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This must be what candidate Barack Obama meant in 2008 when he spoke of transparency. Both then and now, he has received campaign contributions from sources so transparent that their zip codes are invisible.
A report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) found that "during calendar year 2012, the Obama campaign received at least $4,580,805.35 from donors who did not submit a ZIP code, or submitted one that does not exist." The finding suggests the very real possibility that the campaign's online collection apparatus is allowing foreign donors to make contributions, which is a violation of federal election laws.
In an independent investigation, the New York Post learned that one British citizen who lives outside London made two $5 donations to Obama's campaign through its website, while similar attempts to give cash the Romney campaign were frustrated. The donor, Chris Walker, admitted that he had used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state of residence with the Schenectady, N.Y., ZIP code: 12345.
The Examiner's Joel Gehrke reminds readers of Obama's stern rebuke of the Supreme Court in his 2010 State of the Union address for its ruling on the Citizens United case. "Last week," the president said, staring down the members of the high court, who were seated in the chamber, "the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections." Clearly his distaste for electoral hanky-panky manifests itself only when "the other side" appears to be playing fast and loose with the law.
Which is what his defenders in the Democratic Party and left-leaning media are saying now in response to the GAI report. Mitt Romney, they are quick to note, has also received dubious online donations. But the Romney campaign has received $282,814 in such donations, 1/16 the amount the Obama campaign has received.
In addition, as this chart reveals, Obama also received significantly more in contributions from non-existent ZIP codes than his 2008 GOP rival, John McCain. And this, mind you, was the pure and unsullied Obama, the man who inspired crowds with his message of hope and change and his promise to deliver Washington, D.C., from its culture of corruption.
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They were pretty ugly in the first half. They have 1 too many 2 guards, and 1 too few PGs.
Wow, great win tonight. The first half was pretty bad when the starters were in, and the Pistons were only in it because the reserves absolutely blew up early in the 2nd quarter against the Spurs bench. The third quarter was back and forth but ended well, and then the 4th was just awesome...28-14 Pistons! The defense throughout the second half was excellent, with the Spurs only scoring 32 points. They really fell apart once they stopped getting calls on every possession. The Pistons took advantage with aggressive runouts and drives to the hoop. Points in the paint was in the neighborhood of 40-20 Pistons overall for the game. Pretty much everyone who was out there in the 4th quarter played great...Stuckey, AI, Sheed, Tay, AA, and Amir. The Pistons really need to build off this win. As bad as some of their losses have been of late, they've also put up post-trade wins now at the Lakers, against the Cavs, and at the Spurs.
I unsure about this team; it all starts with the defense; i am convinced that sheed cannot play defense like that for an entire game, but for one quarter he is fine. Reminded me of the dunccan and sheed battles from 98 to 03. Great to see. What is curry going to do? Affalo deserved to close the game out but he put rip back in. Rip had a decent game, I just feel that curry didn't want to tick another veteran off. Curry is in a no win situation. Affalo had such energy and defense, amir played well too. I have a very serious dvr situation. I love to dvr and look at the game again when my husband gets home from work. Now he is going to %%%%% because I didn't dvr the game. I am in a no-win situation. My record is 9 and 0.
i felt this way too in the first half. of course, in teh second half, i saw a lot of activity and energy from teh starters on defense and better movement of the ball and without the ball on offense and that combination seemed to lead to lots of open shots (much like the zoo crew created for themselves in that 2nd quarter run) i haven't gotten to see too many games this season because i've been traveling a lot. but from what i have seen, i don't think that we have any dire personnel issues. i can certainly see the advantage of getting an active big who can shoot, like dyess, back into the rotation. but i don't see that there's anybody we need to get rid of particularly (at least not among the players who played tonight). two things seemed really obvious watching tonight: 1) active hands, quick feet, and hustle on the defensive end make all the difference, defensively and offensively. whatever unit was out there: when those elements were in play, the pistons dominated and the spurs looked dazed and confused 2) the starting combination of AI, Rip, Tay, Sheed, and Kwame doesn't seem as strong as other combinations that we used at different times through the game. that's no knock on any of them as individuals. they just don't seem to work well together defensively or offensively. personally, i really liked a line up of AI, AA, Stuckey, Amir, and Sheed; but I also liked seeing Rip, Tay, and Jmax sprinkled in with those five. last observation: i know everyone was disheartened by the minny and portland losses, and by the first quarter, or even half of this game. at least in chat, many were voicing their frustration and calling for any number of drastic solutions, writing the season off. but i really think that patience is called for and merited. there's some really good pieces out there, and enough stretches when those pieces together and looked really dominating defensively and fluid and effortless offensively that I think we need to pull back from the panic button and just keep watching -- constructively criticising, of course -- but no need for any drastic measures.
NY, I had no idea you were a lady. Take care of your old man, the Pistons will take care of the Ws and Ls.
I think you just about said it all. The best post i've seen all year in this young season. Fantastic!!!!
Stucknut's reminding me why I was excited when we drafted him. Finally.
Ok that is NYpistonfan, ArmyGirl, Piston Lover, Alexa32, Aurora, Lpglr....anybody else want to step up and reveal their gender identity?? I love that we have ladies on this forum who can [strike]bang[/strike] discuss hoops with the fellas despite our childish, chauvinistic ways. Good to see that you all are passionate as we are because Ms. Dre only gets excited about a game when she attends one in person. Good game by the fellas tonight. Second unit did good and took the lead in the 2nd qtr, but starters duplicated Sundays effort by giving it back. But this ain't Sunday and this time the starters actually took control of the game down the stretch after the bench had brought them back. Hats off to Sheed who was getting dumped on by Duncan inside and out in the first half and to start the second and woke-up in the second half from both the inside and outside. Somebody check this, but is this the first time he has gone the line in the last 3 games??? All of the starters looked good, even Kwame who had a terrible first quarter but played well in the third slowing down TD and grabbing 8 boards. Oh yeah good game by THE Butler

Complaints first. AI played the whole 2nd half with no rest. I don't think JMAX got in there in the 2nd half. I think Sheed played about the whole 2nd half. We went small at the end of the 2nd quarter, and it hurt us some. Kwame was useless on offense in this game.

