text: At 11:38 4-2-2005 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote: >> >> One way pingpong with 64 bytes will do great. >> > >A very similar number I build a circularly linked list and read a value, >add 1 to it, and send it to the next host, with a GigE network: > >compute-0-8.local compute-0-7.local compute-0-2.local compute-0-4.local compute-0-8.local compute-0-7.local compute-0-2.local compute-0-4.local >size= 10, 131072 hops, 8 nodes in 5.30 sec ( 40.4 us/hop) 966 KB/sec > >Oh, you said 64 (I'm sending INTs, so 16): >size= 16, 131072 hops, 8 nodes in 5.35 sec ( 40.8 us/hop) 1531 KB/sec I'm amazed you get it to 40.8 us. Probably you tested at an idle network? How fast is it when the cpu's are 100% busy doing integer work? >> CPU's are 100% busy and after i know how many times a second the network >> can handle in theory requests i will do more probes per second to the >> hashtable. The more probes i can do the better for the game tree search. > >With a gigE network that sounds like 40us or so. With Myrinet or IB >it's in the 4-6us range. If you bought dual opterons with the special At the quadrics and dolphin homepage they both claim 12+ us for Myrinet. For example : http://www.dolphinics.com/pdf/datasheet/Dolphin_socket_4p.pdf >hypertransport slot you could get it down to 1.5us or so. SGI >altix machines can get that down again to around 1.0us. Of course >speed isn't cheap. Altix3000 has worse latency than origin3800 if interpret results well. Altix3000 is 3-4 us one way pingpong at 64 processors, which origin3800 gets at 512 processors. At 64 processors see extensive benchmarking by prof Aad v/d Steen for dutch government organisations. His results are at www.sara.nl in pdf format. Look for his presentation 1 july 2003. When i ran at limited number of cpu's my latency tests (using shared memory) the origin3800 really is a lot faster in latency than altix3000. A problem of altix3000 design is that of course scheduling is very hard thanks to the complex routing as each brick is connected to 2 routers which each connect to other parts of the machine. This causes for immense scheduling problems when there is a 150 users simultaneously on the machine normally spoken which are not there when you can benchmark an entire empty machine with just 1 user. >> The few one way pingpong times i can find online from gigabit cards are not >> exactly promising, to say it very polite. Something in the order or 50 us >> one way pingpong time i don't even consider worth taking a look at at the >> picture. >> >> Each years cpu's get faster. For small networks 10 us really is the upper >> limit. > >Okay, so dolphin, myrinet, or IB. Have URL's from where IB is buyable without needing to buy entire system? >> Let's not discuss parallel chess algorithm too much in depth. 100 different >> algorithms/enhancements get combined with each other. They are not the >> biggest latency problem. The latency problem is caused by the hashtable. >> Hashtable is a big cache. The bigger the better. It avoids researching the >> same tree again. > >Okay, so my question is, which would be better: >* 8 4GB caches that you could query 80 million times a second? This one by far. Actually for the top searches not such big caches are needed. Locally i may allocate 200-400MB a cpu for cache, but a shared cache can be easily as low as 4MB a cpu, no problem. Could get it even down to less than that if needed. 99% of all nodes (chesspositions) that get searched are near the leafs. So if i move up the variable where it also may lookup at remote cpu's from 0 to 2, then already 99% of all nodes don't get looked up remote. >* 1 64GB cache that you could query 200,000 times a second? >> In games like chess and every search terrain (even simulated flight) you >> can get back to the same spot by different means causing a transposition. >> Like suppose you start the game with 1.e4,e5 2.d4 that leads to the same >> position like 1.d4,e5 2.e4. So if we have searched already 1.e4,e5 2.d4 >> that position P we store into a large cache. Other cpu's first want to know >> whether we already searched that position. > >Right. But if you can calculate a few Billion operations per second >sometimes it is faster to recalculate then wait 10-20us for an answer. To look 1 ply deeper in search is exponential. At a 460 cpu search (origin3800) moving the variable from 1 (default so it was already not storing/looking up the leaves remote) to 10, lost me 7 ply search depth. That's about 3^7 = factor 2187 To answer the question, YES 1 fast pc processor would outsearch in such a case handsdown a 512 processor supercomputer. Supercomputers are of course notorious here. It takes a year or so to deliver them and the processor chosen at the time of buying already wasn't the fastest, so when they finally work fine for users the processors are at least 2 times slower than pc processors (for integer work). Clusters are far superior in that respect. >> Those hashtable positions get created quite quickly. Deep Blue created them >> at a 100 million positions a second and simply didn't store vaste majority >> in hashtable (would be hard as it was in hardware). That's one of the >> reasons why it searched only 10-12 ply, already in 1999 that was no longer >> spectacular when 4 processor pc's showed up at world champs. > >Indeed, better algorithms can allow a 4 cpu to compete with a 2000. The Sheikh (one of the princes of the united arab emirates, see www.hydrachess.com) plans on building a 1024 processor chess computer he told me over MSN. He's having bad advisors IMHO. He's using myrinet and a bad parallel search (speedup less than square root out of total number of cpu's). Objectivity and desert sand are a bad combination. >> At a PC with a shared hashtable nowadays i get 10-12 ply (ply = half move, >> full move is when both sides make a move) in a few seconds, searching a >> 100000 positions per second a cpu. >> >> So before we start searching every node (=position) we quickly want to find >> out whether other cpu's already searched it. > >So that operation will cost around 80us with GigE, and 10-16us with IB >or Myri. 80 us is what i read elsewhere too yes for GigE. Is it so hard to make a card with lower latency for a few dollar? I mean if i buy for 135 euro a cpu i can get myself an opteron 1.4Ghz or something. If i buy for 1000 euro i get myself say a 2.4Ghz opteron. Less than factor 2 faster. If you buy for 135 euro a network card it is 80 us. When you buy a highend netwerk card it's factor 10 faster from user viewpoint. That's quite a lot! >> At the origin3800 at 512 processors i used a 115 GB hashtable (i started >> search at 460 processors). Simply because the machine has 512GB ram. > >The origin 3800 has a very healthy interconnect, shared memory lookups >are in the few 100 ns range, and MPI with the newest libraries are >in the 1-2us range. If the interconnects (hubs) of the origin are fine, then they must use real slow routers. It's 5.8 us is a shared memory lookup on average at 460 processors origin3800, no one else at the system (looking up 8 bytes). 