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"Quite the mouth on you, isn't there. Now you two, get along nicely."
Surge continued to growl as the older trainer walked past, bumping shoulders with Crystal. Surge snarled as Crystal just glared. She was not intimidated by him.
"If you try anything on Ash, I will make you pay." he whispered. "I can promise that."
He said one other thing before he left. Crystal didn't care since it wasn't addressed to her. Surge calmed down when it was just his trainer and Ash. She was still surprised that the Houndoom didn't growl at him.
"...Are you sure we've never met before?"
Crystal then turned her attention back to Ash. She wasn't sure how to answer that. She felt like they have met, and her Pokémon seemed friendly with him and his Pikachu. The two were never this calm around someone they never met before.
"It's possible we were in the same area at the same time, but I don't think we exchanged names until now," she replied.
"Just a cup of hot water, and something that's soft and a fruit. I've got my own tea bags for me and Renze here." Shay answered. "Yeah came from...Unova, no...not quite Unova but close to it. I'll get some sleep after we've talked."
Keynoma nodded before she went to go get the items Shay had asked for. It was only after the other trainer had entered did the professor notice the Pokémon in her hoodie. It looked rather ill, but she wasn't going to ask to look it over just yet. With the help of her Ninetales, it only took a couple of minutes before she returned with the water and fruit. She placed the items on the table before sitting on the opposite couch.
"Anyway...what's going on with your sister?"
Keynoma looked down at her lap. Ninetales rested her head on her leg, knowing her trainer didn't like to think about it. With a heavy sigh, the oldest Momoyia sister tried to recall what happened.
"Crystal was on her way home from Hoenn I believe. I was expecting her to walk through the door when she said she's be home, but she never did. Then this whole mess with Team Rocket started. I'm sure she went to the front line to help. But then..." Keynoma had to pause to whip her eyes, feeling tears starting to form, "I got a call from her. She said that... She's with Team Rocket..."
Seth was expecting an answer from James, but then he heard someone else enter the room. He turned to see someone who wasn't wearing the normal Rocket uniform. Tyson lowered his head and glared, but remained silent.
"Some would see that as you not liking our great and wonderous leader."
Seth just chuckled. He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the wall. Tyson looked up at his trainer, the Houndoom showing the vertical scar over the bridge of his nose to him. He then sat down by Seth, completely submissive to him.
"Is there some sort of reason to this gathering when work should be getting done?"
It was then the leader of Team Rocket entered the room. Seth now showed no emotion on his features. He wasn't going to be the first to speak, knowing that someone would gladly do that.
"Blade master you are here. Sorry about all the racket sir. Now I wanted to ask you could I lead a expedition to the johto region sir. This region is nearly destroyed and the rebels are nowhere to be found. I think its time to expand are operation to the johto and dominate the johto. Little by little we take over then we crush the towns in utter chaos. Grasp these regions with a iron fist Blade I'm ready may I please."
And it was James who was the first to speak. Seth wasn't sure how the leader would react to the lieutenant calling him by his name. Seth then smirked before pushing himself off of the wall and taking a few steps forward.
"Is that so, Lieutenant? There are still more rebels in Kanto, and they can cause us a bit of trouble if we just sent most of our grunts to Johto," he said. "Now I don't see a problem with you going with a few of them, sir, but I would rather stay here and deal with any of the stragglers." He then turned to the Rocket leader. "That is if it's alright with you, sir."
Seth listened as the Rocket leader voiced his opinion on the matter of sending people to Johto. He knew of one person still in Kanto that could cause some problems if she were to get information on them, and that would be one Rocket member's older sibling. However her location was unknown. But at the moment Seth wasn't too worried about her. He was more worried about the rebels that are grouped up. Once rebel isn't that much of a problem, but a group of them could be.
Seth was dragged out of this thoughts when Blade addressed him. He gave the leader his full attention as he spoke. At first Seth didn't seem interested, but then he smirked when he heard his rise in rank. Giovanni never acknowledged him like that before, so it's possible that Seth may indeed like Blade better. But that still didn't take away from the intimidation the Rocket leader had over him.
"Thank you, Sir. I will not disappoint you," Seth said with a small bow before he left the room. Might as well go and see if anyone is back yet to send out on a little reconnoissance mission for him before going onto the battlefield himself.
Crystal looked back down at Persian and Pikachu, seeing that the two had a connection. Both looked like something was bothering them, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. She would have to ask the feline Pokémon later. She felt Loki turn to look over his shoulder and then felt him growl. Crystal then turned before she glared, seeing who was walking towards them. It was none other than Seth Black. He had a smirk on his face and his Houndoom was walking with his head held high.
"Now what do we have here? Making friends?" Seth asked as he walked up to Crystal, standing on her right side.
Surge glared and snarled at Tyson, and the other Houndoom only smirked as the blue-eyed one lowered his head. Crystal then chuckled as she looked away from the older trainer, only to silence it when Seth wrapped his arm around her waist. She stiffened, but didn't try to get away.
"What if I am?" she asked, no emotion in her voice.
"Then good for you," Seth said before looking over Ash, knowing who he was. "Well, you two are needed in the meeting room. Some new assignment or something. All I know is that I am now higher in rank, so you two better behave or I may have to deal with you."
With that Seth walked off, Crystal and her Pokémon watching his every move. Tyson chuckled as he walked past Surge, the younger Houndoom wanting to take him out right there. But the blue-eyed Houndoom knew better than to start a battle in the middle of the hallway. After Seth was out of sight, Crystal returned her attention to Ash.
"Well, we better go see what's up," she said, turning on her heel to walk to the meeting room with her three Pokémon.
It was dangerous to be walking outside in plain view (with the exception of the trees) in the forest. No, it was twice as dangerous. There is a reason why Choi has been checking his back every minute. If he had come across someone, battling them would be fairly even. The problem was that Choi had a shortage of strong pokemon in his arsenal. Sure, at least half of them would be able to put up a fight, but in his eyes, they were useful mostly for support. Instead of facing the enemy and fighting, he would frantically search for an easy way out. It would be easier on the pokemon's health anyway.
"Hey Roserade, you're getting a little heavy for me now. When can we switch turns?" he joked after a long 10 minutes of walking. The grass-poison pokemon merely produced a small chuckle. The boy was getting very worn out. One sleepless night and no breakfast really impacts the body. He looked back at his Roserade, whose eyes were half shut. Choi looked up at the sky in front of him and sighed deeply. Then, he felt Roserade stiffen up behind him. When he looked back once more, the pokemon was moving its head left and right, perking up.
"What is it? Did you pick up on something?" Choi asked. Roserade gave him a determined nod and pointed 24 degrees in front of him. Roserade had found a scent of food, human food. Wherever the place was, Choi knew that he would be taking a risk to try and seek the location of the scent. But at this point, feeling his belly once again, he didn't care. He just needed some place to rest. Gathering himself together, he and Roserade pushed onwards to the sweet smell of food.