Everyone that played did well. Curry showed a lot of guts sticking with some young guys very late into this game to reward them for doing well. Yeah, Amir and Afflalo did come out around the 4 minute mark, but thats pretty darn good leaving them in that long.

AI. Yes, he threw the ball away here and there. Yes, he ball bogged a tad here and there. But he kept getting to the basket, finished often enough, found people often enough. And against Parker, he is not a liability on defense. Quick vs. quick. And he hit a bunch of outside shots.

Rip. He started the game out hitting most of his shots. He continues to make his free throws. He rotated great for a long spell along side the zoo crew in the 2nd quarter.

Tay, a little of everything. Bringing the ball up, ok. Rebounds. Assists. Knocked down some shots. Good D.

Sheed. About 20 points. Made a lot of those 3's. But he was wide open and they were pretty much daring him to shoot, so he was doing what he was suppose to do. And I like him taunting them a bit challenging them to come out and guard him. What? Guard Sheed? When we have AI and Stuckey itching to bust a move inside. SA only had Duncan for interior defense. Hardly enough to stop AI and Stuckey. They had to leave someone open.

Kwame. Bad hands. Horrid hands. No hands. He drew not one foul, nor scored a point; it was like just handing the ball over to the other team to try to tell him to score. And Duncan was scoring on him. But, and this is huge, Duncan was working awful hard to score on Kwame as Kwame was playing some seriously good D on him. By the end of the game, we had him worn the heck out, and that, combined with Sheed playing with real fire, spelled Duncan staying in check in crunch time.

Stuckey. Our hero tonight. He shredded their defense pretty fiercely. Hit jumpers, got to the rack, and dished assist after assist. Many inside. We outscored them in the paint 2 to 1. And Stuckey is learning that D. Knowledge, now combined with his natural gifts of height, quickness, and ups, is making him one heck of a defender.

Afflalo. Wow. Just great D. Great defensive rotation. Case in point. He doubled on Duncan, then got back so fast on Parker after the outlet pass, Parker travelled trying to gain an advantage. As the announcer said, Afflalo was in his head.

JMAX. Lots energy. Playing with force. He absolutely deserved time in the 2nd half, but hey, we played good quality players at all times in the 2nd half. Can't complain. He was part of our nice run in the 2nd quarter.

Amir. This guy lives at the offensive glass. And makes every defensive rotation. And always gets back in transition D. Hustles continuously. And if his teammates can ever manage to find him, he is there ready to score, under the basket. Phenomenal. What a delight to see this younster get crunch time 4th quarter minutes.

Nine man rotation tonight. Good strong one. Yeah, I won't lie, I had my doubts there in the opening of the 3rd quarter when the starting unit was not doing so well, but they got their act together and got the game tied. Yeah, I hated to see small ball played so much in the 2nd quarter toward the end of it. But hey, we got five excelent players, AI, Rip, Afflalo, Stuckey, and Tay kind of all jammed up at the 1 - 3 spots. Small ball does allow Curry to play all these guys. That can't hurt.

Thats the Lakers, Cleveland, and now a hot SA team we have beaten of late. I think its going to be ok.

GO PISTONS!!!!!

