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A development blog of what Con Kolivas is doing with code at the moment with the emphasis on linux kernel, MuQSS, BFS and -ck.
Monday 11 June 2012
bfs 0.423, 3.4-ck2
and the increment only:
48 comments:
- Anonymous12 June 2012 at 10:06
Good experience linux-3.4.2-bfs-423
No slow down after some hours as with linux-3.3.
I suspect the sys-time bug before had issued some side effects, but that is just my FUD ...
Con Kolivas, thank you for your work!
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous13 June 2012 at 00:54
What did you mean in "linux-3.4.2-12queuePatches-bfs423-full-ck2" with '-12queuePatches' in the other Blog-thread?! Something away from my radar?
Just gonna reboot now with 3.4.2+bfs-423+BFQ+mm-drop_swap_cache_aggressively.patch.
ManuelReplies- Anonymous13 June 2012 at 01:19
Hi Manuel,
I dont use BFQ, but I run my system with
12 patches from stable-queue
all other ck2 patches - Anonymous13 June 2012 at 01:57
"12 patches from stable-queue"
O.K. Your Distro is different from openSUSE, obviously. Also, openSUSE patches things in that I'm not aware of anyways.
Let's give my new kernel some uptime.
and many thanks to Con Kolivas for providing us with his works' effort
- Anonymous13 June 2012 at 01:44
BTW, thinking about what Ralph Ulrich wrote in the other Blog thread, he felt the need to learn benchmarking...
Do we have any tool to really benchmark "interactivity" within Linux desktop systems?
Isn't it like only having reports, that things got better/worse? (up to today)
Manuel - Anonymous13 June 2012 at 23:00
@ Con Kolivas:
A big THANK YOU for this BFS-423 patch. It really makes a difference. Now having it running for almost 22h and there is no slowdown as noticed with previous kernel&BFS combos (also mentioned by Ralph).
In addition the recovery time of suspected swapped out content of the desktop after making use of possibly swapped-out-shmfs is greatly reduced on here now.
It also looks like that the base CPU load of usually running processes on here has also dropped.
I don't have any insight on how this is related to your patch improvement since 422, but: Very nice experience, indeed.
Again, many thanks for your work!!!
Manuel - Anonymous14 June 2012 at 01:00
@ Con Kolivas:
NO, nothing o.k. at all.
I again got a complete system failure (like with 3.4.2 plus BFS 422). Just some minutes after my last posting, while only watching something from disk via vlc.
There's nothing in the logs, the machine hang up completely as last time.
Please, inspect the differences in the transition in detail.
For me in the meanwhile, I'll compile with a fresh install and will come back.
Manuel Krause - Anonymous16 June 2012 at 01:49
Again I got a complete lockup without any obvious reason (nothing special done, clearly nothing in the logs) yesterday. Around 24h of uptime again.
Time to revert to 3.3.8 + D.H. patches and wait for 3.4.3. and BFS 425.
Manuel - Anonymous16 June 2012 at 01:51
I am runing linux-3.4-bfs-423 for days without errors. And of today with linux-3.4.3rc1. This is still the better than mainline Linux!
At the LKML Hillf Danton is publishing patches every now and then. These are bfs-420 based - named bfs 421 - but Linux-3.3 is dead now - end of lifetime.
Ralph Ulrich
Hamburg, Germany - Anonymous16 June 2012 at 06:42
If I hadn't have had so many random lockups with 3.4.x + BFS I wouldn't have had to have written about.
At least 3 lockups in four days. That has never occurred that often, as of before 2.6.39.
I'm now using 3.3.8 with SLUB (instead of my previous SLAB) + my usual BFS setup + all of Hillf Dantons recent patches. Just to find the same lockups if they're not 4.2.* or BFS 422/423 related.
If it's kernel-3.4 related, I would not suffer.
ManuelRepliesNOT only considering.
If H.D. wants his work to become famous he should pack his stuff together and push them to any website.- Anonymous16 June 2012 at 22:09
Why do you insist on using Danton's patches? BFS works great without them.
Delete - Anonymous17 June 2012 at 07:29
I do definitely not insist in Hillf Damon's patches per se.
But, including Con Kolivas' self confident reply, what should I do now if 3.4.2 with BFS aborts after 24h? Without any helpout from him or others?
That's the only reason for me to go back to & propagate the last known good.
@Chen / X: Don't make up a flame against H.D. At least his patches work. Your first ones were simple NOGOs.
I've inspected my changed .config now really carefully as of 3.4.2 vs. 3.3.8, for possible wrong automatic choices. Dunno. There are many diffs, but nothing I'd suspect to be the culprit.
Manuel Alas, there's nothing to debug. A lockup after 24h without any logs is very non-specific and gives me nothing to work off. How does it compare to 3.4.2 withOUT BFS with the rest of the config the same?
Have I made flame on H.D. ? No.
