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Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research
4-8 January 2011
Google Inc. Headquarters (GooglePlex), Mountain View, California, USA
- John Bailey
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA;
- Declan De Paor
- Dept. of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA;
- Tina Ornduff
- Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, California 94043, USA;
- Steven Whitmeyer
- Dept. of Geology and Environmental Science, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22840, USA;
Google Earth has emerged as one of the most powerful and easy-to-use tools for viewing, tracking, and analyzing planetary (and lunar) features, processes, and events. Since the application's release in 2005, Google Earth's use in the geosciences has evolved from simple "fly-bys" to world-class examples of geologically-induced landforms to dynamic KML files and COLLADA models displaying geologic processes. Applications of Google Earth in geoscience education and research* have been highlighted in well-attended AGU and GSA sessions in recent years, and informal discussions at these meetings have indicated the need for a specialized forum where development of virtual globe–based educational resources and visualizations can be coordinated among the greater geoscience community. The result is this Penrose Conference, which will bring together geoscience educators, researchers, and other professionals to discuss recent advances in the development of educational modules and research visualizations that use the Google Earth platform.
The conference will be held onsite at the Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA, and will focus on such themes as (1) broader dissemination of Google Earth–based educational materials throughout the geoscience community; (2) coordinated involvement of Google engineers and the Google Earth education team in the development of Google Earth–based geoscience education and research tools; (3) an opportunity to convey the wish-lists of solid-earth scientists to Google engineers; and (4) design of a central Web site and dedicated server for uploading and downloading Google Earth–based visualizations, educational modules, and user-support materials.
By pooling ideas and resources from the broader community, we hope to stimulate new initiatives and directions in using Google Earth in the geosciences, as well as encouraging the active participation of Google Inc. in the future development of geoscience research and education tools. A special volume summarizing cutting-edge research and educational uses of Google Earth is an anticipated follow-up to this conference.
- Monday, 3 Jan.
Arrive in Mountain View
- Tuesday, 4 Jan.
"State of the Art in Google Earth" presentations by Google staff; posters by conference participants on uses of Google Earth
- Wednesday, 5 Jan.
Google Earth in geoscience education and research; presentations and breakout discussions
- Thursday, 6 Jan.
Field trip to local geologic sites in the Bay Area for hands-on demonstrations of field equipment relevant to Google Earth (GigaPan, LiDAR, etc.)
- Friday, 7 Jan.
Integrating modern field datasets into Google Earth; creating and using field-oriented Google Earth modules
- Saturday, 8 Jan.
Synthesis and future directions in education and research
- Saturday evening (or Sunday, 9 Jan.)
Depart Mountain View
Participants must make their own travel arrangements to arrive in Mountain View, California, USA, the night of 3 January. The registration fee will cover hotel lodging for five nights (3–7), all daytime meals, dinner on Day 2, all handouts and digital materials, and transportation from the hotels to Google headquarters and on the field day. Airfare is not included. The registration fee is estimated at US$700 per person (double occupancy).
Deadline: 3 September 2010
The conference is limited to ~65 participants, and participants must apply to attend. Participants will have to commit to attending the full five days of the conference. Applications should be submitted online at the following address: www.snap.uaf.edu/earth/penrose/.


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SGH-D840CompareThe successor of the D820 has 2-megapixel camera that can record videos and QVGA screen, displaying up to 262k colors. Its 80MB of memory can be expanded through microSD cards+ View Specs
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SGH-D900 Ultra 12.9Compare7.3 reviewThe D900 is ultra-slim (half an inch) slider, quad-band GSM/EDGE phone with advanced multimedia features 2.1 inches large QVGA display, music/video players, slot for microSD cards, and built-in 3-megapixel camera with flash. Other features include documents viewer and TV-out+ View Specs
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SGH-Z540CompareSGH-Z540 is slim clamshell with large displays QVGA internal one and 128x128 pixels external. On its front shell, it has keys to control the music player, which memory is 140MB. The phone also features email client and internet browser+ View Specs
SGH-Z400CompareThe Z400 is 3G slider phone with front camera for Video Calling and main 2-megapixel unit for pictures. It has 2 inches large QVGA screen and features multimedia player and slot for memory expansion+ View Specs
SGH-X210CompareSamsung X210 is basic clamshell with internal antenna and black housing. It lacks external display, camera or any advanced features. X210 is tri-band GSM/GPRS phone, it has mediocre WAP internet browser and JAVA platform that can be used for Games. Its phonebook's capacity is 1000 contacts.+ View Specs
SGH-X467CompareSamsung X467 is small and simple clamshell with internal antenna. It is tri-band GSM supporting GPRS data and WAP 1.2.1 internet browser. Its external display is greyscale unit while the internal is 65k color one. The 2.2MB of memory can be used for storing of JAVA games+ View Specs
SPH-A640CompareSamsung SPH-A640 is simple and stylish black clamshell with internal antenna. It has basic functionality including speakerphone and phonebook with capacity of 300 names. A640 features Bluetooth and VGA camera with digital zoom+ View Specs
SGH-X670CompareThe basic X670 features two 65k color displays in a clamshell design with internal antenna. It supports Bluetooth and EDGE data and has VGA built-in camera+ View Specs
SGH-E376CompareThe E376 from Samsung is mid-level slider phone operating in tri-band GSM networks. It has small 65k color display and 1.3-megapixel camera with flash+ View Specs
SCH-A990Compare8.7 reviewSamsung SCH-A990 is the US phone to have 3.2-megapixel camera. A990 is successor of the A970 and has swiveling QVGA 262k color display and additional 65k color one. SCH-A990 features Bluetooth, TV-out and microSD slot for memory+ View Specs
SGH-C240CompareSamsung SGH-C240 is a tri band GSM candybar. It features, 65k color display, FM radio, GPRS ans WAP browser.+ View Specs
SGH-i320CompareSamsung SGH-i320 is a slim candybar Smartphone with full QWERTY keyboard and landscape QVGA 65k color display. It has 1.3-megapixel camera, 120MB of memory expandable through microSD cards. I320 is smaller than the Motorola Q and also features EDGE data+ View Specs
SCH-A930Compare6.9 reviewThe A930 is stylish clamshell with internal antenna and advanced music features: it has music-dedicated keys, stereo speakers and microSD slot for memory. The A930 features 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and 262k color dipslay+ View Specs
SGH-D347CompareThe D347 is a small clamshell with an antenna and basic functionality. It has small display and features Push to Talk, Bluetooth and EDGE Class 10+ View Specs