They will be more than ok because tonight they did it in crunch time. Overcame what a 10 point deficit to start the 4th? Seems like some of the starters played a lot of mins but thats ok - have to go with the hot hand. Nice 9 man set out there and Herman did not play. Another nice game from Stucky.
November's finally over! Let's play some real basketball now, boys! McDyess is back this weekend right?
They were down 10 at one point in the 3rd quarter, but they made a run near the end and started the 4th down by only 2.
That was Piston basketball. The defense returned. The youth started it. Later Sheed got into it. AI did damage by roaming into the passing lanes. SA was exposed for lack of team speed. Kwame has no offense unless he is able to overpower a small. His use is banging with their bigs. I agree with Lee that while he wasn't stellar, he helped to wear Duncan out. I wish the Pistons wouldn't feed him so much in the post. AI and Stuckey and even TAy threatening to drive gave us a glimmer maybe of the Piston offense post Billips. Curry may or may not know what he is doing but he sure has guts the way he pulls players. Actually, his small ball (cringe) did some damage in the 2nd. He stayed with it a bit too long. I think his vision is to have 3 smalls (with Sheed) in the game attacking at different angles and playing scrambling D.
That was fun. Best they've played all season, starters looked bad for a few stretches, but unlike sunday pulled their heads out of their A___'s to win this one. Everybody who played earned their paychecks tonight, Rip and AI seemed to be developing something that remotely resembles chemistry..I mean (ahem, cough) RHYTHM. Coach almost had the perfect rotations tonight, he should've pulled Kwame in favor of Max or Amir at the 6:00 min mark of the 1st qtr, but we ended up OK. At one point in the 2nd half I thought Curry missed an opp to rest Sheed and get Max some mins, but Sheed was on FIRE and he was smart not to disrupt that flow. Amir and Arrons defense was just awesome, I can't even put it into words, this was one game where the boxscore really doesn't show it........SWEET WIN!!! Well we're 11-6, even after a major trade that brought us one of the most difficult players in the league to acclimate, we're without a major component in McDyess, we're trying to acclimate a new coach, develop Stuckey & AA into a bigger roles, Amir is practically a rookie......and we're playing .650 ball...not bad, not bad at all. Boston is the Target, let's TAKE 'em DOWN!!!!
The Spurs announcers mentioned late that Sheed had scored 17 points after taking the tech. I thought that was a good idea by Sheed. The starters haven't been playing with much fire.
We'll see an end to small ball when/if Amir develops more of an offensive game. Amir allows us to play with the small ball speed, but he's so...so...so...dare I say RHYTHMLESS, that I understand why we go with Tay at the PF spot. However we're making teams adjust to US, when we go small, also with AI and Stuckey you need to get guys out of the paint for them to be effective. I literally watched Kwame's dumb a*$ run into the paint and actually get in Stuckey's way tonight on a potential drive to the basket (LMAO)....Kwame tries hard, but he's dumb as hell......LOL
Exactly. I actually said that out loud during the game. Curry did something and the Spurs reacted to us. So refreshing. I was watching this game with the volume off and music cranking. Sometimes you get a different perspective on a game when you can't hear the announcers. My big picture, gut feeling, was that our defensive activity with the Afflalo, Amir, and Stuckey in the 2nd half was the difference. Our starters hung in there and didn't let SA pull away, but we only ended up allowing 32 points in the 2nd half against a good team. I was really surprised to see how little AA and Amir showed up in the stat sheet afterward, b/c I could have sworn they were dominating. Otherwise, Rip was hitting tough shots like he used to, Tay was sort of doing a little bit of everything (especially rebounding), and Sheed was bombing 3's. AI was looking rough, but he still got his points off some really difficult shot attempts. All that matters is that we had a vintage defensive performance.
Man! I go to get some food after they get down by a bunch and lo and behold...I come back to a mashing at the end....I missed it...
I missed this game!! Maybe that's the key to us winning. I'm going to see if i can get it to work on NBA broadband. For some reason i have LP, but with cable vision i have trouble with broadband. Sounds like a great road win (I'm not sure if i should use the pouting icon or the smile; roscoe i think we need a bi-polar icon LOL) edited to add; I just looked at the box and i love that distribution of min. The only thing i would have liked to see is a little more Arron/Amir and a little less Sheed/AI. However if AI produces at this level and we are winning big games, give him his 40 min in those particular games. I think it's safe to say Rip is OK, and looks like MC's comments really did give Tay a kick in the you know what. It's always been this way. That's why Afflalo's absence in the BOS series drove me nuts. He's just a difference maker and sometimes it's unnerving how he can do it w/ really do anything box score wise.
Are we sure New York doesn't allow same sex marriages? I am stunned by NYPistonFan's revelation. I sometimes have to squint to see if Mike Jordan wears #38 for the Pistons with the way they feature Kwame sometimes. He gets deep position and I think it is smart not to ignore him, but we got Bad Kwame tonight. People always point to his hands as the reason for his troubles (aside from being dumb), but Sheed has really small hands also. Sheed can shoot 3's. The Pistons need Sheed to stretch the D and open lanes for AI, Stuckey etc to drive. How do all these other teams get in the paint so easily against DET without a big to stretch the floor? What's their secret? This feels kind of like beating Milwaukee to me. Welcome to the rotation Amir Johnson. You've earned it. You could pick any game this year and you would see Curry more involved in the game than Flip ever was for a combined 30 game stretch. I wish Curry had coached the '06 team.
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Quite why Harry Bradshaw, manager of a Burnley side which had just finished third in the old First Division in 1899, agreed to become manager of the ailing Woolwich Arsenal, seemingly permanently mired in the Second Division, is anyone's guess. Yet Bradshaw's odd decision (he'd been quoted in the press as saying: "Football's real power lives in the North of England") proved to be the catalyst which Woolwich Arsenal required to turn them into a more robust and competitive outfit.
Bradshaw realised that the club had always struggled to hold onto talented players, and that the accounts weren't healthy but he was a canny customer who, nevertheless, saw the Club's potential and set about raising funds.
In November 1902, the club organised and sold tickets for an archery competition inside the Manor Ground, which doubled as a lottery. The event raised £1,200 – a tidy sum when the club's annual income was around £5,600. Bradshaw needed to use all of his cunning and guile to steer the club forward. One of his policies was to shop around for local talent.
Possibly his most successful acquisition was goalkeeper Jimmy Ashcroft from Gravesend, who in time would become the club's first England international. Reports claimed that Ashcroft had the ability to punch a ball almost half the length of the pitch – no mean feat in the days of the old fashioned football. Joining him at the club were Archie Cross from Dartford, and Percy Sands from Woolwich. As well as the local contingent, Bradshaw used his network of spies to bring in Yorkshire born Bill Gooing and Irishman Tommy Shanks. There were also the prodigious striking talents of John George "Tim" Coleman.