3-4 us one way pingpong. That machine is equipped with so called 35ns routers. Lookup to local memory is 280 ns by the way at both itanium2 as well as origin. Of course everything is randomized. It's complete TLB trashing. >> So in short you take everything you can get. > >Of course. > >> The search works with internal iterative deepending which means we first >> search 1 ply, then 2 ply, then 3 ply and so on. >> >> The time it takes to get to the next iteration i hereby define as the >> branching factor (Knuth has a different definition as he just took into >> account 1 algorithm, the 'todays' definition looks more appropriate). >> >> In order to search 1 ply deeper obvious it's important to maintain a good >> branching factor. I'm very bad in writing out mathematical proofs, but it's >> obvious that the more memory we use, the more we can reduce the number of >> legal moves in this position P as next few ply it might be in hashtable, >> which trivially makes the time needed to search 1 ply deeper shorter. >> >> Storing closer to the root (position where we started searching) is of >> course more important than near the leafs of the search tree. >> >> When for example not storing in hashtable last 10 ply near the leafs in an >> overnight experiment the search depth dropped at 460 processors from 20 ply >> to 13 ply. >> >> Of course each processor of supercomputers is deadslow for game tree search >> (it's branchy 100% integer work completely knocking down the caches), so >> compared to pc's you already start at a disadvantage of a factor 16 or so >> very quickly, before you start searching (in case of TERAS i had to fight >> with outdated 500Mhz MIPS processors against opterons and high clocked quad >> Xeons), so upgrading my own networkcards is more clever. > >Interesting. Of course the Origin 3800 is quite dated, not that the >Itanium is an opteron killer, but it is much more competitive, and has >much larger caches. Itanium 1.3Ghz using 24 hours of PGO and after i figured out all kind of options in the compiler to not take shortcuts by default, is same speed like a 1.3Ghz opteron for DIEP. I understand why governments buy them. They are good on paper and have no real weak spots. Horror & co to program for those itaniums. L3 cache sizes for diep are not important. See extensive benchmarking at the different hardware sites of my program. For example by Johan de Gelas or : Aceshardware : http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000259 Sudhian : http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=635&pid=2403 Soon also tested at www.anandtech.com ! >> Yet getting yourself a network even between a few nodes as quick as those >> supercomputers is not so easy... > >Quadrics and Pathscale's infinipath have networks available that are in the >same ballpark as the SGI origin. Even dolphin although I'm not very >familar with them. I am very impressed by the quadrics and dolphin cards. Probably by infinipath too when i check them out. Will do. I'm not so impressed yet by myrinet actually, but if cluster builders can earn a couple of hundreds of dollars more on each node i'm sure they'll do it. >> Additional your own beowulf network you can first decently test at before >> playing at a tournament, and without good testing at the machine you play >> at in tournaments you have a hard 0% chance that it plays well. >> >> The only thing in software that matters is testing. > >Indeed, good luck, thanks for the overview. I'm planning on a cluster >with a very fast (sub 2.5us network), but I won't have it for a few months. > >I had some infiniband hardware on loan, but I had to return it. > >-- >Bill Broadley >Computational Science and Engineering >UC Davis > >


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From: Larry Smith ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 16:17:10 PDT
Chris - at frequencies near the bandwidth of the regulator loop, the
open loop gain is usually going down at 20 dB per decade on a bode plot
(assuming a single pole roll off). Therefor, the output impedance of
the regulator (with no capacitor) is going up at 20 dB/decade. This
looks very much like an inductor.
If you put a capacitor in parallel with the (inductive) output of the
regulator, you have a nice LC tank circuit. If the capacitor has high
ESR (tantalum), there may be enough damping. If the capacitor has low
ESR (ceramic), watch out! It can ring like crazy. You may even turn
the regulator (which is really a DC amplifier) into an oscillator.
The stability of the regulation loop is usually a strong function of
the output capacitor. Too much low ESR capacitance on the output of a
regulation loop will alter the phase margin and gain margin such that
the loop becomes unstable (oscillates). Who ever is responsible for
the loop stability of your regulator could probably re-compensate the
loop so that it will tolerate low ESR capacitors on the output.
Otherwise, stick to the tantalums.
Larry Smith
Sun Microsystems
> From: Chris Cheng <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : ESR and Q factor
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:08:10 -0700
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> dear friends,
> this is a strange one. i am using a linear regulator to
> generate 3.3V on one of my board. the app note calls out using
> a 10uf tantalum for output stability. being a simple minded
> person, i decided to use a 10uf ceramic cap instead, thinking
> it has a better esl and esr value. to my surprise, the
> output breaks into huge oscillation. when i switch back to
> using tantalum caps, the output quiet down instantly. the
> same can be achieve if i use a >1 ohm resistor in series
> with the ceramic cap.
> the question is, has anyone experienced similar sensitivity
> in dc linear regulators (the part is lineartech lt1086)? why
> do linear regulator has such sensitivity to q factors ?
