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CD TWO is professionally maintained sparing no cost, boasts huge deck spaces, superb accommodation for 13 guests in seven cabins & 10 crew and possesses an excellent charter history. She is looking impressively fresh & in turn-key condition. Her new owner would undoubtedly be taking over a gem, well qualified to perform her excellent charter role for many years. She obtained a Balearic/Spanish charter license in 2014.
43m (141ft 0in)
7.6m (24ft 11in)
2.52m (8ft 3in)
354 tons
Claudio Zampetti
CRUISE SPEED: 13.5 Knots
MAXIMUM SPEED: 17 Knots
RANGE: 2600 nm
2,600 nm @ 12 Kts
FUEL CAPACITY: 65.370 litres
WATER CAPACITY: 12.470 litres
FUEL CONSUMPTION: 600 litres @14.5 knots
2 x MTU 2,600HP
Port: 7,330hrs (01-Nov-2015)
Starboard: 7,330hrs (01-Nov-2015)
Rentjes. The gearbox and prop ratio is 2.539 to 1.
2 x MTU/Stansfield 112 kW, 1 x Onan 55 kW Night Generator
Port 280 hrs Stbd 280 hrs
24 V Emergency Lighting and Emergency Radio
Air Conditioning
Condaria Chilled Water System (2009)
Other Machinery
WATERMAKER: HEM 4 x membranes - 12,500 litres/day
STABILIZERS: Vosper/Naiad - New digital controller & pump (2012)
Guests: 13 in 7 staterooms.
Crew: 9 in 5 cabins.
Main Deck
Main Lobby leads to the Main Saloon, spiral stairs down to the Lower Deck and up to the Bridge Deck, Owner's Lobby and Crew Alleyway.
Owner's Private Lobby leading to Master Suite and Guest Stateroom.
Master Suite consisting of bedroom with 1 king-size bed and individual areas for Jacuzzi bath/ shower, hand basins and WC.
Guest Stateroom with 2 single beds and en-suite bathroom with separate shower.
Main Saloon, encompassing almost 55 sq m has ample seating forward in an "L" arrangement around a low table. The table and seating can be adjusted electrically to form a large dining area for 16 persons. There is additional seating to starboard further aft, opposite a modern bar, finished in silver leaf and a card table to port. The soft furnishings comprise of silk curtains, cream fabric and cream leather upholstery. The saloon leads onto the spacious aft deck with access to the garage area and swim platform.
Galley: Commercial Galley fitted out in stainless steel and marble.
Crew Alleyway leading to stairs down to crew accommodation.
Lower Deck
Guest Lobby leading to Staterooms
Double Stateroom to port and forward, consisting of 1 double bed and large en-suite bathroom with Jacuzzi tub and shower, twin wash basins, separate WC & bidet.
Double Stateroom to starboard and forward, consisting of 1 double bed and en-suite bathroom and shower.
Twin Stateroom to port and aft, consisting of 2 single beds and en-suite bathroom with shower
Twin Stateroom to starboard and aft, consisting of 2 single beds and en-suite bathroom with individual areas for shower.
All Staterooms on the Main and Lower Decks are finished in light maple and cream carpeting throughout.
The Crew Accommodation, consisting of 4 twin cabins, (3 en-suite), laundry and crew mess. The engine room is aft with control room, steering gear room and garage with storage for tender and jet-skis. Extra fridges and freezers are also located in the garage.
Bridge Deck
Bridge Deck Passageway leading to the Upper Saloon, Single Stateroom, Wheelhouse, Pantry and Day WC. The floors are in cherry and the walls in burred walnut.
Wheelhouse. Completely refitted in 2004 with state of the art flat screen technology and ARPA radars. Ship's office and radio room.
Captain's Cabin with double bed and en-suite bathroom and separate shower.
Single Stateroom to starboard, consisting of 1 single bed and en-suite bathroom and shower.
Upper Saloon with a "U" shaped seating area in cream leather to port, around a low level coffee table. The upper saloon floors and ceiling are finished in cherry and the walls in burred walnut. Dining Room: Glass enclosed, with teak decking, leads directly from the upper saloon with access to the aft bridge deck seating area. An oval, 12 seat cherry dining table occupies the centre of the room. This space can be used closed or opened up for "al fresco" dining.
A Stewards' Pantry with a dumb waiter from the galley below and a guest day WC. are to port of the passageway.
Sun Deck
Sunbathing area over wheelhouse. Large built in solarium port and starboard with Jacuzzi and removable tender storage aft. Refrigerator to port and shower to starboard.
· Commercial galley by Frima
· 2 x Miele Washing dryers
· Icemaker
· 3 x Cool vegetable drawers in garage
· Dishwasher
· Waste Disposal Unit
· Microwave
· Glass Washer
· 2 x fridges in garage
· 2 x freezers in garage
Communications Equipment
Nera Satcom M
Wireless and hardwired network routers with access points throughout
Nera Satcom Fleet 55
Panasonic Hybrid telephone exchange with data logger
2 x Full Icom GMDSS Area A1 radio equipment
GSM telephone
Internet connections via satellite, wifi, 3G, and GSM
Navigation Equipment
3 x 27" flat screens displaying engine data, on-line weather, charting, and AIS information
Nowcasting Pro weather forecasting system
2 x Furuno 20" colour radars with collision avoidance software
Anschutz gyro compass and auto pilot
Automated Identification System
Furuno GPS
Seapro charting system
Furuno echo sounder/plotter
Entertainment Equipment
Samsung LED TVs in Main Salon & Sky lounge
Sonos Music System throughout (2015)
All Guest cabins have TV & DVD players
Satellite TV available in main salon, Sky lounge and owners cabin
1 x Stingher 6.2m RIB with 140hp Suzuki 4 stroke outboard
1 x Yamaha jetski
1 x Artigiana Batelli RIB 3.87m with 40HP Yamaha 4 stroke outboard
Diving equipment for crew servicing use only
1 x Yamaha 3 seat 4 stroke Waverunner
2 Wake boards, 3 sets water skis
2 x Lofrans electric windlasses
1 x 500 SWL crane in garage
2x 150 m galvanised chain
2 x Lofrans capstans
1 x 250 SWL crane on fore deck
Full Fag State compliance for Fire & Safety
CCTV throughout main deck & passarelle
2 x 25 man liferafts
Fixed CO2 in engine room
No major refits have taken place and CD Two retains her original charm, however, over the past 12 years no expense has been spared to maintain and upgrade any equipment or materials on board with fabrics renewed in 2008 and 2015. Lighting is now LED throughout the yacht.
The sun deck teak decking was replaced in 2008 and all decks sanded in 2015.
The stabilizers were upgraded in 2012 with a digital, solid state control system with excellent results
In 2015 CD Two underwent her 20 year Lloyd's survey with all of the recommended work being completed to the Class Society's satisfaction including Main Engine Servicing, Generator rebuild to zero hours and complete overhaul of both gearboxes in the manufacturer's workshops.
New propeller shafts were fitted with new bearings and both shafts and gearboxes laser aligned. The propellers were polished and balanced.
CD Two's Certificate of Compliance for a Large Charter Yacht was renewed in 2015 with no deficiencies recorded. A Spanish Port State Inspection was done in 2015, also with no deficiencies recorded.
CD Two was completely painted with Awlgrip in 2015
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Visitor FAQ
How late is the Zoo open?
Stone Zoo is open year-round. Hours are:
Oct.1 – Mar. 31: Daily 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Apr. 1 – Sept. 30: Mon-Fri 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., weekends and holidays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Last entry one half hour before closing.
Is the Zoo open in the winter?
Yes! Our Zoos are open year-round. Check out our Winter Visits page for full details on animals you'll see and special winter events we host.
Can I bring my own food with me to the Zoo?
You're welcome to bring your own lunch and snacks with you. We have plenty of picnic areas available. Please note: glass containers, straws or alcohol are not allowed on Zoo grounds. Please help in our conservation efforts by throwing away garbage and recycling plastic and aluminum cans.
I forgot to pack something. Where can I purchase essential items?
