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SOUTH ELGIN, ILL. — Members of the third generation in place at Hoffer Plastics Corp. share the passions of their grandfather, Robert A. Hoffer Sr.: strong links to community and employees; and dedication to moving the industry ahead technologically, while honoring its past.
Take a look at a PN video feature of award-winner Hoffer Plastics.
"The reason why family's our first core value is because everybody in this building is our family. They're the pulse of this organization," said marketing director Charlotte Hoffer Canning, who nominated her company for the award. "We feel responsible for making sure that we do everything we can do to help them, too."
Bob Hoffer, a member of the Plastics Hall of Fame, died in 2007 at age 87, a man dubbed "the heart and soul of our industry," by Gordon Lankton, leader of Nypro Inc. They were good friends.
Hoffer's sons, Robert Jr. and William, ran the company. Robert Jr. has retired but is active on the board of directors, along with their sister, Mary Eagin.
The president, William Hoffer, works with his daughters Charlotte Canning and Gretchen Hoffer Farb, director of supply-chain management, and son Alex Hoffer, sales manager for packaging.
An accountant, Farb coordinates the Hoffer Foundation, created by her grandfather in 1966.
"The applications come streaming in all year long," she said.
The Hoffer Foundation has donated millions of dollars. Bill Hoffer said Hoffer Plastics was a small company when his dad started the foundation. He was active in Rotary Club and other civic groups. "He was one of the renowned fundraisers in this area. He loved to [raise funds]. So he got very involved in many, many projects around this area," Bill said.
Unparalleled community activism continues today at Hoffer Plastics. It's one reason Hoffer won Plastics News' Processor of the Year Award. A well-rounded, solid company, Hoffer scored high marks from the judges — Plastics News reporters and editors — on all seven criteria: financial performance, quality, customer relations, employee relations, environmental performance, industry and public service, and technological innovation.
Hoffer won the award over the two other finalists, Rodon Group LLC of Hatfield, Pa., and DeKalb Molded Plastics Co. of Butler, Ind.
Plastics News presented Hoffer Plastics with the Processor of the Year Award and honored all the finalists March 5 at its Executive Forum in Tampa. Fla. (The newspaper also recognized three winners of its PN Excellence Awards.)
Check out video of the award ceremony.
Bill Hoffer continues the heartfelt, humble approach to the business. He's an unassuming man who doesn't like to sit for hours at his desk.
"He knows everybody's names. He walks around: management by walking around. He is in that plant more than any president I know. And he's here, every weekend. He'll be here on Saturday walking around second shift. He'll be here on Sunday walking third shift," said Jack Shedd, vice president of business development.
Like father, like son.
Hoffer Plastics runs 110 injection presses, with clamping forces of 35-650 tons. More than 20 of RJG's eDart systems monitor production. All of the presses can divert bad parts, and many are set for cavity separation.
A walk through Hoffer Plastics' 360,000-square-foot plant today takes a visitor through a series of mini-plants. Several are set up to mold long-run, value-added parts like valves, spouts, closures and two-shot appliance knobs, molded-in on high-cavitation molds. In some areas, small parts rain down from presses, then get air-conveyed through tubes to an area set up for automatic, high-speed assembly, as bowl feeders bring the two components together. Often, each part zips past a camera inspection station.
Bob Hoffer applied a "focused factory" approach to custom molding. The idea is, as a company grows, to set up individual profit-center factories. In South Elgin, they are physically separated by walls and doors, as the company has expanded. Each has no more than around 12 injection presses. That lets individualized management keep a close watch.
All the individual factories share some companywide operations. They also share tool repair and maintenance, at a well-equipped, 27-person tool shop.
"We take care of molds like nobody's business," Shedd said.
One example is a 216-cavity mold running tiny aerosol valve stems. The mold is 42 years old; it turns out millions of parts a year.
Making investments in technology, people
Over the last four years, Hoffer sank more than $15 million into new technology, like MuCell, two-shot and gas-assisted molding, and eDart in-mold pressure sensing.
Beyond the technology, the focused factory organization brings a core of workers in constant contact with the 12-machine setup. They know their specific customers and what to watch for on molding jobs. They do mold changes.
"Each plant is very self-sufficient," Hoffer said.
He said his father got the focused-factory idea while he was a resin salesman and read a study on how to manage a molding operation. "The numbers always came out around 10, 12, 15 molding presses. So we built the concept here of each molding room would be 12 molding presses." With a few variations, the concept has stayed consistent.
Each focused factory has its own managers, inspectors and operators.
Hoffer's markets are packaging, commercial and industrial, automotive and appliance. Three big customers have stayed with Hoffer for more than 30 years: Seaquist Closures (AptarGroup Inc.), Illinois Tool Works Inc. and Briggs & Stratton Corp.
Briggs & Stratton named Hoffer its Innovative Supplier of the Year for 2012, for an all-plastic carburetor body for lawn mowers. The molder bought a 300-ton, all-electric Niigata press to mold the filled-nylon carburetor, which has 463 dimensions. Hoffer Plastics has shipped more than 2 million in the first two years, so far at 100 percent quality, Hoffer said.
Hoffer Plastics has steadily improved its quality levels and has a miniscule number of customer complaints per million parts shipped, officials said.
Customers contacted by Plastics News praised Hoffer as consistent and responsive, able to address any problems that come up. In one case, a customer called in a panic on a Sunday night, when one of its suppliers abruptly closed a plant. Hoffer did a quick turnaround of 20 transfer molds, plus automation.
Every new mold is equipped with an eDart mold-pressure transducer. Hoffer uses scientific molding principles to do decoupled molding.
Debt-free for decades, Hoffer Plastics generated 2012 sales of $75.5 million. Hoffer has been profitable, even during a sales decline in the recession, when it had minimal layoffs, executives said.
The goal is $100 million in sales for 2017, said Bill Hoffer.
He said the company started a year-end bonus program in 2009, in the teeth of the downturn. "I think that it's important that we honor the hourly people, not just the salaried people," he said.
The molder was the only Elgin-area manufacturer to hire when unemployment stood at 15 percent in early 2010. Sales and profit have grown more than 40 percent over the past five years, the company said in its submission.
