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Calligan Creek Falls

King County, Washington

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Calligan Creek houses a rather large waterfall about 1/2 mile above its mouth. The falls drop a total of 156 feet in immediately back-to-back-to-back steps of 68, 41 and 47 feet respectively. Each tier twists away from the previous drop in such a way that with the orientation of the canyon there is currently no way to clearly see all three tiers collectively (this could change if several trees were to fall). Unfortunately the obscured views are not the only obstacle presented in attempting to see this waterfall. The canyon itself is structured in such a way that the slopes are too steep to climb down (in many places the cliffs are sheer) and the most direct views of the falls are blocked entirely by the forest. Only one even remotely clear view is possible without being at the bottom of the canyon, and it involves being perched on a ledge about 2 feet wide with a sheer 150 foot drop on three sides. Because of this precarious viewpoint we do not recommend attempting to visit this waterfall until a safer point of access can be found.

Snohomish County PUD currently has plans to construct a dam near the outlet of Calligan Lake which would harness Calligan Creek for hydroelectric generation, the project scheduled to break ground in 2015. Based on the current application documents, the dam would allow for a minimum release of 2 cubic feet per second throughout the year, but would be ramped up to as much as 15 cfs during the summer months. The power house would likely be shut off during the summer when flows do not reach the minimum release levels. Coupled with natural springs which feed into Calligan Creek above the falls, there should be at least 4-5 cubic feet of water per second flowing over the falls at all times under this proposal, which is still a reduction of nearly 90% of its natural mean flow.

The falls lie on the Snoqualmie Tree Farm and though public access is allowed, visitors are limited to non-motorized travel unless they have purchased an expensive vehicle access permit which comes with a key to the gates on the property. The road system is in excellent shape for mountain biking, which is our preferred method of access.

History and Naming

Calligan Creek Falls is the Unofficial name of this waterfall.

Photo Tips

If clearer views of this waterfall were possible it would be rather scenic but as it is the only even moderately clear view is from an extremely precarious position and we do not suggest it be sought out. The falls face due west and will see direct sunlight in the early to mid afternoon hours.

Location & Directions

Coordinates:   47.60523, -121.70417
Elevation:   1621 feet
USGS Map:   Mount Si 7 1/2"

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By The Numbers

The information presented in this table is meant to help identify and clarify the physical aspects of the waterfall for comparative purposes. While we try to ensure this information is as accurate as possible, sometimes it will prove necessary to either estimate or flat out guess at certain characteristics where either enough information isn't readily available, is not known, or we were not able to confirm a given trait upon surveying. This information may be changed at any given time to ensure accuracy.

Total Height

The Total Height listed for the waterfall represents the difference in elevation from the top of the uppermost drop, to the bottom of the lowermost drop of the waterfall, including all stretches of interstitial stream in between. Stream between two tiers of a waterfall is counted in its overall height regardless of whether or not that section of the stream would be legitimately considered a waterfall on its own right, were it to be isolated. Waterfalls with only one drop will of have the height of only the single drop listed here.

Tallest Drop

The Tallest Drop figure represents the height of the largest single drop within a multi-stepped waterfall. Waterfalls with only one drop will have the total height of the waterfall repeated here.

Num of Drops

The Number of Drops in a waterfall is a tally of the total number of distinct drops which make up the waterfall. Stretches of interstitial stream in between two or more distinct drops of a single waterfall are NOT considered to be distinct drops of the waterfall unless the section of stream in question would otherwise qualify as a waterfall were it to be isolated.

Avg Width

The Average Width of the waterfall represents the breadth of the waterfall from bank to bank under typical flow conditions, or if the waterfall has been Cataloged, under the conditions which it was most thoroughly surveyed. Often this number will be approximated because of a lack of approachability to many waterfalls. We often utilize Google Earth to measure the width (where imagery is of sufficient quality and resolution to allow it.

Maximum Width

Maximum Width represents a hypothetical measurement of roughly how wide a waterfall could get during peak streamflow or flood conditions. For smaller waterfalls, this figure will generally not differ much from the Average Width measurement, but for broader waterfalls - especially those that feature a crest that isn't constricted - this figure can at times be consideraby larger. Like the Average Width measurement, this measurement will take into account the difference in width at the top and bottom of the waterfall as much as possible, but will often be made based on the width of the crest of th falls alone.

The Pitch of a waterfall is an estimated - often very roughly - measure of the average slope or steepness of a waterfall. The Pitch figure only takes into account sections of stream which are actively falling. Pools or stretches of level stream in between two or more successive drops of the falls will not factor in this figure. As an example, a waterfall which features two truly free-falling leaps separated by several dozen yards of flat stream will have a Pitch of 90 degrees. Similarly, a waterfall with two drops separated by a pool, one with a true free-falling drop, and one with a Horsetail type fall will average the two, so while the Plunging drop has a Pitch of 90 degrees, if the Horsetail drop has a Pitch of 45 degrees, the total Pitch will be roughly 67 degrees.

The Run of a waterfall is a measurement representing the total linear distance on the ground between the top and bottom of a waterfall. This figure is not often easy to establish with a high degree of precision and as such will often be estimated. Waterfalls with a longer Run will usually either be less steep, often cascading type waterfalls, or will feature multiple steps separated by shorter stretches of a more gradual gradient streambed.

