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Future generations of astronomers will probably see the 1990s as a watershed. Before that time, the meaning of the word "planet" seemed obvious, even trivial, and completely secure. The discovery of many small bodies orbiting beyond Neptune posed a minor difficulty after 1992, because it raised the question of whether Pluto was really a planet or just another "Kuiper Belt object." And since 1995, the detection of distant worlds revolving around various sunlike stars has proved a real challenge to the long-held categorizations. Which of these bodies are true planets and which are just small partners in binary star systems? Should the definition hinge solely on the mass of the object, or should it also depend on the nature of its orbit? As if these questions were not difficult enough to answer, astronomers must now grapple with a new problem in celestial taxonomy, because some of the extrasolar planets recently discovered are linked to no star at all.
The detection of such "free-floating" planets was anticipated five years ago, when Adam Burrows of the University of Arizona and four colleagues published a paper in Nature that examined the possibility of resolving giant extrasolar planets with modern telescopes. And prospects for the detection of free-floating planets became truly significant in 1996 and 1997, when the first few brown-dwarf stars were reported.
Brown dwarfs are, in essence, failed suns—ones so small that the nuclear fires that power most stars cannot take hold. Astrophysicists believe that the threshold for true stardom lies at about 80 times the mass of Jupiter. A smaller body may briefly burn deuterium (the heavy and more easily fused isotope of hydrogen), but the hydrogen-fusion reactions of normal stars cannot begin easily, and if they do happen, they don't last long. So an object with a mass less than 80 Jupiters is usually labeled a brown-dwarf star.
Fertile grounds for the discovery of brown-dwarf stars are the active star-forming regions. Because the brown dwarfs created in these places are still relatively young and hot, they give off enough infrared light to reveal their presence, despite their diminutive size. Astronomers have now charted scores of brown dwarfs (or brown-dwarf candidates) in such stellar nurseries. Curiously, some of these objects appear to have about the same mass as the larger planets recently discovered around various distant stars. Maria Rosa Zapatero-Osorio (of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife) and several colleagues have determined, for example, that S Ori 47, a small body in the σ Orionus cluster, has a mass of only about 10 to 20 Jupiters. Because this range spans the threshold below which even deuterium fusion fizzles (about a dozen Jupiter masses), the title of their yet-unpublished paper speaks of "reaching the mass boundary between brown dwarfs and giant planets."
Another team, made up of Philip W. Lucas (of the University of Hertfordshire) and Patrick F. Roche (of the University of Oxford) have also searched a stellar nursery in Orion for possible brown dwarfs. They estimate that 13 of their many sightings in Orion's Trapezium cluster are too tiny even to burn deuterium, a conclusion that prompted them to claim discovery of "the first free-floating objects of planetary mass" in the preprint of a paper now in press with the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Some would object to the suggestion that such isolated objects are really planets. Lynne A. Hillenbrand, for one, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, argues against a definition based solely on mass: "If you're going to call something a planet, you should be sure it formed like a planet." But her Caltech colleague Eduardo L. Martín disagrees. He admits the nomenclature that he and some other astronomers are using for these enigmatic objects might seem bizarre: "This is all very strange ... they are not associated with any star, and still we're calling them planets." But he argues that the classic definition, which depends on how the object formed, involves mechanisms that are as yet poorly understood, whereas the deuterium-burning limit provides a convenient way to distinguish giant planets from brown-dwarf stars according to well-established principles of nuclear physics.
Curiously, neither Hillenbrand nor Martín is willing to accept the British claim of finding free-floating objects of planetary mass. Hillenbrand, who has also probed Orion for such objects, suspects that many of Lucas and Roche's detections are stars outside the cluster masquerading as brown dwarfs or giant planets. "I'm content with the conclusion that they are unrelated objects," she notes. Martín, who is part of the group that found S Ori 47, puts his skepticism more bluntly, pointing out that Lucas and Roche did not support their assertion with spectral evidence that these dim objects are not, in fact, ordinary stars: "If you don't have a spectrum, you don't know what you're talking about; it's as simple as that."
Lucas is, however, sticking to his guns. "I'm 99 percent sure that these objects we're claiming to be planets are planets." His confidence stems, in part, from the spectral observations he gathered since submitting his paper, spectra that he says show just the sort of features one would expect to see coming from giant planets. He has, however, expressed his intent to correct the paper's assertion that he and Roche made the first detection of free-floating objects of planetary mass. It seems that they—along with many science journalists—had completely overlooked a 1998 Science article by a group of Japanese astronomers who had already reported the discovery of two free-floating objects of planetary mass.
In that paper and one that followed shortly afterward (in a similarly prominent publication, the Astrophysical Journal), Motohide Tamura of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, along with several Japanese colleagues, described their observations of dim bodies in the Chamaeleon cluster, another site of active star formation. Their estimates for the mass of two isolated objects in the cluster lie below the threshold for burning deuterium, qualifying these objects as free-floating planets, at least according to one definition.
