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The U.S. Postal Service is kicking off the 2011 holiday season with the issuance of the new Christmas stamps.
Inspired by 1950s-era ornaments, the festive Holiday Baubles Forever stamps feature four colorful ornaments sure to add to the joys of the season. These baubles also may inspire fond memories of beloved ornaments from childhood – objects that still have the power to enchant us today.
Art director William Gicker used illustrations by Linda Fountain of Hilton Head Island, SC, to create the ornaments shown in the stamp art.
For many years, the Postal Service has issued traditional Christmas stamps featuring the Madonna and Child. The Christmas stamp for 2011 presents a detail from a painting by the Italian master Raphael, entitled Madonna of the Candelabra. This circular painting dates around 1513, and, is now in the Walters Art Museum collection in Baltimore, MD.
In 1508, Raphael was summoned by Pope Julius II to Rome, where he spent the last dozen years of his short life in an inspired burst of activity. The masterpieces he produced in Rome include the painting reproduced on this stamp.
The stamp art is a detail of the painting, as the original photograph was cropped to fit the stamp format. Richard Sheaff served as art director for this issuance.
Both the Holiday Baubles and Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael stamps are being issued as Forever stamps which make them good for one-ounce First-Class Mail postage forever.
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Netty Component
Available as of Camel 2.3
There is a Netty4 component that is using the newer Netty 4 which is recommend to use as this component is using the older Netty 3 library.
The netty component in Camel is a socket communication component, based on the Netty project.
This camel component supports both producer and consumer endpoints.
The Netty component has several options and allows fine-grained control of a number of TCP/UDP communication parameters (buffer sizes, keepAlives, tcpNoDelay etc) and facilitates both In-Only and In-Out communication on a Camel route.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId> <artifactId>camel-netty</artifactId> <version>x.x.x</version> <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version --> </dependency>
URI format
The URI scheme for a netty component is as follows
netty:tcp://localhost:99999[?options] netty:udp://remotehost:99999/[?options]
This component supports producer and consumer endpoints for both TCP and UDP.
You can append query options to the URI in the following format,
Registry based Options
Codec Handlers and SSL Keystores can be enlisted in the Registry, such as in the Spring XML file.
Important: Read below about using non shareable encoders/decoders.
Using non shareable encoders or decoders
If your encoders or decoders is not shareable (eg they have the @Shareable class annotation), then your encoder/decoder must implement the
The Netty component offers a
Sending Messages to/from a Netty endpoint
Netty Producer
In Producer mode, the component provides the ability to send payloads to a socket endpoint
The producer mode supports both one-way and request-response based operations.
Netty Consumer
In Consumer mode, the component provides the ability to:
The consumer mode supports both one-way and request-response based operations.
The following headers are filled for the exchanges created by the Netty consumer:
Usage Samples
A UDP Netty endpoint using Request-Reply and serialized object payload
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() { public void configure() { from("netty:udp://localhost:5155?sync=true") .process(new Processor() { public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception { Poetry poetry = (Poetry) exchange.getIn().getBody(); poetry.setPoet("Dr. Sarojini Naidu"); exchange.getOut().setBody(poetry); } } } };
A TCP based Netty consumer endpoint using One-way communication
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() { public void configure() { from("netty:tcp://localhost:5150") .to("mock:result"); } };
An SSL/TCP based Netty consumer endpoint using Request-Reply communication
Using the JSSE Configuration Utility
As of Camel 2.9, the Netty component supports SSL/TLS configuration through the Camel JSSE Configuration Utility. This utility greatly decreases the amount of component specific code you need to write and is configurable at the endpoint and component levels. The following examples demonstrate how to use the utility with the Netty component.
Programmatic configuration of the component
KeyStoreParameters ksp = new KeyStoreParameters(); ksp.setResource("/users/home/server/keystore.jks"); ksp.setPassword("keystorePassword"); KeyManagersParameters kmp = new KeyManagersParameters(); kmp.setKeyStore(ksp); kmp.setKeyPassword("keyPassword"); SSLContextParameters scp = new SSLContextParameters(); scp.setKeyManagers(kmp); NettyComponent nettyComponent = getContext().getComponent("netty", NettyComponent.class); nettyComponent.setSslContextParameters(scp);
Spring DSL based configuration of endpoint
... <camel:sslContextParameters id="sslContextParameters"> <camel:keyManagers keyPassword="keyPassword"> <camel:keyStore resource="/users/home/server/keystore.jks" password="keystorePassword"/> </camel:keyManagers> </camel:sslContextParameters>... ... <to uri="netty:tcp://localhost:5150?sync=true&ssl=true&sslContextParameters=#sslContextParameters"/> ...
Using Basic SSL/TLS configuration on the Jetty Component
JndiRegistry registry = new JndiRegistry(createJndiContext()); registry.bind("password", "changeit"); registry.bind("ksf", new File("src/test/resources/keystore.jks")); registry.bind("tsf", new File("src/test/resources/keystore.jks")); context.createRegistry(registry); context.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { public void configure() { String netty_ssl_endpoint = "netty:tcp://localhost:5150?sync=true&ssl=true&passphrase=#password" + "&keyStoreFile=#ksf&trustStoreFile=#tsf"; String return_string = "When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say," + "For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today."; from(netty_ssl_endpoint) .process(new Processor() { public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception { exchange.getOut().setBody(return_string); } } } });
Getting access to SSLSession and the client certificate
Available as of Camel 2.12
You can get access to the
SSLSession session = exchange.getIn().getHeader(NettyConstants.NETTY_SSL_SESSION, SSLSession.class); // get the first certificate which is client certificate javax.security.cert.X509Certificate cert = session.getPeerCertificateChain()[0]; Principal principal = cert.getSubjectDN();
Remember to set
The option
Using Multiple Codecs
In certain cases it may be necessary to add chains of encoders and decoders to the netty pipeline. To add multpile codecs to a camel netty endpoint the 'encoders' and 'decoders' uri parameters should be used. Like the 'encoder' and 'decoder' parameters they are used to supply references (to lists of ChannelUpstreamHandlers and ChannelDownstreamHandlers) that should be added to the pipeline. Note that if encoders is specified then the encoder param will be ignored, similarly for decoders and the decoder param.
