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Where the Burma's reforms going and what can you do to help?
Dinner, Speaker, Film, Cultural Dances and Panel Discussion!
Since last year, the U.S. has been warming up its relationship with Burma and lifting the sanctions in recognition of the ongoing reforms. President Obama paid a historic visit to the country last November. However, there are serious challenges and concerns as the military and their cronies are still firmly in control of the country's political and economic power while many forms of abuse continues. An election is scheduled to be held in 2015, but no one is sure what would be the likely outcome. Come share the expert's opinions on where the current reforms are going and what you can do to help while enjoying authentic Burmese food and Cultural performances. Also meet and connect with activists, Burma supporters and tabling NGOs related to Burma.
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Larry Diamond: A leading expert on Global Democracy from Stanford University / TITLE: "Burma in the Context of Global Democratization"
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Independent Angolan journalist's home robbed in Cabinda
New York, June 13, 2012--Authorities in Angola's enclave of Cabinda must immediately launch an investigation into the robbery at the home of an independent journalist on Sunday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Unidentified assailants ransacked the house of José Manuel Gimbi, a correspondent of the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America and a human rights lawyer, at around 4 p.m., when no one was at home, the station reported. The assailants stole items related to the journalist's work, including two computers, an external hard drive, a voice recorder, two USB sticks, and a bag containing important documents related to his work, Arão Tempo, a lawyer and Gimbi's mentor, told CPJ. VOA reported that the assailants also stole some personal items, including books and jewelry belonging to Gimbi's wife.


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In your heart, you've always known that the last season of Dexter totally sucked. Now you have the charts to back it up.
"Graph TV," the latest project by data viz virtuoso Kevin Wu, lets you visualize IMDb's massive database of user ratings. Type in the name of a show and the site gamely spits out a graph of every episode, helpfully color coding seasons and drawing a linear regression line for each. No longer will your TV arguments be founded solely on vague recollections and long-held grudges. This is cold hard data.
The idea came to Wu when Breaking Bad was finishing up its fifth and final season. "I thought the last half of season five was just amazing, and wondered if people thought the same," he remembers. It's clear that his fellow fans agreed–the chart for the series shows a strong upward slope during the second half of that last season.
By ending every season stronger than it started, Breaking Bad never left fans disappointed.
The Breaking Bad graph has all the markings of a fan favorite. The show had high ratings across the board–no single episode averaged lower than an 8–and a strong upward progression for each season. That last bit might be key to explaining the show's success. By ending every season stronger than it started, Breaking Bad never left fans disappointed. In other words, while there may have been some clunkers in season three, generally speaking, people never felt like the show was losing steam.
Other graphs tell other stories. In the case of The Office, we see a strong climb in season three, just when the American version was finding its voice–and then a plateauing in seasons four and five, with a downward slide in season six. West Wing fell off after four seasons, when writer Aaron Sorkin left the show. 24 similarly lost steam after its first few seasons, only to come back with a riveting finale. Dexter was just the opposite, plummeting in its final season with a truly polarizing final episode.
Wu says most of the reactions he's seen suggest that the graphs line up with the general sentiments of the TV watching public. "I thought that the knowledge of the crowds are fairly accurate and represent most people's feelings," he says. And that goes not just for seasons but for particular episodes too. The very last dot on the Seinfeld graph reflects what we've all long thought–that the finale was kind of a downer. Two dots sitting high above the pack, however, were just as deserved. They're two stellar, nine-point-fives: "The Contest" and "The Soup Nazi."
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Great Show Will !!! and please let me know when my parts show up
The show was very good I enjoyed it.
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Great Show Will !!! and please let me know when my parts show up
Hey Will I like your show, it's interesting and entertaining. I'm looking forward to the next show. How many shows was produced? Thanks ironmule
Any official (not warez) site to watch a rerun? I work nights now, and will miss ALL the shows if they aren't on between 6 AM to 6 PM.
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
DVR? I have it set to record and have threatened all with extreme prejudice not to delete any episodes. The show is a lot of fun!
That show with Mr. Woody was the best!! To see an 89 yr old treasure that happy was the best TV I've seen in a long time!! Will you are a good man!!!
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Absolutely awesome. caught two episodes in a row last night after i got home. Outstanding on all counts. My wife loved what you did with that torch for Woody. She thought that was just incredible how you guys rebuilt that Old Warriors Flame Thower. Semper Fi.
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text: I've been seeing this in a couple of threads related to the draft this year, and I thought I should just state my thoughts on this in it's own thread. What I'm referring to is the idea that we should trade down in the draft in order to avoid another "Darko situation". But I'm struggling to see how that applies to this team at all. Almost non of the parameters are the same in our current situation. First, this isn't the 2003 draft. While it is true you cannot judge the production of a draft class before they enter the league, but you know when I draft has a chance to be historic. That feeling isn't around this draft. Nor are we drafting with a pick that isn't our own. What made the Darko situation hurt so was the opporitunity to add a franchise player for Otis Thorpe. A franchise player to a contending Eastern conference team, then with a young core and a great coach. This current team is far from a playoff team, let alone a contender. We have new additions who we aren't exactly sure how they fit. We're picking with our pick coming off a season of much disapointment with a first year coach whom the jury is still out on. Not to mention in a conference with a bonafide megastar and a dominant big man. Darko wasn't a failure on pure basketball talent, rather a perfect storm of problems. A coach who doesn't have a great history with rookies, a team with an established & proven rotation, an unknown quantity in a mysterious European big man over college basketball's National Championship supserstar, a young player who expects playing time based on draft position rather than previous team success, and a wrist injury hindering an off-season when time would actually open up due to free agent departures. Just typing that out reminded me just of how much went wrong. To tie that all in to my main point, all draft busts aren't Darko Milicic and I think we're doing ourselves a disservice to equate them. Draft busts are more a part if the draft than the studs, and the team shouldn't be afraid to wiff on a pick if the reward makes the risk worthwhile. And until this team gets a high draft pick that lives up to the high fan expectations, we're likely to hold onto that Darko memory. This really is our first chance at atonement, so to speak. But whoever we pick is not Darko, they'll likely get the opporitunities that escaped him and won't be under the same pressure. We were a marquee team back then, now we're largely out of the minds of the casual fan. We play like on national television maybe twice. I'd like to think the organization has learned from their past mistakes from the Darko situation and has a chance to prove themselves here. I know Roscoe has previously disagreed with my assertion that there isn't even a Darko in this draft by saying, "there's a Darko in every draft" but I wholeheartedly disagree. Darko just represents more to me than a high draft pick who never contributed to his team. Let's just not do anything in the spirit of "avoiding another Darko" because frankly, we aren't even in the same position to get one.


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The work Christmas party
15 December 2013 , 10:33 AM by Rob Minshull
The work Christmas party: a time to let down your hair, dance with the boss, tell Barry from accounts what you really think of him?
With most people going on holidays, is it okay to get a little loose and party on?