Why didn't the popular press cover this rather momentous discovery? And why had Lucas and Roche failed to realize until now that their detection of free-floating planets was not the first to be reported in the scientific literature? The answer turns out to be quite simple: "The Japanese are very modest, " Lucas explains, "the discovery is not mentioned in the abstract or title of either paper."—David Schneider
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BOSTON – Miami sophomore guard Shane Larkin was named to the 2013 Lute Olson All-America Team as announced on Monday.
The team includes Anthony Bennett (UNLV), Trey Burke (Michigan), Ian Clark (Belmont), Ramon Galloway (La Salle), Erick Green (Virginia Tech), Shane Larkin (Miami), Ray McCallum (Detroit), Doug McDermott (Creighton), Ben McLemore (Kansas), Shabazz Muhammad (UCLA), Mike Muscala (Bucknell), Victor Oladipo (Indiana), Kelly Olynyk (Gonzaga), Mason Plumlee (Duke), Otto Porter, Jr. (Georgetown), Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State), Russ Smith (Louisville), Deshaun Thomas (Ohio State), Jeff Withey (Kansas), Nate Wolters (South Dakota State), Cody Zeller (Indiana).
Rather than assemble a first team, second team, third team and honorable mention; the Lute Olson All-America team is one squad consisting one 21 players.
Earlier this month, Larkin was named the ACC Player of the Year by the conference coaches. He also earned MVP honors after leading the Canes to the ACC Tournament title.
Through 35 games, Larkin leads the Canes with 14.5 points and 4.6 assists per game. His 67 three pointers are also a team best.
The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player who has played at least two seasons with his respective team. Freshmen and first-year transfers can be named to the All-America team, but are not eligible to receive the Player of the Year honors.
The award is named in honor of coaching great Lute Olson, who won 780 games in 34 seasons, 24 of which were spent at the University of Arizona. During that stretch he led the Wildcats to 11 Pac-10 Conference titles, 23 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, four Final Four appearances and a National Championship in 1997.
The 2013 Award will be presented at the CollegeInsider.com awards banquet in Atlanta, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.
Anthony Bennett 6-8 Fr. UNLV
Trey Burke 6-0 So. Michigan
Ian Clark 6-3 Sr. Belmont
Ramon Galloway 6-3 Sr. La Salle
Erick Green 6-3 Sr. Virginia Tech
Shane Larkin 5-11 So. Miami
Ray McCallum 6-3 Jr. Detroit
Doug McDermott 6-8 Jr. Creighton
Ben McLemore 6-5 Fr. Kansas
Shabazz Muhammad 6-6 Fr. UCLA
Mike Muscala 6-11 Sr. Bucknell
Victor Oladipo 6-5 Jr. Indiana
Kelly Olynyk 7-0 Jr. Gonzaga
Mason Plumlee 6-10 Sr. Duke
Otto Porter, Jr 6-8 So. Georgetown
Marcus Smart 6-4 Fr. Oklahoma State
Russ Smith 6-0 Jr. Louisville
Deshaun Thomas 6-7 Jr. Ohio State
Jeff Withey 7-0 Sr. Kansas
Nate Wolters 6-4 Sr. South Dakota State
Cody Zeller 7-0 So. Indiana
Shane Larkin's 2012-13 Awards
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SULPHUR — The City Council on Tuesday allowed two bars on U.S. 90 and a restaurant on Ruth Street to keep their liquor licenses, but warned them not to appear before the panel again.
Handlebars Club, Crickets, Club Chaotic and Johnny T's BBQ were on the agenda to have their licenses revoked due to unpaid taxes.
Mayor Chris Duncan said the parish sales tax office tells the city about businesses that aren't up to date on taxes and that the city asks them to appear before the council. He said that, on average, delinquent businesses are two months behind in taxes.
"Part of having a liquor license is keeping up (with taxes)," he said. "We address the owner and let them know that we don't take this lightly."
Duncan said the issue with Handlebars Club was ownership. Brenda Chesson, owner, said she now has complete ownership after buying out a partner's share and that her taxes were up to date by Tuesday's 5:30 p.m. meeting.
"In my defense I wasn't aware that there was a problem because the mail was sent to the wrong address," she said. "(Tuesday) I went and picked up a piece of paper that said I did what I was supposed to do and changed the address for it to come to me. The ball was not dropped on my part. I couldn't take care of the problem if I didn't know it existed. The ball was dropped inside the tax office part."
Councilman Mike Koonce moved to revoke Chesson's liquor license, but he was unable to garner the council's support. Chesson gave "girl scout's honor" that the council wouldn't see her again for unpaid taxes.
No action was taken by the council on revoking Cricket's liquor license because the establishment closed Oct. 1 and turned its license in to the city.
Duncan said the bar can't reopen until it reapplies for a license and is approved.
Lisa Dinger, owner of Club Chaotic, was allowed to keep her license after providing the council with paperwork showing that she was up to date on her taxes.
John Hopper, owner of Johnny T's BBQ, told the council that financial hardships kept him from being able to keep his taxes current.
"We've had many problems with Johnny T's starting out — tremendous costs, overruns, tremendous maintenance on the building," he said.
"We've had operational problems, which has created loss after loss after loss. We are on our fifth management person, and we do have a very good manager there now and I think it's something we can build on."
