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It's official; we received a scholarship to attend the 2011 JA Conference in Washington, D.C.! I received the "official" notice yesterday morning and couldn't be more excited!
We received a full scholarship which will cover airfare, hotel (for 3 nights), conference registration, money towards meals and ground transportation for all four of us!
I am so appreciative of the support our local Arthritis Foundation office has given us and am honored they picked our family to go!
We are planning to arrive a few days before the conference so we can turn this into a mini family vacation (how often do you get someone else to pay your airfare for a family of 4??). I went to D.C. when I was a junior in high school on our annual band trip, but Rich has never been, so he is really excited. We won't get to do as much as we could if we didn't have the kids with us or they were older (how much sightseeing can a 4 and 2 year old really handle), but we will squeeze in as much as we can!
The conference provides a Child & Teen program which is organized by age group and is medically supervised. This program allows the parents to drop the kids off (both your child with JRA as well as any siblings) and attend the Parent Breakout Sessions. I will also get a chance to meet some of the other parents I have been networking with via our blogs and Facebook.
I know I haven't been posting much lately, but I definitely have some updating to do, so hopefully this weekend I will get a chance to sit down and update everyone with what's been happening!


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YOU'RE unlikely to find Spindle Wood marked on a map – but it's a wonderful place which is freely open to walkers.
It was created by planting trees on several former fields and demonstrates just how successful such woodland creation can be.
Its age and structure are varied because the original field boundaries remain within the young wood, and contain many veteran oak and willow trees.
The new planting includes lots of the eponymous spindle tree, with spectacular pink and orange fruits in autumn. There are also wetland areas, brooks, large ponds, a good network of paths and a couple of picnic tables.
Some brilliantly creative sculptures by Roger Jackson also live in Spindle Wood – look out, in particular, for Tyrannobear and Teddy-o-saurus. You'll see them if you take the route through the wood described here.
FACTFILE Start: Monkwood Green, between Hallow and Wichenford, northwest of Worcester. Grid ref SO801601.
Length: Five miles/8km.
Maps: OS Explorer 204, OS Landranger 150.
Terrain: Flat pasture, arable and woodland.
Footpaths: Most are good but some require improvement.
Stiles: 13.
Parking: Monkwood Green.
Buses: Astons 308/309/310 Mon- Sat; 308 serves Monkwood Green, while 309/310 go along Martley Road and will stop at Kenswick Manor or Hill Farm driveway (point six); worcestershire.gov.uk/ bustimetables or 01905 765765.
Refreshments: Fox Inn, Monkwood Green.
1 Walk along the southern edge of Monkwood Green, towards Hallow.
At the eastern end of the green cross a farm drive to join a footpath, passing to the left of a barn then continuing straight on across a field.
Cross an overgrown footbridge and stiles then go to the far left corner of the next field. Cross another overgrown stile then proceed along the next field edge. At the far side, ignore a path branching left and continue forward to cross a wobbly stile into another field. After 200m there's a stile on the left, which is your cue to turn right, but the path is over-cropped with maize. Use it if you can, or continue a little further along the edge to find an alternative path.
Head for what initially looks like one large oak tree at the far side (it's actually three trees) then keep straight on to reach a gate.
2 Don't go through the gate; turn right instead. Ignore a path branching left and follow the field edge to a lane. Turn left, ignore a bridleway on the right (broken fingerpost) but take the next footpath (no fingerpost) at a stile. Bear left through a field, cross a stile in the hedge and go diagonally right across the next field to a stile roughly opposite Moseley Farm. Cross another field to meet a bridleway and turn right, then turn left on a lane at Shoulton House Farm. Ignore branching footpaths but go right when the lane forks by Shoulton Cottage.
3 Take a path on the right, opposite the Old Dovecote. A stile soon gives access to Spindle Wood, and a sign indicates that walkers are welcome.
Go past the site of a dried-up pond to reach a junction and turn right, mostly walking by the woodland edge. When you come to a barn, walk round it to regain the woodland edge.
Turn left when you reach a pool and walk around three sides of it before passing through a gap in the trees, with a large willow on your right.
Proceed past a fairly open area, with young willow trees. Reaching a corner, cross a brook at a living bridge cleverly made from a prostrate but still flourishing willow, and turn right.
4 When you reach a tractor shed, look for a narrow path through the trees on the left. Follow it to a major junction by a large oak and turn left to find a clearing where there's a veteran oak and some of Roger Jackson's sculptures. Turn right to a picnic table and two large oaks, then left on a wide path which leads back to the brook. Turn right, then go through a gate to find another pool.
Go to the left to walk round three sides of it then turn left through willow coppice to a hedge corner, where stepping stones over the brook give access to a gate to Green Street.
5 Two footpaths are signed opposite.
Take the one that goes to the right.
Keep to the field edge until a waymark directs you across the field.
The line of the path is unclear so look for two tall trees close together at the far side and head towards the one on the right. A footbridge beneath the tree provides access to a huge field.
Go diagonally across it to Martley Road. The path meets the road opposite Kenswick Manor, the grounds of which are filled with trees.
Head towards these trees, specifically towards a flat-topped pine and a mistletoe-covered poplar. You should be aiming well to the right of some highly visible fencing and traffic signs. As you get closer you'll see a stile and fingerpost.
6 Cross the road and turn right past Kenswick Manor on a wide verge, then cross back again after 300m to take the Hill Farm driveway. Turn right when you come to a junction near Kenswick Substation. Go along a field edge then into a young wood.
Turn right, then second left to walk along the woodland edge. Cross a footbridge at the far side then cross an arable field to a gate. Go straight on, passing to the left of Greenstreet Farm to a junction with a bridleway.
