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Phaidon Press, Hardcover, 9780714864624, 262pp.
Publication Date: September 3, 2013
In the finest documentary tradition, "Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs" delves into McCurry's personal archive to reveal never-before-seen ephemera, including journals, portraits, maps, and beautifully reproduced snapshots from various assignments. The book is organized into 14 photo stories, each brought to life by narrative text and over 100 lavish, full-color photo plates. Together, these fascinating documents create a living biography of one of photography's greatest legends.
Spread over some 250 pages are famous and lesser-known images, as well as anecdotes and shots of ephemera he gathered along the way, including letters and journal pages.—The Wall Street Journal
An incredibly thorough book. . . This collection helps us understand how and why someone could create images like those, and makes us all the more thankful for them. . . This book represents a great addition to any photo library.—Photographer's Forum
An engrossing new book about his career, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs contains photo series, essays, journals, and assignment letters.—Newsweek/The Daily Beast
McCurry takes readers on an amazing global journey in Untold. . . This is a book suited for both browsing and focused reading.—Bookpage
Untold spans 30 years of McCurry's career and includes fascinating ephemera from his travels: diary entries, photos of him at work, and some of the 20-plus passports he's gone through over the decades. McCurry survived the Slovenia plane crash, as well as armed robbers and bombings in Afghanistan, but what comes through in his images is wonder, rather than suffering. He manages to make the world seem enormous and quite small; exotic, and somehow familiar.—TIME LightBox
. . .[McCurry] gives you a sense of not just the event but the intimate nature of photographing the event as well. The reader is offered an authentic glance behind the scenes at the life of a true voyager. Untold is an essential read for any aspiring photojournalist or anyone with that wanderlust spirit.—Photo.net, "Best Photography Books of 2013"
We've seen McCurry's greatest hits. . . Here we get the anecdotes behind these images, as well as a slew of lesser-known shots that indicate his ever-ready camera and trigger finger.—American Photo

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Menlo Park CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2012
Time marches relentlessly forward for you and me; watch a movie in reverse, and you'll quickly see something is amiss. But from the point of view of a single, isolated particle, the passage of time looks the same in either direction.
For instance, a movie of two particles scattering off of each other would look just as sensible in reverse - a concept known as time reversal symmetry.
Now the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has made the first direct observation of a long-theorized exception to this rule.
Digging through nearly 10 years of data from billions of particle collisions, researchers found that certain particle types change into one another much more often in one way than they do in the other, a violation of time reversal symmetry and confirmation that some subatomic processes have a preferred direction of time.
Reported this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, the results are impressively robust, with a 1 in 10 tredecillion (1043) or 14-sigma level of certainty - far more than needed to declare a discovery.
"It was exciting to design an experimental analysis that enabled us to observe, directly and unambiguously, the asymmetrical nature of time," said BaBar collaborator Fernando Martinez-Vidal, associate professor at the University of Valencia and member of the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), who led the investigation.
"This is a sophisticated analysis, the kind of experimental work that can only be done when an experiment is mature."
BaBar, which collected data at SLAC from 1999 to 2008, was designed to tease out subtle differences in the behavior of matter and antimatter that might help account for the preponderance of matter in the universe.
It produced almost 500 million pairs of particles called B mesons and their antimatter counterparts B-bar mesons for study.
BaBar scientists found that B mesons and B-bar mesons do, indeed, behave differently in ways that violate so-called CP symmetry, which incorporates the symmetries of charge (positive versus negative) and parity (which can be thought of as left-handedness versus right-handedness). This discovery of CP violation contributed to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
CP symmetry is linked with time reversal symmetry through the CPT (charge-parity-time) Theorem, which states that the three symmetries must remain in balance for any given particle system. If one of the symmetries is out of whack, at least one of the others must be, too.
So the BaBar data, with its evidence of CP symmetry violation already in hand, was a good place to look for violation of time reversal symmetry that would serve to balance CPT as a whole.
BaBar's new time violation analysis was based on a concept proposed in 1999. Researchers examined a chain of particle transformations in which B mesons flipped between two different states called B-zero and B-even.
Taking advantage of the quantum entanglement of the B mesons, which enables information about the first decaying particle to be used to determine the state of its partner at the time of the decay, they were able to find that these transformations happened six times more often in one direction than the other.
"This is a fresh way to understand data we had already used to measure CP violation," said BaBar physics coordinator Abner Soffer, associate professor at Tel Aviv University.
"By looking at it slightly differently we were able to undeniably see time violation as well. What's nice is that the effect was there the whole time, but nobody had thought about it the right way before."
Time violation had previously been seen in particles called neutral kaons by the CPLEAR experiment at CERN, but that measurement was not direct because of the inability to distinguish T violation from CP violation, and the interpretation of those results drew some criticism.
It's hard to set up laboratory conditions that can see time reversal violation, Martinez-Vidal explained. But BaBar provided just the right conditions for a clear, direct measurement.
"In the past, a true test of time reversal symmetry with unstable particles was considered to be impossible," said BaBar associate Jose Bernabeu, a professor at the University of Valencia and IFIC, and one of the originators of the analysis concept. "It's spectacular that the solution came from the same entanglement phenomenon used for quantum communication and computing."
Michael Roney, BaBar spokesperson and professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, said "BaBar's data has been extremely fruitful and continues to produce important results, such as this unique and unambiguous test of quantum field theory.