The council gave Hopper until its next meeting, Nov. 13, to be up to date on his taxes. Duncan said Hopper's situation is "crucial."
"He cannot renew his liquor license in January unless he is completely current and has a sales tax clearance," he said. "That is part of renewing for us and the state. It's important for these businesses to be in order."
Duncan said the city can revoke its part of the liquor license and ask the state do the same.
"After we revoke the city's portion then we send it to the state," he said. "People don't realize that if we revoke your liquor license, then you cannot get a liquor license by state statute for a period of time in the state."
He said that when the council grants businesses a liquor license they "stress the importance of sales tax and keeping everything up."
"We are cracking down to make sure all our bars and establishments are following the rules," Duncan said. "If we see these people more than once, we know it's a problem. And hopefully this got their attention to get their business together."


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Now before you start thinking Sharpie has has gone all gallery on you, I want you to know we haven't forgotten where we came from. Sharpie began as a permanent way to label things — exciting stuff, I know — things like storage containers and gym clothes, tools and lunch boxes, folders and CDs. Not exactly art, but ask anybody who has ever had to label something, and you'll get a Sharpie endorsement on the spot. That same permanent feature also helped catapult Sharpie into the glamorous world of celebrity. Today every A, B, C (and D list – can't forget Kathy Griffin) celebrity on the planet uses Sharpie markers to sign autographs (a special thanks to football's T.O. who helped things along during Sharpie-Gate). That's a pretty big resume for a little ol' marker, and some of the Sharpie stuff we'll be talking about here too.
(If you really want to wrap your head around all this Sharpie business, check out Sharpie Nation).
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Only two players (Choo and Votto) that know how to hit. The rest are just hackers. And defense is worse than last year.
Only two players (Choo and Votto) that know how to hit. The rest are just hackers. And defense is worse than last year.
Never thought we have been World Series contenders. We are in the same boat as the Braves. Will have a great regular season record, but will struggle to hit come playoff time. Don't have enough players willing to put together a decent at bat.
But when you play guys like Heisey instead of X. Paul you get what you get.
5 and 4 after playing three of the toughest series on schedule
Will take that
Maybe we can add Mes to that list of players that will work a count, but still too early to officially add him.
And after he takes 4 straight balls to get the walk, the next two batters get out on the first pitch. Westbrook was wild during his first start and could have potentially walked a ton of batters today. But we didn't let him.
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too soon
I hope the OP isn't a football fan. It would stink to have to wait a week to get this taste out of our mouths.
The Reds play terribly in St Louis. It is what it is.
Really...worse? Where is the statistical analysis/ matrix to prove it? Didn't this team start 5-8 or something like that last year?
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(Jan. 28, 2008)--The UTSA Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) and the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching will host renowned author Barbara Bash for a book signing from 7 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30 in the University Center Retama Auditorium (2.02.02) on the 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Bash has written and illustrated many highly acclaimed books about the natural world for adults and children. A calligrapher, illustrator and teacher, she leads classes in field sketching as well as the popular Big Brush workshops. Class participants learn to trust their creative instincts while working with enormous horsehair brushes and great buckets of ink.
For many years, Bash's illustrated journals have been a source of inspiration to colleagues and students.
For more information, contact the Academy for Teacher Excellence at (210) 458-6170.


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listen if your having trouble talking her down.. tell her theres a fat bald Canucklehead that loves her. should work.
maybe i can send you a voice text and you can play it during the "if theres any objections" part?
Listen to most music, but tend to not like most newer music (at least not most of the commercial stuff). If you hit shuffle while listening to my library you're just as likely to hear John Coltrane as you are Infected Mushroom or Fear Factory as you are Tom Waits.


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text: Your ACE exam preparation material – manual(s), Master the Manual, online exam review, diagnostics/sample tests etc. – are designed as part of an "at home" study program. That means that as a candidate you receive your materials, study your materials, review, quiz, repeat and repeat again until you feel you are ready for the exam. But sometimes one is the loneliest number. And what if you are one of those people who learn best in a group? Or with a partner? Maybe you need someone holding you accountable for your studies. What are your options then? For those candidates who learn better in a group environment, ACE has a listing of University Partners which offer an ACE review course at their institutions. The length of the course is based on the host site – a semester, a short summer session, a between semesters course – and their needs. With these University Partner classes, the goal is to prepare candidates for the ACE Exam using ACE approved curriculum and materials. While most sites listed offer primarily the personal trainer review, there are some that also offer a review for Group Fitness Instructor, Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant, and Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist. So who are these University Partner people? The list can be found on our ACE website, at the following link: http://www.acefitness.org/university/universitypartners.aspx But maybe you need someone to study with and a classroom setting isn't your speed. Or maybe you don't have a university partner in your area. Or maybe you just want a little one on one help with a topic. Finding a study buddy can be challenging…but there are other people out there looking too! Now, we don't run a dating service to connect you with those study buddies…but you can check out our ACE Study Center Facebook page to see who else might be in need of a study partner. We have designed it specifically to allow our students to connect with each other and help each other through the exam preparation process. Head on over to the Study Center Facebook page and post that you are looking for someone to study with. If you are specific about your location and needing to meet in person, definitely put that. Or, you can offer to be an online study buddy. This might get you more responses, and with the technology available like email, Skype, and chat groups, the connection possibilities are endless. Finally, you might consider a tutor to help you get through some tough topics or challenging concepts. Check with your local college or university, specifically the kinesiology or exercise science department. Many times there are upper level students or grad students who are looking to make a little money on the side by helping others. You may even run into someone who is already ACE certified! So your next step is to find the best way to study – whatever that may be – and get started! If you have questions, just contact us at 1-888-825-3636 x782. (updated from an earlier post)


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So awesome.
