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It's Showtime Introduces 73kg Division; Grigorian vs. Lidon for Title May 14
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Many have over the years complained about K-1's complete lack of weight classes. They knew what buttered their bread and by all means, that was Heavyweight and Superheavyweight competitors clashing in the ring against each other. When TBS saw dollar signs in Masato, all of a sudden the Middleweights had slick presentation and their own shows with their own unique look and feel that set them apart from the Heavyweights. For It's Showtime, expanding the sport has been important to them, from putting on fights on different continents to making sure there are adequate weight classes so that fighters can fight at their best.
Recently, we've seen a rash of 77kg fighters stepping up to fight some of the more elite fighters at 70kg, which means dropping a whopping 7kg, which translates to 15lbs. This creates a problem on both ends of the spectrum, for the 70kg fighters, it means fighting much larger opponents, for the 77kg fighters, it means a hellacious weight cut. On the last It's Showtime event, we saw L'houcine "Aussie" Ouzgni drop from a comfortable 77kg to 70kg to fight Andy Souwer without success, and this past weekend we saw Cosmo Alexandre drop in weight from 77kg to face 70kg king pin Giorgio Petrosyan, again, without success.
So, It's Showtime today introduced the 73kg division, or roughly 160lbs. Think EliteXC's Nick Diaz division. It provides a five pound gap between the 70kg class, and a 9lb gap between the 73kg division and 77kg division. This helps balance out the weight classes for smaller fighters looking to face top competition.
Never to disappoint, It's Showtime has introduced this 73kg division sooner rather than later. Starting May 14, It's Showtime will showcase this new division in a title fight, none-the-less. France's Yohan Lidon will take on Marat Grigorian from Armenia with both men vying for the 73kg Title. [source]


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Gray classic flying saucer with an octagonal frame on the bottom with three standard looking lights (the lights were as big as maybe 2 or 3 of our standard size light bulbs. White, red , blue. No windows or writing was seen on it. It had a low engine noise like what a lawn mower would sound like if it had a muffler on it. Never moved fast only very slowly. When it hovered it didn't move at all. Not an inch and that was the strangest thing about it. No fire, smoke of any kind came from it and we saw the round dome on top as it headed out back over our house.
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Distance to Object(s) & Altitude
About 2 to 3 ft over our garage roof. We had a rancher house which is still there.
Description of Area / Surroundings
Alot of houses right in the area. 2 Military Bases but one was in Warminster and one is the Willowgrove Naval Air Base. This was not detected by there radar or they just never responded to this large hovering object. And as I said my mother had called but I don't know if she ever actually explained what we had seen that night.
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Our dog heard noise outside began barking around 11:30 PM. My mother, young 7 yr old brother and myself Witnessed a round cylindrical object hovering over our driveway and garage. It was a flying saucer, Gray mettalic color, no windows, writting, a low engine noise. No smoke, fire etc. It was just hovering in the sky not far from our garage roof. I went out and stood underneath it. It had 3 lights on bottom. Octagonal frame on the bottom and the 3 lights were different colors. As it slowly moved towards the back of the house and over our backyard we saw a dome on top. No lights or anythind visible on the dome. It slowly went over our neighbors orchard and up to the top of pickwyck drive. It hovered over the trees of the forest - stopped completely for a few minutes then it backed up all the way down to our house. It did not stop at our house it went across the street and towards the Doylestown Courthouse. It stopped midway and hovered over the Pebblehill area then slowly as I looked from my bedroom window I saw what appeared to be a line with what looked like a small rocket thing pulling this saucer up into the sky and then it disappeared into the sky. The next morning my mother called the WBUX radio station and the Willowgrove Naval Air Station in Willowgrove PA. She asked them if anyone had reported seeing anything in the sky that night and they both said no there were no other reports. I don't think my mother ever really explained to them what we had seen because she was so shaken up about it. Thank You for taking my report.
Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?
No. But it could have been a top-secret craft engineered from one of the bases in the area. I was standing right underneath of it and I believe it was extraterrestrial because it hovered so completely stationery- I don't believe that back then or now we have anything like that. I have seen the stealth bomber hover at the air show but it was moving all around with fire and smoke coming from it. This had no visual propulsion of any kind that I could detect, but as I said it had a low engine noise coming from it
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I work as a CNA for Neshaminy Manor Nursing Home. I graduated from Central Bucks East H.S. in 1975 and Lansdale Business School in1997.
Views on UFOs, before and after sighting
I always believed they could be real after all, we land objects on other planets why couldn't someone else more advanced then we are do the same thing. Of course I now know they are real. I also reported seeing colored orbs last year in a field off of Paletown Rd . They were bright yellowish with red on the outside sitting in the sky going up in a step like pattern just hovering in the field out there.
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I believe we have always had alien people here on earth visiting and possibly living here at times. I have read that alien bases may be in our oceans around the world - this would not surprise me at all. You have to keep an open mind to these reports. Our government as well as most other governments know these things are real only the closed minded people with no interest in this subject do not know and will never believe in any of these sightings etc....
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Willow Smith may be part of the Smith family fame train, but she certainly knows how to show off her individuality!
The 11-year-old singer recently posted a photo to her Instagram of her with a friend, and she's wearing a tongue ring!
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While Willow just got a mouth full of braces, she might have decided to add some more mouth gear to express herself.
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Daddy Will Smith really does give her the freedom to do whatever she wants with her body!
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He explained his reasons for allowing Willow to express her individuality in Parade magazine:
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At just about every meeting of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, at least one of several attorneys representing a group called FAIR Trust sits among the audience.
They take notes, make public recommendations to the commission and occasionally talk privately with commissioners.
FAIR Trust's attorneys say they want to help the commission adhere to the legal requirements that govern the high-stakes, once-in-a-decade political remapping process, and the group's name suggests it is interested in fairness.
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Finished watching the RNC awhile ago and was curious what stances members of the org have on politics. I don't know how many keep up with their country's politics, but I know that where I'm from, it's few.
I know passionate debate is quick to come about when the topic is politics, but I think we're all grown up enough here to handle it, or just ignore it. If not, run along little Bambis.
As for myself and just to get things going,
Right now, I'm undecided on this fall's election. I'm not voting Obama in for a second term, didn't want him for the first. I've been a Ron Paul fan since '08, so it's kind of hard for me to give Romney the a-okay. There were always very few subjects I agreed with him upon (main one I do agree with is his stance on energy production in the US, which he mentioned at the RNC tonight, though I have to do more research on that).