Stay on the footpath, going diagonally across two fields then keeping close to the right-hand edge in two more. Turn right across a brook, proceed to an overgrown stile and turn left to Monkwood Green.
Worcester News recommends the use of OS Explorer Maps, your ideal passport to navigating the countryside. This walk is based on OS Explorer 204.

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DETROIT - A Detroit high school basketball coach won't be charged for fatally shooting a 16-year-old who was attempting to rob him.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday Ernest Robinson, 70, was acting in self defense when the shooting happened.
What happened:
On Feb.1, at about 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of Martin Luther King High School, Robinson was leaving the school with two female basketball players when he was accosted by two teenage males as he unlocked the door to his car.
As the coach approached the driver's side of his car a 16-year-old male armed with a gun and a 15-year-old male, both of Detroit, approached Robinson and ordered him not to move.
It is alleged that 15-year-old, tugged at a chain Robinson was wearing.
READ: Coach shoots teen robbers: Mother of victim speaks out
At the same time the 16-year-old pointed a gun toward the two females who were on the passenger side of the coaches car.
The females were instructed by the 16-year-old to leave the area and they ran toward Lafayette and were unharmed.
Police said Robinson, who has a concealed pistol license, fired at the teens, fatally striking the 16-year-old.
Teen charged as accomplice:
"The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office will not charge the basketball coach with any crime. This case is a textbook example of lawful self-defense. The coach is a victim, so we are charging the 15-year-old accomplice in this case. What is left here is absolutely tragic by any standard," said Prosecutor Worthy.
The 15-year-old juvenile male in being held at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC).
He is charged with two counts of armed robbery and two assault with intent to rob while armed and will be adult designated.
Upon conviction an adult designation gives the judge three options: 1) to sentence the defendant as a juvenile; 2) to have a blended the sentence as juvenile and adult; 3) or to sentence the juvenile as an adult.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 16, at JDC located at 1326 Saint Antoine in Detroit.
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Musaico is now Universal on iOS. I haven't yet tried this one but it does look like an interesting sketch pad. I think this App like a few others like it really rely on you prepping a few great samples in your own style to get the most out of them. Let me know if you have used this one. $3.99 USD.
"Musaico re-imagines the musician's early creative process. Designed and optimized for the iPad, the interface enables artists to immediately capture ideas. Record, loop, layer, and remix sounds in real time, from layering guitar parts to looping rap beats. Pick it up and learn to make a quick sketch in a matter of minutes." – musai.co
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HOUSTON - A middle school assistant principal was arrested during a raid at an adult video store.
John Hayman, 33, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance. Hayman is an assistant principal at Austin Middle School in Galveston.
Houston police said vice officers ran an undercover operation at Excellence 24/7 Video on Nov. 4 after receiving complaints of indecent exposure and prostitution.
Officers said they told all of the customers to get out of the store for questioning, but they found one private room door that was locked. When they unlocked it, detectives said they found Hayman inside.
Police said they searched Hayman and found crystal meth in his possession.
According to the Galveston Independent School District, Hayman was placed on paid administrative leave on Nov. 5, pending the outcome of the police investigation. He has been employed by the school district since 2006.
School district officials said they do not normally notify parents about legal or criminal matters involving staff members, but they planned to send out a letter because they have received many inquires.
Hayman was released from jail after posting $2,000 bond.
UPDATE: Charges against Hayman have been dropped.
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Check buttons are used to be able to select which task to be edited/deleted. Unless someone comes up with something easier/simple i will stick with this.
I have already started working on it. Its not much but this is what i have til now:
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import sys
from Tkinter import *
mGui = Tk()
mGui.title("Task manager")
def inputl():
ltext = firstT.get()
label1 = Label(mGui,text=ltext).pack()
message = "Enter task"
Label(mGui, text=message).pack()
entry1= Entry(mGui, textvariable=firstT).pack()
Button1 = Button(mGui, text='OK', command=inputl).pack()
Button(mGui, text="Add", command=inputl).pack(side=TOP, ipadx=50)
Button(mGui, text="Edit").pack(side=TOP, ipadx=51)
Button(mGui, text="Delete").pack(side=TOP, ipadx=44)
I would appreciate it if I could get some help to finish this program ASAP. Thanks a lot !


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Thread: Wot films are you watching?
Man of Steel.
They should abandon the sequel plans because there's no way they can top this.
I sympathized with the villains. Faora = 110% awesome.
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Just finished watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It was a very enjoyable film, very nicely shot. I definitely recommend it, not only to those interested in Japanese culture and cuisine, but to everyone.
Could you anyone point me to similar, slow-paced documentaries that revolve around a person and how he goes about life, preferably set in Eastern Asia?
Two movies and, first of all, Monsters University was surprisingly good. Thought It would be just another bland cash-in but thankfully enough, it's not another Cars 2. I can say Pixar, after Brave, just outdone themselves again in the animation department. I can't really tell whether they shot it real-time or animated it completely in their little short story before the movie. As for the movie itself, just like watchin Toy Story and then watching TS3. There's a difference. Not a huige difference but it's there. The humour's pretty good too but I don't want to spoil it. This movie made me realize how very, very small my campus was compared to MU.
OTT, World War Z was okay. Nothing much to shout about other than being a decent 2-hour rabid zombie flick. Felt it could've been much better but eh.Art blog here.
