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- Measure the width of the back of the seat.
- Measure the top of the chair to the top of the seat and subtract 3″ (or the amount of thickness of the bottom cushion that you are purchasing).


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Richard Littlemore | August 2, 2011
By Richard Littlemore • Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 14:26
New Mashey Report Disrobes Climate Disinformer
What would cause a senior anthropologist such as Peter Wood to stagger outside his field of expertise and launch a bitchy, personal and error-ridden attack on a climate scientist and his defender? Wrong-headedness? Ideological blindess? Great wads of Richard Mellon Scaife's cash? What?
Well, the question must be rhetorical, unless the President of the National Association of Scholars chooses to answer it himself. According to his fields of study, Wood is an "expert" in art, aesthetics, Catholocism and culture. He neither claims nor can demonstrate the tiniest academic mastery of atmospheric physics or any other aspect of climatology.
Yet he has used his launching pad as president of the NAS (suspiciously rendered with the same acronym as the National Academy of Sciences) and a podium at the Chronicle of Higher Education to try to dismiss both Michael Mann and John Mashey as huckster fellow travellers of P.T. Barnum.
As the attached report demonstrates, that was a mistake. Because Wood doesn't fare at all well when someone turns the investigatory camera on him. Wood has long had a tendency to question climate science or to laud whacky climate change deniers such as Christopher Monckton or Fred Singer, but his most recent outburst followed an excellent short feature of John Mashey by the journal Science. As Wood says, "Science reports that retired computer scientist Dr. John Mashey is attempting to patch the tattered reputation of 'hide the decline' Michael Mann, the climate scientist whose famous 'hockey stick' chart shows exponentially increasing global temperatures in the near term."
Beyond correctly identifying Mashey as a computer scientist, Wood appears to be wrong on all fronts. Far from being "tattered," Mike Mann's reputation has been hardened in the fires of hell. Despite a pitched attack on his character and scientific output going back nearly a decade, every inquiry appears to exonerate his personal behavior and reaffirm the quality of his science. I suspect Mann's work has been cited more in the last six months than Wood's has in his entire career.
Neither was it Mann who penned the famous (and famously misquoted) "hide the decline" line from the stolen East Anglia emails. And the important part of Mann's hockey-stick chart was not the exponential increase in global temperature: you can see that in any rendering of the actual instrumental record. The defining work in Mann's graph (and in every other climate reconstruction that has been done since) is the demonstration that, before humans started pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we had enjoyed at least a thousand years of remarkable climate stability (constituting the shaft of the hockey stick that came before the exponential blade).
So Wood either doesn't understand any of this or doesn't want us to. And Mashey, a ferociously energetic researcher, has created a 34-page report pondering Wood's own frailties and setting forth some possible explanations of why the (less credible) NAS president could be so far off the rails.
There is, of course, ideology. Although the NAS declines to identify itself as a bastion of "conservative" thought, it seems to spend a surprising amount of time digging its nose into issues that are more of interest to its well-healed conservative funders than those that are centrally reflected in the organization's own mission statement. (I dare you to find much "reasoned scholarship" or "civil debate" in Wood's original salvo or in any of the back-and-forth commentary that followed.)
Mashey also points to the coincidence that the big donors to the (less credible) NAS are also suspiciously generous to organizations such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the George C. Marshall Institute - two of the most prominent climate science denying think tanks in the country. Now, it could be purest chance that all these organizations share a passion for spreading climate confusion. Just as it could be possible that the devastating weather events that have marred America so far this year are entirely unrelated to climate change ….
You also have to admit the possibility that Dr. Wood just isn't that smart - that he is doing all this work in purest good faith, but that he has the terrible misfortune to have consistently and repeatedly got all the details wrong.
Certainly, it was a case of misfortune that he attacked Mashey, or else the encyclopedic evidence of Wood's connections and previous protestations would not have been gathered in this handy reference.
Alas, when you look at the clownish Monckton, the discredited Singer or Steve Milloy and, now, the unfortunate Peter Wood, you have to wonder that the oily barons can't afford more impressive champions for their increasingly incredible cause.
Anna Haynes replied on Permalink
URL for Mashey's PDF
(DeSmogBlog, something might be screwy with your stylesheet(s) - I can't select text or comment or click on the Mashey link, from Firefox.)
The PDF is at: http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/bottling.nonsense.pdf
Hank122s replied on Permalink
To Anna Haynes....
Just curious, are you the Anna Haynes whom Peter Wood describes in his "Climate Thuggery" article as;
[Anna Haynes is]"one of Mashey and Mann's supporters has made it her business to contact by telephone and e-mail NAS trustees, members, employees, and others with leading questions about my views on climate change and sustainability. Her questions have insinuated that two former employees of NAS who died in 1995 were murdered, perhaps at the behest of Richard Mellon Scaife! (As it happened both died of heart attacks; and both had suffered previous heart attacks.) This woman has similarly attacked other people and organizations that express views on climate change that she disagrees with."