> thanks in advanced.
> chris
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Brotherhood supporters also turned out in Alexandria, several Delta towns, the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, the north Sinai town of Rafah, and Assiut in the south, with minor skirmishes reported in some places.
The Health Ministry said 54 people had been wounded on Friday in Cairo and two Delta provinces, without giving any details of the violence or who was injured.
"We are not afraid; it's victory or death," said Mohamed Abdel Azim, a retired oil engineer who was among about 100 people marching slowly from a mosque near Cairo University.
"They intend to strike at Muslims," the grey-bearded Azim said. "We'd rather die in dignity than live in oppression. We'll keep coming out until there's no one left."
Despite his defiant words, the mood of the protesters seemed subdued, perhaps a sign that the crackdown and the round-up of Brotherhood leaders has chilled the rank-and-file.
Some marchers carried posters of Mursi, who was toppled by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on July 3 after huge demonstrations against his rule. "No to the coup," they chanted.
A militant Islamist group active in the lawless Sinai Peninsula threatened new attacks on the army and police. In a statement published on a jihadist website, the Salafi Jihadi group condemned security forces for what it called the "heinous crime" of killing Brotherhood supporters.
It was the first statement from any of the militant groups in the Sinai desert bordering Israel since last Wednesday's violent move by security forces on the Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo.
The number of attacks on security forces in Sinai has jumped since the army removed Mursi. Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 24 policemen on Monday.
At another small protest in Cairo, a veiled nursery teacher with four children, who gave her name as Nasra, said: "God will make us victorious, even if many of us are hurt and even if it takes a long time. God willing, God will bring down Sisi."
Egypt has endured the bloodiest civil unrest in its modern history since August 14 when police destroyed protest camps set up by Mursi's supporters in Cairo to demand his reinstatement.
The violence has alarmed Egypt's Western allies, although President Barack Obama acknowledged that even a decision to cut off U.S. aid to Cairo might not influence its armed forces.
But he said Washington was re-evaluating its ties with Egypt. "There's no doubt that we can't return to business as usual, given what's happened," he told CNN in an interview.
Some U.S. lawmakers have called for a halt to the $1.5 billion a year given mostly in military assistance to Egypt to bolster its 1979 peace treaty with Israel. Military cooperation includes privileged U.S. access to the Suez Canal.
The Brotherhood, hounded by the new army-backed rulers, had called for demonstrations across Egypt against the crackdown, testing the resilience of its battered support base.
Security forces kept a watchful eye, but did not flood the streets, even near Cairo's central Fateh mosque, where gun battles killed scores of people last Friday and Saturday.
The mosque's metal gates and big front door were locked and chained. Prayers were canceled. Two armored vehicles were parked down the street, where people shopped at a busy market.
Only one riot police truck stood by near Rabaa al-Adawiya square in northeastern Cairo, home to the Brotherhood's biggest protest vigil until police and troops stormed in, killing hundreds of people, bulldozing barricades and burning tents.
The mosque there was closed for repairs. Workmen in blue overalls stood on scaffolding as they covered its charred walls with white paint. Children scavenged through piles of garbage.
Troops used barbed wire to block a main road to Nahda Square, the site of the smaller of the two Brotherhood sit-ins.
The authorities declared a month-long state of emergency last week and they enforce a nightly curfew.
An official of the interim government said in a television interview on Friday that the state of emergency and curfew would be reconsidered if the security situation calmed.
Security forces have arrested many leading figures from the Brotherhood, all but decapitating an organization that won five successive votes in Egypt after the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
In a symbolic victory for the army-dominated old order, Mubarak, an ex-military man who ruled Egypt for 30 years, was moved out of jail on Thursday. His successor Mursi, Egypt's first freely-elected president, remains detained incommunicado.
The Brotherhood's "General Guide" Mohamed Badie, who was arrested on Tuesday, is due to go on trial on Sunday along with two other senior figures, Khairat al-Shater and Saad al-Katatni, on charges that include incitement to violence.
More than 1,000 people, including over 100 soldiers and police, have been killed since Mursi's overthrow. Brotherhood supporters say the toll is much higher.
Graffiti on a mosque wall in a rundown Cairo neighborhood illustrated the deep divisions that have emerged since Sisi's takeover. The spray-painted message "Yes to Sisi" had been crossed out and painted over with the word "traitor."
Slogans elsewhere read "Mursi is a spy" and "Mursi out". Someone had also written "Freedom, Justice, Brotherhood".
The Brotherhood, founded in 1928, emerged as Egypt's best-organized political force after Mubarak fell. Its popularity waned during Mursi's year in office when critics accused it of accumulating excessive power, pushing a partisan Islamist agenda and mismanaging the economy.
The Brotherhood, which the new government has threatened to dissolve entirely, says Mursi's administration was deliberately undermined by unreformed Mubarak-era institutions.
Mubarak, 85, still faces retrial on charges of complicity in the killings of protesters, but he left jail on Thursday for the first time since April 2011 and was flown by helicopter to a plush military hospital in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi.
The authorities have used the state of emergency to keep him under house arrest, apparently to minimize the risk of popular anger if he had been given unfettered freedom.
Additional reporting by Cairo bureau; Writing by Alistair Lyon; Editing by Will Waterman and David Stamp


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Chick-fil-A franchisee happy to return home
Chick-fil-A franchisee happy to return home
BROOKFIELD -- When Devon Scanlon learned Chick-fil-A had chosen Brookfield to open its first restaurant in Connecticut, she jumped at the opportunity to buy the franchise and return to her hometown.
