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1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, Sleeps 3
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•Washer and dryer
•Hardwood floors
•Full-height window walls
•Ample closet space
•Italian-crafted fully-equipped kitchen
•Quartz countertops
•European appliances
•Stainless steel appliances
•Porcelain-tiled bathrooms
•Digital cable
•Local phone service
•Wireless internet
•Some units have balconies
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•Parking not included
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•Pool not included (SkyDeck with two zero-edge pools & indoor pool)
•Turkish-style Hamman and spa
•24hr doorman available
•Valet cleaners
•15,500 square feet of fitness space not included
•Business center not available
•Meeting room
•Regulation-sized basketball court
•Private training, spinning and yoga
•Little Dipper Kids Club
•Private park and garden
•Landscaped sundeck
•Crosstown Shuttle: Sky Shuttle provided to all tenants, 6:30am to 9:30am and 5pm – 8pm Sun-Fri. Route starts at 42nd & 11th and goes down until 2nd Ave. Tenants can use an app to track the shuttle real time.
•Pet spa and daycare
•Bike valet and storage
- The use of amenities is subject to availability.
- Bed size is subject to change.
- Photos are representative.
- Pet Fee: $250/$500
- Pet Policy: Please note that this building may have specific pet restrictions including # pets, pet size and breed. Prior to confirming your reservation, please reach out to the property to check their pet policies.
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Elder C.D. Brooks
Breath Of Life Ribbon-Tying Celebration
By Brian W. Carter
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Breath of Life Seventh-day Adventist Church (B.O.L) will be holding a ribbon-tying celebration starting March 20 -27. B.O.L invites you to celebrate its official dedication in its new church home!
B.O.L SDA Church started as an evangelistic series under Pastor Charles D. Brooks 27 years ago. The church would call many places home, the longest being in Westchester, Los Angeles for over 8 years. B.O.L finally received a new home at 425 South La Brea Ave, Inglewood, CA in Dec 2009.
The week-long celebration will be devoted to prayer and anointing by preaching from former B.O.L pastors. March 20, Sat @11:00am featured Dr. Leslie Pollard preaching a youth-focused sermon. March 21, Sun @ 6:30pm Dr. James L. Kyle, II spoke on the history of the B.O.L church. March 24, Wed @ 7:00pm, Elder Adolphus Garnett held a ceremony saluting former pastors. On March 26, Fri @ 7:00 Elder C.D. Brooks will be giving a consecration service.
On March 27, Sat @ 11:00a, Elder C.D. Brooks will officially preside over the dedication of the new church home. B.O.L will also recognize charter members. The church will commemorate their dedication and faith to God and B.O.L for the past 27 years!
There will be inspirational concerts planned for both Sabbaths as 5:30pm. The concerts will feature the talents of the: Mt. Rubidoux SDA Church Choir, the original B.O.L Quartet, Walter Arties, Shelton Kilby, Simple Gifts, the B.O.L singers, Stevie Mackey, Shelea Kyle as well as guest instrumentalists and poetic presentations.
Come out and join Breath of Life SDA Church as they bless their house and open their arms to the surrounding community and all of Inglewood.
Breath of Life SDA Church is located at 425 South La Brea Ave, Inglewood CA 90301. You may contact them at (310) 674-4061 or at www.breathla.org. Elder D.L. McPhaull is the Senior Pastor.

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By now you know that Danny O'Brien attended Penn State spring practice yesterday (I'll pat myself on the back for being the first to mention it). O'Brien is still weighing his options on where he will transfer, but this was his second visit to Penn State in the past couple of weeks.
O'Brien spoke briefly to our Karisa Maxwell, who gets the credit for confirming with 100 percent certainty that it was indeed the former Maryland Terps quarterback. He didn't say much more than the usual statements on how playing for Bill O'Brien at a program like Penn State would be an honor, and he did deny that his being in State College should be taken as a hint that he has made up his mind.
O'Brien took in much of the practice from the sideline but he did manage to stay close to Bill O'Brien as he conducted practice as well.
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Balance was restored to the digital world when Instagram became available to Android users. Imagine what will happen when the Instagram camera goes from concept to your sweaty palms. A billi!
Instagram has become the social media drug everyone is addicted to with over 50 million users and counting. With so much attention to the picture sharing application it should be a no-brainer to produce an Instagram digital camera. ADR Studio developed the concept Socialmatic camera with all the key features from Instagram. No segmenting users between iPhone and Android. The camera is its own thing, giving the ability to print photos on the spot, Polaroid-style. Each photo will have an QR code and the user's Instagram username for further sharing. If this camera was listed on Kickstarter it would definitely get pledges like a Jerry Lewis telethon.


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"The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. "William Gibson, as quoted by Stacey Aldrich, Deputy Secretary for the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.
Last week, I attended our System's annual meeting where I learned many things. I learned that the business community of my county has a generous spirit when it comes to libraries. I learned that the future of libraries may be connected to transhumanism and robots, among other things. And most importantly, I learned that our new State Librarian is a practicing futurist. But I"ll get to that in a moment.
The meeting was remarkable for several reasons. For one thing, much long overdue recognition took place–for the Council of Friends of Lancaster County Public Libraries (for their hard work and dedication over the years) and for the library volunteer of the year (a first-ever award), along with established awards for trustee of the year and staff member of the year.
We also recognized a distinguished group of local business people who have supported the countywide Summer Reading Program for years–some for just a few and others for much longer, one sponsor going all the way back to the 1980s. These business include Auntie Anne's, Inc.; Barnyard Kingdom at Country Barn; Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park; Integrity Bank; Isaac's Famous Grilled Sandwiches; Lancaster Barnstormers; Lancaster Ice Rink; Laserdome; McDonald's Restaurants; Bowling Centers of Lancaster County; Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire; Rita's Franchise Company; Strasburg Rail Road Company; and Susquehanna Bank. Together they contributed more than one million dollars in prizes, discounts, and other support for the countywide summer reading program. Collectively, they received a well-deserved standing ovation from the appreciative crowd, which included most of the directors of our member libraries (the reason we do what we do), library staff, government officials, members of the public, System staff, board members, and others–a room filled with library advocates.
