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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
May 6, 2013
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your kind invitation to speak before the Helsinki Commission. The Commission has played a significant role in fostering stability and democracy throughout the Balkans for more than two decades, and I welcome the opportunity to discuss the pace of democratic progress in Albania.
I would like to begin my testimony today with an overview of our policy toward Albania, review the pace of Albania's democratic progress, and finally identify the key challenges that remain.
The United States and Albania share a strong, vibrant, and enduring relationship. The United States has long supported Albania's independence and its democracy. After the First World War, President Wilson defended Albania's statehood. After the fall of the harsh communist regime in 1991, the United States under President George H.W. Bush quickly reestablished relations with Albania. President Clinton established an enterprise fund to bring U.S. investment to Albania, supported Albania's democratic elections, and worked with Albania and our NATO allies to protect Kosovo and to restore stability to the region. President George W. Bush became the first sitting American president to visit Albania; President Obama welcomed Albania, along with Croatia, as our newest members in NATO in 2009. Secretary Clinton helped Albania celebrate its 100th anniversary of independence in November 2012.
Internationally, Albania has been a responsible and steadfast actor, committing troops and resources in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Iraq. As a NATO member, Albania has supported robustly NATO-led operations, most prominently in Afghanistan where over 200 Albanians serve proudly right now. The United States deeply values Albania's many contributions to our mutual goals.
The United States is partnering with Albania as it works to achieve its European Union (EU) aspirations, which is one of our core goals in the Western Balkans and toward Albania specifically. This has been the clear policy of both Democratic and Republican Administrations for over twenty years.
Since 1991, Albania has made significant progress in its democratic development and the United States has partnered with and supported the country's efforts to shore up its democratic institutions, improve rule of law, increase living standards for the Albanian people, and to maintain friendly and mutually productive relations with its neighbors. The United States has also supported efforts to develop trade and investment opportunities, and we have cooperated on regional law enforcement, economic, and environmental issues.
Albania's NATO membership is enormously important for consolidating peace and security in the country and in the broader region, but in the twenty-first century and beyond, economic statecraft is of increasing importance. The prospect of integration with the EU provides Albania with strong incentives for continued democratic, economic, and social reform, and it represents the best prospect for Albania's long-term economic and democratic stability. Albania, like other countries aspiring to join the EU, knows that EU integration is its best chance to secure prosperity for its people.
As Albania looks to its European future, therefore, we and our European partners are hopeful that Albania will take the necessary steps to solidify its democratic credentials and give it the best opportunity to gain EU candidate status soon. Then-Secretary Clinton reiterated this in her historic address to the Albanian parliament last Fall: "Albania and the Albanian people deserve a place in the European family of nations. That is not only good for you, it will make this continent more peaceful and secure."
Today, Albania's political leaders (from all parties) and indeed its people have some hard decisions to make about their future: Despite some progress on the EU reform agenda, the European Commission did not recommend candidate status in 2012. The Commission's progress report noted that while Albania had made great strides towards fulfilling the Copenhagen political criteria for membership, Albania needed further to intensify efforts to reform the judiciary to strengthen its independence, efficiency and accountability. It also noted that Albania needed to demonstrate a track record of reforms in its fight against organized crime and corruption and in its protection of the rights of minority communities. Further, the report highlighted the need for Albania's parliamentarians to pass remaining reform legislation in the areas of public administration, judicial reform, and parliamentary rules and procedures.
Finally, elections remain an area of concern in Albania's democratic progress. The Commission report stated that the successful conduct of parliamentary elections in 2013, to be held on June 23, will be a crucial test of the country's democratic institutions and Albania's readiness for EU candidacy status. We share the Commission's concerns.
The 2009 OSCE/ODIHR and Parliamentary Assembly election observation mission noted that while the election met most OSCE commitments, it did not attain the highest standards for democratic elections. The mission cited procedural violations, administrative problems with the vote count, biased media coverage, and a highly toxic political environment. The conduct of the May 2011 nationwide elections for mayors and city councils fared mildly better according to OSCE/ODIHR's observation mission final report, but the highly polarized political environment was cited as problematic as was the Central Election Commission's (CEC) decision to intervene in Tirana's mayoral contest. This decision undermined the independence of the institution and undermined confidence in the election results.
As we look toward the upcoming parliamentary elections, the United States has been clear that to meet international standards, the independence of Albania's institutions must be respected; the political discourse must remain constructive and civil; and the Albanian people must have confidence in both the process and the results. American personnel will join our colleagues from ODIHR and work with their Parliamentary Assembly counterparts to ensure that the international community watches the conduct of the elections very carefully. We also understand the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will also deploy a mission.
The United States has worked to engage with civil society in Albania. Through our voter outreach and education programs, we are encouraging open discussions of important issues that matter to Albanian citizens. We are supporting active participation in the electoral process, and observation and reporting on the electoral process itself. Yet, due in part to lingering effects of the harsh communist regime, civic participation remains the weakest aspect in the electoral process. Parties must more seriously engage civil society and reflect their recommendations into their party platforms. In the United States, politicians pay attention to public opinion because citizens make their opinions known through their votes.
The United States is particularly concerned with the independence of the Central Election Commission (CEC). The CEC has the primary responsibility to administer elections in a fair and impartial fashion, in accordance with Albania's electoral code. To do so, the CEC must be free from interference by any individual, any political party, any institution, including the Parliament. With respect to the composition of the CEC, the members of the CEC – who were selected and appointed on the basis of inter-party consensus and in accordance with the Electoral Code – should be apolitical. Once appointed, CEC members have pledged, and are obligated, to impartially discharge their duties to realize free, fair and democratic elections in Albania.
The United States has stressed the need for all parties to strengthen lost trust in the main institution responsible for the conduct of elections in Albania. This includes adhering to a timeline established by the electoral code and conducting elections on June 23, just over 45 days from now. To do this, Albania's political party leaders must work together, compromise, and find a solution that allows the CEC to carry out its mandate to administer elections. Leaders of all major political parties have expressed their desire for elections to take place on June 23. However, the CEC does not currently have enough members to administer elections effectively. We would like to see the CEC as fully constituted as possible, and urge Albania's leaders not to waste time.
The United States together with our European partners have stressed that democracy is not just who wins and who loses a single election. The democratic process matters too. It matters how the political parties run their campaigns; how the CEC interprets Albania's electoral code, conducts the elections, and manages disputes; how the votes are tabulated; how disputes are resolved; and, how the public and the political parties respond to the final tally. The conduct of these elections will be an important indicator of Albania's democratic maturity and it will send a clear signal whether Albania is ready for European Union candidacy status. It will also have an impact on our bilateral relationship with Albania.