Scanlon joined officials of Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A in a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday to mark construction of the 109-seat restaurant on the site of a former Burger King at 140 Federal Road, across from a Shop-Rite supermarket.
Construction of the restaurant, scheduled to open in September, is well underway. The general contractor is Pennsylvania Construction Associates of Harrisburg, Pa.
Scanlon, who left her job with Destination Hotels & Resorts, where she was director of training and development of the northwest region, in Sun River, Ore., is joining her brother-in-law John Moore, as a Chick-fil-A franchise owner. He operates a restaurant in Franklin, Tenn.
"I've always had the entrepreneurial spirit," Scanlon said, and Chick fil-A has always had the reputation of laying down roots in a community. I'm going to own this business for the next 20 years. This is a fantastic location."
Scanlon paid a $5,000 franchise fee and after expenses will pay Chick-fil-A a portion of the restaurant's monthly net income.
Scanlon was chosen after a lengthy review process, said Brenda Morrow, a Chick-fil-A spokeswoman.
"Chick-fil-A is about people before profit. It starts with selecting the site and then the right person," she said. "Every owner-operator gets to choose how they want to run their business. The employees are Devon's employees."
The chain, which owns the Brookfield building, has restaurants in 39 states and the District of Columbia, and is opening 88 free-standing restaurants this year, including at the Danbury Fair mall, and Wallingford and Enfield.
Chick-fil-A, which has more than 1,800 restaurants, plans to put 15 to 25 licensed locations inside facilities such as hospitals and airports within the next few months, according to Morrow.
The business will celebrate the grand opening of the Brookfield restaurant by giving away a one-year supply of free Chick-fil-A meals (a digital card loaded with 52 free Chick-fil-A meals) to the first 100 adults in line on opening day.
The "First 100" celebration draws Chick-fil-A fans who arrive up to 24 hours in advance with tents to camp overnight. Since the promotion began in 2003, Chick-fil-A says it has given away nearly $21 million in free food.
Backed by the iconic Chick-fil-A cow wearing a "Eat Mor Chikin" sign, Scanlon welcomed participants to the groundbreaking.
"I grew up in Brookfield. It made me what I am today. I just had a baby and want to raise him in this community," said Scanlon, a Brookfield High School alumnus who earned a bachelor's degree in sports management from Elon University and an MBA from North Carolina State University.
Her husband, John Scanlon, will work at the restaurant.
Brookfield Selectman Marty Flynn, and Jacqueline Salame, president of the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the restaurant and management's commitment to the community.
"It's also good to see a vacant property filled with activity," said Salame, co-owner of Tour de Force Designers, adding the creation of 60 to 80 jobs will benefit the area. "It's a good start for people."
Chick-fil-A is part of the "fabric of the South," said Kevin McCaffrey, who has lived in South Carolina and is Devon Scanlon's father. "The South is coming to northern Fairfield County."
The restaurant will be a factor on Brookfield's "miracle three miles" of Federal Road, said McCaffrey, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker's Brookfield office.


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Yellowstone Caldera Size Is Overstated
On the Sunday, January 4, 2009 Coast To Coast AM With George Noory, Mitch Battros, a self-proclaimed "expert" on earth changes (Whatever that means.) and self-published author of the book "Solar Rain" stated the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera would be 10,000 times that of the Mount St. Helens eruption[20090117].
A quick factcheck reveals that:
the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ejected 0.3 cubic miles (1.2 cubic km) of material,
the Yellowstone Caldera eruption occurred 640,000 years ago and produced 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic km) of material.
Some quick math reveals 240 / 0.3 = 800 (1000 / 1.2 = 833). That's an error that is off by roughly a magnitude.
What's a magnitude between friends? Who cares about an error of a magnitude? It's like driving 8 miles over the speed limit and having the police officer giving you a ticket for driving 100 miles over the speed limit.
Toba Caldera Size Is Overstated
Mitch Battros said that Toba, an Indonesian volcano that erupted about 75,000 years ago, was about 10,000 times the size of Mount St. Helens.
Wrong again. It is estimated that Toba released about 2,800 cubic km of material. Again doing the arithmatic we have 2800 / 1.2 for about 2333 times the size of Mount St. Helens. Closer then before but still not even close to the 10,000 figure Mitch Battros gave on the show. And he knew he was going onto the show to talk about volcanos.
|Amount of Material Ejected
|Years Ago
|cubic km
|cubic miles
|Times the size of Mt. St. Helens
|Toba Caldera**
|Yellowstone Caldera
|Mount St. Helens
|May 18, 1980
| * VEI is an exponential scale
** Thought to be the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years.
Mitch caldera description
Mitch describing a caldera said, "Imagine a volcano that is unside down. That really does help describes how a caldera actually works. The top of the volcano does not have a typically cone that we would imagine such as volcano Taupo (?) Mount St. Helens or any number of volcanoes that have this high rise that comes to a peak. A caldera is underground. So really from a visually point of view, if we were to stand there, such as Yellowstone, and looked across, we wouldn't notice anything other then the geophysical events that are occuring, the thermal events. So the vast portion of a caldera is below the surface and it goes down, tunnels down to magma chambers. [Editor note: This is true of all volcanoes when you include the magma chamber.]"
The Glossary of Geology defines a caldera as "a large, basin-shaped volanic depression, more or less circular or cirquelike in form, the diameter of which is many times greater than that of the included vent or vents, no matter what the steepness of the walls or form of the floor." [1]
Ritter says caldera depressions are formed when "eruption spews forth large quantities of material, creating an empty space in the underlying magma chamber. This results in an inward collapse of the upper part of the volcanic cone, often along fractures that develop following the eruption." [2]
Ritter goes on to clarify that the primary distinction between a normal volcanic crater and a caldera is one of size with one mile (1.6 km) diameter being the dividing size.