amazing looking, really nice collaboration
That is an extremely sweet knife Maksim (can't find the "drooling" smiley. Was it a collaboration you initiated?
It looks like an essay in the kanji.
Curious to know what they think of each others work.
Extremely sexy! except the kanji, too much and not the best shape
Very nice Marko! I like it!
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It looks like eating larvae or pupua can have a huge effect on tumors and other things. Worker, drone, and queen all seem to have the same effect.
It looks like eating larvae or pupua can have a huge effect on tumors and other things. Worker, drone, and queen all seem to have the same effect.
I have eaten exotic foods before but bugs are not one of them. And I'm not sure I'll get brave enough to prepare and eat them either. Here's a recipe you could try. Let me know what it tastes like. http://edibug.wordpress.com/2011/05/...e-lt-sandwich/
The FDA has even established standards for what is unacceptable! (Although they don't like to admit it, specifying what is unacceptable also sets the bar for what is acceptable.)
Here is the document listing "filth" standards for hundreds of foods:
Just as an example, here is the standard for wheat flour:
DEFECT SOURCE: Insect fragments - preharvest and/or post harvest and/or processing insect infestation, Rodent hair - post harvest and/or processing contamination with animal hair or excreta.
WHEAT FLOUR Insect filth
Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams Rodent filth
Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams
Curiously, honey is not on the FDA list linked above!
I'd like to try the recipe but I'm wondering if you render the larvae from the bees wax or just cook it all together. Ok I'm talking big, not sure if I'll actually get brave enough to try it. If I do I'll let you know. :-)
My friend Bob always says about shrimp, "I don't eat bugs!"


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Four members of the Hope College men's soccer team have received Division III All-Central Region honors as named by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Two players have been named to the All-Region first team and two to the second team. The first team honorees become eligible for All-America consideration.
Senior midfielder Shaun Groetsema of Augusta (Galesburg Augusta HS) is being honored as a first team honoree for the third consecutive years.
Senior goalkeeper Logan Neil of Holland (West Ottawa HS) is being recognized on the second team for a second consecutive year.
Also named to the first team is senior back David Whitaker of Vicksburg (Vicksburg HS) while a second team honoree is sophomore back Nick Heyboer of Grand Haven (Grand Haven HS).
All four honorees were earlier named to the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference first team.
The 2011 Flying Dutchmen advanced to the elite eight of the NCAA Division III championships and were ranked ninth nationally in the final poll of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.


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Youth suicide in Oregon is reaching epidemic proportions. Oregon's youth suicide rate has increased 400 percent over the last four decades. Today we have a suicide rate 30 to 40 percent higher than the U.S. national rate.
These alarming increases have made suicide Oregon's second leading cause of death in youth. Even children as young as seven years old have killed themselves.
Download brochure: What Every Teacher Should Know about Preventing Youth Suicide (pdf) or view information in En Español.
It is more important than ever that teachers help prevent youth suicide. Adolescents who die by suicide are most likely to be clinically depressed when they complete suicide. By knowing how to spot the early warning signs and understanding what to do if you identify a student at risk, you could literally save the life of a child.
Depression causes problems for the student, the school, the family and the community.But with the right treatment, you could see dramatic improvements in a child's life in just a very short time. As a teacher, you play a crucial role in the early recognition and referral of students who may be depressed. Knowing what to look for and what to do could mean the difference between life and death for a student close to you. For more information, contact your school's child development specialist or school counselor.
Information in this brochure is based on "Recognizing Depression in Youth: A Key to Suicide Prevention and Good Health in Oregon," by Kirk D. Wolfe, M.D.Dr. Wolfe is a child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing in Portland, Oregon. He has been an active part of Oregon's youth suicide prevention efforts.
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If you tend to pull for the underdog, the so-called Beowulf class of computers will probably appeal to you. Named after the hero who defeated one giant foe after another in the Old English epic, Beowulf computers faceoff against the world's fastest machines, the supercomputers. They consist—sometimes literally—of piles of personal computers that are connected through a network. Perhaps surprisingly, some of them can crank out more than one billion operations each second.
A few years ago, investigators at NASA wanted more computing power for less money. Many projects in space science, including visualization and simulation of galaxies, require enormous numbers of calculations. Thomas Sterling, a principal scientist in the high-performance computing systems group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thought a so-called gigaflop computer—one capable of a billion floating-point operations per second—could be built for less than $50,000 by using off-the-shelf components. Today, many research groups are implementing that idea. In essence, the resulting machines break a computing problem into pieces that can be distributed to the individual personal computers, so that many steps can be processed simultaneously.
