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Editor's Note: Shannon O'Neil is Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and publishes the blog, Latin America's Moment on cfr.org. Follow her on twitter @latintelligence.
As the country begins to turn to the general election next November, immigration remains a difficult issue for both political parties. During the early Republican primary debates, candidates talked enthusiastically about mass deportations and expanding, doubling, and even electrifying the U.S. southern border fence to keep people out. As the field has narrowed, the leading contenders have continued with a hard-line. Romney in particular, though widely seen as a centrist candidate, has taken an unyielding stance on immigration, supporting Arizona's and Alabama's restrictive laws and aligning himself with their architect - well-known anti-immigrant official Kris Kobach.
The tone got so strident in the lead up to the Florida primary on January 31 that Florida Senator Marco Rubio (who many say is a potential candidate for Vice President) chastised the Republican candidates for "harsh and intolerable and inexcusable" anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The Democratic Party's discourse has been more measured. Though all condemn illegal immigration, most speak of immigrants as "folks ... just trying to earn a living and provide for their families," no different from so many forebearers. But in concrete terms, President Obama has little to show immigrants - and more importantly Hispanic voters - from his three plus years in office.
During his time in the White House he failed to pass the Dream Act (which would give undocumented individuals that came here as children the chance to come clean by enrolling in a college or enlisting in the military), much less a more comprehensive immigration reform. What the administration has done is increase deportation to record levels, though now it is working to remove otherwise law-abiding, unauthorized individuals from the deportation queue.
These conflicting positions and heated debates show that the politics of immigration has changed little since the failed 2007 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, championed at the time by Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain. Yet immigration itself has changed dramatically.
For over a decade, Mexicans have represented roughly a third of all U.S.-bound migrants. In the mid-2000s roughly half a million Mexicans joined the U.S. population each year (fairly evenly divided between legal and illegal entries). But since then, migration from our southern neighbor has declined greatly, to the point that in 2011 net inflows neared zero. The change isn't only happening with Mexican migrants. Inflows from other countries such as China, and the Philipines show declines as well.
Many factors are behind this shift. One is economic - the downturn in the U.S. economy and economic resilience in other places has altered the cost-benefit analysis of leaving home. Particularly in countries such as China, India, Korea, and Brazil, anecdotal evidence suggests that economic growth is luring back migrants, who bring with them new skills and resources.
The decline in migration also comes in part from increased border enforcement. Since 2004, the border patrol has doubled to some 20,000 strong, with annual budget outlays reaching nearly $3.5 billion. The increased manpower have made at least some immigrants think twice about facing the mortal danger of crossing through the desert.
But perhaps the most important shift, at least for Mexican immigration, is demographic. Forty years ago, the average Mexican family had six children. This number dropped steadily throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until by the turn of the 21st century they averaged just over two per family (similar to the United States). This means that going forward, each year fewer Mexicans will be coming of age and looking for jobs. Combined with rising high school and college enrolments, fewer Mexicans need or want to come to the United States - a trend likely to continue for the forseeable future.
This doesn't mean that U.S.-bound migration will end, as economic opportunities and family ties will still draw many north. It also doesn't apply to every country. Flows from Central America, Africa, and from other places around the world continue unabated. But it does fundamentally change the nature of U.S.-bound immigration, likely permanently. This has yet to feed into U.S. political debates.
Politicians today are looking for ways to attract the now over twenty million potential Hispanic voters, roughly 10 percent of electorate. Both Republicans and Democrats face challenges in rallying this growing demographic. Republicans need to cut into Obama's wide margin (more than two-thirds) among Latino voters, finding some way to gain their trust and backing. Democrats need to get out this favorable Hispanic vote, as they are still the least likely of the main ethnic groups to go to the polls.
Latinos have the potential to swing a close election. In fact, some analysts suggest that Obama will likely win or lose a second term based on the turnout and electoral support he gets from this constituency in the battlegrounds of Florida, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. And though surveys show that Hispanics care most about the economy, education, and healthcare, immigration matters to them as well - particularly when it stirs worries of broader discrimination.
Whoever wins, the real challenge for tomorrow's President will be how to deal with the fundamental shifts within the U.S. migrant population. Changing the rhetoric is a necessary start. Some politicians do see this.
During a CNN debate on national security, Newt Gingrich said "I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter of a century." But others don't.
Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" solution to illegal immigration ignores the underlying reality - that millions of America's undocumented immigrants have deep roots in American society that go far beyond employment. They won't voluntarily leave behind their families and their lives, even if they lose their jobs. Only by reframing the debate can America hope to find a sustainable solution that balances economic needs, family and community ties, and respect for the law.
The views expressed in this article are solely those of Shannon O'Neil.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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Danao Airstrip Bohol's New International Airport PanglaoWednesday, July 13th, 2011
Image courtesy Girlie Cervantes
Bohol's new international airport in the south of the island, to replace the overloaded Tagbilaran airport, has been ruminated for almost two decades, and work has still not commenced. By contrast, just eighteen months after its conceptual design, a new airstrip will be opened for business in central Bohol in August 2011, in the municipality of Danao.
Not quite the Bohol International Airport that the politicians have wanted to replace Tagbilaran Airport but the new airstrip in Danao is an example of what can be achieved in an apolitical environment with 100% support of the local community (typical of almost everything that happens in the remote, mountainous municipality of Danao, surrounded by Bohol's famous Chocolate Hills).


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Here's the deal. I've recently ran across some vintage carded figures and noticed a couple of odd things.
The first thing that got my attention was a few SW-12 Carded figures have a frosty look to them. For an example, one of the Han Solos and two Death Squad Commanders seem to have some sort of crystal growing on parts of them. It's the most noticeable on Han's legs and the DSC's Helmets.
One of those Death Squad Commanders had a few worm like-bugs inside the bubble. I don't see any entry point, but nevertheless, they are there (long dead, of course). I also found those bugs inside a carded die cast Darth Vader TIE. What are those things? Are they responsible for the frosty look of the action figures? I would assume this would hurt the resale value of these toys.
As for value of action figures, some of the carded Star Wars and Empire figures I've ran across are in great shape... but the proof of purchase has been removed; sometimes cutting completely through the card, other times just the top layer of cardboard. I'm not up on the grading scale, but was curious if anyone knows what kind of % decrease this would cause?
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By Ben Levisohn
Investors waiting for Caterpillar (CAT) to turn into a butterfly will have to wait a while longer.
The maker of heavy machinery said profits fell 44% during the third quarter, while earnings-per share dropped to $1.45, well below forecasts for $1.68. Caterpillar also slashed its guidance for full-year earnings to $5.50, down from $6.50.
It's fair to say investors were expecting more. In the days ahead of the report, share of Caterpillar had traded up to the top-end of the range they'd been trading in for the last six months. Instead, Caterpillar's stock has fallen 6.2% to $83.69 at 12:43 p.m. today, bringing it back towards the low end of the range.
Caterpillar also had the misfortune to report on a day when investors are concerned that China could take steps tighten credit. And with Caterpillar's exposure to emerging markets, that's likely hitting shares as well.
Caterpillar's dismal report is weighing on other stocks machinery companies. Terex (TEX) has fallen 2.5% to $34.37, Joy Global (JOY) has dropped 1.1% to $53.91 and Manitowoc (MTW) is off 1.9% at $19.36.