Doodles poodles sheboodles
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A Clockwork Orange - I think this really talks about how Alex doesn't do all the nasty things because he can and there is no reason for it, it really through visuals and great surreal moments shows that the place Alex is in is full of corrupt, multiplicative, and people who believe in sexual dominance exactly like Alex is. Basically Kubrick is saying it is the environment that causes Alex to do what he does. One thing that always surprises me is how really unconventional the first half really is, it is just so full of weird touches and slo mo and fast sex scenes its just bizzare. One thing also that really gets me is the end fantasy unlike what other people think that it is just a confirmation that Alex has gone back to his old ways it looks to me as he is fantasising about a wedding and being dominated sexually which is against the previous fantasies and what he has like throughout the film. If so the film also shows Alex's maturation but it doesn't jump out of you where he could of got that throughout the film which means another more detailed viewing is probably in order. I love this film and it kind of shows with cinematography, story, lighting, and bizarreness that Kubrick was a master and we have no movies now a days that match it it seems.
Finally watched Olympus Has Fallen. All in all, a fun movie with some really idiotic moments. And yeah, it is definitely "inspired by" Vince Flynn's "Transfer of Power", but it made enough changes that I wouldn't call it a ripoff. Maybe an adaptation. A few scenes were ripped straight from the book, but it was a much more mainstream story with a more traditionally heroic and likeable protagonist and a disturbingly high body count, rather than the book's emphasis on stealth and recon.
Basically, "Transfer of Power" is Die Hard 1: the story of a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time who is trying to survive while protecting the hostages. Olympus Has Fallen is Die Hard 2: the story of a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time who is trying to kill everything and singlehandedly save the world. Both are great, but in different ways.Steam: Gundato
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World War Z - basically a Roland Emmerich movie, but with shaky cam. It's exciting and fun. The one thing that carries over very well from the book is that "international feeling", if you know what I mean. I can't believe how well it turned out after all the production controversy.
This is the end - Good fun movie, lots of laughs, lots of cameos that get a laugh though I'd imagine on future viewings those scenes most certainly won't have the same impact. Good performances from everyone. CGI was amazingly bad though and there really is absolutely no plot beyond a shoestring.
Still fun though so who cares!"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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(also not sure if that affected my judgement but I actually studied Japanese at my uni and did 5months study abroad there. not an otaku tho, not big into anime/manga/jrpgs except the good ones :p )Comrade, Listen! The Glorious Commonwealth's first Airship has been compromised! Who is the saboteur? Who can be saved? Uncover what the passengers are hiding and write the grisly conclusion of its final hours in an open-ended, player-driven adventure. Dziekujemy! -- Karaski: What Goes Up...
Finally watched Drive the other night. A beautiful and well acted film, but I can definitely understand why it is a love-it-or-hate-it movie. All in all, it is a love story and a very well-written one at that, but it also contains moments of REALLY dark ultra-violence and lots of shades-of-grey morality. So people who are there for the love story might get alienated by the ultra-violence, people who are there for the dark and gritty story might get turned off if they realize it is a romantic movie.
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I'm watching NO movies right now because yet again Japan has decided to delay them all by months! Grrr!
Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, World War Z, and about 3 others that I can't remember right now are all coming out in about a 1 week period in the middle of august. This month there is nothing. You'd think they didn't know that the cinema was a good place to hide from the insane heat and humidity in July.
I don't get why Japan seems to often stand alone in late movies, when the rest f the world seems to have finally almost gotten in sync.
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90's narrators had a hell of an ability to make good films sound awkward.
SLC Punk! for example. Good film, good cast. Trailer narration makes it sound on par with a Disney sports movie.
Also it has "Kes-from-Voyager" Jennifer Lien in it.
The Evil Dead trilogy. I haven't seen them since I was a kid.
1 is really fun and the gore is outrageous. The deadites are amazing in this movie, they're funny and annoying in a way the sequels rarely capture again.
2 has a very strong first act but goes downhill once the awful secondary characters get to the cabin.
3 is a fucking hilarious adventure whose only downside is Evil Ash. Such a bad character...
The Evil Dead remake is shit by the way. Mia is incredibly cute and the gore is pretty cool, but it's a really boring and soulless flick except for the last 10 minutes.
Last movies I can remember watching:
Zero Dark Thirty. Kind of left me wondering why the movie had been made. Not that it's bad, it mostly works, but it felt like something was missing (which would be okay if it was a documentary, but I doubt it's fair to call it that).
G.I. Joe Retaliation. I watched this three days ago and it's taken me two days to remember it (I knew I had watched something), so it doesn't leave you with much of a lasting impression. The G.I. Joe movies feel kind of like the Transformers movies, but unlike with Transformers I don't get the urge to fastforward through them. Mostly.
They have the same feeling of the director/writer not being able to decide whether he's making a kid's movie or a generic action movie, though. And the same we're-doing-this-for-the-money kind of acting.
Best watched while playing a game or doing something else to distract you, I think.
Iron Man 3. No surprises, at all, but that was kind of okay too. It kept me entertained.
... Well, there was one surprise; that TV van with the satellite dish apparently used ISDN for the uplink.
Olympus Has Fallen. Not as bad as expected. The plot is held together with rubber bands and old gum, but if you make an effort to not pay too much attention, the movie actually works okay, maybe because the main character actually seems like a human being rather than a generic action hero.
I also watched the first ten minutes of Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters about five days ago and haven't managed to watch the rest yet, so that probably says something.
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Been watching films uploaded to youtube. Open Range had a pretty sweet climax (not the saccharine romantic climax). Can't believe I hadn't seen Tombstone either. I feel like running a Kurt Russel marathon.