"As we continue to work on almost 100 measurements from BaBar that investigate the fundamental nature of time and matter, we're gratified to have further validated this underlying theory."
This work is supported by the DOE Office of Science and NSF (USA), NSERC (Canada), CEA and CNRS-IN2P3 (France), BMBF and DFG (Germany), INFN (Italy), FOM (The Netherlands), NFR (Norway), MES (Russia), MINECO (Spain), STFC (United Kingdom). Individuals have received support from the Marie Curie EIF (European Union), the A. P. Sloan Foundation (USA) and the Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel). J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar collaboration), Physical Review Letters, Volume 109, Issue 21 (2012).
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It was the same bungalow which saw the peak time of Rajendra, one which very few people had experienced. At the same time, after the house was purchased by Mr. Rajesh Khanna, his career took a massive upward slope and made him the star of India.
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The WIA is provided to youth that have been deemed 'most in need' and who can benefit from the training. The WIA Program at Friendship House will offer youth a variety of ways to succeed. This program will also work in conjunction with the Decatur County School Board, the Department of Education and other local educational service providers. Provisions are also made to meet the educational needs of students with disabilities.
This is not a one size fits all. There will be 3 ways that participants can receive either a GED or high school diploma Paske stated. He also said that it is a 'whatever it takes' program on Friendship House's part to keep the youth motivated: mentoring, transportation, being a friend, helping find part-time employment, etc.
One is the Out-Of-School Program. This targets the youth that qualify and who are no longer enrolled in high school. The In-School program will provide the youth with a variety of support programs, to help them stay in school and graduate. This program will target the juniors and seniors at Bainbridge High and Bainbridge High Westside. Another program that Friendship House is working to finalize is the Online Diploma. Paske stated that they are still looking at their options. According to him, the Online program has been implemented in Grady County and that 53 Cairo High School students graduated last year using the Online program.
The WIA program will provide those attending with a wide range of curriculum. The curriculum includes: GED Preparation/Adult Education; Leadership Training; Peer to Peer Mentoring; Job Readiness Training; Life Skills Training; Academic Remediation; Work Experience; Job Placement and Music.
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Payne not only is great with the children, he has combined that gift with music and that also carries over to the 200 plus children that Friendship House serves daily. Paske also stated that they are working to build and equip a music studio so the youth can write, record and produce, positive music.
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On the rare occasion that I venture out footloose and baby-free, my destination has to offer the kind of sensory experience that could become a stimulating talking point at future events. This is so I don't become pigeon-holed as that woman who only talks about the colour of poo (as opposed to my thoughts on The Color Purple for example). Mexican bar and eaterie, – Wahaca – located at the heart of London's Fitzrovia – offers just such a destination. With giant swinging bird cages for seats, décor by way of pops of colour and benches punctuated with a hole in the centre serving as toilets, the atmosphere is eclectic and cool.
This is not to say of course that when in yummy mummy mode I stay home in front of reruns of The Biggest Loser; on the contrary, trading vintage tote for nappy bag and pram I head to the peak of Primrose Hill. It's a place far removed from the chaos of city life, where 10 minutes lasts as long as is needed and solitude is mine for the taking though company is never far from reach. With London's panorama stretching out around me, it's the perfect place to breathe, celeb-watch (case-in-point Sacha Baron Cohen – "no pictures please") and literally feel on top of the world.
Delving back down into reality – sort of – I weave my wheels in between the kooky, the kinky and the downright crazy of Camden Market, searching for buried treasure. In amongst the goth-cum-dominatrix couture and scent of street food and incense, I am transported back to an era of punk-fuelled controversy, when Vivienne Westwood ruled and rock festivals filled British summertime with more than just precipitation. From cute cartoon animals to a fabric-woven wonderland straight out of a Moroccan souk, every turn offers something exciting and new.
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Both the Department of Justice and General Services Administration have agreed with Microsoft's accusation that Google is lying about having FISMA certified government software
Earlier this week,
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Now, Google has developed software for government employees called
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. Some government software requires certification under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), which is certified by the General Services Administration (GSA). Microsoft called Google a liar when it claimed to have certified the Google Apps for Government suite, and as it turns out, Microsoft was right. Last week, documents of the legal proceedings were released, and the Department of Justice confirmed that Google, in fact, did not have FISMA certification on the software. Instead, it certified a different software suite called Google Apps Premier.
Google disagreed with the Department of Justice, saying that its Apps for Government is a subset of Apps Premier, hence the company thought that Apps for Government was taken care of through that same certification.
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"Sure, I'd be glad to bring some clarity to it," said McClure. "In July 2010, GSA did a FISMA security accreditation for 'Google Apps Premier.' That's what the Google product was called, and it passed our FISMA accreditation process. We actually did that so other agencies could use the Google product. If we do one accreditation, it's leveraged across many agencies. Since that time, Google has introduced what they're calling 'Google Apps for Government.' It's a subset of Google Apps Premier, and as soon as we found out about that, as with all other agencies, we have what you would normally do when a product changes, you re-certify it. So that's what we're doing right now, we're actually going through a re-certification based on those changes that Google has announced with the 'Apps for Government' product offering."
Despite the Department of Justice and the GSA's lack of support for Google's claims, Carper will continue to follow-up with GSA offices regarding the matter until it is resolved.
