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Jurors in the trial of Raj Rajaratnam heard the most direct evidence Wednesday tying the Galleon Group founder to inside tips on Goldman Sachs that regulators say he received from Rajat Gupta, a former director at the investment bank.
"I heard yesterday from somebody who's on the board of Goldman Sachs that they are going to lose $2 per share," Rajaratnam (pictured at right) said on a secretly-recorded tape played at the hedge fund manager's trial. "The Street has them making $2.50."
As recounted here by WSJ's Chad Bray and Susan Pulliam, wiretaps involving the allegedly secret tips on Goldman were the highlight of Wednesday's testimony at the three-week-old trial, in which prosecutors seemed to be winding gradually toward the end of their case. A New York Times account of the day's testimony is here.
The two Goldman-related calls are connected to tips that the SEC, in a civil administrative proceeding launched on March 1, says Rajaratnam got from Gupta, who contends he has done nothing wrong. The government has cited calls Gupta made to Rajaratnam immediately after Gupta received important information about Goldman, and subsequent trades made by Galleon. While those calls weren't apparently taped, other ones in which Rajaratnam allegedly discussed the Goldman information were.
In one such talk, on Oct. 24, 2008, he discusses with David Lau, a Galleon portfolio manager in Singapore, that Goldman was unexpectedly losing money. "Really," Lau responds.
Rajaratnam says the board member he'd heard this from "was telling me was that uh, Goldman, the quarter's pretty bad."
"They have zero revenues because their trading revenues are offset by asset losses, and to date they have lost $2 per share," Rajaratnam says on the call. "I don't think that's built into Goldman Sachs' stock price."
In another tape, from Sept. 24, 2008, Rajaratnam is heard telling Ian Horowitz, a trader at Galleon, about a "big drama" at Goldman shortly before the markets closed the day before. The government says Gupta had tipped Rajaratnam that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was planning to make a $5 billion investment in Goldman.
"I got a call at 3:58, right?" Rajaratnam says in the Sept. 24 call.
"Yeah," Horowitz says.
"Saying something good might happen to Goldman. Right?" Rajaratnam says. He allegedly placed an order for millions of dollars in Goldman stock in the two minutes before stock trading closed in New York on Sept. 23, prosecutors said.


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By Jameelah Arcila (USAG Wiesbaden)March 30, 2011
WIESBADEN, Germany - Thirty-six military children of deployed parents got a special treat watching a classic Disney animated film come to life on stage.
The youths, from U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Child, Youth and School Services, were special guests of the English Theatre Frankfurt's March 12 premiere of "Beauty and the Beast."
"This is the fifth show that we have invited children from the American community to attend," said Wilfried Kastening, a retired Frankfurt banker who donated the children's tickets.
"(It) creates good local memories for the kids," said Kastening adding that he felt that Germans and Americans did not have enough interaction.
The Wiesbaden youths and six CYSS chaperones were shuttled to the free performance via a bus paid for by Andrews federal Credit Union.
Before the play began, the children crowded in front of the small community theater which sits nestled among skyscrapers in the heart of the Frankfurt financial district. At the door, Kastening and Doria Rosen, deputy principal officer for the United States Consulate General in Frankfurt, greeted the group.
The children were led to front row seats where they anxiously awaited the start of the show.
"The kids enjoy this so much," said Kevin Whitfield, one of the CYSS chaperones. "They are totally focused until the very end."
Whitfield attended last year when the theater issued the same invitation. He said that he was so impressed by the experience that he volunteered to come again.
"(The play was) really good and a lot of fun," said Nya Mingo and Megen Schachter, both students at Hainerberg Elementary School.
The play included music from the classic Disney movie as well as songs not featured in the film.
Mingo and Schachter said their favorite song was "Be Our Guest" - an upbeat number that included singing from the play's golden candlestick character.
All of the play's actors were children.
Theater organizers encouraged the CYSS children to become involved with the theater. "If you see something that you like and feel it's something you'd want to do, this is something you can all be involved in," said Deborah Smith, event organizer and mother of one of the cast members.
After the final curtain call of the nearly three-hour show, the children were invited on stage to meet the actors.
While receiving some complimentary gifts from the theater, Braydon Fleming, Hainerberg Elementary School third-grader, could not choose a favorite part. "The whole play was really interesting," said Fleming. "I liked the clock and the candle (characters) and especially the guy who didn't want to go in the woods."
Performances of "Beauty and the Beast" continue on Saturdays and Sundays through April 10 at 2 p.m.
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Dryinidae is a family of wasps. They are solitary. The larvae are parasitoids on other insects. There are approximately 1400 species in this family.[1]
The adult wasp is up to 11 millimeters long,[1] but can be as small as 1.5 millimeters.[2] Species are usually sexually dimorphic; males have wings while females are often wingless and resemble worker ants. Females may also have front legs modified with a pinching apparatus which they use to restrain the hosts for their larvae during oviposition. The body of the adult wasp has a 'waist' where it is constricted in the middle. The rear legs have spurs which may be used for grooming. The antennae have 10 segments. The ovipositor is retractable and not visible when retracted. The larvae are legless or have only vestigial legs.[2]
Dryinid wasp larvae are parasitoids on various species of hemipterans, lepidopterans, and beetles.[2] The female injects an egg into the host insect with her ovipositor. The larva feeds on the internal structures of the host, and as it grows larger it begins to protrude from the body. It develops a hardened sac around its body for protection. The host is eventually killed and the larva leaves the dead body and spins a cocoon.[1]
Issus coleoptratus nymph with dryinid larva under right wing
- ^ a b c Dryinidae. Identification of Principal Groups of Insects. Discoveries in Natural History & Exploration. UC Riverside.
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Propelled by quality pitching performances by Hunter Heath and Brooks Richards, Bethel captured a Class 4A district championship Thursday with a 6-2, 2-0 sweep of Harrah.
In the 6-2 opener, Heath permitted three hits in seven innings, including a run-scoring triple in the sixth. Heath didn't surrender a walk and fanned two.
Matt Watson of Bethel cracked an RBI double as part of a four-run second. Heath also had a double in the game while Clint Simmons went 2-for-2, including a run-scoring single in the second. Teammate Nate Milliman registered a two-run single in the second.
Richards then silenced Harrah on a two-hitter, both singles, in evening his record at 5-5.
Richards issued two walks and fanned five. Stephen Turner of Harrah gave up only five hits.
Heath led Bethel's five-hit attack with two doubles, one of which produced the first run in the top of the sixth. Heath then scored on a safety squeeze by Watson.
"Harrah is a good, well-coached team," Bethel coach Todd Brown said. "Both teams had just one error in 14 innings. I am proud of my pitchers. I can't say enough about the job they did."
Bethel, while upping its record to 21-6, advances to next week's regional action. The regional pairings are set to be released Monday.
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Hi all,
I have question, which if anyone can answer will put my mind to rest without worrying anymore.
I am in my 11th week of pregnancy, and have no symptoms! Is it normal? A rare times I feel a bit dizzy but it goes away instantly.
Do please someone tell me if this is all okay, and as my mum said, you are lucky not to be suffering!
Just want another opinion.
Thanks a lot
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As far as I can work out, from friends and colleagues, everyone is very different in pregnancy and nobody has the same two symptoms or even any symptoms
As long as your scan is ok and your midwife is happy and you havent had any bleeding/tummy pain then I guess things are good
Obviously I am not an expert - so you can always give your midwife a call for reassurance
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SIKESTON - During the past week several changes were made in real estate. Dr. H.M. Kendig has sold his residence to Hunter Albritton. It is understood that Kendig and his family will retain their residence here for a year, at which time they expect to seek a new location in Arizona. John Albritton has sold his residence to L.A. Harris. Albritton has purchased the Ray Simpson home on Moore Street.
BERTRAND - Watermelons by the truckload now, in a week to 10 days, will be a thing of the past. The hot, dry weather caused thousands to rot cutting the crop.
MARSTON - In a special election, voters approved natural gas for the city, 144-1. Mayor Sam Bodine said that gas mains will be in operation by winter.
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SIKESTON - The Sikeston Power Plant reported Friday that at 3 p.m. Thursday, the facility hit a peak demand for the City of Sikeston - 61.66 megawatts. The pervious record peak was recorded at 59.6 in the summer of 1993. "We're running at 100 percent," noted Lester Wright, business manager of Sikeston Light and Water.
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Gotta love all the bears in this thread commenting on State. #obsessed
Now I know what's been talked about in hail state. We accused y'all of being obsessed a good while ago now once again y'all accuse us of what you are doing. How long did y'all plan this? We seen this behavior before. Example saying we pay players while y'all are paying cam's father so you can say you didn't pay the player. One thing I've learned about many, very many, msu fans, whatever they are accusing us of doing is what they are already doing.