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I enjoy Milton Friedman a lot. I often disagree with him, but more because he tends to project his conclusions to extremes than because of fundamental flaws in his analyses. Estimating what will happen in extreme situations is an arena where normal economic analysis typically fails since historic data do not provide enough examples to permit reasonable assessment.
Friedman, in my mind, represents the best of what the Republican Party used to champion, before it decided to ally itself with the religious right and companies seeking government protection for their market positions. He believed strongly, as I do, in the power of a competitive market place and viewed government intervention as more likely to cause problems than to solve them. However, he still recognized and promoted the government's necessary role in preserving an environment in which competition can thrive. That includes control of the monetary system, provision of truly public goods, regulation in cases of monopolies, and intervention to diminish "neighborhood effects" that do not get priced properly into economic decisions (e.g., pollution). He was an early supporter of the Negative Income Tax and possibly a primary reason why this was implemented under Nixon and expanded under Reagan in the form of "tax credits" paid to people in excess of their actual tax payments.
While conservatives love to claim Friedman as their own, they forget that he was, in his own words, a "liberal". He was an agnostic. He believed that one of the major threats to reducing the role of government was the "notion that the U.S. has a mission to promote democracy around the world." He viewed war as a friend of big government because it provides the state with an opportunity to seize freedoms and expand budgets. He believed that the best situation in Washington was a divided government with one party controlling the white house and the other controlling congress. "There were no big spending programs during the Clinton administration," he said. "As a result, government spending tended to stay down, the economy grew like mad, taxes went up, spending did not, and lo and behold, the deficit was turned into a surplus." This he viewed as a positive, in contrast to the sitution post Clinton where single party control produced rapid growth in spending, tax cuts, and a burgeoning deficit. He believed in concrete limits on intellectual property rights because they foster monopoly pricing. Finally, he was always clear that while economic capitalism was essential to freedom, it was no guarantee of freedom. He tended to favor an approach to the involvement of government in regulating political and social behavior as minimalist as the role he recommended in economics.
Our monetary system and economy is basically a faith based institution. We have faith a dollar has value, faith in our food supply, faith in our water supply, and on and on. Faith in financial instruments(bundled mortgages) has already gone and faith in the banks is crumbling which rely on those instruments. Soon inflation will cause a loss of faith in our dollar.
If we have an economic cold, the rest of the world has economic pneumonia. Worldwide economic and political instability is on the horizon, which makes fertile ground for wars.


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ATV club to meet Jan. 12 in Ironton
The Cuyuna Iron Range Riders will host their monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at the American Legion in Ironton.
The group will discuss the current trail proposal in the Miller Bear trail area, trail rides, youth safety training and club activities for the new year. The club is actively pursuing grant in trails in Crow Wing County, supports responsible riding and youth safety and trail ambassadorship.
For more information, contact club president Russ Heittola at 218-825-0441 or email@example.com. This is an ATVAM affiliated club.


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Apple To Pay Up to $280 For Your Used iPhone
The name isn't quite exact; in fact, it buries the lede. Yes, this is a way to ensure your iPhone doesn't just end up in a trash can, but let's be honest -- that was never going to happen in the first place. What this is is a chance for Apple to recycle revenue. It'll encourage existing iPhone owners to return to an Apple Store, take far less than their iPhone is worth, and then apply that credit directly to another on-contract iPhone. Plus, they'll be in a prime spot to spring for an accessory or two, try out a Mac, etc.
It's a brilliant plan by Apple, but it won't be easy. Imagine the rush of people who flock to Apple Stores after the iPhone 5S is revealed: how will there even be enough staff to keep things humming? Will complaints crop up? It'll be a challenge for Apple to maintain its pristine retail image when it looks like the inside of a Walmart during Black Friday.
Outside of that, there's the backend stuff. For starters, Apple isn't handling any of the reselling; it has contracted with a company called Brightstar, which will be responsible for finding new homes for the traded-in iPhones. Next, even the latest and greatest iPhone, in perfect condition, will only net you $280 towards the purchase of another, and at least in the U.S., you have to use that credit before you even leave the store on another on-contract phone. You can't put it towards a Mac, for instance. Furthermore, you can't trade anything other than an iPhone; forget about bringing your old Galaxy S in. That's a major gaffe in our opinion, as this would have been a great chance to convert Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry users -- instead, it's just recycling its existing users.
Worst of all, the phone that you use the credit to buy has to be attached to a carrier, so forget about using it towards an unlocked device. All told, it's a fairly awful deal for customers. There are much easier ways (Gazelle and Nextworth) to get a lump sum for your phone that you can use towards anything, and those willing to sell it themselves will fetch as much as 2x on eBay and elsewhere.


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Alternate name: Common Wormwood
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Introduced perennial herb or subshrub; spreads by rhizome or self-seeds; may form large colonies.
Habit: weedy, invasive; upright branching stems, becoming woody and red to brown with age; faintly aromatic.
Height: 2-8 ft (60-180 cm) or more.
Leaf: alternate, deeply and irregularly lobed; dense silver down underneath; becoming narrower and less lobed above; 2-8 in (5-20 cm) long.
Flower: inconspicuous, to 1/8 in (3 mm) wide, pale green to yellow green to purple green; held in clusters along branches at top of plant, to 16 in (40 cm) long.
Fruit: tiny dry oblong seed, 1/32 in (1 mm) long, no hairs.
Flower July-November.
Habitat Sunny sites with sandy or loamy, high nitrogen soils: fields, roadsides, waste places, disturbed sites, forested areas, coastal strands.
Range Native to Eurasia; introduced as a medicinal plant and now naturalized across non-arctic Canada, and in the northwest, central, and eastern U.S.; California to Washington, east to Montana; and Maine to Florida, east to Minnesota, Kansas, and Louisiana; to 1650 ft (500 m).
Discussion Also known as: artemisia, chrysanthemum weed, common mugwort, common wormwood, felon-herb, green-ginger. Mugwort has been used medicinally since the Middle Ages and before. This plant is difficult to eradicate; it grows from stout, horizontal rhizomes that must be pulled or dug out if the plant is to be eliminated. It is considered an invasive plant pest in many areas, especially in the East.


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Hot tub folliculitis is an infection of the skin around the lower part of the hair shaft (hair follicles). It occurs when you come into contact with certain bacteria that live in warm and wet areas.
Hot tub folliculitis is caused by bacteria that survives in hot tubs, especially tubs made of wood.
The first symptom of hot tub folliculitis is an itchy, bumpy, and red rash. Symptoms can appear from several hours to 2 days after contact with the bacteria.
The rash may:
Other people who used the hot tub may have the same rash.
Your health care provider can often make this diagnosis based on looking at the rash and knowing that you have been in a hot tub. Testing is usually not needed.
Treatment may not be needed. The mild form of the disease often clears on its own. Anti-itch medicines may be used to ease discomfort.
In severe cases, your health care provider may prescribe an antibiotic.
This condition usually clears without scarring. The problem may come back if you use the hot tub again before it has been cleaned.
Discomfort and abscess formation can rarely occur.
Call your health care provider if you develop symptoms of hot tub folliculitis.
Controlling the acid levels and chlorine content of the hot tub may help prevent the problem.