Woolwich Arsenal finished fourth in the 1901/02 season, their best ever league finish, and a year later, the team ended up in third place. The crowds were now also creeping up, and average gates were around the 10,000 in the 1902/03 campaign. 24,000 squeezed into the Manor Ground to watch the team lose 3-1 at home to First Division Sheffield United in 1903, and the team's profile began to rise accordingly.
Jimmy Jackson (half Australian/half Scot) appointed himself leader of team affairs/tactics. Jackson had played as an Australian rules player, which served him well in the tough environs of English football. Bradshaw allowed Jackson to introduce zonal marking to the club, and he was ruthless in his pursuit of points. When the going got tough in a league game he told a team mate: "We're not here to show fancy play. We're here to get points. When we can't get two, we can at least make sure of one."
In the 1903/1904 campaign, Woolwich Arsenal were finally promoted to the top flight. The team made an excellent start to the campaign, winning their first eight games, and Briercliffe, Gooing and Coleman scored goals seemingly at will. Both Burton and Leicester Fosse were thrashed 8-0 at home, and throughout the season, the club's home record was superb. Woolwich Arsenal didn't lose a single game at the Manor Ground, and but for draws against Burslem Port Vale and Champions Preston, their home record would have been perfect.
Away from home, things weren't quite as rosy, with just six wins, but the final goal tally was incredible: 91 for, 22 against. Tommy Shanks was the league's leading scorer with 25 goals. Of the 20 players who appeared for the team that season, only two of them had been at the club since before the arrival of Harry Bradshaw. His impact on the club couldn't be under estimated but apart from 20,000 plus crowds turning up to the Manchester United and Preston games, average gates were still relatively modest, tending to average out around the 12,000 mark.
Bafflingly, with the club's supporters looking forward to their first top flight campaign, Harry Bradshaw abruptly resigned in June 1904, and announced that he'd accepted an offer from Southern League Fulham to take up the managerial reins. Bradshaw once again proved his mettle at Fulham, taking them into the Football League three years later, but it was disappointing for Woolwich Arsenal to lose a manager – their first great manager – at such a crucial juncture in their history.
Hibernian boss Phil Kelso was chosen by the board to succeed Bradshaw, and he trawled around the north of England and Scotland to bring fresh talent to the newly promoted outfit. The mercurial Scottish left-back Bobby Templeton arrived in time for the 1904/05 season, and he immediately became a crowd favourite. A hairdresser by trade, he had the ability to swerve the ball in a virtual semi circle.
Moody, inconsistent and prone to miss training, a journalist wrote of him: "When he's good, he's very good. When he's bad, he's horrid." There was also the phenomenal shooting power of 16 stone Charlie Sattherthwaite, whose ferocious shooting once smashed the stanchion. The gates for Woolwich Arsenal's inaugural season in the top flight were excellent, surging up to the 20,000 mark, and now the club could make around £1,000 in gate money every home game. The team finished tenth that season, but the big problem was their inconsistency.
It's no exaggeration to claim that if Bradshaw had still been at the club, then he would have been able to inject more new talent into the team, in truth, Kelso struggling to recruit players of the level required. He kept the team which had gained promotion largely intact, and players like Gooing and Coleman found the step up in class difficult, and their goal tallies fell accordingly.
Only Charlie Sattherthwaite reached double figures in the 1904/1905 season, and it was clear that if the club wished to progress to the next step, they needed to invest more keenly in players. Nonetheless, Kelso deserves a huge amount of credit for steering the club safely into mid-table in their first season in the top flight.
Woolwich Arsenal may not have been reaching for the stars, but were making steady progress nonetheless.
1. The winner of Arsenal's archery lottery was a Mr Grubb of 190 Plumstead Road, who won £50 (around £3000 in today's money).
2. Centre half Percy Sands was the club's first truly great servant, playing 327 games between 1902 and 1919.
3. The short, fast passing style which Bradshaw encouraged at Woolwich Arsenal drew plaudits from around the world. Even Canada's coach came to Woolwich to see the team in action in 1903.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 289, March 26, 2004
ARSC Events and User TrainingSupercomputing Lecture
2 pm Tuesday, March 30 Butrovich Building, room 109
Topic: Experience with Unified Parallel C Speaker: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi
UPC, or unified parallel C, is an explicit parallel extension of ISO C, which follows the Partitioned Global Address Space (GPAS) programming model. UPC combines the ease of programming of the Shared Memory Model with the ability to control and exploit data locality, as in the message passing paradigms.
UPC has been implemented for the Cray X1, Cray T3D/T3E, SGI O2000/O3000, Beowulf Clusters, and IBM SP.
In this talk, we will share some of the benchmarking results of UPC against other popular programming paradigms using the NAS Parallel Benchmark and other workloads. Scalability and programming efforts results will be discussed. We will also show that should UPC compilers employ a number of simple optimizations, UPC will compare favorably with current popular paradigms in both execution and code development time.
The Speaker:
Dr. El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University, http://www.gwu.edu/ and founding Co-Director of the High-Performance Computing Lab (HPCL).Discovery Tuesday
First Tuesday of every month.
Next topic:
Visualizing Space Weather: Real-Time Operation of the UAF Eulerian Parallel Polar Ionosphere Model
Presented by:
Sergei Maurits, ARSC Visualization Specialist
1 pm Tuesday, April 6, 2004 375C Rasmuson ARSC Discovery LabMore details:
ARSC User Training
9:15-11:15 am, Tuesdays and Thursdays Gruening Building, room 211
30-Mar :: Storage and Managing Data 1-Apr :: Visualization and Complex Data Presentation, Part 1 6-Apr :: Visualization and Complex Data Presentation, Part 2 8-Apr :: Visualization and Complex Data Presentation, Part 3 13-Apr :: Visualization and Complex Data Presentation Examples 15-Apr :: Debugging
More details:
Using TurboMPI 3.0
[ Thanks to Don Bahls of ARSC for this article. ]
TurboMP is a set of two API libraries developed by IBM which take advantage of on-node shared memory. These libraries consist of a small set of collective functions from the MPI API as well as an implementation of SHMEM. This article will focus on TurboMPI, the optimized version of MPI in TurboMP.
TurboMPI provides implementations of MPI collective functions such as MPI_Barrier, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Bcast, MPI_Alltoall, and MPI_Alltoallv.
The TurboMPI versions of these functions can be linked in by adding the following libraries and library path to your link line:
-L/usr/local/lib -lturbo1 -lxlf90_r
Note that in the current release, TurboMP 3.0, the xlf90 library is required for both C and FORTRAN programs.
