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Many Republicans think of themselves as capitalists. I'm talking about the people who exclaim the virtues of the free market. They expound upon the need for laissez-faire economics. They cry out against government regulation.
Until you mention gas prices.
Then, without hesitation, these same people will complain that gas prices are too high. And in one statement, everything they have claimed about capitalism flies out the door. They think that the government should do something about it.
Sounds kind of socialist to me.
Oil drilling and production in the United States is at its highest in eight years and gas is cheaper than the start of the recession under Bush. We are actually exporting more oil than we are using. The oil companies are making record profits and still getting $4B in tax breaks. If you want to blame someone for high gas prices, why not ask the oil companies how they are making so much money off of you.
Oil is not a finite resource. There is always more oil being made, however, it is believed that it takes millions of years for oil to form. Thus, the more we take out of the earth at a higher rate than the earth can make it, eventually the oil supply will dwindle drastically and we will have to go through more effort to find it and refine it.
However, we Americans are more dependent on oil than any other nation. This is what the current usage of oil looks like today for the top five consumer countries.
As you can see, the United States, which is the third most populated country, uses almost twice as much oil as China and India combined, while the population of China and India is eight times that of the US. As you can imagine, both of these countries are increasing their demand for oil as their population demands the same conveniences we are afforded here in the US. While the demand for oil in the US has actually decreased , in 2001, China was the third largest consumer and India was the seventh. Both China and India are demanding more oil. Another decade and this chart will change again.
That brings us to supply and demand. Capitalism is built on this theory. As supply diminishes and demand rises, prices go up. In a free market, the goal of the company is to make larger and larger profits and keep its shareholders happy with increases in stock price or dividends. So the more demand, the higher the price the companies can charge. Same for dependence. The more you depend on oil, the more companies will charge for it because you can't quit. This is great for the bottom line of the companies. They can produce less, charge more, and the shareholders rejoice. And capitalism shines.
However, it isn't that simple because production has kept up with demand. So the laws of supply and demand are being taunted by another evil. Oil Futures.
It seems that we mostly have Wall Street to thank for our higher gas prices. Before the mortgage market tanked, they were already looking for the next big bet, so they started selling oil futures and ran the price of oil up. From How Stuff Works,
As a result of the artificial oil market, the average price per barrel of crude oil increased from $31.61 in July 2004 to $137.11 in July 2008 . The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in the United States grew from $1.93 to $4.09 over the same period .
If we want our gas prices to go down, then we need more government regulation to curb the oil futures market. The Dodd-Frank Act passed a year and a half ago attempts to do this, however Republicans have continuously tried to kill the act instead of doing something to ensure gas prices decline. But like I've said, the Republican party is pro-capitalism and anti-regulation, so there is no reason for them to want gas prices to go down. If gas prices go down, then the oil companies don't make the big profits. Four of the top ten most profitable companies in the world are oil companies. One is a natural gas company. This is capitalism at its finest.
One of the mantras of the Republican party is, "Drill, baby, drill." Yet we are now exporting more oil than we import. And gas prices still haven't gone down due to oil futures, and because our consumption of oil may have decreased, but the demand worldwide has increased. Thus, economically, it makes a lot more sense for us to slow our production, use up the supply of oil from other countries while it is still relatively cheap, and then parcel out the last bit to the world from our reserves slowly and at the highest price possible.
In conclusion, US demand is decreasing, but more populated countries are taking up the slack. Wall Street is still trying to suck the poor people dry by betting on our future. The Republicans want to continue giving four billion of our tax dollars away to the oil companies instead of investing in a replacement source of energy.
I leave you with this quote from President Obama at Nashua Community College in New Hampshire,
Let's put every single member of Congress on record: You can stand with oil companies, or you can stand with the American people. You can keep subsidizing a fossil fuel that's been getting taxpayer dollars for a century, or you can place your bets on a clean energy future.


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- Research
- Open Access
GPU-enabled particle-particle particle-tree scheme for simulating dense stellar cluster system
© Iwasawa et al. 2015
- Received: 19 February 2014
- Accepted: 15 June 2015
- Published: 3 July 2015
We describe the implementation and performance of the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) (Particle-Particle Particle-Tree) scheme for simulating dense stellar systems. In \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\), the force experienced by a particle is split into short-range and long-range contributions. Short-range forces are evaluated by direct summation and integrated with the fourth order Hermite predictor-corrector method with the block timesteps. For long-range forces, we use a combination of the Barnes-Hut tree code and the leapfrog integrator. The tree part of our simulation environment is accelerated using graphical processing units (GPU), whereas the direct summation is carried out on the host CPU. Our code gives excellent performance and accuracy for star cluster simulations with a large number of particles even when the core size of the star cluster is small.
- methods: N-body simulations
PACS Codes
- 95.10.Ce
- 98.10.+z
1 Background
Direct N-body simulation has been the most useful tool for the study of the evolution of collisional stellar systems such as star clusters and the center of the galaxy (Aarseth 1963). The force calculations, of which the cost is \(O(N^{2})\), are the most compute-intensive part of direct N-body simulations. Barnes and Hut (1986) developed a scheme which reduces the calculation cost to \(O(N\log N)\) by constructing the tree structure and evaluating the multipole expansions. Dehnen (2002, 2014) developed a scheme to reduce the calculation cost to \(O(N)\) by combining the fast multipole method (Greengard and Rokhlin 1987) and the tree code. Recently, the graphical processing units (GPU), which is a device originally developed for rendering the graphical image, started to be used for scientific simulations. The tree code is also implemented on GPUs and it is much faster than it is on CPUs (Gaburov et al. 2010; Bédorf et al. 2012). Bédorf et al. (2014) parallelized the tree code on GPUs and showed good scalability up to 18,600 GPUs. They also simulated the Milky Way Galaxy with N of up to 242 billion and reported that the average calculation time per iteration on 18,600 GPUs was 4.8 seconds.
The tree schemes are widely used for collisionless system simulations. However, for collisional system simulations, the use of the tree code has been very limited. One reason might be that a collisional stellar system spans a wide range in timescales. Thus it is essential that each particle has its own integration timestep. This scheme is called the individual timestep or the block timestep (McMillan 1986). However, when we use the tree code and the block timestep together, the tree structure is reconstructed at every block timestep, because the positions of integrated particle are updated. The cost of the usual complete reconstruction of the tree is \(O(N\log N)\) and not negligible.
To reduce the cost of the reconstruction of the tree, McMillan and Aarseth (1993) introduced local reconstruction of tree. They demonstrated a good performance, but there seems to be no obvious way to parallelize their scheme.
