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Larrabee team member speaks on rasterization for the future
Subject: Graphics Cards | April 25, 2008 - 12:00 PM | Ryan Shrout
We have talked many, many times about Larrabee in the last several years and we consider ourselves to be pretty knowledgeable on the subject. It's always interesting to see some new comments on the topic though and it turns out one of Larrabee's developers at Intel posted a bit on their blog on the subject of rasterization on the new GPU architecture.
Let's page through his comments if we can:
not sure how the message got so muddled. I think in our quest to just
keep our heads down and get on with it, we've possibly been a bit too
quiet. So some comments about exciting new rendering tech got
misinterpreted as our one and only plan. Larrabee's tech enables many
fascinating possibilities, and we're excited by all of them. But this
current confusion has got a lot of developers worried about us breaking
their games and forcing them to change the way they do things. That's
not the case, and I apologise for any panic.
I'd have to agree with him - a large portion of Intel's push into the graphics market with Larrabee seemed to be centered on ray tracing and only in recent months has the discussion of rasterization really taken a front seat at all. We first heard of it from John Carmack directly - he was the first to really verify that Larrabee would rasterize and HAD to in fact.
games out there, and that's the way they were designed to run - the
conventional rasterisation pipeline. That has been the goal for the
Larrabee team from day one, and it continues to be the primary focus of
the hardware and software teams. We take triangles, we rasterise them,
we do Z tests, we do pixel shading, we write to a framebuffer. There's
plenty of room within that pipeline for innovation to last us for many
years to come. It's done very nicely for over a quarter of a century,
and there's plenty of life in the old thing yet.
Larrabee up close
Obviously this is something we have come to realize ourselves - rasterization isn't going anywhere. There isn't any mention of how well the Larrabee architecture does perform on this type of pipeline but the fact that he claims the team has focused on that from day one is at least a good sign.
raytracer. It's going to be the world's most awesome chip at a lot of
heavy computing tasks - that's the joy of total programmability
combined with serious number-crunching power. But that is cool stuff
for those that want to play with wacky tech. We're not assuming
everybody in the world will do this, we're not forcing anyone to do so,
and we certainly can't just do it behind their backs and expect things
to work - that would be absurd. Raytracing on Larrabee is a fascinating
research project, it's an exciting new way of thinking about rendering
scenes, just like splatting or voxels or any number of neat ideas, but
it is absolutely not the focus of Larrabee's primary rendering
capabilities, and never has been - not even for a moment.
And here is the crux: while the Larrabee architecture will be GOOD at ray tracing according to this post, they will not be asking people to move to that type of rendering anytime soon. If that's the case then much of our ray tracing and rasterization concerns could be at ease. However, we might still be seeing one half of conflicting internal debates and the possibility remains that Larrabee will perform poorly enough in rasterization that ray tracing is way to make the product stand out. Obviously this is something we just don't know yet.
pipelines go fast using far more conventional methods. When we talk
about the rendering pipeline changing beyond what people currently
know, we're talking about using something a lot less radical than
raytracing. Still very exciting for game developers - stuff they've
been asking for ages that other IHVs have completely failed to
deliver on. There's some very exciting changes to the existing graphics
pipelines coming up if developers choose to enable the extra quality
and consistency that Larrabee can offer. But these are incremental
changes, and they will remain completely under game developers' control
- if they don't want to use them, we will look like any other fast
video card. We would not and could not change the rendering behaviour
of the existingAPIs.
This is kind of interesting and if I were to hazard a guess I'd say that he is referring to a more robust data-sharing caching structure and nearly complete programmability compared to even the latest G80 or RV670 architectures from NVIDIA and AMD.
We can surely hope to see more of this kind of information from Intel and the team that works on Larrabee - it is important for the media, developers and gamers to see what Intel has in store for them in the world of PC gaming if we are to truly be excited and accepting of Intel's first entry to the world of discrete graphics in quite some time.
More soon!!!
More Reading on Gaming and Ray Tracing:
- John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more
- NVIDIA Comments on Ray Tracing and Rasterization Debate
- Ray Tracing and Gaming - One Year Later
- Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics
- Ray Tracing and Gaming - Quake 4: Ray Traced Project
- Intel buys Project Offset, makers of the Offset engine
- Intel demonstrates ray tracing on ultra-mobile PCs
- Playstation 3 Runs Real-time Ray tracing
- His future's so bright ... he's gotta ray trace shade
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GLASGOW band Deacon Blue are back touring, 25 years after their first album.
Ronnie Buchanan in Larkhall tells us his brother-in-law was in the gents during the break at their concert last week, when two well-dressed ladies appeared saying they weren't waiting in the lengthy queue at the ladies.
Says Ronnie: "A cubicle was duly made available and they both squeezed in. In the confused silence that followed a lone male voice shouted, 'Mind ladies when yer done, leave the seat up'."
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IT'S that time of year when company canteens serve up traditional Christmas dinners. A Glasgow office worker tells us he was queuing at his staff canteen this time last year when the wee wummin behind the counter asked the customer in front of him holding a plate of turkey and chipolatas: "Do you want to put the gravy on yirsel?"
It was too good an opportunity to miss as the chap replied: "Naw – it'll ruin the suit. Just put it oan the turkey."
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AND Christmas Party nights are in full swing at hotels around the country. Martyn James, compere and magician at The Leapark Hotel in Grangemouth, told the audience the other night that he had changed his career to showbusiness after a serious accident. He says he suffered a broken neck – and "hasn't looked back since".
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READER Davie Adams was seeking religious-themed postage stamps for his Christmas cards rather than the red-nosed reindeer ones more readily available. Says Davie: "The assistant in one Post Office told me he had offered a woman either reindeer or Madonna and Child stamps. 'Aw, gie us Rudolf,' she replied, "Ah cannae staun' that Madonna wumman, takin' thae weans away frae Africa.'"
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THE Smeddum Test, an anthology of award-winning contemporary Scottish poetry, includes Sheila Templeton's Last Train to Ayr which she wrote after being unable to get on a train to Ayr from Glasgow as it was packed with Scottish football fans after a game at Hampden.
Says Sheila: "It was just impossible to squeeze another body in. Nothing unusual in that, of course, but as I stood there on the platform, extremely frustrated, I had to laugh, watching the train ticket man literally running along, physically pushing in big bellies so that the electronic doors would close. I'd never seen anyone do that before."
Yes, the beer belly as poetic inspiration – only in Glasgow.
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Mike Knuble scored the go-ahead goal 5:25 into the third period Thursday and Philadelphia held on to defeat Pittsburgh 4-3.
R.J. Umberger had a goal and two assists while Randy Jones and Jimmy Vandermeer also scored for the Flyers, who go into the All-Star break sharing the Atlantic Division lead with New Jersey at 59 points.
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Organisers of the 8th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 announced a further 12-African and overseas artists that will perform at this year's festival scheduled for Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March.
The 12-names that were revealed to the media today at the Johannesburg's Standard Bank Gallery join the initial line-up of 22-groups announced in January. A total of 40-acts will perform over the two days on five stages at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). Select bands will also perform at the Free Community Concert to be held at Cape Town's Greenmarket Square on Thursday 29 March. The pre-festival concert has become a permanent feature of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and is the organisers' commitment to community members who cannot make it to the paid sessions of the event.
