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'I regretfully voted against the American Taxpayer Relief Act today because it unfortunately does what Congress does best kicks the can down the road. While I support low tax rates for Americans and have previously voted to ensure taxes do not go up on hardworking Americans, I could not vote for this bill because it does nothing to reform our long-term spending problems, which are the real drivers of our debt and deficits. In addition, this bill postpones sequestration, the disastrous defense cuts, for only two months. This creates even more uncertainty for our defense industry, which is so vital to the security of this nation. This bill is the epitome of what is wrong with Washington waiting until the very last minute to pass a package negotiated by only a few. On this New Year's Day, I am deeply disappointed that we are not moving forward with what is best for this Nation a sustainable, long-term path that will place us on strong financial footing for our children and grandchildren.'
'The Simpson-Bowles Commission set a $4 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction goal, which would be enough to get our fiscal house in order. Considering that deficit reduction goal, I voted against this bill because it cut taxes and will add a staggering $3.9 trillion to our deficit with no indication of how it will be paid for.
'Unfortunately, there are now very few options available to Congress to offset the cost of this tax deal. There simply isn't enough money in defense and non-defense discretionary spending to offset the cost. If spending cuts in defense and non-defense discretionary spending alone was the answer then we wouldn't be delaying sequestration for two months as this bill does. By virtue of the size of this tax cut, it is an arithmetic certainty that Congress will have to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, other vital programs of the social safety net, as well as investments in our future economic competitiveness, such as education and transportation.
'Responsibly reducing our budget deficit requires making tough, unpopular choices. We didn't do that today since this bill does nothing to reduce our deficit. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will add $3.9 trillion to our deficit. It does, however, make the task of responsibly reducing our deficit all the more difficult and makes it much more likely that seniors, the disabled, students, and our most vulnerable communities will bear the greatest burden when Congress eventually pays for what we did today.'
'I have consistently called for a comprehensive solution to our nation's fiscal crisis, one that reduces spending - the principal driver of our deficit - and generates more revenue through tax reform and economic growth. While the bill that came to the floor does generate additional revenue, it fails to reduce spending. In fact it increases spending.
'The President called for a balanced approach to our fiscal crisis, which, in principle, I fully support. But the bill we received from the Senate was not balanced. Instead, it reflects the seductive philosophy that pervades this town: 'The fight is always around the corner.' This has to end.
'The time to lead and make tough decisions to restore our nation's financial health is now. There is a better way. We're Americans. Let's find it.'


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Lymph nodes in children
About half of all children will develop enlarged lymph nodes (cervical lymphadenitis) in the neck for example, and the vast majority of these are in response to a minor infection in the area (sore throat, sinus infection, ear infection, etc.). Often the infection is quite subtle and might not be identified. These nodes typically go through a pattern of growing and then receding in size once the infection resolves. This process can take several weeks to months. The nodes may become tender, warm, and there may be some redness of the overlying skin. Your child might complain of pain in the area, be fussier, have fever, and/or have decreased appetite. If the node itself becomes infected, it can turn into an abscess and would require antibiotics and a drainage procedure. Any possibly infected lymph node should be evaluated by your doctor.
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Tips for keeping young athletes safe and healthy
The classic triad of rhabdomyolysis is dark urine, muscle weakness or fatigue, and muscle pain. Although exercise can be the primary factor, other key contributing elements such as dehydration, genetic conditions (e.g. sickle cell), metabolic disorders, nutritional supplements, drug use, and heat stress can exacerbate muscle damage. Without appropriate medical evaluation and care, rhabdomyolysis can cause permanent damage to the kidneys and may even be life-threatening in severe cases. Here are some tips to help your young athlete remain active and healthy:
- Maintain adequate hydration – preferably with plain water. Sports and energy drinks may often contain caffeine and excessive amounts of sugar which can cause dehydration. On average, children that are 6-10 years old should have about 1L of fluid a day, children 10-14 years old should have 1.5L/day and teens over 14 years should have at least 2L of fluid a day. It is important to increase fluids with increased activity due to the additional fluid losses that occur.
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Jaundice in newborn babies
Jaundice in newborns is caused by an excess of red blood cells. Jaundice is seen as a yellow color to the skin, appearing first at the head (skin and sclera – or "whites of the eyes") then progressing to the feet. As it decreases, it lessens in reverse. Before birth, the placenta removes bilirubin from the baby's system; after birth, the baby's liver takes over. In breast-fed babies, an imbalance between mother's milk supply and baby's feeding can lead to a higher-than-expected bili level. In addition to ensuring the baby is feeding well and having enough wet/stool diapers, phototherapy or "bili lights" may be needed. Bili lights help speed up the process by breaking down the bilirubin in the skin.
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Infants with Milk Allergy
A 4 week-old infant and his mother came to my office last week. The mother had started seeing small flecks of blood and stringy mucous in the infant's diapers a week prior. The baby was fine in every other way, breast feeding normally, and looked quite healthy when I examined him.
I diagnosed the infant as having cow's milk protein-induced proctocolitis, the term referring to allergic inflammation of the lower gastrointestinal tract from exposure to cow's milk.
This is a diagnosis I make often. Here's what you should know about infants with milk allergies:
- It's more common than you think. 2-3% of infants in the U.S. are allergic to cow's milk protein. It is even more common in infants with eczema or who have parents or siblings with allergies.
- It's seen in breast fed babies. Over 50% of infants with this condition are breast milk-fed infants. But remember, the babies are allergic to the dairy in their moms' diets, not to their mothers' breast milk per se!
- Switching to soy or goat's milk doesn't work. Over two-thirds of infants with cow's milk protein allergy "cross-react" to soy protein (which means that they may not be truly allergic to soy protein, but their immune systems are just too "immature" to know the difference between the two). Similarly, if a mother switches from drinking cow's milk to goat's milk, it won't help, because the source is still a "different species"; the infant's immune system will still respond to the "foreign" protein.
- Treatment takes time. The inflammation resolves when all traces of cow's milk (and soy), are removed from the infant's diet. In the case of formula-fed infants, we switch to special hypoallergenic formulas. Typically after a successful switch, the bleeding stops within a week. However, with breast fed infants, the improvement can be a little slower. Since it can take up to 2 weeks for the dairy in a mother's diet to circulate into her breast milk, the full effects may not been seen for up to a couple weeks.
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What parents and teens should know about marijuana
In 2012, Washington passed legislation to legalize marijuana use for people 21 and over. While still illegal for those under 21, it is important to understand how this might affect adolescents and children.
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- In a 2009 national study, 32.8% of 12th graders had used marijuana in the last year, and 20.6% within the last month.
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- Marijuana is much more potent now than in the past. In 2012 the average concentration of THC in marijuana was 15% (compared to just 4% in the 1980s).
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How to give safe gifts to children during the holidays
As the holidays approach, parents often wonder what toys are safe for their little ones. When making your list and checking it twice, here are some tips to ensure that toys are appropriate for the age and developmental stage of your giftees.