Read further above about using non shareable encoders/decoders.
The lists of codecs need to be added to the Camel's registry so they can be resolved when the endpoint is created.
Spring's native collections support can be used to specify the codec lists in an application context
The bean names can then be used in netty endpoint definitions either as a comma separated list or contained in a List e.g.
or via spring.
Closing Channel When Complete
When acting as a server you sometimes want to close the channel when, for example, a client conversion is finished.
However you can also instruct Camel on a per message basis as follows.
from("netty:tcp://localhost:8080").process(new Processor() { public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception { String body = exchange.getIn().getBody(String.class); exchange.getOut().setBody("Bye " + body); // some condition which determines if we should close if (close) { exchange.getOut().setHeader(NettyConstants.NETTY_CLOSE_CHANNEL_WHEN_COMPLETE, true); } } });
Adding custom channel pipeline factories to gain complete control over a created pipeline
Available as of Camel 2.5
Custom channel pipelines provide complete control to the user over the handler/interceptor chain by inserting custom handler(s), encoder(s) & decoders without having to specify them in the Netty Endpoint URL in a very simple way.
In order to add a custom pipeline, a custom channel pipeline factory must be created and registered with the context via the context registry (JNDIRegistry,or the camel-spring ApplicationContextRegistry etc).
A custom pipeline factory must be constructed as follows
The example below shows how ServerChannel Pipeline factory may be created
Using custom pipeline factory
public class SampleServerChannelPipelineFactory extends ServerPipelineFactory { private int maxLineSize = 1024; public ChannelPipeline getPipeline() throws Exception { ChannelPipeline channelPipeline = Channels.pipeline(); channelPipeline.addLast("encoder-SD", new StringEncoder(CharsetUtil.UTF_8)); channelPipeline.addLast("decoder-DELIM", new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(maxLineSize, true, Delimiters.lineDelimiter())); channelPipeline.addLast("decoder-SD", new StringDecoder(CharsetUtil.UTF_8)); // here we add the default Camel ServerChannelHandler for the consumer, to allow Camel to route the message etc. channelPipeline.addLast("handler", new ServerChannelHandler(consumer)); return channelPipeline; } }
The custom channel pipeline factory can then be added to the registry and instantiated/utilized on a camel route in the following way
Registry registry = camelContext.getRegistry(); serverPipelineFactory = new TestServerChannelPipelineFactory(); registry.bind("spf", serverPipelineFactory); context.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { public void configure() { String netty_ssl_endpoint = "netty:tcp://localhost:5150?serverPipelineFactory=#spf" String return_string = "When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say," + "For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today."; from(netty_ssl_endpoint) .process(new Processor() { public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception { exchange.getOut().setBody(return_string); } } } });
Reusing Netty boss and worker thread pools
Available as of Camel 2.12
Netty has two kind of thread pools: boss and worker. By default each Netty consumer and producer has their private thread pools. If you want to reuse these thread pools among multiple consumers or producers then the thread pools must be created and enlisted in the Registry.
For example using Spring XML we can create a shared worker thread pool using the
<!-- use the worker pool builder to create to help create the shared thread pool --> <bean id="poolBuilder" class="org.apache.camel.component.netty.NettyWorkerPoolBuilder"> <property name="workerCount" value="2"/> </bean> <!-- the shared worker thread pool --> <bean id="sharedPool" class="org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.WorkerPool" factory-bean="poolBuilder" factory-method="build" destroy-method="shutdown"> </bean>
For boss thread pool there is a
Then in the Camel routes we can refer to this worker pools by configuring the
<route> <from uri="netty:tcp://localhost:5021?textline=true&sync=true&workerPool=#sharedPool&orderedThreadPoolExecutor=false"/> <to uri="log:result"/> ... </route>
And if we have another route we can refer to the shared worker pool:
<route> <from uri="netty:tcp://localhost:5022?textline=true&sync=true&workerPool=#sharedPool&orderedThreadPoolExecutor=false"/> <to uri="log:result"/> ... </route>
... and so forth.
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I'd say one of his worst ideas was that a beautiful woman in TMP should be bald.
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OT but my baby was"weighed" today and she's 3lbs 5oz already...anyone else's baby that size at around 28 weeks? My son was 2lbs 11oz atty birth, 28 weeks.
My ultimate goal is 34wks but right now I am focused on 28 which is next Sat.
I'm 33 weeks... my next goal is 34... then 35... etc...
My first goal is always TOMORROW. From there I just try to get to the next Monday, which starts my new week. I just made it to 32 on Monday! After about 12 weeks on bed rest, I sincerely can't believe we've made it this far. When I was hospitalized at week 25, the doctors told me I wouldn't make it to 34... so my ultimate goal is to prove them all wrong!! ;-D Keep your chins up and keep up the good work, ladies! It's a roller coaster of a ride, but we are in it together!!
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Things i want: to become a girl, drink some of that serum she made and devour every other girls so u can be bigger! btw good job, this shit is reeeeal sexy!
oh dang... O_O .. YES!!!
Wish there was more! >.< If only I had the moolah.
awesome, love the idea!
do a growing hunger 2 the first is very good but i want to know what happens to the mom
when will pt 2 b out where she eats her mom
you should do elastic girls
That's a great animation
You should do this with a guy absorbing girls
part 2?
is there an part 2?
I would love to be her next victim.
Fantastic and very erotic animation!! Please, continue!
gimme that potion!!!!!!
part 2
It's on the way
The emotion you capture in faces is great, and the "absorbing" animations are very erotic. Please make more!