The system of classification of waterfall forms we use is a heavily modified derivative of the classifications outlined by Greg Plumb in his "Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest" books. While plumb uses eight distnct forms, we wanted further granularity and opted to break down the hierarchy twofold: first based on the overall pitch of the waterfall, and then based on what shape the fall takes as it makes its descent. There are five primary Categories of falls in this system: Plunge, Horsetail, Steep Cascades, Shallow Cascades, and Rapids. Additional deliniation is then applied depending on characteristics such as the breadth of the falls, whether it splits into two or more channels, whether it falls in multiple successive drops, etc. For more information on our waterfall form classifications, see the Help page.

The watershed which a waterfall occurs within, if it is specified, will be based on the ultimate distributary watercourse to the ocean. For example, Washington's Palouse Falls occurs along the Palouse River - which is a tributary to the Snake River, which is itself a tributary to the Columbia River, which ultimately enters the Pacific Ocean, so Palouse Falls would then fall within the Columbia River watershed. Streams which empty directly into the ocean, or into a minor basin which then empties to the ocean will often have this field left blank.

The name of the watercourse which the waterfall occurs along. If the watercourse is not known to have an officially or colloquially recognized name, this field is left blank.

Avg Volume

The volume of water present in the stream at the location of the waterfall. This is often the most difficult figure to pin down because accurately measuring streamflow is not a simple process. We will rely on USGS data as much as possible, and attempt to take into account seasonal fluctuations in stream levels if possible. There is no guarantee that this figure will be accurate, and in cases where there is no USGS data to use, it may be a very, very rough estimate at best.

If known, the primary source of the watercourse which produces the waterfall will be listed here. This is helpful in determining whether a waterfall may flow more consistently during certain periods of the year - streams which originate in Springs, Lakes, or Glaciers will often flow more consistently throughout the year than those fueled by simply Runoff. The source of the stream may also be either unknown or undetermined.

Flow Consistency

A rough estimation of how many months out of the year the stream which produces the waterfall will actually hold water. The vast majority of waterfalls featured on this website will technically be truly perennial waterfalls (those that flow all year long), but some may see their flow dwindle greatly in the late summer months. This figure will not take into account the winter months when the waterfall may freeze, because in such cases the waterfall will very often be inaccessible. Entries which specify a Flow Consistncy of 12 Months should in general have an acceptable flow at any time of year (but may be better during certain periods - see below).

Best Flow

A general estimate of the best period of the year during which time the falls will be considered at optimal conditions, or flowing at their best. There may be variance within the range specified where the flow will be better or worse, but visiting at any time in the range specified (if available) will generally present the waterfall in its best light.

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Unconfirmed Waterfalls are often marked on a published map, but we have yet to confirm the exact location and / or whether or not its stature is significant enough to qualify for listing in the database. Statistical information may be estimated and may be inaccurate. No directions.
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Waterfalls marked as Unknown are either suspected to exist based on heresay or a hunch, or we have received unverified information suggesting a waterfall may exist near the location provided but cannot corroborate it in any way. Geodata may not be accurate, the location may not be known at all, and statistical information will be estimated and highly inaccurate.
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Inundated Waterfalls have been submerged beneath lakes or reservoirs, usually a result of impoundment of a river behind a dam, and most often no longer functionally exist (there may be rare exceptions). We maintain records for these features out of historical importance.
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Though not common, some waterfalls can be found entirely underground within cave systems. Access to subterranean waterfalls can vary from easy via developed walkways to requiring a high level of extremely technical spelunking skill, including familiarity with ropework and a distinct lack of claustrophobia.
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SPEEDSTERS BUSTED: A trio of speedsters were arrested on March 23. One was caught travelling at 234km/h. His reason? Dropping a sibling off at soccer practice. Image: Shutterstock

JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng - A 22-year-old man was arrested on the N12 in Alberton, near Johannesburg, after caught travelling at 234km/h on Sunday (March 22 2015).

Ekurhuleni chief superintendent, Wilfred Kgasago, said: "The driver claimed he was rushing his younger brother to a soccer practice."

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Jul 9, 2018

On Wednesday the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s public comment period on a proposed court order against Chemours will end. That order would require the company to implement measures to eliminate or reduce air emissions and water impacts caused by GenX and related compounds from their Fayetteville facility.

The proposed order would require Chemours to reduce facility-wide air emissions of GenX compounds by at least 97 percent by the end of August, and a 99 percent reduction by the end of next year.

In addition, it would force the company to conduct re-testing of private drinking wells on a quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis, depending on the level of GenX compounds initially detected.

Chemours would also have to provide permanent alternative water supplies or treatment systems to households impacted by groundwater contamination, and conduct toxicity studies relating to human health and aquatic life impacts from chemicals at the facility.

Lastly the order would require Chemours to coordinate with downstream public water utilities when there is the possibility of a discharge of GenX compounds into the Cape Fear River above the current state health goal of 140 parts per trillion.

Upon conclusion of the public comment period, DEQ will see whether changes to the proposed order are needed and if so, submit a revised order to the court.