In today's elegant computer world, some Beowulf-class computers may seem clunky. In fact, some of these machines look more like odds and ends in a used-computer store than a high performance–low cost machine. For example, Forrest Hoffman of Oak Ridge National Laboratory says, "Our Beowulf cluster has 42 nodes.... The machines are 486 and 586 [central processing units] with 20 megabytes of memory and about 400 megabytes of disk space. While we don't quote remarkable benchmark speeds, we built this machine out of surplus equipment at no cost. And we are adding more nodes every week."
With the widespread use of local-area networks, or LANs, most of us can at least imagine connecting such a conglomeration of hardware. But how do you make it run like one machine? Simply loading Windows NT won't do the trick—at least, not yet. Fortunately, a public-domain operating system called Linux can be used along with a variety of widely available tools, including ones for constructing application programs that can be distributed among many machines. In addition, Don Becker of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center developed networking software that is used in virtually all Beowulf-class computers.
Of course, Beowulf builders can simplify their task even further by sticking with uniform hardware. For instance, Drexel University's Beowulf-style computer consists of 17 150-megahertz Pentium Pro processors all connected with two Fast Ethernet links. Although this cluster of computers has not been clocked officially, its builders think that it probably reaches about 300 megaflops, or 300 million floating-point operations per second. Nevertheless, Michel Vallieres, head of the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Drexel, says that a pile of PCs "is a concept which will grow significantly in university settings, where the utmost reliability and ease of use is not necessary." In fact, Beowulf-class computers can be cantankerous. Anyone who has managed a conventional network knows that problems can appear unexpectedly and remain elusive—even when you do not hope to make the machines work together on a single problem.
The first Beowulf-class computers that achieved the gigaflops goal appeared at Supercomputing '96 in Pittsburgh. One of those came from a collaboration between Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the other from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Both systems consisted of 16 200-megahertz Pentium Pro processors and were built for about $50,000 in the fall of 1996. One year later, the same machines could be built for about $30,000. To see just how fast these computers could run, the investigators put them to work calculating the gravitational interactions between nearly 10 million bodies in space, and both machines topped 1 gigaflops in the exercise. When the investigators hooked those two machines together, so they worked as one, they reached 2.19 gigaflops. In a paper for the 1997 supercomputing meeting—simply called SC97—Michael Warren of Los Alamos and his colleagues wrote: "We have no particular desire to build and maintain our own computer hardware. If we could buy a better system for the money, we would be using it instead." Of course, faster systems exist. The Los Alamos Thinking Machines CM-5 ran the 10 million-body simulation at more than 14 gigaflops, and Caltech's Intel Paragon reached 13.7 gigaflops, but these machines come with price tags in the millions of dollars.
Another Caltech Beowulf, composed of 88 200-megahertz Pentium Pros, actually bested a supercomputer in a rendering contest. In a process called photorealistic rendering, a computer simulates the patterns of light in a three-dimensional space and then draws an image of it. For example, a problem may require simulating how light from fluorescent bulbs reflects and scatters around tables and chairs in a classroom or how sunlight shines through a stained-glass window. In a series of photorealistic-rendering challenges, this 88-processor Beowulf beat the Cornell Theory Center's IBM SP2 by 10 to 20 percent. Moreover, this Beowulf could be built for about five percent of the price of the IBM supercomputer.
Sterling says, "There is clearly going to be an explosive growth of Beowulf-class computing across the country and around the world. It is happening now. The reasons are many, but accessibility and low cost are two of the drivers." Alan Heirich, a research scientist at Tandem Laboratories (a Compaq subsidiary), adds that, "The interesting challenges will be to scale them to larger configurations, to increase the reliability and make them compatible not only with Unix environments but also with the large and inexpensive base of applications that is available under Microsoft NT."
Despite the accomplishments of these piles of PCs, don't expect to see even your most hardware-savvy neighbor building one any time soon. Although you might slay dragon-size problems with these conglomerations of chips, only a handful of dragon slayers would take on this technological challenge.—Mike May
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But they're not all bad! We searched high and low for the best hotdogs out there, made with 100 percent real beef, not "variety meats," as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) likes to call them. And ours are organic or grass-fed, higher in omega-3s and vitamins, and untainted by the genetically modified animal feed, hormones, or antibiotics in unhealthy factory-farmed fare. Grab your tongs and hit the grill with these healthy dogs.
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Calories: 110
Fat: 8 g (3 g saturated)
Sodium: 330 mg
$5.99/8 hotdogs; applegatefarms.com
Good to know: Not only are these hotdogs the lowest calorie 100 percent grass-fed dogs out there, but they're also the most widely available.
Calories: 120
Fat: 11 g (4 g saturated)
Sodium: 360 mg
$39.50/35 hotdogs; organicprairie.com
Good to know: All the meat products sold under the Organic Prairie brand are raised on certified-organic U.S. family farms. Order online in bulk, or look for smaller packages at grocery stores nationwide.