Karen Gately is the author of The People Manager's Toolkit and veteran of many a messy Christmas party.
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text: I took my dogs down to the river today and figured I'd snap a few shots of the Chevy. Here's a couple shots of the truck and my dogs. And the most annoying rock chip ever. It's right in the up and down center of the windshield straight in front of the drivers seat. I have to lean to either the left or the right side to drive, lol I think I'm gonna work on getting those last couple of chrome pieces off this weekend, and then probably sand my back bumper down and get it ready for paint. Not sure what to go with yet... maybe the same black that I used on my tool box and headache rack.


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Gonzo Action Figure
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Released: Fall 2003
Series: 5
Articulation: Neck, ball joint shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, hips, knees
Accessories: Camilla pack-in figure, trumpet, box of chocolates, base
From: The Muppet Show
Classic purple tux Gonzo and his chicken girlfriend Camilla were featured in the fifth series of Palisades Toys' Muppet figures. He looks more detailed than his precursor from series 2, the Stuntman Gonzo Action Figure.
Camilla has a moving neck and moving legs. The heart shaped box has a removable lid to reveal the chocolates.
Two rare industry giveaway exclusives, the Gold Tuxedo Gonzo Action Figure and the Dream Date Gonzo Action Figure in a light blue tux, were variations of this figure. A few months later, an exclusive Tuxedo Gonzo Action Figure in a black tuxedo was sold at a convention, with another chicken pack-in, Bernice. In 2005, a Checkered Suit Gonzo Action Figure with a brown and a gray chicken was sold at the Palisades Collector's Club as an introduction pack.
Palisades also produced a Mega Gonzo Action Figure, and an exclusive Mega Camilla Action Figure.


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Starring Jason Sudeikis, this comedy doesn't live up to its title.
Directors: Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck Rating: R Studio: Fierce Entertainment
That title, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, writes a check the movie itself can't ultimately cash. Intended years ago as a Vince Vaughn comedy by writers-directors Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck (writers for Late Show with David Letterman and King of the Hill), the fast, funny movie settles instead for Jason Sudeikis as an oily, thirty something party guy hell-bent on throwing one last blowout before realtors Leslie Bibb and the hilarious Lin Shaye sell the Hamptons summer house owned by his rich, slick daddy (Don Johnson).
Sudeikis plays the kind of guy who considers serving bean dip out of a toilet at a Dukes of Hazzard-themed party the epitome of good times. Hey, no wonder every beauty in the movie secretly lusts after him, including Angela Sarafyan and Michelle Borth. He and his horny, stoner, up for anything wingman Tyler Labine (an hilarious, touching standout performance) persuade their old friends to loosen up for an Indian-style orgy, complete with incense, costumes, veils, beads and the promise of a Kama Sutra-worthy smorgasbord of sexual delights. The list of invitees include uptight therapist Lake Bell, who is having relationship problems with her Euro-snob boyfriend Rhys Coiro, Nick Kroll and Lindsay Sloane as a sweetly awkward couple anxious to break out of their shells and Martin Starr is very good as a sad faced, hipster musician.
As good as all of them are, the moviemakers blow a big opportunity by under-using the hysterical Lucy Punch and Will Forte as friends who badly want in on the sexual hijinks but get turned down because they're recently married. The big finale delivers an orgy, all right, but a fairly timid one despite the R-rating. Sudeikis' smarm wears thin along the way, but the movie snaps and crackles with good lines and performances. In the ongoing glut of R-rated comedies, this may be a mid-level entry but it has an odd sweetness in showing the lengths some people will go to avoid intimacy.
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Playboy Contributing Editor Stephen Rebello has written many Playboy Interview and 20 Questions features. He is the author of such books as the notorious Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the latter of which has inspired a dramatic feature film set for production in 2012. His most recent Playboy Interviews include Josh Brolin and Cameron Diaz.


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Jenny Greaves. A very nice + talented teenager with lots of entusiasm and charisma! She despises holt (as do most ppl :P) and has a healthy obsession with Gizmo (who does rock!). She is kind, generous, curteous, beautiful, fun to be around and a great person all round! I cant think of a better jenny at all :D
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February 27, 1975
Houston, TX US
Sam Houston Coliseum
Includes: Rock and Roll, Sick Again, Over the Hills and Far Away, In My Time of Dying, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Kashmir, No Quarter, Trampled Underfoot, Moby Dick, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker
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Press Review excerpt: Zeppelin: "the Priests of Rock"?
If loud and hard is what you like, then surely you were among the delirious who crammed the Coliseum to capacity Thursday night, where the supreme priests of heavy metal held high rock mass. Yes, it was those much maligned, often misunderstood, yet perennially popular boys from Britain. Led Zeppelin. Though they are blasting their way across America on what is expected to be the largest single grossing enterprise in the history of rock and roll. The high-flying blimp managed to swoop down long enough to sufficiently melt the eardrums of some 15,000 Houston rock fans.
If you were one of the thousands of Zeppelin fanatics who threatened to take the Galleria by storm last month, and were lucky enough to survive as a ticket holder, the premium price you paid for general admission entitled you to meet the same thousands Thursday night in the Coliseum. The stands of the hall were filled to over brimming with banks of eager faces. The floor was a slowly boiling sea of humanity which could be traversed only by tiptoeing through yards of stoned teenies or muscling your way through a forest of tightly – packed bodies.
Zeppelin's legions gathered this time, considerable more well-mannered, to get-down and get it on, and that's precisely what they proceeded to do.
By 8:20, a heavy veil of cannabis hung like a grey canopy over the Coliseum crowd that buzzed with anticipation. The house lights dimmed and a surge of electricity shot through the audience. Premonitory screams drowned out an unnecessary introduction as an instant replay of Mt. Vesuvius erupted on stage.
It's been a long time since they've rocked and rolled in Space City (almost a year and a half), and perhaps that is why the Zeppelin launched into their three and a half hour set with Rock and Roll, a cut from their fourth album.
That night, lead singer Robert Plant would approach the microphone, dressed like a faded Celtic peacock in bells and billowing blouse to say: "Our intention is to cut right across like a piece of ice cream, or whip cream, across the spectrum of our music.". And indeed, from their initial number to their second encore, Led Zeppelin gave us a generous sampling from their five platinum albums and their newest release, Physical Graffiti.
Older numbers like Over the Hills and Far Away and Dazed & Confused were punctuated with such new material as the oriental-flavored Kashmir, the unabashed rocker Trampled Underfoot and the synthesizer-assisted drum solo of percussionist John Bonham.
Being a veteran of every Led Zeppelin tour since the Texas Pop Festival in 1969, I have observed a steady change in the group's approach to performing their music in concert. The Zeppelin's performances have evolved from an accurate, albeit highly charged reproduction of their recordings into a showcase of improvisation – dominated by lead guitarist Jimmy Page. Granted, mimicking one's albums night after night, tour after tour would inspirationally be the kiss of death for any performer, but there must be a middle ground of artistic compromise – especially in Led Zeppelin's case.