The highlight of the evening was the keynote presentation delivered by Stacey Aldrich, newly appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth Libraries, more commonly known as the State Librarian. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Aldrich was the State Librarian of California appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is kind of cool in and of itself. However, by far the coolest thing about Ms. Aldrich is that she is a professional futurist (and former board member of the Association of Professional Futurists), which means that we now have a futurist guiding the direction of Pennsylvania's libraries..into the future. What an incredible opportunity.
According to the definition linked to above at the APF site, a professional futurist is "a person who studies the future in order to help people understand, anticipate, prepare for and gain advantage from coming changes. It is not the goal of a futurist to predict what will happen in the future. The futurist uses foresight to describe what could happen in the future and, in some cases, what should happen in the future." It sounds to me like a futurist doesn't necessarily make assumptions about what will happen in the future.
Ms. Aldrich illustrated this point by showing a slide with an image from the 1950s that depicts a woman, perfectly coiffed, white apron tied in bow, hosing down her sofa. The caption reads, "Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose." There are a lot of false assumptions about the future associated with that image and caption.
Aldrich contends that the core of library services will remain the same–to collect, preserve, connect, create, and convene. What will change is how we deliver these services. With that in mind, she's asking the following questions:
How do people find and use information?
What is community?
What is learning?
What is work?
What is leisure and entertainment?
and keeping her eye on the following:
Information Everywhere
Big data
Everyone is a creator
Physical and virtual
She's asking these questions and keeping her eye on these things because the answers to the questions have changed and will continue to change over time and the concepts and things listed above will become important in answering those questions.
She went on to describe a few of these concepts in more detail and how they relate to libraries. This gist was that librarians can't make the assumption that we will be wearing high heels and an apron to hose down our sofas in the future. We can assume that we will still be cleaning in some fashion, but we can't assume that we'll look the same or use the same tools. At least that's the bigger meaning that stuck with me. We have to look around us–at everything that's happening in our world–in order to move libraries forward into a future where we will be equipped to be true to our core–to collect, preserve, connect, create, and convene–having adapted to the environment in which we find ourselves. Not taken by surprise, but as the result of becoming aware of what's possible now and what may be possible in the future. And being ready to step in and take our place.
As the quote at the beginning indicates, many futuristic technologies are already possible and already being used. They're just not being used everywhere–yet. When will they reach libraries? Will we be ready?
For some reason, after the presentation, the catchphrase that kept running through my mind was one made famous by Buzz Lightyear–"To infinity and beyond!" Oh, I know. There's a little thing called reality (much like Buzz finding out he's not a real Space Ranger) that sometimes gets in the way of moving forward into infinity and beyond. A reality that includes politics and money and other roadblocks. But roadblocks only matter if you're on a road. And maybe, if libraries are smart, don't make assumptions, and pay attention, "Where we're going, we don't need roads."
It's all about possibilities. Whether we're going Back to the Future or To Infinity and Beyond, we need to keep open minds and a indulge a broad vision.
What better person than a futurist to move Pennsylvania's libraries forward into the future?
(Many thanks to Stacey Aldrich for providing me with the slides from her presentation to reference for the purpose of writing this post.)


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Gates Introduces New Systems Line for Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Reduction
25 August 2006
|The Gates Electro-Mechanical Drive (EMD) stop/start system.
Gates Corporation, a provider of belts, hoses hydraulics and related products for the auto industry, has introduced the first systems in its new Energy Saving product line targeted at both heavy-duty and light-duty vehicles.
The new line includes a stop/start system, a two-speed drive system for passenger subsystems, and an idle-reduction system for heavy-duty trucks.
The Gates Electro-Mechanical Drive (EMD) starter-generator belt drive systems allow the engine to stop when the vehicle is stationary, then restarts the engine almost instantaneously. EMD spins the engine to a very high cranking speed enabling a rapid, silent and fuel-efficient start.
Both emissions and fuel consumption are reduced with the EMD stop/start operating strategy. Independent studies have shown fuel savings of 6-10%, depending on the application, and even more than 20% savings in urban traffic.
The EMD system offers the potential to recover braking energy and to use stored electricity to boost acceleration. The system can schedule the generation of electric energy to times when it is cheap to produce, i.e. usually events of vehicle deceleration when no fuel is injected and the engine brakes the vehicle.
EMD is applicable with either 14 or 42 volt systems. The EMD system will be used in the 2007 Saturn Vue and 2007 Chevrolet Malibu, according to Gates.
The Gates E3 Drive is a two-speed drive system that allows accessories such as the air conditioning compressor and alternator to operate at idling speed, where fuel is used most efficiently by these accessories, while the engine still operates at drive speed.
The driver will not notice a difference in the vehicle operation but will see their fuel consumption reduced by 5% or more, according to Gates. The system is compatible with other fuel consumption reduction technologies and Gates is working with truck and auto manufacturers to implement the E3 Drive. It is also a simple aftermarket solution.
The CabRunner Integrated Power System reduces fuel use and emissions by eliminating the need for semi-truck drivers to idle their engine while sleeping during a long-haul trip in order to power cab accessories such as air conditioning, heat and lights. The CabRunner IPS powers all the truck's accessories when the truck engine is not running.
CabRunner IPS consists of a small, two-cylinder diesel, a reconfigured Accessory Belt Drive System (ABDS) and a pulley system design that allows either the CabRunner IPS or the truck engine to operate the ABDS. On the highway, the truck engine is in control. In the parking lot, the CabRunner IPS diesel takes over.
The CabRunner can reduce idling fuel consumption by 60% and greatly reduce the idling emissions.
Gates also highlighted other technologies and products to meet new fuels and emissions standards, such as Gates Hybrid Hydraulic technology and Gates diesel hose product line.