In spite of our concerns, the United States remains committed to Albania's future. Beyond elections, we will remain engaged on the long-term goals I cited earlier, to help Albania build and refine democratic institutions, respect the rule of law, fight crime and corruption, and develop a market economy to bring prosperity to the Albanian people.
Thank you for again for granting me the opportunity to speak before the Helsinki Committee. I look forward to your questions.


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- Key to the Sea is a K-5 marine education program.
- Free Professional Development is provided for teachers.
- The Beach Exploration Field Trip for your students engages their senses and environmental awareness.
- A confirmed field trip date with one of our partner field trip locations is required before you can register for a workshop.
Where Your Classroom Meets the Ocean
What's New
- Annual Report: 2013-14 School Year (PDF)
Due in a large part to your support and that of our program partners, the 2012-13 school year was successful as shown by quantitative measures as well as qualitative feedback! View report»
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Explore all the Field Trip Options, then contact one of our four partner aquaria listed below to schedule a field trip. Make sure to request the Key to the Sea program! Note: a confirmed field trip date is required before you can register for a workshop.
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
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Roundhouse Aquarium
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1021 North Harbor Dr.
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
1600 Ocean Front Walk
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.393.6149, x105
- You must have a confirmed field trip date before registering for a Key to the Sea Workshop.
All teachers, including veterans, must submit their information on the registration form.
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- Send an e-mail about Key to the Sea
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Key to the Sea would not be possible without the support of those listed above. Thank you!
We're always searching for grantors to support this program. If you would like to contribute, please send an e-mail or call 310.393.6149 x108.
Key to the Sea is Heal the Bay's free* marine environmental education program for teachers and elementary school children (K-5) in Los Angeles County. The program focuses on watersheds, the storm drain system, pollution prevention, the sandy beach habitat, and environmental stewardship. It includes engaging hands-on activities for students, including a field trip to the beach, as well as exciting professional development opportunities for teachers.
*Note: Some field trip locations may have additional costs. Please refer to the Field Trip Options. Buses are not provided; however, some funding may be available. Please call 310-393-6149 x108 for more information.
Be sure to reserve a field trip time and date FIRST with the aquarium you plan to visit before signing up for the workshop.
Registration for the 2016/17 school year teacher workshops will open soon!! Please check back on June 1st to register for next years Key to the Sea experience!
Program Components
- Professional Development
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- Post Field Trip Activities
- Post Program Evaluation
1. Professional Development
The professional development teacher workshops are a required component of the Key to the Sea program. Every teacher who is participating in the field trip must attend a workshop (or be Veteran/Year3+). During the workshop, you will be given a multi-disciplinary standards-aligned curriculum guide as well as supplies to implement lessons back in the classroom. Teachers find the workshops fun and inspiring – and we serve lunch!
Workshop I
- For K-5 teachers participating in Key to the Sea for the first time.
- Topics: watersheds, local marine life, marine conservation, & more.
- Includes: a supply-filled tote bag and curriculum guide!
Workshop II
- For K-5 teachers who completed Workshop I & participated in a Key to the Sea field trip last year.
- Topics: Waves and tides, habitats, plastics in the ocean & more.
- Includes: "Make-and-take" teaching tools, curriculum guide, & t-shirt!
Veteran Teacher Participation
Once you have completed Workshop I and Workshop II, there are no further workshops to attend in order to have a Key to the Sea field trip.
Still, it is mandatory that veteran teachers submit their own form.
2. Beach Exploration Field Trip
The heart of the Key to the Sea program for your students is a field trip to a local aquarium and beach. The field trip is designed to encourage students to use their senses and become aware of the environment around them, and includes:
- Guided Beach Exploration: Students dig for animals in the sand, examine seaweed and search for signs of life.
- Bird Detectives: Using binoculars, students identify shore birds and their adaptations.
- Pollution and Solutions: Students learn about pollution and how they can help.
Field trips take place at one of our four partner aquaria: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Roundhouse Aquarium, SEA Lab and the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
3. Post Field Trip Activities
After the field trip, your students will enjoy the enviro-frames and photos, along with other post-field trip lessons.
4. Post Program Evaluation
After participating this school year, including your workshop, using the classroom curricula, and taking your field trip, please remember to fill out the Post Program Evaluation for Workshop 1 or Workshop 2/Veterans. This helps to secure future funding and improve the program.


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This document provides an overview of what are the steps required to make a walker multi-threadable using the
-nct and the
-nt arguments, which make use of the
NanoSchedulable and
TreeReducible interfaces, respectively.
-nct support requires that you certify that your walker's
map() method is thread-safe -- eg., if any data structures are shared across
map() calls, access to these must be properly synchronized. Once your
map() method is thread-safe, you can implement the
NanoSchedulable interface, an empty interface with no methods that just marks your walker as having a
map() method that's safe to parallelize:
* Root parallelism interface. Walkers that implement this
* declare that their map function is thread-safe and so multiple
* map calls can be run in parallel in the same JVM instance.
public interface NanoSchedulable {
-nt support requires that both
map() and
reduce() be thread-safe, and you also need to implement the
TreeReducible interface. Implementing
TreeReducible requires you to write a
treeReduce() method that tells the engine how to combine the results of multiple
reduce() calls:
public interface TreeReducible<ReduceType> {
* A composite, 'reduce of reduces' function.
* @param lhs 'left-most' portion of data in the composite reduce.
* @param rhs 'right-most' portion of data in the composite reduce.
* @return The composite reduce type.
ReduceType treeReduce(ReduceType lhs, ReduceType rhs);
This method differs from
reduce() in that while
reduce() adds the result of a single
map() call onto a running total,
treeReduce() takes the aggregated results from multiple map/reduce tasks that have been run in parallel and combines them. So,
lhs and
rhs might each represent the final result from several hundred map/reduce calls.
treeReduce() implementation from the UnifiedGenotyper:
public UGStatistics treeReduce(UGStatistics lhs, UGStatistics rhs) {
lhs.nBasesCallable += rhs.nBasesCallable;
lhs.nBasesCalledConfidently += rhs.nBasesCalledConfidently;
lhs.nBasesVisited += rhs.nBasesVisited;
lhs.nCallsMade += rhs.nCallsMade;
return lhs;
This document explains the concepts involved and how they are applied within the GATK (and Queue where applicable). For specific configuration recommendations, see the companion document on parallelizing GATK tools.
Parallelism is a way to make a program finish faster by performing several operations in parallel, rather than sequentially (i.e. waiting for each operation to finish before starting the next one).
Imagine you need to cook rice for sixty-four people, but your rice cooker can only make enough rice for four people at a time. If you have to cook all the batches of rice sequentially, it's going to take all night. But if you have eight rice cookers that you can use in parallel, you can finish up to eight times faster.
