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IEF 2013: New markets and opportunities in sub-20nm era!
Future Horizons hosted the 22nd Annual International Electronics Forum, in association with IDA Ireland, on Oct. 2-4, 2013, at Dublin, Blanchardstown, Ireland. The forum was titled 'New Markets and Opportunities in the Sub-20nm Era: Business as Usual OR It's Different This Time." Here are excerpts from some of the sessions. Those desirous of finding out much more should contact Malcolm Penn, CEO, Future Horizons.
Liam Britnell, European manager and Research Scientist, Bluestone Global Tech (BGT) Materials spoke on Beyond Graphene: Heterostructures and Other Two-Dimensional Materials.
The global interest in graphene research has facilitated our understanding of this rather unique material. However, the transition from the laboratory to factory has hit some challenging obstacles. In this talk I will review the current state of graphene research, focusing on the techniques which allow large scale production.
I will then discuss various aspects of our research which is based on more complex structures beyond graphene. Firstly, hexagonal boron nitride can be used as a thin dielectric material where electrons can tunnel through. Secondly, graphene-boron nitride stacks can be used as tunnelling transistor devices with promising characteristics. The same devices show interesting physics, for example, negative differential conductivity can be found at higher biases. Finally, graphene stacked with thin semiconducting layers which show promising results in photodetection.
I will conclude by speculating the fields where graphene may realistically find applications and discuss the role of the National Graphene Institute in commercializing graphene.
Jean-Rene Lequepeys, VP Silicon Components, CEA-Leti, spoke on Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Enabling High-Performance and Energy Efficient Computing.
The key challenge for future high-end computing chips is energy efficiency in addition to traditional challenges such as yield/cost, static power, data transfer. In 2020, in order to maintain at an acceptable level the overall power consumption of all the computing systems, a gain in term of power efficiency of 1000 will be required.
To reach this objective, we need to work not only at process and technology level, but to propose disruptive multi-processor SoC architecture and to make some major evolutions on software and on the development of
applications. Some key semiconductor technologies will definitely play a key role such as: low power CMOS technologies, 3D stacking, silicon photonics and embedded non-volatile memory.
To reach this goal, the involvement of semiconductor industries will be necessary and a new ecosystem has to be put in place for establishing stronger partnerships between the semiconductor industry (IDM, foundry), IP provider, EDA provider, design house, systems and software industries.
Andile Ngcaba, CEO, Convergence Partners, spoke on Semiconductor's Power and Africa – An African Perspective.
This presentation looks at the development of the semiconductor and electronics industries from an African perspective, both globally and in Africa. Understanding the challenges that are associated with the wide scale adoption of new electronics in the African continent.
Electronics have taken over the world, and it is unthinkable in today's modern life to operate without utilising some form of electronics on a daily basis. Similarly, in Africa the development and adoption of electronics and utilisation of semiconductors have grown exponentially. This growth on the African continent was due to the rapid uptake of mobile communications. However, this has placed in stark relief the challenges facing increased adoption of electronics in Africa, namely power consumption.
This background is central to the thesis that the industry needs to look at addressing the twin challenges of low powered and low cost devices. In Africa there are limits to the ability to frequently and consistently charge or keep electronics connected to a reliable electricity grid. Therefore, the current advances in electronics has resulted in the power industry being the biggest beneficiary of the growth in the adoption of electronics.
What needs to be done is for the industry to support and foster research on this subject in Africa, working as a global community. The challenge is creating electronics that meet these cost and power challenges. Importantly, the solution needs to be driven by the semiconductor industry not the power industry. Focus is to be placed on operating in an off-grid environment and building sustainable solutions to the continued challenge of the absence of reliable and available power.
It is my contention that Africa, as it has done with the mobile communications industry and adoption of LED lighting, will leapfrog in terms of developing and adopting low powered and cost effective electronics.
Jo De Boeck, senior VP and CTO, IMEC, discussed Game-Changing Technology Roadmaps For Lifescience.
Personalized, preventive, predictive and participatory healthcare is on the horizon. Many nano-electronics research groups have entered the quest for more efficient health care in their mission statement. Electronic systems are proposed to assist in ambulatory monitoring of socalled 'markers' for wellness and health.
New life science tools deliver the prospect of personal diagnostics and therapy in e.g., the cardiac, neurological and oncology field. Early diagnose, detailed and fast screening technology and companioning devices to deliver the evidence of therapy effectiveness could indeed stir a – desperately needed – healthcare revolution. This talk addresses the exciting trends in 'PPPP' health care and relates them to an innovation roadmap in process technology, electronic circuits and system concepts.
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IEF 2012: Turning recession into opportunity!
Future Horizons recently organized and held the 21st Annual Electronics Forum on Oct. 3-5 at Bratislava, Slovakia. Here are excerpts from some of the proceedings:
Mojy Chian, senior VP Design Enablement. GlobalFoundries presented on 'Foundry 2.0: The Era of Collaborative Device Manufacturing.': Despite some predictions to the contrary, the foundry-based fabless model is not going away, and moreover it is driving manufacturers and device designers closer together. But like all living organisms, especially those in electronics, we have to continue to evolve. There are warning signs, both technical and economic, emerging in the foundry business that warrant our attention, and in fact require a re-thinking of how best to apply our resources and energy.
Recent talks of fabless companies investing in their own fabs, and of foundries developing 'single company fabs' underscore the sense of urgency. Clearly, we must change – Call it Foundry 2.0! This will be driven, ironically, by a move toward a more IDM-like model. Strategic collaboration that creates a 'virtual IDM-like interface' to chip design companies will help further close the gap between process teams at the manufacturing companies and design teams at the fabless companies.
With daunting technical challenges like 3D stacking, 450mm fabs, new transistor architectures, multipatterning, and the long-term viability of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, collaboration – early, often and deep – is really the only practical approach given the cost and complexities involved.
John Lofton Holt. founder, and chairman of the Board of directors. Achronix, presented on "Embedded FPGAs – Enabling The Next Generation Of Flexible SoCs.': The system-on-chip (SoC) ecosystem is at a fundamental crossroads. With total
chip development and manufacturing costs exceeding $100 million at 22nm, it is no longer cost effective for most SoC designers to build a discrete chip for every application. As a result, SoC designers are investing in programmable intellectual property (IP) for IO expansion, emerging standards compliance and application acceleration.
This programmable IP ranges from microcontrollers and processors to simple state machines that are register-programmable. Nearly every SoC built today has some kind of programmable IP. The programmable logic industry is addressing this SoC challenge in a different way. Coming from the "other end of the spectrum", the major public FPGA manufacturers are implementing more and more hard IP on their dies to reduce the area penalty of the programmable logic for specific applications.
These techniques, while effective for some mid-range volume applications, will not scale to high volume SoCs. The major public FPGA companies are also very hesitant to license their programmable fabric to SoC designers, fearing competition in their core markets and erosion of margins.
Rudy Lauwereins, VP Smart Systems Technology Office, IMEC, presented on 'Providing "Insite" In The Unknown Design Space': As technology scaling nears the "final frontier", designers are confronted with an increasing number of restrictions.
Printing smaller and smaller features remains possible, but requires more and more regular layout patterns. Transistors can still be reduced in size, but may fall short of meeting electrical specifications. Smaller wires are becoming a performance bottleneck.
As technology scaling becomes less ideal, established design paradigms start to break. Creative and innovative solutions are required to sustain the momentum of Moore's law: hitting the sweet-spot for cost and performance requires tight interaction between the technology development community and the design community. In an increasingly fabless world, imec's Insite program builds the bridges between these communities.
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Semiconductor supply chain dynamics: Future Horizons @ IEF2011
The last decade heralded a dramatic transformation in supply chain dynamics, driven by the complexity challenge of staying on the More Moore curve. On the demand side, the high cost of fabs persuaded almost all integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to use foundries for their leading-edge wafer supply.
The ever-increasing process complexity and its negative impact on manufacturing yields forced the adoption of sophisticated foundry-specific design-for manufacturing (DFM) techniques, effectively committing new chip designs to a single foundry and process.
At the same time, the industry adopted a much more cautious lagging rather than leading demand approach to new capacity expansion, resulting in under-supply and shortages in leading-edge wafer fab capacity. To make matters worse, the traditional oxide-based planar transistor started to misbehave at the 130nm node, as manifested by low yields and higher than anticipated power dissipation, especially when the transistors were supposed to be off, with no increase in performance, heralding the introduction of new process techniques (e.g., high-k metal gates).