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Mix: Screech, Sony Bean, AKG K27i headphones, iPod love
Apple has added 90's TV show "Saved By the Bell" and early segments from "Schoolhouse Rock."
Another iPod casualty: Sony said that its Bean MP3 player, which was launched at the end of last August, will be discontinued in April.
Earphone Solutions is offering a free pair of AKG K27i headphones ($70 value) with the purchase of the UM2 earphones. Add both to your cart and enter the coupon code FREEK27ILOUNGEUM2.
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I want more current video. How about the NBC nightly news? ABC is ok, but I would gladly pay for a news subscription. Package something like NBC Nightly News and Dateline for $10 a month.
Posted by duckingshire on February 14, 2006 at 3:09 PM (CST)
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I would like to send my condolences to Sony's Bean, but that would give the impression that I actually GAVE a crap.
It's your OWN fault, Sony. You snooze, you lose!
Posted by ahMEmon on February 14, 2006 at 3:54 PM (CST)
No offence, but the Sony Bean and iPod Shuffle are both crap and pointless MP3 players.
Posted by John Stevens on February 14, 2006 at 4:15 PM (CST)
Sorry to Sony for their loss of the BEAN… But hey look on the bright side, now we can get SCREECH on our Ipods!!! Good job Steve Jobs and the folks over their at iTunes for making this happen… best thing since the iPod videos came out!!! Now we can have real shows on our devices!!!!
Posted by Lisa Turtle on February 14, 2006 at 5:07 PM (CST)
I work for Sony (Sony Centre) and have to say we do not sell hardly any Beans. Neither am I impressed by the Bean.
I myself own a 5G iPod:P
Although, I would like to take not that the sound quality on Sony MP3 players is far more better than any iPod on the market.
But a big problem with the Sony devices is software (Its awful - Thats Microsoft)
Hopefuly thats not biased - as I try to keep my opinion and 'work' opinion seperate:P
Posted by Ian on February 14, 2006 at 5:32 PM (CST)
I am on my third iPod, and can honestly say that although the iPod doesn't have the best quality sound (that goes to Creative and possible Sony) it does have the best overall experience, with it's tight integration with iTunes.
I would very much like to see more open standards and some competition to the iPod, but it seems like more and more of these OTHER DAP will fall by the wayside until SOMEONE (hopefully) can get it right.
Until then, gimme my iPod!
Posted by ahMEmon on February 15, 2006 at 8:19 AM (CST)
it will be interesting to see if all the less successful companies come up with some type of standard to help sell a new service. that might explain why so many players are being discontinued; maybe MS will come to the market with a more unified approach. whatever. I'm happy with iTMS+ipod+powerbook.
Posted by m on February 15, 2006 at 12:44 PM (CST)
WOW! $300 for a set of earphones! I'm sure they're noise cancelling or something; I don't know cause after seeing the price I didn't bother with the details.
Posted by 3rdEye on February 15, 2006 at 1:22 PM (CST)
WOW! $300 for a set of earphones!
Uh, I'd hate to see how you'd react to Ultimate Ears' or Sensaphonics' upper end price tags.
Posted by flatline response on February 16, 2006 at 4:38 AM (CST)
Hey flatline response, aren't you on headfi?
3rd Eye: They're not noise-cancelling, they're better. They're basically ear plugs with tiny, good earphones in them. I have a cheaper single-driver version from a different company, and I cannot tell you how much more tolerable it makes walking in the city, public transportation, travelling, and shopping in malls. I think everyone with ears needs some version or another. :)
Posted by lena on February 16, 2006 at 6:07 PM (CST)
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SYDNEY, 30 January - Canberra Cavalry slugger Adam Buschini and Perth Heat pitcher Jack Frawley have been named the final Delta Air Lines Player and Pitcher of the Week respectively for the 2012/13 season in the Australian Baseball League brought to you by Be the Influence: Tackling Binge Drinking. Buschini and Frawley each shined in Round 13, the final round of competition in the ABL's 2012/13 regular season.
For Buschini, the Round 13 award, his second of the season, was the culmination of an outstanding campaign that saw the Canberra second baseman become the ABL's first Triple Crown winner, a baseball rarity in which Buschini led the circuit in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in.
This week, in the Cavalry's season-ending series win at Adelaide, Buschini belted four home runs to finish the season tied for the most in any year in ABL history with 14. Overall, the Oakland, California native went 9-for-15 (.600) with multiple hits in all four contests including a two-homer affair on 26 January. Buschini batted in nine runs during the series. His .363 batting average, 15 jacks, and 50 total RBI paced the league.
Behind Buschini's bat, the Cavalry took three wins in four games from the Bite and came from a game behind to earn the league's regular season title over Sydney. Canberra will host the 2013 ABL Championship Series from 8-10 February at Narrabundah Ballpark in the nation's capital.
Like Buschini, Frawley turned in a monster performance when his team needed it most. In search of one win on the season's final day to clinch their third straight ABL Postseason trip, the Heat got Frawley's best effort of the year. In his first start and fifth overall appearance this season, the right-hander dominated the Melbourne Aces to the tune of eight shutout innings, allowing just three hits. Perth capitalised on the righty's overwhelming effort by rolling to an 11-1 victory that secured the #3 seed in this year's Postseason.
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Ruckus Wireless VP Denis Maynard Unloads 12,000 Shares (RKUS)
Ruckus Wireless (NASDAQ:RKUS) VP Denis Maynard unloaded 12,000 shares of Ruckus Wireless stock on the open market in a transaction dated Monday, June 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $12.00, for a total value of $144,000.00. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 31,500 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $378,000. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link.
A number of research firms have recently commented on RKUS. Analysts at Wells Fargo & Co. initiated coverage on shares of Ruckus Wireless in a research note on Tuesday. They set a "market perform" rating on the stock. Separately, analysts at Buckingham Research initiated coverage on shares of Ruckus Wireless in a research note on Thursday, June 19th. They set a "buy" rating and a $14.00 price target on the stock. Finally, analysts at BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage on shares of Ruckus Wireless in a research note on Wednesday, May 28th. They set an "outperform" rating and a $13.00 price target on the stock. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and fourteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Ruckus Wireless presently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $14.64.
Ruckus Wireless (NASDAQ:RKUS) traded down 0.70% on Wednesday, hitting $11.42. 799,368 shares of the company's stock traded hands. Ruckus Wireless has a 52 week low of $8.65 and a 52 week high of $18.58. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $10.4 and a 200-day moving average of $12.37. The company has a market cap of $937.0 million and a P/E ratio of 575.00.
Ruckus Wireless (NASDAQ:RKUS) last released its earnings data on Wednesday, April 30th. The company reported $0.05 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.04 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $75.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $72.21 million. On average, analysts predict that Ruckus Wireless will post $0.22 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Plunify's InTime helps FPGA design engineers meet timing and area goals!
