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Intel AVX-512 Expanded
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | July 19, 2014 - 03:05 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Xeon Phi, xeon, Intel, avx-512, avx
It is difficult to know what is actually new information in this Intel blog post, but it is interesting none-the-less. Its topic is the AVX-512 extension to x86, designed for Xeon and Xeon Phi processors and co-processors. Basically, last year, Intel announced "Foundation", the minimum support level for AVX-512, as well as Conflict Detection, Exponential and Reciprocal, and Prefetch, which are optional. This, earlier blog post was very much focused on Xeon Phi, but it acknowledged that the instructions will make their way to standard, CPU-like Xeons at around the same time.
This year's blog post brings in a bit more information, especially for common Xeons. While all AVX-512-supporting processors (and co-processors) will support "AVX-512 Foundation", the instruction set extensions are a bit more scattered.
Xeon Phi
Xeon Phi
Coprocessors (AIBs)
|Foundation Instructions
|Conflict Detection Instructions
|Exponential and Reciprocal Instructions
|Prefetch Instructions
|Byte and Word Instructions
|Doubleword and Quadword Instructions
|Vector Length Extensions
Source: Intel AVX-512 Blog Post (and my understanding thereof).
So why do we care? Simply put: speed. Vectorization, the purpose of AVX-512, has similar benefits to multiple cores. It is not as flexible as having multiple, unique, independent cores, but it is easier to implement (and works just fine with having multiple cores, too). For an example: imagine that you have to multiply two colors together. The direct way to do it is multiply red with red, green with green, blue with blue, and alpha with alpha. AMD's 3DNow! and, later, Intel's SSE included instructions to multiply two, four-component vectors together. This reduces four similar instructions into a single operating between wider registers.
Smart compilers (and programmers, although that is becoming less common as compilers are pretty good, especially when they are not fighting developers) are able to pack seemingly unrelated data together, too, if they undergo similar instructions. AVX-512 allows for sixteen 32-bit pieces of data to be worked on at the same time. If your pixel only has four, single-precision RGBA data values, but you are looping through 2 million pixels, do four pixels at a time (16 components).
For the record, I basically just described "SIMD" (single instruction, multiple data) as a whole.
This theory is part of how GPUs became so powerful at certain tasks. They are capable of pushing a lot of data because they can exploit similarities. If your task is full of similar problems, they can just churn through tonnes of data. CPUs have been doing these tricks, too, just without compromising what they do well.
Intel Earnings Report (Q2 2014)
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Mobile | July 16, 2014 - 03:37 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: quarterly results, quarterly earnings, quarterly, Intel, earnings
Another fiscal quarter brings another Intel earnings report. Once again, they are doing well for themselves as a whole but are struggling to gain a foothold in mobile. In three months, they sold 8.7 billion dollars in PC hardware, of which 3.7 billion was profit. Its mobile division, on the other hand, brought in 51 million USD in revenue, losing 1.1 billion dollars for their efforts. In all, the company is profitable -- by about 3.84 billion USD.
One interesting metric which Intel adds to their chart, and I have yet to notice another company listing this information so prominently, is their number of employees, compared between quarters. Last year, Intel employed about 106,000 people, which increased to 106,300 two quarters ago. Between two quarters ago and this last quarter, that number dropped by 1400, to 104,900 employees, which was about 1.3% of their total workforce. There does not seem to be a reason for this decline (except for Richard Huddy, we know that he went to AMD).
Image Credit: Anandtech
As a final note, Anandtech, when reporting on this story, added a few historical trends near the end. One which caught my attention was the process technology vs. quarter graph, demonstrating their smallest transistor size over the last thirteen-and-a-bit years. We are still slowly approaching 0nm, following an exponential curve as it approaches its asymptote. The width, however, is still fairly regular. It looks like it is getting slightly longer, but not drastically (minus the optical illusion caused by the smaller drops).