The Hoffers aren't afraid to spend to win new business. In the spring of 2010, German car component supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG came to Hoffer Plastics with a problem. In Germany, the supplier had designed a new case actuator housing for the Ford F-150 pickup truck. It had built a four-by-four tandem tool to make parts that were similar, but distinct from each other, and married it to MuCell. But according to Hoffer, Brose Fahrzeugteile could not find a U.S. molder to handle such a complex tool and a $2 million-plus financial commitment. Hoffer toolmakers learned that the designers missed on the original hot-runner design, which could degrade the glass-filled polyester.
Initially, Brose sourced the project to one of its existing German molders, but the supplier was not able to make the highly technical part.
Hoffer made the MuCell investment and injection press investment and during an around-the-clock holiday weekend, made mold repairs and started shipping parts that Monday morning. Later, Hoffer redesigned and rebuilt the tool and hot-runner system.
Another time, a customer called Sunday night in a panic. One of its suppliers was closing its plant. As a result, Hoffer is working on a 20-mold transfer and automation equipment.
The company set up a dedicated work cell with three Wittmann Battenfeld rotating platen presses to mold two-shot, soft-touch Whirlpool appliance knobs, fully automated. After molding, the knobs go through an automatic D-ring insertion and inspection process.
And Hoffer invested $2.5 million to develop a new closure for flexible-pouch food packaging.
Two unusual technologies carry the hallmarks of an entrepreneurial manufacturer. Bob Hoffer invested in a fluidized bed-cleaning oven for screws, barrels and hot-runner manifolds. In 1994, upset with high electric bills, he had nine gas-turbine engines installed in a soundproof room, for a co-generation system.
During a recent plant tour, a thunderstorm automatically started the turbines up on standby, ready in case the power went out.
Legacy of hard work and humble approach
The founding Hoffers set the tone for working as hard as necessary for customers. Robert and Helen started out working side-by-side molding twist sticks for roll-on deodorant — 250,000 of them — on a used injection press. It was 1953.
A chemist with a degree from Purdue University, Hoffer worked at DuPont Co. and GE Plastics. Bill said his dad moved 13 times as a national sales manager for GE. He called on customers in Ohio. One was Nylon Molded Products Corp. in Garrettsville, Ohio. NyMold executives got him interested in molding, and offered to support him — but they were no dummies and wanted him to move farther west, out of Ohio.
The family moved from GE-land in Pittsfield, Mass., to South Elgin, Helen's hometown, where her father ran a drugstore and helped them find a small building.
In 1960, the Hoffers bought 24 acres of land that became the headquarters. They expanded throughout the 1960s and 1970s. A residential neighborhood sprouted up around the plant. Bill said his dad always wanted to be a good neighbor, keeping the styles and height of the additions the same. He unhappily consented to pave the side yard for parking; that's where neighbor kids used to play football.
There's no big sign. Hoffer employees get a laugh when people stop in, asking if it's the elementary school. Or the local nursing home. "So I always say it's a great victory that they confuse us, even though there's a whole bunch of people who thought we ought to be in one," said Bill Hoffer with a belly laugh.
Bob and Helen met at Purdue, and they continued to make major donations to Purdue, as well as other schools. In the 1960s, Bob Hoffer spearheaded a local plastics program at Elgin Community College, and was the first chairman of the college's board.
Hoffer worked with Elgin Community College to develop, back in 1979, the first injection molding apprenticeship to be recognized by the Department of Labor.
The Hoffer Foundation has given millions of dollars throughout its history, helping more than 25 agencies and organizations each year. Now the foundation has created a $500,000 endowment in Robert Hoffer's name so Purdue can create scholarships, and started a $10,000 scholarship at Elgin Community College.
And next time you're Elgin in the springtime, you can see baseball at Robert Hoffer Field at Judson University.
Hoffer Plastics has been a major financial supporter of the National Plastics Center. Money donated by Bob Hoffer paid for the first traveling educational exhibit, the PlastiVan.
"The main thing that dad brought, and that we're trying to continue, is this, you know, kind of hands-on family side of the business," Bill Hoffer said. He gets private equity calls fishing for prospects, but he doesn't take them. "We're not interested in that. We've got the third generation here now."
Employee dedication, and right back at you
About 350 people work in South Elgin.
Employees appreciate working for a solid, family-owned company. They tend to stay a long time. Hoffer-ites have an average of 12 years of experience for hourly workers and 17 years for salaried.
The Brewer family — Rocky, Andy, Erick and George, with a combined 97 years at Hoffer Plastics — said they hoped the company would win Processor of the Year to honor the Hoffers. "I never felt I worked for them. I worked with them," said Andy, who is foreman of plant No. 7.
Over the years, Hoffer has employed 10 families in which three or more members worked at the molder.
The processor's Christmastime adopt-a-family program brought two new employees into the fold. Mario and Nilda Aguiniga both had been laid off from their jobs. They had three children, and were teetering on the edge. Nilda got tears in her eyes when she recalled her best Christmas present: a solid job.
"They're now three-year employees, and they're great," Bill Hoffer said. "And so, it's a really feel-good thing. They're good people. And the neat part is — and I'm not bragging, I just feel good about it — it saved their house. Because they were going to lose their house, because neither one had a job."
Hoffer Plastics has helped employees face personal challenges, from health problems to a furnace that stopped in the winter.
"We try to operate the company, but family integrity, service and trust is a big part of it," he said.


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OXFORD – Officials overseeing construction of the new Oxford High School say the project is on schedule to meet its January 2014 opening target.
Up until very recently, most of the progress on the Sisk Avenue site has been horizontal.
In addition to site prep, drainage and underground utilities, most foundations and ground floors have been poured.
"Tomorrow or Wednesday we'll be pouring slabs on the last building on the front," said Sonny Brownlee, director of school services for the Oxford School District.
Footings for the cafeteria and gym are 50-percent complete, plumbing and electrical connections have been roughed-in under most buildings and much of the masonry has been delivered.
A great deal of dirt has been spread on what will eventually be a football field, although the current stadium will likely be used for several years yet before a new one is built.
Now, vertical progress is starting to become visible.
"On the administration building, doorframes are going up," Brownlee said.
Tim Prewitt, construction supervisor for the district, said concrete blocks are also going up on the administration building.