This is a very simple idea but it has a key requirement: you have to be able to break down the job into smaller tasks that can be done independently. It's easy enough to divide portions of rice because rice itself is a collection of discrete units. In contrast, let's look at a case where you can't make that kind of division: it takes one pregnant woman nine months to grow a baby, but you can't do it in one month by having nine women share the work.
The good news is that most GATK runs are more like rice than like babies. Because GATK tools are built to use the Map/Reduce method (see doc for details), most GATK runs essentially consist of a series of many small independent operations that can be parallelized.
Parallelism is a great way to speed up processing on large amounts of data, but it has "overhead" costs. Without getting too technical at this point, let's just say that parallelized jobs need to be managed, you have to set aside memory for them, regulate file access, collect results and so on. So it's important to balance the costs against the benefits, and avoid dividing the overall work into too many small jobs.
Going back to the introductory example, you wouldn't want to use a million tiny rice cookers that each boil a single grain of rice. They would take way too much space on your countertop, and the time it would take to distribute each grain then collect it when it's cooked would negate any benefits from parallelizing in the first place.
OK, parallelism sounds great (despite the tradeoffs caveat), but how do we get from cooking rice to executing programs? What actually happens in the computer?
Consider that when you run a program like the GATK, you're just telling the computer to execute a set of instructions.
Let's say we have a text file and we want to count the number of lines in it. The set of instructions to do this can be as simple as:
open the file, count the number of lines in the file, tell us the number, close the file
Note that
tell us the number can mean writing it to the console, or storing it somewhere for use later on.
Now let's say we want to know the number of words on each line. The set of instructions would be:
open the file, read the first line, count the number of words, tell us the number, read the second line, count the number of words, tell us the number, read the third line, count the number of words, tell us the number
And so on until we've read all the lines, and finally we can close the file. It's pretty straightforward, but if our file has a lot of lines, it will take a long time, and it will probably not use all the computing power we have available.
So to parallelize this program and save time, we just cut up this set of instructions into separate subsets like this:
open the file, index the lines
read the first line, count the number of words, tell us the number
read the second line, count the number of words, tell us the number
read the third line, count the number of words, tell us the number
[repeat for all lines]
collect final results and close the file
Here, the
read the Nth line steps can be performed in parallel, because they are all independent operations.
You'll notice that we added a step,
index the lines. That's a little bit of peliminary work that allows us to perform the
read the Nth line steps in parallel (or in any order we want) because it tells us how many lines there are and where to find each one within the file. It makes the whole process much more efficient. As you may know, the GATK requires index files for the main data files (reference, BAMs and VCFs); the reason is essentially to have that indexing step already done.
Anyway, that's the general principle: you transform your linear set of instructions into several subsets of instructions. There's usually one subset that has to be run first and one that has to be run last, but all the subsets in the middle can be run at the same time (in parallel) or in whatever order you want.
There are three different modes of parallelism offered by the GATK, and to really understand the difference you first need to understand what are the different levels of computing that are involved.
By levels of computing, we mean the computing units in terms of hardware: the core, the machine (or CPU) and the cluster.
Core: the level below the machine. On your laptop or desktop, the CPU (central processing unit, or processor) contains one or more cores. If you have a recent machine, your CPU probably has at least two cores, and is therefore called dual-core. If it has four, it's a quad-core, and so on. High-end consumer machines like the latest Mac Pro have up to twelve-core CPUs (which should be called dodeca-core if we follow the Latin terminology) but the CPUs on some professional-grade machines can have tens or hundreds of cores.
Machine: the middle of the scale. For most of us, the machine is the laptop or desktop computer. Really we should refer to the CPU specifically, since that's the relevant part that does the processing, but the most common usage is to say machine. Except if the machine is part of a cluster, in which case it's called a node.
Parallelism can be applied at all three of these levels, but in different ways of course, and under different names. Parallelism takes the name of multi-threading at the core and machine levels, and scatter-gather at the cluster level.
In computing, a thread of execution is a set of instructions that the program issues to the processor to get work done. In single-threading mode, a program only sends a single thread at a time to the processor and waits for it to be finished before sending another one. In multi-threading mode, the program may send several threads to the processor at the same time.
Not making sense? Let's go back to our earlier example, in which we wanted to count the number of words in each line of our text document. Hopefully it is clear that the first version of our little program (one long set of sequential instructions) is what you would run in single-threaded mode. And the second version (several subsets of instructions) is what you would run in multi-threaded mode, with each subset forming a separate thread. You would send out the first thread, which performs the preliminary work; then once it's done you would send the "middle" threads, which can be run in parallel; then finally once they're all done you would send out the final thread to clean up and collect final results.
If you're still having a hard time visualizing what the different threads are like, just imagine that you're doing cross-stitching. If you're a regular human, you're working with just one hand. You're pulling a needle and thread (a single thread!) through the canvas, making one stitch after another, one row after another. Now try to imagine an octopus doing cross-stitching. He can make several rows of stitches at the same time using a different needle and thread for each. Multi-threading in computers is surprisingly similar to that.
Hey, if you have a better example, let us know in the forum and we'll use that instead.
Alright, now that you understand the idea of multithreading, let's get practical: how do we do get the GATK to use multi-threading?
There are two options for multi-threading with the GATK, controlled by the arguments
-nt and
-nct, respectively. They can be combined, since they act at different levels of computing:
-nt /
--num_threads controls the number of data threads sent to the processor (acting at the machine level)
-nct /
--num_cpu_threads_per_data_thread controls the number of CPU threads allocated to each data thread (acting at the core level).
Not all GATK tools can use these options due to the nature of the analyses that they perform and how they traverse the data. Even in the case of tools that are used sequentially to perform a multi-step process, the individual tools may not support the same options. For example, at time of writing (Dec. 2012), of the tools involved in local realignment around indels, RealignerTargetCreator supports
-nt but not
-nct, while IndelRealigner does not support either of these options.
In addition, there are some important technical details that affect how these options can be used with optimal results. Those are explained along with specific recommendations for the main GATK tools in a companion document on parallelizing the GATK.
If you Google it, you'll find that the term scatter-gather can refer to a lot of different things, including strategies to get the best price quotes from online vendors, methods to control memory allocation and… an indie-rock band. What all of those things have in common (except possibly the band) is that they involve breaking up a task into smaller, parallelized tasks (scattering) then collecting and integrating the results (gathering). That should sound really familiar to you by now, since it's the general principle of parallel computing.
So yes, "scatter-gather" is really just another way to say we're parallelizing things. OK, but how is it different from multithreading, and why do we need yet another name?