I am giving advice to H.D. that he suppose to pack up his works and push it to any kind of website(e.g www.danton.org, GoogleCode, github, ...) It is more better for users to review what you have done with your work.
ChenTry 3.4.1 instead. I also have "lock-ups" with 3.4.2. The lockup comes from X11 ("EQ overflowing" infinite loop.) I have no idea whether this is BFS or NVidia binary driver related. It's so rare, that I couldn't be bothered to find out :-P Going to 3.4.1 cured it.
Delete- Anonymous18 June 2012 at 03:34
@ Con Kolivas:
Yes really, it's a pity that the system just simply stops working. I like to have provided you with some more useful BUG messages if it had been possible.
Now I'm running the 3.4.2 with a slightly different config WITH BFS as I saw I may have messed up some settings on the way from 3.3.8, 3.4.1 to 3.4.2. In the most dumb case someone may have shot me off from the web due to a malfunctioning firewall, in which case I would need to apologize for the noise that I made. But it's only up for 3h now.
In the next step I'd compare with the same kernel withOUT BFS as you suggested if it locks up again. BTW, there isn't a kernel command line switch to choose the CPU scheduler (like with the I/O schedulers) ?
Thank you for responding,
Manuel - Anonymous18 June 2012 at 04:59
Compile Kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
When it locks up, do the thing with Magic SysRq key
and have it display all held locks and backtraces off
all CPUs.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key - Anonymous18 June 2012 at 06:12
My openSUSE kernels predefine DEBUG_KERNEL=y if I set EXPERT=y. And there's then already set CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y, too.
Did you mean this one? I don't have a pure "CONFIG_LOCKDEP" in 3.4.2.
But this wouldn't help any further anyways, when the _machine_ locks up (difference would be if only the kernel failed). I've even rechecked that there hadn't been any bad temperature issues and the hardware didn't change for months.
Thanks, Manuel - Anonymous18 June 2012 at 08:02
Mmmh, there's 3.4.3 out now: Should I wait for the next lockup (after only ~9h uptime) or just try the new kernel?
- Anonymous16 June 2012 at 07:12
But, let's give it some uptime...
12 hours are nothing.
P.S. It should read "if they're not 3.4.* or BFS 422/423 related". - Anonymous21 June 2012 at 00:01
Recently linux-3.4.4rc-bfs I had some top time overflows at
Is this rpc related?
I am just deleting the one patch
I see about that and try again ....
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous22 June 2012 at 22:44
@ Con Kolivas & all other on here as well:
I've now spent some days chacking and reverting some config changes I made between 3.3.8 and 3.4.2/3 and testing the resulting kernels whether they run longer then 24h. One of them hardlocked after almost 32h.
Then I set CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL back to n (like I had with 3.3.8). And this one, including BFS, ran longer than 49h.
Would you consider that this option may harm the BFS or something else in such a way that the machine hardlocks? (gcc version is 4.6.2)
Does someone else have experience with this option?
Now I'll still need to test the standard scheduler with this option set to y although I don't like to run kernels without BFS. ;-)
Manuel - Anonymous23 June 2012 at 00:22
Does BFS have some timing dependencies with side effects?
Last help text sentence
Optimize very unlikely/likely branches
update of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
Ralph Ulrich
PS: I had also disabled this optionRepliesThis is a low level change to how inbuilt expect functions are compiled by gcc into assembly utilising an x86 feature. Can't see how this is affected by BFS directly or indirectly.
Delete- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 01:08
Yes, that is what I wanted to answer to Manuel. And I looked it up, when I saw that I myself had this disabled. And I have this rcuc Kernelthreads systime shows going crazy. I just compile my kernel with enabled CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL. Perhaps this gives more time for BFS to behave normal. As the last sentence in the help of the option says:
"update of the condition is slower"
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous23 June 2012 at 01:21
Con, wasn't it you, who looked into Solaris code just to recognize it as a saner framework? Which could easily come to the conclusion Linux source is more vulnerable to side effects... Ralph
- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 04:15
And the other way round?: May _this option_ affect the way BFS works?
IIRC, it made BFS snappier on my old hardware. But that's subjective. Perhaps Ralph would share his experience with us.
Thank you for your replies!
Manuel - Anonymous23 June 2012 at 09:51
Manuel, this Option normally brings a performance boost. This is why I disabled it at first to have a more stable experience. But the last sentence in the help of the option: in rare cases there is a slow down to update conditions.
This must have a side effect for BFS: I have no issues with BFS since I enabled this Jump_Label optimization.
Ciao from happy soccer Germany, RalphRepliesThe "slow down" it mentions is when the branch is the opposite of what is predicted. The idea is that there is a branch point where we know that 99% of the time we do code A and 1% of the time we do code B. Normally it would cost a little overhead to do code A and a little more overhead to do code B. With this optimisation feature enabled, it costs NO overhead to do code A and MORE overhead than before to do code B.
