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Representatives of African-American community groups demonstrated at the California Highway Patrol's Central Los Angeles station Monday, demanding answers and accountability after an officer was caught on video repeatedly punching a woman.
The demonstration spurred an impromptu appearance by the agency's second-in-command, Deputy Commissioner Ramona Prieto, who assured the delegation that CHP had assembled its "top investigators" to probe the encounter.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has agreed to assist the CHP with the investigation at the agency's request, Jane Robison of the DA's Office said Monday.
Prieto declined to release the officer's name or discuss anything specific about the case, citing the Peace Officers' Bill of Rights — a state law that protects law enforcement officers.
"I don't have anything to tell you right now," Prieto said. "Our investigation is nowhere close to being complete." The CHP is determining whether policies and procedures governing the encounter can be released.
A video taken by a motorist emerged last week showing the white CHP officer on top of 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock, raining down punches to her upper torso and face area. According to the CHP, the woman had been walking barefoot along the side of the westbound 10 Freeway — and at times within traffic lanes — in Los Angeles at La Brea Avenue about 5:40 p.m. on July 1. When the officer advised her to stop walking, she was nonresponsive and then was placed under arrest after she became "physically combative" and a physical altercation ensued. An off-duty officer helped in handcuffing Pinnock, according to the CHP.
The encounter looked more like a fight than an effort to subdue a suspect, said NAACP Los Angeles Chapter President Minnie Hadley-Hempstead.
"When an officer uses force, we feel it should fit the violation," Hadley-Hempstead said, questioning what the woman was accused of doing to incite the encounter.
Meanwhile, civil rights leaders will meet with the head of the California Highway Patrol at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Culver City to discuss their concerns about the beating. CHP Commissioner Joseph A. Farrow will fly in from Sacramento to meet with them at the CHP's West Los Angeles area office, said Sgt. Denise Joslin, a spokeswoman with the CHP Southern Division.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, has called for a federal investigation and will ask the CHP at Tuesday's meeting to complete the probe in a reasonable time.
"Obviously, something went badly wrong, terribly wrong for this to happen," he said in a phone interview. "What kind of training, procedures, tactics, policies? You need to review that thoroughly. Something is missing somewhere in terms of training of your officers and dealing with people who have mental challenges."
The investigation could be over within a month — a ballpark guess, Prieto said. In the meantime, the officer has been reassigned to desk duty, she said.
John Burris, one of the attorneys representing the family of the beaten woman, said they "certainly will file a lawsuit" against the CHP.
"It certainly looks like excessive force, a violation of the Fourth Amendment. … At the very least, obviously assault and battery. … I never had a case where a woman was assaulted in this kind of vicious manner ever," Burris said.
As of Monday, Pinnock had been on a psychiatric hold for several days and was awaiting a hearing to evaluate whether she is fit to be released, he said.


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The video that you're attempting to import is not compatible with the program. I'm not entirely sure what bugs AFX, but I take it it's probably the AVI hacks of using XviD in AVI and the like. I don't know the approach that other people use, but I always convert the parts of the video I need to Lagarith before importing.
ASS scripts cannot be directly imported through AFX. You need to either find (or write) a JavaScript script to read and interpret the information found in the ASS file, or hardsub the karaoke onto the video and do it the long way.
|2007-04-11, 14:27
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Location: In Maya world, where all is 3D and everything crashes
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i have a question. i was trying to make an animation today but the lowe bar where you add in the parts to set when they show up in the screen was set on frame rate rather on time which was VERY annoying..
how do you switch that from frame rate timing to normal time timing
|2007-04-17, 21:23
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Is Adobe After Effects designed not to support sound? If not, then I have a problem.
I'm a complete newbie [and hopefully not a future noob], but when I previewed it in the Project Pane there was sound.
The problem occurs when I drag it into the timeline. The wave form (L, L) ...well there is no wave form.
I checked the rampreview pane and made sure that sound wasn't muted.
Lastly, I pressed period and well not a thing.
I'd appreciate help because I'd really like to try typesetting to help the community [also distro access sounds nice lol jk].
|2007-04-18, 01:44
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Join Date: Aug 2004
AFx does support sound, but it plays back sound only if the video clip comes with it. All previewing also plays back the audio that comes with the clip, afaik. you should be able to mute the sound by unchecking the Audio option with the preview submenus
|2007-04-18, 05:36
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Netherlands
Maybe it has something to do with the preview options.. Rampreview always gives you sound after rendering, but hitting space bar (whatever that mode of preview is called) doesnt, scrolling through the timeline doesnt either. You can however, hold the control key (iirc) while scrolling, and then you'll hear stuttering sound. Hope that's what you mean.
Btw.. someone else tried AE CS3 preview yet? Those shape layers are fun, so is the puppet tool.. But i think the only useful option for kara is 3d stuff, something bout extra 3d options.. rotating round a cilinder and stuff
|2007-05-30, 09:07
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Texas
Though there are lots of effects that can be done in both AFX and SSA/ASS with Lua scripting in ASS...I would really just figure out most of the \t tags and \clip for SSA if you want to convert any effects.
There are no direct way, that is in my knowledge to do such a thing :P.
|2007-06-18, 03:14
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Computer graphist
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Paris, France
Age: 35
well, look for the after effects SDK... But you can't modify other people's plugins...
Plugins are coded in a weird way, though... I could never understand how to create one with their crappy SDK and exemples ^^.
|2007-06-18, 07:33
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Netherlands
Remember though that it's only possible to change pixels/image. I couldn't find anything that supports text (back when i was trying to make an effect that does kara regulation). But the SDK does come with a big guide, and if you have some programming experience in C or whatever it is, you should be able to make something easy.
|2007-06-20, 16:25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Plugins & Effects are all binaries... It's the same question, like how you would modify /improve an executable file (say, notepad.exe). Without source codes, you'll be alone in editing them via asm. Likewise, you can use ae sdk to create your own ae plugins and effects, perhaps written in C++, then compiled to dll or aex (alpha five executable).
|2007-06-24, 10:36
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
1. Drag your composition to Render Queue
2. Click under Output Module, and use the following options:
3. Save as your avi, using HUFFY, Raw, or Lagarith Codecs (they work well)
4. Click under Render Settings: Select Best Quality & Full Resolution
5. Render to an AVI/RGBA file!
6. You'll need to overlay the videos using avisynth if you were to encode, say, in vdub.
-- you could use my script though, as it works fairly well and it's easy to use, considering it has the ability to segment the signs in the same overlay.
Edit: note, if you require to use a different blend-mode (notably anything but normal "blend" mode) as your overlay, you can do so quite easily by having it to put as separate videos and then overlay it using a different blend-mode. In my script, you can put them as a segment within the same overlay video, as long as it doesn't overlap with other overlays. Needless to say, is this important? Well, I found one instance that requires it.