As you know by now, multithreading specifically refers to what happens internally when the program (in our case, the GATK) sends several sets of instructions to the processor to achieve the instructions that you originally gave it in a single command-line. In contrast, the scatter-gather strategy as used by the GATK involves a separate program, called Queue, which generates separate GATK jobs (each with its own command-line) to achieve the instructions given in a so-called Qscript (i.e. a script written for Queue in a programming language called Scala).
At the simplest level, the Qscript can involve a single GATK tool*. In that case Queue will create separate GATK commands that will each run that tool on a portion of the input data (= the scatter step). The results of each run will be stored in temporary files. Then once all the runs are done, Queue will collate all the results into the final output files, as if the tool had been run as a single command (= the gather step).
Note that Queue has additional capabilities, such as managing the use of multiple GATK tools in a dependency-aware manner to run complex pipelines, but that is outside the scope of this article. To learn more about pipelining the GATK with Queue, please see the Queue documentation.
So you see, scatter-gather is a very different process from multi-threading because the parallelization happens outside of the program itself. The big advantage is that this opens up the upper level of computing: the cluster level. Remember, the GATK program is limited to dispatching threads to the processor of the machine on which it is run – it cannot by itself send threads to a different machine. But Queue can dispatch scattered GATK jobs to different machines in a computing cluster by interfacing with your cluster's job management software.
That being said, multithreading has the great advantage that cores and machines all have access to shared machine memory with very high bandwidth capacity. In contrast, the multiple machines on a network used for scatter-gather are fundamentally limited by network costs.
The good news is that you can combine scatter-gather and multithreading: use Queue to scatter GATK jobs to different nodes on your cluster, then use the GATK's internal multithreading capabilities to parallelize the jobs running on each node.
Going back to the rice-cooking example, it's as if instead of cooking the rice yourself, you hired a catering company to do it for you. The company assigns the work to several people, who each have their own cooking station with multiple rice cookers. Now you can feed a lot more people in the same amount of time! And you don't even have to clean the dishes.
This document provides technical details and recommendations on how the parallelism options offered by the GATK can be used to yield optimal performance results.
As explained in the primer on parallelism for the GATK, there are two main kinds of parallelism that can be applied to the GATK: multi-threading and scatter-gather (using Queue).
There are two options for multi-threading with the GATK, controlled by the arguments
-nt and
-nct, respectively, which can be combined:
-nt / --num_threads
controls the number of data threads sent to the processor
-nct / --num_cpu_threads_per_data_thread
controls the number of CPU threads allocated to each data thread
For more information on how these multi-threading options work, please read the primer on parallelism for the GATK.
Each data thread needs to be given the full amount of memory you'd normally give a single run. So if you're running a tool that normally requires 2 Gb of memory to run, if you use
-nt 4, the multithreaded run will use 8 Gb of memory. In contrast, CPU threads will share the memory allocated to their "mother" data thread, so you don't need to worry about allocating memory based on the number of CPU threads you use.
-nct with versions 2.2 and 2.3
Because of the way the
-nct option was originally implemented, in versions 2.2 and 2.3, there is one CPU thread that is reserved by the system to "manage" the rest. So if you use
-nct, you'll only really start seeing a speedup with
-nct 3 (which yields two effective "working" threads) and above. This limitation has been resolved in the implementation that will be available in versions 2.4 and up.
For more details on scatter-gather, see the primer on parallelism for the GATK and the Queue documentation.
Please note that not all tools support all parallelization modes. The parallelization modes that are available for each tool depend partly on the type of traversal that the tool uses to walk through the data, and partly on the nature of the analyses it performs.
|Full name
|Type of traversal
The table below summarizes configurations that we typically use for our own projects (one per tool, except we give three alternate possibilities for the UnifiedGenotyper). The different values allocated for each tool reflect not only the technical capabilities of these tools (which options are supported), but also our empirical observations of what provides the best tradeoffs between performance gains and commitment of resources. Please note however that this is meant only as a guide, and that we cannot give you any guarantee that these configurations are the best for your own setup. You will probably have to experiment with the settings to find the configuration that is right for you.
|Available modes
|Cluster nodes
|4 / 4 / 4
|CPU threads (
|3 / 6 / 24
|Data threads (
|8 / 4 / 1
|Memory (Gb)
|32 / 16 / 4
Where NT is data multithreading, NCT is CPU multithreading and SG is scatter-gather using Queue. For more details on scatter-gather, see the primer on parallelism for the GATK and the Queue documentation.
This is not exactly new (it was fixed in GATK 3.0) but it's come to our attention that many people are unaware of this bug, so we want to spread the word since it might have some important impacts on people's results.
Affected versions: 2.x versions up to 2.8 (not sure when it started)
Affected tool: SelectVariants
Trigger conditions: Extracting a subset of samples with SelectVariants while using multi-threading (
Effects: Genotype-level fields (such as AD) swapped among samples
This bug no longer affects any tools in versions 3.0 and above, but callsets generated with earlier versions may need to be checked for consistency of genotype-level annotations. Our sincere apologies if you have been affected by this bug, and our thanks to the users who reported experiencing this issue.
I'm trying to get GenotypeGVCFs to use only a few CPUs (shared cluster).
I've tried running GenotypeGVCFs with
INFO 11:50:37,171 HelpFormatter - Program Args: -nt 1 -T GenotypeGVCFs -V vcffiles.list
and INFO 11:50:37,171 HelpFormatter - Program Args: -T GenotypeGVCFs -V vcffiles.list
It uses as many CPUs as it pleases, causing angry admins and lab mates...
It seems that while non-parallel UnifiedGenotyper (SNP mode) always generates the same output vcf, parallel version (either
-nt and/or
-nct >1) of UnifiedGenotyper generates not exactly the same vcf files for each run. For example, below is the GenotypeConcordance output of two runs with same input file (chr 21) and same parameters (
-nt4 -nct4):
Sample Eval_Genotype Comp_Genotype Count
ALL HET HET 46341 ALL HET HOM_REF 0 ALL HET HOM_VAR 8 ALL HET MIXED 0 ALL HET NO_CALL 0 ALL HOM_REF HET 300 ALL HOM_REF HOM_REF 34306900 ALL HOM_REF HOM_VAR 0 ALL HOM_REF MIXED 0 ALL HOM_REF NO_CALL 18 ALL HOM_VAR HET 12 ALL HOM_VAR HOM_REF 0 ALL HOM_VAR HOM_VAR 23490 ALL HOM_VAR MIXED 0 ALL HOM_VAR NO_CALL 18 ALL Mismatching_Alleles Mismatching_Alleles 303 ALL NO_CALL HET 0 ALL NO_CALL HOM_REF 11 ALL NO_CALL HOM_VAR 24 ALL NO_CALL MIXED 0 ALL NO_CALL NO_CALL 729217
So I am wondering if there is a way to get the same output vcf. Or do I miss something here? Thanks.