Engineers designing FPGA applications face many challenges. Using Plunify's automation and analysis platform, engineers can run 100 times more builds, analyze a larger set of builds and quickly zoom in on better quality results. Using data analytics and the cloud, Plunify created new capabilities for FPGA design, with InTime being an example.
Kirvy Teo said: What happens when you need to close timing in FPGA design and still can't get it to work? Here is a new way to solve that problem – machine learning and analytics. InTime is an expert software that helps FPGA design engineers meet timing and area goals by recommending "strategies". Strategies are combination of settings found in the existing FPGA software. With more than 70 settings available in the FPGA software, no sane FPGA design engineer have the time or capacity to understand how these affect the design outcomes.
One of the common methods now is to try random bruteforce using seeds. This is a one-way street. If you get to your desired result, great! If not, you would have wasted a bunch of time running builds with you none the wiser. Another aspect of running seeds is that the variance of the results is usually not very big, meaning you can't run seeds on a design with bad timing scores.
However, using InTime, all builds become part of the data that we used to recommend strategies that can give you better results, using machine learning and predictive analytics. This means you will definitely get a better answer at the end of the day, and we have seen 40 percent performance improvements on designs!
How has Plunify been doing this year so far? According to Teo, Plunify did a controlled release to selected customers in first quarter of 2014, who are mainly based in China. It is easier to guess who as we nicknamed them "BCC" – Big Chinese Corporations.
Unsurprisingly, they have different methodologies to solving timing problems and design guidelines, many of which were done to pre-empt timing problems at the later stage of the design. InTime was a great way to help them to achieve their performance targets without disrupting their tool flows.
Plunify is announcing the launch of InTime during DAC and will be looking to partner with sale organizations in US.
What's the future path likely to be? Teo added: "Machine learning and predictive analytics are one of the hottest topics and we have yet seen it being used much in chip design. We see a lot of potential in this sector. Beyond what InTime is doing now, there are still many chip design problems that can be solved with similar techniques.
"First, there is a need to determine the type of problems that can be solved with these techniques. Second, we are re-looking at existing design problems and wondering, if I can throw 100 or 1000 machines to this problem, can I get a better result? Third, how to get that better result without even running it!
"As you know, we do offer a FPGA cloud platform on Amazon. One of the most surprising observations is that people do not know how to use all those cheap power in the cloud! FPGA design is still confined to a single machine for daily work, like email. Even if I give you 100 machines, you don't know how to check your emails faster! We see the same thing, the only method they know is to run seeds. InTime is what they need to make use of all these resources intelligently.
Why would FPGA providers take up the solution?
The InTime software works as a desktop software which can be installed in internal data centers or desktops. It is on longer just a cloud play. It works with the current in-house FPGA software that the customer already own. We are helping FPGA providers like Xilinx or Altera, by helping their customers with the designs. They will feel: How about "Getting better results without touching your RTL code!"
Optic2Connect develops software for photonics!
Optic2Connect will be present at this year's DAC. I caught up with Sean Seah, project manager, to find out more.
First, what's the company's X factor and why? (What is it that makes your offering special and noteworthy – how are you different from competitors)?
Optic2Connect develops software solutions for the photonics industry. The demand to manage high volumes of data in networks, especially with the current smart-phone and cloud computing trend, has increased tremendously. As design gets more complex, simulation tools need to scale with regard to fidelity and accuracy.
Currently, photonic designers, scientists, and fabrication engineers adopt an approximated approach from the electrical data to build an equivalent optical model, hence losing on device physics details. At the same time the process is long as the model needs to be described block-by-block with denser blocks representing a more detailed model. Our competitors are well established in their respective domains, electrical or optical, but they are strong in their own respective fields. However, intimate knowledge in both are essential to fully understand this newer generation of photonic devices. Failure to understand fully results in false results from the manufacturing.
With patented know-how, Optic2Connect provides software solutions that SOLVES this pertinent challenge. It maps accurately simulations from one domain to another, e.g. electrical to optical. This technology has been developed by a team of researchers at A*Star – Singapore Public Research Institute. The technology overcomes error-prone and detailed oriented simulation setups. We demonstrated the ability to map without losing any fidelity in the simulation files.
Optic2Connect's IP differs from its competitors because it simulates directly from the beginning device processing, to electrical device performance until the final high-speed optical eye diagram. This is in stark contrast to the usual method of representing their operation using simplified transfer functions.
Furthermore, the Optic2Connect design flow uses the same reliable tools and processes from the semiconductor industry that are fully compatible with the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication process of silicon microelectronics. This design flow uses standard tools libraries, device models especially for active components such as modulators, and simulation of these components incorporating the models.
How have you been doing this year so far? Seah said: "It has been excellent! We are racing to complete our product prototypes and we secured a contract from an MNC and another from universities."
What's the future path likely to be? Seah added: "We intend to further validate our prototype with our partners from industry and academia, and integrating advanced modulation formats into our solutions. We want to offer a fully integrated solution for photonic devices to our customers. Our goal is to offer a one-stop solution for leading integrated-circuit (IC) manufacturers!"
Why this name? You sounded like a telecom company!
Seah said: "We strongly believe the future of communications is via optics which has the ability to circumvent the data bottleneck issues. Optic2Connect is meant to offer connect using optical communications. Our goal is a one-stop solution for optical connections. "
How will the solution significantly shorten product time-to-market and reduce development costs of photonics devices?
For complex photonics devices, minute changes to design parameters are significant and could affect loss performance, and operating voltage requirements. One common approach in the industry today is to physically build the variations into multiple device / runs and test them out. Each run cost is the range of hundreds of thousands and consume precious time. Especially, if the first batch of devices do not meet required parameters and additional batches are required. This cost both money and time, which in turn is more money.
Hence, Optic2Connect provides an elegant solution with our accurate modelling and simulation solutions, this accelerates manufacturing prototypes and at much lower production costs. Our software solutions provide a 10x improvement in time reduction and time to market. Further, our cloud solution overcomes traditional problems of insufficient servers / licenses, especially during periods of peak demand.
Metro450 Conference 2014 discusses all things 450mm wafers!
Thanks to the Enable450 newsletter, sent out by Malcolm Penn, CEO, Future Horizons, here is a piece on the Metro450 Conference 2014, held earlier this year in Israel.
Metro450 is an Israel-based consortium with the goal of helping the metrology companies advance in their fields. The consortium's members include metrology and related companies, as well as academics who support these companies by performing basic research.
The conference was sponsored by the Israeli Chief Scientist Office, by Applied Materials Israel and by Intel. There were several goals for the conference: to provide an opportunity for industry leaders as well as academicians to meet and discuss the latest developments in the world of metrology, to present these advances to audiences which would normally not be privy to such information, and to learn more about the international effort in 450mm wafer technology.