We'll see how it plays out for the States this fall, but it's not looking too good either way. As for the RNC, nothing spectacular, just a good show of the "good" of Romney+repubs. Some pretty nice speeches, particularly Condi's, though Pam Finlayson and Oparowski's stories were some crowd favorites, especially among my mom and gma Some lackluster and pointless speeches there too, but what do you expect, honestly? Will definitely be watching the DNC as well.
So I am a Republican (middle-right) but I prefer the right answer, not the Republican or Democrat one (as JFK once said.) Still educating myself on the political world, but I'm incredibly interested in it and am particularly passionate about the lack of young adults' attention for it. Quite annoying really.
And you? Republican/Democrat/Socialist/Libertarian/Independent/Nothing,etc? Thoughts on the RNC? Favorite/Least Favorite politician? Videos and articles? Anything? Discuss! At the very least I hope you have an opinion!
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Albany Primary school visited Llanmaes in July and brought with them an uplifting and colourful response to the findings at the archaeological dig. The children explored the possibility of the spiritual significance of what may have been taking place thousands of years ago at this sacred site. Our archaeologists found evidence of what seems to be ceremonial activity at the site in Llanmaes. There also seems to be evidence of artefacts left by visitors from far away lands. Could Llanmaes have been a spiritual centre thousands of years ago? The children of Albany Primary school certainly thought so.
Thanks to the kindness of the local church the pupils of Albany Primary school were able to design and then take part in a non-denominational spiritual ceremony at the local church in Llanmaes.
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As you can see in my profile, I am new here too. I have a subscription my brother in law got me for Christmas to Fly Rod & Reel. I like the articles... (except for having Turd Turner named fly-fisherman of the year for 01)
Don't know much about the one you have though, sorry.
For your casting problem, I had the same thing with the rod my grandfather gave me to start. It went away when I got a new full-flex Orvis rod (5 rating). Now I have a lot more control over my casts, don't get those snags and I have been able to figure out how to get the fly more than 5 yards away from me.
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Greetings from a F.F. Newbie! After a failed attempt some years ago, I've decided to revisit Fly Fishing. I studied evrything that I could get my hands on regarding the "art" over the winter and attended the Wilmigton, MA show. I was fascinated and entertained with Lefty Kreh's demo at the casting pool! It was there that I registered for the Sage casting clinic through Blue Northern. I took the clinic this past Sunday and was suprised by how much I was able to pick up in a short time. I own property in the Mid-Coast area of Maine and have acess to superb Trout and Smallmouth fisheries as well as Saltwater. I've decide to start with a trout rig and purchased an 8'6" #6 wt outfit. I've made 2 excursions out to a local warm water pond to practice my newly learned skills after dinner. My biggest hurtle at this time seems to be getting rid of a "tailing loop". My leader is full of knots in a short time. Any helpful advise would be apprceiated.
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The Maine Turnpike Authority wants to pay between $34 million and $56 million to build a new toll plaza in York. Don't let that huge price tag fool you. What the MTA is buying is basically a row of customized porta-potties.
Oh sure, there are also a few E-Z Pass readers, cash registers, and concrete barriers. But toll plazas look like the sort of construction project any competent builder could slap up in a couple of days.
Taking into account the inevitable delays caused by electricians (the special wiring is probably only manufactured by one factory located in Suriname), plumbers (a state certification process may be required to make sure everything really does E-Z Pass), building inspectors ("You built this place too close to the road"), and lawsuits (construction threatens the habitat of endangered bacteria that feed on F-150s), the whole thing could still be completed in less time than it takes to play the average World Series.
Estimated cost (figuring in the usual outrageous markup for any public project overseen by incompetent bureaucrats): $250,000.
But let's assume there are design subtleties that can't be appreciated by an amateur like me, such as computers that can detect the approach of a turnpike-authority board member's vehicle and automatically open a special lane for its unimpeded progress.
To be safe, I'll double the budget to a half-million dollars. Or $33.5 million less than the lowest figure put forth by the MTA.
Here are more reasons why I don't believe a toll plaza could possibly cost mega-millions:
A couple of years ago, the pike built itself an opulent headquarters in Portland for a mere $12 million.
The Maine court system just opened a state-of-the-art judicial center in Bangor that's larger and more complicated than any highway barrier. It only set the taxpayers back $37 million.
Earlier this month, the voters approved a bond issue to repair 133 bridges and pave 200 miles of road. The bill for all that work will come to several millions less than the estimated cost of a single toll plaza.
The York project could soak up more dough than the annual profits from all state lottery games ($52 million), the value of Maine agricultural exports to foreign countries in 2008 ($36 million), the price of the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta ($33 million), the amount the federal government has allocated for low-income heating assistance in Maine this winter ($13 million), or the city of Portland's capital-improvement budgets for the last five years ($50 million).
The Great Barrier of Grief will require more cash than the 2008 US Senate race, the most expensive political campaign in Maine history ($14 million); the sum the state's municipalities paid for general assistance in 2008 ($11.5 million); and the Maine Department of Transportation's annual budget for mass transit ($12 million).
In June, Pennsylvania newspaper publisher Richard Connor bought the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, and Morning Sentinel for a reported $30 million to $40 million. Newspapers are a bargain compared to toll plazas.
According to Mainebiz magazine, the 40 highest-priced houses sold in the state last year went for a combined $11.9 million. Hardly enough for a few signs saying "Lane Closed."
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Good little weather device! 5/9/2013Stan Stone from Rose, Oklahoma
This is a good basic device, that gives one a simplistic approach to checking and storing of weather data. The intructions are lacking on clarity, but the machine operates quite intuitively. I would recommened this unit to a good friend.
WeatherStation 5/8/2013George Menzies from Treasure Is. FL
Great tool to track weather conditions at any time at home
not what i expected 3/12/2013
product does not keep the proper outside temp. inside is fine. uses batteries instead of solar power.
Good Purchase 3/11/2013
Good product. As advertised. I would recommend.
works well but has small glitch 2/28/2013
I'm using this to monitor the temperature in my green house which is 150-200 ft away from my house. It works well. The only problem I have is that I am unable to change the date which is a field that I don't really care about anyway.
Great Weather Unit 2/25/2013Steph from Brentwood, CA
Other than terrible instructions, we are very pleased with the product. I still haven't figured out to change the clock to 12 hours but I am hoping to look at the seller's site to find out. Easy to use and accurate.
It works. Kind of... 2/22/2013Luciano from Sunnyside, NY
The user's manual is in fine-printed broken Chinese, but the setup is pretty easy anyways, so not a big deal.
The radio-controlled clock works, depending of your luck, your location and placement of the unit.
Communication between station and (remote) sensor is sporadic, at best (apparently by -poor- design). The sensor is not weatherproof, although intended as an outdoors device.