MPI-1 functionality is in the turbo1 library (libturbo1.a), while MPI-2 functionality is in the turbo2 library (libturbo2.a). The turbo2 library is a superset of turbo1 so only one of these should be included. The documentation recommends linking with turbo2 only if MPI-2 functionality is needed.
To assess the performance gain from TurboMP over the default IBM MPI implementation, I ran the Pallas MPI benchmark on both a single P655+ and P690+ node of ARSC's recently installed SP cluster, "iceberg." The benchmark was run with and without the TurboMPI libraries and all runs, including those using the default MPI, set "MP_SHARED_MEMORY=yes".
On both the P655+ and P690+ nodes I saw the same thing. MPI_Reduce and MPI_Allreduce performed better than the standard MPI implementations of these functions for all message sizes up to 4 MB (the largest message size in the Pallas benchmark). For messages under 1024 bytes, these calls completed consistently in under half the time of the standard MPI calls
With other operations such as MPI_Bcast and MPI_Alltoall there were no noticeable differences in performance.
Results can obviously vary quite a bit from program to program, but this quick experiment suggests that if your code spends a lot of time in MPI_Reduce or MPI_Allreduce calls, TurboMPI could be an easy way to shave some run-time off your model.
X1: make or gmake ?
Cray supports many open source utilities on the X1 (dubbed "Cray Open Source" or "COS" to distinguish them from the set of regular Cray utilities). To access the open source versions, load one of two modules provided by ARSC:
open open_lastinpath
If you load "open", the paths to the COS utilities will be prepended to your path variables. If you load "open_lastinpath", the COS paths will be appended.
Some of the open source utilities are not duplicated in the standard Cray utilities (e.g., less, gnuplot, vim, seq). Other utilities, however, are duplicated, but, in some cases, provide different features and command line options (e.g., make, find, diff, tar).
The reason ARSC provides the two different modules is to make it easier for you to select which version of the utilities will execute. Here are some options for setting up your account:
Load module open (the default):
EFFECT: Always use the COS version when it exists, otherwise use Cray.
Don't load module open or open_lastinpath (you'll have to comment out the "module load open" command from your .login or .profile):
EFFECT: You'd only get Cray's standard utilities, and never the COS version.
Load module open_lastinpath (in your .login or .profile, replace "module load open" with "module load open_lastinpath"):
EFFECT: Always use the Cray version when it exists, otherwise use the open source version.
Mix and match... On top of the above blanket configurations, you can always specify explicit paths to any of the utilities, or define personal shell aliases.
For instance, using korn shell syntax, the following would get you gnutar but standard make (not gmake), regardless of which ARSC "open" module you loaded:
alias tar=/opt/open/open/bin/tar alias make=/usr/bin/make
This is a pretty ugly picture, but if a picture's worth 1000 words, this may help clarify:
KLONDIKE$ module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) modules 5) craylibsci 9) craytools 13) open 2) X11 6) CC 10) cal 3) PrgEnv 7) mpt 11) totalview 4) craylibs 8) cftn 12) pbs KLONDIKE$ whence make /opt/open/open/bin/make KLONDIKE$ whence less /opt/open/open/bin/less KLONDIKE$ module unload open KLONDIKE$ whence make /usr/bin/make KLONDIKE$ whence less KLONDIKE$ module load open_lastinpath KLONDIKE$ module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) modules 6) CC 11) totalview 2) X11 7) mpt 12) pbs 3) PrgEnv 8) cftn 13) open_lastinpath 4) craylibs 9) craytools 5) craylibsci 10) cal KLONDIKE$ whence make /usr/bin/make KLONDIKE$ whence less /opt/open/open/bin/lessMORE ON MODULES:
Here are some basic module commands:
show all available modules:
% module avail
list those loaded in my environment:
% module list
% module unload <module_name>
% module load <module_name>
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I almost always need my loadleveler script to start executing in the [[ same directory from which I "llsubmit" it. [[ [[ Thus, my first executable command is generally a "cd" right back to [[ whatever that directory is. Sometimes I copy a script to a new [[ directory and forget to change the "cd" command, and of course [[ then everything goes wrong. Any advice? # # From Matt MacLean # From the Load Leveler manual, the environment variable LOADL_STEP_INITDIR will give you the initial working directory where the job was submitted. So, starting a script with: cd ${LOADL_STEP_INITDIR} will set up the directory correctly. # # From Kate Hedstrom # Delete that cd line - it's not needed. The script will automatically start in the directory from which it is submitted. # # Editor's note: # The other batch systems used at ARSC also provide environment variables which point back to the initial working directory: PBS (e.g., on the X1): PBS_O_WORKDIR NQS (e.g., SV1ex or T3E): QSUB_WORKDIR Both PBS and NQS start your script in your home directory as if it were you, logging on. Thus, you must include an explicit "cd" to the correct working directory. Q: Let's repeat a good one from 1998, issue #146: What's your favorite shell alias? If you would, send the alias and a very brief explanation.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
5 topics I studied hard but never used
10 comments :
- murali said...
Hi - first time commenting on your site. The differential calculus is what is used in Google maps to determine the distance. your delta, theta is the basis to find the distance between your home and the nearest store/location.
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:18:00 AM
- Shrinidhi Hande said...
I agree, but to use Google maps I don't have to know that
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:44:00 AM
- murali said...
In school, all were given opportunity to learn that. You choose to use the product...someone choose to create that product....using the same skills.
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:49:00 AM
- ವಿ.ರಾ.ಹೆ. said...
All these are required for basic science, Research works, development and backend works of so many applications.
But in India most of the jobs are non reseach oriented, people donot get opportunity to use that knowledge. :)
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:12:00 AM
hahahaha. loved it and i m sure i haven't used 10% in my entire life.
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:21:00 PM
- Trails of a Traveler said...
I never tried that hard on these subjects.. hehehe
- Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:12:00 AM
- Ravi said...
Absolutely right. The amount of hours invested to gain this knowledge extinguishes over a period of time. I remember the trignometry, theorems, postulates and so on. Let alone that, even the ones that we have studied latest in the PG are seldom applied to in everyday life. I guess its jack of all trade & master of none.
- Sunday, March 04, 2012 2:35:00 PM
- Shrinidhi Hande said...
Murali: Ok. You've a point
Vi ra he: Yes
Deb: :)
Ram: its never too late to learn :)
Ravi: Yes.. we could have learnt more practical skills that are applicable in day to day life
- Tuesday, March 06, 2012 6:43:00 AM
- Mitesh Damania said...
Traditional schools are worthless. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't even bother with college or bother with subjects such as calculating moles in chemistry or geometry proofs. What a waste of a precious life! Go out and have fun for God's sake!
- Monday, March 26, 2012 9:09:00 AM
- Shrinidhi Hande said...
- Monday, March 26, 2012 11:16:00 PM