Over 200 people attended this conference from Israeli companies and academia, as well as from Europe and the United States. Israeli companies included Applied Materials, Jordan Valley, Nova, KLA, Zeiss Israel, and others. Academic members included researchers from the leading Israeli universities, including the Technion, Tel-Aviv U. and Haifa U. European companies were represented by ENIAC, as well as large corporations such as ASML as well SME-based companies. The G450C consortium, based in Albany, N.Y. was also well represented at this conference.
Some of the highlights of the conference included scientific discussions of different metrology methods, and their adjunct requirements, such as improved rapid wafer movement, improved sampling methods and fast computing. Presentations also included an overview of the advances necessary to move the industry forward, optical CD metrology, x-ray metrology, and novel piezo-based wafer movement.
A panel discussed various broad industry trends, including the timeline of 450mm wafers, European programs and the Israeli programs. International speakers discussed the European technology model, risk mitigation of 450 through collaborations, 450 collaborative projects under ENIAC, 450mm wafer movement challenges and metrology challenges beyond 14nm.
This second annual Metro450 conference took place this January at the Technion, Israel.
Renesas aims to increase its MCU share in India
Renesas Electronics recently opened its India subsidiary in Bangalore. Elaborating, Sunil Dhar, managing director of Renesas Electronics India said: "We are glad to announce the opening of Renesas Electronics India Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd., located in Bangalore.
"Since 2010, Renesas has been providing technical product support to its customers here via branch offices in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. As part of its expansion plan, Renesas will turn our said branches into a full subsidiary.
"The branch office setup served us well when the organization was small and its role was limited. In order to expand further in terms of opening more offices in India for close customer support, and to be able to provide wider services to customers in India like reference software, hardware, reference solutions which would be developed in India, it would require us to have a permanent establishment here.
"Through this new company, we aim to expand business by providing the best solution offerings and technical support as well as a regional systems solution development expertise to the Indian market."
How does the India R&D team play a role in global innovation and where do you see Renesas Electronics in India five years from now?
He said that over 50 percent of the Renesas India team is application development or field engineers armed with knowledge of embedded hardware and software development and support.
In order to expand the footprint in Indian markets, Renesas plans to build up a strong application engineering team. India Application engineering team will engage with the Renesas headquarters, regional offices to develop new products and solutions dedicated for emerging countries, including India.
The application engineering team and the future solution centre aim to survey the market for solution needs, prepare India designed solutions fitting the price points and specifications points as required in the Indian market. Along with the customers, the team also intends to collaborate with the design houses to create innovative solutions addressing upcoming needs of the market. Our goal is to become the most trusted semiconductor solution provider in India.
What are the India-centric solutions that would be developed from the India Application Engineering team?
Dhar added that the needs of emerging markets are usually different in both specifications as well as price points. By providing dedicated local support via the new company, and with a focus on industrial and automotive applications for two- and four-wheelers, Renesas aims to increase its MCU share in India and expand its solution offerings with rich lineup of kit solutions (MCU + SoC + power devices) and platform reference boards (boards with complete ecosystem including devices and software) to provide customers a shorter time-to-market.
The team will initially focus on automotive and particularly, two-wheeler solutions. The intention is to expand the scope of the application engineering team's activity to industrial and consumer appliances in near term.
What is the overall India employee strength? How are the investment plans looking up?
Dhar said: "In order to expand our footprint in Indian markets, we will double our headcount in near term. Currently, we are just under 30 staff and over 50 percent of us are application development or field engineers armed with the knowledge of embedded hardware and software development and support. Upon setting up the organization in Sales and Marketing roles in the initial days, we also have plans to announce the setting up of a Solutions Centre in India to develop reference application solutions to enable our customers to use our devices.
"We are intending to invest in lab, infrastructure setup and expansion of activities in the next three to five years. Additionally, we are also considering investing towards 3rd party and IDH for enlarged business engagement."
Trends driving automotive market in India
Regarding trends driving the automotive market in India, Dhar said that Renesas focusses on three business segments – automotive, industrial and home, OA and ICT. Renesas holds more than 40 percent global market share for automotive MCU business. Our target applications for automotive segment are automotive control and automotive infotainment and network.
Renesas has dedication applications solutions for integrated cockpit through system on chip, R-car ecosystem collaboration solution for e-mobility and automotive analog and power devices for driving, steering and braking.
As semiconductor technologies evolved, it has enabled automakers to integrate multiple applications on a single chip significantly reducing the board area; thus optimizing performance and adding new features for comfort, safety and infotainment. Power technologies have brought energy efficiency, limiting power consumption in vehicles. Advancements in process technologies will continue to drive the auto industry in the coming years.
Renesas, for instance, developed the industry's first 28nm flash memory IP for MCUs and the first semiconductor supplier to move from 40nm to 28nm process technology.
"Trends driving auto industry in India and globally are more of less the same. However, for India market, we see a specific demand for two-wheeler solutions and that is our target in coming years," he concluded.
Lastly, I must take the opportunity to thank Ms Shweta Dhadiwal-Baid and Ms Sharmita Mandal for making this happen! ;)
Set up strong methodology teams to create better verification infrastructure: Synopsys
This is the third installment on verification, now, taken up by Synopsys. Regarding the biggest verification mistakes today, Arindam Ghosh, director – Global Technical Services, Synopsys India, attributed these as:
* Spending no time on verification planning (not documenting what needs to be verified) and focusing more on running simulations or on execution.
* No or very low investment in building better verification environments (based on best/new methodologies and best practices); instead maintaining older verification environments.
* Compromising on verification completeness because of tape out pressures and time-to-market considerations.
Would you agree that many companies STILL do not know how to verify a chip?
He said that it could be true for smaller companies or start-ups, but most of the major semiconductor design engineers know about the better approaches/methodologies to verify their chips. However, they may not be investing in implementing the new methodologies for multiple reasons and may instead continue to follow the traditional flows.
One way to address these mistakes would be to set up strong methodology teams to create a better verification infrastructure for future chips. However, few companies are doing this.
Are companies realizing this and building an infrastructure that gets you business advantage? He added that some companies do realize this and are investing in building a better infrastructure (in terms of better methodology and flows) for verification.
When should good verification start?
When should good verification start — after design; as you are designing and architecting your design environment? Ghosh said that good verification starts as soon as we start designing and architecting the design. Verification leads should start discussing the verification environment components with the lead architect and also start writing the verification plan.
Are folks mistaking by looking at tools and not at the verification process itself? According to him, tools play a major role in the effectiveness of any verification process, but we still see a lot of scope in methodology improvements beyond the tools.
What all needs to get into verification planning as the 'right' verification path is fraught with complexities? Ghosh said that there is no single, full-proof recipe for a 'right' verification path. It depends on multiple factors, including whether the design is a new product or derivative, the design application etc. But yes, it is very important to do comprehensive verification planning before starting the verification process.