In the episode above, the glows in the "Next Episode" are actually "Exclusion" blend mode (pure white color) with different opacities during scene changes.
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|2007-06-25, 04:23
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Age: 38
I guess I'm posting at the right place, cos this has to do mostly with AFX. Anyway, this is a picture from Ergo Proxy 15:
As you all might know, it's an episode that needs an extreme amount of work on both photoshop + AFX.
In this particular picture, there is a box with kanji that has been replaced by a similar box that contains the same words in Greek (my mother language). But suddenly a logo appears bouncing all over the screen and the result is something like this.
I've tried various ways of layer blending in AFX but I got nothing. I hope that there's some other way than creating a complicate mask for every frame that this thing is bouncing.
Just to inform you, I create an AFX project, which I render in lossless RGBA and overlay it over the original video. Does anyone have some idea about this? Thanks a lot in advance.
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Moving a Paralyzed Hand Through Use of a Brain-Computer Interface
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00242242
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : October 19, 2005
Last Update Posted : January 21, 2019
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date
|October 19, 2005
|First Posted Date
|October 19, 2005
|Last Update Posted Date
|January 21, 2019
|Study Start Date
|October 17, 2005
|Primary Completion Date
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|Moving a Paralyzed Hand Through Use of a Brain-Computer Interface
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|Moving a Paralyzed Hand Through a Brain-Computer Interface Controlled by the Affected Hemisphere After Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury
|Brief Summary
This study will gain information on methods of control of a prosthetic arm in stroke patients or traumatic brain inury patients through a technique called "brain-computer interface" (BCI). BCI allows for direct communication between man and machine. Brain cells communicate by producing electrical impulses that help to create such things as thoughts, memory, consciousness and emotions. In BCI, brain waves are recorded by an electroencephalogram (EEG) through electrodes (small wires) attached to the scalp. The electrodes measure the electrical signals of the brain. These signals are sent to the computer, which translates them into device control commands as messages that reflect a person's intention. This type of brain activity comes from the sensorimotor areas of the brain and can be controlled through voluntarily training to control the hand prosthesis through the BCI.
Healthy normal volunteers and people who have had a stroke or traumatic brain injury more than 12 months ago and have paralysis in the right or left arm, hand or leg and who are between 18 and 80 years of age may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with a clinical and neurological examination and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. MRI uses a magnetic field and radio waves to obtain images of the brain. The scanner is a metal cylinder surrounded by a strong magnetic field. During the procedure, the subject lies in the scanner for about 45 minutes, wearing ear plugs to muffle loud knocking sounds that occur with the scanning.
Participants undergo the following procedures:
Participants are evaluated in the clinic after 3 months to see if they have benefited from the study.
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Objective: Individuals who have suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI) may benefit from the development of new rehabilitative interventions that can improve motor recovery after injury. The purpose of this protocol is to test the hypothesis that oscillatory brain activity that originates in the affected hemisphere in the form of desynchronization of Mu-rhythm of patients with chronic stroke or TBI can be used to drive movements of an orthosis attached to a paralyzed hand through a Brain Computer Interface (BCI). Mu-rhythm is a type of brain wave activity that originates in the sensorimotor areas of the brain that can be controlled voluntarily; it is present in the affected hemisphere of stroke patients and can be used to control the hand prostheses through the BCI interface. Control of Mu-rhythm amplitudes by volition requires training since it does not happen spontaneously. A proof-of-principle sub-experiment will test the hypothesis that in stroke survivors non-invasive cortical stimulation of the ipsilesional primary motor cortex (M1) will facilitate learning to control a hand orthosis through a BCI device. This is the purpose of the training: to teach the subject to control Mu-rhythms.
Study population: The study population will consist of individuals with chronic stroke or TBI that have virtually no movement of their paretic hand and age- and gender- matched healthy volunteers. Healthy volunteers, which may include the age- and gender- matched volunteers, will be recruited to refine instructions given to patients.
Design: This is primarily an intraindividual comparison study, designed to determine if this brain-computer interface (BCI) approach contributes to drive grasping motions through a BCI interface and hand-orthosis. To test the effect of non-invasive cortical stimulation 21 stroke patients will be randomly assigned to three groups (group A, anodal stimulation; group B, cathodal stimulation; group C, sham stimulation). Study of normal volunteers will contribute to (a) set up of the experiment, (b) identifying differences in the training time required to modulate Mu-rhythm in healthy volunteers and patients and (c) to isolate training effects as measured by TMS and fMRI on the healthy brain from training effects on brains affected with stroke or TBI. This information will be treated descriptively within the framework of this protocol but it is also important for designing future studies.
Outcome measures: Behavioral endpoint measure: ability to drive the paralyzed hand orthosis in flexion and extension motions using Mu-rhythm. Physiological endpoint measures: peak fMRI activity in the hand knob representation, and corticomotor excitability as tested with TMS and MEG in ipsilesional and contralesional hand knob representations. Normal volunteers will undergo evaluation of the same physiological endpoint measures as patients.
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|Study Completion Date
|July 23, 2013
|Primary Completion Date
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Between the ages of 18 and 80 years. Substantial unilateral motor impairment, defined by MRC scores less than or equal to 2.
At least 12 months post thromboembolic non-hemorrhagic hemispheric or hemorrhagic hemispheric subcortical lesions.
At least 12 months post mild to moderate traumatic brain injury.
Between the ages of 18 and 80 years
We will exclude any stroke patient, TBI patient, or healthy volunteer if one of the following applies:
History of alcohol or drug abuse.
History of epilepsy (TMS and tDCS components only).
MRI contraindications.
Cardiac pacemakers.
Intracardiac lines.
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Last time we looked at the definition of Hopf algebras, using the group algebra as a motivating example. This time I want to look at YSym, a Hopf algebra of binary trees. This is an example of a Combinatorial Hopf Algebra (CHA), meaning a Hopf algebra defined over some combinatorial object such as partitions, compositions, permutations, trees.
The binary trees we're concerned with are the familiar binary trees from computer science. In the math literature on this, however, they're called (rooted) planar binary trees. As far as I can tell, that's because in math, a tree means a simple graph with no cycles. So from that point of view, a CS binary tree is in addition rooted - it has a distinguished root node - and planar - so that you can distinguish between left and right child nodes.
Here's a Haskell type for (rooted, planar) binary trees:
data PBT a = T (PBT a) a (PBT a) | E deriving (Eq, Show, Functor) instance Ord a => Ord (PBT a) where ...
As a convenience, the trees have labels at each node, and PBT is polymorphic in the type of the labels. The labels aren't really necessary: the Hopf algebra structure we're going to look at depends only on the shapes of the trees, not the labels. However, it will turn out to be useful to be able to label them, to see more clearly what is going on.