SGH-D407CompareThe D407 is a small clamshell with an antenna and basic functionality. It has small display and mediocre VGA camera, surrounded with Push to Talk, Bluetooth and EDGE Class 10+ View Specs
SGH-T209CompareThe T209 is an entry-level tri-band GSM with internal antenna. It packs internal color and external greyscale displays and features speakerphone and instant messenger+ View Specs
SGH-C406CompareThe entry-level C406 is absolutely basic tri-band GSM with small color display. Some of its greatest features are the VGA camera, and the phonebook with capacity for 500 names.+ View Specs
SGH-E780CompareThe E780 is a mid-level clamshell phone operating in tri-band GSM networks and supporting EDGE data. The phone features WAP 2.0 internet browser and email client as well as JAVA downloadable games and music player with dedicated keys+ View Specs
SGH-X820 Ultra 6.9Compare7.5 reviewThe X820 packs large 262k color landscape display and 2-megapixel camera in extremely slim (0.27 inches) body with Bar design. The phone features Bluetooth and EDGE class 10 with WAP2.0 internet browser+ View Specs
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SGH-E900CompareThe E900 is a stylish slider with internal antenna and slim profile (0.64 inches) and features large QVGA display and 2-megapixel camera with flash. Its multimedia features are expanded with microSD slot for memory and music/video players+ View Specs
SGH-T319CompareThe successor of the T309 changes the housing color to dark-blue one and moves the Speakerphone on the outer side so it can work with closed shell. T319 features internet browser and games+ View Specs
SGH-T609Compare7.3 reviewThe T609 is bluetooth-capable clamshell with 1.3-megapixel camera and quad-band GSM. It has advanced voice features, speakerphone, and internet browser+ View Specs
SGH-T509Compare7.1 reviewThe T509 packs 65k color display, camera, and EDGE high-speed data in 0.4 in thick candybar body. It has 7MB of memory and can use MP3 files as ringtones. T509 also has Internet browser and speakerphone+ View Specs
SPH-A580CompareThe A580 is an entry-level CDMA phone in clamshell design with internal antenna. Its front is dominated by a large speakerphone and greyscale external display, while the main internal unit is 65k color STN one. It has internet browser and supports games downloading+ View Specs
SGH-X507CompareSamsung SGH-X507 is an entry-level quad-band GSM phone with clamshell design. It has 65k color internal display and greyscale external one, and features high-speed class 10 EDGE data for surfing the internet with WAP2.0 internet browser+ View Specs
SGH-Z710CompareSamsung SGH-Z710 is a tri-band GSM clamshell with UMTS support. It features 262k color QVGA display, 3,2 megapixel camera with Auto-Focus and flash, Bluetooth, FM Radio, microSD slot for memory and music player.+ View Specs
SCH-A915CompareSamsung SCH-A915 is a stylish clamshell CDMA phone with internal antenna, music keys and swiveling megapixel camera. It operates in dual-band CDMA networks and supports high-speed EV-DO and features Video and Music on demand. A915 has 50MB of memory expandable through miniSD cards+ View Specs
SGH-P910CompareSamsung SGH-P910 is a tri-band GSM with UMTS support. It features 262k color QVGA display, DVB-H TV tuner, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and music player.+ View Specs
SGH-S400iCompareSamsung SGH-S400i is a tri-band GSM slider. It features 262k color TFT display, VGA camera, Bluetooth, i-mode browser and speakerphone.+ View Specs
SGH-Z550CompareSamsung SGH-Z550 is a tri-band GSM slider with UMTS support. It fetures 262k color QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, music player and Stereo speakers.+ View Specs
SGH-ZV50CompareSamsung ZV50 is a tri-band GSM with UMTS/HSDPA support. It features 262k color QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, music player and web browser.+ View Specs
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Metcalfe Park wins award, city called hotbed of placemaking
The winners for the Chicago-based "Space in Between" contest, designed to honor groups in the greater Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary, Indiana areas that temporarily transform vacant lots and buildings into community-building projects, have been announced.
Of the three organizations that won top honors, one was was Milwaukee-based Metcalfe Park Community Action Team, which commandeered a vacant lot and adjacent boarded-up building in a neighborhood with one of the highest concentrations of vacant properties in the city. The group, which got a runner-up prize of $500, organized a neighborhood peace rally, a drive-in movie night and an art installation by local artist Ben Janik. »Read Full Blog Post
Video: The Concert Corner - Summerfest's first headliner, recapping Bob Dylan and more
After a two-week hiatus due to Superstorm Sandy, the Concert Corner with CineStars' Brittany Umar is up and running again. (CineStars is based in New Jersey, and was without power for over a week because of the storm.)
For this installment I take a look back at two shows I recently reviewed - Bob Dylan at the BMO Harris Bradley Center last Thursday, and R. Kelly's randy show at the Milwaukee Theatre Saturday - plus take a look at the week's big show with Journey (don't stop believin' people) and Summerfest's first headliner announcement. »Read Full Blog Post
Manitowoc residents rally to save iconic Anheuser-Busch murals
The iconic Anheuser-Busch beer murals in Manitowoc, which were in the process of being removed, will be preserved, it was announced today, according to the Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc.
Beneath the giant vinyl sign of three Budweiser bottles is an older, hand-painted mural featuring a beer bottle flanked by two beer cans, positioned on giant grain silos in downtown Manitowoc. »Read Full Blog Post
Chipstone Foundation hires Sarah Carter as curator
The Chipstone Foundation, known for unconventional exhibitions of historic objects, has hired a new curator.
Sarah Anne Carter, a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University, was selected because of her innovative teaching practice and for the cutting-edge technology that she brings to the study of objects, Chipstone officials say. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Wisconsin playwright's work performed at Republican Theater Festival
"Battle Hymn," a work by Wisconsin playwright Ludmilla Bollow, will be one of 10 plays performed at the Republican Theater Festival held in Philadelphia from Monday to Wednesday.
The play, which Bollow says was "based on an incident in Marshfield in 2000," follows what happened when a group sought to remove a statue of Jesus from a public parkway. The play has a fictional ending, says Bollow. »Read Full Article
Matchbox Twenty, Pajanimals Live among new Pabst Theater group concert announcements
The Pabst Theater group kicked off the week with four new show announcements for 2013 spanning from Billboard-topping alt rockers to fuzzy kid show stars.
Rob Thomas' alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty, whose first album in 10 years, "North," debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 in September, is coming to the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave., Feb. 9. Tickets are $39.50 to $75. »Read Full Article
Books that celebrate bookstores and books
Brick-and-mortar bookstores and the physical, printed books they sell may be (choose your verb -- challenged, endangered, threatened) by online vendors and ebooks. But if they are going down, they are not going down unloved and uncelebrated.