"We're letting them start laying block earlier than they normally would," he said. "Hopefully that will keep most of the heavy equipment off the slab and minimize cracking."
One of the most visible rising elements is the installation of steel columns on the Student Media Center.
While general contractor Yates Construction Inc. has expressed some concern about subcontractor Johnson Controls' progress on the HVAC system, Brownlee said, Yates is confident it can meet the opening-date target.
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Two former Moscow bureau chiefs for the Washington Post will discuss "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 21, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Susan Glasser and Peter Baker served as the Post's Moscow bureau chiefs until late 2004, covering Russia and 14 former Soviet republics. Their nearly four-year tour dovetailed with Putin's rise and put them at the center of several political, economic and terrorist world news events, including the revival of the Russian economy, the rollback of Russian democracy and terrorist acts in the Moscow theater and Beslan school. Their book, "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution," is due out this fall.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is part of the series, "Journalists Writing the World," moderated by Professor Gary Bass.


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PULLMAN, Wash. - Two people were stabbed in the parking lot of Campus Commons Apartments on Meman Drive in Pullman.
According to Pullman police, the stabbing happened just before 2 a.m. Sunday.
When officers arrived, they found about 30 people in the parking lots. Most of the crowd ran away. Police found two men who had been stabbed.
One of the men is a 20-year-old from Wenatchee, Wash. Police said he was stabbed in his chest and had a collapsed lung. As of Monday morning, the man, who is not a Washington State University student, was in intensive care at Pullman Regional Hospital. The second man is a WSU student who was stabbed in the buttocks. He was taken to Pullman Regional Hospital, as well.
Police said a knife was recovered from the scene, but no arrests have been made.
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7.1: Importance of the Atmosphere
Why is the Atmosphere Important?
Why is Earth the only planet in the solar system known to have life? The main reason is Earth's atmosphere. Organisms need the gases in the atmosphere to live. Water is also essential for life. Water vapor is one of the gases in the atmosphere. Green algae, like in this photo, are primitive life.
The Atmosphere
The atmosphere is a mixture of gases that surrounds the planet. We also call it air. The gases in the atmosphere include nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Along with water vapor, the atmosphere allows life to survive. Without it, Earth would be a harsh, barren world.
Why the Atmosphere Is Important
We are lucky to have an atmosphere on Earth. The atmosphere supports life, and is also needed for the water cycle and weather. The gases of the atmosphere even allow us to hear.
The Atmosphere and Living Things
Most of the atmosphere is nitrogen, but it doesn't do much. Carbon dioxide and oxygen are the gases in the atmosphere that are needed for life.
- Plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. They use sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into food. The process releases oxygen. Without photosynthesis, there would be very little oxygen in the air.
- Other living things depend on plants for food. These organisms need the oxygen plants release to get energy out of the food. Even plants need oxygen for this purpose.
The Atmosphere and the Sun's Rays
The atmosphere protects living things from the sun's most harmful rays. Gases reflect or absorb the strongest rays of sunlight. Figure below models this role of the atmosphere.
The atmosphere shields Earth from the most harmful solar rays.
The Atmosphere and Earth's Temperature
Gases in the atmosphere surround Earth like a blanket. They keep the temperature in a range that can support life. The gases keep out some of the sun's scorching heat during the day. At night, they hold the heat close to the surface, so it doesn't radiate out into space.
The Atmosphere and Earth's Water
Figure below shows the role of the atmosphere in the water cycle. Water vapor rises from Earth's surface into the atmosphere. As it rises, it cools. The water vapor may then condense into water droplets and form clouds. If enough water droplets collect in clouds they may come together to form droplets. The droplets will fall as rain. This how freshwater gets from the atmosphere back to Earth's surface.
The atmosphere is a big part of the water cycle. What do you think would happen to Earth's water without it?
The Atmosphere and Weather
Without the atmosphere, there would be no clouds or rain. In fact, there would be no weather at all. Most weather occurs because the atmosphere heats up more in some places than others.
The Atmosphere and Weathering
Weather makes life interesting. Weather also causes weathering. Weathering is the slow wearing down of rocks on Earth's surface. Wind-blown sand scours rocks like sandpaper. Glaciers of ice scrape across rock surfaces like a file. Even gentle rain may seep into rocks and slowly dissolve them. If the water freezes, it expands. This eventually causes the rocks to crack. Without the atmosphere, none of this weathering would happen. Rocks at the surface would be pristine and unaltered.
The Atmosphere and Sound
Sound is a form of energy that travels in waves. Sound waves can't travel through empty space, but they can travel through gases. Gases in the air allow us to hear most of the sounds in our world. Because of air, you can hear birds singing, horns tooting, and friends laughing. Without the atmosphere, the world would be a silent, eerie place.
- atmosphere: The layer of gases that surrounds a planet.
- photosynthesis: The process in which plants produce simple sugars (food energy) from carbon dioxide, water, and energy from sunlight. Photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide and releases oxygen.
- sound: Energy that travels through a medium that we can hear.
- The atmosphere is made of gases that are essential for photosynthesis and other life activities.
- The atmosphere is a crucial part of the water cycle. It is an important reservoir for water and the source of precipitation.
- The atmosphere moderates Earth's temperature. Weather takes place in the atmosphere.
- Without air, Earth would be silent.
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- Where does weather occur?
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- What happens in the mesosphere?
- What is made in the thermosphere?
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- What gases are used and what gases are produced by photosynthesis?
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I'm working on an caveman FPS/RPG/simulator.
The game doesn't have classes or levels. Instead it tracks experience in 52 different skills, and applies bonuses to appropriate situations based on relevant skill experience.
In the previous version, the mapmaking skill governed the distance at which unexplored areas of the world were revealed. but this isn't really realistic. Just cause you're good at making maps doesn't mean you can know there's a lake over the next hill without even seeing it.
So I'm trying to think of a new effect for the mapmaping skill.
The game currently does not have a separate player's version of the map, it only tracks which parts of the world map are explored and should be displayed.
A more realistic effect would be to have mapmaking affect the accuracy at which info was copied from the world to player map. But this requires a separate player's map that can record landmarks at arbitrary locations.
At the moment, most landmarks such as caves and volcanoes all appear at the same hard coded coordinates in a 5 mile by 5 mile map square. the map itself is 500x500 map squares.
