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Members of Parliament will get the chance to toast the beer from Edington's Three Daggers Brewery after five casks of Daggers Ale were delivered to the House of Commons last week.
Local MP, Dr Andrew Murrison arranged for the beer to be delivered to The Strangers Bar for MPs and their guests to sample over the coming weeks.
Head brewer Michael Andrews, 46, who lives in Bratton and Chris Clark, 50, from Shepton Mallot made trip to London to help Dr Murrison pour the first pint.
Mr Clark said: "It is great fun going to the House of Commons and we were very lucky to be accepted."
The brewery, based on Westbury Road, opened on April 2 2013 and its beers are available at over 40 pubs across Wiltshire, including the Three Daggers Pub, Edington and the Organ Inn, Warminster.


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Dale W. Dickson Scholarship awards support to Ashton Baker of Cambridge
A first-year Muskingum University student has been awarded financial support from the Dale W. Dickson Endowed Scholarship Fund. Ashton "Cody" Baker, a Cambridge High School graduate from Cambridge, will begin his studies at Muskingum this fall, where he plans to pursue a major in criminal justice. He is the son of Mark and Melinda Baker of Cambridge.
As a high school student, Cody played soccer and tennis, and plans to continue playing soccer at Muskingum. An Eagle Scout, Cody also has served as both internal and external vice chief of the Netawatwees Lodge, Order of the Arrow, serving lodges in both Ohio and West Virginia. He also is a member of Vigil Honor, Order of the Arrow.
The Dale W. Dickson Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 1998, following his death, by his family, friends and the Mace Club, a social club at Muskingum. Dickson, who graduated from Muskingum in 1965, was a member of the Mace Club and served on its advisory board after his graduation. The purpose of the fund is to make it financially possible for deserving and qualified students, preferably from Guernsey County, to attend Muskingum College.
Dickson was a teacher and coach at Meadowbrook High School, Cambridge High School, Cloverleaf High School near Cleveland and Mt. Vernon High School. Beginning in 1986, he was employed by Cambridge Savings Bank, where he served as vice president and secretary and as a board member of Camco Mortgage. He also was the high school football coach of Cambridge native Dom Capers, who is defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. Capers also won coach of the year honors in the NFL as head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
Dickson was a member and past president of the Kiwanis Club, the Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce Board, the Guernsey County United Way campaign and the board of directors of the Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center. In tribute to his college athletic career, he was inducted into the Muskingum University Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Copeland's Dominion bedroom furniture set was our best seller last week. I love this picture, but the cool thing about Dominion is that you can customize it online to look exactly like this (above) or give it a totally different style. The photo above shows this high end bedroom set in natural cherry wood, although you can change the color online and add one of 3 stains: cognac cherry, saddle cherry or smoke cherry. For example, here's a photo of the same Dominion bedroom in saddle cherry, which is darker than natural cherry and looks similar to walnut wood.
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The current GPS/LightSquared frequency battle could be described as Washington's most recent electro-political struggle.
At least two years before President Obama's January State of the Union announcement of the National Broadband Plan, entrepreneurs and investors were already dissecting its several FCC drafts, looking for business opportunities. One of these investors was billionaire subprime mortgage speculator Philip Falcone, who saw real promise in its market potential. In 2009, Falcone's company, Harbinger Partners, began the acquisition of ailing broadband satellite operator Sky Terra, which already held an FCC license to provide nationwide Internet service via a large satellite that it had ordered from Boeing.
But for Falcone, Sky Terra, to be renamed LightSquared, also had two aces in the hole. First was its possession of radio spectrum in excess of its needs and, second, it held an FCC dispensation to operate a number of terrestrial Internet re-transmitters in areas of poor satellite reception, and both came with the acquisition. Unused radio spectrum is a rare commodity today, commanding prices in the hundreds of millions from broadcasters. (Occasionally, the FCC holds public spectrum auctions, but future auctions will be conducted more carefully. Last year the FCC accidentally sold the total block of frequencies reserved for the USAF's B-2 Stealth bomber.)
Yet the Sky Terra acquisition still needed to be finalized before submission for FCC approval, and political connections had to be cemented. The National Legal and Policy Center reports that on Sept. 22, 2009, Falcone and LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja visited the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House. On the following day, Harbinger and Sky Terra signed the merger agreement. One week later, Falcone, previously a very modest Republican supporter, and his wife, Lisa, each made the maximum personal contribution of $30,400 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In September 2010, Republican supporter Sanjiv Ahuja contributed $30,400 to the same committee.
It was also necessary to maintain continuous contact with the FCC, so Falcone arranged for lobbyist Steve Glaze to perform that task. Coincidentally, Glaze is married to Terri Glaze, the FCC's director of legislative affairs. However, Falcone and LightSquared were already well connected with the agency. Falcone himself was a Harvard classmate of Barack Obama, and is clearly a strong supporter of the President's broadband plan, as is Obama appointee Julius Genachowski, the FCC chairman, who oversaw its development.
(The report is available at http://nlpc.org/stories/2011/03/01/will-fccs-political-favor-harbinger-hedge-fund-result-gps-interference.)
In a separate but unsubstantiated report, Genachowski was described as a "$500,000 bundler" (a bundler is someone who solicits and then gathers a number of smaller donations to a candidate) and an Obama "law school pal." Two other bundlers at the FCC were reported to be chief of staff Edward Lazarus, and William Lake, chief of the media bureau. Genachowski's close ties to Obama are also said to have "raised eyebrows" over the "more than 100 White House visits" paid by him and his wife, who is executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
While one Washington observer told AIN that "This is the way the game is played in DC," others were more circumspect, noting instances of the FCC's "fast tracking" of LightSquared requests and, in one case, reversing its previous policy. The former Sky Terra's license was strictly conditional on its offering satellite broadband as its primary service, supplemented by ground stations where necessary. "[The] FCC has completely turned that upside down for LightSquared," said one, "with primary service from 40,000 ground stations and little interest in satellite broadcasts."
Falcone's critics claim that to provide the service he plans will cost around $40 billion, which they doubt he can raise. Reportedly, Falcone characteristically responded, "With a suitably flexible FCC, we can get the network operable for something in the region of $6 billion."


text: Wouldn't "tuning capability" be a skill? Saying that geoloseth has an unfair advantage over me because of his ability to tune a disc would be like saying Cam Todd has an unfair advantage over me because of his ability to putt. I don't think it's comparable to disc availability at all since as I said before, anybody can choose to tune their discs. Therefore it's not "a technological edge not available to other players."Chuck Kennedy wrote:Just pointing out that the fundamental issue for this topic is making sure that some players don't have a technological edge not available to other players either due to tuning capability, disc production being withheld or no production any more. Seems like whatever rules revisions are needed should address all three areas in a consistent manner.