The emotion you capture in faces is great, and the "absorbing" animations are very erotic. Please make more!
all four absorbtions should have went to the butt
i want more
can there be a part 2 plz
Man, so she absorbs any other female, rips off their clothing and then her body parts that she directs the contact towards, and then moves on? Wow........W.T.F?
change shape in a different way or form because she not solid tissue.
or she can make clones
I wish I could just touch and squeeze the big fat balloons at the end.
majin Buu???
Wow! You don't suppose she has room for one more, do you?
you should make more like this animation because every one loves it.
There will be a sequel! In fact, soon I will be posting something like that. Maybe not on DA but keep track of journals!
This one is awsome just let me know when you plan on doing more.
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Since forming in 1983 as a high-school band in Los Angeles, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have become one of rock's most unlikely success stories: They've weathered numerous line-up changes, addictions, the death of founding member Hillel Slovak, and even more line-up changes over their 27-year history. (You know you're a superfan when you're favorite Chili Peppers period is the DeWayne "Blackbird" McKnight/D.H. Peligro era).
But the Chili Peppers have soldiered on, selling more than 60 million albums, scoring six Grammys, and becoming one of rock's funkiest and most fun live bands around. Their rise is chronicled in the new book The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History (It Books), which collects more than 250 unseen photos and candid stories from Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante, Flea, and Chad Smith.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo: 4503, Astellas) and Ambit Biosciences Corporation announced today that the results from a completed Phase 2 study with the investigational FLT3 inhibitor, quizartinib (AC220), as an oral monotherapy treatment regimen in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
The Phase 2 ACE study recruited patients into two separate cohorts of patients with relapsed/refractory AML, and the results from each cohort of were presented in individual oral sessions. Highlights of the combined key findings in FLT3-ITD positive patients were as follows:
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Belinda, a TwoRightFeet Meetup member and Organizer/Founder of the Thumbs Up Theatre Meetup, has suggested that you might be interested in learning and doing non-Ballroom dances such as the Blues and the Lindy Hop:
To help advance the spirit of Toronto's dancing communities (of which Ballroom Dancing is a key part), I am pleased to enclose the invitation, below:
New Years Eve Swing & Blues Double Deck Ball!!!
Saturday December 31, 8pm to 4am
Come to this annual New Years Eve Party extravaganza!
Beginner dance classes before the Ball 8pm to 9pm:
Lindy Hop on the first floor taught by Joanna Kassoulides & Sugar Shakers.
Blues on the second floor taught by out of town teachers David Trihn & Amanda Bell.
No need to bring your own dance partners, no prior experience needed.
Ball 9:10pm to 4am. Dressing up encouraged. Swing on first floor, Blues on second floor.
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Supper buffet, dessert, favours, midnight bubbly, are all included with admission!!!
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Olympic Honeymoon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olympic Honeymoon is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding and starring Claude Hulbert, Monty Banks and Princess Pearl.[1] A British honeymooner visiting Switzerland is mistaken for a leading ice hockey player and is enlisted to play for the England national team. It was based on the novel He and Ski by F. Dawson Gratrix and is sometimes known by the alternative title Honeymoon Merry-Go-Round.
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Hokepoints (for now): The Meaning of Clay
The Jug in Context
On the Halloween Day that Michigan student manager Tommy Roberts walked into a Minneapolis earthenware store, college football's power structure was in flux. Under instructions from Yost, Roberts paid 30 cents (about $9.17 today) for a 5-gallon Red Wing jug, and huffed it back to the stadium. Whether or not the dastardly Gophers were planning on spiking the Wolverines' water supply for that meeting of Western titans, they'd be thwarted.
Suspend, for a moment, all later meaning that would be attached to any programs, persons, or ceramics named above, and focus on what this vignette tells us about the game in 1903. For one, it suggests teams were capable of putting things in each others' drinking water. For another, it doesn't at all seem like Yost was confident his team, which had outscored opponents 550-0 in 1901, 644-12 in 1902, and heretofore 390-0, could simply waltz into Minnesota and win without every caution and attention paid to detail. The Jug game wasn't a friendly between old academic institutions; we were monsters and they wanted us to die.
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The Big Ten (actually Nine) in those days was colloquially "The West," with all connotations of "Wild- " intentional. This was the upstart league, and to the old guard in the East, the things the Big Nine were building on were abhorrent. Not only were lower academic standards widely tolerated for athletes, but those athletes were also given enticements like free scholarships and food, thereby undermining the authenticity of "collegiate" sports.
Travel was another point of contention: how could students be students if they were taking train rides to California over a month after the season was supposed to have ended? The modern equivalent of the 1901 team's Pasadena adventure would be Team 135 flying to India for Valentine's Day. Except if there was a good chance the players would get killed in the process: the fear of travel was justified because train accidents were common at the time. The same paper that proclaimed Minnesota's 6-6 "victory" announced that Purdue's team was in a train wreck that claimed the lives of 14 players (17 people overall).
Kenny Magee is one of those guys you will meet if you start hanging around the program. The former U-M chief of police, security consultant and magician is known on this site as the proprietor of Ann Arbor Sports Memorabilia, a sports collectible (and magic) shop under Afternoon Delight on Liberty. The store is only a fragment of the greatest Michigan memorabilia collection this side of Bentley. When they opened the Bo Museum last summer, most of it was Kenny's stuff.
When I first met Kenny he had Eric Upchurch and me into his store for an afternoon to shoot images for the cheapest ad I ever sold for this site (resulting gif at right). A few weeks later Kenny called me and said I had to come in again and see his latest find. Now resting beneath the painting of Denard's accidental Heisman pose was an imperfect replica of the Brown Jug, apparently created by Minnesota in the '40s. Dooley (MVictors) did the primary inspection, but I got to add to the lore when I pointed out the fake had displayed the scores of the two 1926 contests incorrectly.
This find was the genesis of Kenny's foray deep into Jug lore. Dooley's comprehensive article on Jug myths, which we ran in HTTV 2013, provided the basis of what became a book on the Jug and the Michigan-Minnesota rivalry. Kenny's co-author Jon Stevens is a guy about my age who's been in and around the program in various capacities exactly that long.