Synopsys is said to be building a comprehensive, unified and integrated verification environment is required for today's revolutionary SoCs and would offer a fundamental shift forward in productivity, performance, capacity and functionality. Synopsys' Verification Compiler provides the software capabilities, technology, methodologies and VIP required for the functional verification of advanced SoC designs in one solution.
Verification Compiler includes:
* Better capacity and compile and runtime performance.
* Next-generation static and formal technology delivering performance improvement and the capacity to analyze a complete SoC (Property checking, LP, CDC, connectivity).
* Comprehensive low power verification solution.
* Verification planning and management.
* Next-generation verification IP and a deep integration between VIP and the simulation engine, which in turn can greatly improve productivity. The constraint engine is tuned for optimal performance with its VIP library. It has integrated debug solutions for VIP so one can do protocol-level analysis and transaction-based analysis with the rest of the testbench.
* Support for industry standard verification methodologies.
* X-propagation simulation with both RTL and low power simulations.
* Common debug platform with better debug technology having new capabilities, tight integrations with simulation, emulation, testbench, transaction debug, power-aware debug , hw/sw debug, formal, VIP and coverage.
Top five recommendations for verification
What would be Synopsys' top five recommendations for verification?
* Spend a meaningful amount of time and effort on verification planning before execution.
* Continuously invest in building a better verification infrastructure and methodologies across the company for better productivity.
* Collaborate with EDA companies to develop, evaluate and deploy new technologies and flows, which can bring more productivity to verification processes.
* Nurture fresh talent through regular on and off-the-job trainings (on flows, methodologies, tools, technology).
* Conduct regular reviews of the completed verification projects with the goal of trying to improve the verification process after every tapeout through methodology enhancements.
Cadence: Plan verification to avoid mistakes!
Following Mentor Graphics, Cadence Design Systems Inc. has entered the verification debate. ;) I met Apurva Kalia, VP R&D – System & Verification Group, Cadence Design Systems. In a nutshell, he advised that there needs to be proper verification planning in order to avoid mistakes. First, let's try to find out the the biggest verification mistakes.
Top verification mistakes
Kalia said that the biggest verification mistakes made today are:
* Verification engineers do not define a structured notion of verification completeness.
* Verification planning is not done up front and is carried out as verification is going along.
* A well-defined reusable verification methodology is not applied.
* Legacy tools continue to be used for verification; new tools and technologies are not adopted.
In that case, why are some companies STILL not knowing how to verify a chip?
He added: "I would not describe the situation as companies not knowing how to verify a chip. Instead, I think a more accurate description of the problem is that the verification complexity has increased so much that companies do not know how to meet their verification goals.
"For example, the number of cycles needed to verify a current generation processor – as calculated by traditional methods of doing verification – is too prohibitive to be done in any reasonable timeframe using legacy verification methodologies. Hence, new methodologies and tools are needed. Designs today need to be verified together with software. This also requires new tools and methodologies. Companies are not moving fast enough to define, adopt and use these new tools and methodologies thereby leading to challenges in verifying a chip."
Addressing challenges
How are companies trying to address the challenges?
Companies are trying to address the challenges in various ways:
* Companies at the cutting edge of designs and verification are indeed trying to adopt structured verification methodologies to address these challenges.
* Smaller companies are trying to address these challenges by outsourcing their verification to experts and by hiring more verification experts.
* Verification acceleration and prototyping solutions are being adopted to get faster verification and which will allow companies to do more verification in the same amount of time.
* Verification environment re-use helps to cut down the time required to develop verification environments.
* Key requirements of SoC integration and verification—including functionality, compliance, power, performance, etc.—are hardware/software debug efficiency, multi-language verification, low power, mixed signal, fast time to debug, and execution speed.
Cadence has the widest portfolio of tools to help companies meet verification challenges, including:
Incisive Enterprise Manager, which provides hierarchical verification technology for multiple IPs, interconnects, hardware/software, and plans to improve management productivity and visibility;
The recently launched vManager solution, a verification planning and management solution enabled by client/server technology to address the growing verification closure challenge driven by increasing design size and complexity;
Incisive Enterprise Verifier, which delivers dual power from tightly integrated formal analysis and simulation engines; and
Incisive Enterprise Simulator, which provides the most comprehensive IEEE language support with unique capabilities supporting the intent, abstraction, and convergence needed to speed silicon realization.
Are companies building an infrastructure that gets you business advantage? Yes, companies are realizing the problems. It is these companies that are the winners in managing today's design and verification challenges, he said.
Good verification
When should good verification start?
Kalia noted: "Good verification should start right at the time of the high level architecture of the design. A verification strategy should be defined at that time, and an overall verification plan should be written at that time. This is where a comprehensive solution like Incisive vManager can help companies manage their verification challenges by ensuring that SoC developers have a consistent methodology for design quality enhancements."
Are folks mistaking by looking at tools and not at the verification process itself?
He addded that right tools and methodology are needed to resolve today's verification challenges. Users need to work on defining verification methodologies and at the same time look at the tools that are needed to achieve verification goals.
Verification planning
Finally, there's verification planning! What should be the 'right' verification path?
Verification planning needs to include:
* A formal definition of verification goals;
* A formal definition of coverage goals at all levels – starting with code coverage all the way to functional coverage;
* Required resources – human and compute;
* Verification timelines;
* All the verification tools to be used for verification; and
* Minimum and maximum signoff criteria.
Five recommendations for verification: Dr. Wally Rhines
It seems to be the season of verification. The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM 1.2) is being discussed across conferences. Dennis Brophy, director of Strategic Business Development, Mentor Graphics, says that UVM 1.2 release is imminent, and UVM remains a topic of great interest.
Biggest verification mistakes
Before I add Dennis Brophy's take on UVM 1.2, I discussed with Dr. Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics Corp. the intricacies regarding verification. First, I asked him regarding the biggest verification mistakes today.
Dr. Rhines said: "The biggest verification mistake made today is poor or incomplete verification planning. This generally results in underestimating the scope of the required verification effort. Furthermore, without proper verification planning, some teams fail to identify which verification technologies and tools are appropriate for their specific design problem."
Would you agree that many companies STILL do not know how to verify a chip?
Dr. Rhines added: "I would agree that many companies could improve their verification process. But let's first look at the data. Today, we are seeing that about 1/3 of the industry is able to achieve first silicon success. But what is interesting is that silicon success within our industry has remained constant over the past ten years (that is, the percentage hasn't become any worse).
"It appears that, while design complexity has increased substantially during this period, the industry is at least keeping up with this added complexity through the adoption of advanced functional verification techniques.
"Many excellent companies view verification strategically (and as an advantage over their competition). These companies have invested in maturing both their verification processes and teams and are quite productive and effective. On the other hand, some companies are struggling to figure out the entire SoC space and its growing complexity and verification challenges."
How are companies trying to address those?