A spate of new books celebrate bookstores and books themselves. Two of them will be featured in a "Celebrate Indie Bookstores" love-in at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave. Both feature Milwaukee writers who will take part in the evening. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Camp Bar to open Saturday in Shorewood
Camp Bar rendering »Read Full Blog Post
Milwaukee brothers recruit John Goodman, other celebs for Funny or Die video
"The Big Lebowski's" Walter Sobchak is back doing what he does best – bowling. Well, kind of.
John Goodman, the actor who brought the unhinged bowling nut to life in the Coen Brothers cult comedy classic, makes a cameo in the latest Funny or Die bowling trick shots video from Milwaukee filmmaking brothers Nick and Jack Packard. »Read Full Article
Door County's Chop announces winter hours
Chop, the Door County steakhouse that opened this year in Sister Bay, will stay open for the fall and winter.
Many of the peninsula's restaurants close for the season, after the droves of tourists thin. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap for Today: Ways to make Monday a little better
There must be a remedy for a Monday in November.
Oh wait, there is. »Read Full Blog Post
Jason Aldean to play Summerfest on June 29
Summerfest officials have announced the first headliner for its 46th year. Country star Jason Aldean, whose first headlining amphitheater tour in 2011 included a stop at the Marcus Amphitheater, is returning to the Big Gig on June 29, a festival spokeswoman has confirmed.
The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise, because it was announced Oct. 18 that Aldean would headline Wrigley Field in Chicago on July 20. Several acts in recent years that headlined the approximately 41,000-capacity ballpark, including Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney and the Police, opted to skip Milwaukee on those tours. »Read Full Article(9)


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U.S. Postal Service announces service cuts
WASHINGTON – The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week, an apparent end-run around an unaccommodating Congress.
The service expects the Saturday mail cutback to begin the week of Aug. 5 and to save about $2 billion annually, said Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe.
Under the new plan, mail would be delivered to homes and businesses only from Monday through Friday, but would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays. Post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open on Saturdays.
The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points – package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet services.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he was disappointed with the decision.
"In our rural areas, these postal facilities are more than just places to send and receive mail – they are truly the lifelines of their communities and can be the only way a town is able to stay connected. Although the postal service must cut back on spending and get its fiscal house in order, cutting the muscle instead of the fat from its budget will not benefit the agency and will harm our communities in West Virginia and across our country."
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., also condemned the idea.
"The postal service cannot circumvent the will of the Congress, which has been explicit in requiring the continuance of six-day mail delivery service for the last 30 years. Whatever basis the postal service is claiming to discontinue Saturday mail delivery, it runs counter to the spirit and letter of the law, and I intend to press hard to ensure that the postal service abides by the law.
Over the past several years, the postal service has advocated shifting to a five-day delivery schedule for mail and packages – and it repeatedly but unsuccessfully appealed to Congress to approve the move. Though an independent agency, the service gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations but is subject to congressional control.
Congress has included a ban on five-day delivery in its appropriations bill. But because the federal government is now operating under a temporary spending measure, rather than an appropriations bill, Donahoe says it's the agency's interpretation that it can make the change itself.
"This is not like a 'gotcha' or anything like that," he said. The agency is essentially asking Congress not to reimpose the ban when the spending measure expires on March 27 and he said he would work with Congress on the issue.
The agency clearly thinks it has a majority of the American public on its side regarding the change. Postal Service market research and other research indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the postal service to reduce costs, the agency said.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ranking member Tom Coburn. R-Okla., said in a joint statement that they had sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate in support of the elimination of Saturday mail. They called it "common-sense reform"
In 2011, postal officials proposed closing thousands of post offices across the country, including hundreds in the state, while also seeking a reduction in force of employees over a two-year period. Those moves were also thwarted by Congress in favor of reduced hours.
In opposition to the move, Manchin said the closures would have been "devastating to thousands of West Virginians."
Had the Rockport office closed, customers would have gone to the Mineral Wells office seven miles away.
The agency, in November, reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion for the last budget year and forecast more red ink in 2013, capping a tumultuous year in which it was forced to default on billions in retiree health benefit prepayments to avert bankruptcy. The financial losses for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 were more than triple the $5.1 billion loss in the previous year.
"The postal service needs to look at other ways to balance its books rather than cutting off rural customers and undermining its public service obligations," Rahall said.


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Shumlin: GMO labeling good, bill badVyto Starinskas / Staff Photo
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, left at podium, is asked a question by former Vermont state Sen. Hull Maynard at the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce, REDC and TD Bank Legislative Breakfast at the South Station in Rutland on Monday morning.
RUTLAND Gov. Peter Shumlin said Monday that a bill on labeling genetically modified foods could do its cause more harm than good.
The governor addressed a crowd of more than 100 in the South Station restaurant during the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerces legislative breakfast.
Shumlin heard from Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Thomas Donahue against the bill on the grounds it would harm a number of local businesses which use genetically modified canola oil. Then a member of the audience countered that many people locally want to know what they are buying, as evidenced by the success of the farmers market.
Shumlin said he supports labeling, but that the bill resembled one dealing with a milk-production hormone that was passed during his time in the Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Howard Dean.
The food industry took us to the Second Circuit, Shumlin said. It was not only called unconstitutional for some very good reasons, but we had to pay the legal fees.
Shumlin said the anti-labeling forces would like him to sign the bill because they know they can defeat it in court and likely set back the labeling movement nationally.
Shumlin also told the crowd about his push for greater science and math education and his efforts to fund transportation improvements in the state.
The governor described how, when he took office, employers would tell him they were looking at layoffs. Now, he says, they are telling him they have jobs to offer but cannot find trained Vermonters to fill them.
I say that the biggest job for us between poverty and prosperity is graduating enough students that have the skills to do the jobs our employers need done, he said. Im not saying everybody has to go to college. ... What I am saying is a high school degree is no longer a ticket to prosperity.
Shumlin then plugged his drive to see algebra required by freshmen and geometry by sophomores in all Vermont high schools.
While there has been much talk of high-tech jobs, Shumlin said Vermonters should not discount traditional trades.
If we keep going the way we are, were not going to be able to hire a plumber or an electrician in 10 years, he said. They look like me theyre gray. We need to get more kids going into the trades.
On the subject of transportation, Shumlin defended a move toward increasing the gas tax, saying it was necessary if the state did not want to give back millions in federal transportation money for which the state lacks matching funds. The choice, he said, is between raising the tax or canceling projects like roads, bridges and the Western rail corridor.
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To address the increasingly complex problems of the modern world, scientists at Los Alamos are pushing the scale of computing to the extreme, forming partnerships with other national laboratories and industry to develop supercomputers that can achieve "exaflop" speeds—that is, a quintillion (a million trillion) calculations per second. To put such speed in perspective, it is equivalent to 50 million laptops all working together at the same time. Researchers are also developing the interacting components of a computational system as a whole. This approach, known as computational co-design, may facilitate revolutionary designs in the next generation of supercomputers.