This has nothing to do with BFS.
- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 11:00
Con, our issue is not performance here:
Without JUMP_LABEL
1. Manuels system halts after a day
2. me (shutting down ervery night)
ps -e -o pcpu,bsdtime,stat,comm --sort -pcpu
gives me a rcuc/0 thread with 175 Million seconds run time
in rare cases (after hours).Replies- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 23:13
Just short to correct the above:
With BFS and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL = y my system halts after 23-32h.
With BFS and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL = n my system keeps running after 49h.
Now running standard scheduler with this CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL = y. 16h so far. I hope it breaks soon, I don't like it's experience.
And: I don't claim that it has anything to do with BFS, I only asked if it could possibly be so.
Manuel - Anonymous25 June 2012 at 15:07
So what about your last test with CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL, Manuel? Results?
Delete - Anonymous26 June 2012 at 00:11
Yes, yes. I'm still waiting for 3.4.3 + standard scheduler with CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL = y to fail. But even with 65h of uptime it keeps running without issues (but, of course, with a worse interactivity than BFS). Side note: The CFS kernel does slow down after a certain time running, too.
Don't know what to do now. Meanwhile I compiled a 3.4.4 + BFS + CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL, ready for next reboot.
Hi Con, I have Hard freezes with BFS,
I use zen kernel (with BFS and BFQ, linux 3.4.4). Command "mkfs.ext4 -L Diskname -c -v /dev/sdb1" (SATA drive on esata connector) leeds to an hard freeze within minutes during bad block test. Not even the Magic SysRq keys do work anymore.
So I compiled zen with CFS, no problem, no freeze.
Zen with BFS but without BFQ -> freeze.
So I tested it with Vanilla Kernel 3.4.4 and CK2 Patches -> freeze too.
Vanilla Kernel 3.4.4 with your patches but without BFS -> no freeze!
PS: I even tested to disable in the discussion mentioned CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL and BFS, but freeze too.
I use OpenSuse 12.1 and with the original Tumbleweed kernel 3.4.3 there is no such a problem.
Regards MikeReplies- Anonymous26 June 2012 at 04:50
Short Q: Which of your combinations did you test CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL disabled?
Regards, Manuel Hi Manuel,
short answer: Only the Vanilla Kernel with CK2 patchset and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL disabled.
Regards MikeHi Con,
some more tests:
1. Hard Freeze with BFS and USB(2) Stick badblock test (command: "mkfs.ext2 -L "Stickname" -m 0 -c -v /dev/sdb1"). Freeze after approx. 5 Minutes and 30%. (remark: with esata drives the freezes comes within 2 minutes)
2. Starting in Runlevel 3 does not make a difference, freeze too with badblock test command (and nothing other tasks running)
Btw. running the command with CFS and the new RIFS from Chen do not have this problem.
Con, if you need additional infos or requests for this bug, I could try to help you.
Thanks and regards
- Anonymous30 June 2012 at 02:41
Just adding to my reports.
I abandonned the 3.4.3 CFS + JUMP_LABEL test after 3d0h10m. Rock stable but really predictably unresponsive.
The 3.4.4 with BFS(only) +JUMP_LABEL crashed after ~8h.
Two days ago I had a complete lockup with that kernel+config but WITHOUT JUMP_LABEL after some hours. So it really has nothing to do with that config setting.
I've tried RIFS but that doesn't work on non-SMP systems at all.
I feel a bit unsafe at the moment, when using BFS-patched kernels.
Manuel Ok looking at the pattern of lockups people are having, I'm reasonably sure it's the block plugging code which I changed going into this BFS release. I will put together an update soon that backs out those changes to the old proven mechanism. Thanks everyone for your bug reports.


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BATH, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James has sent cupcakes to his neighbors to apologize for the ruckus caused by the announcement of his homecoming earlier this month.
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Princeton celebrated the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes at Opening Exercises Sept. 12.
"Among the qualities that matter to us at Princeton, none are more important than intellectual engagement and academic achievement," said Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel. "It is especially fitting that we begin the academic year by honoring a select group of undergraduates for extraordinary accomplishment in their programs of study."
Freshman First Honor Prize
The Freshman First Honor Prize is awarded each year to a sophomore in recognition of exceptional academic achievement in the work of the freshman year. This year, the prize is shared by Irene Lo and Chengming Zhu.
Lo lives in Sydney, Australia. She graduated from the James Ruse Agricultural High School in New South Wales. Before she came to Princeton, she won two gold certificates in the Australian Mathematical Olympiad and won silver and bronze medals in the International Mathematical Olympiads.
An A.B. candidate, Lo plans to major in mathematics and is considering a certificate in engineering and management systems. This summer, she conducted research on the Princeton campus with Amit Singer, an assistant professor of mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. She is one of the recipients of the Manfred Pyka Memorial Prize in Physics for 2009-10. Next month, she will receive the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence for her freshman year.
