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Volunteer Lunch and Seminar: The Volunteer Visitors Association (VVA) will hold its first Volunteer Visitor Information Seminar and Luncheon, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at Riverside Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. Attendees will be introduced to VVA by its founders and learn more about the organization's activities and benefits. The event will feature presentations from local social and healthcare professionals in our community and representatives of Riverside Rehab. Breakfast refreshments and a luncheon will be served. Those who wish to attend should call 780-6189. VVA was founded by area hospice professionals and volunteers who saw the profound need in our community for a collective movement to be started which would enlist volunteers to provide ongoing one-on-one visits with the elderly residing in our area nursing homes.
Golf Clinics: Lackawanna County will host a Women's Golf Clinic on Tuesday, May 21, (rain date is May 28). Limit is 75. The clinic will be held at the Scott Greens Golf Club. More information is available online at lackawannacounty.org under parks and recreation.
Pasta Dinner: The first Congregational Church of Taylor, corner of Church and Union streets, will hold its annual spaghetti and meatball dinner from 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at the church. Dinner is eat in or takeout.
The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children. The meal consists of spaghetti, meatballs, salad, roll, dessert and beverage.
Call 562-0881 or 587-0563 for tickets. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Pasta Dinner: The Prince of Peace Parish Society, Old Forge, will host a takeout pasta and meatball dinner from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Sunday, May 19, at the Felittese grounds, Third Street, Old Forge. The cost is $9 per dinner. Tickets available in advance by calling 457-5900.
Relay for Life: The inaugural Triboro Relay For Life will be held Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2, beginning with opening ceremonies at 4 p.m., at Old Forge's Veterans Memorial Stadium.
To register a team, become a team member or donate, visit www.relayforlife.org and search Triboro relay.
For more information, contact Meghan Livingston at 562-9749 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Memorial Pet Walk: Tracey's Hope Hospice Care Program and Rescue for Domestic Animals, will hold a memorial pet walk from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, at McDade Park Pavillion No. 2.
In addition to the walk, there will be food, games, a basket raffle, entertainment, the Scranton K-9 unit, pets for adoption and demonstrations.
Health Fair: The Lackawanna County Medical Society will present its ninth annual free health fair at Nay Aug Park on from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine, on Saturday, June 8. The event will include more than 70 vendors and health agencies offering screenings, giveaways, educational handouts and children's fingerprinting.
Flag Disposal: Taylor Post No. 306 wishes to notify all residents that a drop off box for unserviceable, worn, torn, discolored or faded flags is located on the front porch of the Taylor Post, 208 S. Main St., Taylor. An 11 a.m. ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 15, at the Taylor Memorial Cemetery to properly dispose of the collected flags. Any questions, contact Taylor Post No. 306 at 562-9920.
Membership Drive: The Old Forge Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is conducting a membership drive. The VFW is seeking men and women who have served in any branch of the United States military. To be eligible you must have served in a foreign war or eligible campaigns.
The VFW will pay first year dues for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Contact Louis Cusumano at 457-6099 or 983-6332 for more information.
Class Reunion: The Taylor High School Class of 1967 will host a class reunion party during the summer. Interested class members are invited to call Francis E. Zaliski at 562-0703 for more information.
Trolley Rides and Baseball: The Electric City Trolley Museum is taking a page out of the area's rich railroad history by offering 10 excursion runs to PNC Field this spring and summer for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders ballgames.
Select games in May, June, July and August will offer fans an opportunity to "take the trolley" to the park for $20 per person and includes the trolley fare, game ticket and a $2 voucher for either the concession stand or team store.
If you have game tickets and just want to ride the trolley, the cost is $11. Reservations for both packages are required. Visit the county's website lackawannacounty.org for the schedule or contact the museum at 963-6590 for information.
Head Start Help: Developmental and hearing screenings, dental checks, nutritional snacks and meals, health services, social services, parent involvement, individualized teaching and integrated services for children with disabilities are offered free of charge to income eligible families via the Head Start program in Lackawanna County.
Morning and afternoon sessions with transportation is available in certain areas. Full-day, full-year services are provided on a limited basis for both working families and those pursuing further education. There is also an early head start program for children age birth to three years old.
For more information, call 963-6633.
Help Needed: Serving Seniors is seeking dedicated and caring people of all ages to provide friendly visits and companionship to residents in long-term care and personal care homes within Lackawanna County. As a visitation volunteer, you will be helping to improve the quality of life of an older adult. Training provided.
For more information contact Lisa M. Torch at 344-3931.
Advertising Fundraiser: The Moosic Old Forge Men's Softball League is in the process of selling advertising space on the outfield fencing at Robert V. Semenza Field at Pagnotti Park in Old Forge. Anyone wishing to purchase a sign can contact league president Tony DiMattia at 335-5596.
Proceeds will be donated to the Robert V. Semenza Fund and the MOF Softball League.
Head Start: Luzerne County Head Start, is currently accepting applications in Luzerne and Wyoming counties for the 2013-2014 school year. Luzerne County Head Start offers a range of comprehensive programs for children from birth to age five and pregnant women, funded by a variety of sources, including federal and state, school district, United Way, community groups, organizations, and individuals. Head Start works with low-income children and families to help them achieve their full potential and attain school readiness.
Preschool services for 3- and 4-year-old children, which are free of charge, include education, health, family support, parent involvement, transportation on a limited basis and opportunities for children with disabilities. Families must meet specific criteria, including age and income eligibility, to qualify. Parents/guardians are encouraged to apply early, as selection for the 2013-2014 school year begins in the spring.
Luzerne County Head Start, also offers PreK Counts, a state-funded preschool program, in partnership with several school districts in Luzerne County. Services are similar to Head Start preschool services; however, income eligibility is set higher, and no transportation is provided for Pre-K Counts.
Luzerne County Head Start provides Early Head Start services in select areas of both Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. Early Head Start is a full-year, home-based program providing child development and family support to pregnant women and children from birth to age three.
To apply, or for more information on Head Start, Early Head Start, or Pre-K Counts, call 829-6231 or toll-free (800) 551-5829. You can also learn more about LCHS at www.lchs.hsweb.org.
Aid for Veterans: Temporary emergency funding to support either Pennsylvania veterans or non-profit groups that serve veterans is available through the Lackawanna County Veterans Affairs Office.
The Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation is another tool the county's veterans affairs office is able to offer to area veterans and their families in need of emergency assistance.
Lackawanna County Veterans Affairs Director Robert Tuffy explained that a simple application for aid needs to be filled-out and submitted along with a brief narrative and support documentation (files and other backup data) to his office.
Tuffy and his staff are able to provide assistance in completing the application. They review the paperwork and generally provide an answer in two or three business days. The average grants are about $1,000, depending on need.
By monitoring the application process, the County's Veterans Affairs staff may also be able to suggest other forms of assistance and benefits that may be available.
For more information call 963-6778.
One-Bin Recycling: Moosic Borough has opted to implement a combined stream, "one-bin" format for recyclable paper fiber. The conveyor and processor line have been retooled to implement this new program.
The new system allows each household to combine or commingle newspaper, office paper, magazines, phone books and heavy and light cardboard in one recycling bin. Heavy and light cardboard and office paper are new additions and consist of items such as office paper, mailing envelopes and discarded mail, cereal boxes, tissue boxes and gift boxes, among other items.
Glass bottles and jars without tops, aluminum and steel cans, beverage and food containers, plastic bottles, jars tubs, plastic tops and lids will continue to be included in a separate "one-bin" format for containers. These items should be free of any food waste and debris.
Flynn Announces Hours: State Rep. Marty Flynn's constituent services office is open and ready to assist residents of the 113th Legislative District in navigating state government agencies and services, particularly the property tax/rent rebate program.
The freshman legislator said his office can provide free assistance with the property tax/rent rebate program, which provides state rebates on property taxes or rent paid in 2011 to eligible Pennsylvanians 65 and older; widows and widowers 50 and older; and people with permanent disabilities 18 and older. The income limit is $35,000 a year for homeowners and $15,000 annually for renters, and half of Social Security, Supplemental Security or federal Railroad Retirement Tier I income is excluded.