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A new French perfume by Etat Libre d'Orange called Sécrétions Magnifiques smells just like what the name suggests it takes — a combo of blood, sweat, and spit. [No tears? — Editor] Although the scent alone is enough to trigger your gag reflex, the $150 price tag will probably do that too. The perfume has been selling at Harvey Nichols, the favorite high-end department store of Absolutely Fabulous' Patsy and Edina, but has just hit the American market at Henri Bendel. Kudos to Antoine Lei, who created the scent that flies in the face of what perfume is even used for — a fresh, pleasant smell to mask body odors. But gosh, doesn't everything sound super chic in French? [The Sun U.K.]


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"There is nothing more haunting than talking to a child who wants to or has injured or killed; the joy and optimism of childhood clashing with a hard bitten, unemotional and cynical view of life - and lives.
These children have not lived childhood in the way we all want to believe it should be lived: they are usually from homes where there is extreme disharmony, often violence that they have witnessed and experienced; they are often boys without a father or a male role model around; they are usually out of the education system from a young age; and they have been written off by their families, their communities and by society.
Such children struggle to find their place in the world - they become embittered and hostile, developing an 'us and them' mentality that leads to suspicion and paranoia. With no strong sense of family or community, they come together and develop their own social bonds that are defined by the status of the gang, respect and revenge.
Within these groups they develop and maintain their status by proving their loyalty which often means defending their honour, either reactively or as a pre-emptive strike - at whatever cost. Children with little or no sense of self worth suddenly have a sense of belonging, a set of relationships bound by loyalty, respect and a purpose - often symbolised by the carrying of their weapons.
As a clinical psychologist working in child and adolescent mental health I have met many young people (some as young as 10) for whom gun and knife violence is part of their life and some who have gone on to injure and kill. For children to commit such crimes shocks society to the core and often leads to calls for tougher laws and custodial sentences as both prevention and punishment - though the brutal truth is that the gun and knife culture is growing and the law in itself is not the only answer to this problem.
It would require funding and resourcing to some of the most deprived areas of Britain where intervention needs to begin early as vulnerable families and communities are identified and supported. From my own experience there are excellent organisations such as Sure Start, set up in 2001 and originally targeted to support 125,000 children in Britain's most deprived areas with 250 centres offering childcare, literacy classes for parents and early intervention in behavioural or learning difficulties.
However this touches the tip of the iceberg and doesn't reach the vulnerable older children and adolescents who are being sucked into, or are already in, the culture of violence. For these children support is scare but does exist such as in organisations like Prospex in Islington, North London, where a group of youth workers headed by Matt Calvert spend hours in stairwells, running groups and setting up community projects on some of Britain's most violent estates - sadly, however, their funding is now threatened.
If someone I loved had been injured or killed by a young person with a gun or knife undoubtedly I would call for the full weight of the law to deal with them - this would be an emotional response. However, there have to be additional approaches to the problem of youth violence, that remove emotion and introduce logic and sees that while putting out fires is crucial, preventing them starting in first place is absolutely essential."


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Negative Thoughts and Emotions
Another entrance demons use is through our negative emotions. Negative emotions are first the result of the person's wrong thinking patterns. If the negative emotions and thoughts are allowed to fester for a long period of time the demon can gain a "foothold" in the mind. The demon then gains influence begins to magnify the wrong thinking with more intense and hateful thoughts. If the person does not correct that intense negative thinking pattern but encourages the thoughts, the demon can gain more control of the mind by permanently entering the mind.
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Bachman and Turner headline Friday night, Aug. 2, the first of three nights of musical acts at the Whitecap Pavilion, a 1,500-seat indoor-outdoor venue in the northwestern Ontario lakefront city.
Also performing on Friday night at 7 p.m. are Kenny Shields & Streetheart and Sweet.
Theory of a Deadman headlines Saturday, Aug. 3, with B.C. pop-punk band Faber Drive opening at 8 p.m.
On Sunday Aug. 4, REO Speedwagon is the main attraction at the Whitecap Pavilion with Starship, featuring Mickey Thomas, and Honeymoon Suite also performing starting at 7 p.m.
Tickets for all three shows are available on the Harbourfest website, harbourfest.ca. Friday and Sunday's shows are $79.65 each while Saturday's show is $66.37, plus taxes and fees.
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Profile-Guided Optimization with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Kang Su Gatlin
Microsoft Corporation
March 2004
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Microsoft® Visual C++® 2005
Summary: Discusses profile-guided optimization in Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (formerly known as Visual C++ "Whidbey"), a powerful new feature that will allow applications to be tuned for actual customer scenarios. Real-world performance gains of over 20% are not uncommon. (13 printed pages)
How Traditional C++ Compilers Work
Whole Program Optimization with Link-Time Code Generation
Profile Guided Optimization
More PGO Tools
PGO and the Visual Studio IDE
Some Tips for PGO Use
There are several reasons to program in C++, and one of the most important ones is the incredible performance that one can obtain. With the release of Microsoft® Visual C++® 2005, you will not only get great performance from all of the traditional methods of optimization, but we've added a new technique, which allows users to get even more out of their application. In this article we show the user how to use profile-guided optimization (PGO) to achieve this incredible performance.