Even before these structural changes have been fully digested, supply chain dynamics have been further disrupted by the prospective transition to 450mm wafer processing, to extreme ultra violet (EUV) lithography, and from planar to vertical transistor design.
Transistor design
Since the start of the industry, adding more IC functionality while simultaneously decreasing power consumption and increasing switching speed—a technique fundamentally known as Moore's Law—has been achieved by simply making the transistor structure smaller. This worked virtually faultlessly down to the 130nm node when quite unexpectedly things did not work as planned. Power went up, speed did not improve and process yields collapsed. Simple scaling no longer worked, and new IC design techniques were needed.
While every attempt was made to prolong the life of the classic planar transistor structure, out went the polysilicon/silicon dioxide gate; although this transition was far from plain sailing, in came high-k metal gates spanning 65nm-28nm nodes. Just as the high-k metal gate structure gained industry-wide consensus at 28nm, it too ran out of steam at the 22nm-16nm nodes, forcing the introduction of more complex vertical versus planar transistor design and making the IC design even more process-dependent (i.e., foundry-dependent). Dual foundry sourcing, already impractical for the majority of semiconductor firms, will only get worse as line widths continue to shrink. Read more…
Thrive or survive…going for gold in post-recession recovery: Malcolm Penn @ IEF2010, Dresden
According to Malcom Penn, chairman and CEO, Future Horizons, 2010 — a barnstroming year — will likely see the global semiconductor industry grow by 31+ percent. He was delivering the company's forecast at the ongoing 19th International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2010 in Dresden, Germany, which ends here tomorrow. He said it would take a disaster of the scale of Lehmann Brothers to derail this now!
Some of the other forecasts made by Malcolm Penn include:
* 2011: +28 percent; based on: peak of the structural cyclical boom (could stretch into 2012).
* 2012: +18 percent; based on: normal cyclical trash cycle starting 2H-2012 (1H-2013?).
* 2013: +3 percent based on: market correction in full flow (could be negative, cap ex overspend and inventory build depending).
* 2014: +12 percent; based on: start of the next cyclical recovery (single digit, if 2013 is negative).
The forecast track record of Future Horizons is quite interesting. As per forecasts made during the IFS2010 in Jan.2010, the chip fundamentals was said to be in very good shape. The industry was starting its recovery with shortages. Also, the ASPs had already stopped faling. The inventory levels were at an all-tme low. Finally, the capacity was tight, and spending, weak!
All of this added up to two years of very strong growth in prospect. Penn had said: "It doesn't get much better than this. But, despite what the numbers say, still no-one believes beyond the next quarter! "Ah but" is still driving the industry consensus!
Industry fundamentals don't lie — believe in them or die! The capacity famine was instigated two+ years ago — well before the crasj, today's shortage was inevitable. The recovery dynamics will continue to strengthen. Future Horizons' forecast is now +31 percent ~$300 billion. The next trash dynamic has still not yet triggered. It is unlikely to happen before 2011, meaning, 2012 impact. However, the economic uncertainty remains the biggest risk. Also, the global financial system is fundamentally flawed. Read more…
AMD, Intel settle all disputes! What a relief!!
The big news: Intel and AMD announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes! What a relief!
In a joint statement the two companies commented, "While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development."
As per the agreement the two companies obtain patent rights from a new five-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide by a set of business practice provisions.
AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in US District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide.
Ramkumar Subramanian, VP, Sales & Marketing, AMD India, said: "This is a historical settlement for the microprocessor industry. The settlement will set transparent ground rules for open, competitive markets, with which Intel, in full public view, has agreed to comply. Fair and open competition dictates that the best product wins and market forces prevail. I am very confident that this development will help us strengthen our market position."
This is just the kind of news the global semiconductor industry needs! It is hopefully, on path of a major recovery after having faced the worst recession.
It is heartening to note that the two rivals have buried the hatchet and shaken hands — a plea I've been making via my blog posts for such a long time.
It would do both Intel and AMD a world of good to focus on their core competencies and continue to produce all of those magnificent chips that make all of our lives so easy and meaningful!
Good work guys and congratulations. May you have all the success and lead the global semiconductor industry to greater heights in the future.
Excerpts from Future Horizons' IEF 2009 — II
Presenting excerpts of some more key presentations made on day 1 and 2, resepectively, at the recently held International Electronics Forum 2009 (IEF 2009), in Geneva, Switzerland, from Sept. 30-Oct. 2, which was held under the auspices of the Geneva Chancellerie D'Etat & Istitut Carnot CEA LETI.
May I also take this opportunity to thank Malcolm Penn, chairman and CEO, Future Horizons.
"ICT: Key For Global Competitiveness" — Enrico Villa, chairman, CATRINE
Enrico heads up the Cluster for Application and Technology Research In Europe on NanoElectronics (CATRINE) and through his organisation Europe is preparing for our future with development projects in nanotechnology, microelectronics, photonics, biotechnology and advanced materials.
Electronic and information systems are worth $87 trillion and growing, which is about 10 percent of global GDP. Such systems have penetrated all aspects of life, created millions of jobs and has been a motor of productivity growth.
Microelectronics is a key enabling technology for electronics and ICT, and as a consequence the semiconductor market grows at twice this GDP. The role of electronics will increase in the future and will have an impact in society due to its use in healthcare, aids for an aging population, easing transportation bottlenecks and lowering energy costs.
To meet these targets electronics and ICT must be affordable to the population at large – meaning that semiconductors must meet the trend of doubling performance every two years, reduce price per function by 40 percent per year and aim for R&D nearly 20 percent of sales.
In an example given public lighting is 13 percent of energy costs – a change to semiconductor LEDs can save a third of this energy. Enrico sees moving from ideas to products is one area where Europe is weak, but thankfully projects Jessi/Eureka/Catrine/Medea+ are bringing together cooperation between European players.
This has enabled European companies and universities to work together and create critical masses to make global products. This is born out in the fact that Europe has several global-sized semiconductor companies and two European equipment-material suppliers that are world leaders.
"Raising The Bar On Semiconductor R&D Management, Execution & ROI" — Ronald Collett, CEO, Numetrics Management Systems
Working with the company PRTM Ron is tasked to raise the management competence within the semiconductor industry so companies can compete in the global arena. The semiconductor industry is going through a profound change with the vertically chip companies disintegrating and outsourcing their manufacture. Headcount has fallen, there are fewer start-ups and everybody is cutting costs.
Companies that will survive are those with well differentiated products and superior product development ability. PRTM has produced an integrated framework of product development capabilities, which compares company actual performance against industry best practice and timescales.
It is a fact that 60 percent of semiconductor projects slip in time by at least one quarter and 16 percent slip by more than one year. The system allows 'fact-based planning and decision making' and allows management to get no surprise shortfalls in revenue or margin.
At a detailed level, the engineer can make a fact-based project cost estimation and can reliably make staffing requirements and schedules. It allows 'what-if' project analyses and calculates risk. The immediate impact is usually a reduction of projects, but a better time-to-market and ROI. An industry shakeout is inevitable and demands will overwhelm all, but the best.
"Building Complex Embedded Software Applications On Leading Edge Silicon" — Martin Orrell, General Manager, Multimedia Technologies, The Technology Partnership
TTP is an independent product development company involved in a wide range of products including embedded systems in medical devices, PC peripherals, MP3 players and automotive, industrial and traffic control.
Martin's view is that one of the difficulties in embedded design is to recognise that the hardware and software boundaries tend to blur. Using software rather than hardware has its advantages, particularly where the standards and specifications have not firmed up, but software often costs more than the customer planned.
Costs can be saved by the re-use of silicon and software IP, the starting platform and roadmap, trimming the specification and through innovation. TTP has a wide range of experience and can often view a customer project from a different perspective and Martin gave a number of good examples of case studies where this was the case.
To finalise, two tips were given to product developers: More complex software does not mean higher project costs and silicon targeted for a different market can enable innovative opportunities in your own market. Read more…
Chip market outlook: Back to normal abnormality? — Malcolm Penn @ IEF2009, Geneva
Future Horizons has revised its 2009 global semiconductor industry forecast to -14 percent growth (+/- 2 percentage points). This was revealed by Malcolm Penn, Chairman & CEO, Future Horizons, while delivering the company's forecast at the ongoing 18th International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, which ends here tomorrow. "He said, "It's all about good management … only the bad times tell!"