Recently, Oshino et al. (2011) introduced another approach to combine the tree code and the block timesteps which they called the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme. This scheme is based on the idea of Hamiltonian splitting (Kinoshita et al. 1991; Wisdom and Holman 1991; Duncan et al. 1998; Chambers 1999; Brunini and Viturro 2003; Fujii et al. 2007; Moore and Quillen 2011). In the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme, the Hamiltonian of the system is split into short-range and long-range parts and they are integrated with different integrators. The long-range part is evaluated with the tree code and is integrated using the leapfrog scheme with a shared timestep. The short range part is evaluated with direct summation and integrated using the fourth-order Hermite scheme (Makino and Aarseth 1992) with the block timesteps. They investigated the accuracy and the performance of the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme for planetary formation simulations and showed that the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme achieves high performance.
In this paper, we present the implementation of the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme on GPUs and report its accuracy and performance for star cluster simulations. We found that the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme demonstrates a very good performance for star cluster simulations, even when the core of the cluster becomes small.
The structure of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we briefly describe the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme. In Section 3, we report the accuracy and performance of the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme. We summarize these results in Section 4.
2 Methods
2.1 Formulation
Here \(W(s_{ij})\) is a smooth transition function. A suitable form of \(W(s_{ij})\) should be zero when a distance between two particles is smaller than the inner cutoff radius \(r_{\mathrm{in}}\) and should be unity if the distance is larger than the outer cutoff radius \(r_{\mathrm {cut}}\). This splitting is introduced by Chambers (1999) to avoid undesirable energy error from close encounters between particles. Similar splitting has been used with \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{M}\) (Particle-Particle Particle-Mesh) scheme, in which the long-range part of the interaction is evaluated by using FFT (Hockney and Eastwood 1981).
The tree algorithm is used for the evaluation of \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\) to reduce the calculation cost.
This \(K(x)\) is the lowest-order polynomial which satisfies the requirement that derivatives up to the third order is zero for \(x=0\) and 1 (i.e. the highest-order term of the lowest-order polynomial is the seventh, because there are eight boundary conditions at \(x=0\) and \(x=1\)).
- (1)
At time t, by using the tree code, calculate the acceleration due to \(H_{\mathrm{soft}}\), \(\boldsymbol {a}_{{\mathrm{soft}},i}\), and construct a list of all particles which come within \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) from particle i for \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\). Here, \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) is the timestep for the soft Hamiltonian.
- (2)
Update the velocities of all particles with \(\boldsymbol {v}_{\mathrm{new}, i}=\boldsymbol {v}_{\mathrm{old},i}+(1/2)\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}} \boldsymbol {a}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\).
- (3)
Integrate all particles to time \(t+\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) under \(H_{\mathrm{hard}}\), using the neighbour list and the fourth order Hermite integrator with the block timesteps.
- (4)
Calculate the acceleration due to \(H_{\mathrm{soft}}\) at new time \(t+\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) and update the velocity
- (5)
Go back to step 2.
Here η is the accuracy parameter of the timestep and its typical value is 0.1. \(\Delta t_{\max}\) is the maximum timestep which should be smaller than \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), \(\boldsymbol {a}_{i}^{(n)}\) is the nth time derivative of the acceleration of particle i, \(a_{0}\) is a constant introduced to prevent \(\Delta t_{i}\) from becoming too small when the distance to the nearest neighbor is close to \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) and α is a parameter to control \(a_{0}\). In this case, the acceleration from \(H_{\mathrm{hard}}\) becomes very small and there is no need to use very small \(\Delta t_{i}\). According to Oshino et al. (2011), when we choose \(\alpha\le1\), α hardly affects the energy error. Thus we set \(\alpha= 0.1\) for all simulations.
Symbols and definitions for the accuracy parameters of the \(\pmb{\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}}\) scheme
timestep softening. For all runs α = 0.1
ratio of inner and outer cutoff radius (\(r_{\mathrm{in}}/r_{\mathrm{cut}}\)). For all runs γ = 0.1
\(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\)
width of the buffer shell. \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}=3\sigma\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), as a standard value
\(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\)
timestep of the soft part. \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}=(1/256)(N/16\mathrm{K})^{-1/3}\), as a standard value
\(\Delta t_{\max}\)
maximum timestep of the hard part. \(\Delta t_{\max}=\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/4\), as a standard value
plummer softening length. ϵ = (4/N), as a standard value
accuracy parameter for timestep criterion. η = 0.1, as a standard value
outer cutoff radius of smooth transition functions W and K. \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}=4\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), as a standard value
inner cutoff radius of smooth transition functions W and K (\(r_{\mathrm{in}}=\gamma r_{\mathrm{cut}}\))
opening criterion for tree. θ = 0.4, as a standard value
2.2 Implementation on GPUs
Even with the Barnes-Hut tree algorithm, obtaining \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\) is still costly and dominates the total calculation time (Oshino et al. 2011). To accelerate this part, we use GPUs, by modifying the sequoia library (Bédorf, Gaburov and Portegies Zwart, submitted to ComAC), on which the high-performance tree code for parallel GPUs Bonsai (Bédorf et al. 2012) is based. Our library calculates the long range forces on all particles, \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\) by the Barnes-Hut tree algorithm (up to the quadrupole moment). On the other hand, we calculate \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm {hard},i}\) on the host computer. The library also returns, for each particle, the list of particles within the distance h from it. We use this list of neighbors to calculate \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{hard},i}\). The value of h should be sufficiently larger than \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) to guarantee that the particles which are not on the list of the neighbors of particle i do not enter the sphere of the radius \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) around particle i during the time interval \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\).
We call the sphere with a radius of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) the neighbor sphere and the shell between the sphere with a radius of h and the neighbor sphere the buffer shell. The particles of which the nearest neighbor is outside the sphere with radius h are considered isolated and the particles on the list of neighbors are considered neighbor particles. We denote the width of the buffer shell as \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\) (i.e. \(h=r_{\mathrm{cut}}+\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\)).
- (1)
Evaluate long range forces on all particles \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm {soft},i}\) using GPU.
- (2)
Particles are divided into two groups; isolated and non-isolated, by using the neighbour list made on GPU.
- (3)
For non-isolated particles, \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{hard},i}\) are calculated on the host computer.
- (4)
All particles receive a velocity kick through \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\) for \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/2\).
- (5)
Isolated particles are drifted by \(\boldsymbol {r}_{i} \leftarrow\boldsymbol {r}_{i}+\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\boldsymbol {v}_{i}\).
- (6)
Non-isolated particles are integrated with the fourth-order Hermite scheme for \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\).
- (7)
Evaluate \(\boldsymbol {F}_{\mathrm{soft},i}\) and make the neighbour list in the same way as in step 1-2.
- (8)
All particles obtain the velocity kick again for \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/2\).
- (9)
go back to step 3.
3 Results
3.1 Accuracy and performance
We performed a number of test calculations using the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme on GPUs, to study its accuracy and performance. In this section, we describe the result of these tests. For most of them we adopted a Plummer model (Plummer 1911) with 128K (hereafter \(\mathrm{K}=2^{10}\)) equal-mass particles as the initial condition. We use the so-called N-body unit or Heggie unit, in which total mass \(\mathrm{M}=1\), the gravitational constant \(\mathrm{G}=1\) and total energy \(E=-1/4\) (Heggie and Mathieu 1986). To avoid the singularity of the gravitational potential, we use the Plummer softening and set \(\epsilon= 4/N\). Since this value is a typical separation of a hard binary in the N-body unit, we can follow the evolution of the system up to the moment of the core collapse.