Feature-rich, poor performance/quality.
It doesn't work! 2/22/2013Chet from Bethel Park, PA
It doesn't work!
Nice features, but... 2/22/2013John from Des Moines, IA
The instructions are less than perfect, but with some interpretation and some luck, it works as expected. The insistance on European date format is mildly annoying, and it would have been nice to have a high-for-the-day and low-for-the-day display.
The batteries/year cost more than the Weather Stat 2/22/2013
This device works reasonably well but the batteries only last approximately one month. I bought this December 27 and am already on my third set of Duracell AA batteries. This is ridiculous. Don't waste your money.
Weather Station 2/21/2013
Purchased as a gift. The person is very happy with the product. Works as advertised with no problems.
Weather Station 1/22/2013
The weather station was easy to set up and began displaying all the stats within an hour.
Home Weather Station 1/21/2013Doug from Bonita Springs, FL
Easy to read display with indoor and outdoor readings. Good value.
Great Weather Station 1/6/2013Red Ryder from Milford, MA
This station has more features than our old wireless unit that only tracked temperature and humidity. The weather forecasts are pretty accurate for a modest priced device. Instructions were not the greatest but got through it after a couple of false starts. Wish I could toggle the date display (like Fharenheit/Celsius setting) which shows up as day/month rather than month/day. Example: Christmas shows up as 25/12 - takes some getting use to. Still a great unit !!
Excellent product so far 1/4/2013
Extremely easy to set up out of the box, works great (so far). Time and some bad weather will tell how good the remote sensor is as our experience with other brand weather stations has shown.
Slick unit 1/4/2013
The weather station works very well showing temps and humidity both outside and inside. It also displays barometric pressure history and predicts upcoming weather trends. It also includes a radio controlled clock that corrects itself nightly.
Great experience. 12/30/2012
Works great. Easy to install.
Great Product - Working fine... 12/27/2012Mjewel from NYC, NY
Great Product - but would be better if we can read the numbers from 15 ft away. The display quality is kind of cheap -- other than else, the Weather Station is working GREAT.....
Great little weather station 12/26/2012
Everything worked, great price, but I can not hear the alarm.
Good product 12/26/2012
Good product to have in your closet/bathroom.
No instructions on how to set the channels. But it wasn't too difficult to figure out.
Wish I bought two! 12/25/2012Stan from New York
What an easy set up. Instructions were sparce so I just went ahead & installed the batteries & the rest was easy. Now I have the convenience of seeing inside & outdoor weather at a glance.
Decent product 12/24/2012
Works as advertised except the outdoor sensor is not updating every 10 seconds. Have to manually change the channel (cycle thru and back to original) to get updated temp and humidity. Just got it out of the box yesterday so haven't messed with it much
Nice product 12/20/2012
For the cost this is a nice little product.
Reasonably Good Product with Minor Flaws 12/19/2012
It works well for weather and is certainly useful. There are a couple of flaws however. The moon dial works in reverse. It shows the correct percentage of the moons surface illuminated by the sun; but it works starting from the new moon phase by highlighting from the left to the right. This is exactly opposite of what actually happens in viewing the moon in the sky. Very confusing! And the user instructions are very superficial and not well written. Obvious they were written overseas.
Pretty Good 12/18/2012
The clock is pretty good. I wish the day/month were in the usual USA order. The outside sensor seems a little off, but maybe it picks up heat from the window?
Great clear display. 12/16/2012Brookfield, WI from Brookfield, WI
Very clear display that is easy to read. Readings validated with other accurate devices.
Quality Product 12/15/2012Maurice Manton from Hudson FL
The Weather Station Works fine and looks good
My complaint is with the Instruction Booklet. I can not figure out how to set the clock and get the right time on the station
An Efficient Operation 12/14/2012Stanley J. Solomon from Lincoln, MA
It was easy to unpack. I put batteries in it (orientation is clearly marked). I set it aside for a day and it set itself up. I can't imagine how things could be better.
wireless weather station 12/13/2012Fred from La Honda, CA
Works beautifully. The instructions are too vague. It's hard to figure out some of the more complicated setting modes, but it just takes a little time.
Dr. Tech Weather Station 12/13/2012
Product seems to work fine but the enclosed manual is horrendous. I almost sent this back but after about 12 hours the temperature started to work. The manual doesn't mention that it will take awhile to update. Overall a good weather station for the money.
Functions that you need 12/13/2012
This item covers the most frequent functions that you need and will be a great gift idea for friends and relatives.
weather station 12/13/2012
A nice product for the price. It provides the information requested. Case is a bit cheap in its plastic and graphics, but acceptable for price.
does what it says it will do 12/12/2012Lee from Boulder City, Nv.
Set it up and it works now. Real test will be in the 110 degree summer most things die then.
Weather station 12/12/2012
Hard to read numbers a little on the dark side other than that this product is a very good value and preforms very well.
Works well 12/10/2012
Does a great job showing inside and outside conditions. Only complaint is the documentation which is not well-written - sparse and in broken English. The month-day is displayed Euro-style with day first (e.g. Dec 8 is displayed '8/12'), with evidently no way to adjust.
quality case 12/6/2012
This case seems very durable, with a protective and padded interior. Zipper pocket on the front is a nice bonus!
Good product 12/6/2012Razorbacker from Montgomery AL
Good product. Compact weather station. Had bought another one my wife considered "cheap" looking. This one is quality.
Great Product 12/6/2012
Work as expected
Good value but difficult to set up 12/5/2012
The instructions are in fine print. So get out your magnification glass. The instructions are not clearly written making it hard to program. Unit is not lite only a manual back light.
Great Weather Station 10/23/2012Keith from Lancaster, PA
If you enjoy monitoring the weather you will find this enjoyable and easy to set up. Have fun.
Dr. Tech weather station works great 10/16/2012Chip from Northville, MI
Crisp clear display. Graph of barometric pressure history. Remote temp & humidity. Remote calibration is right on for temp, but 3% - 4% variaton on humidity. Quite remarkable for the price.


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By The Associated Press
KOSCIUSKO — The Attala County School will install video intercom systems and card reader access for teachers at Ethel High School and the Kosciusko-Attala Career Technical Center.
Schools Superintendent Bryan Weaver tells the Star Herald that the security systems will cost $6,634.
At Ethel, Weaver said each staff member would have a card that they could open the front door on their own. He said the back entrance between the office and the library would be staff entrance and in cases of rainy weather, the student entrance.
Weaver said teachers would have to use an ID/card reader system to get in. Students would enter in the additional back entrance that leads directly to classrooms.