Calories: 170
Fat: 13 g (6 g saturated)
Sodium: 430 mg
$7.50/4 franks or $47.50/30; letsbefrankdogs.com
Good to know: These all-beef, grass-fed hotdogs come from a ranch certified by the Food Alliance, a program that certifies farms that treat animals and people humanely, and have eliminated antibiotics, hormones, and genetically modified organisms from animal feed, in addition to working to protect the environment around their ranches.
Nutrition info isn't available because the cost of getting that information was too high for this small, Wyoming-based ranch, says the company's president and founder Rod Morrison. "All of our hotdogs are completely grass-fed, and everything comes from Wyoming," he says. "We're the cowboy state. We know how to do this."
$7.95/4 hotdogs; rockymtncuts.com
Good to know: Per USDA guidelines, hotdogs that list "by-products" or "variety meats" on their ingredients labels need only contain 15 percent muscle meat to be called hotdogs. Don't worry—none of our picks contain "variety meats."
Calories: 140
Fat: 9 g (4.5 g saturated)
Sodium: 430 mg
$8.19/6 hotdogs; grasslandbeef.com
Good to know: Canadian researchers have found that daily intake of omega-3s in the amounts that exist in the average serving of grass-fed beef (about 35 mg per 3 oz serving) lowered triglycerides, blood fats that contribute to heart disease, without affecting cholesterol levels.
Like Rocky Mountain Organic Meats, this small California-based hot dog company didn't pay for nutritional info. "None of our customers really ask," says Steve McCarthy, one of the ownders. "They just like how our hot dogs taste and they trust our brand." Look for them at farmer's markets in the San Francisco Bay area, or at their new restaurant in the San Francisco Ferry building. Or, just order them online.
$48.50/25 hot dogs (5 lb. package); atmytable.com
Good to Know: The California ranch where Prather Ranch meats are raised meet the standards for the Certified Humane Raised & Handled label, which requires yearly audits to ensure animals are allowed to roam in their natural environment throughout their entire lives. The farm is also certified by the Food Alliance.
Calories: 130
Fat: 11 g (4.5 g saturated)
Sodium: 590 mg
$7.99/4 hotdogs; homegrownmeats.com
Good to Know: Not only are these hotdogs certified by the American Grassfed Association (a program that verifies animals eat only grass their entire lives), but they're also Animal Welfare Approved, the strictest certification program for humane animal treatment.
Calories: 195
Fat: 16 g (7 g saturated)
Sodium: 566 mg
$39.95/12 franks; store.nimanranch.com
Good to know: Like Prather Ranch, all the farms that raise animals for Niman Ranch products are Certified Humane by the nonprofit Humane Farm Animal Care. Look for them at Whole Foods and other natural-food stores nationwide.
Calories: 150
Fat: 13 (6 g saturated)
Sodium: 450 mg
$5.29/6 hotdogs; tallgrassbeef.com
Good to know: Though Tallgrass Beef sells its products in grocery stores across the country, they're a mainstay in the Chicago area, where Tallgrass hotdogs are sold at Wrigley Field.
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Calories: 160
Fat: 14 g (5 g saturated)
Sodium: 450 mg
$7.50/6 hotdogs; prescottfrost.com
Good to know: This ranch, owned by the great-grandson of poet Robert Frost, is located in the Sandhills of Nebraska, a region often called the Napa Valley of grass-fed beef.
Calories: 110
Fat: 7 g (2.5 g saturated)
Sodium: 360 mg
$41.99/24 sausages; npofoods.com
Good to know: Even though these and all the other organic hot dogs on our list are labeled "uncured" or "no added nitrites or nitrates," they aren't completely free of those chemicals, which have been linked to colon cancer. Arcane USDA rules require products without synthetic nitrites and nitrates to be labeled this way, but organic hotdogs contain both chemicals, which occur naturally in celery powder, celery juice, sea salt and other spices used to preserve the dogs, at varying levels. Bottom line: Even organic hotdogs should be eaten only occasionally.


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The Saturday after Black Friday. This is the day when business' realize that they are screwed and start thinking about Chapter 13. They tried opening on Thanksgiving offering ridiculous discounts only to find out that it is costing them more in protests, petitions, and lawsuits then the profits they made for the day. Black Friday wasn't any better as most of the shoppers that came in were just looking at the items that they wanted to buy online cheaper then any Black Friday deal would have got them.
Joe: Hey did you go shopping on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday?
Dave: Nah man, I'm doing mine on Cyber Monday
Dave: Nah man, I'm doing mine on Cyber Monday
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"O'Brian is not that hard a taste to acquire, but he is very tough to shake...[the Aubrey/Maturin series] is a great work." (Boston Globe)
Favorites: Invention of Wings, Cutting for Stone, All the Light We Cannot See
"Most moving chase sequence in the whole series"
Not only does this volume contain the most moving naval chase sequence in the entire Aubrey/Maturin series (against the Dutch 74-gun Waakzaamheid), but it is the beginning of an international intrigue of Steven's that eventually leads (in Fortune of War) to his getting back together with Diana Villiers. These two together comprise the most coherent story telling of the series. Kudos to Audible for bringing aboard the original unabridged recordings. Keep them coming!