Lo, a member of Wilson College, sings in the Princeton University Glee Club and the Kindred Spirit a cappella group. She also is the webmaster of Manna Christian Fellowship.
Zhu lives in Shanghai, China. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he won the First Scholar Prize, an honor similar to being named valedictorian of his graduating class.
An A.B. candidate, Zhu is considering a major in either mathematics or economics, with certificates in both finance and applied and computational mathematics. Next month, he will receive the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence for his freshman year. This summer, he participated in Princeton's Global Seminar in Vietnam.
A member of Butler College, Zhu is college captain of Princeton Preview, an annual hosting program for newly admitted students. He also plays recreational ice hockey and provides technical support for Princeton Chinese Theater.
George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize
Ian Wong received this year's George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize, presented each year to a member of the junior class in recognition of exceptional academic achievement during the sophomore year.
Wong lives in Irvine, Calif., and is a graduate of Northwood High School. An A.B. candidate, he is a physics major pursuing certificates in linguistics, musical performance, and Russian language and culture, and is considering another certificate in applied and computational mathematics.
Wong's research interests include astrophysics and new applications of the theory of quantum control. He conducted research this summer on the feasibility of quantum control of nuclear dynamics using laser fields as part of the Program in Plasma Science and Technology at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), working under the guidance of Herschel Rabitz, the Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of Chemistry.
Wong won the Manfred Pyka Memorial Physics Prize for his freshman year and the Eugene Taylor Prize in Physics for his sophomore year, and he has twice won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. After graduation Wong plans to continue his education with graduate studies in physics and possibly violin performance as well.
Wong plays violin and viola as a member of the Princeton University Orchestra, and he is a member of the Princeton University Chamber Ensemble. He also serves as a piano accompanist for friends' auditions and competitions. He is a member of Butler College.
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The George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize is given to a member of the senior class in recognition of exceptional academic achievement during the junior year. This year, the prize is shared by Vishal Chanani and Carlee Joe-Wong.
Chanani lives in Plano, Texas, and is a graduate of Plano Senior High School. An A.B. candidate, he is majoring in economics and pursuing certificates in applied and computational mathematics and finance. He twice has won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence.
This summer, Chanani interned at the Boston Consulting Group. His research interests include game theory and behavioral finance. In his senior thesis, he is likely to model the behavior of participants in financial markets, focusing on the interaction among investors, rating agencies and investment services firms. He plans to earn a law degree and pursue a Ph.D. in economics.
Chanani is a member of the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline and a number of campus organizations, including the Princeton Debate Panel, the Fields Center Undergraduate Fellows Program and Princeton Hindu Satsangam. He is a member of Whitman College.
Joe-Wong lives in West Hills, Calif., and is a graduate of Harvard Westlake School in North Hollywood. An A.B. candidate, she is a mathematics major pursuing a certificate in applied and computational mathematics.
This summer, she also worked under Rabitz in the Program in Plasma Science and Technology at the PPPL, conducting research on control of classical mechanical systems.
Joe-Wong has submitted the results of her junior paper on time-dependent broadband pricing for conference publication, and her senior thesis will focus on optimal control of classical mechanical molecular systems. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics.
A member of Butler College, Joe-Wong is a chemistry tutor at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. She also plays piano for Princeton Music Outreach.
Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award
This year's Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award is shared by John Pardon and Veronica Shi. The award is given to the undergraduate who, at the end of the junior year, has achieved the highest academic standing for all preceding college work at the University.
Pardon lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., and is a graduate of the Durham Academy Upper School. An A.B. candidate, Pardon is majoring in mathematics.
In addition to prizes for outstanding achievement within the mathematics department, Pardon won the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a national award recognizing outstanding potential in math, natural sciences or engineering. He twice has won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence.
Pardon works in pure mathematics and has done research in differential geometry, topology and probability theory. He has had two papers accepted for publication in mathematics journals. His work on a problem in knot theory may become part of his senior thesis.
This summer, he conducted applied math research for the Department of Defense. After graduation, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Pardon also is a dedicated student of Chinese, attending the language immersion Princeton in Beijing program after his freshman year and completing advanced work in Chinese on campus.
Pardon plays cello in the Princeton University Sinfonia, is an Outdoor Action leader and is a member of the Princeton Juggling Club. He is a member of Butler College.
Shi lives in West Covina, Calif., and is a graduate of Arcadia High School. An A.B. candidate, she is a classics major. She twice has won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
This summer, Shi attended a program in Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands and conducted research for Edward Champlin, Princeton's Cotsen Professor of Humanities and professor of classics. Shi's research interests are in Greek and Latin literature, especially Latin poetry of the Republican and Augustan eras.
For her senior thesis, she will study the development of epic poetry from Homer to Virgil, with an emphasis on the genre's transformation from a repository of myth into a tool of political and cultural persuasion in Hellenistic Greece and Rome. She also is working on a libretto in Latin for a senior thesis opera production. Shi plans to pursue graduate studies in classics, teach at the university level and contribute to higher education policymaking.