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BlueGooseTN wrote:Try and do some scouting the day before you plan to hunt. Set up in the exact spot that you saw the geese in the day before.
Admin2 wrote:You may be surpised at what 3 dz Full body Snows can pull in. Granted it may not be the huge flocks. But the smaller family sized flocks will decoy IF you are set up in the right place. Experience teaches you where and how to set up.
The idea that a hunter has to have 300+ decoys deters many from even trying to decoy. Too bad as they then go and jump them which makes the geese all the more on edge and harder to decoy. This idea is of needing so many decoys is a false based idea by some, as experienced Snow goose hunters know the truth. Granted a 500+ decoy spread will get more action, but a small spread will get some too and they will get a good taste of the fever.
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Re: Now the moon..the sun would wait til morning
Resubmit your grey shirt - it's greyt! (sorry, pun intended)
2thFairy wrote:Get over it.. if you have a chest worth looking at, it's not going to matter what you are wearing.
I think I speak on behalf of all straight males, most lesbian females, and at least a handful of the rest of the population when I say this is entirely true. Wooters who complain about chest placements may have a point, but the fact is, if you're well endowed, people won't notice the design no matter where it is
Re: Shell Competition
This is very clever.
squidboots wrote:*giggles*! Very creative :D
Thank you!
And based on the amount of rejections Ima make my case to the Rejectorator now:
Please, I'm in college! I need to eat!!! ... no actually the caterpillar is being very greedy by taking all of said pocket's contents. Who needs three coins and a cellphone! Pfft.. where are his manners.
squidboots wrote:This depicts the Greek myth of Icarus, who was overcome with the sublime feeling of flight during his escape from Crete and flew too close to the sun despite his father's warnings, which melted the wax in his wings and caused him to fall to his death. I see greed as desiring something too much (be it material watch or simply a feeling), just as Icarus was blinded by his own greed to fly higher into the sun.
Resub: Mirrored image and added "Greek Pants" (so I can sleep at night knowing it's undoubtedly PG-13) and sandals.
While I think a good Icarus shirt would be nice and all, I can't see how Greed comes into play.
Amach06 wrote:Is this your first shirt design?
yes and no. it is the first shirt I have designed for woot, but I have designed a few shirts before. never for a contest though.
Re: Mine! Not yours! (heather gray)
The white version of this shirt shows awesome contrast, but I'd much rather wear a gray t-shirt than a white one.
Re: Gimmie!!!
Endejester... that sounds really familiar...
Are you the Endejester of gaiaonline's B/C forums?
Cute entry in any case.
I like this better on gray.
Re: Oooo Shiney!
I still love it, and looking at it again, I do wish the placement was in the lower corner rather than the upper... but, I still love the artwork here. You've got a lot of talent!
Re: Sexy Greed
"$" counts as text so this will get rejected Might want to resub, as this is a good concept!
AdderXYU wrote:I think I speak on behalf of all straight males, most lesbian females, and at least a handful of the rest of the population when I say this is entirely true. Wooters who complain about chest placements may have a point, but the fact is, if you're well endowed, people won't notice the design no matter where it is
well, as a well-endowed lady, i am more concerned with the boobage distorting the image or hiding key parts of the design. not complaining about this one specifically, but it CAN be an issue. i think it's great that some artists do take that into account!
I will go as far to say this is the best shirt I have ever seen on woot! Good job! You have my vote!
Re: MINE!
way to combine the super soaker with the classic, old school rocking horse and jacking-the-box... very cool
mjc613 wrote:I read on one of the threads that the steak's shadow is supposed to be in the shape of Africa. I am not seeing that.
The grey shadow is Africa, but you can only see the eastern half. I guess the whole concept is a little heavy for the masses.
I am new at this. I entered the previous contest for the first time. I can't even totally figure out layering in Photoshop Elements. I am more of a 2D fine artist. I did the "You took it with you - now what?", also, and I had to redo it because I missed a layer when submitting it. It is a good learning experience for me - and fun.
dsladek wrote:yes and no. it is the first shirt I have designed for woot, but I have designed a few shirts before. never for a contest though.
Nice, hope i can purchase this one at the end of the week. It is something that i would def. wear.
Re: You Can't Take It WIth You
I love the artwork!!! The concept is great! My only critique is that the cheese may be a little to big, throws the balance of the design. You still GMV
AnGeLiCbOrIs wrote:Can you post a larger and less compressed picture of the image? I pulled all these colors out of it in Paint.
On the shirt images .. many artists resize the image using "smart size" or equivalent ... which will resize it, but add more colors and shading so that the image still looks great.
Re: Silly Squirrel
This looks a bit like that little guy in Ice Age. Ya gotta love him!
one of my favorites of this theme so far.
Re: In Pursuit of the Dollar
Simple yet elegant. I wish I knew you, I would lock you in a room and make you design tee shirts for me all the time.... no breaks.
kylemittskus wrote:I love zombies!!! And I want one!!!
Easily my favorite so far!
I used to have a T-shirt, custom made, with two red stars on the chest. And this was during a point in my life when I was going bra-less! I loved it.
mjpupillo wrote:i appreciate your rant, as that is the case. it must be the same clip art. i didn't undestand the need to disclose my legal rights to use clip art. thank you for assuming that i did not trace another entry, as i would not do that.
i also appreciate your honesty about voting for original work. i have learned my lesson here and will stick to hand drawn original works in the future.
to everyone who voted for my idea, thank you. next time i'll execute without the aid of clipart. i wish the reason for rejection would be changed, however, to reflect what happened. i did not trace another entry and anyone who fails to click on the rejected image will think that i did.
FYI, there is no such thing as a 'repeal' on a rejection, so I am impressed that you didn't immediately complain and ask for one.
Typically, there is no requirement for any sort of disclosure, unless someone makes a post showing that the image is available elsewhere. In that case, a woot staffer will usually ask for proof that you can legally use the image. Apparently, since noone ever called yours into question (openly), you weren't given any reason to defend your piece, and therefore were incorrectly rejected. In any case, it's info for the future. If you use clip art, not a bad idea to point it out yourself, as it will be less harmful than someone else pointing it out, and MUCH less harmful than being incorrectly rejected. Of course, you can just prevet all of this by doing everything originally from the beginning, but that is up to the designer's choice in most derbies.