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Verizon Wireless is teaming up with PlayPhone, a social gaming network, to preload all of its future Android smartphones with Games Portal. Games Portal (like PlayPhone's current iOS/Android app) will be a social gaming platform that allows you to easily connect to your online friends in order to play mobile games together. There will also be many social aspects such as leaderboards, message boards, and achievements included with the service.
The great thing about the Games Portal platform is that you are able to play games with any of your friends who have the PlayPhone app, regardless of what mobile platform they're using. If your friend is part of the iPhone crowd, or the Windows Phone 8 crowd, you can still challenge them to a game of Blackjack, Bingo, or whatever you want. Consumers who purchase a Verizon Wireless device preloaded with Games Portal will already be pre-registered for PlayPhone's services, so you won't have to worry about going through another, boring sign-up process.
Games Portal also offers great incentives for game developers. It allows developers to take advantage of Verizon Wireless's huge subscriber base, and it allows them to show off their games in another app market (and one that's specific to the mobile gaming niche). Verizon's subscribers will also be able to purchase developer's games by easily charging them to their Verizon Wireless account.
Verizon and PlayPhone state that the new Games Portal will start being preloaded onto Verizon's future Android smartphones early next quarter. Verizon also states that future Android smartphones won't be the only devices to take advantage of the new service, and that the service will be rolling out to older Android handsets in the near future.
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Starbase 515 was a Federation starbase administered by Starfleet. This planetary base was located in a sector that was adjacent to Rhomboid Dronegar sector 006.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard went there in 2365 to undergo a cardiac replacement. Wesley Crusher took his Academy entrance exams there at the same time. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")
In early 2366, the USS Enterprise-D shuttlecraft Indiana Jones made a trip to this starbase. (TNG: "Evolution", display graphic)
In 2367, while trying to survive on Lambda Paz, Wesley asked Picard if he remembered the trip they took together to this base. Wesley felt that Picard had opened up to him and, in the process, he had come to know more about the captain. (TNG: "Final Mission")
In 2369, this starbase was named in the personal log of Lieutenant Keith Rocha, a network relay tech on Relay Station 47. His log transcribed on stardate 45457 was: "Heavy load today. Starfleet Command requested 20 new lines between Starbase 515 and Sector 32834. Apparently in support of expanded exploratory ops. The only problem is that we've already promised those lines to Admiral Taylor." (TNG: "Aquiel", display graphic)
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Starbase 515 offered biomedical and health care services in a medical facility.
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A court fight over the name of legendary bluegrass musician Bill Monroe isn't over yet.
The Messenger-Inquirer reports the Ohio County Industrial Foundation has filed a petition with the Kentucky Court of Appeals seeking a rehearing on whether a nonprofit organization can use Monroe's name to promote The Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Festival and for tours of the musician's home place in western Kentucky.
The appeals court decision in favor of the nonprofit organization was a reversal of a lower court decision that found Ohio County held the intellectual property rights to Monroe's name and could stop the festival from using it.
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End of the geothermal journey
GEODYNAMICS will complete site remediation at its Cooper Basin geothermal energy project this year, bringing to an end its geothermal energy ambitions.
Pokémon GO players bashed in 'vicious' attack
TWO men were hospitalised and had their mobile phone stolen after being struck from behind while playing Pokémon GO, in the first attack involving the game in South Australia.
Deportee 'fighting battle in wrong court'
A MAN fighting deportation, having lived all but four of his 46 years in Australia, has taken his battle to the wrong court and it should be dismissed, the Federal Government says.
Teen girl will be extradited over grandpa's death
UPDATED: A teenage girl arrested alongside her friend over the murder of her grandfather will be extradited to Adelaide later today to face the charges.
Beach Energy aims for record production
BEACH Energy is aiming for another year of record production after posting an underlying net profit of $36 million, down 61 per cent.
Showbag Guide 2016: Part 1
WE'VE had a look inside every showbag to find out how much bang you get for your buck. In the first part of our guide, check out the high-end bags that cost $16 to $50.
Showbag Guide 2016: Part 2
WE'VE looked inside every showbag to find out how much bang you get for your buck. In the second part of our showbag guide, we reveal what's inside those that cost $15 and under.
Hidden toll of drug overdoses revealed
COMMON prescription drugs are behind a surge of deaths in Australia, with new data exploding assumptions about overdose victims. SPECIAL REPORT
Ride on the wild side of Parliament
IT'S time for a political shake-up, it's time to fight the fights. It's time to raise the curtain on the 45th Parliament's plight.
Secret war confronted 50 years on
IT is the dirty, secret war the federal government still ignores. But SA veterans of the Indonesian Confrontation are in Borneo to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the bloody conflict that cost 22 Australian lives.
Heal, girl - the dogs helping women prisoners
SCARED and anti-social retired greyhounds and troubled women prisoners are leaning on each other in a pioneering foster program at Adelaide Women's Prison.
Ex-SA footy star in property racket
A FORMER prominent SA footballer is a key figure behind a national cold-calling property investment scam fleecing millions of dollars from victims by signing them up for houses that are never finished.
Fighting back against ice scourge
MT Gambier is a microcosm of the ice scourge that is tearing apart so many communities across Australia. But the south-east city is fighting back.
Four arrested over armed carjacking
Three men and a woman have been arrested after allegedly threatening a couple with a knife and stealing their car at Birkenhead on Saturday night.
Councils raise stink on waste levy rise
COUNCILS are warning they will have to cut services or delay projects to compensate for an increase to the levy charged on rubbish disposal, which takes effect this week.