According to him, the recent Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study revealed that the industry is maturing its verification processes through the adoption of various advanced functional verification techniques (such as assertion-based verification, constrained-random simulation, coverage-driven techniques, and formal verification). Complexity is generally forcing these companies to take a hard look at their existing processes and improve them.
Getting business advantage
Are companies realizing this and building an infrastructure that gets you business advantage?
He added that in general, there are many excellent companies out there that view verification strategically and as an advantage over their competition, and they have invested in maturing both their verification processes and teams. On the other hand, some other companies are struggling to figure out the entire SoC space and its growing complexity and verification challenges.
When should good verification start?
When should good verification start — after design; as you are designing and architecting your design environment?
Dr. Rhines noted: "Just like the design team is often involved in discussion during the architecture and micro-architecture planning phase, the verification team should be an integral part of this process. The verification team can help identify architectural aspects of the design that are going to be difficult to verify, which ultimately can impact architectural decisions."
Are folks mistaken by looking at tools and not at the verification process itself? What can be done to reverse this?
He said: "Tools are important! However, to get the most out of the tools and ensure that the verification solution is an efficient and repeatable process is important. At Mentor Graphics, we recognize the importance of both. That is why we created the Verification Academy, which focuses on developing skills and maturing an organization's functional verification processes."
What all needs to get into verification planning as the 'right' verification path is fraught with complexities?
Dr. Rhines said: "During verification planning, too many organizations focus first on the "how" aspect of verification versus the "what." How a team plans to verify its designs is certainly important, but first you must identify exactly what needs to be verified. Otherwise, something is likely to slip through.
"In addition, once you have clearly identified what needs to be verified, it's an easy task to map the functional verification solutions that will be required to productively accomplish your verification goals. This also identifies what skill sets will need to be developed or acquired to effectively take advantage of the verification solutions that you have identified as necessary for your specific problem."
How is Mentor addressing this situation?
Mentor Graphics' Verification Academy was created to help organizations mature their functional verification processes—and verification planning is one of the many excellent courses we offer.
In addition, Mentor Graphics' Consulting provides customized solutions to technical challenges on real projects with real schedules. By helping customers successfully integrate advanced functional verification technologies and methodologies into their work flows, we help ensure they meet their design and business objectives.
Five recommendations for verification
Finally, I asked him, what would be your top five recommendations for verification?
Here are the five recommendations for verification from Dr. Rhines:
* Ensure your organization has implemented an effective verification planning process.
* Understand which verification solutions and technologies are appropriate (and not appropriate) for various classes of designs.
* Develop or acquire the appropriate skills within your organization to take advantage of the verification solutions that are required for your class of design.
* For the SoC class of designs, don't underestimate the effort required to verify the hardware/software interactions, and ensure you have the appropriate resources to do so.
* For any verification processes you have adopted, make sure you have appropriate metrics in place to help you identify the effectiveness of your process—and identify opportunities for process improvements in terms of efficiency and productivity.
Semicon industry needs to keep delivering value: Anil Gupta
In 2013, the global semiconductor industry had touched $306 billion or so. Sales had doubled from $100 billion to $200 billion in six years — from 1994 to 2000. It was enterprise sales that was driving this. It has taken 14 years to move past $300 billion, said Anil Gupta, managing director, Applied Micro Circuits India Pvt Ltd, at the UVM 1.2 day.
This time, consumption of semiconductors is not only around enterprise, but social networks as well. Out of the $306 billion, logic was approximately $86 billion, memory was $67 billion, and micro was $58 billion. We, as consumers, are starting to play a huge role.
However, the number of large players seem to be shrinking. Mid-size firms, like Applied Micro, are said to be struggling. Technology is playing an interesting role. There is a very significant investment in FinFETs. It may only get difficult for all of us. Irrespective, all of this is a huge barrier to the mid- to small-companies. Acquisitions are probably the only route, unless you are in software.
In India, we have been worried for a while, whether the situation will be a passing phase. We definitely will have a role to play. From an expertise perspective, thanks to our background, we have been a poor nation. For us, the job is the primary goal. We need to think: how do we deliver value? We have to try and keep creating value for as long as possible.
As more and more devices actually happen, many other things are also happening. An example for devices is power. We still have a fair number of years ahead where there will be opportunities to deliver value.
What's happening between hardware and software? The latter is in demand. Clearly, there is a trend to make the hardware a commodity. However, hardware s not going away! Therefore, the opportunity for us to deliver value is huge.
Taking the tools to make something, is critical. UVM tools are critical. But, somewhere along the way, we seem to stop at that. We definitely need to add value. UVM's aim is to make things re-usable.
Don't loose your focus while doing verification. Think about the block, the subsystem and the top. You need to and will discover and realize how valuable it is to find a bug, before the tape out of the chip.
Are we at an inflection point in verification?
Are we at an inflection point in verification today? Delivering the guest keynote at the UVM 1.2 day, Vikas Gautam, senior director, Verification Group, Synopsys, said that today, mobile and the Internet of Things are driving growth. Naturally, the SoCs are becoming even more complex. It is also opening up new verification challenges, such as power efficiency, more software, and reducing time-to-market. There is a need to shift-left to be able to meet time-to-market goal.
The goal is to complete your verification as early as possible. There have been breakthrough verification innovations. System Verilog brought in a single language. Every 10-15 years, there has been a need to upgrade verification.
Today, many verification technologies are needed. There is a growing demand for smarter verification. There is need for much upfront verification planning. There is an automated setup and re-use with VIP. There is a need to deploy new technologies and different debug environments. The current flows are limitimg smart verification. There are disjointed environments with many tools and vendors.
Synopsys has introduced the Verification Compiler. You get access to each required technology, as well as next-gen technology. These technologies are natively integrated. All of this enables 3X verification productivity.
Regarding next gen static and formal platforms, there will be capacity and performance for SoCs. It should be compatible with implementation products and flows. There is a comprehensive set of applications. The NLP+X-Prop can help find tough wake-up bug at RTL. Simulation is tuned for the VIP. There is a ~50 percent runtime improvement.
System Verilog has brought in many new changes. Now, we have the Verification Compiler. Verdi is an open platform. It offers VIA – a platform for customizing Verdi. VIA improves the debug efficiency.