The Third x86-based SoC Player: VIA & Centaur's Isaiah II
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Mobile | July 11, 2014 - 04:58 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: x86, VIA, isaiah II, Intel, centaur, arm, amd
There might be a third, x86-compatible processor manufacturer who is looking at the mobile market. Intel has been trying to make headway, including the direct development of Android for the x86 architecture. The company also has a few design wins, mostly with Windows 8.1-based tablets but also the occasional Android-based models. Google is rumored to be preparing the "Nexus 8" tablet with one of Intel's Moorefield SoCs. AMD, the second-largest x86 processor manufacturer, is aiming their Mullins platform at tablets and two-in-ones, but cannot afford to play snowplow, at least not like Intel.
VIA, through their Centaur Technology division, is expected to announce their own x86-based SoC, too. Called Isaiah II, it is rumored to be a quad core, 64-bit processor with a maximum clock rate of 2.0 GHz. Its GPU is currently unknown. VIA sold their stake S3 Graphics to HTC back in 2011, who then became majority shareholder over the GPU company. That said, HTC and VIA are very close companies. The chairwoman of HTC is the founder of VIA Technologies. The current President and CEO of VIA, who has been in that position since 1992, is her husband. I expect that the GPU architecture will be provided by S3, or will somehow be based on their technology. I could be wrong. Both companies will obviously do what they think is best.
It would make sense, though, especially if it benefits HTC with cheap but effective SoCs for Android and "full" Windows (not Windows RT) devices.
Or this announcement could be larger than it would appear. Three years ago, VIA filed for a patent which described a processor that can read both x86 and ARM machine language and translate it into its own, internal microinstructions. The Centaur Isaiah II could reasonably be based on that technology. If so, this processor would be able to support either version of Android. Or, after Intel built up the Android x86 code base, maybe they shelved that initiative (or just got that patent for legal reasons).
But what about Intel? Honestly, I see this being a benefit for the behemoth. Extra x86-based vendors will probably grow the overall market share, compared to ARM, by helping with software support. Even if it is compatible with both ARM and x86, what Intel needs right now is software. They can only write so much of it themselves. It is possible that VIA, being the original netbook processor, could disrupt the PC market with both x86 and ARM compatibility, but I doubt it.
Centaur Technology, the relevant division of VIA, will make their announcement in less than 51 days.
Fully Enabling the A10-7850K while Utilizing a Standalone GPU
Subject: Processors | July 9, 2014 - 05:42 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: nvidia, msi, Luxmark, Lightning, hsa, GTX 580, GCN, APU, amd, A88X, A10-7850K
When I first read many of the initial AMD A10 7850K reviews, my primary question was how would the APU act if there was a different GPU installed on the system and did not utilize the CrossFire X functionality that AMD talked about. Typically when a user installs a standalone graphics card on the AMD FM2/FM2+ platform, they disable the graphics portion of the APU. They also have to uninstall the AMD Catalyst driver suite. So this then leaves the APU as a CPU only, and all of that graphics silicon is left silent and dark.
Who in their right mind would pair a high end graphics card with the A10-7850K? This guy!
Does this need to be the case? Absolutely not! The GCN based graphics unit on the latest Kaveri APUs is pretty powerful when used in GPGPU/OpenCL applications. The 4 cores/2 modules and 8 GCN cores can push out around 856 GFlops when fully utilized. We also must consider that the APU is the first fully compliant HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) chip, and it handles memory accesses much more efficiently than standalone GPUs. The shared memory space with the CPU gets rid of a lot of the workarounds typically needed for GPGPU type applications. It makes sense that users would want to leverage the performance potential of a fully functioning APU while upgrading their overall graphics performance with a higher end standalone GPU.
To get this to work is very simple. Assuming that the user has been using the APU as their primary graphics controller, they should update to the latest Catalyst drivers. If the user is going to use an AMD card, then it would behoove them to totally uninstall the Catalyst driver and re-install only after the new card is installed. After this is completed restart the machine, go into the UEFI, and change the primary video boot device to PEG (PCI-Express Graphics) from the integrated unit. Save the setting and shut down the machine. Insert the new video card and attach the monitor cable(s) to it. Boot the machine and either re-install the Catalyst suite if an AMD card is used, or install the latest NVIDIA drivers if that is the graphics choice.