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- When buying stuffed toys, look for embroidered or secured parts rather than pieces (such as eyes or noses) that could be removed and swallowed. Remove all loose strings and ribbons. Avoid animals with stuffing made of small pellets or material that could cause choking. Be aware that stuffed toys given away at carnivals, fairs, or in vending machines are not required to meet safety standards, so be especially careful with these!
- When buying hanging toys for cribs, ensure that the child cannot grab any portion, and that strings or wires are short. These types of toys should be removed when the infant can push up onto his or her hands and knees.
- Keep plush toys and loose, soft bedding out of the cribs of infants and young children as these can cause suffocation.
For all children:
- Look for labeling on the package that indicates what ages the toy is appropriate for. Remember that this doesn't have to do with how smart your child is, it is based on physical and developmental skills for his or her age group and should be followed.
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This year we had four Summer of Code projects. We are very grateful to Google for their support and are pleased that all four students successfully passed. As part of the GSoC, Google also provided Jikes RVM with 4 x $500 which we will use to support the regression testing kit at ANU. Below are short summaries of the outcomes of the four projects. The source code for all these project can be found at http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/jikesrvm/soc2011.
1) Tools for debugging the Jikes RVM runtime
My project sought to deliver tools for debugging the Jikes RVM runtime. We decided that implementing the JVM Tools Interface (JVMTI) would be a good way of doing this, allowing both application-level debugging (through a JDWP agent) and low-level access to VM internals. The end result of the project was a partially working implementaion of JVMTI, with most of the infrastructure in place to complete an implementation.
JVMTI allows us to write a native (C/C++) agent to interact with the VM at runtime, responding to events and modifying VM state. This allows us to do things at runtime such as redefine bytecode for classes, hook method entry and exit and field access/modification, track heap allocations, etc - essentially, instrument the VM in fairly arbitrary ways. It can also allow us to look at lower level VM areas, inspecting the stack and in some instances being able to access VM state.
The major stumbling blocks related to threading and monitors and the JVMTI implementations thereof. This, combined with the sheer size of the specification (even after reducing it to simpler test cases) mean only a partially operating implementation is available. I intend to revisit these later this month when coursework dies down again, with the goal of getting it to a state where it can be committed to the head. This does not necessarily mean it will be a fully functional and compliant implementation of the specification, but the goal is to have most of Harmony's implementation of a JDWP agent using JVMTI operational. This will allow some form of interactive debugging at the application level (using e.g. the Eclipse debugger), but the parts of JVMTI implemented to make this happen will also allow other, lower level tasks to be completed. For now, my work is on a branch in our soc2011 repository at http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011, together with a readme describing the future directions further.
The implementation itself, in the org.jikesrvm.runtime.jvmti package, consists of:
- Infrastructure to allow arbitrary native agents (as shared libraries, the same as JNI) to be loaded and managed (JVMTI, JVMTIAgent)
- Plumbing for the VM to send events to agents through a small JNI trampoline (JVMTIEventTrampoline)
- Three events are actually implemented - VMStart (during boot), VMInit (immediately before application main), ThreadStart. Others are mostly a copy/paste job, then inserting the call in the appropriate place
- Missing: proper handling of events a normal JVM would fire that we initialise instead in the boot image
- Roughly 65 of the 155 JVMTI functions implemented, including most relating to methods, classes, fields (JVMTIFunctions)
- Key parts missing: breakpoints, set/get local vars, early returns, stackframe-related stuff
- Ability for agents to spawn threads running arbitrary native code (not fully functional)
Also included, in the test-agents directory, are some simple JVMTI agents used to test various parts of the implementation for functionality.
I've greatly appreciated the opportunity to work on Jikes RVM, especially because I came to Summer of Code having already used it for my own research work. In particular, I'm grateful to Richard for managing our involvement in the program, and to Steve, Daniel and Dave for their advice and willingness to answer my silly questions.
James Bornholt
2) An Efficient Mark & Sweep Concurrent Snapshot-Based And On The Fly Sliding-Views based Garbage Collectors For Jikes RVM
The project's code is in branch RVM-923-Snapshot. The project is an implementation of a concurrent garbage collector, based on the Snapshot algorithm for garbage collection, and it is intended as a first step towards the on-the-fly Sliding-views based algorithm.
Both algorithms are described in the paper "An on-the-fly mark & sweep garbage collector based on sliding-views" by Aztachi, Levanoni, Paz & Petrank, OOPSLA 2003. The idea behind the implemented (snapshot) algorithm is to take a 'snapshot' of the heap, and trace objects within it. During the mark phase, if an attempt is made to modify an object before it has been traced, we first take a replica of its pointers and save them in an auxiliary buffer (this is done only once per object). The algorithm uses two mark bits for every object, enabling four possible colors. This is essential to support the color-toggle mechanism, that swaps the black and white colors before every collection cycle.
The new collector is implemented in the org.mmtk.concurrent.marksweep folder, but naturally many other classes were added and or edited in the MMtk outside this folder. Note that this folder also exists in the trunk, but it contains a different algorithm. The algorithm in the trunk, when attempting to modify a pointer, first traces through the target object (the object that a pointer towards it is going to be overwritten), instead of replicating the source object (the object that contains the pointer going go be overwritten), like the "new" snapshot algorithm. This "older" implementation is technically simpler, but has several drawbacks, mainly in locality (which leads to a less efficient write-barrier) and that statistically the barrier has to scan more objects, according to most benchmarks (which is again, less efficient). Also this "older" algorithm doesn't fit as well as a basis for the on-the-fly sliding-views algorithm.
The new collector was not yet thoroughly tested, and is not yet ready for practical usage. It was tested so far only in the MMTk.harness environment. The algorithm successfully passes all the MMTk.harness tests. There is, however, a race condition that occurs in about 1 in 1000 GC cycles, that results in a deadlock. This is currently the only known bug, but other bugs are likely to exists as well, due to insufficient testing.
The implemented collector currently works with concurrent tracing, but the sweeping is still done in the "Stop The World" mode. This should be modified, to support full concurrency. Some efficiency issues should also be addressed, as the implementation has not been optimized yet. Most notably, a better mechanism should be applied to decide when to reclaim an entire block of memory. The regular (not concurrent) mark-sweep algorithm, does this by using a mark bit for each block. This solution currently can't be used simultaneously with the 'preserveFreeLists' option, since the BlockAllocator uses the same Word field both for the mark of the block and for the free-list head. Currently, the concurrent mark-sweep algorithm determines if a block can be reclaimed by checking every one of its cell, but this is clearly not efficient. The best solution is probably to have the BlockAllocator use the least significant bit of the Word only as a mark bit for the block, and accordingly change its code a little to allow it to simultaneously support both the preserveFreeList and mark bit for blocks.
Shahar Timnat
3) New young generation architecture for the generational garbage collector
The project is accessible via Mercurial at http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/jikesrvm/soc2011 under the branch RVM-924-GARY46.
The goal of the project was to compare different young generation models in one virtual machine. The young generation organisations compared were Steps (e.g. as used by the GHC Haskell system), Eden and Survivor spaces (as used by HotSpotO and the default "en masse" promotion model (e.g. only one space in the nursery).