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At the age of 14, I ran away from home, due to the trauma of my parents divorcing and the misery that I had encountered at school and at home. I took the train with the destination Amsterdam, thinking that I would find a job and create a life. Upon arrival at the Central Station, I was approached by a man who offered me a place to stay. The following morning, I awoke without any clothes on and there naked photos of me. I asked him what he was going to do with those photos. He said that he would send them to my parents, if I didn't do what he wanted. He told me about the brothels where young boys worked.
I was then brought the same day to a bar and was introduced to a man, who had a brothel for young boys. I was afraid to say no, as I was very young and innocent. The owner of the brothel forced me to work in this boys brothel, where more young minors worked. They were all under age minors, between the age of 14-18, from various parts of Europe. All of the clients that came to this brothel were pedophiles. All the boys working there were given drugs and alcohol. After a while this was the daily routine, of sex, drugs and alcohol.
In addition, we are rented out for escort service to private clients and parties. The same person who ran the brother also made child pornography films. I performed in three of those movies. I also knew people who made snuff movies. I was offered vast sums of money to perform in one of these movies, but refused, due to the fact that at the end of these movies the actor is killed.
As escort, I worked for the same brothel owner and worked out of a bar called the Festival Bar, where I met Professor van Roon. Professor van Roon was the man who introduced me to Joris Demmink. We were sitting at a table and he said that I needed to go outside to meet Joris Demmink in his car. Joris wanted anal sex with me, and I refused. I did have oral sex with him. The second time that we met, he wanted me to go with him to his home in Den Haag, Riouwstraat 13. I didn't want to go with him, as we were forbidden to leave the city of Amsterdam by our pimp.
In 1998, there was a large investigation into a pedophile network in Amsterdam and Den Haag. I was approached by several police investigation units to help with the investigation. I became the key witness of the investigation and was offered police protection. During that time, I told of my entire period in Amsterdam in the child pornography and child sex business.
This investigation was called the Rolodex and Professor van Roon was a key suspect in this investigation. He had a rolodex (card file) where various high ranking Dutch officials were his clients and friends. I accompanied Professor van Roon on trips to Poland, but I don't know what he was doing there. Perhaps he was looking for boys for his clients. He was a broker in children for pedophiles in his network.
After my period in Amsterdam, I lived in various places in the Netherlands. I also lived in Den Haag, where an attempt to kill me was made. I was shot at 3 times. After that, I went underground and tried to hide, as the Rolodex investigation was killed and never pursued. In addition, I was asked to cooperate in a Dutch TV news show investigating Demmink and high ranking pedophiles, that show was never aired.
Throughout my time in the child sex industry and after, I have been abused, rejected, raped, shot at, lied to, and treated as dirt. My life has been ruined, I have had to undergo long term psychological treatment including very strong anti depression medication. My relationship with my own children and wife has suffered intensely.
I would like to ask the following:
Help bring Demmink to justice and his entire network of influential pedophiles.
Those who abused me and many others like myself should be brought to court and punished if found guilty.
Bring back the rule of law in the Netherlands.
Please help protect my identity because I still fear for my life, I know too much about who are the pedophiles.
Thank you for your time.


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There's not a lot on the map to really talk about yet, but here are some things to think about with regard to integrating an element into an image.
General style: Obviously, with isometric mountains, you want other elements to also be isometric. That's not a hard and fast rule, but it's something to bear in mind. You wouldn't, for instance, combine these mountains with hachure lines in the hills, and you'll probably want tree symbols with trunks visible instead of an apparently top-down perspective. Likewise, you'll want colored line-art for other elements, not oil painting or watercolor styles or something like that.
Line quality: The coastline is not anti-aliased, but the mountains are. Examine the edges of the lines—see how there are intermediate colors that make the lines look a little smoother? That's anti-aliasing. You'll want to try to match those line qualities to one another. Gradients are another place where that kind of quality will show. You want to be sure that everything is drawn at roughly the same size so that filtering looks the same on all of them. If you rescale an element in either direction by too much, it will usually stick out.
Black levels: Be aware of the darkest parts of the map, and make sure that no elements go darker than that. Make sure that elements that are supposed to be equally dark have similar hues. If your darkest darks are reddish, but the line-work on the mountains tends toward the blue, then the mountains will look out of place, and it may be difficult to figure out why.
White levels: Like the blacks, whites are another thing that need to match. Pay especial attention to the brightest spots on your image, and make sure that those are the spots you actually want to be brightest. There are a lot of maps I've seen that can be improved by changing white features to taupe or gray.
Color harmony: I alluded to this in the previous two points, but you'll want to make sure your colors work well together. Choose a palette and try to get all of the elements to match that palette to some degree. Sometimes adjusting blend modes can make this really easy. Might as well cycle through them and see if one makes the mountains look really good. Sometimes it can be useful to make a copy of the layer, set the bottom copy to some blend that looks nice, then adjust the opacity of the top layer to let the blended colors show through a bit.
Interaction: Spread some shadows out from the mountains onto the land around them. Just a bit of a smudge at the base can work wonders sometimes. Also, the relationship between the elements can do a great deal sell the individual elements. Seeing a few mountains scattered across a landmass, it's hard to believe in them. When there are trees and rivers and villages around them, they may look much better.


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WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Fortified underwear is in high demand among troops in Afghanistan where any step on the battlefield can trigger a buried bomb that can blow off legs, destroy genitals and tear into their abdomens.
The Pentagon is rushing more Kevlar underwear, along with protective cups and strapped-on outergear, to ensure that soldiers and Marines in the field have six pairs of the equipment. The need is acute because insurgents continue to plant more than 1,000 bombs per month and troops on foot lack the protection of armored vehicles. The underwear has resulted in a 40% reduction in wounds to troops' genitals, key arteries and abdomens, according to the Pentagon.


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Restore Your Mopar's A/C System, Part IIWritten by on October 1, 1999 The Second Step In Restoring Our A/C System Is To Tackle The Plenum Box
In the previous story, we started the restoration of a complete air conditioning system with the help of Classic Auto Air in Tampa, Florida. We gave a complete overview of what the basic components of a Mopars A/C system are and how they relate to each other, discussed the different types of refrigerants available, and showed the process Classic Auto Air uses to restore the filter/drier canister to re-create a systems hard lines and fittings. To our knowledge, Classic Auto Air is pretty much the only game in town when it comes to the restoration of these pieces, but as we showed you, the level of detail and correctness is matched only by NOS pieces. In fact, Classic Auto Air components are better in most cases because there is no shelf wear or surface rust.