DEQ intends to ask the court at that time to issue the order.


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Conversion Optimization in a Multi-Device World

4 min. read | Last updated: July 11th, 2017

I’d like to share a summary of a talk I gave recently at SES and SMX. It also made it to the front page of Slideshare in the “Hot” topics section and I thought you’d like to see it too.

I co-presented at SMX with Jeff Allen of Hanapin Marketing who gave a detailed (if slightly depressing for some who aren’t prepared) presentation about how to deal with Google’s changes to mobile PPC with Enhanced Campaigns. Jeff’s a smart guy and has figured out how to manage the upcoming changes. In short: PPC is going to get *much* more complex and marketers’ websites need to be ready to serve all types of devices—by June, 2013!

How are you going to deal with Google’s Enhanced Campaigns and the rise of mobile?

You have 5 options to facilitate mobile marketing:

  1. Don’t customize for mobile
  2. Build a mobile app
  3. Build mobile landing pages
  4. Build responsive landing pages
  5. …or, don’t decide

If you choose option 1 or 5, don’t hold off for too long. The rate of 4G LTE adoption is bringing an entirely new type of mobile customer. There are reports of some people with 4G phone getting faster internet speeds than on their home cable!

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4G download speeds are *much* faster than 3G

4G isn’t just a little bit faster than 3G. It’s enormously faster.

The implication for you: these 4G users expect the responsiveness, product selection and experience of the full website, in a fraction of the screen size. They’ll become even more accustomed to doing everything they need to from anywhere. If you don’t deliver, they’ll move on to someone who will.

Option 2, building mobile apps, requires a unique mobile strategy and it’s not for everyone. Amazon has done well here to empower showrooming with their Price Check app. (And, I know all my retailer friends will hate me for linking to that, but it’s not going away.) But, few can pull this off. Also, the mobile app option is not effective for search marketing, and still requires companies like Amazon to create another mobile site.

Most companies that have built a mobile presence have used option 3, building mobile landing pages or a mobile version of the website. This has made the most sense for many, until perhaps now.

eMarketer went this route, but experienced one of the major down-sides: their mobile version of their site was being indexed in Google organic search instead of their desktop version.

The result was a terrible desktop landing page experience for some organic searches and none of their normal calls-to-action being shown.

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eMarketer’s mobile site being shown for a desktop user – yikes!

Building mobile-specific sites and landing pages comes with drawbacks:

  • (Potentially) confusing listing in SERPs – as we saw with eMarketer
  • Higher maintenance costs with multiple code-bases – and think about sustaining separate sites for all different devices (!)
  • Inconsistent user experience across devices – like, where are my opportunities to respond to CTAs on the eMarketer mobile version (!)
  • Not future-proof – e.g what screen size are internet fridges?

The fourth option is to build with Responsive Web Design (RWD). In previous articles, I covered the fact that Google recommends RWD and how conversion optimization works for RWD.

There are up-sides to a mobile-specific solution in the short-term. It may be a quicker, low-cost solution to get something—anything—up for mobile visitors.

But, it’s still a short-term band-aid. Eventually, building a new version of your website for the many screen sizes will become impractical and RWD will be the best long-term solution.

Good news: The LIFT Model works for RWD too!

One major benefit of the LIFT Model™ is that it takes a customer-centric, experiential perspective, making it applicable to virtually any environment. At WiderFunnel, we’ve used our CRO system with LIFT to optimize mobile, desktop, apps, and even TV game experiences.

In preparing for the presentation, I wanted to give an example of how to apply LIFT to mobile. In my arbitrary product searches, I came across so many poor mobile experiences that I had a hard time choosing just one as an example. Mobile conversion optimization is clearly a ripe field for many to leapfrog their competitors.

I settled on showing a summary of a LIFT analysis for an InvisibleShield landing page because it had some common problems that were immediately apparent.

Mobile landing page LIFT Analysis
Mobile landing page LIFT Analysis

But, those weren’t the biggest problems. Below the fold had all kinds of Distraction with too many product options and a huge, scrolling page.

mobile landing page optimization LIFT Analysis
Too many product options!

If we were to get our hands on this landing page, we’d turn those weaknesses into strengths and test some new pages! Their sales would get an immediate boost with a few key improvements.

Mobile is not easy to do well. The constraints are greater, but the opportunities are growing. It’s no longer an optional channel and those who learn to do it well will be rewarded.

So, what’s the best way to learn what works? Say it with me: “You Should Test That!”

On that note, stay tuned for WiderFunnel’s launch and optimization of our newly RWD-converted site, coming soon.

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Observe And Report Release Date: April 10, 2009

At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist, combating skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. His delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale, hoping his solution of this crime will earn a coveted spot at the police academy and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi, the hot make-up counter clerk who won’t give him the time of day. But his single-minded pursuit of glory launches a turf war with the equally competitive Detective Harrison of the Conway Police, and Ronnie is confronted with the challenge of not only catching the flasher, but getting him before the real cops do.