In order to build new young generation models, the young generation has been redesigned. The objective is to allow the use of new nursery without duplicating the old generations for each model. Garbage collectors in JikesRVM are built using hierarchical dependencies which simplifies the creation of new collectors but increase the complexity when tweaking with the middle components. The project modified the young generation to use delegate classes to manage the nursery's spaces. This is similar to the use of delegates for the tracing (e.g. MatureTraceLocal, NurseryTraceLocal). Each class of the young generation uses a delegate because they are all affected by modifications to the nursery. This has a cost and the default "en masse" promotion model runs 20% slower than the original design. Results from the Steps and Eden + Survivor models, show that they are 20% slower than de "en masse" promotion, therefore 40% slower than the original design. In the current implementation, the increase of space usage also triggers an error with small amount of memory. This error is also present in the original design but is triggered more often with the new young generations. The OutOfMemoryException is not always thrown, Exceptions from the Main Thread or the benchmark running can be expected. This is not a normal behavior. Hopefully, the work on the young generation will help prevent this bug from happening. The project is at a stage where it needs to be greatly optimized, 20 to 40 % speed difference with the original design is excessive. For example, remsets might be replaced by card tables and it might be possible for the delegates to take more advantage of the optimizing compiler.
Gary Rampaud
4) Multi-Method Compilation
Multi-Method is a technique where one or more methods are put on a thread to be compiled in parallel. The granularity is coarse when compared to single method. Currently Pre Compile [1], Hot Method Recompilation [2], and Boot [3] have been modified to utilize Multi-Method . The parallel Multi-Method is the most stable of all three and the parallel Boot and Pre-Compile need to be improved.
Why Multi-Thread PreCompile [1,15], Hot Method Recompilation [2,4], and Boot [3,14] ?
Hot Method Recompilation [2] – The original design of recompilation of the hot methods in the current Jikes RVM head made it very easy to multi-thread due to the fact that recompilation of hot methods was already controlled by one daemon thread running in the background constantly waiting for hot methods [6] and recompiling them in the background. All that needed to be done to utilize parallel processing was just spawn more Compilation Threads [5] and add a command line argument to specify the number of threads the user desires. It is important to remember that multi-threaded recompilation of hot methods will only be effective when the user's software or benchmark produces a certain amount of hot methods to be recompiled, otherwise there will be no speedup due to thread overhead or even worse a slow down. One can tune Jikes RVM recompilation heuristics in the following source code files CompilerDNA.java [16,17],AnalyticModel.java [6,18], to increase the number of hot methods in the recompilation queue.
Command to run with N threads: ./rvm -X:aos:num_threads=2 -cp scimark2lib.jar jnt.scimark2.commandline (eg with scimark2lib.jar)
Pre Compile [1] – Pre Compile's core method that controls compilation is embarrassingly parallel because it uses a For loop to iterate over each Method. Currently due to time constraints of Google Summer the multi-threaded PreCompile method is in an non-optimized version 0 state and is currently seeing overhead but the overhead is minimal because it is causing neither a speed up nor a slow down in other words the running time is the same. However, that can be easily fixed by sending groups of data onto a thread at once preferably 1/2 methods for thread one and 1/2 methods for thread two on a two thread system which is an optimization that was used to help improve multi-threade Single-Method [8,9,10,11,12,13].
Command to run and generate advice file: ./rvm -X:aos:enable_advice_generation=true -cp dacapo-2006-10-MR2.jar Harness xalan
Command to run and precompile advice file with N threads: ./rvm -X:aos:enable_precompile=true -X:aos:pre_compile_threads=2 -X:aos:cafi=aosadvice.ca -cp dacapo-2006-10-MR2.jar Harness xalan
Boot [3] – The main advantage to multi-threading the boot [3] source file is because in the Jikes RVM the Boot code compiles around 100 methods every time. The beauty in this multi-threaded optimization is the speedup achieved by this optimization is independent of the benchmark or program the user is running. Unfortunately this optimization is still in a pre version 0 phase, however I hope to polish it up in the near future as continued post GSOC work. The ordering of the class initialization becomes non-deterministic due to arbitrary thread inter-leavings. This causes problems when Class A is required before Class B and Class A and Class B are on two different threads.
Single-Method Compilation [7]
Single-Method parallel compilation is a technique where each method is optimized using multi-threaded compiler optimization. Occasionally when the compiler needs to optimize and compile large methods (around 14,000 Instructions on Core i5) it is better to dedicate all the available threads to one method. For this project we focused on flow insensitive optimization's [7] in the jikes rvm as a baseline implementation. In our experiments we multi-threaded insruction level and register level optimizations and the next logical step for future work is to experiment with block level optimization's and flow sensitive optimization's.
Current Optimizations that are Mutli-threaded for Single-Method
- Sort Commutative Register Uses[8,12]
- Copy Propagation[9]
- Array Propagation [10]
- Type Propagation [11]
- RecomputeSSA [13]
Single-Method [7-13] Future Work
- Determine if any form of compiler optimization in the jikes rvm can benefit greatly from Single-Method
- Possibly use the power of the GPU or the Cell processor to accelerate Single Method
Multi-Method [1,2,3] Future Work
- Tune the compiler DNA to allow for more efficient multi-threaded recompilation of hot methods
- Evaluate if any other locations in the Source Code can benefit from multi-method compilation
[1] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/e3397f4b5006
[2] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/fed20f02f806
[3] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/1c6019198603
[4] http://parallelcompiler.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-design-mutlimethod.html
[5] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/file/fed20f02f806/rvm/src/org/jikesrvm/adaptive/recompilation/CompilationThread.java
[6] ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/apt/theses/ChristosKotselidis_MSc.pdf
[7] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/file/b3a96880313a/rvm/src/org/jikesrvm/compilers/opt/Simple.java
[8] http://parallelcompiler.blogspot.com/2011/07/version-1-sortcommutative-registeruses.html
[9] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/a5e56291dbf0
[10] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/362d399161e5
[11] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/84029a70dce4
[12] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/066d79055dbc
[13] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/soc2011/rev/ab1c9ed8e2dd
[14] http://parallelcompiler.blogspot.com/2011/08/parallel-boot.html
[15] http://parallelcompiler.blogspot.com/2011/08/parallel-precompile.html
[16] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Compiler+DNA
[17] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/jikesrvm/file/c6bfce68e447/rvm/src/org/jikesrvm/adaptive/recompilation/CompilerDNA.java\
[18] http://jikesrvm.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jikesrvm/jikesrvm/file/c6bfce68e447/rvm/src/org/jikesrvm/adaptive/controller/AnalyticModel.java
Michael Taylor
The mentoring organization application deadline for the Google Summer of Code 2011 is March 11. We have had some really excellent contributions to JikesRVM come out of previous Summers of Code, and we intend to apply again. For this we need a strong set of proposals, so please take the time to look at the ones below and offer some more.
The projects are organised into the major components of Jikes RVM that they effect: Infrastructure, Garbage Collector (MMTk), Compilers and the Runtime System. We also have other projects that relate to Jikes RVM.