There's more than one way to set up a Hopf algebra structure on binary trees, so we'll use a newtype wrapper to identify which structure we're using.
newtype YSymF a = YSymF (PBT a) deriving (Eq, Ord, Functor) instance Show a => Show (YSymF a) where show (YSymF t) = "F(" ++ show t ++ ")" ysymF :: PBT a -> Vect Q (YSymF a) ysymF t = return (YSymF t)
(The "F" in YSymF signifies that we're looking at the fundamental basis. We may have occasion to look at other bases later.)
So as usual, we're going to work in the free vector space on this basis, Vect Q (YSymF a), consisting of linear combinations of binary trees. Here's what a typical element might look like:
$ cabal update $ cabal install HaskellForMaths $ ghci > :m Math.Algebras.Structures Math.Combinatorics.CombinatorialHopfAlgebra > ysymF (E) + 2 * ysymF (T (T E () E) () E) F(E)+2F(T (T E () E) () E)
> mapM_ print $ splits $ T (T E 1 E) 2 (T (T E 3 E) 4 (T E 5 E)) (E,T (T E 1 E) 2 (T (T E 3 E) 4 (T E 5 E))) (T E 1 E,T E 2 (T (T E 3 E) 4 (T E 5 E))) (T (T E 1 E) 2 E,T (T E 3 E) 4 (T E 5 E)) (T (T E 1 E) 2 (T E 3 E),T E 4 (T E 5 E)) (T (T E 1 E) 2 (T (T E 3 E) 4 E),T E 5 E) (T (T E 1 E) 2 (T (T E 3 E) 4 (T E 5 E)),E)
The definition of splits is wonderfully simple:
splits E = [(E,E)] splits (T l x r) = [(u, T v x r) | (u,v) <- splits l] ++ [(T l x u, v) | (u,v) <- splits r]
We use this to define a coalgebra structure on the vector space of binary trees as follows:
instance (Eq k, Num k, Ord a) => Coalgebra k (YSymF a) where counit = unwrap . linear counit' where counit' (YSymF E) = 1; counit' (YSymF (T _ _ _)) = 0 comult = linear comult' where comult' (YSymF t) = sumv [return (YSymF u, YSymF v) | (u,v) <- splits t]
In other words, the counit is the indicator function for the empty tree, and the comult sends a tree t to the sum of u⊗v for all splits (u,v).
> comult $ ysymF $ T (T E 1 E) 2 (T E 3 E) (F(E),F(T (T E 1 E) 2 (T E 3 E)))+(F(T E 1 E),F(T E 2 (T E 3 E)))+(F(T (T E 1 E) 2 E),F(T E 3 E))+(F(T (T E 1 E) 2 (T E 3 E)),F(E))
Let's just check that this satisfies the coalgebra conditions:
> quickCheck (prop_Coalgebra :: Vect Q (YSymF ()) -> Bool) +++ OK, passed 100 tests.
[I should say that although the test code is included in the HaskellForMaths package, it is not part of the exposed modules, so if you want to try this you will have to fish around in the source.]
Multiplication is slightly more complicated. Suppose that we are trying to calculate the product of trees t and u. Suppose that u has k leaves. Then we look at all possible "multi-splits" of t into k parts, and then graft the parts onto the leaves of u (in order). This is probably easiest explained with a diagram:
The diagram shows just one possible multi-split, but the multiplication is defined as the sum over all possible multi-splits. Here's the code:
multisplits 1 t = [ [t] ] multisplits 2 t = [ [u,v] | (u,v) <- splits t ] multisplits n t = [ u:ws | (u,v) <- splits t, ws <- multisplits (n-1) v ] graft [t] E = t graft ts (T l x r) = let (ls,rs) = splitAt (leafcount l) ts in T (graft ls l) x (graft rs r) instance (Eq k, Num k, Ord a) => Algebra k (YSymF a) where unit x = x *> return (YSymF E) mult = linear mult' where mult' (YSymF t, YSymF u) = sumv [return (YSymF (graft ts u)) | ts <- multisplits (leafcount u) t]
For example:
> ysymF (T (T E 1 E) 2 E) * ysymF (T E 3 E) F(T (T (T E 1 E) 2 E) 3 E)+F(T (T E 1 E) 3 (T E 2 E))+F(T E 3 (T (T E 1 E) 2 E))
It's fairly clear that the empty tree E is a left and right identity for this multiplication. It seems plausible that the multiplication is also associative - let's just check:
> quickCheck (prop_Algebra :: (Q, Vect Q (YSymF ()), Vect Q (YSymF ()), Vect Q (YSymF ())) -> Bool) +++ OK, passed 100 tests.
So we've defined both algebra and coalgebra structures on the free vector space of binary trees. For a bialgebra, the algebra and coalgebra structures need to satisfy compatibility conditions: roughly, the multiplication and comultiplication need to commute, ie comult (mult x y) == mult (comult x) (comult y); plus similar conditions involving unit and counit.
Given the way they have been defined, it seems plausible that the structures are compatible (roughly, because it doesn't matter whether you split before or after grafting), but let's just check:
> quickCheck (prop_Bialgebra :: (Q, Vect Q (YSymF ()), Vect Q (YSymF ())) -> Bool) +++ OK, passed 100 tests.
This entitles us to declare a Bialgebra instance:
instance (Eq k, Num k, Ord a) => Bialgebra k (YSymF a) where {}
(The Bialgebra class doesn't define any "methods". So this is just a way for us to declare in the code that we have a bialgebra. For example, we could write functions which require Bialgebra as a context.)
Finally, for a Hopf algebra, we need an antipode operation. Recall that an antipode must satisfy the following diagram:
In particular,
mult . (id ⊗ antipode) . comult = unit . counit
Let's assume that an antipode for YSym exists, and see what we can deduce about it. The right hand side of the above equation is the function that takes a linear combination of trees, and drops everything except the empty tree. Informally:
(unit . counit) E = E
(unit . counit) (T _ _ _) = 0
For example:
> (unit . counit) (ysymF E) :: Vect Q (YSymF ()) F(E) > (unit . counit) (ysymF (T E () E)) :: Vect Q (YSymF ()) 0
Since we also know that comult E = E⊗E, and mult E⊗E = E, it follows that antipode E = E.
Now what about the antipode of non-empty trees? We know that
comult t = E⊗t + ... + t⊗E
where the sum is over all splits of t.
((id ⊗ antipode) . comult) t = E⊗(antipode t) + ... + t⊗(antipode E)
(mult . (id ⊗ antipode) . comult) t = E * antipode t + ... + t * antipode E
where the right hand side of each multiplication symbol has antipode applied.