Our gift shop sells all the essentials, like batteries, sunscreen, umbrellas, first aid kits, basic medication, etc. Bandaids and first aid kits are also available at Zoo admissions booths.
Where's the nearest restroom and changing station?
Every public restroom –both male and female—has a changing station.
Restrooms are located by the entrance next to the pond and toward the back of the Zoo near the gift shop. View map.
Do you offer any discounts?
Check out our Special Offers page for upcoming specials, or become a member.
A membership typically pays for itself in just two visits. Your membership allows free admission to both Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo for one full year, and includes exclusive benefits. Learn more about becoming a member!
Can I smoke in the Zoo?
Smoking within our Zoo is prohibited. Check with the Admissions booth for the closest permissible location.
Membership questions?
See our Membership FAQ page.
Does Zoo New England donate tickets for charitable causes?
Yes—please see our Zoo & the Community page for full details on donation requests.
Have a question that wasn't answered here? Contact us.

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Three cooks have each paid one third to purchase a bag of herbs. In the past, two of the cooks have divided their purchases in the following manner: First one cook would divide the herb, by eye, into two piles she considered to be equal. The second cook would then choose the pile she thought was bigger.
By what process may the three cooks divide their herbs in such a way that each was content that she had recieved at least one third of the total?
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Put your financial skills to the test with the new 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Brazil-branded version of Visa's fast-paced, multiple-choice question game. The updated game, which features improved graphics and additional questions, tests players' money management skills as they advance down the field and try to score. Educators can use the study modules to help students get ready for gameplay. If you're warmed up and ready to play, click the button above to begin.
New Financial Soccer Game Showcased at Financial Literacy Summit in Chicago
Chicago Fire's Magee and Larentowicz, the Chicago Fed, Bank of America, Visa Inc. and students from Chicago's Lindblom High School and Solorio Academy showcase the new version of Financial Soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ in Brazil.
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Stalking bookstores, lurking in the corners, spying to see who picks up my book, waiting to see who buys it. If you're out in the bookstores, I'll be the suspicious woman hiding under a hat, and behind the dark sunglasses, carrying a cattle prod. (Hey, cattle prods have always been a big part of my marketing strategy and my first book did very well.)
Anyway, in honor of "R" day, I'm posting a feature, and contest, that is now up at Dorchester. And in addition to the contest mentioned below, which I hope all of you will enter, I'm giving away a T-shirt and a pack of note cards to one lucky poster who posts sightings of my book on this blog. I'll be watching all week for anyone who posts, and next week I'll announce the winner. Oh, and since June is about Weddings, I'll be holding contest on all my Tuesday blogs, so stay tuned. Also, just for heads up. I'm going to be guest blogging at http://novelthoughts.wordpress.com/ June 2nd and there's going to be a contest happening over there too. So pop over.
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It's June, marriage is the air, and with my book Weddings Can be Murder hitting the bookshelves, I'm getting a lot of questions about my thoughts on weddings and my ability to write about wedding jitters. Surely I, happily married for twenty years, hadn't relied on any of my own "jittery" experiences. Right?
Well, I can honestly tell you that unlike my character Katie, I never had a serial killer after me, and for certain I never got locked in the dark with a sexy PI. Nor did I, like Katie, have a . . . a need to hurl at the thought of getting married. Although, there was that bad shrimp cocktail that got served at my reception. . .
Not that the shrimp, or even my wedding memories are where I got the plot for this book. But when people ask about my experience with wedding jitters, and wedding faux pas, well, I do recall a few personal wedding reminiscences. Let's see . . ., I remember the cold feet, the bad shrimp, a lucky cat, and one dead pigeon.
They didn't happen in that order, of course. I think the dead pigeon came before the bad shrimp. And the lucky cat after the dead pigeon. However, looking back, it might have been the bad shrimp that led to the untimely death of the poor bird. I'm not really certain.
I wasn't certain of much that day. Hey, it was my wedding. I mean, there I was, standing out in the apartment building's courtyard, about to take the till-death-do-you-part vows before God, family, and about a dozen people I was certain had crashed the wedding for the reception's finger food. (Not that most of those people weren't sorry because of the bad shrimp, but we won't go down that road.) The point is, I was standing beside my husband-to-be, knees knocking, staring at the preacher who had arrived over an hour late (his tardiness probably the cause of the bad shrimp), and I was having a serious bout of wedding jitters.
"Do you, Steve, take this woman . . ." Oh yeah, I had the jitters. And I had 'em bad. So bad that I was looking left, right, front and back, trying to figure out the best escape route.
"I do," Steve answered. And that's when the dead pigeon arrived. Well, it wasn't dead upon arrival, but its hap-hazard flying form led me to expect that it wasn't long for this world. Of course, I hadn't expected its life to end so quickly, or violently, and I sure as heck hadn't expected to witness it.
Yup, the haphazardly flying pigeon smacked head-first into the brick wall right behind the preacher.
As I watched the lifeless bird plummet to the manicured lawn, I couldn't help but wonder if it hadn't been some cosmic sign. My entire wedding party and guests also witnessed the bird's demise. And then we got to witness the lucky cat who ran to collect the prize. And that's when I realized that, sign or no sign, the bird's unfortunate end was my opportunity for escape. I hiked up my white skirt and had one foot out.
My plan was squashed when my husband-to-be took my hand. Okay, so he was on to me. I gasped in a deep breath and tried not to stare at the cat with the dead bird in his mouth strutting across the lawn.
"Do you, Christie, take . . ."
"Excuse me," I said and motioned for the inexcusably-late man of God to stop. I looked at my husband-to-be still holding my hand. I looked at the crowd, who all leaned forward as if they couldn't wait to know what I would say—or do—next. Oh yeah, they'd lost interest in the lucky cat and the unlucky bird show and hoped to see an episode of the escaping bride.
I refocused on my fiancé. "How about if we just continue to live in sin?" I whispered.
He touched my cheek. (And this is the part I remember most about that day.) Then he whispered in my ear, "I love you. I love your daughter. I promise you. I promise you with everything I'm made of, that I will never hurt you. Take a chance on me."
You see, I had been hurt. And boy, was I scared. But one look into the eyes of the man tenderly studying me, and right then the dead bird, the lucky cat, and the ungodly-late preacher all lost importance. And I took a chance that day. A chance on love. Twenty years later, I can say my chance paid off.
So . . . back to the question I'm being asked. Did I draw from my own experience to write the wedding jitter scenes? You bet your bottom dollar I did. And maybe the bad shrimp inspired Katie's hurling problems. I know several of the wedding party, wedding crashers, and even the honeymooners had some time at the throne.
But the thing I have mostly drawn upon to help me write my novels is the love that I felt that day and have continued to feel through the years.
Love can be a scary thing, with or without serial killers, but when you get it right (and my characters always do) there is nothing more rewarding or more valuable in this life. Here's hoping my sexy and suspenseful stories continue to make you laugh and continue to remind you of the value of love.
So anyone of you out there have a story to share? Share it here and then send it to me on my email below, and I'll make sure you get entered in the contest.
Crime Scene Christie
Do you have a heart-warming story or amusing faux pas about a wedding or falling in love? If so, share your story and you could win a "Pamper Me Like A Bride" basket from Christie Craig. Basket includes: a promotional Sexy, Suspenseful and Seriously Funny T-shirt, chocolate, candles, sensuous lotions and soaps, and a pack of Craig's own note cards. The winner and runner-ups will be posted on Dorchesterpub.com as well as on Christie Craig's website. Winners will be chosen at random and notified the last week of June.
Submit stories, 250 words or less, to email@example.com by June 30, 2008.


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Staff Council representatives meet once a month or as needed, with further communications as necessary. Staff Council acts as a sounding board and advocate for submitted staff concerns, and reviews and contributes ideas to Senior Staff policies and other College constituents. It is a great way to get involved with the campus as a whole, connect with people outside of your department, and learn about how other areas of campus operate.
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Summer is a great time to complete your General Education requirements or study a topic in depth through an immersive experience in a smaller-size class. It can also give you the flexibility in your schedule that you need if you are planning on doing an internship or studying abroad in the next academic year!