I can see why you and Chris Mooney are trying so hard to discredit anything he has to say. But I think you've made his point for him with your actions. You should be ashamed of yourself. H
Anna Haynes replied on Permalink
It's generally wise to take
It's generally wise to take characterizations of emails with a grain of salt. FYI, I'll ask questions in email that I'd never raise publicly (under the same level of likelihood), because to do so would be inappropriate, since it *would* be insinuating*. Expecting discretion from others isn't turning out to be a good strategy, though.
*insinuating isn't always wrong, but in general, it's better to avoid raising the prospect of low-likelihood scenarios publicly, especially if doing so will smear a third party, as this one did. My apologies to the third party, for the second party's having hauled out the megaphone.
Anna Haynes replied on Permalink
Also in the grain-of-salt
Also in the grain-of-salt dept, you might want to see the "leading questions" from my email to NAS chapter heads, in this (badly-formatted, sorry) Deltoid comment:
Disclosure: I have no background in climate science that equips me to second-guess the findings of the field.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"Competitive Enterprise
"Competitive Enterprise Institute and the George C. Marshall Institute."
Most people donn't know who they are and where their money comes from,…and that's just the way they like it.
One of these days, maybe there will be some denialist puke in the media that does not wend it's sneaky way back to those front organisations.
But it's very doubtful.
Hank122s replied on Permalink
Please read.....
For those interested in a much less biased discussion of the article by Peter Wood, please read Judith Curry's thoughts on it here;
Her words, and those of her commentators, are a refreshing change from the totally biased attack made here. H
plant food replied on Permalink
Cedric.. Why so upset? Its
Cedric.. Why so upset?
Its just a failed movement.
Its not liek it was important in any way.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"Its just a failed
"Its just a failed movement."
NASA didn't lie to you about the moon landings.
NASA is not lying to you now about climate change.
There is no global scientific conspiracy.
Conspiracy theories are dumb.
RickJames replied on Permalink
NASA isn't lying and I doubt
NASA isn't lying and I doubt many think such a thing. The failing movement is the grand idea of some kind of slowdown in human production of CO2.
We are 7 billion strong. We burn as much stuff as we possibly can. We know the recipe for fire and we like fire rather a lot. It is a failed movement and a lost cause to fight us.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"NASA isn't lying and I doubt
"NASA isn't lying and I doubt many think such a thing."
They have no choice.
Climate deniers don't think throught the logical consequences of their denial.
A rejection of the science must automatically include NASA.
It's impossible to avoid.
NASA is fully on board with the science of climate change. The same goes for every single scientific community on the planet. NASA does much of the heavy lifting on climate change. Their work goes back many decades covering different political administrations.
Climate deniers MUST invoke a global conspiracy of scientists including NASA and covering all the Earth Sciences to explain away their position. An ever expanding conspiracy.
Yet a global conspiracy is an oxymoron. It's a contradiction in terms.
You can't have a conspiracy…if it's global.
(Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.)
"We know the recipe for fire and we like fire rather a lot."
Liking something does not protect you from the consequences.
The first step to change is to clearly understand the consequences of an action. We must accept the conclusions of NASA and start thinking long-term.
palantir replied on Permalink
Stability of climate over 1000 years
"The defining work in Mann's graph (and in every other climate reconstruction that has been done since) is the demonstration that, before humans started pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we had enjoyed at least a thousand years of remarkable climate stability (constituting the shaft of the hockey stick that came before the exponential blade)."
Did anybody in the climate science industry ever read a history book?
In the 14th century, the climate became very unstable, much worse than it is now. Maybe a coincidence, but the 100 years war started in Europe, basically between England & France, but which lead to instability and civil wars all over Europe, particularly in Italy.
Try Brian Fagan's The Little Ice Age, chapters in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, and Richard Muir's Lost Villages of Britain.
Read more Fagan and Tuchman
palantir, what's your evidence that the climate became very unstable in the 14th century, and what is the basis of your claim that it was worse than now? Not to mention that then gradual cooling was starting while now we are in a period of warming that is fast, not gradual.
A warming world sees different kinds of effects on the climate than a cooling, such as heat waves killing tens of thousands of people in Russia. We can expect to see more such heat waves such as Texas is enduring now.
You should read Brian Fagan's book The Great Warming, about how the thing we now have to worry about most is widespread longlasting drought (as is happening in Texas, China, Australia, etc.) and thus crop failures.
You should also read Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly, about people, including politicians, refusing to face reality and ignoring the warnings of wiser people. Our politicians in Canada and the US are failing miserably to even face the growing climate crisis, much less deal with it.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Read more, including Nevlem, et al
1) The hockey stick was a Northern Hemisphere curve. This may be news to some people, but Europe (where the LIA was certainly obvious) != NH.
When CO2 jiggles, temperatures in some areas jiggle faster. "polar amplification" is well-known to hasten warming further North as CO2 rises.
2) If CO2 fell, we'd expect to see more rapid cooling in continental temperatures further North, and of course, continental temperatures jiggle more than oceanic.
3) That has actually happened, the most extreme example being the sharp CO2 drop into 1600AD:
4) A pretty plausible explanation for that has recently been published:
The Holocene: http://hol.sagepub.com/content/21/5.toc
Nevle, Bird, et al:
Basically, European diseases created the biggest die-off in history, leading to massive reforestration that drew down the CO2. Given that polar amplification works both ways (near snow line, more snow longer raises albedo and cools the area), one would expect places like Europe to cool faster than nearer the Equator.