"Basically, it (Ethel) is one of the worst schools as for as security goes," Weaver said. "The entrance at the very front as soon as you come up the steps, you can go right through the door and if you go to the right, they can go into the hall where the students are without any disruption to the office at all."
At the career technical center, Weaver said an intercom system will be put at one end and an ID/card reader at the other for staff. He said cards would not be for student use.
Weaver said the school system was looking at security needs at the buildings.


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I have backed way off on posting as much of my own personal retriever situations as I used to. I have a couple key reasons for doing that. I won't detail them.
I have felt badly at times for backing off on that as part of what I felt kept me true to RTF, and true to the resource is being fairly open about who I am and what's going on in my own part of the retriever world.
I will share with you all that today I am officially bummed out! An RTF buddy has referred me to a Stuttgart, AR area hunting lodge for a personal and business hunting outing. For me, part of the fun would be taking my now 6 year old black lab "Bus".
As I was packing up for a Sunday prep, so that I can get on the road early tomorrow to pick a friend up in Memphis on Monday, I realized that my Bus was keeping an eye closed and blinking - a LOT. He had similar symptoms at the beginning of our local duck season in the opposite eye. At that time, the cool orange dye that turns green when it hits a dog's eye proved a scratched cornea.
We got that all healed up but again, today the opposite eye looked strangely similar. I chose to go ahead and call a local vet who offers Sunday on call service. Sure enough, the OTHER eye has a scratched cornea. Vet's advice: No entry of water for 7 days minimum - checkup and re-dye of the eye require first. (no duck hunting)
Since Bus only came equipped with 2 of these things they call "eyes", I will heed the good Doctor's suggestion.
Good news: I have a GMC 1/2 ton pickup that's the cleanest it's been in 2 years (got it all cleaned up prior to the news so I can pick up my buddy in Memphis). Now I get to leave that gas guzzler home and take a much more fuel efficient vehicle down. OK - it is really not good news at all. I'm just trying to make myself feel better.
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I just got off the phone a bit ago with my friend Dr. Jim Smith who incurred a true tragedy with a home fire that many of you read about. Jim lost his dogs in that fire. It was a true and terrible tragedy. I have tried to leverage my own personal relationships with some folks to try and help Jim connect with some All Age contender type litters.
My heart aches for Jim and his family. The biggest benefit in this whole thing is that it was "just" the dogs and not his kids or his wife.
I hope that we see Dr. Jim Smith on the retriever trail with a smile on his face, a healthy and happy family, and some young dogs that are wagging and smacking the marks and blinds....
Enjoy all. No matter how tough it feels, perspective helps reveal that it really isn't probably all that bad.
To Dr. Jim Smith. I'm so sorry. I am very confident that in the future you will be back at the line with some dogs that make folks nervous at the Opens and the Ams.


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Tough times … Easy choices
It's been a rough few weeks with news from my doctors about a new (rectal cancer) tumor that they are unable to remove. No-one can say with certainty how long I've got to live – cancer progression is a very individual thing – but my surgeon has indicated it could be as little as 3 months. Furthermore, there's nothing Western medicine can do to prolong my life, though it can – and has – got my terrible pain of the last few months under control.
News like that is really hard to process. I wanted a second opinion and ended up receiving 5 or 6 of them from numerous specialists. The consensus was unanimous …
"Go out and enjoy every minute of the time you have left".
Paradoxically, the worse the news, the easier it turns out to decide what to do. While I'm truly blessed with the best job in the world, it's time to spent less time in front of a computer and more time with my family and friends, particularly my 3 kids. From Monday, I'll be working part-time (for the first time since 1988).
Time also for a really good holiday. There are places I'd like to see and, quite frankly, it's now or never! Given the nature of travel insurance, I'm now unlikely to see many of those places overseas but that still leaves a huge list of amazing places in Australia to visit.
Some people would say I'm lucky to know in advance that my time is nearly up and that many others never get that forward notice. I'm in two minds about that. The down side is that thinking about one's death becomes terribly paralyzing at times. I frequently get angry about dying so young. There is still so much I want to do and so much I want to see. I strongly believe that we're all responsible for making the world a better place. I'm proud of what I've achieved but, given another 43 years, it could be so much more.
Here's hoping that I can prove the doctors wrong and live for many more years instead of just a few months. Miracles do happen. I plan to stay out of pain, focus on really good nutrition, rest a lot, enjoy every moment and hope the cancer spreads slowly (or disappears altogether!). In the meantime, here's hoping someone has a mega-brainwave and cures cancer. How hard can it be?
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MAJOR LEAGUE SERVICE TIME: 26 Years
CAREER: Became a member of the Major League staff in 1990...has worked the All-Star Game (1995, 2007, 10); the 2012 N.L. Wild Card Game; Division Series (1998-2002, 06, 10, 13-15); League Championship Series (1997, 2004, 08, 11-12); and the World Series (2002, 06, 10, 15)...was umpiring when Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr. recorded their 3,000th hits was on the crew for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 62nd home run in 1998... attended Bill Kinnamon's Umpire School in 1982...previously umpired in the Northwest League (1982), California League (1983), Texas League (1984-85) and Pacific Coast League (1986-89).
PERSONAL: Born in November 1958 in California...resides in California...has two children Mike and wife Alison completed the 2007 New York City Marathon...received an Associate's Degree from San Diego Mesa College...attended San Diego State University...earliest memory of baseball was watching the 1968 World Series became interested in umpiring at the age of 14 while working at the Clairemont Hilltoppers Little League enjoys golf, skiing and spending time with his kids during the offseason.« Back to umpire roster


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Will he run for governor? Speculation swirls around AbbottJanuary 27, 2013 Updated: January 28, 2013 8:08am
AUSTIN - Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn't want to talk about whether he is running for governor, but he is in overdrive on all the issues that make him a leading contender for the Republican nod, even if Gov. Rick Perry runs for re-election.
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Spent most of the day trying to get the Debian boot-floppies code working on parisc. Unfortunately, there is a problem in popen/pclose which makes the bootstrap program think programs like mount and palo (the bootloader) failed.
The rest of the day was 'happily' spent trying to get the perl-5.6.0 debian building. Other than failing half the tests and having libperl.so.5.6.0 segfault on load, everything is fine :-)


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Genre: Fighting
Platform: PS2
Publisher: SNK NEOGEO USA CONSUMER CORP
Developer: SNK PLAYMORE
Street Date: 9/14/04
Game Summary:
Here it is, the first ever 3D version of the most popular fighting
franchise in history, The King of Fighters Maximum Impact. Gamers from
around the world will be able to finally play as their favorite SNK
character in full 3D with beautifully rendered backgrounds and full
flowing animation.