The secret of the Zeppelin alchemy that turns "Led" into cashbox gold is its tight timing that shamelessly relies on raw rhythm – a rocking visceral pulse as old as tribal drums, the rocking cradle or the primal throb of the heard itself.
"This song can't be retrospective… so it must be, honestly for you, " cooed Robert Plant in to the mic, as the band floated into the ethereal strains of probably the most significant Zeppelin song, Stairway to Heaven. Page's electric twelve-string soared like a homesick angel, with Plant's vocal not far behind as the power quartet brought the concert to a crescendo. At barely 10:55, Messrs Plant, Page, Bonham and Jones left the stage only to be followed by a 10-minute ovation of cries for more and the now standard lit-matches salute.
All of this, of course, was carefully calculated to fire the crowd, for the might blimp returned on stage as hundreds of lights exploded to encircle the stage and illuminate the 10-foot letters spelling out "LED ZEPPELIN", Broadway marquis-style – sheer showbiz. The triumphant musicians then treated the crowd to two encores, a Theremin augmented version of the meaty hit Whole Lotta Love and an unfamiliar blues jam. After they thundered through an expanded Heartbreaker, the four boys from Britain bid the audience farewell amidst cries for more.
"Goodnight Houston", we love you", the lion-maned singer called out as the Zeppelin blasted off on a limousine assisted flight into the stratospheres of superstardom.
Judging by the vacant look of stoned bliss on the faces of departing concert goers Thursday night, the four sonic sorcerers had indeed effectively cast their spell over some fifteen thousand who filled out to their cars, their heads still smoking from a sub-lethal dose of Zeppelin magic. [R.Bruce, March 1975]
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i gave my ticket away after being kicked off the stage
was backstage b4 concert by way of faux aero office trip watced bonzo jump out of his limo into a crouched position and pge jump into his lap, page had glowing red eyes btw not kidding and then when they went on walked up and sat on a drum box next to bonzo for half a song b4 being booted then went out front but left and gave me ticket to a guy across the street, only remember in my time of dying not even what song they played while onstage any way should have kept up those ways
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Multicore chips could bring about the biggest change in computing since the microprocessor
Brian Hayes
The pace of change in computer technology can be breathtaking—and sometimes infuriating. You bring home a new computer, and before you can get it plugged in you're hearing rumors of a faster and cheaper model. In the 30 years since the microprocessor first came on the scene, computer clock speeds have increased by a factor of a thousand (from a few megahertz to a few gigahertz) and memory capacity has grown even more (from kilobytes to gigabytes).
Through all this frenzy of upgrades and speed bumps, one aspect of computer hardware has remained stubbornly resistant to change. Until recently, that new computer you brought home surely had only one CPU, or central processing unit—the computer-within-the-computer where programs are executed and calculations are performed. Over the years there were many experiments with multiprocessors and other exotica in the world of supercomputers, but the desktops and laptops familiar to most of us continued to rely on a single-CPU architecture whose roots go back to the age of the vacuum tube and the punch card.
Now a major shift is under way. Many of the latest computers are equipped with "dual core" processor chips; they bundle two CPUs on a single slab of silicon. The two processors are meant to share the work of computation, potentially doubling the machine's power. Quad-core chips are also available; Intel has announced an eight-core product, due in 2009; Sun Microsystems has been testing a 16-core chip. A company called Tilera even offers 64 cores. It seems we are on the threshold of another sequence of doublings and redoublings, with the number of cores per chip following the same kind of exponential growth curve that earlier traced the rise in clock speed and memory capacity.
The next computer you bring home, a few years from now, could have hundreds or even thousands of processors. If all goes according to plan, you may notice nothing different about the new machines apart from another boost in performance. Inside, though, coordinating all those separate computational cores is going to require profound changes in the way programs are designed. Up to now, most software has been like music written for a solo performer; with the current generation of chips we're getting a little experience with duets and quartets and other small ensembles; but scoring a work for large orchestra and chorus is a different kind of challenge.
Why build chips with multiple processors? Why not just keep cranking up the speed of a single CPU? If the latter option were feasible, the chipmakers would be delighted to adopt it. They are turning to multicore systems only because the path to higher gigahertz seems to be blocked, at least for now.
The causes of this impasse lie in the peculiar physical and economic laws that govern the design of integrated circuits. The most celebrated of those laws is an economic miracle: As transistors or other components are made smaller and packed more densely on the surface of a silicon chip, the cost of producing the chip remains nearly constant. Thus the cost per transistor steadily declines; it's now measured in nanodollars. This extraordinary fact is the basis of Moore's Law, formulated in 1965 by Gordon E. Moore, one of the founders of Intel. Moore observed that the number of transistors on a state-of-the-art chip doubles every year or two.
Less famous than Moore's Law but equally important are several "scaling laws" first stated in 1974 by Robert H. Dennard and several colleagues at IBM. Dennard asked: When we reduce the size of a transistor, how should we adjust the other factors that control its operation, such as voltages and currents? And what effect will the changes have on performance? He found that voltage and current should be proportional to the linear dimensions of the device, which implies that power consumption (the product of voltage and current) will be proportional to the area of the transistor. This was an encouraging discovery; it meant that even as the number of devices on a chip increased, the total power density would remain constant.
Dennard's conclusion about performance was even more cheering. In digital circuits, transistors act essentially as on-off switches, and the crucial measure of their performance is the switching delay: the time it takes to go from the conducting to the nonconducting state or vice versa. The scaling laws show that delay is proportional to size, and so as circuits shrink they can be operated at higher speed.
Taken together, these findings suggest that our universe is an especially friendly place for making electronic computers. In other realms, the laws of nature seem designed to thwart us. Thermodynamics and quantum mechanics tell us what we can't hope to do; levers amplify either force or distance but not both. Everywhere we turn, there are limits and tradeoffs, and no free lunch. But Moore's Law and the Dennard scaling rules promise circuits that gain in both speed and capability, while cost and power consumption remain constant. From this happy circumstance comes the whole bonanza of modern microelectronics.
Free lunch is great, but there's still a bill to pay for breakfast and dinner. Throughout the past decade, chip designers have struggled with two big problems.
First, although CPUs are a thousand times faster, memory speed has increased only by a factor of ten or so. Back in the 1980s, reading a bit from main memory took a few hundred nanoseconds, which was also the time needed to execute a single instruction in a CPU. The memory and the processor cycles were well matched. Today, a processor could execute a hundred instructions in the time it takes to get data from memory.
One strategy for fixing the memory bottleneck is to transfer data in large blocks rather than single bits or bytes; this improves throughput (bits per second), but not latency (the delay before the first bit arrives). To mitigate the latency problem, computers are equipped with an elaborate hierarchy of cache memories, which surround the processor core like a series of waiting rooms and antechambers. Data and instructions that are likely to be needed immediately are held in the innermost, first-level cache, which has only a small capacity but is built for very high speed. The second-level cache, larger but a little slower, holds information that is slightly less urgent. Some systems have a third-level cache.