Institutions tend to collect people like this. The thing is so great itself that some people will structure their lives around it. Folks invited inside will keep coming back until they're found something to do there, and they'll do that thing for a lifetime with impossible passion, and their kids will grow up knowing nothing else.
Perhaps the most devastating aftereffect of Dave Brandon's (perhaps soon to be finished) tenure here will be how many of these program people were driven away, and not accidentally. John U. Bacon is both a Michigan professor and the single most credible journalist to cover this team; first relegated to the Drew Sharp dunce seats for publishing Three and Out, Bacon has now been kicked out off the press box entirely. Bruce Madej literally invented the now ubiquitous position of sports information director; he was so effective at communicating Michigan to the fanbase that the program survived 40 years of Bo, Mo, and Lloyd's antagonism to the press without the press hating the program back. Jon Falk was the living embodiment of Michigan's institutional heritage, accessible to every player to ever need a reminder of it, but if you stand in the way of something Adidas wants to do, you can pack your trunk right now. No, that trunk stays.
The Rise and Fall of Empires
The Western Conference (Big Ten) of the early 1900s was the SEC of its day, willing to sublimate all other considerations besides winning, creating new monster programs and birthing new traditions near newly populated industrial centers by wantonly violating the artificial limitations created by the old guard to prevent it. Conversely, the Ivies (which doggedly held out for another 40 years before making their association official) were the era's Big Ten: old powers with immense institutional advantages they were actively squandering by holding out for their version of morality.
Despite the conspicuous 6-6 tie in the midst of a season of blowouts, the 1903 national championship was shared between Michigan and Princeton. You could throw a dart at an East Coast sports columnist and spill as much contempt for the Wolverines as blood, though little of the vitriol remains today. In the next 30 years Michigan and Minnesota built themselves into powerhouse programs while the Ivies drew an arbitrary moral line at considering athletic ability in admissions, and dwindled for it.
The East was still far ahead in monetization, which at the time meant packing more people into stadia. Harvard Stadium, the first modern concrete facility in college football, was in its inaugural season the day Roberts bought the Jug, and Penn began converting their wooden Franklin Field to a permanent structure that season. "The Game" (not That The Game) was affixed in 1900 as the last on the schedule by Yale and Harvard organizers who realized the rivalry could pump interest in the entire season.
Yost realized something fundamental about this sport: they'll take you as seriously as you take yourself. He made it his mission to control or at least influence anything that could touch his football program. He built a stadium expandable to 100,000 seats and his team walked the Earth as if they deserved to play in front of that many. The Yale Bowl opened to a capacity of 70,896 and Princeton's Palmer Stadium seated 45,750 when they opened in 1914, but the Midwest schools at the time were maxing out at 30,000 (Ohio Stadium was built for 72,000 but was typically half-empty).
A Book About the Jug
Kenny's book: Recommended method of purchase is to get it direct from Kenny. His shop's below Afternoon Delight, at 255 East Liberty in Ann Arbor. Or email him. Or find him at a signing, the next being at MDen this week. Also available on Amazon and kindle.
If you're from Michigan you've seen Arcadia books (Old Woodward, history of the Tigers, etc.) before at museum shops, etc. This is one of those: a few pages of backstory for each chapter, and then lots of images, many from Kenny's and Bentley's collections, and many from Minnesota's. There's the newspaper article above, and photo of Conley and his crew in '64 breaking a four-game losing streak, and lots and lots of photos of the great men who've played in this rivalry, from Bronco Nagurski to Ryan Van Bergen.
Reading it in context of this season and this era of college football, it came off like a history of the Roman Empire written in the years after Constantine. Remember when we marched into barely civilized lands, covered ourselves in glory, and shipped the treasures home? Remember when we embraced the new religion and reconstituted as an Eastern-focused superpower? Remember when we didn't spend as much time talking about how awesome Rome was because we were so engaged in making it so?
Now it's Tuesday before a Jug game with as much meaning to the national landscape as a Harvard-Princeton matchup in 1964. The Michigan Stadium I'll visit is itself a highly leveraged brand; the teams facing each other will both operate on dogmatic principles long since cast wayside by programs far more willing to push the established lines of righteousness, be they managing the gameclock or ignoring NCAA's unenforced Title IX rules and outdated ideals of athletes as "just students." And here I am, slowly becoming one of those people whose life is defined by attachment to an institution that revels in its history while missing the most important lesson from it.
Which is…
Strip off the paint and the scores and the logos and what you have is a clay jug we bought because Yost would burn in hell rather than let an advantage slip by. Fielding wouldn't pass muster at a lineup of "Michigan Men." He was an epic asshole who stood out in a period when assholes were highly tolerated. It's important to me that Michigan stands for more than that. But if Michigan and the Big Ten are to avoid the fate of the Ivy League, they'll have to operate on the same principle that every successful program ever has: First, you win.
Hokepoints Reviews Fourth and Long
Previously in this space: The excerpt. Bacon Q&A with Brian and readers.
So there was a new Bacon book this year. We need to review this book. I'm going to do this with the expectation that you have either read it already or are going to. You should. It is a Bacon book. You are reading MGoBlog; either you are a person who appreciates Bacon or else a visiting Sparty looking for more trolling fodder, in which case help yourself to the board where I promise you there's plenty. Or better yet, read some Bacon—you're in the Big Ten; this concerns you too. And he says the Red Cedar is nice.
This is not a negative review, even though I have a tendency to focus on the "needs work" aspects—I'm the guy who walked out of The Return of the King after five years of unmitigated Peter Jackson man-crushing and complained that there were too many endings. So apologies to John U., who's higher in my esteem than Mr. Jackson and just about everyone whose quotes aren't emblazoned on a wall somewhere, for the plurality of minuses below.
The book is available wherever they sell books these days. Amazon links: Kindle, Hardcover. I bought it on Kindle.
