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By Sheila Rule
Published: February 23, 1994
Rhythm-and-Blues Honors
The Rhythm-and-Blues Foundation will celebrate Little Richard's contributions to music -- everything from his dress and performance style to his whoops and hollers -- when it hands him its Ray Charles Lifetime Achievement Award at its fifth annual Pioneer Awards on March 2 at Roseland.
An official part of Grammy week -- the Grammy Awards are the night before -- the ceremony will also honor 10 singers and instrumentalists, as well as two groups, with awards totaling $190,000. (The lifetime achievement award carries no money.)
The Washington-based foundation was established in 1988 to provide greater recognition and financial support for rhythm-and-blues artists of the the 1940's, 50's and 60's, many of whom have been victims of poor business practices, bad management and unscrupulous record companies. They have found themselves struggling to survive. For the singer Mary Wells, who died in 1992, and others, the foundation has stepped in with emergency financial assistance, wheelchairs, dental work, musical instruments and even funeral expenses. With grants given at this year's awards ceremony, the foundation will have distributed more than $1 million to the men and women who helped to create rhythm-and-blues. Money has come from the Atlantic Foundation of Atlantic Records, Time Warner and other music-industry organizations. Making a Killing, Not a Living
"One artist, 68 years old, sold his burial policy because he thought he had prostate cancer and needed money," said Suzan E. Jenkins, the foundation's executive director. "He found out he didn't, but now, at 68, who's going to give him burial insurance? We're trying to figure out how we can help him.
"A celebrated artist in California has AIDS. He called and asked for one favor. 'Please, please, please,' he said, 'will you pay for my funeral?' I've seen myriad situations arise, but more than anything I've discovered that a string of hits doesn't necessarily mean the artist received the type of compensation necessary to sustain a life."
Among the recipients of this year's Pioneer Awards are Otis Blackwell, a songwriter and pianist whose work includes "Don't Be Cruel," "All Shook Up," "Fever" and "Great Balls of Fire"; Jerry Butler, who left the Impressions to become a top solo artist of the 60's and 70's; Clarence Carter, a soul singer noted for "Slip Away" and "Patches"; Don Covay, who wrote hits including "Chain of Fools" and made the charts as a singer with "Pony Time" and "Mercy, Mercy"; Bill Doggett, a pianist, organist and arranger who worked with Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and others and was an instrumentalist with "Honky Tonk (Parts 1 and 2)," and Mable John, a singer remembered for "Your Good Thing (Is About to Come to an End)."
Also being honored are Ben E. King, who was the lead singer for the Drifters before he became a solo artist with hits like "Stand by Me"; Johnny Otis, whose contributions as one of the leading innovators of rhythm-and-blues throughout the 1950's were honored by the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame last month; Earl Palmer, the New Orleans drummer whose back beats, accents and snare drum added fuel to the music of Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Little Richard and others; Irma Thomas, whose hits include "Don't Mess With My Man"; the Coasters (originally the Robins), who racked up hits with "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown" and "Poison Ivy," and the Shirelles, the prototypical "girl group," with hits like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow."
"It makes me feel good to know someone somewhere says, 'I care about what you've done,' " Mr. King said. "We may not get the Grammys and all those other ones, but it's nice to know someone recognizes our dreams and hopes and the pressures we go through." Ascap's New Leader
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has a new president, Marilyn Bergman, a lyricist who with her husband, Alan, has won three Academy Awards, two Grammys and two Emmys for songs like "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "The Way We Were."
Ms. Bergman succeeds the composer Morton Gould, who announced last week that he would step down. Ascap said in September that it was changing many aspects of its operations to enhance its position as the leader in performing-rights licensing. In announcing his retirement, Mr. Gould said that he fully endorsed the new direction and that as Ascap "establishes a new strategy, I believe it is also time for us to elect a new president." Happy Ending
Geoff Wilkinson and Mel Simpson, London-based record producers, were not sure what to expect a couple of years ago when they received a call from executives of Capitol Records. For a record featuring a rapper and a saxophone player, the two had sampled, or electronically copied bits of sounds, from recordings from the archives of Blue Note, which is owned by Capitol, without permission. That often spells a lawsuit, but for these producers it spelled success. They were offered access to the entire Blue Note music library, as well as a record contract.
What happened next can be heard tonight at the Paramount Theater, where Us3, the producers' jazz and hip-hop group, will open for UB40. Us3 will perform cuts from "Hand on the Torch," their hit debut album for Blue Note/Capitol, which features rappers, jazz musicians and the recorded works of some Blue Note legends, including Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Thelonious Monk.