Note, in this paper, we use the energy errors as an indicator of the accuracy of the scheme. However, energy conservation dose not guarantee accuracy of simulations (though it is necessary). Thus we will perform realistic simulations in Section 3.2 and check the statistical character of stellar systems by comparing the results with the Hermite scheme, which is widely used in collisional stellar system simulations. As we will see later, for simulations of the core collapse of the star cluster, when the relative energy error is ≲10−3 at the moment of the core collapse, the behavior of the core collapse with the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme agrees with that with the Hermite scheme very well.
3.1.1 Accuracy
With the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme, we have six accuracy parameters. First, we discuss how each parameter controls the accuracy of the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme. Finally, we describe the accumulation of the energy error in a long-term integration. To measure energy errors accurately, we calculate potential energies by the direct summation instead of the tree code for all runs in this paper.
Effect of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\), \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) and θ
We can see that the error is smaller for smaller θ, smaller \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), or larger \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\). Roughly speaking, the error depends on two terms, \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/r_{\mathrm{cut}} \sigma\) and θ. If \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/r_{\mathrm{cut}} \sigma\) is large, it determines the error. In this regime, the error is dominated by the truncation error of the leapfrog integrator. If it is small enough, θ determines the error, in other words, the tree force error dominates the total error. Even for a very small value of θ like 0.2, the tree force error dominates if \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/r_{\mathrm{cut}} \sigma\lesssim0.05\).
Effect of \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\)
Effect of \(\Delta t_{\max}\) and η
Long term integration
3.1.2 Calculation cost
In this section, we discuss the calculation cost of the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme and its dependence on the number of particles N, required accuracy, and other parameters.
First, we construct a simple theoretical model of the dependence of the calculation cost on parameters of the integration scheme such as N, \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), θ and \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\). Finally, we derive the optimal set of parameters from the model and compare this model with the result of the numerical tests. We found that the calculation cost per unit time is proportional to \(N^{4/3}\).
Theoretical model
The calculation cost for the force evaluations in \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm {T}\) is split into the tree part and the Hermite part. For the tree part, the calculation cost of evaluating forces for all particles per tree step is proportional to \(O(\theta^{-3}N\log N)\). Since we use constant timestep for the tree part, the calculation costs of the integration of particles per unit time for the tree part is proportional to \(O ( \theta^{-3}N\log N/\Delta t_{\mathrm {soft}} )\).
The bottom panel of Figure 7 shows that all curves eventually approach to constant values for both of large and small \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\). For large \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\), the timesteps of the non-isolated particles are determined by N, not by \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) (see equation (25)), whereas for small values of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) the non-isolated particles have a timesteps \(\Delta t_{\max}\). This is because most neighbouring particles are in the buffer shell and not in the neighbour sphere. For runs with \(\Delta t_{\mathrm {soft}}=1/2{,}048, 1/1{,}024\mbox{ and }1/512\), we can see bumps of \(N_{\mathrm{step}}\) at \(r_{\mathrm{cut}} \sim1/512\) due to the dependence on \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) shown in equation (26).
Optimal set of accuracy parameters
In this section, we derive the optimal values of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) from the point of view of the balance of the calculation costs between the tree and the Hermite parts, in other words we express \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) as functions of N such that \(N_{\mathrm{int}, \mathrm{hard}}/N_{\mathrm{int}, \mathrm{soft}}\) is independent of N. Following the discussion in Section 3.1.1 and because the energy errors can be controlled through \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\), \(r_{\mathrm{cut}}\) and \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\) should be proportional to \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\).
The requirements are met for \(N_{\mathrm{int}, \mathrm{hard}} \propto N^{7/3}(r_{\mathrm{cut}}+\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}})^{3}\) (or \(N^{2}(r_{\mathrm{cut}}+\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}})^{3}\)), \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}} \propto N^{-1/3}\) and \(r_{\mathrm{cut}} \propto N^{-1/4}\) and both \(N_{\mathrm{int}, \mathrm{hard}} \) and \(N_{\mathrm{int}, \mathrm{soft}} \) are proportional to \(N^{4/3}\) (or \(N^{5/4}\)). Here we have neglected the logN dependence in the tree part.
We also perform the simulations using the direct Hermite integrator with the same η and the standard tree code with the same θ and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\). These calculations are performed with the Sapporo GPU library (Gaburov and Harfst 2009) and a standard tree code with the same θ and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) using the Bonsai GPU library (Bédorf et al. 2012). The calculation time for our \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) implementation is also proportional to \(N^{4/3}\), as we presented above, while for the Hermite integrator it is proportional to \(N^{7/3}\). The \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme is faster than the direct Hermite integrator for \(N > {16\mathrm{K}}\) and when \(N=1\mathrm{M}\) (\(\mathrm{M}=2^{20}\)), the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme is about 50 times faster than the direct Hermite scheme. The pure tree code is slightly faster than the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme, but the integration errors are worse by several orders of magnitude (see Figures 6 and 10).
3.2 Examples of practical applications
In Sections 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, we presented a detailed discussion on the accuracy and performance of our \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme. However, we performed simple simulations, where the stellar systems are in the dynamical equilibrium. In this section, we study the performance of our \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme when applied to more realistic, or more difficult, simulations by comparing the results of the Hermite scheme. In Section 3.2.1, we discuss the case of the simulation of star clusters up to core collapse. In Section 3.2.2, we discuss the case of a galaxy model with massive central black hole binary.
3.2.1 Star cluster down to core collapse
In this section, we discuss the performance of our \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme for the simulation of the core collapse of a star cluster. First, we describe the initial condition and parameters of the integration scheme. Next, we compare the calculation results obtained by the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) and Hermite schemes, and finally, the calculation speed.
Initial conditions
We apply the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme to the evolution of a star cluster consisting of 16K stars to the moment of the core collapse (Lynden-Bell and Eggleton 1980). We use an equal-mass plummer model as an initial density profile and we adopt \(\eta=0.1\). We apply the Plummer softening \(\epsilon= 4/N = 1/4{,}096\). The simulations are terminated when the core number-density exceeds 106, at which point the mean interparticle distance in the core is comparable to ϵ. Next, we set θ. We must choose θ so that the tree force error is smaller than the force due to the two-body relaxation. Hernquist et al. (1993) pointed out that, for \(\theta=0.5\) with monopole and quadrupole, the tree-force error is much smaller than the force due to the two-body relaxation. Thus we choose \(\theta=0.4\) with quadrupole as a standard model. For comparison, we also perform a run with \(\theta=0.8\).