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Episode 8
In this final programme of Fresh From The Farmers' Markets Clodagh completes her gourmet tour of Ireland by heading to county Waterford. Clodagh drops in to Ardkeen Farmers' Market, and gets the opportunity to make vegetable soup in this very popular market which is held every Sunday morning in the middle of the city,
Another popular market in Co Waterford is in the seaside town of Dungarvan where Clodagh meets Esther Barron of Barrons Bakery, Wolfgang Schliebitz of Knocklara Farmhouse Cheese and Joe Condon of Omega Beef Direct. After the market, Clodagh visits Barrons Bakery in Cappaquin and also visits Joe Condon's farm in the Knockmealdown Mountains to see his Galloway cattle.
Finally, Clodagh goes to the Arlington House Hotel, famous for its gourmet food and for supporting local producers, where head chef Jean-Baptiste Dubois makes Egg Benedict using a Waterford 'Bla' a local white bread roll.
From pies and ice cream in Kerry, to cheeses and chocolates in Clare, Clodagh introduces Irish viewers to some of the best food in the country as she visits many of the 137 farmers' markets in Ireland.
The Cork born presenter introduces viewers to individual passionate food producers as they talk to her about their food and Clodagh then enlists the help of local chefs to demonstrate recipes using local produce, including Jean-Baptiste Dubois and Neven Maguire.
"I'm very pleased to be involved in highlighting the variety and quality of local produce available in farmers' markets around Ireland" says Clodagh. "It's about looking at the importance of families preparing dinner together, and sitting around the table at six o'clock every day and enjoying it together. I believe that really good food should be available to everyone, and I hate food snobbery. I would rather spend €20 on ingredients at a farmers' market than €300 on a Michelin-starred meal!"


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Great question.
I believe that the level of conviction that we have in a belief is *very* relevant to how we behave.
Although most Buddhists claim to believe in karma, it has been my experience that this belief is not that strong because they also claim to believe in "injustice". These beliefs are contradictory. If karma is real, then injustice does not exist.
When the level of conviction in karma really counts is when we are a victim of something truly horrible and are consumed by the primal desire to strike back.
That is exactly when it matters the most.
Because if we believe with absolute certainty that the people who hurt us will pay and that if we decide to strike back that we would pay our ability to self-regulate our destructive emotions is increased to the level where conflict can be avoided.
Such is the nature of satyagraha.
Think of the consequences of that if everyone held that conviction.
IMHO that is a world worth fighting for.