Peddling Notice: In response to community concerns and complaints, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of peddling, hawking, selling or soliciting for the sale of any types of goods, services, wares or merchandise, at any residence or along any street within the confines of the Borough of Moosic, or conduct any other type of temporary commercial activity without first having secured a temporary sales permit. All individuals engaged in or desiring to be engaged in peddling or other activities licensed under Moosic Borough Ordinance No. 18-1995, shall submit to a background check at their own expense. The fee for such a permit shall be in the amount of $25 per person for each day of intended activity. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $600, plus costs of prosecution, for each such offense, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned for a period of not more than 30 days and each day that a violation occurs or continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
Residents should contact Moosic Borough Police Department at the non-emergency number: 342-9111.
Reunion Planning: The Old Forge Class of 1947 is planning its 65th reunion. Any graduate interested in attending should call 457-2007 or 457-6329.
Reading to Dogs: The Taylor Community Library is once again hosting a "Read to the Dogs" program for children in grades one through five.
They are encouraged to come to the library and read to a therapy dog. The program is held on the fourth Monday of the month. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. and books will be provided for the child to read.
If you have any questions or would like to participate in this program contact the library at 562-1234. Registration is required.
Clothing Dropbox: The Moosic Alliance Church, 608 Rocky Glen Road, in cooperation with St. Pauly Textile, is now sponsoring a clothing drop off shed as a fundraiser to send youth to camp. The youth at Moosic Alliance Church will in turn receive $40 for every 1,000 pounds of clothing that is donated.
Coal Miners Wanted: Did you work the coal mines of Old Forge in the 1950s and '60s?
If so, contact Carl Orechovsky, evenings at 702-4217 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The group is searching for all types of information, photos, employees list, mine operations, stories and personal experiences.
Successful Living with Chronic Illness: All lupus patients and their family members or friends are invited to attend a support group that meets the third Thursday of each month at noon at 615 Jefferson Ave., Scranton.
For more information, call (888) 995-8787.
Crohn's Support: A Crohn's and Colitis support group meets the third Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. at Community Medical Center in Scranton. For more information, call Maria Huggler at 947-3575.
Flag Program: Moosic Borough initiated a Memorial Flag Donation Program a few years ago; however the borough has exhausted all the flags and is in need of new ones.
When a member of the Fire Service or a Veteran of the United States Armed Services loses their life, the family of the deceased is usually presented with a United States Flag. Generally, this flag has never been raised and flown. The Memorial Flag Program will give individuals an opportunity to have their flags raised and flown in honor of their loved ones. The Memorial Flag Program may serve as closure for a family in mourning.
This program also gives Moosic Borough an opportunity to pay tribute to brothers and sisters in the fire service and to veterans in the armed services.
The flags are flown on a monthly basis from the date which the council holds its monthly meeting to the next meeting. Once the supply of flags is exhausted, the flags will be returned to the flagpole until it is no longer useful. Anyone wishing to donate a flag in memory of a loved one can do so by dropping off their flag at the municipal building.
Garbage Stickers: Attention Old Forge residents should note that garbage stickers are available at the following locations:
- Convenient Food Mart, Main Street;
- Convenient Food Mart, Moosic Road;
- Gerrity's, Birney Avenue;
- Heer Xpress, Main Street;
- Medicine Shoppe, Main Street;
- Ace Hardware, Main Street;
- Ray's ShurSave, Main Street;
- Sayona, Keyser Avenue; and
- Turkey Hill, Main Street.
Pet Notice: Old Forge residents are reminded that the borough has an ordinance governing the curbing of pets and other animals and the responsibility for the removal of all animal waste. This ordinance applies to all borough parks. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to fines.
Zumba Classes: Zumba classes will be held at Romar Dance Studio at 7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays. The class is taught by Melissa Jones-Mariotti, certified Zumba instructor. The cost is $5 per class. For information, call at 457-6576.
Bulky Waste: Old Forge Borough Council has enacted an ordinance establishing a bulky waste collection rate of $6 per bulk waste item. The definition of bulky wastes is appliances, furniture, bedding and the like. The use of three $2 stickers is required. If you have any questions, call the administrative office at 457-8852.
Sewer Payment Notice: Old Forge residents are reminded that the borough sewer bills are to be paid at the Old Forge Branch of Penn Security Bank only. Other branches of Penn Security will not accept these payments.
Yard Waste Notice: Moosic Borough can no longer accept grass and leaves in any type of plastic bag (biodegradable or not).
This is a requirement by the Department of Environmental Protection. Grass and leaves must be placed in separate open containers, weighing no more than 35 pounds. Brush and tree limbs cannot be mixed with grass and leaves. They can be bundled together or placed in separate open containers.
Mass Schedule: The following is a Mass schedule for Prince of Peace Church, Old Forge: Saturday vigil is celebrated at 4 p.m. at St. Mary's, Church Street, and at 5:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence's Church on Main Street. Sunday Mass is celebrated at 8 and 10 a.m. at St. Mary's and 11:15 a.m. at St. Lawrence's.
New Members Welcome: The members of the First United Methodist Church, Harrison Street, Old Forge, announced that anyone new to the area who is looking for a place of worship is welcome to join the parish. Worship begins at 11:15 a.m. Children and people from all denominations are always welcome. The church is handicap accessible.
Seeking Volunteers: Serving Seniors is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and care of nursing home, assisted living/personal care home residents and older adults throughout Lackawanna County through its community services, transportation program, volunteer visitation, guardianship and ombudsman services and PEER (Pennsylvania's Empowered Expert Residents) program. Serving Seniors is funded by the Lackawanna County Commissioners through the Lackawanna County Area Agency on Aging with funds from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, the Federal Administration on Aging and the United Way of Lackawanna County. If you are available a few hours a month, 18 or older, concerned about the rights of nursing home and assisted living/personal care home residents and interested in making a difference in the lives of older adults, then you may be perfect for the volunteer program. For more information, contact 344-3931.
Borough Meetings: The 2013 Old Forge Borough Council meetings are scheduled as follows:
Work session meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.; public meetings are the third Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.; and planning meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m.
All meetings are held in council chambers located at the Old Forge Borough Building.
Recycling Notice: Old Forge Borough officials remind residents that a state law requires recycling in the borough. Cans, bottles and plastic are picked up at the curb on alternate weeks with newspaper and cardboard. If you have any questions or for more details on what can be recycled please call 457-8852.
Seeking Members: The Moosic Lions Club is opening membership for those interested in becoming a Knight of the Blind and Hearing Impaired and helping people in need. The group also sponsors a children's Christmas party and a Easter egg hunt. To apply, call 457-4037 or attend a meeting, which are held the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Grande's Restaurant, and on the third Wednesday of the month in the rear of the Moosic Youth Center at 6:30 p.m.
Big Band Society: The Big Band Society of NEPA is accepting applications for 2011 memberships. Dues are $15. The group meets the first Friday of each month at Genetti's in Wilkes-Barre. Call Glenn Smith, 457-5009, for more information.
Support Group: The Alzheimer's Association of Greater Pennsylvania hosts a support group meeting every Tuesday of the month from 7-8 p.m. For reservations, contact Rhonda Falk, 585-8099, or Rita Fenton, 342-1776 (work) or 586-0179 (home).
Support Meeting: T.O.P.S. Chapter 1569 will meet at the Taylor Library on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 562-1234.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile notes Thurs., Nov. 5
Aikenite – Trainer Todd Pletcher tried to double-team the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year with Munnings and Silent Valor, but neither was able to hit the board. He's optimistic the son of Yes It's True and stablemate Eskendereya give him a serious threat to win his first 2yo Breeders' Cup race.
"He's got the right style for this kind of track, and his race at Keeneland (second in Breeders' Futurity) should set him up for a big race," Pletcher said. "Hopefully he'll get a good trip from that post (9).
The Dogwood Stable colorbearer galloped 1 1/4m Thursday in preparation for this 1 1/16m race. Alan Garcia has the mount.
"Both are well," said trainer Aidan O'Brien. "Both cantered on the track this morning. I'm happy with both of them."