Game Storyline:
The annual King of Fighters tournament is set to begin in one week.
As the gala festivities begin, turf wars are breaking out among the
underworld street gangs. The conflict is so severe that it threatens
to drag the participants of the KOF tournament into the fray. The honor
and tradition of the tournament is at stake. The gangs must be stopped
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If there are any Gnomies in the Boston area this 4th of July and you don't have something to do tonight or just want to stop bye and say "hi", Ruth and I are having some people over. Relevant info here:
If there are any Gnomies in the Boston area this 4th of July and you don't have something to do tonight or just want to stop bye and say "hi", Ruth and I are having some people over. Relevant info here:
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
This weekend, I've been busy hacking on gtk-wimp, GTK+'s native Microsoft Windows theme engine. A lot of things are coming together nicely. What's especially nice is that someone has been submitting nit-picky bugs - things that make a theme author really pay attention to detail. Bug reports are always good. Or as Jody prefers to say, "Anal is good."
/me ducks
Things that work (or work better now):
There's lots of room for improvement, of course, but things are looking a lot better these days. A screenshot for interested parties. Please file bug reports at sf.net.
I have some requests for GTK+/GNOME application writers, from a themer's perspective:
These all make a big difference in how "native" your app looks and feels, especially on Win32 as gtk-wimp tweaks a lot of these settings. I'll be pushing these changes upstream to GTK+'s CVS later today or tomorrow.
I'd also like to congratulate Damien and Jonita! I wish you two a happy marriage :)
W00t! I'm officially a terrorist and member of Al-Queda now! No, really, Jeff Merkey says so. If you're reading this, you probably are too!
This is easily the dumbest lawsuit that I've ever read. The suit contains gross errors of fact, misrepresentation and misattribution, and ludicrous claims that FOSS advocates are terrorists. The document is inconsistently numbered, contains numerous misspellings, punctuation errors, and uses of improper words ("or" instead of "are", for example). They couldn't even find Slashdot/OTSG's address, which is as hard as clicking on the "contact us" link on their website. Lawers and their assistants get paid a lot of money so that these sorts of errors don't happen. On the whole, the suit looks amateurish and an attempt at "grasping at straws".
My sympathies and best wishes go out to Pamela Jones, Bruce Perens, Slashdot, 200 John Does, and all of the other "far right-wing terrorists" mentioned in this suit.
I feel sorry for Merkey too, as he's been slandered and "threatened" (I doubt the sincerity and liklihood of the alleged threats) countless times by Anonymous Cowards on /. and Groklaw, and claims to have had his identity stolen. I can't help but feel that he has brought at least some of this wrath upon himself through his own irresponsible words and actions. But the immature and inappropriate reaction of some members of the community (the 200 "John Does" mentioned in the lawsuit, but especially not /., Groklaw, and Perens themselves) is both reprehensible and inexcusable. But by suing public message forums and those who would point out flaws in his reasoning and facts, Merkey has stepped to a new low in this saga. Which is an impressive feat for Merkey, all things considered.
Hi rillian,
I'm also a big fan of Free interchange mechanisms, be they file formats, protocols, languages, etc. I don't think that PDF is evil. I just think that it's less warm-and-fuzzy than a lot of people would like to believe, and that it's not substantially warmer or fuzzier than the Microsoft formats, legally speaking.
You're correct that they don't have an open development process. As far as I know, there isn't even a driving/coordinating committee like we see with the W3C and OASIS groups. PDF documentation is good and freely available. But so is documentation on the Word 2, 5, 7, and 97 formats. Both specs have their share of flaws and inaccuracies. Both specs can be gotten readily enough online.
It's truly refreshing that Adobe has a blanket patent grant for conformant apps. This is nice, but it's not Free or Open, since I'm not free to make a derivitive work that is non-conformant and still use those patents and other copyrighted bits. Further, Adobe explictly forbids use of patent 5,860,074 in a viewer (Method and apparatus for displaying an electronic document with text over object) which seems quite core to writing a compliant PDF viewer. From my cursory reading of the abstract, they're forbidding viewers from rendering Linearized/"Web Optimized" PDFs, at least intelligently. Ouch.
The PDF spec does include other sub-components that are or were patented by !Adobe (such as LZW, JPEG, JBIG2, JPEG 2000, etc.). Rillian is right - getting sued over these things is probably a low-risk endeavour. But the risks and patents remain, thus being a stumbling block toward "Freeness". I also contend that a conformant viewer would have to support those patented bits in order to recieve Adobe's blanket patent-grant. And the PDF spec is a daunting beast. Producing a conformant viewer is nigh-impossible. I've tried more than once.
It's nice that PDF is easier to parse than PS, but that's not quite germane to our argument. Considering that PS is a Turing-complete programming language, it's not exactly hard imagining an easier-to-interpret format. And it's worth noting that the majority of PDFs I encounter are corrupt in one way or another.
So, even if things are "nice" and "low-risk", it doesn't make them Free or even Open. Any way one looks at it, PDF the spec and PDF the format is a patent-encumbered, copyrighted entity that you're not allowed to distribute or make derivitive works thereof. Adobe has both said and shown that it's willing to enforce those protections when it suits them to do so.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't use (a subset of) PDF and make it our own. I'm pragmatic. To me, it looks like the best option out there today. I'm just saying that people like RMS shouldn't be hypocritical when they advocate PDF over another format. On "Freeness" and "Openness" issues alone, we might be better off taking a subset of the equally well-documented, widely-available, patent-unencumbered DOC format and make it our own. But I honestly don't want to see that happen.
I'm all in favor of the ability to be selectively anonymous, both online and in real life. But I do take a bit of offense when people write out otherwise well-intentioned, thoughtful emails that deserve equally thoughtful responses, but I can't really reply due to their anonymity. There's no need to hide behind the curtain - I'm not about to judge you or think less of you because you were committed enough to take a public stand. If anything, I'd admire you moreso.
In this case, someone used Cypherpunks (Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer <firstname.lastname@example.com>) to respond to my last blog entry. Personally, I'd prefer that discussions that start out public stay public. So I'm going to make portions of this mystery man's statements public in order to respond to them. I hope that my doing so doesn't upset this anonymous OSS denizen.
Like many OSS people, this well-intentioned poster confuses "Open" with "Free". The poster also confuses "open" with "available for download". Since RMS and the FSF concern themselves with Free (and publicly and adamantly disavow/distance themselves of "Open"), my previous and current arguments focus on asking how the Free software founder and Foundation can advocate using a non-Free format over another (perhaps equally) non-Free format.