James WD, Berger TG, Elston DM, eds. Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 14.
Pasternack MS, Swartz MN. Cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis, and subcutaneous tissue infections. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 90.
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We need not accept an unemployment rate of five percent or more, such as we have had for 60 out of the last 61 months. There is no need for us to be satisfied with a rate of growth that keeps good men out of work and good capacity out of use.
And I know you share my conviction that, proud as we are of its progress, this nation's economy can and must do even better than it has done in the last five years. Our choice, therefore, boils down to one of: doing nothing, and thereby risking a widening gap between our actual and potential growth in output, profits, and employment — or taking action, at the federal level, to raise our entire economy to a new and higher level of business activity.
If we do not take action, those who have the most reason to be dissatisfied with our present rate of growth will be tempted to seek shortsighted and narrow solutions — to resist automation, to reduce the work week to 35 hours or even lower, to shut out imports, or to raise prices in a vain effort to obtain full capacity profits on under-capacity operations. But these are all self-defeating expedients which can only restrict the economy, not expand it.
But the most direct and significant kind of federal action aiding economic growth is to make possible an increase in private consumption and investment demand — to cut the fetters which hold back private spending. In the past, this could be done in part by the increased use of credit and monetary tools, but our balance of payments situation today places limits on our use of those tools for expansion. It could also be done by increasing federal expenditures more rapidly than necessary, but such a course would soon demoralize both the government and our economy. If government is to retain the confidence of the people, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need or spent with maximum efficiency.
]The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system — and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxe[/b]s to be enacted and become effective in 1963.
I'm not talking about a "quickie" or a temporary tax cut, which would be more appropriate if a recession were imminent. Nor am I talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm, to ease some temporary complaint. I am talking about the accumulated evidence of the last five years that our present tax system, developed as it was, in good part, during World War II to restrain growth, exerts too heavy a drag on growth in peace time; that it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; that it reduces the financial incenitives [sic] for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking. In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.
First, it should reduce the net taxes by a sufficiently early date and a sufficiently large amount to do the job required.
Second, the new tax bill must increase private consumption, as well as investment........When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid-off, investment increases, and profits are high.
Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.
For all these reasons, next year's tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes: for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital.
Third, the new tax bill should improve both the equity and the simplicity of our present tax system.
We shall, therefore, neither postpone our tax cut plans nor cut into essential national security programs. This administration is determined to protect America's security and survival, and we are also determined to step up its economic growth. And I think we must do both.
an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget — just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions, and any new recession would break all deficit records.
Though I respect your stance, at that moment in time our debt wasn't over 9000. Cut spending, raise taxes. Nice balanced approach.
an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget — just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions, and any new recession would break all deficit records.
Not many,
Kennedy would roll over if he saw the democrats today!
Repeat After Me: Obama Cut the Deficit and Slowed Spending to Lowest Level in 50 Years
"Ask not what you can do for your country - ask what your country can do for you." - Barack Obama
Gladius Veritas
the burden placed on job creators and businesses, etc.
When you give evidence Republicans will completely skip over it and then post later that you never gave evidence
A new chart by the Comeback America Initiative (CAI), a non-partisan group dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility by policymakers, shows federal spending by president as a percentage of GDP, and it doesn't reflect well on Obama.
"There has been a dramatic increase in spending under the Obama administration," David Walker, Founder and CEO of CAI, told Whispers. "Most of it is attributable to year one of his presidency and the stimulus... but President Obama has continued to take spending to a new level."
Federal spending was close to 20 percent under the Carter administration, dropped to 18 percent under Clinton, and is currently at an incredible 24 percent of GDP. According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal spending may hover around 22 percent for the next decade.
Federal spending is also higher this year than any year since 1949. The last time spending was higher—in 1946, it was 24.8—the country was just coming down from the exorbitant rates of spending during World War II.
First, Obama's record on debt is a lot less flattering than is his record on federal government spending. During the same time that spending is poised to be increasing by 1.4 percent per year under Obama, the debt will be increasing by 14.6 percent per year. The reason? Year by year, federal revenues haven't been keeping up with spending, due to the struggling national economy (which has held back tax revenues) and a continuation of tax cuts. And each year there's an annual deficit, the national debt grows.
Second, federal spending under Obama is higher as a share of gross domestic product than it has been in most of the previous 60 years. That, too is because of the economy, which has simultaneously slowed the growth of GDP and boosted government spending for programs such as food stamps and Medicaid.
Third, the aging of the baby boomers has driven a rise in entitlement spending that is masking cuts Obama and the GOP Congress have made, and have promised to make, in discretionary spending. Using outlays as the unit of measurement, as Nutting and the Facebook post have done, means focusing on money already spent. It does not take into account future spending that's been committed to but not yet carried out.
And finally, many Americans associate Obama with the high-profile legislative activities of his first year or two, when initiatives such as the stimulus sent spending upward the fastest. Since then, spending has slowed, thanks in part to spending cuts pushed by congressional Republicans.
A number of critics also argued that spending for the Troubled Asset Relief Program should be taken into account. This program aided troubled financial institutions and involved a lot of money going out the door in fiscal 2009 and a lot of money coming in the door in subsequent years as the money was paid back to the treasury. The critics note that counting the TARP expenses as Bush's artificially raises the baseline level of spending Obama inherited, thereby making Obama's subsequent spending increases seem unrealistically smal
high tax rates, the redistribution of wealth, the burden placed on job creators and businesses
Wait until Obamacare takes effect then we'll see how slow of a spender he is.
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Hi, Mark,
After checking out the Hidden Cove web site, it seems to me as if you've picked a good place. I've fished Alaska for silvers (cohos) for the last 10 years, and it's become my favorite fly fishing adventure.
One thing I like about the situation you're in, is that you can walk to the fishing. Do not get yourself into a lodge that offers only fly-out, as you'll might be spending your time playing cards and watching it rain through a 10 foot ceiling. If you've booked some time in September, that's usually the best time. If the fish are in, the week will go very fast. Too fast.
As for flies, tackle, etc. go with what the lodge recommends, then throw in some red General Practioners, some fuchsia Muddlers (deer hair/rabbit strip), some chartreuse Muddlers, and a few Clousers in the bait fish shades. Sometimes the fish will want something really small, so have an assortment ranging in 6's up through 1/0's or larger.
Blue is often a good color for silvers, particularly when combined with white. One of our hottest flies last year was a size 4 bead head in blue and white -- it was the go-to fly when all else failed.
Throw in a few Crazy Charlies in sizes 6-4 in chartreuse, fuchsia, black and purple.
I've never fished Hidden Cove, or any where near it, but I've had good dry fly luck elsewhere with Pink Pollywogs retrieved slowly (although with a visible wake) in still or very slowly flowing water. The best dry fly fishing I've had is when the fish are showing constantly in calm water. My experience has been that, when casting into a school, a fish will rise immediately when conditions are right. The second cast may produce a swirl or two, and the third cast is, again in my experience, generally ignored. I like to hit and run when dry fly fishing silvers, getting that quick rise, following that with several casts to see what's what, and then going after another school if I get no offers. Others may have different opinions and better strategies, but this has worked for me.
Be warned that silvers often attack a dry fly from the rear -- like a shark. You can look right down their throats past the gill rakers as they come to the fly. Pretty exciting. Let the fish turn down with the fly before striking -- it's easy to pull the fly away from them.
