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I found the manual pages for mpirun and orte_hosts, which have a pretty thorough description of these features. Let me know if there's anything else I should check out.My quick impression is that this will meet at least 90% of user needs out of the box as most (all?) users will run with number of job processors that divides into PPN or is a multiple of PPN.
The docs imply that the relative indexing is relative to nodes as opposed to slots. If so, it's easy to cover my cases 1 and 2 with modulo arithmetic right on the command line, but the edge case 3 might require creation of host files or a maps file, specifying specific nodes and slots. I'm still trying to fully wrap my head around the way the scheduling works and the nodes/slots distinction, so have to think on this. For example, in a PBS/Torque environment, I guess each processor gets an entry as a "node" in the $PBS_NODEFILE, so maybe this won't be an issue for many of our machines.
Another potential gotcha is the scheduler driving my M scheduler processes ideally runs asynchronously (since not all compute jobs take equal time as parameters vary), so initially jobs 0--M could be on resource blocks 0--M in order, but if job 2 finishes first, I'd want to put job M+1 on block 2. So I might end up needing some glue code anyway for the dynamic scheduling case. What's in ORTE today will likely work great in the static scheduling case.
Let me know how it goes, if you don't mind. It would be nice to know if we actually met your needs, or if a tweak might help make it easier.
From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:08 PM
To: Open MPI Users
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Multiple mpiexec's within a job (schedule within a scheduled machinefile/job allocation)ThanksRalph
On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Adams, Brian M wrote:
_______________________________________________Thanks Ralph, I wasn't aware of the relative indexing or sequential mapper capabilities. I will check those out and report back if I still have a feature request. -- Brian
From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:26 PM
To: Open MPI Users
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Multiple mpiexec's within a job (schedule within a scheduled machinefile/job allocation)
On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Adams, Brian M wrote:
Apologies if I'm being confusing; I'm probably trying to get at atypical use cases. M and N need not correspond to the number of nodes/ppn nor ppn/nodes available. By node vs. slot doesn't much matter, as long as in the end I don't oversubscribe any node. By slot might be good for efficiency in some apps, but I can't make a general case for it.
I think what you proposed offers some help in the case where N is an integer multiple of the number of available nodes, but perhaps not in other cases. I must be missing something here, so instead of being fully general, perhaps consider a specific case. Suppose we have 4 nodes, 8 ppn (32 slots is I think the ompi language). I might want to schedule, for example
1. M=2 simultaneous N=16 processor jobs: Here I believe what you suggested will work since N is a multiple of the available number of nodes. I could use either npernode 4 or just bynode and I think get the same result: an even distribution of tasks. (similar applies to, e.g., 8x4, 4x8)Yes, agreed
2. M=16 simultaneous N=2 processor jobs: it seems if I use bynode or npernode, I would end up with 16 processes on each of the first two nodes (similar applies to, e.g., 32x1 or 10x3). Scheduling many small jobs is a common problem for us.
3. M=3 simultaneous, N=10 processor jobs: I think we'd end up with this distribution (where A-D are nodes and 0-2 jobs)
where A and B are over-subscribed and there are more than the two unused slots I'd expect in the whole allocation.
Again, I can manage all these via a script that partitions the machine files, just wondering which scenarios OpenMPI can manage.
Have you looked at the relative indexing in 1.3.3? You could specify any of these in relative index terms, and have one "hostfile" that would support 16x2 operations. This would work then for any allocation.Your launch script could even just do it, something like this:mpirun -n 2 -host +n0:1,+n1:1 appmpirun -n 2 -host +n0:2,+n1:2 appetc. Obviously, you could compute the relative indexing and just stick it in as required.Likewise, you could use the new "seq" (sequential) mapper to achieve any desired layout, again utilizing relative indexing to avoid having to create a special hostfile for each run.Note that in all cases, you can specify a -n N that will tell OMPI to only execute N processes, regardless of what is in the sequential mapper file or -host.If none of those work well, please let me know. I'm happy to create the required capability as I'm sure LANL will use it too (know of several similar cases here, but the current options seem okay for them).