This is a topic of current research by serious people.
5) Of course, the SH has a larger fraction of ocean, so one would expect that the average world temperature could easily look like the hockey stick, within error bars, while allowing for much wilder regional gyrations.
6) All this was discussed, with graphs in:
http://deepclimate.org/2010/09/26/strange-scholarship-wegman-report '
pp. 13-17 and 140-142.
Christopher Winter replied on Permalink
The book of William Ruddiman
This idea of epidemics leading to a drawdown of CO2 is also found in William Ruddiman's 2005 book Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum. I see he's a co-author of the Nevle paper, so probably he helped develop this more in the interim.
My review of the book:
Anna Haynes replied on Permalink
But Richard Littlemore, IMO your tone isn't constructive.
I don't think over-the-top writing is beneficial; I think Mashey's tone is much better, and more conducive to keeping the discourse constructive.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Richard Littlemore accusing
Richard Littlemore accusing someone else of "dishonesty"?
Richard Littlemore accusing someone else of being "compromised"?
Who's the one who gets his paycheque from James Hoggan & Associates Public Relations Inc. again?
Oh, yeah: Richard Littlemore.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
More on the topic
For those interested in following this, see:
Recall that much of this started with Wood dismissing efforts on Wegman Report plagiarism as "flyspecking."
My coauthor Rob Coleman is an oft-awarded researcher, also chairs Ohio State's academic misconduct committee.
He was one of the 3 academic misconduct experts that Dan Vergano asked about the Wegman plagiarism and he is *very* familiar with all this. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2010-11-21-climate-report-questioned_N.htm
Jan C. replied on Permalink
Hide the decline
This phrase originated from Phil Jones, head of CRU at the University of East Anglia and a close climate colleague of Michael Mann. Jones was referring to "Mike's trick" of eliminating tree ring data from 1961 onwards from his database, which showed declining temperatures, and replacing these with the instrumental record, which were increasing during the time frame. So, the instrumental temperature record hid a 30-plus-year decline indicated by tree rings. Insofar as Mann's and others' paleoclimate models rely heavily on the assumption that tree rings act as proxies for past temperature, the removal of over 30 years of recent tree-ring data appears to cast huge doubt on the usefulness of tree rings in climate modeling. That Mann (and Jones) would resort to such a "trick" is reprehensible and corrupt.
Otherwise, Mann's "hockey stick" model has been demolished as statistically unsound by Steve MacIntyre and Ross McItrick. Mann managed to eliminate both the Medieval Warn Period and the Little Ice Age, both well documented, distinct climate periods. Defending the "hockey stick" at this stage is baffling to me.
Furthermore, Mann was exonerated by Penn State for his sins because he was a scientist respected by his peers, had published many papers and had raised a large amount of funds for the university. Very in-depth analysis - no mention of "Mike's trick" constituting scientific fraud!
No decline in false statements, unfortunately
Jan C, you have made a number of false statements here: interested people can read a more accurate account here:
I like the way you contradict yourself, too: you note that the instrumental temperature was rising, yet you claim that there is no hockey stick? Do you ever think about what you are writing? Or do you just repeat the same old lies, no matter how idiotic they are?
Jan C. replied on Permalink
No decline in false statements
The big problem with Mann's "hockey stick" is that it eliminates the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA). Temperatures in the MWP have been estimated to have been at least as warm as today and in the LIA to have been significantly colder. The Earth's climate is rebounding from the LIA. I do not deny warming (on continents, for sure, where most weather stations exist) during the 20th century based on instrumental measurements. But, to say that recent temperatures are the highest in 1,000 years is false.
I have read a lot about the "hockey stick" and climate change in general. Try reading "The Hockey Stick Illusion", an in-depth account of how difficult it was for Steve MacIntyre and Ross McItrick to obtain data and code from Michael Mann in order to verify the "hockey stick". What was Mann afraid of?
rossglory replied on Permalink
Next stage of the strategy
Having followed the climate change 'story' from the early 1980s it became abundantly clear to me that there was an obvious strategy supported by large corporations and right-wing foundations (and their PR and lobby representatives aka conservative think tanks) to discredit the evidence of AGW and the scientists that amassed this evidence.
Initailly I would follow the links that claimed to have evidence of conspiracies, serious errors, fraud, incompetence etc etc and every single time I found that there was no evidence. I was shocked since I couldn;t understand why people would do this about such a serious topic. But I started to slowly understand the links to money and ideology that have been so brilliantly researched in Merchants of Doubt.
Now it seems to me that the next stage of the strategy has been entered. Climate scientists have finally realised they need to defend themselves and their science and the 'sceptics' cleverly come back with 'Why are climate scientists threatening us with lawsuits?' as if they, the 'sceptics', are the victims.
The 'sceptic' campaign has been enormously successful but everything must be done to defend climate science and the scientific process itself from political attack or we'll drift into a new cultural period which could be termed the 'Unenlightenment'.
Jan C. replied on Permalink
Next stage of the strategy
If you really followed the development of the climate change story, you would realize who were playing games with the truth and corrupting the principles of science. Apparently, you haven't heard of Climategate. Try reading "Climategate The Crutape Letters". It might surprise you how far certain climate scientists were prepared to go to fudge data, refuse to share data and computer code and coerce scientific journals in terms of the papers they published.