Pink Pollywogs aren't the only dry flies to use, of course. Anything the size of a medium bass bug (popper) will probably work. Pink has been my favorite color, although fuchsia scores well. I make these critters out of deer hair on a No. 2 salmon dry fly hook (TULE light wire).
Hope this helps,
Need advice for silver trip to Alaska
hi, were planning a trip to alaska for next year to fish for silvers. im looking for advice from other anglers who have fished alaska. all topics, gear, what not to do etc.. any comments will help. BTW, we are fishing the gulf of alaska at hidden cove camp. any thoughts,comments, suggestions??? thanks, mark
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Six Peace Events in the Bay Area, November 9-11, 2012
November 9, 4:15 p.m., Stanford
Omar Shaki, Medea Benjamin, Robert Crews, Shahzad Bashir
"Lives Under Drones"
Building 200, room 205, Stanford
Visit antiwar.stanford.edu for more info.
Co-sponsored by Muslim Students Awareness Network, Stanford NAACP, Stanford STAND, CDDRL Program on Human Rights, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford Asian American Activism Committee, Pakistanis at Stanford, and the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
November 10, 2:00 p.m., Walnut Creek
David Swanson
Mt. Diablo Peace Center, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 - (925) 933-7850 - http://mtdpc.org
Free and open to the public.
Drone Warfare Protest and Golden Gate Bridge March
Sunday, November 11, 10 a.m. Die-in at Senator Dianne Feinstein's mansion in Pacific Heights (Vallejo & Lyon Street) then caravan to monthly march across the Golden Gate Bridge. Noon: March begins!
Armistice Day
Sunday, November 11, 11 a.m.
Corner of Fourth & Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA
Veterans for Peace chapters across the nation are meeting on street corners in major cities to celebrate the original ARMISTICE DAY by ringing bells 11 times at 11:00 on November 11 as as was done at the end of World War I, when the world came together in realization that war is so horrible we must end it now. Veterans for Peace Chapter 101 invites those with a personal or organizational commitment to peace to join us in the ringing of bells on the morning of November 11 to focus on the desire to end the horror of war rather than celebrate it. This event is co-sponsored by the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, Code Pink, Move to Amend.
Sunday, November 11, 1:30-4:30 p.m. San Francisco
Medea Benjamin, Cindy Sheehan, and David Swanson
On the traditional Armistice Day, the War and Law League (WALL), http://warandlaw.org, presents a forum on the theme, "U.S. Wars -- Are They Lawful?" Admission is free. The forum, highlighting WALL's biennial general meeting, is endorsed by the S.F. American Friends Service Committee and East Bay Peace Action. Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street at Grove Street, San Francisco, CA, near Civic Center BART/Muni station.
November 11, 7:00 p.m. Marin County
Medea Benjamin and David Swanson
"Stopping War: The Next One? Forever? -- An Armistice Day Instead of Veterans Day Event"
Sponsor: Marin Peace & Justice Coalition. Co-sponsors: Social Justice Center of Marin and Community Media Center of Marin.
Olney Hall, College of Marin, 835 College Ave, Kentfield, CA
Admission $10 (No one turned away for lack of funds).
About the speakers at these events:
David Swanson will sign books including "When the World Outlawed War." Swanson blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio.
Medea Benjamin is Co-Founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange and author of "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control."
Cindy Sheehan is a gold star mother, peace activist, host of Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, and author of "Revolution: A Love Story."
Omar Shakir is a 3rd year Stanford Law student and co-author of the Stanford Law School report "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from Drone Practices in Pakistan."
Robert Crews is a Stanford History Professor and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands.
Shahzad Bashir is a Stanford Religious Studies Professor and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands.
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Description Large, striking, unarmed, single-stemmed palm with pinnate leaves. Stems gray-white to gray-brown, smooth, columnar, often swollen and bulging along portions of their length. Leaf scars often prominent along the stem, especially in young, rapidly growing individuals. Leaves consist of a sheathing leaf base, a petiole, and a rachis. Leaf base forms a distinctive green sheath around the uppermost portion of the trunk. Known as the crownshaft, this sheath extends 1.4–2 m. down the trunk. Petiole connects lead base with the rachis. Rachis pinnately divided, ranging from 3.2 -5.8 m. long. Leaf segments range from 60 to 79 cm. long.
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I didn't even know about that Shield Helicarrier. 4 feet long? Now I seriously wonder why we can't get anything like this for the Star Wars line.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
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I'd do a non-interactive (with the blockade runner) Star Destroyer at at least 9 feet (it could launch 1 TIE Bomber).
Jabba's barge? About 3 feet at the minimal.
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Just in case anybody interested didn't know, we asked some of the questions and here's the interview:
As for the CVI thing, there is a reason there's no exclusive but I'm not sure how much I can say beyond that plans had to change from what was intended.
I feel for them, Chux, I won an eFX helmet at the SW Collectibles panel and the box is MASSIVE, I had to haul it through those crowds over to the Bayside Hilton parking lot to jam it into my car and it was quite the adventure.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Ok, so I've removed the questions that were asked at Comic-Con, and now we're looking forward to Celebration VI next month.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
According to certain sources, the running change made to Kithaba's bandana color (from brown to red) was specifically requested by Lucasfilm to make the figure appear more accurate. Is this true? It seems that this change was made pretty late in the figure's production, because the red bandana versions are very difficult to track down. Was there a similar request from Lucasfilm about Dr. Evazan's scar or was that a change that you guys decided to do on your own? From a collector's standpoint, while it is cool that Lucasfilm will step in occasionally to ensure accuracy in the line; it's also a little perplexing that they would focus on a minor character like Kithaba while allowing you guys to put sleeves on Jedi Luke's cloak for the Deleted Scene figure released earlier this year. You would think that they would be more focused on the accuracy of the main characters above everyone else. Or do they just let major screw ups like Luke's cloak slide because they know it will give you guys an excuse to sell us another Jedi Luke at some point down the line? Also, are you guys aware that neither bandana color for Kithaba is the correct color for the character? It should be closer to a deep burgundy red, rather than a bright red or dark brown.
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Hey JT . . . clean out yo' PMs, boy!
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All right, folks. Put on your readin' glasses! I have a mix of different kinds of questions ranging from nitpicky to slightly less nitpicky, and hopefully I'll be able to talk to Hasbro at CVI in some capacity. Discuss.
*What's the idea or theory behind the most recent Battle Packs? There's severely reduced articulation, done to save money and appeal to very young kids (who can't manipulate the articulation without getting frustrated), plus reduced paint for the same reasons (plus "they're supposed to be an homage to the vintage figures!" given as a reason). But then, the head sculpts are some of the best the line has ever seen – across the board (with Obi-Wan and Darth Maul having also been released in Movie Heroes). So, what was the actual initial reason for creating these figures? If it was cost – would or wouldn't it have been cheaper to just cast figures from the late 1990s or early 2000s, as you already were doing in the line as of January 2012? If it was to give something to the kids – same reason as before? If it was to offer the best sculpts of these figures ever, was the lack of articulation a conscious desire (to get rid of unsightly ball joints - but then there are those massively ugly T-crotches in the Naboo set)? And why weren't any of these amazing new heads released on the pre-existing Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon bodies?