"We have a storehouse of major material, of great tunes," Mr. Simpson said in a call from London. "That's a wonderful blessing for us. I think people recognize that we've tried to take the samples as snapshots that capture the feel of the music. A lot of people have sampled jazz in an opportunistic way in the past, taking snatches of a horn or drum, looping it round for five minutes and calling it jazz. We take pieces of jazz wholesale and use them in an up-front way. We are jazz-lovers."
Photo: Little Richard. (Jack Vartoogian)


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On 3-12-2007, ED had issues with this article, Wallace Jenkins. This article contains disputed content and may be fanfiction or a noncanon hoax.
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- Neither of the displayed images are Jenkins. the first one is a generic Combat Form, the other is Chips Dubbo. -ED 00:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Speaking of Images, I think we should make his Template Image bigger.Thunderstream328 Here me rawr Stuff I've done 15:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, Jenkins needs to be a Marine with a helmet, since he lost it during the fight. He's also unarmed, since when you see him as a combat form, he's got no weapon to kill himself with. Ravenwing March 14, 3:35 UTC
Who drew that picture? Whoever did, you have a lot of talent, you draw very well! Lolman180
You never *see* Jenkins as a combat form. He's just referred to as such in the novel. In the game, he's gone from the story as soon as that recording ends. Just to clear things up. Also, Jenkins' body falls into the arms of Master Chief during the cutscene. Deusoma 04:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
NO, neither of them are Jenkins. Actually, all combat forms in Halo: CE look alike, so it is unsure if that image is Jenkins. The Marine pic however, looks like someone else. --Blemo TALK • CONTRIBUTIONS • THE SOURCE OF SPAM 02:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
What the hell? Even if that was his body, why the hell would that be his body? On normal wikipedia it says the infection form hybernated in him, but this says they were doing that at the containment facility.Sauronas Churchill 10:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Contact Harvest spoilers: CH has a Colonial Militian man named Jenkins who decides to enlist in the Marines at the end of the book, and joins Johnson's squad. Can we assume its the same? (though, CH takes place 27 years before Halo, so...he might be a bit old.)
Helmet cam Edit
Does anyone have the text that appears when jenkins is dead, (unexpected error???)
a HAT? Edit
WHY might i ask does the immage have a HAT? That seems even LESS likely to be him.SargeLIVES 21:42, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- How does that change the likeliness in any way? --NOTASTAFF GPT(talk)(eating) 22:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Why does everybody have to think that Jenkins in CH and the one in Halo CE are one and the same???! It doesn't specify how old Jenkins is in CH but he's probably not that old, so how the hell could this guy be the same Jenkins in Halo CE (28 YEARS LATER!)? Do you really think that after 28 years of service Jenkins would have stayed a private and not be promoted? It's more likely that this Jenkins in CE is a descendant of the CH Jenkins or just merely coincidence. *GASP* ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!11!!1oneoneone!!!!11 C0ULD 1T B3 P0551BL3?!?!
- Um...because the Jenkins in CH is also called Wallace A. Jenkins?
I admit it seems dubious, but it hardly seems like a coincidence. Out of all the names they pick, they choose one of the most infamous Marines in the game, with the exception of the most infamous who is the star of the book. Perhaps his rank needs retconned, or perhaps he served as a militia man for a long while before deciding to join up with the Marines, or perhaps he's been sitting in an Oni cooler while they tried to deconstruct what happened at Harvest, leaving him to do stand around and wait on some other planet before bringing the fight to the Covenant.InnerRayg 05:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- Its not that unbelievable really. Johnson is a staff sergeant in that book, and he still is a staff sergeant 28 years later when he is introduced in Fall of Reach. Jenkins went though boot camp and was promoted once, from private to PFC. You've got to figure that, like Johnson said, they have spent a lot of time in cryo-sleep jumping from mission to mission. --ED 05:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Again, Johnson's rank wasn't specified in Halo Combat Evolved. People just assume he's a Staff Sergeant because that was his rank in 2525. It's also unlikely that someone would be promoted from a second-grade Sergeant to Sergeant Major for some contributions on Halo, so it's quite possible he was a First Sergeant by September 2552. — Faith is to know. Trust. is to believe.
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i tried to embed a youtube vid of the helmet recording to Jenkins's page, (this one) but it doesnt show up, what did i do wrong?