In other words, a caldera is simply the remains of a supervolcano. What a crater is to a normal volcano, a caldera is to a super-volcano.
The cross-sections above show a stratovolcano during eruption and afterwards. The general profile of the volcano remains the same — steep sides with a distinct crater on top.
Supervolcano and its Caldera
The images below show the sequence of forming a caldera
Because of the large size of the vacated space* in the magma chamber, the chamber collapses under the weight of the overlying rock. This causes an enlarge crater called a caldera to form. Often a lake will form within the caldera.
In the left image at very top of the page the Yellowstone caldera rim can be seen in the distance. The image is of the northeastern part of the Yellowstone Caldera with the Yellowstone River flowing through Hayden Valley in the interior of the caldera.
*Technically the chamber isn't really empty. The expelled materials causes the magma chamber to have less interior pressure. With the lower pressure, the chamber can no longer support the overlying rock load.
[1] Bates, Robert L. and Jackson, Julia A., Editors; Glossary of Geology, 3 rd Edition; American Geological Institute; Alexandria, Virginia; 1987.
[2] Dale F Ritter; Process Geomorphology; Wm. C. Brown Publishers, College Division; Dubuque, Iowa; 1978, 1986; Page 50.
Supervolcano images modified from:
Williams, Howell; Crater lake: the story of its origin; University of California Press; Berkeley, California, USA; 97 Pages; 1941.


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Predictable: Right-wing media respond to Park51 grant application with Islamophobia
Research ››› ››› JUSTIN BERRIER
The right-wing media responded to reports that the Park51 project is applying for a federal grant with anti-Islamic smears and baseless accusations.
Right-wing resort to Islamophobia in Park51 grant reaction
Geller: "Jihadist Developers of Ground Zero Mosque Hit Up 9/11 Fund to Rebuild Lower Manhattan for $5 Million Jizya to Erect Islamic Supremacist Mega-Mosque." In a November 22 Atlas Shrugs post, titled, "Jihadist Developers of Ground Zero Mosque Hit Up 9/11 Fund to Rebuild Lower Manhattan for $5 Million Jizya to Erect Islamic Supremacist Mega-Mosque," Pamela Geller wrote, "Imagine the gall of these Islamic supremacists." She went on to describe the center as "the second wave of 911 attacks on the American people"; referred to Park51's Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's recent State Department-sponsored Islamic outreach efforts as "jihad junkets"; and included a picture of a 9-11 victim falling from the World Trade Center in her post.
Hoft responds to grant by posting a picture of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. In a November 22 Gateway Pundit post, Jim Hoft wrote, "So what are the odds that Team Obama honors this request?" and posted a picture of an airplane flying into the World Trade Center.
Peter Johnson Jr baselessly ties Park51 to Muslim extremists' anti-Semitic curriculum. On the November 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. reported on a Saudi-inspired educational curriculum that includes anti-Semitic and homophobic teachings. Johnson then baselessly tied the curriculum to the Park51 project:
JOHNSON: They compared Jews to pigs and apes -- other anti-Semitic statements, homosexual sex will result in death. Allegedly, according to the BBC Panorama show, shown in England, the fact that -- showing students 6 to 18 how to cut off limbs as punishment for thievery and, allegedly, it's part of this Saudi Arabia national curriculum in which there's been some discussion here in the United States, post 9-11, based on the fact that so many of the 9-11 terrorists were Saudi Arabian descent.
So it's become an issue in England in terms of should hate speech be taught in the so-called weekend schools in Great Britain? It takes on added significance, because we know what's going on in the state of Oklahoma now. There was a decision yesterday that a federal judge is going to stay the imposition of the prohibition on Sharia law in the state of Oklahoma. And then we see the story this morning whereby apparently the folks down at the 9-11 mosque and cultural center are seeking about $5 million in federal funds for so-called educational purposes. And so the first off-the-cuff thought is: will that school -- will that cultural program impose the same kind of things exposed in that BBC Panorama special with regard to homophobia, anti-Semitism, hate speech, and hate conduct? I hope not.
Fox guest describes Park51 grant application as being "like getting the middle finger put right in your face." On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson introduced a segment on the grant by saying the project is "asking for $5 million meant to rebuild Ground Zero from the September 11 rebuilding fund." Her guest, former 9-11 responder and firefighter Tim Brown, responded: "It's just so disingenuous. It took us by complete surprise. And, I mean, the gall of them, it seems to me, it's like getting the middle finger put right in your face."
Park51 project will reportedly use grant money for community improvement
Park51 notes that grant money, if awarded, will go to social services -- like domestic violence prevention -- and community improvement "for all the residents of Lower Manhattan." In a statement released November 22, the Park51 project noted that the grant "would in part fund social service programs for all the residents of Lower Manhattan such as domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services." The statement further noted that "this community center will provide hundreds of construction jobs over the next few years and when opened will provide 150 permanent jobs. In addition, this community center, which will include a gym, a pool, a day care center, a pre-K, a culinary institute, tech classes, an amphitheater, and a 9/11 Memorial, is desperately needed in Lower Manhattan."
Fox, right-wing media have repeatedly levied anti-Muslim attacks against Park51
Sekulow compares Islamic center to "monument to kamikaze pilots" at Pearl Harbor. On the August 4 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott said, "The mayor says it would show what a great and tolerant country America is if you allow the building of a mosque in this site. Do you have an answer for that?" Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, responded, "That argument is like saying this: It would be appropriate and show tolerance to allow a monument to kamikaze pilots at the site of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor." Sekulow later described the Islamic center as "a 15-story monument to what happened on 9-11."