The second step in restoring our A/C system is to tackle the plenum box. Located under the dash, this is the central system of the cars heater, cooling, and vent system. It regulates the temperatures of the heater, houses the fan, and directs the flow of air.
Its also generally a mystery to most enthusiasts. But as we found out, other than having a special plenum clip pliers to remove the fasteners, there is nothing to taking one apart, cleaning it up, and putting it back together. We followed along as the guys at Classic restored this one, and picked up a few tips to pass along on checking components. Theyve done Mopar boxes so many times they dont need any factory diagrams, but if you tackle it yourself, we suggest getting a new manual to help you put it back together.
Basically, there are only a few things in the plenum box that can fail: any of the vacuum canisters used to open the various doors that regulate the heating and cooling, the heater and evaporator cores, the water valve assembly and temperature sensing unit, and the air conditioner and heater blower motor resistor. Checking for component failure is a simple matter of visual inspection for everything except the vacuum canisters. If there are signs of leakage on anything that has fluid in it, it needs to be repaired, just like a radiator. If the motor resistor wires are broken, it needs to be replaced. As for the vacuum canisters, its simply a matter of hooking a rubber line to one end and plugging the other port with your finger, then sucking on the line. If the lever moves, its good.
Classic Auto Air can supply you with what you need to repair or replace most any components found in your plenum box, or you can have Classic Auto Air restore the entire assembly to concours condition for you. Good, uncracked plenum boxes are also becoming harder to find, but as we discovered with ours (which was not cracked), the case and covers are made out of fiberglass and plastic, so they are easily repaired should they have been kicked once too often. Follow along as Tim Cordelieone at Classic walks us through the restoration, as well as showing us a couple of neat tips and tricks.
In the next installment, well complete our A/C system restoration by completely rebuilding our compressor.
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There was evidence that this box had been opened once before, because this black rubber caulk was sticking out of the seam between the two halves.Here is a common problem with plenum boxes--slight warpage or mis-alignment between the box halves along the seam. Very often, boxes will be cracked along here as well, from being pried open with screwdrivers. If yours is broken, it's made of fiberglass and can be repaired.This tag taped to the outside of the box verified that it had been opened up for service at one time. It's part of the car's history, and will be saved.Begin by removing the plenum box clips found along the edge of the two box halves. These clips are unique fasteners that require a dedicated pliers to remove. They might be able to be pried off with a screwdriver, but damage to the box could easily result. Classic Auto Air's plenum clip pliers came from CraftsmanTM, so locating the right tool for the job shouldn't be difficult. Take care not to lose the clips, because finding new ones will be a chore.After removing the plenum box clips, remove all the fastener screws from around the box as well. Put them in a bag and label them so you don't lose any.Using a sharp knife, cut the sealer between the two box halves to open up the box. Just prying the halves apart can break the box.After the halves are separated, begin stripping all the parts off. This is the firewall seal to the heater core and A/C evaporator core tubes. Take care to leave it intact during removal.Once the screws that hold the cores in are removed, you can pull both cores out of the box. Notice all the debris--that's the way we found it, and it was in the car that way. This is reason enough to open up your plenum box during a restoration!
The gasket was removed with a razor blade and put in a safe place. This will be used as a template for making a new gasket, so don't just scrape it off and throw it away.All the vacuum actuators are also removed and set aside. The guys at Classic know where they fit during reassembly just by looking at them because they've done so many. Don't rely on your memory--label them. A Polaroid photograph is also a good idea.One trick Tim showed us was to scribe a small mark on the canisters to help orient them during reassembly.There are foam seals on all of the doors on the box, and they also need to be removed with care and labeled as to where they go.Finally, the service label is cut off and saved. We're going to put it back on, just like we found it. It's not original from the factory, but it is original to the car, and it's a piece of history.Then it's time to visually inspect the parts. This heater core showed a small build-up of deposits (circled) in a few spots, indicating it may have small leaks. Pressure testing revealed that it did. If Classic Auto Air can't repair your cores, they can re-create them from scratch to be exactly like your originals.To check the vacuum canisters, simply attach a small piece of rubber air hose to one of the ports, plug the other and suck or blow into the hose--if the arm moves, the canister is good. If yours is bad, Classic can repair or replace them.
After everything is inspected, it goes into the glass beading cabinet. This is the plenum box, and as we said, it's made of fiberglass. The glass beading leaves it looking white. If you do it yourself, take care to use low pressure. Notice that the factory numbers painted on the box (circled) are still there. Classic Auto Air masks off any factory markings before bead blasting to insure they aren't obliterated and lost forever.Next, the plenum box gets a simple coating of rattle can clearcoat. Here you can see that when it's wet, it darkens all of the freshly-blasted fiberglass, making it black again. It stays that way after it's dry, as well. After coating it in clear, it looks as good as the day it was originally assembled!This sticker was also found on the plenum box, and care was taken to preserve it. It, too, was sealed with clearcoat after being masked off and protected during the bead blasting.New foam insulation for the doors, available at hardware, upholstery, or fabric stores, is cut using the originals as templates.The new insulation is then laid on the contact cement and allowed to dry. This is pretty much the way it came from the factory, too.This is the condenser core, located in front of the radiator on the car. All of the cores (heater, condenser, and evaporator) are also bead-blasted. These fins are pretty delicate, and if you don't watch the pressure you could easily destroy them. If your condenser core is bad or in need of repair or restoration, Classic Auto can repair, and in many cases, recreate them from scratch as well.After bead blasting, the fins are first straightened using needle nose pliers. The guys at Classic filed the ends on this one flat to get in between them. This is tedious, time-consuming work.
After they're pressure tested and the fins are straightened, the cleaned cores are put back in the plenum box. Really, there is no reason to bead blast these cores--they don't get painted, you never see them once the box is sealed back up, and whether the outside is blasted or not has no effect on their performance. But Classic blasts them just the same.The vacuum canisters are all bead- blasted and clear coated as well, and then re-installed. A "China Hat" clip slides over the shaft that the actuator arm attaches to, to keep the arm in place.This little clip is a "China Hat," and it simply slides onto a shaft and locks in place by friction. To make them work like new after removing them, set it on a hard surface and whack it with a hammer to flatten out the clip a bit. Slide it back in place on the shaft, and it's good as new!The resistor also gets cleaned up and re-installed. It's important to make sure that the electric contacts are cleaned, but the rest of the cleaning is just for appearance.This lip is cast into the edge of the plenum box and aids in sealing it. It's important to make sure the two halves of the box have a good seal so it doesn't leak water (from condensation from the A/C core) or blow air out the sides, rather than through the vents.Dumb-Dumb strips (a rope-like adhesive putty) are used to re-seal the box. We used white for photography purposes for this article, but it's also available in black. Lay the adhesive down along the edge following all the contours of the box. Remember, if there are any gaps, you could end up with either air going through it, or water leaking onto your floor.Install the plenum box clips first, as they will help seat the sealant. The clips were also bead blasted and sealed with clear coat. Again, you probably could get these on with a screwdriver, but they are very tight spring clips, and it would be easy to break the box. The special pliers make the job much easier. Even if you only use them once, they're worth the investment.