It wasn't a good film by ANY stretch, but it was faithful to the mythos (while still being "realistic"), right down to insanely blatant product placement and "Dudes, buy this cool toy" sequences. And I have to disagree with you on the "in it for the paycheck" aspect, since I actually got the feeling that most of the cast (basically everyone except the redhead and her parkour-obsessed love interest) actually really enjoyed being there, whether it be that they grew up with GI Joe (The Rock and Channing Tatum), just like doing movies like that (Ray Park and Ray Stevenson, although the former seems to be willing to do anything if he gets to prance around like a badass in a mask), or that they had kids who absolutely loved the series and were having fun (Bruce Willis and The President). I don't know if I really need (or even want) a sequel, but I think that was a pretty fun film.Steam: Gundato
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I don't have any connection with the mythos, though; some toy stores sold the action figures at times, but that's all I've seen of it here. That probably changes things a bit. The characters mean nothing to me, for one thing, and just seem random and fairly generic.
Watched Ultramarines, which apparently is an official Games Workshop Warhammer 40K movie. It's like a long cutscene from a pretty generic game, but where even a generic game might involve you in some way, the movie just leaves you to watch.
The graphics and animations switch between okay and terrible (the spacemarines look like plastic game miniatures most of the time, which doesn't do much for immersion, and there are some weird scenes where depth of field and such is screwed up so it feels like you're looking at toys. That could be on purpose, I suppose, but if so it doesn't work very well, especially not when other scenes look decently realistic).
I'm not an expert on W40K, but it seemed to me there were also a number of things that weren't true to the mythos.
The intro cutscene in Dawn of War made me feel a lot more than this movie did.
Last night I watched Carnage, with Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly. This movie should be mandatory viewing for all new or soon-to-be parents.The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
Finally got round to seeing Joss Whedon's production of Much Ado About Nothing and I was suitably chuffed with it all. It took a little while to break into the Shakespearian language, especially considering I've neither seen any performance of or read the play, but thankfully it all pretty much makes sense. Obviously no comparison point, but it was carried with a sense of passion from everyone involved and that really shone through. It was simply really enjoyable and entertaining and that's enough for me.
Also, everyone in it is unfairly attractive. That's not a sleight, just saying.
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When my son started school it was a private Christian school, there curriculum was strong in theater but lacked in any other kind of art. So I volunteered to teach art programs to the class because I thought it was so important. I would supply materials and tools and do the firing, my problem was the the teacher would leave the room with children that I was not a authority figure over. It would take me quite a while to get the rowdy kids of settle down while the children eager to start had to wait. The older the classes got the worse the behavior I finally gave up at the junior high level. The teachers didn't need to do any thing but hang around so the children would be more orderly. That's my beef. Denice
I had artist in residence programs that would be in an after school arts program. These folks were regular artists that would come in and do a 1 or two week workshop with the kids. When it came time for a potter to come in, I would find my room in much disarray the next day. I started hanging out or checking in more often as I was working on sets at the time. Eventually I went to the administrators and laid out the fact that these people were not teachers, not used to keeping track of 15 junior high to senior high kids, and that the district was in jeopardy of having major problems. I also gave them a solution-hire a teacher for an after school stipend to cover the logistics of discipline, keeping track of kids(attendance), and other non teaching duties. This was agreed upon, and the problem was greatly alleviated. Look, I am not putting down artists, but they deal with different types of problems, and many of them work and interact with much older audiences. Most are great teachers, and want to share, but are not able to deal with discipline, attendance and other issues when dealing with a younger population. Being friends to the kids will often set you up for a steam roller, and every one wants to seem cool, but there are limits.
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Like MPG for car buyers, server energy efficiency is becoming an increasingly important selling point for datacenter operators, who are facing soaring power bills, shrinking electricity supplies, and in some cases, the need to reduce CO2 emissions. As evidenced by a recent round of lab tests performed by independent analyst Neal Nelson and Associates, the differences in energy efficiency among servers can be striking, potentially varying significantly based on CPU, memory, workload, and other factors.
Nelson released the results of a lab test this week in which he pitted AMD's low-power 45nm quad-core Opteron Shanghai HE processor (model 2376) against Intel's low-power 45nm quad-core Xeon processor (model L5420). Nelson didn't just measure the overall raw performance (throughput) of the chips; he also assessed their energy efficiency. In other words, he determined which CPU delivered the highest performance per watt.
(Lest Nelson be accused of a bias against Intel, I'll add, as previously noted by my colleague Tom Yager, that Nelson is respected for his objectivity and professionalism in the IT world.)
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Cutting to the chase, the Opteron server tended to deliver marginally better performance (measured in transactions per minute) at both lower and higher numbers of simulated users (which ranged from 100 to 500 in 50-user increments ). However, when it came to power efficiency, the Opteron was the decisive victor across the board.
Making the test bed
Nelson's test bed comprised two virtually identical servers, one configured with a pair of the low-power, 45nm quad-core Opteron CPUs and the other with a pair of Xeons. There were a couple of differences, however. First, the AMD server's CPU had a clock speed of 2.31GHz, whereas the Xeon's had a slightly higher clock speed of 2.5GHz. Second, whereas both servers used DDR2 (Dual Data Rate 2) memory modules, the Intel server used FB-DIMMS (Fully Buffered Memory Modules) and the AMD server did not. (According to Nelson, Intel requires that all current generation Xeon servers use FB-DIMMs).
Both servers were configured with identical software and system components and set to run Web-based transactions against a MySQL database. Transactions were fed to the servers from a cluster of 32 Linux-based computers that were executing Remote Terminal Emulation (RTE) software. Millions of transactions were fed to each system, during which Nelson measured both throughput and power consumption.