Shi was an active member of the Butler College community for three years and is now a member of Mathey College. She was a peer academic adviser at Butler and will continue in that role in her new college. She also is a student member of the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study, as well as a member of the Undergraduate Student Government's Academics Committee and the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows. Shi has organized Greek tragedy reading groups for undergraduates and faculty, and she helps coach her high school's constitutional law debate team.


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"Now that the initial MLB investigation is over, I want to apologize for my actions and provide a more specific account of what I did and why I deserved to be suspended. I have no one to blame but myself. I know that over the last year and a half I made some serious mistakes, both in the information I failed to share during my arbitration hearing and the comments I made to the press afterwards.
"I have disappointed the people closest to me -- the ones who fought for me because they truly believed me all along. I kept the truth from everyone. For a long time, I was in denial and convinced myself that I had not done anything wrong.
"It is important that people understand that I did not share details of what happened with anyone until recently. My family, my teammates, the Brewers organization, my friends, agents and advisors had no knowledge of these facts, and no one should be blamed but me. Those who put their necks out for me have been embarrassed by my behavior. I don't have the words to express how sorry I am for that.
"Here is what happened. During the latter part of the 2011 season, I was dealing with a nagging injury and I turned to products for a short period of time that I shouldn't have used. The products were a cream and a lozenge which I was told could help expedite my rehabilitation. It was a huge mistake for which I am deeply ashamed and I compounded the situation by not admitting my mistakes immediately.
"I deeply regret many of the things I said at the press conference after the arbitrator's decision in February 2012. At that time, I still didn't want to believe that I had used a banned substance. I think a combination of feeling self-righteous and having a lot of unjustified anger led me to react the way I did. I felt wronged and attacked, but looking back now, I was the one who was wrong. I am beyond embarrassed that I said what I thought I needed to say to defend my clouded vision of reality. I am just starting the process of trying to understand why I responded the way I did, which I continue to regret. There is no excuse for any of this.
"For too long during this process, I convinced myself that I had not done anything wrong. After my interview with MLB in late June of this year, I came to the realization that it was time to come to grips with the truth. I was never presented with baseball's evidence against me, but I didn't need to be, because I knew what I had done. I realized the magnitude of my poor decisions and finally focused on dealing with the realities of -- and the punishment for -- my actions.
"I requested a second meeting with Baseball to acknowledge my violation of the drug policy and to engage in discussions about appropriate punishment for my actions. By coming forward when I did and waiving my right to appeal any sanctions that were going to be imposed, I knew I was making the correct decision and taking the first step in the right direction. It was important to me to begin my suspension immediately to minimize the burden on everyone I had so negatively affected -- my teammates, the entire Brewers organization, the fans and all of MLB. There has been plenty of rumor and speculation about my situation, and I am aware that my admission may result in additional attacks and accusations from others.
"I love the great game of baseball, and I am very sorry for any damage done to the game. I have privately expressed my apologies to Commissioner [Bud] Selig and Rob Manfred of MLB and to Michael Weiner and his staff at the Players Association. I'm very grateful for the support I've received from them. I sincerely apologize to everybody involved in the arbitration process, including the collector, Dino Laurenzi Jr. I feel terrible that I put my teammates in a position where they were asked some very difficult and uncomfortable questions. One of my primary goals is to make amends with them.
"I understand it's a blessing and a tremendous honor to play this game at the Major League level. I also understand the intensity of the disappointment from teammates, fans and other players. When it comes to both my actions and my words, I made some very serious mistakes, and I can only ask for the forgiveness of everyone I let down. I will never make the same errors again, and I intend to share the lessons I learned with others so they don't repeat my mistakes. Moving forward, I want to be part of the solution and no longer part of the problem.
"I support baseball's Joint Drug Treatment and Prevention Program and the importance of cleaning up the game. What I did goes against everything I have always valued- achieving through hard work and dedication, and being honest both on and off the field. I also understand that I will now have to work very, very hard to begin to earn back people's trust and support. I am dedicated to making amends and to earning back the trust of my teammates, the fans, the entire Brewers' organization, my sponsors, advisors and from MLB. I am hopeful that I can earn back the trust from those who I have disappointed and those who are willing to give me the opportunity. I am deeply sorry for my actions, and I apologize to everyone who has been adversely affected by them."
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Arthur Szathmary, a Princeton University professor emeritus of philosophy, died of natural causes July 1 at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 97.
Over the course of his nearly 40 years at the University, Szathmary's work probed the philosophical significance of art and the relations between art and philosophy as modes of understanding human experience. He also concentrated on the principle of aesthetic criticism of art and was intrigued by how art enables people from different cultures to understand each other. He retired from Princeton in 1986.