I also want to say that I have some intimate knowledge of both the PDF and DOC standards and their licenses, having worked at Appligent on wvWare, AbiWord, GnomePrint, etc., and having had some IP law training. With that said (and having just given myself enough rope to hang myself with), let's get to the email.
[ANON] Yes, Adobe owns PDF but 1) the specs are open - and remain open.
The specs are available and remain available, and I never claimed otherwise. I remarked that the spec is not Free. I'll also show that the specs are not Open. And, given the copyright and restrictions Adobe has placed on the format itself (as we'll see in later paragraphs), it is doubtful that a PDF reader or writer could truly be Free or Open as well.
[ANON] 2) Adobe freely licenses the format, in a manner that is consistent with all open source licenses.
I don't think that the format's or spec's license is consistent with any OSS licenses (re-distribution of the spec is forbidden), let alone all of them. That is an awfully big brush to paint with. What's certain is that Adobe publishes the format, but the terms under which it does so (and the conditions under which one might make software to implement said format) is not consistent with the GNU licenses, which is the inconsistency I allege. In my previous blog, I made no reference to the spec being Open, merely it not being Free. But it is neither. I quote from the PDF 1.5 reference:
NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated. No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or electronic form) may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Please note that the content in this guide is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement.
This limited right to use the copyrighted list of data structures and operators does not include the right to copy this book, other copyrighted material from Adobe, or the software in any of Adobe's products that use the Portable Document Format, in whole or in part, nor does it include the right to use any Adobe patents, except as may be permitted by an official Adobe Patent Clarification Notice (see the Bibliography).
That's in reference to the documentation itself, which is neither GFDL, CC, Open, or public domain. It's not even close. The SPEC itself is not Free - it is the wholly owned, proprietary property of Adobe. The spec is not Open, as the terms and conditions of its license/copyright still enjoin you from creating derivitive works of that spec or even re-distributing the spec, unaltered. Later on page 7 of the 1.5 reference:
The general idea of using an interchange format for electronic documents is in the public domain. Anyone is free to devise a set of unique data structures and operators that define an interchange format for electronic documents. However, Adobe Systems Incorporated owns the copyright for the particular data structures and operators and the written specification constituting the interchange format called the Portable Document Format. Thus, these elements of the Portable Document Format may not be copied without Adobe's permission. Adobe will enforce its copyright.
Authors of software that accepts input in the form of the Portable Document Format must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the software they create respects the access permissions and permissions controls
Anyone who uses the copyrighted list of data structures and operators, as stated above, must include an appropriate copyright notice.
After that, Adobe gives some set of exceptions, meaning that one could create an implementation that reads or writes the format, within some (large-ish) set of constraints.
But notice how you must also enforce Adobe's (lousy, hole-filled) DRM standard if you wish to do so, as well as include a BSD-ish advertizing clause when you do so. Note that your right to make software around this "open" spec is a "limited right" that Adobe may rescind if they so choose. Note that the format may include patented bits which Adobe explicitly says you can't use.
Adobe owns and will police this particular, unique implementation of an interchange format. These elements of the Portable Document Format may not be copied without Adobe's permission. Adobe will enforce its copyright.
[ANON] Compare to traditional DOC: 1) no specs (pulled, as you state), and 2) no license.
These specs exist, and were published by Microsoft. The binary MSFT Office formats have not changed substantially since 1997, when the last specs were published. As far as I know, the specs are under the same license as all content on MSDN. There are Free and Open implementations of the spec (wvware, antiword, catdoc, wv2, OpenOffice.org, etc.).
[ANON] Compare to the new Word XML: 1) specs are provided, but 2) the license invokes patents and many believe that clauses in the license are designed to be incompatible with some open source licenses including GPL.
Adobe's license also invokes patents and clauses which are incompatible with the GPL. The license and spec have many clauses that are designed to prevent Openness and Freeness. When you take into account the evidence I've provided, one can only conclude that PDF is not substantially more Free than DOC, despite any warm feelings one might have toward Adobe or hostile ones toward Microsoft. I'd argue that PDF isn't particularly even more Open than DOC. That's not my concern, but I think that I've proven that anyway. My concern is merely to show the inconsistency of the RMS anti-DOC stance, when one takes into account his proposed PDF alternative.
Also, please note that Adobe has invoked the DMCA to stop people from reading their own, purchased eBooks, which are essentially encrypted PDFs. This company is not a big, cute, cuddly teddy bear, and if I were RMS or the FSF, I wouldn't want to advocate in favor of using one of their standards simply because of this point.
So in conclusion, PDF is non-Free. DOC is non-Free. RMS says he "can't" read DOC, but "can" read PDF. I contend that this is inconsistent behavior. Either RMS should stick to his guns and discourage use of PDF as well (or better still, convince Adobe to free the PDF spec), or he should bite the bullet and use wvware, antiword, catdoc, or some other GPL'd program/library to read MSFT Office documents. Anything short of that is tantamount to hypocricy.
I'm not arguing in favor of boycotting Adobe, using Microsoft products, vice-versa, or anything in-between. Mine is to only point out the inconsistency in RMS' "use PDF and not DOC because DOC is eeeviiil" paper. If you're going to argue for Freedom, stick to your guns. If you're going to argue for Openness, stick with that. I don't think that Adobe's spec or format meets either criteria. But having written things that read and write both PDF and MSFT Office formats, you can guess how much I do or don't care about the formats and their specs so much as the ability to inter-operate with the things that generate and consume these formats. Reform comes in excruciatingly small increments.
Anyway, thanks for the thoughtful email, and I'm quite happy that you enjoy using AbiWord! If you're a FOSS hacker or otherwise a cool cat, thanks for keeping-on keeping-on.
I am now kitten enabled!. The next thing to do is to Gimp-up my photos and submit the cutest one to KITTENWAR. May the cutest kitten win!
From irc.gnome.org#librsvg:
<scarlet> so basically he's an arsehole yeah?
<scarlet> I'm going to be subtly rude to him to see what happens
<rahga> Hrm, reminds me of a joke.... If scarlet decided to be subtly rude, how would you know? ;)
<scarlet> Probably you'd work it out when you walk in on me sodomising your mother or filling your house with asbestos particles, but if you didn't notice that, I'm not sure how you'd know.
<dom> scarlet: i'm hungry. do you have any lead paint chips lying around?
<scarlet> you mean wall candy?
(kudos to Penny Arcade)
I have no fewer than 30 mosquito bites on my back. It's times like these that I wish that I were one of those disembodied heads in Futurama.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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By Floyd Ingram/Chickasaw Journal
HOUSTON – A Chickasaw County man has pled guilty to a reduced charge of animal cruelty, faces fines and restitution totaling more than $2,511 and will never be allowed to own animals again.