The servers were presented with two types of workloads: calculation-intensive and disk I/O-intensive. The calculation-intensive workload presented transactions that repeatedly accessed a small area of the MySQL database, performing only tiny amounts of physical disk I/O. The I/O-intensive workload offered a mix of transactions that spanned an area of the database that was much larger than the server's largest possible size of disk cache memory. "This large database footprint ensured that virtually every transaction would cause a read-from and/or write-to the physical disk drives," according to Nelson's report.
Nelson ran the entire test sequence twice. The first time, both servers were configured with 4GB of main memory. The second time, they were both configured with 16GB of memory.
Performance just a starting point
The testing yielded some interesting results. The Opteron (despite its slightly slower clock speed) delivered higher performance at 100 simulated users: When the servers were loaded with 4GB of memory, the Opteron managed 32,314 TPM (transactions per minute) whereas the Xeon completed 30,406 TPM, a 6.3 percent difference. At 16GB of memory, the Opteron also fared better at 100 users, but the Xeon closed the gap: 30,989 TPM versus 30,667 TPM, a 1 percent difference.
Similarly at the maximum number of simulated users, 500, the Opteron delivered more TPM. When the servers were equipped with 4GB of memory, the Opteron performed 5.2 percent more TPM: 5,081 versus the Xeon's 4,831. At 16GB of memory, the Opteron squeezed out 0.6 percent more TPM: 5,744 compared to 5,711 for the Xeon.
However, when the numbers of users ranged from 250 to 400, the Xeon was the consistent winner, coming out ahead by as much as 3.9 percent more TPM.
These differences in overall raw performance between the two servers are, in my view, fairly unremarkable. The Opteron arguably has a slight edge. That makes the differences in power consumption all the more remarkable. Here, the Opteron was the consistent winner. When the machines were equipped with 4GB of main memory, the Xeon machine burned between 13.1 and 14.4 percent more watts per hour than the Opteron. For example, at 500 users, the Xeon server consumed 209.6 watts per hour, whereas the Opteron consumed 180.8.
The margin widened at 16GB of memory: The Xeon consumed between 20.3 and 21.3 percent more watts per hour. For example, at 500 users, the Opteron consumed 188.2 watts per hour, whereas the Xeon consumed 239.
MPG for CPUs
While these differences may be striking, the watts per hour measurement in and of itself isn't all that meaningful. I could tell you that my car consumed two gallons of gas in an hour, to which you might want to know how far I actually drove in that time frame. In other words, how many miles did I get to the gallon? (You might also wonder about other factors that might affect MPG, such as whether I was driving a hybrid or an SUV, what the driving conditions were, and whether I was hauling my dry cleaning or a ton of bricks.)
In his test, Nelson calculated the equivalent to MPG for servers by dividing their throughput by how much power they consumed to yield "transactions processed per watt hour," or TWH; in other words, Nelson calculated their power efficiency. Here, Nelson found that the Opteron-based server delivered between 12.6 and 26.8 percent better power efficiency than the Xeon-based machine. (I should once again note that the Xeon clock speed was also slightly higher than that of the Opteron, which could be a factor here.)
For example, at 500 simulated users and with 4GB of memory, the Opteron machine had a TWH rate of 1,686.2; the Xeon machine's TWH rate was 1,382.9. The difference here was 21.9 percent. At 16GB of memory and 500 simulated users, the Opteron's TWH rate jumped to 1,831.2; the Xeon's was 1,433.7. The difference here was 27.7 percent.
There's one other notable finding in Nelson's test: The Opteron-based server consumed substantially less power than the Xeon-based server when the systems were idle. At 4GB of memory, the Opteron consumed 164 watts per hour; the Xeon consumed 198.8 watts per hour. That's a 17.5 percent difference. At 16GB of memory, the Opteron consumed 169.6 watts per hour at idle whereas the Xeon machine consumed 222.8 watts per hour, a difference of 23.9 percent.
Why's this important? As Nelson puts it, "Most servers spend the vast majority of their time in a powered-up, but idle, state. File servers, Web servers, and e-mail servers are normally left powered on 24/7, even though most offices are closed and empty 75 percent of every week." If a company must waste money powering and cooling servers that aren't in use, better to reduce that expense as much as possible.
[ Learn how companies such as Cisco and Cassatt are cutting their energy bills by powering down servers when they're not in use. ]
So what's the takeaway here? I'm certainly not going to blare out that AMD chips are, hands down, more energy efficient than Intel's -- though I will acknowledge that in Nelson's previous tests (which you can read about here, here, and here), AMD CPUs have had an edge in this department. Will this picture change with the arrival of Intel's Nehalem Xeon? Nelson is eager to find out, just as soon as he can get his hands on Intel's new CPU.
Regardless of which CPU wins the green prize, clearly there can be significant differences among servers, not just in terms of raw performance but also energy consumption and efficiency. For large datacenters, a difference of 50 watts per server per hour will add up to real money. Any organization that is concerned about its utility bills, its power budget, or its carbon footprint would benefit from testing servers before investing heavily in them. Make sure they meet not only your raw performance needs but also your energy efficiency needs. Because the last thing you want is a datacenter full of Hummers when a fleet of hybrids would work just as well -- for far less.


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Tech To Play Home Games At SCSU; Mold at Clarke
The Tech football team will play home games this season at St. Cloud State's Husky Stadium. Tech head coach Gregg Martig told Emmett Keenan on St. Cloud Sports Saturday on AM 1390-the Fan that large amounts of mold was detected in both the locker rooms and concession stands at Clarke Field. A decision has been made by the school district to play away from Clarke Field this season.


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Agyness Deyn starts shoot for Electricity
Principal photography has started on Electricity, starring Agyness Deyn [pictured], Lenora Crichlow, Christian Cooke, Paul Anderson, Tom Georgeson and Alice Lowe.