How Traditional C++ Compilers Work
To get a full appreciation of profile-guided optimization, let's start with a discussion of how traditional compilers decide which optimizations to do.
Traditional compilers perform optimizations based on static source files. That is, they analyze the text of the source file, but use no knowledge about potential user input that is not directly obtainable from the source code. For example, consider the following function in a .cpp file:
int setArray(int a, int *array) { for(int x = 0; x < a; ++x) array[x] = 0; return x; }
From this file the compiler knows nothing about the potential values for "a" (besides they must be of type int), nor does it know anything about the typical alignment of array.
This compiler/linker model is not particularly bad, but it misses two major opportunities for optimization: First, it doesn't exploit information that it could gain from analyzing all source files together; secondly it does not make any optimizations based upon expected/profiled behavior of the application. With WPO and PGO, we'll do both of these things.
Whole Program Optimization with Link-Time Code Generation
With Visual C++ 7.0 and beyond, including all recent versions of the Itanium® compiler, Visual C++ has supported a mechanism known as link-time code generation (LTCG). I won't spend too much time in this section, as Matt Pietrek wrote a good article on LTCG in his Under the Hood column (May 2002), which is freely available from MSDN. But here are the basics...
LTCG is a technology that allows the compiler to effectively compile all the source files as a single translation unit. This is done in a two-step process:
- The compiler compiles the source file and emits the result as an intermediate language (IL) into the generated .obj file rather than a standard object file. It's worth noting that this IL is not the same thing as MSIL (which is used by the Microsoft® .NET Framework).
- When the linker is invoked with /LTCG, the linker actually invokes the backend to compile all the code compiled with WPO. All of the IL from the WPO .obj files are aggregated and a call graph of the complete program can be generated. From this the compiler backend and linker compiles the whole-program and links it into an executable image.
With WPO the compiler now has more information about the structure of the entire program. Thus it can be more effective in performing certain types of optimizations. For example, when doing traditional compilation/linking, the compiler could not inline a function from source file foo.cpp to source file bar.cpp. When compiling bar.cpp, the compiler does not have any info about foo.cpp. With WPO the compiler now has both bar.cpp and foo.cpp (in IL form) available to it, and can make optimizations that ordinarily would not be possible (like cross translation unit inlining).
How do you compile an application to make use of LTCG? There are two steps:
- First compile the source code with the Whole Program Optimization compiler switch (/GL):
cl.exe /GL /O2 /c test.cpp foo.cpp
- Then link all of the object files in the program with the /LTCG switch.
link /LTCG test.obj foo.obj /out:test.exe
That's it. You can now run the generated executable and usually it will be faster. We've seen a lot of benefit with LTCG, but it does not come for free. There are increased memory requirements at compile/link time. This is because all of the IL must be addressable, which potentially can be tens or hundreds of compilation units. This can increase the memory requirements needed to build a project, and further can increase the total time to build.
Profile Guided Optimization
LTCG can obviously give you some performance benefit, but we have only just begun improving the performance of your application. Another new technology used in conjunction with LTCG can give an additional performance boost, and in many cases this boost can be very significant. This technology is called profile-guided optimization (PGO).
The idea behind PGO is simple: Generate profiles from running the executable/dll on real-world inputs, which are then used to assist the compiler in generating optimized code for the particular executable. (Note that PGO can be applied to optimizing unmanaged executables or DLLs, but not to .NET/managed images. For the rest of the article, I'll simply refer to the optimized image as an executable or application, although the information applies equally to DLLs.) Really that's about all there is to it, but there are details worth investigating.
There are three general phases to creating a PGO application:
- Compile into instrumented code.
- Train instrumented code.
- Re-compile into optimized code.
We explain each of these three phases in more depth below. See Figure 1 for a graphical representation of the process.
Figure 1. The PGO build process
Compile Instrumented Code
The first phase is instrumenting the executable. To do this, you first compile the source files with WPO (/GL). After this take all of the source files from the application and link them with the /LTCG:PGINSTRUMENT switch (this can abbreviated as /LTCG:PGI). Note that not all files need be compiled /GL for PGO to work on the application as a whole. PGO will instrument those files compiled with /GL and won't instrument those that aren't.
The instrumentation is done by strategically placing different types of probes in the code. You can break the types of probes up into two very rough types: those that are collecting flow information and those that are collecting value information. I won't go into detail as to how we decide what to use and where to use it, but we do go through painstaking effort to make efficient use of the probes. It's also worth noting that the instrumented code may not be as optimized with /O2 as the same un-instrumented /O2 code. (Although we do as many optimizations as we can without interfering with the probes we are placing in the instrumented code.) So with the combination of the instrumentation and un-optimized code, expect your application to run slower. (Of course the optimized code will be optimized without the probes in the code.)
The result of linking /LTCG:PGI will be an executable or DLL and a PGO database file (.PGD). By default the PGD file takes the name of the generated executable, but the user can specify the name of the PGD file when linking with the /PGD:filename linker option.
Table 1 below lists the files that will be generated after each step given in the left column. Note that no files are removed.
Table 1. Generated files after each step
|File Generated
|At the start of compilation
MyApp.cpp foo.cpp
|After compiling with /c /GL
MyApp.obj foo.obj
|After linking with /LTCG:PGI /PGD:MyApp.pgd /out:MyApp.inst.exe
MyApp.inst.exe MyApp.pgd
|After training the instrumented application with three scenarios.
