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Eucalyptus initiative seeks $3.8m
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The Marlborough-based New Zealand Dryland Forests Initiative has applied to the Science and Innovation Ministry for $3.8 million towards a six-year research and development programme.
The initiative is studying the growing of eucalypt species on drought and erosion-prone farmland in Marlborough, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, the Wairarapa and Canterbury.
Project manager Paul Millen of Queen Charlotte Sound expected to hear in August whether the application was successful.
"Just as different grapes need different soils to get the best flavours, different eucalypts will grow the best wood in certain environments."
Over the next six years, the group planned to spend about $5m on improving the genetics of five eucalypt species, managing trials and telling people about the benefits of eucalypts and how to grow them, said Mr Millen.
This included paying scientists from the Canterbury University forestry and engineering schools. The initiative aimed to establish a $3 billion per year industry growing hardwood export timber in east coast regions, he said.
This would provide a source of untreated posts for the grape and kiwifruit industries that would be free of copper chromium arsenic, while improving the sustainability of dryland farming.
Mr Millen said the initiative also sought $1m of co-funding from supporters.
The School of Forestry, Marlborough Lines, the Marlborough Research Centre Trust, Proseed, six councils including the Marlborough District Council, and 17 landowners were among organisations already funding the project. Since the initiative began in 2008, 100,000 eucalypt trees of eight species and 100 families had been grown at 17 sites around New Zealand.
Another 70 would be planted in the coming spring, said Mr Millen.
All needed to be monitored and measured and the results analysed to select the best genetics for dryland sites and the information communicated to landowners, said Mr Millen.
One of the most successful species being trialled was bosistoana, used in Australia for posts and poles.
Other potential uses included power poles and cross arms as well as durable timber for the building industry, said Mr Millen.
At the end of June next year, a three-year Sustainable Farming Fund grant of $399,000 from the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry (now Primary Industries Ministry) runs out. This grant was matched by $320,000 from initiative members and supporters and $300,000 of in-kind contributions.
The Marlborough Research Centre Trust administers the Dryland Forestry Initiative.
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Republican state Sen. Jack Westwood won't seek re-election in 2012
UPDATED: State Sen. Jack Westwood, a Republican from Crescent Springs, confirmed to Pure Politics that he won't seek a fifth term in the state Senate in 2012, opening up a key seat in Northern Kentucky.
When he ends his term next year, Westwood will have served 16 years in the 23rd Senate District that covers much of Kenton County.
"Sixteen years seems to be me to be long enough," Westwood said in a phone interview Wednesday. "I don't have any specific reasons not to (run again). A lot of people object to having career politicians. It was never my intention to be there for 16 years."
Westwood, a former teacher, has pushed in recent years to make a more direct pathway for students to enter technical and community colleges.
He said he will continue to make that a focus in the 2012 General Assembly.
In all, he said he has noticed during his time in the Senate that lawmakers have increasingly made decisions based on how it would help their parties, "not necessarily what's best for the state."
"That's one of the things I'm disenchanted with," he said.
State Sen. Damon Thayer, a Republican from Georgetown who represents the district that covers the other part of Kenton County, said he considered Westwood "a mentor" and "a great legislator."
"His demeanor and his personality is respected by both sides of the aisle," Thayer said.
The 23rd Senate District currently includes three state representatives, who could be potential candidates to replace Westwood.
Republican Reps. Alecia Webb-Edgington of Fort Wright and Adam Koenig of Erlanger live in the district as does Democratic Rep. Arnold Simpson of Covington.
Both Webb-Edgington and Koenig indicated interest in the race but hinted that they wouldn't run against each other in a Republican primary.
"I'm not going to close the door to anything at this juncture," Webb-Edgington said. "But we're not looking to have any bloody primaries among Republicans."
Koenig said the Senate seat "is something I'm going to look at."
"But I'm pretty darn happy in the House. I'd like to be part of the first group of Republican majority in the House since 1920," he said.
Thayer said he has spoken to both Webb-Edgington and Koenig.
"I was glad they told me they would not run against each other," he said.
Thayer also chairs the Senate's state government committee that will lead the redrawing of the legislative districts.
He said the 23rd District is likely to pick up the Kenton County precincts from the neighboring 11th District because it has enough people in Boone County to be its own district.