We recognize the importance of energy consumption reduction and are looking to do our part to help. We plan to continue developing energy saving and pollution reduction technologies for today's vehicle designs and equipment so they can be deployed now.—Marco Moran, President, Gates Worldwide Power Transmission Division
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I know OEMs are where the money is at but I wish one of these manufacturers would offer an aftermarket solution for idle stop/start. All you would need is an interface to the TPS, speed sensor, CHT sensor, and then either the clutch switch or brake switch (the OEM units used to prevent starting with the clutch engaged or to light up the brake lights). Interface with 4 wires, calibrate for zero throttle opening voltage, wide open throttle voltage, and normal operating temps CHT voltage (or have data input directly into the unit if known already) and you should be good to go.
I'm with you Patrick, wishing for an aftermarket system. Many of us know of Sigma Automotive's aftermarket bolt-on "hybrid-kit." As of July 17th this year, it's pushed off another year and a half. Always pushed off because of difficulties. It wasn't start/stop though. Maybe someone like yourself (I'm not being sarcastic) could wrig something up on an old beater car: you seem to know a thing or two about it! I don't know enough, unfortunatly. But I do think it would be trickier than we might anticipate to implement something that's not mickey mouse and lasts for years.
Yeah, a micro hybrid system would be the cheapest. It would also give the biggest bang for the buck, especially for those who spend alot of time behind stoplights during long runs through the hills. If applied to Tier 2 Bin 5 diesels, it may provide for a clean alternative to those noisy and dirty diesel electric generators. Contractors would love that. So would people who want to be self sufficient, or just want ot hedge against a blackout/power loss (hurricane, heat wave, hail producing storm, hallucinating driver hitting a utility pole, etc).
I have thought about trying to rig up an idle start/stop system and planned out the algorithm for basic motor control using a Microchip PIC DSC chip but unfortuneately I'm new to high frequency motor control and I imagine it will take alot of work for me to get something realistically running. The interface is easy...fine control of the motor is difficult (especially if I were to try to make it flexible enough to use on more than my own car).
Idleaire LLC has taken away most of the prime parking slots @ most of the TA Travelcenter truckstops; Drivers such as me that have APU, laptop with verizon WIFI card,Directv with tivo & of course cellphone, are not pleased that we have had our parking options degraded, that is if we can find one. I am sure the Idleaire top investors are laughing all the way to their winter homes now with the booty they collected from us taxpayers that the TA co-conspirators used to upgrade their pavement. Maybe the next administation will play "Robin Hood" & spread the government "welfare (grants,tax credits etc) to the real people in need, not cold hearted Greedy Neo Psuedo Puritan business leeches
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Album Rating: 4.0Ah, the ever-present ghost neggar.
Album Rating: 3.0careful with the n word bro
Album Rating: 4.0Whoa, neg got removed. Ghost indeed o.o
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffThe Neg Bandit strikes again!
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offbake em away, toys
Album Rating: 3.5Impulse was a better record as a whole while as on Augment I feel like there are more standout tracks but the album itself isn't better and a little boring at times.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffI think Alpha Seed destroys White Noise as an opener, aside from that i havent listened to it enough to compare it to Impulse
Album Rating: 4.0I dunno, Rebirth is a pretty fucking phenomenal song.
Album Rating: 3.5White Noise is the band's best song imo. Hybrid Earth is up there too.
Album Rating: 3.5I'll take that back. Vaalbara is their best song.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offeveryone likes vaalbara more than me ffs
cant say a favorite, but my top 5 would be Alpha Seed, Seven, The Architect, Pulse, and Pattern Interrupt
the list changes like every two minutes sooo
Album Rating: 4.5vallbara is pretty good but i've always been partial to enter the void
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Album Rating: 4.5sorry i'm horrible with song titles haha
Great review, though I'm not much a fan of the definition at the piece's beginning. Won't the average reader know what a simple word like 'augment' means? ;]
Cool to see a good review for this, though, especially since I won't be able to get around to it. Great production helps these guys out for sure, not to mention that they have a knack for writing memorable tunes.
Album Rating: 4.0It just struck me as an idea to start it off. I'm not nearly as bad at intros as I am at summaries, but they tend to take me a long time to decide on an approach to, so when the idea of just plopping the definition struck me, I just mentally went "YOLO" and stuck with it.
Was also going to do a joke review, still might.
Album Rating: 4.0If Andromeda had the same production as this album, it'd be the best Erra album.
Great review. I haven't really listened to this much and I'm not the biggest fan of the style but in comparison to what I've heard of their previous material this is substantially better.
Album Rating: 4.0@Jeet: I haven't actually heard too much of Andromeda. I may check it out if I get a hankering for more Erra. Right now Augment is tiding me over nicely.
@joshua: Thanks! I didn't necessarily think it was substantially better personally, just more well-composed and cohesive. There were still some riffs of justice on Impulse.
that was supposed to read not the biggest fan of this style just to be clear, I'm editing that as well.
Composition makes a huge difference in the long run and the clean vocalist sounds a lot more tolerable on this release than previous imo.
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TalkTalk is waging a war against BT, which it accuses of operating a "margin squeeze" in the burgeoning cable market. The argument goes that BT is charging its rivals too much for wholesale access and reinvesting that profit into lower-cost superfast broadband for consumers.
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The body of Diane Donati, 48 was discovered on Friday around 12:19 p.m.,at the Bestgate Recreation Park located in the 700 block of Bestgate Road. Donati was 'fully clothed and dressed appropriately for cold weather and even had a blue blanket wrapped around her', officials said.
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The eighth of the Top Eleven is an experiment by the man who set the gold standard for arrogance in physics.
Who: Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), a New Zealand-born physicist who famously declared "In science, there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
When: He's nominated for the alpha-particle scattering experiments that showed the existence of the nucleus, an 1909.
What: Rutherford is famous for carrying out early experiments with radioactive substances. Among other achievements, he coined the terms "alpha, beta, and gamma" for the different types of particles emitted in radioactive decays, showed that alpha particles are helium-4 nuclei, and demonstrated that radioactive atoms decay into different atomic species.
His most famous experiments involved the scattering of alpha particles off a thin gold foil. At the time, it was believed that atoms consisted of negatively charge electrons embedded in a sort of positively-charged mush ("Like raisins in a pudding" in one famous description). Rutherford hoped to learn something about their structure by bombarding a sample of gold with alpha particles– the positively charged alphas passing through the foil should be deflected by the positive charges in the atom, and the angle of deflection should convey some information about the structure.