-----Original Message-----From: firstname.lastname@example.com[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Ralph CastainSent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:19 PMTo: Open MPI UsersSubject: Re: [OMPI users] Multiple mpiexec's within a job(schedule within a scheduled machinefile/job allocation)Oh my - that does take me back a long way! :-)Do you need these processes to be mapped byslot (i.e., do youcare if the process ranks are sharing nodes)? If not, why notadd "-bynode" to your cmd line?Alternatively, given the mapping you want, just dompirun -npernode 1 application.exeThis would launch one copy on each of your N nodes. So if youfork M times, you'll wind up with the exact pattern youwanted. And, as each one exits, you could immediately launcha replacement without worrying about oversubscription.Does that help?RalphPS. we dropped that "persistent" operation - caused way toomany problems with cleanup and other things. :-)On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Adams, Brian M wrote:Hi Ralph (all),I'm resurrecting this 2006 thread for a status check. Thenew 1.3.xmachinefile behavior is great (thanks!) -- I can usemachinefiles tomanage multiple simultaneous mpiruns within a single torqueallocation (where the hosts are a subset of $PBS_NODEFILE).However, this requires some careful management of machinefiles.I'm curious if OpenMPI now directly supports the behavior I need,described in general in the quote below. Specifically,given a singlePBS/Torque allocation of M*N processors, I will run aserial programthat will fork M times. Each of the M forked processescalls 'mpirun -np N application.exe' and blocks until completion.This seems akin to the case you described of "mpiruns executed inseparate windows/prompts."What I'd like to see is the M processes "tiled" across theavailableslots, so all M*N processors are used. What I see insteadappears atface value to be the first N resources being oversubscribed M times.Also, when one of the forked processes returns, I'd like tobe able tospawn another and have its mpirun schedule on the resourcesfreed bythe previous one that exited. Is any of this possible?I tried starting an orted (1.3.3, roughly as you suggestedbelow), butgot this error:orted --daemonize[gy8:25871] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found in fileruntime/orte_init.c at line 125-------------------------------------------------------------------------- It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallelprocess is likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallelprocess can fail during orte_init; some of which are due toconfiguration or environment problems. This failureappears to be aninternal failure; here's some additional information (whichmay onlybe relevant to an Open MPI developer):orte_ess_base_select failed--> Returned value Not found (-13) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS-------------------------------------------------------------------------- [gy8:25871] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Notfound in fileorted/orted_main.c at line 323I spared the debugging info as I'm not even sure this is a correctinvocation...Thanks for any suggestions you can offer!Brian----------Brian M. Adams, PhD (firstname.lastname@example.com) Optimization andUncertaintyQuantification Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NMhttp://www.sandia.gov/~briadamFrom: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])Date: 2006-12-12 00:46:59Hi ChrisSome of this is doable with today's code....and one of thesebehaviors is not. :-(Open MPI/OpenRTE can be run in "persistent" mode - this allowsmultiple jobs to share the same allocation. This works much as youdescribe (syntax is slightly different, ofcourse!) - the first mpirun will map using whatever mode wasrequested, then the next mpirun will map starting from where thefirst one left off.I *believe* you can run each mpirun in the background.However, I don't know if this has really been tested enough tosupport such a claim. All testing that I know about to-date hasexecuted mpirun in the foreground - thus, your examplewould executesequentially instead of in parallel.I know people have tested multiple mpirun's operating in parallelwithin a single allocation (i.e., persistent mode) wherethe mpirunsare executed in separate windows/prompts.So I suspect you could do something like you describe -just haven'tpersonally verified it.Where we definitely differ is that Open MPI/RTE will *not* blockuntil resources are freed up from the prior mpiruns.Instead, we will attempt to execute each mpirun immediately - andwill error out the one(s) that try to execute without sufficientresources. I imagine we could provide the kind of "flowcontrol" youdescribe, but I'm not sure when that might happen.I am (in my copious free time...haha) working on an "orteboot"program that will startup a virtual machine to make the persistentmode of operation a little easier. For now, though, youcan do it by:1. starting up the "server" using the following command:orted --seed --persistent --scope public [--universe foo]2. do your mpirun commands. They will automagically findthe "server"and connect to it. If you specified a universe name whenstarting theserver, then you must specify the same universe name onyour mpiruncommands.When you are done, you will have to (unfortunately)manually "kill"the server and remove its session directory. I have aprogram called"ortehalt"in the trunk that will do this cleanly for you, but itisn't yet inthe release distributions. You are welcome to use it,though, if youare working with the trunk - I can't promise it isbulletproof yet,but it seems to be working.RalphOn 12/11/06 8:07 PM, "Maestas, Christopher Daniel"<cdmaest_at_[hidden]>wrote:Hello,Sometimes we have users that like to do from within a single job(think schedule within an job scheduler allocation):"mpiexec -n X myprog""mpiexec -n Y myprog2"Does mpiexec within Open MPI keep track of the node list itis usingif it binds to a particular scheduler?For example with 4 nodes (2ppn SMP):"mpiexec -n 2 myprog""mpiexec -n 2 myprog2""mpiexec -n 1 myprog3"And assume this is by-slot allocation we would have the followingallocation:node1 - processor1 - myprog- processor2 - myprognode2 - processor1 - myprog2- processor2 - myprog2And for a by-node allocation:node1 - processor1 - myprog- processor2 - myprog2node2 - processor1 - myprog- processor2 - myprog2I think this is possible using ssh cause it shouldn'treally matterhow many times it spawns, but with something like torque itwould getrestricted to a max process launch of 4. We would want the thirdmpiexec to block processes and eventually be run on the firstavailable node allocation that frees up from myprog ormyprog2 ....For example for torque, we had to add the following toosc mpiexec:---Finally, since only one mpiexec can be the master at atime, if yourcode setup requires that mpiexec exit to get a result, youcan start a"dummy"mpiexec first in your batchjob:mpiexec -serverIt runs no tasks itself but handles the connections ofother transientmpiexec clients.It will shut down cleanly when the batch job exits or youmay kill theserver explicitly.If the server is killed with SIGTERM (or HUP or INT), itwill exitwith a status of zero if there were no clients connected atthe time.If there were still clients using the server, the serverwill kill alltheir tasks, disconnect from the clients, and exit with status 1.---So a user ran:mpiexec -servermpiexec -n 2 myprogmpiexec -n 2 myprog2And the server kept track of the allocation ... I wouldthink that theorted could do this?Sorry if this sounds confusing ... But I'm sure it willclear up withany further responses I make. :-) -cdm_______________________________________________users mailing listusers_at_[hidden]http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________users mailing firstname.lastname@example.com://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________users mailing email@example.com://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
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This term was coined by researcher at the University of Michigan and Iowa after noting the remarkable impact NBC morning show's, TODAY, co-host Katie Couric had on the number of people undergoing a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer.
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Ms. Couric became a strong advocate for colorectal cancer screening after the death of her husband, 42-year old lawyer Jay Monahan, to this disease in 1998. Subsequently she founded the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance and the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health in New York.
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In an article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers did a population based observational study. They used two different data sources: the Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative (CORI) database – a voluntary consortium of 400 gastroenterologists who preformed 95,000 colonoscopies from July 1998 to December 2000, and a managed care organization that caters to 44,000 adult members. Using sophisticated statistical manipulations they compared the frequency of colonoscopies preformed before and after Ms. Couric's broadcast. The results showed that the number of colonoscopies preformed per CORI physician after the broadcast increased from 15 to 18.1 per month. This was a statistically significant change. Furthermore, this trend was sustained for nine months. A subset analysis also demonstrated a trend toward an increase in the number of colonoscopies preformed on women – 43.4% before the airing of the Today show, and 47.4% after. These trends are consistent with the demographics of the Today show viewers who are 60% female with a median age of 47.5 years. There was a commensurate increase in colonoscopies seen in the managed care organization after the television broadcast from 1.3 people out of every 1000 members per month to 1.8 people. This was also found to be statistically significant.
The authors concluded that Katie Couric's public exposé of the colonoscopy successfully raised public awareness and was associated with an increase in its demand in two different data sets. They further go on to say, that a celebrity spokesperson, even one without the disease he or she is promoting, can have a substantial impact on the public's health practices, habits and beliefs. It is important to note that what the study could not distinguish, is whether the people who decided to get colonoscopies after watching the Today show were those with high risk for the disease or not.
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The US Senate declared March 2000 as the first National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from Cancer in the US. It is estimated that it will be responsible for over 57,000 deaths this year but only 53% of Americans over the age of 50 will be screened. When it is diagnosed early, colon cancer is a curable disease. The goal of screening is to find lesions called polyps that are thought to be precancerous lesions. Polyps can be removed during the colonoscopy procedure itself requiring no additional procedures. If a precancerous lesion is identified and removed, and the cancer never has the chance to develop, then many lives would be saved.
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There are other modalities of screening for colon cancer, but few patients choose them. Fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is a test for blood in the stool. Critics site that this test looks for cancer and not pre-cancerous lesions. By the time the patient is bleeding, he or she is likely to already have a malignancy. Although the test is painless, the sensitivity and specificity of this test is quite low diminishing its utility as a screening tool. A flexible sigmoidoscopy has the disadvantage of only examining part of the colon. There was an influential and disparaging editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine published in 2000 that made this option less attractive to most patients and referring physicians. A double contrast barium enema is an unpleasant, time-consuming test whose sensitivity by most studies does not exceed 50%. Colonoscopy has become the most demanded test for colorectal screening. Most attribute this to both Katie Couric's televised procedure in 2000 and medicare's decision in 2001 to pay for them (once every two years for high risk patients and once every ten years for low risk individuals). A newer method is called virtual colonoscopy, although promising, is not yet universally available.