“Observe And Report” is the grown-ups

Starring: Seth RogenRay LiottaMichael PeñaAnna FarisJesse PlemonsCollette WolfeCelia WestonDan BakkedahlMatt YuanJohn Yuan
Genres: ComedyCrimeDrama
Directed By: Jody Hill
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    i see this question being asked a lot in the last couple days around the net. so here is the solution for you.

    okay so you have either the beta or rc installed. or maybe you got ultimate off a torrent etc and you decided to buy premium instead due to whatever reason maybe cost etc....and you dont want to format. YES you can do a in place DOWNGRADE or go from rc release to retail. its very easy to do.

    lets in this example say you have ultimate installed and want professional.

    what you do is simple. Create a registry file by opening notepad and saving it as a .reg file i call mine upgrade.reg this will contain (everything below except the < and >)the following:
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    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

    run this. reboot and now insert the Professional disk if you are using professional and run setup from WITHIN windows. Do an upgrade. done.

    works the same for any version just modify the reg file to include the version you want. so instead of professional you would enter home premium where i listed professional. and if you are using the ultimate rc and want to go to the retail one simply put Ultimate in the reg file instead of professional, otherwise keep exactly as i have it. etc..i have done this MANY TIMES and can assure you it works.
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Middle East Leaders at UN on Extremism

Top leaders from across the Middle East expressed their support for efforts to confront terrorism, in their addresses to the 71st session of the U.N. General Assembly. They emphasized the need for international cooperation and partnerships to defeat the urgent threat to international peace and security. Some called for addressing the roots of terrorism and circumstances that contribute to the promotion of radical ideologies. But the leaders also stressed that terrorism is not associated with any religion, highlighting Islam’s tolerance and moderation.

Vilification of Saudi Arabia Serves No Good Purpose

The vilification of Saudi Arabia has become a fashionable but highly risky game in Washington today.  Congress has passed overwhelmingly a bill that would lift Saudi Arabia’s sovereign immunity to allow 9/11 families to sue its government for its alleged support of the worst terrorist attack ever inside the United States.

Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

Al-Qaeda’s Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings tells the story of “3/11”—the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. It runs from the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain in the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and on through the fallout of the attacks. Fernando Reinares’s account draws on judicial, police, and intelligence documents to which he had privileged access, as well as on personal interviews with officials in Spain and elsewhere.

The Ahrar al Sham Movement: Syria’s Local Salafists

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Migration is the demographic process that links rural to urban areas, generating or spurring the growth of cities. The resultant urbanization is linked to a variety of policy issues, spanning demographic, economic, and environmental concerns. Growing cities are often seen as the agents of environmental degradation. Urbanization can place stress on the land through sprawl; coincident industrial development may threaten air and water quality. In the eyes of many observers, rapid urbanization is also linked to problems of unemployment and the social adaptation of migrants in their new urban setting. Cities advertise society's inequalities in income, housing, and other social resources, whether these problems are new or just newly manifest in urban settings.

Most of the migration conventionally liked to these urban issues was seen as following a conventional pattern. In this policy brief I raise some issues about the nature of contemporary, migratory behavior, both for our understanding of processes of population redistribution directly, and for understanding some of the implications of that redistribution. Contemporary research is sketching the contours of this migratory behavior and the social adjustment that accompanies it. New research is beginning to shed light on the rate of migrant adaptation, on the connection between origin and destination communities through remittances, and the demographic structure and dynamics of refugee movements.

The New Migration?

Is there an evolving pattern of migratory behavior and composition that warrants a reconsideration of our prevailing models? The first round of migration models presumed that movement -- permanent movement -- was induced by prevailing wage differentials and economic opportunities. Thus one observed transatlantic migration from Old to New World as part of a permanent population redistribution within and across generations. To be sure the emptying of the countryside in the 19th century made London, Paris and New York into huge urban agglomerations.

The conventional push-pull model was eventually placed by one a bit more subtle, one that took into account the inefficiencies of markets in many developing settings. Rather than producing adjustment and equilibrium, migration spurred the growth of the informal sector as rural origin persons settled, at least temporarily, for wages and employment chances below the hoped-for formal sector offering. Thinking about migration in high income settings also shifted. New thinking began to take into account more of the non-pecuniary determinants of migration: climate; social composition of origin and destination; access to amenities. Such thinking made it possible to understand certain paradoxes such as the movement away from some of the economic regions with the highest hourly wages (the U.S. manufacturing belt) and toward other, lower wage but more amenity-rich locales.

During much of this time, policymaking often held a series of assumption about the process of migration and urban growth. A common observation was that urbanization was rapid and driven by rural-urban migration. Consistent with the dual economy (Harris-Todaro) model, the perception was that migrants had a difficult time adjusting in the urban area and were often unemployed or underemployed. Percolating through the time periods as well, was an old demographic adage about the composition of the migrant stream: that it was predominantly, unmarried young males. Concurrently, rapid urban growth fueled concern about denigration of the surrounding physical environment.

These models, trends, and to some degree social realities were consequential for policy. Rural-urban migration was seen as a problem. Urbanization was seen as too rapid, and efforts were considered to slow it or shift the balance of growth to other areas. Notable for instance, was China's policy of encouraging development in mid-size cities during the 1980s. Growth pole or satellite town developments were other offered responses. Of course, an alternative line of thinking evolved, arguing the public sector was the cause of some of the urban ills, with its disproportionate investment in (selective) cities and resultant urban bias.