After the plenum clips are installed, install the screws that hold the two halves of the box together. These were also blasted and clearcoated.Finally, the firewall seal and appearance cover is installed. The appearance cover is plastic, and is often cracked. But because it's plastic, it can be repaired and repainted, and will look new. Ours was in good shape, and was just cleaned up with lacquer thinner. Don't bead blast the plastic.This is the final, finished plenum box, ready to be installed back under the dash of our E-Body. Other than securing new parts to replace worn or broken originals, the average enthusiast could easily duplicate these results. However, be sure to take notes, label everything as you take it off, and snap a few photos to help you remember how it all goes back together. The diagrams from a service manual will also help.


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"Whether telling the story of an A student straying from her expected path..."
Robert Lloyd: "'Freaks and Geeks'... is one of the most beautiful and ambitious television series ever made. But its beauties are not cosmetic, and its ambitions are subtle."
"Whether telling the story of an A student straying from her expected path..."
"...a drummer whose dreams outstrip his talent..."
"...a kid addressing his parents' foundering marriage through ventriloquism..."
"...or a geek who gets the girl of his dreams only to learn she bores him..."
"...the show always preferred emotional truth to rosy outcomes, character to type, and the complicated laugh to the easy one."
Linda Cardellini: "Here's this girl [Lindsay] who desperately wants to be away from her parents and what they know her as, but at the same time truly does not want to disappoint or rebel against them and really loves them. It was a more interesting approach than all the other teenagers I was reading, who just hated their parents."
Paul Feig: "We did our infamous two weeks with the writers locking ourselves in a room and telling personal stories. I wrote a list of questions for everybody to answer: 'What was the best thing that happened to you in high school? What was the worst thing that happened to you in high school? Who were you in love with and why?'"
Judd Apatow: "'What was your worst drug experience? Who was your first girlfriend? What's the first sexual thing you ever did? What's the most humiliating thing that ever happened to you during high school?'"
Side note--I somehow never put it together that Michael from 10 Things I Hate About You played Neal's older brother.
Thomas F. Wilson: "The slightly sad seriousness with which Martin approached his role, to me, is the fulcrum of the whole show. It was really acting of a very high order."
Judd Apatow: "We didn't think of [James Franco] as handsome. We thought his mouth was too big for his face and he seemed perfect to be a small-town cool guy who wasn't as cool as he thought he was. When all the women in our office started talking about how gorgeous he was, me and Feig started laughing because we just didn't see it."
John Francis Daley: "Franco went to Michigan for two weeks to get into character, and we were joking that he lived under an overpass for a few nights. He was always the one that had a Camus novel, heavily dog-eared, and his car was so full of junk that it looked like he lived out of it."
Seth Rogen: "At the time, I kind of had a chip on my shoulder, you know, because I hadn't gotten any girls to sleep with me yet."
Judd Apatow: "The pilot had a very daring existential idea, which was that a young, really smart girl sits with her dying grandmother and asks her if she sees "the light," and her grandma says no. And all the rules go out the window. The girl decides to have a more experimental high-school experience, because she doesn't know if she believes anymore. I was always surprised that the network didn't notice that that's what our pilot was about."
Paul Feig: "I also really wanted the show to be about the fear of sex. I got tired of every teenager being portrayed as horny and completely cool with sex, because that was not my experience."
Judd Apatow: "You could split them into kids who are constantly trying to get older and kids that are desperately trying to hold on to their immaturity."
Busy Philipps: "Paul and Judd awkwardly tried to talk to Linda and me about how, now that we're on a TV show, we shouldn't think about losing weight, which had never even occurred to me. They were like, 'Don't get crazy now—don't think you have to be an actress that's really skinny.' And I was reading things in the press about how we were the anti-Dawson's Creek. There was one quote I remember very clearly, like, 'You won't find any pretty people on Freaks and Geeks.' That was interesting as a 19-year-old girl to read. We were not standard packaging."
Stephen Lea Sheppard: "I think my actual high-school experience was a bit harsher. But there's only so much you can show on television."


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I am not an expert on Lotus notes.
My customer said that they had "Hierarchical Address Book" feature with Lotus Notes. With this feature, they could chose anyone from different departments when they create e-mail.
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In EURIG-1 I don't disagree per se with the proposed examples given, but I worry that they are simplistic. A conductor or a performing group may perform and record the same work on different occasions, so I think that there will be numerous instances when additional characteristics will need to be recorded to name a specific expression of a musical work. In many of those instances, I guess the date of performance will be sufficient to distinguish the different expressions. Since date of expression is a separate element, I suppose that doesn't affect the examples proposed here. But what if one wanted to use the performing group in addition to the conductor? You would have to repeat the element Other distinguishing characteristic of expression. Maybe examples like this should be added:
Tilson Thomas London Symphony Orchestra
A performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 7 conducted by Tilson Thomas and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1997
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A performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 7 conducted by Tilson Thomas and performed by the San Francisco Symphony, recorded in 2005
- Glennan (PCC) for Adam Schiff, University of Washington (8/3/12)
Like Adam, I don't disagree with the proposed. However, it reflects what I hope are short-term solutions limited by our current less-than-ideal conditions. Although it is desirable to easily allow users to select from among many expressions, it is not clear to me that access points are an effective way to do that for expressions that have many distinguishing characteristics. The problem of settling on a single, optimal order of characteristics in a string is intractable. One of the OLAC testers pointed out that in most OPACs, pages upon pages of access points for perfectly-delineated expressions of Beethoven's 9th are more likely to overwhelm users than help. Users won't be able find the forest for the trees.