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Medicare data show the increase in colonoscopies after the airing of Ms. Couric's experience. The number of colonoscopies among Medicare recipients increased by 42% from 2000 to 2002, the most recent year for which full data is available. In the year 2000, Medicare reportedly paid for 2,211,925 colonoscopies. By 2002 that number increased to 3,150,738. At the same time, the number of sigmoidoscopies preformed decreased by 57% – from 543,502 in the year 2000 to 236,139 in the year 2002. Similarly, in the year 2000, Medicare paid for 1,759,880 fecal occult blood tests and 208 barium enemas; but by 2002 those figures dropped to 1,609,391 and 139 respectively.
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The NCCRA posted general guidelines to avoid getting colon cancer. These are good tips and apply for all cancers. 1) Exercise daily – even a small amount, 2) avoid smoking, 3) keep your weight in check, 4) limit your alcohol intake, and 5) talk to your physician about nutrition, screening tests, family history, and any other factors that may increase your chances of getting cancer.


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I just saw the word "goodbye" spelt as さよなら. Having clearly heard the long o sound before, I thought the word was misspelled. However, a quick online search shows both さよなら and さようなら being used. Is there any semantic or usage difference between the two words?
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さよなら is a shortened version of さようなら, which in turn comes from [左様]{さよう}ならば.
Both さよなら and さようなら can be used as interjections meaning "farewell" or "goodbye". However, さよなら can also be used as a noun meaning "parting" or "coming to an end".
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Men's Cross Country Finishes Third at South Atlantic Conference Championships
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BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. – Led by senior Parks Edwards' season-best time, the Anderson men's cross country team placed third at the 2013 Food Lion SAC Cross Country Championships, hosted by Mars Hill University at the Montreat College course in Black Mountain, N.C.
With temperatures in the upper-20s for the 8K race, Mars Hill continued its dominance of SAC cross country, as the Lions won their conference record 17th-straight conference title. MHU entered the championship ranked No. 5 in the Southeast Region by the USTFCCCA.
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5 Lost Documents That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
When we think of famous figures, we have a tendency to boil them down to their most defining traits. In our heads, Teddy Roosevelt becomes badass distilled, and Albert Einstein is a brain with a severe comb allergy. This is all by design -- famous figures and their biographers both have an image they're trying to promote.
But secrets don't stay buried forever, and occasionally lost documents will turn up that change everything. For example ...
#5. Mother Theresa Lost Her Faith Decades Before She Died
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If you ask a random person to name a saint, they'll almost certainly reply, "What, like Mother Theresa?" If you're looking for a modern figure who embodies the virtues of Christianity, you can't do much better -- her name is synonymous with selfless servitude.
As an Albanian nun, she relocated to an Indian monastery, noticed the plight of the local populace, and decided she had had enough of poverty's shit. Theresa then took to the streets and started tirelessly helping anyone who needed her aid. Over time, she became the protector of the poor, a spiritual anchor for millions, and generally the kind of ecclesiastical presence that can make even the hardiest of cardinals let out a Keanu-style "whoa."
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Mother Theresa, seen here with entourage of divine light and a heavenly chorus.
But how could this Nobel Peace Prize-winning, three-quarters canonized woman manage to keep her faith while waddling elbow deep in the hellish conditions of Indian poverty? It turns out she didn't.
Shortly after Mother Theresa's death, her Vatican caretakers found dozens of letters written by her, along with a note that said they should all be burned without reading. Naturally, such instructions can only lead to one thing: The letters were immediately and gleefully ripped open to see what she had to hide.
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"Dear Penthouse ..."
Here's what they found:
What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there is no soul, then, Jesus, you also are not true.
Ouch. She must have been going through a pretty rough patch when she wrote that, right? Wait, it gets worse. Here she offers some spiritual support to a man of the cloth:
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.
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"Jesus has always been a sexist prick like that."
Shit, that's some dark stuff right there. Surely, there must be at least some rays of light in her existence ...
No faith, no love, no zeal. [Saving] souls holds no attraction, heaven means nothing ... it has been like this more or less from the time I started "the work."
... yeah, nope. She's so far down the "Screw you, God" line that she's even putting quotes around the whole working with the poor thing, which you may recognize as pretty much her entire shtick.