Windows 7 and Windows 8 allow users to install multiple graphics drivers from different vendors. In my case I utilized a last generation GTX 580 (the MSI N580GTX Lightning) along with the AMD A10 7850K. These products coexist happily together on the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming motherboard. The monitor is attached to the NVIDIA card and all games are routed through that since it is the primary graphics adapter. Performance seems unaffected with both drivers active.
I find it interesting that the GPU portion of the APU is named "Spectre". Who owns those 3dfx trademarks anymore?
When I load up Luxmark I see three entries: the APU (CPU and GPU portions), the GPU portion of the APU, and then the GTX 580. Luxmark defaults to the GPUs. We see these GPUs listed as "Spectre", which is the GCN portion of the APU, and the NVIDIA GTX 580. Spectre supports OpenCL 1.2 while the GTX 580 is an OpenCL 1.1 compliant part.
With both GPUs active I can successfully run the Luxmark "Sala" test. The two units perform better together than when they are run separately. Adding in the CPU does increase the score, but not by very much (my guess here is that the APU is going to be very memory bandwidth bound in such a situation). Below we can see the results of the different units separate and together.
These results make me hopeful about the potential of AMD's latest APU. It can run side by side with a standalone card, and applications can leverage the performance of this unit. Now all we need is more HSA aware software. More time and more testing is needed for setups such as this, and we need to see if HSA enabled software really does see a boost from using the GPU portion of the APU as compared to a pure CPU piece of software or code that will run on the standalone GPU.
Personally I find the idea of a heterogeneous solution such as this appealing. The standalone graphics card handles the actual graphics portions, the CPU handles that code, and the HSA software can then fully utilize the graphics portion of the APU in a very efficient manner. Unfortunately, we do not have hard numbers on the handful of HSA aware applications out there, especially when used in conjunction with standalone graphics. We know in theory that this can work (and should work), but until developers get out there and really optimize their code for such a solution, we simply do not know if having an APU will really net the user big gains as compared to something like the i7 4770 or 4790 running pure x86 code.
In the meantime, at least we know that these products work together without issue. The mixed mode OpenCL results make a nice case for improving overall performance in such a system. I would imagine with more time and more effort from developers, we could see some really interesting implementations that will fully utilize a system such as this one. Until then, happy experimenting!
Celeron II: The Second Coming
Subject: Processors | July 8, 2014 - 07:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: intel atom, Pentium G3258, overclocking
Technically it is an Anniversary Edition Pentium processor but it reminds those of us who have been in the game a long time of the old Celeron D's which cost very little and overclocked like mad! The Pentium G3258 is well under $100 but the stock speed of 3.2GHz is only a recommendation as this processor is just begging to be overclocked. The Tech Report coaxed it up to 4.8GHz on air cooling, 100MHz higher than the i7-4790K they tested. A processor that costs about 20% of the price of the 4790K can almost meet its performance in Crysis 3 without resorting to even high end watercooling should make any gamer on a budget sit up an take notice. Sure you lose the extra cores and other features of the flagship processor but if you are primarily a gamer these are not your focus, you simply want the fastest processor you can get at a reasonable amount of money. Stay tuned for more information about the Anniversary Edition Pentium as there are more benchmarks to be run!
"This new Pentium is an unlocked dual-core CPU based on the latest 22-nm Haswell silicon. I ran out and picked one up as soon as they went on sale last week. The list price is only 72 bucks, but Micro Center had them on sale for $60. In other words, you can get a processor that will quite possibly run at clock speeds north of 4GHz—with all the per-clock throughput of Intel's very latest CPU core—for the price of a new Call of Shooty game.
Also, ours overclocks like a Swiss watchmaker on meth."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel Pentium G3258 Dual Core Processor Gaming Performance @ Legit Reviews
- Intel Pentium G3258 Processor Review @ Legit Reviews
- Intel Core i7 4790K @ eTeknix
- Devil's Canyon Intel Core i7-4790K @ Legion Hardware
- Overclocking the Core i7-4790K @ The Tech Report
When Magma Freezes Over...