Some of Penn's other forecast summaries include:
* Economic recovery is said to have already started from 2H-2009.
* Further '50 percent' cap ex reduction.
* Memory price recovery 2H-2009.
* Still lots Of blood on the road near-term
* Strong will get stronger as weak go to the wall.
* Watch for tight capacity starting 2H-2009.
* Crisis is the time to implement change (brings out the best and worst).
* R&D/new products/sound marketing will win (not counting pencils and scrapping the free coffee).
Outlook for 2010 and beyond
Penn also presented the company's outlook for the global semiconductor industry for 2010 and beyond. These include:
* 2010: +19 percent based on: continuing recovery momentum (NB … this could be a lot, lot higher).
* 2011: +28 percent based on: peak of the structural cyclical boom (NB … this could stretch into 2012).
* 2012: +18 percent based on: normal cyclical market correction starting 2H-2012 (1H-2013?).
* 2013: +3 percent based on: market correction in full flow (NB … this could be negative).
The year 2014 could well see the start of the next cyclical recovery! Given the impending 2010 fab shortage, the upside for 2010-12 is said to be huge.
The 2009 forecast – how did we do so far?
First, let's look at the 2008 forecasts:
Q4-08 Forecast (Jan): -22.5 percent, making overall Year -2.3 percent
* Q4 (Dec) Guidance: (Intel -20 percent, Nvidia -40/-50 percent, Broadcom -20percent/-23 percent. TSMC -30 percent, Others –20/-50 percent-ish
* Q4-08 Actual: -24.2 percent, making 2008 YoY -2.8 percent (both slightly worse).
Now, on to the 2009 forecasts:
* 2009 forecast (Jan): -28 percent.
* Q1 -20 percent (continuing Q4's decline, but at a slower rate).
* Q2 -2 percent (market settling down and decline bottoming out).
* Q3 +12 percent (normal, but slightly subdued seasonal and structural growth).
* Q4 +3 percent (normal 4th quarter seasonal slowdown).
* Q1-09 Actual: -15.3 percent (better than Jan. forecast). Jan., not March, saw start of correction to Q4-08's over-reaction.
* Q2-09 Actual: +16.9 percent (Much better than Jan. forecast). Also, Q1 (not Q2) was the trough with a strong April-June rebound.
* Q3-09 Outlook: +12 percent (No change In Jan. or Jul. forecast). The Q2 inventory correction spurt over with 'normal' seasonal growth.
* Q4-09 Outlook: +3 percent (No change in Jan. or Jul. forecast). The normal 4th quarter seasonal slowdown.
2009 Forecast (Jul): -14 percent (Much better than Jan. forecast/no change from Jul.). Minor downside risks (Q3 +8 percent and Q4 +2 percent. making year -16 percent). There is a significant upside potential (Q3 +16 percent and Q4 +4 percent, making year -12 percent).
What's changed since January's IFS2009?
According to Malcolm Penn, Future Horizons' 'Rose Glass' scenario came true! He said: "We correctly forecast the pattern of the recovery. The rebound came one quarter earlier than expected." Given below is a snapshot of what's happened since the IFS2009 in January.
In January, the world was reeling from Q4's unprecedented collapse with December peppered with last minute Q4 downward guidance warnings. Everyone was affected – from Intel downward, the collapse was a total meltdown and completely across the board – covering all markets and regions.
Next, there was absolutely zero visibility into the first quarter guidance. Many firms refused to even comment. Some said, "We Simply Have No Idea!" Others offered such a wide range of options that the guidance was meaningless.
The December's WSTS results (released early Feb.) showed December (and hence, Q4) slightly worse than the Oct/Nov momentum at -24.2 percent (vs. –22.5 percent). The March's WSTS results (released early May) showed March (and hence, Q1) slightly better than the Jan/Feb momentum.
In brief — from meltdown (Q4-08) to stabilisation (Q1-09) and rebound (Q2-09) in three quarters — even for the chip industry dynamics, this was unprecedented, said Penn.
I will be adding more here, a bit later… stay tuned!
Convergence driving technology trends, says Sasken chief
Sasken Technolgies was earlier known as SAS and it was focusing on product development. Later, it moved on to services. Speaking about this shift, Rajiv C. Mody, chairman and CEO, said that Sasken has always been, from day one, working on both simultaneously.
Sasken initially started out in the EDA space and had one product in the simulation space. It was writing a simulator, addressing large complex designs and methods to simplify the designs. Simultaneously, Sasken was also doing a lot of services for large telecom companies in the areas of designing. This was continued and eventually, Sasken expanded in the area of telecommunications.
Subsequently, Sasken started building products in the telecom space. However, one significant difference is that anything that it does, it impacts Sasken's customers' top line as Sasken address the R&D side of the business.
Not so long back, Sasken were also a VLSI player. It decided to disband the design tool part of the business and focus completely on communications. Now, Sasken does a lot of business in chip design, which is part of VLSI. Today, it is among the leading providers of semiconductor design, working on all kinds of complex system-on-chip (SoC), as well as 65nm design.
Sasken has filed for 39 patents so far, of which 16 have been granted. Those remaining are in the process, and typically, once a patent has been applied for, it takes four years before being granted.
It has invested close to Rs 40 crore in R&D in 2007. In the first two quarters of this financial year, it has invested about Rs 15 corers in R&D. Sasken focuses on next-generation technologies, which would shape up the way things are to come in this new, converged world.
Mody said: "The fundamental thing driving this entire change is convergence — essentially entertainment, media, news, information — all of it being available at push medium as well as pull medium. Wireless is also playing a very significant role."
All of these combinations are creating newer opportunities – starting with, say, for example, in the service provider-side, new billing methods have to be put in place because it's going to be triple- and quad-play kinds of situations.
Simultaneously, on the handset side, with more and more computing power being made available, newer kinds of applications have started playing significant role. As a result, Sasken is now scanning the entire gamut to position itself and take advantage.
Sasken will continue to invest in products in the mobile handset space. It also has a significant role to play on the multimedia and the application frameworks. Mody added: "To give you an idea, for the mobile handset, direct broadcast is going to play a significant role. People are already talking about high definition (HD) on mobile. You will see all those kinds of interesting things coming about, and we will participate."
Sasken had also acquired a Finnish firm. This acquisition has worked extremely well and its full integration has been done. Mody said: "We have significant engagements because of our presence in Finland and the capabilities that they bring, not only with the existing, but also with the new costumer base. We are thriving and this has given us the capability to do full end-to-end handset design and testing."
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.
Top five trends likely to rule global semicon industry in 2014
What are the top five trends likely to rule the semicon industry in 2014 and why? Rich Goldman, VP, corporate marketing and strategic alliances, Synopsys, had this to say.
FinFETs will be a huge trend through 2014 and beyond. Semiconductor companies will certainly keep us well informed as they progress through FinFET tapeouts and ultimately deliver production FinFET processes.
They will tout the power and speed advantages that their FinFET processes deliver for their customers, and those semiconductor companies early to market with FinFETs will press their advantage by driving and announcing aggressive FinFET roadmaps.
IP and subsystems
As devices grow more complex, integrating third-party IP has become mainstream. Designers recognize as a matter of course that today's complex designs benefit greatly from integrating third-party IP in such areas as microprocessors and specialized I/Os.
The trend for re-use is beginning to expand upwards to systems of integrated, tested IP so that designers no longer need to redesign well-understood systems, such as memory, audio and sensor systems.
Internet of Things/sensors
Everybody is talking about the Internet of Things for good reason. It is happening, and 2014 will be a year of huge growth for connected things. Sensors will emerge as a big enabler of the Internet of Things, as they connect our real world to computation.
Beyond the mobile juggernaut, new devices such as Google's (formerly Nest's) thermostat and smoke detector will enter the market, allowing us to observe and control our surrounding environment remotely.
The mobile phone will continue to subsume and disrupt markets, such as cameras, fitness devices, satellite navigation systems and even flashlights, enabled by sensors such as touch, capacitive pattern, gyroscopic, accelerometers, compasses, altimeters, light, CO, ionization etc. Semiconductor companies positioned to serve the Internet of Things with sensor integration will do well.