*Will we see the Hoth Luke released with an alternate scarf/head to recreate his look for the rest of the time in the film? Perhaps in scarred and unscarred versions? (Such a pack – like an AT-ST/Ewok-style Special Action Figure Set two-pack – with a Han that could ride the Tauntaun a la the version in the Target exclusive Search for Luke Skywalker set pack but with his hood sculpted up, which already exists on several versions, could be a real hit.)
*Why is TVC Tarkin so green? Yes, sometimes the film lighting causes the gray outfits to look a little green, but the figure takes it to another level and looks significantly more green than any other movie-based officer figures ever have, and he looks out of place next to them. Will you be releasing a gray-suited version at any point?
*Is there still hope for much more new stuff from The Phantom Menace, now that its second (and most likely final, until the line license expires) big push has come, or was the 3D release kind of the last big chance? If it was, does this mean we might never see a Bongo, or a Kitster and Wald two-pack?
*On a similar note - how has the TPM 3D release affected your plans for future 3D releases?
*Some figures have had wires in their capes to help with posing – mostly in the 2008 Target exclusive Order 66 packs. We haven't seen much of this since then, but Darth Malgus has this feature in the neckline of his cape. Will we see more of this at all, or has its time basically gone? Why haven't we seen more of this?
*Speaking of robes, when will we see an Attack of the Clones Anakin with his unique sleeveless robe from that film? The first attempt was on the 2003 Secret Ceremony figure, which was sculpted to look like it was blowing in the wind. The only other option that comes close is the 2005 deluxe Anakin to Vader figure, but it is enclosed at the top and not quite right. Could this be included with the new AOTC Anakin in time? (And perhaps those aforementioned wires could give it some shape so it doesn't just fall right off?)
*Now that we have an ultimate Pablo-Jill figure coming, will we see his head retooled/repainted/resculpted to become Coleman Kcaj, the only remaining Jedi Council member not yet made?
*Why is Jar Jar always so expressionless? Both the Movie Heroes and Vintage Collection figures, as well as the majority of previous versions, are stone-faced and serious. Is this to appeal to the Binks haters out there, or something? Might we see a smiling, scared, or slack-tongued Jar Jar at any point? They could easily reuse one of the new bodies and just replace the head.
*Is there any news on the status of the funeral pyre Vader set?
*Will Droid Factory feature any straight repacks, like the Greatest Hits figures from the 2008-2010 Legacy lineup that were done to give buyers an option who perhaps didn't want some of the new figures but still wanted the piece to complete the droid? Or will the pieces all be specific to one figure and one figure only, as seems to be the case so far (with quite a few repacks/repaints in the line already)?
*What's with the huge helmets on the newest Revenge of the Sith clone troopers? The helmets are just reused, and the AOTC version shows that you are clearly capable of sculpting a better-fitting, more accurate, less rubbery one, and yet we've already gotten all the big ROTS units in this big-helmet style.
*The availability of single figures on HasbroToyShop is bizarre this year, with TVC waves 1 and 2 online around the time they hit retail, but wave 3 not hitting until late July/early August (and Movie Heroes wave 2 listed as "Coming Soon" with no sign of post-wave 1 Clone Wars). The entire cases have been available, but that doesn't really help people who don't want (or can't afford) all 12 figures, especially when most case assortments have more repacks than new figures. With retail distribution so horrible, why can't collectors count on going directly to the source anymore?
*The upcoming Legacy Collection "Backstabber" TIE Fighter Pilot figure is actually inaccurate – the character in the film has Imperial logos on both sides of his helmet, but the figure only has one, as it was seemingly based on a still photo of the character that obscures the right-side logo in shadow. Will this be fixed?
*What is your involvement with the Disney Droid Factory station? Did you just license the molds, as seems to have been the case for R2-MK? Will we see the unique R6, R8, and R9 heads coming in the main line or as Droid Factory pieces (presumably without the hole for the hats)?
*With the new Emperor's Wrath Darth Vader, we finally get an accurate damaged arm. Will we see this body re-released with the three-piece removable helmet? The peg on the Emperor's wrath version is much larger than on the removable helmet version, so fand can't really make this version properly. This version would look great with an unmasked Vader image on a vintage card, if/when the line ever returns.
*In A New Hope, R5-D4 is shown to have red panels on his back. We've gotten three molds of this figure (plus a current repaint/re-release of the 2006 version in the Target exclusive sets), and none of them have these panels - though the 1978 figure did. These ones are only good for his brief AOTC appearance. How many more inaccurate Arfives are we going to have to buy until we get the properly painted Skippy?
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What's happening with those galaxies?
Find a clear night sky and get out a good pair of binoculars or a telescope. You can see this feature (although not quite as well). The Whirlpool galaxy has an enhanced spiral structure due to its interactions with its companion galaxy NGC 5195.
Galaxies are the biggest groups of stars and can contain anywhere from a few million stars to many billions of stars. Every star that is visible in the night sky is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. To the naked eye, the closest major galaxy — the Andromeda Galaxy, shown in Figure below — looks like only a dim, fuzzy spot. But that fuzzy spot contains one trillion — 1,000,000,000,000 — stars!
The Andromeda Galaxy is a large spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.
Galaxies are divided into three types according to shape: spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, and irregular galaxies.
Spiral Galaxies
Spiral galaxies spin, so they appear as a rotating disk of stars and dust, with a bulge in the middle, like the Sombrero Galaxy shown in Figure below. Several arms spiral outward in the Pinwheel Galaxy (seen in Figure below) and are appropriately called spiral arms. Spiral galaxies have lots of gas and dust and lots of young stars.
(a) The Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy that we see from the side so the disk and central bulge are visible. (b) The Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy that we see face-on so we can see the spiral arms. Because they contain lots of young stars, spiral arms tend to be blue.
Elliptical Galaxies
Figure below shows a typical egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. The smallest elliptical galaxies are as small as some globular clusters. Giant elliptical galaxies, on the other hand, can contain over a trillion stars. Elliptical galaxies are reddish to yellowish in color because they contain mostly old stars.
The large, reddish-yellow object in the middle of this figure is a typical elliptical galaxy. What other types of galaxies can you find in the figure?
Most elliptical galaxies contain very little gas and dust because the gas and dust have already formed into stars. However, some elliptical galaxies, such as the one shown in Figure below, contain lots of dust. Why might some elliptical galaxies contain dust?
Astronomers believe that these dusty elliptical galaxies form when two galaxies of similar size collide.
Irregular Galaxies
Is the galaxy in Figure below a spiral galaxy or an elliptical galaxy? It is neither one! Galaxies that are not clearly elliptical galaxies or spiral galaxies are irregular galaxies. How might an irregular galaxy form? Most irregular galaxies were once spiral or elliptical galaxies that were then deformed either by gravitational attraction to a larger galaxy or by a collision with another galaxy.
This galaxy, called NGC 1427A, has neither a spiral nor an elliptical shape.
Dwarf Galaxies
Dwarf galaxies are small galaxies containing only a few million to a few billion stars. Dwarf galaxies are the most common type in the universe. However, because they are relatively small and dim, we don't see as many dwarf galaxies from Earth. Most dwarf galaxies are irregular in shape. However, there are also dwarf elliptical galaxies and dwarf spiral galaxies.