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Chugach isn't the first set of mountains ARSC has memorialized in name. Denali, the Alaska Athabascan Indian name for Mount McKinley, was the name of ARSC's first supercomputer, a Cray 4-CPU Cray YMP that came online in 1993.
Using PuTTY SCP
A few months ago I had to move several large files with similar name patterns from the long term storage on seawolf.arsc.edu to a Windows system. After attempting to use FileZilla for a few files, I was reminded that PuTTY includes a command line scp command. So, I abandoned FileZilla and moved to the command line.
The file transfer process is straightforward.
- Get a ticket using the krb5.exe command as you normally do on Windows.
- Start a Windows command interpreter. Click "Start" then "Run" and enter "cmd".
In the command interpreter switch to the directory where you'd like to transfer the files. For example:
% cd Desktop
Issue the "pscp.exe" command as you would issue scp on a Linux/Unix/Mac system:
% "C:\Program Files\HPCMP Kerberos\pscp.exe" "email@example.com:/archive/u1/uaf/user/directory.*" . directory.use.9 1 kB 1.3 kB/s ETA: 00:00:00 100% directory.use.1 0 kB 0.7 kB/s ETA: 00:00:00 100% directory.use.2 0 kB 0.7 kB/s ETA: 00:00:00 100% directory.use.3 0 kB 0.7 kB/s ETA: 00:00:00 100%
The one drawback is that pscp.exe will encrypt the file being transferred, so that can slow transfer rates a bit. But the ability to use "*", "?", etc., more than made up the difference in my case because I could easily skip the files I didn't need.
Running Multiple MPI Jobs on a Single Node
Many of our users use our supercomputers not to run single jobs of many processors, but rather many single-processor jobs. Since nodes are not shared on either Midnight or Pingo, and the smallest allocatable unit of each machine is a node, some of the users of those machines may be able to get better throughput and more bang for their allocation buck by running multiple jobs on a single node. We might expect this issue to become more important as node core counts continue to increase.
Back in issue 378 of this newsletter, Don Bahls demonstrated how to run multiple serial jobs on a single node using Matlab as an example. Users running serial codes are encouraged to take a look at that article here:
However, what if your job is not serial, but an MPI job using small-scale parallelism? This article demonstrates how you can extend Don's technique to Midnight MPI jobs. This time we will use a multi-threaded HPL job running on the 16-core nodes of Midnight as an example.
HPL is the portable parallel Linpack code that is most famous as the benchmark that is used to rank computers on the Top500 list of the world's fastest machines. It uses MPI for solving a dense linear system of equations on parallel machines. The version that we will show here also uses two threads per MPI task in the core BLAS routine using the GotoBLAS library. See the following website for more information on GotoBLAS:
We will run this on Midnight, ARSC's Sun cluster, using Midnight's X4600 nodes which have 8 dual-core sockets. We will run two simultaneous HPL jobs on a node, four sockets per job. Getting these jobs set up requires some careful cooperation between PBS and the launch of the executable. The PBS script will execute mpirun for each job in our "for" loop. The mpirun executes a script which sets up the processor affinity so the MPI tasks and threads are properly placed on the node.
Here is the PBS script. We launch 2 jobs, each running 4 MPI tasks, not 8, because two BLAS threads are created for each MPI task, one per core, for a total of 8 threads per job and 16 threads for the two jobs. For the same reason, we request ncpus=8, not 16, for the two jobs. We launch the HPL executable from the socket_hpl.sh script which is passed the job number (either 0 or 1 in this example) and the number of tasks per job (4).
#!/bin/ksh #PBS -N mult_hpl_jobs ## We're using 2 GotoBLAS threads per task so ncpus is half the core count #PBS -l select=1:ncpus=8:node_type=16way #PBS -l walltime=0:30:00 #PBS -q standard #PBS -j oe # # Set up SOCKETS=8 JOBS_PER_NODE=2 let TASKS_PER_JOB=$SOCKETS/$JOBS_PER_NODE OUTPUT_PREFIX=output_${PBS_JOBID} [ ! -z $PBS_O_WORKDIR ] && cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR # # Launch HPL jobs. The socket_hpl.sh script computes core # numbers for a job and execs the executable on those processors. let lastjob=$JOBS_PER_NODE-1 for job in `seq 0 $lastjob`; do RUN_CMD="mpirun -np $TASKS_PER_JOB -noaffin ./socket_hpl.sh $job $TASKS_PER_JOB" echo "Running: $RUN_CMD" $RUN_CMD > ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}.${job} 2>&1 & done # # Wait for each mpirun to finish wait # # Peek at results grep -h WR13R2R4 ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}.* exit 0 ######################################################################
The script socket_hpl.sh is next. Each MPI rank calls this script when mpirun executes in the PBS script. Given the job index, the number of MPI tasks that we want to use for a job, and the index of the MPI task that is invoking this script (passed in via the automatically-set variable $MPIRUN_RANK), this script calculates the cores that will run the two threads for this rank and runs the xhpl executable using the taskset utility to place the threads on the cores.
#!/bin/ksh # # Parameters: # $1 - Job number (of all jobs per node) # $2 - MPI tasks per job # # GOTO_NUM_THREADS tells the GotoBLAS library how many threads per task. # Note that the PBS script has got to help out a little by requesting only # half the cpus per node (ncpus). On Midnight, the mpirun must also be # told to let us handle processor affinity via the -noaffin flag # because we're going to set it ourselves with taskset. export GOTO_NUM_THREADS=2 # # Given the job number and number of tasks per job, # compute the core set for each thread. if [[ $# != 2 ]]; then print "Usage: $0 <job> <MPI tasks per job>" exit 2 else job=$1 tasks=$2 let starting_core=$job*$tasks*$GOTO_NUM_THREADS+$MPIRUN_RANK*$GOTO_NUM_THREADS let ending_core=$starting_core+$GOTO_NUM_THREADS-1 cpulist="$starting_core-$ending_core" fi # # Launch the executable using taskset to specify the cores of this job. print "Binding cores $cpulist on `uname -n` for job $job" exec /usr/bin/taskset -c $cpulist ./xhpl ######################################################################
The HPL.dat file, for readers who are familiar with HPL. The key parameters are N, the problem size, and P and Q, the processor grid. Again, P*Q is 4, not 8, because two BLAS threads are created for each MPI task, one per core, for a total of 8.