The southern part of Kenton County includes one other state representative — Republican Rep. Thomas Kerr of Taylor Mill.
Thayer said it's unlikely Taylor Mill will be moved into the 23rd District because that part of Kenton County is in his district — the 17th.
"Rep. Kerr hasn't spoken to me about being interested" in being in the 23rd District, Thayer said. "I don't want to give up any of my Taylor Mill precincts. And I'm really not very interested in splitting the city into two Senate districts."
Simpson, the Democratic representative from Covington, said he won't run for the 23rd District because it will favor Republicans no matter how it is redrawn during the redistricting process.
"In each of the Senate districts in Northern Kentucky — the trends are quite clearly favoring Republicans," he said.
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|By Jeff Varszegi
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|September 13, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Writing code that runs quickly is sometimes at odds with writing code quickly. C.A.R. Hoare, computer science luminary and discoverer of the QuickSort algorithm, famously proclaimed, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." The extreme programming design principle of "You Aren't Gonna Need It" (YAGNI) argues against implementing any features, including performance optimizations, until they're needed.
Writing unnecessary code is undoubtedly bad for work efficiency. However, it's important to realize that different situations have different needs. Code for vehicular real-time control systems has inherent up-front responsibilities for stability and performance that aren't present in, say, a small one-off departmental application. Therefore, it's more important in such code to optimize early and often.
Performance tuning for real-world applications often involves activities geared towards finding bottlenecks: in code, in the network transport layer, and at transaction boundaries. However, these techniques alone cannot solve the dreaded problem of uniformly slow code, which surfaces when large bottlenecks have been resolved but the code still exhibits inadequate performance. This is code that has been written without attention to correct usage, often by junior programmers, in the same style across whole modules or applications. Unfortunately, the best solution for this problem is to make sure that all programmers on a project follow correct coding practice when writing the code the first time; coding guidelines and good shared libraries help enormously.
This article presents helpful tips for writing in-process .NET managed code that performs well. It's assumed that basic programming skills such as factoring control structures, pulling work outside of loops whenever possible, caching variables for reuse, use of the switch statement, and the like are known to the average reader.
All code examples referred to in this article can be downloaded from the .NET Developer's Journal Web site, at www.sys-con.com/dotnet/sourcec.cfm. The code comes with a Windows Forms application that can be used to easily view the code and run all the tests on your own machine. You'll need the .NET Runtime 1.1 to run the code.
While testing tools such as NUnit and the upcoming VS.NET 2005 Team System can help you find bottlenecks, when tuning small sections of code, there's still no substitute for the micro-benchmark. This is because most generic testing frameworks depend on things like delegates, attributes, and/or interface method calls to do testing, and the code usually is not written with benchmarking primarily in mind. This can be very significant if you're interested in measuring the execution time of a batch of code down to the microsecond or even nanosecond level.
A micro-benchmark consists of a tight loop isolating the code that's being tested for performance, with a time reading before and after. When the test has finished, the start time is subtracted from the end time, and this duration is divided by the number of iterations to get the per-iteration time cost. The following code shows a simple micro-benchmark construct:
int loopCount = 1000000000;
long startTime, endTime;
double nanoseconds;
startTime = DateTime.Now.Ticks * 100;
for(int x = 0; x < loopCount; x++) {
// put the code to be tested here
endTime = DateTime.Now.Ticks * 100;
nanoseconds = ((double)(endTime - startTime)) / ((double)loopCount);
Console.WriteLine(nanoseconds.ToString("F") + " ns per operation");
When performing a simple micro-benchmark, it's important to remember a couple of things. First, small fluctuations (noise) are normal, so to obtain the most accurate results, each test should be run several times. In particular, the first set of tests executed after program initialization may be skewed due to the lazy acquisition of resources by the .NET runtime. Also, if your results are very inconsistent, you may not have penetrated the "noise floor" of the measurement. The best solution for this is to increase the number of loops and/or tests. Another thing to remember is that looping itself introduces overhead, and for the most accurate readings, you should subtract this from the result. On a P4-M 2-GHz laptop, the per-loop overhead for a for loop with an int counter in release mode is around 1 nanosecond.