Alfred Nobel is making his third start off a layoff in the Juvenile. The biggest victory of his seven-race career came in the Phoenix Stakes at The Curragh on July 26.
Regular rider John Murtagh has the mount in the Juvenile.
Aspire – Trainer Eddie Kenneally arrived in California on Wednesday and was very happy with the condition of his Breeders' Cup Juvenile hopeful who he sent out to jog 6f and gallop 1 ½ m on Thursday.
"He's doing super," said Kenneally. "I was pleasantly surprised with how I found him. He's acting like an older horse. He's very relaxed and handling things well."
When asked what he thought was going to be the key to a good race on Saturday, Kenneally, replied "A good trip. He had a bad trip in the Hopeful (when second) and then again in the Champagne (when third) and only got beat by two lengths in both of them."
Beethoven – The son of Oratoio arrives at the Breeders' Cup fresh from a victory in the Dewhurst, which trainer Aidan O'Brien called Europe's biggest 2yo race.
O'Brien added blinkers for the first time and Beethoven responded with a big effort in the 7f race at Newmarket.
"That brought him back to where he was in the spring," O'Brien said. "He's been racing on bad ground all year and because of that he was a little bit idle in his races."
Beethoven cantered on the main track Thursday morning.
Ryan Moore, who rode the colt in the Dewhurst, has the mount in the Juvenile.
D' Funnybone – In the back of the minds of nearly every trainer of a Breeders' Cup 2yo is their Triple Crown potential. Rick Dutrow Jr. won the 2007 Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Big Brown, and now he has another potential prospect in D' Funnybone.
"He's been a pleasant surprise and we're happy to keep it that way for now," Dutrow said of his Juvenile contender. "This is a big, big race for him Saturday, and I'm not looking past the Breeders' Cup. After the race, if everything is beautiful, we'll be happy to see where we're at with him, but I haven't thought about next year yet. I'm only concerned with the Breeders' Cup right now."
D' Funnybone has yet to race past 7f and his sire D'wildcat was strictly a sprinter, but Dutrow has reason to believe his colt will handle the added distance just fine.
"I trained his half-sister Dr. Kathy, and she was right there at the wire behind Ashado in the 2003 Demoiselle," Dutrow said. "He (D' Funnybone) gives me the impression that he's going to like two turns and some more distance. He's really finished up good in his races for us."
D' Funnybone enjoyed a sensational summer in New York, but Dutrow believes he's even better now than he was then.
"He's a simple horse to train now," Dutrow said. "We have to hold him back in his breezes now. We used to have to ask him. He's just a different horse this fall. He's turned the corner the right way. This horse is in the zone."
Eskendereya – Racing right alongside his stablemate, Aikenite, the Pilgrim winner has a similar running style from off the pace. He galloped 1 ¼m over the main track on Thursday.
"We knew he was good on the turf," said trainer Todd Pletcher, who ran three colts unsuccessfully in the 2006 Juvenile. "He's a Giant's Causeway, so the surface should be no problem."
Javier Castellano rode him to victory in the off-the-turf Pilgrim at Belmont and will be aboard for the Juvenile. The Zayat Stable 2yo was second in his only other race on the turf at Saratoga.
Lookin At Lucky – The 2yo son of Smart Strike jogged at Santa Anita Thursday morning, having completed his final work before the Juvenile on Monday when he went 4f in 47 1/5.
Trainer Bob Baffert was disappointed by the colt's draw of post 13 – the far outside – on Tuesday, and was realistic about his unbeaten runner's chances of taking the race he won last year with Midshipman.
"The outside post is a bummer," Baffert said. "I was pretty disappointed with that. One thing's for sure, Garrett Gomez is going to have to put on a Hall of Fame type of ride to get him there. He's gonna have to have a lot of luck."
Lookin At Lucky won his last start, the Oct. 4 Norfolk, at Santa Anita under Gomez by 1 ¾ lengths. Gomez piloted Midshipman to his Juvenile victory last year.
"He knows the horse, it's not like he's getting on him for the first time," Baffert said of the top-notch rider. "He can turn him on or shut him off, and when he's been riding one a lot, I don't have to tell Garrett anything. So we'll see how it goes, it'll be interesting to see what he's made of."
Noble's Promise – Trainer Kenny McPeek has always believed in repetition with his 2yos and has not deviated from that this week as he continued to send his five juveniles to the track one by one for 1 ½ m gallops including Dixiana Breeders' Futurity winner Noble's Promise.
McPeek has made a total of 10 Breeders' Cup starts and eight of those have been with 2yos. From those eight starts, he has a record of 0-2-2, with Dream Empress' second last year in the Juvenile Fillies being his most recent success.
When asked if he has learned anything from those previous starts, McPeek replied with a grin, "Bring a good horse.
"We've brought a good bunch this time and have real shots."
Piscitelli – Piscitelli galloped 1 ½ m Thursday morning under exercise rider Angel Rangel.
"He was strong," said Rick Sacco, brother of trainer Gregg Sacco and the racing manager for owner William Schettine. "Angel said that he was steady and that he was up into the bridle the whole way around. This horse has thrived since he's been here."
The 2yo son of Victory Gallop will be making just his fifth start and Sacco feels the best is yet to come.
"We're looking forward to this race and looking forward to next year with him," said Sacco. "He will only get better as he gets older and the distances of the races progress."
Pulsion – Trainer Patrick Biancome sent Pulsion out Thursday for a 1 ½ m gallop under exercise rider Daron Long as he tried to keep the 2yo colt happy and fit until race day.
"He's as laid back a horse as you'd ever want one," said assistant trainer Chris Crowe. "He's doing everything good."
Radiohead – The son of Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Johannesburg schooled in the paddock and at the gate Thursday morning and then galloped on the main track as he seeks the same prize won by his sire.
Trainer Brian Meehan said he's happy with the way Radiohead, who won the Norfolk Stakes in June and was second most recently in the Middle Park Stakes on Oct. 2, is coming up to the race.
"He's doing great here," said Meehan. "I was really happy with his last race ( Middle Park). He was getting to the leader and just ran out of ground."
This will be Radiohead's first race on the Pro-Ride track, but Meehan said the colt is very familiar with synthetic surfaces.
"He trains at Manton, where we have a Polytrack and a woodchip track," the trainer said. "He was bouncing over the track here this morning."
Martin Dwyer gets the riding call again on Saturday.
Vale of York – The 2yo colt by Invincible Spirit came out for a main track gallop Thursday morning with Godolphin stablemates Buzzword (Juvenile Turf) and Gladiatorus (Mile).
Vale of York won a stakes at Goodwood in September and last out was beaten a neck when second in the Gran Criterium at San Siro in Italy on Oct. 11. Ahmed Ajtebi again has the mount.
"He's showing good energy here," said trainer Saeed bin Suroor, who was pleased with the colt's progress.
This will be Vale of York's racing debut on a synthetic track, but bin Suroor said that will not be a problem.
"He trains on the Tapeta track all the time and likes it," the trainer said. "The surface should be no problem at all."
William's Kitten – Trainer Mike Maker will have five horses on the Breeders' Cup programs Friday and Saturday and four of them - Kera's Kitten/Dean's Kitten (Juvenile Turf), Lisa's Kitten (Juvenile Fillies Turf) and William's Kitten (Juvenile) - are 2yos by the freshman sire Kitten's Joy.
Kitten's Joy, who earned $2 million while campaigning for Ken and Sarah Ramsey from 2003 to 2005, now stands for $20,000 at their farm in Kentucky. With 16 winners from 35 2yo runners, Kitten's Joy trails only Roman Ruler amongst first crop sires.
"The Ramseys have a great deal invested in Kitten's Joy," Maker said. "I think Ken said he has 346 of them, between 2-year-olds, yearlings, weanlings and babies on the way."
This week, the Ramseys have been passing out red buttons that read "FIVE Running Kittens". Their fifth 'Kitten' is the Wesley Ward-trained Becky's Kitten, who is set to compete in Saturday's Juvenile Turf.
Read more articles in the Breeders' Cup category.

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We have some drilling to do!