More Bacon. Ever since Bo's Lasting Lessons, the chance to devour a new Bacon book has been somewhat of an event around these parts. As a Michigan fan it would be tough to follow the unparalleled access and insight into the Rich Rod program accomplished with Three and Out, specifically because that unvarnished snapshot was so starkly antithetical to Dave Brandon's meticulous staging of his Michigan show: You knew at the time that no true journalist would be allowed to see behind the bunting again, so it should only come as a mild disappointment that there is little about the Michigan program in this book that you didn't already know.
Fourth and Long: the Fight for the Soul of College Football is four unequal looks at four 2012 Big Ten programs, or four and a half if you count a mini-treatment that Michigan State and Mark Hollis receive as host of an Ohio State road game. In order of detail:
- Penn State from the point of view of its players, former players, coaches, and equipment managers as they find themselves taking the brunt of the Penn State Awful Thing, and the NCAA's and PSU brass's callow responses to it.
- Michigan from Bacon's own point of view of its fans, as those fans interact with Brandon's corporate-itude.
- Ohio State from the P.O.V. of Urban Meyer as he goes from win to win trying to get Zach Boren to like him, and
- Northwestern as the paragon of virtue.
Bacon set out, as is evident from the title and made clear throughout the book, to examine these four schools from different points of view (players, AD, head coach, and president, respectively), and use the findings to determine if any of the Big Ten's current models for college football are sustainable for college football in general. In it he consistently finds players and fans who "get it" while the people in control seek new and better ways to milk it.
But he could only use what he got from each school. With Ohio State the access was mostly restricted to Urban on game days. He brushes against tatgate but doesn't get into the cars or any other "everybody knows, nobody can prove" things—you have to appreciate that Bacon will never accuse somebody without proof (especially considering he's an avowed Michigan fan talking about Ohio State) but it's really hard to talk about college sports and the competitive problems therein without admitting there are relative bad guys. The Gee quote—"I hope he doesn't fire me!"—is in there in reference to the bloated role of college football head coach in America. The closest he comes to pointing out OSU's exceptionalism in this regard is when addressing the carrying off of Tressel after last year's Game:
"The Buckeyes do not run a renegade program, but they once again demonstrated they don't seem to care if their actions make others think they do."
This isn't a complaint; Bacon handled a sticky situation about as well as he could. With Northwestern he got some key interviews, particularly with Pat Fitzgerald, but no warts (this could be because they don't have any).
With Michigan Bacon was outside looking in, so he used some of the Bacon-usual suspects—Carty, the dueling barbershops, the public comments of James Duderstadt and Don Canham, Brian Cook of MGoBlog, etc. There's also an inside look at the Mud Bowl, and most interestingly, a candid interview with Michigan's band director about Send-the-Band-to-Dallas-gate. I was more intrigued by the comments made by Bill Martin on the corporatization of NCAA football, which I'll come back to. The whole Notre Dame saga is covered. Except for the band's comments most of this is old news to you.
The result is a book that's 52% about Penn State trying to survive 2012, with a bunch of stuff thrown in about some other schools and corporations to underscore a point made clear without leaving Happy Valley.
[After the jump: it's just, like, my opinion man.]
If These Walls Could Talk – Jon Falk's New Book is Out
hot off the presses
What It's Like
Excerpt time. There is only one sport in the world with a dogged devotion to the regular season comparable to that of college football: the other football. Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's peerless book about fandom and the other football. This is as close a comparison I can find to what will transpire Saturday: 5/26/1989.
In all the time I have been watching football, twenty-three seasons, only seven teams have won the First Division Championship: Leeds United, Everton, Arsenal, Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and, a staggering eleven times, Liverpool. Five different teams came top in my first five years, so it seemed to me then that the League was something that came your way every once in a while, even though you might have to wait for it; but as the seventies came and went, and then the eighties, it began to dawn on me that Arsenal might never win the League again in my lifetime. That isn't as melodramatic as it sounds. Wolves fans celebrating their third championship in six years in 1959 could hardly have anticipated that their team would spend much of the next thirty years in the Second and Third Divisions; Manchester City supporters in their mid-forties when the Blues last won the League in 1968 are in their early seventies now.
Like all fans, the overwhelming majority of the games I have seen have been League games. And as most of the time Arsenal have had no real interest in the First Division title after Christmas, nor ever really come close to going down, I would estimate that around half of these games are meaningless, at least in the way that sportswriters talk about meaningless games. There are no chewed nails and chewed knuckles and screwed-up faces; your ear doesn't become sort from being pressed up hard against a radio, trying to hear how Liverpool are getting on; you are not, in truth, thrown into agonies of despair or eye-popping fits of ecstasy by the result. Any meanings such games throw up are the ones that you, rather than the First Division table, bring to them.
And after maybe ten years of this, the Championship becomes something you either believe in your you don't, like God. You concede that it's possible, of course, and you try to respect the views of those who have managed to remain credulous. Between approximately 1975 and 1989 I didn't believe. I hoped, at the beginning of each season; and a couple of times -- the middle of the 86/87 season, for example, when we were top for eight or nine weeks -- I was almost lured out of my agnostic's cave. But in my heart of hearts I knew that it would never happen, just as I knew that they were not, as I used to think when I was young, going to find a cure for death before I got old.
In 1989, eighteen years after the last time Arsenal had won the League, I reluctantly and foolishly allowed myself to believe it was indeed possible that Arsenal could win the Championship. They were top of the First Division between January and May; on the last full weekend of the Hillsborough-elongated season they were five points clear of Liverpool with three games left to play. Liverpool had a game in hand, but the accepted wisdom was that Hillsborough and its attendant strains would make it impossible for them to keep winning, and two of Arsenal's three game were at home to weaker teams. The other was against Liverpool, away, a game that would conclude the First Division series.