To resolve the motions of the particles in the core, we impose \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) to be smaller than 1/128 of the dynamical time of the core (\(\sim\sqrt{3\pi/16\rho_{\mathrm{core}}}\), where \(\rho_{\mathrm {core}}\) is the core density). To reduce the calculation cost for the Hermite part we require \(r_{\mathrm{cut}} \propto\rho_{\mathrm{core}}^{-1/3}\) and set the initial value of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}} = 1/64\). We also change \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}} = 3\sigma_{\mathrm{core}}\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), where \(\sigma _{\mathrm{core}}\) is the velocity dispersion in the core, and \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{max}} =\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/4\), as \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) and \(\sigma_{\mathrm{core}}\) are changing. Here, to calculate \(\rho_{\mathrm{core}}\) and \(\sigma_{\mathrm{core}}\), we use the formula proposed by Casertano and Hut (1985). The same simulation is repeated using the fourth-order Hermite scheme with the block timesteps with the same value of \(\eta= 0.1\).
Calculation speed
Initially the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme is much faster than the Hermite scheme, but after the time when \(\rho_{\mathrm{core}} \sim10^{4}\), the \({\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}}\) scheme is slightly slower than the Hermite scheme because in the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme, \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) is proportional to \(\rho_{\mathrm{core}}^{-1/2}\). However, even for the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme, the CPU time spent after \(\rho_{\mathrm{core}}\) reaches 104 is small. As a result, the calculation time to the moment of the core collapse of the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme is smaller than that of the Hermite scheme by a factor of two.
3.2.2 Orbital evolution of SMBH binary
In this section, we also discuss the performance of the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme applied to simulations of a galaxy with a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary. First, we describe the initial conditions and parameters of the integration scheme. Next, we compare the calculation results obtained by the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) and Hermite schemes, and finally, the calculation speed.
Initial conditions and methods
We use the Plummer model with \(N=16\mathrm{K}, 128\mathrm{K}\mbox{ and }256\mathrm{K}\) as the initial galaxy model. Two SMBH particles with a mass of 1% of that of the galaxy are placed at the positions \((\pm 0.5, 0.0, 0.0)\) with the velocities \((0.0, \pm 0.5, 0.0)\). We use three values for the cut off radius with respect to three different kinds of interactions. For the interaction between field stars (FSs), we set \(r_{\mathrm{cut},\mathrm{FS}-\mathrm{FS}} = 1/256\). For the interaction between SMBHs, the force is not split and \(F_{\mathrm{soft}}=0\). In other words, the force between SMBHs is integrated with the pure Hermite scheme. We set the cut off radius between SMBH and FS \(r_{\mathrm{cut}, \mathrm{BH}-\mathrm{FS}}=1/32\) which is large enough that \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) is smaller than the Kepler time of a particle in orbit around the SMBH binary at a distance of \(r_{\mathrm{cut}, \mathrm{BH}-\mathrm{FS}}\). We use the Plummer softening \(\epsilon= 10^{-4}\) for the interactions between FS-FS and FS-SMBH. For the SMBH-SMBH interaction, we do not use the softening. The accuracy parameter of timestep criterion for FS \(\eta_{\mathrm{FS}}\) is 0.1, and for SMBH \(\eta_{\mathrm{BH}}\) is 0.03. We adopt \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}} = 3\sigma\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), \(\Delta t_{\max}=\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/4\) and \(\theta=0.4\).
We use \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}=1/1{,}024\) at \(T=0\), and as the binary becomes harder, we decrease \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) to suppress the aliasing error of the binary. As a standard model, we set \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) to be less than half of the Kepler time of the SMBH binary \(t_{\mathrm{kep}}\). Only for \(N=128\mathrm{K}\), we also perform two other runs, where \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}< t_{\mathrm{kep}}/4\) and \(t_{\mathrm{kep}}\).
We also perform the same simulations by the Hermite scheme with the same \(\eta_{\mathrm{FS}}\) and \(\eta_{\mathrm{BH}}\).
Calculation speed
4 Conclusions
We have described the implementation and performance of the \(\mathrm {P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme for simulating dense stellar systems. In our implementation, the tree part is accelerated using GPU. The accuracy and performance of the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme can be controlled through six parameters: \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{cut}}\), \(\Delta r_{\mathrm{buff}}\), \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\), \(\Delta t_{\max}\), η and θ. We find that \(\Delta r_{\mathrm {buff}} \gtrsim2\sigma\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) is a good choice to prevent non-neighbour particles from entering the neighbour sphere. The integration errors can be controlled through \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}/ \Delta r_{\mathrm{cut}}\sigma\). For \(\theta= 0.2\), if we set \(\Delta t_{\mathrm{soft}}\) to be less than \(0.05\Delta r_{\mathrm{cut}} / \sigma\), the integration error is smaller than the tree force error. For the Hermite part, if we choose \(\eta\lesssim0.2\), the errors hardly depend on \(\Delta t_{\max}\).
From the point of view of the balance of the calculation costs between the tree and Hermite parts, we derive the optimal set of accuracy parameters, and find that the calculation cost is proportional to \(N^{4/3}\).
The \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme is suitable for simulating large N stellar clusters with a high density contrast, such as star clusters or galactic nuclei. We demonstrate the efficiency of the code and show that it is able to integrate N-body systems to the moment of the core collapse. We also performed the simulations of the galaxy with the SMBH binary and found that the \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) scheme can be applied to these simulations.
Finally, we discuss the possibilities of implementing two important effects on star cluster evolution in \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm {T}\). The first is the effect of a tidal field which dramatically changes the collapse time and the evaporation time of a star cluster. The tidal field effect can be included in the soft part.
The other is an effect of stellar-mass binaries. A stellar-mass binary plays an important role in halting the core collapse. In this paper, we introduce the Plummer softening and neglect these binary effect. However, we could treat these effects by integrating stellar-mass binaries in the hard part.
Our \(\mathrm{P}^{3}\mathrm{T}\) code is incorporated in the AMUSE frameworks and free for use (Portegies Zwart et al. 2013; Pelupessy et al. 2013).
GTX680 does not have ECC (Error Check and Correct) memories. However, as we will see later, we do not observe any large energy error in any of our runs, which means the hardware error does not affect our result. Betz et al. (2014) performed Molecular Dynamics simulations, in order to investigate the rate of bit-flip error events. They observed a single bit-flip error event in about 4,700 GPU*hours without ECC and conclude that the bit-flip error is exceedingly rare.
We are grateful to Jeroen Bédorf, for preparations of the GPU cluster and GPU library. We also thank to Shoichi Oshino, Daniel Caputo and Keigo Nitadori for stimulating discussion, and to Edwin van der Helm for carefully reading the manuscript. This work was supported by NWO (grants VICI [#639.073.803], AMUSE [#614.061.608] and LGM [# 612.071.503]), NOVA and the LKBF.
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The Original Campbell Curvex Cassette
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- X-Raying problem areas such as the base of the skull, including the foramen magnum, the mandible, lateral cervical spines and sphenoid sinuses.