Intel confirms that they have approached AMD about access to their Mantle API. The discussion, despite being clearly labeled as "an experiment" by an Intel spokesperson, was initiated by them -- not AMD. According to AMD's Gaming Scientist, Richard Huddy, via PCWorld, AMD's response was, "Give us a month or two" and "we'll go into the 1.0 phase sometime this year" which only has about five months left in it. When the API reaches 1.0, anyone who wants to participate (including hardware vendors) will be granted access.
AMD inside Intel Inside???
I do wonder why Intel would care, though. Intel has the fastest per-thread processors, and their GPUs are not known to be workhorses that are held back by API call bottlenecks, either. Of course, that is not to say that I cannot see any reason, however...
Read on to see why, I think, Intel might be interested and what this means for the industry.
Intel's Knights Landing (Xeon Phi, 2015) Details
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | July 2, 2014 - 03:55 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, Xeon Phi, xeon, silvermont, 14nm
Anandtech has just published a large editorial detailing Intel's Knights Landing. Mostly, it is stuff that we already knew from previous announcements and leaks, such as one by VR-Zone from last November (which we reported on). Officially, few details were given back then, except that it would be available as either a PCIe-based add-in board or as a socketed, bootable, x86-compatible processor based on the Silvermont architecture. Its many cores, threads, and 512 bit registers are each pretty weak, compared to Haswell, for instance, but combine to about 3 TFLOPs of double precision performance.
Not enough graphs. Could use another 256...
The best way to imagine it is running a PC with a modern, Silvermont-based Atom processor -- only with up to 288 processors listed in your Task Manager (72 actual cores with quad HyperThreading).
The main limitation of GPUs (and similar coprocessors), however, is memory bandwidth. GDDR5 is often the main bottleneck of compute performance and just about the first thing to be optimized. To compensate, Intel is packaging up-to 16GB of memory (stacked DRAM) on the chip, itself. This RAM is based on "Hybrid Memory Cube" (HMC), developed by Micron Technology, and supported by the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC). While the actual memory used in Knights Landing is derived from HMC, it uses a proprietary interface that is customized for Knights Landing. Its bandwidth is rated at around 500GB/s. For comparison, the NVIDIA GeForce Titan Black has 336.4GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Intel and Micron have worked together in the past. In 2006, the two companies formed "IM Flash" to produce the NAND flash for Intel and Crucial SSDs. Crucial is Micron's consumer-facing brand.
So the vision for Knights Landing seems to be the bridge between CPU-like architectures and GPU-like ones. For compute tasks, GPUs edge out CPUs by crunching through bundles of similar tasks at the same time, across many (hundreds of, thousands of) computing units. The difference with (at least socketed) Xeon Phi processors is that, unlike most GPUs, Intel does not rely upon APIs, such as OpenCL, and drivers to translate a handful of functions into bundles of GPU-specific machine language. Instead, especially if the Xeon Phi is your system's main processor, it will run standard, x86-based software. The software will just run slowly, unless it is capable of vectorizing itself and splitting across multiple threads. Obviously, OpenCL (and other APIs) would make this parallelization easy, by their host/kernel design, but it is apparently not required.
It is a cool way that Intel arrives at the same goal, based on their background. Especially when you mix-and-match Xeons and Xeon Phis on the same computer, it is a push toward heterogeneous computing -- with a lot of specialized threads backing up a handful of strong ones. I just wonder if providing a more-direct method of programming will really help developers finally adopt massively parallel coding practices.
I mean, without even considering GPU compute, how efficient is most software at splitting into even two threads? Four threads? Eight threads? Can this help drive heterogeneous development? Or will this product simply try to appeal to those who are already considering it?
The renewed FX-9590, still up to 5GHz
Subject: Processors | June 23, 2014 - 04:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, fx 9590, vishera
Hardware Canucks have just let out AMD's secret on a new take on a Vishera processor, the FX-9590 which will come with a Cooler Master Seidon 120 AIO LCS which will add $40 to the original $320 price tag. The base clock of the 8 CPUs will still be 4.7GHz, 5GHz boost buit with the TDP of 219W the watercooler should allow the boost clock to be maintained longer. If you ever planned on overclocking the FX-9590 but never picked it up because of the challenge of cooling it, then here is your chance.