In the "plum pudding" model of the atom, you would expect that alpha particles would only be deflected by small angles. Rutherford therefore set a couple of new students, Marsden and Geiger, to measuring background levels by placing their detector (a fluorescent screen that would light up when hit by an alpha particle) at a very large scattering angle– to get to the detector, particles would have to hit the foil and be deflected almost straight backwards, which was thought impossible.
To everyone's surprise, Marsden and Geiger saw lots of particles deflected at large angles. The always quotable Rutherford later described it thus:
It was quite the most incredible event that ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you had fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Why It's Important: Such large-angle scattering is absolutely impossible in the "plum pudding" model of the atom. In order for the alpha particles to be deflected backwards, the atoms would need to contain a very compact and very massive positively charged nucleus, accounting for most of the mass of the atom.
Rutherford worked this out, and was able to both derive a formula that exactly matched Marsden and Geiger's data, and to deduce the size of the nucleus. This led to a radical re-thinking of the atomic model, into the "solar system" type picture everybody learns in grade school. Problems in that model led to Bohr's semi-classical model of hydrogen, and then to the development of the full quantum theory.
Rutherford's scattering experiments also pretty much established the standard techniques of nuclear and particle physics. Everything we know about the structure of matter at the subatomic scale, we've learned by flinging tiny energetic particles at one another.
You can find more details about the experiments at the hyperphysics pages on Rutherford scattering, and you can also play with a nifty little simulation of the scattering process.
Reasons to Vote for Him:: Completely revolutionized our understanding of the atom, invented nuclear physics, produced a number of fabulous quotes, paving the way for future curious characters in physics.
Reasons to Vote Against Him: Physics envy.


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Bob Greenblatt is making his first big moves as a key business player at NBC, and as it turns out, he's a real contender. He picked up Sean Hayes and Peter Tolan for a comedy project, and now he has managed to outbid every other major network for a second comedy project. This one even comes backed by Ron Howard.
On Wednesday, word on the street was that Howard had been present at each of the network meetings, pitching the new comedy that was created by Sarah Silverman and will be based somewhat on her real life. The pitch ultimately got picked up by NBC and could bring a solid block of female-based comedy to primetime, if NBC chooses to air Silverman's new show alongside Chelsea Lately funny-girl Whitney Cummings' new pilot and the Chelsea Handler-based program Are You There, Vodka?
With the pick-up, more details about Silverman's new show have been released. According to Deadline, the single-camera comedy will star Silverman as a woman who is coming out of a serious, 10-year relationship and is figuring out the single life. Silverman will also be continuing the writing friendship she began on The Sarah Silverman Program with writers Dan Sterling and Jon Schroeder. One thing is for certain: they'll have to PG-13 down the regular Sarah Silverman role.
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CHICAGO—Four things we have learned from Seattle's 23-17 overtime win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday at Soldier Field:
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson ranks right up there with fellow rookies Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck.
Wilson is clutch, which he proved—again—against the Bears. His ability to move Seattle late in the game shows he could do it in a big-time playoff situation.
The thing Wilson does that reminds many of RGIII is he is always looking downfield as he moves or rolls out. Even when he appears cornered, he can find receivers for big plays. His ability to use the read-option is an added dimension, although Seattle needs to do a better job of coordinating that aspect of the offense with running bck Marshawn Lynch's skills.
Sure he's short, but wore out the Bears' defensive line by moving around so much by game's end.
Perhaps the Bears (8-4) can get by with Jay Cutler throwing to Brandon Marshall and a strong defense.
They nearly did Sunday. They haven't been able to offer up much in the way of passing yards to other receivers most of the year and have the biggest difference between a No. 1 and No. 2 receiver in terms of catches in the league.
Defenses know Cutler is going to Marshall, but even a good pass defense with two taller, physical cornerbacks like Seattle has could not stop the two Sunday. Only Green Bay and San Francisco have really managed to shut down Marshall, and the 49ers did it without Cutler playing.
Then again, it's hard to see how the Bears are going anywhere in the playoffs without much of a threat beyond Marshall.
Seattle (7-5) may have finally gotten over the hump by winning in OT.
This victory marks the Seahawks as a strong contender for the last NFC playoff spot because of the glut of 7-5 and 6-6 teams—and because of a defense that ranked third against the pass coming into Sunday's game.
Seattle has all the weapons needed to win a playoff game with shutdown corners and an offense that can control the ball and frustrate defenses. If Sidney Rice—who caught the game-winner in overtime—is healthy, he can be the big-play weapon the Seahawks thought they had when they acquired him from Minnesota. And few playoff opponents will have a running back better than Lynch.
If the Bears get to the playoffs, it is going to be a supreme test of the depth that G.M. Phil Emery built up in the offseason.
They lost wide receiver Earl Bennett to a concussion Sunday in a game in which Devin Hester sat out due to a concussion.
They were already without rookie wideout Alshon Jeffery due to arthroscopic knee surgery. Eric Weems came into the game with five catches but made a contribution at receiver while running back Matt Forte finally was deployed more in the passing game.
The Bears could be down to Weems and Dane Sanzenbacher behind Marshall for next week's game at Minnesota. That was the case in the second half Sunday.
The offensive line already has had its problems with injuries that took out starting guards Chris Spencer and Lance Louis—Louis for the season. The Bears aren't sure they'll have Spencer back next week. The Bears already showed good depth along the line Sunday by holding Seattle's pass rush at bay and managing more than 100 yards rushing despite using backups to block.


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The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the millennium. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship with food. This anthology capitalizes on this particular cultural moment to bring to the fore recent scholarship that focuses on innovative ways people are recasting food in public spaces to challenge hegemonic practices and meanings. Organized into five interrelated sections on food production, consumption, performance, Diasporas, and activism, articles aim to provide new perspectives on the changing meanings and uses of food in the 21st century.