Since the late 1940s, scientists at Los Alamos have pushed the scale of computing to the extreme. To design the world's first atomic bomb, scientists created the Monte Carlo method of computing. In 1948, work began on MANIAC, one of the first electronic, digital computers. In 2008, Los Alamos unveiled the Roadrunner supercomputer, which was the first to break the "petaflop" barrier.
Working with other national laboratories and industry, researchers are developing supercomputers that can perform a quintillion (a million trillion) calculations per second—known as the exascale. Such speed will enable scientists to address extremely large datasets and extremely high rate data streams needed to address problems in national security, cyber security, energy security, global climate modeling, astrophysics, and biology.
Computational co-design involves developing the interacting components of a computational system as a whole. Such an approach produces significantly better, perhaps even revolutionary designs in the next generation of extreme computers. Such work is primarily focused on how to co-optimize constraints related to physics, method, implementation, and architecture.
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- Deployed Luna, a supercomputer designed to support work for the Directed Stockpile Work Program, including the B61 Life-Extension Program. This supercomputer has a total of 24,640 processors for a combined peak capability of 539.1 teraflops/second. Such speeds mean that users can obtain faster turnarounds on their calculations and that the computer can run with higher fidelity, thus improving the end results. Such features are particularly advantageous when performing weapons safety calculations.
- Worked with Sandia National Laboratories under the Advanced Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES) partnership to design and develop the supercomputer Cielo (Spanish for "sky"), which was built by Cray Inc. Cielo can perform more than one quadrillion floating-point operations per second. Cielo supports work related to stockpile stewardship.
- Established in 2011 a Co-design Summer School that brought together a small, multidisciplinary team of students of various universities. These students focused on problems related to computational co-design. The goal of this summer school is to encourage qualified students to work in computational co-design as the world approaches the exascale era.
- Created CoCoMANS (Computational Co-design for Multiscale Applications in the Natural Sciences), a project designed to forge a qualitatively new predictive-science capability that exploits evolving high-performance computer architectures for multiple application areas, including materials, plasmas, and climate, by simultaneously evolving science, methods, software, and hardware in an integrated computational co-design process.
- Designed Cruft, a suite of molecular dynamics proxy applications (software) developed to explore co-design opportunities with hardware vendors and scientists. This code enables researchers to conduct different elements of a molecular dynamics application and explore the ramifications on relative performance when changing hardware and software. Cruft was developed to help guide design decisions for codes written to support the Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Conditions.
- Collaborating with EMC Corporation to support the Department of Energy's Exascale Initiative, which is aimed at boosting high-performance computing levels to the exaflops—a thousand times faster than current petascale capabilities. One effort includes the development of an open-source, extremely scalable data-management middleware library known as PLFS (Parallel Log Structured File System), which will be used on computing platforms that range from small clusters to the largest supercomputers in the world.
- Working to develop a framework for hardware-software co-design as a formally posed optimization problem. Although the optimization framework will apply to multiple problem domains, for the target application scientists will use molecular dynamics, an exemplar for the need for computational scaling. Scientists working under this project view co-design as search and selection from a vast space of hardware and software designs that map to performance metrics. The objective function designed for optimization has as main components run time (or computational rate), problem size, simulated time duration, energy use, and hardware cost.
- Strategic Computing Complex: Also known as the Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation, this complex houses supercomputers that support the calculation, modeling, simulation, and visualization of complex nuclear weapons data in support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program. The complex includes a Data Visualization Corridor, which enables scientists to view the models and simulations created by the supercomputers. The Data Visualization Corridor includes a Powerwall Theater and a five-sided CAVE Immersive Laboratory, as well as desktop visualization and collaborator capabilities.
- Timothy Germann: Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments
- Allen McPherson: Computer Science Lead for the Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments
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- John Sarrao: Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation
- AnnMarie Cutler: Communications for Theory, Simulation, and Computation
- Susan Seestrom: Associate Director for Experimental Physical Sciences
- Karen Kippen: Communications for Experimental Physical Sciences
- Manuel Vigil: Trinity Project Director
- Gary Grider: ACES Co-director
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- Department of Energy Office of Science
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|Ning Liu, Jason Cope, Philip Carns, Christopher Carothers, Robert Ross, Gary Grider, Adam Crume, and Carlos Maltzahn, "On the role of burst buffers in leadership-class storage systems," IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (2012).
|John Bent, Gary Grider, Brett Kettering, Adam Manzanares, Meghan McClelland, Aaron Torres, and Alfred Torrez, "Storage challenges at Los Alamos National Lab," IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (2012).
|John Bent, Sorin Faibish, Jim Ahrens, Gary Grider, John Patchett, Percy Tzelnic, and Jon Woodring, "Jitter-free co-processing on a prototype exascale storage stack," IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (2012).
|Nithin Nakka, Alok Choudhary, Gary Grider, John Bent, James Nunez, and Satsangat Khalsa, "Achieving target MTTF by duplicating reliability-critical components in high performance computing systems," IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum, 1567–1576 (2011).
|Matthew L. Curry, H. Lee Ward, Gary Grider, Jill Gemmill, Jay Harris, and David Martinez, "Power use of disk subsystems in supercomputers," PDSW'11 - Proceedings of the 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, Co-located with SC'11, 49–53 (2011).
|Eugene Normand, Jerry L. Wert, Heather Quinn, Thomas D. Fairbanks, Sarah Michalak, Gary Grider, Paul Iwanchuk, John Morrison, Stephen Wender, and Steve Johnson, "First record of single-event upset on ground, Cray-1 computer at Los Alamos in 1976," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 57(6 PART 1), 3114–3120 (2010).
|Hsing-Bung Chen, Gary Grider, Cody Scott, Milton Turley, Aaron Torres, Kathy Sanchez, and John Bremer, "Integration experiences and performance studies of a COTS parallel archive system," IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 166–177 (2010).
|S.M. Mniszewski, M.J. Cawkwell, and T.C. Germann, "Molecular dynamics simulations of detonation on the Roadrunner supercomputer," AIP Conference Proceedings 1426, 1283–1286 (2012).
|Christian Brandl and Timothy C. Germann, "Shock loading and release of a small angle title grain boundary in CU, AIP Conference Proceedings 1426, 1299–1302 (2012).


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With the purpose of increasing profits while benefiting the environment, executives and UCLA faculty met on February 16 to discuss sustainable investing strategies.
The Institute's Corporate Partner Program brings together executives and academics to discuss research in corporate sustainability and feature talks by leading practitioners in the field. This event was co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and Net Impact.
With nearly $50 trillion ($50,000,000,000,000) invested worldwide in public companies, socially responsible investing represents a tremendous opportunity to improve the health of our planet. In addition to financial returns, a significant number of shareholders are beginning to demand that their investments reward and promote improved social and environmental performance.