MyApp1.pgc MyApp2.pgc MyApp3.pgc
|After relinking with /LTCG:PGO./PGD:MyApp.pgd
Train Instrumented Code
After creating the instrumented executable, the next step is to train the executable. You do this by running the executable with scenarios that reflect how they'll be used in real life. The output of each scenario run is a PGO count file (.PGC). These files take on the same name as the .PGD file with the a number appended on the end (starting with "1" and increasing with subsequent runs). A given .PGC file can be removed if the user decides that the particular scenario wasn't useful.
Compile Optimized Code
The last step is to relink the executable with the profile information collected from running the scenarios. This time when you link the application, you use the linker switch /LTCG:PGOPTIMIZE (or /LTCG:PGO). This will use the generated profile data to create an optimized executable. Prior to this optimization the linker will automatically invoke pgomgr. pgomgr will, by default, merge all of the .PGC files in the current directory whose name matches the .PGD file into the .PGD file.
- Updating source code. It's important to note that if the source code of the compiled application changed after the .PGD files were generated, then /LTCG:PGO will revert to simply doing an /LTCG build, and not use any of the profile information. So what do you do if you've spent considerable generating profile from your instrumented code, and then realize that you need to make a small change to the code, but would like to reuse the profiles that you've generated? In this case you can specify /LTCG:PGUPDATE (or /LTCG:PGU). PGUPDATE allows the linker to compile modified source code, while using the original .PGD file
What PGO Can Do
- We now have an understanding of how to generate PGO applications, so now the question is, what does PGO do for us? What optimizations does it enable? Here we give a partial list and we expect the set of optimizations we currently do to expand as we find new optimizations and learn better heuristics.
- Inlining. As described earlier, WPO gives the application the ability to find more inlining opportunities. With PGO this is supplemented with additional information to help make this determination. For example, examine the call graph in Figures 2, 3, and 4 below.
In Figure 2. we see that a, foo, and bat all call bar, which in turn calls baz.
Figure 2. The original call graph of a program
Figure 3. The measured call frequencies, obtained with PGO
Figure 4. The optimized call-graph based on the profile obtained in Figure 3
- Partial Inlining. Next is an optimization that is at least partially familiar to most programmers. In many hot functions, there exist paths of code within the function that are not so hot; some are downright cold. In Figure 5 below, we will inline the purple sections of code, but not the blue.
Figure 5. A control flow graph, where the purple nodes get inlined, while the blue node does not
- Cold Code Separation. Code blocks that are not called during profiling, cold code, are moved to the end of the set of sections. Thus pages in the working set usually consist of instructions that will be executed, according to the profile information.
Figure 6. Control flow graph showing how the optimized layout moves basic blocks together that are used more often, and cold basic blocks further away.
- Size/Speed Optimization. Functions that are called more often can be optimized for speed while those that are called less frequently get optimized for size. This tends to be the right tradeoff.
- Block Layout. In this optimization, we form the hottest paths through a function, and lay them out such that hot paths are spatially located closer together. This can increase the utilization of the instruction cache and decrease the working set size and number of pages used.
- Virtual Call Speculation. Virtual calls can be expensive due to the jumping through the vtable to invoke method. With PGO, the compiler can speculate at the call site of a virtual call and inline the method of the speculated object into the virtual call site; the data to make this decision is gathered with the instrumented application. In the optimized code, the guard around the inlined function is a check to ensure that the type of the speculated object matches the derived object.
The following pseudocode shows a base class, two derived classes, and a function invoking a virtual function.
class Base{ ... virtual void call(); } class Foo:Base{ ... void call(); } class Bar:Base{ ... void call(); } // This is the Func function before PGO has optimized it. void Func(Base *A){ ... while(true) { ... A->call(); ... } }
The code below shows the result of optimizing the above code, given that the dynamic type of "A" is almost always Foo.
// This is the Func function call after PGO has optimized it. void Func(Base *A){ ... while(true) { ... if(type(A) == Foo:Base) { // inline of A->call(); } else A->call(); ... } }
DLL Use
A short note on PGO and DLLs: You train/profile the DLLs by running the executable, which links the DLL on a set of representative scenarios. You can further use different executables for different scenarios and merge all of the scenarios into a single .PGD file. It is important to know that PGO technology currently does not support static libraries.
General Effectiveness
The current implementation of PGO has proven to be extremely effective in getting real-world performance. For example, we've seen 30%+ improvement on large real-world applications such as Microsoft® SQL Server, and 4-15% gains on the SPEC benchmarks (depending on the architecture). See Figure 7 for performance speedup of PGO over the best static compilation setting (Link Time Code Generation) using the SPEC benchmarks.
Figure 7. SPEC performance improvement with PGO over that of Link Time Code Generation, for all three platforms
More PGO Tools
PGO support in Microsoft® Visual C++ comes with a couple of tools to help the user do precisely what they need to do. This section describes each of these included tools.