Now, E is the identity for multiplication of trees, so
(mult . (id ⊗ antipode) . comult) t = antipode t + ... + t * antipode E
Now, the Hopf algebra condition requires that (mult . (id ⊗ antipode) . comult) = (unit . counit). And we saw that for a non-empty tree, (unit . counit) t = 0. Hence:
antipode t + ... + t * antipode E = 0
Notice that all the terms after the first involve the antipodes of trees "smaller" than t (ie with fewer nodes). As a consequence, we can use this equation as the basis of a recursive definition of the antipode. We recurse through progressively smaller trees, and the recursion terminates because we know that antipode E = E. Here's the code:
instance (Eq k, Num k, Ord a) => HopfAlgebra k (YSymF a) where antipode = linear antipode' where antipode' (YSymF E) = return (YSymF E) antipode' x = (negatev . mult . (id `tf` antipode) . removeTerm (YSymF E,x) . comult . return) x
For example:
> antipode $ ysymF (T E () E) -F(T E () E) > antipode $ ysymF (T (T E () E) () E) F(T E () (T E () E)) > quickCheck (prop_HopfAlgebra :: Vect Q (YSymF ()) -> Bool) +++ OK, passed 100 tests.
It is also possible to give an explicit definition of the antipode (exercise: find it), but I thought it would be more illuminating to do it this way.
It's probably silly, but I just love being able to define algebraic structures on pictures (ie of trees).
Incidentally, I understand that there is a Hopf algebra structure similar to YSym underlying Feynman diagrams in physics.
I got the maths in the above mainly from Aguiar, Sottile, Structure of the Loday-Ronco Hopf algebra of trees. Thanks to them and many other researchers for coming up with all this cool maths, and for making it freely available online.


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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 27, 2012) - A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report released today makes projections for federal public sector job loss in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of its impact in the region. CCPA (Nova Scotia office) publishes Public Disservice: the impact of federal government job cuts in Atlantic Canada at a time when many are questioning a federal austerity agenda that is eliminating jobs, programs and services Canadians need, while refusing to provide the information needed to fully understand the consequences.
"Canadians are being told by government that cuts to jobs and services won't affect them. The truth is these cuts come at a price. And this report tries to get a handle on just what it will cost Atlantic Canada," says CCPA-NS Director and principal author Christine Saulnier. "We conclude that the cuts will definitely have an effect on the broader economy, and they will also directly affect the ability of the public service to ensure that accessible public services are available to those who need them in communities across our region."
The report finds what many have suspected. Atlantic Canada stands to suffer disproportionately in cuts and in consequences. CCPA-NS calculates that at least 4400 full-time equivalent jobs will be lost by the end of March 2015. While 43% of the cuts will occur in the national capital region, 22% of all the rest of the cuts will be in the Atlantic region -- 12% of all estimated job cuts will be in the Atlantic Region. And those job losses are in addition to the jobs that have already been lost, at least 1057 positions as of the end of March 2012.
"Since the 2012 federal budget was tabled in the spring, 19,355 of our members received Work Force Adjustment notices advising them they could lose their jobs. 2163 notices were received in the Atlantic," says Jeannie Baldwin, Atlantic Regional Executive Vice-President for the Public Service Alliance of Canada. "From St. John's, NL, to St. Andrews, NB, PSAC members are scared for their jobs, they are scared or their futures and they are scared for their families."
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is the largest federal public sector union with upwards of 180,000 members, almost 20,000 of whom are in the Atlantic. The Professional Institute for the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) ranks second largest representing 60,000 scientists and other professionals across the public sector, including several thousand in Atlantic Canada. At PIPSC, more than 5 400 members across the country have received "affected" notices since the 2012 federal budget, 450 in Atlantic Canada and roughly 100 in Halifax.
"The loss of knowledge-based workers and professionals will affect the government's ability to make sound, evidence-based decisions," says PIPSC National President Gary Corbett. "Services are being lost and thousands of jobs and families put at risk - this is a dangerous double whammy for communities right across the Atlantic region."
The study reports that the Atlantic Region is not only absorbing more than its fair share of the job cuts, the smallest province in the country is absorbing the most. With some of the highest unemployment rates, lowest wages and serious outmigration issues, none of these provinces can easily absorb the impact of these cuts, least of all PEI.
"The cuts are also further eroding the ability of the federal public service to respond to the needs of the people in this region and especially those outside of urban centres - with more offices being centralized inside and outside the region," says Saulnier. "The positions being cut also undermine our government's ability to make sound decisions whether about fisheries or about the needs of job seekers in the region."
The report is upfront about the difficulties the authors had in conducting their research. Departments, agencies and crown corporations have been silenced on the process and logic by which decisions to cut and by how much were made. It also warns the federal governments short sightedness might have serious consequences for youth retention and employment equity.
"These decisions should not be shrouded in secrecy. In a democracy, the public should have access to the information required to hold the government accountable," says Corbett. "These cuts affect essential public services, but neither those who provide, or those who receive and need these services, have had any input into the decisions."
The CCPA-NS report raises many red flags and makes recommendations to government on how to reverse course.
"If Atlantic Region is the canary in the coal mine for future budgets, the rest of Canada should pay attention" says Baldwin.
Public Disservice: the impact of federal government job cuts in Atlantic Canada can be downloaded in full here: www.policyalternatives.ca
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Instead of the usual backfacing speakers, the phone sports a two front facing speakers to provide supreme audio experience to the user. With beats audio processing, the audio is more enhanced.
The camera is a 4 MP autofocus with LED flash which may disappoint you in resolution department but HTC with their Ultrapixel technology claim better low light photography as compared to competitors. (NOKIA are you listening)
The front facing camera is a 2.1 MP which is quite satisfactory.
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The smartphone runs HTC 4.1.2 which is a version behind 4.2 but the HTC sense 5 UI offers smooth interface and eye candy for a good smartphone experience.
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ivermectin for puppy with mange?
Hi I have a pit bull puppy (Izzy Boo) who I found as a stray that I took in (& love her to death (: she's a doll!) Anyways when I 1st rescued her I noticed she had small bumps on her face & head area..I went straight to petsmart and bought all kinds of oatmeal & fungi shampoo because I have another dog at home (my 1yr old Aussie) & I didn't want whatever it was on Izzy to get on my other dog! So I bathed her in it about 4 times then noticed it was getting worse & she is now starting to loose hair & her scratching is causing her skin to bleed & make scabs & become red & irritated. I googled some symptoms of what it could be & I have learned that it is possibly mange!! so I looked online for some ways to cure it (I know take her to a vet & I plan too) but I found a lot of people were having success with ivermectin after about a month of trearment..I was just looking to see if anyone has ever used this method before & if so how much dosage would I give to a puppy? Thanks!
I uploaded a pic of my Izzy
Ps I uploaded a profile of my sweet Izzys neck on my profile!!
She is a sweetie!