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Kind of like how the Three Stooges performed "the slapstick."
The letters are chock-full of musings like these, because Mother Theresa had almost completely lost her faith over two decades before her death. In fact, she stopped praying as early as the late 1970s. The life she led among the poorest of the poor dealt her a heaping helping of human suffering, and it looks like she just flat out became jaded in the process.
Yet, without an ounce of faith to aid her in her impossible mission, she still found the strength to soldier on: Mother Theresa kept up appearances for over 20 years, because people still depended on her. Let that sink in for a moment: 20 years, with nothing to rely on, just going through the motions in a pit of despair because she didn't want to let people down. Holy crap, the woman really was a saint.
#4. The Creator of Winnie the Pooh Wrote the Nastiest Propaganda in World War I
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A.A. Milne, acclaimed children's author and creator of Winnie the Pooh, was known to view his billion-dollar bear with the frothing dislike of a thousand exploding bile factories. This is actually pretty impressive, considering some of the other stuff he penned.
Recently found documents reveal that, during World War I, the famously pacifist Milne worked for MI7b, a top secret British military intelligence unit that specialized in maintaining morale via misinformation. The group consisted of 20 or so top British writers of the time, and their sole purpose was to create newspaper articles and treatises that were so skillfully crafted, they could not be recognized as propaganda.
As the MI7b unit disbanded after the war, the military ordered all evidence of it to be destroyed. However, a captain who worked alongside Milne managed to rescue over 150 articles documenting their work. Among these files was a book of sarcastic poetry by Milne himself, describing the lies they routinely created with a self-deprecating wit:
In MI7b
Who loves to lie with me
About atrocities
And Hun Corpse Factories.
Come hither, come hither, come hither,
Here shall he see
No enemy,
But sit all day and blather.
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"Triumph, the things I've seen ... the things I've done ..."
Yes, that's the pacifist father of Winnie the Pooh, rhyme-riffing on "corpse factories." Said factories, known as Kadaververwertungsanstalt, are one of the best known horror tales in the history of war. From 1917 onward, numerous sources suddenly started claiming that World War I-era Germany habitually collected corpses and processed them into soap, tools, and other items. These stories about an entire country Tyler Durdening their dead into supplies were backed up by literally zero evidence, but that didn't stop them from routinely popping up in the newspapers of the era. And fucking A.A. Milne just poetically owned up to writing them with his posse.
At least he didn't seem happy about it. The same probably can't be said for this next guy ...
#3. Henry Ford's Nazi Connections Were Way Deeper Than Anyone Thought
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It's no secret that Henry Ford had a certain amount of Nazi sympathy, mainly due to Ford's belief that anyone who hated the Jews that much must have been an awesome guy. And those views are kind of hard to hide when you openly praise Hitler's ideas and receive Nazi medals for your dealings with them.
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Seen here, covered in swastikas, just in case you were confused about where it came from.
Still, it's not like Ford was alone among prominent Americans who praised Hitler before the war. And although he was privately an anti-Semitic cocksheath for life, Ford had the sense to end his Reich romance by the time he realized what murderous dicks the Nazis actually were.
A little known 1998 lawsuit by a Russian slave laborer (more on that later) delved a little deeper into the whole Ford/Hitler thing, and what it uncovered was fucking terrifying. According to its papers, Ford and the Nazis were extremely tight, to the point that Ford started throwing money at the ascending Reich. Ford didn't agree to stop dealing with Hitler until late 1942 ... eight months after the U.S. had entered the war.
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"Hey, Henry? Bud? Would you mind not selling stuff to our sworn-"
And whether he really severed ties with Germany at that point is open to speculation. Ford-Werke -- the German subsidiary of Ford's empire -- remained operational throughout the war, happily manufacturing gear for the German military machine and using POWs as forced labor. The company insists that Ford-Werke was confiscated by Nazis in 1941 and they lost all contact, and that whatever happened in their plant after that wasn't Ford's fault ... despite the fact that the company had used POWs as slave labor before that.
Oh, and here's a pretty poem from Ford-Werke's internal magazine that came out in 1940 -- when Henry Ford still unquestionably held the reins:
We have sworn to you once,
But now we make our allegiance permanent.
Like currents in a torrent lost,
We all flow into you.
Even when we cannot understand you,
We will go with you.
One day we may comprehend,
How you can see our future.
Hearts like bronze shields,
We have placed around you,
And it seems to us, that only
You can reveal God's world to us.
That piece is called Fuhrer, because of course it is.