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Democratization or Diversion? The Effect of Community Colleges on Educational Attainment
This paper estimates the impact of community colleges on educational attainment. Community colleges attract those who might not have otherwise attended college (democratization); they also attract students who might otherwise have attended a four-year college (diversion). The effect of democratization on educational attainment is nonnegative; the effect of diversion is unclear. The author uses community college accessibility to instrument for the type of college attended. The results suggest that two-year college students diverted from a four-year college complete fewer years of education. Overall, however, community colleges increase total years of schooling, but do not change the likelihood of attaining a bachelor's degree.
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A SCHOOLGIRL is the youngest karate kid in her club's 25-year history to have been awarded a black belt.
Anjalee Dhaliwal, a student at Hartlepool's Kihon Do Karate Club, which is based at Manor College of Technology, in Owton Manor Lane, earned the prestigious belt at the tender age of 10.
And Anjalee's dad was delighted to hear her sensei Mick Stainsby say she was the youngest to achieve a black belt in his club's 25-year history.
He said: "We're very proud of Anjalee, she is such a great achiever and to get a black belt at the age of 10 is just fantastic.
"She was a very shy girl before she started karate, but it has given her a lot of confidence."
Amar, of Bishop Cuthbert, Hartlepool, added: "I'm really proud of her.
"She's been doing karate for four and a half years and even her sensai said that is a brilliant achievement.
"She's the youngest in the club's history.
"She loves it and is very proud of herself too.
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I'm after some ideas on setting up my server.
I have 2 IDE 80gig harddrives (each as master on there own channels) and want to setup RAID1.
What I want to have happen, is that if one drive fails I can still run (including booting) of the other drive. The howtos that I've seen on this, don't really say how to do this. The go into how setting up a RAID part, but doesn't go into the boot sections etc, only things like /home or /usr.
Sadly, under windows, I just go into the disk manager and say mirror and pick drive to mirror it to..
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key is a name of property which I want to save.Code:typedef map<string, string>::iterator confIterator_d; // iterator map<string, string> configDictionary; string configFileName; //name of the config file string lastError; //error msg int ConfigManager::SaveConfigFile(const string &key) { fstream config; config.open(configFileName.c_str(), ios::in | ios::out); if (!config.is_open()) { lastError = "Can't read file."; return 1; } string tmp; unsigned pos = 0; while (getline(config, tmp)) { size_t found = tmp.find(key); if (found != string::npos) { confIterator_d it = configDictionary.find(key); if (it != configDictionary.end()) { tmp = it -> first + "=" + it -> second; config.seekp(pos, ios::beg); config.write(tmp.c_str(), tmp.length()); break; } } pos += tmp.length(); } config.close(); return 0; }
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Manil Suri has two careers. He teaches math at the University of Maryland, and he also writes fiction.
Born and raised in India, Suri burst onto the literary scene in early 2001 with his novel, "The Death of Vishnu." Now he's completed his second work, "The Age of Shiva."
"I took seven years to write this book," he says. "I actually did a calculation and it was something like 62.19 words a day."
"The Age of Shiva" tells the story of Meera, a young woman living in India during the turbulent times following the end of British colonial rule.
Suri told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he began writing a story about a single character, but discovered he was really writing about the history of his homeland.


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A San Francisco judge has ruled that California children should still get toys with their Happy Meals.
A proposed class-action lawsuit claimed that McDonald's was violating consumer protection laws and exploiting children's vulnerability to lure children to "nutritionally unbalanced meals" with toys. The suit was filed by a California mother of two and The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group. The group called the use of toys to market food a "predatory practice that undermined parents, caused rifts in families and harmed kids' health."
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DPC4/Smad4 expression and outcome in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
PURPOSE: Prognostic indicators in pancreatic cancer (PC) are poorly defined and difficult to quantify preoperatively, hence they may lead to inappropriate patient selection for treatment. We examined the protein expression of key cell-cycle regulatory and cell-signaling molecules that occur at high frequency in PC and assessed their relationship to clinicopathologic parameters, response to operative resection, and outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We identified 348 patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and assessed the influence of reported clinicopathologic prognostic factors and the expression of the cell-cycle regulatory genes p21(WAF1/CIP1) (CDKN1A), cyclin D1 (CCND1), p53, and p16(INK4A) (CDKN2) and the cell-signaling molecule DPC4/Smad4 (MADH4) using immunohistochemistry in a subgroup of 129 patients. RESULTS: Independent prognostic factors in resected patients were tumor size greater than 45 mm (P =.0015), involvement of surgical margins (P <.0001), and perineural invasion (P =.014). Loss of DPC4/Smad4 expression cosegregated with resectability (P <.0001) and was associated with improved survival after resection (P <.0001), whereas resection did not improve survival in patients whose tumor expressed DPC4/Smad4 (P =.5). Aberrant expression of p21(WAF1/CIP1), cyclin D1, p53, or p16(INK4A) was not associated with a difference in survival. CONCLUSION: Tumor size (> 45 mm), resection margin involvement, and perineural invasion were independent prognostic factors. Preoperative assessment of DPC4/Smad4 expression has potential as a prognostic indicator in patients with PC since resection did not benefit those patients whose cancers expressed DPC4/Smad4 and accurate assessment of DPC4/Smad4 expression, unlike tumor size, margin status, and perineural invasion, does not require resection.
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Franco drops out of Lockport race, which now pits Feeley vs. Mullane
LOCKPORT – Alderman Ronald A. Franco said Wednesday he's not going to run in this fall's election, citing time conflicts with his job as an American Airlines pilot.
The 2nd Ward Republican, who was appointed to the Council in March, after Anne E. McCaffrey's Feb. 21 promotion to mayor, said he will continue to serve until his appointment runs out at the end of the year.
But he won't be entered in the Nov. 4 election for the one year that will be left in McCaffrey's unexpired 2nd Ward term. It's the only city office on the ballot this year.
McCaffrey said that in Franco's place, the Republicans are nominating Patrick A. Feeley of Regent Street, a first-time candidate. The Democrats will counter with Anita Mullane of Lindhurst Drive, who has run unsuccessfully for the Common Council twice before.