Jikes RVM infrastructure proposals
Enable Jikes RVM to use OpenJDK class libraries
We believe the largest limitation in the set of programs that can be run on Jikes RVM is that Jikes RVM primarily relies on the GNU Classpath class libraries. The most viable library plan for Jikes RVM is to switch to using Open JDK libraries. The work in switching is primarily in the VM/library interface and in the "core" classes in java.lang. This project for be of significant value to the research community because it will widen the set of benchmarks that can be used for Jikes RVM research.
Interested mentors: Daniel Frampton
Get the new DaCapo benchmarks (dacapo-9.12-bach) running on Jikes RVM.
A number of the new DaCapo benchmarks don't run on Jikes RVM. This project would be to figure out why each failing program is failing and get make fixes to Jikes RVM and/or its class libraries to make the programs work. This would be of significant value to the Jikes RVM research community.
Interested mentors: Steve Blackburn
Garbage Collector (MMTk) proposals
Concurrent Garbage Collectors
MMTk has a basic concurrent garbage collector and Laurence Hellyer added Sapphire as part of GSoC 2010. However, we would like to have more, for example, Concurrent immix, the Doliguez-Leroy-Gonthier algorithm (POPL93, POPL94, ISMM00), Azatchi et al (OOPSLA03), or mostly concurrent (Boehm91, Barabash et al 2005).
Interested mentors: Tony Hosking, Erez Petrank, Daniel Frampton, Eliot Moss, Richard Jones
Generational Collector Organisation
Currently, the generational collectors in Jikes RVM use en masse promotion, i.e. all surviving objects in the nursery are promoted to the mature generation. Other VMs have adopted more complex generational organisations that require objects to survive more nursery collections before they are promoted. For example, HotSpot divides the young generation into an Eden (where objects are created) and Survivor semispaces. Implementations for functional languages have typically organised generations into steps. This project would implement some of these organisations.
Interested mentors: Richard Jones, Eliot Moss
Garbage Collection Visualisation
The GCspy framework has become slightly out-of-date and needs improving [RVM-388].
Interested mentors: Richard Jones
The Compressor Mark-Compact Garbage Collector
This project would add the Compressor Mark-Compact algorithm to MMTK's suite of collectors, starting with a stop-the-world implementation
Interested mentors: Richard Jones, Daniel Frampton
The MMTk test harness tools
There are several possible projects here:{
- Implement a weak memory model, and/or tools for checking data races in
the simulated memory.
- Implement a mechanism for running Java applications through the harness.
The most tractable approach might be to use bytecode rewriting to manage
the simulated MMTk heap as a shadow of the Java heap.
- New invariants/checks/tests to detect errors in GC implementations. This could be motivated by a GC implementation project (eg MC^2).
Interested mentors: Robin Garner, Daniel Frampton
Separate Heap For VM objects
In most JVMs there is no confusion between memory allocated for the application and memory allocated by the running of the VM itself (for example a call to malloc() within the JIT). However, in Jikes RVM, the VM and the application are both written in Java. Moreover, they currently share the same heap. It would be very desirable to improve this situation and separately allocate VM and application objects. Aside from cleaner accounting and behaving more like a production JVM, there may be opportunities for performance optimizations since the lifetimes of objects created by the JIT will typically be bounded by the invocation of a single compilation, as an example.
This project would start by identifying all transitions from the application into the VM proper and channeling all such transitions through a zero-cost "trap", which simply serves as a marker. The trap can be viewed as analogous to a kernel trap in the OS setting. The project would also involve writing a simple checking routine which would walk the stack and determine whether execution was currently within the VM or application context. The combination of these mechanisms could then be used to identify and verify all application<->VM transitions.
Interested mentors: Andreas Sewe
Compiler proposals
Multi-core parallel compilation services
This project would add support to Jikes RVM runtime compilation to enable parallel compilation of methods in two different modes. Mode 1 (as at present) - individual methods are compiled sequentially in a single thread. Multiple methods could be compiled in parallel in separate threads. Mode 2 (new feature) - an individual method could be compiled using parallel data flow analysis in multiple threads. This would benefit compilation for large methods. There is an interesting research project in working out the trade-off between these two modes of parallel compilation. The GSoC project would involve generating the infrastructure to carry out this research project.
Interested mentors: Jeremy Singer
Port of the opt compiler to x86_64
The opt compiler is completely ported to ppc64, so this would require a similar piece of work for the x86 code generator. If the baseline compiler is working on x86_64, then the assembler work has already been done, so porting the opt compiler actually should be entirely doable by someone who is comfortable with lowlevel x86/x86_64 debugging.
Interested mentors: Tony Hosking, Eliot Moss
Improved register allocator for x86 and x86_64
The current linear scan allocator works best with register rich architectures. This project would look at providing a better allocator for architectures that provide fewer registers.
Interested mentors: Tony Hosking, Eliot Moss
The CoGenT project at UMass aims to make it easier to generate compiler components given descriptions of compiler IRs and of target machines. One of its tools is a generator of instruction selectors; we call it GIST. We have GIST somewhat working to generate the target dependent part of the Jikes RVM Baseline compiler.
- Rounding out automatic generation of the instruction selector ("code generator") for the
Baseline compiler.
- Developing automatic generation of BURS rules (which are quite similar to the patterns that
GIST finds anyway) for the Jikes RVM Opt compiler.
{We would first create code generators for existing targets (x86 and PowerPC) to validate the work, and could then proceed to new target (64-bit x86, and look at new platforms, though a complete platform port has somewhat broader scope).
- Generating peephole optimizers using GIST is also a possibility, though at this stage perhaps more challenging.
- Creating a quality "generic" register allocator for the Opt compiler that a GIST-related tool could target would be an excellent project. This could work along the lines of "A Generalized Algorithm for Graph-Coloring Register Allocation" by Smith, Ramsey, and Holloway (PLDI, 2004), possibly with coalescing as well.
- It would also be attractive to follow a similar plan for generating linear-scan register allocators for the Jikes RVM Opt compiler from machine descriptions.
- Finally, GIST, augmented with suitable cost models for each target, could be used to generate
instruction schedulers automatically.
Any of these projects would advance both Jikes RVM and the CoGenT tools.
Interested mentors: Eliot Moss and Chip Weems
Object splitting
This project involves a profiling infrastructure to measure field hotness, changes to the JIT compilers to deal with accesses to cold fields, and changes to the garbage collector(s) to allocate cold fields out of the way of hot objects. Given such an infrastructure, future work could then study alternative implementations, or ideas such as the lazy allocation of the cold fields.
Interested mentor: Matthias Hauswirth
Runtime Services
Extending VM Magic
Jikes RVM uses an extended variant on Java, which includes special types and intrinsic methods that are essential to the internals of the VM but that cannot be expressed in regular Java. For example, we implement an
Address type, which corresponds roughly to C's
void*. This type has a magical size (the size of an architectural word), and magic semantics (for example you can de reference it and even prefetch on it). None of these semantics could be implemented with regular Java.