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CAT TALE: Let's say you're against murder. Especially murder just for the sport of it. It sort of sickens you, let's say.
OK, but then let's also say you're against wanton vandalism against your property. And let's say that's been going on a lot. Here's an ethical question: Is it OK for you to, let's say, "arrange" to acquire the services of these murderers-for-sport that, as we've already agreed, you find more than a little abhorrent?
Your initial reaction is no, it's not OK. Murder, even of the "arranged" variety as you have so coyly put it, is way too extreme a reaction to the destruction of personal property. Surely, there is a more balanced, reasoned and civilized way to handle vandalism. Hours of community service, maybe. But not death by evisceration.
Yeah, well, that won't work. We've tried to be reasonable. We've tried everything. We've tried traps, we've tried a battery of deterrents ranging from sophisticated sonic devices to concentrated lynx urine, and still the vandals breach every defense.
The vandals are rats and mice. Their victim is us. The solution is a cat.
There is no more efficient and ruthless killer than a cat. Just two weeks ago the journal Nature Communications reported cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 billion and 20.7 billion small mammals each year in the United States.
The bird-killing we find unforgivable. Next to dogs, dolphins, giraffes, elephants and sparkly unicorns, birds are people's favorite animals.
As for the 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion small mammals killed by cats, well, that seems a bit overly ruthless. The cat, in its raw form, is a horrible blight on the planet's wobbly eco-system.
Factor cats out of nature and we'd still have all manner of cuddly things, like Furbies, that have instead gone extinct. Still, the mammal murdering is tempered by the fact that some of those mammals, to use the old Texas defense, "needed killin."'
In the past several years, rats and mice, lured by our tropical backyard and its lush groves of avocado, lime, grapefruit, Satsuma mandarin, and banana trees (the banana trees don't actually produce bananas; sometimes things are given a name that promises something that's never delivered, such as our St. Augustine grass which has yet to yield a single fourth century theologian-philosopher despite our obsessive horticultural mollycoddling), have developed a taste for home appliances and other gadgets.
They've destroyed a dishwasher, a dryer, TV and Internet cable, in addition to more conventional comestibles as a box of liquor-filled chocolates, half a loaf of Russian rye bread and several dozen Milkbone and T-Bonz dog treats.
There are more ways to get a cat than there are to skin one, but we've found the easiest method of feline acquisition is to simply refrain from throwing our shoes at them when they come into the yard.
Cats used to never come near our yard back in the days before our dog Jimmy got old. He's old now. He's mostly deaf, he's mostly blind and his legs don't work so good. Welcome to our world, old pal.
Now, after a few weeks of noisy and vicious border skirmishes among the neighborhood cats for the bit of real estate that has become available, an orange and white cat has emerged as the lord of our backyard, and the noisy rustling of varmints outside our window at night has stopped.
The cat, which we're not going to name until we become an old woman, has become bolder and has quit bolting out of the yard when we go outside. It's even taken to getting inside Jimmy's stash of dry food when we carelessly leave it out. We closed it, but we left a handful of kibble outside for the orange and white cat which, if we were to suffer a sudden bout of senility and give it a name, would be Dreamsicle. Here, little Dreamsicle!
Lord, what is happening to us?
OK, here's the deal. The cat can stay. We won't throw shoes at it (we don't know its gender. We're not on lifting-up-the-tail level of comfort with it yet.) as long as it continues doing whatever it's doing to keep the vandals at bay.
But no food, no ball of yarn, no coming in the house through the dog door. And no name.
tim.grobaty@presstelegram, 562-714-2116 or twitter.com/grobaty


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We're back with the latest Indie Spotlight. This weekend's feature includes plenty of zombies, Area 51, a creepy clown, and The Walking Dead bowling.
Area 51 Confidential Trailer: A new trailer for the found footage film Area 51 Confidential has just been released.
"Presented under the guise of a "military training video for new hires at the facility known as Area 51", we follow the plight of a handful of individuals – a broadcast journalist, a documentarian, a teenage girl from Roswell, an army Colonel, and a man who had previously been thought "missing" for a number of years – as they awaken in the desert area surrounding Area 51.
With no knowledge of how they arrived there, they must sort out their differences and find a way out – before strange lurking creatures find them first.
The film was directed and written by Brandon Slagle (Argo, 2012: Ice Age), who stars alongside Adrian Quihis (1000 Ways to Die), Devanny Pinn (Nude Nuns With Big Guns), Wolfgang Meyer (Disciples, Cut), Angie Johnson (Fantasy Factory), Tawny Amber Young, and Matthew Landon."
The Midnight Hour: "A creepy clown appears from the shadows of a child's bedroom and slowly approaches the sleeping child's bed. Withdrawing a large and very sharp knife from her insanely cheerful costume, she awakens the tot and reveals that mommy and daddy have been permanently dispatched…and guess who's next?
Such is the opening sequence of "Scream! Scream, Little Sara!" the latest episode of the cult TV series "Lee Martin's The Midnight Hour." Airing throught the month of May, 2012, the episode is in fact a sequel to the series' season three finale last year, "Penny Pockets."
Actress Lisa Mueller reprises her role as the homicidal clown, happily dismembering corpses while hiding out in the home of her latest victim. An unexpected phone call from beyond the grave sets the story in motion and what follows is a delightfully offbeat ride for horror fans and coulrophobics everywhere."
To watch the trailer, visit: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3363283225/
Hack Job: "James and Mike are tired of art films taking away the credit that horror films deserve. So, they get a script from the devil to make the best horror film ever. The script has three stories in it. The first is about Nazis that awaken a mummy's curse. The second tale is about an alien that crashes a battle of the bands and then starts eating the contestants, and the last story is about a man who gets possessed to kill televangelists…you will never guess who possessed him. Find out this and more in Horror/Comedy HACK JOB!"
To learn more about Hack Job and to watch a trailer for the film, visit the official website at: http://hackjobmovie.com/
The Walking Dead Bowling: Want to see Robert Kirkman, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan and Scott Wilson bowling against team Nerdist? Check out the Celebrity All Star Bowling video below:
Chronicles of the Dead: A teaser trailer has been released for the upcoming zombie webseries Chronicles of the Dead.
"Chronicles of the Dead documents the experiences of three friends caught off guard by a zombie apocalypse. After barricading themselves inside, the group learns more of the growing terror outdoors and sees the true destructive capabilities of the living dead firsthand. Using their film and literary zombie knowledge, they prepare themselves as best they can to survive in this gruesome nightmare of a world."
Watch the teaser trailer at: http://youtu.be/DaLPCOxPdzA
Blood Rituals Released: "Dark fantasy art fans and gamers alike will rejoice at today's release of veteran fantasy illustrator Tom Baxa's new art book Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa. Baxa's art for notable games like Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, World of Warcraft tcg, Darksun, L5R, Shadowrun, miniatures and more has been in high demand for years, and is available now for the first time in this one comprehensive collection.
Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa highlights this master illustrator's work and shows an impressive and inspiring range of inventiveness. His creature designs are intriguing and spark the imagination, compelling viewers to ponder the character's culture, influences, and all too often, tortured lives. Gruesome monsters with gnarled flesh are ripped and scarred until any semblance of normalcy is eradicated and a new form of wretchedness is unleashed. Baxa's range shines through with additional sections on his Wicked Fairies® characters, his short stories, sketches and evocative personal work."
Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa is available through Diamond Distributors at comic and game shops everywhere, or by contacting the Comic Shop Locator Service at 1-888-266- 4226 or www.comicshoplocator.com.
Clip from Haunted Poland: From director Pau Masó, Haunted Poland is a found footage horror film and a new clip has just been released.
"Haunted Poland depicts the contents of recorded tape filmed by a couple who visited Poland to meet and visit family. However, our duo soon find themselves disturbed by all manner of strange phenomena upon visiting the girl's hometown where she once played with a Ouija board."
To watch the clip, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAQiAsdTYM
We Are What We Eat: Directed by a 16 year Sam Toller, We Are What We Eat is a British zombie short film shot in 2 days with 5 make up artists, 6 locations and 27 zombie extras. They are in currently screening the film at various festivals and we have it here for you to watch:
"Nicole is bitten by her zombie boyfriend… Or is she? We follow as she descends into a waking nightmare that will end her life as she knows it. We Are What We Eat is the debut film of Sam Toller, a 16 year old North Londoner. Expect teenage angst, eviscerated intestines and the walking dead!"