Paul Benacerraf, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, who earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Princeton in 1952 and 1960, respectively, and served twice as department chair, says he felt Szathmary's influence both as a student and a colleague.
"Arthur was an important member of the Princeton faculty," Benacerraf said, "partly because he was one of very few with his particular sensibilities and interests — a broad and deep interest and competence in the arts and how to think about them — but especially because of his personal kindness and openness."
Benacerraf said Szathmary helped him find a place for himself at Princeton in the early 1950s. "As an undergraduate, I wandered around pretty lost for a couple of years, until I found Arthur, and although my philosophical interests eventually diverged from his, he had been the link that enabled me to think that I could make it at Princeton — that there was a place for me here after all."
Szathmary joined the Princeton faculty in 1947. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, the last in 1942. Working with Japanese prisoners as a Navy intelligence officer during World War II sparked his interest in Japanese culture.
His commitment to the arts led to his appointment as chair of the Creative Arts Committee from 1958 to 1967, which oversaw the Creative Arts Program. Under Szathmary's leadership, along with program director R.P. Blackmur, a succession of poets, writers and critics taught in the program. Szathmary also served as a senior fellow in the humanities.
"His great contribution was in his teaching and his close personal relations with his students," said Alexander Nehamas, the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and comparative literature. Nehamas met Szathmary as a graduate student in the late 1960s, when he led the precept for Szathmary's undergraduate course on the philosophy of art.
"His courses, especially the undergraduate courses he taught, attracted large groups of students, including, among others, the painter Frank Stella," Nehamas said. "He was an infectiously enthusiastic teacher, with high standards, but always profoundly generous, encouraging and full of good will."
Szathmary's impact on his students often lasted long after they left Princeton. In 2008, Gregory Callimanopulos, a member of the Class of 1957 and a noted art collector, donated the first Picasso painting to enter the Princeton University Art Museum's collection, "Tête d'homme et nu assis ("Man's Head and Seated Nude"), in honor of Szathmary.
While earning a master's in architecture and urban planning at Princeton in the mid-1970s, Jeffrey Ng, now an architect based in Fairfield, Conn., took two courses on the philosophy of art taught by Szathmary. Remaining friends over the years, their last visit took place just before Szathmary's 97th birthday in April.
"As an architectural graduate student, I found his courses particularly relevant by offering a philosophical context for my studies," Ng said. "Like a modern day Socrates, he taught us to be skeptical of conventional thinking of art and aesthetics and even of accepted theories and modes of analysis. The world has suffered a great loss of a wise, gentle and inspiring teacher."
Szathmary is survived by his wife, Lily Hayeem; his brother, Bill Dana; and his children, Robert and Helen.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Life must be going well for Tiger Woods when he can make headlines in the gossip pages for dating Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn and in the sports pages for winning Bay Hill and returning to No. 1 in the world.
All in the same week.
The studio photos of Woods and Vonn that were posted on their Facebook pages looked more suitable for a catalog showcasing their clothing sponsors. Far more natural were the poses Woods struck Monday afternoon with Arnold Palmer after winning his tournament — left arm draped around Palmer's shoulder, both unable to contain their laughter over whatever was said that could not be repeated.
"But it was funny," Woods said, breaking into a broad grin as he replayed the exchange in his mind. "Really funny, actually."
Yes, Woods appears to be in a happy place.
Winning does that, and Woods is starting to win with alarming frequency. In the one year and two weeks since he limped off the course at Doral with tightness in his left Achilles tendon — the same injury that forced him to miss two majors in 2011 — Woods has won six times in his last 20 starts on the PGA Tour. In his three wins this year, no one got closer than two shots at any point in the final round.
The limp has been replaced by a swagger.
"He looks a lot more comfortable out there. He doesn't really miss many shots. And if he does, it's not by a whole lot," said Rickie Fowler, who played with Woods in the final group and has seen plenty of him at practice at The Medalist in South Florida, where both are members.
"You know when another guy is playing well and he's on top of his game," Fowler added. "He's got a little something."
Haven't we heard this before?
Remember, Woods won Bay Hill a year ago and was declared the favorite to win a fifth green jacket at the Masters. Instead, he never broke par and wound up with his highest score as a pro at Augusta National and tied for 40th. He won the Memorial in his final event before the U.S. Open, and then shared the 36-hole lead at Olympic Club. He failed to finish in the top 20.
It's easy to get caught up in the hype because we know how good he was and believe he can be that good — if not better — again.
This latest win at Bay Hill, however, was different. It gave Woods consecutive wins for the first time since August 2009. Asked the last time he felt this good going into the Masters, he said, "It's been a few years."
"I think it shows that my game is consistent," Woods said. "It's at a high level."
Woods lost part of his mystique when he stopped making putts. Now he seems to make everything. Fowler learned that on the 12th hole Monday after making a 40-foot birdie putt to get within two shots of Woods, only to stand on the edge of the green and watch Woods match it with a 25-footer of his own.