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A discussion and survey of some seminal works in the Western literary, philosophical, and cultural tradition. Enrollment is generally limited to entering freshmen who have been accepted into the University Honors Program.
The Honors Introduction to the Humanities is made up of four different course listings: ENGL 297, HIST 297, MLANG 297, and PHILO 297. All classes in the Honors Humanities have a common reading list and follow approximately the same course format, but details of the schedule and assignments may differ from course to course. Each of these classes is interchangeable for the the Basic Requirements for the College of Arts & Sciences. For example, taking the MLANG 297 course can count as a philosophy course or a western heritage course (but not both).
In HIST 297, we will discuss the historical context of the assigned works, but we'll also turn these "great books" to engage broad questions about the human experience. These questions include: What have human beings hoped to get from the pursuit of knowledge? What kinds of ideas have guided the social and political organization of communities?
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Tools stolen from Winchester building site in fifth burglary since October
4:44pm Monday 19th November 2012
4:44pm Monday 19th November 2012
MORE than £1,000 worth of tools has been stolen in the latest burglary at a Winchester building site.
Burglars broke into the site in Burma Road between 3.30pm on Friday, November 16, and 9am this morning (Nov 19).
It is the fifth time the site has been raided since October 2012. The thieves entered a partially built tower block and forced open a metal trunk.
The stolen items are a Nielsen socket set worth £75, a Stanley socket set worth £95, a Hilti hammer drill worth £650, a Bosch hammer worth £150-£200 and a Hitachi cordless drill worth £150.
The site is for new University of Winchester accommodation and is surrounded by a 6ft metal fence.
PC Glen Willis-long, said: "Many of the stolen tools belonged to individual workmen. The owners have improved security by installing CCTV and we are currently looking at the footage. The offenders put themselves at risk by entering the partially built tower block.
"The site is in a well populated area with the main Royal Hampshire County Hospital car park only about 30 seconds away. It is situated on a main walk way for students at Winchester University. There is a chance someone may have witnessed something that could assist us."
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RM Auctions is the official auction house for the annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. This year's event was held inside the Ritz-Carlton ballroom, where a large stage with a rotary platform was used to showcase each of the 92 cars in its entirety as the bidding progressed. Only eight of them failed to find a new home, yet another indication of the improving health of the market. The lowest price paid was for a '32 Ford pedal car that brought $2,875, while at the other end of the spectrum, a beautiful '35 Duesenberg convertible fetched $4,510,000.
Among this mix of offerings were four immaculate Corvettes representing the first- and second-generations of our favorite sports car. The newest, a '67 big-block convertible, sold for $148,500, the highest sum paid for a Corvette at the event. It was previously owned by NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and featured such rare options as sidepipes, an L71 427/435 engine, and power HD brakes.
The second-highest price paid for a Corvette was $137,500, for a '60 Sateen Silver convertible fitted with a rare power-operated top. Other features included a 270hp 283 with two four-barrel carbs, a four-speed manual trans, flawless paint, and a perfect interior. The car was well presented and received a lot of attention from potential buyers.
Next in line on the price-paid list was a picture-perfect '57 fuelie four-speed car that sold for $129,250. This was the first year the Chevy small-block generated 1 horsepower per cubic inch, thanks in large part to the Rochester mechanical fuel-injection unit and a lumpy "Duntov" cam that that revved to 6,200 rpm. Corvettes equipped with this engine dominated the SCCA BP racing class until the Shelby Cobra was introduced in late 1962. The car sold at Amelia was an excellent example of this milestone model.
The final Corvette was a Sebring Silver '63 drop-top that sold for $107,250. This car was a NCRS Top Flight award winner and featured the potent L84 327/360 small-block. An M20 four-speed was joined on the equipment list by power windows, radio, and both soft and removable hard tops. The car was completely restored in 2008, and its paint and panel fit remained excellent. The new owner should be very happy to have this beauty in his garage.
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Hansbrough's NBA Adaptation
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Feb 17, 2011 15:26 PM EST
Rewind back to the middle of December in Boston. The Pacers are struggling, coach Jim OBrien is making odd substitutions and Tyler Hansbrough cant seem to get meaningful playing time.
Prior to that Dec. 19 game against the Celtics, Hansbrough had played in just 16 of 25 games, tallying more than 20 minutes just five times.
I havent been playing, but I guess the practice time has been useful, Hansbrough, clearly frustrated, said when I asked him about his dearth of minutes.
In a 99-88 loss to the Celtics, the second-year forward went 0-for-4 from the field with four rebounds in 12 minutes. He played sparingly thereafter, until Jan. 7 when he logged 36 minutes against the Spurs. He rewarded OBrien with 23 points and 12 rebounds on 10-for-19 shooting in a narrow defeat.
Hansbrough has played in 18 games since he missed two games in late January with an illness never playing fewer than 15 minutes.
While a number of Pacers have excelled under interim coach Frank Vogel, Hansbroughs rise began before OBrien was fired on Jan. 30. Two of Hansbrough's best games of the season came in January when he had 23 and 21 on 52.6% shooting against San Antonio and 27 points and 10 boards on 58.8% shooting against the Nuggets.
He is averaging 10.8 points and 4.6 rebounds in 23.4 minutes this month, down a tad from the 12.4 points and 6.0 boards he posted in a minute less per game in January. The Pacers have played better, so well excuse his dip in production, but his shooting percentage is troubling.
After hitting 49.6% of his shots in January, hes shooting just 40.5% in February heading into the break.
There hasnt been a gross variation in his shot selection over the last month, but its clear that Hansbrough needs to stick close to the basket and rely on his footwork and work ethic. His eFG% on jumpers (74% of his attempts) is just 38.1% this season.
Around the basket, the mark nearly doubles to 66.7%, but only a fourth of his attempts are from inside. The trick for Hansbrough to become a better isnt just shot selection though, its also opportunity. His usage rate has dropped from 25.5% as a rookie to 22.0% this season. He also isn't getting to the line with as much frequency, dropping from 8.0 free throw attempts per 36 minutes to 5.6.
Given 25-plus minutes, he can easily notch four-six points on the offensive glass alone.
The issue with Hansbroughs post offense is that when hes not tipping the ball into the basket or dunking it, hes getting his shot blocked an inordinate amount of the time. He has been rejected on 17% of his inside shots, including 21% of what 82games.com deems close attempts.
After playing in just 29 games in his rookie season due to injury, Hansbrough is finally getting a chance to adapt to the NBA.
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Topic: Running out of options
My mom is 65 yo and in November 2005, she was diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma. It took a while to determine exactly what she had, however Memorial Sloan Kettering in NY re-evaluated the results of her biopsy (originally prepared by our local hospital) and made the diagnosis. Her only symptoms were excessive sweating, which she had been experiencing for a few months and attributed to the warm summer weather. This ultimately was the result of tumor fevers.
The disease was advanced (multiple lesions throughout the liver) and was therefore non-resectable. Her encologist put her on Gemcitabine (Gemzar) for 8-weeks (4 on- 1 off and 4 on). After the first week or two of treatment, she had began to have signs of yellowing both in the whites of her eyes as well as her face. In the latter half of the treatment, other than fatigue and shortness of breath, the tumor fever had subsided and with the exception of her bilirubin count, which was 1.6 at the time, her enzymes levels had come down to near normal and she had regained some strength. To sit across the table from her you would not even know she was sick.
Long story short, after retesting, it was determined that in fact several lesions grew, indicating that the treatment was not working. She was next deemed eligible for a trial for the drug Nexavar. Although recently approved for kidney cancer, it is beieved that it may also be a good form of treatmnent for Cholangiocarcinoma. We had to wait 4-weeks to start treatment. I assume that is the time it takes for the previous drugs to clear your system. By the way, the drug kills the cancer by cutting off the blood supply to the tumors. After 1-week of treatment at the highest dose possible, they had to discontinue tratment as her bilirubin count had jumped up from 1.8 to 2.8. They told her to drink a lot of fluids over the course of the next week, which she did. After being re-tested yesterday, her count had increased again to 3.0. She was dropped from the trial.
My mom has started Xeloda today, 4 pills twice a day. She was told that there is a 10% chance that it will have a positive effect. After that, assuming the worst, we were told we are out of options. Any recommendations as to any other course of action that may yield positive results? My brother and I have done everything we can think of and feel so helpless at this point.