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While the Web has evolved from flat documents to being fluidly ambient, we're using the same user research and usability testing methods and techniques we were using in 1994. We know that conducting usability tests can tell us where people get frustrated. What will testing reveal about frustrations with interactions people have with other people online? When interaction is protean, how do you derive a task scenario? What are the success criteria?
When you have large-scale social, individual workarounds turn into functionality and social norms. Etiquette evolves organically. What's that test look like? In this session, Dana will boil these questions down to 5 major issues UXers working in the social Web are grappling with and share experiences from pioneering researchers.


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|Lake Como, Italy (trekearth)
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Lake Como photos from trekearth.com once again on my blogs.
Not yet tiresome, and among the most colourful and varied photos.
As I noted on Dr. Russell Norman Murray that according to Blogger statistics, it is my best month in the history of that blog, since 2004 pageview wise. It should be the same this month with this blog as well, as I should reach the 30, 000 pageview mark with the two blogs combined. Surprisingly, a recent development within the last couple of weeks is that the pageviews between the two blogs are starting to nearly equal out, and this has been after two to three years where this blog has outperformed the other blog.
This blog is still ahead overall for the time being, but next month onward should be interesting.
For me anyway.
You may not care...
This is a blessing for me, and I do thank God. For the last few years the numbers have been up and down, with a gradual increase and hopefully they will stay up, but if they do not, that is life.
Blogging is just part of my life, as noted many times, people offline are more important to me. And building offline friendships.
Recently my Google/Blogger Friend Connect Followers have not been increasing, nor have my Facebook Networked Blog Followers. Therefore, in my case, there has not been a major philosophical and practical connection between gaining or maintaining followers and blog growth.
That is in no way to imply that I prefer that followers stay away in order that my pageviews continue to increase.;)
I am not anti-social, and certainly not that kind of anti-social, but I am just making a point.
Therefore, Satirical Blogging Advice #1
Do not increase your amount of blog followers.
Something seems off there though, I have to admit.
It just seems counter-intuitive.
I am still trying to gain followers. I really like meeting new people online too, but I am dealing with supposed facts here people...
Interestingly, I have read online that one needs to link with fellow bloggers or in this context let us include Blogger blogger's in order to increase pageviews and build a successful blog or blogs.
However, most of, not all, of my fellow links have 'bailed' on blogging for the most part.
No negative judgement on my friends, it is very difficult building a blog or blogs online.
It is difficult:
Gaining pageviews.
Gaining comments.
Making any money associated with a blog, if that would be a goal.
And avoiding that online diary I have mentioned.
Often Facebook and other social networking sites provide a more fun and rewarding social environment.
Somehow, my pageviews have managed to increase even though my blogging and Blogging friends, have primarily bailed.
Not all of them of course, but most of them, as noted.
Therefore, Satirical Blogging Advice #2
Hope and pray your fellow bloggers and Bloggers bail.
Something seems off there though, I have to admit.
It just seems counter-intuitive.
I miss many of my blogging and Blogger friends, but I am just sharing supposed facts.
It also appears that an online fan club is a must, as in persons that will provide one with pageviews.
Thousands of pageviews. These may be persons that dialogue with you or not.
They may have a mysterious crush, while drinking Orange Crush, maybe not.
A sometimes social difficultly with me is that I am male and many and most of the blogger/Bloggers are younger females. Some would assume that some of the social hesitation in social interaction may come from the female side only as in family of the younger women, or boyfriends.
However, to be honest when I discussed my fan club with an out of Province, Aunt and Uncle, my Aunt was concerned for my safety with a potential Fatal Attraction type situation occurring. The Uncle as well.
I assured my basically wise Aunt that it was not that kind of situation, in a Christian context, but to me it does show the changing social dynamics in society.
This is due largely to greater access and a 'smaller' world because of the web/internet.
Many persons have preconceived notions of what such and such a relationship would have to be and therefore that is what it is...
In their minds.
But not necessarily in the truth, and yet Christians are supposed to be of the truth. Jesus states he is the truth in John 14, and we should seek to be like in him also by the guidance of God/The Holy Spirit.
No area of life should be excluded. Easier said or written than done I admit.
Plus this issue is satirically amusing.
Therefore, Satirical Blogging Advice #3
Have a Fan Club.
Chucky suggested that my with all Curriculum Vitaes I have sent out to potential employers in regard to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy, that these potential employers, may be adding to be pageviews.
Therefore, Satirical Blogging Advice #4
Stay unemployed and keep sending out CVs and resumes...
Remember I am working in a relationship marketing business and I homecare full-time.
I am only technically unemployed with my degrees. And I blog...
The reality is that I receive over one hundred SPAM email comments a day, so I deduce my philosophical decision to write more posts/articles is finally working out with increased pageviews.
Therefore, Satirical Blogging Advice #5
Write many quality posts/articles and increase web traffic.
This is very good.
The End
|Fatal Attraction: According to my Aunt is it a good thing I practice with weapons?;)


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I know it is so cliche to start the year with the goal of getting back into shape, but I'm totally that girl. Over the past 6 months my fitness and lifestyle has just fallen to the wayside with my moving to different states every 3 months, and just being lazy to be quite honest. Anyone who does know me knows that I really do love to go to the gym, and enjoy how I feel after. But this is a new year, a new me, and a new opportunity to rededicate my body to being the best it can.
I really do enjoy shopping for workout clothes, and love chic ones that I can run around in after for any errands or meeting for a lunch. My absolute favorite workout leggings are from Lululemon and even though they've got a lot of terrible press in the past years I still remain loyal. That being said, Old Navy and Nike still have great options that also fill my workout drawers.
These workout tank tops are my absolute favorite! Just because I don't like the built in bras that come in tanks, I do so many different workouts from yoga, barre, to running I just can't imagine having a different tank for every event. Changing the bra underneath lets me use these tank tops for every workout that I enjoy without feeling like I waste my money. And they truly last forever. I have some that are 4 years old and they're still in perfect condition.
I absolutely adore the Nike Free Run sneakers for when I do get to go running, or to my aerobics classes. They fit my feet well and I feel as if they're the most comfortable. But, I have recently had a pair of Brooks running shoes that I really enjoy as well. I want to try and run a half marathon this year if my hips will stand it so I will have to reevaluate which shoes are best for those long distances!
I also want to get back into yoga this year. I have had a recent injury to a ligament so I need to keep my body more pliable and I know that this will help. Also, yoga is such a stress reliever that I know I need it!
What are your fitness and health goals for 2015?


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DALLAS, Texas – A prescription motorcycle eyewear company says the color of your peepers may dictate what eyewear lens color you should wear.
The idea was to find one optimum color for riders, but that's not exactly how it turned out.
ADS Sports Eyewear tested gray and copper sunglass lenses to determine which color was better for motorcyclists. Results showed that the rider's eye color was as important component in making this determination.
The company's sales show that more than 80 percent of riders wear gray lenses and black frames. In this experiment, each participant rode through the same environment with each lens color. Their goal was to determine if either lens color helped the rider evaluate road textures or recognize subtle hazards. Prescription sunglasses were included in the evaluation, but did not appear to have any impact on the final results.
Early in the testing, researchers discovered that eye color was an important component in determining which lens colors were most comfortable, and which lenses provide the best contrast for different riders.
Medically it could be explained by the fact that lighter-colored eyes like light blue, green or hazel are more transparent and therefore more inclined to be sensitive to bright light. Contrast lenses will make the world seem brighter. This is true even when a contrast lens like a 12 percent copper or brown lens is compared to a 12 percent gray lens. Both lenses let in the same 12 percent of light, but the contrast lens will feel much brighter. This perceived brightness is neither needed or welcome for riders who are light-sensitive. (continued)


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The MCS8-5 is a surveillance camera power supply from Pelco that is designed to offer a high configuration of power for 16 units at the one time from the one power source. The MCS8-5 power supply comes with an AC indicator w/ an on/off power switch, self-resetting and fuse circuit breakers, a three-position switch, as well as 4/8/16 outputs, and 120/230VAC selectable inputs. The MCS8-5 power supply also features a 24VAC output for longer wire runs, 2/5/10/20 amp capacities, an LED power indicator, plus high compatibility for domes and pan/tilt cameras. This security camera power supply is able to run most systems, and can be easily installed.