Is our stock of knowledge, our set of models, adequate to understand population movement and redistribution today, especially in contemporary developing economies? Some rethinking is in order. Two major changes have come to many systems of population distribution in the last decade or two: (1) the revolution in technology of transportation and communication; and (2) the restructuring of national economies to allow more market activity. Both of these changes have received considerable attention elsewhere. They have been discussed in the case of migration, but it is worth tracing through how they reshape the nature and composition of migratory flows.

The changes in the technology of communication and transportation have made it easier for migrants to stay in touch with their origin communities. This is more than maintaining simple social ties. The tightness and stability of these connections can reinforce the implicit contracts that generate sharing of resources across locations. Most notably these are remittances. Despite the high level of interest in remittances, it remains to be clearly documented that these technological developments help maintain a continuous flow. There are related influences. The technologies of communication help impart knowledge of job market opportunities within and across national borders.

The "New Migration" includes circulation. Migrants oscillate between origin and destination. From various parts of the wold circulatory migration patterns have been identified. Often these circulatory movements are timed with the agricultural season. In West Africa, Thailand, and Mexico, for instance, individuals remain in the origin region from planting through tending to harvest, and then depart for the cities (and to the United States for Mexicans) during the off season. Limited evidence suggests that the movements are repeated, but not necessarily every season. Landing a "good" job in one year may lead to a longer stay in the destination. This is just another way of managing the informal-formal sector issue.

It may be the case also that the ability to store earnings (in banks) and move funds geographically is contributing to the new migration. One marker of economic development is the improvement in financial infrastructures. If one can move money across international borders, then the ease with which one can be a new migrant and remain a connected member of the origin community and household rises. While there have been efforts to account for the value of international flows of remittances, there is little understanding of whether improvements in financial infrastructure help generate and support migration in the first place.

Data coming from various field sites suggest that the conventional demographic profile of the rural-urban migrant may be shifting as well. Migrants are still young. While many are male and single, there seems to be an increasing fraction of migrants who are female and a larger pool of family migrants. The work on Mexican migration to the United States finds substantial fractions of females in the migratory flow, fractions that increase with time. Our own work in Ghana challenges the notion that migrants are detached from families in the destination. What we need to know more about is the timing of the movements of family members. It is probably the case that frontier or first-wave migration is predominantly young single males, but how exactly the stream is altered after that is not well known.

The second major impetus for the New Migration is economic restructuring. Many countries have reoriented their economies in the direction of more free market activity. To argue that this trend is universal or that the movement is to an unfettered marketplace would be silly. Nevertheless, in several important ways the shift is on, and population distribution is a manifest component of this shift. The most notable case is China. Where once all residence was controlled by registration permit (or hukou), the years since market reform have enabled individuals to relocate to areas of economic opportunity. This has created a huge pool --a "floating population" in the tens of millions of persons -- living apart from their place of formal registration. While often referred to as "temporary" migrants, the length of residence in destination can now approach several years. Considerable controversy swirled about the motivations of these temporary migrants (including the claim that women were moving to avoid the structures of the one-child family planning policy), but the migration seems to be economically driven.

This kind movement, a migration problem, in the wake of the relaxation of strictures on economic activity and hocusing has been seen in other settings as well. Viet Nam is now going through a process similar to that experienced by China. While residence registration was never as strictly controlled as in China, the economic restructuring (Doi Moi) has generated internal migration. In Ethiopia the fall of the Derg and its more authoritarian and socialist ways ushered in a period of economic relaxation. This loosening not only lets people move to new locations (often back to older villages they were forced to abandon), but also generates differential economic growth by region, producing labor force opportunities to which workers respond.

Even in economies without government restrictions on residence and movement, there have been patterns of population movement that are similar in many respects. The undocumented movement of the Mexican origin population to the United States and parallel movement of former colonial populations to high-income economies of Europe have created similar floating populations, each with its own stamp for the particular migratory flow and condition of reception in the host society. Again, "temporary" migration is sometime sustained by circulation, at some risk of being caught, and rarely is temporary or guest-worker migration, in fact, temporary. Circulation may be substituting for return.

The evidence from Ghana indicates that the country's pursuit of structural adjustment has resulted in substantial shifts in regional activity, even as the overall growth of economic activity outpaces other sub-Saharan African nations. In the age-old way this induced movement, directed differentially to some urban areas.

Migration's Consequences

Migration from rural to urban areas generates a series of concerns, including worries about environmental stress and social adaptation of the migrants themselves. Since migration feeds urbanization, and since urban growth is associated with industrial development (pollution) and land consumption, migration is often held culpable in environmental degradation. Although the link is there, it is not clear how strong that link is.
Direct public policies regarding environmental conditions, the underlying infrastructure for transportation, and the national level of income may have much more to say about the amount of insult visited upon the environment than the amount of rural-urban migration per se. As income rises, so does consumption of consumer goods, transportation, and land. These all can lead to more pollution and sprawl in any country. But as the level of income rises so does the demand for a cleaner local environment, and so there is an element of feedback in all of this.