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Actively involved in political elections, End Citizens United, focuses on electing campaign officials to overturn Citizens United. This committee was created to fight the U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow billionaires with special interested to donate disclosed amounts of money to campaigns without explanations or transparency. The group is investing heavily in television amd digital video advertising to inform the public of the actions of Republication Rick Saccone. The goal of the advertisement is to express to the public of Saccone's misdeeds while being state representative.
To understand what the End Citizens United committee does, one must first understand that an immense amount of dark money is used to support campaigns and elections. Billionaire dump millions of dark money into political campaigns, aiming to buy their influence in political elections. The committee is forcefully trying to abolish this. Representative Jacky Rosen, announced that she was against this such of funding for political campaigns. However, a wealthy donor donated millions of dark money to her campaign, going against her rhetoric for the use of dark money being involved in politics. This is the type of activity the political committee is working to end.
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To fight these types of involvement in campaigns, the political committee made a major move earlier this year. Spending a quarter of a million dollars on advertising, the committee is showing their support for Conor Lamb. His opponent is being accused of spending his campaign funds fraudulently. Mr. Lamb has pledged to not accept money from any political action committees, making him a preferred candidate for the End Citizens United.
End Citizens United is on the forefront of exposing and being involved in political finance matters. They work tirelessly fighting against the enormous amounts of donors involved in elections with unexplainable amounts of money. With their continuous efforts, it is assured that politics will become a place with valid and legit forms of funding.
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Woodstock police investigating collision between school bus and SUV
Thankfully no children were on a bus that was involved in a two-vehicle collision at the corner of Ingersoll Avenue and Huron Street Tuesday shortly after 3 p.m.
The bus destined for Roch Carrier French Immersion Public School smashed into driver's side of a silver Ford Escape that had allegedly failed to stop for a red light.
Both the driver of the bus and the driver of the Ford Escape were transported to hospital with minor injuries.
The impact of the collision was so hard it setoff the airbags in the bus.
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Posted April 28th, 2010 by Andrew Kaplan - Special Assistant to the Future of Media project
The FCC is holding its second Future of Media workshop on Friday, April 30 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the topic: "Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era."
The workshop will focus on several key issues, including:
-- The possibilities for greater collaboration among noncommercial media entities such as public broadcasters, PEG channels, noncommercial web-based outlets, and other new media entities;
-- The role of public and other noncommercial media in serving the information needs of the underserved, including minorities, children, the disabled, and the economically disadvantaged;
-- Evolving business and organizational structures of public and other noncommercial media entities and the ways these are impacted by government policy;
-- Innovative uses of social media, gaming, Internet applications, citizen journalism, mobile technologies, and other technological and organizational innovations;
-- The possibilities for new kinds of noncommercial media networks and associated funding models.
The workshop will be held in the Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, at the FCC headquarters on 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC. The public is encouraged to attend. You can also participate in the workshop by viewing the FCC Live web page at www.fcc.gov/live. Submit questions to the panelists via e-mail (email@example.com) or Twitter using #FOMwkshop. View the press release and agenda (.pdf)
Posted April 23rd, 2010 by Irene Wu
Michele McLellan, Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow and consultant to the Knight Foundation, is studying promising news sites all over the country, with an eye to their overall, long-term sustainability. For a full discussion see www.rjionline.org/projects/mcellan/stories/community-news-sites/index.php At minimum these sites must:
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With the news media struggling to survive in the Internet age, questions are being raised as to who will pay for quality journalism. In an essay written by Adam Thierer and Berin Szoka of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the authors critique proposals that increase the government role in sustaining journalism or promoting more "public interest" content.
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Back in June the EBB drew attention to a feature in Bluegrass Today on the Banjo Rolls Trainer, developed by Czech banjo player Jiří Markalous as an aid to learning all the important five-string banjo rolls and improving speed and accuracy, and available as an iOS app through the Apple App Store.
John Lawless has now featured on Bluegrass Today Jiří's further development of the concept, launched on 5 September: a Mac OSX version, combining all the features of the original with further options, including the ability to create and save your own rolls, and a speed-up feature, where the metronome setting will increase after a preset number of repetitions, at a user-determined rate. A video tutorial can be seen here. The new app is available through the Mac App Store for $14.99. John Lawless concludes: 'All in all, this is a very effective roll trainer'.


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Second LP from these Calgary, Alberta men out of time. These guys channel late 70's punk and early 2000's power pop/garage so perfectly that you'd think it came in a time machine. In fact, this LP was recorded, mixed and produced by Pat Kearns (Exploding Hearts, Clorox Girls, Terry & Louie, Observers, etc) to boot.
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1. Something Wrong
2. Messin' Around
3. Maryanne
4. Wastin' Time
5. (So Much For) Saturday Night
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Strateco Reacts Positively to Survey Results
March 6, 2013 (Source: Marketwire) Boucherville, QC — Strateco Resources inc. (TSX:RSC)(FRANKFURT:RF9) looked at results from a Léger Marketing survey on the mining industry in general and uranium.
The survey shows that three quarters of Quebecers are not aware of any uranium mining project in Quebec. It should be noted that the Matoush project is not a uranium mining project but rather and advanced exploration project.
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Furthermore, only 22 percent of Quebecers wish for a permanent moratorium on uranium mining. A little more than a third would like a provincial review before a uranium mining project is approved in the province. It should be noted that the Matoush project has been successfully subjected to the approval process of the federal government, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the provincial review committee (COMEX). If results from the advanced exploration are conclusive, any further step would have to go through once again the same type of mandatory federal and provincial public review process.
« Survey results confirm that, with a project such as ours, Quebecers want openness and transparency. This has been our approach since the beginning of the Matoush project and we will continue to act this way by creating, among others, a public committee with members from the community and independent government representatives,» said Guy Hébert, President and Chief Executive Officer, Strateco Resources Inc.
The survey also shows that a third of Quebecers support uranium mining projects almost equal the number not supporting them. It is quite revealing that almost 50 percent of respondents cannot motivate their position.
After receiving approvals from all the required authorities, the Matoush project has been waiting for an answer from the provincial government for almost two years.
Strateco Resources has filed a motion with the Quebec Superior Court in order to force the government to issue a decision regarding the advanced exploration phase. The Court recently granted a special case management to facilitate procedures.
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The news of our Monastery
As you may have noticed, our site is about to change in order to better correspond to our current situation and to the wishes expressed by our friends.
We would like to give better witness to you of our life as Carmelites, of course. But also, of our life as Carmelite nuns in a specific country. For, indeed, we have the grace of living in a land that is at once, the land of God's Revelation, the land where the Word of God, the Uncreated Word became incarnate, and where the Church was born. Finally, we live in a place, where the Carmelite Order originated some 800 years ago…
All these realities fill our lives and are our richness. Through our web site, we would like to share with you 'a little something' of that.
Of course, we cannot do this very quickly; we shall do it step by step, because the principal occupation of the Carmelite nun, her preferred and almost unique apostolate is prayer, seeking the intimacy with the Lord. Yet, aware of the richness and happiness we received, it would be unfair to keep that for ourselves. There are moments when everything is 'too vast' and 'too good', and these moments can and should be shared. We want to do so, slowly, gradually and according to the time actually available to us. The Lord Himself invites us: 'Freely you received, freely give'. He has eternity before Him; why could we not take a few years?