From the new list of artists announced today, it is clear that the events organisers espAfrika (Pty) Ltd are sticking to the formula that has won the festival the accolade of "Africa's Grandest Gathering". "The line-up this year is consistent with our vision of the festival being a platform to showcase Africa's best and the finest internationally. We maintain the 50/50 split between African artists and musicians from the rest of the world. We have also stuck to our formula where the Cape Town International Jazz Festival brings together jazz and other jazz-related experimental genres", says the festival director Rashid Lombard.
The 12-artists announced today are: Leela James (US), Gino Vannelli (Canada), Average White Band (US and Scotland), Themba Mkhize (RSA), Darius Brubeck & the SAPO/UKZN Rolling Reunion Band (RSA and US), Ernest Mothle Quartet (RSA), Saskia Laroo (Holland), Hip Hop Pantsula (RSA), The Stoner (Sweden), Closet Snare (RSA), Yehya Khalil & the Egyptian Jazz Fusion (Egypt) and Bheki Khoza (RSA)
Music of the 1970s to reverberate at this year's festival
Since inauguration in 2000, the popular sounds of the 1970s have swept audiences at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This year will be no different. To bring yesteryear's music is Canadian vocalist Gino Vannelli and US-based funk unit called the Average White Band (AWB).
A recording musician for more than three decades, Gino Vannelli's jazz-inflected pop songs hit the Billboard charts in the 1970s and 1980s. His 1978 tune "I Just Wanna Stop", won him a Grammy nomination. In the last 10-years, Vanelli released serene recordings as he turned to more acoustic music. This is after he relocated to Oregon and immersed himself in a study of world religions and philosophy. But his latest release, These Are the Days echoes the pop sounds of the earlier period, albeit with the experience of the 1980s and 1990s.
But the coup for this year's Cape Town International Jazz Festival is the signing of the Average White Band (AWB). With its origins in Scotland, the group moved in the mid-1970s across the Atlantic Ocean and signed with Atlantic Records where they became stable mates of groups such as the Spinners, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack and Aretha Franklin. The soul and funk bug that was all over the US, had really got to them. They began to produce hits such "Pick Up the Pieces"; "Cut the Cake" and "Let's Go Around Again"; which saw them garnering support throughout the world.
While the band's name will definitely raise eyebrows among South Africans oblivious to the group's fame, AWB's appearance at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 provides an opportunity for the group to connect with their huge fan base in the country. Audiences will also be treated to the music in the band's latest CD, Soul & the City. But more importantly, those who heard AWB's riffs from samples by hip-hop and rap artists like Public Enemy and Ice-T; now have the opportunity to hear the fast and brassy sounds from the real originators of the music.
But it is not only the veterans of the 1970s that will tap into the soul and funk reservoir of 30-years ago. As shown in previous years of the festival, there exist a new crop of young artists who seek inspiration from the soul era of the 1970s. Among the musicians added to the initial line-up is the reigning queen of nu-soul, Leela James. She brings with her, the 6-piece band that features in her 2005 debut album, A Change is Gonna Come. "I want my music to bring back good lyrics and real singing that touch people in their hearts and melodies that stick to their ribs and nourish the soul", says the 23-year old vocalist describing the music that fuses soul, gospel and Motown.
Yehya Khalil leads the African contingent at the CTIJF 2007
Leading the African troupe is percussionist and drummer Yehya Khalil. In 1957, Khalil formed the first jazz band in Egypt, which is where the title of being the father of Egyptian jazz comes from. Fifty years after his historic move, Khalil is still active in North Africa's jazz scene. In addition to his weekly performances at the Cairo Jazz Club, Khalil hosts a television programme called the "Jazz World". He has also played with artists such as James Brown, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Celebrated US-trumpeter described Khalil as "possibly the greatest drummer alive".
Khalil appears at this year's Cape Town International Jazz Festival with his Egyptian Jazz Fusion band. They will dish what is a mix of jazz and Mediterranean music.
Part of Africa's contingent at this year's festival is pianist Themba Mkhize, bassist Ernest Mothle, and pianist Darius Brubeck. All three will lead their own bands at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007.
When singer Sibongile Khumalo described pianist Themba Mkhize as "the one with big ears", this was not to mock him but to praise his musicality and his attention to detail. Mkhize produced Khumalo's first three albums. Recently, the pianist who hails from the province of KwaZulu-Natal produced Pat Matshikiza, Nokukhanya Dlamini, Andile Mseleku and Geoff Mapaya's CDs. Mkhize has also directed numerous concerts and musicals. To have won the confidence of other musicians means that there is something that Mkhize possesses and that other musicians appreciate.
It is Mkhize's compositional and arranging abilities that have made him a well sought-after artist. Everything that he lays he hands on, wins. His last album Hands On brought him a 2005 South African Music Award (SAMA) in the best male artist category. No newcomer at the Cape International Jazz Festival, Mkhize is at this year's festival with his mixture of jazz and indigenous grooves.
Ernest Mothle was the bassist of choice for many of South Africa's jazz musicians in the 1960s. Emerging as a member of the African Jazz and Variety Band, Mothle went to play for Hesebeshu with Cyril Magubane, Nelson Magwaza, Henry and Stanley Sithole. He also did a stint with Gibson Kente's first professional musical, Manana - The Jazz Prophet. He was also in Kente's famous Lifa and Sikhalo plays. Mothle played bass in the first-ever recording of Mankunku Ngozi's Yakhal' Inkomo which was done at South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) studios for airplay and never released.
When he left for exile in 1972, Mothle connected up with other jazz exiles such as Julian Bahula, Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor. Since his return to South Africa, Mothle is involved in developing young musicians through institutions such as Mmabana Cultural Foundation in Mafikeng and the Vusi Mahlasela Musical Development Foundation based at the State Theatre in Tshwane.
Bheki Khoza: Last year, an idea to pay a tribute to legendary South African guitarist Philip Tabane came up. The challenge was to find a person that could arrange Tabane's music as well as direct the concert. Given Tabane's unpredictable grooves, the arranger and musical director had to have the ability to take Tabane's earthy compositions and arrange them for a big band and string quartet. And the left-handed guitarist Bheki Khoza was the only suitable candidate for the job.
Over the years, Bheki Khoza has emerged not only as a skilled guitarist but a very astute arranger and musical director. Three years back, he had the task of directing the music for the movie, Sophiatown. He is also the producer of Simphiwe Dana's recently released album, One Love Movement - On Bantu Biko Street. Khoza's musical roots go back to Durban's township of Chesterville - where he was born and a township that has produced not less than six well-known guitarists. His musical journey took him through Ntemi Piliso's African Jazz Pioneers and to the US where he obtained a music degree, with distinction, at Jackie McLean's University of Hartford jazz studies programme.
In 2006, Bheki Khoza released his debut album, Getting to Heaven Alive. The CD bears testimony to Khoza's ability to combine jazz with maskandi music. He is at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 to perform music from his new album.
Darius Brubeck is the descendant of the US-based Brubeck jazz dynasty. Since 1983 he has been running a jazz studies programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) - a programme that offered the first jazz degree course in Africa. He also co-led a band with bassist Victor Ntoni called the Afro-Cool Concept. The other members of the quartet were saxophonist Barney Rachabane and drummer Lulu Gontsana The group performed all over the world and in 1990 he made a live recording at the New Orleans & Heritage Festival. The band's second album came out in 2005 with bassist Bongani Sokhela replacing Ntoni on the CD.
Brubeck appears at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 with the SAPO/UKZN Rolling Reunion Band. The band brings together the jazz alumni of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The group premiered last year at the South African Association of Jazz Educators (SAJE) conference, and at the Awesome Africa Musical festival in September 2006.