An important feature of VM Magic which has not been properly implemented is compound types (roughly equivalent to C's
struct types). Such types would be very useful within Jikes RVM because they represent compound types without the overhead and restriction of an object header. This project will implement compound types for Jikes RVM.
A useful reference is the 2009 paper describing VM Magic, including some of these unimplemented features.
Interested mentors: Steve Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Eliot Moss
Support (a subset of) the JVM Tool Interface (JVMTI)
The JVMTI is large. This project would concentrate on providing support for GC-related JVMTI functionality.
Suggested by: Suriya Subramanian
Interested mentors: Steve Blackburn, Richard Jones, Daniel Frampton, Eliot Moss
Support for jmap, jhat, jstack
This project would provide support for JVM debugging facilities such as jmap which dumps an application's heap, jhat which examines the dumped heap, and jstack which dumps an application's stack.
Suggested by: Suriya Subramanian
Interested mentors: Steve Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
Integration with Maxine VM's Inspector
The Maxine Inspector plays many roles:
- object, class, and method browser;
- code views include disassembled machine code, disassembled bytecode, and source;
- low-level debugger (imagine gdb or dbx) with visual displays of threads, registers, stacks, * stack frames, thread local values, breakpoints, memory watchpoints, etc.;
- intermediate representation debugger; etc.
This project would provide an interface to the Inspector.
Suggested by: Suriya Subramanian
Interested mentors: Steve Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
Probes for DTrace
DTrace allows user-space code to add so-called USDT (User-level Statically Defined Tracing) probes (see example below). It would be useful to be able to use DTrace to correlate system behavior (e.g. scheduling, thread migration, ...) with behavior of the Jikes RVM (e.g. locking, GC, ...).
Interested mentors: Matthias Hauswirth


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Carlo J. DiMarco, D.O., clinical professor and regional dean of clinical medicine at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently received the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA), a statewide organization for physicians holding the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. Dr. DiMarco received the Association's highest honor in recognition of his countless contributions to the osteopathic profession and the POMA.
|Carlo DiMarco, D.O.
A past president of the POMA, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (AOCOO), Dr. DiMarco has served in many and various capacities for each organization. In addition to his role with LECOM, he also is director of the ophthalmology residency program at Millcreek Community Hospital in Erie and team ophthalmologist for the Erie BayHawks NBA Development League team. He is a practicing physician with Medical Associates of Erie, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Millcreek Health System and a multi-specialty group practice with various locations throughout Erie County.
Dr. DiMarco is a graduate of LaSalle College in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he also received a master of science degree. He completed an internship and ophthalmology residency at PCOM.
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Fastrac Markets, LLC is a Joint Venture of Clarks Petroleum Service, Inc.; Glider Oil Co., Inc.; and Bull Bros., Inc.
Fastrac started operating its business on October 1, 1998 in Rome, New York. What started as a buying group has developed into a diversified company consisting of a large wholesale gasoline business, and one of New York State's largest convenience store chains.
Our people are the key to a successful approach to our mission of being the premier convenience store marketer in the market areas in which we operate. Like all successful companies, we make a great effort to stay in touch with the needs of both, our guests and employees. We will have a competitive edge over others in our business provided we all take the time to know our guests' needs and take pride in the exemplary guest service required to totally satisfy our guests.
This position is an Assistant to the Store Manager. Responsible for the overall maintenance and upkeep of a Fastrac store; from waiting and caring for Guest's to the stocking, cleaning and upkeep of the store.
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Austin Nichols had 14 points to lead the winners, with Josh Heytvelt adding 11 points and 13 rebounds.
Tofas will play in Group A of the EuroChallenge with Krka Novo Mesto, Michelin ETHA and Pinar Karsiyaka.
Rakvere Tarvas head coach Andres Sober"Tarvas played for the first time in the EuroChallenge. I think we didn't play bad today because Tofas I think is one of the best teams in the EuroChallenge. We are very happy because we had a long trip and we played a good game. I said that Tofas is a team with very good chances to win the cup because I am a fan of European cups, I know all the teams, and Tofas has a great opportunity to win the cup."
Tofas Bursa head coach Ahmet Caki"First of all, the last time Tofas played in the Euroleague twelve years ago. We had a great change after winning the first game by 30 points. The important thing for us is that we advanced to the group stage. We are not ready yet but we will play better than this in the group stage. We play in the Turkish League also in the EuroChallenge, we will do our best in all competitions."
Rakvere Tarvas player Reimo Tamm"I don't think it was an easy game. In the first half it was close. Today I think we played well ."
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Students, faculty and staff of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine learned recently that the entire Millcreek Health System is now enforcing a strict no-smoking policy, effective Jan. 1, 2009.
"Because Millcreek Health System cares about the health of our employees, students and visitors, we have made a commitment to go 'smoke-free,'" according to a memorandum released in advance of the policy's effective date.
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I was just fixin' to say at least we aren't giving up a ton of 3s.
If they hit 8 3s in a row...I swear...
Lopez has been way better than a lot of people thought he'd be. People said he'd be lucky to play 10 minutes. (not on here I don't think) and the like. He's played fine. If we can move him elsewhere for a younger piece like Cousins? I'd go for that.
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I was just fixin' to say at least we aren't giving up a ton of 3s.
If they hit 8 3s in a row...I swear...
nice adjustment by karl...monty needs to learn how to make adjustments himself
when davis comes back...monty will probably still play lopez more minutes than anderson
Best I've seen our defense play until the foul.
our first play after a timeout, we got to lopez in a post up?? are you serious monty??? draw a play to get your best player the ball
All we've done the last two seasons is watch our team play shorthanded...it's both depressing and frustrating.
Greivis has had a lot of rough moments this season, but I think he'd be just fine with EG next to him splitting ball handling duties and playing off of him. Alas...
If Miller doesn't get more minutes...
Lopez is in the NBA, how does he not know to keep the ball high?
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our announcers just said our game plan is more post ups for lopez??? do they have a clue?? it just leads to a fastbreak
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Vasquez takes too long to initiate the offense when he gets D'd up
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Wilson, NC –
The Pfeiffer University Falcons split a dual match with the Bulldogs of Barton College on Saturday in Conference Carolinas tennis action. The Falcon women won their match 5-4, while the men lost 4-5.
Patty Dominguez (Caracas, Venezuela) and Brittany Dickens (Wake Forest, NC) won the second doubles match 8-0 for Pfeiffer's first victory of the day. Catie Thomas (Asheboro, NC) and Amanda Huffaker (Maryville, TN) added another victory in the third doubles match (8-1).
The Falcons continued to take three of the singles matches to secure their victory. Dominguez won at number one 6-2, 6-0, while Maddy Billeter (Boca Raton, FL) added a 6-2, 6-0 win at number four. Dickens tabbed another win in the final singles spot (6-3, 6-1) to bring Pfeiffer up to five wins on the day.
On the men's side, the Falcons fell just short of a victory. Philip Lawson (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Johan deWit (Windhoek, Namibia) took the first doubles match 8-5, while AJ Flores (Atlanta, GA) and Sid Kaushik (Chennai, India) finished the second match with a 9-7 win.