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Do you remember the happy mail that my friend Thomas sent me a while back? I finally finished my project with his beautiful line of fabrics called Pear Tree, which will be available soon, and here's a sneak peek.
I used the Blush colorway of Pear Tree and the pinks and creams are really beautiful. And I love the pops of chocolate brown and sage green.
I'm finishing up writing the pattern this weekend, and it should be available as a pdf to purchase next week. It's a simple quilt that goes together really quickly, and I think it would make a great gift for a baby or child. But it's also large enough to be used as a throw quilt.
And can I just tell you that this little guy made my little photo shoot very difficult? Good thing he's pretty cute, because he's sure a trouble maker.
Pear Tree by Thomas Knauer for Andover should be hitting your local fabric store this month!


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Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician heard details Friday regarding the defense's version of what happened in the hours before the King of Pop's death.
Conrad Murray Trial: Propofol Guidelines, Testimony Timeline, Juror Profiles
The jury, through witness testimony and detectives' interview with Dr. Conrad Murray, has already heard about the early hours of June 25, 2009 as the prosecution attempted to show that Murray abandoned his superstar patient after he administered a powerful surgical sedative in the bedroom of rented Holmby Hills mansion.
But defense attorneys have told jurors that Jackson is to blame for his own death. They claim the King of Pop created a "perfect storm" of drugs in his system, administering the fatal dose of propofol when Murray left the bedroom on the day he died.
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Testimony from Dr. Paul White in support of the defense's theory was followed by a tweet from sister La Toya Jackson Friday after court recessed: "MiCHAEL DID NOT KILL HIMSELF!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!!!!!!"
White, the defense's propofol expert, took the stand Friday to challenge a prosecution medical expert who referred to the defense theory as "crazy." White's testimony became a battle of words with the prosecution's propofol expert -- Dr. Steven Shafer.
The self-injection theory is the only theory supported by Murray's statement to police, White testified. He claimed there was no evidence to support the theory that Murray used an IV to administer the powerful drug.
Dr. Murray's Interview With Detectives: Part 1 | Part 2
Evidence found in the bedroom suggests Jackson received propofol with an injection, White said. Shafer told jurors Murray used an IV drip to administer the sedative.
Based on levels of sedatives Murray told investigators he gave Jackson, the singer should not have stopped breathing, White testified. Murray told investigators he realized when he returned from the bathroom on the morning of June 25, 2009 that the entertainer had stopped breathing.
The evidence shows a rapid injection of 25 milligrams of propofol less than one hour after Murray slowly infused 25 milligrams of the anesthetic, White testified.
"You think it was a self-injection of propofol between 11:30 (a.m.) and 12 (p.m.)?'' defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan asked
"In my opinion, yes,'' White said.
White claimed Shafer didn't take into account the levels of the sedative lorazepam that Jackson may have accumulated in his body.
The defense has attempted to portray Murray as a caring physician who was not motivated by financial gain. Jackson was willing to take great risks in his quest for sleep, according to defense claims.
"There are two good reasons why Michael Jackson has, in a sense, been put on trial here," said legal analyst Darren Kavinoky. "If you're the defense team, you want to shift all focus away from Conrad Murray. But, more importantly... all of this relates to whether there was an intervening act that would cut Dr. Murray's criminal responsibility."
Judge Concerned About Trial Delay
The trial was expected to wind down Friday as White faced cross-examination. But prosecutors indicated Thursday they need more time to examine evidence submitted by defense attorneys.
That means White's testimony will continue next week. Prosecutors want more time to review an analysis prepared by the defense based on tests on samples taken during the pop star's autopsy.
"This is the entire crux of the defense case,'' Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said before the judge agreed to the delay.
Judge Michael Pastor had indicated to jurors they could expect to get the case soon. The judge met with attorneys Thursday, and a transcript of the meeting indicated the judge has concerns about losing jurors.
"Every single member of that jury and all the alternates are paying extraordinary attention to every witness," Pastor said.
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Perl strings are allocated using the malloc() C library routine. Perl strings are 'grown' using the realloc() C library routine. An append operation is a realloc() operation (to 'grow' the string) followed by a memcpy() to copy the additional data at the end (in your case, two bytes, the character, and a '\0' character that is kept at the end of every Perl string).
The malloc()/realloc() C library functions have platform specific restrictions that define minimal space allocation increments. For example, most platforms require data structures to be allocated on a 4 or 8 byte boundary. Since malloc() can be used to allocate any type including larger types such as 'double', malloc() will always round the size up to at *least* the next 4 or 8 byte boundary. This means that even if Perl allocated a string using malloc(1), malloc() would return a 4 or 8 byte memory area. Calls to realloc(2), or realloc(3) would end up being no-op operations as all of 1, 2, and 3 result in a minimal size of 4 or 8 bytes.
The malloc() and realloc() routines are usually also optimized to hold larger data structures. One of the more straight-forward implementations is for malloc() or realloc() to round allocation sizes up to the next power of 2. Therefore malloc(5) would return an 8 byte memory area, malloc(9) would return a 16 byte memory area, and malloc(17) would return a 32 byte memory area. realloc() will only need to copy bytes if the memory area cannot be enlarged to the next power of 2 without moving it.
For memory areas larger than one page of memory, it is not uncommon for malloc() and realloc() to be implemented using mmap() and mremap() (mremap() exists on at least modern versions of Linux). If this is the case, realloc() can increase the size of a 2 page (8192 bytes?) area to 4 pages, without copying the data, even if the page after the two pages is in use. The mremap() call can be implemented to re-address virtual pages meaning that although 128 Kbytes of data may appear to be 'moved' in virtual memory from one address to another, no memory copy ever needs to take place.
All of these details are highly implementation specific. The cost of a string append operation in Perl is entirely dependent on the efficiency of the realloc() C library routine that Perl was compiled to use. In general, the implementations are quite efficient. If you really care to understand the cost in terms of real numbers, play with the Benchmark module ('perldoc Benchmark') and do your own timings.
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MEDFORD, Mass. (info taken from a Tufts University press release) -- The Brandeis University men's basketball team suffered a 78-47 loss at the hands of Babson College today in the opening round of the 2013 New England Big Four Challenge at Tufts University. In the defeat, just the second-ever in Big Four play for the Judges, Brandeis scored nearly half of their 89.8 point-per-game average entering the game. Brandeis falls to 5-2 on the season, while Babson moves to 6-1. The Judges will face the host Jumbos in the consolation game Sunday at 1 p.m., while the Beavers take on Salem State for their first Big Four title at 3 p.m.
The Judges never led in the contest, as Babson opened the game on a 12-2 run in the first four minutes. The Judges moved to within four using an 8-2 run, thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from rookie Robinson Vilmont (Cambridge, Mass./Wilbraham and Monson Acad.) and senior Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg), but they could get no closer. Later in the half, Babson's largest lead was 15 at 30-15. Freshman forward Joey Flannery (Acton, Mass.) scored 19 points in the first half for the Beavers to lead them to an 11-point lead, 41-30, at halftime.
Babson shot 14 of 27 (52%) in the first half while holding Brandeis to just 11 of 31 (31%).
Senior guard Kenny Ross (Furlong, Pa.) dropped in 11 first-half points for Babson, making all three of his three-point attempts. Moton was 4-for-6 shooting in the first half for the Judges, for a team-high 10 points.
Babson pulled away early in the second half, building its lead to 18, 52-34, after a three-point basket by junior forward John Wickey (Manchester, N.H.). The closest Brandeis would get the rest of the way was 13, 52-39. The Beavers' biggest advantage of the game came at 78-45.
Flannery finished with 33 points on 12 of 15 shooting. He also grabbed five rebounds and was 8 for 8 from the charity stripe. Ross scored 13 points total with four assists and junior forward Eric Dean (Gilford, N.H.) added 12 points and nine rebounds.
Moton led the Judges with 12 points, while Vilmont reached double-digits with 10 points.