Bryn Higgins directs from Joe Fisher's script adapted from Ray Robinson's award-winning novel.
Clare Duggan produces for Stone City Films. Alison Morgan executive produces. Soda Pictures has UK rights.
The film is shooting for 6 weeks in the Northeast and London.
The story is about brash young woman (Deyn) who leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long lost brother, and experiences hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy.
Deyn said: "I love Lily's journey, she is a survivor. Her strength and her ability to live in the present really drew me to her. She is a delight to discover and she's teaching me a lot."
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – At the end of the second round of the 2013 Bash at the Beach Tournament, Thane Ringler (Hutchinson, KS) was named theiIndividual champion with a final score of 9-under 135 (66-69).
Ringler's performance also earned him a spot on the all-tournament team.
The No. 9 Mustangs, who were in first place at the end of yesterday's round, finished fourth overall with a team score of 596 (297-299).
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Plaques, artworks, signs and information boards could all be used to celebrate the famous people that lived in the borough or contributed to it - if funders are found.
Although Kingston Council has discussed commemorating famous people and places before, no plans for how to fund the project have been decided.
But now councillor David Ryder-Mills, lead member for schools and continuing education, has made an appeal for financial backers to help get the scheme off the ground.
He said: "Kingston has a huge huge amount of history and we simply must make sure we don't lose it.
"When I first came to Kingston I did not realise they built aeroplanes here. Kingston was incredibly important in the production – there are still Kingston-built aircrafts in service around the world.
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"We are hoping that funders might come along or we're looking at putting in some sort of English Heritage bid."
Dr Helen Sharman was a Surbiton resident when she became the first Briton in space in 1991. She is now technical manager of Kingston University's faculty of science, engineering and computing
A spokeswoman from English Heritage said such a scheme would be suitable for Heritage Lottery funding.
If the idea was to get the go-ahead, names such as children's writer Enid Blyton - who worked in Surbiton as a governess - and aviation pioneer Harry Hawker could be recognised.
Aviation pioneer Harry Hawker (above) - one of Kingston's most famous sons
The legendary folk and blues singer John Martyn was born in New Malden
Jennifer Butterworth, chairman of the Kingston Society, said: "We are very much in favour of it and have made two suggestions – people who were convicted of petty crimes in the late 18th or early 19th century were transferred to Australia and one of them founded the first brewery.
"It will make people aware that there were interesting people living here. But it comes down to money every time – if they say they want to promote Kingston as an interesting place, then this is one way of doing it."
Another musical legend, Eric Clapton - he attended Hollyfield School in Surbiton and Kingston College of Art
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It's Friday, so I honestly can't think of better way to start the day than Heidi Klum all kinds of naked and covered in chocolate sauce. Here she is in photographer Rankin's just-released coffee table book Heidilicious which is probably the most moving reading experience I've had since that time a stripper punched me in the face for reading The Da Vinci Code during a laptop dance. How was I supposed to put that thing down with all the suspense and Jesus wifery?
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For a painter who explores the human condition there are remarkably few people in Guillermo Kuitca's work. Instead he paints maps, theater seating plans, and baggage conveyers. His pieces are in collections around the world.
A huge exhibit featuring the Argentinean artist opens this weekend at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Kuitca attracts attention because of his skills with a brush and his use of an unusual surface.
It's not often you see mattresses hanging on a wall, much less mattresses painted with detailed maps. But walk through "Everything" the new exhibit which covers 30 years of work by the Buenos Aires based painter, and they are everywhere. In fact as Kuitca points out, one of them even looks very familiar - or does it?
"You'll see that right in the middle it reads clearly 'Minneapolis and St. Paul,'" he grins.
Guillermo Kuitca likes to paint on mattresses because of what happens on them.
"Dreams, sex, death, life. It's just this rectangle with four legs, and yet that embraces an incredible amount of human experiences. And so it's almost like a perfect equation of having achieved so much with so little," he says.
And by covering his mattresses with maps Kutica explores the need and desire to know where we are in the world.
"Sometimes it is a sense of location," he says. "But sometimes it is right the opposite, right where we are not."
Listening intently is Walker Director Olga Viso. She's worked with Kuitca since the early 1990's, and started assembling this exhibit when she was at the Hirschhorn in Washington, D.C. She says it's important to remember maps are abstractions.
"It's one of many mechanisms that we use to try to describe and understand the world that we live in," she says. "And I think throughout his career Guillermo's been interested in those different mechanisms that we as humans use to try to grasp our world, our relationship to it, our relationship one to the other."
Which brings us back to the map of Minneapolis-St. Paul. It's the center piece in a triptych. The mattress on the left depicts Oklahoma. The one on the right someplace along the Iowa-Missouri line.
They line up in a way a mapmaker would see as inaccurate. But there is a large pink stain spreading across all three which clearly links them. It raises many questions, including is this the place we know? Or some other Minnesota?
Kuitca says when he did the piece in 1990 in Buenos Aires he was looking to paint some place exotic.
"Most of the maps that I was depicting at that time were places that were particularly unfamiliar," he says.
He never dreamed it might ever be shown here.
Few people describe themselves as simply as painters nowadays. In fact as Kuitca began his career three decades ago many art critics were declaring painting was dead.
The Walker's Olga Viso says Kuitca has constantly explored his medium.
"He's, throughout his career, sort of taken upon himself that challenge of trying to paint without previous reference, and certainly previous reference to the history of painting, to the history of art," she says.
When, early in his career, Kuitca was drawn to the theater for inspiration, he didn't paint moments on stage, but seating plans. He says he wanted to turn the audience experience back on itself. Some are straightforward depictions, but later works have the plans smearing off into oblivion or even exploding.