Reliance on cache memory puts a premium on successfully predicting which data and instructions a program is going to call for next, and there's a heavy penalty when the prediction is wrong. Moreover, processor chips have to sacrifice a large fraction of their silicon area to make room for caches and the logic circuits that control them. As the disparity between memory and CPU speed grows more extreme, a processor begins to look like a shopping mall where the stores are dwarfed by the surrounding parking lot. At some point, all the benefits of any further boost in processor speed will be eaten up by the demand for more cache.
The second problem that plagues chip designers is a power crisis. Dennard's scaling laws promised that power density would remain constant even as the number of transistors and their switching speed increased. For that rule to hold, however, voltages have to be reduced in proportion to the linear dimensions of the transistor. Manufacturers have not been able to lower operating voltages that steeply.
Historically, each successive generation of processor chips has scaled the linear dimensions by a factor of 0.7, which yields an area reduction of one-half. (In other words, density doubles.) The scaling factor for voltages, however, has been 0.85 rather than 0.7, with the result that power density has been rising steadily with each new generation of chips. That's why desktop machines now come equipped with fans that could drive a wind tunnel, and laptops burn your knees.
In the future, even the 0.85 voltage reduction looks problematic. As voltage is lowered, transistors become leaky, like valves that cannot be completely shut off. The leakage current now accounts for roughly a third of total power consumption; with further reductions in voltage, leakage could become unmanageable. On the other hand, without those continuing voltage reductions, the clock rate cannot be increased.
These problems with memory latency and power density are sometimes viewed as signalling the end of Moore's Law, but that's not the apocalypse we're facing. We can still pack more transistors onto a chip and manufacture it for roughly constant cost. The semiconductor industry "roadmap" calls for increasing the number of transistors on a processor chip from a few hundred million today to more than 12 billion by 2020. What appears to be ending, or at least dramatically slowing, is the scaling law that allows processor speed to keep climbing. We can still have smaller circuits, but not faster ones. And hence the new Lilliputian strategy of Silicon Valley: lots of little processors working in parallel.
Parallel processing is hardly a new idea in computer science. Machines with multiple processors were built as early as the 1960s, when it was already widely believed that some form of "massive parallelism" was the way of the future. By the 1980s that future was at hand. David Gelernter of Yale University wrote that "parallel computing, long a notorious hangout for utopians, theorists, and backyard tinkerers, has almost arrived and is definitely for sale."
Throughout that decade and into the early 1990s novel parallel architectures became a wonderful playground for computer designers. For example, W. Daniel Hillis developed the Connection Machine, which had 216 single-bit processors (and 212 blinking red lights). Another notable project was the Transputer, created by the British semiconductor firm Inmos. Transputer chips were single processors designed for interconnection, with built-in communications links and facilities for managing parallel programs.
Software innovators were also drawn to the challenges of parallelism. The Occam programming language was devised for the Transputer, and languages called *Lisp and C* were written for the Connection Machine. Gelernter introduced the Linda programming system, in which multiple processors pluck tasks from a cloud called "tuple space."
What became of all these ventures? They were flattened by the steamroller of mass-market technology and economics. Special-purpose, limited-production designs are hard to justify when the same investment will buy hundreds or thousands of commodity PCs, which you can mount in racks and link together in a loose federation via Ethernet. Such clusters and "server farms" soon came to dominate large-scale computing, especially in the sciences. The vendors of supercomputers eventually gave in and began selling systems built on the same principle. All of the fastest supercomputers are now elaborations of this concept. In other words, parallelism wasn't defeated; it was co-opted.
It's also important to note that parallelism of a different kind insinuated itself into mainstream processor designs. The impressive performance of recent CPU chips comes not only from gigahertz clock rates but also from doing more during each clock cycle. The processors "pipeline" their instructions, decoding one while executing another and storing results from a third. Whenever possible, two or more instructions are executed simultaneously. Through such "instruction-level parallelism" a single CPU can have a throughput of more than one instruction per cycle, on average.
It is surely no coincidence that the kinds of parallelism in widest use today are the kinds that seem to be easiest for programmers to manage. Instruction-level parallelism is all but invisible to the programmer; you create a sequential series of instructions, and it's up to the hardware to find opportunities for concurrent execution.
In writing a program to run on a cluster or server farm, you can't be oblivious to parallelism, but the architecture of the system imposes a helpful discipline. Each node of the cluster is essentially an independent computer, with its own processor and private memory. The nodes are only loosely coupled; they communicate by passing messages. This protocol limits the opportunities for interprocess mischief. The software development process is not radically different; programs are often written in a conventional language such as Fortran or C, augmented by a library of routines that handle the details of message passing.
Clusters work well for tasks that readily break apart into lots of nearly independent pieces. In weather prediction, for example, each region of the atmosphere can be assigned its own CPU. The same is true of many algorithms in graphics and image synthesis. Web servers are another candidate for this treatment, since each visitor's requests can be handled independently.
In principle, multicore computer systems could be organized in the same way as clusters, with each CPU having its own private memory and with communication governed by a message-passing protocol. But with many CPUs on the same physical substrate, it's tempting to allow much closer collaboration. In particular, multicore hardware makes it easy to build shared-memory systems, where processors can exchange information simply by reading and writing the same location in memory. In software for a shared-memory machine, multiple computational processes all inhabit the same space, allowing more interesting and flexible patterns of interaction, not to mention subtler bugs.
If our universe is a peculiarly friendly place for builders of digital computers, it is not so benign for creators of programs that run concurrently on parallel hardware. Or maybe the difficulty lies in the human mind rather than in the nature of the universe.
Think of a program that reserves airline seats. Travelers access the program through a Web site that shows a diagram of the aircraft interior, with each seat marked as either vacant or occupied. When I click on seat 3A, the program first checks its database to make sure 3A is still available; if it is, I get a confirming message, and the database is updated to show that seat 3A has been taken. All's well, at least in a sequential world. But you too may be booking a seat on the same flight, and you may want 3A. If my transaction completes before your request arrives, then I'm afraid you're out of luck. On the other hand, if you are quicker with the mouse, I'm the one who will be disappointed. But what happens if the two requests are essentially simultaneous and are handled in parallel by a multiprocessing computer? Suppose the program has just assigned the seat to me but has not yet revised the database record when your request reaches the Web server. At that instant a check of the database indicates 3A is still vacant, and so we both get confirming messages. It's going to be a cozy flight!
Of course there are remedies for this problem. Programming techniques for ensuring exclusive access to resources have been known for 50 years; they are key assets in the intellectual heritage of computer science, and the airline's programmer should certainly know all about them. Many of the same issues arise even in uniprocessor systems where "time slicing" creates the illusion that multiple programs are running at the same time.
