many others did when they finally left their beliefs and started living their lives free of them. Sure, informing ourselves can be subjective too, because some of the religious fellows think that they are informed if they read a lot of religious propaganda and listen to a lot of things others think they should do. Then maybe everything can be regarded as subjective. If we don't draw a line and start making sense out of everything and let irrationalities aside, what is the point of all we do?
The fact that they are more than us doesn't make them right, it only makes them common. Until a god is proven to exist, the standard and logical state a person can be is a non believer, an atheist, whatever you want to call it. That makes us the standard, the normal ones. We like to say that the burden of proof lies on their shoulders, but we still don't act like it. The fact that they are the majority makes them only common, it shouldn't make them the standard a person can be. I see standard as something that you can be without even doing anything, something that even a newborn can be. You have to baptise a child to make him christian. That doesn't make him standard if you have to do something. I can pee, I didn't needed to drill a hole to be able to do that. That's standard. I guess that doesn't make any sense for some people but that's how I see something that's standard (not to be confused with common). Maybe someone else would have explained it better...
I don't accept believing there is a god is a mental illness. It wouldn't be so easy to "cure" oneself. I was a full-on believer, and now I don't believe. If I had an illness, there would be relapses.
I never said that because there are more of them that makes them right. What is "logical" doesn't dictate what the standard is. It just doesn't. It should, but it doesn't.
No, we are not the standard and we are not normal. We may be right, but that doesn't make us the norm! You can't just change the definition of words because you don't like what they imply. You're talking about ideals and potentials. We should live up to our potential and go beyond the standard, which is what people like us have done. You could even say we are above average, which is a positive statement about who we are! Being above average means we're not normal and we're not the standard. What we want to be is better than the standard. And we are! What's wrong with that? Why is being "normal" necessarily good? It's not.
Wouldn't it be good for everyone if we would be the standard or normal? Being normal or the standard isn't necessarily good, but in this case it would be.
I actually would prefer to live in a world where what I am now. religious wise, is normal, and not better than normal or average. That's where all I said until now comes from. The need of changing the standard. It is definitely better for not believing in a god and not being a part of any religion to be the standard, to be normal. Sure, in a group where all the people are dumb, you would want to be better than normal, than average; but, religious wise, being better than normal doesn't do any good, not even for the individual that is better than normal. I don't want to be the only healthy one (religious wise) among so many sick people.
You don't agree that believing in something that doesn't exist is delusional (a false belief) and that delusion is a symptom of mental illness?
I agree. It would be better if there was no religion, and intelligence was the norm. Absolutely. I would love the standard to be changed; to be better. I don't want to be the only healthy one, either.
No, I don't believe religion or belief in the supernatural is a mental illness. I think believing what your parents told you as a child is a survival mechanism and a product of evolution. Richard Dawkins talks about this. Children heavily depend on blindly obeying what their parents tell them. When we were hunter/gatherers, the survival of a child depended on quick obedience. A child had to trust its parents. That trait has been passed down and bleeds into other things like religion.
Here's my thing: I believe there's such a thing as evolution and that it's far from a perfect process. Although we can imagine ideals for our species and our societies, perfection and "normal" are also delusions. As much as delusion may be a symptom of mental illness, it's also something everyone (on some level) is afflicted with. Perception is reality. I don't believe in black and white diagnoses. There is not even one example of a "normal" human being that is perfectly adjusted, perfectly mentally balanced, or even perfectly sane. There is no "ideal" because we're constantly evolving and changing. Our minds are mutations of evolution; it's a fluke we're as rational as we are.
Because a person can so easily recover from delusion (if they're open enough to the truth), I don't believe it's an illness. It's misinformation and hard-headedness.
They are delusional. I won't argue that. I never did.
You don't think they should be treated the same? What do you even mean by that? I don't like the way it sounds, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. You can treat people any way you like, but I think civility is always the best approach... and recognizing that people have the right to think what they like, and it's no one's place to dictate.
I think I understand what you are saying about the label "Atheist."
It's as if that label perpetuates the god concept, because it is built around the lack of a belief in a god, god being the subject, still.
I'm sure you've heard that saying, "What you resist, persists."
Do you feel that the label Atheist is something that, even though it describes a person who resists God as a reality, by doing so, by having god be a focus at all, perpetuates the idea of god, therefore keeping it alive?
Also, I do see believers as delusional. And I wonder if god is an addiction. I wonder if the mind is an addict, and god is the dope.
When I brought this question into a religious debate forum, it went over much better than my thread that suggested mental illness, but was still rejected.