HPLinpack benchmark input file Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee HPL.out output file name (if any) 6 device out (6=stdout,7=stderr,file) 1 # of problems sizes (N) 20000 # N 1 # of NBs 232 NBs 0 PMAP process mapping (0=Row-,1=Column-major) 1 # of process grids (P x Q) 2 Ps 2 Qs 16.0 threshold 1 # of panel fact 2 PFACTs (0=left, 1=Crout, 2=Right) 1 # of recursive stopping criterium 4 NBMINs (>= 1) 1 # of panels in recursion 2 NDIVs 1 # of recursive panel fact. 2 RFACTs (0=left, 1=Crout, 2=Right) 1 # of broadcast 3 BCASTs (0=1rg,1=1rM,2=2rg,3=2rM,4=Lng,5=LnM) 1 # of lookahead depth 1 DEPTHs (>=0) 2 SWAP (0=bin-exch,1=long,2=mix) 232 swapping threshold 0 L1 in (0=transposed,1=no-transposed) form 0 U in (0=transposed,1=no-transposed) form 1 Equilibration (0=no,1=yes) 8 memory alignment in double (> 0) ######################################################################
The output of a run of the PBS job is here:
Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) voltairempi-S-1.pathcc 3) PrgEnv.path-3.2 2) pathscale-3.2 0 news items. Running: mpirun -np 4 -noaffin ./socket_hpl.sh 0 4 Running: mpirun -np 4 -noaffin ./socket_hpl.sh 1 4 WR13R2R4 20000 232 2 2 159.35 3.347e+01 WR13R2R4 20000 232 2 2 161.29 3.307e+01 ######################################################################
Hopefully users who run modestly scaling codes that use MPI or OpenMP or a hybid of the two, can envision how this example might be adapted to their situation and enable them to double up a node. As Don's article points out, the Midnight nodes are equipped with 4 GB memory per core so running multiple jobs on a node is certainly feasible for many applications. The PBS, socket_hpl.sh and HPL.dat files can be easily modified to run more jobs on an X4600 node. I ran eight 2-core HPL jobs (also using N=20000) which interestingly, gave slightly better total throughput than the two 8-core jobs in this example. Modifying the PBS script and the HPL.dat file for that case is left as an exercise.
On a final note, I haven't figured out how to make this work on the Cray XT5. If the jobs don't need to be launched by aprun, the Cray counterpart to mpirun, the setup is straightforward as in Don's article. However, MPI jobs must be launched by aprun and, examples on the Internet notwithstanding, I can't make it work on Pingo. Any reader who can send in a solution for Pingo will have their newsletter subscription extended for a year, absolutely free!
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Tall Buildings in Numbers
Tall Buildings in Numbers takes a statistical and graphical look at various topics related to tall buildings, such as height, function, geographical location, energy requirements, structure and others.
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2016: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2017 Issue I
CTBUH has released its annual review of tall building construction trends for 2016. The year was notable for having 128 buildings of 200 meters' height or greater complete around the world – setting a new record for annual tall building completions.
Tall Buildings and Megacities
CTBUH Journal 2016 Issue IV
CTBUH undertook an examination of skyscraper activity in the world's 45 "megacities" – defined as urban agglomerations with a total population of 10 million people or greater.
Twisting Tall Buildings
CTBUH Journal 2016 Issue III
CTBUH defines a "twisting" building as one that progressively rotates its floor plates or its façade as it gains height. Usually, but not always, each plate is shaped similarly in plan and is turned on a shared axis a consistent number of degrees from the floor below.
The World's 75 Tallest Hospitals
CTBUH Journal 2016 Issue II
While hospitals are not frequently featured among tall building studies, the buildings highlighted below have uniquely shaped the world of hospital architecture and perhaps lead the way for future tall hospitals.
2015: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2016 Issue I
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has determined that 106 buildings of 200 meters' height or greater were completed around the world in 2015 – setting a new record for annual tall building completions.
New York: The Ultimate Skyscraper Laboratory
CTBUH Journal 2015 Issue IV
A timeline of skyscraper completions in New York uncannily resembles the boom and bust cycles of the United States in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
World's Highest Observation Decks
CTBUH Journal 2015 Issue III
Perhaps no element of a tall building is more closely related to the pure pleasure of standing high in the sky and taking in the view of one's surroundings than observation decks.
Japan: A History of Tall Innovations
CTBUH Journal 2015 Issue II
Japan is one of the world's most densely populated nations and one of the world's most active seismic zones. The combination of these factors has driven sophisticated design and engineering innovations.
2014: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2015 Issue I
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has determined that 97 buildings of 200 meters' height or greater were completed around the world in 2014, including 11 supertalls – both new records.
Dream Deferred: Unfinished Tall Buildings
CTBUH Journal 2014 Issue IV
Without big dreams, there would be no tall buildings. Conceiving, financing, designing, and constructing a skyscraper is no simple feat, even under the best of conditions. Many projects have had torturously slow gestation periods; many more have failed to start or were interrupted and cancelled.
Green Walls in High-Rise Buildings
CTBUH Journal 2014 Issue III
The latest CTBUH technical guide, Green Walls in High-Rise Buildings, provides a thorough investigation of the methods used around the world for implementation of vertical vegetation at height. In commemoration of the release of this important guide, Tall Buildings in Numbers profiles the 18 case study buildings included.
Highest Helipads
CTBUH Journal 2014 Issue II
The question posed in our inaugural "Ask a CTBUH Expert" feature ("Helipads as a Tall Building Evacuation Tool?") prompted us to consider how helipads are used on skyscrapers, and which are the highest in the world.
2013: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2014 Issue I
By all appearances, the small increase in the total number of tall-building completions from 2012 into 2013 is indicative of a return to the prevalent trend of increasing completions each year over the past decade.
The Middle East: 20 Years of Building Skyscrapers
CTBUH Journal 2013 Issue IV
Twenty years ago, the Middle East contained only one skyscraper over 150 meters in height. It is now estimated that by the end of 2015 the region will have 289 buildings in this category.