There is another demographic component of the comparison. It is useful to remember that a large fraction, maybe nearly half, of urban growth is generated just by natural increase of the urban population. Thus, stemming urbanward migration will not stem urban growth. This reminds us that in the absence of migration but in the presence of positive population growth rates, there is more "population pressure" in both urban and rural areas. Migration may be more implicated than its true demographic contribution would warrant. Not that theincreasingly intensive use of rural and quasi-rural areas can lead to soil erosion, deforestation, and the like. This might lead one to call for stronger emphasis on fertility reduction measures, but the demographic community seems somewhat agnostic about the empirical connection between population growth and environmental conditions.

The other major area of concern in urbanward migration is that of the absorption of migrants into the host community. Migrants have always generated apprehension about their ability to mix into the receiving society. Migrants are seen as adapting slowly or not at all. Empirical evidence runs counter to this.

In many studies of immigrant adaptation in the United States, the first generation exhibits substantial differences from the native population along socioeconomic lines: income, education, language ability, etc. By the second generation, however, differences are narrowed considerably. Even if one does not adjust for background characteristics, the second generation gap is modest compared to the first generation gap. But when one does adjust for the (usually lower) level of resources for members of the second generation, the gap narrows even more. Work with nationally representative longitudinal data on immigrant achievement in school illustrates the point. Once we control for family characteristics (parental presence and supervision, socioeconomic status) and starting point in school, the trajectory of subsequent school achievement does not differ for immigrant children.

Interestingly we find a closing of the gap among migrants to Kumasi, Ghana. The first generation has lower status than members of the indigenous group in the same residential area, but members of the second generation show very little shortfall at all. In a parallel vein we find a process of occupational adaptation that differentiates the first generation more than the second. Market adjustment in China generated a huge flow of persons, both officially recognized and documented and "temporary" or undocumented. Despite the observation of migrants on streetcorners and under bridges (latter day hiring halls), the evidence again is that migrants are driven by economic considerations. The claim was made in China that female migrants to the city were motivated by a desire to avoid the family planning policies enforced in their origin community. In fact such rural-urban migrants were found to have birth rates no higher than urban natives of the same educational level and age. Here again, migrants were not out of line with expectation; they had come for jobs and merged into the urban fabric.

Concluding Policy Considerations

There are several policy implications of this redistribution, but I will concentrate on just three points.

1. Migration is Only Part of the Picture

As we have discussed migration accounts for roughly half of urban growth in most developing country cities. Most demographic analyses confirm that overall urban growth rates are closely ties to national population growth rates. Declining fertility rates overall will help reduce urban population pressure. High income economies experience the mirror image effect. Most of these nations have very low rates of natural increase. Consequently international migration contributes a substantial fraction of total year-to-year national population growth. The lesson is that it is important to have the comparative framework clear when making assertions about the impact of migration.

2. Informal Migration is a Broad-based phenomenon

Undocumented, circulate, and temporary migration is now a world-wide phenomenon. It exists as internal migration in some restructuring economies (such as in China) but also appears as international migrant flows in other settings (such as Mexican origin migration to the United States). It is useful for policy-makers to think about the parallels in these movements, rather than concentrate only on the differences.

3. Recognize Migratory Realities.

It is time for policy-makers to respond to migration rather than try to control migration. This is the case for internal migration and displacements. The opening of markets within and between countries will produce further internal and international redistribution. For voluntary movement, this recommendation means that efforts should go into adjustment efforts for migrants. Efforts might be made to improve access to information about health care, get migrant children into health and educational facilities, and provide language assistance as appropriate. For forced migrants the story is somewhat different. Here the migrants are outside their original location, often in a bounded settlement or camp. The policy need here is to realize that these refugee movements are often not temporary. This means a whole set of long-term services (health, family planning, productive work) must beprovided. For people displaced within national borders, sometimes without the assistance of international agencies, the relocation can be permanent.


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No Blackcraig inquiry decision yet

Credit:  by Doug Archibald, Galloway News, icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk 10 February 2011 ~~

There is still no sign of a decision on a windfarm public inquiry held more than a year ago.

The Scottish Government has not been able to shed any light on progress, according to a report before councillors.

The planning, housing and environment services committee is keen to get an answer given that £250,000 of its service reserves are set aside to cover projected costs of the council’s objection.

The inquiry into Scottish and Southern Energy’s proposals for a 23 turbine development at Blackcraig near Balmaclellan closed in December 2009.

The council objection, in February, 2007, triggered the stop go public inquiry which was suspended in April 2008.

The £250,000 is part of service reserves currently standing at £573,340.

Members were also told there is a current underspend of £295,000 on the revenue budget, just £16,000 short of the one per cent savings the department is expected to achieve by the end of the year.

An underspend on staff costs is expected to be around £463,000, up £60,000 since November after vacancies remain unfilled.

And Tony Fitzpatrick, director of economic regeneration, will point out the most significant pressure within the service is an under recovery of income from building warrant fees.

“Due to the current economic conditions it is currently projected that building warrant fee income will be under recovered by £200,000,” he told the committee.

“However, the level of fees generated will continue to be closely monitored.”