"I loved it..."
Consider the intrigue between the Doctor and the Lady Spy. Consider the friction between Jack and the ?I?d do it this way? Grant. Consider the parallelism between the Doctor and Herrapath [SIC], the bad luck with women, the opium problem, etc.
I thought it as the second best of the first 5, with only the first book being better. Well written.
And the sea chase between The Leopard and the Dutchman were outstanding.
Can?t wait for the next one.
"A joy to listen to."
This book, as well as the others in the series, are a joy to either listen to or read--especially after the first or second volumes when you have your "sea legs" and can understand the jargon.
I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - Salinger ^(;,;)^
"Cutting a Coat According to One's Cloth"
"But I was forgetting -- all is grist to your grisly mill..."
- Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island
I'm only five books into this series, but I must declare that I love these books like I love ice water on the beach, or hot chocolate with a warm blanket on a Fall night. Rarely do I find a writer that amazes and seduces me with his/her technical skill, prose, poetry, and sense of humanity. I've said the same thing of John le Carré, but I really do feel that when a lot of the bones and books of our modern classics are dead, bleached, buried and forgotten, this series will be still published, read and loved.
Patrick O'Brian captures a certain dynamic element of what it means to be alive, to love, to kill, to scheme, and to befriend. The relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin is one of the great friendships in literature EVER. I say that after ONLY reading 1/4 of the series. I can't imagine that O'Brian can sustain this level of resonance, but I have said that before when I first heard Bach's Violin Concertos. I had still yet to discover all the other pieces Bach had in his repertoire. I am older and humbler now. I am prepared to be humbled by future O'Brian masterpieces.
"Listen Forward"
A day isn't complete without Patrick Tull to listen to! Desolation Island continues the life story of Cap't. Jack Aubrey & Dr. Stephen Maturin whom I happily follow from one end of the ocean to another, as long as they keep sailing together. They are such great companions &, as our eyes & ears into the history of the early 19th century British Navy, they are great foils for one another. Maturin's interest in nature & Jack's in sailing give us a whole picture that is lovingly rendered. The high seas adventures continue & I would have it no other way than as read by Patrick Tull, narrating the various accents with ease & allowing the drama to carry itself, which it does effortlessly.
"Battling an Iceberg in 1811"
I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the writing. This book includes problems with convicts headed for Australia – including female convicts – problems with serious illness during a long becalmed period, out maneuvering a Dutch man-of-war, crashing with an iceberg that almost sinks them and destroys their rudder and then encountering an American whaling vessel that hates the British. It was very exciting.
"Very Well Written"
There are a few negative reviews of this book.
I would disagree.
I found this story to be very entertaining and very well written.
It's not all swashbuckling, but still a very good story.
Besides, if you don't listen to this story, you won't understand the beginning of the next story.
"Don't Miss"
While this book is not one of the best of the Aubrey/Maturin series, you should not miss it. It has one of the most memorable chase scenes in any of the books, that between the Leopard and the Dutch 74 gun Waakzaamheid. The book also establishes the vast difference between Jack Aubrey ashore (a dolt) and Jack Aubrey afloat (a genius). If you skip this book, you will have missed a great listen.
"One of the Best"
The dialogue in this one is brilliant even flashing at times. The swearing of oaths is particularly choice in this one. More than once I burst out laughing aloud (embaressing when other people are around). Both Aubrey's and Maturin's character develop and deepen considerably in this one too. In the case of the doctor, the calling of science in a man of the enlightenment like Dr. Maturin is far more deeply explored, particularly with the outbreak of jail fever. Aubrey's stature as a commander too grows considerably in the face of this great trial, being captain of an unlucky ship. Altogether superb.
"Why so many bad reviews?"
Was hesitant to get this title because of so many poor reviews. Only did it to have read them all. Now I'm very pleased I did. Why so much fuss over such a great listen. Lots of different aspects of A&M life looked into. Very satisfing. I can only guess that the minimal "ship to ship" fighting, and the linear story, didn't apeal to everyone. Plus really got under my skin that Jack is such an oblivion on land. Great suspence with the chase and the spying.
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Graffiti cleanup, repairs already underway at Idaho Falls park
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - After just one week, the Idaho Falls Equal Access Park is already getting new life.
Last Thursday, our station told viewers about vandalism and broken equipment at the park.
Through community and city response, the park is getting a lot of attention.
"I had been called by a few individuals who had seen tagging at the playground, and I didn't know what to do about it," said Idaho Falls mom Amy Schmutz. "Then I saw your news story."
Simple, said Schmutz, is the word that comes to mind when the community sees a problem, and quickly moves in to fix it.
"We had a lot of volunteers from the community," said Schmutz, as she flipped through a scrapbook of pictures taken when the park was built.
Schmutz was on the original committee to build the Equal Access Park six years ago.
"This is the process of the mural being painted," Schmutz said, looking at more photos.