I'd never advocate running each code fragment from a long program through micro-benchmarks, but benchmarking is a good way to become familiar with the relative costs of different types of expressions. True knowledge of the performance of your code is built on actual observations. As time goes on, you'll find yourself needing such tests less and less, and you'll keep track in the back of your head of the relative performance of the statements you're writing.
Another important tool is ildasm.exe, the IL disassembler. With it, you can inspect the IL of your release builds to see if your assumptions are correct about what's going on under the covers. IL is not hard to read for a person familiar with the .NET framework; if you're interested in learning more, I suggest starting with Serge Lidin's book on the subject.
A great free tool for decompiling IL to C# or VB source, Reflector, is found at www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/; it's incredibly useful for viewing code that ships with the .NET Framework, for those of you less familiar with IL.
The CLR Profiler, available as a free download from Microsoft's Web site, allows you to track memory allocation and garbage collection activity, among other useful features. Also, the MSDN Web site has excellent coverage of performance metrics tools such as WMI and performance counters.
Working with Objects and Value Types
Objects: A Double Whammy
Objects are expensive to use, partly because of the overhead involved in allocating memory from the heap (which is actually well-optimized in .NET) and partly because every created object must eventually be destroyed. The destruction of an object may take longer than its creation and initialization, especially if the class contains a custom finalization routine. Also, the garbage collector runs in an indeterministic way; there's no guarantee that an object's memory will be immediately reclaimed when it goes out of scope, and until it's collected, this wasted memory can adversely affect performance.
The Garbage Collector in a Nutshell
It's necessary to understand garbage collection to appreciate the full impact of using objects. The single most important fact to know about the garbage collector is that it divides objects into three "generations": 0, 1, and 2. Every object starts out in generation 0; if it survives (if at least one reference is maintained) long enough, it goes to 1; much later, it transitions to 2. The cost of collecting an object increases with each generation. For this reason, it's important to avoid creating unnecessary objects, and to destroy each reference as quickly as possible. The objects that are left will often be long-lived and won't be destroyed until application shutdown.
Lazy Instantiation/Initialization
The Singleton design pattern is often used to provide a single global instance of a class. Sometimes it's the case that a particular singleton won't be needed during an application run. It's generally good practice to delay the creation of any object until it's needed, unless there's a specific need to the contrary - for instance, to pre-cache slow-initializing objects such as database connections. The "double-checked locking" pattern is useful in these situations, as a way to avoid synchronization and still ensure that a needed action is only performed once. Lazy initialization is a technique that can enhance the performance of an entire application through object reduction.
Avoiding Use of Class Destructors
Class destructors (implemented as the Finalize() method in VB.NET) cause extra overhead for the garbage collector, because it must track which objects have been finalized before their memory can be reclaimed. I've never had a need for finalizers in a purely managed application.
Casting and Boxing/Unboxing Overhead
Casting is the dynamic conversion of a type at runtime to another, and boxing is the creation of a reference wrapper for a value type (unboxing being the conversion back to the wrapped value type). The overhead of both is most heavily felt in collections classes, as they all - with the exception of certain specialized ones like StringDictionary - store each value as an Object. For instance, when you store an Int32 in an ArrayList, it is first boxed (wrapped in an object) when it is inserted; each time the value is read, it is unboxed before it is returned to the calling code.
This will be fixed in the next version of .NET with the introduction of generics, but for now you can avoid it by creating strongly typed collections and by typing variables and parameters as strongly as possible. If you're unsure about whether or not boxing/unboxing is taking place, you can check the IL of your code for appearances of the box and unbox keywords.
Trusting the Garbage Collector
Programmers new to .NET sometimes worry about memory allocation to the point that they explicitly invoke System.GC.Collect(). Garbage collection is a fairly expensive process, and it usually works best when left to its own devices. The .NET garbage collection scheme can intentionally delay reclamation of objects until memory is available, and in particular longer-lived objects (those that make it to generation 1 or 2) may not be reclaimed for an extended period. Even a simple "Hello, world!" console application may allocate 15 MB or more of memory for its "working set." My advice: don't call GC.Collect() unless you really know what you're doing.