"I'm very discouraged by what's going on in our city, and I feel like it's time to get involved again," said Mullane, 55. She lost to John Lombardi III for 5th Ward alderman in 2005 and to Joseph C. Kibler for alderman at large in 2009.
Mullane said the city's financial crisis and the debt costs resulting from the state-authorized borrowing of up to $5.35 million to cover accumulated deficits will drag down home values.
Feeley said, "That's the issue of 2014, that the city's financially stressed."
Feeley, 62, is a vice president of Prolift, a Cheektowaga company that sells forklifts and other materials handling equipment. He said he submitted a resume when McCaffrey was looking for a 2nd Ward appointee, but the mayor chose Franco.
Franco said, "I really, really wish I could keep doing this. I enjoy it. I like the people. I like where Anne's bringing the city. It's just professionally, with Wednesday night meetings, it's a little too difficult."
Feeley said McCaffrey called him when Franco confided that he wasn't going to run and asked if Feeley would take on the race.
"I've always been interested in city government but never had the time," said Feeley, who said he's not planning to retire from Prolift, but has more spare time these days because of recent changes in his family life.
The Democrats have made it clear they intend to tie the can of fiscal crisis to the Republicans' tail. Tucker and McCaffrey are Republicans, as have been most of the aldermen over the past decade.
City Democratic Chairman Edward W. Tracy said at Wednesday's Council meeting that the "dead money" of paying off the deficit "will be a millstone around our neck for the next 10 years. … It will have a depressing effect on the value of all of our homes, and no one can come up with a good reason why we blew through $5.3 million."
Mullane said she's worried about her home. "If it were in the town (of Lockport), it would be worth a lot more," she said. "I don't know where the problem is, but I don't think it should have come to this."
Feeley said, "I see this as an opportunity to right the ship. There's only two options, reducing expenses or increasing revenues, and I'm not in favor of raising taxes, so there have to be some adjustments."
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Maxim Magazine's Burping Fact and More [VIDEO]
I think burping is funny. Then again, my Dad loved to egg us on in that regard while we were kids. Then we would, invariably, hear Mom yell "Frank! Don't teach them that!" Yeah, it fell on deaf ears.
So, when I saw that Maxim magazine had a blurb about burps in it recently, I laughed. It dawned on me that there must be more fun facts out there and I was right!
Maxim's fact: Forty-two percent of American women can belch on command. In case your wondering, I am not one of that forty-two percent.
Then there are these gems that I found:
The longest burp ever recorded is 1 minute 13 seconds 57 milliseconds and was achieved by Michele Forgione in Reggiolo, Italy, on June 16, 2009.
The loudest burp ever recorded was 109.9 decibels and was achieved by Paul Hunn in Bognor Regis, United Kingdom, on August 23, 2009. That's louder than the roar of a motorcycle or snowmobile!
The official medical term for burping is eructation.
Every year cows in the U.S.A. burp about 50 million tons of gas into the atmosphere! The burps of ten cows could heat a small house for a year! (This one makes me laugh!)
Chickens can't burp. Awww. poor animals don't know what they're missing.
La Toba, Spain has banned public burping. Remind me to never go there!
There is a burping fetish. This one is gross and I do not want to know how it works.
The fun doesn't stop there. The Simpsons (thanks FOX), from their first episode, have held burping in high esteem. Here's one of my favorite scenes. Now excuse me while I go drink soda.


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These are the ButtonBeats Dubstep Balls. This is a follow up to the popular Buttonbeats Dubstep Cube! I'm sure some of you have been waiting for this! Enjoy. Each of the spheres is a heart pounding dubstep beat. Mix 3 or four beats together to make a song! ButtonBeats.com was launched in august of 2007 by me, Jason. I had a set of music samples I wanted to mix up and I didn't have any software available so I made a program to mix them up. My friend came over and was playing the program for over an hour. So I thought It would be cool to upload it to the internet. So I bought the ButtonBeats.com domain name and uploaded a few different programs I made. A short time later I made the piano. I put the song Jingle Bells up to play on the piano. Then people began to submit many songs for the piano. After about a year I got my friend Everett involved in producing the site and getting the name out there. From there we had a friend Ariel that made music. Ariel, Everett and I spent many afternoons recording sound samples,editing the samples, designing ui, making beats, ordering beats, designing t shirts, stickers, programming and barbecuing. Within the last year we brought Stephan on board. He has skinned the whole site with a new look this summer and has other good ideas in the works right now. Between the four of us, we have the website generating over two million views a month. The site is popular all over the world and continues to grow. Thanks for being part of ButtonBeats.
Pretty cool I don't know why people keep saying the audio is bad. It sounds great on my Droid Turbo and even better over the JLab Crasher. Fantastic creative time killer! I'm lovin' it!
Its awesome but The record quality is bad. Have it so you can record on the device then save it to where you want to save it. But Not Use Speaker. It Sounds Bad. Other than that I would rate it a five star.
The best! I've tried so many dub step games and non we're as good as this one and plus ifnu guys didn't know there is more of these by the same person.
All of them are cool Just push, play,& I'm playing with my, 3, year, old son, pretty cool, but YOU CANT, BEAT THE REAL, THING & THATS MAKIN MUSIC THAT, HAS ATTITUDE& EMOTION HE LIKE DRUMS I PLAY GUITAR IN EVIL INCARNATE& ADYINGNOVEL REAL IS THE, BEST .
I love it but one problem I made 5 awesome beats out of this app but the recording quality is horrible. I want to record it but the audio is horrible because you have to record it from the speaker. Can you add a mode that records inside the app, not the speaker for HD audio?
Fun It's been fun using this app. Iv been trying to see how my songs came out but that's been hard to do. I wish I could listen to them before deciding weather or not to upload them to the SoundCloud.