PFC Jenkins Edit
There is a time problem that I have seen in PFC Jenkins. He is around 18 in Contact Harvest. Yet in Halo 1 he seems to be around the same age. Also if the UNSC Marines are like the US Marines, Jenkins would not be a Private First Class after near 25 years of service in the Marines. There is a program in the US Marines that allows promotions for Time In Grade (rank). Unless Jenkins was in a numbers fights and other bad conduct acts, he would not be just a PFC after 25 years. He could be a Staff Sergent or higher. Another post does bring up a good point that Jenkins could have been in "the freezer" for number of long periods of time but that seems doubtful considering the war going on, but who knows. Despite this the book (Contact Harvest) is a good book, this is just a time line error. -- Cmdr Fire Hawk
- Yeah well Johnson was a Staff Sergeant since 2524, and also in September 2552. Maybe they were busy fighting, or went MIA for a while. The thing is, Halo: Combat Evolved was made in 2001, so Bungie didn't have that much planned. But later, Joseph Staten's like "Oh let's throw this character in, it'll be interesting." Then he realizes that he's been in service nearly as long as the Master Chief, and doesn't have a high rank. And if Jenkin's is in Johnson's squad, he can't be all that bad, right? I mean in CH, he even got a sharpshooter score on practice. əґыţєґιιб
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-- SSgt. "Smoke." (UNSC)
- Yeah, well this is the United Nations Space Command, buddy.
25 Years of SERVICE?!! Edit
And hes still a private by the time he dies? Plus he still looks rather young. I can understand that probably there has been some advances in medical science but...
Ya u think hed at least be a Corpral by 2552.Sith Venator 05:17, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think they're the same character. If they were, then Jenkins is older than the Chief. I think the CH Jenkins is "A. Jenkins", and the CE Jenkins is "Wallace A. Jenkins". Maybe there should be another page? ǁŁɔɗґ əґыţєґιιб TALK • CONTRIBUTIONS • [http://halo.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:ViewSystemGifts&user=Arbiter116 AWARDS
]I think they are maybe he was put into cryostasis after Harvest
Halo Graphic NovelEdit
Like we know that jenkins got infected and captured by the UNSC on installation 04, but in the halo graphic novel it shows him getting infected then presumed shot by johson or am i wrong-Mattsky79
it could have been any other marineCaptJim 18:29, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, there used to be an awesome but gory hand-drawn art of Jenkins as a Combat Form. One time it was even on the featured images! Where did it go? SkinrLeader of Iconic CrescentSworn Enemy of Pablo GM the Buffet Bandit 00:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Why is there a CMT Spv1 image of Jenkins as the primary image? Thats totally non-canon. (I can tell by the shape of the AR he is holding and the crewmen in the background with the dress uniform and the M7S.)
Spartan 501 14:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Oh hey look I just noticed a guy in a white uniform in the background. In CMT Spv1 there's a glitch where if a Marine takes you to the bridge, he just stops in that room. I bet it would have made a good snapshot. Hmm...it looks like it's been on the page for a long time, no one seems to mind.
Regarding Image Edit
There is no official image for Jenkins. The current image is from H:CE and the face model is used for all bipeds. I suggest the image to be removed and replaced with that from Halo Graphic Novel.-5ub7ank(7alk) 21:58, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Deleting, There is a glitch you can make with him by at the beginning of the level to throw a grenade off the pelican and fly to him before he loads. Edit
Well I was once looking on youtube for Halo videos and I found one and it was a glitch to throw a grenade before you jump off the pelican and you will fly to Jenkins. But I forgot where it was!! And I want to put that glitch in there!Thank you taking time to listen to my post! 22:34, February 11, 2010 (UTC)!!!!!!
There's already an article on that. And it's not Jenkins, it's a biped similar to Mendoza. Johnson's entire squad was taken by the Flood, it's just an Easter Egg so players can have a laugh.
Jenkins StoryEdit
Is it possible that the Wallace A. Jenkins found in Halo CE is infact a descendant named after the Jenkins found in Halo: Contact Harvest. Jenkins in Halo: CE is much too green to be the battle hardened Jenkins in Contact Harvest not too mention someone who fought as hard as CH Jenkins. If someone who is described as a extremely quick thinker, competent marine, and a sharpshooter.
Therefore I highly disbelieve CE Jenkins (who couldnt shoot his gun because "there's too many Sarge! :'(" is the same from the Marine elite in Contact Harvest.