Vanity Height: the Use-less Space in Today's Tallest
CTBUH Journal 2013 Issue III
CTBUH has investigated the increasing trend towards extreme spires and other extensions of supertall (300-meter-plus) buildings that do not enclose usable space, and created a new term to describe this –
Vanity Height
The Past, Present and Future of the European Skyscraper
CTBUH Journal 2013 Issue II
There are currently 109 skyscrapers over 150 meters in Europe. This number is set to jump to 161 by the end of 2015, meaning that there are more than 50 projects in advanced construction.
2012: A Year in Review
CTBUH Journal 2013 Issue I
For the first time in six years the number of tall buildings completed annually around the world declined as the effects of the global financial crisis became evident.
Canada Grows Taller
CTBUH Journal 2012 Issue IV
Canada is in the midst of a tall building boom. Twenty six buildings taller than 150 meters have been built in Canada since 2005. Canada added four buildings taller than 200 meters in 2012, the most Canada has ever completed in a single year.
The Tallest 15 Cities in China
CTBUH Journal 2012 Issue III
With over 1.3 billion citizens and a rapidly urbanizing population, China is developing tall buildings more than any other country globally. Currently it has 239 buildings 200 meters or more in height under construction.
A New Leader for Telecom Towers
CTBUH Journal 2012 Issue II
With the recent completion of two megatall telecommunication/observation towers it is perhaps time to review these structures and also explain why they are distinguished from buildings in the Council's official tallest lists.
2011: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2012 Issue I
Includes a breakdown of the tall buildings over 200 m including the supertalls (300 m+) completed in 2011 by region, function, and structural material. The research also examines the tall buildings 200 m or taller completed from 1960 to 2012.
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
The projected world's tallest 20 skyscrapers in the year 2020
Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world's first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over 600 meters (around 2,000 feet) – that's twice the height of the Eiffel Tower.
South Korea: Past, Present and Future
CTBUH Journal 2011 Issue IV
As of the year 2000, there were only 9 buildings 150 meters or taller in all of South Korea. Just twelve years later, there are now 124 buildings 150+ meters in height completed, with another 13 scheduled to complete by the end of this year.
New York City Scrapers
CTBUH Journal 2011 Issue III
New York's dramatic skyline, over a century in the making, has for years been the envy of cities around the world. From the very birth of the tall building typology, New York has been at the forefront of the scene. Even as recently as the 1970s, New York City alone contained over 50% of the world's 150 m+ buildings.
Tall & Urban: An analysis of global population and tall buildings
CTBUH Journal 2011 Issue II
Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and presents information on the average height and age of each country's tallest buildings.
2010: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2011 Issue I
Includes a breakdown of the tall buildings over 200 m including the supertalls (300 m+) completed in 2010 by location, function, and material. The research also examines the tall buildings 200 m or taller completed from 1960 to 2012.
Tallest World Records
CTBUH Journal 2010 Issue IV
Includes records of the tallest buildings/structures according to function and structural material, the highest spaces according to function, and some lesser-known titles such as the world's tallest timber building, tallest religious buildings, highest swimming pool, etc.
The Economics of High-rise
CTBUH Journal 2010 Issue III
Includes comparative studies of high-rise construction costs based on location and building function. Key high-rise cost drivers = shape & geometry, size & regularity of floor plate, structural solution, façade specification, environmental strategy, site constraints, market conditions and vertical transportation strategy.
Tall Buildings, Structural Systems and Materials
CTBUH Journal 2010 Issue II
Includes a structural system categorization for 75 of the tallest buildings completed between 1961 and 2010. Six categories have been determined to classify tall building structural systems over the past five decades; framed tube, bundled tube, tube in tube, diagonalized, core + outrigger and hybrid constructions.
2009: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2010 Issue I
Includes a breakdown of the 50 tallest buildings completed in 2009 by location as well as function, specifically examining Tall Buildings over 200m. The research also examines the average height of the ten tallest buildings completed every year (1960-2012) and includes a detailed overview of the 10 Tallest Buildings completed in 2009.
Tall Buildings and Embodied Energy
CTBUH Journal 2009 Issue III
Tall buildings generally require a greater investment of initial embodied energy per unit gross floor area compared to low-rise buildings. Many published studies examining initial embodied energy in taller buildings exclude elements from the analysis, in particular the building services.
World's Tallest 50 Urban Agglomerations
CTBUH Journal 2009 Issue II
The year 2008 marked a significant watershed in global urbanization, with the United Nations reporting that half of all humanity now lived in urban areas. As urban populations have swelled, so too have the number and height of skyscrapers constructed. Also available is an
expanded version of this research
2008: A Tall Building Review
CTBUH Journal 2009 Issue I
Includes a breakdown of the 50 tallest buildings completed in 2008 by location as well as function, specifically examining Tall Buildings over 200m. The research also examines the average height of the ten tallest buildings completed every year going back to 1960 with the data projected through 2020.
Factors Affecting Tall Building Energy Consumption
CTBUH Journal 2008 Issue III
This study examines energy consumption in Tall Buildings through the five "Energy Generations", which highlight building industry benchmarks such as the 1916 New York City Zoning Law, the Development of the Glazed Curtain Wall, the 1973 Energy Crisis, and the Rise of an Environmental Consciousness.
The Tallest Buildings in the World: Past, Present & Future
CTBUH Journal 2008 Issue II
Over time, the average height of the 100 tallest buildings in the world has been steadily increasing. However, by 2010, this average height will have jumped to 349 meters, up from 286 meters in 2000, an increase of 22%. This is almost double the increase from 197 meters to 229 meters that occurred between 1970 and 1980.
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As renowned blacksmith and Lowcountry treasure Philip Simmons' funeral was held yesterday at the Gaillard, I remembered the following Editor's Letter that I wrote for the November 2006 issue of Charleston,
the cover story of which featured Mr. Simmons and the Philip Simmons Project to document his wrought-iron works throughout the city. It relates my first visit with the man and the legacy he leaves for the city and the nation's decorative arts heritage.
I first met Philip Simmons, our cover subject, six years ago. I had been in Charleston just a few weeks when I was invited to a reception to honor the renowned blacksmith and reveal the portrait of him that artist Mary Whyte had just completed for the Gibbes Museum of Art. I couldn't RSVP "yes" fast enough. I was excited—and a bit nervous—to meet this icon, a man who went from hammering out wagon wheels and iron trailers to putting a visual stamp on the city through his beautifully handcrafted ironwork.