Re: Now the Moon the Sun could wait til Morning (resub
Resubbed to correct color on shirt.
After collecting all of the stars he desired the Moon..the Sun could wait til Morning.
Awesome. I would actually wear this shirt.
Re: Greedy Conquistador
Wake up, become a zombie, and go kill that damn penguin conquistador!
nulli wrote:Isn't excess pretty much the theme? This design is great. You have done a great job exposing penguins exploiting penguins. It's an issue that's so often overshadowed by topics like "Monkey overlords intercepting U.N. banana shipments intended for starving monkeys," and "ravenous snake devours horse." Which are also very newsworthy but this promotes penguin awareness so well, so boldly. It stares directly at those who believe that the penguins are so far away the issue does not matter, and those pro-penguin proponents who receive kickbacks from the penguins to scream foul and demand to take this or that penguin submission down. It stares right at those people and forces us to ask the question. How long are we going to let the plight of the penguins go on?
Excess is not the theme. Greed is the theme. And for that, I I am an un-original person to see how this fits the theme of greed. This penguin has other penguins working for him but I do not see any greed here. I see a penguin, dressed well, with slave penguins. How is this greed?
Re: Mine! Not yours! (resub)
"Sorry, I promise not to use white every time, but I just couldn't make myself change it on this one."
... but his wife could! hah!
Re: Stealerpillar
This is so funny, I want to buy this very badly, this picture is more greedy than all of the pictures of oil in the world! :-)
makselarts wrote:Resubbed to correct color on shirt.
After collecting all of the stars he desired the Moon..the Sun could wait til Morning.
Would have preferred Navy, but still a great design. You should have gotten rid of the bounding box there in the shirt comp!
kylemittskus wrote:Excess is not the theme. Greed is the theme. And for that, I I am an un-original person to see how this fits the theme of greed. This penguin has other penguins working for him but I do not see any greed here. I see a penguin, dressed well, with slave penguins. How is this greed?
The tycoon is obviously a greedy penguin...
jzelts wrote:After this post, and my response, several men chimed in, many agreeing with your more sinister interpretation. Is it her gracefulness can be interpreted as heartless nonchalance? who knows. but interesting to look at one's work again and see something different.
I saw it as light-hearted and I'm a guy. I guess I just don't see women as evil like that. ;)
AdderXYU wrote:They've rejected on both sides of the political spectrum. A safer and truer statement would be that woot likes its politics like it likes it's coffee; subtly flavored, sweetened with sugar, and cooled with milk.
In the specific case you're bitter about, woot also has a precedent of rejecting all "animals humping" imagery. I'd say your rejection is more about this and less about their political leanings.
I would have accepted it if that was the sole reason why they rejected my design. But they deleted almost all of my comments and left the "anti-Liberal" comments left by others. I noticed they're rejecting all of the ones about "big oil." I guess we know where they invest their money, eh?
AdderXYU wrote:While I think a good Icarus shirt would be nice and all, I can't see how Greed comes into play.
I think a good enough explanation has been given. Again, it's not the most common interpretation of the myth, but I think it's valid.
@squidboots - I noticed you put your entry in your signature. For that to be effective, you may want to link it back to this page so people who are intrigued can actually vote.
ejseader wrote:I would have accepted it if that was the sole reason why they rejected my design. But they deleted almost all of my comments and left the "anti-Liberal" comments left by others. I noticed they're rejecting all of the ones about "big oil." I guess we know where they invest their money, eh?
Umm, no. Have you actually looked at the entries? There are plenty of shirts referencing "Big Oil" that have not been rejected. Of the rejected entries, there are three that have to do with oil, and they weren't rejected because of it:
The New Highway Robbery was rejected for several reasons. Not only was it distasteful, the entire composition was stolen.
The Ultimate Greed was rejected because it's "a bit too political". Note that Woot has a history of rejecting celebrity likenesses; it's been noted before that they would probably reject images of Bush, Clinton, etc. Lincoln was safe because he's been dead for so long.
petroleum jelly was rejected for being off topic. The theme is Greed, not Oil. While many people would argue that "Big Oil" is the epitome of greed, simply slapping on an image of an oil rig does not make a statement about greed.
The key words being pretty much. Excess means more then is required, or needed. Greed is an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. So greedy penguins by nature are excessive, and wear two tuxedos.
I don't think I pointed out to or accused you of being unoriginal. Thats must be something you read into, I am not one to put others down
Re: World Hunger
I think this shirt expresses the truth. However, as your fellow wooters' reaction shows, the truth is not always welcome.
Good try though. You have my vote.
I would also like to see a blown up version. I do understand that you are only using 6 colors, but I'd like to see your method -- it looks great.
Bravo, gets my vote.
fillengroovy wrote:No kidding! Thank God America has the power it does, instead of say, Iran or China. America and Americans do more humanitarian deeds than all of the other countries put together!
Since neither Iran nor China have had so much power, it is pure conjecture to guess at how they would act given such control. It could very well be that they'd be much more benevolent than they are in current situations. On the other hand, it could be disastrous - but we really don't know. As for American humanitarian efforts, the reason why the US does "more humanitarian deeds than all of the other countries put together" (if this claim is true, which I think is doubtful) would be BECAUSE of all the power it has.
brent16 wrote:and china still has child labor....
That's pretty much irrelevant to the message behind this shirt. You should also consider that much of that child labour is exploited by American companies.
tallmidget wrote:ya....i know..i feel bad about it, kinda...but its the idea that popped into my head, and i'm proud it came out right...it seemed like a good representation of greed at first...oh well. at least i'm doing better than last week (all i can hope for is improvement, right?) and this is my 2nd submission, btw.
I think you did an excellent job, and though some proud Americans may be inclined to disagree with the statement, it is truth. An unpleasant truth, but truth nonetheless.
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Ok, maybe I should have unbolted it then :D
The car is now back on the road. I couldn't get into gear to move the car before bleeding. I had to have a mechanic friend to help me bleed it for 20 quid as it was evening, he had to get to the nipple from underneath front nearside. I still haven't seen it with my own eyes but he found it quite quickly.