Two cutting-edge European groups added to new line-up
From Europe is an audacious Swedish quartet The Stoner and indomitable Dutch trumpeter, Saskia Laroo. The Stoner is a band that fuses traditional jazz and popular music. The band's 2004 debut album had as a title song, "Upp till kamp" - a pop tune that ABBA's Benny Andersson wrote for the 1990 Equestrian Games, which were held in Stockholm. The group's second album, The Lektor Tapes saw saxophonist Nils Berg, bassist Nils Olmedal, pianist Jonas Ostholm and drummer Jon Falt in a conversation with an electronica outfit known as Forss vs. Borg. Band leader Nils Berg described the encounter as a test on 'whether two computers could communicate with a jazz band'.
Saskia Laroo, in addition to being a guest artist to bands in far-flung places such Lithuania, Russia, Poland and the US, leads four different groups of her own - Jazzkia that plays straight-ahead jazz; Salsabop anchored in Latin music; Saskia Laroo Band which excels in dance music; and Sakia's Solo Act where Laroo appears with DJs.
It is the ease with which Laroo moves between these varied musical styles which has earned her the title of being "The Lady Miles of Europe". Her appearance at "Africa's Grandest Gathering" fits well with the organisers' vision of the festival as the bringing together of jazz with its popular siblings and children.
Cape Town International Jazz Festival: A Space for Jazz-Related Experimental Genres
To the chagrin of "jazz purists and policemen", the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has from inception been a space also, for jazz-related experimental genres. In the additional list of 12 artists, it was announced that two groups that fall into the "jazz-related experimental genres" category will perform at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007. They are Closet Snare (RSA) and Hip-Hop Pantsula (RSA)
Closet Snare is the coming together of trumpeter Lee Thomson, guitarist Marc Buchanan, bassist Sean Ou Tim, drummer Kesivan Naidoo and DJ Sibot. Besides being members of Closet Snare, members of this Cape Town-based group are active in bands such as Tribe, Golliwog and Real Estate Agents. What brought them together is the longing to "produce music without any boundaries, genres or trends". Having performed together since November 2005, the group has developed a following for what they call "free and improvised electronic music". A video jockey, VJ Grrrl will join the five musicians on stage, to create a vivid musical and visual experience.
Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) is the stage name for Jabulani Tsambo's outfit. HHP is one of the pioneers of Motswako - hip hop and rap music sang in Setswana. As the name indicates, HHP's music takes music styles such as rap, hip hop and kwaito and fuses them with the pantsula music of the 1980s. From HHP's latest and fourth album, it is clear that the artist is eager to extend his appeal beyond North West's Mafikeng town which is where it all began for Jabba (another name for HHP). Although YBA 2 NW, is still steeped in HHP's Motswako style and has commentary on the changes that took place in his hometown which was the capital of the homeland of Bophuthatswana and now is a capital of North West province, the new album incorporates elements that talk to other experiences. The album has English and Afrikaans rap lines. "Lefatshe Je", heavily borrows from the churchly-format of Amadodana Ase-Wesile.
CTIJF 2007 to be an outstanding event
The 12-artists announced join the 22-groups already confirmed. The first artists announced are: the Joe Sample Trio feat. Randy Crawford (US); Ladysmith Black Mambazo (RSA); Jack DeJohnette (US) and Sibongile Khumalo (RSA) - 'Intercontinental' with Danilo Perez (Panama), Jerome Harris (US), Byron Wallen (UK) and Jason Yarde (UK); The Caribbean Jazz Project feat. Paquito D'Rivera (Cuba), Dave Samuels (US) and Andy Narell (US); Vivid Afrika (RSA); Concord Nkabinde (RSA); Esther Miller (RSA) feat. special guest Jeremy Pelt (US); Bev Scott-Brown (RSA); Muirhead Quartet (RSA); Fethi Tabet (Algeria); Shannon Mowday (RSA); Lira (RSA); Diego Amador (Spain); Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band (RSA); Rudimentals (RSA); Nils Landgren & Funk Unit (Sweden); Hilton Schilder (RSA); Konitz Quartet (US); Stimela (RSA); Tortured Soul (US); and Gerri Allen Trio (US) feat. Jimmy Cobb.
The choice and calibre of the artists on the line-up, undoubtedly shows that this year's Cape Town International Jazz Festival will be an outstanding event. Tickets are available from Computicket. A day pass is R290 and a two-day weekend pass will cost R430. As in previous years, there is an extra R25 for each of the eight shows (out of a total of 40) that take place on the Rosies stage.
The Gold sponsors for the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 are South African Airways, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Standard Bank, Department of Arts and Culture and South African Rail Commuter Association (SARCC)
Marius Vorster, Director: Group Sponsorships, Communications and Events for Standard Bank said: "Standard Bank is excited and honoured to once again be a gold sponsor of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. It has been an exciting opportunity for us, a way for us to connect with our customers the Standard Bank way - through our values; centered on making a difference in the communities we serve. We understand the richness, diversity and value of the arts in building a society and have hence, stayed in the forefront through investment in various art disciplines."
Mr. Kaizer Kganyago Head: Group Communications SABC said: "The 8th Cape Town International jazz festival comes at a time when the SABC has just adopted a new strategy and a new vision of "Broadcasting for Total Citizen Empowerment". The vision is supported by three values. i.e.: Conversations and partnerships; Restoring human dignity and Building a common future". "SABC3 will broadcast a 90 minute documentary. Other channels and especially our radio channels will support the Cape Town International Jazz Festival as we build up to the actual event - live crossings and Outside Broadcasts will form part of our offering to the citizens of our country who will not be able to attend Africa's grandest gathering"
"Music has for decades, united individuals and cultures from different backgrounds and offered appreciation of one another. It is this unity and common appreciation and understanding for one another through music, which make us at South African Airways so proud to be part of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival," says Jacqui O'Sullivan, SAA Head Corporate Communications and Corporate Social Investment.
Pule Mabe, spokesperson for SARCC said: Our primary business is to provide an integrated, seamless transport system for the South African Public. Our aim is to give the best to our most valued treasure - the commuter - through the provision of safe and comfortable rail service.
We are proud to be associated with the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, we believe that our involvement and participation in this exciting adventure will further enhance and entrench the strength of rail as the preferred mode of both long and short distance travel. Otherrelated spin-offs like jobs ring fenced for commuters bear testimony to our total allegiance and commitment to realise Government growth plan as expressed through the Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa. Hamba Nathi as we put rail on the map through Jazz.
The Mayor of Cape Town, Helen Zille said: "On behalf of the City of Cape Town I would like to encourage Cape Town's jazz lovers to come out in their numbers to this year's Cape Town International Jazz Festival. I would also like to thank the organisers and performers for all their hard work in putting together this wonderful event. We owe you a debt of gratitude for the colour and style that you bring to Cape Town's cultural scene. The City remains committed to doing all that we can to promote the heritage of jazz music, and I would like to encourage the leaders in the private sector to join the City and Province in providing financial and any other kind of assistance they can for the festival. If we work together, this annual event will be able to grow and provide a bigger platform for our local artists, while at the same time giving the people of Cape Town the chance to enjoy a range of international jazz talent".