Babson finished shooting 50% (28-56) from the field. Brandeis ended the contest at 33.3% (17-51). The Beavers out-rebounded the Judges, 43-33. The Judges also struggled from the free-throw line, hitting just 38.5% (10-26).


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We told you earlier today about how dangerous the US position in the China-Philippines disputed islands conflict could be.
But, guess what! It looks like now there's a new actor entering the frey.
The Times of India reports that India has officially released an "unusual" statement on the conflict, which reads as follows:
"Maintenance of peace and security in the region is of vital interest to the international community. India urges both countries to exercise restraint and resolve the issue diplomatically according to principles of international law."
So why is India getting involved? The Times makes an educated guess — oil:
India not only has a growing presence in oil and gas exploration off Vietnam in the South China Sea, there has been an Indian presence in helping to keep the sea lanes safe and open for some time now. Besides, India is also signaling to the Southeast Asian nations that it remains engaged about the issues that concern them.


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Most people start orienteering by attending a club's local event and having a go at an easy course. You are welcome to do this a few times before you join a club.
You can pre-enter these events online at www.fabian4.co.uk or enter at the event on the day. Most people complete alone, but beginners are welcome to go in groups of two or three. There are always people available to help newcomers. A map is provided and can be kept afterwards. You will need to hire an electronic timing chip (dibber) for a small fee.
Competitors at urban events normally wear running shorts, t-shirt and trainers. In wooded areas full leg cover, such as running tights, is compulsory. Shoes with better grip, such as trail running shoes are a definite advantage. In urban areas a compass is not essential. They are a help in the countryside and essential for the more technical courses. Use of GPS navigation devices is not allowed.
When you arrive, if you have not entered online you will need to register by writing your details on a paper form. There will be a choice of courses varying in difficulty and length, usually from around 2km to more than 10km. Distance is quoted following a straight line around the course, but due to the need to run around paths, buildings, etc the actual route taken will be up to 50% longer. In urban areas, unaccompanied under-16s are only allowed on the shortest courses which avoid any unsupervised road crossings.
After registering and receiving your dibber you will be shown to the start. Competitors on each course set off from the start at minute intervals. Maps are given out after your race time has started, except for the most junior courses where they can be seen in advance. Before starting your dibber will be cleared and checked. At the start, finish and each control you insert your dibber in an electronic box. You must return to the finish by course closure time, after which controls will be collected in. You return your dibber to the registration point, where you will be given a paper slip showing how long you took on each leg and overall. Results are published on the club's website in the evening.
Toilets are available at larger events. Water is not usually provided, so you will need to bring your own drink.
Safety. A first aider attends all BOK events. There are always hazards on courses such as rough terrain, obstacles, vehicles, dogs, horses and other people. You must select a course to match your ability and think about hazards as you take part. All competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety.


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Robotics System Toolbox enables you to build kinematic chains or trees using rigid bodies to represent physical robots. You can add or modify bodies on a structure, specify joint limits, and replace bodies or joints. In addition, you can use forward kinematics to get transformations between two body frames and compute geometric Jacobians for specified end effectors for a given robot configuration.
In this webinar we demonstrate how to solve the pick and place problem with a robot manipulator. You can detect and recognize an object with a 3D camera and perform inverse kinematics and trajectory planning to execute a motion plan for the robot arm.
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Carlos Santacruz-Rosero, Ph.D., is a Senior Application Engineer at MathWorks with more than 10 years of experience developing software for advanced robotics systems such as manipulators, full-sized humanoid robots, and autonomous navigation robots. Carlos is an expert at applying MATLAB and Simulink to the design of complex robotics systems. He works with MathWorks customers in the industrial automation, automotive, aerospace, and robotics industries. Carlos has presented in conferences in America, Europe, and Asia on advanced robotics design with MathWorks toolchain. Carlos holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Tokyo.
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1. Re: What activities should are newly rebooted DC JBUG undertake?roboticon Sep 18, 2011 10:58 PM (in response to ichristoffersen)
Perhaps we can take Infinispan for a test drive using https://openshift.redhat.com/
2. Re: What activities should are newly rebooted DC JBUG undertake?ichristoffersen Sep 19, 2011 9:15 AM (in response to roboticon)
I like the Infinispan idea. There are some articles on this site about the JBossWorld demo. They would be good research. I have a DC JBug github group setup here - https://github.com/organizations/dcjbug
We can use this for any code.


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For years, Michael Jordan labored on very good, but not great, Chicago Bulls teams. He took his lumps from the Isiah Thomas-led Pistons and the Larry Bird-led Celtics before finally elevating his game, and the franchise, to a new level. Eventually Jordan was paired with a talented second banana in the form of Scottie Pippen, but there was never any doubt about who the lead Bull was.
So how did Jordan respond to LeBron James' decision to leave a Cleveland team that was close to putting it all together for a Miami Heat squad that features all-stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh?
"There's no way, with hindsight, I would've ever called up Larry, called up Magic and said, 'Hey, look, let's get together and play on one team,'" His Airness said after participating in a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada, according to ESPN. "But that's ... things are different. I can't say that's a bad thing. It's an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys."
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Navigating the Challenges of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01792661
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 15, 2013
Last Update Posted : May 1, 2017
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The study's purpose is to address the challenges of providing stage-appropriate chronic kidney disease (CKD) education and care by developing innovative programs using a CKD Patient Navigator system and an EHR (electronic health record)-based enhanced electronic communication system specific for a CKD patient and her/his physicians/caregivers. The investigators plan a randomized controlled trial of these innovations to examine the utility and effectiveness of these special interventions.
The investigators' CKD registry aids in identifying patients for recruitment for the randomized control trial. Patients are randomized into one of four groups. The four groups are: 1) the control group using MyChart; 2) an enhanced personal health record (PHR) included in MyChart consisting of 35 websites chosen to disseminate CKD stage-specific goals of care and CKD education; 3) the patient navigator, a lay professional trained in the specifics of chronic kidney disease navigation with a focus on the needs of their patients based on the National Kidney Foundation Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative; 4) the patient navigator combined with the enhanced MyChart.
The investigators hypothesize that a CKD Patient Navigator program will develop a more prepared, proactive patient-caregiver team than usual care; the enhanced PHR will produce a more informed, engaged patient than usual care; the CKD Patient Navigator arm and enhanced PHR will demonstrate a slower rate of decline in eGFR (glomerular filtration rate) than usual care.
The results of this study will lay the foundation for a larger multi-center national clinical trial that will build upon the feasibility and knowledge gained from this planning grant.
|Condition or disease
|Chronic Kidney Disease
|Other: Enhanced MyChart Other: Patient Navigator Other: MyChart
|Not Applicable
The overall goal of this research is to assess the effects of innovative interventions for CKD on the decline in renal function among patients with CKD stages 3b or 4. First, a CKD Patient Navigator program was created, adapted from the use of Patient Navigators successfully in oncology. Second, an enhanced PHR was developed that uses electronic communication to disseminate CKD stage-specific goals of care and CKD education. Third, a randomized controlled trial is being conducted using a factorial design to investigate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of the two interventions - a CKD Patient Navigator and enhanced PHR compared to usual care for CKD Stage 3b/4 patients.
As a conceptual framework for the proposed study, the investigators are using the Chronic Care Model developed by Edward H. Wagner, M.D., Director of The MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program "Improving Chronic Illness Care" and Senior Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle. The model emphasizes a synergy between community, the health care system, technology and personal interactions to achieve optimal functional and clinical outcomes among people with chronic diseases. It has been adopted by the National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) to achieve many of their goals related to kidney disease.
With the help of the CKD registry, the investigators are recruiting patients from outpatient clinics at main campus and family health centers located in the surrounding Cleveland area. Patients are being recruited by a trained study coordinator. All patients are informed about study procedures and the purpose of the research, verbally and in a written informed consent document, two copies of which must be signed by both the patient and the study coordinator before enrollment. Upon enrollment, the patients will be provided with a $25 stipend.