I believe CH Jenkins might of had a child while on leave but wasnt born untill after CH Jenkins was back in action (and possibly KIA) this Jenkins Jr might of been named after his father in honor of him and was raised by his mother and at most hearing stories of his fathers actions giving him dreams of becoming a Marine but he still remains green as grass right up untill he died on the Halo Ring.
This would explain how he remains a PFC, stays so young (Lets face it during the war the UNSC wouldnt of kept soldiers in Cryo-sleep for over 10 years or more. This also explains how Jenkins is green as grass in Halo CE while Jenkins in CH is basically a competent Marine.
- All this coming from a man who has never heard of the word "have". Jenkins isn't a marine in Contact Harvest - a person who read the thing would have been told multiple times. Jenkins was not a particularly experienced militiaman in the novel, anyway - he could shoot, and that was about it. Johnson is well into his seventies by Halo 3; Jenkins could easily do the same. The UNSC doesn't simply put people in cryo for a certain amount of time - crewmembers of vessels can be kept in cryo for weeks per trip. And what about if the slipspace drive fails as happened to a number of ships in 2524? The crew and marines could be left in cryo for a month, waiting for an investigation into their disappearance to begin. In conclusion, Jenkins is the same person appearing in both Contact Harvest and Combat Evolved.-- Forerunner 17:58, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
==The Jenkins Story— Faith is to know. Trust. is to believe.
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Should I add this page to the flood category, because he was a flood combat form.Coolmon54- Hell yeah 09:43, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

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How many dogs can live on one property without driving the neighbours barking mad? Should man's best friends have their own special places to exercise where they can run without being called to heel?
These are just some of the questions the Queenstown Lakes District Council is asking residents as is ponders whether the district needs a new Dog Control Bylaw. Regulatory Manager Lee Webster said the answers would be used to help Councillors decide whether to develop a new bylaw and, if so, what it should cover.
"The Dog Control Act gives the Council a lot of choices in how it regulates dog ownership and behaviour, but there are four areas that we think are particular relevant to our district," he said.
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The third is whether there should continue to be a limit on the number of dogs that can be kept at one residential address and if so, how many should be allowed as of right. At present people need a Council permit to have more than two dogs at one property.
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When Allison Johnson's sister-in-law passed away at the end of last year, she says Facebook was the primary tool used for communicating with friends and family to spread the word, accept condolences and memorialize her with dozens of photos.
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Some people, however, have been frustrated by Facebook's strict policy about removing a dead person's page. Although it is understandable that some grievers just want the page gone immediately, obviously Facebook has to have some proof that the request is real.
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Johnson says she and her family, for now, prefer keeping the account exactly the way it was when her sister-in-law was still alive. She says they are doing the same thing with her closet, and her belongings in the bathroom. In time, they might decide to make changes, but for now, keeping everything intact, including her Facebook page, feels the most comfortable.
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- Year 9 and all NEW students (Years 10-13) including new international, Tuesday 31 January at 9:00am. Orientation continues Wednesday 1 February at 9:00am
- Year 10 and returning Year 10 international students with NO option changes, Wednesday 1 February at 10:00am
- Timetable begins for ALL students including returning international, Thursday 2 February
Orientation is expected to go from 9.30 am to 11.00 am, afterwhich students will depart.
Commencement procedures for students:
- Need to bring laptop and pen and paper for the first day
- Full uniform
- Meet in the Performing Arts Centre (Year 9 and ALL NEW students at 9am Tuesday 31 Jan, Year 10 at 10am Wednesday 1 Feb)
- Allocated Whanau and introduced to Whanau Leader and Assistant Whanau Leaders
- Will begin orientation in allocated Whanau, with an introduction to the school, rules and relevant information regarding timetables, café etc.
- Some Astle and PAT testing will take place for Mathematics and English on one of the orientation days
- Our excellent onsite Café will be open for over the counter orders from Tuesday 31 January
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Public holidays: Auckland Anniversary Day (Monday 30 January), Waitangi Day observed (Monday 6 February)
School holidays: 2 weeks (includes Easter and Easter Tuesday and Anzac Day) Friday 14 April – Sunday 30 April
Term 2
Monday 1 May to Friday 7 July 2017
10 weeks
School closed: Teacher Only Day - Friday 2 June
Public holidays: Queen's Birthday - Monday 5 June
School holidays: Saturday 8 July - Sunday 23 July
Term 3
Monday 24 July to Friday 29 September 2017
10 weeks
School holidays: 2 weeks. Saturday 30 September - Sunday 15 October
Term 4
Monday 16 October to no later than Monday 11 December 2017 *TBC
up to 10 weeks
Public holidays: Labour Day (Mon 23 Oct)
School holidays: 5 or 6 weeks (from school's closing day until opening date of school the following year)
College Reception is open for general enquiries and enrolments.