The Silver sponsor is Pilsner Urquell, and other secondary sponsors and/or funding principals include Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports, City of Cape Town, SA Tourism, South Atlantic Arts & Culture Trust, Swedish Jazz Foundation, Iziko, ZASE JAZZ, Telkom, Cape Town Partnership, Cape Town Routes Unlimited, SA Ports Operations, Peninsula Beverages, Alliance Francais, Embassy of Spain, French Republic, IFAS and the Egyptian Embassy Travel packages are available from South African Airways (SAA) which is one of the gold sponsors of the event at +27 11 9781144 or www.flysaa.com
Further Reading: www.capetownjazzfest.com/


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Awakened is said to extend the campaign by several hours. According to Polygon, the DLC's events take place on the CMS Terra Nova after the ending of the game. Isaac Clarke and John Carver must face off against the Unitology cult and its army of pet necromorphs.
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Breslow thickness: A method for determining the prognosis with melanoma. The thickness of a melanoma is related to the 5-year survival rate after surgical removal of the tumor.
Named for the physician Alexander Breslow who in 1975 observed that as the thickness of the tumor increases, the chance of survival goes down. For example, a thickness of the melanoma of less than 1.0 millimeters is associated with a 5-year survival of 97% of patients whereas a tumor thickness of more than 8.0 millimeters is associated with 5-year survival of 32%.
The Breslow thickness has come into wider use than an older system, the Clark level of invasion, a method devised by the pathologist Wallace Clark for measuring the depth of penetration of a melanoma into the skin according to anatomic layer (the epidermis, dermis, and the subcutis) of deepest tumor penetration.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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I urge citizens to join me in supporting Ron Wambolt for City Council. I moved to Edmonds in 2001 when my late husband, David Stern, accepted the job as Edmonds Police Chief.
I see in Mr. Wambolt many of the same qualities that my husband possessed: namely, the highest integrity and ethics, being extremely knowledgeable about the critical issues facing our community, and a true investment in the well-being of Edmonds and its citizens.
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text: Hello, Can somebody point me out the exact CVS location of the State Monad implementation that ships with GHC? I am a bit lost in the CVS directory structure ... Related to this, I saw the following thread: http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg17702.html Which seems to hint that there are 2 alternative implementations for the State Monad: one lazy version and one more strict version. Is this correct? What I am really trying to find out is if the version that ships with GHC is the strict version. At least I am inclined to think that, since a program that I expected to terminate is not terminating ... Finally, if there are indeed two versions, can somebody write (or point me out) the two different implementations. Thanks, Bruno


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Fix Version/s: flexscoring branch
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With LUCENE-3174 done, we can finally work on implementing the standard ranking models. Currently DFR, BM25 and LM are on the menu.
- EasyStats: contains all statistics that might be relevant for a ranking algorithm
- EasySimilarity: the ancestor of all the other similarities. Hides the DocScorers and as much implementation detail as possible
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a few comments (it generally looks close to me):
- maybe we should use 'numberOfDocuments' instead of 'docNo' and same with 'numberOfFieldTokens'? this might make the naming more clear
- i'm worried about 'uniqueTermCount', do you know of which implementations require this? this number is not accurate if the index has more than one segment.
- I was wondering about that too – actually docNo is a mistake, it should have been noDocs or noOfDocs anyway, but I guess I'll just go with numberOfDocuments.
- I'll put a nocommit there for the time being, and if no sims use it, I'll just remove it from the Stats. Terrier has it, though, so I guess there should be at least one method that depends on it.
I'll put a nocommit there for the time being, and if no sims use it, I'll just remove it from the Stats. Terrier has it, though, so I guess there should be at least one method that depends on it.
I've never seen one that did... I don't imagine us ever implementing this efficiently given that we support incremental indexing.
oh two more nitpicky comments:
- can you update the patch to use two-spaces instead of tabs? if you use eclipse, you can download this and configure this as your default codestyle: http://people.apache.org/~rmuir/Eclipse-Lucene-Codestyle.xml
- can you also remove the @author? For legal reasons (i think actually for your protection!) we omit these from new files.
- it might be a good idea to use the tag @lucene.experimental also for new classes: this is a template that 'ant-javadocs' replaces with "WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release." to tell users that its very new and not to expect precise backwards compatibility.
Oh, sorry, how lame of me Actually I am working now on a different machine than the one I usually do, so that's why I made those mistakes. Anyhow, I have fixed them.
one last thing, can we do 'numberOfFieldTokens' instead of noFieldTokens?
then I think we can commit this as a step, should make things a lot easier for experimentation, if you are new to lucene it will make life much easier.
EasySimilarity added. Lots of questions and nocommit in the code.
Just took a look, a few things that might help:
- yes the maxdoc does not reflect deletions, but neither does things like totalTermFreq or docFreq either... so its best to not worry about deletions in the scoring and to be consistent and use the stats (e.g. maxDoc, not numDocs) that do not take deletions into account.
- for the computeStats(TermContext... termContexts) its wierd to sum the DF across the different terms in the case? But i don't honestly have any suggestions here... maybe in this case we should make a EasyPhraseStats that computes the EasyStats for each term, so its not hiding anything or limiting anyone? and you could then do an instanceof check and have a different method like scorePhrase() that it forwards to in case its an EasyPhraseStats? In general i'm not sure how other ranking systems tend to handle this case, the phrase estimation for IDF in lucene's formula is done by summing the IDFs
Implementation of the DFR framework added. Lots of nocommits, though. I things to think about:
- lots of (float) conversions. Maybe the inner API (BasicModel, etc.) could use doubles? According to my experience, double is faster anyway, at least on 64bit architectures
- I am not overly happy about the naming scheme, i.e. BasicModelBE, etc. Maybe we should do it the same way as in Terrier, with a basicmodel package and class names like BE?
- A regular SimilarityProvider implementation won't play well with DFRSimilarity, in case the user wants to use several different setups. Actually, this is a problem for all similarities that have parameters (e.g. BM25 with b and k).
Also, I think we need that NormConverter we talked earlier on irc, so that the Similarities can run on any index.
Explanation-handling added to EasySimilarity and DFRSimilarity.
Information-based model framework due to Clinchant and Gaussier added.
- log2() moved from DFRSimilarity to EasySimilarity,
- changed DFRSimilarity so that it constructor does not use reflection.
Hi David: I had some ideas on stats to simplify some of these sims:
- I think we can use an easier way to compute average document length: sumTotalTermFreq() / maxDoc(). This way the average is 'exact' and not skewed by index-time-boosts, smallfloat quantization, or anything like that.
- To support pivoted unique normalization like lnu.ltc, I think we can solve this in a similar way: add sumDocFreq(), which is just a single long, and divide this by maxDoc. this gives us avg # of unique terms. I think terrier might have a similar stat (#postings or #pointers or something)?
so i think this could make for nice simplifications: especially for switching norms completely over to docvalues: we should be able to do #1 immediately right now, change the way we compute avgdoclen for e.g. BM25 and DFR.
then in a separate issue i could revert this norm summation stuff to make the docvalues integration simpler, and open a new issue for sumDocFreq()
- Fixed #1
- Added a totalBoost to EasySimilarity, and a getter method – noone uses it yet
- Added basic implementations for the Jelinek-Mercer and the Dirichlet LM methods.
As for the last one: the implementation is very basic now, I want to factor a few things out (e.g. p(w|C) to LMStats, possibly in a pluggable way so ppl can implement it however they want). It also doesn't seem right to have the same LM method implemented twice (both as MockLMSimilarity and here), so I'll take a look to see if I can merge those two. Finally, I am wondering whether I should implement the absolute discounting method, which, according to the paper, seems inferior to the Jelinek-Mercer and Dirichlet methods. Right now I am more on the "no" side.
