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LHC computing Grid launched

03 October 2008 The LHC Grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centres from 33 countries to analyse and manage more than 15 Pbyte of LHC data every year.

Panic grips LHC after bomb hoax

LAHORE: Panic gripped litigants and lawyers present at the Lahore High Court (LHC) when the bomb disposal squad (BDS) started searching for explosives on Thursday afternoon. The BDS arrived at the court after the police emergency help line received a telephone call about the presence of a bomb in the LHC, the Anarkali Police Station house officer (SHO) said, adding that the LHC security staff and the BDS had been informed about the call. However, no explosive material was found during the two-hour search operation. The SHO said that the police were trying to trace the unidentified caller who had made the hoax call through telephone number 0345-7082042. However, he added, the number had been switched off. Security personnel deployed at the LHC became more vigilant after the hoax call.

CERN Launches Huge LHC Computing Grid

RaaVi writes "Yesterday CERN launched the largest computing grid in the world, which is destined to analyze the data coming from world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The computing grid consists of more than 140 computer centers from around the world working together to handle the expected 10-15 petabytes of data the LHC will generate each year." The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid will initially handle data for up to 7,000 scientists around the world. Though the LHC itself is down for some lengthy repairs, an event called GridFest was held yesterday to commemorate the occasion. The LCG will run alongside the LHC@Home volunteer project.

LHC Group Expands Footprint to 14 States with Initial Entry into North Carolina

LHC Group Expands Footprint to 14 States with Initial Entry into North Carolina - Prudent Press Agency (Prudent Press Agency)---FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- LHC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to provide home nursing and hospice services, effective October 1, 2008. This joint venture represents LHC Group’s initial entry into the certificate of need (CON) state of North Carolina and expands the Company’s geographic footprint to 14 states. The agency will operate under the name of Cape Fear Valley HomeCare and Hospice.

LHC CJ takes notice of lockdown

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Sayed Zahid Hussain has taken strict notice of the locking up of courts in Lahore, Okara and Toba Tek Singh districts and has directed the advocate general (AG) to approach the chief secretary and other officials to take action against those responsible. While presiding over a meeting of the LHC administrative committee, the CJ ordered the AG to ask for explanations from the officials regarding their failure to stop bar members from locking courts when they had already been informed by the LHC registrar about the situation. The CJ also directed all sessions judges concerned to submit reports to the registrar, and directed the media to provide recordings of the incidents to the registrar. staff report

LHC allows NEPRA to issue fresh electricity tariffs

LAHORE: Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday allowed the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to issue notifications of fresh electricity tariffs, but barred it from implementing the same to the extent of over a 100 textile mills and industrial units which have moved the LHC. The judge adjourned the hearing until November 11. The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association counsel Syed Ali Zafar told the court that tariff determination was an open procedure and an opportunity of a hearing must be provided to all stakeholders. The LHC had already restrained NEPRA and other electricity distribution companies from implementing variable tariffs on industrial units.Zafar said that after the tariff was increased, electric distribution companies filed a review petition before NEPRA to further increase i

LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)

rufey writes "The recent problems at the Large Hadron Collider will now keep it idle until spring 2009. The official press release is here. The LHC went offline due to a suspected failure in a superconducting connection, which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees. This resulted in the accidental release of a ton of liquid helium. The process required to repair the failed superconducting connection involves weeks of warming up the affected area from -456 degrees Fahrenheit to room temperature, and then several more weeks to cool it back down after the repair is made. The total amount of time to do this will spill over into CERN's scheduled winter maintenance/shutdown period, which is partly done to save money on electricity during the period of peak demand.

LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most complicated machine that was felled by a single faulty solder joint last month, won't be back until summer 2009 now, at the earliest—a few months later than CERN last speculated. And at what cost? $21 million in repairs. A drop in the bucket when the full $10 billion budget is considered, yes, but let's hope some of this dough is spent on a bit more magnet-meltdown-preventing solder redundancy. [AP]

Avoiding Bad Foregrounds

Most of us have learned to pay attention to what is behind our subjects to avoid bad backgrounds but have we started ignoring foregrounds in the process? Foregrounds can ruin an image just as much as a bad background, as happened in the image on the right. Take some time to learn quick tricks to avoiding bad foregrounds.

Supermicro Participates in CERN LHC Project Inauguration

SuperBlade(R) Servers Enable LHC Project with Superior Computational Performance, Scalability, and Power Efficiency >> GENEVA, Switzerland (CNW) -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today participated in the inauguration ceremony for the famous CERN (one of the world's largest research labs) LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Project in Geneva. Supermicro's SuperBlade(R) servers enable the LHC Project with superior computational performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.

CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing

06 October 2008 The LHC Grid Fest, held October 3, 2008 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, is expected to produce more than 15 million Gigabytes of data each year. Hundreds of millions of subatomic particles will collide each second, presenting a massive data challenge. The mission of the WLCG is to build and maintain the data storage and analysis infrastructure for this immense flow of data, thus helping physicists open new frontiers in our understanding of the Universe.

Tri-Nations Final Abandoned Due To Rain

The Associates One Day International Tri-Series Final between Kenya and Zimbabwe was abandoned due to a wet outfield in Nairobi, the fourth successive match in the tournament to have been called off due to bad weather.

Video Interview: Keith G. Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer LHC Group,...

Video Interview: Keith G. Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer LHC Group, Inc. NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Sasha Salama joins Keith G. Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer LHC Group, Inc. (LHCG) to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning. Click here to view video: here 7FB5A47C6E8AC7B707863970 In fourteen short years, Keith Myers has provided the vision and leadership needed to take a small rural home health agency and turn it into what is now known as LHC Group, a regional home nursing and post acute health care services company with more than 5000 employees, providing both home based and facility services through 231 locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, Geor

Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks

sciencehabit writes "After a transformer failure earlier this week, the Large Hadron Collider has hit another snag — and this one is much more serious. As Science reports, 'At least one of the LHC's more than 1700 superconducting magnets failed, springing a leak and spewing helium gas into the subterranean tunnel that houses the collider ... How long [repairs take] will depend in part on how much of the LHC must be warmed to room temperature for servicing. If it's only a short section, the repair could be relatively quick. But the machine is built in octants, and if workers have to heat and cool an entire octant, then the cooling alone would take several weeks." Reader Simmeh contributes coverage from the BBC. We recently discussed the transformer malfunction at the LHC, which was a smaller problem and has already been fixed.

On Dobbs, radio host claimed HUD said "about 5 million illegal alien home mortgage loans ... have gone bad," but HUD reportedly says stat is bogus

Summary: On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Roger Hedgecock claimed that the Department of Housing and Urban Development "was talking about 5 million illegal alien home mortgage loans that have gone bad." But Hedgecock did not cite a source for the purported HUD statistic. In fact, an article published more than an hour before Lou Dobbs Tonight aired reported that HUD "says there is no basis to news reports that more than 5 million bad mortgages are held by illegal immigrants" and that "a HUD spokesman said his agency has no data showing the number of illegal immigrants holding foreclosed or bad mortgages."

Really Bad News: LHC to be Switched Off Until Spring 2009

It looks like some significant repairs will need to be made to the LHC before a re-start attempt (CERN)

CERN confirms bad electrical connection for LHC

CERN officials confirmed on October 16, 2008, that a large helium leak within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, was caused by a faulty electrical connection between two of its magnets.

NASA delays Hubble mission until next year due to telescope breakdown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA said Monday it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.

LHC issues notice to chairman Wapda

LHC issues notice to chairman Wapda LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued notice to chairman Wapda against on a petition filed against imposing Neelum-Jehlum surcharge on industrial units.

Commissioner Potonik participates in the inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

In Geneva today, European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Poto�nik participates in the formal inauguration of the CERN'S Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built to study the basic constituents of matters – the fundamental particles. Following the successful circulation of the first beam in the LHC on 10 September, Heads of Government, Research Ministers and High Representatives of CERN's Members and Observer States and other countries, as well as over a thousand leading EU and international scientists will participate in this event. While the bulk of the construction cost of LHC was supported by CERN's Member States, the European Union has been an active participant in the setting up and implementation of the ambitious research programmes of the LHC, in particular thr

LHC takes suo moto notice of bonded labourer kept in chains

LHC takes suo moto notice of bonded labourer kept in chains LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC), taking suo moto notice of a Sheikhupura young man kept in chains and forced to work as bonded labourer, has summoned the Sheikhupura DPO in the court on November 13.

LHC Group to Present at 2008 Annual Credit Suisse Health Care

LHC Group, Inc. LHCG, one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that Keith G. Myers, chief executive officer of LHC Group, and Peter J. Roman, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the 2008 Annual Credit Suisse Health Care Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.

LHC Group to Present at 2008 Annual Credit Suisse Health Care Conference

LHC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that Keith G. Myers, chief executive officer of LHC Group, and Peter J. Roman, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the 2008 Annual Credit Suisse Health Care Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.

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