The investigators identify from the CKD Registry and recruit eligible patients with CKD stage 3b (eGFR 30-44 ml/min/1.73 m2) or Stage 4 (eGFR 15-29 ml/min/1.73 m2) who meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria. The majority of data comes from the EHR derived CKD registry. The investigators obtain baseline demographic characteristics (age, gender, and race), comorbidities, and medication use, smoking status at the baseline visit. Further, CKD stage specific laboratory data will be collected routinely i.e., whether a laboratory parameter was measured or not and if measured, whether the laboratory measures and blood pressure are under the target limits. Details about nephrology, vascular access, and transplant referrals are obtained at baseline visit. The primary outcome of the study will be change in eGFR over the two-year study period.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|209 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Factorial Assignment
|Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Navigating the Challenges of Chronic Kidney Disease
|Study Start Date :
|February 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2015
Active Comparator: MyChart
The control group receives standard Cleveland Clinic care and has access to MyChart which is the standard Cleveland Clinic electronic PHR.
Other: MyChart
Sign-up to MyChart is optional for Cleveland Clinic patients. Subjects enrolled into the study are signed-up for MyChart (if not already signed-up) during the consenting process.
Active Comparator: Enhanced MyChart
The enhanced PHR functionality adds the ability to securely receive and review CKD-education related messages to the existing features available to all PHR users. The CKD-educational related messages can be automatically delivered at pre-defined intervals and customized for each individual patient at their discretion and convenience.
Other: Enhanced MyChart
Subjects randomized into the MyChart receive an additional site on their MyChart containing 35 extra educational links specific to CKD, targetting care for stage 3b and stage 4 patients.
Other Name: CKD Enhanced PHR
Active Comparator: Patient Navigator
A tracking log is kept by the Patient Navigator of each interaction regarding type of encounter, length of encounter, barriers addressed, and actions that occurred, adapting what is in use for the NIH-funded Patient Navigator program.
Other: Patient Navigator
The Patient Navigator aids subjects in education of their CKD, timely scheduling of appointments, plus determining and overcoming barriers to their CKD health care. The Patient Navigator's job is not part of routine medical care.
Other: MyChart
Sign-up to MyChart is optional for Cleveland Clinic patients. Subjects enrolled into the study are signed-up for MyChart (if not already signed-up) during the consenting process.
Active Comparator: Patient Navigator and Enhanced MyChart
Combines patient self empowerment, regarding their CKD, with the Enhanced MyChart along with the aid and direction of a Patient Navigator.
Other: Enhanced MyChart
Subjects randomized into the MyChart receive an additional site on their MyChart containing 35 extra educational links specific to CKD, targetting care for stage 3b and stage 4 patients.
Other Name: CKD Enhanced PHR
Other: Patient Navigator
The Patient Navigator aids subjects in education of their CKD, timely scheduling of appointments, plus determining and overcoming barriers to their CKD health care. The Patient Navigator's job is not part of routine medical care.
- Change in Renal Function [ Time Frame: baseline and 1 year ]
CKD stage specific laboratory data is being collected quarterly. Most of the data will come from the CKD registry, supplemented by the data collection system from the EHR set up by the Cleveland Clinic Department of Quantitative Health Sciences (QHS).
Lab and urine measures are: eGFR, urine albumin to creatinine ratio, parathyroid hormone, 25-OH vitamin D, low density lipoprotein, hemoglobin, calcium and phosphorus.
Clinical targets are: blood pressure, LDL, 25-OH Vitaming D. Preparation for possible transition to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): Nephrology referral, vascular access referral, transplant referral.
Whether renoprotective medications are prescribed, such as ACEi and ARB.
- CKD Knowledge and Awareness [ Time Frame: baseline and 1 year ]
CKD education is being measured with electronic clicks the number of times NKDEP patient education materials are accessed through Enhanced MyChart, NKF pre-ESRD curriculum.
Similarly, the frequency of MyChart access of laboratory results and appointments specific to CKD awareness, Nephrology, CKD Clinic, Primary Care Physician, is being measured.
Nutrition is also being similarly measured; NKDEP nutrition patient education materials, nutrition referral.
Patient Navigator contact frequency and subsequent patient follow-up of laboratory work and medical appointments are the indicators of patient willingness to increase their CKD knowledge.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age greater than or equal to 18 years
- English speaking
- eGFR 15-45 ml/min
- patients residing in North East Ohio
Exclusion Criteria:
- mentally incompetent
- cancer
- terminal illness
- patients on dialysis
- patients who have had renal transplant.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01792661
|United States, Ohio
|Cleveland Clinic
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Principal Investigator:
|Joseph Nally, MD
|The Cleveland Clinic
|Responsible Party:
|Stacey Jolly, M.D., Staff, Internal Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R34DK094112-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|February 15, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 1, 2017
|Last Verified:
|October 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Chronic Kidney Disease
Electronic Health Record
Personal Health Record
Chronic Kidney Disease registry
Glomerular Filtration Rate
Patient Navigator
Kidney Diseases
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Urologic Diseases
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Making an Emotional Connection with Readers ExerciseBy Laurence O'Bryan
Making an emotional connection with readers is critically important whatever type of fiction you are writing. If you don't, readers can easily stop reading. That's the last thing we want. Without emotion what we write can become dull. If we add emotion reader engagement pulls the reader forward.
We are all familiar with emotions. They are, typically, what makes us have a great day or a bad one. But how can a writer use emotion to connect with readers?
One of the most basic emotions is desire. If your characters are motivated, if they have desire, if only for a glass of water, then readers will feel more connected to that character. And the more they want something, the more interesting your story becomes, as the reader is left wondering what the character will do to achieve their goal.
Desire is the basic emotion which keeps us involved in a story. If your main character wants something bad enough, you are, according to the logic of story, obliged to put obstacles in their way too. Why? Because obstacles create conflict and difficulties. And conflict will inspire an emotional response in your reader and keep them turning the pages.
In The Istanbul Puzzle, my mystery novel released by Harper Collins worldwide in 2012, my main character, Sean Ryan, wants to find out what happened to a good friend, who has been murdered. He feels responsible. This mixes both desire and danger into the story early on.
Some other ways to build an emotion connection with the reader are:
* Creating embarrassment for a character. By making the reader feel that embarrassment you will build a connection with them.
* Having a character abused in some way. Natural sympathy will be evoked if you do something terrible to a character we have come to know.
* Placing opposing characters in the same situation. There's a natural tension when opposing characters meet. Your readers will feel it if the opposing characters views have been shown to them.
* Fear creates tension in the reader too. If we know the murderer is coming up the stairs, and the woman is having a shower, we fear the outcome.
* Anticipation. If you foreshadow, occasionally, without explaining exactly what is going to happen, readers will anticipate something happening. I use a very occasional piece of foreshadowing to heighten tension.
* Surprise readers. Readers will enjoy your writing if something surprising happens. They won't have any idea what is going to happen next. I try to make my stories as surprising as possible with something unexpected happening regularly.
* Excitement is a powerful writing tool. You can move the plot fast, anticipate, and spell out what might happen, and then keep the reader waiting. All the above methods combined will produce excitement in your reader.
One of the hardest parts for a writer is in creating authentic emotional scenes.
The ability to understand how it feels to be in an emotional situation and to express that feeling in a genuine and new way, without resorting to cliche or to simply naming how characters feels, is vital to creating truly engaging emotional writing.
People look for writing that truly explains how it feels to be in each situation. And they can tell if you haven't represented the reality in a way that's believable.
I wish you well with this. This is one of the hardest challenges of becoming a good writer in the 21st or any century.
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I always start off my blog posts after a long absence by saying "I apologise it's been so long since I last blogged but in my defence ..."
Well, why break the habit of a lifetime - or y'know... a couple of years? So here goes... I'm so sorry it's been a while since I last posted on this blog but in my defence, I've been busy starting a business over the last couple of months. Yup, me, a business ... I know right?
I've wanted a cake shop since I got into the whole baking thing, but it was this shadowy idea that probably wouldn't come true unless I could be bothered to write a business plan and borrow lots of money. Don't get too excited, I don't have a cake shop ... yet, but I have a sort of starter cake shop otherwise known as a market stall.