After a very short time bleeding we tried to start up and the car wouldn't start! There was a continuous sound from the starter but no "turning over". It would struggle for a few seconds with the key on then give up. Pressed the key a few times and that didn't help. Hadn't fiddled with the ignition or anything, and after a while of turning the key it stuttered into life. Then the dude pumped the clutch a few times and messed about with the gears and got the clutch working. Not sure what happened there and all I can think is I spilled brake fluid or dropped one of the little clips somewhere vital.
The clutch now feels like it did before the leak, more firm. Job done for a grand total of 35 pounds.
Unbolting pedal bracket (without detaching anything or removing it) is what makes master cyl. assy. replacement possible and fairly easy (except for the crawl to reach it).
Removal & installation of the master would be very difficult without that step.
Managed it today! A 22 year old bird! And now I know what the term "PITA" means! Feeling proud of myself, all that's left to do is bleed it with my brother tomorrow. Currently wasn't enough pressure in the clutch to shift gear so had to push it out the garage. I will post update on bleeding tomorrow.
The bits I found difficult were...Most of it. Ha.
The easiest part was removing the thing itself, took no time at all and I didn't need to unbolt pedals or plastic bit under steering wheel. I didn't remove anything in the engine bay for access either!
Some notes on the UK model:
1. Steering column is an easy bolt off and push up and out of the way
2. The removing of the pipes was a nasty shock. I thought the higher pipe would lift up and out of the way. It doesn't, it's trapped under a pipe, probably aircon. Got fluid everywhere, a kink in the pipe, and had to shove it back in before I remembered you can use the white plugs in the new cyl to seal the pipe off.
3. The white plugs don't fit on the lower pipe, just the upper pipe. I wrapped foil around the lower one.
4. I could not unbolt the pedal block, the top left bolt was inaccessible but I don't believe this would have been necessary.
5. I still don't know how we fitted the new cylinder. It would not line up with the holes to bolt in because the two plastic protuberances would not fit in their slots! My brother forced it in in the end. Somehow!
6. Putting the clips on the new cylinder in engine bay once pipes are in. Is. A. Big pain in the bottom. There is a group of other pipes in the way and I could not unclip them.
We are going to do the two man bleeding technique, fingers crossed for success.
I'm planning on doing this on the weekend and wondered if it was worth the hassle of ording it online rather than picking up an all plastic one at my local parts store.
also just to triple check I have a 2004 ztw, the steps in the op should be the same for me?
My 0.02 after doing this job today.
- remove the pedal assembly as a whole with the CMC attached
- remove the airbox so that you can have room to manouvre the fuse box
My car was different from the OPs in that I have ABS. The ABS control unit sits directly in front of the CMC. The lower line from the CMC to the trans is a combination of hard piping and flexible hose. It was very difficult to remove and install, I would have greatly appreciated a 2nd set of hands. Also, after 12 years in Ontario the hard line looks terrible. I hope I didn't cause it enough duress to have a failure anytime soon. Replacing that line looks like a terrible job.
When it came to bleeding the CMC... I cracked the bleed screw and put a margarine tub and cardboard under the trans to collect the fluid. I couldn't figure out how to get a hose on the bleed screw :( I let it gravity drain for about 0.5l of fluid and then I closed it all up. I tested the clutch engagement point with the parking brake on, then drove the car. Everything feels OK, not fantastic, but the car never had a great clutch so I can't tell if it's worse or not!
I had a debacle with my slave cylinder a while ago. The bleeder valve broke off, bad line, leaking slave, stripped parts, and a bad master cylinder. From my (absolutely horrible) experience, if your planning on fixing a clutch/brake air problem, is to replace everything. There are many places you can have air being sucked in that won't let fluids out. I'd replace the clutch line from the master cylinder to the slave, the master cylinder itself, and go from there. If you do the work yourself you can have that done under $125. But changing the master can be major PITA. The clutch return spring is the worst thing to have to put back on. Once all that is done, bleed the clutch and the brakes again, be very careful with that slave cylinder bleeder valve. They can be brittle.
NOT fun in tight spaces, getting the clips off the pipes without dropping them was prob. the hardest part of the whole job.
I didn't need to remove anything else on the engine side of the wall, just the PITA line clips.
Different year/model, but a lot is the same.
pjnibs - with the two connecting to the same reservoir, and the pedals sharing mounts, hitting the brake prob. "wiggled" the clutch hose enough to let the bubbles from there travel to the reservoir.
Bleeding the clutch gives many a lot of grief, Had loads of fun with that myself even with a power vacuum bleeder. some have had to reverse bleed as the manual apparently suggests.
Syncityj - a clip holds the clutch cyl. to that fixed bolt in my case, prob. for most if not all.
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I'm in white lake. I don't have to drive 5 hours but I do have to go an hour, and my friends and I never have enough time between work and school to drive and hour and go play we would only get to play for an hour then have to come home and it's not worth the money to only play an hour. So I was hoping we could get something close so we could drive max or maybe 20 minutes to go play for a couple of hours or so.
I think you are not likely to see much luck getting a new field. You are right in between Hells Suvivors and Lone Wolf West. Hells must still be the biggest field in MI and Lone Wolf West is one of the best (maybe the best) place to play in the state. Hard comp for a new start up, to deal with. You more only like 30-35 miles from thess fields. That is pretty close in my book.
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Where are you at? I have the same problem but I generally try to get a bunch of people together for games on private property. I have 9 inflatable bunkers, and typically we find a place to play where there is a decent amount of natural cover and setup the air bunkers to fill in the voids. We usually rent a 50 lb CO2 tank, and I have a fill station adapter so we can fill our own tanks. I also have a chrono so we can do pretty much everything we need ourselves, but just don't have the property. I'm just out side of Detroit, so we typically try to go up north where my uncle has a cottage on some land, but as it's a 5 hour drive we don't go very often.
You have several fields to choose from within a hour. I could understand not driving 5 hours to a commericial field. But why drive 5 hours to do all that work yourself.
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