Systems companies bringing IC design in-house
Large and successful systems companies wanting to differentiate their solutions are bringing IC specification and/or design in house. Previously, these companies were focused primarily on systems and solutions design and development.
Driven by a belief that they can design the best ICs for their specific needs, today's large and successful companies such as Google, Microsoft and others are leading this trend, aided by IP reuse.
Advanced designs at both emerging and established process nodes
While leading-edge semiconductor companies drive forward on emerging process nodes such as 20nm, others are finding success by focusing on established nodes (28nm and above) that deliver required performance at reduced risk. Thus, challenging designs will emerge at both ends of the spectrum.
Part II of this discussion will look at FinFETs below 20nm and 3D ICs.


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Three-dimensional printing sparked an explosion of excitement during 2012. The mainstream adoption of this technology led The Economist to predict a "third industrial revolution" and to envision the "factory of the future." The former editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine left his post to become part of the "maker" movement he believes "will be bigger than the web." You can expect the hyperbole to continue.
But is it really hyperbole? Not too long from now we could be printing our own clothes, our own cars, even our own ears! New possibilities seem to pop up on a weekly, if not daily, basis.
As a result, separating a future reality from a pipe dream can be incredibly difficult. Even the stock market (or especially the stock market) has had difficulty evaluating the key players in this industry. The chart below illustrates the market's confusion in the past few months, during which the two largest 3-D printing companies, 3D Systems and Stratasys , reported impressive annual results yet watched their stock prices tumble subsequently. In investing terms, both of these stocks appeared to be "priced for perfection" at the start of 2012.
So, where do we look to gain a better understanding of 3-D printing's true potential? Perhaps we should recall a technology visionary of the past, who witnessed the transformative power of advanced machines firsthand.
In 1989, none other than Apple's young founder, Steve Jobs, described the effect of empowering individuals with new, advanced "tools" in a fascinating interview with Inc. magazine:
JOBS: You see, I think humans are basically tool builders, and the computer is the most remarkable tool we've ever built. The big insight a lot of us had in the 1970s had to do with the importance of putting that tool in the hands of individuals. Let's say that—for the same amount of money it takes to build the most powerful computer in the world—you could make 1,000 computers with one-thousandth the power and put them in the hands of 1,000 creative people. You'll get more out of doing that than out of having one person use the most powerful computer in the world. Because people are inherently creative. They will use tools in ways the toolmakers never thought possible. And once a person figures out how to do something with that tool, he or she can share it with the other 999.
Fast-forward 24 years, replace "computers" with "3-D printers", and it is easy to see how we could be on the cusp of a similar technological sea change. Steve Jobs, recognized by Inc. as the "Entrepreneur of the Decade" in the 1980s, had a knack for understanding how technologies might evolve, unlike skeptics who refuted the idea that everyone would need a PC in their homes. Similar naysayers exist today, questioning why ordinary households would ever require access to a handy 3-D printer.
Ironically, it is those ordinary households that will prove them wrong. Everyday hobbyists, or "makers" as they're often referred to, will show the world the true potential of 3-D printers, not necessarily the companies that manufacture them. Jobs elaborated on the importance of this concept as the interview continued:
INC.: That's a big idea.
JOBS: It's an extremely powerful paradigm. It's what has driven a bunch of us since this whole thing began to happen, and it hasn't changed. It hasn't changed for me since 1975. That's almost 15 years now. I believe this is one of the most important things that's going to happen in our generation. It would be easy to step back and say, "Well, it's pretty much over now." But if you look carefully, it's not over by any stretch of the imagination. The technological advances are coming at a rate that is far more ferocious than ever. To me, it's staggering to contemplate the tools we're going to be able to put in people's hands in the next few years—and I don't get impressed by this stuff so easily anymore.
So what we're doing here is driven by a fairly strong faith that people are going to continue to be as creative and as ingenious and as sharing with their results as they have been over the past 15 years. That sharing gives us a kind of leverage. For every improvement we can make in the tools we give people, we can improve the ultimate results even more, thanks to this leverage. That's what gets us so excited.


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MOK, MATTY, COREY AND FRANTS OWE FIFTY BUCKS. You are all also in the bottom half of the standings. Meat Machine, who paid his dues like a gentleman, will assuredly skyrocket northward from here on out.
Unlike this joker, who now has a girlfriend and can't be bothered to do things like set his lineup, play Call of Duty, or SEND IN HIS FIFTY DOLLARS:
State of the Mafia: Week Six.
Week Six has arrived — and with it, half of the league has paid their dues. The other half? Not so much. Wanna know who has paid the fifty bones they owe for the season?
The other hosers, all with losing records, have neglected their obligations, and will no doubt continue to suffer. So don't waste your time worrying whether you should snag Nick Foles off the waiver wire. Just send me your goddamn MONEY.
As for week five…
Human Geno Project: 2,185
The Instruction Manuel: .02
Diesel declared to the league that he is not one to be trifled with, dropping a buck twenty-nine on Kluv while leaving another 100 points on his bench. That's right, diesel's bench could have beaten half the teams in the league this week. Fuck.
DeSean Of The Dead: 108
Frants Fops: Less Than 108
Brady nabbed Larry only five points, but it mattered little thanks to DeSean and Jamal with their 21's — coupled with the fact that Tony Romo humiliated Brantley by scoring 52 fucking points on the bench.
NewYork Platinum Pappies: 107
Meat Machine: 124
The Meat proved that you don't need to field much of a team (half of the Machine underperformed this week) when Pey-Pey is gonna get you 40+ points every week.
The Red Hands: 87
The Riceman Cometh: 99
With four players on a bye this week, the Red Hands just missed upsetting the Ricemen — Gronk, Gronk, where art thou?
Clean Out Urlacher: WHO
The Slumbering Spermicetti: CARES
I'll actually give a shit about these two once they pay the league dues.
State of the Mafia: Week Four.
Shitbirds —
Week four is upon us, and with that, I'm sure some of you have already started to feel the hope of a winning fantasy season start slipping from your fingers. Though that may be true, it's still no excuse to be a dirty effing welcher and not pay your dues. $50 bucks is owed from each of you yardsticks, and I have only received checks from two of you:
The Glorious Christopher Rice (3-0) and The Ever-Sexy Diesel Buffness (2-1). Notice a trend here? Pay your debts and the fantasy gods just may smile upon you. As for DEEB, MATTY, LARRY, BRANTLEY, MIKE and COREY — send your $50 to me and fix that karma…
Or, I keep digging up gems like these:
Now, for the week three recap:
The Riceman Cometh: 111
The Instruction Manuel: 91
Mr. Rice continues to run the table, currently sitting at 3-0 after handing The Instruction Manuel their first loss of the season. Even a fat goose egg from Spiller wasn't enough to slow him down, with Stafford and Jimmy Graham accounting for almost half his team's points. He faces the Human Geno Project this week.
DeSean of the Dead: 89
Meat Machine: 81
Thanks to some power running, Larry was able to escape the Meat Machine (and negative points from his Texan defense). And, considering he left 104 points on his bench (78 from three players) it's a damn lucky thing he did. He best not do that again when he goes up against The Instruction Manuel on Sunday — who've scored the most points in the league so far.
Frants Fops: 103
The Slumbering Spermicetti: 71
The Fops whumped on the Sleepy Sperm, who had all but three players put up only single digit scores. Brutal. Frants and Mike meet this week, both eager to shake their 1-2 starts.
The Human Geno Project: 80
Clean Out Urlacher: 76
Brother versus Brother. Diesel proved that handcuffing can go a long way, while Mok proved that Eli Manning will always kill your fantasy team. 119 yards passing? Against a team that the BILLS beat the week before??? Welcome to 0-3, Mok. You'll have to take out Matty if you're gonna avoid going 0-4.
New York Platinum Pappies: 97
The Red Hands: 77
The Pappies are on a two-game win streak after their embarrassing season opener after dispatching the Red Hands. This is all in spite of his having the highest total of points against in the league. Luck? Skill? Deeb. Who faces a seemingly wounded (but still dangerous) Spermy in week 4.
Week One Recap.