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Opening Statements Expected Thursday in 'Criminal Club' Case
Opening statements are expected to begin later Thursday in the insider-trading trial of two former hedge-fund managers accused in an alleged scheme that prosecutors have labeled a "criminal club."
Prosecutors have alleged that Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager with Diamondback Capital Management, and Anthony Chiasson, a former hedge-fund manager at Level Global investors, were part of a circle in which fund employees regularly shared and traded on inside information about technology companies.
Messrs. Newman and Chiasson are the latest people to go to trial in the government's broad crackdown on insider trading in corporate America.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan asked more than 30 potential jurors a series of questions regarding their backgrounds; their opinions on insider trading and secret recordings of phone calls by cooperating witnesses; and any knowledge they may have of the case.
Several potential jurors who didn't make the cut included a psychic who said he helped law enforcement locate missing children; a freelance bassoonist; and a long-time employee at SAC Capital Advisors LP, which is expected to be mentioned at trial.
Both Diamondback and Level Global were started by SAC alums. Also, Jon Horvath, a former technology analyst at SAC unit Sigma Capital Management, pleaded guilty in September to criminal charges in the case.
Prosecutors have described Michael Steinberg, Mr. Horvath's former boss at SAC, as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Mr. Steinberg was placed on paid leave last month.
A lawyer for Mr. Steinberg didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment late Wednesday.
Jury selection is expected to resume by mid-morning on Thursday and opening statements could begin after the lunch break.


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Disabled boy shows heroes his skills... by usmanjavid1
Leonardo Marques Tome, who suffers from arthrogryposis, made quite an impression on the Brazil players as he visited their training camp ahead of the World Cup.
The disabled 17-year-old was brought to meet his stars by Brazilian TV personality Luciano Huck at a training session.
The team gathered around Leonardo and listened intently as he read a letter about his life and his love of football.
Clearly moved, many of the players were left very emotional after hearing from the boy and his tough story.
Neymar to tears.His words visibly had an impact on the players, even moving
#THFC pic.twitter.com/G3iaB82Moi
A young boy who suffers from arthrogryposis was invited to tell his story to Paulinho and the Brazilian team.
— Hotspur Related (@HotspurRelated) May 30, 2014
But Leonardo brought more than just his letter to the session, as Chelsea's David Luiz and others were to soon discover. After the training session ended, Luiz spent a bit more time with Leonardo, watching him juggle a ball after getting out of his wheelchair and sitting on the pitch.
Playing with my new mate Leonardo at the Brazilian training ground yesterday. pic.twitter.com/8ZTyB21ZPg — David Luiz (@DavidLuiz_4) May 30, 2014
Leonardo's skills clearly impressed the Brazil stars as Luiz watched on engrossed as he juggled a football while on the floor.
It was a touching moment in an emotional afternoon for the Brazil stars, who will be under tremendous pressure at the tournament in a few weeks' time.
It's not as if Brazil needed any more motivation in this summer's tournament, but this brave youngster may just add a bit more fuel to their fire.
At least meeting little Leonardo has helped to put what they are about to go through in perspective.
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Andris Biedrins, Nelson's incumbent center, took that to heart.
Even as Webber reportedly waited in the wings, Biedrins grabbed a career-high 26 rebounds to help the Warriors hold on for a 106-104 comeback win against the Knicks.
Chris who?
"Of course, I take it a little bit personally, because it's my job," Biedrins said of all the talk about Webber, who will be signed by Tuesday, according to an ESPN.com report. "My job is defense and rebounds and blocked shots, so I'll try to do my job as good as I can."
Stephen Jackson scored 25 points, 16 of them in the fourth quarter, Monta Ellis added 24 points and eight rebounds and Baron Davis dropped 22 points and nine assists. But this marked the 11th time this season the Warriors (27-18) had to come back from a double-digit deficit to win, and with three starters -- Ellis (44), Davis (42) and Biedrins (41) -- getting 40-plus minutes, it illustrated why Nelson has been pushing so hard for another body.
"We're going to have to probably do something to improve our roster to stay competitive," Nelson said before the game. "We're just not deep enough. We need to get deeper, no question."
Nelson sees Webber as the answer to that need because of the five-time All-Star's unusual skill set: jump-shooting prowess and distributing ability in the high post.
"I see a big person, a need, and I see passing skills, a big need," Nelson said of Webber's game. "I've got one passer on the team (Baron Davis), and he can't get all the assists."
Biedrins made sure that didn't happen Sunday by vacuuming up almost every miss. He finished with 54 percent of Golden State's rebounds as the Warriors held their own with the larger Knicks on the glass, 48-all.
"He got traffic rebound after traffic rebound, and that probably resulted in us getting a win that could have very easily been a loss," Nelson said.
It was the most rebounds by a Warrior in Biedrins' lifetime; no Golden State player has had as many since Larry Smith grabbed 31 on March 28, 1981 against the Denver Nuggets.
"(Biedrins) is a monster," Jackson said. "It was hard for anybody else to get a rebound, because he was getting them all."
Armed with their bruising big-man rotation of Eddy Curry, Zach Randolph and David Lee, the Knicks scored 40 of their 52 points in the first half in the paint and had 15 second-chance points to take a five-point lead at intermission.
In the second half, the Knicks got 22 rebounds as a team, compared with Biedrins' 14, and had only five second-chance points and 22 in the paint.
"Every time I looked up, he was getting a rebound," Curry said. "When I saw he had 26, I was like, 'He got cheated.' They must didn't count some tip or something. He had at least 30. It was pretty amazing."
Jackson -- who had been identified before the game by Nelson as playing tired for the Warriors' past five contests -- looked suddenly refreshed in scoring 11 of Golden State's first 12 points during the fourth quarter. Treys on back-to-back possessions by Jackson put the Warriors ahead for the first time in the second half, 84-83, with 9:21 to go.
But Nelson is far from comfortable, not with only 11 games remaining against weaker Eastern Conference competition. He's still waiting for the cavalry.
"I think you need to look deeply at that roster and look at our schedule," Nelson said. "When we start playing the West, are we going to be strong enough? I think that's a concern to everybody. ... I'm afraid if we don't get (Webber) here, our team's not strong enough to be a playoff team. That's my biggest fear."
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Definition of herbal in English:
Relating to or made from herbs, especially those used in cooking and medicine: herbal remedies
More example sentences
- Some traditional medical practitioners use herbal medicines and set broken bones.
- Do no take this herb or other herbal remedies without first speaking to your health provider.
- Trials of many Chinese herbal medicines for the treatment of HIV infection and cancer are currently under way.
A book that describes herbs and their culinary and medicinal properties.
Example sentences
- Varro E. Tyler became dismayed by the proliferation of 'inaccurate and deceptive information' and wrote the first edition of The Honest Herbal in 1982 for the general public.
- Hitherto, evidence of the crops grown in medieval times has come from the analysis of charred and waterlogged remains from excavations, occasional herbarium specimens, descriptions in herbals and botanical inference.
- Modern herbals give it no medicinal value, but traditionally it was valued for healing wounds.
herbally adverb
- Example sentences
- All menstrual irregularities should be treated herbally for at least three months to accommodate the alternating between the right and left ovary.
- While the 1999 introduction of Ben & Jerry's herbally-enhanced Smoothies line was reportedly less than successful, the company has not given up on good-for-you products.
- Further, we argued that the species that comprised an herbally based ethnomedical system must be commonly known, widely available, and easily accessible if such a system is to continue to function effectively.
Early 16th century (as a noun): from medieval Latin herbalis (adjective), from Latin herba 'grass, herb'.
Words that rhyme with herbalburble, verbal
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From rail to jail: The journey of RJD chief Lalu Yadav
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Ranchi: The CBI court has found all the accused in fodder scam guilty including RJD chief Lalu Yadav. The quantum of punishment is likely to be pronounced on October 3.
With this, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's political career has gone into limbo. He now faces immediate disqualification as a Lok Sabha member. As per Supreme Court order, an MP or legislator would stand disqualified immediately if convicted by a court for crimes with punishment of two years or more.
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Definition of calligraphy in English:
1Decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.
Example sentences
- This attention to detail, beauty, and muscle control can later be transferred to cursive writing and beautiful calligraphy.
- He handed me a note, folded neatly down the middle and lettered in flowing calligraphy.
- It was a simple, yet elegant invitation - all white, with a little emboss of flowers and the information written in calligraphy.
handwriting, script, penmanship, hand, pen
1.1The art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.
Example sentences
- Qianlong proves a generous patron of the arts, supporting classical calligraphy, poetry and painting.
- Later, the guqin was regarded as one of the four required arts for ancient Chinese scholars, including the art of Go, calligraphy and painting.
- It was noted that most students lack a thorough background in typography, lettering and calligraphy.
- Example sentences
- Archaeological discoveries from the Bronze Age also found that ancient Chinese calligraphers painted characters on tortoise shells.
- It seems to me that the use of calligraphy is changing, as so many calligraphers are leaning towards fine art.
- Today's calligraphers believe it is impossible to advance beyond the artistic peak achieved by their predecessors, although they are trying hard to keep the ancient art form alive.
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- The calligraphist had given each letter a shadow, so that the words seemed to hover just over the page.
- Also in the garden, inscriptions of the noted calligraphists lure many lovers of oriental culture.
- People were all in high spirits with Spring Festival scrolls written by officials and calligraphists in hand.
Early 17th century: from Greek kalligraphia, from kalligraphos 'person who writes beautifully', from kallos 'beauty' + graphein 'write'.
This is from Greek kalligraphia, from kallos 'beauty' and graphein 'write'. In callisthenics (early 19th century) (US calisthenics) kallos is combined with sthenos 'strength'.
Words that rhyme with calligraphyepigraphy, tachygraphy
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There was a special pre-party event that occurred before the 2010 USO Gala this year: P&G (our newest Worldwide Strategic Partner) set up a beauty suite for the wives of the Service Member Honorees of the Year!
iVillage's Kelly Wallace was there to capture the moment, and spent time with Kelly Walker, the wife of Sgt. Eric Walker, the USO's Marine of the Year. "I very much enjoyed it," Walker, a mother or two, told Wallace after her beauty sessions. "I don't get pampering, I guess, very much, so it was quite enjoyable to have someone do my hair and my makeup."
But, as Wallace points out, none of these women do what they do for attention or awards. Walker concluded, "I'm just very proud of (my husband) and what he does, and so I'm honored for what I get to do for him."
We're proud of all of these military wives and moms (and their Service Member Honoree spouses!) and hope you'll take a minute to watch the video below, then say "Thank You" to the military wife or mom in your life…
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USO and the What To Expect Foundation Host Special Delivery Baby Shower in Dover
Being pregnant isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But being pregnant and having a spouse in the military – or serving yourself – can make the expecting experience exponentially more difficult. That's why the USO and the What to Expect Foundation, led by best-selling author Heidi Murkoff, team to bring Special Delivery Baby Showers to military bases around the world.
Aug 24, 2016
A Dish in the Desert: USO Piloting Expeditionary Satellite Internet Kit Program for Service Members Downrange
After months of research, two reinforced plastic cases arrived at Camp Shorab, a once-bustling Marine Corps base in Southwestern Afghanistan. When unpacked the packages' color-coded contents provided a free USO internet connection for troops on the ground.