- pgomgr. pgomgr is a tool to do post-processing on .pgd files generated by PGO. (Note that for PSDK Itanium compiler users, pgomgr in Whidbey replaces pgmerge and part of pgopt from the old PSDK compiler. These two tools are no longer available, as their functionality has been subsumed.) The .PGC files need to be merged into the .PGD to be used for the optimize phase of PGO. The pgomgr tool does this merging. The syntax for this statement is:
pgomgr [options] [Profile-Count paths] <Profile-Database>
By default, if /LTCG:PGI is run in a directory with .PGC files, those .PGC files will be merged if they match the .PGD file for the program being linked (so you needn't always use pgomgr). The list of options is given here:
- /?Gets help
- /helpSame as /?
- /clear Remove all merge data from the specified pgd
- /detail Display verbose program statistics
- /merge[:n] Merge the given PGC file(s), with optional integer weight
- /summary Display program statistics
- /unique Display decorated function names
- pgosweep. The pgosweep tools interrupts a running program that was built with PGO instrumentation, writes the current counts to a new .PGC file, and then clears the counts from the runtime data structures. This program has two main intended uses: First, if PGO is being used on code that never ends. (For instance, things like the OS kernel.) Second, to obtain precise profile information about a certain part of the program. For example, you may not want to profile the night-time scenarios of an application, so you use pogosweep in those situation and then delete the .PGC files from that part of the scenario.
The usage for pogosweep is:
pogosweep <instrumented image> <.PGC file to be created>
PGO and the Visual Studio IDE
Command-line tools are great to use, but if you're working within the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Integrated Development Environment (IDE), then you may want to fully leverage functionality, such as PGO, from within the Visual Studio IDE. Visual Studio 2005 (formerly known as Visual Studio "Whidbey") offers support for PGO through a set of menu items, which allow the programmer to do an instrumented build, run scenarios, do an optimized build, or do an update build. The instrumented build, optimized build, and update build all produce an .exe or .dll file as the output. The optimized builds and the update build require a .pgd file to be available. This .pgd file can be generated by running the Run Profiling Scenario menu item.
Figure 8. A screen shot of PGO support in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE
Some Tips for PGO Use
Here are some basic tips that can improve your PGO experience.
- The scenarios used to generate the profile data should resemble the real-world scenarios the application will see when deployed. The scenarios are NOT and attempt at doing code coverage.
- Using scenarios to train with that are not representative of real-world use can result in code that performs worse than if PGO was not used.
- Name the optimized code something different from the instrumented code, for example, app.opt.exe and app.inst.exe. This way you can rerun the instrumented application to supplement your set of scenario profiles without rerunning everything again.
- To tweak results, use the /clear option of pgomgr to clear out a .PGD files.
- If you have two scenarios that run for different amounts of time, but would like them to be weighted equally, you can use the weight switch (/merge:weight in pgomgr) on .PGC files to adjust them.
- You can use the speed switch to change the speed/size thresholds.
- Use the inline threshold switch with great caution. The values from 0-100 aren't linear.
In closing, the basic steps for generating a PGO application are:
- Compile with Whole Program Optimization (/GL) on the files that you would like PGO to work on. The user can selectively choose files that don't get optimized with whole program optimization and PGO, by not compiling them with /GL.
- Link the application with Link Time Code Generation using /LTCG:PGINSTRUMENT. This generates an instrumented executable.
- Train the application with scenarios generating .pgc files.
- Re-compile the application (although you're invoking the linker) with /LTCG:PGOPTIMIZE. This will optimize the executable based on the profile data.
The end result is a program or library that is optimized for the real-world situations that your program or library will run under.
About the Author
Kang Su Gatlin is a Program Manager at Microsoft in the Visual C++ group. He received his PhD from UC San Diego. His focus is on high-performance computation and optimization—essentially he enjoys making code run fast.


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THIRD TIME NOT THE CHARM: Crown Princess Cruise Review by BURNSMN
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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Pre-Embarkation: We traveled to Fort Lauderdale via the Cruise Connection Bus Service from Clearwater. We arranged this service at a discount through Princess and were very satisfied with all aspects including timeliness, cleanliness, and comfort. This was a large tourist type bus with a restroom and movie screens. We stopped in Fort Myers for a break at a local McDonald's.
Embarkation: We arrived at Port Everglades Pier around 12:15 P.M. and within a half hour were on the ship. We had about a ten minute wait outside the terminal and about a ten minute wait in chairs inside before we were called for check-in. I would rate the overall procedure as excellent.
Ship: We had previously been on the Crown Princess out of San Juan and found it to once again be in great shape. We enjoy the layout More of the ship with activities centered around Decks 5-7 and 15-17.
Stateroom: Our cabin was on the Emerald Deck 8 center ship. The room was a obstructed view outside cabin. When looking out our window the view was partially blocked by a lifeboat. We had a similar cabin two years ago on the Crown and the only noticeable difference was a flat screen television. We did have some noise problems from the Explorer's Lounge which was directly below us. When any bands were playing you definitely could hear the bass sounds. It was fine at all other times.
Dining: We signed up for anytime dining and divided our time between Horizon Court/Cafe Caribe and the table service restaurants. We also ate at the International Cafe, Hamburger Grill and Pizza Grill. We also went to the Wheel House Bar for English Pub Lunch on one of the sea days and did afternoon tea at the DaVinci Dining Room. On this cruise dined in the main dining rooms on formal night. In comparing the food quality over the last three years we thought that the buffets have gone down in quality while the main dining rooms seemed to be better this year. The International Cafe and both the Hamburger and Pizza Grills continue to be very good. One thing we found very interesting was that the prawns on the last formal night were much better that the lobster tails.