The workshop addressed major themes in sustainable investing. Viewed from a business perspective, good ratings from sustainable investors can enhance share value while bad ratings can damage firm reputation. It is thus imperative for businesses to understand how they are evaluated by the Socially Responsible Investing ("SRI") community in order to prioritize investment in social and environmental improvements.
At this meeting, leaders in sustainable investing from Morgan Stanley, Calvert Investments, the Angeleno Group, and Oracle Capital discussed how their approach to investing balances economic, social, and environmental goals. Professor Magali Delmas, who is affiliated with both the IoES and UCLA Anderson School of Management, presented her recent research examining the relationship between firm value and several major corporate sustainability rating systems commonly used by the SRI community to screen companies.
The workshop started with Jeanine Perkins, Regional Vice President at Calvert Investments. Calvert is a leader in SRI, offering a range of SRI strategies for investors who want to meet their financial goals and impact corporate responsibility and sustainability practices. She described seven broad areas of concern covered by Calvert: Governance and Ethics, Workplace, Environment, Product Safety and Impact, International Operations and Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, and Community Relations.
Elana Pianko, a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley, discussed SRI as an investment strategy that seeks to maximize both financial return and social good by integrating environmental, social, and corporate governance criteria into financial analysis. She said that an increasing number of clients are adopting SRI strategies – because such investments allow for a more comprehensive performance assessment that delivers returns comparable, if not superior, to those of more conventional investments.
Professor Delmas emphasized the significant impact of socially responsible investors on corporate reputation and the ability to attract capital. She presented her research – co-authored with Dror Etzion from McGill University and Nicholas Nairn-Birch from UCLA – which suggests that the adoption of green practices is positively linked to improved financial performance. However, her research also revealed that green practices don't necessarily translate to reduced environmental damage. She stressed the need for better transparency from corporate social raters to allow corporations to adjust their social practices and benefit from better ratings.
Shifting the focus from publically traded firms to private equity, Anil Tammineedi, Vice President of the Angeleno Group – one of the largest dedicated energy growth equity funds in the U.S. – described his company's strategy for clean energy investments and their active management approach that provides start-ups with socially and environmentally responsible governance systems at an early stage.
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Anna Clyne's new double concerto Prince of Clouds, for two violin soloists and string orchestra, is travelling around the USA.
"A string orchestra enfolds the violinists in limpid textures that set off a continuous series of dialogues between the soloists. Those dialogues alternate lyrical materials with sections made up of terse, choppy, staccato figures… What struck me particularly about the 15-minute piece was the ethereal quality of Clyne's harmonies and the way her melodies took radiant flight over those harmonies… This is music one can listen to again and again and find new things to appreciate each time. Prince of Clouds will no doubt be taken up by other star violinists."
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"…as in Clyne's affecting Within Her Arms, her astringent edge and tension firmly avoid the sentimental and lachrymose... Prince of Clouds is wrought with Clyne's characteristic craft and care, and offers the composer's brand of reflective introspection that is consistently attractive."
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Clyne's orchestral Night Ferry, a sonic portrait of voyages both natural and psychological, received its first European performance in January. The Times reviewed the performance at the Barbican in London with the BBC Symphony conducted by Andrew Litton, noting how "this is a composer who deserves to flourish". The latest commission under her Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency, entitled As Sudden Shut and scored for three sopranos, chamber ensemble and tape, is premiered in the orchestra's MusicNOW series on 25 February. John Zorn's Tzadik label has released Blue Moth, the first album of Clyne's music.
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Skip to comments.Romney Wins If He Announces Total Energy Independence Initiative
Posted on 09/14/2012 7:47:30 PM PDT by bossbobcef
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Thursday that if elected, he will ensure North American energy independence by 2020 by pursuing a sharp increase in production of oil and natural gas on federal lands and off the U.S. East Coast.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Sounds like a plan. I'm down for it.
And you'll save a fortune by cutting off foreign aid to every country who doesn't support American. Leave them to take care of themselves. Savages.
I thought the same as soon as the middle east embassy attacks started. This initiative would resonate even with dumbed-down Americans.
Exactly, US Energy Independence is a national security issue. Romney should follow this up by announcing he will authorize the building of the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office.
I can sum up my thoughts on that in two words, duh!
Drill here, drill NOW!!!
Couldn't agree more...
................U.S. economic vulnerability to volatile oil markets stems from the volume of oil we consume, not the volume we import," said Levi, an energy and climate fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. "If you don't change the volume of oil we consume, you've missed most of the problem."........................
Hey A-HOLE! If the US gets off the world market grid, and lets the rest of the world duke out the price it's willing to pay - without participation by the biggest world consumer, the US - then what do you you think will happen to prices given maybe 60% of current demand??
And if we don't like the world market price, we'll just speed up the pumps, and allow North American producers/refiners to participate in a closed market - just for us!
(However, that being said, I've always thought that the country that has the last barrels of oil, could rule the future of the earth, even though all the countries that pumped their oil for us are very rich, but have already tapped out their future.)
That's great and all, but the numbers don't add up, especially by 2020. That's only seven years away. Can we reduce foreign energy dependence? Absolutely. But we will not be totally independent in our lifetimes, now matter whose policy we follow. Sorry for the cold water, but I'm realistic to a fault.
And do not leave out coal. In fact, boot the EPA, cut them down to size, eliminate their law making power, so all forms of energy can make us economically secure and give us national security.
Couldn't agree more! I've been saying for months that if the R candidate would promise to lay out a Kennedy-Man-on-the-Moon national plan for energy independence, he or she would win in a landslide. (I was hoping it would be Gov. Palin who put such a plan forward).
Romney can not lose by doing this. He knows its the right thing for the country, people are getting hammered at the gas pumps, the mideast is on fire, and Obama will never do it because he likes having people poor and subservient to the gummint.
Biggest no brainer ever!
I heard today (with surprise) that we produce 40% of our own oil. Is that true??
Thanks bossbobcef.
Not only is it a plan, it's a great plan whose benefits will ripple, not trickle, throughout our society and at the same time do a number on our enemies.
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Will you settle for 75% independent by 2020? However, IMO I think it can be accomplished if done on a crash basis and with sufficient incentives.
This could/should be Romney's equivalent to the Kennedy pledge for US to go to the moon.
As I'm sure you know, Romney doesn't leave out coal. He's for "all of the above," as am I.
Paging Newt and Sarah. Please pick up the RED phone. Romney needs your advice and expertise.
Drill on federal lands. Use the royalties from the production to pay off the federal debt.
Have a lease auction to the highest bidders on January 21st, 2013.
Let's Get the Independent Energy Party STARTED!!!!!