Look back at the picture of the elliptical galaxy. In the figure, you can see two dwarf elliptical galaxies that are companions to the Andromeda Galaxy. One is a bright sphere to the left of center, and the other is a long ellipse below and to the right of center. Dwarf galaxies are often found near larger galaxies. They sometimes collide with and merge into their larger neighbors.
- A galaxy is composed of millions to billions of stars.
- Galaxies can be spiral, elliptical or irregular. Dwarf galaxies are smaller, but are more common than other galaxies.
- Galaxies that have lots of dust and gas are locations where stars are forming.
- What makes a galaxy different from other galaxies or types of astronomical objects?
- What makes irregular galaxies take an irregular shape?
- How do dwarf galaxies interact with other galaxies?


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down $3.87, or 0.9%, at $452.90, after Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster this morning reiterated an Overweight rating, and cut his price target to $655 from $688, writing that investors are worrying too much about Apple's gross margin, and that the shares can lift once new products come out, starting in the second half of this year.
Echoing comments about Apple's 10-Q statement from several other analysts in recent weeks, Munster argues Apple's gross margin in the fiscal Q2 ending in March was depressed by some one-time items that mask the fact its iPhone gross margin remains at over 50%:
We believe gross margin on the iPhone remains around 55%. This may be hard to believe given the drop in gross margin over the past year (from 42.8% in Jun-12 to 37.5% in Mar-13), but a closer look at Apple's Mar-13 quarter suggests the negative trend in margin was been driven by mix of lower margin iPad Mini (which could be as low as 20% margin), along with a $414m impact from a combination of a change in the warranty policy in China and an "unfavorable adjustment" (no details on what this adjustment is). Subtracting the $414m from cost of goods improves the Mar-13 margin from the reported 37.5% to 38.4%. On a going forward basis, we believe the change in the China warranty policy will likely depress margins by 40-50 bps in each quarter based on the company disclosure of $224m in adjustments in the Dec-12 quarter. To further illustrate that the iPhone margin is stable, we calculated that if Apple did not sell any iPad Minis (20% margin) in Dec-12 or Mar-13, Apple's overall gross margin would have risen to 40.2% in Mar-13, up from 39.7% in Dec-12.
Munster thinks investors are imagining a "nuclear meltdown" in Apple's gross margin, bringing it as low as 32% by 2015, "including 50% cannibalization of the regular iPhone from the cheaper iPhone, a 15% margin on the cheaper phone, and a 10% margin on the TV," alluding to speculation Apple will introduce a television set.
Munster performs his own calculations and estimates margin would fall only to 34% by 2015. That includes a 50% cannibalization of iPhone sales by the cheaper iPhone, at the lower 15% margin, and Apple taking 7% share of the "sub-$400″ smartphone market. He leaves out the impact of a television set, which he thinks could arrive later this year and, assuming a $1,500 retail price, would have a "modest" impact on profit margin, he argues, of perhaps 180 basis points next year, assuming a 10% profit margin.
Munster offers a table of potential margin impact from a television set:
Munster cut his fiscal 2014 estimates to $196 billion in revenue and $44.43 in profit per share, from a prior $201 billion and $46.40.


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There was a circular cloud hovering over Moscow last week. Meteorologists claim it's not supernatural, but there's just something about that photo that makes a person go hmm…. When I first saw it, I immediately thought "That looks like something that would be on an episode of Doctor Who."


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Popular Dating Site Has No Love for Strong Security
Back in 2012, EFF first called out OKCupid for failing to safeguard user data by not implementing HTTPS site-wide.
Three years later, OKCupid still hasn't fixed the problem. For users who haven't upgraded to paid accounts, their emails, chat sessions, searches, clicked links, pages viewed, and usernames are transmitted over the Internet in unencrypted plaintext, where they can be intercepted and read by anyone on the network.
Earlier this summer, when FBI Director James Comey made his case for backdooring strong encryption, he told us that he wanted to hash out the policy considerations surrounding encryption, law enforcement, and security in public: "Democracies resolve such tensions through robust debate." This week, we learned that Comey apparently actually meant that he wanted the debate resolved in secret, before a judge known only to the government, by way of a sealed wiretap order.
Update 01/28/16: EFF now controls the Electronicfrontierfoundation.org domain and that URL currently redirects to this blog post. If you arrived at this page via a link in a message that may have been phishing, please let us know and we will investigate.
Yesterday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. and law enforcement officials from Paris, London, and Madrid published an anti-encryption op-ed in the New York Times—an op-ed that amounts to nothing more than a blatant attempt to use fear mongering to further their anti-privacy, anti-security, and anti-constitutional agenda. They want a backdoor. We want security, privacy, and respect for the Fourth Amendment's guarantee that we be "secure" in our papers. After all, the Founding Fathers were big users of encryption.
Earlier this week researchers with Zimperium Mobile Security announced that they had found a scary new vulnerability deep in the code that Android phones and tablets use to handle multimedia.
The code and the vulnerability are called StageFright. The researchers discovered that by sending a text message containing a specially crafted audio or video file they could execute arbitrary code on the victim's phone. Zimperium estimates that in 50% of cases the user wouldn't even have to open the text message for the exploit to work. In the other 50%, the exploit runs as soon as the user opens the message containing the malicious content. According to Zimperium, this vulnerability affects any Android device running version 2.2 or above regardless of manufacturer, which accounts for nearly every android phone in existence (95% according to Zimperium).
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"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." – Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
"It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean." – Jon J. Muth
"As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls."
– Sonia Sotomayor
Tupelo – and North Mississippi – have been much in the national news the past several weeks.
First, someone shot an elephant named Carol who was visiting our city with Barnum & Bailey circus.
Friends from other places called or texted with inquiries: "Who shoots a circus elephant?"
Good question. Still no answer.
Then, an Elvis tribute artist was arrested and accused of sending poison-laced letters to members of our community – sweet Judge Sadie Holland, Sen. Roger Wicker and the president of the United States.
And again, friends from all over began texting – "What sort of people live up there?"
Days later, the tribute artist was free and suspicions gravitated to a Tupelo taekwondo instructor and former political candidate named James Everett Dutschke.
Northeast Mississippi and some of our residents remained high on the lists of favorite discussion topics of many, if not most, news, talk, entertainment shows on television, radio, Internet and in print.
My friends' interest continued – "Again, what kind of folks live up there?" And even – "Don't you think it's time you move away from there?"
"And move where?" I countered. "To Jackson where you live? How many murders a day now?"
Truth is, all manner of humanity can be found in every corner of this crazy world of ours. Good people and those who are not so good.
The bottom line remains the same. People are people.
I was reminded of that last Wednesday as I spent a rare day away from my desk and toted a notebook and pen as I visited some really fine folks in Chickasaw County.
My friend Chip and I were riding the roads from Houston to Woodland and parts in between, in search of information for a future story.
Every person we met along the way answered our inquiries with patience and kindness. Good people all.
I've lived in several areas of this state of my birth, and I've met all manner of people.
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New York City: Volunteers gathered for a fifth-annual tree-planting event. The event was organized by JetBlue Airways and MillionTreesNYC. Though the group hosts events throughout the year, MillionTreesNYC hoped to plant 100 trees to commemorate Earth Day this weekend.