Schmutz's 80-year-old mom -- a former artist for Mattel -- painted the mural we showed viewers covered in graffiti last week. On Thursday night, it's been cleaned, and soon, her mom will be back to restore it.
"I think it's exciting that the city acted so quickly on this," said Schmutz.
Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation director Greg A. Weitzel said the graffiti isn't the only thing being fixed.
"We contacted the manufacturer of this slide," said Weitzel. "It's still under warranty, so they'll be sending us a new slide."
The broken latches on the swings?
"They're $35 a piece. They're minimal. So we've already ordered those," said Weitzel.
Weitzel said a volunteer team from the INL has offered to take the park cleanup even further.
"We're working with the INL volunteers to apply for some grants," said Weitzel. "What we'd like to do is concrete this, put in a shelter, and bring in some musical instruments we haven't placed yet."
For Schmutz, it's simple. But sometimes simple can mean so much.
"All of these memories, about the playground, are right here," said Schmutz, looking through her scrapbook.
The INL volunteer team already has 100 volunteers.
Organizer Reva Nickelson is looking for more. She can be contacted via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Edoption Web site: www.utsa.bkstr.com
UTSA Bookstore offers online textbook ordering
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(April 5, 2007)--The UTSA Bookstore, managed by Follett Higher Education Group, will offer a new online "edoption" service for ordering textbooks and course materials. Edoption is the fastest, easiest way to submit orders (or adoptions).
Training on the new online ordering system is scheduled for April 10-11. Twenty-minute "brown-bag" training sessions on the Edoption system will be at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 10 in the University Center Hawthorne Room (2.01.40), 1604 Campus, and 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 11 in the Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.322, Downtown Campus.
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Registration is not required. Faculty members and administrative associates who order textbooks are encouraged to bring a lunch to the training; beverages will be provided.
If you don't want to participate in training, Follett representatives will be available to answer questions from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 10 at the 1604 Campus training site and April 11 at the Downtown Campus training site.
"The Edoption system will help get the books on the shelves for students much faster," said John Palmer, UTSA Bookstore director. "Something else faculty will like at the Edoption Web site is the message board feature. Before they make a decision on a particular textbook, they can look at comments on a book from faculty at other universities and colleges. It's similar to a listing on Amazon.com."
Other advantages of the Edoption system are the order confirmation and tracking features, which keep records of textbook orders over many semesters.
"If a textbook will be used again, all you have to do is click 'repeat order,'" said Palmer. "We think the administrative associates who handle the orders will really appreciate this feature." In most departments, textbook and course materials are ordered by administrative associates in order to centralize and monitor the ordering process.
The deadline for fall 2007 textbook orders is April 16. Observing this deadline enables the bookstore to better serve students; when Follett knows a text will be used again, they can pay more to students during the book sellback period at the end of the semester.
For more information, contact John Palmer at (210) 458-4220.


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A 33-year-old Lake Charles man has been charged with filing or maintaining false public record, cyberstalking and improper telephone communications or harassment, authorities said.
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kim Myers said Andrew J. Benoit, 859 W. Contour Drive, was arrested Tuesday following a month-long investigation.
"On Sept. 11, the Sheriff's Office received a report from Benoit, advising he was being harassed and stalked by a woman via text messages and Facebook," Myers said Wednesday in a news release. "During further investigation, detectives found no evidence or proof that Benoit was being stalked or harassed. When detectives spoke with the woman accused of stalking and harassing Benoit, she produced 38 pages of text messages where Benoit was the one harassing and stalking her.
"When questioned by detectives, Benoit confirmed he continuously contacted the victim via text messages and Facebook even after she requested numerous time he not do so."
Benoit was released on a $10,000 bond set by Judge Michael Canaday.
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Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur'anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from various theological, legal, socio-political and philosophical backgrounds think about the meaning and relevance of the Qur'an, and how their ideas apply in the contemporary world.
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Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century
by Professor Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne
To be launched by Professor Andrew Rippin University of Victoria, Canada
18th of March 2014 (Tuesday) 5:15pm for 5:30pm start
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Indonesian translation of Abdullah Saeed's Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century has recently been published by Mizan, Indonesia
Contextualism provides a critical alternative for contemporary Muslims to textualism, the dominant mode of interpretation of the Qur'an today. Textualism ranges on a continuum from approaches that place an almost exclusive reliance on the literal meaning of the Qur'anic text ('hard textualism') to perspectives that take some contextual elements into account and so provide a degree of interpretive flexibility ('soft textualism'). There are a number of political, intellectual and cultural reasons for the prominence and popularity of textualist (particularly the 'hard textualist') approach to the interpretation of the Qur'an today.
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Last one I sent you
"If you wanted to put in any stipulations such as a minimum post count, that would have been fine, but you should have told me that BEFORE I started the buy, not afterwards.
I specifically asked you and You told me just 48 hours before you posted that, that you had them in stock, ready to go, so that's what I told them.
Great deal? $5 off and free shipping, is a good deal but not exactly earth shattering. Hardly worth the effort of a GB. The only reason we were even doing it was because you supposedly had them in stock and nobody else did."
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