Properties, Methods, and Delegates
Avoiding Overuse of Property Getters and Setters
Most people don't realize that property getters and setters are similar to methods when it comes to overhead; it's mainly syntax that differentiates them. A non-virtual property getter or setter that contains no instructions other than the field access will be inlined by the compiler, but in many other cases, this isn't possible. You should carefully consider your use of properties; from inside a class, access fields directly (if possible), and never blindly call properties repeatedly without storing the value in a variable. All that said, this doesn't mean that you should use public fields! Example 1 demonstrates the performance of properties and field access in several common situations.
About Delegates
Delegates are slower to execute than interface methods. Delegates are often used to introduce a level of indirection in code, but in almost all cases interfaces allow a cleaner design. Of course, it's impossible to completely shun delegates; the entire event-handling paradigm in .NET is based on them. Example 2 compares the performance of delegates and direct method calls.
Minimizing Method Calls
The .NET compiler is capable of performing many optimizations for release builds. One of them is called "method inlining." If method A calls method B and certain other conditions are met, such as the code in method B being small enough, the code from B will be copied into A during compilation. However, .NET won't or can't inline certain types of methods, such as virtual methods or methods over a certain size. Each method invocation/property access entails significant overhead, such as the allocation of a stack frame, etc. Of course, you should never repeatedly call a method for the same result on purpose, but you should also be mindful of the impact of method calls in general.
Using the 'Sealed' Keyword
Wherever extensibility is not required, you should use the sealed keyword. This makes your design easier to understand, as someone can tell at a glance if a certain class or method isn't meant to be extended or overridden. It also increases the chances that the compiler will inline code.
Working with Collections
Avoid Overuse of Collections
This might sound strange, but I'm not advocating working without data structures. The fact is, I've seen collections used many times when they don't actually simplify the code or provide any benefit at all. The single biggest avoidable use of collections is the use of an ArrayList when a simple array would suffice. It should be obvious that there's no way that calling a collection method - which may do significant work under the covers - can compare to something as simple as an array access for performance. See Example 3 for more information.
for vs foreach
The rumor abounds that the foreach loop is bad for performance. The truth is actually a little more complicated. Basically, foreach involves no performance penalty when used against arrays. However, when used against lists it involves the same overhead as creating an enumerator and using it within a try/catch block! Ildasm.exe may come in handy here to see what's going on. This isn't a complete killer, but if you do enough list access you may want to avoid it. Example 4 compares the two statements for access against an array and an ArrayList.
Enumerators: Don't Go Overboard
Just because the possibility exists for the enumerating of a collection doesn't mean you have to do it. For instance, the ArrayList class is useful as an array replacement; one of its best features is indexed element access. By using an enumerator with ArrayList, you hide its most useful features and introduce needless overhead. Example 5 shows the performance difference between indexed access and the use of an enumerator.
Avoid Overuse of Collection Wrappers
A peek at the code in classes such as ArrayList shows that, to implement synchronized, fixed-size, and read-only versions of these, methods such as Synchronized() actually create a new wrapper list around the original one (this scheme was copied from Java). While this is nice from certain design standpoints, it degrades performance; the method-call overhead for each operation is multiplied. For a fixed-size, synchronized ArrayList, this overhead is tripled! Chances are, if you're working with a collection and need synchronization, the code using the collection is already synchronized. In any case, simply locking on the collection itself around every access turns out to be faster than using a synchronized wrapper. Example 6 compares the use of a synchronized ArrayList with synchronizing access to an ArrayList.
Working With Strings
Don't Use String.Format() to Concatenate Strings
While string-formatting routines built into .NET are very useful for globalization and other tasks, they're not meant to be used for appending strings to each other. Example 7 tests the performance difference between String.Format() and string concatenation.
Use StringBuilder to Build Strings Inside Loops
The StringBuilder class is basically an array list for string fragments; the StringBuilder takes care of expanding its internal char array, hiding this from the user. The use of this class is also specially optimized by the .NET compiler, making it impossible to duplicate this functionality with equivalent performance (for instance, by manipulating char arrays directly and converting to a string afterwards). Example 8 shows the performance benefit of building a large string using StringBuilder instead of string concatenation.