Service: We received good service from our cabin steward. I asked for ice to be kept in the bucket in the refrigerator at all times and it was throughout the whole cruise. Each night you received turn down service with chocolates left on the bed. Our room was always clean. The only complaint I had was that for the first time since we began cruising they ran out of pool towels. Clean towels have always been put in the cabin at the end of the day. One night we were told that no more pool towels were available and that we would have to get our own around the pools. When we tried, it took about five people to find any towels. Dining room service was the best we've had on our three cruises.
Entertainment: This is where things start going downhill from our past cruises. We enjoy taking in as much of the shipboard entertainment as possible. In past years we have never had a problem with finding something to see in the evenings. This year many shows were repeated. While we would find one show to go to, in the past we have always been able to go to two or three different things each night. Princess has obviously cut back in this area. There were three production shows, one hypnotist, and two comedians that we saw. The three shows were Motor City, What a Swell Party, and Destination Anywhere. Hypnotist was Joshua Seth. Comedians were Rollin Jay Moore and Troy Thirdgill. We did enjoy them all but wish there was more entertainment in the lounges besides house bands and Bert Stratton. Bert is good once but you can't go see him every night.
Itinerary: This was our least favorite of the three Caribbean routes we have taken. The four Western Ports were not as enjoyable as the Southern Ports we have traveled to before. The long winter had a major effect on this route and even though we stopped at all four ports, water temperatures in general were much cooler that what we experienced before. What is more remarkable is that the crew said our week was the best weather week since Thanksgiving! The Crown has missed ports numerous times through the season.
Ports: See the Ports Review Section. Princess Cays was a disappointment with cold water, too many people, and not enough loungers.
Disembarkation: We had signed up for the Cruise Connection bus back to Clearwater. We got off of the ship last along with the few back to back cruisers. We left at about 10 AM, picked up our luggage in the terminal, went through customs, and were able to load right onto our bus. Again, as with Embarkation the whole procedure was very efficient and we would give it an excellent rating.
In summary, we did enjoy the Crown and this cruise but in no way did it compare to our last two spring break experiences. Less
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Most of the information shown here was in a three part series originally in Ham Radio Magazine in 1988 just before the magazine went out of business.
These articles describe an approach to amateur microwave station design which can provide fully phaselocked, all-mode operation on all of the amateur VHF-microwave bands. The design presented uses a bare minimum of microwave hardware along with a single phaselock board, used repeatedly, allowing all the features of a multi-mode amateur HF (20-30 MHz range) transceiver to be translated to any or all of the amateur UHF or microwave bands from 144 MHz to 24,192 MHz..
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Carnival Triumph - Eastern Caribbean: Carnival Triumph Cruise Review by binkyj826
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Carnival Triumph - Eastern Caribbean
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
Morning of: Since the Sheraton was only about a block away - I called and asked if Carnival was having pre-check in. The front desk said yes. We walked there and it turned out to be another cruise line More and not Carnival. If you want to know make sure you ask for the Concierge. He was the only one who knew anything.
Embarkation: We got to the pier around 11:45 and there were already long lines. I think we waited around 45min to an hour to get through the lines.
The Ship: Absolutely beautiful! We went on the Destiny in 1998 and that had more of a "glitzy" dEcor. The Triumph was a lot more sedate in coloring but still just as spectacular. We had a balcony room and it was on the Lido deck (room 9282) and it was perfect. Right near the glass doors that open to one of the pools and right near the laundry! For all you stain fanatics - there were some on the carpets but not once was the carpet actually dirty and I saw people cleaning all the time. There was a singles group of about 600 people and it made for some interesting and entertaining moments. I am sure there were some children on board. Maybe because they all seemed so well behaved I hardly noticed them. Actually a lot of them were so polite they even held the elevators for me if they noticed me approaching! We did have rough seas for the first couple of days including 12ft waves. Doesn't bother me but Fred wasn't feeling too great.
Cruise Critic Meeting/Log Book: I had a great time meeting everyone and it was nice to run into people and be able to say hello. Almost all of us was on the Godfrey Tour (details to follow) and it was a blast. Big thank you to Roscoe's daughters for the use of the snorkel equipment (our first time!) in St. Thomas and for RRLLAL and his wife (who is really great!) for letting me sit with them during a lot of the bingo games (Fred is not a big bingo player!) We found the log book in the Library over by the games. Had fun reading everyone's entries. If RRLLAL reads this - we were able to sneak into the library about midnight and read your entry too!
Entertainment: We had a couple of Cruise Critic stars with us. Roscoe was pulled up on stage for the Welcome Aboard show and Fred was pulled up for the infamous Bedtime Story. He played the bad guy (Who's Your Daddy!) It was a great experience and after that everyone would come up to him and chat. John Heald was great - even if he did the exact same things 5 years ago on the Destiny. This was his second to last week. The comedians were funny and the magic show was good. Lost money in the Casino, of course and could never win at bingo. I did notice that they never did the free cruise bingo. But the last one was for $2000 (which you get a good price on a cruise for 2 and have money left over for airfare!).