No sooner had I become a born-again member of the Church of the Latterday Championship Believers, however, than Arsenal ground to a catastrophic halt. They lost, dismally, at home to Derby; and in the final game at Highbury, against Wimbledon, they twice threw away the lead to draw 2-2 against a team they had destroyed 5-1 on the opening day of the season. It was after the Derby game that I raged into an argument with my partner about a cup of tea, but after the Wimbledon game I had no rage left, just a numbing disappointment. For the first time I understood the women in soap operas who have been crushed by love affairs before, and can't allow themselves to fall for somebody again: I had never before seen all that as a matter of choice, but now I too had left myself nakedly exposed when I could have remained hard and cynical. I wouldn't allow it to happen again, never, ever, and I had been a fool, I knew that now, just as I knew it would take me years to recover from the terrible disappointment of getting so close and failing.
It wasn't quite all over. Liverpool had two games left, against West Ham and against us, both at Anfield. Because the two teams were so close, the mathematics of it all were peculiarly complicated: whatever score Liverpool beat West Ham by, Arsenal had to halve. If Liverpool won 2-0, we would have to win 1-0, and so on. In the event Liverpool won 5-1, which meant that we needed a two-goal victory; "YOU HAVEN'T GOT A PRAYER, ARSENAL", was the back-page headline of the Daily Mirror.


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A word line driver circuit (10) is coupled to word lines (18) of a memory matrix, for example a matrix of content addressable cells (12). The word line driver circuit is capable of selecting a plurality of word lines simultaneously to permit writing into memory cells in a plurality of rows via the same bit line simultaneously. Cell strength control circuitry (17) reduces a drive strength required to write data into the cells, relative to a drive strength of the bit line driver circuits (15), at least during writing data into memory cells in a plurality of rows of memory cells. Preferably, the drive strength control circuitry (17) contain a resistive element in the power supply lines of the memory cells in a column, so that the supply voltage of the cells in the column is increasingly reduced when more current is drawn during writing of more cells simultaneously.
1. A device with a memory, the device comprising
a matrix of static memory cells functionally arranged in rows and columns;
bit line circuits, each for writing data to memory cells in a respective one of the columns;
a word line circuit constructed so that the word line circuit is capable of selecting memory cells in a plurality of the rows simultaneously to receive write data from the bit line driver circuits;
cell strength control circuitry coupled to the cells and arranged to reduce drive strengths required to write data into individual ones of the memory cells, relative to a drive strength of the bit line circuits, at least during simultaneous writing of data into the memory cells in a plurality of the rows.
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The invention relates to a device with a memory.
A semi-conductor memory is conventionally constructed using a matrix of memory cells that are arranged in rows and columns. Word line circuits and bit line circuits are provided for the rows and columns respectively. The word line circuit for a row comprises a word line to which selection inputs of the cells in the row are coupled in common. The bit line circuit for a column comprises a bit line to which data input/outputs of the cells in the column are coupled in parallel. During operation, one row is selected at a time via the word lines, making it possible to read data from, or write data to, the cells in the selected row via the bit lines.
In some memories is desirable to select a plurality of the rows at the same time, for writing the same data to the cells in that plurality of the rows in parallel. This is the case for example for content addressable memories (CAM's; also called associative memories). In such memories it is possible to supply pattern data and to detect in which of the rows the memory cells contain data that matches the pattern data. It is desirable to be able to write to the cells in all of the detected rows in parallel. For this purpose, the word line circuit comprises a word line driver arrangement that is capable of selecting the wordlines of the rows that have been detected to contain matching data Preferably all rows with matching data are selected simultaneously. This may lead to selection of a large number of wordlines in parallel. Similarly, in other types of memory it may be desirable to reset, preset or initialise the content of the cells in several rows simultaneously, by making the word line driver select more than one row simultaneously.
However, when a plurality of rows is selected simultaneously, a problem occurs with driving of the bit lines during writing. The bit line circuits contain bit-line driver circuits, which provide the data that must be written into the memory cells in the selected rows. The bit line driver circuits may have to drive a number of memory cells from different selected rows simultaneously. If the memory matrix has, say, 64 rows, it may be necessary to drive up to 64 cells to a new logic state simultaneously. This requires an excessively strong bit line driver circuit, which can make such a memory complex and expensive to manufacture. Moreover, such a strong driver circuit would lead to excessive power dissipation.
Among others, it is an object of the invention to provide for a device with a memory matrix in which it is possible to write into cells in a plurality of rows simultaneously via the same bit line, without requiring an excessively strong bit-line driver circuit.
The device according to the invention is set forth in claim 1. According to the invention the required drive strengths that are required to store information in individual memory cells are reduced temporarily at least for all of those cells in a column into which data has to be written into simultaneously and at least when that data has to be written into the cells.
In an embodiment, the required drive strength is reduced by reducing the power supply voltage supplied at the power supply inputs of the cells in the column during writing. This is a simple and effective technique that does not require redesign of the memory cells.
In a further embodiment the power supply voltage is reduced by including a resistive element between an external power supply line and a power supply line that connects the power supply inputs of the cells. This ensures that the power supply voltage is automatically reduced more when data has to be overwritten in more cells, so that the required drive strength is adapted to the number of cells that has to be overwritten.
Preferably, separate power supply reduction circuits are provided for respective ones of the columns. Thus, the power supply reduction in each column is automatically adapted to the number of cells in the column in which data has to be changed. This avoids an unnecessary increase in the risk of changes in data in unselected cells.
Preferably the supply voltage of the bit line drivers is reduced in the same way as the supply voltage of the memory cells. This removes risk of damage to the cells during writing.
These and other objects and advantageous aspects of the device according to the invention will be described in more detail using the following figures.
A power supply line (Vdd) provides one pole of a power supply of matrix 1. For each column a power supply reduction circuit 17 is present, which is coupled between the power supply line (Vdd) on one hand and power supply inputs of cells 12 on the other hand. Power supply inputs of bit line drivers 15 of each column are coupled to the power supply reduction circuit of the column on the side of cells 12. In general cells 12 and bit line drivers 15 will also be coupled to other power supply connections (not shown for the sake of clarity, so that they operate powered by a voltage difference between the different power supply connections.