In recent years he's been drawn to painting luggage carousels. He sees them as another place of drama.
"It's a funny object because we always find ourselves in front of a luggage carousel a little bit out of place, a little bit lost, without knowing where we are," he says.
Kuitca captures the sense of displacement many long-haul travelers feel.
He has a way with detail which is startling. Many of his paintings are quite large -- even those not on mattresses. Yet images which appear to be one thing from afar can be very different close up. Olga Viso says points to the final piece in the show, a picture from which the exhibit takes its name, "Everything."
"From a distance you read it like this neural network, or fingerprints across this black canvas," she says. "And when you come up close to it you begin to discern that it's a map with names of cities and places and highways in this very dense construction, so you have two very different experiences with the work."
Viso will interview Kuitca on Saturday afternoon as part of the opening of the show.
Guillermo Kuitca says he never knows how people will react to his work, but he is always pleased when people pause to have what he calls a private moment with something he has created.
"When that happens that makes the whole thing worth it, actually," he says.
Kuitca then returns to finishing the installation. He's not seen many of these pieces in the same show, and he's enjoying how well they work together.


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Players that survived Day 1A and Day 1B representing approximately half the remaining field came together on Tuesday for Day 2A/B. At the stroke of noon the cards flew and the second day of play began for the 1933 players returning from their Day 1 with chips.
The schedule format remains the same with players sitting through 5 two hour levels with a twenty minute break after each level and a ninety minute dinner break after three levels have been completed. Players from Day 1A played in one of the WSOP poker rooms while players from Day 1B played in separate rooms. The entire field will not be united as one until Day 3.
Chip leaders from this first of two Day 2s are approaching the half million mark. Atop the chip leader board is Tim Stansifer whom enjoyed a late rush to push his stacks to 481,500. He is closely followed by Tom Cannuli with 407,800, Tony Roberto at 402,700, Joe Ruberto with 402,700 and Zhen Cai holding 367,900 in play money rounds out the top five.
Some of the notables sent to the rail on Day 2A/B includes Josh Arieh, Mike Sexton, Tuan Le, Dennis Phillips, Lauren Kling, Vanessa Selbst, Annette Obrestad and David Slansky. Television star Ray Romano was hanging on to 15,100 in chips for a return to Day 3.
Wednesday will see the players that escaped Day 1C with chips return to the Rio for Five levels of 2 hours each. In this group will ne poker royalty including Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey. Ivey is listed as second in chips with 187,025 while the chip leader is Eric Tracy holding 206,175.


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1 April 1945 — Saipan, Mariana Islands
Wilson Callerman Currier, Jr. was born on 23 November 1917 in Jackson County, Missouri. He spent his teenage years on a cattle ranch near Pecos, New Mexico. His family moved to Glorieta southeast of Santa Fe, and eventually Albuquerque, where he attended the University of New Mexico for two years.
He enlisted as an Aviation Cadet (ASN: 18016908) in the Army Air Corps on 17 March 1941 at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Completed ten weeks of Preliminary flight training. On 3 June 1941, entered Basic flight training at the "West Point of the Air" Randolph Field, Texas and graduated on 16 August 1941 . NOTE: on 20 June 1941, the Army Air Corps became the USAAF. Then, graduated with Advanced Pilot Class 41-H on 31 October 1941 at Kelly Field near San Antonio, Texas and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant (ASN: O-429050).
After receiving his "wings" he was assigned as an instructor pilot at Goodfellow Field near San Angelo, Texas. He also qualified as an Army Glider Pilot and was awarded a Gliding and Soaring "C" certificate #562 issued on 30 March 1942 at Condor Field near Twenty-nine Palms, California.
On 20 October 1942, he married Oneata Young of San Angelo, Texas at his parents' home in Albuquerque. After the wedding, the couple resided in Dalhart, Texas; where he was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School as a supervisor.
Subsequently, he underwent B-29 aircraft transition and combat crew training at Great Bend Army Air Field in Kansas. Initially assigned to crew T-Square-7 (B-29 serial #42-24603), he deployed to the central Pacific Theatre of Operations and was assigned to 20th Air Force, XXI Bomber Command, 73rd Bomb Wing, 498th Bombardment Group, 873rd Bomb Squadron stationed at Isley Field on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
According to Individual Aircraft Record Cards, B-29 #42-24603 arrived at Saipan on 19 October 1944. He flew "practice" missions against Truk and Iwo Jima prior to the first mission over Tokyo on 24 November 1944. However, his B-29 #42-24603 was damaged on 27 November 1944 from a Japanese air raid of Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers, and he was assigned to crew T-Square-5.
On Sunday 1 April 1945, he flew in the left seat as the Airplane Command Pilot aboard a Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress, serial #42-24614 nicknamed "Joltin' Josie, The Pacific Pioneer" (tail code: T-Square-5). It was one of 121 aircraft launched in a multi-group formation on a mission to bombard the Musashino Aircraft Engine Factory (target #357) near Tokyo, Japan.
His aircraft took-off at 2100 hours local with an intended course heading of 339 degrees on the planned 15-hour round-trip mission. Shortly after take-off, fumes in the cockpit were reported. The aircraft burst into flames and crashed with a large explosion about 300 yards offshore into Magicienne Bay on the southeast side of Saipan.
A Coast Guard vessel was dispatched within a few minutes, but upon reaching the burning aircraft, they were unable to find any survivors. All 12 aircrew members were officially listed as Killed-In-Action on 3 April 1945.