Bobby Huffman, 55, of 187 County Road 28, was arrested and charged with animal cruelty Jan. 31, after three horses and three dog were seized from his property and placed in the care of a local animal rescue agency. It was the second time Huffman had been charged with animal cruelty.
Justice Court Judge Garry Turner was poised to send the animal cruelty charge to a Chickasaw County grand jury where it would have been presented as a felony.
Huffman will pay restitution of $2,011.50 for the agencies who have housed his animal until they could be given new homes. Huffman was also fined $500. Judge Turner also placed Huffman on two years probation and ordered if he violates his probation he will be sentenced to 90-days in jail.
"We think this verdict is good for both parties," said Lynda Koch, president of the Golden Triangle Horse Rescue. "We didn't want to drag this out, but we do want this kind of thing to stop. I think this is very just."
The case was initially heard in February, but a technicality prompted the case to be delayed until this week
Huffman was also charged with animal cruelty in 2011 after several starved dogs were found chained on his property. Judge Turner found Huffman guilty of one count of animal cruelty on Oct. 20, 2011. Turner fined Huffman $325 and ordered him to pay $456.20 in restitution to the Amory Humane Department for the care of dogs taken from his property.
"We are seeing more and more of these charges going to court and I am seeing from four to five of these kind of cases a year," Turner said in February. "I think the public is being made more aware of this and reporting animal cruelty."
In the most recent case Koch said the dogs and horses were taken to local veterinarians and were housed and fed by GTHR. Turner granted GTHR custody of the animals in February. Koch said Thursday the animals will now be placed with experienced horse owners.
Koch said anyone who becomes aware of possible animal abuse should contact city police or the sheriff.
"We realize the economy has made horses cheap and people sometimes don't realize the expense of upkeep," said Koch. "But if you can't take care of an animal and neglect it, you can be charged with animal cruelty."


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 214, February 23, 2001
UAF Colloquium Series: Jack Dongarra, March 5
The UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences and ARSC are jointly sponsoring a Mathematical Modeling, Computational Science, and Supercomputing Colloquium Series. The schedule and abstracts for the '00-'01 academic year are available at:
Next presentation:
Enhancing Performance, Measurement Tools, and the Computational Grid Dr. Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Date: Monday, March 5, 2001 Time: 1:00-2:00 PM Location: Butrovich 109
In this talk we will look at some methods for generating automatically fast robust numerical kernels for numerical operations and methods for measuring the performance of today's processors.
In addition we will look at a system, called NetSolve that allows users to access computational resources, such as hardware and software, distributed across the network. This project has been motivated by the need for an easy-to-use, efficient mechanism for using computational resources remotely. Ease of use is obtained as a result of different interfaces, some of which do not require any programming effort from the user. Good performance is ensured by a load-balancing policy that enables NetSolve to use the computational resources available as efficiently as possible. NetSolve offers the ability to look for computational resources on a network, choose the best one available, solve a problem (with retry for fault-tolerance), and return the answer to the user.
Jack Dongarra earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972. A year later he finished a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. By this time, he was already involved in the EISPACK project producing high quality, portable, Fortran implementations of state-of-the-art algorithms for numerical linear algebra. He formally received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and is an Adjunct R&D Participant in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at Rice University.
I/O Algorithms on Cray T3E
This article discusses experiences in I/O on the Cray T3E. The experiments were conducted in the context of the ZPL runtime libraries. Specifically, the routines being optimized implement the file I/O that ZPL uses to read sparse array patterns and data from disk.
These routines are implemented in C, perform file I/O using C's fseek() and ftell() routines, and pass data between processors (i.e., the tokens used for coordination) using the SHMEM library's shmem_put() call.
[ Editor's Note: ZPL is a parallel programming language developed at the University of Washington. Compilers are available at ARSC and other HPC Centers. For more, see ARSC Newsletters 122 , 186 , 188 , 189 , and 203 , or visit:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/index.html ]
Input Files:
I'm trying to read a sparse array from disk. Assume that sparse arrays are a set of indices (row, column) and a set of values. For simplicity, indices and values are stored in two different files, and each is stored in row-major order.
Because we want the same input files to apply to an arbitrary number of processors in an arbitrary topology, we don't split the file into per-processor chunks, but rather leave it as one complete whole.
By default, I chose to represent the indices in plain text so that they would be human-readable, and because there would be no loss of precision. In addition, the text file is smaller than its binary equivalent due to the fact that integers (for the problem sizes we're looking at, less than 150,000 x 150,000) can be stored more compactly as text than in their binary representation (for example, 150,000 takes 7 bytes in text--6 digits plus a separator--but 8 bytes in binary).
I chose to represent the values in a binary format to avoid precision loss (or the extremely long text formatting that would be required to get all the significant digits).
Input Algorithm:
My algorithm for reading the files was essentially the following: At the start of runtime, each processor will grab a block of the problem space (the 150,000 x 150,000 possible indices) based on the number of processors and the logical processor grid. For example, running on 4 processors, I could organize them as a 1x4 grid, a 2x2 grid, or a 4x1 grid, which would result in blocks of 150,000 x 37,500, 75,000 x 75,000, or 37,500 x 150,000, respectively.
Version 1:My original approach (for simplicity) was to have each processor read the entire file of indices, storing the ones that fell within its block, and dropping the ones that didn't. It turned out that this approach failed miserably once 16-32 processors were involved. The I/O time would get approximately 2.5 times worse every time the number of processors doubled resulting in outrageous amounts of time being spent in initialization. Presumably, this was due to contention on the disk I/O channels.
Version 2:
Next, I had the processors read the index file in a coordinated manner. For example, processor 0 would start reading indices until it got to one that fell outside of its block. At that point, it would pass a token to the next processor indicating where in the file it had left off (using C's ftell routine). That processor would set the file to the position indicated, and read until it found an index that fell outside of its block, and so on.
One weird thing about this approach was that once an index fell outside of a processor's block, that processor needed to tell the next processor the file position just prior to reading that index. However, C text files make it hard to back up in a file once something's read. Therefore, each processor would check the current file position before reading *every* index, passing that position along only if the index was outside of its range. I knew that this would result in a lot of wasted checking of file positions.
The result was an algorithm which was slower than version 1 for small numbers of nodes, but scaled much better, ultimately beating version 1 for large numbers of processors. In particular, the time to read the file pretty much leveled off for larger numbers of processors.
Version 3:This version removed the overhead of using ftell to check the position at every step. The way I chose to do this was to pass not only the file position, but also the last index read with the flow of control from one processor to the next. Thus, the file position only had to be checked after an index fell outside of a processor's block of indices, and the misplaced index would be passed explicitly to the next processor rather than re-read by it. This resulted in a savings of about half over version 2.