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The top conservative activist on the powerful Texas Board of Education, who rejects evolution and has pushed for a revisionist right-wing U.S. history curriculum, is on the way out, after a moderate candidate defeated him in a tight primary last week.posted by delmoi at 1:08 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
the fact remains that the United States is still today a Christian country founded on Christian values
Wouldn't it be interesting if we never had separation of church and state in America and rabid fundies had to tithe to a liberal, mainline protestant church like the Episcopal Church?
managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century
"Public education has always been a battleground between cultural forces; one reason that Texas' school-board members find themselves at the very center of the battlefield is, not surprisingly, money. The state's $22 billion education fund is among the largest educational endowments in the country. Texas uses some of that money to buy or distribute a staggering 48 million textbooks annually — which rather strongly inclines educational publishers to tailor their products to fit the standards dictated by the Lone Star State. California is the largest textbook market, but besides being bankrupt, it tends to be so specific about what kinds of information its students should learn that few other states follow its lead. Texas, on the other hand, was one of the first states to adopt statewide curriculum guidelines, back in 1998, and the guidelines it came up with (which are referred to as TEKS — pronounced 'teaks' — for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) were clear, broad and inclusive enough that many other states used them as a model in devising their own. And while technology is changing things, textbooks — printed or online —are still the backbone of education."*posted by ericb at 2:29 PM on March 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758John Adams:
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."Thomas Jefferson:
"But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed." -- John Adams, letters to family and other leaders 1735-1826
"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on VirginiaJames Madison:
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."Abraham Lincoln:
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." -- James Madison, April 1, 1774
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them." -- Lincoln in a letter to Judge J.S. Wakefield, after the death of Willie Lincoln"The founding fathers were a mixture of deists, Christians, and possibly one atheist. Assigning beliefs to the founding fathers collectively, however, is a difficult task. As a group, the founders stopped short of religious establishment because of their own diversity and experience with state sponsored religion in Europe. However, they broadly recognized a 'Creator' or 'Nature's God' without ascribing to one particular religion. Their belief systems were products of ancient philosophy, the Enlightenment, and the Reformation. Their diverse beliefs, however, refute any exclusive claim to one religion or belief system." *
"He was an avowed and open infidel, and sometimes bordered on Atheism...He went further against Christian beliefs and doctrines and principles than any man I ever heard." -- John T. Stuart, Lincoln's first law partner *
Chorusposted by Decimask at 3:38 PM on March 12, 2010
'cuz you can't buy a dildo in Texas
We don't touch ourselves down there round here, ya' hear?
And it says so in the Bible that a vibe'll leave you liable
For a prison term of twenty-seven years
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ASK ME ANYTHING: John Key
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Comments and questions39
Hi John.
I'm loving your work and the enormous role our primary producers are playing in our economic recovery.
But I don't like what's happening to our rivers at all. It seems we're losing a big part of our heritage and brand every time there's a river we can't swim in for fear of bacterial infection.
\I wonder if there's an opportunity to set up some sort of "rivers of national significance" programme?
As a taxpayer, I'm happy to chip in. Fonterra is making plenty. Funding doesn't feel like a problem (but of course it will be). I heard you talk on asset sales where you clearly explained that the Government isn't selling assets - it's setting new priorities on the assets we should own. Maybe we could flog off Kiwibank and get our rivers back? That feels like a better asset ownership mix to me.
Thanks for the postive feedback. I agree with you that we need to balance our economic opportunities with our environmental responsibilities. My Government has committed $250 million to clean up affected waterways. Along with this, we are working with Fonterra to encourage farmers to take responsibility for environmental issues. We're pleased to see that literally thousands of kilometres of waterways that are adjacent to farmland have been fenced in Fonterra's dirty dairying campaign.
The USA asserts taxation rights over all citizens no matter where they live in the world, and has pushed us to implement the draconian FACTA. While it's a bit much to tax the 20% of the population that choose not to live here, how can we push back? (Perhaps we could tax Kiwis living in the USA and demand that US financial institutions deliver their records to us.)
The United States has always taxed citizens on their worldwide income irrelevant of where they live. So there's nothing new in this. The reason the Government supported FACTA was that if we failed to do so, there would be significant consequences that would've been detrimental to a range of New Zealanders.
NZ should be justly proud of our perennial top rankings on the World Bank's ease of Doing Business scorecards.
But the recent anti money laundering requirements and FMCA have made it harder for everyone, introducing paper, prying questionnaires and even 1-1 meetings into formerly online processes. It's a giant step backwards - and with money laundering is an edge case at best, and raising money for business a priority, how will National bring back simplicity and allow us to get on and do business without red tape?
We're always conscious of the compliace costs our businesses have to endure, as you can see we've been working to try and reduce these. The issues that you have raised have been forced upon us as part our international obligations.
Prime Minister. NBR ran a story on Monday about the possibility that someone, who was not named, will probably leak damaging allegations concerning NZ involvement in the Five Eyes security pact based on information from so-called whistleblower Edward Snowden. Given the tenor of the article in question I think it reasonable to assume that the intent will be to derail National's election campaign. I wonder if you have any comments you would like to make on this matter?
We are aware that Edward Snowden has access to a wide range of information regarding New Zealand and it's involvement in intelligence gathering. I am not concerned by this as I think the vast bulk of New Zealanders acknowledge the need for intelligence collection to protect both New Zealanders and our property. One assurance I can give you, is that to the best advice I have received, our agencies have always acted within the law.
Do you think something could be done about aged widowers still living in their family home that are paying very high rates, despite their small usage of the system, because the value of their property has increased so much but their income has not. Maybe a solution is the rates are put to the new higher figure when the house is sold on. That might act as a deterrent to a bubbling house market but would still get the new rate charged once any house has realized the value set by council, not before. Otherwise are we into Poll Tax?
Rates are set by councils. It's clear that some retired New Zealanders are asset rich and cash poor. My understanding is many councils provide schemes to allow rates to be paid by the estate of New Zealanders in this situation. There are also a number of companies that provide reverse mortgages to accomodate these kinds of situations.
Given the renewed interest in management of savings schemes following Labour's policy announcement last week, would the Government consider introducing self-managed super funds (SMSFs), as per the Australian model?
Benefits of SMSFs seen in Australia include: greater control over investment strategy; more flexibility in investment choice; typically lower costs; greater returns (on average).
Provincial New Zealand is still largely tight, even with the dairy dollar.
What is the plan going forward to stimulate jobs and development in those areas that will keep populations at least steady if not growing in those locations?
We continue to see good growth in the regions, to encourage this, Government is committed to improving infrastructure in the regions including ulta-fast broadband, better roading and electricity networks. The expansion of mining and exploration also adds to employment opportunities in the regions.
Mr Key why did you not endeavour to influence the outcome of the MMP referendum last year which is the main threat to returning National to power and also to the future of NZ?
Graeme Edwards
For the last six years, National has worked effectively in Government under MMP and I remain confident we can do so in the future.
We decided to focus the last campaign which coincided with the referendum, on the most important issues of the day, namely the economy, law and order, health and education.
Hello Mr Key,
When do you think NZ will need to raise the age of eligibility for NZ Super?
Why does your govt not think it fiscally prudent to begin setting a date now?
This year, the Government will be in surplus, which will continue for a considerable period, based on the best information supplied by the Treasury. Raising the age of Super, would simply add to that surplus, which is not necessary. Good economic management, has allowed us to give New Zealanders this option
Hi John,
Feels like some of your ministers are currently going through a somewhat rougher patch.