Buchanan compares Park51 to Nazis marching through Skokie, IL. On the August 4 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, contributor Pat Buchanan compared the Park51 center to the Nazi march through Skokie, IL, claiming that it was a "provocation" and said the center is "deliberately insensitive." Buchanan said "I don't know why the Islamic leaders don't see this isn't bringing us together and it's not helping, and take a unilateral step and pull back."
Limbaugh compares Islamic center to the Klan building a memorial in Gettysburg. On the August 3 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh asked a caller, "What would happen, do you think, if the Ku Klux Klan established a memorial at Gettysburg?" Limbaugh later said, "They wouldn't get to first base. Nobody would put up with the Klan building a memorial anywhere, much less Gettysburg."
Gingrich compares Islamic center to Nazis erecting sign near Holocaust museum, Japanese site near Pearl Harbor. On the August 16 edition of Fox & Friends, Newt Gingrich said, "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a
McGuirk: You wouldn't build "a sushi stand at the Pearl Harbor memorial." On the May 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity, radio host Amy Walter said, "You would never build something like a German cultural center outside of Auschwitz. You wouldn't do that, even 50 years later. It's wrong. It's in poor taste. You just don't do that." Imus in the Morning producer Bernard McGuirk replied, "Or a sushi stand at the Pearl Harbor memorial." [Transcript from Nexis.]
Morris: Park 51 will be used to "train and recruit Sharia law advocates who become terrorists." On the August 19 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dick Morris cited a study that he claimed said "80 percent of the mosques...teach Sharia law as the main event at their mosques." Morris later claimed that Park 51 will be used to "study and promote and train and recruit Sharia law advocates, which, who become terrorists."
Morris: Park51 would be a "command center for terrorism." On the August 18 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, during a discussion of Park51, Morris claimed "these Sharia mosques ... have become the command centers for terrorists," adding, "so this one would be, too."
Bolling: Park51 "may be a meeting place for some of the scariest minds -- some of the biggest terrorist minds." On the August 19 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Eric Bolling claimed that Park51 "may be a meeting place for some of the scariest minds -- some of the biggest terrorist minds."
Kilmeade: "The next Hamburg cell could be right downtown." During the discussion with Bolling on the August 19 Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said of Park51, "The next Hamburg cell could be right downtown." A terrorist cell in Hamburg, Germany, whose members would later become the 9-11 hijackers, is believed to be the origin of the 9-11 plot.
Limbaugh suggests Park51 would be a "recruiting tool for domestic extremists." On the August 3 edition of his radio show, Limbaugh stated that if the Guantanamo Bay detention center "is a recruiting tool for foreign extremists, what about a World Trade Center mosque being a recruiting tool for domestic extremists?"
Nugent: "The mosque will attract extremists and radicals who will try to harm America." In an August 19 Washington Times op-ed attacking Park51, Ted Nugent wrote that "[t]he mosque will attract extremists and radicals who will try to harm America." Nugent repeatedly referred to Islam as a "voodoo religion" and concluded, "If additional American blood is spilled in the Big Apple, the politicians who supported this mosque will be as guilty as the Muslim voodoo kooks who love death and destruction in the name of Allah."
Hoft dubs Park 51 the "Ground Zero Victory Mosque." In an August 16 Gateway Pundit post, Hoft touted Fox News' Bill O'Reilly's criticism of Obama's comments about Park 51 and described the Islamic community center as the "Ground Zero Victory Mosque."
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In my recent research about my ancestors, I have found that the majority were farmers. The word agrarian stuck with me all of these years. I must admit to it sounding appealing even at the time of the "Big CEO" speech telling us to move forward. Farming sounded so great, rather mundane, and a whole lot less stress than working in what I was doing in "Corporate America." Don't get me wrong, I liked my job, the people that I worked with, but somehow longed for a simpler time and life.
There are a few exceptions to the farming. I find my great great grandfather, Charles McGuire, living in New York City on the 1870 U.S. Census with the occupation of "coachman". As you can probably figure out, that meant he drove a horse drawn wagon. It would appear that his son/my great grandfather, Francis J. McGuire, did the same thing except that he was referred to as a driver.
All of this "big city" exception aside, the vast majority of my ancestors were farmers in 1870 whether they lived in Ireland, Germany, or the United States of America. A few questions pop into my head about my "agrarian society" ancestors. Were they strictly farmers? When did the shift from farming to more industrial type jobs occur? Did the women work outside of the home?
My German immigrant family, the "Vienop's", were certainly farmers. Even once they were in Napa, California, the oldest generation farmed fruit orchards on their land. However, they brought with them a trade from the old country. They rolled cigars for a living. This actually makes them easy to find on any census in the U.S. in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Not only is their last name unique but their occupation a bit of a standout from the rest.
My Flanagan's probably had the most varied occupations early on (the late 1800s) than I have found in my other lines. While they were most certainly farmers, several of my direct line chose other occupations. My great grandfather, John Francis "Jack" Flanagan, went to correspondence school to learn mechanical engineering. By 1904, he was he manager of the repair shop at a local car dealership in Napa. As a mechanic, he spent his days quite differently than his childhood years growing up on a farm. By 1918, he was back to being a farmer because there was no one else to run the family farm at the time.
As for the women, I have found that my great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" McLaughlin Flanagan was a school teacher. Working outside of the home for women was generally not all that common. Finding her as a school teacher was common for a woman if she did work outside of the home around 1890-1900. One of her sister's, Katie McLaughlin, is indicated as a glove maker in one census after 1900.