Using a (signed) 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date in about 290 billion years, on Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596. However, this problem is not widely regarded as a pressing issue.
11th millennium and beyond:
- December 4, 292,277,026,596: 64-bit Unix time resets to zero.
- December 31, 17,014,118,346,046,923,173,168,730,371,588,410: 128-bit Unix time resets to zero.
There's a fantastic animation of this process at Spaceguard's [esa.int] site, just scroll down to the second animation.
where i met this incredible girl! how improbable...
This asteroid has a Palermo Technical Scale [nasa.gov] risk assessment of -2.52.
The PTS relates the impact risk to the background risk in a logarithmic way -- that is, the probability of Apophis hitting us is 0.003 times the probability that we will be struck by some other asteroid of equal or larger size first. Or, put another way, yes we should be worried about asteroid impacts, and yes we should keep watching Apophis, but it's not (by our understanding) a big cause to go and panic.
That said, Apophis is the second highest ranked asteroid we know about by the PTS, behind 2007 CA19 at -0.91 (potential impact in 2012). And if it gets the people with the budgets to start considering the problem, that's a good thing. Right now, though, it would seem that our best use of money is to spend more effort looking for asteroids -- so far, the number we find appears to be fairly well correlated to how hard we look, suggesting that we have found a very, very small fraction of the NEOs out there.
...suggesting that we have found a very, very small fraction of the NEOs out there.
Think about it where our priorities should be.
One thing we should worry about is a prediction of an impact in a large population centre. For example a 1 in 100 probability of an impact in India in 10 years. The result of such a prediction would be much worse than the actual impact.
Excellent! I guess we can keep using a 32-bit time_t [wikipedia.org] after all!
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/ (5) 'Firearm muffler or firearm silencer' means a device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, and any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.
Section 23-31-1060. Nothing in this article affects a court's duty to conduct a hearing on the issue of a person's fitness to stand trial pursuant to Section 44-23-430. A solicitor shall not dismiss charges against a person prior to such hearing based solely on the person's fitness to stand trial." /
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Yasmani Grandal clubbed a go-ahead three-run home run as part of a five-run fourth inning that vaulted the San Diego Padres to a 6-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the middle test of a three- game set at Petco Park.
Grandal's first home run of the season made a winner out of Jason Marquis (9-2), who yielded three runs on three hits and four walks over 6 2/3 frames to notch his eighth straight positive decision.
Huston Street secured his 12th save of the season, despite giving up a run in the ninth.
Kyle Blanks added a solo shot and two runs scored, while Logan Forsythe and Chase Headley each knocked in a run for the Padres, who have won five straight games to reach the .500 mark for the first time this season.
"It was a goal, but the end goal is obviously to win as many games as possible and get to the playoffs," Marquis said of hitting the .500 mark. "We got to a goal that we wanted to accomplish but it doesn't stop there."
Wade Miley (4-6) was tagged with the loss after giving up six runs -- one earned -- on six hits and a walk over six innings.
Miguel Montero stroked a two-run homer, while Cliff Pennington and Gerardo Parra each added an RBI in the setback, Arizona's fifth in its last seven games.
Miley held the Padres hitless over the first three frames before the home team broke through in a big way in the fourth.
Everth Cabrera led off with a single and moved to third when Chris Denorfia reached on shortstop Didi Gregorius' fielding error.
Headley then singled to score Cabrera before Blanks' fielder's choice groundout left runners on the corners. Forsythe followed with a sacrifice fly to score Denorfia.
After Jesus Guzman singled, Grandal provided the big blow of the inning, launching a 2-2 slider into the left-field seats to give the Padres a 5-3 lead.
Blanks led off the sixth with his seventh homer of the season to push San Diego's advantage to 6-3.
"After they stung us for five runs, I didn't like our at-bats at all," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson admitted. "We should have rebounded better than that."
Arizona cut into the lead in the ninth against Street, as Pennington ripped a one-out single to short that Cabrera wasn't able to handle.
Pennington moved to second on a wild pitch and found third on a line-out before scoring on Parra's double to right.
Street, though, bounced back by flying out Gregorius to end the game.
Arizona struck first in the opening frame, as Montero followed Paul Goldschmidt's two-out walk with a towering fly ball into the right-field seats to make it 2-0.
The Diamondbacks loaded the bases with one out in the fourth before Pennington's fielder's choice groundout plated another run to push the visitor's lead to 3-0.
Game Notes
Miley has lost all three of his starts against San Diego this season and fell to 1-5 in seven career starts against the Padres ... Marquis hasn't lost since April 22 ... Arizona went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and left seven runners on base.


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New Orleans Hornets owner Tom Benson announced Thursday that the name of the team will change to the New Orleans Pelicans, beginning in the 2013-14 season.
"When we purchased the basketball team, it was a priority to change the name to reflect our culture, our community and our resolve. The Pelican does that," said Benson. "Our region has been hard hit in recent years and the one thing that stands out is the resiliency and determination to comeback, to fight and overcome. The Pelican symbolizes that. The synergy of this name, this bird and the future of our state and region are intertwined and in three, five, ten years from now, it will be not only be a name of a sports franchise but it will also be the face of the continued recovery of our region. We will promote healthy habitats, not only for our youth but for our community, our coast and our wildlife. The Pelican name will do that. It is more than a name. It represents our way of life."
The name was changed to the Pelicans largely due to its connection with the state of Louisiana. It has been the state bird for over a century and can be found on both the state's flag and seal. The team's colors will be blue, red, and gold.
The team's primary color, blue, is taken from Louisiana's state flag. The Pelicans and Saints will share the color gold, uniting the organizations, while celebrating the spirited life of New Orleans and its many celebrations (gold is also a commonly found color on the "crown" of the pelican). Red represents fraternity and is indicative of the blood provision of the mother pelican and the vibrant color underneath the pelican's throat. All three colors are found on the City of New Orleans flag.
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PORTSMOUTH — A Durham man was arrested Wednesday on charges he threatened to slit a man's throat and disembowel a woman as a result of a phone conversation that didn't go the way he wanted it to.
Duncan Stebbins, 29, of 9 Chelsea Drive is facing two Class A misdemeanor counts of criminal threatening stemming from a Jan. 8 phone conversation.
A judge set Stebbins' bail at $2,500 cash or surety on Wednesday and ordered him to stay 1,000 feet away from the victims.
Court paperwork indicates Stebbins made bail and is free pending his Feb. 9 trial.
An arrest affidavit filed by Portsmouth Police Officer Eric Benson indicates he was on foot patrol in the downtown area on Jan. 8 when he was called to respond to a Bow Street residence.
Court documents indicate Benson spoke with two victims about an alleged phone conversation that took place at approximately 6:50 p.m.
Authorities say Stebbins called individuals at a Portsmouth residence and had become agitated, telling a male victim he would come to the home and "put a knife to your neck."
The affidavit indicates the individual hung up on Stebbins, but that he called back to the same number and spoke to a female victim who informed the defendant they didn't want to speak to him based on what he had said.
Police say Stebbins responded by asking the victims not to call the police so he could "drive over and cut out your intestines."
Stebbins is facing criminal threatening charges for the alleged comments with the charges indicating the remarks were made to terrorize the victims.
Portsmouth Prosecutor Rena DiLando said Stebbins has no criminal history, but noted his attorney did reference during court proceedings that his client had been acquitted on past sexual assault charges.
Durham man charged with threatening to put knife to man's neck and disembowel woman
PORTSMOUTH — A Durham man was arrested Wednesday on charges he threatened to slit a man's throat and disembowel a woman as a result of a phone conversation that didn't go the way he wanted it to.


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The Vast Number of Issues
Kentucky Rep. Rita Smart
Former County Extension Agent
Elected in 2010
Member of Agriculture and Small Business, Education, Local Government, Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety committees
"For me it was the vast number of different issues. I had served on the city commission and ... we had revenue issues and just three or four others. In state government, you have all these many things. To go along with that, you're just bombarded with all this information. … In the media, most people will hear about the top issues—the budget, retirement, corrections. You hear firsthand in your committee meetings. But if you're not in a committee, then you've got to read the minutes of committee meetings or ask fellow legislators to get you up to date on issues that are going on."