Dope fiends can kick their habits. Religious people can become rational. They seem similar in ways, to me.
I compare with "love" for Team Sports and Music Concerts and Political Rallys.
I do that too. Not so much with political rallys, but with sports and music. I did call religion a fan club for god, but that wasn't really an accurate description, because religion is more of a fan club for ourselves. A lot of people are very proud that they belong to a religion, that they pray, that they go to church, that they are so good and moral and they like to let everyone else know it. It makes me sick. Being religious is actually really selfish, once you remove that inexistent bastard.
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He considers his performing to be one and the same with his practice of Sufism, a mystical offshoot of Islam. "That's my motivation since the beginning. I always approach music appreciating my breath, with His name in my breath; this is a very important thing for my life," says Faruk through a thick Turkish accent. "One day I was home, I remember very clearly; I was playing my baglama and suddenly I realized the state of mind I was in. It is the same when I pray. My mother was working and I didn't even hear her. I said, �Wow, this is the same thing.' I am blocking out but I am with myself. So playing is praying; it's that attitude I always feel.
"[When] I played for belly dancers for so many years, my attitude was always: I'm with me, I am creating something beautiful in me and developing and radiating out to people, to let them experience what I feel, instead of judging outside what's going on."
Perhaps it's no coincidence then that Faruk's pursuit of music paralleled his study of Sufism: He attended a religious school in his hometown of Adana in southern Turkey with the idea of becoming an imam. After seven years he left the school to pursue music, at age fifteen, but the learning continues.
"I am still studying; it's endless," says Faruk. "Music and Sufism are intertwined for me."
It's a devotion that can be heard in each plaintive and heartfelt note of his nay (a wooden flute), in the plangent wail of his vocals, in the intricate strumming of his baglama, in the powerful precision of his darbuka drumming, and even in the sweetness he's able to coax out of a zurna -- the piercing wind instrument that, in lesser hands, can sound like a cross between a bagpipe and a flock of hysterical geese. It comes through in all his work, whether it's pure Turkish folk or the Westernized new-age variety, or even the loungy remixes by worldbeat DJs.
And his devotion was on display that fortuitous night fifteen years ago when producer/composer Brian Keane was in the audience, in search of Turkish musicians for his soundtrack to the TV documentary Suleyman the Magnificent. "I went for five nights and suffered through really bad belly-dance music," Keane said about his search at Fazil's International Club in Manhattan, suggested by the legendary Turkish producer Arif Mardin. "Then one night after driving seven hours from Rochester, Faruk shows up looking like he was right off the boat. You could tell immediately that he was different. His playing was so emotional; he really stood out."
Faruk and Keane collaborated on several projects before Faruk launched his solo career with the 1994 release of Whirling. But the two continued to work together, and Faruk credits Keane with much of his success as a professional recording artist.
"He discovered me and from the beginning, I was always admiring him," says Faruk. "He was like a master for me, trying to make something out of me that I respected very much."
But before his first solo album and the success that followed, Faruk would punch the factory clock on Friday and drive from his home in Rochester to New York City to perform in the Middle Eastern clubs there, a seventeen-year ritual that belied his prodigy status as a boy in Adana and early success in the Istanbul music scene. That began with an older brother who taught him the nay, and an uncle with a music store who gave him baglama lessons in exchange for work. Faruk was good enough to play professionally by the time he was twelve and was smuggled into nightclubs by fellow musicians for short sets before club owners inevitably chased away the underage wonder.
At sixteen he moved with his brother to Istanbul and the two quickly established themselves as sought-after session players in the city's active music scene. Then in 1971, at age twenty, he toured the United States with a Turkish classical/folk ensemble and met the girl in Rochester who would become his wife in 1976, when Faruk returned to the U.S. for good after fulfilling his compulsory military service.
Throughout his life and career, Faruk has absorbed the influences of various musical traditions and teachers, from the head Neyzen (nay player) of the Mevlevi Dervishes -- the famous whirling dervishes -- to the partially paralyzed drummer Burhan Tonguch. "He was a jazz drummer and told me whatever instrument you play, everybody's a percussionist," Faruk says of Tonguch, his first drum teacher. "So he put that in my head. And because he also saw I had a very good rhythm knowledge from my town that I come from, he was like, �Oh, you're ready.' So he gives me his tapes and I start to practice Gene Krupa."


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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
Large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary science to address Australia's major national challenges and opportunities.
CSIRO manages national facilities and collections that are opened to researchers around Australia and overseas.