Writing correct concurrent programs is not impossible or beyond human abilities, but parallelism does seem to make extreme demands on mental discipline. The root of the difficulty is nondeterminism: Running the same set of programs on the same set of inputs can yield different results depending on the exact timing of events. This is disconcerting if your approach to programming is to try to think like a computer.
Even though the brain is a highly parallel neural network, the mind seems to be single-threaded. You may be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but it's hard to think two thoughts at once. Consciousness is singular. In trying to understand a computer program, I often imagine myself standing at a certain place in the program text or in a flow chart. As the instructions are executed, I follow along, tracing out the program's path. I may have to jump from place to place to follow branches and loops, but at any given moment there is always one location that I can call here. Furthermore, I am the only actor on the stage. Nothing ever happens behind my back or out of sight. Those airline seats can't be assigned unless I assign them.
That's how it works in a sequential program. With parallel processing, the sense of single-mindedness is lost. If I try to trace the path of execution, I have to stand in many places at once. I don't know who "I" am anymore, and there are things happening all around me that I don't remember doing. "I contain multitudes," declared Walt Whitman, but for a computer programmer this is not a healthy state of mind.
Edward A. Lee, of the University of California, Berkeley, recently described the mental challenge of writing nondeterministic programs:
A folk definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect the results to be different. By this definition, we in fact require that programmers of multithreaded systems be insane. Were they sane, they could not understand their programs.
Lee also writes:
I conjecture that most multithreaded general-purpose applications are so full of concurrency bugs that—as multicore architectures become commonplace—these bugs will begin to show up as system failures. This scenario is bleak for computer vendors: Their next-generation machines will become widely known as the ones on which many programs crash.
Cynics, of course, will reply that computers of every generation have exactly that reputation.
Not everyone shares Lee's bleak outlook. There may well be ways to tame the multicore monster.
One idea is to let the operating system deal with the problems of allocating tasks to processors and balancing the workload. This is the main approach taken today with time-sliced multiprocessing and, more recently, with dual-core chips. Whether it will continue to work well with hundreds of cores is unclear. In the simplest case, an operating system would adopt a one-processor-per-program rule. Thus the spreadsheet running in the background would never slow down the action in the video game on your screen. But this policy leaves processors idle if there aren't enough programs running, and it would do nothing to help any single program run faster. To make better use of the hardware, each program needs to be divided into many threads of execution.
An alternative is to put the burden on the compiler—the software that translates a program text into machine code. The dream is to start with an ordinary sequential program and have it magically sliced and diced for execution on any number of processors. Needless to say, this Vegematic compiler doesn't yet exist, although some compilers do detect certain opportunities for parallel processing.
Both of these strategies rely on the wizardry of a programming elite—those who build operating systems and compilers—allowing the rest of us to go on pretending we live in a sequential world. But if massive parallelism really is the way of the future, it can't remain hidden behind the curtain forever. Everyone who writes software will have to confront the challenge of creating programs that run correctly and efficiently on multicore systems.
Contrarians argue that parallel programming is not really much harder than sequential programming; it just requires a different mode of thinking. Both Hillis and Gelernter have taken this position, backing it up with detailed accounts drawn from their own experience. For example, Hillis and Guy L. Steele, Jr., describe their search for the best sorting algorithm on the Connection Machine. They found, to no one's surprise, that solutions from the uniprocessor world are seldom optimal when you have 65,536 processors to play with. What's more illuminating is their realization that having immediate access to every element of a large data set means you may not need to sort at all. More recently, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat of Google have described a major success story for parallel programming. They and their colleagues have written hundreds of programs that run on very large clusters of computers, all using a programming model they call MapReduce.
The lesson of these examples appears to be that we shouldn't waste effort trying to adapt or convert existing software. A new computer architecture calls for a new mental model, a new metaphor. We need to rethink the problem as well as the solution. In other words, we have a historic opportunity to clean out the closet of computer science, to throw away all those dusty old sorting algorithms and the design patterns that no longer fit. We get to make a fresh start. (Be ready to buy all new software along with your new kilocore computer.)
Although there's doubtless a multicore processor in my future (and yours), I'm not yet entirely convinced that massive parallelism is the direction computing will follow for decades to come. There could be further detours and deviations. There could be a U-turn.
The multicore design averts a power catastrophe, but it won't necessarily break through the memory bottleneck. All of those cores crammed onto a single silicon chip have to compete for the same narrow channel to reach off-chip main memory. As the number of cores increases, contention for memory bandwidth may well be the factor that limits overall system performance.
In the present situation we have an abundance of transistors available but no clear idea of the best way to make use of them. Lots of little processors is one solution, but there are alternatives. One idea is to combine a single high-performance CPU and several gigabytes of main memory on the same sliver of silicon. This system-on-a-chip is an enticing possibility; it would have benefits in price, power and performance. But there are also impediments. For one thing, the steps in fabricating a CPU are different from those that create the highest-density memories, so it's not easy to put both kinds of devices on one chip. There are also institutional barriers: Semiconductor manufacturers tend to have expertise in microprocessors or in memories but not in both.
Finally, we haven't necessarily seen the last of the wicked-fast uniprocessor. The power and memory constraints that have lately driven chipmakers to multicore designs are not fundamental physical limits; they are merely hurdles that engineers have not yet learned to leap. New materials or new fabrication techniques could upset all our assumptions.
A year ago, IBM and Georgia Tech tested an experimental silicon-germanium chip at a clock rate of 500 gigahertz—more than a hundred times the speed of processors now on the market. Reaching that clock rate required cooling the device to 4 Kelvins, which might seem to rule it out as a practical technology. But which is harder: Writing reliable and efficient parallel software, or building a liquid-helium cooler for a laptop computer? I'm not sure I know the answer.
© Brian Hayes
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2007/11/computing-in-a-parallel-universe/1
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Roald Hoffmann
In 1771 Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze was a lively girl of 13. When her
mother passed away, the young woman left a convent school to help
her father as a hostess. Her vivacity attracted a friend of the
family, the 50-year-old Count d'Amerval. A remarkable letter
survives in Cornell's Lavoisier collection in which Marie Anne's
father diplomatically yet directly declines the Count's
Another suitor was much more welcome. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier had
a law degree, but his passion was for science. As a young man, he
impressed the French scientific establishment with his geological
and chemical research. Lavoisier had just bought a half share in the
Ferme Générale—the ancien
régime's version of what the Internal Revenue Service
might be heading for in some conservative dream—a private
company collecting taxes for the crown. Marie Anne's father was one
of the leading "Farmers."