Things Are as They Seem
Arizona Sen. Don Shooter
Elected in 2010
Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee; vice chair, Water, Land Use and Rural Development Committee; member of Natural Resources and Transportation, and Water, Land Use and Rural Development committees
"The thing that surprised me the most is that things are as they seem. Pretty much the situation is what you would think it would be and people behave as you would think they would behave. … A lot of it didn't surprise me. There are people who are doing it for the right reason. There are people up here doing it for the wrong reason. … . I thought there would be a lot of Machiavellian stuff and this and that. Mostly, it's just people up here trying to do what they think is right."
Constituents Respect Plain Talk
Connecticut Rep. Greg Haddad
Elected in 2010
Former Senate legislative aide
Vice chair, House Commerce Committee; Member of Appropriations and Higher Education committees
"Soon after taking office, what struck me was how realistic and thoughtful my constituents have been about the tough decisions that I had to make as a member of the Connecticut General Assembly. When I had difficult news to share, whether about programmatic cuts, or tax increases, my constituents consistently encouraged me to focus on solving the budget problems for the long term. Though politicians may not be seen in the highest regard, I found that people respect elected officials who speak plainly and truthfully about the challenges we face and prefer real pragmatic solutions over feel-good substitutes."
The Issues are Complex
Kansas Sen. Jeff Longbine
Elected in 2010 to fill an unexpired term
Chevrolet dealer
Member of Commerce, Financial Institutions and Insurance, Federal and State Affairs committees and the KPERS Select Committee
"The thing that surprised me the most was the complexity of some of the issues that we deal with and the research that has to be done to make sure we don't have unintended consequences to the legislation that passes. Oftentimes, (legislation) seems very straightforward on the surface, but when you dig deeper … or you start looking at how that legislation is going to interact with other pieces of legislation or what effects it's going to have on different constituencies, that's where the real work is. It takes a lot of research and a lot of discussion and a lot of looking at things at different angles to really understand the complexity of something that may appear to be a very simple issue."
Opportunities to Learn Are Available
Iowa Rep. Dan Kelley
Elected in 2010
Realtor and small-business owner
2012 Toll Fellow; BILLD Fellow
Member of the Ethics, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, Education and ranking member on the Administration and Regulations Budget Subcommittee
"I was pleasantly surprised at how many opportunities there are to develop leadership skills and develop your ability to navigate the legislative process offered by organizations such as CSG. … There are a lot of opportunities to learn about the campaign process, but … serving as a legislator is a completely different job than running a campaign. … Another thing that surprised me (was that) it was possible to build good friendships and relationships with fellow representatives in the other party. We hear about partisan bickering and we hear about how the parties don't know how to work together constantly. I expected my legislative experience to be in line with that thinking."
Legislature Moves at a Quick Pace
Alabama Rep. Bill Poole
Elected in 2010
Member of Ways and Means Education, Judiciary, Technology and Research, and Tuscaloosa County Legislation committees
"Having completed a special and two regular sessions in my first term, I was initially surprised at the speed at which the legislative session and process moves. Similar to other states, that pace is driven by the limited number of days that the legislature can convene in Alabama. This was a stark contrast to my experiences earlier in my career on Capitol Hill, where I witnessed the much slower pace of the federal legislative process. I was also surprised, but very pleased, with how quickly our legislature was able to pass significant budgetary and other substantive reforms following the 2010 elections."


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This superb "Self Portrait" is a rare example of an important theme in the artists oeuvre: the complicated dichotomy between the public and private persona. From the outset of his Pop Art career, Warhols use of popular media images of celebrities in his 1962-63 portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor was a vehicle for exploring themes as diverse as individual mortality and the universality of popular culture. Almost immediately, Warhol became a public celebrity in his own right and self-portraiture joined his subject matter in 1963. Content and painter were never more intricately linked in the history of self portraiture, and his own persona became the most potent avenue for exploring celebrity, vulnerability and death.
The series of 1986 portraits would be the artists last, painted just prior to his death in February 1987. While the artist created Self Portraits throughout his career, the majority date from the 1960s and 1970s. When Warhol created the 1986 series, it had been quite some time since he had dealt with his own iconic image. Previous 1960s Self-Portraits had been based on strips of images taken in a photo booth, while the 1986 works are based on polaroids which he had used throughout the 1970s as source images. Wearing his signature fright wig, Warhols self-image overwhelms the inky black canvas surface, confronting the viewer with a direct and haunting gaze. While many of the large-format 1986 Self-Portraits measure 80 x 80 inches, this monumental painting is one of only a handful on the scale of 108 x 108 inches, each with a different color ground than the current purple Self-Portrait. They are in the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (yellow and blue versions), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (green version) and an American private collection (red version). These Self Portraits have an elegiac and mystical intensity and are the penultimate statement of the artists contradictory nature as a flamboyantly public personality who was ultimately enigmatic as a private individual.
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If anyone could help me out here i would greatly apprciate it, i have a 2003 dodge ram 1500 3.7 L v6 i wanted to swap it out with a 5.7 v8 hemi and i was wondering if it was possible?? andabout how much it would cost me. my biggest concern was have one wheel drive in the rear and now with the hemi converting it to a real rear wheel drive haha. If anyone can post back to this with some advice and help id apprciate it. Thanks!
the one wheel drive is easily remidied with a rear differential locker. the swap should be easy enough im not sure if the wiring will need to be switched or not. i can't really see why it should need to be.
From my understanding, almost all the wiring would need to be changed, but don't take my word for it. Best to make sure. As for the swap and "peg leg" drive (Dodge should've been ashamed to do such a thing to the Ram...) The swap is fairly easy, plenty of space for even the Gen 2 Hemi. That you can take my word on, if you have doubts, look up "Hot Rod Hemi Ram". You'll need a change in transmission, like the 45RFE or 545RFE transmission. The "Peg Leg" can be fixed with a locker, better yet,one of a LSD variety. There are different kinds out there, so make sure you get the right one for the street, unless you intend to run 1/4 mile runs...
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Yes for the engine swap the wiring will need to be changed, nothing will need to be changed for the rear diff locker. I never specified that well enough.
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The Yreka Lady Miners varsity softball team crushed Central Valley 15-1 in five innings at home on Friday to sweep the season series with the Lady Falcons.
The Lady Miners scored five runs in the first inning and eight runs in the second inning to take a commanding 13-0 lead. The majority of Yreka's starters rested the rest of the way as the squad earned the 14-run victory.
Pitcher Kendall Moser was perfect in two innings of work with three strikeouts and no walks. From the plate, Moser went 2-for-2 with four RBIs. Megan Hassell went 2-for-2 with two RBIs and a run. McKenzie Pellizer finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs.
Yreka downed CV in two games on the road on Tuesday to open the Northern Athletic League season. Yreka is now 18-7 overall and 3-0 in the NAL.
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I can't wait to see the output of :
I guess we will need to use:
When we reach 1 million cores, we will need to rearrange the output of cat
By the way I just typed "make menuconfig" and it wiil let you enter a number up to 512 in the "Maximum number of CPUs" field, so the Linux kernel seems ready for up to 512 CPUs (or cores, they are handled the same way by Linux it seems) as far I can tell by this simple test. Entering a number greater than 512 gives the "You have made an invalid entry" message
Note: You need to turn on "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" flag as well.
... and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
It IS a Beowulf cluster.
Obligatory Princess Bride quote:
Miracle Max: Go away or I'll call the brute squad!
Fezzik: I'm ON the brute squad.
Miracle Max: [opens door] You ARE the brute squad!
But the more important question is...
Will it run Windows 7.
I know, I know, its the wrong questions, but the answer to the other one is always "yes".
By the way I just typed "make menuconfig" and it wiil let you enter a number up to 512 in the "Maximum number of CPUs" field, so the Linux kernel seems ready for up to 512 CPUs (or cores, they are handled the same way by Linux it seems) as far I can tell by this simple test. Entering a number greater than 512 gives the "You have made an invalid entry" message
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
If you change the code a little more, when I enter a number that's too high for menuconfig, it says "We're not talking about your penis size, Holmes"
And if you change the code a little more, it takes single-threaded tasks and automatically finds an efficient parallelization of them, distributing the work out to those million cores!