Washington, D.C.: Earth Day enthusiasts hoping to "mobilize the Earth" headed to the National Mall for a day-long celebration of all things environmental. There were musical acts and a variety of speeches and demonstrations.
Malang, Indonesia: Environmental activists paraded through the streets to commemorate Earth Day, holding up plastic bottles in protest of environmentally unfriendly practices.
Tokyo, Japan: As part of the city's Earth Day festivities, residents paraded through the streets in protest of nuclear power plants. Participants carried a large wind sock, which symbolizes good health for children.
Manila, Philippines: Workers replaced broken lights on a large bronze globe outside a mall. At night, the illuminated globe will serve as the centerpiece of an Earth Day celebration. Its goal is to bring attention to environmental concerns.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Volunteers participated in an environmental program at the Rosy Walter Zoo in central Honduras. The program was part of a series of initiatives across Central America to commemorate Earth Day.
Barcelona, Spain: Tourists and residents took part in a series of celebrations of La Mare Terra, which means "Mother Earth." The main event, the Fira per la Terra, or "the Festival for the Earth," offered a variety of delicious Spanish meats.
Budapest, Hungary: Each year, residents take part in a Critical Mass cycling event to commemorate Earth Day. The first ride was organized in 2004 on a day called "Car Free Day." It eventually transformed into an Earth Day tradition. With thousands and thousands of people turning out each year, the Budapest event has broken international records.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 401, March 6, 2009
Reporting Live From The Moose Invasion
As any motorist in central Alaska can surely attest, it has never been particularly difficult to happen upon a moose in Fairbanks. But according to University of Alaska Fairbanks police, it may have recently become much easier:
"The University Police Department has had a dramatic increase in the number of nuisance moose calls on the Fairbanks campus this year and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is reporting an increase in the Fairbanks area moose population."
Be mindful, use common sense, and do not feed the local wildlife. If you are able to tame one of these beasts, however, hitching a moose ride to work may be the greenest of all alternative energies. [Editor's Note: Hybrids are tamed by design.]
ARSC Spellers Place Third in BizBee
The 2009 ARSC "Crayons" took third place out of 26 teams in the annual Biz-Bee, a spelling-bee fund raiser for the Literacy Council of Alaska. Three familiar faces composed this year's team: HPC Systems Analyst Dale Clark, Oceanographic Specialist Kate Hedstrom, and Chief Scientist Greg Newby.
Choosing to spell "steganopodous" over "breviloquence", the Crayons fell to this formidable foe. The winning word for the evening was "foggara", a French translation of the Arabic word "qanat", which is a type of water management system that can be used for irrigation in arid climates.
Other words that made appearances throughout the night were:
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Congratulations, Crayons, for another great performance!
Valgrind's Cachegrind Profiler Tool
[ By Craig Stephenson ]Previously, in newsletter 398, I covered the usage of Valgrind's Memcheck tool to catch unintended memory operations and memory leaks.
Memcheck is only one of the tools provided by Valgrind. In this article, I will discuss the basics of Valgrind's Cachegrind profiler tool.
Simply put, Cachegrind analyzes an executable's low-level instruction and data operations. It reports the total number of assembly instructions and memory reads in addition to the number of cache misses along the way. This information is critical to the performance-minded, as reducing the number of cache misses can equate to substantial improvements in speed. Cachegrind can generate reports as a summary of the entire program, per function, or line-by-line.
Running Cachegrind with its default options will produce a summary of the entire program. For example:
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=cachegrind ./example ... ==2950== I refs: 1,999,515 ==2950== I1 misses: 1,110 ==2950== L2i misses: 1,090 ==2950== I1 miss rate: 0.05% ==2950== L2i miss rate: 0.05% ==2950== ==2950== D refs: 594,114 (462,989 rd + 131,125 wr) ==2950== D1 misses: 16,918 ( 15,298 rd + 1,620 wr) ==2950== L2d misses: 7,868 ( 6,641 rd + 1,227 wr) ==2950== D1 miss rate: 2.8% ( 3.3% + 1.2% ) ==2950== L2d miss rate: 1.3% ( 1.4% + 0.9% ) ==2950== ==2950== L2 refs: 18,028 ( 16,408 rd + 1,620 wr) ==2950== L2 misses: 8,958 ( 7,731 rd + 1,227 wr) ==2950== L2 miss rate: 0.3% ( 0.3% + 0.9% ) Profiling timer expired
(Remember from the previous newsletter article in this series, each line of Valgrind output is prefixed with the process ID.)
A quick key to interpret this output is as follows:
I/i = instructions D/d = data I1 - level 1 instruction cache D1 - level 1 data cache L2 = level 2 shared instruction/data cache rd = data read wr = data write
This example had a level 1 data cache miss rate of 2.8% and a level 2 cache data miss rate of 1.3%. Not too bad.
A textbook example of the benefits of cache optimization comes from the distinction between row-major and column-major programming languages. To traverse the memory of a multi-dimensional array sequentially in a row-major language such as C or C++, the program should access each row in order. Conversely, the memory of a multi-dimensional array in column-major languages, such as Fortran, is sequenced by columns. Let's use Cachegrind to put this to the test with the following two equivalent programs:
Row-Major / Column-Major Comparison in C ---------------------------------------- #include <stdio.h> void rowMajor() { int A[1000][100][10]; int i, j, k; for(i=0; i < 1000; i++) { for(j=0; j < 100; j++) { for(k=0; k < 10; k++) { A[i][j][k] = i + j + k; } } } } void columnMajor() { int A[1000][100][10]; int i, j, k; for(k=0; k < 10; k++) { for(j=0; j < 100; j++) { for(i=0; i < 1000; i++) { A[i][j][k] = i + j + k; } } } } int main() { rowMajor(); columnMajor(); return 0; } ---------------------------------------- Row-Major / Column-Major Comparison in Fortran 90 ------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM major IMPLICIT NONE CALL rowMajor() CALL columnMajor() END PROGRAM major SUBROUTINE rowMajor() IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER, DIMENSION(1000,100,10) :: A INTEGER :: i, j, k DO i = 1,1000 DO j = 1,100 DO k = 1,10 A(i,j,k) = i + j + k END DO END DO END DO RETURN END SUBROUTINE columnMajor() IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER, DIMENSION(1000,100,10) :: A INTEGER :: i, j, k DO k = 1, 10 DO j = 1, 100 DO i = 1, 1000 A(i,j,k) = i + j + k END DO END DO END DO RETURN END -------------------------------------------------Each program performs the same operation using both orders, so viewing a summary of the entire program will not be terribly helpful. To see which of the two functions performs faster, we would be well advised to generate a per-function report using the cg_annotate command, via the following series of commands:
First, compile the program with the -O0 flag to disable optimization, and the -g flag to enable debugging information:
> pgcc -O0 -g -o major major.cThen, run the program using Valgrind's Cachegrind tool:
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=cachegrind ./majorThis will display the program summary in addition to writing a file named cachegrind.out.####, where #### is the process ID. Use this file as a parameter to the cg_annotate program:
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/cg_annotate cachegrind.out.7902 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ir I1mr I2mr Dr D1mr D2mr Dw D1mw D2mw file:function -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18,807,008 2 2 7,303,003 0 0 1,101,002 62,501 62,501 major.c:rowMajor 18,008,088 2 2 7,003,033 0 0 1,001,012 840,985 623,193 major.c:columnMajor
According to this function profile, there is no doubt that C is a row- major language. Its row-ordered function produces a mere 62,501 level 1 data cache write misses compared to its column-ordered function's 840,985.