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Majors are encouraged to participate in research projects with faculty in biology or chemistry. All of the instrumentation in both the biology and chemistry departments is available for research projects of biological chemistry majors. Current Grinnell College students will find a list of research opportunities on the Science Division GrinnellShare site (login required). You will find descriptions for research projects with professors on campus, as well as a number of off-campus opportunities.
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The goal of this program is to offer students educational experience in applied technology; essentially, seeking to blend idealism with realism. To qualify, eligible students must demonstrate that the internship they propose will: focus on applied science or technology; emphasize application over discovery; take place in a non-profit or government setting in the United States; and achieve problem-solving goals.
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G'day Ryan,I love your work and read every post you put up. :)Just wondering if it's just my monitor, of if the skin tones in this one seem a bit overly orange/yellow. Other than that, it's a beautiful image of a gorgeous woman. Love your work! :)
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Question: What is cloud computing?
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Eating Healthy = (Coffee) Cakewalkby Kirsten Vala in View All Posts, February 4th, 2009
Since I work on FoodNetwork.com's healthy features: Winter Ideas from Eating Well, Easy Meals, Good Deals , 30 Days of Healthy Recipes, and Heart-Healthy Valentine's Day, I love the idea of eating healthy. As I also like balance in these recipes, I seem to gravitate to Ellie Krieger's choices. Good for you but still taste great, which is why they always sneak onto my "to-make" list.
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Rosa was one of 14 children born to religious Jewish parents in the village of Yasinya at a time when it was known as Korosmezo and was part of Hungary. During World War I, she married Michael von Hoppen Waldhorn, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army who was based near Yasinya. During the 1920s they moved to Paris, where they raised three children.
1933-39: The Waldhorn family's life in Paris was very different from their life in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Rosa's husband made a good living, and he felt that their children had better educational opportunities. Confident that France was strong enough to defend itself from the Germans, the Waldhorns felt safe in Paris.
1940-44: Germany quickly defeated France in 1940 andoccupied Paris on June 14. At first, Rosa, who enjoyed the protection of Hungarian citizenship, was safe from the threat of deportation by the Nazis. But after her husband was rounded up in July 1942 and deported along with other Polish-born Jews, Rosa went into hiding in an attic in Paris and her children went into hiding in the countryside.
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Many parents spend years, even decades, saving money to send their kids to college. The cost of getting a degree is on the minds of the Obama Administration as well, which released a new online shopping tool last week.
The College Scorecard shows the typical cost to attend Drexel University — that is the average net price for undergraduate students — is close to $35,000 per year. The net price is what undergraduate students pay after grants and scholarships are subtracted from tuition and other fees.
For students at the University of Pennsylvania, which has more expensive tuition, the typical net cost is just shy of $21,000 per year.
Dr. Laura Perna, a professor at Penn's graduate school of education, says the scorecard provides information about factors that are important to consider in the college enrollment decision.
"The information about tuition and borrowing — things like that," she said.
Perna said there are limitations, though. For example, "the scorecard provides only averages and it considers issues in isolation," she said. "It's not clear to me how a student would interpret the monthly loan repayment amount that's shown on the website without knowing more about the likelihood of employment and average salaries."
Comparing Drexel and Penn shows some of the system's shortcomings. Drexel emphasizes work co-ops for its students during which they can earn money to offset tuition.
Perna said the scorecard provides some information that could be useful, but she says it paints an incomplete picture.
"This could potentially serve as one part of the puzzle for students and their families. It would not be at the top of my list of a place to start with," she said.
Perna said she wonders specifically how useful the site is for low-income students because it only shows averages, and they might qualify for more generous financial aid packages.
She said, ideally, high schools could help guide students through the complex maze of financial aid, but she knows that's not the case universally.
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HOUSTON - Part of a one of Houston's busiest freeways was shut down on Tuesday because of a fatal wreck.
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About the Book
Interwoven Series is a collection of collages that I have been digitally photographing. collagigng and sewing for a year now.
The work presented as "Interwoven" represents my timeless identity. It encompasses the scope of how my own identity relates to the history of not only my own family but the history of the greater human tribe.
We have entered an age where conscious must be re-defined, but that does not mean abandonment of the old. Rather, it means embracing the power of our oldest traditions by embracing the rituals and actions that make us uniquely human, while remembering that we are a part of a closed natural system. Each and every organism, is somehow "interwoven" by the systems on earth.
There are several mythological associations with the Spider and her web. While the Celtic people believe the web holds all life, Greeks believe it stands for fate, still some Christians believe its a tool of Satan. Native American myths suggest the spider represents the mother that created all things in nature.
There is an ethereal quality surrounding the web, if you are not in the right place, you will not see its beauty. Therefore, I like to stitch into the web to accentuate the creation as well create an ethereal layer which the viewer may miss if they do not stand in the right place or observe closely.
The web represents not only the web that catches life and feeds upon it, but also the web within and outside of us. It represents the mental web that blocks us from moving forward and the physical web of paths we choose to get our rewards. The tools of cooking in some images represent man's rituals as well as industrialization. My webs are new creations symbolizing ethereal moments or the entrapments of death.
What would happen if we returned to nature and basic rituals like cooking? What if each of us grew food for ourselves to share and eat with our neighbors? Why have we found our society so far away from nature and nurturing? What is the web that connects us all? Can we strengthen the strands we spin?
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- Category Fine Art Photography
Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
24 Pages
- Publish Date Jul 16, 2009
- Tags oil spill, passion flower, web, interwoven, photography, nature, collage, insects, orange, flowers, mushrooms, gecko, iris, dragonfly, butterflies, cooking, spatula, beaters, rat, wasp, bread, bees, sunflower, river
About the Creator
1976 Cancer Baby artist owner of 2 dogs love to bake!
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