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daverupa wrote:Fairly useless without experimental design and predictive ability, thereby failing to distinguish itself from any other speculation.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
rowyourboat wrote:I think it is not a matter of proof but a matter of faith
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Then there are other well-documented cases in the West which involve young children, consider for example the boy who remembered details of his past life as a fighter pilot shot down in WWII:
Someone who does not accept rebirth as the most obvious explanation should at least suggest some other way how all that information "got inside their brain" and how they acquired the special abilities which they display at a very young age.
Alex123 wrote:gavesako wrote:When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible—a journey to the afterlife.
It is interesting that these "journeys" tend to occur in hospital when a person is pumped with drugs or when brain malfunctions...
How do we know that these memories are not by-product of the brain and/or its malfunction?
drifting cloud wrote:Because in many cases of reported OBE or NDE, the individual is not "pumped full of drugs", they are clinically dead.
drifting cloud wrote:It's not a question of "brain malfunctions"; there is literally no detectable brain function. And yet these people continue to experience.
drifting cloud wrote:How is it possible that a person has conscious experience, and can sometimes even report things that were said and done in their presence, with no brain function?
gavesako wrote: so he calls it the Inner Science as opposed to Outer Science
Mawkish1983 wrote:I used to be very troubled by these discussions. I've come to realise that whether there is an afterlife or not, whether consciousness is brain-made or not, whether rebirth occurs or not, I am still going to die. Regardless of my beliefs or otherwise, death will take me.
Mawkish1983 wrote:I'm coming to terms with that now. Nothing I have yet perceived is eternal or permanent.
gavesako wrote:Then there are other well-documented cases in the West which involve young children, consider for example the boy who remembered details of his past life as a fighter pilot shot down in WWII:
Colloquialism; I mean, "I will die."Mal wrote:Obviously. But where will death take you?Mawkish1983 wrote:Regardless of my beliefs or otherwise, death will take me.
A joke or a serious question? My answer, Occam's razor. Natural phenomena and their driving mechanisms can be predicted reliably to a reasonable degree of accuracy if the delusion of permanence is abandoned.Mal wrote:How do you know? You haven't been around eternally to tell whether "something" is permanent or not.Mawkish1983 wrote:I'm coming to terms with that now. Nothing I have yet perceived is eternal or permanent.
I'm a physicist. The physical mechanisms driving the sun are familiar to me. I have very directly perceived those mechanisms in a different context.Mal wrote:There are some objects that are always there to our perception - the sun for instance. Astronomical theory suggests that the sun will die, but that's a theory, not anything you have perceived.
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Twins place Mastroianni on DL, recall Arcia
MINNEAPOLIS -- Outfielder Darin Mastroianni, who was a late scratch from the lineup in the Twins' 8-6 victory over the Angels on Tuesday night, was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a stress reaction in his left ankle after the game.
With Mastroianni going on the DL, outfielder Oswaldo Arcia was recalled from Triple-A Rochester just a day after being optioned to Triple-A after Monday's win over the Angels.
Mastroianni originally injured his ankle late in Spring Training, when he fouled a ball off of it, but re-aggravated the injury early this season. He did it again on Monday, when he tried to plant his foot while coming to a stop in the outfield, according to Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
"They're going to put him in a walking shoe to keep him off his foot for a while here," Gardenhire said.
Arcia, ranked by MLB.com as the No. 92 overall prospect and No. 5 in the Twins' organization, went 1-for-3 in his big league debut on Monday but was optioned after the game, when Wilkin Ramirez was reinstated from the paternity list.
"He's coming back, and we're going to ad-lib with our outfield situation," Gardenhire said. "We'll play him whenever we can and get him in as many games as we can."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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When it comes to fashion, I'm not often intimidated by any particular piece of clothing. I have confidently worn all manner of garments generally considered no-nos for big girls: skinny jeans, rompers, pleated skirts—you name it, I've rocked it. I'm pretty open-minded about everything. Except for shorts. Let's face it: On fuller figures like mine, shorts tend to be unflattering and ill-fitting, riding up and gathering in the worst places (camel toe, anyone?). Is it any wonder that I rarely wear them?
That said, I am nothing if not a slave to fashion, and shorts were all over the spring runways, from J.Crew to Jil Sander. So I've begun to rethink my anti-shorts stance. Thankfully, plus-size designers have finally wised up to the fit needs of curvy girls. I'm seeing more shorts that are longer, roomier, and tailored in sturdier fabrics (the better to withstand the very real and very uncomfortable chub rub).
Some tips to keep in mind while shopping: Be sure to sit in them—nothing is less flattering than a woman tugging at her too-short shorts. Also, the pockets should lie flat. If they pucker, your shorts are probably too small. I've saved you the trouble of combing the racks in search of those elusive shorts that make you feel and look good. When the mercury rises, beat the heat in these foolproof picks!
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Melksham's Market Place ground to a halt this morning, as comedy fans queued round the block to get their hands on the town's hottest ticket.
Top stand-up comic Lee Evans announced on Friday night he would be appearing for a one-off show at the Assembly Hall next month, as he prepares for his latest international arena tour.
The lure of the frantic comedian, who has also acted in Hollywood films MouseHunt and There's Something About Mary, as well as appearing in Doctor Who, was clearly too much for the town's comedy fans, who queued round the block when tickets went on sale at the Town Hall this morning.
Their eagerness was well-deserved, with all of the £25 tickets selling out within 75 minutes of being released at 9am.
Assembly Hall Operations Manager Lorna Howard said: "We're thrilled to be able to welcome Lee to Melksham.
"This is a fabulous opportunity to see one of the UK's biggest comedy names here in our town and it illustrates, once again, that we have a venue and audience with a growing reputation for hosting top class comedy."
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Yep, it's almost that time again. I'm wondering how I only lost one disc, an uber-beat yellow P-PD, last winter. I came close to losing my beloved Glow Wizard- besides white-on-white preventing approach shots, spent 2 hours getting it off a thinly frozen lake by throwing sticks at it- and despite owning 10-11 exact back-ups, now realizing I don't want to risk it this winter. One thing I did discover is day-glow green is somehow the easiest color to see under the snow.
Anyhow, my primary question is this: what should I get to use as a winter-use Wizard, both in terms of softness and color? My glows are pretty much Soft, but if you throw it in the fridge it certainly stiffens. How many S's thrown in a fridge=Soft at room temperature? I'm thinking black for color mostly because then my collection would be awesomely black and white, but honestly I found a couple black discs last winter and laughed at the idiots who thought they'd be easier to find.
Another question: flx, yay or nay? Like should I bother, because in the summer flx is the worst, but that's irrelevant for winter use. I could simply bag an esp buzzz, but would buying a flx buzzz for the winter be worth it?
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The Bulldogs Will Have Everyone Backing Them in Indianapolis, including Gene Hackman
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Head coach Brad Stevens of the Butler Bulldogs celebrates with teammates after defeating Kansas State during the west regional final of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Don't care if you're an NCAA tournament lunatic or an agnostic. Don't care if you're just a West Virginia win away from swiping that not-sure-if-it's-technically-legal office pool. Don't care if you're Magic Johnson and starred at Michigan State. Don't care if you have fabulous hair and can walk on water, like Duke.
This Final Four, you're rooting for Butler University.
Just hop on the blue Bulldog bandwagon. Don't be embarrassedwe're all going to be shameless about this one. A couple weeks back, most of us barely knew who they were. If someone asked you where Butler University was, you'd have said "Er ... in Butler?"
But this week, we're all Butler diehards. After another entertainingly volatile tournamentwho'd have imagined a 2010 Final Four without a squad from Kansas, or that Cornell even played basketball?the Bulldogs are basking in unlikely national hoops glory. They've never made a Final Four; they're the smallest school left; they're the hometown favorite, located just a bounce pass away from Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium. Butler doesn't have a single starter taller than 5-foot-2; they travel to away games on mules; and until last year, they played all of their home games by candlelight on a dirt floor.
Okay, maybe we're overdoing it on the underdog thing.
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The truth is, Butler's not really a starry-eyed NCAA Cinderella, like 11th-seeded George Mason was in the 2006 Final Four. These fifth-seeded Bulldogs have won 24 games in a row, have made the Sweet Sixteen three times this decade and are much respected by the college-hoops cognoscenti. This tournament, they knocked off a No. 1 (Syracuse) and a No. 2 (Kansas State) to get to Indy. Their success shouldn't shock anyone, not even Barack Obama, who had them, zoink, falling to Syracuse.
But we're installing Butler as our honorary Final Four darlings anyway. It's schools like Butler that make the NCAA tournament a genuine treat, even if we've never come close to winning an office pool, and need to be locked in a hermetically-sealed tube as soon as CBS plays the first notes of "One Shining Moment," a song so corny it makes Barry Manilow sound like Lou Reed.
Besides, the tournament's last weekend could use a nice, viewer-friendly, heart-tuggy storyline. Despite the presence of hate-'em-cause-you-love-'em Duke, this is not exactly a glamorama Final Four. It's so low-watt, in fact, CBS just asked Tiger Woods if he can come back a week earlieror at least come out at halftime and awkwardly apologize for something.
But a run by Butler would electrify this Final Four. The Bulldogs will be the first team to play in the Final Four in its hometown since UCLA in 1972. They should get to sleep in their own beds, order their own greasy campus pizza and they won't even be able to weasel out of term papers. They're led by a white-hot coach, Brad Stevens, who is 33 and looks 20 years youngerin aging cycles, that's known as a "reverse Jeff Van Gundy."
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Butler's also got a handy pop culture entry point to stir those fickle casual fans. Let us be the 10,000th person to point out that Butler's home court, Hinkle Fieldhouse, was utilized in the underdog flick "Hoosiers," for the scene in which coach Gene Hackman measured the rim at 10 feet, explained the game was no different to small schools as it was to big schools and then passed a giant bottle of Captain Morgan around to all his players.
Or something like that. It's been a long time since we watched "Hoosiers." We're not worried about this, however, as we're certain every strained, imaginable parallel between that 1986 film and the current Bulldogs will be milked before Saturday's semifinal tipoff.
And good! Because are you going to root for, really? West Virginia? Hmm: nice win against Kentucky, and they haven't been to a Final Four since 1959. We can't pull for them until Bob Huggins upgrades that wardrobe of his. Against Kentucky, he looked like he was wandering to a five-dollar blackjack table.
Michigan State? A clutch victory against Tennessee on Saturday, but you can't be serious. Not only have they won multiple national titles, this is the sixth time they've made the Final Four since 1999, including last year. Hoping the Spartans will make the Final Four is like hoping Dan Brown will crack the bestseller list. Even Michigan State hero Magic Johnson looks kind of jaded by the success. We'd have preferred to see Tennessee reach the Final Four, not only because they've never made it, because we think Volunteers coach Bruce Pearl is amusingly loonyhe's the Rex Ryan of college basketball.
But Duke? Nothing against blue people, but we didn't root for "Avatar" at the Oscars, and we're not rooting for Duke in a Final Four.
Here's how we'd like next weekend to go. In Saturday's semifinal, Butler finds a way past Michigan State -- sweet home-state revenge for the Spartans beating Indiana hero and No. 1 seed Indiana State in 1979. In Monday's final, Butler's the underdog regardless of who they play: Duke, West Virginia or the New Jersey Nets. Okay, maybe not the Nets. The game is a close one, a real Greg Gumbel nailbiter. With five minutes to go, Gene Hackman has snuck his way into the Butler huddle alongside Mr. Stevens, and of course it comes down to free throws, which the Bulldogs swish, because Mr. Hackman's been nagging them about it for months.
And then CBS cuts to "One Shining Moment" and, poof, the power goes out for four minutes.
It'd be another Final Four classic. Let's summon our collective fan energy, and make it so, Bulldogs.