Added LMSimilarity so that the two LM methods have a common parent. It also defines the CollectionModel interface which computes p(w|C) in a pluggable way (and only once per query, though I am not sure this improves performance as I need a cast in score()).
Made the score() and explain() methods in Similarity components final.
Hi David, this is looking really good! The patch is quite large so what i did was:
- re-sync flexscoring branch to trunk
- commit your patch as is (i did a tiny tweak for
I saw a couple things we should address (full review will really mean i have to take quite a bit of time for each model!)
But we can take care of some of this easy stuff first!
- numberOfFieldTokens seems to be the same as sumOfTotalTF? we should only have one name for this stat i think
- i like the idea of NoAfterAffect/NoNormalization in DFR, maybe we should make these ordinary classes, and in DFR we just don't allow null for any of the components? just thought it might look cleaner.
- some of the files in .similarities need apache license header.
- because we dont need the norm for averaging, maybe we should use lucene's encoding? we can pre-build the decode table like TF-IDF similarity, except our decode table is basically 1 / decode(float)^2 to give us the quantized doc length. from a practical perspective, this would mean someone could use this stuff with existing lucene indexes (once they upgrade their segments to 4.0's format), and easily switch between things without reindexing.
if you want, you can do these things on this issue or open separate issues, whichever is easiest. but i think looking at smaller patches at this point will make iteration easier!
Fixed two of the issues you mentioned:
- Apache license header added to all files in the similarities package;
- cleaned up the constructor of DFRSimilarity and added a few new ones.
I have not yet moved the NoNormalization and NoAfterEffect classes to their own files, because I feel a bit uncomfortable about the naming, since it's different from that of the other classes, e.g. NormalizationH2 vs NoNormalization.
I think I realized what I wanted with numberOfFieldTokens. I was afraid that sumTotalTermFreq is affected by norms / index time boost / etc, and I wanted to make numberOfFieldTokens to unaffected by those (I don't know now how); only I forgot to do so.
But if sumTotalTermFreq is really just the number of tokens in the field, I will delete one of them. Not sure which, because for me numberOfFieldTokens seems a more descriptive name than sumTotalTermFreq, but the latter is used everywhere in Lucene. May I ask your opinion on this question?
Not sure which, because for me numberOfFieldTokens seems a more descriptive name than sumTotalTermFreq
I think I agree with you: in the context of stats for scoring this might be the way to go, as its easier to understand.
Added norm decoding table to EasySimilarity, and removed sumTotalFreq. Sorry I could only upload this patch now but I didn't have time to work on Lucene the last week.
As I see, all the problems you mentioned have been corrected, so maybe we can go on with the review?
Hi David, i was thinking for the norm, we could store it like DefaultSimilarity. this would make it especially convenient, as you could easily use these similarities with the same exact index as one using Lucene's default scoring. Also I think (not sure!) by using 1/sqrt we will get better quantization from smallfloat?
public byte computeNorm(FieldInvertState state) { final int numTerms; if (discountOverlaps) numTerms = state.getLength() - state.getNumOverlap(); else numTerms = state.getLength(); return encodeNormValue(state.getBoost() * ((float) (1.0 / Math.sqrt(numTerms)))); }
for computations, you have to 'undo' the sqrt() to get the quantized length, but thats ok since its only done up-front a single time and tableized, so it won't slow anything down.
EasySimilarity now computes norms in the same way as DefaultSimilarity.
Actually not exactly the same way, as I have not yet added the discountOverlaps property. I think it would be a good idea for EasySimilarity as well (it is for phrases, right), what do you reckon?
I also wrote a quick test to see which norm (length directly or 1/sqrt) is closer to the original value and it seems that the direct one is usually much closer (RMSE is 0.09689688608375747 vs 0.23787634482532286). Of course, I know it is much more important that the new Similarities can use existing indices.
Deleted the accidentally forgotten abstract modifier from the Distribution classes.
Thanks, I committed your latest patch, some ideas just perusing:
- we can move the calculations currently in decodeNormValue into the static table, this way we aren't doing these per-document multiplications and divisions... so decodeNormValue just returns the document length.
- should easysim change its score method from score(Stats stats, float freq, byte norm) to score(Stats stats, float freq, int documentLength) ? then it could encapsulate this encoding/decoding.
- I think we should try to factor in the index-time boost in computeNorm here if we can, e.g. just divide the document length by it? So documents with a higher index-time boost have a shorter length.
Done. Actually, I wanted to implement the norm table in the way you said, but somehow forgot about it.
Two questions remain on my side:
- the one about discountOverlaps (see above)
- what kind of index-time boosts do people usually use? Too big a boost might cause problems if we just divide the length with it. Maybe we should take the logarithm or sth like that?
Added a short explanation on the parameter for the Jelinek-Mercer method.
Robert: Since we use LUCENE-3357 for testing & bug fixing, I propose we close this issue. If we decide to implement other methods as well, we can do it under a new issue. Or do you have something else in mind (such as to rename EasySimilarity to SimilarityBase)?
+1, I do think we should consider naming and stuff (I sorta like SimilarityBase but we can discuss it)... but we should just open separate issues for that after we have worked out all the technical details first, its easy to refactor naming.
And we also want to at the same time move it into src/java, we can open a separate issue for all of this "integrate new similarities" or something. Let's close this one!
Hi All,
pardon my ignorance, I'm new to this. What I need is the BM25 to implement in my current project (bachelor thesis), I'm using Lucene 3.0.2.
Can you instruct me what do I need to do, so that I can add the bm25 to my project? Do I get a jar? or do I need to compile everything on my own?
furthermore, do I need to re-index sources in order to have BM25 working?


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Microtubules are essential for the establishment and maintenance of cell shape and organization of the cytoplasm, and for motile activities such as chromosome segregation. Our lab studies how cells regulate assembly and functional interactions of microtubules. Genetic and molecular approaches to these problems have identified novel steps in microtubule morphogenesis. These approaches have also identified detailed interactions between microtubule components and elements of other important cellular functions, including cell cycle control, protein folding and gene expression.
Undimerized beta-tubulin is toxic: The microtubule subunit is a heterodimer – unique among cytoskeletal structures. The α- and β-tubulin polypeptides are quite similar to one another. However, small amounts of undimerized β-tubulin are toxic, but cells overexpressing high levels of α-tubulin are viable. Undimerized β-tubulin arises when the balance between β- and α-tubulin expression is disrupted; when the heterodimer dissociates; and when there are defects in the folding of α-tubulin so that it can not form heterodimer. For example, cells deleted for the minor α-tubulin gene TUB3 have ~15 per cent excess β-tubulin, and as a result are supersensitive to microtubule depolymerizing drugs and display increased rates of chromosome mis-segregation. Induced expression of high levels of β-tubulin causes rapid microtubule disassembly and subsequent cell death. Such severe qualitative defects arising from modest quantitative imbalances are a property of other morphogenetic pathways, such as phage assembly. In the case of microtubule assembly, the data suggest that free β-tubulin acts as a dominant interfering protein, competing with the heterodimer for binding to cell components crucial for normal assembly and cell viability.