Furthermore, defending climate science (or any scientific field)demands skepticism, not slavish adherence to the dictates from authority.
Jan C, you are listening to liars.
McIntyre and McKitrick are not as expert as they like to pretend. They could have produced their own code to handle the data like the real scientists do, but they were too lazy or too ignorant to do that.
You claim: "But, to say that recent temperatures are the highest in 1,000 years is false." What scientific evidence do you have that GLOBAL temperatures were higher than now during the so-called Medieval Warm Period? And scientific evidence is what is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, not posted on amateur blogs like McIntyre's.

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According to the Tokyo-based Venture Enterprise Center, the value of investments by its 50 or so venture capital fund members increased to 24.6 billion yen ($316 million) in 2011, 35 percent higher than the previous year. But that was a small fraction of the $12.6 billion in venture funding raised by Silicon Valley companies that year, according to Ernst & Young.
The proportion of the working population involved in entrepreneurship in Japan — as measured by a start-up portal, InternationalEntrepreneurship.com — stood at 3.3 percent in 2010, one of the lowest rates in the industrialized world. In the United States, the equivalent number was 7.6 percent.
Satoshi Sugie, Junpei Naito, Muneaki Fukuoka and Hiroshi Kurita are among those who are trying. All left comfortable jobs — at Nissan, Sony, Olympus and Japan's largest advertising agency, Dentsu — to work on Whill, a device that clamps onto wheelchairs to turn them into electric vehicles.
It is a big bet for the founders. Because they were unable to secure large investors, the 6 million yen put toward developing a prototype came from their savings. After it was invited to display the prototype at the Tokyo Motor Show last year, the start-up has been inundated with inquiries from Japan, Europe and the United States, the company says. The start-up is preparing to announce a brand-new model next week.
"At Whill, we move at such a different speed from Sony," said Mr. Naito, who came up with the idea for Whill before leaving his job this year as a Sony product engineer. "We move things along much faster, and I enjoy that."
Makoto Fukuyama, 27, and Kota Uemura, 25, ex-Google employees who started Social Lunch in October, have also seen interest surge among users.
Social Lunch's Facebook-based app helps young professionals set up casual business lunches to expand their social networks. The start-up now has 60,000 users and is adding 10,000 more a month. It won 32 million yen of seed money this year from a new start-up fund started by KDDI, Japan's second-largest telecommunications firm, but has found that few investors in Japan are willing to offer larger amounts.
Part of the problem is that there is still no real track record of start-up buyouts in Japan, which means the only way that tech entrepreneurs can cash out of an investment is through an initial public offering — a lofty goal for most companies. (Eleven technology companies managed an initial public offering last year.)
Because Japanese investors do not have high expectations of a successful exit, they invest far less than their Silicon Valley counterparts, which leads to fewer companies succeeding, a vicious cycle that damps entrepreneurship.
"Seed funding has grown in Japan, but you're talking about very small amounts," Mr. Fukuyama said. "Entrepreneurs are still seen as drifters with nothing better to do."
But the growing trickle of older, more experienced Japanese who are leaving their jobs to start their own companies is helping to galvanize the local start-up scene, said Taku Harada. Mr. Harada runs PeaTiX, an event management start-up that lets users set up event invitations and ticketing.
Mr. Harada, who worked at Sony, Apple and Amazon before founding PeaTiX in 2009, says it has become easier for him to lure talent away from big companies; the average age at his 20-person start-up is well over 30, and all hires have extensive experience in the tech sector.
"More success stories might inspire more people at senior positions at corporations to make the jump," Mr. Harada said. Still, many potential recruits tell him that the blow to their reputations if they fail is too large in Japan.
"If you fail, you don't get many chances after that," Mr. Harada said.
The constraints of Japan's local start-up scene drove Gengo, a Web-based translation start-up, to look for investors and talent beyond Japan's shores. Robert Laing, 33, Gengo's founder and chief executive, had the idea of setting up a platform that instantly links clients looking for translations with a network of freelance translators worldwide.
But Gengo struggled to take off. Mr. Laing, a British citizen, paid himself nothing for a year, living off his savings. His business partner, Matthew Romaine, who is part Japanese, slept on the floor of his parents' apartment in Tokyo. Landlords would not lease them office space without years' worth of company statements.
Their break came in early 2010 when an American angel investor, Dave McClure, gave them seed funding and connected them with other investors outside Japan. Gengo's main investor is now Atomico, based in London, and a handful of non-Japanese investors.
Even as Gengo won investors and clients, it struggled to find people willing to join its team. It turned to Craigslist, word-of-mouth and recruiters to assemble what Mr. Laing calls a motley international crew, now 30 strong and growing. Only in the last year did Gengo make big hires in Japan; among those it brought in were Hiroto Tokusei, a former senior product manager at Google.
"We ended up with foreigners because they seemed to be the only ones willing to join some crazy start-up," he said. "And because there are so few start-ups in Tokyo, we had nobody to discuss things with, to ask whether we're on the right track."