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I was diagnosed with cc in may 2010 and my tumour resected by a Whipples procedure.Unfortunately there was a positive microscopic pancreatic margin
Post surgery I had two x chemo cycles of capecytabine/gemfibrazole/cisplatin/rubeomycin separated by a course of radiotherapy to the positive margin.
After this treatment I returned to normal life to the extent of swimming up to 3kms 4x/week and jogging up to 8kms 3x/week....I am still doing this.
However 2 weeks ago out of the blue I had a minor episode of pancreatitis which is thought due to pancreatic duct stenosis after radiotherapy.
but the CAT scan and then a PET has shown up three metastases in my lungs..2 in one and one in the other..these are in the lower lobes and amenable to microwave ablation. As a further complication there is one hilar lymph node in the left lung rather close to the pulmonary vein.As a result the interventional onchologist is reluctant to treat the mets.On Monday I am seeing a cardiothoracic surgeon to discuss possible surgical resection possibly with a microwave ablation on the non lymph gland affected side.
My onchologist has offered further chemo if I become symptomatic
I would be pleased if anyone on the forum has any advice or experience similar to mine.I feel that I would consider any life-extending procedures or treatment particularly as my other bodily health is so good


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Colorado Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin following the team's 1-0 home win over RSL in which he saved an early penalty kick:
On getting the win:
"It's awesome. We've been pushing hard for three points. I think the fans can see that we're trying hard, we're really pushing, trying to put something good together. It finally came together tonight. Clean sheet, great goal that we scored, and I think we can build on this and push forward."
On saving Saborio's penalty:
"Leading up to this week, [goalkeeper coach] Chris Sharpe always gives us the scouting report on the penalty takers, and I had a pretty good idea of what Saborio was going to do and how he takes his penalties. Especially after the foul, you just kind of want to say that the ball never lies."
On the feeling after making the save:
"I was just extremely happy. The past couple games we've had two penalties, and I've come close to saving them, and honestly I was just sick of having PKs scored on me. We worked on it this week, saving PKs, and it really just comes down to the preparation that the coaches have provided. Give a ton of credit to them for putting me in a good position to make the save."


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NEW College Swindon's inclusive zone basketball team claimed a bronze medal at a national competition held in the Worcester Arena earlier in the month.
The team received their medals from Sophie, Countess of Wessex, magnifying the achievement even more, especially considering the New College programme has only been running for a year.
Inclusive zone basketball (IZB) comprises of four players, two able-body players and two wheelchair players.
The court is divided into zones,to allow for abilities to matched in those parameters.
New College attended the IZB (Inclusive Zone Basketball) Regionals schools competition on Tuesday, 18th March at Writhlington School in Radstock Somerset. They played a round robin tournament against Commonweal School Swindon, Ralph Allen Bristol, Fosse Way Bristol and Writhlington School Radstock. New College won all four matches and competed at the National Finals at Worcester Arena on Wednesday, May 7.
The New College team drew 0-0 against Tudor Grange Academy of West Midlands, beat Halewood Academy from Liverpool of 5-0, and drew 7-7 against Haberdashers' Aske's Knight Academy from Lewisham but progressed from their group on goal average.
Up against New College Pontefract in the semi-final Swindon lost 20-2 as an outstanding individual performance from a Pontefract player dominated the game.
In the third-place play-off New College took on Springfield High from King's Lynn winning the game 11-6.