Actually, some algorithms (like fluid simulation and a very large neural net) are not that hard to parallelize to run on a million cores.
Yes, but taking an arbitrary single-threaded algorithm and automatically figuring out what the parallelization is is the hard part. =]
Well, you could analyze the data dependencies and put them into a dependency graph, and then figure out what can be parallelized without having too much synchronization overhead. However, that's probably something for a theoretical scientific paper, and I'd be surprised if you could paralellize most algorithms to split to more threads than you could count on one hand...
As soon as you're doing linear I/O (like network access), you've hit a barrier anyways.
Actually, some algorithms (like fluid simulation and a very large neural net) are not that hard to parallelize to run on a million cores.
Building the memory backplane and communication system (assuming you're going for a cluster) to support a million CPUs is non-trivial. Without those, you'll go faster with fewer CPUs. That's why supercomputers are expensive (it's not in the processors, but in the rest of the infrastructure to support them).
Unfortunately these days the meaning of supercomputer gets a bit diluted by many people calling clusters "supercomputers". They aren't really. As you noted what makes a supercomputer "super" isn't the number of processors, it is the rest, in particular the interconnects. Were this not the case, you could simply use cheaper clusters.
So why does it matter? Well, certain kinds of problems can't be solved by a cluster, just as certain ones can. To help understand how that might work, take something more people are familiar with like the difference between a cluster and just a bunch of computers on the Internet.
Some problems are extremely bandwidth non-intensive. They don't need no inter-node communication, and very little communication with the head node. A good example would be the Mersenne Prime Search, or Distributed.net. The problem is extremely small, the structure of the program is larger than the data itself. All the head node has to do is hand out ranges for clients to work on, and the clients only need to report the results, affirmative or negative. As such, it is something suited to work over the Internet. The nodes can be low bandwidth, they can drop out of communication for periods of time and it all works fine. Running on a cluster would gain you no speed over the same group of computers on modems.
However the same is not true for video rendering. You have a series of movie files you wish to composite in to a final production, with effects and so on. This sort of work is suited to a cluster. While the nodes can work independent, the work of one node doesn't depend on the others, they do require a lot of communication with the head node. The problem is very large, the video data can be terabytes. The result is also not small. So you can do it on many computers, but the bandwidth needs to be pretty high, with low latency. Gigabit Ethernet is likely what you are looking at. Trying to do it over the Internet, even broadband, would waste more time in data transfer than you'd gain in processing. You need a cluster.
Ok well supercomputers are the next level of that. What happens when you have a problem where you DO have a lot of inter-node communication? The result of the calculations on one node are influenced by the results on all others. This happens in things like physics simulations. In this case, a cluster can't handle it. You can slam your bandwidth but worse, you have too much latency. You spend all your time waiting on data, and thus computation speed isn't any faster.
For that, you need a supercomputer. You need something where nodes can directly access the memory of other nodes. It isn't quite as fast as local memory access, but nearly. Basically you want them to play like they are all the same physical system.
That's what separates a true supercomputer for a big cluster. You can have lots of CPUs and that's wonderful, there are a lot of problems you can solve on that. However that isn't a supercomputer unless the communication between nodes is there.
How many cores does it take to run a parallel algorithm?
100 - 1 to do the processing, 1 to fetch the data and 98 to calculate an efficient way to make the whole thing run in parallel.
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
640K cores is more than anyone will ever need.
No you really need 16,711,680 cores. So you have one core for every cell in a standard Excel 2003 sheet (Yea I know 2007 finally gave us more space)
So 65,536 rows by 255 columns. A CPU for each sell processing its own value. Excel may almost run fast.
I know 2007 finally gave us more space
My god... You're one of THEM!!!!
The information in cpuinfo is only redundant like that on x86/amd64...
On Sparc or Alpha, you get a single block of text where one of the fields means "number of cpus", example:
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre)
fpu : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU
prom : OBP 3.10.25 2000/01/17 21:26
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
D$ parity tl1 : 0
I$ parity tl1 : 0
Cpu0Bogo : 880.38
Cpu0ClkTck : 000000001a3a4eab
MMU Type : Spitfire
number of cpus active and number of cpus probed (includes any which are inactive)... a million cpus wouldn't present a problem here.
Good point. But since it wouldn't be hard to add this to
... on x86. Now port your code to PowerPC. Oh, sorry, different format, fields have different names. Write a new parser. Now port it to ARM. Oh, sorry, different format, fields have different names, some of the information isn't there. Now try porting it to SPARC, oh, sorry, can't be bothered supporting Linux, waste of developer time.
Take a look at
It's all there, in an architecture-independent way in
That gets modded interesting these days? The use of a pipe?
If that's not too basic to be considered interesting then moderators have got a odd idea about what interesting actually means.
because in 2009 CPU power and memory are cheaper than dirt. or didn't you notice we're discussing a 100-core CPU ?
with capacities like that, even firing MS word to edit a plain text file, instead of notepad, is not too costly anymore... and no, i won't apologize, say i was kidding or any other shenanigans. i really mean it.
And then when you use this same pattern in a concurrent find operation, and you end up with 2,000 processes running instead of 1,000, and each read operation being turned into a read, copy, write, read, sequence (which is what happens if you use cat like this), then it's still a good idea?
No matter how fast computers become, a complex and slow solution to a problem is never better than a simple and slow one. At the very least, typing 'cat
I think that "Useless Use of cat" is funny. I really do. I go back and read it every once in a while just for grins.
But we're in the future, now. Spawning that extra process isn't going to hurt anything. Yeah, it's fun to poke at people who do silly things like that, but in reality, there's rarely harm in doing things this way. Even if you're using a shell script which will run "cat file | grep" over and over, you're probably not going to start thrashing on a modern CPU.
First, and importantly, it is more to type. Getting into the habit of doing more work than you need to is never a good idea.
Secondly, it is a much bigger overhead than you might think. With 'less {file}' the less process just reads the data directly. The kernel copies it out of the VM cache and into the process's buffer. Sometimes it doesn't even do that. Both less and grep will sometimes use mmap(). In that case, the kernel just updates the page tables and the data is never copied, it's just DMA'd f
It's not less to type once you've already typed "cat
Basically, your post is equivalent to advocating writing your own bubblesort implementation, because it's fast enough on small data sets with modern processors, rather than using the system-provided quicksort function. It's a bad habit, and the fact that it isn't too bad in certain situations doesn't mean it's something that should be encouraged.
It's like using system-implemented bubblesort over system-implemented quicksort because you're using to typing bubblesort. When you realize that you actually need something faster, you can switch. You're advocating Premature Optimization [wikipedia.org], which Knuth warns against.
When we reach 1 million cores, we'll probably be able to ask the computer what's on his mind...
Yes, I suppose technically any FPGA could be considered a "core" in its own right, but it's a far cry from the CPU cores that you typically associate with the term.
Putting a stock on a semi-automatic rifle makes it an "assault weapon", but c'mon. It's still a pea shooter.
How does this fix the apps they ported being mostly IO bound in a lot of cases and 99% of the cores will still just be eating out of their noses?
Loads and loads of RAM/cache, possibly?
The Register [channelregister.co.uk] goes into more detail than this article, as usal.
The Tile-Gx chips will run the Linux 2.6.26 kernel and add-on components that make it an operating system. Apache, PHP, and MySQL are being ported to the chips, and the programming tools will include the latest GCC compiler set. (Three years ago, Tilera had licensed SGI's MIPS-based C/C++ compilers for the Tile chips, which is why I think Tilera has also licensed some MIPS intellectual property to create its chip design, but the company has not discussed this.)
So it seems pretty standard and they're using existing open & closed source MIPS toolchains, however there's still "will" and "are being" in that sentence which brings a little unease...
In general, new instruction sets are mostly interesting in the custom software and the open source software areas. But the latter is quite a large chunk of the server market, so I suppose they could live with that.
They would need to get support into gcc first, though.