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ive got the next two days off work, wonderin if anyone would like to join me (south edmonton) to check out the ravine near my place which has been frequented for 100+ years. 111st/23ave area. Edmonton
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Somalilanders breathe a sigh of relief
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As news of talks between the government and the opposition parties became public, Somalilanders both inside and outside the country breathed a sigh of relief that the threat of violence and civil strife that hung over them was finally lifted. Particularly reassuring was the upbeat statement by the Chairman of UCID opposition party, Mr Faysal Ali Warabe, in which he emphasized that the opposition and the government were determined to reach an agreement over the issues in dispute. The vice-President's statement reinforced this positive mood, although his reiteration that the government still views the extension of its term as legitimate raised the question of how a settlement is going to be reached if the government does not budge from its position?
At this point, the good news is that the government and the opposition are talking. They already had met twice and have promised to meet again on May 19 th. The lingering question in many people's mind is: will the next meetings result in an understanding or did Somalilanders celebrate too early?
If the government and the opposition reach an agreement on the way forward, it would be a demonstration, yet again, that Somalilanders have not lost that quality that makes them unique in Africa, namely, their ability to sit down together and solve their own problems. If, on the other hand, the talks fail, especially after such a promising start, it would be the beginning of a dark and difficult chapter in Somaliland's history. With such momentous and contrasting consequences for themselves and their people, it should be clear to Somaliland's government and the opposition that failure of the talks is not an option.
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God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur Theme of Man and the Natural World
The speaker in "God's Grandeur" looks deeply at the natural world, and doesn't hold back his or her contempt for the ways in which people and their industries have treated nature. Yet, Hopkins claims that the consequences of this treatment is only on the surface. This poem explores the idea of renewal, both for a damaged earth, and for the damaged people who walk upon it.
Questions About Man and the Natural World
- What is the speaker's attitude toward people? Angry? Empathetic? Generous? Kind? Pitying? Something else? What do you think?
- The poem seems to argue that the damage done to the environment, by people, can be repaired. Do you agree or disagree? Why do you feel this way?
- The speaker can't understand why people haven't taken care of nature, in their pursuit of "trade." Do you think nature has to be sacrificed, on some level, to fuel progress, and to meet the needs of human beings? Or can our needs be met without damaging the environment? Don't be afraid to explore both sides of the argument.
Chew on This
Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil's advocate.
God's Grandeur presents a compelling argument that people can't be fully happy when they don't protect the environment.