This Saturday just gone ... yup, the one that was below zero. The one so cold that at one point my hands were shaking so violently that a cup of coffee I was holding threatened to spill all over my lovely stall ... good times. Yup, I spent that Saturday selling cake at my very own stall. It's at Archway market and only every other Saturday but it's a start, and one I'm really excited about :) Check out a couple of pictures from Saturday below.
Umm yeah, don't go to my website yet because it's not up quite yet. It will be soon though! But if you're in London, get in touch and please come and visit my stall!
So I've always wanted to make fudge! And finally, this Christmas (yes I'm that far behind on updating my blog), I finally ... finally ... gave my sister some fudge recipe suggestions, licked the bowl while she made fudge and ate the fudge when it was ready. Yup, I still haven't made fudge. So thank you to my sister Christiana for making this incredible fudge to round off a delicious five-course Christmas lunch that she and my brother in law made us.
This is simple - I know I say that about most of the recipes I post but it really is. So no excuses, go make some fudge!
Recipe from the incredible Bakers Royale
1 can of sweetened condensed milk, divided into two
10 Oreos, chopped
170g white chocolate
170g dark chocolate
28g butter
- Line an 8 x 8 inch pan with foil.
- Split condensed milk in half and set aside. Chop Oreos and set aside
- Place white chocolate, one half of the condensed milk and the butter in a heat proof bowl over simmering water. Stir and mix until melted and combined. Fold in Oreos and stir to combine. Pour mixture into pan.
- Place dark chocolate and the remaining half of the condensed milk in a heat proof bowl over simmering water. Stir and mix until melted and combined. Pour mixture on top of Oreo layer and refrigerate for 1 hour to set.
- Remove from fridge and peel away foil once set. For ease of cutting, make sure to clean knife between cuts to prevent sticking.


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New Year Greetings cards: It's just less than few days away for New year. Get ready to put on your party hat and have fun in a safe manner and don't forget to toast for a good year. It's an ideal opportunity to welcome the year ahead with festivity and cheer. Spread the delight of this event among your friends and family with New Year greeting cards and wishes. In this post we have added 60 Beautiful New Year Greeting card designs for your inspiration. Say Goodbye to 2019 and welcome 2020 with these beautiful new y... Read Full Post >
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It's the post you've all been waiting for. The tale of my attempt to create my own wedding dress.
When we first started planning the wedding I couldn't imagine myself in a bridal gown. I was never one of these girls who dreams of her big day or walks around in her mum's high heels with a pillowcase veil pretending to be a bride. It's just not me, so I had to do it my way. I relished the idea of turning my wedding dress into a work of art so I could walk down the aisle with pride. Originally I had planned to make it from scratch but I'm soooooo glad that I abandoned that foolish idea before I started!
To get the ball rolling I went to try on a few off-the-peg dresses. Having never worn anything like a wedding dress, it was impossible to know what I wanted. I had a vague idea of a prom style dress but didn't want to rule anything out. I nearly fell for this gorgeous little number…
…but after flouncing around like a princess for a good half-hour, I had to relinquish the gown as it would not have mixed well with roller skates and bowling. Instead I had a go with the prom style dress I had imagined, and I was sold.
I did learn from dress number one that I love a bit of bling, and armed with that information I set about finding a base at which to throw as much sparkle as I could muster.
I found what I was looking for at Honeypie Boutique, an online wedding dress supplier with a healthy selection of vintage inspired dresses, all with glamorous names like Audrey, Lauren and Greta. I chose Grace, a simple satin bodice with sweetheart neckline atop layer upon layer of tulle skirts. I was a little worried as there were very few reviews I could find on wedding forums but I took a chance, placed my order, and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the dress for the price. This was it in its virgin state.
Not bad on its own, but a perfect blank canvas for a crafty bride-to-be. As it turns out, a little too blank. The endless possibilities proved a little daunting and I needed some inspiration. A great excuse to recruit Mummy Monster and pop to London for the day. The dress collection at the V&A and the gorgeous fabric shops of Berwick street left us positively drooling with excitement. On the train home I sketched idea after idea, eventually deciding that sometimes less is more and settled on something like this
With my love of buttons and the wealth of pretty buttony goodness available on the internet, I couldn't resist taking a little pearly queen turn with the project. Mr Monster began to get a little suspicious as packets of buttons kept dropping into our post box. I wanted to give the skirt a bit of sparkle so set about sewing them onto the skirts. What I hadn't anticipated though was that they would all have to be sewn on individually to prevent the thread showing through the tulle. I wish I had counted how many I used, but I reckon it was a couple of hundred, all tied on and tied off individually by hand. And so the embellishment began…
As with all projects, naturally I got to that point where I stood back and thought "I don't like it". I think the enormity of the importance of the project started to get to me as well as a touch of crafters self-doubt. Thanks to the patience and support of a few friends, and of course my mum, I was able to bounce ideas around and eventually feel a bit happier about what I'd done. It all came together one evening when I was playing around with the idea of using some vintage lace around the waist. I needed my hands free to do something else so hung the length of lace around my neck briefly, caught sight of it in the mirror, and BAM! The lace halter-neck was born! Funny how things work out sometimes. All it needed to top it off was a waistband with a cute feature bow, and of course a few more buttons.
By the time I was finished (less than a week before the wedding, last-minute-Larry indeed), I was in love with my dress and felt like a fairy princess when I tried it on for the first time. What's more, when Mr Monster saw me coming down the aisle, he loved it too. Mission accomplished.
So without further ado, let's have a look at my dress in detail, starting with a shot from the day which gives you a glimpse of my handmade felt bouquet.
And a few of the dress in all it's glory.


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Array Notations
A new syntax provided with Cilk Plus also allows simple operations on arrays. The C/C++ language standards do not provide ways to express operations on arrays. Instead, the programmer has to write a loop and express the operation in terms of elements of the arrays, creating serial order, which is sometimes unintended. The downside of writing loops with serial ordering is that in order to convert the serial loop to a vector loop, the compiler has to prove that the vector processing would be equivalent to the scalar processing implied by the loop and mandated by the language. In the majority of the cases, these proofs are bound to fail.
For example, when the program uses pointers to reference the array (a reasonable programming practice meant to allow for operations on any array, rather than write code to operate on a specific array), the compiler is unlikely to prove that two pointers point to areas of memory that are not intersecting.
a[:] = b[:] + c[:]; indicates to the compiler that the elements of the arrays
b and
c need to be added and that there is no order required among the addition operations. These semantics allow the compiler to always generate vector code, instead of generating scalar code and attempting to prove that vector code would be equivalent.
Cilk Plus Array Section Operator
The Cilk Plus language extensions define an array section operator whose syntax is
array_base[start:length:stride] where the following is true:
array_baseis any array expression allowed in C/C++, including arrays, pointers, and C99 variable-length arrays.
- "Start" is the first array element to which the section applies.
- Length provides the number of array elements.
- Stride is an increment between elements. The use of stride is optional. If t is not provided, the default value of 1 is used.
The section operator can be applied to multidimensional arrays and can be intermixed with array subscripts, such as in
a[0:5][3][0:8:2]. In this example,
a has to be a three-dimensional array or a pointer to an array. The rank of the expression is the number of dimensions in which the section operator is used, rather than a subscript. In the example provided, the rank is 2.
A few intrinsic functions are provided for commonly used operations such as summation of an elemental of an array. A dot-product operation might be expressed as in Lisitng Six.
Listing Six: A dot-product operation expression using
X = __sec_reduce_add(a[:] * b[:]);
The array notations might remind some programmers of arrays in Fortran 90. A significant difference is that the Cilk Plus array notations expect that the arrays on the right-hand side of an assignment statement do not partially overlap the array being assigned to on the left-hand side. A violation results in undefined behavior. Therefore, unlike in Fortran 90, the compiler does not generate temporary arrays to hold the intermediate values of the right-hand side of an array expression. This change results in higher performance.