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Quantitative regulation of tubulin expression: Pac10p is a subunit of the GimC/prefoldin complex that promotes folding of tubulin and other cytoskeletal proteins. Cells deleted for the PAC10 have excess undimerized β-tubulin. Tubulin protein is down regulated in pac10D cells, α-tubulin more than β-tubulin, probably because the role of GimC/prefoldin is more important for α-tubulin. As a result, pac10D cells have microtubule phenotypes and require both RBL2 and TUB3. Surprisingly, pac10D cells downregulate both α- and β-tubulin mRNA levels. We are testing the hypothesis that the relationship between tubulin expression and a defect in protein folding represents feedback regulation of tubulin synthesis. Strains containing combinations of mutations that affect tubulin expression have only ~20% heterodimer levels compared to wild type cells. Nevertheless, these cells grow at rates comparable to wild type cells, but have altered spindle morphology and altered progress through mitosis. These cells provide a new opportunity to identify crucial effectors of microtubule formation and function.
A new step in microtubule morphogenesis. A genetic analysis identified a loss-of-function mutation that protects cells against toxic β-tubulin. PLP1 defines a new, early step in the tubulin folding. A substantial fraction of the β-tubulin made in plp1 cells is not competent to form tubulin heterodimers and also is not toxic. Plp1p acts upstream of the GimC/prefoldin complex and the cytoplasmic chaperonin. Indeed, plp1 suppresses both the microtubule phenotypes and the tubulin downregulation caused by pac10 deletion. We believe that Plp1p facilitates the transfer of nascent β-tubulin polypeptides to the protein folding apparatus, and that it is specific for β-tubulin relative to α-tubulin.
An α-tubulin mutant affects heterodimer stability: The Α-tubulin mutant tub1-724 is one of several mutations that arrest at low temperature with no microtubules. Since microtubule assembly itself is cold-sensitive, such mutations could affect the assembly reaction. However, the tub1-724 mutation destabilizes the heterodimer itself. This mutant α-tubulin binds to β-tubulin with lower affinity than does wild type α-tubulin, and so enhances dissociation of the heterodimer to produce toxic free β-tubulin. The amino acid changed in Tub1-724p is predicted to contact the GTP bound at the interface between α- and β-tubulin in the heterodimer. The properties of this mutant constitute the first structure-function analysis of the heterodimer itself, and provide a tool for studying the mechanisms by which cells manage tubulin polypeptides. This mutant is also suppressed by a mutation in a ribosomal protein. This mutation has numerous microtubule phenotypes, providing another link between microtubule morphogenesis and expression.
Promoting formation of the heterodimer: To identify genes that may affect heterodimer formation or stability, we screened for mutations in genes other than those encoding tubulin but that behave as does tub1-724. This approach identified null alleles in four distinct genes. Each of these non-essential genes had been previously discovered in screens for microtubule phenotypes but their functions had not been characterized. The detailed phenotypes of these mutations indicate that their role likely involves promoting formation of the heterodimer. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that overexpression of a wild type version of three of these genes partially suppresses tub1-724 . The findings suggest that these genes can participate in a catalyzed pathway for heterodimer formation. It can not be the primary pathway for heterodimer formation, since cells deleted for these genes even in pairwise combinations are viable, but they may represent a salvage pathway promoting reassociation of dissociated heterodimers.
An α-tubulin mutant interacts with mitotic checkpoint genes: A second element of the structure-function analysis of tubulin is based on another cold-sensitive α-tubulin allele, tub1-729. This mutant also arrests with no microtubules, like tub1-724. However, the defect in the Tub1-729p is at the attachment between microtubules and the kinetochores. The tub1-729 phenotype is suppressed by overexpression only of a subset of the mitotic checkpoint genes, a fact that distinguishes among their activities. In addition, that suppression does not require downstream elements of the checkpoint pathway. The results demonstrate a structural role for products of some checkpoint genes, and suggest a genetic tool to analyze the details of microtubule-kinetochore attachment.
Prospects: These analyses of cellular regulation of tubulin reveal important quantitative and qualitative regulation that can not be recapitulated by in vitro approaches.
Our next goals are to identify the mechanisms by which cells regulate tubulin expression; to characterize the earliest steps in microtubule morphogenesis, those that lead to heterodimer formation; to pursue a structure-function analysis of the tubulins; and to understand the mechanism of β-tubulin lethality.
Lacefield, S. and F. Solomon. A novel step in β-tubulin folding is important for heterodimer formation in S. cerevisiae. Genetics. In press.
Abruzzi, K. , M. Magendantz, and F. Solomon. An α-tubulin mutant demonstrates distinguishable functions among the spindle assembly checkpoint genes in S. cerevisiae. Genetics. 161: 983-994 (2002).
Abruzzi, K. , A. Smith, W. Chen and F. Solomon. Protection from free β-tubulin by the β-tubulin binding protein Rbl2p. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22:138-147 (2002).
Fleming, J. A. , L. R. Vega and F. Solomon. Function of tubulin binding proteins in vivo: A salvage pathway for dissociated tubulin heterodimers. Genetics. 156: 69-80 (2000).
Vega, L. R, J. Fleming and F. Solomon. An α-tubulin mutant destabilizes the heterodimer: phenotypic consequences and interactions with tubulin binding proteins. Molecular Biology of the Cell 9: 2349-2360 (1998).


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Georgia outfielder David Coffey was sitting on top of the bench inside the Diamond Dog dugout conducting an interview regarding this weekend's NCAA Regional at Foley Field when teammate Scott Murphy shuffled by.
The junior pitcher glanced over and made an off-hand remark, causing Coffey to crack a smile.
''That's my job,'' Murphy said. ''I'm here to keep people loose. That's my role. It's not a time to get uptight. This is supposed to be fun.''
Murphy speaks from experience.
With the Regionals now just one day away, the Alabama transfer is the lone member of the current Diamond Dog team with postseason experience other than the recently completed SEC Tournament in Birmingham, Ala.
As a freshman, Murphy saw action in 22 games for the Crimson Tide, including an appearance in the Regionals against Southern Mississippi and three outings in the College World Series where he compiled a 1-0 mark with one save and a team-best 2.14 earned run average.
NCAA Baseball Regional
Friday's Games
Game 2 -- Georgia Tech (41-18) vs. Coastal Carolina (40-18), 1 p.m.
Game 1 -- Georgia (41-18) vs. Georgia Southern (41-18), 7 p.m.
Saturday's Games
Game 3 -- Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 11 a.m.
Game 4 -- Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 3 p.m.
Game 5 -- Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 loser, 7 p.m.
Sunday's Games
Game 6 -- Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 1 p.m.
Game 7 -- Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, following Game 6, if necessary
''When you play in a Regional there definitely is that sense of urgency because this is what you work all year for,'' he said. ''You want to win, you feel like you need to win, you have to win. There's a different aura when you go out there for a Regional as opposed to a regular-season game. It's definitely a different type of atmosphere.''
The Parkview graduate said he was fortunate to handle the pressure as well as he did.
''At that time, I was pretty ignorant to what was going on,'' he said. ''I don't think I really knew how important it was until a few weeks after we got beat out at Omaha.''
How a player adapts to that atmosphere can mean the difference between victory and defeat.
''Really, you have to treat it like it's an SEC weekend,'' Murphy said. ''You're out there to win all three games. But at the same time, you need to relax. You need to try and forget that it's a Regional. We're playing at home. ... it's just another ball game. That's how we've got to look at it.''
But not by any stretch are the top-seeded Diamond Dogs (41-18) overlooking fourth-seed Georgia Southern (41-18), Georgia's opponent Friday at 7 p.m.
Like any two-of-three format, winning the first game is imperative. Lose, and a team must win three straight if it hopes to advance to Super Regional play.