View our Uniform and Stationery information for Shop hours and more.
Download our International Fees and Dates, 2017 (.pdf)
All prices are in New Zealand Dollars (NZD).
View our International General Information (.pdf)
It includes essential information regarding start dates, stationery, school uniform and subject choices.
Term 1
- 29 January to 13 April, Returning International Students (IF option changes needed)
- 31 January, Year 9 Students and ALL NEW International Students (early start allows for 2 day orientation programme)
- 1 February, Returning Year 10 International Students (NO option changes needed)
- 2 February, Years 9 to 13, if above dates do not apply.
Term 2
- 1 May to 7 July, Years 9 to 13
Term 3
- 24 July to 29 September, Years 9 to 13
Term 4
- 16 October to 14 December, Years 9 and 10
- 16 October to 24 November, Years 11 to 13 (may be earlier or later for students sitting NCEA exams, depending on exams written)
Approximate age for each Year Level:
- Year 9 - 13 years
- Year 10 - 14 years
- Year 11 - 15 years
- Year 12 - 16 years
- Year 13 - 17-18 years
View our College Term Dates including our daily schedule, term, and holiday dates.
View the Ministry of Education information on college terms and holidays.
Orientation for all new International Students will be on Tuesday 31 January and Wednesday 1 February at our International Office. Please wear correct uniform for Orientation. Students to bring their your own lunch.


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Chiefs rally for extra-inning win
June 20, 2012 5:17 PM ET
After Chiefs starter Mitch Atkins and Red Sox starter Justin Germano swapped zeroes in the first two innings, both teams got on the board in the third inning.
Pawtucket (45-28) started the scoring with three straight two-out hits. Jason Repko singled, Josh Kroeger knocked him home with a double, and Ryan Larvanway scored Kroeger with a single to right field to make the score 2-0.
Syracuse (35-37) answered with a run in the bottom of the frame. Catcher Koyie Hill's first hit in Syracuse was a solo home run over the right-field wall.
After two more scoreless innings, the early pitchers' duel gave way to a slugfest in the sixth inning. Lavarnway led off the top of the frame with a double, his third of four hits on the night, and scored on another double from Mauro Gomez to give Pawtucket a 3-1 lead. Che-Hsuan Lin extended the PawSox lead to three on an infield single that allowed Gomez to score from third.
Atkins left the game after working six innings. He allowed four runs on eight hits.
Meanwhile, Germano cruised for Pawtucket. The right-hander, who threw a perfect game last July at Alliance Bank Stadium, was nearly perfect Wednesday night. He allowed just that lone Chiefs run and three hits in his seven innings on the mound.
The Chiefs then made things interesting against the Red Sox bullpen. Syracuse scored a pair of two-out runs in the eighth against Junichi Tazawa. Jim Negrych singled and Hoffpauir walked to put runners on first and second. Corey Brown brought them both home with a double to right field to pull the Chiefs within a run, but Daniel Bard relieved Tazawa and got Mark Teahen to fly out to end the inning.
The Red Sox answered with a crucial insurance run in the top of the ninth inning. Tony Thomas led off the inning with a walk against Christian Garcia, stole second, and scored the fifth Pawtucket run of the night on Jonathan Hee's single to left-center field.
Down two runs, the Chiefs rallied against Bard in the ninth. Chris Marrero led off the inning with a double to left-center. Xavier Paul followed with a single to put runners on the corners. With Carlos Rivero batting, pinch-runner Seth Bynum scored on a wild pitch to make the score 5-4 and Paul moved to second. Rivero flew out to right field, allowing Paul to move to third base. With two outs, Bard uncorked another wild pitch and Paul scored to tie the game at five. Bard escaped further damage and the game moved to extra innings.
Syracuse had a chance to win it in the bottom of the tenth, but Red Sox reliever Garrett Mock worked out of a bases-loaded one-out jam by striking out Bynum and inducing Paul to fly out.