So, we would like to share with you our daily life, full of His Presence, as well as some special moments, such as important events for the whole Church, or the Order of Carmel, or even, more modestly, some events that we live in community, such as our liturgical celebrations which are the basis of our life…
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John Abraham
After 'Force', actor John Abraham is looking to capitalise on the action genre and would be doing another film in that space.
He will be teaming up with filmmaker Sanjay Gupta for an action flick.
"I did 'Force' and that worked for me. The audience appreciated me in the action space. I am doing another film with Sanjay Gupta and it happens to be an action film," John told .
Nishikant Kamath's 2011 directorial venture'Force' brought the 'Jism' actor in the action space.
"For me, coincidentally, the action space is open... the space for a raw action hero. I am not one of those heroes who jump on cables... I do raw action. I think the last guy who did it was Sunny Deol in 'Ghayal'.So I want to occupy that space," the 40-year-old maintained.
It will be for the third time that John will work with Gupta, after'Zinda' and 'Shootout at Wadala'. John has expressed his desire to work with Akshay Kumar, another actor hero, again.
"I would love to work with Akshay. With Akshay the film that we should do together should be like 'Garam Masala' or 'Desi Boyz.' I feel Akshay and I share same positive energy. We get along very well. So whatever we do I guarantee it will work," he said


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Zesty Three Beans Salad
2 cups Frozen Edamame (shelled)
15 oz can Red Kidney Beans (rinsed and drained)
15 oz can Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas-rinsed and drained)
1/2 cup Thinly Sliced Red Onion
1/2 cup Fresh Snipped Cilantro
1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 tsp Finely Shredded Lime Peel
1/4 cup Lime Juice
1/2 tsp Salt
Cook edamame according to package directions; drain in colander. Rinse with cold water and drain again. In large bowl combine edamame, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, red onion and cilantro. In small bowl whisk together oil, lime peel, lime juice and salt. Pour lime mixture over bean mixture; toss gently to coat. Serve immediately or cover and chill for up to 24 hours. Stir well before serving.


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Proceedings of The Physiological Society
University College London December 2005 (2006) Proc Physiol Soc 1, C4
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Modulation of the H-reflex within naturally occurring sway during quiet standing
Tokuno, Craig D; Cresswell, Andrew G;
1. Human Movement Studies and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 2. Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 3. Idrottshogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden.
Previous research has observed a decrease in reflex excitability as subjects move from lying or sitting to a standing position. This decrease is thought to be due to increased presynaptic inhibition at the Ia synapse (Katz et al. 1988; Koceja et al. 1993). It is not known whether these same reflexes are modulated in a similar fashion within naturally occurring postural sway during quiet standing. H-reflex and M-wave recruitment curves were obtained in the right soleus (SOL) and medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscles while human subjects (n=7) were in a standing position. Electrical stimuli (1 ms duration pulse between 0.5 to 14 mA) were delivered to the tibial nerve when the body was naturally swaying forward (centre of pressure (COP) at 1.6 standard deviations (SD) anterior to the mean baseline COP) or backward (COP at 1.6 SD posterior to the mean baseline COP). The two sway conditions were characterized by a difference of 0.5 deg, 1.1 cm, and 0.8 cm in the mean ankle angle, position of the centre of pressure, and position of the centre of mass, respectively. Compared to when swaying backward, forward sway resulted in a significant increase in Hmax for the SOL and MG muscles by 11.2
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Paul Gambaccini was born in New York City and earned degrees in History (Dartmouth College, USA), and Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University College, Oxford).
Paul appeared on BBC Radio 1 for 18 years, presenting the US Chart Show for most of that time, and has been a regular on each of the first four British terrestrial television networks. He was the longest serving performer on breakfast television, with his 13-year film review stint, first on TV-am and then GMTV. His television appearances include 'Call My Bluff', 'Music For The Millennium', and 'The South Bank Show'.
In addition to broadcasting, Paul has been co-author of 'The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles' and related titles with Tim and Jo Rice. The team also wrote with Tony Brown 'The Complete Eurovision Song Contest Companion'. His own books include 'Love Letters', 'Radio Boy', 'Top 100 Albums' and 'Track Records'. Paul also co-authored 'Television's Greatest Hits' with Rod Taylor, with whom he co-wrote and associate produced the BBC 1 television series of the same name.
In 1995 Paul was named Philanthropist of the Year by the National Charity Fundraisers, for his work on behalf of the Terrence Higgins Trust. He received the Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio Award from the Radio Academy in 1996 and picked up the Sony Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year in 2003.
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Jawaharlal Nehru, more than anyone else, recognized the vital role of science in development.
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, who built institutions concerned with the role of science in society dedicated the Foundation to Nehru.
" The Foundation would provide the forum and the staff services to support the initiative of individuals who are interested in similar problems of development. Through the proposed Foundation we would attempt to create intellectual resource groups supported by those who feel motivated to think and to share their thinking with others on problems of current interest. The Foundation would explore ideas and communicate, but it would not concern itself directly with implementation.
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1. Get specifics on your diagnosis and treatment. In order to maximize your time with your providers, bring your questions with you in writing to your appointments. Ask for copies of your test results and keep a notebook of all these results. Keep a list of questions that arise between visits so you don't forget, and take notes of the answers. Above all, make informed decisions; learn as much as you can about your diagnosis and treatment.
2. Spend time choosing your doctor. Breast cancer specialists who work at dedicated cancer centers offer specific expertise as well as access to the latest treatments that are part of clinical studies. Such centers can provide other specialty services, usually under one roof, such as physical therapy, nutrition and social work.
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Posted by: Jeremy Reimer on Thu Jul 28 20:19:21 2011.
Tomorrow I am leaving very early on a jet plane to go to Anaheim. No, I'm not going to Disneyland-- I'm going to attend the Major League Gaming event, where Starcraft II will be on the Main Stage!
I'm going not just as a fan, but also to write an awesome article for Ars Technica. While there, I hope to see (and possibly meet) Lim Yo Hwan, aka SlayerS Boxer, the most famous Starcraft player of all time. He is one of a few select Korean pros who have been invited to battle with the best players from North America and Europe.
I'm so excited!! Wish me luck!
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By Harby on Fri Aug 19 18:31:08 2011
So, umm... how did it go?
It's been rather quiet in here.
By Jeremy Reimer on Sat Aug 20 00:36:08 2011
It was awesome. You'll find out everything in the upcoming Ars article. Which I should be finishing off right now!!
By Jeremy Reimer on Sat Aug 20 15:32:35 2011
The best moments were watching Jinro drop a nuke on Rain's army, live on stage, and watching Boxer NEARLY beat MMA for a chance to win the entire tournament.
Watching Boxer was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. He's the most famous Starcraft player (if not the most famous e-Sports player) who ever lived, and I got to see him play live. I'll never forget that.