Honestly, though, I'd get her to the vet and get it diagnosed asap before trying to treat it. Ivermectin is not a benign compound and I wouldn't want to risk it before making sure it was necessary. Even if it is mange, you need to find out which kind of mange it is, and for that, the vet will need to do a scraping and examine any mites under the microscope.
In addition, determining dosage and treating puppies can be tricky. Best to get veterinary advice before you start any treatment.
Depending on what she's got, there are different treatment alternatives. We had a dog that came with demodex mange (luckily, she had this type and not the contagious type because we had 5 other dogs at the time ) and we treated her with a topical. Much safer than treating her with ivermectin.
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Yes, please, please Vet her before trying remedies yourself. You say she is a stray so can you be absolutely, positively certain there is NO collie type of breed in her background? No, you can't because even if she was an F1 cross she could look completely like one breed and not the other. It's important because collie types and mixes may be sensitive to invermectin. Plus in the meantime she could be spreading whatever she has to you and your other dog.
Great you took her in, thank you, poor little thing. Photos?
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Sports toys can encourage children to become more physically active in their play. Playing baseball, soccer, or basketball or even jumping on a trampoline can increase their metabolic rates which can help speed up their energy consumption. This can help in the management of the caloric imbalance seen in a great number of kids today.
Strengthens and Tones Muscles for Optimum Motor Skills Enhancement
Taking a swing at the baseball or even pedaling the bicycle on an incline can help tone and strengthen the muscles. This can then help with the enhancement of children's gross motor skills. And because the development of a child's fine motor skills is inherently connected with the development of the larger groups of muscles, strengthening the muscles can then help enhance the fine motor skills of children. They can then use this to perform a lot of their other developmental tasks like writing, self-help skills, creating, and building. Sports toys are also important in developing and enhancing kids' muscle coordination and balance.
Enhances Cognitive Functioning
While sports toys may not necessarily be able to enhance or strengthen a kid's divergent problem-solving skills, these are nonetheless important in stimulating children's imagination through make-believe play. Shooting a basketball, for example, will require the brain to process the angle of the shot including the amount of force needed to apply to shoot the ball through the air and into the hoop. Archery will also require the brain to process wind direction and speed of the arrow to make a very accurate shot placement. All of these rely on complex cognitive processes. It is similar to problem-solving but in a very speedy fashion.
Helps Foster Social Interaction, Cooperation, and Teamwork
While there are individual sports, there are also group sports activities. When sports toys like basketball, baseball, tennis, and soccer, just to name a few, are played with other kids, they eventually learn how to establish relationships. Kids learn to play as a team and how each kid's role is important in winning a particular game. They also learn to cooperate with one another as sports is all about cooperation.
Boosts Emotional Development
Playing with friends can help kids feel good about themselves, especially if they win a particular game. More importantly, however, is their ability to accept a loss in a more gracious manner. It may not be easy at first but this is where Mom and Dad comes in. Sports toys are mere instruments. You have to teach kids the value of accepting defeat as part of good sportsmanship.
Whether it is a play basketball or baseball set or even a soccer set or any other sports toy, you can be sure your kid will grow and develop a lot better. Just think of it this way – you do believe that exercise is important for health, right? If you need exercise, then your kid needs it, too.


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By request-Tzatziki!!
This recipe comes from The All New All Purpose Joy Of Cooking, orginally. I have adapted it slightly.
2 cups yogurt (natural flavour, as thick as you can get it-Balkan style is good)
1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded and grated
1 teaspoon salt
2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and mashed or pressed
2-3 teaspoons white vinegar or lemon juice
2 teaspoons dill (or to taste)
1 tablespoon olive oil
Up to 24 hours ahead:
Line a fine mesh sieve or colander with coffee filters or cheesecloth (coffee filter s work great!). Place over a bowl. Put the yogurt in the sieve and allow to drain for up to 24 hours in the fridge, not more than 2 hours on the counter. You want the whey to drain off and the yogurt to firm up so it's like soft cream cheese (BTW, it makes a great substitute for spreadable cream cheese-just add any flavouring you want).
Toss the grated cucumber with the salt in a colander and let stand in the sink or over a bowl for 30 minutes to drain. Rinse it quickly and press the excess water out (you want the cucumber fairly dry).
Combine the yogurt, cucumbers and garlic in a bowl. Mix. Add everything else but the oil. Chill til serving time. Drizzle the oil over the top.
That's it. I usually do without the oil-I don't miss it. The original recipe calls for mint as well as dill. You can just dice the cucumber if you want chunky style instead.
Enjoy !
Thank you !
Thank you so much Skryker. I can't wait to try this. What do you usually serve with this? Crackers? Bagel bits?
I'm making my shopping list now and I'm going to try it on Monday when my cousin comes to visit. Or....if I do a decent job I might eat it and buy a jar of salsa for the cousin.
Joeysmama, you hit it on the nail on the other thread when you mentioned Naan. Perfect! I don't know if that is Greek or Indian. I think I had it at an Indian restaurant with Hummus. But that sounds like it would be a great combination with this. Here in the states, we combine ethic food all the time and call it something like California Cuisine or Tex-Mex. Works!
Edited to note that this would be a perfect recipe for California Cuisine. All the ingredients are grown and produced right here!
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I usually eat my tzatziki with carrots (although I think the carrots make it harder to digest), but yesterday, I tried it with Spicy Quesodilla tostitos and it was so tasty (and I didn't get my usual tzat cramps! Woohoo!)
That recipe sounds easy and tasty. Thanks for posting it.
Very welcome! We love this stuff. Let's see...as a dip, it goes with pita bread-especially if you can find the mini pitas for easy dipping-but any flat bread like Naan will do. It works as chip dip, too, or with veggies.
It's a sandwich spread, too, in place of mayo. Or use it in chicken salad. Or try left-over turkey cubed up with chunks of cucumber and tomato mixed with the tzatziki, stuffed into a pita. Yum!! (No turkey if you're vegetarian ). Gyros are the greek grilled meat in a pita dish-that uses tzatziki, too.
More exotic (or personal, anyways), I like it with perogies. My husband uses it in all sorts of things, too. The Joy of Cooking uses it as a dressing for Potato Salad. Haven't tried that, but it sure sounds good.
Mmmmm that sounds yummy, I'm going to have to try it next time I have souvlaki!! I usualy just get a tub of sour cream add 4-5 gloves of garlic cucumber and greek oregano. But I will definately try this recipe!!!!
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I tried this recipe. Sooooo delicious. Although I think I added way too much garlic ( i thought, hey i love garlic i'll add 2 cloves more than the recipe calls for-a mistake i think) It had way too much bite, next time i'll add the recommended amount of garlic. It gave me wicked garlic breath that I could still taste the next morning after 2 teeth brushings!