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ICYMI: Rep. Kelly Makes Huffington Post's List of Most Passionate Rants and Speeches of the Obama Presidency
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We arrived early at Versailles Palace in order to avoid the crowds and it was a good thing we did. As it turned out, the National Monuments workers across France were working to rule and did not allow access to the palace until 11:00am (it was supposed to open at 9:00am). We waited in line for two and a half hours to buy a ticket. The line in the foreground is for the ticket office while that in the background is to enter the grounds. When we did finally get in, the crowds were horrendous and many parts of the palace remained closed. Quite a disappointment for people who had travelled as far as we had and especially our Aussie friends who had come half way round the world. Vive le France!
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Recommended PC for CFD
In the near future, I will have to buy a new PC for running CFD programs (FLUENT). Typical problems will require about 500k-1M+ cells with turbulence and chemical reactions. In most cases only one license and one machine will be used for running.
Could somebody recommend a viable PC that could handle this kind of jobs? I am not looking for top of the line or most exepensive machine, rather something that has a good ratio of performance/price, assuming that probably in one year I will be upgrading and buying something better anyway.
What would be the important features of "ideal" CFD-PC?
- lots of fast memory, 2GB or more should probably be enough
- fast and big HDD, maybe 200GB SATA/PATA?
- fastest possible MB/CPU? intel/ADM?, dual cpu, dual core, front bus speed, hypherthreading, cache...? here I am confused and not sure what is of first importance for running CFD jobs
- Graphics card? something like ATI Radeon 9600XT should be good enough?
- display? probably something like 21" or Dell 24" LCD with enough of pixels "real estate" for concurrent working on geometry/meshing, running, previewing etc; or maybe two smaller displays (17"-19") side by side with dual graphics card?
- brandname? Dell, HP?
any comments, recommendations, own experience would be appreciated
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Ask the Fluent folks. They should have some experience, and they may be able to put you in touch with other customers who have already answered your question.
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well, as I mentioned in another thread, you MUST have a nice video card to display Fluent graphics or you will run into problems. - 256k.
tomshardware.com will explain to you all about motherboards, cpus, videocards, RAM, etc etc.
I have had good experiences with PCUSA.com, Tigerdirect.com and Monarchcomputers.com. I have used Giga-byte, Asus, and MSI mobo's with my favorite being MSI because of the extras the boards come with.
Also, pricewatch.com is a good place to check on prices.
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At home I use a Dell XPS gen 5 to run star-cd. It has a 3.0 GHz dual core pentium chip, 3 gig memory, 800 MHz front side bus, nvida video card and a 24" Dell LCD monitor and dual 200 gig SATA HDD. My idea was to get a gamer's machine and adapt it, and it works well. Gamers want fast machines, so I read gamer's magaizines (hardware type only) and went with the fastest of everything I could find. My OS is XP/Pro. The problem with that is that it is a 32 bit system, so will only use 3 gig memory. I have heard that the 64 bit XP/Pro doesn't have all the drivers for gaming machines available.
By the way, you do not need dual video cards to run dual monitors.
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If you are often going to be doing running and meshing at the same time, or using parallel processing part of the time, the most cost-effective solution will be a dual-core CPU. If it will mostly be doing just runs on a single serial (no parallel) license, the best option would be the fastest single core CPU. The performance of the dual-core CPU's seems to scale more or less with clock speed on a given platform, so a dual-core 3.0 GHz P4 runs a single process job at about 80% of the speed of a single core 3.6 GHz chip. But of course you have the option of running parallel with the dual core. Although the widely published games benchmarks show a large performance advantage for AMD over Intel, the difference in Fluent is smaller, but it is still there, and worth having. The SPECfpRATE benchmark for the dual-core Intel CPU's (such as the 830D) suggest that a single 830D chip is as good as two single core 3.6 GHz Xeon CPU's. This is not true in Fluent, where the 3.6 GHz Xeons lead by almost exactly their clock speed margin.
I would suggest getting 4GB of RAM, but in 32-bit Windows mode, your Fluent jobs will be limited to 2GB, unless you can use parallel. It sounds like your jobs could get close to the 2GB limit. If you are comfortable with Linux, it makes sense to go with 64-bit Linux and Fluent. But in that case get an NVidia graphics card, their Linux driver support is very good. Might be worth asking Fluent when a 64-bit Windows version is due out.
200 GB SATA drive sounds fine, but consider getting two for backup purposes.
A half decent 3d games card is likely to be plenty good enough, unless you are aiming to do some very sophisticated graphics post-processing.
On monitors, you really need at least 1600 X 1200 resolution.
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Asking Fluent folks might work, and it might not. In my case they did not know, when I asked about a year ago. What we did was to contact two providers and ask for a test computer. We then benchmarked the two computers against each other (using Fluent). Although my personal preference is AMD we found out that the difference in Fluent between AMD and Intel is not all that big (as mentioned previously in this thread).
If you have the time to build your own system I would opt for that. Workstations usually have a very high cost associated with just the word "workstation". You can also buy a cheap system from any of the big companies (dell, Hp, etc,) and modify it yourself, since they usually tend to have really good prices, but lacking some critical component. They then hope that the customer will upgrade the critical component to a premium price. --> buy the critical component from a cheap external source and you have a cheap system ;)
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I mostly agree with Charles...
Except that if you are paying for your Fluent License then you really shouldn't skimp on CPU power to save a few $. The computer workstation costs a small portion of the total CFD cost (10-15%) so doubling up on workstation cost to get a 20% improvement in performance is actually cost effective.
Otherwise if you are not paying for your Fluent licenses then you really don't have an excuse not to spend more on your workstation ;)
I would suggest a 64bit machine, I understand that solving chemistry is best done in double precision. A 32bit workstation is significantly slowed down when running in double precision mode where as a 64bit workstation is ideally suited to such a task, and suffers minimal slowdown over single precision.
If you are doing complex CAD to mesh operations then don't skimp on the Graphics. One possibility is a NVIDA Quadro FX 4000 256Mb. Take note of Charles' comment about Linux.