CSIRO's GPU cluster being installed at the Data Centre.
CSIRO's Bragg supercomputer cluster was among the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with more powerful graphics processing units or GPUs, providing a world class computational and simulation science facility to advance priority CSIRO science.
Scientific research is constantly generating vast quantities of highly complicated data. Handling and processing this information requires advances in data management, analytics, computing and collaboration tools.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have typically been used to render complex graphics in computer games. However they can also be used to accelerate scientific computing by multi-tasking on hundreds of computing cores.
Using GPUs to analyse large and complex research data sets is a relatively new global trend in computing.
CSIRO aims to be at the forefront of GPU super computing for scientific and industrial research. Our investment will enable the technology to be applied across CSIRO from desktop GPU workstations to our GPU supercomputer cluster, helping to solve big data challenges in many research fields from bioscience, image analysis, fluid dynamics modelling and environmental science.
CSIRO's GPU cluster was named Bragg, after Australia's first Nobel prize-winners – father-and-son physicists Lawrence and Henry Bragg. It was the first of its kind in Australia combining traditional central processing units (CPUs) with graphics processing units (GPUs) when it launched in 2009.
Running dual Linux and Windows applications it caters for the needs of scientists who use different operating systems for running software codes and analysing data from experiments.
It is currently one of the fastest supercomputers running a Windows HPC operating system in the world.
Ranking in the TOP500 list of the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers, Bragg is also ranked highly on the Green500 list - a ranking determined by energy efficiency, making it one of the most energy efficient supercomputers in Australia.
The GPU cluster was supplied by Xenon Systems of Melbourne and is located at a data centre in Canberra, Australia.
Watch this video about the CSIRO GPU cluster.
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[Dr John Taylor, CSIRO Computational and Simulation Sciences appears on screen]
Dr Taylor: The CSIRO GPU cluster is now open for business.
[Image changes to a man walking down the corridor]
Narrator: In 2009 Dr John Taylor switched on CSIRO's GPU Cluster.
[Image changes to show a data centre]
Dr Taylor: GPU computing really is a revolution in computing.
[Image moves back to Dr Taylor]
We've been able to take this new technology that was originally developed to support computer games and apply it across the board in science.
[Camera zooms back in on the data centre]
Narrator: A GPU or Graphics Processing Unit, processes data much faster than the central processing unit or CPU found in your home computer. Joining many hundreds of GPUs with CPUs in one super computer means they can churn through masses of data in very short time. Speeding up image rendering, scientific calculations and computational models, hundreds of times faster than CSIRO's scientists were used to.
[Image changes back to Dr Taylor]
Dr Taylor: Probably the most exciting moments are when I get a call or an email or somebody tells me that something's running a thousand times faster and they're really thrilled about it, that's probably the most exciting thing. So, it's a real sign that the technology is very beneficial to peoples research and that people are getting great results.
[Image changes to a 3D rendered picture of a sharp tooth]
Dr Mayo: It's a 3D rendered view of 3D data set of a micro fossil, which is a tiny tooth from a prehistoric animal. The whole tooth is less than a millimetre across.
[Image changes to an image of a large silicone sphere with lots of bubbles inside]
[Image changes Dr Sherry Mayo, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering]
It's a ceramic microsphere, it's made of silicone and it has little bubble s in it and the whole thing's about 100 microns across, so that's only about half again as thick as a human hair, so it's quite small.
[Image changes back to image of a large silicone sphere with lots of bubbles inside]
Narrator: CSIRO Materials Scientists are using GPUs to create highly detailed images from 3D data sets collected at the Australian Synchrotron.
[Image changes to show the Australian Synchrotron building]
[Image changes to inside the Australian Synchrotron building]
When electrons are fired around this Olympic stadium sized tracked, powerful magnets force them take a circular path.
[Image changes to show a Scientist setting up equipment]
As they do they omit light a million times brighter than the sun, this powerful beam can be focused at any wavelength down beam lines. X-rays, for example, filled up a highly detailed picture of any target in their path.
[Camera zooms in on computer on screens]
But it's a data intensive task. Where Scientists may have waited hours for their results in the past, the GPU cluster churns through the raw data quickly, displaying amazing images in real time.
[Image changes to a 3D rendered picture]
[Image changes back to Dr Mayo]
Dr Mayo: It's actually been really fun just from a sheer visual point of view and then we can get science from it too, of course.
[Image changes to Dr Andrew Stephenson, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering]
Dr Stephenson: I think the fact that we've got everything in one place, so we've got our own synchrotron now and it's quite close and we've got ready access to a world class beam line.