He's also like the nicest, most amazing guy ever.
By OscarWilde on Fri Aug 26 00:27:00 2011
Sounds interesting. Looking forward to reading the article.
By Jeremy Reimer on Fri Aug 26 07:13:45 2011
I submitted the article to Ars on Wednesday. Hopefully it will show up soon!
By Jeremy Reimer on Tue Aug 30 21:33:53 2011
It's up!
Please read and spread the word!
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A Gainsborough man has been found in possession of cannabis.
Leon Boswell, 19, of Stanley Street, Gainsborough, was also driving without a licence, insurance or a test certificate.
He was fined a total of £200, £30 victim surcharge.
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Join us Friday December 9th 2011, starting at 6:00 p.m. at Coach's Pizza World 112 S. Washington Street, Mexico Mo for the second annual event. It will be a family oriented night themed in a Christmas and Patriotic atmosphere filled with candlelight prayer for our troops, entertainment, free coffee, hot chocolate and cookies Hear our soldiers and or veterans speak about their experiences. Free cards will be available at the event for those who would like give our troops and veterans a personal thanks. We ask that you do not seal envelopes for security reasons.
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Needed items for troops are: baby wipes, razors, shaving cream, soap, deodorant, toothpaste toothbrushes, hand warmers, snacks, gum, snack cakes, candy, jerky ( beef only), Drop boxes are available at Hickmans IGA, Walgreens, Westlakes, Dollar General S. Clark St. only, Orschelns, Caseys Hwy 54 East Only, and Wal-mart in Mexico, Mo.
Free cards and a drop box are available at Graphitti 124 W. Promenade 224 W. Promenade, Mexico, MO For those who would like leave a donation for shipping or to have their soldier or veteran's picture and shared information for posted at the event may do so by dropping it by Graphitti and may be picked up after December 11th weekdays.
For those who would like more information, how they can help, or for those that would like their soldier to be on a first come first serve list to receive a package for Christmas may do so by emailing email@example.com
This event is launched by the citizens of Mexico, MO and the surrounding areas, who are the ones who make it happen.
Thanks for all that you do for our country.


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Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain face off Sunday afternoon in the International Champions Cup.
The Italian and French sides play at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. as they open the U.S./Europe section of friendly tournament. PSG, the French champs, brings in manager Unai Emery for his debut with the club and is without Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who moved on to Manchester United. Inter finished fourth in Serie A last season and star Mauro Icardi up front.
PSG will later face Real Madrid and Leicester City as part of the tournament. Inter faces Bayern Munich and Celtic.
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When: 5 p.m. ET
Live stream: You can live stream the match here.
Saturday, July 23: Celtic vs. Leicester City (Glasgow)
Sunday, July 24: Inter vs. PSG (Eugene, Ore.)
Wednesday, July 27: Real Madrid vs. PSG (Columbus, Ohio)
Wednesday, July 27: Bayern Munich vs. Milan (Chicago)
Wednesday, July 27: Chelsea vs. Liverpool (Pasadena, Calif.)
Saturday, July 30: Celtic vs. Barcelona (Dublin)
Saturday, July 30: Real Madrid vs. Chelsea (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Saturday, July 30: Inter vs. Bayern Munich (Charlotte, N.C.)
Saturday, July 30: Liverpool vs. Milan (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Saturday, July 30: PSG vs. Leicester City (Carson, Calif.)
Wednesday, Aug. 3: Barcelona vs. Leicester City (Stockholm)
Wednesday, Aug. 3: Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid (East Rutherford, N.J.)
Wednesday, Aug. 3: Milan vs. Chelsea (Minneapolis)
Saturday, Aug. 6: Liverpool vs. Barcelona (London)
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Courses are held most days at many locations around Brisbane, Cleveland, Karana Downs, Scarborough and Bribie Island.
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You can choose to do the learning with us in the classroom, or study online at times that suit you and in the comfort of your own home. Learning the rules requires the same amount of time either way.
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Seven ways technology will change in 2019
App stores, Facebook, smartphone photography, even USB cables – they are all facing disruption this year
App stores, Facebook, smartphone photography, even USB cables – they are all facing disruption this year
Paul lives in a signal black spot where his wife's smartphone still works. Is there a way to find if phone has good reception?
As firm's stock falls over sales warnings, it has competition in bid to be the best smartphone
Pricey Bluetooth headphones have excellent controls but only good, not great sound quality, noise cancelling and battery life
From electric bikes and fold-up drones to combat robots and digital skipping ropes… the year's most desirable technology
You don't need a rainforest, or even a terrarium, to grow fascinating nepenthes indoors
In three trips over 25 years, writer Sara Wheeler has discovered as much about this South American country as she has about herself
With its snorkel at the ready, the Nissan Navara AT32 is a bathing beauty
From next to no value in 2009, it rose to $20,000 and crashed back to $3,000 within a decade
Toys feature in more than half of EU alerts for products containing banned chemicals
An alternative to Christmas cake, with a light, orangey base and an intensely chocolatey topping
It's easy to get sucked into tourist traps in the world's most visited city but these old-school enchanted corners are blissful antidotes to all that
From posh cheeses, choccies and the lesser-spotted lobster oil to a DIY sourdough set – head straight to their hearts through their stomachs with these positively profligate foodie gifts
From celebrity-penned tales to fresh interpretations of the classics, here is our pick of the best for hungry readers from tots to teens
UK households will throw away 2.2m kg over the Christmas period
Our gardening export on how common culinary herbs can make brilliant medicines
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After crinkling the layers and spritzing with a little Glimmer Mist, I was satisfied with the flower and moved on to the card layout. I used a bazzill cardstock for the card itself and a torn piece of old sheet music for the background. I adhered the flower and added the scrap piece of "happy HAPPY" ribbon I had in my stash. I printed the words for the sentiment flag using "my underwood" font, cut it out and distressed it a bit with Vintage Photo Distress Ink (as I did on the flower also, along with Spun Sugar Distress Ink). I cut out the flag shape from a plain old paper bag and used Crystal Lacquer to adhere the words onto it. Crystal Lacquer is a great adhesive and I used it to glue on all the elements onto the card.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Crystal Lacquer make me happy HAPPY!
After crinkling the layers and spritzing with a little Glimmer Mist, I was satisfied with the flower and moved on to the card layout. I used a bazzill cardstock for the card itself and a torn piece of old sheet music for the background. I adhered the flower and added the scrap piece of "happy HAPPY" ribbon I had in my stash. I printed the words for the sentiment flag using "my underwood" font, cut it out and distressed it a bit with Vintage Photo Distress Ink (as I did on the flower also, along with Spun Sugar Distress Ink). I cut out the flag shape from a plain old paper bag and used Crystal Lacquer to adhere the words onto it. Crystal Lacquer is a great adhesive and I used it to glue on all the elements onto the card.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Book Thong and Kindle Charm
I've been having fun with jewelry findings, beads, and 3D Crystal Lacquer. Both of my sisters are avid readers–one used to be a librarian–and I wanted to make each of them a bookmark. These are so much fun to do. And easy!!