Lavoisier was a frequent visitor at the Paulze house. He and Marie
Anne played romantic board games, but also spoke of geology,
chemistry and astronomy. When the father proposed a marriage, both
young people welcomed it. Antoine was 28, Marie Anne 13 when they
married. A lovely self-portrait of Mme. Lavoisier survives, which
she must have painted not long after.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
In telling the story of Mme. Lavoisier, I will not do justice (in
several ways) to her husband. This young natural philosopher
mastered the art of careful experimentation in chemistry and
physics. Independently wealthy from his fermier's income,
he filled a private laboratory with balances, burning lenses and
metal vessels of an unmatched magnitude and quality. In a way,
Lavoisier's science was the big science of his day. His feeling for
balance found expression in science: "Nothing is gained,
nothing is lost" could be applied equally to economics and to
the mass balances of chemistry.
Lavoisier gave the first correct accounts of burning, respiration
and rusting. In bringing about the Chemical Revolution, he properly
defined the elements (though he thought heat was one), showed that
water was a compound and air a mixture, and proposed a new
systematic nomenclature for chemistry. In the remainder of his time,
he dealt with one practical problem after another—he debunked
mesmerism, thought about contagious disease in cities, ensured that
young America got its gunpowder, adjudicated disputes on ballooning
and, after the revolution, participated in the work on the metric
system. Citizen Lavoisier's work for the French Republic did not
save him from the Jacobin terror. On May 8, 1794, he and his
father-in-law were executed, along with 26 other Farmers General.
Her Husband's Helpmeet, and After
Mme. Lavoisier ran a popular salon, to be sure. But from early on in
her marriage she took instruction in chemistry to help her husband
in his work. She learned to read English to translate important
books from a language Lavoisier lacked. Mme. Lavoisier learned to
draw from Jacques-Louis David. His expensively commissioned portrait
of the couple (published in American Scientist,
January–February 1996) tells us of their
relationship. The two are physically close, her arm rests on his
shoulder. But there is a distance between them. To me there is also
a certain tension in the leaning posture of Mme. Lavoisier—am
I imagining that she is pressing in, and would like to enter
Lavoisier's realm of instruments in the right-hand part of the
picture? Lavoisier looks at his wife—she looks out as us, at
the world. They had no children.
After her husband's death, Mme. Lavoisier herself spent 65 days in
jail. Emerging, she recovered his confiscated books and kept his
works in print. Long loved by Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, she
rejected him. In 1805 she married the American/ British/Bavarian
adventurer, inventor and scientist Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.
The marriage was an unhappy one—it's reported that she poured
boiling water on his flowers—and ended four years later. Mme.
Lavoisier lived on until 1836.
There is no biography of Mme. Lavoisier. I think she deserves an opera.
But Was She a Chemist?
There is no published scientific paper in Marie Anne Lavoisier's
name. She translated from the English Kirwan's "An Essay on
Phlogiston," with appended notes by Lavoisier and friends,
notes intended (correctly) to systematically demolish Kirwan's
argument. The original edition did not carry her name as translator,
but subsequent ones did.
Elsewhere, she draws herself in their laboratory. Two of her
strikingly realistic and beautifully composed images of Lavoisier's
work on respiration survive. These are classic visual documents of
chemical experimentation. In Figure 3, Mme. Lavoisier is at right,
sitting at a table, quill in hand. She turns to observe the
experiment, waiting to write down the measurements as they are
called out by her husband or his assistant. Here she is an
amanuensis. She was more at times; she also wrote the plan for what
experiments were done at Lavoisier's Arsenal laboratory on a
particular day.
And Marie Anne Lavoisier produced the plates for Lavoisier's
Traité Élémentaire de
Chimie, published in the year 1789, that of another Revolution.
In Cornell's library are her watercolor sketches for the 13
remarkable plates that illustrated the book that changed chemistry.
We have several êtats of the plates, including the
one shown here (Figure 4), where she adds a correction in
the 1789 equivalent of a Post-It, a paper note literally pinned to
the print. We have a copper plate, which she engraved herself; the
plates from beginning to end are Mme. Lavoisier's work. When
satisfied, she signed a proof Bonne, followed by her
initials. In the book there is no credit to her, only the plates are
signed Paulze Lavoisier sculpsit, to testify to
her engraving.
Mme. Lavoisier could not have been a chemist. No fault of her own,
for she had the intelligence and the training—society did not
allow women to follow that path for a hundred years after her time.
That's how long France had to wait for another Marie.
There were exceptions, for in many ways 18th- century French culture
did provide a place for women as intellectuals, more so than other
European societies of the time. Forty years before Mme. Lavoisier,
there was Emilie de Breteuil, the Marquise du Châtelet
(1706–1749), who studied mathematics and physics. She married,
in the normal way of aristocracy, and led an intellectual life
separate from her marriage. Voltaire, her lover for some years,
encouraged her to undertake the first full French translation of
Newton's Principia. This she did, ably so, and also wrote
of Leibniz's work. A younger contemporary of Mme. Lavoisier was the
mathematician Sophie Germain (1776–1831), who used a pseudonym
to come into professional contact with J. L. Lagrange and Carl
Friedrich Gauss.
The exceptions were just that; the world of the Salons—an
exciting intellectual world to be sure—and a correspondence
with natural philosophers is what upper class women could aspire to.
At best. I speculate that Mme. Lavoisier was not resentful; she
shifted her creativity into other channels, as many a woman has done
over millennia.
Still, when I think of the story of Mme. Lavoisier, I feel a great
loss, a sadness. This smart woman was much less isolated from the
scientific world than Mme. du Châtelet. As her drawings and
the historical record testify, Mme. Lavoisier moved in the company
of scientists, and good ones at that. The sadness that comes over me
is that they, and her husband in the first line, did not recognize
her abilities. David Corson has shown me, and not once, that
intimate treasure trove of Cornell's Lavoisier Collection. I
thank Marco Beretta for allowing me to use some of the
illustrations he so lovingly has collected and analyzed, and
Pierre Laszlo for a corrective comment.
© Roald Hoffmann
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/mme-lavoisier/5
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Tilling the soil
Imagine for a moment stepping away from your busy life for a few days, maybe a weekend. Imagine not worrying about family, meals, laundry and household tasks. Imagine walking in the country or along a lake, seeing birds floating in the sky and breathing fresh, crisp air. Imagine having your religious imagination broken open to allow you to converse with God, Jesus, Mary or a saint. And, then, imagine writing about it or writing a letter to one of them or writing a letter from one of them to you.
Imagine having honest and open conversations about your life and spiritual journey with someone who listens intently and supports you. This describes at least one type of retreat.
Every year the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality invites Marquette faculty and staff of every faith to a weekend silent retreat at the Jesuit Retreat House near Oshkosh, Wis. The 60 or more folks who attend are treated to inspiring and stimulating talks, a lot of silence, conversations with spiritual guides and directors, good food, and the opportunity to stroll through the beautiful landscape on the Lake Winnebago shoreline. (I am a sucker for the huge wooden swings that look out on the waves). Stepping away from the frantic pace of our lives and taking the time to embrace centeredness and focus or just relax in the Lord's presence is amazingly rejuvenating and healing.