The weekly start-up dating salons, like the bar Nomad New's Base here in central Tokyo, seek to fill such a need. As the drinks flowed, Mr. Hiranuma, the former Toshiba engineer, moved around the room on a recent Wednesday with his MacBook Air, pitching his Sanpo app.
Sanpo, which means stroll in Japanese, lets users plan routes to destinations, as Google Maps does — except the app suggests detours to popular shops, restaurants and other spots along the way.
"It helps people take fun detours, and try something new," Mr. Hiranuma said. "I believe in trying new things."Continue reading the main story


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Ham, leek and kidney bean salad
If you have ever visited Estonia, then you know we're fond of various chopped salads with mayonnaise and sour cream dressing. We're pretty proud of our potato salad, which requires hours of dedicated chopping and dicing and tends to be on many a birthday table.
I've offered you some recipes here on Nami-Nami that fit the category - potato and cucumber salad, potato and beet salad, for instance. This ham, leek and kidney bean salad fills into the same category of salads, though because of the ease of preparing the salad, I tend to think of this more like a midweek salad than buffet table table.
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Serves four to six
300 g cooked ham
ca 400 g canned red kidney beans (drained weight)
1 medium-sized leek, white and pale green part only
handful of fresh parsley
100 g good-quality mayonnaise
100-150 g sour cream or plain yoghurt
freshly ground black pepper or "lemon pepper"
sea salt, if needed
Cut the ham into neat small pieces - I like them about the same size as the beans. Cut the leek in half lengthwise, rinse and cut into 3-4 mm slices. Chop parsley.
Mix the dressing ingredients in a large bowl, fold in the salad ingredients.
Serve at once or keep in the fridge until ready to serve.
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Would this be nice with some chopped walnuts for the crunchy texture? And does it get better as it sits, or is it best right away?
- 7:56 pm, January 31, 2013
- Pille said...
I can actually imagine adding some chopped walnuts, though not much (however, the beans and leeks and ham all have different textures already).
It's best right away, but keeps for a day or two in the fridge.
- 6:24 pm, February 01, 2013
- ScienceMel said...
- 7:53 pm, February 03, 2013
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Also speaking today were Fire Chief Mike Spadt and Rod Bates, General Manager of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), who presented the Fire Department with a plaque in appreciation for the recovery effort. The 1,500-foot-tall tower on which the accident occurred is part of the NET system.
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"This was an unusual situation, but our Firefighters demonstrated the physical and mental readiness that is required in all emergencies," said Chief Spadt. "I am very proud of their professionalism, dedication and commitment to assisting wherever they are needed."
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6517?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12870007#action_12870007 ] Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-6517: --------------------------------------- Thanks for this contribution. Could you (and any other contributors) please complete ICLAs and ACQs as mentioned at: http://harmony.apache.org/contribution_policy.html Sign them, scan them and email them to email@example.com. Thanks, Mark. > New optimization and interface for either automatically or manually vectorizing Java programs with SSE instructions > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-6517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6517 > Project: Harmony > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: DRLVM > Environment: OS: Linux or Windows > Hardware: X86 or X86_64 with SSE4.2 > Reporter: Jiutao Nie > Priority: Minor > Attachments: javavect.patch, jvi.patch, jvi_basic.java > > > The patch file "javavect.patch" for DRLVM provides new features for vectorizing Java programs either automatically or manually. The work consists of four parts: > 1) IR extension for vector types and operators (middle-end); > 2) vector instruction (SSE) description and code generation (back-end); > 3) optimization pass of automatic vectorization for loops (middle-end); > 4) Java vector interface (JVI, see below) translator for manually writing vectorized Java programs with JVI (front-end). > Parts 1) and 2) provides the basic facility for internally representing vectorized code and generating SSE instructions. Based on that, part 3) provides an automatic approach and part 4) provides a manual approach for vectorizing Java programs. > The patch file "jvi.patch" for vmmagic provides a Java class library for programmers to write vectorized Java program explicitly. It contains 6 classes representing the types of vectors of 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit integers, and 32- and 64-bit floating point numbers. Each class contains appropriate methods representing supported vector operators on that type. The JVI class references and method callings in a Java program are translated into appropriate internal vector IR by the extended front-end, i.e. the work of part 4). > The Java source file "jvi_basic.java" provides a simple test suite for JVI, covering all implemented JVI operations. It can also be used as examples of the usage of JVI. > **** Hardware requirement **** > X86 or X86_64 with SSE4.2 instruction set > **** Usage of automatic vectorization **** > The patch file contains two new configuration files: server_autovect.emconf and server_static_autovect.emconf, which are copied from server.emconf and servre_static.emconf, and inserted "autovect" optimization pass into their optimization paths. To try automatic vectorization, only need to add one of the following arguments: "-Xem:server_autovect" or "-Xem:server_static_autovect" to run the VM. > **** Usage of JVI **** > Write programs with JVI (see jvi_basic.java), compile them and run them with the argument "-Xem:server_static" (This is must because the JVI code cannot be executed without being translated into the vector IR by Jitrino's optimizing compiler). > **** Performance improvement **** > The performance of two computation intensive workloads (LU and FFT) is improved by 30% to 100%. > **** Testing of the patch based on the Harmony