And if we have world class computing facilities to use with that, I think we can capitalise on that to a great extent and get a lot more out of our data and get our data much more quickly than we could in the past.
[Image changes to Dr Lawrence Murray, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics]
Dr Murray: What we're looking to do is model large scale environmental systems. Using the GPU cluster we can do that more accurately, more precisely and we quantify uncertainty, which is very important from a management perspective.
[Image changes to a computer generated graph]
When you do have a powerful machine like this, your productivity increases in a sense, what might have taken a few days, might take a few hours now. What might have taken a week, or was completely infeasible because it was going to take a month, well that's out of the question in terms of productivity and the turnaround in your work. If we can get results in a few hours, or overnight and be looking at them the next morning, that really makes a difference as to how we can then say, look at those results and make any adjustments we need to the model, or our inputs or anything like this and in terms of our work flow then, you know, it really opens up some opportunities for us.
[Image changes to Dr Emma Huang, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics]
Dr Huang: The problem that I've been working on the GPU most for is to construct genetic maps in wheat.
[Image changes to a camera panning over a wheat field and zooms in on a field]
And the issue there is that you actually have to calculate the distance between every position that you have on the genome in order to construct a map and so that actually means you're looking at the square of the number of positions that you have, which is where the issues with computation come in.
[Image changes to show a computer generated image]
[Camera zooms back in on the wheat field]
But it does break up quite nicely for a GPU because you can look at each position individually and do it for each wheat variety.
[Image changes to a bread roll]
And the idea there is really to improve the quality of wheat, worldwide, and to do it in a faster way than has been done before.
[Image moves back to Dr Murray]
Dr Murray: Really, using the GPU cluster is quite interesting because it's a shift in the way we think about computation. I mean, we've gone from this sort of sequential computation, which is almost like following a recipe, a sort of a cookbook recipe, to large scale parallelism, so doing lots of tasks at a time, as opposed to one long task very quickly.
[Image changes to people working on laptops]
So people really need to rethink the algorithms that they use. Rethink the approach that they use to their particular computation challenges in science.
You need to be thinking about how can I divide up the work into lots of little small things that I can do concurrently as opposed to one sort of long recipe to follow.
[Image changes to someone working on the Top 500 list website]
Dr Taylor: The Top 500 list it's very important, it provides us with some indication of how successful we've been in building and exploiting computational facilities.
[Image changes to a computer screen with the The Green 500 site opened]
The fact that also that we're very close to the top of The Green 500 indicates that, not only, are we achieving a very high performance, but we're delivering that at very low energy costs.
[Image moves back to the data centre]
We're reducing our carbon footprint, so we're able to deliver this fantastic capability at very low cost and very low energy cost.
[Image changes to Andy Keane, General Manger, Tesla Business, NVIDIA]
Andy Keane: GPUs are an entirely new way of computing information. Rather than separating that information among hundreds of processors with very few cores, a GPU has hundreds of computing cores inside. So you can take that application and divide it among all those hundreds of energy efficient cores for very efficient processing of HPC applications.
This is why the GPU is among the systems that are leading on The Green 500.
Dr Taylor: The CSIRO GPU cluster is currently delivering 52.55 TFlops on the standard Linpac test in double precision, its running at very high efficiency and its consuming about 94.65 kilowatts of electricity when it's doing that. That means that we're able to achieve about 555 mega flops per watt of energy consumed. So that puts us very close to the top of The Green 500.
[Image changes to picture of servers in a rack]
The cluster was operated from the original Tesla S1070 to the latest generation S2050s.
[Camera zooms in on a computer screen]
We've seen about a five to six X improvement in performance.
So yeah, I think it's been a fantastic year or so and I think a lot of people have really enjoyed the benefits of our new GPU based cluster.
[Image moves back to Dr Huang]
Dr Huang: It allows you to think of problems that you wouldn't have been able to address before.
Dr Murray: When we first started on this, the few of us who are now talking at these workshops, were the only ones in the GPU cluster and we could submit jobs and they would all run immediately, and we see now, we submit jobs and they all go into quite a long queue because people are actually starting to use it and starting to realise the benefits of it.
Dr Taylor: A year ago we didn't really know what the uptake was going to be within CSIRO, now we know that it's been quite strong and we've been very successful, so I think, yeah, a year on we can see that we're on the right track and we can also see a track that's leading forward with this technology for the next few years.