Throughout the history of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits have engaged in retreat ministry. It was one of St. Ignatius' desires to "have conversations about God with people." A retreat setting provides a perfect venue for those conversations. The work of the retreat is really God's work in our hearts and souls. Many of us need quiet to listen to the inner voice speak of choices, discernment, new directions, transformations and affirmation. Often it is the words of a spiritual director or guide that finally break through to allow us to hear the most important messages: God loves you. God cares about you. God's forgiveness comes unattached and free. I bet God was crying with you.
Sometimes these messages fall on the rocky ground of our busy lives. If the opportunity appears to take part in a retreat whether it is your first time or your 20th time take it. God is eager to have a deep conversation with you.
Dr. Susan Mountin, Jour '71, Grad '94, director of Manresa for Faculty, helps us till the soil of faith in a quarterly column on Ignatian values.


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CNN: Obama looked a little foolish by appearing on The View, huh?
posted at 11:21 am on September 25, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
No kidding. While Egypt seems as unclear as Barack Obama on the status of our relationship, the President wasn't in New York working out those issues with Mohamed Morsi or other world leaders. Instead, he was hashing out his own problems with the hosts of The View on ABC, which CNN found "just a little … weird." In fact, the conclusion was that Obama made himself look foolish by abandoning his duties and having Hillary Clinton fill in for him instead:
Dana Milbank agrees, although he couches it in one of his a-pox-on-both-houses columns:
As heads of government arrived in New York on Monday to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama also made his way to Manhattan but to see a different group of world leaders: Barbara, Elisabeth, Joy, Sherri and Whoopi.
It bordered on scandalous that Obama, joined by the first lady, would make time to sit down with the women of "The View" even as he declined foreign leaders' requests to meet with him one on one in New York this week. (He left that menial task to his secretary of state.) But Mitt Romney isn't in an ideal position to press Obama on his priorities.
This is because the Republican presidential nominee and his wife, Ann, just spent some quality time on the set of "Live! With Kelly and Michael," where they discussed, among other things, Snooki, peanut butter and chocolate milk, their toothpaste-squeezing techniques, Romney's singing of western tunes while on horseback and what the candidate wears to bed. Then there's Ann Romney's scheduled appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Tuesday — the same day Obama's appearance on "The View" airs.
Well, I won't argue the silliness of the low-information-voter outreach, but there is one key difference — or actually two. The first is that Mrs. Romney isn't running for anything, and the role of the spouses has traditionally been to do these soft-focus appearances. The other is that Mitt Romney isn't the President of the United States. He doesn't have a responsibility to take his duties seriously except to run for office, which has been his day job for the last several months. Barack Obama is supposed to be doing the job he got four years ago, which entails meeting with heads of state — especially when they come to the US.
That's not just his job, either. It's also good politics. Obama at one point wanted to run on his foreign-policy experience (as CNN noted in the clip). An incumbent President has a huge prestige advantage when conducting global affairs over a challenger, especially one without formal foreign-policy experience. The fact that Obama ran away from that opportunity isn't just an abandonment of his post; it's a concession that he doesn't look especially good when matched up with other heads of state.
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It was Bill Murray day at TIFF on Friday. So even though celebrities were there to promote their own films, many ended up at the St Vincent after-party because, well, Bill Murray is the life of every party. Kristen Wiig was there when she'd finished up promoting her film Welcome To Me. Scott Speedman is at the festival because it's home and because he has October Gale later this week. Full Story
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Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, and Mireille Enos joined director Atom Egoyan at the photo call for their film The Captive today in Cannes. They all look great. Unfortunately the film…was not well received. Grace Of Monaco was already a bust at the festival and it looks like The Captive is getting similar reviews. Full Story
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It's Rachelle Lefevre in Rome with Paul Giamatti and that sexy beast Scott Speedman shooting Barney's Version based on Mordecai Richler's famous novel of the same name. As I said 2 weeks ago, for an actor from Montreal, working on a Richler project is the opportunity of a lifetime. There is a world outside of Twilight. Full Story
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The night before yesterday the tempature dropped down to -18 F degrees. Then yesterday it was 21 F degrees and bright sunshine. There were many bees flying around 1 of the 2 hives I am regressing down to 4.9 mm. The other hive was not flying. Both were wraped with black thick tar-paper. In the late afternoon when there were no bees flying I picked up about 50 dead bees. 2 drones, many workers 3 of which were about 1/2 the size of the others. I am using unlimited brood and these hives are 3 deeps high. Is this normal for this to happen ? My other hives that I have not regressed are not flying at all for the last 2 weeks.
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I have no idea if this is true or not. I just would like to see if any of you have come across this information, and what do you think?
Bees and Ley Lines
I have no idea if this is true or not. I just would like to see if any of you have come across this information, and what do you think?
Bees and Ley Lines
Wow this makes sense. I have three oak logs in my back yard. There were three different hives in this tree. These logs have bees in them again.
And I will be out witching for ley lines.
John Harding wrote a book about it titled An Holistic Way In Saving The "Honeybee"
It isn't long, only about 78 pages, but it's all (or mostly) about divining and the correlation with bees. He calls it the "Electromagnetic Geopathic Stress Curtain Lines". It was an interesting thought, which is why I bought the book. I shouldn't have though. The first half of the book is just ramblings, partly about bees (and rantings about how everyone is destroying them), partly about his divorce (seriously). He uses very large font in extremely odd places to do what I can only suspect is increase page numbers. In the end, he talks about the success that his hives do on "stress lines" but offers only guesses as to why it is. Under benefits of using his system, he just lists a number of "possible" benefits, including 2 or 3x honey yield, "possibly no feeding", "possibly [bees that are] easier to handle", and "very little or no varroa mites." In the end, he had little information to write a book about, but did anyway. He can't tell what his system is doing, what effect it has, or how successful it is. It would have been nice to read a more scholarly article or book about someone that actually tested the system, instead of just rambling on about what it is and how good the "possible" benefits are.
As far as the theory itself, the book turned me so off the topic, I wasn't interested in trying it myself. Perhaps others were more successful.
For what it's worth. Phil Chandler interviewed a lady who believes in this phenomenon. She's a little nutty, but just may be on to something. Who knows:
Here's her website:
So, today's podcast is an interview I recorded in Denver, Colorado, last November with Valerie Solheim, who has some very interesting experiments running with bees.
This interview will be of particular interest to people who have considered the possiblility that there is more to hive location than just choosing a level piece of ground. Valerie suggests that we may need to take account of 'geopathic stress', as her findings suggest that the health of bees may be influenced by forces of which we currently have little knowledge.
I think there is still a lot of work to be done in testing her theories, and I hope some of you will be inspired to carry this forward. Valerie has just published a book about her work called The Beehive Effect, and you can read part of the first chapter at her web site - healingbees.org
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Moreover, the fact that divining (aka dowsing or water witching) is cited as the way to "detect" these ley lines should send everyone running. http://www.skepdic.com/dowsing.html
Isn't there enough pseudo-science, guesswork, and superstition in this hobby without injecting the supernatural into it?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ritually sacrifice a goat in front of my hives to drive the evil spirits away to ensure a good honey harvest...