All of this would probably have stayed under wraps indeterminately, if one brave ex-slave laborer hadn't sued the company for obvious reasons. Ford managed to get the charges dropped, not because the judge found them to be innocent, but because "redressing the tragedies of that period has been -- and should continue to be -- a nation-to-nation, government-to-government concern." After all, once you start holding corporations responsible for funding Hitler, where does it end?
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Now he'd done it. He hadn't even lasted two weeks. He'd be packing his bags in ten minutes. What would the Dursleys say when he turned up on the doorstep?
I guess that in this context he'd done it means "he'd been doomed." Does do it has a meaning?


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A SKULL found in North Carolina belongs to a 10-year-old handicapped girl, whose gruesome murder received international attention and was investigated by several law enforcement agencies including the Hickory, N.C., Police Department headed by a former Barnesville resident.
The Marshall University Forensic Science Center in Huntington was among those which helped in the analysis of the skull, and Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins, a Barnesville High School graduate, said the analysis confirmed the skull belongs to Zahra Baker, whose stepmother was convicted in 2011 of second degree murder with aggravating factors.
Only 10 years of age, Zahra survived two kinds of cancer which left her with a hearing loss and a prosthesis. The murder occurred Sept. 24, 2010, but she wasn't reported missing until Oct. 9.
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Not only was the little girl murdered but her body was sawed apart with sections thrown from a car in various places, especially in areas where hunters discard animal carcasses.
The skull was recovered in April 2012. District Attorney James C. Gaither Jr. in North Carolina reported Thursday on completion of the analysis, performed by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, North Carolina Medical Examiner's Office and Marshall University Forensic Science Center. Analysis, however, didn't determine the cause of death.
"This information (regarding the skull) gives the members of 'Team Zahra' mixed emotions," said AdkinsA*Z. "It brings up the tragedy of Zahra's death and the life she lived before she was killed but it also gives us and the community a sense of finally bringing her home."
According to authorities, cellphone records place Elisa Baker, Zahra's stepmother, at the skull site.
"The life and death of Zahra Baker profoundly impacted those who came to know this brave young lady through her tragic story. Zahra and her life will be forever in our thoughts, and 'Team Zahra' will forever be connected through her spirit," said Gaither.
After being convicted of second degree murder, her stepmother was sentenced to 18 years in the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. Gaither said she is currently in the United State Marshal's custody, awaiting sentencing on federal drug conspiracy charges, and any federal sentence she receives will be served at the expiration of the sentence imposed on second degree murder.
While the investigation was under way, Adkins described the little girl as "a freckle-faced strawberry blonde - a typical 10-year-old full of life, wanting to play with her friends and to be loved by her family."
More than once, the former Eastern Ohioan mentioned the child's courage.
Zahra not only suffered from health problems, but she endured her stepmother's cruelty as described in a book, "StepMONSTER," written by Hickory Daily Record journalists.
Zahra was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 5, and her lower left leg was amputated. Two years later, there was a diagnosis of secondary lung cancer. She suffered a hearing loss in both ears while undergoing cancer treatments.
The little girl, originally from Australia, has made a lasting impression in North Carolina.
In 2012, the Zahra Baker All Children's Playground was dedicated, and it was constructed as a result of a community build.
At that time, Adkins indicated the new playground is another example of this community embracing those needing help. "Most people never met this little girl, but will always remember her courage, her fight and her desire to be just like every other child. It's (the playground) got a little bit of everything. My family and I worked in the community build. ... It was a pretty moving event."
The former Barnesville man and his wife, the former Kathy Bailey of Barnesville, as well as their son, Dylan, were among the 271 volunteers plus city workers participating in the three-day build.
Amenities to accommodate special needs and handicapped children are part of the playground named for Zahra.
A scholarship also has been established in Zahra's name, and half of the profits from the book, "StepMONSTER," will go to the scholarship fund, administered by the Hickory Kiwanis Foundation. Subhead for the book is "Zahra Baker: From Miracle to Murder at the Hands of the Woman She Called Mom."
Adkins, a 1983 Barnesville High School graduate and former member of the Barnesville Police Department, earlier mentioned the support from the community, "from the state of North Carolina, the nation and the world because of the passion that everyone felt for this little girl."
The police chief is a 2001 graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Va., and U.S. Secret Service Dignitary Protection Seminar in 2007. He received a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk. N.C., and also has taken graduate courses at the University of Virginia.