The Instruction Manuel: 154
New York Platinum Pappies: 107
The Pappies picked up where they left off most Mafia Bowl seasons, with a big, fat loss. Even with an underperforming Megatron, he still managed to put up 107 points — which was most among the losing teams. But the Pappies are still losers. The Manuel's bench may be thin as his hair, but if he keeps dropping a buck-fifty each week, it won't matter.
DeSean of the Dead: 102
Slumbering Spermicetti: 80
Has the reign of Sperm come to an end? After ALMOST finishing last in 2012, he opens the 2013 season with a big, fat 80-point stinker. Four of his nine starters put up 5 points or less. He's going to have to work his waiver wire magic to fill some holes. DeSean put up a normally respectable 102 — but like the NFL, it has become an offensive league, and 102 was only good enough to beat three other teams this week. Lucky for Larry, he was facing one of those teams.
The Riceman Cometh: 117
Clean Out Urlacher: 94
First off: congratulations to Mok for the most improved team name. After suffering through that Cutler 2.0 shit for the last few years, one has to wonder where this one came from. Has he found joy in his life again thanks to his ladyfriend? Either way, it's hilarious and I love it. Chris, new to the league, rode respectable performances from Stafford and his receiving corps to the win. He also gets my BEST COACH OF THE WEEK AWARD because he's the only one of you skels to actually pay his league dues.
Meat Machine: 162
The Red Hands: 106
Peyton. What else is there to say?
Frants Fops: 98
The Human Geno Project: 120
The reigning champ, who I definitely wish no ill will upon after beating me in the championship this year and stealing Reggie Bush from me this year in the fucking draft beat the Fops — who I've always wondered why they don't have an apostrophe in their name (Frants' Fops), which is just proper grammar unless Brantley is considering Frants to be a place, not a person, which is still pretty retarded.
I expect the rest of you to get your dues in by next week, or I start pulling out old embarrassing photos and share them with the world via social media.
- Kluv
Champ? Or Chump?
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Here's an interesting discovery by Yale University that, even though not directly related to cinema, is still within the cinematic spirit of the times, given the recent surge in interest in pre-Civil War/slavery abolition as the subject of films and TV shows in the USA.
Yale has discovered a mystery manuscript that was written by an imprisoned black man in the 1850s, in which he details his experiences at both the New York House of Refuge, which was the first juvenile detention center in the USA, and later in New York's Auburn State Prison.
The young man's name is Austin Reed, and the 304-page memoir is titled The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison. The title alone immediately draws one's attention. And if that isn't already long enough, it's subtitle is: With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Refuge and Auburn Prison Unmasked.
According to Yale...
Reed provides a wealth of vivid detail about his incarceration at Auburn, including a description of the horizontal black-and-white striped uniform which originated at the prison: "streaked clothes of shame and disgrace." Released from Auburn on May 1, 1842, he was reincarcerated there before the close of the year, "I return'd home and committed a crime wich brought me back to a gloomy prison." This unparalleled narrative is a unique resource documenting the lives of African-American prisoners in antebellum America.
The New York Times has apparently gotten a hold of this never-before-published memoir, which was authenticated for Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and they shared some reactions to it, calling the book unlike any other voice in American literature, adding that it has a very lyrical quality to it, written with dramatic flair, showcasing Reed's skills as a natural storyteller, despite the fact that it has several grammatical and spelling errors. And from a historical perspective, it makes the necessary connection between the history of slavery and the history of incarceration in this country.
Here's a little more:
Reed is believed to have been born a free man near Rochester. As a young man, according to Yale's research, he was sent to the New York House of Refuge, a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. By the 1830s, a string of thefts resulted in his incarceration in a state prison in Auburn, now known as the Auburn Correctional Facility, which was built in 1816. The manuscript traces his life from childhood to his years at Auburn. It is written under the name Rob Reed, although it is unclear why he used that name, according to Yale. In the early pages, Reed describes a childhood incident when, encouraged by his sister, he disguised himself as a girl and attempted to kill a man to avenge an earlier whipping. "I cocked the pistol and with an uplifted hand of revenge I let fire and missd my shot," he wrote. "It was a dark night. I could hardly see my hands before my face. The old man hollowd murder, murder, but before any aid could get to him I drew the knife a cross his shoulders wich left a deep wound for months afterward." Later, Reed describes torturous punishments at Auburn that were typical at the time, including frequent whippings and a device known as the shower-bath, a kind of precursor to waterboarding that was occasionally fatal. "Stripping off my shirt the tyrantical curse bounded my hands fast in front of me and orderd me to stand around," Reed wrote. "Turning my back towards him he threw Sixty seven lashes on me according to the orders of Esq. Cook. I was then to stand over the dreain while one of the inmates wash my back in a pail of salt brine."
It's further noted that it would have been extremely challenging for Reed to have written this manuscript under prison conditions at the time, which were very strict, as prisoners were not allowed any leisure time, and they had zero access to books and even writing materials. But he got it done. By any means necessary.
Yale is now prepping the manuscript for publication, stating that they know it was never published, but Reed almost certainly hoped it would be, as, given the way it's written, he clearly wasn't writing for himself alone, but for the public to eventually read.
Back to my original supposition. With the upcoming publication of Reed's memoir, I can say that I would most definitely love to read it. But taking it even further, I won't be surprised if it's optioned by a film studio or production company, since there's been a lot of interest in antebellum stories, with black characters at the center. In fact, with today's news, I won't be shocked if it's already been picked up. It clearly sounds like a fascinating, never-before-heard story.
Pearl Duncan | December 13, 2013 8:59 AM
Actually, just like in our time, there was close collaboration between Brad Pitt, producer-financer and Steve McQueen, filmmaker-director, to bring us â12 Years a Slave,â in that era, there was close collaboration between enslaved, free and imprisoned people and abolitionists and others who opposed injustice and lobbied for the rights of the poor.
The report says Austin Reed was one of the boys who lived at the New York House of Refuge.
When I did the research into my colonial ancestors, I saw information in the archives about the New York House of Refuge and the young people who lived there. I was tracking an ancestor who was an abolitionist, whose brother was a slaveowner. The brother died in 1801 at what was then called the Fever Hospital in a wing of the first hospital in New York, the second in the nation, at Worth and Broadway in todayâs Tribeca. Because I researched fever hospitals to see if I could find my African American ancestors who traveled with their wealthy Scot ancestor, I searched all the later hospitals, and saw that a site near Bellevue Hospital was sold to the managers of the House of Refuge in 1825. There were thoughtful people back then who helped the poor and unfortunate.
The New York House of Refuge was built by the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism; it opened in 1825 at Madison Square in New York City, between 23rd and 34ths Streets, near the site where the Farragut statue stands today in Madison Square Park. In 1823, New York sold the abandoned Arsenal barracks building at that site, between Broadway and Madison Avenue, to the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, a charitable society organized by John Griscom to aid young people. The House of Refuge housed boys in one building and girls in another, but was destroyed by two fires in 1839, relocated and rebuilt near Bellevue Hospital at another site on east 23rd street and First Avenue, then in 1854 moved to Randallâs Island.
John Griscom said he wanted to separate boys and girls from hardened criminals. He taught them to read and write and gave them an education and trade skills, so the young people who passed through this refuge were not only literate, they had major allies and supporters. Someone must have slipped Austin Reed paper and then taken the manuscript from prison, page by page. Genealogists have discovered incredible dramas. I found fantastic ancestors.
Raven | December 12, 2013 10:08 PM
I wonder who the money will go to...
Li Ling | December 12, 2013 5:51 PM
Great! This adaption is just like a Chinese history hero, he wrote in the prison for 12 years which became the most famous history books in China until now. Hope this story can put more emphasis on his mental condition when he wrote this.
Solaam | December 12, 2013 5:06 PM
This is an amazing find.
sthn | December 12, 2013 2:59 PM
Quick! Someone call Steve McQueen.....
Donella | December 12, 2013 2:28 PM
Hollywood seems to have a severe case of willful amnesia when it comes to Frederick Douglass and the three narratives he wrote of his historically fantastic American life.


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John Kerry wants Israel to committ Harry Kerry (aka harikari) a form of Japanese ritual suicide. (Thanks Ralph Miller)RELATED
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Obama/Kerry to Israel: If you like your West Bank settlements you can't keep them. If you like East Jerusalem you can't keep that either.
Another day, another new low by 0's gangster government.