Dual core machines (2 Processors on one chip) are not suitable as they have a performance reduction over single core processors. This is due to the need to share resources such as memory access. They also suffer from increased heat production and so are only available at reduced clock speeds compared to single core chips. Remember that the most expensive part is the license and a dual core processor will require two licenses. The speedup when using a Dual Core processor vs. a Single Core processor is of the order of 180% and not 200%. See http://Fluent.com "Server Application Single-to-Dual Core Scaling 1-4P Servers"
Dual machines (2 CPUs on the motherboard) offer reduced maintenance (e.g. 1 computer vs. two) and with the AMD Opteron architecture there is little to no performance reduction, as they are not sharing resources as in the case of the Intel Xeon architecture. AMD Opteron 852 is 9-87% faster than the Itanium 2 1.6GHz and the AMD Opteron 248 is faster (15-20%) than the Xeon 3.2GHz 2MB L3 cache. See http://www.fluent.com/software/fluen...ch/fullres.htm for more details.
Memory is a difficult to spec, a large grid could be anything from 3 to 9 million cells in size. Requiring from 6 to 18 Gb of memory using the segregated solver and 12 to 32 Gb using the coupled implicit solver (values estimated from current use). But in this case you would most likely need a parallel license to get reasonable run times, so you can spread the memory requirement over more than one machine (unless you are using multi processor/multi core machines)
Note that a 32bit machine is limited to 4Gb of memory and memory bandwidth has a direct performance implication when dealing with large amounts of data such as is the case in any CFD solution. The AMD Opteron architecture has proven to have excellent memory bandwidth, better than what is found in the Intel Pentium/Xeon architecture. Also the Opteron does not suffer significant degradation in bandwidth when running two processes simultaneously. Due to the impact that memory bandwidth has on CFD system performance it is highly recommended that the fastest memory available be used (DDR400).
DDR memory is currently the most common type of memory available. DDR2 is a revision of DDR that will offer higher speeds in the future but currently has little to no performance advantage over regular DDR. There is also a trade-off between memory size and speed as the faster memory cards (400+) are not readily available in the larger sizes.
Get two HDD and run them in Raid. Well worth the investment. I still don't know if a really fast SCSI interface is worth the price.
Hyper-Threading = BAD, this will require two licenses to run on a single processor, until the licensing recognizes Hyper-Threading as a single CPU.
I have used a Fijitsu Siemens Celsius Workstation Running Red Hat with great success.
Note that this information comes from a recent survey that I did to try choose the best workstation for our CFD work. There may be errors and miscalculations, so do your own homework.
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Gus makes an important point about relative costs of software and hardware. To a first approximation, if paying commercial license fees, the ratio of hardware:software:labour cost is something like 10%:30%:60% , so saving on hardware is false economy. I have done some benchmarking, and running 2 processes parallel in double precision produced the following times for a given number of iterations:
Dual CPU Xeon 3.6 (106 seconds), Dual CPU Opteron 252 (92 seconds), Dual core 3.0 GHz P4 830 D (113 seconds).
So the advantage is with the dual CPU Opteron. It is not a huge lead, but it is worth having. All systems used the same Fedora Core 4 64-bit Linux and 64-bit Fluent. The Opteron's lead over Xeon is about 15%, and not the 33% one would expect based on SPECfpRATE. My guess is that a version of the code exclusively optimised for Opteron would stretch its lead closer to 30%, but with a commercial solver that's not really an option.
Double precision slowdown in 64-bit mode is marginally better than in 32-bit mode, but the difference is suprisingly small (Speed ratio goes from 71% [32-bit mode] to 75% [64-bit mode] for Xeon. For Opteron it is around 79% in 64-bit mode). The slowdown is really just due to shifting more data to and from the memory. The Intel systems suffer from a bit of bandwidth contention, but there is actually a lot of bandwidth available.
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About the benchmark; When we benchmarked Fluent we found that there was a performance relation that was time dependant when comparing intel and amd. This was some time ago and the tested cpus were a amd 3500+ and a 3.6 GHz intel. The amd system was faster initially but as the calculations leveled out the intel system gained on the amd system.. I have no idea why this occured. Anyway it would be interesting to see if the same happens with your systems.
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Maybe a much faster disk system on the AMD, which gives a quicker start-up? Alternative would be an AMD system that reduced clock speed when it heated up, although that's more of an Intel trick.
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Size of RAM does matter, so, minimum RAM ought to be 2GB, however, HDD has nothing to do with speed; that depends on how much work you want to do. Secondly, I'll suggest highest possible L2 cache since CFD is matrix based work and matrices need higher L2 cache for higher speeds. Another thing, its better to have dual core and run parallels, however, upto 1M grid density, single processor does a good enough job.
Now most important thing is your budget. Because the best are still Alpha Processors, much faster, much better. Then the OS you use.
It's never like if you use everything of top most ratings it will work faster, it might be slower than a normal PC. Most important thing is synchronization of components, that's why get a better company's system. Dell is good, HP or Compaq better than that.
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Studies will be conducted to evaluate a Lunar Tug concept utilizing Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma Rocket (VASIMR) engine capabilities from Low Earth Orbit to Lunar Orbit and libration points. NASA/JSC intends to purchase these services from Ad Astra Rocket Company. Adequate relevant cooling of the High Temperature Superconducting(HTSC) magnets require the conversion ofthe original HTSC magnet facility to utilize space-relevant cryo-cooler technology that has not yet been utilized under conditions that are relevant to VASIMR operation inspace.
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VASIMR has advantages over other competing plasma rockets due to its electrode-less design and its use of inexpensive and abundant propellants such as argon, neon and hydrogen. Other systems tend to suffer from wear and erosion of electrodes immersed in the hot plasma; also, the use of Xenon propellant in these systems tends to make them much more expensive to operate. The current price of commercial Xenon is about $2000/kg vs. Argon at about $40/kg.
In 2009, Ad Astra demonstrated the full power operation of the 200kW VX-200, the first VASIMR flight-like prototype. This test will pave the way for the design and construction of the VF-200, the first flight unit, expected to be launched into space in late 2013.
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For robotic resupply missions to future human lunar outposts, Ad Astra is designing a 2MW solar powered VASIMR lunar tug capable of delivering more than twice the payload to the Moon (~34MT,) as compared to the all-chemical stage presently envisioned (~16MT.) Such enhancements in payload capability could result in savings of up to $400M/year over the present lunar resupply architecture.
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