Source:  by Doug Archibald, Galloway News, icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk 10 February 2011

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Credit:  Times & Star, www.timesandstar.co.uk 24 February 2011 ~~

How intriguing that the Scottish Government was in Maryport last week consulting about plans for more offshore wind farms.

The consultation team admitted it found nobody in support of more turbines in the Solway Firth.

Maryport fishermen were certainly unequivocal in their opposition; they fear their livelihoods will be destroyed.

So, surely, that should be that; no more turbines in the Solway Firth.

Don’t bet on it.

The Scottish Government has clearly identified the Solway as a potential site for more wind farms.

Was it here simply to say, further down the line: “well, we consulted our English neighbours” before pressing on with its plans?

The precedent was set when the Robin Rigg wind farm transformed the Solway.

We recall little consultation from the Scottish executive then.

So what is going on?

County council leader Eddie Martin is asking similar questions about the Planning Inspectorate’s decisions to overturn local planning refusals against turbines at Tallentire and Westnewton.

It’s undemocratic, claims Coun Martin, voicing the concern of thousands of people who say “enough is enough.”

That’s what makes us so sceptical about the Scottish consultation.

When it comes to wind power, public opinion always seems to get blown away.

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Asteroids Designer Ed Logg Honored With Pioneer Award

Atari game designer Ed Logg, shown here in 1999, will be honored with a Pioneer Award by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences next year.
Image: Aaron Hightower/Wikipedia

Asteroids Designer Ed Logg Honored With Pioneer Award

Atari game designer Ed Logg, shown here in 1999, will be honored with a Pioneer Award by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences next year.
Image: Aaron Hightower/Wikipedia

If at some point in the 1980s you ever hastily jammed your hand into your pocket for another quarter only to find yourself fresh out, Ed Logg was probably to blame.

It's impossible to know precisely which arcade game designer was responsible for making the most money off coin-operated machines, 25 cents at a time. But Logg would be on anyone's short list. As a designer of Asteroids, Centipede and Gauntlet he kept Atari at the forefront of the arcade business for many years. In February, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences will honor Logg's early accomplishments with its Pioneer Award, the group has revealed exclusively to

Logg readily admits that he didn't come up with the original concepts for his biggest games. Asteroids was suggested by an Atari executive; Gauntlet was based on an older Atari computer game called Dandy. But Logg had a gift for taking raw brainstormed ideas and coming up with the perfect mix of gameplay elements that turned them into quarter-munching hits.

"It wasn't virtuoso coding that made [Logg's] games a success as much as putting all the proper
features in the game in the right order," said former Atari arcade game designer Mark Cerny (Marble Madness) in a statement provided by AIAS. "Of course, you needed an amazing intuition as to which were the proper features."

Now in its third year, the AIAS Pioneer Award is given to the gamemakers whose groundbreaking early work laid the foundations of the multi-billion dollar videogame industry. Previous award recipients include Pitfall! creator David Crane and Pinball Construction Set designer Bill Budge.

Space Cadets ————

George Edward Logg was born in 1948 in Seattle. He studied mathematics and computer science at Berkeley and then Stanford, where he'd played the original computer game Spacewar! in the school's Artifical Intelligence Lab.

After school he interviewed at Xerox PARC, which was doing groundbreaking work in graphical user interfaces ("When I saw the Mac, I knew where it had came from, no doubt about it") but instead took a job at Control Data Corporation. It happened to be across the street from a startup called Atari, to which one of his coworkers soon jumped ship. Having been very impressed with the company's new Video Computer System home gaming machine, Logg decided to take a job opening in coin-op games.

In the coin-op division, field testing was of paramount importance. It cost thousands of dollars to buy an arcade cabinet, and owners wouldn't take the plunge unless they knew they could recoup that cost. That meant players couldn't get tired of the games after a week or a month, and the only way to know was to place a prototype game in a local watering hole and carefully watch the quarter intake. Dirt Bike, which would have been Logg's first game, failed the field test and was shelved.

Another game passed with flying colors. "I'd played Breakout at the pizza parlors in San Jose," Logg recalls of the hit block-breaking game produced by his division. He heard that company founder Nolan Bushnell wanted the game updated; 1978's Super Breakout was the first game that Logg worked on that went into production.

Soon afterwards, Logg found himself in a meeting with Atari executive Lyle Rains brainstorming new ideas. Rains wanted him to work on an unfinished game that Logg had remembered seeing before at Atari. "There was this large asteroid, and you were chasing the other player around," Logg recalls. "Of course, everybody tried to shoot the asteroid, like I did, and nothing would happen."

In that meeting, Rains and Logg came up with almost the entire game design: At Logg's suggestion, they would use a high-resolution vector display to create a game with pinpoint-precise aiming. Players would shoot the big asteroid, which would break up into smaller asteroids, and so on until they destroyed them all. Logg saw the genius of the idea, but he also saw the problem.

"You're going to have to do something to keep the player occupied," he told Rains, "because otherwise once he gets down to one rock he's just going to fly around and do nothing."