DeWit and Flores gave Pfeiffer its only singles victories at the third and forth positions. DeWit finished his match 6-4, 6-1 and Flores won 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5).
The Pfeiffer men and women are now each 7-7 overall on the season.Pfeiffer v. Barton 04/04/09 Doubles Lawson/deWit v. Grobel/Martel - P 8-5 Flores/Kaushik v. Desilets/Peron - P 9-7 Pouchet/Simpson v. Salinas/Jackman - B 8-5 Singles Lawson v. Grobel - B 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 Kaushik v. Jackman - B 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 deWit v. Martel - P 6-4, 6-1 Flores v. Salinas - P 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(5) Pouchet v. Desilets - B 6-1, 6-0 Simpson v. Peron - B 7-5, 6-2


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KENT, Ohio – The Miami University volleyball team fell, 0-3 (21-25, 22-25, 26-28) to Kent State Saturday evening. The RedHawks are now 8-8 overall and 0-4 in the Mid-American Conference. The Golden Flashes are 8-9 overall and 2-2 in the MAC.
The loss spoiled the second straight solid match from freshman outside hitter Maris Below. She led Miami with 12 kills and made only three errors in 27 attempts for a hitting percentage of .296.
Kent State built a 14-8 lead during the first half of set one. A team effort led by kills from freshman middle hitter Paige Hill and junior outside hitter/setter Meg Riley was part of a 7-5 run that cut the deficit to 15-19 and forced a Golden Flash timeout. Out of the break, a KSU attack error, a service ace by Riley and kills from Below and sophomore middle hitter Jenny Ingle tied the score at 19. From there, a 4-1 run gave the Golden Flashes a 23-20 advantage. Ingle put down another kill off of Riley's assist, but Kent State responded with two straight points to finish off a 25-21 victory.
Tied at six in set two the Golden Flashes scored three straight points. Undaunted, Miami fought right back with four straight of their own, highlighted by a kill and block from Hill, as well as a service ace from sophomore outside hitter Annie Reiswig. Tied at 13, a 6-2 run put the Golden Flashes in front, 19-15. The RedHawks kept battling as kills from Below and Reiswig were part of a 6-2 run that tied the score once again at 21. Unfortunately, Kent State was able to answer with a 4-1 closing run to take a 25-22 win.
The Golden Flashes appeared as if they were going to run away with the third set, eventually opening up a seven point advantage at 20-13. As was the case in the previous sets, Miami fought back. Two kills from Reiswig, along with kills from freshman setter Krista Brakauskas and Riley were part of six straight points that cut the deficit to one at 20-19. Kent State scored three of the next four points to go in front, 23-20, but a kill from Riley, a Golden Flash attack error and two blocks by Reiswig and junior middle hitter Chelsea Visk gave Miami set point at 24-23. Kent State fought it off with two straight points to create match point at 25-24. The 'Hawks were able to fight off match points twice, but the Golden Flashes eventually scored two in a row to earn a 28-26 win.
Ingle finished with seven kills, while Riley, Reiswig and Hill had six apiece. Riley finished with a double-double of 14 assists and 12 digs. Brakauskas led Miami with 17 assists, while Hill had five blocks.
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Three out of four feds have Jack Benny Syndrome
Monday - 3/18/2013, 2:00am EDT
As one of the oldest people in my office building, I feel it is all right to ask you a somewhat personal question as you age-in-place at the office.
The question is:
If an outsider wandered into your federal building and checked out you and your colleagues, would he/she think they were in a retirement home, or a senior day-care center?
Unless you work in an agency or a job that has a mandatory retirement age, the answer to the above, for many feds, would be yes. At least that's what a lot of readers tell us.
According to the Office of Personnel Management, the average age of the full-time, nonpostal federal worker in 2011 was 46.9 and the median was 48.1 years. The data shows that one in four feds is younger than age 38.7 and that one in four is older than that. So what, if anything, do those numbers mean for retirement-age workers, and does that translate in more promotion options for younger feds in a shrinking government?
In the last couple of years, the number of retirements from the federal government has jumped, big time. In February (with only 28 days) 20,374 workers put in their retirement papers although the government — which has a backlog of cases — expected only 5,600 applications. In January (always a popular month for retirement), just over 22,000 people retired
Why the sudden urge to surge?
Some people blame it on the federal pay freeze, which is likely to be extended into a third year. Others attribute it to poor morale fueled by anti-government politicians and a barrage of news stories saying that federal workers are paid more and work less than their private-sector counterparts. Others say it is simpler than that. People are getting older, and it was bound to happen.
Last week we ran a column, asking feds what makes them tick? Why do they stay on when the anti-bureaucrat rhetoric is so loud? Why not take the money and run? We got lots of responses, including:
- "I only have 24 years in as a DoD grunt; I can't get ahead because people keep on working. We have about 10 people in our office with over 40 years. ... It is hard to say when I will retire, but I guarantee I will not see 40 years! I once read, hmmm maybe even in an article you wrote, 'No one on their death bed said they wished they spent more time at the office!' I work in Production and Engineering. When I go to the meetings, it's like going to an AARP meeting, and they have been members for 20-plus years. I kid you not, we have at least one engineer who is 82, and a bunch scaring the hell out of 80 ... are you kidding me!!! PULLEAASSEE!! After 24 years with one agency, I'm on USAJOBS every day!" — Margaret from DoD
- "I was planning on working an additional 21 months but with all the pay freezes and brow beating of federal employees, I decided 3 January 2013 was to be my retirement date. I enjoyed working at my job over 40 years, but enough was enough. Everyone eventually retires. I so enjoy your articles and I hope that yours is not any time soon." — No Name, Please
- "One point that I have not seen addressed is one of the side effects of the President's pay freeze for federal workers. For some of us, retirement became the more long-term economic advantageous choice. I had 41 years-plus with about 11 months to go to maximize my pension. However, because of the freeze, what I could gain by staying was less than what I could gain by leaving. So, I did so last November. The COLA for one month was only $8 applied for 2013, but I will get the full COLA in 2014. Compound that for my life expectancy, and I am well ahead financially by having taken voluntary retirement.
"Now, with a retirement pension of just over 80 percent of my salary (with sick leave), I have taken a 20 percent cut in pay and don't have to show up for work at all! That seems better than working with a 20 percent cut due to a furlough. Something is upside down when my pension in 2014 may actually be more than what my salary would be with another year of a freeze and a furlough." — Steve, Formerly with the IRS in Richmond1 2 Next page »


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On February 28 the worldwide "Hellish Rock Part II" tour finally kicks off – and naturally not only the guys on stage will be going full force, but your power and creativity will be needed as well to make every single show an unforgettable "Helloween-Party from Hell". After the Dr. Stein lookalikes made the stages quake on the "7 Sinners" tour, it's now time to rock the whole venues. Dress as Dr. Stein, Keeper, Mrs. God, in the style of the new pumpkin soldiers, or as whatever else you can come up with thinking about Helloween, and celebrate the loudest carnival of your life. Of course, the wildest disguises will be rewarded once again: The best outfits will receive a small gift at the merchandise stand, and the winners will also gain an eternal spot in the legendary "Hall of Hell" on Helloween's homepage. So, go through your wardrobe and ransack the next costume shop – coming up next: Hellish Helloween Live on Tour!