Murphy and Georgia don't want to be in that position.
''The first game is pivotal,'' Murphy said. ''You've got to win that first game if you want to stay alive. It's too big a hill to climb if you lose that first one. Our game against Georgia Southern is real important, as is Georgia Tech's against Coastal Carolina.''
In terms of experience, the Yellow Jackets have a definite edge. Friday's game with the Chanticleers marks Georgia Tech's 16th Regional appearance in 17 years while Georgia will be making its first showing in the NCAA's big show since 1992.
Still, Murphy expects the Diamond Dogs to take advantage of the opportunity they have.
''As a player, you've got to realize that this is the chance to make a name for yourself,'' he said. ''It's not a time to get nervous. It's a time to go out, have fun, and show people that you belong. That's the way I look at it, and I think a lot of guys on the team look at it the same way.''
It doesn't hurt to carry a little chip on your shoulder either.
''We want to prove that we're not a fluke,'' Murphy said. ''We've been doing good all year, it's not a one-year thing with Georgia. That's the way I feel. When a team has something to prove they're going to go out there with vengeance and really play hard. I think that we will.''
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, May 24, 2001.
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22 April 2002 Vol. 7, No. 16 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Project Welcome - MAA | Interactive Number Sequences Animated Magic Squares - Grunwald PROJECT WELCOME - MAA http://www.math.metrostate.edu/welcome Project WELCOME is a collection of interactive mathematical explorations to support a suite of undergraduate courses in mathematics. Each exploration consists of organized sequences of simulations, "quantitative/qualitative laboratory" experiments, lessons, and/or open-ended exercises tied to the conceptual themes of the targeted course. These explorations are created in MathwrightWeb Author and read either online within the browser (applet mode) using MathwrightWeb Activex Control or offline using Mathwright32 Player. Viewing the interactive explorations requires running Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP and using Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. The collection includes: - Best Linear Fit - Congruences - Evolutes - Limits of Functions - Optimize: the classic box problem - Piecewise Functions - Symmetry - Progeny: the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio - Nonlinear Equations - Inclined Planes - Lakes: an environmental application of operations research - Cycloids - Applications of the Derivative - Graphs and Their Functions - Trigonometric Functions - Triangle Optimization - Graphs of Functions and Symmetry - Playing with Points: the coordinate plane - Shortest Paths - Demoivre's Theorem Read descriptions of each workbook: http://www.math.metrostate.edu/welcome/wrkbk_page.htm -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- INTERACTIVE NUMBER SEQUENCES - H. Fung http://cog.lboro.ac.uk/cohfweb/ An interactive site for middle school students who want to learn about number sequences. Fill in a sequence's missing number, then click "send" to see if it completed the sequence correctly. In either case, an "explain" button provides more information about the sequence, including: - descriptive name - graphic explanation - text explanation - algebraic rule and opportunities to learn more. The FAQ provides answers to questions about sequences and numbers. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- ANIMATED MAGIC SQUARES - Lee-Anne Grunwald http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~lgrunwa2/une/KLAs/maths/magic3x3.html After viewing the construction of a 3 by 3 magic square, pass the mouse over each of the "view rule" texts to build your own magic square. http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~lgrunwa2/une/KLAs/maths/Benfranklin_magicsquare.html The patterns found in the 8 by 8 Benjamin Franklin Magic Square are illustrated in this animation. \|/ MAGIC SQUARES - Suzanne Alejandre http://mathforum.org/alejandre/magic.square.html This Math Forum Web unit includes classroom activities for four different squares: Lo Shu, Sator, D¤rer, and Franklin. Three of them demonstrate increasing complexity using numbers; one is made up of letters. Each provides links, and questions about number and symmetry. For interdisciplinary work, see the suggestions for history, geography, and writing activities. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \
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Okay so I have a few wii games as back ups on my pc as iso's and I used IMGBURN at 4x speed on Vertabim - R discs to burn them. Some of them work perfectly no problems at all but others when I load them with NeoGamma R4 It goes to a black and white flashy screen and I can't do anything except turn my wii off but it works normal aslong as i dont try to start up on of my bugged discs so any ideas what the problem is?
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This weekend six scouts camped on their own and went head to head with eight other scout troops to find out who really has the best camping skills in Chesterfield district.
They had to pitch their own tents , cook all their meals on an open fire and prove their scouting skills by building camping gadgets from scratch out of poles and rope. All of this took part at Chesterfield distric'ts campsite from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd of June.
Last time North Wingfield scouts won the competition was in 1984, so 30 years on they are massively pleased to hold the trophy once again!
The competition is a true test of scouting skills and only comes from years of experience of being in a scout troop!
Names of the scouts in the photo from left to right - Tom , Matt, Callum , Jimmie, Aaron and Daniel.


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(Please excuse my shifting pronoun use in this entry, should there be any, I'm not sure what direction I want to go with it and I don't really care.)
I've been in Columbus, WI for longer than I had hoped and will be here a bit longer. I can't continue any graduate work for awhile so I'm kind of just coasting. There hasn't been anything here that I would call awful, but nothing super promising either. Since I got out of jail in 2011 I've just been waiting, laying low, working on my recovery and trying to do good wherever I am able, when I'm not able I just aspire to non-maleficence. To that end I have been mostly successful and so, in that, this time has not been a waste. I'm sure when I look back on it I will feel satisfied.
Last summer I found a volunteer gig at a local thrift store and charity. I would go in three times a week and help out with whatever they needed. It wasn't long before I could see that I was quite useful around there. Good folks doing good work... but not all of them are what anyone would call, "able bodied." I have a few years of able-bodiednessedness left. I can also make decisions, add and subtract and speak eloquently... mix that with a guy who can, "hey carry that over there!" and it was a good fit. A few months ago that turned into a paid position.
I met a man who was a few months older than I and we became friends pretty quickly. Our pasts were very different. You would think he and I probably didn't have much in common and near nothing to talk about, save for, "Uhhh... how are we going to get this giant fucking piece of garbage entertainment center down this lady's stairs so she can feel good about making a donation that we're just going to dismantle and throw in the dumpster?" But we ended up having quite a bit to share with one another. We both liked some of the same music. We shared a similar sense of humor. We we're both able to toggle working hard and working soft appropriately, an adapted skill which we had tuned to an artisan level. We had both touched the splintered pieces of a destroyed life. We'd both had our trains derailed several times and had found our way back. We shared a similar world view... the one that you have after life has kicked the shit out of you over and over again... It's a peaceful kind of attitude that rarely lets you take too much very seriously.
We understood each other, we worked well together and genuinely enjoyed the time we spent together. I logged lots of time in that truck with him delivering furniture to people, moving foodstuffs around, picking up donations. I'd buy him a sandwich most days from the grocery store deli and we'd sit in the truck in the Pick N'Save parking lot and eat. We talked about all kinds of stuff, we laughed quite a bit. We talked about relationships, we talked about addiction and our experiences therein, we talked about how we got here and how we were doing. It's pretty rare to find a dude that's comfortable talking about deep stuff with another dude. Generally speaking, male sounding boards are rare to the point of full blown artifact... even in the vastness of the internet... but in real life? In a town of 5,000? This was a blessing.
I knew he was using and I knew it was intermittent but also, based on his recount and the observed withdrawal, quite serious. He would tell me about his intentions to do the right things in his life about his family and with regard to the drugs. I remember listening and grinning, then cocking my head and shooting him a quizzically intense eye and saying, "Right... but what's your end-game here?"