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Week of Butternut Squash Recap
I really enjoyed this week's featured ingredient. I hope you did too! And for those of you who don't like butternut squash (*ahem* Katie), maybe you'll be inspired to give it another shot. Here's a recap of what I made this week.
I kicked things off with some Caramelized Butternut Squash.
Next, I made some Butternut Squash, Goat Cheese, and Lentil Salad.
Wednesday I Wrapped Butternut Squash with Bacon – YUM!
Then I featured a recipe that Hubby and I enjoy on a regular basis, Butternut Squash Lasagna Rolls.
And last, but definitely not least, were the Spiced Butternut Squash Cupcakes.
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I loved all your recipes! Your "week of" events are always so much fun 🙂
I'd love to try all of these! Butternut squash is one of my favorites 🙂


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man accused of gunning down four people outside an overcrowded, unlicensed boarding house in Los Angeles was arrested at a Las Vegas casino-hotel along with three alleged accomplices, police said Tuesday.
The four suspects were found at the Silverton Hotel and Casino less than 24 hours after the slayings and were arrested without incident.
Ka Pasasouk, 31, was taken into custody for investigation of murder, while three others were accused of being accessories to murder, committing robbery, or both, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.
Police said the victims, whose identities have not been released, were visiting friends at a large house in Northridge when they were confronted and fatally shot shortly before 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
Detectives were met with a "very grisly tableau" when they found the victims on a front lawn, Beck said. Three of the bodies were found face-down.
Those killed were two women in their mid-20s, a man in his mid-30s and another man in his late 40s, police said.
The suspects will be extradited to Los Angeles in the next couple of days, Beck said.
Glendale resident Howard Alcantara, 30, has been booked for investigation of robbery and aiding a felon. Donna Rabulan, 30, of Los Angeles was arrested for investigation of aiding a felon, and Christina Neal, 31, of Los Angeles was taken into custody for investigation of aiding a felon.
Beck declined to take questions at the conclusion of the news conference, or provide further details about a motive, the suspects or victims, saying the investigation remains active.
City Councilman Mitchell Englander, who represents the area, toured the house and said it was split into units for rent, including makeshift living spaces in the backyard.
He said it appeared to be operating as an unlicensed boarding house with at least a dozen and as many as 17 people living amid old food, trash, mattresses and animal waste. Englander called the living conditions deplorable.
"This is one of the worst and heinous crimes we've seen in our community," Englander said. "This is a community that once again will come together and never forget what happened at this location."


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Rugby: Sharples scores on England return
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FORMER Dursley youth player Charlie Sharples scored a try for an England XV in their 39-29 defeat to the Barbarians at Twickenham on Sunday.
The Gloucester winger, who grew up in Stroud, went over in the first half to give England a 15-7 lead, but the star-studded invitational side proved too strong in the end.
Sharples won his last England cap against Australia in November 2012 and his efforts were not enough to earn a place on the plane to tour New Zealand with a second group of players departing this week.
He said on Twitter: "Great to pull on an England shirt again today at twickenham, shame about the result but what a fantastic experience! Now time for a rest!"
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Globally, feed mills produced 963 million metric tons of livestock feed during 2013, according to results of a major survey from animal health and nutrition company Alltech. Aidan Connolly, vice president of Alltech and director of the company's global feed survey says analysts expected feed production to top 1 billion tons this year, but several factors contributed to slower-than-expected growth.
Alltech held a webinar for media representatives on Jan. 27 to outline the results of the survey.
Alltech says their survey is the largest and most comprehensive study of the global feed industry, with an international sales force of 600 people collecting information from 28,000 feed mills in 130 countries. The survey was completed during December 2013. The study focuses on the output of feedmills, and not animal feeds grown and fed on farms.
China is the world's largest producer of livestock feeds, producing 189 million tons during 2013, followed by the United States, which produced 169 million tons. Brazil is third, producing 67 million tons of feed in 2013, with Mexico, Spain, India, Russia, Japan, Germany and France rounding out the top 10.
Global 2013 feedmill output grew by 1 percent over that during 2012, according to the Alltech report. That rate of growth was down from a more typical trend of 4 to 5 percent annual growth in feed production. The high cost of feed commodities likely contributed to slower growth during 2013, but high feed prices also added to the total value of the global feed industry, which Alltech estimates at $500 billion, up from $350 billion a year ago.
According to the survey results, feed for poultry is by far the largest segment of the global industry, accounting for 444 million metric tons, or 46 percent of total production in 2013. Feed for pigs totaled 243 million metric tons during 2013. Feed production for ruminant livestock totaled 195.5 million tons during 2013. Within the ruminant category, dairy accounted for 111 million tons and beef accounted for 72.5 million tons. Smaller categories including feed for veal, sheep and goats account for the remainder of production for ruminants.
Connolly says global production of feed for ruminants declined by 20 percent during 2013, in contrast with growth in production for poultry and pigs and fish. Likely reasons include smaller cattle herds in some areas and a likely shift away from manufactured grain-based feeds toward more on-farm forage feeding during a time of high grain prices.
Feed for aquaculture is the fastest-growing sector, posting a 17 percent growth rate during 2013. Globally, feedmills produced about 40 million tons of feed for aquaculture last year.


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IT security and risk represents a declining priority among internal audit functions—at a time when IT security has never been more important.
Larry Harrington, vice president of internal audit for Raytheon Company, has one of the best internal audit success metrics I've ever come across: telephone calls.
"If you've developed a brand as a great audit function, your phone is going to ring off the hook from people in the business who want your help," Harrington explains. "At the end of the day, we're not paid by the audit report or by the audit finding. We're paid by how we can make the company better."
In other words: If you make the company better, the phone calls will come.
Harrington, whose internal audit team works with more than 68,000 employees worldwide, shared that piece of "Field of Dreams"-esque advice with Richard Chambers, president and CEO of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half International in a paper that Chambers and McDonald co-authored.
More internal audit executives ought to manage to a similar metric, judging from the results of a new "state of internal audit" survey conducted by Thomson Reuters. The survey of more than 1,110 internal audit professionals in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East features several troubling findings, including the following:
• Information technology (IT) security and risk represents a declining priority, or concern, among internal audit functions—at a time when IT security has never been more important;
• Strategic risk management was identified as a top-three concern by only 9 percent of respondents despite the fact that more than one-third (36 percent) of respondents said strategic risk management should qualify as a top-three concern;
• Perhaps most troubling, seven percent or fewer of respondents indicated that they spoke to their compliance function on a weekly basis, and only 18 percent of respondents said that their functions interacted with the risk management function on a weekly basis.
In Thomson Reuters 2012 internal audit survey, 32 percent of respondents indicated that they interacted with their risk management function on a weekly basis.
Despite my headline, these issues are not internal audit's fault. But they are a problem, and my hunch is that the function's lack of interaction with other functions—compliance and risk management, to be sure, but also IT, finance, HR and every other function and business unit throughout the company—are the root cause.
To succeed, internal audit functions need to forge trusting relationships with their business partners. That's why Harrington places so much value on incoming phone calls. Developing that trust is a two-way street: internal audit needs to establish its credibility (no small task), and everyone in the business needs to extend their trust to internal audit partners scrutinizing their processes and decisions (also no small task).
That's also why Harrington frames his team's mission as making the company better. Sure, they sniff out fraud (a top-three priority area among Thomson Reuters survey respondents), provide assurance and produce reports. However, if that work (and much more) is not perceived as delivering benefits to the organizations, internal auditing professionals are going to hear crickets chirping.
And when that happens, those organizations' senior management teams and boards are going to field a lot more troubling calls about risk management messes, some of which will be monumental tasks to clean up.