After Hassan Pena pitched a scoreless top of the eleventh, the Chiefs finally ended the game in the bottom of the frame. Hill set the table with a one-out single to left field. Negrych followed by poking another single through the hole on the right side of the infield to put runners on the corners. That brought Hoffpauir to the plate with one out. The third baseman came through with an RBI single to left field, scoring Hill to end the game.
The Chiefs look to sweep the Red Sox Thursday night at Alliance Bank Stadium. John Lannan is scheduled to start for Syracuse against Pawtucket's Billy Buckner. First pitch is set for 7:00.
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valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.
Versions and Availability
Softenv Keys for valgrind on supermike2
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The information here is applicable to LSU HPC and LONI systems.
SoftEnv is a utility that is supposed to help users manage complex user environments with potentially conflicting application versions and libraries.
System Default Path
When a user logs in, the system /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc (depending on login shell, and mirrored from csm:/cfmroot/etc/profile) calls /usr/local/packages/softenv-1.6.2/bin/use.softenv.sh to set up the default path via the SoftEnv database.
SoftEnv looks for a user's ~/.soft file and updates the variables and paths accordingly.
Viewing Available Packages
Using the softenv command, a user may view the list of available packages. Currently, it can not be ensured that the packages shown are actually available or working on the particular machine. Every attempt is made to present an identical environment on all of the LONI clusters, but sometimes this is not the case.
$ softenv These are the macros available: * @default These are the keywords explicitly available: +amber-8 Applications: 'Amber', version: 8 Amber is a +apache-ant-1.6.5 Ant, Java based XML make system version: 1.6. +charm-5.9 Applications: 'Charm++', version: 5.9 Charm++ +default this is the default environment...nukes /etc/ +essl-4.2 Libraries: 'ESSL', version: 4.2 ESSL is a sta +gaussian-03 Applications: 'Gaussian', version: 03 Gaussia ....
Listing of Available Packages
See Packages Available via SoftEnv on LSU HPC and LONI.
For a more accurate, up to date list, use the softenv command.
Currently there are some caveats to using this tool.
- packages might be out of sync between what is listed and what is actually available
- resoft and soft utilities are not; to update the environment for now, log out and login after modifying the ~/.soft file.
softenv is available on all LSU HPC and LONI clusters to all users in both interactive login sessions (i.e., just logging into the machine) and the batch environment created by the PBS job scheduler on Linux clusters and by loadleveler on AIX clusters..
Packages Availability
This information can be viewed using the softenv command:
% softenv
Managing Environment with SoftEnv
The file ~/.soft in the user's home directory is where the different packages are managed. Add the +keyword into your .soft file. For instance, ff one wants to add the Amber Molecular Dynamics package into their environment, the end of the .soft file should look like this:
To update the environment after modifying this file, one simply uses the resoft command:
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valgrind controls the execution of a program and performs a wide variety of tests as it runs. The usage appears simple:
$ valgrind [valgrind-options] program-name [program-options]
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CAM visitors are invited to delve deeper and engage in meaningful ways with the exhibitions on view.
CAM's youth programs provide in-depth art training for pre-teens and teens. Ages 9–18.
CAM offers a variety of programs and opportunities for local artists, including Open Studios STL and the Great Rivers Biennial artist competition.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. Exhibitions, programs, and general operations are privately funded through contributions from generous individuals, corporations, public funders, and foundations.
General operating support is provided by Regional Arts Commission; Whitaker Foundation; Emerson; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; William T. Kemper Foundation - Commerce Bank, Trustee; The Trio Foundation of St. Louis; Arts and Education Council; Madewell; Bank of America; Gretta Forrester Family Fund of the Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation; the Board of Trustees; and Members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Support for CAM's exhibition program is provided by Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield.
Support for CAM's education initiatives and public programs is provided by Emerson; Monsanto Fund; The Middle Fund; Employees Community Fund of The Boeing Company; Maritz; Neiman Marcus, William Shearburn Gallery; Elissa and Paul Cahn; and the Terry D. Weiss M.D. Youth Education Endowment Fund.
Special thanks to ALIVE Magazine; Domaine Wine Storage; St. Louis American; St. Louis Public Radio; Urban Chestnut Brewing Co.


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Producer - Jennifer Larsen
Director - Adam Coons
Assistant Director - Shawn Morgan
Music Director - Adrienne Sherman
Choreographer - Trish Scott
Venue: 427 Franklin Street, Schenectady
Performance Dates:
Friday, May 8,2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 2:00pm
Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, May 15, 2015, at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 17, 2105 at 2:00pm
Show times: Thurs, Friday and Saturday performances at 8PM, Sunday performances at 2PM.
Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail in song, Monty Python's Spamalot features "a chorus line of legless knights, men in tights (with legs), killer rabbits and sexy dancing divas!
Monty Python's Spamalot is a adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Round Table , but it differs from the film in many ways.
One of the musical's creators, Eric Idle, explained the title in a February 2004 press release:
"I like the title Spamalot a lot. We tested it with audiences on my recent US tour and they liked it as much as I did, which is gratifying. After all, they are the ones who will be paying Broadway prices to see the show. It comes from a line in the movie which goes: "we eat ham, and jam and a lot."
The original 2005 Broadway production, directed by , won three , including the f the and received 14 Tony Award nominations. During its initial run of over 1,500 performances it was seen by more than two million people and grossed over $175 million.
Producer - Jennifer Larsen
Director - Adam Coons
Assistant Director - Shawn Morgan
Music Director - Adrienne Sherman
Choreographer - Trish Scott
Set Design - Adam M. Coons, Jennifer Larsen
Costume Design - Debbie Lummis
Lighting Design - Bob Healy
Sound Design - Joel Lord
Stage Manager - Jill Ross
Assistant Stage Manager - Beth Swallow
Make Up Design - Marcia Lenehan
Hair - Elizabeth Sherwood-Mack, Heather Swallow
Make Up - Marcia Lenehan, Brianna Swallow
King Arthur - John Rayome
Lady of the Lake - Molly Rose McGrath
Sir Robin/Guard 1/Brother Maynard - Matthew Alan Dembling
Sir Bedevere/Dennis Galahad's Mother/The French Taunter/Concorde - Michael Bellotti
Sir Lancelot/Tim The Enchanter/Knight of Ni - Brendan Brierley
Patsy/Mayor/Guard 2 - Marc de la Concha
Sir Galahad/The Black Knight/Herbert's Father - Shawn Olander-Hahn
Historian/Sir Bors/Sir Not Appearing in the Show/Minstrel - Chris Stefani
Prince Herbert/Not Dead Fred/French Guard/Minstrel - Ben McCauley
Ensemble - Joshua Rafael DeMarco, Leslie Marie, Jordan Alburger, Jake Lehning, Nicholas Edwards, Chris Stefani, Ben McCauley, Carolyn Frantz, Hannah Hernandez, Leah Thompson, Marina Rose Macherone, Andrea Burger
Schenectady Gazette Calls Spamalot a "Hoot"
Excellence in Performance to the Cast
Excellence in Choreography to Trish Scott
Excellence in Direction and Overall Production Concept to Adam Coons and the Production Staff
Outstanding Acting to Marc de la Concha for his portrayal of Patsy
Outstanding Vocal Performance to Molly Rose McGrath for her portrayal of the Lady of the Lake


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Business Beat
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 01:45 pm
St. Albert hotel wins award
The St. Albert Inn & Suites was recently awarded with a 2014 Housekeeping Award.
The Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association presents the awards annually. The awards recognize good housekeeping by �looking at the hotel through the eyes of the guests,� the association said in a press release.
Michael Mazepa, general manager of the Inn & Suites, said he feels very positive about the award. The hotel received 14 of them in the past 39 years, he said.
�It shows that our staff is doing a good job and it gives me a marketing tool,� he said.
To receive the award the hotel must first nominate itself for consideration. Inspectors then examine and grade the property, evaluating everything from the condition of the bed linens, to security and safety in each room, and the state of maintenance and repair in the hotel.
A minimum of five rooms are inspected during the process.
In total, 153 awards were given out this year. The St. Albert Inn & Suites was the only hotel in St. Albert that received the award.
Firefighter watches over vacant homes
A local firefighter and paramedic is hoping St. Albert residents will entrust their home to his care while they�re on vacation.
Paul Barbieri recently opened his home-based business Good Neighbour House Sitting.
He said he had the idea after having trouble finding someone to watch over his home while he was out of town, adding that many insurance companies exclude or limit coverage against loss or damage if the home is left unchecked during a vacation.
�I�m making sure that their grass is cut or that their hot water heater doesn�t blow up, or the sump pump doesn�t overfill,� he said. �All those concerns you have when you go on holidays.�
Barbieri�s service starts at $20 a day, including everything from walkthroughs to window and door checks, plant watering, light adjustments and appliance checks.