I can see that from one generation to the next, the agrarian society that many of my ancestors lived in was phased out. By the 1930 U.S. Census, my Vienop Family members are mainly contractors to include carpenters, plumbers, and bricklayers. While they may have still owned a plum or cherry orchard here and there, it was not their primary occupation to farm. In fact, a lot of the picking of fruit shifted to the women in my family.
I enjoy seeing what my ancestors' occupations were. While farming could be a tough job, I still see the agrarian society as a back to basics type of life. I love the technology at my fingertips and still like to run my fingers through the soil in my own yard.


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Boston Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk was taken from the ice on a stretcher after a hit from behind by Montreal forward Max Pacioretty on Thursday night.
The game was delayed several minutes as Boychuk was attended to by medical and training staff on the ice before being wheeled off the ice.
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli later issued a statement that said Boychuk was taken to Montreal General Hospital for observation.
"Before he was transported to hospital he was able to demonstrate movement in all his extremities," Chiarelli said.
Pacioretty was given a two-minute penalty for boarding at 4:28 of the first period.
Boychuk had chased the puck into the Canadiens end of the rink. The hit into the end boards to the right of goalie Carey Price did not look particularly hard, but Boychuk's head struck the top of the boards and he fell to the ice.
He was on his knees breathing heavily for several minutes before trainers got him onto his back and onto the stretcher.
Pacioretty was on the receiving end of a hit from Boston's Zdeno Chara on March 8, 2011, that left the Canadiens left wing with a concussion and a fractured vertebrae.


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Three games in 24 hours—One was to the South and two were to the North. Lincoln College had their hands full last weekend as the regular season came to an end. They had no time to worry about the shakeup in the NJCAA division III rankings.
Gateway College dropped out of the top spot when ineligibility issues forced them to forfeit some games down the stretch. Teams jockeyed for position, but the Wildcats just focused on the hardcourt.
A loss was followed by two wins, including a successful defense of a regional tournament title. Their 12-15 record ties the best mark in program history, and their three-point sharpshooter continues to climb the nation's ranks for precision.
When the dust settled, Lincoln found themselves in the third and final postseason slot. For the second year in a row, the Wildcats are tournament bound.
"It's amazing. This really shows how far we've come," said Wilcat coach John Wasiewlewski. "We're getting looked at as one of those middle teams. We're not yet at the Roxbury level or with the Mass Bays or an eligible Gateway team, but we're no longer the doormat. We're a competitive team, and it's going to be a good game when you play us."
On Wednesday, they'll open up in Groton against division rival UConn-Avery Point. The Huskies won the first game. The Wildcats won the second. It's anybody's game.
"We've just got to keep the intensity up," said the coach. "We have enough offense. We can definitely score points. It's going to come down to defense, but we've been improving."
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On Friday, the Wildcats traveled to New York City to embrace a division I opponent on the old Madison Square Garden parquet. The D-III Lincoln shooters trailed by just eight at the half, but Globe Institute of Technology opened the floodgates down the stretch.
"We kept hanging around, but they showed us why they were a D-I team," said Wasielewski. "They were throwing up alley-oops from the three point line, and we just ran out of gas."
Howell McFarlane paced the way with 24 points, including four three-pointers, including three straight perimeter shots.
Sean Douglas (10 rebounds) and Kevin Smith scored 12 points apiece, and Mathew Correa finished with eight points and 10 assists, but Globe shot 63.2 percent from the floor and ran away with a 106-71 win.
"Our defense was phenomenal, especially in the first half. We played a mixture of man and zone, and we were able to keep the game close for a long time."
Landmark Tourney
Last year, the Wildcats eked their first tournament title with a pair of close games in Putney, VT. This year, it wasn't even close. Less than 14 hours after losing to Globe, the Wildcats sped past one opponent. Two hours later, they did it again.
"I did the math, and we played three games in less than 24 hours," said Wasielewski. "We played on Friday night in New York City, and our second game was in Vermont at noon on Saturday. Our last game started just before 4:00."
In the semifinals, Lincoln rallied past Cleveland (OH) Institute of Music.
McFarlane put on a display, converting nine three pointers in the victory and finishing with 36 points. The former Manchester High School guard finished the season 64-for-147 from long range, and his 43.5 percent average is currently ranked 13th in the NJCAA division III rankings.
"He was the talk of the town. The coaches were saying that they've never seen a shooting performance like that," Wasielewski said. "He was 9-for-13 from beyond the arc, and that's amazing. It doesn't get much better than that."
Douglas added 13 points with eight rebounds. David Robinson scored 12 points with four steals, and Smith countered with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
The Wildcats opened a 17-point lead at the break. Cleveland cut the deficit to nine, but Lincoln cruised to an 87-63 win.
The momentum carried into the finals against the host team. Correa paced the Wildcats with 24 points and six assists. Jordan Wright added 15 points and seven rebounds. McFarlane added 14 points.
Lincoln rolled out to a 49-14 lead at the break and scored their second straight Landmark Tournament trophy with an 83-36 win.
"To win any tournament is great, but to win two years in a row really establishes us as a good tournament team," said the coach. "We had a lot of energy, and Mat got most of his points off driving to the basket. That was a lot different than the Globe game, so it was good to see."
Now, the Wildcats will turn their attention to the postseason. They'll try to match their best mark with one tournament win, and they'll look to raise the bar in the second round.
At the very least, the Wildcats have proven that last year was no fluke.
"We had a chance at our first winning record, and we proved to be one of those competitive teams that other teams talked about," Wasielewski said. "It was pretty consistent that other coaches would tell me that they were nervous about playing us."