From a quick Google - its based on the ARM core (easily licensable cpu core)
From a quick Google - its based on the ARM core (easily licensable cpu core)
Must be a coincidence, but I was just thinking a week ago why nobody's tried to make a many-core CPU by doing a cookie-cutter job and just replicating a simple ARM core a bunch of times... looks like someone has!
64-bit VLIW instructions, 2 ALUs, 1 load store unit (3 ops/clock) I'm going to guess 32 registers (ala MIPS) - that means 3+3+2=8x(log2 32 = 5) = 40 bits to encode registers 8+8+8 to encode opcodes which seems maybe too many - perhaps 64 registers 48 bits of regs and 16 of opcodes?
no FPU though sadly
You can always offload your number crunching to a GPU with OpenCL...
That's a coincidence, I was thinking that when you get to that may cores, you're effectively producing something akin to a VLIW processor, with each instruction handed to its own execution system.
The company [tilera.com] website claims...
64-bit VLIW processors with 64-bit instruction bundle
3-deep pipeline with up to 3 instructions per cycle
I don't know how this could be considered ARM or MIPS-derived...
A better description might have been in this article [linuxfordevices.com]...
The Tile64 is based on a proprietary VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, on which a MIPS-like RISC architecture is implemented in microcode. A hypervisor enables each core to run its own instance of Linux, or alternatively the whole
Why was this modded Informative? Can we have any links? Because both the article here as well as Wikipedia and an old Ars Technica story claim that it's based on MIPS.
1. LLVM backend
2. Grand central
3. ???
4. Done.
Seriously though, this is exactly what Apple have been working towards recently in the compiler space. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorythm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using a syntax that is light weight and expressive. Then your compiler tool chain and runtime JIT manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task. It might run on the normal CPU, or it might run on the graphics card.
Although I don't expect Apple to release an Apple Server edition with a Tilera multicore processor, I would be interested to see a version of FreeBSD running with Grand Central Dispatch on a Tilera multicore chip. It would give a good idea of how effective GCD would be in allocating cores for execution. Any machine with 100 cores must have a considerable amount of RAM, perhap 8GB+, even with large caches.
Apple has been very active in developing LLVM compilers, and has recently added CLANG front end, inste
Oh, and the version of clang that Apple ships as 1.0 is a branch from the main tree from a few weeks before the official 1.0 release was branched. Apple puts a lot of developer effort into clang, but so do other people (including myse
"Seriously though, this is exactly what Apple have been working towards recently in the compiler space. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorythm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using a syntax that is light weight and expressive. Then your compiler tool chain and runtime JIT manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task."
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! It's the iPod all over again! Apple did not invent the thread pool! I'm sure Gran
Oh I'm not saying it's not innovative, I'm not saying they don't (or didn't) do good, interesting and cutting edge research, it just annoys me that some folks think that they invented the thread pool/job queue model.
"...if the instruction set isn't any standard type..."
No problem; use the processor for a 'speak and spell'-type toy, a drug store reusable digital camera or a scientific calculator and someone will hack a decent Linux kernel onto it over a weekend.
They have a C compiler. That's all we need.
Wouldn't it have been better to make it a power of 2? Some work is more easily divided when you can just keep halving it. 64 or 128 would have been more logical I would have thought. I'm not an SMP programmer thought, so perhaps it doesn't make any difference.
Wish I had mod points today. I wonder how many people will get just how funny this fantastically sarcastic and totally on target comment was. Bravo.
Q: Does the number of processors in a SMP system need to be a power of two/divisible by two?
A: No.
Q: Does the number of processors in a SMP system...
A: Any number of CPUs/cores that is larger than one will make the system an SMP system*.
(* except when it's an asymmetrical architecture)
Q: How do these patterns (power of 2, divisible by 2, etc) of numbers of cores affect performance?
A: Performance depends on the architecture of the system. You cannot judge by simply looking at the number of cores, just as you can't simply look at MHz.
In TFA sez it's ported to apache. Might be useful.
No, they are derived from the MIPS architecture.
OK, so big disclaimer: I work for Sun (not Oracle, yet!)
The Sun Niagara T1 chip came out over 3 years ago, and it did 32 threads on 8 cores.
And drew something around 50W (200W for a fully-loaded server). And under $4k.
The T2 systems came out last year, do 64 threads/CPU for a similar power budget. And even less $/thread.
The T3 systems likely will be out next year (I don't know specifically when, I'm not In The Know), and the threads/chip should double again, with little power increase.
Of course, per-thread performance isn't equal to anything like a modern "standard" CPU. Though, it's now "good enough" for most stuff - the T2 systems have a per-thread performance equal to about the old Pentium3 chips. I would be flabbergasted if this GX chip had a per-core performance anywhere near that.
I'm not sure how Intel's Larabee is going to show (it's still nowhere near release), but the T-seres chips from Sun are cheap, open, and available now. And they run Solaris AND Linux. So unless this new GX chip is radically more efficient/higher-performance/less costly, I don't see this company making any impact.
Since a) developing a processor is insanely expensive and b) they need it to run lots of software ASAP, it would be very clever if they spent a marginal part of the overall development costs in making sure every key Linux and *BSD kernel developer gets some hardware they can use to port the stuff over. Make it a nice desktop workstation with cool graphics and it will happen even faster.
They are going up against Intel... The traditional approach (delivering a faster processor with a better power consumption at a lower price) simply will not work here.
I think Movidis taught us a lesson a couple years back. Users will not move away from x86 for anything less than a spectacular improvement. Even the Niagara SPARC servers are a hard sell these days...
The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search.
Can someone explain to me how a chip can be targetted at much higher-level tasks like these?
I realize there are surely technical means to achieve this goal, I just can't imagine myself what these means could be.
An associative memory requirement could be better served by a custom high-core count, CPU
Clojure is a lisp on the JVM designed for multi-threading. From:
http://clojure.org/ [clojure.org]
Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every
My point being that 100 cores, while it sounds impressive, you get a diminished return after a few cores.
Yes, indeed. The memory bus is usually the bottleneck here... unless you switch from SMP to NUMA architecture, which seems necessary for anything with more than, say, 8 to 16 cores.
It's been reported that these cores will be relatively underpowered, though both the total processing power and cost per watt will be quite impressive. This makes the chip appropriate for putting in a server but not so much a desktop machine, where CPU-intensive single-threads may bog things down.
So what about one of these in combination with a 2-, 3- or 4-core AMD/Intel chip? The serious threads can be run on the faster chip, while all the background stuff can be spread among the slower cores? Does Windows have the ability to prioritize like that? Does Linux?
It is like 100 Dancing Hamsters in your CPU.
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Now, he's ready to lead the Carolina Hurricanes back to the postseason.
"We want to be a playoff team every year," he said in a September interview. "You see those consistent teams that are in the playoffs every year, and we want to get to that. I feel like we've added some players that will give us that opportunity, and now it's about us going out there and performing."
Though the summer was prolonged for a bit longer than most hoped, the Canes made an offseason splash, acquiring Eric's brother Jordan in a draft-day trade and signing winger Alexander Semin in late July.
"No question it was exciting," Staal said of the moves. "I've been here a long time. For the last few years, I felt like we've been real close to being a playoff team, being a team that can compete for a Stanley Cup. I just felt we needed one or two more pieces up front."
The organization has long pursued an elite winger for Eric Staal to play alongside. Semin, a perennial "Canes-killer," fit that mold perfectly.
"He's one of those guys who, sometimes he'll just be in a game and you don't really notice him, and then he can snap two goals real quick. He's seemed to do that a lot against us. And now, we'll hopefully use that to our advantage," Staal said. "He has a ton of skill, and I think he plays a very good two-way game. I'm looking forward to hopefully developing some chemistry and playing some good hockey for our team."
In a compacted schedule, playing good hockey is vitally important for the Hurricanes, especially at the start of the season. Inconsistency in the first few weeks, perhaps compounded by the difficulties of a long, early-season road trip, doomed the team in 2011-12.
In his first 16 games last season, Staal had just five points (3g, 2a) and was a minus-16. Looking back, he assessed his performance with a critical eye.