In operation processing circuit 5 performs a processing function that involves reading data from cells 12 and/or writing data to cells 12
The invention is illustrated for content based addressing. Although the principle of content based addressing is known per se and is not essential for understanding the invention, it will be explained briefly. For the purpose of content based addressing processing circuit 5 supplies an information pattern to memory cells 12 via the match pattern lines 6 b. The information pattern is made up of a number of different bits, each applied to a different one of the match pattern lines 6 b. The information pattern indicates which of the rows of cells 12 should be accessed: a row should be accessed when the content of the memory cells 12 in the row matches the information patter. In response to the information pattern flag signals are generated on flag lines 7 b, by the memory cells 12 in the rows. The flag signals of the rows in which the content of the memory cells matches the information pattern assume one logical level and the flag signals of the other rows assume another logic level. In case of a write operation processing circuit 5 supplements the information pattern with write data and write circuit 3 applies this write data to bit lines 6 a. Word line driver 2 selects the rows for which the flag signals indicated a match. As a result, the write data is stored in the memory cells 12 of those rows that contained matching data. Depending on the content of the memory cells and the information pattern the write data may have to be written into the memory cells of more than one row.
What is important for the invention is that content based addressing illustrates an application wherein at some stage during operation processing circuit 5 supplies data that may have to be copied to cells 12 in more than one of the rows. The number of rows into which data must be copied may not be known in advance (this is generally the case with content based addressing).
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The power supply voltage that is applied to bit line drivers 15 is reduced at the same time when the power supply voltage of the cells 12 is reduced, so as to ensure that the output voltage of the bit line drivers 15 does not exceed the power supply voltage of the cells 12. This prevents damage to the cells 12. Of course, when there is no risk of damage, the bit line drivers 15 may be supplied with power directly, i.e. not via the power supply reduction circuit 17 of the cells 12 in matrix 1.
The power supply reduction circuits 17 are preferably implemented as resistive elements (for example resistors or transistors functioning as resistors).
As a result the reduction in power supply voltage across cells 12 will increase as more current is drawn by the bit line drivers 15 and/or the cells 12 of a column. Thus, the reduction in power supply voltage is automatically adapted to the number of cells 12 in the column in which data has to be changed. Because separate power supply reduction circuits 17 are provided for each of the columns, the reduction in each column is adapted separately, according to the number of cells 12 in the column whose content has to be changed. Of course, a single power supply reduction circuit may be used for matrix 1 as a whole, or respective power supply reduction circuits may be used each time for a respective group of more than one column. In this case the supply voltage will also be reduced, making it possible to overwrite data, but this reduction would have to be more than necessary, with an increased risk that data in unselected cells 12 would be disturbed. By using separate power supply reduction circuits 17 for different groups of columns and preferably for different columns this risk is reduced.
In parallel with the resistive element, such as transistor 40, a short circuit switch (not shown, e.g. a further transistor) may be included. In this case, this switch may be controlled dependent on the access mode: during reading the circuit makes the switch conductive, so that the voltage drop across the resistive element is short circuited, whereas during writing and in any case during content based writing, when more than one row may be selected, the circuit makes the switch non-conductive so that a voltage drop develops when current is consumed to change over the content of the memory cells.
Instead of resistive elements other circuits may be used to implement power supply reduction circuit 17. For example an selectable voltage reduction circuit may be used, which receives a selection signal when data has to be written into cells 12 of matrix 1 and responds to the selection signal by increasing a voltage drop between the common supply line Vdd and the supply lines of cells 12. (An example of a selectable voltage reduction circuit is a source follower circuit that follows the selection signal). Preferably, in this case the amount of voltage reduction is adapted dependent on the number of selected rows, e.g. by supplying information derived from the flag lines to the selectable voltage reduction circuit. In this way the risk of a change of content of unselected cells is reduced. However, it will be appreciated that the use of a resistive element for this purpose is much less complex, and moreover makes it possible to adapt to the number of cells 12 in which data actually has to be overwritten, rather than the number of rows of cells 12 that is selected. Furthermore, a simple resistive element more easily fits into the column pitch defined by size of the memory cells transverse to the column direction of matrix 1.
Matching part 20 contains two branches, each with a series connection of channels of a first NMOS transistor 200, 206 and a second NMOS transistor 202, 204, the series connections being connected in parallel between the flag line 19 of the row of the matrix to which the cell belongs and one of the power supply connections 26. In each branch the first transistor 200, 206 has its gate coupled to a respective output node 221, 225 of the storage part and the second transistor 202, 204 has its gate connected to match a respective match pattern line 13 of the column to which the cell belongs.
In operation, static storage part 22 stores information in a conventional way, retaining data driven by the inverters. Match part pulls the potential of flag line 19 towards the potential of power supply line 26 when the data that is stored in memory part 20 corresponds to a bit pattern supplied on match pattern lines 13.
In more detail, the information pattern from processing circuit 5 determines the voltage applied to match pattern lines 13. Dependent on the content of the cell that is searched for, a high potential (sufficient to make the channel of one of the second transistors 202, 204 conductive) is applied to either a first one or a second one of the match pattern lines 13. The other match pattern line is kept at a low potential (sufficient to make the channel of the other second transistor 202, 204 non-conductive). If processing circuit 5 indicates that the content of the cell should not be considered during matching the potential of both match pattern lines 13 is kept low.
When both match pattern lines 13 are at a low potential neither one of the branches conducts and any voltage on flag line 19 is unaffected. When a match bit is applied to match pattern lines 13 the voltage of one of the match pattern lines 13 is raised (the required pattern determining of which match pattern line the voltage is raised). As a result the channel of the second transistor 202, 204 in one of the branches becomes conductive. Dependent on the data stored in storage part 22, the channel of the first transistor 200, 206 of the same branch may also become conductive. If so, that branch as a whole becomes conductive pulls the voltage of the flag line towards the potential of supply terminal 26.