Logg's solution was the final piece of the puzzle: Two different types of UFOs, nicknamed "Mr. Bill" and "Sluggo" after the Saturday Night Live recurring sketch, would appear on screen and shoot at the player to prevent him from just sitting around keeping other players from dropping in their quarters.

With buttons that rotated the ship left and right, a thruster, a fire button and a "Hyperspace" panic button that warped your ship around the screen in case of emergencies, Asteroids was a complex game. The conventional wisdom was that Atari's first arcade game Computer Space, which used similar controls, had been too difficult for players to figure out, hence the success of the much simpler Pong.

Logg didn't buy that theory. "I didn't find it hard, I just didn't find it as much fun," he said. "It seemed like a very one-dimensional game... Computer Space has a pattern, you just go through it and you keep running through it. ... Pong, on the other hand, there's lots of variability."

Asteroids was popular among Atari employees, who would frequently ask Logg when he was going to leave work at the end of the day so they could stay and play it. And it sailed through its field test. "I saw somebody walk up, put a quarter in and die three times instantly," Logg said. "But he turned around and put another quarter in."

As one of the most popular arcade games of its day, Asteroids was one of the games celebrated on the 1982 concept album Pac-Man Fever, in a song called "Hyperspace:"

Asteroids around me, don't know where to run
I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun
I'm in command of three ships and there's more on the way
I'm a space cadet, I can really play
Push on the button then I'm back in the race

In fact, Logg is the only game designer to have two games represented on that album – the other was "Ode to a Centipede," based on a game that he co-designed with Dona Bailey, one of the first female game designers. It was another monster hit, and Logg soon found himself nicknamed "Golden Boy" by his fellow Atari programmers.

Elf Needs Quarters Badly ————————

By the mid-eighties, Atari had changed dramatically. The home gaming market had crashed although arcades still thrived. Parent company Warner Communications had sold off the home division, and now there were two Ataris: Atari Corp., making computers, and Atari Games making coin-op.

Home gaming may have stalled out, but arcade machines were growing much more powerful, so much so that Logg could try out an idea that his son kept "pestering" him with: Make a game based on Dungeons & Dragons.

Logg found his inspiration in a computer game called Dandy, which had been published by Atari in 1983. The game, itself inspired by the pen-and-paper RPG, let four players explore a deep dungeon, shooting monsters with arrows and restoring their health with food.

"Dandy was certainly one of the influences" on his game, Logg says. "Cooperative play is required often to get through some of the puzzles; that's the aspect I really liked."

From D&D Logg took the concept of character classes, four different heroes with varying strengths and weaknesses – Warrior, Valkyrie, Elf and Wizard. But what RPGs needed most was a dungeon master to guide the characters along. In Logg's game, that part was played by a Texas Instruments speech synthesis chip. Its comments were alternately helpful and impudent: "Wizard is about to die!" "Elf shot the food!"

Atari's marketing department wasn't sure that four strangers would all gather at an arcade and play a cooperative game together, but as usual, the field test was the final arbiter. At a tiny arcade outside of Saratoga, players dumped quarters into the game, called Gauntlet. They were encouraged to spend more up front because extra quarters gave their adventurers more health. Soon, arcade games for four players became the new normal.

Having been severed from the console division, Atari Games couldn't produce home entertainment under the Atari name. So it established a new division called Tengen. Before Nintendo released its Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States in 1985, Logg set about reverse-engineering the Japanese version, called the Family Computer. He wanted to create a version of a game he'd played on personal computers.

"There was an Atari ST version of Tetris that I'd played, and I was amazed," he said. "I went to our legal counsel and said, you have got to get the rights to this game." Once Atari had sewn up the home console rights, Logg produced an excellent version of Tetris, using a more attractive color scheme and taking "great pains" to add a two-player mode.

Tengen released its Tetris for the NES in 1989. The company had broken its ties with Nintendo and was the only U.S. company producing NES games without authorization from the hardware maker.

What ensued was one of the strangest legal battles in gaming history. Nintendo ended up negotiating directly with the Russian government and getting the rights to Tetris, and a U.S. judge ordered that Tengen recall and destroy all unsold inventory of Logg's version.

"We went through... somebody in the U.K. who'd gotten [the Tetris license] from a Hungarian who'd gotten it from the Russians," Logg says. "Nintendo went straight to the Russians and they said, sure, we'll take your money. We'll give you anything you want."

"Mine is the better game," he says, comparing his version to Nintendo's. "People would go to Blockbuster Video and rent it, say they lost it, and pay the $40 [and keep it]."

"I was livid," he says of the court battle. "I wouldn't have anything to do with Nintendo after that for a long time."

Eventually, Logg would work on some Nintendo 64 games like Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey and San Francisco Rush. Atari Games was sold to Midway in the 1990's, and Logg kept making games for Midway until the division was shuttered in 2003.

Today, Logg still designs games as a contract employee for ActiveVideo Networks, creating titles for its CloudTV set-top boxes.

Logg will be honored with the Pioneer Award at the 15th annual Interactive Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on February 9, 2012.

Photo of Ed Logg released under GNU Free Documentation License.
Asteroids game screenshot from Wikipedia.
Gauntlet screenshot courtesy VG Museum.
Tetris photo: Ariel Zambelich/

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