revision 935818 (2010-04-20) **** > Automatic vectorization testing with SPECjvm2008: > * Argument: -Xem:server_static_autovect > * On 64-bit linux machine: All workloads except crypto.aes, derby and xml.transform have passed. > * On 32-bit linux machine: All workloads except derby have passed. > * All the above failed workloads also fail when autovect is disabled (-Xem:server_static), meaning that the failures are caused by bugs of the original code base. > * Argument: -Xem:server_autovect > * On both 64-bit and 32-bit linux machines: All workloads except xml.transform and serial have passed. > * All the above failed workloads also fail when autovect is disabled (-Xem:server), meaning that the failures are caused by bugs of the original code base. > JVI-based vectorization testing with jvi_basic.java: > * Argument: -Xem:server_static > * On both 64-bit and 32-bit linux machines: all test cases have passed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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"20 eye-witnesses saw two men in the Ryder truck, each one described the second man as middle-eastern and said it absolutely was not Terry Nichols (the patsy John Doe 2 agents tried to blame). All 20 people filled out 302s, investigative reports, but none have ever surfaced. Also just like 9/11, the Pentagon's 80 CCTVs, and the London Bombings in the tube, the 12 camera tapes at the Murrah building were seized and withheld, all for reasons of 'national security.'" -David Icke, "Alice in Wonderland and the
The 20 witnesses' reports were ignored and the security camera tapes were withheld. When forced by investigators to find a second patsy, officials came up with Terry Nichols, who they claimed to be McVeigh's accomplice, even though all eyewitnesses agreed the second man in the truck was middle-eastern, and definitely not Terry Nichols.
"McVeigh was arrested so conveniently for a traffic offence immediately after the bombing for the same reason that Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in a cinema immediately after the Kennedy assassination and Osama bin Laden was named as the culprit after 9/11. They are the patsies required by problem-reaction-solution to hide the real orchestrators. Just as 9/11 was a massive version of what happened in
On the morning of April 19th, shortly after the bombing, in live broadcasts, CBS, CNN, and NBC all reported on three additional bombs inside the building! One of the bombs exploded and two others were found and defused.
Once Timothy McVeigh was arrested, all reports of the additional bombs inside the building ceased. The mainstream media quickly parroted the government line, and
"Out of hundreds of people we interviewed, we couldn't find a single person who said they'd only heard one explosion …The
Even the US Air Force's own 1997 blast effects study of the
In the report General Partin also mentions how a single bomb cannot explain the failure of many columns in the back of the building as compared to the non-failure of columns in the front where the truck was parked. Partin concluded that shaped demolitions charges were indeed used inside the building. The blast effects study showed that the maximum damage possible from a single truck-bomb would affect only 1% of the floor area. Take a look at any photo of the
"Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, who lost two small children in the bombing, worked constantly and passionately for years to uncover the truth of what happened. They conducted and documented more than 300 hours of interviews, and persuaded people to talk who had remained silent for fear of the consequences. They established beyond question that a heavily armed bomb squad had been in downtown Oklahoma near the Murrah Building that morning before the bombs exploded … Some parents saw these people in their bomb squad uniforms as they dropped their children off at the day care centre at the Murrah Building, children they would never see alive again. Eventually, after months of denial by the FBI and other government agencies, the Sheriff's Department had to admit that the bomb squad had been there." -David Icke, "Alice in Wonderland and the
After months of meticulous independent investigation, Glenn and Kathy Wilburn got the Sheriff's Department to actually admit what they already knew from multiple, consistent eyewitness testimonies: a government bomb-squad had been at the Murrah federal building that very morning! Emergency radio transmission transcripts from that morning also prove that many policemen and firefighters witnessed BATF at the scene.
"Do you realize what you have just read? The government had multiple surveillance cameras … the cameras also show the BATF agents hiding out right down the street, preparing to pounce on the operation and declare themselves the heroes, the saviors … From A to Z, there are federal fingerprints all over the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the government is doing everything it can to suppress the truth. Bill Clinton is the servant of the New World Order, whose approval rating exploded after the attack. His attack dog, the Butcher of
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CLEVELAND -- The Tigers left Fenway Park in the early hours of Monday evening with a perfect road trip. By the time they finally arrived at Progressive Field late Monday afternoon, they had their first loss -- the team plane.
They were at least stranded in Boston in style Sunday night, decked out from head to toe in Tiger-striped Zubaz gear. They were wearing the same stuff when they arrived at Progressive Field around 4:25 p.m. ET on Monday, two hours and 40 minutes before first pitch for the opener of their three-game series against the Indians.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- The Tigers left Fenway Park in the early hours of Monday evening with a perfect road trip. By the time they finally arrived at Progressive Field late Monday afternoon, they had their first loss -- the team plane.
They were at least stranded in Boston in style Sunday night, decked out from head to toe in Tiger-striped Zubaz gear. They were wearing the same stuff when they arrived at Progressive Field around 4:25 p.m. ET on Monday, two hours and 40 minutes before first pitch for the opener of their three-game series against the Indians.View Full Game Coverage
"Some of us didn't brush our teeth," Torii Hunter said. "Some guys didn't shower. We used our fingers as a toothbrush. We had the hotel mouthwash. Some guys just stink."