Flag line 19 may be precharged for example and subsequently word line driver 10 detects whether flag line is discharged. This is the case when any of the cells in a row that does not receive low potentials on both match pattern lines contains data that deviates from a required bit value. Word line driver 10 uses the result of detection to determine whether the potential of word line 18 is raised. Thus, for example, the potential may be raised on the word lines 18 of all rows that did not discharge the flag line 19. (This may be realized for example by including a precharge circuit with switches (not shown) for respective ones of the rows and storage elements (not shown) for respective ones of the rows in the word line driver, the word line driver being clocked so that in a first clock phase the switches couple the flag lines to a precharge voltage source, the flag lines being left to float at the mercy of the cells in a second clock phase, the storage elements copying flag signals from the flag lines at the end of the second clock phase, the storage elements supplying a copy of the flag signal to the word lines in a third clock phase). During writing the potential of word lines 18 of all such rows may be raised at the same time by word line driver 10.
When the potential of word line 18 is raised the channels of pass transistors 228, 229 become conductive. During writing data driven onto bit lines 14 a,b thus reaches the output nodes 221, 225 of the inverters. This forces the storage part to assume a state determined by the data that is driven onto bit lines 14 a,b. When the data has to change, bit-line drivers 15 drive the potential of the output nodes 221, 225 against the inverters made up of transistors 220, 222, 224, 226.
The invention makes use of the fact that the strength with which the inverters (transistors 220, 222, 224, 226) drive the output nodes 221, 225 decreases with decreasing supply voltage across power supply terminals 24, 26 of storage part 22. In the extreme that the power supply voltage drops to a level near the threshold voltage of the transistors of transistors 220, 222, 224, 226. In this case, the transistors 220, 222, 224, 226 hardly conduct and the output nodes become little more than capacitive storage nodes. But also when some current can flow through the transistors 220, 222, 224, 226 the lowered gate source voltage reduces the drive strength of the transistors 220, 222, 224, 226. This means that driver circuits 15 need to supply less current to overturn the data in the storage part 22. This in turn means that the same driver circuits can overturn data in the storage parts 22 of more cells simultaneously.
The voltage drop across power supply reduction circuit 17 increases as the current drawn by the memory cells from different rows and the bit-line driver circuit increases. In the extreme it will increase to a point where little more than a threshold voltage remains across the power supply inputs of the memory cells, so that the power supply current through the memory cells nearly vanishes. The precise resistance value of the resistive element in power supply reduction circuit 17 is does not affect for this effect, as long as it is sufficiently large to cause a voltage drop to near the threshold voltage at least temporarily when the content of a large number of the memory cells has to be changed simultaneously. Also for other types of voltage reduction, a reduction to near the threshold voltage is more than sufficient.
Although the invention has been illustrated using one type of static memory cell, other types of static memory cells may be used, for example cells in which one transistor in each inverter in storage part 22 is replaced by a resistive element, or with inverters that contain the channels of more than two transistors in series.
In operation, during writing the write circuit drives inputs Wa, Wb with mutually opposite logical levels, so that one of PMOS transistor 30 and NMOS transistor 32 becomes conductive. Write circuit 3 derives the highest of these levels from Vdd, this highest level is unaffected by the voltage drop across the power supply reduction circuit 17. The bit-line drivers 15 that drive the bit-lines 14 a,b of the same column receive mutually opposite input signals at their inputs Wa, Wb, so that one bit line driver 15 makes its bit line 14 a,b logic high and the other makes its bit line logic low. When no writing is required the circuit controls the voltage at the inputs Wa, Wb so that both PMOS transistor 30 and NMOS transistor 32 remain non-conductive.
Usually, when two bit-lines 14 a,b are used to write to the memory cell via NMOS pass transistors 228, 229, it is the bit line 14 a, b that carries the lowest voltage which causes the content of the cell to change. The voltage at the other bit line 14 a,b does not make its corresponding pass transistor 228, 229 conductive. Hence, it is the pull down transistor 32 of the bit line driver 15 of the bit line 14 a,b with the lowest voltage that drives the cell 12 to a different state. The gate voltage of this pull down transistor 32 is not affected by the voltage drop across power supply reduction circuit 17. Therefore, the relevant drive strength of bit-line driver 15 is not affected by the voltage drop, whereas the relevant drive strength of the memory cells is affected. The same strength of bit line driver 15 is capable of driving a change of data in more than one cell simultaneously, because the current supply capacity of these memory cells is reduced by the voltage drop over power supply reduction circuit 17 during simultaneous writing. Of course the same effect pertain even when the drive strength of bit line driver is reduced during simultaneous writing, as long as the drive strength is reduced less than the required drive strength that is needed per memory cell 12.
The invention has been described in terms of a content addressable memory, in which data can be written to cells in a plurality of rows simultaneously, for which it is particularly useful since the number of such rows is generally data dependent. However, it should be understood that invention applies as well to other types of memory wherein it is desired to write data to cells in a plurality of rows simultaneously. For example to memories that permit reset or preset of the data in the entire memory or in groups of more than one row.
Although the invention has been illustrated in terms of power supply reduction circuits 17, which reduce the drive strength that is needed to change the data stored in memory cells 12, it will be understood that other means to reduce the drive strength that is needed to overturn data in the cells may be used. For example, additional transistors (not shown) may be included in storage part 20 to reduce the required drive strength. Such transistors may for example bring the inverters in storage part 22 in a relatively higher impedance output state (tri state circuit) during writing, or may increase the impedance between the gates of transistors 220, 222, 224, 226 and the output nodes 221, 225 during writing, the pass transistors being coupled to the gates of transistors 220, 222, 224, 226. In this case a write select output should be coupled to such additional transistors, for example to their gates, to increase the impedance during writing, at least in the cells of the rows that are selected with the word lines. However, this requires more complex memory cells, which makes the memory matrix larger, which may be a problem. Use of a reduction of the power supply voltage of the cells avoids this problem.
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