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Old School Trucks - What's New With Old School?
Primered Rides Still Look Killer
Back in the day when guys wanted more performance out of their cars, they had little to choose from as far as aftermarket performance parts went, and most of the time they had very little money. Most of the low-budget builds were focused on how much power they could get out of their six-banger. Custom paint and interior came second and last on their mind. Slowly, you could see one- and two-barrel carbs getting tweaked for more air and increased gas flow, then came the new cam, pistons, and exhaust upgrades as companies like Edelbrock, Cragar, and Isky popped up. Many early custom cars and trucks were modified for performance first and appearance last. Throughout the '40s and '50s as hot-rodder's across the country, particularly in California, had more disposable income, the cars and trucks started gaining more modifications, but this time they were cosmetic changes.
Still the question was, "Do I get a custom paintjob, or do I spend my hard-earned dollars on a new cam and lifters?" The compromise came in the form of choosing the performance parts over the custom paintjob and then hand painting some ultra-cool pinstriping on the cheaper black primer jobs that replaced custom lacquer paint. As time went on and the custom community grew, the creativity got wilder. Scallops appeared on the scene, as well as more pinstriping techniques, and flames in all colors started showing up on hoods and fenders. Pinup art became a favorite as well, being reminiscent of World War II airplane nose art.
Then, primer started to change color. Reddish brown became a second choice to the gray and black hues, as a means to differentiate one ride from another. When green and even yellow primer started appearing on the scene, it was instantly cool to roll suede. With the lack of funds to complete their cars and trucks, unknowingly these pioneers of the hot rod scene created a style of customizing now referred to as Rat rods, sleds, low-rods, bombs, and ranflas (Spanish for jalopy). We dig the style and thought it would be a perfect backdrop for this issue, which is dedicated to classic sport trucks and their own unique style. So, here are a few examples of how that budget-minded style has stood the test of time.
Danny Collazo of Las Vegas owns this cool, chopped '49 Chevy truck sporting the traditional gray primer that was freshly applied the night before the photoshoot in his garage. The truck was already primered before, but Danny wanted a fresh coat, so some quick sanding and filling in the low spots with some Bondo quickly made his '49 primer-ready. He primed it right in his home garage, after blowing all the dust and dirt out, using a garden hose to clean the floor. He then masked off the truck and sprayed it just like they did in the '40s and '50s. For guys like Danny, not much has changed since that era.
During this same evening, our project truck, an '02 Silverado called KingSpade was sitting in the driveway already painted flat black and 'bagged. Danny said something's missing-"Pinstriping," he shouted. So, as his other partner in crime, painter extraordinaire, Miguel Puente, was laying down the primer, Danny was bustin' out his pinstripe kit.
Within minutes, Danny was laying down the steady lines of the old-school pinstripe on the tailgate. Check out the Sport Truck website to see a bitchen video of it all happening.
The other two trucks are classic examples of two distinct styles. The first is a '65 GMC short wide bed. Primered out with a silver flake-painted roof and matching dash, Kent Kelly owns this bad ride, and this is his daily driver to and from his tattoo shop, Stay True Tattoo in Las Vegas. Still in the building stage, Kent works on his truck as time allows. Power comes from a 350 small-block and matching 350 tranny. He and fellow body dude Danny Blackwell smoothed the body and primered the bottom half of the truck. Staying true to the style, they sprayed a little silver flake to the cab for that perfect touch.
Now here comes the new in old-school. Back in the '40s and even the '60s, you didn't see many step-notched frame kits, but this bad boy has it. Cut coils up front gives it the lowered stance we all love. White walls and beauty rings round out this '60s era rod.
Next comes Alfred Mendez, also of Las Vegas, in his '48 Chevy. This truck is sporting a lot more upgrades than the other two. Alfred loves the old styles, but he also loves the comfort of new upgrades. Those upgrades come in the form of airbags, which lets this old-school ride go from front to back, side to side, and pancake. Wow, that made us dizzy! Scott Chambers of Chambers Chassis was responsible for that upgrade. Alfred didn't stop there; he mated a Mustang II front clip for better steering and handling. The rear got the upgrade, too, with a ten-bolt rearend borrowed from a '69 Chevelle. Then, he painted everything PPG Black and bolted up some 14-inch steelie wheels and white-wall 560 Silverton tires. Voila! You have a bodacious Bow Tie that's ready to cruise the strip.
Last, we have a really new old-school truck. This '02 Chevy Silverado is 'bagged with a six-link kit from KP Components, step-notched and tubbed by MIC in Mission Viejo, California, and rolling Nitto tires shod with Oasis 22s, and it lays frame. Even though this is a new truck and can hardly be considered a Rat rod or old classic, we did keep with the unfinished theme by painting it PPG Black and spraying some flat clear over it to create the illusion that it is primer. As we mentioned before, Danny Collazo painted the pinstripes to complete the old-school feel. Being the hardcore gearheads that we are, we couldn't help but bolt on a Vortech supercharger as well, to give it the ability to go fast.
As you can see from the photos, this type of vehicle attracts the ladies, and if you attend one of these old-school events, you may see them there. So, just when you thought we were making leaps and bounds in the custom truck world with modern build techniques, we find that sometimes simple and cool is the way to go.