That would be true if enough people were still willing to work by that time.
It depends on what you mean by "independent".
If you limit it to the America's it should be easily doable.
The vast majority of our oil comes from the US, Canada, Mexico and south America. If I remember correctly that accounts for at least 80% of our total use.
I don't have a problem buying from Canada or Mexico. I don't believe Brazil is a problem either.
.............Thats great and all, but the numbers dont add up, especially by 2020..........................
But, realize that the energy companies have already done their seismic testing on thousands of "off bound" areas.
Like ANWR. The oil companies know exactly where the oil is, good estimates as to how much; know where to site their rigs; know how much pipeline to procure to tie into the existing Alaskan pipeline. A shovel-ready project if the government and tree huggers would get out of the way.
Or Canadian oil sands: two to three times the carbon content of just about all oil ever consumed in North America. Just get the infrastructure in place, the pipelines to refineries, and we're good to go.
Or the Gulf of Mexico. BP capped a huge basin after it breached and caused catastrophic damage because the ground pressure was so great. Punch into that basin, safely, and there's mucho oil.
Or off the California coast. The greenies closed further development decades ago in reaction to a leakage (not a spill). Open those areas to modern technology and millions of barrels are awaiting us.
All it takes is an understanding that we, and the world, don't have to bow to the rag-heads for our energy future, and watch the price drop! Just like domestic natural gas.
Yes, a lot better buying from them than from the Mideast, with the possible exception of Mexico. But I'd rather see us independent of all foreign oil.
It is dual-pronged in its benefits: National Security and Prosperity both go up with ready access to affordable energy.
Plan A - Part 2: Stop selling them cars, air conditioners and any other western invention since we're soooo evil.
Let em fry in the sun and try to fly on a camel! Let em figure out how to cure their cancer with sand and salt water......f--k 'em!
because of the way oil and gas is sold (international market) I'm not sure we will ever be able to be "energy independent". I think we can and should exploit every source of energy (gas, oil, coal) which would make us less vulnerable to the wack-jobs in the middle east. We need to drill, dig and mine and flood the world markets with the commodities which should bring the prices down which would give us more money to spend here.
His plan does include increasing supply and exploration which will take a few years to implement but once the tax revenue starts flowing, it would be difficult for any future democrat president to cut it off.
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Philadelphia Phillies (45-56) at Atlanta Braves (56-44)
Roy Halladay (4-5, 4.32) vs. Tim Hudson (9-4, 3.71)
Time: 1:35, Turner Field
Weather: Lower 90's, mostly sunny, some clouds
Media: Twitter and Facebook
Welp. The Phillies will try to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Braves today after losing again last night. If this were last year, I would have said the chances of them getting the W today would be pretty high, considering that Roy Halladay will be on the mound. But 2012 is a different year, and Halladay, who is off the DL, still doesn't look "right" to me.
He gave up six runs in six innings in his last outing, and his pitches seemed pretty flat. They didn't have the normal Halladay movement to them and his velocity even seemed a little down as well.
He will be opposing righty Tim Hudson, and he is 9-4 on the year with a 3.71 ERA. He is coming off a start against the Marlins where he gave up three runs over seven innings and got the win. Considering the year that both these pitchers have had so far, the Braves probably have the advantage today. But then again, I said last night's game would feature a lot of runs and, well, it didn't.
Lineup: Rollins SS, Victorino CF, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Ruiz C, Nix RF, Pierre LF, Frandsen 3B, Halladay P
It's not hard to stay thirsty, my friends, in Georgia, which is where today's game is. Dos Equis will not wow you, but it's easy to drink. Its brewery is stationed in Monterrey, Mexico, which has a penchant for being quite warm, much like the state of Georgia. Fun fact: Heineken saw a 20 percent increase in sales after the acquisition of Dos Equis in just the first quarter alone. The power of the Most Interesting Man in the World. -By Pat
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No pence eh? Interesting. Day off? Or being moved?
I can't imagine they would trade the only legitimate right handed bat protection for Howard. People need to understand the Phillies are going to get little to nothing for the Pierres , Victorinos and Polancos of this team. Maybe they get a little something for Blanton, but then who takes his spot in the rotation? Kendrick? Then the bullpen is screwed up more than it already is.
DTD yea i can't imagine trading pence for the reason you stated, unless they were to get a bat in return. which if that's the case why and who would make a trade like that on the other end? unless it was a major multiplayer deal. that's the only scenario i could envision. as far as kendrick goes! if the phils brass had brains ????? why would they want to take him from a bullpen that's struggled all year and put him in a spot that he's been pretty bad at this year? i'm not blaming you for your comment but again that wouldn't make any sense. how ever since the season is shot all they can do is to make a few trades minor- major- or whatever to position themselves for the probable winter trades to get back to being competitive. now with that said the remainder of the year should be to find out what we do have in the minors that could be of help next year. one would be to move cloyd up into the rotation if blanton were traded. and i'd also lessen doc's load and bring up pettibone also. let these two guys get their feet wet and that would help to weigh our pitching depth for next year. i'd try some position players also. rest howard let him heal u some more and bring up darin ruf. same with utley try ceasar hernandez at scd who knows if one or two of these players shows some promise that's less you have to deal for. and leandro castro . he plays left
Maybe we'll get some excitement with trades in the the next two days….We certainly aren't getting much joy watching these Phillies this year.
Maybe we'll see Pence , Rollins, Pierre, Wigginton, Blanton, Lee and Victorino change uniforms. We'll probably get some prospects and some bullpen help in return. We gotta do something to right this ship. Too many old, used up sailers on board. I hope that Amaro is smart enough not to get fleeced. On that, my confidence is not high.
we'll see mr shart! i'm like you man. i'm more excited from possible trades than actually watching the game today. i'm excited that they might actually throw up the white flag as teams ahead of us are doing and try some younger players from our AA and AAA teams. and in the meantime trade some of these guys to change the atmosphere. oh and relocate charlie and bring in sandberg. if anybody knows which players to move up it would be him.
Woo hoo! Way to run it out, Shane!
Remember when Halladay on the mound was a sure sign of a win?
Doc looks like crap. I think my laundry is calling.
Blanton is our best pitcher and he's going to be traded.
I am beginning to feel that we have seen the best of Roy Halladay. Great pitcher, Great competitor, Great tradebait. Great salary relief if we trade him.
…..and let's face it, he deserves to be on a contender, which we will not be for at least three years. Send him to a contending team, like the Yankees. He wants to win a championship. His heart cannot be in Philadelphia at this point in time. Let him go, Rubin.
Well, maybe that stupid play will fire up the Phillies.