It started as a bonding exercise for the tail end of the Tigers' three-city trip. It ended up being a travel adventure none of them are soon to forget.
"I'm like, 'Just pretend this isn't happening,'" reliever Phil Coke said. "But it was fun, though. It's a very, very memorable story."
It began with the Tigers tweeting like crazy on their way out of Fenway Park, having just completed their first series sweep there in 31 years.
Time to leave boston @JoeNathan36 @zubaz #dressforsuccess pic.twitter.com/v4h7Oo0Pii - Joba Chamberlain (@Joba_44) May 19, 2014
#turndownforwhat #dressforsuccess pic.twitter.com/HhwBBuyYQb - J.D. Martinez (@JDMartinez14) May 19, 2014
Fun flight #winning #roaring #Tigers pic.twitter.com/m1ImlqJG7M - J.D. Martinez (@JDMartinez14) May 19, 2014
'Nuff said pic.twitter.com/mRxZVt6xl2 - Bryan Holaday (@jbholaday) May 19, 2014
Their original itinerary had them scheduled to arrive in Cleveland around 2:30 a.m. ET, arriving at their hotel downtown soon afterwards. The team knows the routine well, having had several Sunday night games over the last few years. There would be time to sleep in before heading to Progressive Field for their normal pregame routine ahead of tonight's 7:05 game.
They were preparing to take off from Logan International Airport when they ran into mechanical issues with the team plane. Coke said the plane suffered damage to the nose-gear doors as it was getting pushed out to the runway.
Sometime around 2 a.m., they realized they wouldn't be taking off at all. And the series sweep celebration was on hold.
"We had fun and we were jumping up and down, cracking jokes with each other," Hunter said. "Then an hour and a half went by, trying to figure out what's wrong with the plane. And then when they said we were heading back to the hotel, I think all the jokes just stopped."
Plane broke, stuck in *Boston till tomorrow.. - Ian Krol (@IanKrolTKB) May 19, 2014
Our Zubaz were too much for the plane to handle. Lets try again tomorrow - Bryan Holaday (@jbholaday) May 19, 2014
At that point, though, they didn't have hotel rooms booked. So as players were stepping off the plane and onto shuttle buses to return to the terminal, the Tigers were scrambling to rebook.
"A lot of the hotels were full," manager Brad Ausmus said. "We tried to get a hotel by the airport, but they were booked. It's tough to get 60 rooms at 2 in the morning."
They ended up back at the same hotel where they stayed for the series, arriving around 3 a.m. Because the hotel's computer system was undergoing maintenance, Don Kelly said, a security guard had to unlock their rooms for them, one by one.
They still didn't have their luggage at that point. They did have their Zubaz.
"At least they were comfortable," Ausmus said.
This isn't fun.. @Max_Scherzer pic.twitter.com/4cMAA7dR45 - Ian Krol (@IanKrolTKB) May 19, 2014
The Tigers use a private jet that they share with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings. Both teams are owned by Mike Ilitch. On the rare occasions that the flight schedules conflict, the Tigers will charter a plane from Delta, which has a hub in Detroit. The team chartered flights regularly three years ago while their plane was being updated.
That plane ended up heading elsewhere for repairs. The Tigers had to arrange for a charter plane to fly in and pick them up. That, however, took time.
According to FlightAware, the plane flew in from Chicago Monday morning, arriving early in the afternoon. The team took off from Boston at 2:30 p.m., landing at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland just before 4 p.m.
Ausmus and his staff did prep work for the Indians series on the flight. The players, meanwhile, made the best of it.
"I honestly don't think anybody was worried about it," Coke said, "because if we rolled right in with just enough time to get our stuff on and get out there, I mean, 'Hey, we made it. We didn't have to forfeit.'"
The saving grace for the Tigers is that Monday's scheduled starting pitcher, Drew Smyly, is already in Cleveland. With the late-night travel, the Tigers flew him in ahead of the team on a commercial flight Sunday evening so that he could get a good night's sleep.
"He called down this morning to look for his bags. When they said, 'Well your team hasn't shown up,' he was really worried about us," Hunter said. "So that's bonding."
His gear arrived with the rest of the team's equipment, shortly before batting practice.
The Tigers have had minor travel hiccups in the past, from slight delays to weather issues and layovers. They even left without their traveling secretary once following a fuel stop on their way back from the West Coast. This is the first time in recent years, however, that they've been delayed to this degree.
It's surely the first time they've been stranded while wearing Zubaz.
"A little short on sleep," Ausmus said, "but we'll be fine."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.


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The sluggish U.S. economy has been relatively kind to Wall Street's banks, many of which are flush with profits and stand to gain from the Federal Reserve's new bond-buying effort.
Yet these same financial titans are warning that the government's inaction in the face of the approaching "fiscal cliff" poses real risks to an economy already saddled by stunted growth and a burgeoning debt load.
Many Wall Street banks hold interest-rate sensitive products on their books, and stand to lose big if a debt crisis sends safe-haven Treasury yields spiking.
Thus far, investors have been most preoccupied by the unfolding financial catastrophe in Europe, where debate rages about whether Spain will finally throw in the towel and accept an international bailout.