For $25, he also looks after small pets in the home, excluding dogs. And for $40 a day ($45 with pets), he includes lawn services and snow shoveling.
Thanks to his work, Barbieri said he understands how homes work and he can identify potential problems. He also has commercial liability insurance, �which protects the homeowner in an event that anything occurs from my negligence,� he said.
For more information go to goodneighbourstalbert.com.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientist and children's television personality Bill Nye, in a newly released online video, panned biblical creationism and implored American parents who reject the scientific theory of evolution not to teach their beliefs to their youngsters.
"I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it,'" said Nye, best known as host of the educational TV series "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
The video, titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate for Children," was posted on Thursday by the online knowledge forum Big Think to YouTube and had netted more than 1.3 million views as of Monday.
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It was established by Paul Julius Reuter, a bank clerk who became a partner in a book-publishing firm. He initiated a prototype news service in Paris in 1849, using electric telegraphy as well as carrier pigeons in his network. Upon moving to England, he launched Reuter's Telegram Company two years later. The company was concerned with commercial news service at its inception and had headquarters in London serving banks, brokerage houses, and leading business firms. The agency expanded steadily, and in 1858 its first newspaper client, the London Morning Advertiser, subscribed. Newspapers bulked ever larger in the Reuters clientele thereafter.
Reuter saw the possibilities of the telegraph for news reporting and built up an organization that maintained correspondents throughout the world. The Press Association (PA), an organization representing the provincial press of Great Britain, acquired a majority interest in Reuters in 1925 and full ownership some years later. In 1941 the PA sold half of Reuters to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, representing Britain's national press, and in 1947 co-ownership was extended to associations representing the daily newspapers of Australia and New Zealand. Reuters had become one of the world's major news agencies, supplying both text and images to newspapers, other news agencies, and radio and television broadcasters. Directly or through national news agencies, it provided service to most countries, reaching virtually all of the world's leading newspapers and many thousands of smaller ones.
In the 1960s Reuters became one of the first news agencies to use computers to transmit financial data overseas, and in 1973 it began making computer-terminal displays of foreign-exchange rates available to clients. In 1981 Reuters began providing the capacity to make electronic transactions over its network, and it went on to develop a wide array of electronic trading and brokering services. In 1984 Reuters became a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. In addition to its traditional news-agency business, Reuters is now a major provider of financial information, both historical and current, to businesses, governments, and individuals worldwide.


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David Finer, 36, lives a three-hour drive from Boston and describes himself as a "die-hard, fourth-generation Red Sox fan." And, even though his wife Bryna is a Pitt grad from Squirrel Hill, Finer admits the only thing he knows about the Pirates are the names Andrew McCutchen, Pedro Alvarez and Neil Walker.
So, the last thing Finer expected to find in his e-mail inbox this week was a thank-you note from the Pirates. Yet, there is was — a message thanking him for buying tickets to the June 24-26 BoSox-Bucs interleague series at PNC Park. Included was an offer for a 50 percent discount on tickets to any Pirates home game between April 9 and May 25.
"I was stunned," Finer told me by phone from his snowed-in home in Bennington, Vt. "I'm so used to the … well, the ego of the Red Sox. They know they'll fill (Fenway Park), no matter what kind of product they put on the field."
Finer realizes why the Pirates made the offer — "I know they're not drawing well," he said. "No offense, but I consider PNC Park a major league park for a minor league team." — but he still was pleasantly surprised that a big league franchise would use such a personal touch.
Finer has seen games at more than 20 MLB stadiums. He's already has been to PNC Park a couple of times, and said it's one of his favorite venues. "If people in Boston knew how cheap and easy it is to get to Pittsburgh to see a game, more would come," he said. "And they wouldn't come just to see the Red Sox. They'd come to see PNC Park and any baseball game."
I rang Pirates marketing director Lou DiPaoli to ask if the thank-you program is something new the team is doing, but so far he has not returned my call. Attendance and marketing are two areas the Pirates don't like to discuss with the media, even when it's good news.
Will Finer use his discount? "I'm not sure how many times we'll be going to Pittsburgh this summer," he said. "Nothing against the Pirates. Let's say it's a definite maybe."
Finer's wife is expecting their first child in early June, and he plans to bring his whole family to PNC Park for the interleague series. "My son's first Red Sox game will be in Pittsburgh," Finer said. "That's pretty cool."