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Glad you liked it Stacer! The garlic is very much a personal taste- I usually add 3 cloves; my husband will add 4. Depends on the garlic, too. If it's older and has sprouted a bit, it's really, really strong and kinda bitter. I guess roasted garlic would be good, too, and mellower.
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The minute I get an afternoon to play, I'm gonna make it.. I've been craving it like crazy for a while now...:love:
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Perceived value
Last time I checked, I was not dead yet....or at least the breathing noises I make would indicate that my death has not yet arrived. Since this is the case , I'll have to consider myself one of the 'Not dead yet' framebuilders. Even though my frames are not collectable and as far as I know , not causing any kind of buzz amongst the rabid vintage bike fans I am very happy to be still alive. Being not dead yet has a lot of advantages....at least that's the way it appears to me , having never been to the 'other side' .
There is however , a distinct plus for being a dead guy who built bicycle frames-your legacy of work might get to command a much higher price than when you were alive to open your wallet and receive the proceeds. I'll cite the example of the late Mario Confente , noted Italian transplant to California who was sent here to re-create the famed Masi branded bicycles here in the U.S.A. as the demand for the bikes was sufficient to merit a satellite factory close to the new fertile market. Americans were going nuts over Masi, Cinelli, Colnago and a host of noted Italian racing bikes but it was Masi who made the move to get manufacturing nearer to the dollars . From what I understand , Mario Confente was the man to head up the operation.
This is where it all gets fuzzy to me......I don't know the details of what happened and why Mario wound up leaving and building under his own name but what I do know is that back in the late '70's , Mr. Confente was regarded was a real master of his craft by many bicycle shops-the shop where I worked was no exception. Any time a Masi made in California showed up in my shop, the serial number was checked to see if it could possibly be a "Confente built Masi". I didn't understand the significance as no matter how closely I looked at the workmanship, I could not distinguish one Masi frame from another. They seemed all to be built to a certain standard and almost boringly consistent. When an actual Confente came into the store there was quite a stir amongst the crew.....this I really didn't get as the Bruce Gordon sitting in the shop in near anonymity was light years beyond the Confente in terms of attention to detail and impeccability.
Fast forward to 2010. These are different times with the internet and much information and mis-information being bandied about by experts and complete morons alike about the value of certain 'collectable' bicycles. While one of my lugged frames from the early '80's might fetch a whopping $ 300 on craigslist on a good day, a Confente might be sold in a bidding war for well over $ 10,000 ! Is the Confente worth the price ? I guess that is not for me to say......the price is set by whoever pays it. While I love the whole nostalgia of vintage bikes and own a small fleet of relics, I don't really get why some bikes are worth over $ 10,000 and why others that display better craftsmanship and equal rarity are snubbed by the collectors. I guess it has something to do with death. If you are not dead, people can't really fabricate your legendary life......the life you lead is maybe too real and accessable . If you are still alive people can still talk to you, even order a bike from you. Conversely if you are dead , there's a finite supply of your work and probably a legend about the magical quality of your work-both of theses factors can be used to manipulate the price of your bikes. The bikes might be good or bad, the legend could be complete bullshit but for some folks it doesn't matter-you are dead , therefore your bikes are a must-have holy grail item.
I'm not supposed to be angry about anything that enhances the perceived value of bikes-that would be shooting myself and every other framebuilder in the foot. We all want our work to be valued as a lot of us devote out lives to this dubious pursuit. What makes me mad is the fact that collectors are rewarding the dead guys and pretty much ignoring the guys who are still alive , in effect rewarding speculation rather than craftsmanship and dedication. While there are a couple of actual living builders who have frames that are highly sought after by collectors , there's a whole army of neglected artisans out there putting out incredible work -a lot of it arguably superior to much of the collectable cult items. I'm not including myself in this group as I mostly build bikes for competition and don't consider myself a builder who caters to the collectors.
After more than 30 years in the business and many visits to bike shows, swaps and the like I have grown weary of the notion that some dead guy's bike is worth 20 times more than a living builders bike on the open used market. It is not a fucking Matisse !
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- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM
Nice write-up Paul.ReplyDelete
I think you make a strong argument there.
gotta agree across the board. NOW is going to be see as the golden era of USA framebuilding in time.ReplyDelete
Garro said it best. Who gives a crap what "Collectors" want? How about hard working americans that want to keep their dollar votes in the states? We've got taste too...ReplyDelete
As a self-identifying collector, please send all CL links for $300 Rock Lobsters to my attention. We shall see if we cant turn this thing around.ReplyDelete
I appreciate the thought. I bought both of my Bianchi specialissimas for less than $ 200. I have a nice 1978 Della Santa I got for $ 450. I got a 1972 Motobecane team champion for $ 100. Much as I like the low prices, I get sad when I see say, a Nobliette on CL for $ 600 and it sits and sits......ReplyDelete


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Entian´s Lab
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Ribosomes are supramolecular assembly of RNA and proteins, responsible for translating the genetic information. Ribosome consists of two unequal subunits (40S and 60S). The small subunit decodes the mRNA, whereas the large subunit catalyzes the formation of peptide bonds. The eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis is a complex multistep process where approximately 80 ribosomal proteins and 4 rRNAs are assembled into mature ribosomal particles (Kressler et al., 1999). More than 200 additional proteins and snoRNAs are needed for the biosynthesis of a eukaryotic ribosome.
The basic process of ribosome biogenesis is conserved within eukaryotes, but the most detailed results have been obtained with S.cerevisiae as the model system owing to its excellent genetic and biochemical suitability.
My lab´s primary interest is to understand the processing and assembly of ribosomal subunits in S.cerevisiae. We are presently working on understanding the significance of RNA modifications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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Students and staff at a St. Paul high school are remembering someone they describe as an extraordinary student, who died in an accident.
In his 19 years Medard Prosper had already endured more challenges than most people experience in an entire lifetime: civil war in his African homeland, the loss of his parents and three siblings, relocating to a new country.
Those who knew Prosper said he never let that get him down.
Minnesota State Patrol officials are not sure what happened to Prosper Thursday night on the Mendota Bridge near Fort Snelling.
Witnesses say his car blew its left front tire. Police say Prosper was still driving at 50 to 60 miles per hour when he opened the door and either leaned out or started to jump out. They're still not certain. But as Prosper tumbled out, his foot became caught and he was run over by his own vehicle.
State Patrol officials say Prosper was not driving legally. He held only a drivers permit. Permit holders are required by law to have a licensed driver in the car with them. But Prosper was driving alone.
News of his death hit hard this morning at Highland Park Senior High School in St. Paul where Prosper was a senior.
Principal Winston Tucker said the fact that Prosper escaped a civil war in Africa only to die under these circumstances, makes his loss even more tragic.
"His life was cut short when he went through some great lengths to come to the United States," Tucker said. "And to have his freedom and to take his education very seriously and then to lose his life in a freak accident — in a car accident — it's just unfair. It's sad."