I remember a game back in the Larry Bowa days where they called a foul ball a HR — a 3 run HR, no less. The fans in the stands (I was there) were flipping out. There was no question on replay that it was way foul, but they didn't do replay then. And it fired up the Phils, and they eventually won 6-3.
This is a shell of Roy Halladay
But he has 2,000 Ks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wheeler and Mccarthy are all over it.
He won games 1 and 5 in the playoffs.
You chose to support a guy who swings away 3-0 to lead off an inning down 1-0 in a decisive game 5.
Theres only so much anyone can do to combat that.
This is your team now.
Look Charlie somehow had Mayberry hit against a righty.
He only has a 1.000 OPs vs lefties
But can hit Howard there with a .347 slugging
Howard does look like he needs more time in the minors. Totally outclassed. He used to own Hudson.
Tracey – you're right, seeing Doc now is very painful. The last year he had an ERA over 4 was in 2004, he was injured that year as well. He won all of 8 games. It seems the way he is going and the Phils are going, he might be on course to do the same, 8 wins.
1st and 3rd one out
teams score here
The Phillies dont.
But normal teams do
Score multiple runs
Why can't we field?! This season is almost to the point where it is incomprehensible to the human mind in relation to last year. Man, I loathe the Braves.
That might be the greatest play ever.
Ugly. Ugly. I was about to say that it ain't over yet when it was only 4-2. I think it's over now.
And just to make things even more painful… that damn Nissan commercial is playing every 10 minutes.
Do a shot Brooks.
Really it will take everything I have to not do a rant now.
KK in
LAST year?????????????????
they sucked
Day 1 game 1 I siad the nline up couldnt win a playof series
102 win suckfest blowing out arms.
102 wins and ZERO runs
4 dramatic wins in a row, getting swept in the next series and looking very inept in the process.
Well no one watches the Braves or cares about them.
Make it stop Brooks
Why do they look to the future?
This is your team.
Trade them all
Keep them all
Hit a 900 foot homer
win a game
Howards last 5 games –
18 AB, 0 runs, 3 hits, 0 exbasehits, 1 rbi and 11 k's
He is 1 for 11 with 8 k's vs Atlanta.
They just spent 144 million dollars for what?
To sit in this mess.
Poop and pee on yourself and listen to Wheeler say how good it is.
I am trying to just take it in.
how great it is
Paplebam is in
The Phillies are home next weekend
They take on the diamondbacks
Wow! Hell of a catch!!!
Lets also take a look at the rest if the coaching staff, in particular Greg Gross. I can't watch anymore and have a paper to write to try to get a raise in my job. Unfortunately, I cannot be inept and collect a hundred million.
It's been like this all season. They have a great game, or a great run of games, and we think they're coming out of this slump finally… and then they look worse than ever in the next series.
Mayberry vs a right hander
You cant make it up
He does this
I think we might be able to get an actual player for Blanton. Say, like a single A position prospect that steals a lotta bases or something.
The Dipsy
Today's game was pretty cool. It enabled me to come up with a firm conclusion.
The person responsible for putting together the 2012 Phillies highlights package is the most underpaid person in any economy that has jobs.
What a scam piece of propaganda that will be.


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Orange voters to head back to polls
ORANGE — Voters who narrowly, but repeatedly, refused to approve a $2.7 million school budget during their traditional town meeting earlier this month will be given another chance next month.
School directors, who were on the wrong side of three excruciatingly close votes on the floor of Orange's evening town meeting, have reserved Town Hall for April 30 at 7 p.m. for a soon-to-be-warned special school district meeting.
The only order of business that night is expected to be the only unfinished business from Town Meeting Day: how much to spend on the operation of the town's pre-K-8 elementary school and to cover the tuition of its high school-age students.
The School Board has decided to stand by its $2,728,875 budget request – a budget that calls for spending $8,875, or .33 percent more than the $2,720,000 budget that was approved by voters a year ago.
The proposed budget includes $1,817,935 to finance the operation of Orange Center School and $910,940 in high school tuition costs.
"They feel like they have a good budget, it's an appropriate budget, and it's the budget they need to support the school district," Superintendent Susette Bollard said of the board's unanimous decision to bring back the same budget that divided those who attended town meeting.
Voters initially rejected the board's budget request, 35-39, setting the stage for two votes that were even closer.
An amendment to trim $8,875 from the budget — essentially level-funding the request at $2,720,000 – failed by just one vote, 37-38, and a subsequent amendment to return to the School Board's original request, was defeated, 37-39.
That's when Town Moderator Adrian Otterman decided to abandon the town's past practice of voting until a budget is finally approved and to defer action on the school spending plan until a future meeting.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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Wade carries Heat late, Miami tops Wizards 99-90
MIAMI Dwyane Wade scored 13 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, LeBron James led all scorers with 23 points and the Miami Heat clinched a playoff spot by beating the Washington Wizards 99-90 on Monday night.
Chris Bosh scored 22 for the Heat, who snapped a three-game slide and moved within one game of Indiana in the race for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Ray Allen added 13 for Miami, which was down one midway through the fourth before Wade sparked a 12-0 run with five points, three assists and a block at the rim. The Heat never trailed again, and avoided their first four-game slide since 2011.
Bradley Beal scored 18 points, Martell Webster added 17 and Drew Gooden scored 15 for the Wizards. Marcin Gortat finished with 14 points and 18 rebounds 10 of them in the first quarter alone.
John Wall finished with eight assists for Washington.
Wade knocked down a jumper with just under 2 minutes left, putting Miami up 97-87 and sealing the outcome. Wades 13 points in the fourth represented his highest-scoring quarter this season, and came with him playing on consecutive days for the first time since Jan. 4 and 5. It was only the third time all season hes been in for both nights of a back-to-back.
Both teams shot only nine free throws each; James didnt shoot one for the second straight game, just the second time thats happened in his career, the first coming in December 2003, early in his rookie season.
James went scoreless for a stretch of nearly 15 minutes in the first half, and still easily led everyone with 19 points by intermission. The entirety of his first-half scoring came in two impressive spurts three 3-pointers in as many tries over a span of 2:43 early in the game, then 10 straight Heat points in a stretch of 3:23 late in the half.
The Heat shot 54 percent in the first half, the Wizards just 34 percent. But Miamis lead was just 53-45 at the break and when Washington started making a few more shots, the Heat were put back on the ropes, exactly where they spent most of their time on the futile trip through Houston, San Antonio and Chicago.
Miamis lead was 12 early in the third before Washington went on a 10-0 run, with Gortat scoring the first eight and Trevor Bookers jumper getting the Wizards within 59-57. And after Miami rebuilt the lead to seven, Washington took off on another quick burst, this one enough to give the Wizards their first lead since 1-0.