After "Straight Out Of Hell" made band history with their entry at #4 in Germany, the album rocks the charts worldwide as well: Helloween's fourteenth studio album is huge success internationally. In Japan, the new album went to #2 in the international album charts, and just like in Germany, it scores the highest entry ever in Sweden with #6. More rankings in the best 10 are announced from Finland (#4), Czech Republic (#4) and Hungary (#10) – making it six Top 10 entries worldwide.
The fact that "Straight Out Of Hell" is explosive stuff was a given before the release – but that the album would have such an impact is simply unbelievable: "Straight Out Of Hell" has just hit #4 in Germany and scored the highest position in band history!! This sensational chart entry wouldn't have been possible without those 990,000+ fans on Facebook and everyone else at their computer desktops and sales counters. And now, international metal heads should be putting on their protective gear as well: "Straight Out Of Hell" is at #2 in the international album charts in Japan and enters the charts in Finland at #4 – more chart news to follow this week.But first things first: Here comes a huge, fireproof THANK YOU from the guys straight from Miami, where they are rocking the"70.000 Tons of Metal"-Cruise with full force, and will surely celebrate the big news from Germany adequately. Helloween will thank each and every one of you loyal Pumpkin-Heads on the world tour, kicking off in Barcelona on February 28.
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Final Score: Vanderbilt 17, Auburn 13
Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - Zac Stacy ran for 169 yards and a touchdown,
as the Vanderbilt Commodores held off the Auburn Tigers, 17-13, in
Southeastern Conference play at Vanderbilt Stadium.
In addition to helping the Commodores (3-4, 2-3 SEC) notch the victory, Stacy
became the school's career rushing leader, pushing his total to 2,670 yards.
Tre Mason ran for 85 yards and a TD in a losing effort for the Tigers (1-6,
0-5), who are off to their worst start since 1952.
Vanderbilt opened the game with a 16-play, 75-yard drive that took nearly
eight and a half minutes off the clock. Wesley Tate capped the long drive with
a seven-yard touchdown run to stake the Commodores a 7-0 lead.
Auburn got on the board at the 8:10 mark of the second quarter on Cody
Parkey's 27-yard field goal. Mason gave the Tigers a 10-7 advantage on a
one-yard touchdown plunge with 1:21 to play in the opening half.
However, Vanderbilt got the ball back and traveled 65 yards in 11 plays,
setting up Carey Spear's 30-yard field goal to tie the game as time expired in
the half.
The Commodores regained the lead midway through the third quarter on Stacy's
two-yard touchdown plunge, capping a seven-play, 85-yard drive.
Auburn cut the deficit to 17-13 on Parkey's 39-yard field goal with 9:55
remaining in regulation. However, the Tigers would draw no closer the rest of
the way.
Vandy held a 382-212 edge in total offense for the game, as Auburn was able to
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Men's Basketball Announces its 2013-14 Schedule
September 5, 2013
MISENHEIMER, N.C. – Pfeiffer Head Coach Jeremy Currier and Athletic Director/VP for Athletics Bob Reasso have announced the 2013-14 men's basketball schedule. The Falcons will play seven games against teams that advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2012-13.
The season kicks off with a trip to Salisbury, N.C. to compete in the Catawba Classic hosted by Catawba College. On Nov. 8, Pfeiffer's season begins with a 6:00 p.m. game against Lenoir-Rhyne, who finished last season with an 18-9 record. The following afternoon, the Falcons will take on the host Indians at 4:00 p.m.
The non-conference portion of the schedule also includes trips to Mars Hill as well as a visit to Tampa, FL to compete in the University of Tampa Christmas Classic on Dec. 21-22, where the Falcons will take on Eckerd College and the host Spartans. Eckerd finished the season with a 20-8 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The Falcons will host St. Augustine's and Bluefield St. in non-conference action in Merner Gym.
Conference Carolinas action will be daunting for the young Falcons as six games will be played against NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago. Barton, Limestone and Belmont Abbey all made the Division II NCAA Tournament in 2012-13 with the Crusaders being crowned league champs. The league was very competitive last season, with eight teams finishing .500 or better in conference play.
"This is as demanding of a schedule as we have had here," said Currier. "We are playing some of the top teams in the region but I am excited about the direction the program is heading. I am looking forward to seeing how we respond to the challenge."
The Falcons will play 15 road games this year, and only 11 games at home. In total, Pfeiffer will play 11 teams who posted a winning record last year and four teams who won 20 or more games.
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Robert F. Leeman, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a Research Scientist with the VA VISN1 MIRECC. His primary research interest is in relationships between various difficulties with self-control and addictive behaviors, particularly alcohol and cocaine/opioid co-use. He has particular interests in impaired control over alcohol use, disinhibition/impulsivity and cognitive biases. Much of Dr. Leeman's research concerns young adult addictive behaviors and he has made use of human laboratory, survey and clinical trial methods.
Dr. Leeman joined the faculty at Yale in 2007 after having completed a NIDA post-doctoral fellowship, also in the Yale Psychiatry Department. He joined the VA MIRECC as a Research Scientist in 2012. Dr. Leeman received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and a B.A. in Psychology and Screen Studies from Clark University in 1998.
Dr. Leeman was awarded a K01 from NIAAA in 2010, a grant from the ABMRF/the Foundation for Alcohol Research in 2012 and was a recipient of a clinical research loan repayment award from NIAAA from 2006-2012. He held an F31 individual, predoctoral National Research Recognition Award from NIAAA from 2003-2005 and was a 2006 recipient of an Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism, in addition to several other travel and young investigator awards.
International Activity
- Analyses of Finnish Twin Study data
I am about to begin a project to test impulsivity, perceived parental permissiveness and job status as predictors of addictive behaviors among adolescents and young adults using Finnish Twin Study data
- Collaboration with Dr. Reinout Wiers and colleagues
We are testing a novel cognitive bias modification procedure with the ultimate goal of reducing alcohol use among frequent heavy drinking young adults
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- Clark University (1998)
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- University of Pennsylvania (2005)
- NIDA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Yale University School of Medicine, Psychiatry/Division of Substance Abuse (2005 - 2007)
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- Junior, then Senior Scholar
Alcohol Medical Scholars Program (Director: Marc Schuckit, M.D.) (2013)
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American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (2013)
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NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) (2012)
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The Ferguson Mansion was built in 1901. T.B. Ferguson was appointed to serve as Oklahoma's sixth territorial governor by President Theodore Roosevelt.
T.B. Ferguson was born in 1857 near Des Moines, Iowa. Although he was trained to be a teacher and a Methodist minister, Ferguson began writing occasional articles for a local newspaper and became interested in journalism. After the 1892 land run, Ferguson brought his family to Watonga, Oklahoma, where he established the Watonga Republican. He remained the publisher of this newspaper until his death in 1921.