In 2007, Prosper's parents were killed during civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
To escape the war he and his five brothers and sisters walked 500 miles to a refugee camp in Tanzania. At age 14, Prosper was the youngest to survive the trek. Two of his younger siblings died along the way from malnutrition and disease. Another died at the camp. He and his two older brothers lived in the camp for three years
Then the U.N. helped Prosper and his brothers flee to America. He settled in Minnesota about two years ago.
He devoted himself to his studies in his new home.
Before going to high school in Highland Park, Prosper attended LEAP High School, a school for students learning English.
Principal Rose Santos remembers him as both studious and friendly.
"He always came dressed to school in an Oxford shirt and a tie and with his shoes all polished," Santos said. "He was just a really professional student. He was really a sweet person. He was always smiling."
Santos saw Prosper just two days ago, when Prosper stopped by his old school to do some research for a project.
Another Highland Park student from Africa, Adetutu Adebowale remembers first seeing Prosper in the school halls a few months ago. She wanted to get to know him since they were both from Africa.
"We had lunch together one day. He told me many things about him," Adebowale said. "He was a kind loving person and really hard working."
That hard work helped Prosper earn recognition from the Optimist Club of St. Paul which awarded him a $1,500 college scholarship last fall. A picture taken that day shows Prosper holding a certificate. He's dressed in his trademark Oxford shirt and tie, a huge smile stretched across his face.
One of Prosper's teachers, Sarah Schmidt de Carranza, said he planned to attend college and then start a group to help others who face the situation he escaped.
"When he grew up was he wanted to make a non-governmental organization to help out children from war-torn nations like himself. He wanted to give back to that part of the world," de Carranza said.
Highland Park High School is planning a memorial for Prosper. Officials said they would like to hold a fundraiser to help out an organization like the one Prosper hoped to start.
EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified LEAP High School as a charter school. LEAP is a part of the St. Paul Public School Alternative Learning Center program.


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Anand's Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Primeby Anand Lal Shimpi on December 6, 2009 8:00 PM EST
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Larrabee is Dead, Long Live Larrabee
Intel just announced that the first incarnation of Larrabee won't be a consumer graphics card. In other words, next year you're not going to be able to purchase a Larrabee GPU and run games on it.
You're also not going to be able to buy a Larrabee card and run your HPC workloads on it either.
Instead, the first version of Larrabee will exclusively be for developers interested in playing around with the chip. And honestly, though disappointing, it doesn't really matter.
The Larrabee Update at Fall IDF 2009
Intel hasn't said much about why it was canceled other than it was behind schedule. Intel recently announced that an overclocked Larrabee was able to deliver peak performance of 1 teraflop. Something AMD was able to do in 2008 with the Radeon HD 4870. (Update: so it's not exactly comparable, the point being that Larrabee is outgunned given today's GPU offerings).
With the Radeon HD 5870 already at 2.7 TFLOPS peak, chances are that Larrabee wasn't going to be remotely competitive, even if it came out today. We all knew this, no one was expecting Intel to compete at the high end. Its agents have been quietly talking about the uselessness of > $200 GPUs for much of the past two years, indicating exactly where Intel views the market for Larrabee's first incarnation.
Thanks to AMD's aggressive rollout of the Radeon HD 5000 series, even at lower price points Larrabee wouldn't have been competitive - delayed or not.
I've got a general rule of thumb for Intel products. Around 4 - 6 months before an Intel CPU officially ships, Intel's partners will have it in hand and running at near-final speeds. Larrabee hasn't been let out of Intel hands, chances are that it's more than 6 months away at this point.
By then Intel wouldn't have been able to release Larrabee at any price point other than free. It'd be slower at games than sub $100 GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA, and there's no way that the first drivers wouldn't have some incompatibly issues. To make matters worse, Intel's 45nm process would stop looking so advanced by mid 2010. Thus the only option is to forgo making a profit on the first chips altogether rather than pull an NV30 or R600.
So where do we go from here? AMD and NVIDIA will continue to compete in the GPU space as they always have. If anything this announcement supports NVIDIA's claim that making these things is, ahem, difficult; even if you're the world's leading x86 CPU maker.
Do I believe the 48-core research announcement had anything to do with Larrabee's cancelation? Not really. The project came out of a different team within Intel. Intel Labs have worked on bits and pieces of technologies that will ultimately be used inside Larrabee, but the GPU team is quite different. Either way, the canceled Larrabee was a 32-core part.
A publicly available Larrabee graphics card at 32nm isn't guaranteed, either. Intel says they'll talk about the first Larrabee GPU sometime in 2010, which means we're looking at 2011 at the earliest. Given the timeframe I'd say that a 32nm Larrabee is likely but again, there are no guarantees.
It's not a huge financial loss to Intel. Intel still made tons of money all the while Larrabee's development was underway. Its 45nm fabs are old news and paid off. Intel wasn't going to make a lot of money off of Larrabee had it sold them on the market, definitely not enough to recoup the R&D investment, and as I just mentioned using Larrabee sales to pay off the fabs isn't necessary either. Financially it's not a problem, yet. If Larrabee never makes it to market, or fails to eventually be competitive, then it's a bigger problem. If heterogenous multicore is the future of desktop and mobile CPUs, Larrabee needs to succeed otherwise Intel's future will be in jeopardy. It's far too early to tell if that's worth worrying about.
One reader asked how this will impact Haswell. I don't believe it will, from what I can tell Haswell doesn't use Larrabee.
Intel has a different vision of the road to the CPU/GPU union. AMD's Fusion strategy combines CPU and GPU compute starting in 2011. Intel will have a single die with a CPU and GPU on it, but the GPU isn't expected to be used for much compute at that point. Intel's roadmap has the CPU and AVX units being used for the majority of vectorized floating point throughout 2011 and beyond.
Intel's vision for the future of x86 CPUs announced in 2005, surprisingly accurate
It's not until you get in the 2013 - 2015 range that Larrabee even comes into play. The Larrabee that makes it into those designs will look nothing like the retail chip that just got canceled.
Intel's announcement wasn't too surprising or devastating, it just makes things a bit less interesting.
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filotti - Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - linkGuess now we know why Intel cancelled Larrabee... Reply
Coolmike890 - Thursday, December 10, 2009 - linkI find this whole thing laughable. I remember Intel's previous attempts at graphics. I remember people saying the same things back then: "Intel is going to dominate the next gen graphics" etc. It is for this reason I have pretty much ignored everything to do with Larrabee. I figured it would be as successful as their previous attempts were.
The nVidia guy is right. GPU's are hard to make. Look at all of the work they and AMD have put into graphics. Intel doesn't have the patience to develop a real GPU. After awhile they are forced to give up. Reply
Scali - Friday, December 11, 2009 - linkA lot has changed though. Back in the early days, everything was hardwired, and a GPU had very little to do with a CPU. GPUs would only do very basic integer/fixedpoint math, and a lot of the work was still done on the CPU.