[Credits role: CSIRO, Dr John Taylor, Dr Sherry Mayo, Dr Andrew Stephenson, Dr Lawrence Murray, Dr Emma Huang, NVIDIA Andy Keane. Thanks to NVIDIA, The Australian Synchrotron, Canberra Data Centre, XENON, APC, Screen Craft, Luke Domanski, Tad Matuszkiewicz, Dragan Dimitrovici. Production Assistance, Sarah Wood, Carrie Bengston. Music, Harley Oliver]
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The unique feature of the CSIRO GPU cluster is the use of NVIDIA GPU technology to deliver outstanding computational performance at low cost and low energy demand.
Compared to the latest quad-core CPUs, the Tesla C2050s inside the CSIRO GPU cluster deliver the equivalent supercomputing performance at 1/10th the cost and 1/20th the power consumption.
The GPU technology can be accessed using the CUDA parallel computing architecture [external link] or using new compiler technology released by the Portland Group [external link].
CSIRO science applications have already seen 6-200x speedups on NVIDIA GPUs.
The CSIRO GPU supercomputer supports computational and simulation science research across CSIRO.
The technology is used to support CSIRO research in the areas of:
We are using the GPU cluster to speed up modelling of CSIRO's air cargo scanner. The speed up is 5000 to 10 000 times that of a normal desktop computer when we use most of the cluster. With this improvement, simulations that normally take hours can be run interactively in real-time.
Dr James Tickner, Minerals Down Under Flagship, CSIRO
CSIRO projects being undertaken using the cluster include:
In 2010 CSIRO was selected as part of NVIDIA's prestigious CUDA Research Centre Program [external link]. We join a community of research institutions that are embracing GPU computing across multiple research fields including; Johns Hopkins University in the Unites States, Nanyan University in Singapore, Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, and SINTEF (Norway).
As a CUDA Research Centre, CSIRO gains access to the latest developments in GPU technology and is part of a wider community of organisations with GPU facilities, sharing information and ideas.
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More than a year ago, Brian Stelter had a story in The New York Times about how the social media generation takes it upon themselves to pass on the news they feel is worthwhile. The story contained a seminal quote from an unidentified college student that has become iconic of the new journalism evolving before our eyes. He said: "If the news is that important, it will find me."
The line meant many things to many people. BuzzMachine blogger Jeff Jarvis and the Globe and Mail's Mathew Ingram, a colleague here at Nieman, both wrote about it at the time.
That single line seemed to capture what is changing in journalism. The old model of sender (news organization) to receiver (audience) was eroding. With the interactive Web, people could be senders and receivers. News organizations could also be both. The lines were blurry and crossed. And if you wanted to capture those illusive young readers you needed to get that.
So why am I bringing all this up now, more than 18 months after the pivotal story — a lifetime in the Web world?
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Hen and Rooster Linerlock Stiletto
A Product Review by Phil Elmore
Something about the long, thin blades and 1950s-era lines of stiletto-style knives has always held an attraction for me. As switchblades are not legal in my state, I must be content with locking stiletto-style folders that mimic the appearance of these knives while lacking the spring-opening mechanism. When I saw Hen & Rooster's linerlock stilettos, I knew I would not be able to resist them for long. Mine came to me through Smoky Mountain Knife Works.
The stiletto is about 8.8" long. The blade constitutes 3-7/8" of that and is a mere 1/2" at its widest point. It is very thin, too. The blade is ground from stock that is about a tenth of an inch thick, so the blade body is thinner still.
The dimpled metal handle is comfortable enough for this style of knife (locking stilettos have never been the most ergonomic of knives) but still fairly slippery. The guard protrusions are nicely rounded, so they don't bite skin the way the thin guards on some lockback stilettos do. Overall fit and finish is good, especially for the price paid.
The pocket clip is connected securely and does not shift as do some clips on cheaper knives. It has a pronounced bend to accommodate thick clothing and ends in a gentle curve. The knife is configured for tip-down carry, but the placement of the clip means that the head of the knife protrudes very visibly from a pocket.
The thumb stud is somewhat problematic. It sticks up from the blade like a tiny steel mushroom and, while comfortable enough against the thumb, is positioned poorly. There is very little leverage in that position. When I exerted enough pressure to open the blade, which was considerable, my finger slipped and I almost cut myself against the blade (which has a so-so factory edge but could do with a good honing to bring it to the razor-sharpness one expects from a stiletto). I tried this several times and had the same problem each time -- it's the position of the stud that causes it.
The knife is a linerlock with a pushbutton release. The liner engages the tang fully on the left side. The tang has a nice angle to allow for considerable blade wear. Lockup is secure, with no blade play.