Don't Use StringBuilder to Concatenate Small Numbers of Strings
Many .NET developers who consider themselves well-versed in performance matters advocate the use of the StringBuilder class whenever possible. However, it's not the fastest approach for concatenating small numbers of strings. Actually, any number can be combined in a single statement, although the performance benefit tends to dwindle above five or six substrings. This is due to instantiation and destruction overhead for the StringBuilder instance, as well as method-call overhead involved in calling Append() once for every added substring and ToString() once the string is built. What are the alternatives? Plus-sign concatenation and the String.Concat() method are equivalent; I prefer plus signs for readability. Note that this cannot be used across loops because the entire concatenation must occur within a single statement. Example 9 tests String.Concat() vs. StringBuilder for various numbers of substrings.
Don't Be Afraid to Use String Literals
Many developers incorrectly assume that a new object is created for every string literal, and, therefore, avoid their use. In some cases, using string literals directly in your code is a better approach than using string constants! It can make the code easier to understand and has no adverse impact on performance. This is due to the use of the .NET interned string table; this table maintains a String instance for every known string and reuses this instance whenever the same character sequence is used as a literal. See the documentation of the String.Intern() method for more details. Example 10 compares string literals to the use of string constants.
In itself, this is a huge topic. Most easy-to-apply, synchronization-related optimizations focus on minimizing the amount of code executing inside synchronized blocks, which may involve moving some code from inside to outside such blocks. In some cases, thoughtful programming may allow elimination of synchronization entirely from a class (see "Immutable Objects").
Performing a multithreaded micro-benchmark is more complicated than running a simple loop. In the simplest method, multiple threads are spawned, each looping over the benchmarked code; the reading is not started until all threads are successfully executing the code, and is terminated before the threads are shut down.
Thread Reuse
Newbie programmers make the common mistake of spawning a new thread for every request or other action. This can result in worse performance than using a single-threaded approach; the relative performance degradation is worse the quicker the individual requests can be serviced.
Writing Your Own Threading Code
Even better than the .NET thread pool, with its dependence on delegates, is to write your own threading code. Instead of using QueueUserWorkItem(), you typically write your own queueing code to coordinate work items. This also allows other benefits such as priority-based queueing.
Immutable Objects
Immutable objects are objects in which the data cannot be changed. In most cases, this is achieved by setting all fields in constructor methods and providing only property getters and/or methods that retrieve data from the object, without any mutator logic whatsoever. Many classes in the .NET Common Type System are immutable: System.String, System. Drawing.Font, etc. In addition, care should be taken that any values returned from property accessors, etc. are immutable as well. Otherwise, this data may be copied to insure the integrity of the object itself. Example 11 shows the performance benefit of immutable objects over synchronization.
Data Copying
This flies in the face of the advice given earlier, to minimize the use of objects. However, it's really the other side of the coin from immutable objects. Object copying allows you to use the data in a non-immutable object, but in a way that still completely avoids synchronization. The more highly multithreaded the environment, the more strategies like this make sense.
Read-Write Locks
Synchronization issues in managed code mirror those in databases. In some situations, optimistic concurrency strategies can be used; in some dirty reads are acceptable, etc. For situations in which a structure is seldom updated and often read, the ReaderWriterLock class can give significant performance benefits over simple synchronization. It allows either multiple read access or single write access at once. Example 12 compares ReaderWriterLock to simple synchronization in a read-heavy scenario.
Minimizing Synchronized Blocks
The use of the [MethodImpl Attribute(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]attribute should be avoided, as it always locks an entire method and is also non-standard C# usage. Instead, the lock keyword or one of the System.Threading classes should be used. Wherever possible, adjust the start of a synchronized section forward and the end backward. Do whatever you can to decrease the number of synchronized operations.
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|Jon von Gillern 05/23/08 11:33:25 AM EDT
You can simplify your micro benchmarks code by using the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class
|Duty Editor 12/28/07 11:19:02 AM EST
Thank you Daniel, we are contacting the plagiarist and will insist the article immediately be pulled down from his site.