I arrived at the crowded event with a past copy of Charleston featuring Simmons in hopes of getting his autograph, and there he was, a spry 88-year-old encircled by a throng of fans. When I got a chance to speak with Simmons, I was surprised by how genuinely happy he was to sit and talk with me about Charleston, his life, and his work. As I brought out the magazine to ask him to sign it, he remembered working with writer Stephanie Hunt and photographer Frank Edwards and asked if he could keep it. Who was I to say no?
What I didn't realize prior to that reception is how accessible Simmons really is. Here's this living legend, an artisan with a piece in the Smithsonian, who regularly welcomes strangers into his workshop. (In fact, during the photo shoot for this issue, a hobbyist ironsmith from Ohio dropped in and visited with Simmons for a while.) It's one of the things I love about Charleston: there are so many intriguing and talented people who are modest, down-to-earth, and generous with their time and spirit.
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I came to ChildFund unsure of what to expect from my first internship. We've all heard horror stories of interns who spent their summer filing papers and picking up packages. I didn't want the best professional relationship I forged to be with the baristas at the nearest Starbucks. I wanted to get outside of my comfort zone. I wanted a chance to grow.
I'm fortunate to have had the opportunity to come to work for 10 weeks as a respected member of the ChildFund communications team. Every project I've worked on has been purposeful. And aside from a now infamous assignment my mentor Cynthia Price gave me, I have been spared from doing too many "interny" tasks.
From day one, my mentors, Community Manager Virginia Sowers and Director of Communications Cynthia Price, took my goals into consideration and tailored my assignments to help me accomplish them. Because of their flexibility, I was able to focus on improving my multimedia skills. I researched podcasts and edited raw footage from Uganda into a video that was featured on ChildFund's blog, Facebook and Twitter pages. My work has been showcased, not hidden away. But with all that said, I doubt when I look back at ChildFund that I'll remember the work.
I'll remember poking my head over ChildFund writer Christine Ennulat's cubicle to chat about my most recent journalistic pursuits.
I'll remember the shock I felt when I learned KISS front man Gene Simmons sponsors more than 140 children through ChildFund and the subsequent buzz around the communications pod after the episode of his reality show filmed in Zambia debuted.
I'll remember the disbelief I felt when I found out my colleague and longtime ChildFund employee Alison Abbitt passed away following reconstructive knee surgery. We had spoken only days before.
While the extremes stand out, the small lessons I've learned here will not be forgotten and this, my first formal foray into the professional world, has prepared me in some ways for my next adventure: Botswana.
My next four and a half months will be spent studying journalism at the University of Botswana in Gaborone. It'll be my first trip abroad, so my feelings about it fluctuate between giddy excitement and crippling nervousness on a day-to-day basis. I do now, however, have the comfort of knowing that a network of sympathetic world travelers is only an email away.
While I'm in Africa, I plan to freelance in pursuit of my career as a foreign correspondent. Who knows? Maybe one of my stories will find its way into ChildWorld.
Just like Mark, I am also doing my internship with ChildFund International in Uganda. I was a bit afraid wondering how my three months' internship would go. It all started on fourth of June and I did not know how I was going to be there. On arrival, I was warmly welcomed by the security officer, who later directed where I was going to be sitting for the period I was going to be at ChildFund.
The staff of ChildFund have been very loving and caring to me, in that I feel sad that I am about to leave and go back to campus to finish my course. I have had such a wonderful experience because when I compare myself to some of my friends, they cannot wait for campus to start because they are tired of their internship places.
The culture at ChildFund is very wonderful because every individual, regardless of the position that they hold, freely interacts with you, which is very rare in other organizations. I have had such a wonderful experience and I will always treasure it. Thank you to all the staff of ChildFund Uganda for making my stay very pleasant. Love you all!
Sandra: Thanks for sharing your internship experiences! We're delighted that you've had a good learning summer with ChildFund Uganda. All the best as you return to classes next month.
We miss you Mark! I hope one day our paths will cross once again. Wishing you the best. Have fun, be safe and learn lots!
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One of my patients, who is now 8 weeks pregnant, just read in the newspaper that dextromethorphan (DM), an antitussive found in a variety of cough medicines, caused birth defects in chicken embryos. The author of the study stated that even one dose could be dangerous and that he would never allow his wife to use this drug if she were pregnant. My patient was understandably very concerned because last week she was suffering from a nasty cough and had been advised by her pharmacist to use a cough mixture containing DM, which she subsequently took for several days.
You may reassure your patient that she did not put her baby at risk by using this substance. Dextromethorphan has been on the market for many years and has never been implicated as a human teratogen. Furthermore, chick embryos are not a good model for predicting teratogenic potential in humans and, consequently, were abandoned as such more than 30 years ago.
Animal studies can, but do not always, predict whether a drug will be teratogenic in humans. The main role of animal studies is to help researchers understand the mechanisms of teratogenicity. Unfortunately, animal studies were poor predictors in the case of thalidomide; the drug was tested on rats and mice, but did not originally produce birth defects.1 On the other hand, some drugs have been found teratogenic in animals and not in humans.2,3
Today, when new drugs are screened for teratogenicity, three different animal models are required for testing. Quite frequently, when certain drugs are tested on different animal species, birth defects occur, as happened in the DM study.4 Interspecies differences regarding the teratogenicity of drugs can result from differing pharmacokinetic processes that determine the crucial concentration-time relationships in an embryo.
Protein binding in the mother is also an important determinant of placental transfer because only free concentrates in maternal plasma can reach equilibration with the embryo during organogenesis. This parameter differs greatly across species (eg, valproic acid, which has five times higher free concentrations in mice and hamsters than in monkeys and humans). Laboratory animals usually eliminate drugs much faster than humans; the drastic drug fluctuations that occur during teratogenicity studies of animals, therefore, do not happen to the same degree in humans.5 Animals are also given far higher doses of drugs than humans would ever receive (eg, as in the clarithromycin study3).
Extrapolating data from these studies to humans and subsequently publishing supposed effects in the mass media, without a clear understanding of the differences, can cause women and their health professionals unnecessary anxiety. This kind of information sells newspapers but does nothing to inform the public of the real risks or safety of drugs during pregnancy.