Ferguson was governor from November 1901 until January 1906, longer than any other territorial governor. After Governor Ferguson's death in 1921, Mrs. Ferguson managed the newspaper until 1930. In 1927, the famous novelist Edna Ferber stayed in the Ferguson home where she found much of the material for her novel, Cimarron.
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Ziro the Hutt
Jabba the Hutt's Uncle Ziro conspired with Count Dooku to kidnap Jabba's son Rotta, reasoning that when the Jedi sent to retrieve Rotta died, the Republic would be forced to apprehend Jabba, leading to Ziro gaining control of their clan. When the conspiracy unraveled, Ziro was imprisoned on Coruscant. Cad Bane freed him and turned him over to the Hutt Council, who feared that Ziro might tell the Republic of their many dirty dealings. Ziro escaped the Hutts, but could not outrun his past.
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Jabba the Hutt was one of the galaxy's most powerful gangsters, with far-reaching influence in both politics and the criminal underworld. There were no second chances with Jabba, something Han Solo would find out -- though the slug-like alien would ultimately fall victim to his own hubris and vengeful ways.
Padmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala was a courageous, hopeful leader, serving as Queen and then Senator of Naboo -- and was also handy with a blaster. Despite her ideals and all she did for the cause of peace, her secret, forbidden marriage to Jedi Anakin Skywalker would prove to have dire consequences for the galaxy.
Count Dooku
Count Dooku was a menacing Sith Lord and central figure in the Clone Wars. Once a Jedi -- trained by Yoda -- he became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and thirsted for greater power. Dooku voluntarily left the light side behind and became Darth Sidious' dark side disciple, taking the secret name Darth Tyranus and leading the Separatist army.
Sy Snootles
Sy Snootles, a long-limbed Pa'lowick, was a popular singer and dancer whose patrons included Jabba the Hutt. Very few realized that she also worked as a spy for the Hutt criminal cartels, and that she betrayed her love, Ziro the Hutt, in exchange for a big payday.
Cad Bane
A ruthless bounty hunter from the planet Duro, Cad Bane was the preeminent blaster-for-hire in the galaxy at the time of the Clone Wars. No quarry was too dangerous for Bane... if the price was right. Using an impressive arsenal of weapons and allies, the cold, cruel and calculating Bane would literally track his prey to the ends of the galaxy if required. Bane carried custom twin blaster pistols, gauntlets studded with control devices, a concealed bola, explosives, integrated breathing apparatus and rocket boots, ensuring that he was always well prepared for any situation that may arise.
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JON CARDINELLI writes that a reckless Welsh tackle proved to be the catalyst for an unlikely 9-8 World Cup semi-final win for France.
Up until the 18th minute of Saturday's play-off at Eden Park, Sam Warburton had been one of the standouts for Wales and indeed one of the stars of the 2011 tournament. Sadly, the young Wales captain will not be remembered for his impressive displays against South Africa in the pool stages and Ireland in the quarter-final, but rather for one brainless tackle that would jettison the Dragons from the global tournament.
Wales were in firm control for much of the first quarter. While their scrum struggled against a lighter but technically superior French eight, they enjoyed the majority of possession and territory, and went to a 3-0 lead in the eighth minute thanks to the boot of James Hook.
France took a pounding at the collisions. Dimitri Yachvili floated a pass to Vincent Clerc well behind the gain line, and this proved to be the game-changing moment, as Warburton, in his enthusiasm to make the hit and possibly force the turnover, lifted Clerc beyond the horizontal and then let the winger fall to ground. Referee Alain Rolland brandished the mandatory red card, and as good as Wales had looked, they were always going to struggle to hang on for 62 minutes with only 14 men.
France used the numerical advantage to good effect at scrum time, but were woefully bad in general play. Morgan Parra had kicked them to a 6-3 lead by half-time, but it was the short-handed Wales that continued to control possession and territory. The French backs battled to field the high balls launched by the Wales halfbacks, and when they did, they often made some shocking decisions which allowed Wales to regain the pill.
It was here where Wales needed to make the best of a bad situation. Hook had done brilliantly to slot his first penalty attempt from the touchline, but proceeded to fluff two subsequent shots from midfield, as well as a drop-goal attempt. France were far too loose towards the end of the first stanza and may have scored more points had they kept it close, but Wales may also have gone to the break in the lead if they had kicked their goals.
Parra bisected the uprights in the 49th minute, but the plucky Welsh refused to lie down. They continued to pressure the French back three, and the tactical substitution of Stephen Jones had the desired effect as they played smarter and tighter. While they had wasted opportunities in the first 40, they took the first chance available to them when Mike Phillips breezed through the French defence for an important try. Tellingly, Jones missed the ensuing conversion to allow France to maintain a slender 9-8 lead.
At times the Tricolores looked like the team with the one-man disadvantage. They were guilty of being too casual in some instances, and too frantic in others. It's the type of performance many would have expected after their strong showing against England, as they have a reputation for inconsistency. They battled to put a 14-man Wales side away, and in the end, they were the side that held on for the win.
It was always going to be too much to ask of a Wales side one man short. It would have been remembered as one of the great victories had they finished a multiphase attack at the death, but unfortunately it will go down in history as a game they lost in the 18th minute when their captain received his marching orders. Three missed penalty-attempts (Leigh Halfpenny didn't have the distance with a 50m shot in the 76th minute) and a missed conversion, also cost them dearly.


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I'm a long time Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) user, and i think that Maven could adpot some idea's from gentoo's portage (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1).
Gentoo has a concept of "ebuilds" (which can be compared to poms). An ebuild is an install script of sorts for installing a particular piece of software. An ebuild defines, among other things, what it's dependencies (other ebuilds) are. There are two types of dependencies: optional and required. A required depency is something that the software needs to be built or run, while an optional depency is the exact opposite... it is optional at compile and run time. Basically an optional depency is a feature that the piece of sotware supports that isn't necessary for it to function.
There is also something in gentoo called "USE flags". Use flags are a system scope set of parameters that determine how ebuilds are built... and which features are included or excluded. For instance, "alsa" is a USE flag. If your use flags have "alsa" in them then any application that supports Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) as an optional dependency will be compiled with support for alsa. Likewise, if your USE flags contain "-alsa" then anything that has optional support for alsa will not be compiled with support for alsa. I should also mention that if a particular ebuild requires alsa... alsa will be built as well as it (because it requires alsa at compile/run time)... but it and anything else that requires it will be the only piece of software on the machine that has alsa support. I should also note that Gentoo has what is called "profiles". Profiles contain (among other things) a default set of USE flags for the general user, so in theory a Gentoo user doesn't have to modify their USE flags whatsoever.
My thinking is that Maven could adopt this. Poms could specify required and optional dependencies, and at a project level USE flags could be defined to filter what gets included in a project. For instance someone using the Spring Framework may not be using Hibernate... in their use flags "-hibernate" could be defined so that maven knows not to grab hibernate (and all of it's dependencies) just because they want to use the spring MVC framework.
here's the Jira issue: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-935