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Bill McCammon
William "Bill" Lee McCammon, a longtime resident of Colville, passed away on July 27, 2011 in Colville at the age of 76. Bill was born on Jan. 20, 1935 in Spokane, the son of William Clair and Frances (Nower) McCammon.Bill was raised and attended school in Colville, where he graduated from Colville High School in 1953 as a 12- year sen¬ior. On March 19, 1954, Bill married his grade school sweet¬heart, Velda Fay Holland, in Colville. They moved to Spokane where Bill worked for 27 years with the Washington State De¬partment of Transportation. The first 17 of those years was spent with the Engineering division in Spokane. During that time, he worked on various projects to design and construct Interstate 90 through Eastern Washington. He spent years working on projects to construct the interstate through the city of Spokane. For the last 10 years of his career, he was the Colville Area Highway Maintenance Superintendent. The respect he earned and friendships that formed during those 27 years remained strong throughout his lifetime. In 1970, Bill and Velda purchased Holland Nursing Home from Velda's mother, changed the name to Buena Vista, and expanded the facility multiple times over the next 30-plus years. When Bill retired in July of 1982 from the State of Washington, he continued his ownership role at Buena Vista and worked at the nursing home in the mornings and then focused on the needs of his "golf game" in the afternoons. Due to the regularity of Bill's schedule and time on the golf course, his grandchildren affectionately referred to Bill's time golfing as though he were at "work." Bill felt it was an occupational requirement to travel to different golf courses and therefore managed to play at nearly every course from Colville to Mexico to Scotland. His most no¬table "work" accomplishments were "Tee"ing-off at Pebble Beach and St. Andrews golf courses. In 1983, Bill and Velda began enjoying the winter months in Yuma, Arizona. They enjoyed 27 winter seasons in Yuma, filled with golf, warm weather and socializing with friends. Bill was a child at heart who loved to play. He loved to play with his children, his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren and any other child who happened to be blessed by his presence. He worked to play golf, take trips with family and friends and cherished his time on this earth. Bill was a gifted athlete and was successful in any sporting activity. He also enjoyed fly-fishing, tying flies, as well as hunting in Washington and Idaho. Bill had a wonderful way with dogs and his life would not have been complete without the companionship of Coco and Sassy, his faithful and favorite dogs. Bill was a past member of the Moose Lodge in Spokane and a longtime member of the Elks Lodge in Colville.He was preceded in death by his son-in-law, Steve Cox, and by and brother-in-law, Jerry Morin.He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Velda McCammon, Colville; daughters, Lorri Carter and husband, Scott, Colville; Linda Cox-Junker and husband, Dave, Colville; son, Bill McCammon and wife, Tracey, Spokane; grandchildren, Kristi Bushnell, Angie Vaagen, Jason Cox, Josh Cox, Casey Cox, Brandi Simundson, Michael McCammon; great-grandchildren, Carter, Bryce, Kylee, Natasha, Tatiana, Kenzie; sisters, Judy Othmer and husband, John, Bellingham; JoAnn Carnes and husband, LeRoy, Spokane; Janet Morin, Spokane; Patricia Manfred, Spokane; brother, Mike McCammon and wife Barb, Spokane, and numerous nieces and nephews.A memorial service will begin and 11 a.m., Thursday, August 4 at the Ag-Trade Center in Colville. Pastor Shane Moffitt will officiate. Cremation will follow the funeral at the Danekas Cre¬matory. Please visit the on-line memorial at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Memorial contributions may be given to the Dominion Meadows Athletic Association. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory is entrusted with the arrangements.


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Did you get online yesterday, or were you caught in extended maintenance?
I got on, at 1st briefly, then later for an extended period.
When I 1st logged in it was business as usual, Dalaran full, trade "vibrant" (I'll let you interpret the definition of vibrant).
When I logged in later it was as if Arthas or someone (maybe a Gnome Engineer) had perfected a universal vacuum.
The streets were empty, trade chat relatively quiet (i.e. readable).
Of course it wasn't Arthas or the Gnomes, it was the Ruby Vacuum, otherwise known as the Ruby Sanctum.
Being the 1st night there weren't any PuG groups going (although I expect that from tonight it will be "LFM RS >9000 GS pst with role and achievement"). It was just guild groups. All my friends were there, there all night in fact.
Meanwhile, on the outside I was doing the usual things.
LFD… LFA (Anyone)
It took a looooooong time to get groups for Ahune and the random heroic.
When I did get groups, they weren't the 1337 roflstomping 8k dps groups, they were the < 1500dps, "I know how to play better than you" groups.
The kind that yell at me to dps Ahune's core, the one I am already dpsing, the one where I am doing 2-4 times the dps on.
Needless to say, Squidly got groups instantly, heals in a vacuum are instantly sucked up.