I also assume that if we do start creating expression and work records then performers and conductors should be easily identified by machine (being in their own elements with relationship designators) and there will be no need to redundantly record them in "other characteristics." In fact we may be worse off if we have recorded them in "other characteristics" because we'll want to get them out. Once we get to that stage, a computer should be able to mix and match the elements to uniquely identify a work or expression and should be able to alert someone when a work or expression is insufficiently distinguished in a given universe. --McGrath (OLAC) 8/28/12
We have no objections to adding additional examples, but are concerned that it is only via the examples that someone would know to use only the last name of a translator or performer, when recording that as a distinguishing element. We believe the rules should explicitly state that only the last name needs to be recorded if that is sufficient to make the expression access point unique.
e.g. Record other distinguishing characteristics of the expression. If a personal name is being used as the distinguishing characteristic, only the surname should be supplied if that is sufficient to make the access point unique.
-- Glennan (PCC) for NLM, 8/31/12
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Personally, I am in agreement with the comments already posted by Adam Schiff, Kelley McGrath and NLM, having read them after the close of the MLA comment period. Specifically, Adam is correct that more nuanced examples would be helpful; NLM is correct that the instruction should explicitly tell us what form of name to use; Kelley makes excellent points about the unhelpfulness of highly granular expression level access points for widely recorded and widely published musical works, which make up a large part of the body of work we deal with all the time, and about the predicament we would be in if we relegated information as highly relevant as performer to the category of "other distinguishing characteristic" and wanted to code that information more precisely in the future.
A few MLA commenters supplied similar comments to those named above. We think more detail is needed in the instruction, including guidance on choosing among performers, choosing the form of name to record, and figuring out what to do when no performer is named or no performer is prominent. We also think it would make more sense to code these pieces of information separately in expression level records, but we realize that we are not there yet.
We wonder if the proposed new Beethoven example in 6.27.3 is incomplete. Shouldn't the expression level access point include the content type "performed music" (since for music, the written form can't be assumed to be the primary expression the way it can with textual works) as well as a year of performance? Or is the language in the instruction loose enough (using the phrase "as applicable" and "and/or" right before item (d)) that it is completely up to cataloger's judgment to decide which combination of pieces of information to include? If all this information needs to be in the expression access point, that makes for really unwieldy access points, and lots of them (like Kelley's example of Beethoven's 9th); if it is up to cataloger's judgment what to include in the expression access point, that makes for dangerous inconsistency from one access point to another. We would appreciate more explicit guidance in RDA on exactly what information to include in expression access points and in what order, especially for music. (We also note that the Babar audiobook example puts the content type "spoken word" after the language of translation, which is contrary to the order of items (a)-(d) in the instruction. Is there a prescribed order?)
Tracey Snyder, MusLA, 9/19/12
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CCC: Text of response
Agrees to add examples to RDA 22.214.171.124 and 6.27.3; suggests corrections to proposed examples.
Agrees with adding an example at 6.27.3 but suggests one that would be compatible with outcome if 6JSC/CCC/7 is accepted.
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Even with an advantage in voter registrations, however, the path to victory is far from clear. While Republicans do outnumber Democrats, nearly one-third of Coloradoans are registered independents, motivated by current events and local issues more than party loyalty. Restless after eight years of Bill Clinton, independents went strongly for George W. Bush in 2000, lifting him to a solid, 9-point victory over Al Gore. But now the independents are restless again, and GOP leaders think they know why.
"The Iraq war is a big issue," Mr. Halaby acknowledges. "That's probably been the biggest variable that wasn't present four years ago." Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, has sent more than 12,000 troops to Iraq, and more than 40 of those troops have been killed-a low but insidious casualty rate that keeps John Kerry competitive in the state.
Then there's the economy. Mr. Halaby likes to boast that Colorado's unemployment rate of 5.1 percent is better than the national average of 5.5 percent, but four years ago the state's jobless figure stood at just 2.6 percent. Though the economy seems to have turned a corner-state revenues have been up for the past three years-the loss of 76,000 jobs has left many voters worried about their financial future.
If Mr. Bush faces doubts about the war and the economy elsewhere, what makes Colorado different is a volatile mix of demographics, geography, and local politics. Although Mr. Bush connects with Hispanic voters better than most Republican politicians, Democrats retain a sizeable advantage. Colorado Democrats targeted Hispanics in a registration drive that has netted some 50,000 new voters since January.
What Republicans have in their favor is that Mr. Kerry has failed to win the affection of Hispanic voters. "I don't think John Kerry has ever been able to identify with the Hispanic community," says Bush-Cheney spokesman Danny Diaz. "Kerry's having trouble defining himself out here. There are a lot of folks out here who don't understand him."
That's where Ken Salazar's race for the Senate comes in. By helping to mobilize Hispanics across the state, he gives Democrats hope for a rare trickle-up victory. If Salazar supporters-many of them first-time voters-vote a straight-party ticket in unusually high numbers, they may help Mr. Kerry win here in spite of himself.
The Bush-Cheney team isn't taking the threat lightly. "We're fighting for every single Hispanic vote," says Mr. Diaz. "We have a grassroots network, Spanish-language phone banks, radio and TV interviews on Spanish stations, Spanish-language ads on the air. We're walking neighborhoods, knocking on doors. We're engaged at both grassroots and mass-communication levels. . . . Our challenge is to communicate the clear choice and mobilize the vote."
In addition to winning more Hispanic voters, the GOP needs to turn out large numbers of conservative rural voters. But those efforts, too, may be hampered by the Salazar factor-in this case, John Salazar, a Democratic congressional candidate in the western part of the state and the Senate candidate's older brother.
The elder Mr. Salazar is running for the seat left open by the retirement of Rep. Scott McInnis, a Republican. With a 13,000-voter edge in registration, national Republicans once considered the sprawling 3rd Congressional District relatively safe territory. But Mr. Salazar, a third-generation farmer in a largely agricultural district, has maintained a consistent lead in the polls\. By presenting himself as a moderate, pro-gun Democrat, he's avoided some of the stigma of the national party. Meanwhile, some voters haven't forgiven his Republican opponent, Greg Walcher, for supporting a statewide referendum that many feared would divert scarce water to Denver's growing suburbs at the expense of more rural areas.
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Mr. Diaz believes the Bush message will resonate in the 3rd Congressional District, no matter who wins the race for the House. "What drives turnout in rural areas is the top of the ticket," he says. "On the Democratic side, you have the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. He voted against the partial-birth abortion ban. He's taken questionable positions on gay marriage. Voted for higher taxes 350 times. On issue after issue, John Kerry has just taken the wrong side. . . . George Bush stands for the tenets that these rural voters support, and the Democratic candidates do not."
Still, die-hard Republicans admit the race in Colorado is too close for comfort. Republicans have quadrupled the number of volunteers they turned out just two years ago, and they promise to spend heavily right through Election Day.
Though he says his party will prevail in the end, Mr. Halaby, the state chairman, knows the party can no longer rely on past victory margins. "We're not going to be complacent in the slightest," he says. "We consider this a battle that's going right down to the wire."


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