These days, GPUs are true processors themselves, and issues like IEEE floating point processing, branch prediction, caching and such are starting to dominate the GPU design.
These are exactly the sort of thing that Intel is good at.
nVidia is now trying to close the gap with Fermi... delivering double-precision performance that is more in line with CPUs (where previous nVidia GPUs and current AMD GPUs have a ratio of about 1:5 for single-precision vs double-precision, rather than 1:2 that nVidia is aiming for), adding true function calling, unified address space, and that sort of thing.
With the introduction of the GeForce 8800 and Cuda, nVidia clearly started to step on Intel's turf with GPGPU. Fermi is another step closer to that.
If nVidia can move towards Intel's turf, why can't Intel meet nVidia halfway? Because some 15 years ago, Intel licensed video technology from Real3D which didn't turn out to be as successful as 3dfx' Voodoo? As if that has ANYTHING at all to do with the current situation... Reply
Coolmike890 - Saturday, December 12, 2009 - linkYou make excellent points. I will happily acknowledge that things have changed a lot. However, Intel has not. Like I say, I doubt they have the patience to develop a fully-functional competitive GPU. It takes too long. A couple of business cycles, after all of the grand press releases, someone up in the business towers decides that it's taking too long, and it's not worth the investment.
I think when they decide to do these things, the boardroom people think they'll be #1 inside of a year, and when it doesn't turn out that way, they pull the plug. THAT's why they won't pull it off. Reply
Scali - Monday, December 14, 2009 - linkWell, it's hard to say at this point.
Maybe it was a good decision to not put Larrabee into mass production in its current form. That saves them a big investment on a product that they don't consider to have much of a chance of being profitable.
They haven't cancelled the product, they just want another iteration before they are going to put it on the market.
Who knows, they may get it right on the second take. I most certainly hope so, since it will keep nVidia and AMD on their toes. Reply
erikejw - Thursday, December 10, 2009 - link"Larrabee hasn't been let out of Intel hands, chances are that it's more than 6 months away at this point. "
Some developers have working silicon(slow) since 6 months.
That is all I will say. Reply
erikejw - Thursday, December 10, 2009 - link3 months.
I love the editing feature.
WaltC - Tuesday, December 08, 2009 - link___________________________________________________________
"Do I believe the 48-core research announcement had anything to do with Larrabee's cancelation? Not really. The project came out of a different team within Intel. Intel Labs have worked on bits and pieces of technologies that will ultimately be used inside Larrabee, but the GPU team is quite different."
It wasn't the Larrabee team or any other product development team that canceled Larrabee, from what I gather. It was management, and management sits above the development teams and is the entity responsible for making product cancellations as well as deciding which products go to market. I don't think the 48-core research announcement had anything directly to do with Larrabee's cancellation, either, because that 48-core chip doesn't itself exist yet. But I surely think the announcement was made just prior to the Larrabee cancellation in order to lessen the PR impact of Larrabee getting the axe, and I also don't think Larrabee being canceled just before the week-end was an accident, either.
"With the Radeon HD 5870 already at 2.7 TFLOPS peak, chances are that Larrabee wasn't going to be remotely competitive, even if it came out today. We all knew this, no one was expecting Intel to compete at the high end. Its agents have been quietly talking about the uselessness of > $200 GPUs for much of the past two years, indicating exactly where Intel views the market for Larrabee's first incarnation.
Thanks to AMD's aggressive rollout of the Radeon HD 5000 series, even at lower price points Larrabee wouldn't have been competitive - delayed or not."
Well, if Larrabee wasn't intended by Intel to occupy the high end, and wasn't meant to cost >$200 anyway, why would the 5870's 2.7 TFLOPS benchmark peak matter at all? It shouldn't have mattered at all, should it, as Larrabee was never intended as a competitor? Why bring up the 5870, then?
And, uh, what were the "real-time ray tracing" demos Intel put on with Larrabee software simulators supposed to mean? Aside from the fact that the demos were not impressive in themselves, the demos plainly said, "This is the sort of thing we expect to be able to competently do once Larrabee ships," and I don't really think this fits the "low-middle" segment of the 3d-gpu market. Any gpu that *could* do RTRT @ 25-30 fps consistently would be, by definition, anything but "low-middle end," wouldn't it?
That's why I think Larrabee was canceled simply because the product would have fallen far short of the expectations Intel had created for it. To be fair, the Larrabee team manager never said that RTRT was a central goal for Larrabee--but this didn't stop the tech press from assuming that anyway. Really, you can't blame them--since it was the Intel team who made it a part of the Larrabee demos, such as they were.
"It's not until you get in the 2013 - 2015 range that Larrabee even comes into play. The Larrabee that makes it into those designs will look nothing like the retail chip that just got canceled."
Come on, heh...;) If the "Larrabee" that ships in 2013-2015 (eons of time in this business) looks "nothing like the retail chip that just got canceled"--well, then, it won't be Larrabee at all, will it? I daresay it will be called something else entirely.
Point is, if the Larrabee that just got canceled was so uncompetitive that Intel canceled it, why should the situation improve in the next three to five years? I mean, AMD and nVidia won't be sitting still in all that time, will they?
What I think is this: "Larrabee" was a poor, hazy concept to begin with, and Intel canceled it because Intel couldn't make it. If it is uncompetitive now, I can't see how a Larrabee by any other name will be any more competitive 3-5 years from now. I think Intel is aware of this and that's why Intel canceled the product.
ash9 - Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - linkLarrabee Demo:
Did anyone note the judder effects of the flying objects in the distance? Reply
Penti - Monday, December 07, 2009 - linkI really think It's a shame. I was hoping for a discreet Intel larrabee-card. It would be perfect for me that aren't a die hard gamer but still wants decent performance. I don't think the "software" route is a bad one, people don't seem to realize that that's exactly what AMD/ATi and nVidia is doing. Vidcards don't understand DX and OGL. Plus Video-cards is for so much more then DX and OGL now days. It's shaders that help in other apps, it's OpenCL, it's code written for specific gpus and so on. Also Intels Linux support is rock solid. An discreet GPU from Intel with Open source drivers would really be all it can be. Something the others wouldn't spend the same amount of resources trying to accomplish. Even the AMD server boards uses Intel network chips because they can actually write software. But at least we can look forward to the Arrandale/Clarkdale / H55. But I was also looking forward to something more resembling workstation graphics. But at least I hope Arrandale/Clarkdale helps to bring multimedia to alternative systems. Even though that will never fully happen in patent-ridden world. But at least it's easier to fill the gap with good drivers that can handle video. I also see no reason why Apple wouldn't go back to Intel chipsets including IGPs. Reply