Over the years, many studies in the literature have selectively reported research results, which ultimately find their way into the mass media.6,7 Papers also document the bias against publication of reassuring studies.8-10 The public should be wary of gaining medical knowledge through newspaper and other media reports.
The only way to ascertain the ultimate risk or safety of drugs during pregnancy is to do human studies. Prospective, controlled, epidemiologic studies of the pregnancy outcomes of women who consumed a particular drug during pregnancy is one example. Even this type of research is not ideal because, for obvious ethical reasons, women cannot be enrolled in randomized, controlled studies, and because the limited size of the studies means they do not have the statistical power to detect increased risk of rare malformations. Another example is case-control studies, where drug use among mothers whose babies have a specific malformation is compared with that of mothers whose babies do not. This method has a much higher sensitivity, but is more prone to bias.
Due to the unjustified level of anxiety stirred up by inappropriate reporting of the chick-embryo study, we decided to carry out a prospective controlled study at The Motherisk Program to provide additional evidence-based information on human exposures. This information will be added to that of two previous studies on the safety of using DM during pregnancy. The Collaborative Perinatal Project monitored 50 282 mother-child pairs, 300 of whom took DM in the first trimester and had no increase in birth defects above the 1% to 3% baseline rate.11 A surveillance study of 59 women who had used DM in the first trimester documented one malformation.12 Upon completion, this study will provide further evidence to guide women and their health professionals in making informed decisions about use of DM during pregnancy.13
We thank W.K. Buckley Limited, McNeil Consumer Products
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- Newman CGH. Clinical aspects of thalidomide embryopathyóa continuing preoccupation. Teratology 1985;32:133-44.
- Koren G, Pastuszak A, Ito S. Drugs in pregnancy. N Engl J Med 1998;338(16):1128-37.
- Einarson A, Phillips E, Mawji F, DíAlimonte D, Schick B, Addis A. A prospective multicentre study of clarithromycin in pregnancy. Am J Perinatol 1998;15(9):523-5.
- Andalaro V, Monaghan D, Rosenquist T. Dextromethorphan and other n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists are teratogenic in the avian embryo model. Pediatr Res 1998;43:1-7.
- Nau H. Species differences in pharmacokinetics and drug teratogenesis. Environ Health Perspect 1986;70:113-29.
- Cleophas RC, Cleophas TJ. Is selective reporting of clinical research unethical as well as unscientific? Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther 1999;37(1):1-7.
- Newcombe RG. Towards a reduction in publication bias. BMJ (Clin Res Ed) 1987;295(6599):656-9.
- Proudfoot AD, Proudfoot J. Medical reporting in the lay press. Med J Aust 1981;10(1):8-9.
- Koren G, Klein N. Bias against negative studies in newspaper reports of medical research. JAMA 1991;266(13):1824-6.
- Kleijnen, Knipschild P. Review articles and publication bias. Arzneimittelforschung 1992;42(5):587-91.
- Heinonen OP, Slone D, Shapiro S. Birth defects and drugs in pregnancy. Littleton, Md: Publishing Sciences Group; 1997.
- Aselton P, Jick H, Milunsky A, Hunter J, Stergachis A. First trimester drug use and congenital disorders. Obstet Gynecol 1985;65:451-5.
- Einarson A, Lyszkiewicz D, Koren G. The safety of dextromethorphan in pregnancy: a prospective controlled study, Colorado 1999 [abstract]. Teratology 1999;59(6):377.


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I am continuing my 3 3/4" vehicle thread series.
I'm running what should really be a TPM poll as a ROTS option because quite frankly, ROTS will run out of options for new vehicles much earlier than the other two Prequel movies.
The Droid Control Ships appeared in all 3 PT movies, but we really saw the craft explored in TPM, so I'm going to describe the toy as if it were made from that movie. Whether on not it bears the CIS markings the similar ship displayed in ROTS can be up to you when you post.
This will discuss ONLY the vehicle in the title of the thread (in this case The Droid Control Ship).
I will cover several unmade vehicles for the action figures per week, choosing them from a rotating schedule through the movies and the Expanded Universe.
I'll order it TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, ROTJ, EU, and then keep going back through the order in that manner.
So here I'm only asking you if you'd buy The Droid Control Ship From ROTS?
This vehicle is perhaps only the wildest pipe dream, but it appeared in the movie and there is nothing else like it, so I have to poll for it.
In fact, with ignoring cost, packaging, and the size of the area a collector would need to display this ship, I came up with a pretty cool design for a capital ship toy made for this.
I need to address the packaging first perhaps. It will help you visualize this.
The ship will sell in a box about the size of a detolf (display case sold at IKEA) or it could be packaged in one of those boxes appropriate for a child's 1:1 play kitchen environment.
The ship would be disasembled and comprise of 4 partial circular sections, that plug together - two on each side of an engine assembly in the back.
Opposite the engine assembly, on the inside, the "spherical center section" of the ship would connect. Now you have the basic shape.
The center sphere would open up like a garbage can. Inside, there would be the bridge. Perhaps electronics would light up a hologram of Darth Sidious and a display screen featuring Queen Amidala. The bridge would look like the movie, including a command chair for the SA Tey How figure we need to sit down in. Blue Battle Droids could occupy other stations.
Along each section of the ring, a panel would open towards the back of the ship on hinges, so you can get into the interior. The hollow inside would be just wide enough for an AAT Tank or to fly in the N-1 Starfighter. Meanwhile, Vulture Droid Fighters could hang on the walls. In the back would be the blast doors that close off the bridge and a way to swap the pannels so you can simulate Qui-Gon's lightsaber damage. Opposite it, a "reactor core" could pop up and slit apart to simulate a hit on the reactor core. If electronic, the rear engines could light up. On top, the quad cannons could fire plastic missiles.
That would be about it, with the addition of an escape hatch somewhere aboard.
I don't know what this thing would retail for. It would be quite large, but rather holo re-using the hull ring piece two times over for each side.
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but this cant explain snow on the ground in all 50 states, florida and all across the south as well as hawaii (mountain tops of course, but it counts) - a record 11 in+ around DFW! you can argue that GW could cause more severe winter storms in northern latitudes, but not in the south.


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