Almost sounds like an offshoot of biodynamic farming.
Read a few books on this for fun but it is a little nutty. Involves using obelisks to increase geomagnetic energy and homemade concoctions known as biodynamic preparations for application on fields. One such concoction involves stuffing a cow horn w/ cow manure and burying it in the ground for the winter. Dig it up the following spring, add a little to a vat of water, mix vigorously in one direction then reverse repeatedly for a long period of time while making a high pitched screeching noise into the vat. Simply spray this on your field (during a new moon, I think) and you won't need anything else. Add a little to compost and it will be the best you ever had.
Some of it makes sense--like planting during new moon phases. I do this w/ sweet corn and almost never have issues w/ corn ear worms. This is mainly because the corn is silking out during a new moon phase when the moths can't orient as easily at night, not due to some mystical property.
Believe I also have a book that claims you will live for 150 years or longer too if you "potenteize" the water you drink (this is done w/ the high pitched screeching and mixing).
Since bee navigation systems are based on polarized light and not geomagnetic sensing (not sure they even have the receptors to detect) I would imagine any ley line--if truly real--would have little effect on survival but everything is science fiction until proven otherwise.
I tried to catch swarms by placing traps along lay lines, but it didn't work. To be in the center of the intersection of the lay lines I found that I had to put a post in the ground to mount the hive, otherwise the hive would actually be outside of the lay line intersection. Every time I started digging to put the pole in the ground I hit either an oil gusher, a water well or a pot of gold. :D
I gathered 4 swarms and witnessed a fifth in the same tree on the same limb in exactly the same spot this past spring. When I first looked into why this would be I found that one swarm may have left behind an odor that woudl attract further swarms. I thought this reasonable except for the time between swarms. sometimes two weeks or more. I did not think that enough of an odor would still remain to make a difference. It does seem to me that there are other factors that influence this consistency in hang out selection. I won't say it is lay lines, I won't say it is not. What I will say is it is obvious there is more than meets the eye. Far more than makes since. I don't think anyone is intelligent enough to know what since is. THey used to say the same thing about gravity and germs.
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Hey pretty cool a new icon!!! In all seriousness Although I have a hard time with it I do work with a guy that his previous job he worked on a construction crew working with water mains. He said that they could find a main better with the "fork" than he could with their machinery. He said that there's a specific length and diameter of rod that was important, but he said it worked. Now he is a little "quirky" but not "spiritually" wacked out or anything that I'm aware of. (in truth aren't all of us "quirky"?) I've also talked with someone that has come out of major medical stuff that is able to find out where some of these underground geothermal lines and stuff is. To be honest it doesn't make sense to me either, but this person also isn't a mess either. I do remember something about these "lines" but I'll have to ask again. If this is true, then I'd like to put my traps on these lines. Hey I haven't had much luck with any of my other traps in 3 years. Even when I know there are hives in the area. (my hive swarmed at least twice and totally ignored my traps last year)
Cleo - I just ripped my top bar apart so I can rebuild it according to my consultant's Fung Sway guidance, and redesigning my bee yard for maximum production. Once I get some bees they are going to make more honey and no swarms will ever leave.
For all you nonbelievers....go get a wire coat hanger, cut two 9" or so pieces, put a 90 degree bend to fit your hand. Now go out to where your water line or electric line is and walk across the known line with the coat hangers held loosely in each hand held out from your body with your arms level. For some of you your nonbelief will be removed. I tried it after the electric company came to mark existing lines at my new office site. Guy pulls up,gets out of the truck pulls his custom dousing rod out of the holster on his hip, can of spray paint in his other hand and marked where the rod showed. After my chin hit the ground I asked how else he would check the line, he said this was the most accurate way, got in his truck and left. As far as bees using it, that does seem farfetched. I am an eye doctor and very skeptical about anything I hear, but when I felt the coathangers move I was pretty amazed. Try it you may be amazed too.
I have seen people use dowsing rods and was pretty impressed. On the other hand whenever there is a double blind study it shows they don't work. My neighbor got a 30 gpm well dug recently (at 200 feet). The well digger used dowsing rods to find the best location. But my other neighbor got a well that was 800 feet with 3 gpm by the same well digger using the same rods. As a kid we would use dowsing rods and we could find the water line in the yard with them. On the other hand, we knew were the water line was.
What my friend said is there's something about the water that changes the gravitational pull or something like that. I'm VERY interested in trying it myself. Thanks for the coathanger idea.
skip the coat hanger, a green Y branch from an apple tree works better.
I was asking my father last month where the water source was for a pipe that was bubbling up in the middle of his field.
he had followed the underground pipe up the hill to a well he didn't know about
I had almost forgotten that he has used this skill for years as a civil engineer
For one, just because the electric company's employee marked the area doesn't mean that it was accurate. Did anyone dig up the line and verify that where he had marked it was correct?
For two, when the lines were already marked and you attempted to find them yourself, there is a bias element that was presented. The theory of dousing says that if you keep your arms level and loose, your body becomes a conductor, so if mild amounts of electricity run through you the two rods can attract or repel each other. It also says that it allows your subconscious to take over a little bit, and find objects that your subconscious is aware of but your conscious isn't (or doesn't want to fully realize).
As you walked over the line, you wanted the rods to move. And move they did. Right where you knew the other guy had marked them.
If you really want to prove it, go to a new field. You use your dowsing rods first. Then call the electric company to come mark them. See if they are the same. If they are, dig up a spot to see if you were both accurate.
I can take some rods and find "magic spots" in the back yard. Doesn't mean they are worth a **** though.
Ok I'm honestly a bit confused. . . Dowsing is looking for water, but are Ley lines simply some sort of underground water path? If that's the case and if this info is accurate then all we need to do is put swarm traps up right over a water main? Can someone please explain the difference here? In one sense we're talking about underground water. (My friend used dowsing rods to find water main lines) and yet if you look up in wikipedia it seems to be many different things. (from geological, to human made landmarks, to buildings etc) When were talking about ley lines can we first define it please?
For those that believe in dowsing, it isn't just to find water lines. The book I cited to above said that you can find anything, literally anything that is underground if you focus on that one item. Water lines. Underground caves. Electricity lines. Even (theoretically) gold or burred treasure. I've heard of an individual using it to find his lost watch in the desert (within a few acres of known lost territory). Some claim that the electricity, electromagnetism, or various frequencies of the items you are looking for transfer through your body. Others refer to it as "good vibrations" of some sort, where the energy of the universe guides the rods. Some call it witchcraft.
But no. It's not just to find water lines.
Ley lines are best described in the article, or the book I referred to above. Going off memory, its where underground caverns, streams, or caves change the earth's natural resonance frequency. The change in the frequency (for whatever reason, sometimes underground natural streams, sometimes underground man made streams, some times not) is what the ley lines are.


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