Food: I will start with the only bad thing first - the desserts. Almost everything we tried was really bland except for a select few in the dining room (same issue on the Destiny, too). That said everything else was yummy! We sat with another couple in the Paris restaurant (our first time sitting with other people) and they were great. Our waiter, Sam from India, was great and always had my tea and Fred's cappuccino ready for us right after dinner. We didn't have to ask for more of anything. He always brought extra appetizers, entrEes and desserts - telling us to try this one or this one. The food on the Lido deck was good too and never cold. My only other complaint is that they need to label the food a little better because sometimes I had no idea by either name or look that there was fish in the dish. Luckily I am not allergic - just my taste buds are.
San Juan: I really, really wanted to find something nice to say.....but I can't. We just got off the ship and walked around. For some reason I started getting a migraine and really nauseated so we headed back to the ship after 2 hours - no Senior Frogs like we planned. I ended up in bed by 7:30.
St. Thomas: Took the Godfrey tour for $20/person. This was the best deal all vacation (even beats out my cheap meal at Hooters!) First he dropped us off for shopping. Fred and I were hungry so we found a nice cafe called Jen's. This is a great lady who came from Chicago and has lived in St. Thomas for the past 18 years. Decent food. Godfrey suggested her place. We poked around the stores. FYI - John Heald said that St. Thomas was the best port for liquor. Wrong. St. Martin had the best prices. After about 2 hours Godfrey picked us up and took us on a very detailed tour of the Island. This guy knows his stuff and answered any questions we had. Don't forget to get your Banana Daiquiri! After the tour we had our choice of beaches - Meagan's Bay or Coki beach. We ended up at Coki beach. Across the street from the beach you can rent jet skis. Fred did this at a cost of $50 for a half hour ($90 for an hour). Roscoe's family had rented 2 chairs and were nice enough to let us leave our shoes and towels there and his daughters lent us their snorkeling equipment....our first time! (Big thank you to them). The water was absolutely beautiful. The beach itself was just ok. Meagan's Bay looked so much better. Godfrey again picked us up after about 2 hours and gave us a tour back to the ship. All in all it was a fantastic time.
St. Martin: We didn't really do too much in St. Martin. We took our time getting off of the ship and then we spent the day walking around and shopping. We passed Everything's Cool a couple of times and I really wish that we had gone and visited. Everyone who went that we talked to said that they had a great time. Boo Hoo. Just another excuse to get there again! Don't forget your free sample of Guavaberry Colada.
Disembarking: We decided to walk our own luggage off of the ship and this was great. We paid for the Carnival transfers ($11/person). We were at the airport by 8:45am. We had a 3:45 flight but was able to get on an earlier flight (11am!).
Notes of Interest: *Love that Funvision! After getting sick in San Juan I went to bed and Fred decided to go have a couple of drinks. I woke up around 11pm and was curious where he might be. Turned on Funvision, entered the folio number and ta da! I could tell he was hanging out at the Olympic Sports bar based on what he ordered for drinks.
*Go and grab that "free" stuff that they tell you about on the Shore talks. I say "free" because something's were $5 or $10 - but still a good deal. I ended up with: tanzanite earrings (free), another pair tanzanite earrings ($5), the matching pendant ($5), pink sapphire earrings ($10 and are really nice), and a 1 carat loose blue topaz (free but they would really like you to have it set there - I didn't)
*St. Thomas was my favorite port with all that we did. St. Martin was the most beautiful one and the one port that I would love to go back and visit again. The water was THE most clearest, green/blue color I have ever seen. San Juan.....if you don't have anything nice to say....well I am sure you get my meaning.
*All in all this was my favorite cruise out of all 2 that I have been on! We got out and mingled more with people and that made it all the better.
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Actually, yes. The Tax Foundation put out this helpful map of the states with the highest and lowest percentage of people who don't file income tax returns. The biggest non-filing states are — except Florida and New Mexico — solid red states:
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After years of work, a bill to clarify that elementary schools may send home lists of supply requests to parents is finally gaining some traction.
The House unanimously approved HB62 on Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, would make it clear that elementary schools are allowed to request supplies from parents, though it will be optional for parents to buy them. If parents didn't wish to buy the supplies, the school would still have to provide them, according to the bill.
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Powell said the bill would mean teachers would spend less of their own money on supplies, parents could help contribute to their kids educations when able, and more money would be left in the classroom for other purposes.
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Announcement of
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National Cancer Advisory Board
Remarks by
Lester M. Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Acting Commissioner of the FDA
February 16, 2005
Thank you Andy (Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Director, National Cancer Institute) for your kind introduction. It is a genuine pleasure to join you in announcing this first major program stemming from our two agencies' collaboration in the Interagency Oncology Task Force (IOTF)
I want to commend the many senior staff from both agencies especially Dr. Janet Woodcock and Dr. Theresa Mullin of FDA and Dr. Anna Barker of NCI for the long hours devoted to this collaboration over the past two years. Staff from both agencies continue to work jointly in other major areas under the IOTF umbrella that will be crucial to fostering the new age of medical products to conquer cancer, including nanotechnology, surrogate markers of clinical benefit, and chemoprevention.
As Dr. von Eschenbach mentioned, FDA and NCI have distinctly separate missions but a common goal in the fight against cancer. NCI's mission is one of basic and clinical research to foster discovery and development of new medical products and FDA's mission is to assure the safety, efficacy, and quality of manufacturing of new medical products prior to marketing. In other words, part of FDA's responsibility is to ensure that basic discoveries turn into new and better medical treatments.
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