Writing an array expression can be a natural way to write the program when the programmer expresses the algorithm and the design at the level of operations on an array. For an existing serial program, a change to array notations might be intrusive. A less intrusive change is also available in Cilk Plus in the form of
#pragma simd. The pragma can be added to a loop to indicate that while the loop is written in scalar syntax, the implied serial ordering is not intended. Instead, the programmer's intent is for the compiler to generate vector code to implement the loop. As a language construct (rather than a performance hint), the pragma allows the compiler to generate vector code without having to prove that the vector code would be equivalent to scalar code, and scalar code is not the programmer's intent.
A third programming construct allows the programmer to write a scalar function in standard C/C++ and declare it as an "elemental function." When using an elemental function, the programmer's typical intent is to deploy it on many elements of arrays without prescribing an order of operations among the array elements. The simple example in Listing Seven shows the use of elemental functions to perform element-wise addition of arrays.
Listing Seven: Example of the use of elemental functions to perform element-wise addition of arrays.
__declspec(vector) float v_add(float x1, float x2) { return x1 + x2; } for (int j = 0; j < N; ++j) { res[j] = v_add(a[j],b[j]); }
The use of
__declspec(vector) indicates to the compiler that the function
v_add is intended to be used as an elemental function. The Intel C++ Compiler will generate two versions of code for such a function. In addition to "standard" code, a vector version will be generated, which receives a vector of arguments for
x1 and a vector of arguments for
x2. It performs the operations of the function using the hardware vector registers across all the input arguments. This returns a vector of results instead of a single result. The function can be called in a scalar context. In such a circumstance, the compiler will translate the function call into a call to the standard, scalar function.
When it is called in a data parallel context, such as the example of the loop shown in Listing Seven, the compiler will call the vector version. If the target of the compilation is a CPU supporting the XMM vector register, for example with the SSE2 instruction set extension, then the compiler determines that four consecutive values of the input arrays can fit within a register. It will generate a version of the function that operates on four consecutive array elements, and the function will be called
N/4 time (or 1, 2, or 3 additional time in scalar version, if
N is not divisible by four). The benefit, of course, is enhanced performance.
Instead of calling the function using a
for loop, the programmer may choose a
_Cilk_for as the construct to call the function. In such a case, not only will the compiler call the vector version, it will also facilitate loop iteration execution by using multiple cores. With this use of the language construct, the programmer can get the combined benefit of both core- and vector-level parallelism.
Cilk Plus is a language extension to C/C++ whose main benefits are:
- It enables the application developer to use all parallel resources available in the hardware, including cores, vectors, and caches.
- It provides multiple levels of abstraction, enabling the developer to choose how parallel work can be done by cores separately from work done by the vector or they can choose not to program explicitly to the hardware and instead to indicate the intent for parallelism, allowing the compiler to map the operations to the hardware.
- It supports composability. By using tasking, with a work-stealing scheduler, the extensions allow integration of an application from independently developed components (possible third-party libraries, or modules developed independently by sub-groups) without the need to coordinate the parallelism architecture between the component and without risk of hardware resource oversubscriptions resulting from the integration.
- It simplifies adding parallelism to existing serial programs. Multiple attributes of the extensions support this, including the nonintrusive syntax, the ability to easily revert back to the serial program, the guarantee of serial semantics equivalence, and the low overhead of spawning a task.
Special note: Robert introduces the Cilk keywords with the names
_Cilk_sync, and
_Cilk_for. Most developers prefer to spell them
cilk_sync, and
cilk_for by having
#include <cilk.h> in their program. The versions with leading underscores are the real keywords, because the compiler does not create these new keywords in the normal space where it can theoretically conflict with a valid name. Instead, it leaves the nicer names to the cilk.h include file.
Robert Geva is a Principal Engineer, Intel Software and Solutions Group. Portions of this article are copyright Intel Corp.


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Photographer Sherilal Mohanan captured this spectacular image of the United Arab Emirates' Al Fursan national air display team performing for Abu Dhabi, flying Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339NAT jets. Beautiful shot.
Sherilal Mohanan is a photographer based in the United Arab Emirates. You can follow him on Flickr, 500PX and Facebook. His prints are available for purchase here.
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Pair of Knoll Barcelona Chairs Tan Leather 1960s Mies van der Rohe
- CreatorLudwig Mies van der Rohe (Designer),Knoll (Manufacturer)
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- Date of Manufacture1960s
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- Condition DetailsAmazing original condition..
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- DimensionsH 29.25 in. x W 30 in. x D 30 in.H 74.3 cm x W 76.2 cm x D 76.2 cm
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Architect, furniture designer and educator, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a central figure in the advancement and promotion of Modernist design and architectural theory and practice. Like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, he was a hugely influential presence in the field, who shaped the course of 20th-century architecture both through his buildings and his teaching of rationalist design principles.
Born in the medieval German city of Aachen, Mies found an interest in architecture as a boy while working for his father, a master stonemason. He had no formal education as an architect, but learned his skills as an apprentice to the designer Bruno Paul, and as a staffer in the office the proto-modernist architect and designer Peter Behrens. Following World War I, Mies rose to prominence in his field amid the liberal atmosphere of the Weimar Republic. His reputation was secured by his design for the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona (commonly referred to as his Barcelona Pavilion), a radically simple, poetic, open-plan building pared down to its architectural essentials. Mies would go on to direct the Bauhaus from 1930 until 1933, when Nazi-government interference forced the closure of the progressive art and design school. Later that decade, he made his way to Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his career as a practicing architect and a dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Mies's famed dictum "less is more" grew from his belief that architecture both guides and expresses the spirit of the times, and he envisioned the 20th century as open-minded, logical, transparent and liberated by technology. His best-known buildings — residences such as the Villa Tugendhat in Czechoslovakia and the Farnsworth House in rural Illinois; skyscrapers like the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive apartment towers in Chicago and the Seagram Building in New York — reflect that philosophy. As do his most famous furniture designs. Mies pieces such as the Barcelona chair, chaise and stools, or the cantilevered Brno chairs, deliver a maximum of comfort and support from a minimum of materials: their "lavishness" derives from the precision with which they are engineered and constructed. For the collector, the allure of Mies's furniture is at once practical and idealistic. Useful and functional, his works embody the highest aspirations of modernism.
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There were times last season when you would have forgiven San Jose Earthquakes coach Frank Yallop for thinking he was channeling Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H. Fitness problems forced him to juggle lineups practically from match-to-match.
This year, Yallop is looking forward to something different: Actually coaching, rather than simply trying to piece together the least-worst collection of banged-up players.
"Right now, I can pick and choose and play people where I feel it's right," Yallop said as the Earthquakes prepare to open the 2010 season Saturday at home against Real Salt Lake. "And there's no spot that's guaranteed for any of the guys, which is great for me, because you're not playing guys out of form. If they're not quite feeling it, you can leave them out and put in someone who's ready to go."
Yallop churned through 25 different lineups last season, including one setup which made him pause before submitting his 11 to the officials.
"We had to play [center back Bobby Burling] at left back in one game. I look back now and it's like, 'Whoa,'" Yallop said. "It's unfortunate for him to put him there; he wasn't overly comfortable."
One could knock the Quakes for failing to make a big-name signing in the offseason. The way general manager John Doyle would spin it, though, is that the side is better off shoring up several different thin spots rather than just pouring all its money into one player.
"Frank has a much harder job as far as deciding who's starting this year, whereas last year, with injuries and with some of the performances it was made pretty easy for him: 'Shoot, I've gotta play these guys,'" Doyle said. "Brandon McDonald, he's been a little injured, but he's finding it a little hard to get into the [starting 11]. Last year, we would have just shuffled him in—'Hey, are you healthy enough? Get in there.'"
Even before it starts, the 2010 campaign has not been injury-free. McDonald has been slowed by a hamstring problem developed while training with the U.S. national team a couple months ago. New acquisition Eduardo strained a hip before the team's training camp trip to England. Midfielder Andre Luiz needed arthroscopic surgery to clean up a knee.