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Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUsby Anand Lal Shimpi on October 31, 2012 1:28 AM EST
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At a high level, the Titan supercomputer delivers an order of magnitude increase in performance over the outgoing Jaguar system at roughly the same energy price. Using over 200,000 AMD Opteron cores, Jaguar could deliver roughly 2.3 petaflops of performance at around 7MW of power consumption. Titan approaches 300,000 AMD Opteron cores but adds nearly 19,000 NVIDIA K20 GPUs, delivering over 20 petaflops of performance at "only" 9MW. The question remains: how can it be done again?
In 4 years, Titan will be obsolete and another set of upgrades will have to happen to increase performance in the same power envelope. By 2016 ORNL hopes to be able to build a supercomputer capable of 10x the performance of Titan but within a similar power envelope. The trick is, you don't get the performance efficiency from first adopting GPUs for compute a second time. ORNL will have to rely on process node shrinks and improvements in architectural efficiency, on both CPU and GPU fronts, to deliver the next 10x performance increase. Over the next few years we'll see more integration between the CPU and GPU with an on-die communication fabric. The march towards integration will help improve usable performance in supercomputers just as it will in client machines.
Increasing performance by 10x in 4 years doesn't seem so far fetched, but breaking the 1 Exaflop barrier by 2020 - 2022 will require something much more exotic. One possibility is to move from big beefy x86 CPU cores to billions of simpler cores. Given ORNL's close relationship with NVIDIA, it's likely that the smartphone core approach is being advocated internally. Everyone involved has differing definitions of what is a simple core (by 2020 Haswell will look pretty darn simple), but it's clear that whatever comes after Titan's replacement won't just look like a bigger, faster Titan. There will have to be more fundamental shifts in order to increase performance by 2 orders of magnitude over the next decade. Luckily there are many research projects that have yet to come to fruition. Die stacking and silicon photonics both come to mind, even though we'll need more than just that.
It's incredible to think that the most recent increase in supercomputer performance has its roots in PC gaming. These multi-billion transistor GPUs first came about to improve performance and visual fidelity in 3D games. The first consumer GPUs were built to better simulate reality so we could have more realistic games. It's not too surprising then to think that in the research space the same demands apply, although in pursuit of a different goal: to create realistic models of the world and universe around us. It's honestly one of the best uses of compute that I've ever seen.
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karasaj - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkWe should see what kinds of frames we get :)
(Yes you'd have single threaded cpu bottleneck, but I can dream) Reply
N4g4rok - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkI bet that microstutter's a bastard though. Reply
Alexvrb - Saturday, November 03, 2012 - linkPut it in AFR mode! :P Reply
hansmuff - Sunday, November 04, 2012 - linkHmm, with this kind of power, just render ALL POSSIBLE frames ahead for a full second, and just flip the display to the framebuffer that corresponds to the gameplay :) Reply
Rookierookie - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkYes, but can it run Crysis? Reply
SilthDraeth - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkWrong question. The correct question is;
Will it blend? Reply
losttsol - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkYes it can, as long as Crysis isn't running on top of Windows Vista. Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkWhat does Vista have to do with this? Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkOver 9000 fps!
Good to see GPUs gaining traction outside of videogames, paving way for their use as a general purpose devices that can benefit a wide variety of usage patterns outside of games :) Hopefully the profits from these will mean even better GPUs for us gamers down the line. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, November 10, 2012 - linkYou mean nVidia GPU's gaining traction, and far outperforming amd cores. Reply


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Clothes may make the man, but "The Suit" undoes a woman in Peter Brook's mesmerizing one-act.
This exquisite little gem, a touring production from Paris' Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, distills the tragedy of apartheid into a tender tale of love dashed on the rocks of fate. The haunting 80-minute fable runs through May 18 at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.
Brook lives up to his legendary reputation for casting a spell on the audience with unexpected blends of movement, mime and music. Famed for his epic "Mahabharata" and his acrobatic "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the British director transformed our notions of how to make theater with his seminal book "The Empty Space." Now the virtuoso director stretches the boundaries of storytelling to find the political subtext in an intimate story of infidelity.
Based on a short story by the late South African writer Can Themba, "The Suit" is a well-tailored allegory steeped in the rhythms of Sophiatown, a thriving black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg in the '50s.
Brook and collaborators Marie-Hélène Estienne and Franck Krawczyk capture the euphoria of that time and place, a small pocket of freedom in a sea of cruelty and oppression. As the narrator puts it, the city had become "the home of truth, our place."
Philemon (Ivanno Jeremiah) is a gentle soul, proud of his job as a secretary, proud of his humble home and his beautiful wife Matilda (Nonhlanhla Kheswa). Outside his four walls, the world is harsh. Violence and scorn are in the air they breathe. White people rule the world outside this meager parlor, but in his home, he is king. Or so he thinks.
Brook builds delicate tableaux out of ordinary objects. A couple of chairs and a sheet becomes a bed. An empty coat rack becomes a city bus. These mundane objects transport us to the speak-easies and shanties of Sophiatown.
The richly nuanced fabric of this world is spun from apt performances, such as Jordan Barbour's magnetic turns as the narrator and in several other small parts, all vivid in their idiosyncrasy.
The music emerges as a character unto itself. Kheswa has an angelic voice singing Nina Simone's "Feeling Good." Barbour lends a harrowing gravity to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit."
But it's Jeremiah's seething transformation from lover to monster that gives the show its arc. One morning he finds his beloved in the arms of another. Burning with rage, he devises a punishment that fits the crime. The left-behind suit of her lover becomes a talisman of her shame she can never be free from.
The alchemy of music and movement here is sublime. Brook uses these elements to imbue what might otherwise be a grim tale with a hint of the restorative power of culture. These characters take refuge in their music, engaging in the act of performance so deeply they can escape reality simply by singing the notes.
While the closing moments of the piece lack the aching clarity of the rest of the narrative, "The Suit" moves us with the simplicity and purity of its stagecraft.
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, and follow her at Twitter.com/karendsouza4.
Direction, adaptation and music by Peter Brook, Marie-Hél ne Estienne and Franck Krawczyk
Through: May 18
Where: American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco
Running time: 80 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: $25-$140; 415-749-2228, www.act-sf.org


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– Here are some recent WWE attendance figures from the current overseas tour:
* RAW on April 17th in Rotterdam, Holland drew 5,000 fans for $475,000
* RAW on April 18th in Belfast did 6,500 fans for $450,000
* SmackDown on April 18th in Glasgow drew 5,000 fans for $375,000
* RAW on April 19th in Dublin drew 7,500 fans for $600,000
* SmackDown on April 19th in Newcastle drew 6,500 for $450,000
* RAW on April 20th in Paris, France drew 9,000 fans for $700,000
* SmackDown on April 20th in Birmingham drew 8,500 fans for $630,000
* RAW on April 21st in Geneva drew 5,000 fans for $360,000
* SmackDown on April 21st in Sheffield drew 8,500 fans for $525,000
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Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851., Macgillivray, William, 1796-1852.
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