Wonderful article and assessment Apollo. Kudos to you for sure.
I hope the people of this country will soon realize that this administration is against anything to do with Israel, and or Jews, and Christians.
In every way, they are trying to change years of policy and Democratic Republic.
Again Kudos!!
It is clear that Kerry made these statements with the full support and knowledge of President Zero and his team.
If he had made them for any other President starting with Truman, he would have been fired.
Oh please Apollo! Pres. GW Bush and Condoleezza Rice promised a "contiguous" Palestinian state of Gaza and the West Bank.
Look up the definition of 'contiguous' and look at a map of Israel and then tell me who proposed more damage to Israel.
When did Bush threaten boycotts dummy?
Israelis rightly loved George Bush. And they rightly despise Obama.
Have we threatened the Palestinians with boycotts if the talks fail? And this president talks about fairness?
How dare you call that mother f-cking, sc-m sucking, cockroach a "schmuck."
Is there a comprehensive list of Israeli products, perhaps a list put together by these ant-Semite boy-cotters, so I can start buying their stuff?
He can boycott them all he wants…me, I'm enjoying my Israel-Desert Eagle 9mm and if he initiates a boycott, I'll buy another one!
Great pro-Israel post Apollo. Kerry is bullying Israel in Munich…THAT says it ALL!
Kerry has already threatened Israel with an another intifada if it fails to abide by what the US desires in a peace agreement. He is clearly Obama's attack dog in the middle east, and frankly, that species is about all Kerry will ever amount to. He slandered American troops in VietNam, fabricating entire lies before Congress about US massacres of innocent civilians; he faked a report to earn a medal for service in that war, ad then, later, in an infamous act of "patriotism" threw his medal away. He is a despicable liar willing to say and do anything no matter how unsavory to achieve his ends.
We are kidding ourselves that America is Israel's greatest friend. It is now its biggest arm twister.
Whoever doesn't take Israel's Samson nuclear strategy seriously is deluding thmselves.
Whether they know it or not any westerners who want a Palestinian State are for an anti-American, anti-Western terror state. And topping the list are Barack Obama and John Kerry-both certifiably insane.
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The University of Houston has been named to the Princeton Review's list of Green Colleges for a third time. What can UH do to keep momentum going?
"We've been the pioneer—this is our third year to be recognized by the Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges—so, now the task is for us to become transformers," said Emily Messa, Associate Vice Chancellor of Administration. What began on campus with a recycling program has led to green commuting plans and a large gift for solar panels for one campus building. Now the plan is to reach out.
"Really engaging with our counterparts to find out what the next steps are for all of us, what everybody is good at and how can we help each other and move the needle of sustainability," she said
But not at the expense of continued work on campus.
"We're doing a lot of work with our diesel testing center and have a focused effort on obtaining grants that will help the Energy Research Park grow that will help our efforts toward sustainability and sustainable energy."
Being green is lifestyle, Messa said, one that students, faculty and staff are living.
"It's a lot of fun and this is what everyone does at the University of Houston...it's just what we do."
Being Green is part of what's happening at the University of Houston. I'm Marisa Ramirez.


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But perhaps there's also a case to be made for quality rather than quantity. It's worth pointing out that, according to Rivals.com's annual rankings, Auburn averaged the 10th-best recruiting class in the nation over the past three years with all those recruits, South Carolina the 18th-best -- while Georgia, with 20 fewer total recruits than either of those rivals, averaged the ninth-best class (including a top-five haul earlier this year that only went one scholarship over the limit). The key, then, is getting the most out of the talent you do bring in. Clearly there's a case to be made that Richt hasn't done that over the past few seasons. But he seems to recognize that better conditioning and coaching, not rampant oversigning, is the key to getting the Dawgs back where they belong. If those two factors can help the class of 2011 (along with the veterans on Georgia's roster) achieve their full potential this season, nobody's going to be going over scholarship counts with a fine-toothed comb come January.Doug Gillett hits the nail on the head. Go 'Dawgs!
In both cases, an individual broke the law, then tried to minimize the impact of those revelations in a way that severely damaged their credibility with the rest of the University of Georgia community. Now, an athletic director is expected to be a strong leader, a savvy evaluator of coaching talent, and a shrewd businessman -- but he's also expected to be, to some degree, a role model for the athletes who fall under his purview. If Zach Mettenberger was stripped of his status as a Georgia Bulldog, but Damon Evans was allowed to retain not only his job but also his half-million-dollar salary, what kind of message would that send to the athletes at UGA? Among other things, it'd say that our leaders have less of a responsibility to obey the law -- or even tell the truth -- than the people they're supposed to be leading. It might also send the message that once you get to a certain level of wealth, power, or public stature, you're not held to the same standards of integrity as everyone else. And that's a dangerous signal to be giving to young, up-and-coming athletes whose talents may soon earn them big money in the pros -- or, heck, major stardom at UGA itself. So no, this isn't about me, my diploma, or how much shame I feel about going out in public with a super-G on my jacket or a Bulldog logo on my license plate. (Which is still zero, in case anyone was curious.) It's about Damon Evans' ability to do his job effectively, an ability that -- in spite of all his demonstrated talents and intelligence -- has been severely damaged by his actions on Roswell Road last Wednesday night. None of this is to say that I don't hope Evans can rehabilitate his career, or his public image, or his relationship with his family; I certainly hope all of those things happen. But based on the events of the past week, it's become clear that he's going to need to do a lot of soul-searching -- and, as condescending as it might sound, a lot of growing up -- to make that happen. And while I wish him well on all those tasks, I don't think it's UGA's obligation to let him do them on company time.Doug Gillett hits the nail on the head. Nice "Chess" reference in the headline, too. Go 'Dawgs!
Kind of a buzzkill -- but maybe when they finally do make the switch, they'll keep secondary coach Scott Lakatos's innovative new "stay within five yards of your guy and actually know where the ball is whilst doing so" coverage scheme, which, after five years of Willie Martinez "Widespread Panic Dancer" defenses in Athens probably looked like the black monolith at the beginning of "2001" to Georgia's beleaguered fan base. Also, the "black" team wore white jerseys, which is sad and adorable at the same time, because when is Georgia ever, ever going to break out those black jerseys again?Holly Anderson on G-Day. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure the Black team wears white jerseys on G-Day because (a) they're nominally the "visiting" team, and (b) wearing black jerseys for a 2:00 kickoff in Georgia in April is an invitation to heat stroke. (By the way, I'm pretty sure that, by failing to reply in a timely manner to Doug Gillett's text message on Saturday, I missed the chance to meet up with Holly, as well, which was too bad. Tailgating with Holly is every bit as much of a hoot as you think it is.) Go 'Dawgs!
So let's pat ourselves on the back over an Independence Bowl well played, but let's not act like it really means that much in terms of momentum for 2010. Let's find ourselves some excellent new defensive coaches, but not expect them to be the ones to snap their fingers and solve all our problems.My post-Independence Bowl upbeat attitude takes a kick in the teeth from Doug Gillett, who is a self-described dirty pinko liberal and ought to be more charitable. Oh, wait, feeling good about Georgia football is what got me into this mess, so, by deflating my good mood, Doug actually was being charitable. Depressive Kyle is most grateful.
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Hey guys,
Noles has agreed to abide by democratic vote for the upcoming Live Mocking the Draft. First and Second rounds are Friday April 13th starting at 7pm eastern. Rounds 3 and up are on Saturday afternoon, still waiting on official start time for that.
Come one, come all!! We would love to have as much MCM participation as possible.
Click here to see post about the MTD Draft. In order to be directed to our MCM War Room, Click Here. We will probably post a new fan post going as the official, during the draft, War Room.
WinnipegTitanFan13 has summed up the way we want this to work:
For the most part, I think everyone here has talked ad nauseum about the potential players we could draft. I like the idea of whoever wants to participate being able to show up and just throw a player they like into the pool of players, and then go with the majority vote.
It allows everyone to participate equally, everyone to be an equal decisionmaker in the process, and allows anyone, whether you've been a longtime member or relative newbie to participate.
We will follow the below format in the War Room that will be posted the time of the draft.
For Example, Who do you want with 20th pick? Player A, B, C, or D. Most votes wins. And by votes we mean "Yes" comments under the players name.