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Thanks, Ben. Encouragement, especially from those who have been there, will help me accept the necessity of >8 hours of rehab every day. It amazes me that two weeks past surgery I'm still trying with very limited success to
relearn how to walk
across the room. And my docs and PTs say I'm way ahead of most of their ACL patients, mostly athletes, 50 years younger than I.
Guys, think about this crap when you're out there with your No Fear buds and attitude, throwing your toys into the air upside down without a care in the world. It WILL bite you in the ass, maybe permanently, some day.
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:38 pm
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I've done myself some knee damage myself and doc told me that I was apparently born without the normal amount of cartilege for cushioning in there. I told him great, but I'm not gonna stop windsurfing.
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I've had some pretty extensive arguments with some pretty good high wind sailors about landing flat, or slightly nose first (preferred).
While a slight nose first landing can be really clean and neat, it begs the slight variance of landing flat.
I argued against this idea, saying I can plane out of all my good jumps off windswells without landing nose first, and in fact, landing tail first, but not at a step angle. Landing angles controlled by the sailor sheeting in or out.
While I lost the argument vs the best sailors in MarinCounter back in the mid '90's, I still adamantly recommend landing tail firts.
Flat landings have contributed to over 5 broken in half boards under my feet before the mid '90's.
And one of my buds, a Tomales sailor using Seatrends, broke well over 12 boards in half from flat landings.
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Isobars you will get better.. This is a set back not a game ender.. I was amazed how fast after my surgery I began making progress. At times it seems like you will never be better I know..
Worst part is after initial injury. I tried to make coffee the next morning and passed out. Woke up on the kitchen floor, lucky I didn't hurt myself again.
You will have to adjust your expectations. Small tasks become impossible but i promise this will pass.
When you do have surgery get nerve block didn't feel a thing.. Much easier than injury pain/recovery. I considered not having operation but am so glad I got my problem fixed.
For some motivation.. Today I mountain biked in the morning and windsurfer in the afternoon. No longer aware of any pain or issues. Just careful not to risk injury again. Knee no longer gives out or feels loose. Just pops and snaps.
Once you can stationary bike that is great feeling. Make sure to get your leg straight. Bike bike bike
Also I had sciatica issue after and attribute this to changes in my gait. Yoga class Stretch stretch stretch..
Bike, stretch and rest.. You will windsurf again
. Everyday of rehab is a day closer to being back on the water. That first day back will be bliss.
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Hope you work through it Iso. I concur with Ben on yoga. After rehab on my ankle for atfl and cfl replacement I found that all the rehab work on the repaired side made it strongly dominant over the good side. Yoga was excellent for rehabbing from the rehab to get left right symmetry / balance back in my bod.
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Flat landings have contributed to over 5 broken in half boards under my feet before the mid '90's.
And one of my buds, a Tomales sailor using Seatrends, broke well over 12 boards in half from flat landings.
Once again, my landing was not flat. It was properly and deliberately tail first, but because I extended my back leg at least 15 feet too soon, it was straight when the tail met the water. That's all it took.
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Isobars you will get better.. This is a set back not a game ender.
Worst part is after initial injury.
When you do have surgery get nerve block didn't feel a thing.. Much easier than injury pain/recovery.
I considered not having operation but am so glad I got my problem fixed.
Just careful not to risk injury again.
Once you can stationary bike that is great feeling.
That first day back will be bliss.
Yes; I'm looking forward to it. I'm back on the seated elliptical I bought for this purpose (and because it is a
interval training
platform), and will be ripping off one-legged Tabatas soon. My first, second, and third priorities are avoiding re-injury; they can and will fix ACLs only so many times.
In my case, I had no pain after the injury unless I bumped my foot while walking. I was bearing full weight pain-free on the injured leg the day after the injury. And after the surgery, very little pain penetrated the 50-60% oxycodone overdose. Pain hadn't been an issue; the problem is that the dang leg feels like someone else's. The PT says it takes weeks to months to retrain the neuroexcitation network.
I have no reason to expect anything less than full recovery by the time the 2014 season ends. The primary permanent constraint they fully expect is just an increase in one I already have plus a 10% decrease in hamstring strength due to harvesting the donor ligaments from it, so it may just be a matter of degree ... plus no more personal best jumps.
Realize, folks, that I'm not typing this for my own benefit. I'm trying to encourage others to engage their brains better than I did before I did this to myself.
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You should have known better...
But, nobody's perfect, human's make mistakes, and I hope you heal strong and ready by June next year...
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You used your own ligament at your age? Wow, that doubles the recovery time. My wife used a donor ACL and was back playing tennis in 7 months. OK, she'll never be a pro, and I wouldn't suggest one for a high school athlete. But at least you'll be like new.
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You used your own ligament at your age? Wow, that doubles the recovery time.
Not really. That fallacy, along with MANY other donor site selection criteria, is discussed in depth at
The allograft (cadaver) approach has many disadvantages including the false and risky
of faster healing, quicker onset of arthritis, risk of infection, substandard strength for highly active patients (my surgeon's assistant gave him persuasive arguments for the much stronger hamstring choice based on her personal long-term familiarity with my activity level), and much more. If my surgeon had recommended an allograft, he'd have had a very tough sell once I finished doing my homework.
BTW, the doc said pre-op that I'd be back on the water by spring. However, he defers to my PT, who sez 2015. The race is on, with my PT being the referee.
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David Beckham is confident Paris St Germain can reach the Champions League semi-finals after their dramatic 2-2 draw at home to Barcelona.
A deflected stoppage-time goal from Blaise Matuidi, whose earlier booking meant he will be suspended for next week's return leg, left the quarter-final tie in the balance. Barca's possession forced Beckham into a deep-lying role in tandem with the energetic Matuidi, but the former England captain felt his side were good value for a share of the spoils.
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