Still, the threat of higher taxes and deep spending cuts loom large. The noise of the presidential election and partisan gridlock in Washington has left budget negotiations at a standstill.
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein said Friday that a short-term "grand bargain" that prevents the U.S. economy from going over the fiscal cliff was unlikely in the lame-duck session of Congress – which runs between Election Day and January 2013. Still, he thinks the next president must come to terms with the burgeoning deficit. (Read more: Investment Can Thrive, but Fiscal Fix Needed: Rubenstein .)
"The most important thing the next president has to do is resolve the uncertainty of the debt and deficit, " Rubenstein said, adding that it was impossible to predict whether either President Barack Obama or Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be better for the economy.
At this point, few observers are holding out much hope for an immediate fix to the problem. Yet as the deadline looms, market observers increasingly despair that policymakers – much like the cinematic semi classic "Thelma and Louise" – may drive right over the precipice with hands locked in defiant unison.
In a CNBC interview this week, the authors of the Simpson-Bowles chided Congress and the White House for doing virtually nothing as the country comes closer to a January 1 deadline that will see tax rates spike and spending slashed drastically. (Read more: US Nears Fiscal Disaster: 'Washington Doing Nothing' .)
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said that fixing the fiscal morass was integral to keeping capital flowing, which could help jumpstart a jobs market that remains stalled at best.
"We have to get our budget on a sustainable path where it's predictable, " Blankfein said. "What we really need to do is fix the US economy on a sustainable basis so three's some predictability, so people don't stand on the sidelines and so they go and invest and jobs get created."
J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said earlier this week that policymakers missed an opportunity by overlooking a tax and spending blueprint made by the Simpson-Bowles Commission. Had their recommendations been adopted, Dimon said the economy would have been "booming."
The resulting fight between Congressional Republicans and the White House over spending resulted in Standard & Poor's meting out the U.S.'s first ever credit downgrade last year.
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Etymology 1[edit]
From the Nguni group of languages. A washed out ravine or gully.
donga (plural dongas)
- (South Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
- 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
- Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.
- 1901, Ernest William Hornung, "The Knees of the Gods", in Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 284:
- There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
- 1948, Henry Vollam Morton, In Search of South Africa,[1] Methuen, page 168:
- Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 98:
- Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.
- 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
- Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English, Oxford (1978).
Etymology 2[edit]
donga (plural dongas)
- (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
- 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152,
- Menzies Hotel ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, donga $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - dongas (temporary miner′s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
- 2004, James Woodford, The Dog Fence, page 225,
- He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman′s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
- 2009, David Marr, The Ibdian Ocean Solution, Robyn Davidson (editor), The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 118,
- Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
- 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152,
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I'm curious to know: what film magazines do you search out, read, and find valuable?
For me, in addition to the mainstays--like Cineaste, Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Rouge, Screening the Past, Senses of Cinema--I've just taken out a subscription to Film Quarterly. And I cancelled my long-time Sight & Sound subscription (a tad expensive).
I've been looking at e-Cahiers in English but a good portion of the magazine proper is available only to paying subscribers. (Are there any Cahiers subscribers out there who would recommend it?)
I've also been frequenting the musty periodical stacks in the college library for old volumes of Film Comment from the 70s and 80s. Not only do they contain many writers I know and like (e.g. Durgnat, Rosenbaum, Robin Wood) but also some new-found favorites like Richard T. Jameson (see Jim Emerson's post which quotes from Jameson's wonderful 1980 essay "Style vs. 'Style'") and Ronnie Scheib (I think she writes for Variety now but among other pieces I can recommend an amazing Ida Lupino essay from the Film Comment archives).
The new issue of Film International is devoted to Bazin. The articles look interesting but are available in the print edition only (e.g. William Rothman's "Bazin as Cavellian Realist"; Diane Stevenson's "Godard and Bazin"; TIFF report by Barry Keith Grant). I'm considering subscribing to it.
I like to visit the Film Reference Library in downtown Toronto from time to time. They carry a large assortment of international film mags and they keep a deep archive (their periodical holdings are searchable here). On my next trip, I'll be looking to dig into the archives of Framework and the Asian journal Cinemaya.
Last week, thanks to Keith Uhlich and Adrian Martin, I discovered the Danish magazine 16:9. Each issue has one article in English. From the archives, I've culled a selection: Joe McElhaney on Fritz Lang's "cinema of the hand"; Ethan de Siefe on Frank Tashlin; a 4-part interview with David Bordwell (one; two; three; four); Richard Raskin on Groucho Marx; Murray Smith on popular music in film; Maximilian Le Cain on Tarkovsky's Mirror; V.F. Perkins on Letter from an Unknown Woman; Jonathan Frome on Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu; and Adrian Martin on Abbas Kiarostami and Larry Clark.
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Waltham, MA (PRWEB) April 02, 2013
SavingStar, the first and only national, fully digital, grocery savings service, announced today a major update to both its SavingStar.com or on SavingStars Android or iPhone mobile app. Users register their supermarket and drugstore loyalty cards from participating stores in their area and select the grocery deals that interest them. In addition to standard eCoupon rewards on products like Cheerios, Yoplait, and Pillsbury Cookie Dough, shoppers can now access SavingStars exclusive