"I think our team in general wasn't playing very well, and I know I'm part of that. As a group and as a team, we just didn't get the right things going," he said. "We didn't have the confidence to play the way we wanted to play. We never seemed to build that momentum. You try harder and try harder and sometimes it gets worse.
"I felt like that was the case for the first two months, but then you kind of hit that refresh button and start over, building confidence a little bit at a time. It was a strong second half."
Indeed it was. After the All-Star break, Staal posted 34 points (13g, 21a) in 31 games. In 11 February games alone, Staal led the team with eight goals and nine assists (17 points) and a plus-11 plus/minus rating. In total, he reached the 70 point plateau for the seventh consecutive season with 24 goals and 46 assists.
One of the biggest factors in Staal's second-half resurgence was the All-Star break. For the first time since 2004-05, Staal wasn't playing in the Olympics or the All-Star Game. He had time to simply get away from the game, rest and recharge.
"It was awesome, actually," he said. "It was pretty awesome just to spend time with the family and totally get away from it in the middle of the season. That's something I've never done. It's refreshing, and you're really excited to get back.
"Don't get me wrong, playing in an All-Star game is awesome and you want to be there every year regardless, but for where I was at mentally and physically last year, those days were nice and helped me the rest of the way."
There will be no rest in this truncated season. It will be a 48-game sprint to the end of April, where the turnaround for the playoffs will be almost instantaneous. That's where the Hurricanes want to be, this year and in the years ahead.
Staal's ready to lead that charge, beginning tonight in Florida.
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The investigation is expanding because a discarded gun was found at the home as well as "a large quantity of narcotics."
In addition, UCLA coach Karl Dorrell admitted he hired Scott even though he was aware of his previous run-ins with the law. Scott has admitted guilt to separate misdemeanor concealed weapons charges in 1996 and 2005, and a misdemeanor disturbing-the-peace charge in 2002.
So, what does Scott's attorney have to say about the whole thing? "It'd be a shame if he loses his job at UCLA over some doo-doo like this."
Doo-doo? What is this guy, a lawyer-slash-third grade teacher?
Scott's lawyer also stated that, "From my preliminary investigation, it appears that a mistake was made by the Los Angeles Sheriff Deputies that should be cleared up within a few days."
So, just what is the mistake? The MZone has learned that Scott's attorney will explain that, with USC scooping up all the talent in SoCal, his client was merely on a recruiting visit. "You have to be pretty darn creative in order to 'get a foot in the door' (or window) as a Bruin coach going up against Pete Carroll and his team these days," he said.
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- j said...
On their website,UCLA.EDU they are upfront about their community..."There is no typical UCLA student or faculty member. The only common denominator is a criminal record."
- July 27, 2007 7:12 AM
- beast in 'bama said...
You watch: this thing will escalate from a doo-doo charge to a poo-poo charge if they're not careful.
- July 27, 2007 8:03 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Pete the Humanitarian will step in a broker a peace settlement so long as UCLA agrees to wipe out last year's game result.
Trojan fans have to be loving this shit.
- July 27, 2007 9:40 AM
- Conquest Chronicles said...
Karma's a bitch. guess that thug life was just too tempting to leave behind.
This was the same clown who wanted to get into it with Coach Norton during a recruiting visit.
ucla can't even get a background check right.
With some of the other incidents that have happened on Dorrell's watch does this constitute a lack of institutional control?
- July 27, 2007 10:31 AM


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I would add to that the need to let people know who you are before you start interviewing them. I learned that years ago when attending a California New Motor Vehicle Board roundtable for the first time and began asking Peter Welch a few things.
He becomes president of the National Automobile Dealers Assn. on Feb. 1. Back then, he was a legislative liaison for the California New Car Dealers Assn. He gave a roundtable briefing on state bills affecting car dealers.
I approached him during a break to clarify some points. As I started asking questions, he said, "Who are you?" Good question. And a faux pas on my part. It wasn't a case of me needing no introduction. Once I established my identity, I got answers.
Welch went on to become president of the California state dealer trade group. In 2007, I attended its annual convention reception in Sacramento. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped by to say a few words. I asked him if I could take his photo. He struck a big-smile Arnold pose.
Welch was nearby, just out of camera range. I prodded him to get in the picture. After initially declining, he agreed. It was a nice shot of California's Governator and Dealernator. I sent Welch the picture.
He mentioned it when we met at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit the other week. He was at the show with some NADA brass, including 2011 Chairman Stephen Wade who told me, "We picked a good one," referring to the association hiring Welch to succeed Phil Brady as president.
Welch is a native of metro Detroit, so visiting the Motor City show was a homecoming. He grew up in Dearborn, MI, Ford's headquarters city. His dad was a doctor. "But everyone else on the block worked for Ford," he tells me.
Welch graduated from the University of Michigan, then got a master's degree from the University of Durham in northern England. Why there? "I thought it would be interesting." It was.
After earning a law degree in Los Angeles, he began representing the California dealer association. Now he is going national. Besides making the major move from the West Coast to northern Virginia, Welch is busy getting up to speed for his new job.
Does he foresee a big difference between heading a state dealer association and NADA? "Dealers are dealers," he says. "Fundamentally, their interests are very similar."
The auto industry is recovering from a bad fall. Light-vehicle sales came in at 14.4 million units in 2012. WardsAuto predicts they will reach 15 million this year. But the hurt of the hard times lingers for some dealers, Welch says.
It doesn't help when auto makers prod dealers to spend money on newer and bigger facilities, especially when car shoppers are spending less time at dealerships and more on the Internet, he says. "Those two issues seem to clash."
As the head of the California dealer group, Welch is familiar with government regulations. California is the regulation king of America, especially when it comes to cars.
The state's recently adopted Advanced Clean Cars Program calls for 1.4 million zero-emissions and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles on the Golden State's roads by 2025.
"Three or four years ago, when it really was a Golden State, we could afford such lofty goals," Welch told WardsAuto last year, referring to the state's subsequent financial woes.
As incoming president of NADA, he worries upcoming federal fuel-economy targets will require advanced technologies that, in turn, will drive up vehicle costs, potentially forcing some consumers out of the market.
If that happens, it would hinder an unwritten American freedom, "the freedom of transportation," Welch says.
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What have other people done with the lengthening of the steering shaft for a 6" lift we've ran it to a few problems:confused: .
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steering on a 6" lift
Started by one eye , Aug 01 2004 06:52 PM
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Posted 01 August 2004 - 06:52 PM
Posted 01 August 2004 - 08:42 PM
Just add another steering u-joint - this allows you to have a weird angle and still attach to the rack...
Posted 01 August 2004 - 10:03 PM
Some have cut the steering column back a little to accomodate the angle. The addition of the second U-joint can accomplish this but you have to be careful. You can build in too much movement and the steering will feel floppy. We added a pillow block to keep mine in line. We had to add a couple different u-joints and the angles were kind of rough. After securing the pillow block the steering feels stock.
If the angles are too extreme you run the risk of tearing the rag joint, beware.
If the angles are too extreme you run the risk of tearing the rag joint, beware.
Posted 01 August 2004 - 11:05 PM
I think it gets even trickier on an ea82 So far I have my rack clocked upwards, and I'm extending the crossmember 3" to fix the angles. Then the arms are being angled back to give a total 1" wheelbase extension and make room for the axles to the front diff (ea82 arms get in the way unlike ea81 arms)
Posted 02 August 2004 - 03:18 AM
What's a "Pillow Block" Ken? Never heard that term used before.... maybe a pic would help.
Posted 02 August 2004 - 08:05 AM
pillow blocks are bearing assemblys for shaft drives. For example: in HVAC units one end (of the shaft) would have a pully on it and the other end would have a fan. You just bolt the pillow blocks down to your frame.
Posted 02 August 2004 - 11:16 AM
Bushbasher any chance I can check out your lift install. I've just finished the go fast mods and am know gathering parts for 6" lift, would be stoked to see what I'm really in for. I live up island but will be in Victoria within next few weeks.
Posted 02 August 2004 - 02:35 PM
you could just take off a legacy steering column (has the joint)and custimize it for what you need.
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