"It all started with a tweet. AMD teased an unnamed new FX-series chip on Twitter and we've got the inside track. It's a refreshed 5GHz FX-9590 with an included water cooling unit."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD A10-7850K (Kaveri) @ Bjorn3d
- Intel Core i7 4790K Devil's Canyon Overclocking @ Kitguru
- Intel Core i7 4790K: Devil's Canyon Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux @ Phoronix
- Intel Fourth Generation Core i7 4790K Review @ OCC
- Intel Devil's Canyon i7-4790K Performance Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Intel Core i7-4790 (Haswell Refresh) @ techPowerUp
- Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Processor Review @ Legit Reviews
- ntel Pentium 20th Anniversary Edition G3258 CPU Review @ Madshrimps
Qualcomm Focuses on Android Gaming, Snapdragon Benefits to Gamers, Developers
Subject: Processors, Mobile | June 23, 2014 - 01:08 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: snapdragon, qualcomm, gaming, Android, adreno
Today Qualcomm has published a 22-page white paper that keys in on the company's focus around Android gaming and the benefits that Qualcomm SoCs offer. As the dominant SoC vendor in the Android ecosystem of smartphones, tablets and handhelds (shipping more than 32% in Q2 of 2013) QC is able to offer a unique combination of solutions to both developers and gamers that push Android gaming into higher fidelity with more robust game play.
According to the white paper, Android gaming is the fastest growing segment of the gaming market with a 30% compound annual growth rate from 2013 to 2015, as projected by Gartner. Experiences for mobile games have drastically improved since Android was released in 2008 with developers like Epic Games and the Unreal Engine pushing visuals to near-console and near-PC qualities.
Qualcomm is taking a heterogeneous approach to address the requirements of gaming that include AI execution, physics simulation, animation, low latency input and high speed network connectivity in addition to high quality graphics and 3D rendering. Though not directly a part of the HSA standards still in development, the many specialized engines that Qualcomm has developed for its Snapdragon SoC processors including traditional CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, security and connectivity allow the company to create a solution that is built for Android gaming dominance.
In the white paper Qualcomm dives into the advantages that the Krait CPU architecture offers for CPU-based tasks as well as the power of the Adreno 4x series of GPUs that offer both raw performance and the flexibility to support current and future gaming APIs. All of this is done with single-digit wattage draw and a passive, fanless design and points to the huge undertaking that mobile gaming requires from an engineering and implementation perspective.
For developers, the ability to target Snapdragon architectures with a single code path that can address a scalable product stack allows for the least amount of development time and the most return on investment possible. Qualcomm continues to support the development community with tools and assistance to bring out the peak performance of Krait and Adreno to get games running on lower power parts as well as the latest and upcoming generations of SoCs in flagship devices.
It is great to see Qualcomm focus on this aspect of the mobile market and the challenges presented by it require strong dedication from these engineering teams. Being able to create compelling gaming experiences with high quality imagery while maintaining the required power envelope is a task that many other company's have struggled with.
Check out the new landing page over at Qualcomm if you are interested in more technical information as well as direct access to the white paper detailing the work Qualcomm is putting into its Snapdragon line of SoC for gamers.
AMD Restructures. Lisa Su Is Now COO.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors, Chipsets | June 13, 2014 - 06:45 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: x86, restructure, gpu, arm, APU, amd
According to VR-Zone, AMD has reworked their business, last Thursday, sorting each of their projects into two divisions and moving some executives around. The company is now segmented into the "Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom Business Group", and the "Computing and Graphics Business Group". The company used to be divided between "Computing Solutions", which handled CPUs, APUs, chipsets, and so forth, "Graphics and Visual Solutions", which is best known for GPUs but also contains console royalties, and "All Other", which was... everything else.
Lisa Su, former general manger of global business, has moved up to Chief Operating Officer (COO), along with other changes.