How does the Fortran 90 equivalent of this program fare?
> pgf90 -O0 -g -o major major.f90 > /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=cachegrind ./major > /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/cg_annotate cachegrind.out.11321 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ir I1mr I2mr Dr D1mr D2mr Dw D1mw D2mw file:function -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16,706,007 2 2 8,303,002 0 0 1,202,003 92,258 62,999 major.f90:rowmajor_ 15,007,067 3 3 8,003,032 0 0 1,002,023 62,500 62,500 major.f90:columnmajor_ ...
Notice how comparable Fortran 90's column-major D1 write misses (62,500) are to C's row-major D1 write misses (62,501). Also worth noting is that C's cache misses appear to be significantly more expensive than Fortran 90's.
In reality, your code's functions are likely to be a tad more complex than a tight triple-nested loop. In this case, it might be worthwhile to look at an annotated line-by-line profile of one (or all) of your source files. The following is an example of how this is done.
First, I separated the Fortran 90 program used above into three separate files: one containing the main program, one containing the rowMajor() function, and one containing the columnMajor() function. As in the previous examples, the program needs to be compiled with optimization disabled and debugging enabled:
> pgf90 -O0 -g -o major rowmajor.f90 columnmajor.f90 main.f90Then, the program needs to be run through Cachegrind using the same syntax as previous examples:
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=cachegrind ./majorFinally, cg_annotate is run with the full path of the source code file(s) you would like to analyze. For example:
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/cg_annotate cachegrind.out.23196 rowmajor.f90 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- User-annotated source: /import/home/u1/uaf/user/major/rowmajor.f90 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ir I1mr I2mr Dr D1mr D2mr Dw D1mw D2mw . . . . . . . . . MODULE rowmajor . . . . . . . . . CONTAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUBROUTINE rowMajor() . . . . . . . . . IMPLICIT NONE . . . . . . . . . INTEGER, DIMENSION(1000,100,10) :: A . . . . . . . . . INTEGER :: i, j, k . . . . . . . . . 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 DO i = 1,1000 2,000 0 0 0 0 0 2,000 0 0 DO j = 1,100 300,000 0 0 0 0 0 200,000 0 0 DO k = 1,10 12,000,000 1 1 5,000,000 0 0 1,000,000 92,258 63,000 A(i,j,k) = i + j + k 4,000,000 0 0 3,000,000 0 0 0 0 0 END DO 400,000 0 0 300,000 0 0 0 0 0 END DO 4,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 0 0 0 END DO . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 RETURN 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 END . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . END MODULE rowmajor ...If you would rather see the annotated source code for all source code files at once, use cg_annotate's --auto=yes option. E.g.,
> /u2/wes/PET_HOME/bin/cg_annotate --auto=yes cachegrind.out.23196Cachegrind can very easily reveal instruction and data bottlenecks in your code's performance, as seen in these examples. I find myself wanting to run Cachegrind on every code I have ever written to put my programming efficiency to the test.
For more information, refer to Valgrind's Cachegrind manual at the following URL:http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/cg-manual.html
Craig Stephenson, Editor
This issue marks the beginning of Craig Stephenson's newsletter editorship.Craig has been an ARSC consultant since 2006 having served as a student employee for two years before that. He was born and raised in Fairbanks and earned his B.S. in Computer Science from UAF in 2006. He enjoys reading about history, philosophy, and science, working on random programming projects, blogging, and is also an avid bowler. We have also confirmed with former editor Tom Baring, who has known all the HPC Newsletter editors, that Craig is the tallest editor in the history of this periodical.
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Stretch Composition
Welcome to the Stretch Composition webpage. The purpose of this page is to place at your fingertips resources that will help you formulate a basic overview of Stretch as well as navigate some specific Stretch programs.
The link below will take you to a bibliography from the Council of Writing Program Administrators. In this bibliography Gregory R. Glau annotates several articles and books in the field to provide an overview of research.
The next four items, presented in a numbered list, are links to PDFs of specific articles, most of which are annotated in Glau's bibliography. For those not annotated by Glau, we have provided only a brief annotation below.
The final items are links to CSU, San Bernardino's websites. The San Bernardino site will let you visit their DSP page and log on as a guest—so that you can see first hand how a DSP protocol can guide a student in choosing a writing course that addresses his or her specific needs. It also contains a PowerPoint with lots of information about stretch composition programs in the CSU.
We have provided this list so that you may choose what you are most interested in reading. If you can read only one thing, we recommend the bibliography. If you have time for a full article, but only one, we recommend Glau's "Stretch at 10," a study of Arizona State University's Stretch program 10 years after its inception.
The WPA bibliography:
Links to Several Articles:
1. Glau, Gregory R. "Stretch at 10: Ten Years of Data on Arizona State University's Stretch Program." Journal of Basic Writing 26.2 (2007), 30-48.
This review of the ASU program offers a great starting point for understanding how stretch composition works.
Read the article here: http://paula-haines.wiki.uml.edu/file/view/stretch.pdf
2. Blakesley, David. Directed Self-Placment in the University. WPA: Writing Program Administration 25.3 (Spring 2002): 9-40.
The data presented here, from a study of the efficacy of DSP at Southern Illinois University, offers a really comprehensive and concrete window into how directed self-placement works. (See annotation by Glau in bibliography above.)
Read the article here: http://wpacouncil.org/archives/25n3/25n3blakesley.pdf
3. Royer, Daniel J. and Roger Gilles. "Directed Self-Placement: An Attitude of Orientation." College Composition and Communication 50.1 (Sep 1998): 54-70.
This article defines the rationale for directed self-placement, tracing it to John Dewey's pragmatist and democratic theories of education.
Read the article here: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/royerd/dsp/CO0501Directed.pdf
4. Beaufort, Anne. "The Question of University Writing Instruction" and "New Directions for University Writing Instruction." In College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2007.
Beaufort studies one student writer through his four years at university, majoring in both history and engineering, and two years into his professional career as an engineer. During this time she documents his writing: from his freshman writing course to upper-division history courses, to upper-division engineering courses. Her purpose is to track the transfer of skills from a general writing course to writing course in both of this student's majors. From this case study Beaufort extrapolates both a conceptual model of writing expertise and some principles for curricular development that will improve the transfer of skills from course to course as a student develops writing expertise over a four-year university program.
Read two chapters here: College Writing and Beyond (PDF)
Links to CSU, San Bernardino's Freshman Writing Program Website:
CSU, San Bernardino: First Year Composition Homepage
There is a link to information about "Stretch Composition" on the First Year Composition homepage.
CSU, San Bernardino: DSP Homepage
This is a link to San Bernardino's DSP homepage. You can enter as GUEST GUEST and type in 9 zeroes (000000000) as the password, to navigate the DSP survey as a student. Please, sign in using this mock info so that the DSP data can sort you out from the student data.
CSU, San Bernardino, DSP Information for Faculty and Advisors
This link will take you to information for advisors and faculty, including a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes data from their DSP and Stretch FYC program so far.