To make the charm I cut a word out of an old dictionary that I got at a yard sale. I put my jewelry finding on top of the word I wanted to use and traced around it with a pencil. I used the tracing as a guide for the initial cut, but did need to trim it up to fit inside the finding.
When I was satisfied with the cut out, I put a very thin layer of the clear 3D Crystal Lacquer in the bottom of the jewelry finding. Then, using tweezers, I placed my dictionary cut out into the finding. Adhering the cut out with this thin layer of lacquer prevents it from floating when the finding is filled with crystal lacquer.
Now's the time to add any micro beads or other tiny gems. Next, fill the finding with your choice of colored crystal lacquer and finish off with a dusting of ultrafine crystal glitter. Some of the colored lacquers are more translucent than others, so you may want to test your colored lacquer on a scrap before filling the finding.
Here are my Kindle charm and book thong.
To make the thong you'll need two crimp beads, decorative beads, a length of beading string or fine twine. I used a length of beading string about 12 inches long. You can adjust this for different size books. First, put one of the crimp beads on the string followed by the charm that you just made. Thread the end of the string back through the crimp bead and pinch it closed. On the other end, put on the other crimp bead, followed by your decorative beads. The last decorative bead should be a very small bead. After the last decorative bead is strung, thread the string back through the remaining decorative beads and the crimp bead. (The last decorative bead has only one thickness of beading string through it. The other decorative beads have two thicknesses of beading string.) Close the crimp bead and trim any thread ends.
Visit my blog for more fun projects.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Here is the 3D Crystal Lacquer package with the print. The green is a dead on match and I had a dark pearl blue 3D Crystal Lacquer from another set.
After applying the lacquer and letting it dry, I glued the butterfly to the canvas.
After the glue was set, I filled in the butterfly wings with the 3D Crystal Lacquer. I did have to use a toothpick to move the lacquer into the smaller wing areas.
A final tip - on the petals of the flower, I squeezed the lacquer from the base and pulled it towards the edge releasing the pressure on the tube. This is what created the nice even look on the petals.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Faberge Box
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sakura Design Team submission April 19th
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Zentangled Pendants!
When Sakura Hobby Crafts sent me the jewelry findings in my goodie box my mind instantly thought of Zentangle. I had never Zentangled in such a small space but thought it would be a great challenge for me and one I definitely wanted to try! For those who don't know about Zentangle you might want to check out the official Zentangle website once you are done checking out today's blogpost here!
Anyway, I decided to use a black 005 Micron pen because it can draw in such fine detail and the color won't change over time or with exposure to the sun, which with a jewelry pendant can happen! I cut out pieces of smooth paper that would fit inside the pendant pieces. I used a pencil to outline the outside of the pendant on the paper then cut on the inside of the lines and had very little trimming to do to get the pieces to fit. I do suggest that you not put the pieces all the way into the pendant until you are ready to use the crystal lacquer in the final step. Otherwise you might crinkle a corner trying to get it back out! (Just trust me on this one! wink wink)
So then I Zentangled my design on the small pieces of paper, did some shading with a soft lead pencil and we were ready for the crystal lacquer!
Another hint, put a little crystal lacquer on the bottom of the inside of the finding, a very thin layer and put the piece of paper inside and let it dry for a bit before filling the entire finding with the crystal lacquer.
Then you fill the entire finding and set it aside to dry. You will know when it is dry because you will see your artwork clearly....the crystal lacquer looks cloudy when you 1st put it in.
I left mine sit overnight so I am not sure exactly how long it took to dry. You can also use a pin to pop any bubbles that are in the lacquer if any appear when you fill the finding. Pop them right away or bring them to the surface and pop them, otherwise you will have bubbles of air once the lacquer dries....a neat effect, but not if that wasn't what you were aiming for!
I hope you like the pendants! I sure had fun making them!!!
Jennifer - The Stamp Addict
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Hippity Hoppity - Easter's On it's Way!
After my eggs were colored, dried and blown out, I slid them onto a bamboo skewer, so I could coat them with Crystal Lacquer and sprinkle with fine glitter. The skewer also came in handy as I could just stick the end into a piece of foam so the egg could dry. I just used a very thin layer of Crystal Lacquer, as I didn't want any puddling on the bottom of the egg as it dried.
For this polka-dotted egg, I used little circles of dried Crystal Color Lacquer. I had squeezed out a bunch of tiny circles of Crystal Color Lacquer on my mat a few days earlier and wanted to do something with them.....so I placed them on a plain white egg. The dried Crystal Color Lacquer stuck on the egg without any adhesive. I think it turned out pretty cute!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Easter Eggs with 3D Crystal Lacquers
Anybody thinking about decorating Easter eggs??? You can definitely add a new dimension to your egg decorations with colored 3D crystal lacquers from Sakura Hobby Craft. I started my egg decorating project by coloring hard boiled eggs. I dissolved a tiny amount of paste dye (the kind used for cake icing) in one cup of hot water. To that I added one teaspoon of white vinegar to help set the colors. After removing the eggs from the dye bath, I let them dye completely before decorating with the metallic and pearlized 3D crystal lacquers. Here are the results.
I also used the pearlized and colored 3D crystal lacquers to decorate this Easter Card. Much easier to mail this beautiful card than a real decorated egg I cut the egg pattern on my Cricut using Sure Cuts A Lot software and an SVG file that I found on SCAL Efiles blog. I love the name of the cut file–Fabergewannabegg. The Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer embellishments really make this card reminiscent of the famous jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs.
You can learn more about Sure Cuts A Lot software at Create & Craft.


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A few days ago I opened a new blog describing the Google SketchUp.
Service is not yet fully operational, but a few days the situation should be changed.
Content are published in Polish, this is the first of its kind blog in my country.
Visit Sketchupownia - Polski blog o Google SketchUP.


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Crime Shows and Movies The Very Best Movies About Life in the Ghetto
List Rules Films set in or about the urban ghetto
The best ghetto movies explore life in urban communities. This list includes black ghetto movies, hood movies, and ghetto comedies. Characters that live in the ghetto are often depicted as impoverished, engaged in or concerned about gang activity, and mixed up in drugs and other bad behaviors. While some want to escape the lives the were born into, others want to stick around and rule their neighborhoods. This list includes the top ghetto films, but if you believe we missed one, please feel free to add it to the list yourself. Ghetto films began appearing in the late '80s and early '90s with one of the most widely known examples being Menace II Society and Boyz in the Hood. These movies focus on African-American characters who were born and raised in the ghetto mentality. Newer movies like Training Day and City of God tackle life in the ghetto from other perspectives.
What are the best ghetto movies? What are some example of hood films? Ghetto films deal with the urban culture of minorities, and frequently with the plight of growing up in that type of environment. Use this ghetto movie list as a starting off point to vote on what you think are the best films in the genre and to find new movies that you'd enjoy watching.