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Trip Report from IOM-2009
By user12608726 on Feb 19, 2009
Last weekend I participated at IOM-2009, a workshop on The Influence of I/O on Microprocessor Architecture, co-located with the High Performance Computer Architectures (HPCA) conference-2009 at Raleigh, NC. Ram Huggahalli, Principal Engineer, and Platform Architect in Communication Technology Lab, Intel served as the workshop chair. I must say that this workshop was very well organized. There were 8 presentations, 45 minutes each, leaving ample time for valuable discussions and feedback.
The workshop addressed the challenge of how to provide more I/O to systems, particularly with 40 GigE and 100 GigE getting standardized very soon. Here are the challenges as listed by the workshop chair.
1) Making I/O an integral part of chip/system design instead of having it as a peripheral device. Networking and other I/O needs to be integrated with microprocessor design instead of being thought as a peripheral device.
2) Making some kind of revolutionary change in the way network I/O is performed because (i) Memory access wont become faster, (ii) Demand for I/O (networking) will only increase and the current way will probably not scale.
Summary of viewpoints:
Main viewpoints expressed in the workshop:
1) A presentation from Sandia National Labs demonstrated experimental data on pre-release Nehalem systems. Main points: (i) Nehalem showing much improved network I/O because of reduced local memory latency,
(ii) NUMAness in Nehalem plays major role, many benchmarks show great difference using local memory than using remote memory. a list of commercial benchmarks for which performance varies a lot depending on whether memory is located locally or remotely. Memory is controlled in linux with numactl.
2) Main stumbling bottleneck for Network I/O: Avoiding copy required from user space to kernel space for transmit and vice-versa for receive. Strategies presented:
(i) Cache injection (2 papers: 1 from IBM Labs, Zurich, and 1 from Univ. of Victoria): Strategy is to inject data received directly into cache so that when receive() is issued, there is no cache-miss and data is readily available. Challenge is that data that is displaced in cache will cause cache-misses, and therefore it is hard to come up with an algorithm which is suited to all workloads. Presenters from Univ. of Victoria presented strategies in the context of MPI running on a IBM Cell processor.
(ii) IOMMU to drive hardware accelerators (1 paper from Univ. Pittsburgh, Intel): Using IOMMU hardware to access physical memory by supplying virtual address so that a hardware accelerator device can directly access memory. The presenter demonstrated this approach in the context of a USB drive.
(iii) Creating DMA Cache (Chinese Academy of Sciences) : Having separate cache to keep I/O data before it can be read by application. As a result primary cache is not affected.
(iv) Intelligent NICs (Virginia Tech): NICs which can interact with the CPU and transfer data when required.
(3) Other Interesting papers:
(i) Using network processors to create virtual NICs. (Univ Massachussetts, Lowell)
(ii) Active end-system analysis for finding bottleneck rate for receive network I/O: This work is mainly from UCDavis, while I have contributed to the theoretical part. This work demonstrates the importance of pacing on the transmit side, and illustrates how to compute the bottleneck at the receiver using a stochastic model. Slides are available here.


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Alumni Weekend at BPC to feature Reunion Alumni Choir
MOUNT VERNON—Alumni and friends of Brewton-Parker College are encouraged to attend Alumni Weekend "Old Friends, Good Memories", this Friday and Saturday, April 8-9. More than 250 members of the college's Reunion Alumni Choir under the direction of Dr. Hildegard Stanley will perform Saturday at the Alumni and Friends Tribute and Award Service at 10:30 a.m. in Saliba Chapel on the Mount Vernon campus. The community is invited to bring their families to enjoy the performance. Admission is free. Alumni will receive special recognition during this ceremony. To register for this event and to learn more about the other weekend events, go online to www.bpc.edu/alumni.


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Cahill can't get a shot away but it doesn't matter. The final whistle goes and Chelsea are throught to the fifth round of the FA Cup.90+4
Luiz is booked for a nasty challenge on Reeves. After a second look, he is lucky not to be dismissed as he seems to deliberately guides his shoulder onto Reeves' jaw.85
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Lyn writes: 'Seems the boys are trying hard but maybe Chelsea got a good talking to at half time and have uped their game. Hope the Bees can get one back.'80
Forshaw, who caught the eye for Brentford today, is being replaced by Saunders as the visitors make their final change.79
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Bike Chute Aeronaut
by Jason Swihart on Jan. 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
From the what's old is new department, I bet when the Parasailers were first marketing their thrill rides to tourists, it was all the newest thing.
Ah, but back in the day of safety bikes, Mr. Kabrich was the Bike Chute Aeronaut. I…