See a special note from Noles after the jump, He is both our GM and the entire Mocks Commissioner.
Plus Scroll ALL the way to the bottom of the comments thread to see my Titans Big Board for the first two rounds. Edit and adjust to your liking by commenting and posting your own big board, 5 picks or so per round. (I know most won't agree where I ranked S. Hill)
MCM will have a vote on each of the picks in this 7 rounder. Here are the rules:
General MtD Rules:
1. The first round will be timed at 5 minutes per team, 2nd (4 minutes), 3rd and 4th (3 minutes), and 5-7 (2 minutes each)
2. If a team misses their turn, I will use the BPA list each team rep has sent in via email to me.
3. I will grant an additional 60 seconds for a trade to process if requested by both parties
4. No 2013 draft picks will be allowed to be traded. Only 2012 picks!
5. More rules and regulations will be posted later as needed
MCM Rules
1. Each MCM member has 1 vote and 1 vote only.Nothing more or nothing less, no matter how experienced you are on this site.
note: We will be voting by a list of 5 or 6 prospects based on BPA from the spreadsheet that will be made available before the draft. The idea is to wait until 4 or 5 picks before our turn to narrow down the list into a single candidate. As the GM in chief, I have designated either myself or deaconbrodie to provide such a list to present to MCM.
2. In the event of a tiebreaker, I will be the final vote cast that matters most if consensus cannot be built. No questions asked.
note: as we are limited by time, you will have to make the votes quickly should you choose to participate. I will be going by what's on my screen at the time (however many recs there are behind a player).
Edit: 1 person will post a comment with a player's name on it and you should reply with yes vote if thats who you want, or suggest someone new. Someone should tally up the votes and get it to me.
3. Do NOT be pressured into a vote for a certain player by other members' right or wrong opinions. Vote for yourself.
4. Like deaconbrodie said, compile a list of 5 or 6 players you see falling to each pick that we have before hand (today, tomorrow, early Friday). At that point, I'll compile a list of potential candidates to break down.
Well everyone now knows the rules and we should be good to go by Friday. The rules are officially concrete as of this writing and cannot be modified towards anyone's favor, including myself. I hope to see most of you on Friday night! Enjoy!
OH and dont be confused by ALL the below comments. They dont necessarily line up with this article. I used the old article to display the new information. It already had 12 recs, therefore it woudn't get washed out by all the other posts.


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The division remains the best and easiest route to an improbable Eagles playoff birth. However, wins by both the Giants and Cowboys this weekend will end the Eagles divisional chances. But what about the wild card?
The Eagles struggle to win tiebreakers in the wild card, due to head-to-head losses to the CHI, SEA and ARI. So, if DET is not involved in the tie, the Eagles will lose on Step 1 no matter how many teams are involved. However, DET's presence will allow a few select scenarios where other teams (namely CHI and ARI) reach 8-8, but the Eagles still win the multi-way tiebreaker.
Any of the following would eliminate PHI from the wild card (detailed reasoning given at end of post):
- PHI loses or ties any game
- DET win or tie
- CHI divisional win
- ARI beats SEA and wins another game
- SEA wins two games
- Eagles fail to win Strength of Victory tiebreaker with tied teams (DET or DET/ARI).
The main conclusions one can draw from this:
- The Eagles wild card chances are improved by a Bears win on Sunday. This is perhaps counterintuitive. (Again, see reasoning for details.)
- If both SEA and ARI win at least one game before week 17, the Eagles only wild card chance lies in a week 17 tie between SEA and ARI.
- The Eagles will not be eliminated at 4:15PM kickoff. Although, one wonders if anyone in the team (or even the media) will comprehend this. Granted, if SEA beats CHI, their wild card chances are reduced to a 12-team parlay: 3 PHI wins, 3 DET losses, 2 CHI divisional losses, 2 SEA losses, 2 ARI AFC losses. (Again, barring a tie in SEA/ARI, which would free ARI up to win 1 game.)
(1) Of course, PHI loss or tie means DET's 8 wins are uncatchable.
(2) Also, of course, DET win or tie means that PHI's best-case 8 wins are not good enough. If PHI is lucky enough to get to a one-on-one tiebreaker with DET, common opponents and conference record will both be tied, meaning strength of victory will be decisive.
(3) Remember, the NFL breaks divisional ties first before comparing teams from different divisions. If CHI beats DET in the divisional tiebreaker, PHI can no longer win any 8-8 wild card ties as they will have been (miserably) sweep by every imaginable team. If CHI wins a divisional game, they will hold the 8-8 tiebreaker over DET. Even though divisional record and common opponents are tied, CHI would win on conference record. However, if CHI's lone win comes against SEA, DET will win the 8-8 tiebreaker on Div. record.
(4) If ARI beats SEA and enters the PHI-DET-ARI 8-8 tiebreaker, they will win based on conference record. However, if their 2 wins come against CLE and CIN, the PHI-DET-ARI 8-8 tie is deadlocked on conference record, and falls to strength of victory.
(5) If SEA is 8-8 and are ahead of ARI (either outright or on tiebreaker), their conference record will be superior to PHI and DET and will win the tiebreaker. The only way SEA goes 8-8 and loses the divisional tiebreaker is if they lose to ARI, in which case PHI is out based on (4). So, in any case, 2 SEA wins eliminates PHI.
(6a) If PHI wins out, DET loses out and CHI loses the two divisional games (if any of this doesn't happen, the Eagles will never make it to the Strength of Victory tiebreaker), the situation is: PHI's beaten opponents combined record: 43-66. DET's beaten opponent's combined record: 41-68. Currently a slight edge to the Eagles. If Strength of Victory is tied, DET likely wins the next tiebreaker, Strength of Schedule
(6b) If PHI wins out, DET loses out, CHI loses the two divisional games, ARI goes WWL and SEA goes LLW (this is the only possible scenario where PHI has a chance in the PHI-DET-ARI tiebreaker), the situation is PHI's beaten opponents = 43-66. DET's beaten opponents = 42-68. ARI's beaten opponents = 45-66. Very close.


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This week, area students get the chance to really experience the dangers of texting while driving without taking their chances on the road.
AT&T brought their virtual reality driving simulator to West Fargo high school on Monday. The simulator lets you text and drive in a realistic, but safe environment.
It's all a part of AT&T's "texting & driving... it can wait" campaign, and students say the simulator has really opened their eyes.
"Usually when my friends text and drive they make it look easier but once you are actually doing it like by yourself on a simulator it's harder than it looks," explains West Fargo student Dezare Heidt.
The simulator was brought to the Fargo-area schools by AT&T, Safe Kids of Fargo/Moorhead and the North Dakota Safety Council. Tuesday the distracted driving simulator will be in Buffalo, North Dakota and it travels to Fargo South on Friday.


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wet n wild Fast Dry Nail Polish in The Wonder Years
I adore this color! I always love yellow but lately I've loved it even more so these nails were perfect; a gorgeous, shimmery golden yellow (3 coats to get this type of coverage).
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SHARON, Pa. - Oil and gas exploration is a major factor behind new jobs and the grand opening of an international company in Sharon.
Noise Solutions is based in Canada and is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of noise suppression equipment. It's CEO says it chose to expand in Mercer county because a lot of it's NEW business is coming from this area.
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As a die-hard GSW fan since the 2007-2008 season, let me start off by saying that when it was announced a few days ago that Monta Ellis was traded to Milwaukee, two profound things happened to me:
The first, and most immediate, consequence was that I was devastated. Monta Ellis, my favorite player on the team- favorite player in the league, favorite athlete in sports- had been shipped off to another team on a drop-of-a-dime's notice. The one guy on the Warriors whose mesmerizing play I had continuously marveled at over the course of the last 4 1/2 years was pronounced traded, and I was, positively, despondent; absolutely devastated. I thought to myself, 'what am I gonna do now, after all these years as a devoted Warrior fan?' You see, not only had I been a devout Warrior fan the last few years, I had been a New York-based one. My passion for the organization, and its outstanding SB Nation blog here, Golden State of Mind, was so special, so proud, that living in New York all this time I've happily withstood a constant stream of grilling inquisition from Knicks fans about my unusual choice of fanhood. Now, suddenly, my main source of Warrior appreciation was gone in one fell swoop. I had supported the Warriors through a lot of frustration and disappointment, but you could say I was downright disillusioned by the prospect of the new-look Golden State Warriors.