The team took a highly cautious approach with all three players, figuring that missing more time than necessary in March was preferable to sitting out matches in April, May or June.
"I kept looking at [McDonald] and saying, 'Are you OK?'" Yallop recalled. "He said, 'It's a bit sore.' And we ended up saying, 'You've got to get it right, because we've had all those niggling injuries all last year on everybody. You've got to get it sorted out.'"
Now it's up to Yallop to put all those bodies to good use. The coach used El Salvador international Arturo Alvarez—who bounced around last season on the wings and up top—as an example.
"I think the squad now is real solid, and where Arturo plays is up to him and me," Yallop said. "That goes along with all the players, and I think that that's healthy."
Healthy in more ways than one.


text: Leading LadiesPalmer continues its tradition of preparing women leaders in chiropracticFall 2007 Home article > a message from Dr. Burt Over the past two years, members of the College's Alumni Office have enjoyed visiting with Palmer graduates from around the country—and around the world. Based on the ideas that so many of you have shared with us on these visits, we're now introducing the Palmer College of Chiropractic Alumni Association. The platform for the new association comes as a result of a study in which we contacted more than a hundred private and public college alumni associations. This research revealed that most of today's private college alumni associations are administered by the colleges they represent. In this relationship, all operating costs for the respective associations are covered by the colleges, allowing alumni to participate without paying any dues. Free and automatic membership is something Palmer alumni have already enjoyed for the past two years. But now the Alumni Office is adding two new components to the alumni association—a board of directors and a series of advisory groups. To become eligible to serve on either the board or on an advisory group, I encourage you to fill out an Alumni Profile form. You can complete this form online by logging onto www.palmer.edu and visiting the "Getting Involved" page of the Alumni section. Or if you'd like to have a profile mailed to you, call (800) 722-2586, Ext. 3. All profiles are due Dec. 1, 2007. With so much happening at the College, we invite you to meet with Alumni Office staff while we're on the road. We can tell you all of the latest developments, including the hiring of Dwight Bailey, Ph.D., to head the new Palmer Center for Business Development. He comes to Palmer with a university background and has experience with owning and operating his own business. You'll find a list of the events we're attending on the Calendar page just inside the back cover. Along with visiting various state associations, we'll be on hand at the Feb. 7-9, 2008, Parker Seminars in Las Vegas. At last year's event, Palmer's reception attracted more than 200 alumni and chiropractors from other schools. Then, from Feb. 23-28, we'll be taking the Continuing Education cruise, which is a great way to earn credits while enjoying the sun and fun of the Caribbean. Since 2005, the Alumni Office has done a lot of traveling. We've done a lot of listening, too. Yet surprisingly, when we've asked some of our alumni for their input, they've responded quite humbly, "Why do you want my input?" The answer is simple. Palmer College has been and continues to be a place where its graduates can share their hopes, plans, and, of course, insights. article >


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Louis CK's 'Experiment' Brings In 110k Sales, $550k Gross, Over $200k Net... In Four Days
from the nice-work-if-you-can-get-it deptSo that was fast. Yesterday we wrote about comedian Louis CK's experiment in direct to fan sales, offering up his latest comedy special for a simple, convenient $5 download with no DRM (and also being human and polite in talking about it). All we've been hearing since the sale went up on Saturday was about how everyone's buying it, and it appears plenty of people were curious how it was going. Louis has put up a statement explaining all of the results in pretty great detail. However, before we get to the numbers, he makes a really good point at the beginning. He points out that originally he had no plan to share the results, and that it's natural to try to hoard such information. But somewhere along the way, he realized something really important: people aren't just interested in buying his work, they're buying because they're interested in the experiment as well:
It's been 4 days. A lot of people are asking me how it's going. I've been hesitant to share the actual figures, because there's power in exclusive ownership of information. What I didn't expect when I started this was that people would not only take part in this experiment, they would be invested in it and it would be important to them. It's been amazing to see people in large numbers advocating this idea. So I think it's only fair that you get to know the results. Also, it's just really cool and fun and I'm dying to tell everybody. I told my Mom, I told three friends, and that wasn't nearly enough. So here it is.This reminds me of Andy Richard's thoughts on transparency, and how that helps connect fans even closer. It's all something of a virtuous circle, it seems. Do cool experiments, be awesome, be polite... and be transparent. And people will want to support you.
On to the numbers. I love the fact that Louis didn't just reveal the topline revenue, but walked through the expenses as well:
First of all, this was a premium video production, shot with six cameras over two performances at the Beacon Theater, which is a high-priced elite Manhattan venue. I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows). The material in the video was developed over months on the road and has never been seen on my show (LOUIE) or on any other special. The risks were thus: every new generation of material I create is my income, it's like a farmer's annual crop. The time and effort on my part was far more than if I'd done it with a big company. If I'd done it with a big company, I would have a guarantee of a sizable fee, as opposed to this way, where I'm actually investing my own money.For what it's worth, Louis is pretty famous in comedy circles for his ability to come out with an entirely new "hour" of (amazing, brilliant, hysterical) content each year -- and once he's put that into a special or a video or an album, he never performs that stuff again. Lots of other comics will reuse old material or it takes them a lot longer to develop an hour of material, but as he explains here, he views it almost as if he's a farmer and this is his crop. So it definitely was a risk to do things this way, but certainly a calculated and not a particularly crazy risk.
The development of the website, which needed to be a very robust, reliable and carefully constructed website, was around $32,000. We worked for a number of weeks poring over the site to make sure every detail would give buyers a simple, optimal and humane experience for buying the video. I edited the video around the clock for the weeks between the show and the launch.
Okay, let's jump down to the bottom line:
The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.I'd actually argue that he did much better than he explains as his net here -- because he already admitted that the cost of production was paid for by tickets sold to those shows. So by not counting profits until he's covered the cost of production, he seems to be doubling the revenue needed to cover production. This makes the results even better than what he suggests.
And while he says that the $200k (which, again, I think miscalculates the actual bottom line) is "less" than he would have been paid if he'd simply sold the show, there are a few other mitigating factors, beyond what he lists above. He focuses on how it would be worse for the fans. But I'll take it a step further and suggest that going that path would have been worse for Louis as well. First, this isn't done yet. While there's definitely a huge spike in sales at the beginning, and it will only go down from there, I wouldn't be surprised to see a decently long tail of support here. Second, and more importantly, this whole experiment -- including the transparency here -- likely has both widened his fan base considerably (even though it was already quite large) and, more importantly, deepened their loyalty to him.
In other words, it may not make as much now, but chances are this pays off even greater sums down the road. Many of the people who found out about this and bought the download are likely now to be more interested in watching his TV show, seeing him live or purchasing future specials that he releases like this (or in new, even more creative, ways). In other words, by doing this kind of experiment, by being polite, awesome and human... and then being transparent about this, it's likely that his earning power from these efforts only grows. That's pretty cool.
Two final thoughts on this, as responses to a couple of the common arguments we hear from folks who can't get their minds past the traditional business model. First up, we always hear claims that "people won't buy stuff if they can get it illegally for free." It would seem that iTunes, Netflix and many other examples have long proven that false, but here's another example.
Second, just last week, we discussed the claim by some that people who pirate do so because they claim that "all artists are rich." I still have never heard that argument used by people who download unauthorized content, though I guess it's entirely possible that some have made such a ridiculous argument. But I actually think Louis CK's success here (not unlike Trent Reznor's success with various business model experiments) shows how off-base that is. By any imaginable standard, Louis is doing okay for himself. But, nearly every comment I've read from folks who paid their $5 (like myself) to happily download and support Louis, is that they're all freaking thrilled beyond belief that he's brought in this much cash from this experiment.
I'm sure there may be some resentful jerks out there, but as Louis himself noted, the people who chose to buy are invested in this experiment and want it to succeed. No one begrudges Louis the money he's making from all of this because we all feel he's earned it. And it's not that he earned it by locking it up, screaming about "pirates" and using a legal sledge hammer to attack fans -- but he's earned it by being polite, by being awesome and by being human. It's a lesson a lot of other content creators still need to learn.
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