This restructure makes sense for a couple of reasons. First, it pairs some unprofitable ventures with other, highly profitable ones. AMD's graphics division has been steadily adding profitability to the company while its CPU division has been mostly losing money. Secondly, "All Other" is about a nebulous as a name can get. Instead of having three unbalanced divisions, one of which makes no sense to someone glancing at AMD's quarterly earnings reports, they should now have two, roughly equal segments.
At the very least, it should look better to an uninformed investor. Someone who does not know the company might look at the sheet and assume that, if AMD divested from everything except graphics, that the company would be profitable. If, you know, they did not know that console contracts came into their graphics division because their compute division had x86 APUs, and so forth. This setup is now more aligned to customers, not products.
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Gene Kerrigan: Going gets tough, politicians get going
While Fianna Failers prepare to jump ship, has anything changed in the past two years? Gene Kerrigan asks
Published 19/12/2010 | 05:00
On Thursday, Noel Dempsey (the Minister for Very Expensive E-voting Machines That Were Never Used) made an announcement. He announced that he would "very, very soon" make another announcement. Talk about excitement. As the hours passed, the nation spoke of little else.
I looked up the polls -- and, sure enough, it seemed like Noel's chances of re-election in Meath weren't as strong as in previous years. It seems, in fact, that Noel's chances of holding onto the seat are slightly less than my chances of winning three Olympic golds in 2012.
Imagine my surprise, next day, when Noel made his second announcement and revealed that the poll figures had nothing to do with it -- Noel just plain wants to explore the delights of retirement, at 58, on a e130,000 pension (and that, it must be said, truly is a grand pension).
Even if Noel won the seat, he had at least five years on the backbenches to look forward to. On a wage of about thirty grand less than his pension will be. So, the five years of powerlessness would cost him about e150,000. He'll be that much better off just growing roses, watching Judge Judy and making the odd phone call to Liveline.
He'll probably miss being driven around by gardai. But even if Fianna Fail get back into power (when Enda has spent five years making as much of a balls of it as the two Brians), Noel will be 63, a relic of the disastrous Cowen regime, with no guarantee of a Ministerial Merc.
Which of us, given such a choice, would opt for five more years of attending funerals, buying raffle tickets and all the other gruelling activities that backbench politicians refer to as 'work' (it involves a lot of shaking constituents' sweaty hands and murmuring "Leave it with me")?
I've always thought of Noel Dempsey as 'promising'. One day, I thought, that chap will make something of himself. In the same way, I still think of Tom Kitt TD as 'that Kitt youngfella' -- and suddenly the youngfella is 58, and he, too, is retiring. As is MJ Nolan, a TD of whom I've often thought -- well, to be honest, I had to remind myself who MJ Nolan is. I went to his website, which seems to have been last updated in the run-up to the 2007 General Election.
Anyway, neither Tom nor MJ will get pensions as big as Noel's, but they'll be getting a fair few shillings more than the rest of us -- and they don't have to wait until they're pension age. Beverley Flynn also copped out last week. Her fellow Fianna Failer, Councillor Jimmy Moloney, told the Mayo Advertiser he rejected any suggestion that she's quitting "because she is going to lose her seat". Jimmy says Bev was under terrible pressure, "trying to get someone to mind the kids". It's hell out there.
A mournful Jimmy reminds us that Bev was, within the party hierarchy, considered "ministerial material", and so she was. I don't know why, but it's true. Sean Ardagh -- also considered by many to be ministerial material -- is also taking the pension, as is ex-minister and notorious drunk driver Jim McDaid.
Watching the outflow from Fianna Fail -- and looking at those who hang on -- it's striking that the material from which cabinets are formed is not terribly impressive. It's not just that they pay themselves salaries as outrageous as their pensions. It's not just the cars and the drivers and the expenses. We might sullenly tolerate that rip-off if the political class was delivering a service anywhere close to the level of competence needed.
Yes, the builders were stupid, the banks were criminal and the regulators were careless -- but the politicians idolised the builders, deferred to the bankers and set the agenda for the regulators.