Like the thumb stud, the pushbutton lock release protrudes quite some distance from the handle. It is set against a springy piece of metal that looks like a second liner lock, only shorter. When you press the button far enough (and you must press it down deeply to release the lock)...
...the secondary liner press against the linerlock that engages the blade tang, releasing it:
This is a neat mechanism, in that it allows the knife to appear (and operate) more like its less legal cousin, the Italian-style switchblade. When releasing the liner, however, one must start to close the blade and then release the button, or the secondary liner will prevent the blade from closing. Fortunately, there is enough distance between the base of the blade and the beginning of the edge that the secondary liner does not strike and dull the edge itself.
If you like stiletto knives and are looking for a budget-friendly alternative, these knives are a good buy.
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Abigail Chase is played by:
Diane Kruger
'A man only has one lifetime, but...':
'History can remember you forever.'
Ben Gates and his crew break into the Oval Office and:
Buckingham Palace
Ben Gates' great-great-grandfather was:
Thomas Gates
How many pages were ripped out of Booth's diary?
How many seconds does it take Riley to to disable the alarm?
It may be Patrick Gate's first felony, but his son tells him he's:
A natural
Jon Voight plays what role in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets?
Patrick Gates
Name the character portrayed by Justin Bartha in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets:
Riley Poole
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets was directed by:
Jon Turteltaub
Riley Poole points out that they have both stolen a page and:
Kidnapped the President
The Book of Secrets is said to contain information about:
All of these
'The only thing new in the world...':
'Is the history you don't know.'
The screenplay for National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets was written by:
The Wibberleys
The treasure hunter Ben Gates is played by:
Nicolas Cage
Thomas Gates was accused of planning:
To Assassinate Lincon
What do Ben Gates and his crew make a living off?
What does Riley say he sees in the pit?
Death and Despair
What is the release date for National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets in Singapore cinemas?
December 20
What is the symbol stamped in the diary page?
An eagle clutching a scroll
Which actor does not play a role in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets?
Gene Hackman
Which American landmark does not appear in the film?
New York City Hall
Whose diary is missing pages?
John Wilkes Booth
Why does Ben Gates go to Paris?
To prove his ancestor's innocence
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Many of the scout leaders were considered some of the best in their regions.
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Boy Scout officials acknowledge there have been problems but are quick to point out the times and focus on safety have changed dramatically.
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The files released Thursday were only those used as evidence in the Oregon case and deal with cases from 1965 through 1985.
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A spatial analysis of population dynamics and climate change in Africa: potential vulnerability hot spots emerge where precipitation declines and demographic pressures coincide
- David López-Carr,
- Narcisa G. Pricope,
- Juliann E. Aukema,
- Marta M. Jankowska,
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- Gregory Husak,
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We present an integrative measure of exposure and sensitivity components of vulnerability to climatic and demographic change for the African continent in order to identify "hot spots" of high potential population vulnerability. Getis-Ord Gi* spatial clustering analyses reveal statistically significant locations of spatio-temporal precipitation decline coinciding with high population density and increase. Statistically significant areas are evident, particularly across central, southern, and eastern Africa. The highly populated Lake Victoria basin emerges as a particularly salient hot spot. People located in the regions highlighted in this analysis suffer exceptionally high exposure to negative climate change impacts (as populations increase on lands with decreasing rainfall). Results may help inform further hot spot mapping and related research on demographic vulnerabilities to climate change. Results may also inform more suitable geographical targeting of policy interventions across the continent.
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- A spatial analysis of population dynamics and climate change in Africa: potential vulnerability hot spots emerge where precipitation declines and demographic pressures coincide
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Population and Environment
Volume 35, Issue 3 , pp 323-339
- Cover Date
- 2014-03-01
- 10.1007/s11111-014-0209-0
- Print ISSN
- 0199-0039
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7810
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Climate change
- Population
- Vulnerability
- Hazards
- Africa
- Spatial modeling
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- David López-Carr (1)
- Narcisa G. Pricope (2)
- Juliann E. Aukema (3)
- Marta M. Jankowska (4)
- Christopher Funk (5)
- Gregory Husak (1)
- Joel Michaelsen (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, 1832 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-4060, USA
- 2. Department of Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 102 DeLoach Hall, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC, 28403-5944, USA
- 3. National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California Santa Barbara, 735 State Street Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, USA
- 4. Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA
- 5. United States Geological Survey, University of California Santa Barbara, 1832 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-4060, USA


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