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UPDATE: Energy Future Holdings 3Q revenue declines, company borrows $250M
Energy Future Holdings' revenue continued to decline in the third quarter, the company said Thursday in a filing, and EFH borrowed another $250 million.
The Dallas power company said in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission third quarter revenue dropped to $1.75 billion from $2.32 billion a year ago.
The company has struggled to pay off $37 billion in debt as its revenue shrinks because of a decline in wholesale electricity prices in Texas. The third quarter includes the month of August, when many customers pay the highest electricity bills of the year.
EFH said its third quarter net loss narrowed to $407 million from $710 million a year ago.
EFH also said the business unit that holds its 80 percent interest in Oncor borrowed another $250 million. Oncor is the fully-regulated monopoly that operates power lines and must follow a slew of rules governing its finances.
The unit, EFIH, used its stake in Oncor to guarantee the debt, as it has done twice this year. In 2012, the holding unit has borrowed $2.15 billion against the Oncor stake.
The October loan could be used to pay a dividend to the parent company, and EFH didn't say how it would use the money.
EFH must make nearly $450 million in interest payments before the end of the year. And, EFH said in the filing, it's got to contribute $240 million this quarter to the employee pension fund in order to terminate it. EFH said it has already made $150 million of that payment.
That's a total of about $680 million in pension and interest payments in the fourth quarter. As of the end of the third quarter, EFH had $625 million in cash. The company also has access to a revolving line of credit.
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The bottom dropped out of the Sid M. Nichols $1900 robbery Friday afternoon with a dull and sickening thud. Nichols was in conference with E.A. Walsh of the Mederd Grocery company and Chief of Police Hittson for a couple of hours, in which the loser was conviced that he had walked in his sleep and hid the money while in a somnambulistic state. The $1,900 was found by Nichols on the top of the family cupboard in two dishes. Nichols is accredited with having worried considerably over the possession of so much actual coin and to have worried for fear he would lose it and not be able to liquidate his indebtedness. His sleep was troubled, and while in a trance moved the money to a new hiding place, threw his clothing around, and in getting back into bed, awoke. Finding the money missing from the bureau, he came to the conclusion that he had been robbed, and so reported.
Nichols was told that he was seen to change the hiding place of the money. This is the first time he ever knew he was sleepwalking.
Miss Mollie Towns of Phoenix, formerly deputy county clerk, will make the race for the legislature on the democratic ticket, subject to the May primaries. Miss Towne is the first woman in Oregon to practice before the Oregon bar and is well and widely known throughout Jackson County. She is in Medford today in the interests of her candidacy.
PORTLAND, Or., March 15 — A committee of twenty-one, headed by School Superintendent E.R. Alderman, was named today to prosecute the fight against cigarette smoking among minors. At a mass meeting held at the offices of the board of education this morning the situation was discussed by parents, educators and business men. It was decided to call on police for co-operation and tobacco dealers be asked to use all their influence to prevent the obtaining of tobacco by boys.
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HPV Vaccine Recommendations for Girls, Boys, Women, and Men
Medical Author:
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
Medical Editor:
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Medical and Pharmacy Editor:
Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD
Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD
Dr. Ogbru received his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in 1995. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Arizona/University Medical Center in 1996. He was a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and a Regional Clerkship Coordinator for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy from 1996-99.
What is HPV?
The human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of over 100 types viruses that infect humans. Over 40 HPV types infect the genital tract and anus of men and women. They may sometimes cause genital warts, but a subgroup of the HPVs that infect the genital tract can lead to precancerous changes in the uterine cervix and cervical cancer. HPV infection is also associated with the development of other cancers like anal and penile cancer in men as well as a subgroup of head and neck cancers in both women and men.
What is the HPV vaccine?
A vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer and other diseases caused by infection with HPVs was approved for use in the U.S. in June 2006. This was the first vaccine to be developed against a known risk factor for the development of a cancer. An additional vaccine has since been approved, and the original vaccine has also been modified to target more HPV types (see below).
What HPV vaccines are available?
There are three HPV vaccine products available in the US.
Gardasil, developed by Merck & Co., has been shown to be safe and 100% effective in preventing infection by four common HPV types (6, 11, 16, 18) in young people who have not been previously infected with HPV. Its effectiveness is lessened for those who have already been exposed to the viruses.
Gardasil 9
Gardasil 9 is a newer version of the Gardasil vaccine, and was approved in December 2014. It confers immunity to 9 HPV types (6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58).
Cervarix is another HPV vaccine. It prevents infection from HPV types 16 and 18 that are the two HPV types most commonly associated with cervical cancer. Cervarix is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and is the second HPV vaccine to be developed.
Both types of the Gardasil and the Cervarix vaccine are effective against diseases caused by HPV-16 and HPV-18 and can prevent cervical pre-cancers in women as well as cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, anus, and oropharynx. Only Gardasil has been tested and shown to prevent pre-cancers of the vulva, vagina, and anus. Only Gardasil protects against HPV-6 and HPV-11, the virus types that commonly cause genital warts.
HPV Vaccine Recommendations for Girls, Boys, Women, and Men Resources
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- Creating alpha channels
- Isolating content with clipping groups and layer masks
- Turning a day sky into a night sky
- Compositing photos
- Creating tableaus
- Blending color and tone in combined images
- Painting in explosions
Skill Level Intermediate
Now, the first thing we need for our scene of Atlantis rising from the sea is the sea itself. Now I've got a shot right here that I took one day in Bodega Bay, not a spectacular shot but this beach area right in front, this is perfect for what we need, right there. This other stuff, well that's not going to work because Atlantis, well we've got mountains back there and Atlantis is going to come up all by itself out of the sea right here. So all this stuff has to go, that sky has to go, we are going to create our own sky, it's going to be a little more misty, so we just want that foreground area.
And back here I have another shot, now this one you can see it is a very bad shot because of the setting, kind of overcast, one of those typical summer days in Bodega Bay, both in the Bodega Bay, California here. This area of the sea is perfect for what we want. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select that portion back there. I like the angle of this beach, but I like the flowing back into infinity of this particular scene. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this whole area right here, and I'm going to drag it into the other sea right there. Okay, so there it is.
What I want to do now is I'm going to go in here, and I'm going to kind of stretch it out, I'm going to hit my F key to bring it to full screen so I can see everything there, and I'm going to stretch this out to fit into that other scene. So I'm going to go in there and do Command+T, and I'm going to pull it out, let's make it a little bigger, and bring it all the way out to there. And then I'm going to rotate it a little bit just to straighten out that horizon right in there like that and then bring it down so that it starts to match into that part of the sea right out there, kind of bringing it out just a little bit on both sides so it bleeds off just like that.
I want to curve it just a little bit just a little so we have a little bit of curvature there, and we'll click OK, and I'm going to move it down just a little more, right there. Now I want these guys to blend in together so I'm going to give that layer a mask. And I'm going to go in there, and I'm just going to throw a gradient right into it, white is where I'm going to see it and black is where it's going to hide. So I'm going to make sure I'm just going from black to white. And I'm going to go in here and start to create that little gradient right in there about like that.
There you can see where it is starting to flow together, we'll make it little bigger, there we go, and there we are starting to get that nice little flow from one sea into the other. So now it's starting to look like a long expansive of this kind of nice bluish sea. And now, the one in front is a little too saturated. I want to give it that muted kind of feel because this is going to have a kind of mystical look to our overall scene, so I'm going to go into Hue/Saturation right there, and I'm going to go in there and bring down the saturation for that foreground sea, so it starts to match the one in back a little more.
There you could see we are just getting a nice little match happening there, click OK, and now we have a continuous sea. Now the sky, sky, we are going to go in there, and we are going to pick a color, right there. I like this color right in there. That will be for the foreground color. And then for the background color, I'm going to pick a much deeper version. Let's go in here and say we pick this darker blue right there. That's going to look really good. So now I'm going to go in there and in a layer on top of this, I'm going to go and call this the sky, okay.
And we are going to call this one just so we can tell what our layers are, we are going to call this sea, far sea, all right. And now, I'm going to go in there and throw that gradient into my sky from the light color to the darker color right up in this area right here like this. Not that high up there, right about there, like that. That's looking good. Now I'm going to bring down the opacity just so I could see it there, and I could see, I'm going to give that another mask.
And this mask is going to be right in this little area right in here where I want it to appear, so I'm just going to give it a little gradient right through there, and there we can see that now we are getting this nice little effect of--there's our sky, it's nice and smooth going up, and we have created from this original scene here. We now have a complete sea, which is where we are going to have Atlantis rise.


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We regret to inform you that HomeLife will cease operations on Friday, July 13, 2012. We thank you for using HomeLife and we're sorry to share this unfortunate news with you.
After July 13, you will no longer have access to you data and it cannot be retrieved. We strongly suggest you transfer your data to another calendar prior to this date.
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>>>> Denmark is a much smaller country than UK and the financial
>>>> sector in Denmark has always been very blue.
>>> That is because Maersk Mckinney Moeller was a roommate of Tom Watson Jr.
>>> at Yale.
>> The blue I was talking about is IBM blue.
> Who did you think Tom Watson was?
Everybody knows who Thomas Watson Jr is.
The point is that the Maersk color is also blue.
But the banks in general use IBM not Maersk.
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a big chunk of until IBM bought the IT part of Maersk)


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EAIESB is happy to announce "Advanced Oracle Healthcare in 21 Days" book
By Juergenkress-Oracle on Nov 10, 2013
This books is written on Latest PS6 (126.96.36.199) and available at the EAIESB website.
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CHICAGO: Hundreds of Oprah Winfrey fans are lining up in Chicago's Millennium Park for a chance at free tickets to the talk show host's season premiere featuring 150 US Olympic team members.
Some fans lined up as early as 6 a.m. for the tickets to "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Tickets usually are available only by phone.


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Here is the map for the temperature departure from normal for the summer. This is for the period of June 1 to August 5.
About two thirds of the nation has had below normal temperatures this summer.
The CPC had forecast over half the country with above normal temps and none with below normal. This forecast is almost as bad as last winter when the CPC forecast 5% of the U.S. with a colder than average winter and over three fourths of the nation ended up cooler than normal.
Here was the CPC summer forecast. They were correct on the far west and that was about it. The rest of the forecast was off.
I had forecast below normal temps for the Louisville area.
As of today, the summer temps for Louisville are averaging 1.4 degrees below normal.
Here is the latest winter forecast.
My thinking is that the below normal temperature area is underdone.
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For those who have read my page of links to articles on the Subprime Meltdown, I've added one more – "The Government-Created Subprime Mortgage Meltdown" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.
As the title implies, he holds the Government (not the treasury, nor the federal reserve, but the government itself) responsible and he cites the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) as the genesis of our current mess. As always, any other suggestion, please add a comment.
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White sulphur springs, WV (AP) -- A union official says a new labor agreement for workers at the Greenbrier resort will freeze wages over the first three years of the contract.
Nine unions had been working without a contract since January 2008.
Union workers approved the tentative agreements 465-140 Thursday.
Spokeswoman Lynn Swann says the ratification was a key component to the resort's pending sale.
The agreements must now be approved by a U.S. bankruptcy judge before they can become effective.
Resort owner CSX filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March.
A subsidiary of Marriott International has agreed to buy the resort for as much as $130 million.
Peter Bostic of workers United Local 863 in White Sulphur Springs says union workers can discuss pay raises after three years if the resort returns to profitability.
Workers also must pay more for health insurance and new employees will have to wait longer to become eligible for the resort's insurance plan.
(Copyright 2009 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.)