The second, more delayed effect was that I became excited by the idea of new Milwaukee Bucks basketball. I realized that my sense of hoops allegiance had shifted over from the Dubs to the new-look Bucks; I was now a Bucks fan. And it's no doubt for the very same reason that I would always cite when people here in NY would ask me why I was, of all teams, a Warriors fan the last few years. "It's because they have Monta Ellis". He's a player that to me exudes such a remarkable storm of qualities of passion, talent, grace, skill, athleticism, and determination that it's unthinkable not to be bewitched by him.
I've said this many times on GSoM and I'll say it for the first time here at Brew Hoop now: I adore Monta Ellis. And I am certain that everyone here will soon fall in love with him too.
Bucks basketball just got a lot more exciting. And I'm elated to be here for the go-round.


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as 1:2014cv06443
Plaintiff: Edgebrook Bank
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Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Fraud
RECTOR, WARDENS, AND VESTRYMEN OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OF INDIANAPOLIS v. JPMORGAN CHASE AND COMPANY et al
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Defendant: JPMORGAN CHASE AND COMPANY, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
Plaintiff: RECTOR, WARDENS, AND VESTRYMEN OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OF INDIANAPOLIS
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund v. Endo Health Solutions, Inc. et al
as 1:2014cv06171
Plaintiff: Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund
Defendant: Endo Health Solutions, Inc., Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Penwest Pharmaceuticals Co. and others
Cause Of Action: Antitrust Litigation
Opper v. Delta Airlines Inc
as 1:2014cv00962
Defendant: Delta Airlines Inc
Plaintiff: Darla Opper
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Fraud
Type: Torts - Property > Other Fraud
Crampton v. Pella Windows and Doors, Inc. et al
as 1:2014cv06013
Defendant: Pella Windows and Doors, Inc., Pella Corporation
Plaintiff: Richard Crampton
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Other Contract
Apex Colors Inc v. Chemworld International Limited, Inc. et al
as 2:2014cv00273
Plaintiff: Apex Colors Inc
Defendant: Chemworld International Limited, Inc., Chemworld International Limited, LLC, Atul Modi and others
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Fraud
Kedinger v. State of Wisconsin et al
as 2:2014cv00899
Plaintiff: Dean T Kedinger
Defendant: State of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question
Fishman et al v. Sheridan Labs, Inc. et al
as 1:2014cv05793
Defendant: Sheridan Labs, Inc., Phoenix Labs, Inc.
Plaintiff: Kristine Lowry-Deturk , Lorri Fishman
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Fraud
Black v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association
as 1:2014cv05727
Plaintiff: Shirley S. Black
Defendant: JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association
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as 2:2014cv00880
Defendant: Michael Chobanian
Plaintiff: Brian Condon , Eric R Gassman , Paul P Young
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Fraud
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Feb. 20, 2013
Please join me today at 3:30 p.m. for our monthly online chat on GoFrogs.com. You can submit questions in advance here.
We have a great week of home events to keep you quite occupied on campus. Women's basketball has home games tonight versus Oklahoma State and Saturday against West Virginia. Both contests will tip at 7. If coming either night or both evenings, please remember to support our Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and its Teddy Bear Drive. As you enter Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, our SAAC members will be collecting teddy bears to donate to Cook Children's Hospital.
Baseball will make its 2013 home debut with a three-game series versus Cal State Fullerton. First pitch is at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Women's tennis, fresh off an impressive win over No. 17 Vanderbilt, hosts Arizona on Friday at 1 p.m. We also have a home equestrian contest on Sunday at 10 a.m. against Oklahoma State. Men's basketball will be at Kansas on Saturday, track and field heads to the Big 12 Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa, while our 13th-ranked men's golf program is competing in a pair of tournaments in California.
After serving as our women's basketball program's video coordinator last season, Jayci Stone is now its director of operations. She assists head coach Jeff Mittie and staff with team travel, academics, community outreach, NCAA compliance, video and other administrative responsibilities. A 2008 Kansas State graduate, Jayci came to TCU after coaching stops at Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College and the University of Alaska-Anchorage. While playing at UAA, Jayci broke the program's single-season record for 3-point field goals made (76). She also set school and conference single-game marks for 3-pointers made (8).
I'm sure many of you remember Allen Tolley as a four-year letterman at guard for our men's basketball program from 1990-93. He still ranks among our program leaders in career starts. Allen was team captain and most valuable player his senior year when he led us to an upset victory over top-seed SMU in the Southwest Conference Tournament. As a sophomore, he was instrumental in leading us to the NIT. After graduation, Allen remained in Fort Worth and became head boys basketball coach at Fort Worth Country Day School. He is now a teacher in the Fort Worth ISD and also a certified UIL basketball and volleyball referee for the Fort Worth chapter of officials. Allen and his wife, Veronica, a 1995 TCU graduate, have two children: Trey and Alicia.
This week's edition of TCU supporters flashing the Horned Frog sign and apparel from all points worldwide comes from our good friend and recent volleyball standout Megan Munce. We see Megan earlier this week during a walk from Switzerland to Germany, in front of the Rhine River that separates Stein-Sackingen (Switzerland) and Bad Sackingen (Germany). Please continue to send me (firstname.lastname@example.com) your images. These are fun to share.
Last Week's Answer: Nobody but Forrest Gump could have said, "Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running!"
This Week's Quote: "Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?" Check back next week for the answer on which movie this line is from.
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Wii Games You Should Be Playing: Sin and Punishment: Star Successor.
With the 3DS hogging the spotlight these days and a new home console on the horizon, we can officially report that the Nintendo Wii's days are numbered. So with that in mind, I think it's a good time to take a look back at some titles for the system that unfortunately slipped under the radar and were never met with successful sales. For whatever reason, a lot of people like to claim that the Wii has a crippling lack of quality content available, but this ongoing (?) feature intends to illustrate simply how wrong that notion is. Now, I'll be the first to admit that there is a boatload of shovelware out there clogging up store shelves and bargain bins, but hidden amongst all of the Petz Family Partyz and M&M Go Kart Racers and whatever are more than a few flat out incredible games unfairly collecting dust.
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DAWN Ontario: DisAbled Woman's Network Ontario is proud to announce that nominations are being accepted for our second annual Inclusion Leadership Award. We are looking for individuals and organizations who understand that by including people with disabilities in all life activities we are all enriched.
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individuals and groups in the province of Ontario who understand the value
and beauty of participating together.
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Kim McConnell was a proud member and former director of DAWN Ontario. She worked diligently on behalf of DAWN to promote and achieve the full participation of Women with disabilities in all social areas, including: employment, education, recreation, religion, and community life.
As an individual woman with spina bifida, Kim approached and educated many people in positions of power about accessibility and accommodation for people with disabilities. Kim showed courage, diplomacy, grace and grit in confronting barriers to equality. Kim inspired positive change. She left her mark, particularly in Lively and Sudbury, Ontario, where she lived her 38 years, as someone who knew she had the right to belong.
We wish to commemorate Kim's life and spirit by annually acknowledging others who share her exceptional commitment to inclusion and equity.
The recipients of this award will create their own legacy: they are individuals, organizations and groups that have expanded the possibilities for people with dis/Abilities because of their inclusive vision and leadership. This award recognizes their unique contributions and accomplishments.
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Helen Mirren & Kate Beckinsale: Beaming Beauties at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards
Looking forward to the star-studded evening ahead, Helen Mirren and Kate Beckinsale showed up at the 71st Golden Globes in Beverly Hills tonight (January 12).
The lovely stars were the center of attention as they worked the arrivals area before grabbing their seats inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, the 71st Golden Globes is sure to be a star-studded affair with plenty of moments for the highlight reel.
Best TV Actress (Drama) nominees include Julianna Magulies, Tatiana Maslany, Taylor Schilling, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, while Bryan Cranston, Live Schreiber, Michael Sheen, Kevin Spacey and James Spader are all up for the Best TV Actor (Drama).
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Students research and develop a proposal for a substantial project that will integrate the student's knowledge in computer science and supporting areas. Weekly meetings will study methodologies and offer a forum for presentations and discussions. A paper and final presentation on the proposal topic is required. Required for major in Computer Science.
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Prerequisite: Senior standing in Computer Science or consent of instructor.