Leave aside the economic lunacy -- look at Dermot Ahern, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Dermot is seen as a tough guy, Mr Hard Man -- which is fine on the level of constituency shin-kicking. Last week, WikiLeaks published a December 2007 cable to Washington, from the American Ambassador, on a meeting with Ahern, this day three years ago. We got to see the impression that Mr Hard Man made on Mr Ambassador.
For years, serious worries have been voiced that Shannon Airport is being used as a tool in the "extraordinary rendition" torture programme operated by the CIA. In December 2007, the Irish Human Rights Commission compiled a report concluding that the Government was not meeting its human rights obligations. It called for inspections of suspect flights using Shannon. The WikiLeaks cable records: "Ambassador Foley thanked Ahern for his staunch rejection" of that demand.
The Government has always publicly denied that any rendition flights have used Shannon. The Ambassador declared Ahern's public stance to be "rock solid", yet recorded that, privately, Ahern "seemed quite convinced that at least three flights involving renditions had refuelled at Shannon". In short, the Ambassador seems to suggest that Ahern shared the concerns of the IHRC report he had so staunchly rejected.
The Ambassador recorded Ahern as saying he had "put his neck on the chopping block" and would pay a severe political price if it ever turned out that Shannon was used for rendition. Far from telling the Ambassador that he would act to ensure our facilities were not used for torture flights, Ahern -- according to the Ambassador -- was "musing that it might not be a bad idea to allow the random inspection of a few planes to proceed, which would provide cover if a rendition flight ever surfaced".
Even typing these words, my toes are curling. Mr Hard Man "mused" to the Ambassador. As in, perhaps, "Eh, is there any oul chance ye might let us throw an eye over the odd flight, like, just for the optics, y'know, God Bless ye, sir".
If the Ambassador's cable is accurate, this was about covering Mr Hard Man's ass, in case the truth got out -- rather than dealing with Ahern's own apparent belief that Shannon was part of the torture programme.
Mr Ahern is, of course, "ministerial material" of long standing. Mr Cowen was repeatedly described in the media as having a superior intellect. Brian Lenihan displayed the intelligence required to pass the Bar exam, and this seems to have solidified his reputation as "ministerial material".
From the end of September 2008, Mr Lenihan's inadequacy for the job of Minister for Finance seemed beyond doubt. Mr Lenihan's blanket guarantee of bank debt was, however, embraced by the media. On the surface, it was an incredibly foolish move -- made on information largely supplied by senior civil servants and bankers. So foolish did it appear to be that the chattering classes appear to have assumed that it simply couldn't be as foolish as it seemed. The cute lads, the two Brians, after all, were brains incarnate. As were their hugely-paid advisers.
And over the two years that followed, through the deliberate deflation of the economy, the soaring unemployment, the creation of Nama ("the only game in town"), the incessant 're-capitalisation' of dead banks and the destabilisation of the State -- the cheerleaders couldn't believe these guys were as thick as they seemed to be. So, they were allowed to keep trying outmoded solutions that were inadequate responses to problems they never quite understood.
Just over a year ago, this column quoted some lines from an old Pete Seeger song: "We're waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on." Last week, a Dail heavy with blowhards voted to give Brian Lenihan unprecedented powers. It's as though the past two years of snowballing disaster never happened.
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A 55 year old woman, previously diagnosed with cirrhosis secondary to chronic hepatitis C infection, was admitted to our department with fever. She seemed well and had no focal symptoms or signs of infection. As ascites was present, she had paracentesis. This yielded a Gram negative clear fluid with a polymorphonuclear count of 700 cells/mm3. We thought that secondary peritonitis was unlikely and diagnosed spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. She had had no previous episodes or prophylactic antibiotic treatment. Empirical treatment with cefotaxime (2 g every 8 hours) was started.