Good on you for acting fast and relieving Maurice Williamson from his job (though its sort of a pity, I liked the guy ...).
However not sure I understand why Judith Collins is still serving - can you help us to understand what Judith has and Maurice hasn't?
I consider every situation on its merits. The Cabinet Office advice in relation to Maurice was that there was a clear breach of the Cabinet Manual and anyway, I think every New Zealander values the independence of the NZ Police force. In the case of Judith, I think she would admit that the accumulation of her actions regarding a recent trip to China were unwise and based on Cabinet Office advice, I accept that this allowed a perception of a conflict of interest to be created and I'm sure she has learnt a valuable lesson from this.
Hi John,
I'm the Chair of the Copyright Council of NZ and I'd like to get a better understanding of the value that the government places on the creative industries in NZ. Recently MBIE commissioned a series of seven reports on the economic value of various sectors but the creative industries were not included in any of these.
It would seem difficult for the government to make decisions on important matters such as IP [intellectual property] policy when the value of the industries that would be impacted by this, is not quantified and the wider cultural, education and tourism benefits are not factored in. Can you tell us how you plan enable the growth and protection of NZ's creative businesses? Thanks.
Given the tragic state of the Red Meat sector and given the economic and environmental fragility represented by the headlong rush into dairying, compounded by the growing reliance on China, are you happy with the current agricultural/ land use direction?
Is the government concerned that the current thrust has strayed too far to a volume driven emphasis at the expense of value driven protein/nutritional opportunities?
This point perhaps illustrated around the proposed mega dams which essentially will perpetuate the dairy conversion trend. Are you comfortable that NZ is trending into one big Dairy farm, and NZ putting the majority of its eggs in one basket?
After Judith Collins calling Katie Badford a liar on Twitter, and using it to bait TV3, will you be telling MPs to pull their heads on social media?
Who is the most effective opposition MP?
What would happen to NZ's economy if a Christchurch quakes-scale natural disaster occurred? Could we afford it?
While we would never wish such an event, I am very confident New Zealand could cope. One of the reasons why the Government has been so careful with Government spending and worked so hard to get back to surplus, is to keep New Zealand Government debt levels low. We are and remain one of the least indebted OECD nations,.
What's the ideal population for NZ balancing economic ambition with environmental and lifestyle factors, and what's the best way to get there?
Which political blogs do you read on a regular basis? Do they include Whaleoil? How often do you talk to Cam Slater?
How important is China, and Asia in general, to NZ's future?
Critical. China is now our second largest market and growing rapidly. Overall, Asia is becoming a place of high net worth consumers who want to buy our goods and services. Our relationship with Asia has allowed us to navigate the global financial crisis far better than we otherwise would have.
Morning Prime Minister,
After you leave politics, do you see yourself returning to business, or to a public service role like Helen Clark at the UN?
Thanks everybody. The session is closed to new questions. The PM has had to shoot off, but we're hoping he can get to the remaining couple of questions later today.


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Irene Fisher, 3, of Marlborough, holds a sign of spring. (MEGHAN PIERCE/Union Leader Correspondent)
Their faith, their families and their fellow man: In a world that can sometimes seem hopeless, this is where many Granite Staters say they find hope.
For Christians, the Easter story itself is one of redemption and hope triumphing over sin and despair. So it's not surprising that many believers say their hope lies in their faith.
John Hilman of Rochester says he finds hope in his "relationship with God through Jesus Christ."
"Homes, jobs, and freedom and liberty can all be lost. To place one's hopes in anything Earthly is not logical to me," he wrote in response to a survey posted on unionleader.com.
Hilman knows what it's like to lose such things. A computer software engineer, he was laid off in 2007 when his employer merged with another company and laid off the entire staff.
Then Hilman suffered an aneurism in January 2012, which led to bleeding in his brain and surgery. It took months of rehabilitation before he could return to work, and his disability payments didn't cover expenses for his family of five.
They lost their house to foreclosure and their cars to repossession. "It was crazy," he said in an interview.
Yet he still has hope and an abiding faith, Hilman said. "With everything that's happened, the one thing that I still hold onto is this really isn't it. Life isn't really your final destination. Life is more just a journey to your final destination.
"I know that God is there," he said. "I know He's with me, and I know He has plans. And I know that in the end, when I die, that's where I'll be. That's what gives me hope."
He's not alone.
Kathy Masse of Manchester says she finds hope in "the resurrection of Jesus."
"It proves that He was the son of God. He preached a world of love and compassion," she said. "And the resurrection gives us the hope of something better, especially eternal life."
"Our hope is found in Jesus Christ alone," Suzanne McCutcheon of Rochester wrote in the online survey.
"Easter is about the rising of Christ after He was tortured and killed by man," she said. "It is not about bunnies and eggs, as this world has turned it into. There is still hope, there always will be because He is still here and always will be."
Jeremy Collins (left) of Newton finds hope "just by looking at the people around me and learning from their example."
"When you stop and really get a good look at the brighter side of humanity instead of focusing on the bad side, it will always make you hopeful for the future," he said. "Most people are generally good."
Likewise, Bob Shouse (right) of Portsmouth says he finds hope "in the spirit of my fellow man."
"I think in general mankind is optimistic, and with optimism there is hope," he said. "The sun will come up tomorrow, and one can always start over again, typically."
Paul Mallory of Bedford says he finds hope in the happiness of his wife and two sons. "I could very easily dwell and ruminate on the negatives that I don't have any control over, or I can choose to learn to live now," he said. "Not in the past or the future, but now.
"And right now in my life, I derive a lot of happiness from Donna, Jesse and Zachary."
Alex Knuuttenen (left) of Dover is hopeful about humanity. "No matter how bad the economy gets or how bad the world's problems are, I think we're smart enough to solve them.
"I myself have found that the happier I am, the happier I can help make the world. So just knowing that we're smart enough and generally good enough, as humans, to make things good again always gives me hope."
Luna Hardaker (right) of Epping says she looks to nature for hope, especially in springtime.
"Just the life, the flowers, the plants growing," she said. "There has been a lot of snow this winter, so it is refreshing to see the flowers starting to bloom."
Robin Healey of Sanbornville does not put her hope in human beings, who can fail and disappoint, or in material possessions, which can be lost. Instead, she said, "I find hope in sharing God's love with others."
"I find hope in His goodness, which is unchanging ... and His mercies, which are new every morning. I find hope in His perfect love, which casts out all fear," she said. "Last but certainly not least, I find hope in His gift of salvation ... freedom from death, freedom from my past — and even from my future."
Kristine Moulton of Auburn says her young son inspires her: "Just looking at him and seeing my husband and I both in him. Looking forward to the future and what's to come for him. That gives me hope."
New Hampshire Sunday News correspondents Gretyl Macalaster and April Guilmet contributed to this report.
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