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|Daniel 12/28/07 10:11:21 AM EST
You have been plagarized on http://www.thescripts.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3001766#post3001766
|Goku 09/21/07 11:56:18 AM EDT
well written article. very useful
|Sam 02/09/06 12:27:09 PM EST
I could not get the sample code downloaded. Please make it accesible again.
|Enrique 08/05/05 08:57:54 AM EDT
|Mikalai 12/18/04 10:38:13 PM EST
One better use threads. It forces you to THINK using threads, be comfortable with them. The is a HUMAN bottleneck, which is we think in single thread only. And if you write many threads, you excercise what is missing, becaming more valuable programmer. By the way, soon will have multicore processors. Unfortunately, there is tooo much of single thread programs, that will NOT take advantage of great new technologies!
|Mikalai 12/18/04 10:25:20 PM EST
As an example of a place where early optimization is OK you take task where optimization is on the Priority List, which means you should take care of it IF you do eXtreme programming. Article is fine, its just this preambule is false. XP is about doing what you HAVE to do. Like many other agile techniques.
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Perched on the Naftali mountain range in the Galilee, Metzudat Koah affords visitors one of most spectacular views of the Hula Valley, ranging from the patchwork of fields and fish ponds far below to the Golan Heights opposite.
The Hula Valley is part of the Syrian-African Rift, which was formed due to seismic activity. From the Metzudat Koah observation platform, one can map the course of the Jordan River, meandering through the kibbutzim and moshavim as it makes its way to the Sea of Galilee. In some spots, trees planted along the river's banks make the task easier.
The water shimmering in the dozens of fish ponds and the Argamon Nature Reserve's lake and the orchards blossoming in purple, pink and white are all part of the stunning view from the fortress, which was the site of a bitter battle fought in the War of Independence.
Overlooking the Hula Valley mosaic of today, it is difficult to picture the crisscross of reed-filled waterways and malarial swamps, home to water buffalo and wild boar, that the Jewish settlers in the 1880s found when they bought land and founded Yesud Hama'ala. They began a desperate struggle to drain the swamps and build a community.
Metzudat Koah ("Fortress of Strength") is situated close to the tomb of Nebi Yusha (Prophet Joshua) and sometimes known by that name. It's a formidable building, used these days by the Border Police. Although similar in design to the British-built Tegart forts constructed in Palestine during Mandate times, Metzudat Koah - although commissioned by the British - was constructed by Jewish workers in the Histadrut Labor Federation-founded construction company Solel Boneh. The fortress is smaller than most Tegart forts and features an uncharacteristic round turret.
A bright orange sign, with Hebrew text on one side and English on the other, explains Metzudat Koah's history. A group of soldiers on an educational field trip spread themselves out on the tables overlooking the view of the Hula below. They make notes as their guide, another young soldier, relates what happened here just over 60 years ago.
The British Army had evacuated most of this area of the Upper Galilee by the middle of April 1948. Key points were taken over by Arab forces, including Metzudat Koah, commanding the main road in the area as well as the roads to the Jewish settlements of Moshav Ramot Naftali and Kibbutz Manara.
In the evening of April 15, 1948, soldiers from Golani, Palmah and local community militias attacked the former British fortress, which was held by well-armed Arab forces. They arrived in two armored cars and two Egged buses covered in metal plating. After meeting exceptionally strong fire, during which four of the Jewish soldiers were killed, the forces withdrew.
Five days later, the 3rd Palmah Battalion made a second attempt on the position. They broke through the barriers, reaching the fortress walls. Two soldiers were badly wounded and, awaiting their evacuation, delayed the detonation of explosives intended to break through the wall.
During the evacuation of the wounded, the soldiers came under extremely heavy fire and 22 Jewish fighters were killed.
A memorial wall commemorates the total of 28 soldiers who lost their lives before Metzudat Koah was eventually conquered. Koah has a double meaning, as in gematria it corresponds to "28," and the word in Hebrew means "strength."
As they pick up their pens, paper and guns, the soldiers seem to be in complete awe of what went on six decades earlier at this strategically important hilltop.
Taking a last look at the unattractive concrete fortress, one cannot help but ponder the fact that Jewish workers in pre-State Israel had labored so hard to build what years later would take so many Jewish lives in battle.
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Description1990-W G$50 One-Ounce Gold Eagle PR69 Deep Cameo PCGS. A particularly fine specimen earlier in the gold American Eagle proof series. Remarkably smooth surfaces are just a couple of tiny rim defects away from a perfect score, and milk-spotting is minimal.
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