How few people were there?
What do you think the chance is of randomly playing with the same character from a different server twice in a row?
Gnome did ToC with a Bear tank Flowerbud (/wave). A little while later, Squidly found himself healing Flowerbud through Nexus.
He was as amazed, or confused as I, yet I guess it's no surprise that we caught up again. Tanks & Healers in a vacuum are bound to cross paths.
There were quite a few Alliance in Wintergrasp. There was just one problem, there were hardly any Horde. Of course, Aman'Thul being unbalanced towards the Alliance it's not unusual that there are less Horde, but…
I saw 3!
They had 11 stacks of Tenacity!
The only quest completed in that Wintergrasp was Victory in Wintergrasp – there weren't enough to kill to complete the other quests.
I've mentioned there was a vacuum of Horde and that LFD wasn't throwing cream at me (with the exception of Flowerbud), but I was a little surprised at what I found in VoA.
There were a heap of LFM after Wintergrasp was won and people were a little desperate.
I was quickly snapped up and two more invites were automatically slapped down by my presence in this raid group.
10 man raid, 1 heal, 2 tanks and umm… 4 DPS. Yeah, sure there were 3 more bodies, but I'm not sure they met the definition of dps.
We wiped… we wiped?
3 dps < 1500, one of whom was < 950.
Ummm… and two of them were hunters (proof hunters need 45 blogs?).
The bit that gave me the ummm, annoyed me, was the RL started blanket bagging ranged for not being on orbs. Ranged were the two hunters and me. 45% of my damage was on orbs and I was still 2nd on dps.
We 9 manned it next attempt (or as I put it at the time, 8 manned it), I even won a completely useless item…
Yeah, continuing my VoA luck streak. Actually, to be fair, after hunting VoA for months for Wrathful pieces (any piece really) for Gnome, Squidly managed to pick up a useable Wrathful piece the other day. I guess I need to really start PvPing on Squidly again.
I know people call VoA a loot piñata, but to be honest I have collected more useful rubbish out of the 2 or 3 real life piñatas than I have out of this digital piñata.
Loving my readers
Just in case you weren't aware, I love my readers and their willingness to share, to solve my problems, maybe to stop my QQ? and occasionally ask questions
Koch (Aszune) and Peragon on Disconnecting from WoW
Koch pointed out that there is lots of information on the DCs that have plagued me (and a large percentage of the player base) since 3.3.5.
Judging by the pained comments about DCs in PuGs I have been running, Blizzard haven't yet solved their coding issues.
The short story, or solution, is to reduce tour graphics settings. I took each one down a notch just so I wasn't missing out on too much.
The longer (I mean long) story is here: http://www.wow.com/2010/06/24/patch-3-3-5s-out-of-storage-error/
Ironically, this is more likely to effect you if you have a higher end PC and later Windows than I'd you are playing on an old banger.
Peragon reminded me of Leatrix's Latency Fix, which basically automagically changes a network setting on your PC so you get a better response from WoW. It is just a one registry change, you can do the same thing manually, but Leatrix's Latency Fix will apply, remove or check for the fix with the click of a icon.
Dara – Scorchling will return
Good new for Fire Mages, the Scorchling pet will return at some point in the future, though I am guessing more likely in Cataclysm than WoLK.
Meanwhile, have Squidly or Gnome seen the frost pet…. lol, yeah that and the Scorchling – NOT!
Thanks Dara for bringing this old Gnome some hope.
LFM comments.
I was approached by a Gnome Fire Mage (bless his European heart) looking for a Fire Mage Spec for his level 70 Mage that he's going to xp-cap and run old raids with mates.
I very generously provided him with a 53 point talent tree to blast the Arcane and Frost competition out of the water with.
Of course, he can't have 53 points at level 70, only 51. I have supplied him with a new 51 point spec, but my question is…
What would you suggest?
For The Horde
I got asked today where For Teh Horde are. My answer was simple…
They faction transferred to Alliance and are too ashamed to admit it.
When I told the FTH folk they had been asked after, they responded that they had been asked the same question of me.
Their response to the query…
Fikkle: That is so ironic, someone asked me how come you haven't posted in a week. I told em to google warlockmaggedon.net
ForThePie: http://puntinggnomes.wordpress.com is also a place he posts.
My response to their response…
Always good to take a break from www.pickingthehordebonesclean.nub and www.satedgnome.lol and www.wherehaveallthehordegoneohhinmytummy.yum
The Gnomer Vacuum
So where have I really been?
I've been spending most of my time at:
Gnomer and Out!
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