Version 4:My next step was to modify version 3 by using a binary file format for the indices rather than a text file format. The tradeoff was that more disk space would be required (and read by the program), but that the reading process would be faster--no parsing of a text file by fscanf(), but a quick series of binary reads by fread). This resulted in another savings of about half over version 3.
At this point, I have an algorithm that scales well and is 4 times faster than the first naive algorithm that scales (version 2). Here are some timing summaries for a particular problem size. Note that this isn't a formal experiment (there are some small inconsistencies between the way each run was performed), but the overall picture is correct:
32 T3E-900 processors, 13,708,072 indices/values version 1: 282.847 seconds (but 128 procs = 1007.47 seconds) version 2: 849.207 seconds version 3: 429.932 seconds version 4: 263.804 seconds
Being lazy about I/O does not pay off as problems and processor sets grow. Coordinating file I/O, though painful, is worthwhile, and binary files, though potentially larger than their text equivalents, will pay off greatly in terms of speed.
In more general terms, the complexity of parallel programming is often such that it's tempting to do the easy or naive thing, cross your fingers, and hope that it works out.
In reality, as you scale up your problem size or number of processors, it can start to matter to the point that you're wasting a lot of expensive supercomputing time, not only for yourself but that others might be able to use productively. (Our hope, of course, is that by solving hard problems well in the compiler, we'll save others both processing and programming time.)
This was a more important lesson than merely, "fseeks are expensive."
ARSC Training, Next Two Weeks
For details on ARSC's spring 2001 offering of short courses, visit:
Here are the courses available in the next two weeks:
User's Introduction to ARSC Supercomputers
Wednesday, Feb 28, 2001, 2-4pm
SGI Origin 2k/3k Series Applications Programming and Optimization
Mon-Wed, March 5-7, 9am-5pm
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ Give an example of parallelism in the real world, and discuss [[ briefly with respect to concurrency, scalability, locality. ## ## This "question" drew no responses... ## ## (By the way, we're like the "Car Guys"... we _really_ dig it when ## people send in puzzlers.) ## Q: Here's one for the Fortran 90 programmers out there. This situation appeared when porting a good-sized code from the Cray SV1 to an Origin 3000. It's been mightily condensed, but the program below duplicates the problem and compiler error message. What's wrong on the Origin (or with the code) and how would you fix it? ================== selected_kinds.f ==================================================== ================== MODULE SELECTED_KINDS IMPLICIT NONE ! The kind of this data type must represent integer values N, ! where -10**16 < N < 10**16 INTEGER, PARAMETER :: & TYPE_INT = SELECTED_INT_KIND (16) END MODULE SELECTED_KINDS ============== interfaces.h ======================================================== ============== INTERFACE INCR FUNCTION INCR (BASE, I) USE SELECTED_KINDS INTEGER(TYPE_INT), INTENT(INOUT) :: BASE INTEGER(TYPE_INT), INTENT(IN) :: I INTEGER(TYPE_INT) :: INCR END FUNCTION INCR END INTERFACE INCR ======== incr.f ============================================================== ======== FUNCTION INCR (BASE, I) USE SELECTED_KINDS INTEGER(TYPE_INT), INTENT(INOUT) :: BASE INTEGER(TYPE_INT), INTENT(IN) :: I INTEGER(TYPE_INT) :: INCR BASE = BASE + I INCR = BASE END FUNCTION INCR ===== t.f ================================================================= ===== PROGRAM TEST USE SELECTED_KINDS IMPLICIT NONE INCLUDE 'interfaces.h' INTEGER(TYPE_INT), SAVE :: J = 0 PRINT*, "TYPE_INT==", TYPE_INT PRINT*, "Incremented J : ", INCR (J, 1) END PROGRAM TEST ========== makefile ============================================================ ========== all: f90 -c selected_kinds.f f90 -c incr.f f90 -o t t.f incr.o selected_kinds.o -------------------------- Make and run on Cray SV1 -------------------------------------------- -------------------------- chilkoot$ make f90 -c selected_kinds.f f90 -c incr.f f90 -o t t.f incr.o selected_kinds.o chilkoot$ ./t TYPE_INT== 8 Incremented J : 1 chilkoot$ ------------------------------------------- Failed make and explain on SGI Origin 3000 ---------------------------- ------------------------------------------- sard$ make f90 -c selected_kinds.f f90 -c incr.f f90 -o t t.f incr.o selected_kinds.o print*, "Incremented j : ", incr (j, 1) ^ f90-389 f90: ERROR TEST, File = t.f, Line = 9, Column = 35 No specific match can be found for the generic subprogram call "INCR". f90: MIPSpro Fortran 90 Version 7.3 (f61) Thu Feb 22, 2001 11:35:42 f90: 21 source lines f90: 1 Error(s), 0 Warning(s), 0 Other message(s), 0 ANSI(s) cf90: "explain cf90-message number" gives more information about each message *** Error code 2 (bu21) sard$ explain cf90-389 Error : No specific match can be found for the generic subprogram call "%s". A function or subroutine call which invokes the name of a generic interface does not match any specific subprogram interfaces in the generic interface block. All dummy arguments that do not have the OPTIONAL attribute must match exactly all corresponding actual arguments in type, kind type, and rank.
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Binghamton University Art Museum features three exhibits
Three art exhibits featuring selections of prints, photographs and paintings are currently showing in the Binghamton University Art Museum.
The 2003 Studio Art Faculty Exhibit through September 27 allows students, campus and local community members to view selected recent artworks by the University's Studio Art Faculty.
George III vs. Napoleon is an exhibition of prints from the collection of Professor Grant Webster. The Napoleonic period, which coincided with the age of English political caricature, is the subject of the exhibit. The caricature developed slowly in eighteenth century England, in conjunction with the rise of newspapers and magazines. Works by James Sayers, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Cruikshank, will be included in the exhibit, which ends November 1.
Photography from the Great Depression is a selection of work from the Art Museum's Permanent Collection by photographers who were hired to promote the New Deal policies and spread awareness of the then poverty stricken country. The photos were taken for Works Project Administration and Farm Security Administration projects. Several prominent female photographers from the period are represented including Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott and Marjory Collins. The exhibit is being curated by museum intern Sandra DiNicola and ends November 8.
The Binghamton University Art Museum is open year round, Tuesday to Sunday from 1-4 p.m., Thursday until 7 p.m. It is closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is free.
For more information, contact the Art Museum at 607-777-2634 or visit http://artmuseum.binghamton.edu/


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