We had so much in common that way.
We knew exactly what we were doing but had no fucking idea what we were doing. An addict can get desensitized to it, the life, pretty quickly. Things that are absolutely insane, terrifying and lethal exist in our life, when we're using, in a pretty routine way. Think about what it would be like to eat out of a 5 gallon bucket full of cheese balls, except a couple of those cheese balls are deadly. Those are the kinds of risks an addict will take. Yeah, it's not super likely we'll get a dirty cheese ball if we just have a few today... BUT THE POINT IS WE'RE STILL COOL WITH EATING OUT OF A BUCKET THAT HAS POISON CHEESE BALLS. There's a couple things going on here that foster the desensitization. 1st, we've been here before and we're back. On my 29th birthday I was in the hospital with a .48 bac, catching a "banana bag," and a lecture. I walked out of that ER with a promise to go to treatment and a colorful lecture of my own the same night. I was drinking the following morning. 2nd, part of us just doesn't care. We're partially in denial about our mortality, but partially indifferent about our mortality. At my darkest, large pieces of me was hoping that I just wouldn't wake up, that I would slip in the shower, or that I'd rupture a vein. There's a part of us that accepts our use as a form of passive suicide. It's just a fact, an addict willing to use is, at least partially, okay with dying that way. It's the same part of us that hates everything we are.
I talked with him directly about his use and my thoughts about it several times, painting the horrible picture, reframing at ever turn, guiding him through thought experiments, pushing him all the way to the end of the tragic movie he was starring in. These conversations could get pretty intense and they were therepeutic for both of us. I recall saying to him under a month ago, "You're a grown man, you're going to do whatever you want and it's your life to ruin. Listen bro, I have your back, but it's important that you understand that if you continue, this is how your story will end. This will be your undoing." He responded by saying, "What do you mean my undoing?"
"You know what I mean." I said...
I was right.
"Did you hear the news?"
What news?
"... is no longer with us."
No I hadn't heard (thinking he quit).
"He's Dead."
Saturday night.
And there I stood... awash with numbness, 10 feet from the last place I saw him, with my hand on a four wheel cart that we had pushed 1000 times.
I spent the next few hours assembling shelves and frantically rifling through files in my brain, searching for weak welds in our experience that mark points at which I could have prevented this. "How could you know everything you know and have seen all the things you seen and not stopped this... now your fucking friend is dead, now some kids don't have a dad, now some parents don't have a son... and now there's nothing you can do. Now he's gone." Obviously this isn't my fault but it is impossible not to wish you'd done something, literally anything, burned his fucking house down, to stop this.
There is no good here, only tragedy, only waste. Just the feeling of relentless, unforgiving force, pushing life along. Nothing is worth this. There is no lesson learned from this that is possibly worth the price. He no longer has the ability to fight for his own life. He will not see what comes next. His adventure is over. Life pushes on without him.
Life... one speed and only forward.
Someday, someone that cared for you will walk into a room and remember the last time you were There. Then they will be forced to understand that room with you Not There.


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Yesterday we began our final stretch run here in our unveiling of The B1G Time's Preseason Top 25 and we started it off with a bang on the defensive end with Bradley Roby of Ohio State taking up residence in our Top 10 at No. 10.
Today we're sticking on the defensive side of the ball and moving to a position group that hasn't been all that well represented so far on our list and that's linebacker. In fact this will be just the 2nd linebacker to make the list to date.
So, let's get down to business and unveil our No. 9 player – also our 3rd straight defensive player on the board.
No. 9: Chris Borland (LB, Wisconsin):
2012 Stats/Honors: 104 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, 6 passes defensed, 3 fumbles caused, 3 fumbles recovered; 1st team All-Big Ten (coaches, HM All-Big Ten (media)
What makes him worthy: Borland has played just about every position a linebacker can in his time at Wisconsin, he's also fought through injury to become one of the most feared linebackers in the league, if not the country.
The once under recruited Borland has been racking up the stats in big ways since his freshman season and has topped the 100 tackle mark in each of the past two seasons. Entering 2013 with a new defensive scheme predicated on being aggressive we could see the most aggressive of UW's linebackers thrive. If he remains healthy (was held out of spring or that purpose) Borland could become a runaway candidate for linebacker of the year.
He's got a knack for rushing the QB and often times was the only one blitzing last season for the Badgers – again, expect that to change under DC Dave Aranda's switch to the 3-4. As he enters this season he's 4th in the country in career sacks (41.5) amongst active players. He's also already the Badgers record holder for career forced fumbles and needs just one to break the all-time Big Ten record (currently held by Purdue great Ryan Kerrigan).
All that adds up to one of the best players the conference has heading into 2013. Words don't do him justice, so take a look at his highlights from last season.
Video Proof:
Top 25 Players:
No. 25: Christian Bryant (S, Ohio State)
No. 24: Ryan Groy (OL, Wisconsin)
No. 23: Isaiah Lewis (S, Michigan State)
No. 22: Carlos Hyde (RB, Ohio State)
No. 21: Denicos Allen (LB, Michigan State)
No. 20: Jacob Pedersen (TE, Wisconsin)
No. 19: Zac Epping (C, Minnesota)
No. 18: Jordan Hall (RB, Ohio State)
No. 17: Cody Latimer (WR, Indiana)
No. 16: Kenny Bell (WR, Nebraska)
No. 15: James White (RB, Wisconsin)
No. 14: Kain Colter (QB, Northwestern)
No. 13: Jared Abbrederis (WR, Wisconsin)
No. 12: Venric Mark (RB, Northwestern)
No. 11: Ra'Shede Hageman (DT, Minnesota)
No. 10: Bradley Roby (CB, Ohio State)
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The Issue: The White House's recent positions on Israel and the Middle East.
I totally agree with Arthur Herman's article, although I think he understated the problem ("O's Israel Reversal," Post-Opinion, Aug. 6).
If Obama is re-elected, I, as a Jew, fear greatly for the safety of Israel.
I cannot understand how any Jew could not only endorse him but support him with massive contributions, including his big-time benefactors in Hollywood.
I think most of them are gullible, stupid and fearful of retribution.
If Iran wipes out Israel with a nuclear weapon on Obama's watch, what do you think will happen to the world's remaining Jews?
Consider the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the last few years all over the world while Obama has been in office. Coincidence? Perhaps.
Samuel Frazer
Fort Myers, Fla.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and it is now necessary for Obama to bamboozle Jewish voters into supporting him one more time.
He is inventing a backstory claiming that he has been Israel's strongest supporter in history, a patent fabrication obvious to all informed voters.
Will he still win the majority of Jewish votes? Of course. But if the falloff in Jewish support is significant, his effort for a second term may be weakened.
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Kelso, Cape Elizabeth Border Collie, Wins At Westminster [VIDEO]
A 7 year old border collie from Cape Elizabeth won the first ever "Agility Competition" at last night's Westminster Kennel Club's Dog Show in New York!
Kelso, a border collie who thinks that he's a lap dog was trained by his owner Delaney Ratner of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Delaney is currently a 20 year old student at the University of Massachusetts, she also teaches agility courses. She has been training Kelso since she got him when she was 16.
The first ever agility competition was open to mixed breeds and Kelso completed the course in 28.44 seconds.
Delaney attended the 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show with her mother and five other dogs. Another of the dogs, Jonesy, a 9-year-old miniature schnauzer placed first in it's division running the agility course, but Kelso was named the Champ!