In less than 2 minutes, Washington outscored Miami 11-0, Webster scoring six in 25 seconds. He head-faked James in the air to start what became a four-point play, then had an alley-oop dunk off a Wall pass on the next possession as Washington took a 65-64 lead.
Allen had two 3s for the Heat late in the third, and it was 73-all entering the fourth.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Al Jefferson scored 26 points and Kemba Walker added 24 as the Charlotte Bobcats won their seventh straight game at home, defeating the Denver Nuggets 105-98 on Monday night.
Jefferson made 10 of his first 14 field-goal attempts and also had a game-high 12 rebounds. Walker added seven assists for the Bobcats, who also received a big boost from Gary Neal off the bench. Neal made his first six field-goal tries, including three 3-pointers, and ended up with 19 points.
Josh McRoberts added 15 points for Charlotte, including a key 3-pointer with 6:15 left at the shot-clock buzzer to extend Charlottes lead to 90-82 after Denver had cut it to five at 87-82.
Ty Lawson scored 24 points to lead the Nuggets. Denver also got 15 points from Kenneth Faried, 16 from Aaron Brooks, and 11 points and a team-high 10 rebounds from J.J. Hickson.
Jefferson scored 11 of Charlottes first 20 points. He had 12 points and seven rebounds in the first quarter, after which Charlotte led 25-22. But the Bobcats pushed the lead to as many as 12 in the second quarter with Jefferson resting on the bench, as Neal scored nine points.
Faried led a brief comeback by Denver as his inside basket off an inbounds play with 2.5 seconds left in the half cut Charlottes lead to 51-45. But Walker and Jefferson hit the first two baskets of the third quarter, however, to push Charlottes advantage back to 10 and the home team never trailed.
Denver did pull to within 101-96 in the final minute, but Walker, who made all 12 of his free-throw attempts on the night, hit a pair with 55.6 seconds left and then Jefferson hit a jumper after a defensive stop to seal the Bobcats victory.
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Branagh connects with Olivier in 'My Week with Marilyn'
Actor stars opposite Michelle Williams in true-life Monroe tale
As its title naturally suggests, "My Week with Marilyn" gives a unique look at Marilyn Monroe's (Michelle Williams) life on and off-camera during the period she filmed the 1957 comedy romance "The Prince and the Showgirl." Even better, though, it chronicles her volatile working relationship during the production of the film with Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh), offering an uncommon insight into the processes of not one, but two amazing and decidedly different artists.
Now playing in select theaters and opening wider Friday, "My Week with Marilyn" is based on the diaries of the late Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a 23-year-old third assistant director (aka a "gopher") under Olivier who gained the trust of Monroe during the time she was most vulnerable, personally and professionally, during the production of "The Prince and the Showgirl" -- a film that constantly found her at odds with Olivier.
"For me, the whole process of approaching playing him and being in the movie reinforced my sense of awe at what he did," Branagh told me in an interview Wednesday. "I felt a closer connection to him as a human being through understanding the level of intensity of his frustration at this experience. He didn't always come out of it covered in glory, but I think he comes out of it with a sense of his humanity intact."
Branagh, who said he read Clark's memoir when it was released in 1995, said he wasn't taken aback by the Olivier's behavior on the set when reading the script for "My Week with Marilyn." As a director himself (most recently on "Thor") Branagh said in a lot of instances, Olivier -- who flipped out when Monroe would show up late, bring production to a halt, or not show up at all -- was justified in his actions.
"Both at the time I read Clark's memoir and in subsequent writings, Olivier was honest about what he expected from the experience of working with Marilyn," Branagh recalled. "He wanted the film to work so he could reinvent himself, because he was honest about his insecurities. However, he felt that she was undisciplined and unprofessional and he was infuriated by that. It caused him to neglect his own performance a bit, while she, as painful as it was to wait for, would finally deliver a performance that appeared to be so effortless. It was something that made him feel resentful."
The interesting dynamic about their working relationship, Branagh pointed out, was that while Olivier was calling the shots as the director of the film, Monroe was, for all intents and purposes, his superior.
"I think that the fact that Marilyn Monroe was Olivier's boss further intensifying the infuriating situation," Branagh said. "Marilyn Monroe Productions was making this film. She was the biggest star in the world, and she should have been the one that ensuring that it went smoothly for their debut adventure -- and yet she was the one writing the checks and wasting the money."
Despite the troubles Olivier had with Monroe during filming, Branagh believed the actor-director ultimately admired what his star could do.
"He knew that Marilyn had a genuine magic in front of the camera. I think that he was magnanimous about that, and you can eventually see that work that he does on 'The Prince and the Showgirl' -- as traumatic as this experience was for him -- it was quite transformative," Branagh said. "It turned around, perhaps, what he felt was a career that was slightly stagnate, into something that was going to produce the revolutionary performance he gave in 'The Entertainer' shortly afterwards."
Branagh said one of the biggest appeals of playing Olivier in "My Week with Marilyn" came with the unique structure of the film. Most often, when legendary names are batted about for a feature project, the word biopic comes up. Here instead, we're learning a lot about two film legends over a short span of time.
"The film provides with us a snapshot in the intense cauldron of moviemaking could maybe, in pithy episodes, tell you quite a lot about both Monroe and Olivier, through not having the burden of trying to do it entirely fictionally, or across the length of their lives," Branagh said.
Both Branagh and Williams have nabbed major award nominations for their performances as Olivier and Monroe, from the likes of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. But from a personal standpoint, Branagh said he was knocked out by Williams' performance for many reasons, not the least of which the fact that she's essentially playing three different characters all wrapped up in one.
"She helps us understand that, when Marilyn arrived at work on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl,' had already done an enormous amount of preparation to play the character of Marilyn Monroe -- not Norma Jean Baker," Branagh explained. "Marilyn was a fictitious creation who walked, talked, sang, acted and shimmied differently than Norma Jean."
"Then, having arrived on the set as Marilyn -- an already exhaustive part to play -- she then has to go on and play Elsie Marina in the film and tries to do so with this search for authenticity, even though she's already one step away from reality already," Branagh added. "Beyond that, she shows the sort of human frailties of a person whose life depends on how they look. The lack of self-love and self-belief she had was tragic."
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Mrs. Parish was born Aug. 5, 1926, in Pittsburgh Pa., the 12th child of immigrant Hungarian parents, John P. and Mary T. Kerekes. She was a first generation American. Betty was the loving wife and homemaker of 58 years to LeRoy T. Parish and a devoted mother and Nana. Her faith, family, and friends were her greatest joys.
Betty is preceded in death by her husband; infant son, Russell; parents, three sisters and five brothers. Survivors include three daughters, Linda S. Duderstadt (David), Kathy M. Walker (Ron), Tracy E. Karnei (Kevin); step-daughter, Violet Munger; and son, John Parish (Gayla); seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
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