The last time Woods won back-to-back tournaments heading into Augusta was in 2001, the year he won the Masters to complete his unprecedented sweep of the majors. Winning cannot be overstated, even for a guy who has won more than anyone in PGA Tour history except for Sam Snead.
Woods walked into his winner's press conference with his cellphone in hand, scrolling down to read the messages, most of them from his staff. Rory McIlroy, whom he replaced at No. 1 in the world, sent him a text Tuesday morning.
Vonn shared her thoughts on Twitter: "Number 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It wasn't long before Woods was asked the correlation between going public about dating Vonn and winning a tournament to go back to No. 1 for the first time since October 2010. There was a time when Woods answered questions about his personal life by saying, "That's none of your business." But he had fun with this one.
"You're reading way too much into this," he said with a grin.
The trouble with Woods is that he has never been an open book. Only he knows how badly his leg was injured. Only he knows how far along he was in the latest swing change under Sean Foley. Only he knows how much life as a divorced father of two has affected his game.
The greatest temptation Woods faces now is to resist wagging his finger at anyone who doubted whether he could get back to No. 1 in the world, whether he could challenge Jack Nicklaus and his record 18 majors. Woods has been stuck on 14 majors since 2008.
The majors will be the ultimate measures. The Masters starts April 11, and if Woods isn't wearing a green jacket in Butler Cabin on Sunday night, it won't mean this was another false alarm. Golf is still hard. Woods only has a way of making it look easy.
Think back to one of the most dominant phases of his career. From August 1999 through March 2000, Woods won or finished second 10 times in 11 starts on the PGA Tour. The Masters was his next tournament, and it didn't look like there was any way he could lose. In the opening round, he three-putted for double bogey on No. 10 and three-putted from 12 feet for a triple bogey on No. 12. Woods shot 75 that day, never caught up and tied for fifth. That summer, he won the next three majors.
For Woods, it has always been about giving himself chances.
The Masters might be his best chance since 2009, when he coughed up a two-shot lead to Y.E. Yang on the last day of the PGA Championship. Everything fell apart soon after that — revelations of his extramarital affairs, losing his wife in a divorce, finding a new swing coach, coping with more injuries to his left leg.
Woods never liked the notion that this is a comeback. When he won the Chevron World Challenge at the end of 2011 — his first trophy of any kind in the two years since his car hit the fire hydrant and his personal life imploded — he cited the lyrics of LL Cool J: "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years."
But that wasn't necessarily true. He wasn't No. 1 in the world. He wasn't even the best player in golf. That was McIlroy, who won the U.S. Open by a record score in 2011 and the PGA Championship by a record margin a year later. McIlroy was looked upon as the favorite at the Masters until Woods won his last two tournaments.
If it's McIlroy in a green jacket at Augusta National, the road back for Woods will look longer than ever.
At the moment, Woods has turned the corner and is picking up speed.


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Long Scattered, Adoptees Search for Lost Family
Long Scattered, Adoptees Search for Lost Family
MCCAYSVILLE, Ga. — Jun 20, 2014, 1:27 AM ET
By KANTELE FRANKO and ALEX SANZ Associated Press
They were adopted off-the-books decades ago, scattered by a Georgia doctor who took $100 or $1,000 or something in between to send desperate couples home with new sons and daughters. Now some of the adoptees have turned to fresh DNA testing in hopes of reconnecting with the biological families they never knew, before time runs out.
"This is our shot in the dark, really," said Melinda Elkins Dawson, one of more than 200 newborns relocated to other states from the clinic in McCaysville in the 1950s and '60s.
As children, their true ancestry was erased on birth certificates falsely listing adoptive couples as their natural parents. Genetic codes are the only links left.
So Dawson worked with Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center to arrange free cheek-swab sampling Saturday at a motel in Ducktown, Tennessee, a few miles from where the clinic was located. The adoptees hope potential relatives from the area come forward to give samples, even if they remain anonymous.
"We're not trying to make anyone look bad," she said. "We're just trying to get some answers. Every adopted child has questions. We deserve some answers."
The doctor who ran the McCaysville clinic, Thomas Hicks, died in 1972. There is unsettled debate about whether he sold babies on the black-market, charitably helped those in need while merely recouping his expenses, or perhaps did both.
The adoptees giving new DNA samples don't care much about his motives. They're looking for links that could flesh out family trees, fill in medical histories or salve the burn of simple questions: Where did I come from? What did my parents look like? Do I have more siblings?
That last one has been on Bill Palmisano's mind all week, since he met Dawson on Monday. They grew up in different adoptive families in northeast Ohio, but records list their McCaysville birth dates a day apart, and they've heard from other adoptees that the written dates were sometimes slightly off.
Palmisano didn't notice much obvious resemblance to Dawson, but his excited blue eyes met hers and sold her on a possibility. Maybe, just maybe, this guy could be her twin brother.
Dawson, who lives outside Canton, Ohio, is among those who have been down this path before, in the late 1990s, when one adoptee's search for her parents revealed there might be hundreds of "Hicks babies." Some of them gave DNA samples for testing.
It turned a spotlight on McCaysville, a onetime copper mining town near where Georgia borders Tennessee and North Carolina, and on Hicks, a complicated figure whose background included a drug-selling conviction and an illegal abortion charge. Locals defended him as a good doctor who cared for mothers who were young, unwed or in complicated situations with nowhere else to turn.
It's a subject many residents want to leave in the past.
"Everyone accepted that it happened in this town and they just rather it go on," said Mayor Thomas Seabolt, who doubts many people will come forward Saturday.
The adoptees emphasize they aren't trying to make waves in McCaysville, a town of roughly 1,000, tucked amid mountains in an area trying to capitalize on tourism and rafting along the Ocoee River. They say they just want information, though the specifics vary from person to person.
Diane Warner of Grand Rapids, Michigan, said two earlier DNA samplings led nowhere for her, so she'd welcome any fresh lead.
Mark Eckenrode of Orlando, Fla., longs to sort out his genealogy — the real one, not the one he spent a decade working on before he learned at age 36 that he'd been adopted. He takes pride in his connection to McCaysville, which he describes as hardscrabble, with hard-working people.
"My identity is up there. It's up in the hills. It's up in the mines," said Eckenrode, 53.
Ohioans Cyndy Stapleton and Diane Conrad already connected with blood relatives after the earlier DNA testing and hope to find more. Stapleton said her birth mother, whom she met, had three sons who may have been adopted. Conrad, who found a biological sister, would like to find her mother.
Paul Payne, an adoptee living in Hixson, Tennessee, is more focused on his father. He says he found the woman he believes was his birth mom, based on details he learned from his former baby-sitter. He talked to the woman once, he says, when he called her at a nursing home. She said hello, and he hung up, at a loss for words. They didn't connect again before she died.
As for Palmisano, he can't make the trip to Georgia from his home in Streetsboro, Ohio, but promises Dawson he'll do DNA sampling. The diagnostics company will run some tests, and within weeks, they could learn how their samples compare.
Maybe, just maybe, they'll have more in common than blue eyes.


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Arlington Cemetery debuts new interactive map
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arlington National Cemetery on Monday made available to the public a massive electronic database detailing the gravesites of the roughly 400,000 people buried there.
Cemetery officials built the database over the last two years to verify the accuracy of their records brought into question by reports of misidentified graves. Prior to 2010, the cemetery used paper records and maps to track who is buried where.
On Monday at the Association of the United States Army convention in Washington, the cemetery debuted an interactive map available through its website and through a free smartphone app. It uses geospatial technology to hone in on specific graves and can also be searched by name.
It can be accessed through the cemetery's website www.arlingtoncemetery.mil
When a name is called up, a viewer can see when the person was buried and the dates of their birth and death. Photos of the front and back of the headstone can also be viewed. Monuments and memorials that commemorate the service of specific military units are also included in the database.
The application also highlights some of the notable graves throughout the cemetery that are popular with the roughly 4 million visitors annually that the cemetery draws.
"This is a great day for veterans and our families," said Kathryn Condon, executive director of the Army National Military Cemeteries, which includes Arlington.
Officials say the new app makes it easier for people walking the cemetery to locate a loved one's burial place. The app can be downloaded at the cemetery's visitor center.
The database has been the subject of a painstaking review and even now is not 100 percent complete. Katharine Kelley, the cemetery's director of accountability, said that about 99.4 percent of the nearly 260,000 gravesites, niches and markers have been verified.
The remaining few deal largely with some of the cemetery's oldest graves and records, which date to the Civil War. In many cases, it may be an effort to verify the spelling of the first name of a spouse buried at the cemetery among disparate handwritten records.
Condon said she could not say how much it cost to develop the website and mobile app, largely because the work to develop the technology was conducted in house.
The geospatial technology used to power the smartphone is the same that the cemetery uses to coordinate the 25 to 30 burials conducted there every day. Care is taken to ensure, for example, that maintenance work at the cemetery is not conducted at the same time and place as a burial service.
Arlington officials say the cemetery is one of the most technically advanced in the nation.


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'American Reunion' Teaser Trailer – 'American Pie' Gang Is Older, But No Wiser, in New Sequel [VIDEO]
Who says you can't go home? Not Stifler, his mom, Jim, Finch, Oz, Jim's dad and the rest of the 'American Pie' crew, who are back for 'American Reunion,' supposedly the final film in the 'Pie' franchise after three theatrical releases and four direct-to-DVD spinoffs.
The film's first teaser trailer dropped today and it doesn't reveal much — just a collection of photobooth shots of the gang reunited at their high school reunion. How come the people at our reunions didn't age this well?
Check out the 'American Reunion' trailer below:
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