When admitting the patient, the junior doctor had access to two main databases: the Cochrane Library, which contained no relevant information,1 and UpToDate, which recommended intravenous cefotaxime or oral ofloxacin for patients with uncomplicated spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.2
On the morning after her admission, there was a lively discussion at the departmental meeting. The main question was whether the patient could have started taking oral ofloxacin, given her excellent clinical condition. Other questions were raised about the strength of the evidence supporting the standard treatment with cefotaxime and the ideal dose and duration of treatment. We therefore decided to do a systematic review of the literature on antibiotic treatment for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
We searched Medline (1966-December 2000) and the Cochrane Library (Issue 4, 2000) for randomised trials comparing different antibiotics for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (table (table1).1). Additionally, we inspected the references of all identified studies and a consensus document organised by the International Ascitic Club3 and contacted authors by email to ask for complementary information.
Our search strategy identified 18 trials. We excluded five studies because of inadequate concealment of allocation4–8; two because less than 10% of the patients had spontaneous bacterial peritonitis diagnosed9,10; one because it lacked an antibiotic comparison11; and another because of missing relevant information.12 We included nine randomised trials in the review (table (table22).13–21
We searched for the following outcomes in the nine included studies: mortality, antibiotic effectiveness in current episode, and life threatening adverse events. None of the trials compared similar experimental and control treatments. We therefore analysed the results of each trial separately.
No reliable evidence exists to place cefotaxime as the treatment of choice for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, although this has been suggested by many authors.3,17,22 In one trial in which 72 patients were randomised to intravenous cefotaxime or ampicillin plus tobramycin, cefotaxime had no significant benefit on mortality or fatal adverse events, although it did increase resolution of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (table (table22).13
What is the optimal dose and duration of cefotaxime?—Only two relevant trials were identified.19,20 The results indicate that cefotaxime 4 g/day may be as effective as cefotaxime 8 g/day19 in terms of mortality and resolution of symptoms. Treatment for 10 days was no more effective than treatment for five days.20
Are oral or intravenous antibiotics more effective?—Four trials evaluated the effects of oral and intravenous antibiotics on mortality and resolution of symptoms,14,16,17,21 but no definite conclusions could be drawn. No significant differences were found in trials of oral ofloxacin versus cefotaxime16 and of oral versus intravenous ciprofloxacin.21 However, the trials were small and should be considered inconclusive. Finally, it has been suggested that patients with moderate symptoms and a positive response to a short course of intravenous antibiotics could benefit from oral treatment with quinolones.3,21,22 The only trial investigating quinolones found no significant effect on mortality or resolution of symptoms.21
On the third day, cultures of the blood and ascitic fluid were negative. The patient was afebrile and doing well, and we offered to discharge her on oral ofloxacin. She was reluctant to switch to oral therapy and leave the hospital. Although she understood that one trial showed no benefit for cefotaxime over oral ofloxacin,16 she was alarmed that we could not rule out that the risk of a death with ofloxacin might be twice as high as with cefotaxime. We tried to balance that against the risk of a severe nosocomial infection (about 2% a day).23 The patient was unconvinced. She found the monitoring and intravenous therapy reassuring and opted for five days' treatment with cefotaxime and then oral ofloxacin. She was discharged on the sixth day after an uneventful stay.
The patient was treated in real time according to the available information.2 A later discussion led to a systematic review. Clearly, clinicians cannot do a systematic review for every question raised in their daily experience. Nevertheless, reviewing the literature in depth enables clinicians to comprehend where practices stem from, how these are founded on evidence, and sometimes, as in this case, how frail the evidence is to support routine practices.
We found no convincing evidence concerning efficacy of antibiotics for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and we identified several gaps that warrant future research. For example, we found no conclusive evidence to support cefotaxime as the treatment of choice3 or to recommend quinolones for patients with uncomplicated spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.16 Until large, well conducted trials have been published, antibiotic treatment for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis has to be based on clinical experience.
Randomised trials of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis need to include several hundred patients in order to have sufficient power. Recruitment of sufficient patients should be possible given the relatively high prevalence of cirrhosis complicated by ascites and the incidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in these patients.3,23 Future trials should also examine long term outcomes, recurrence rate, long term survival, and the development of resistant pathogens, particularly with quinolones.
This paper was based on the results of a systematic review recently published in the Cochrane Library.24
Funding: The review was partly supported by a European Union 5th framework grant (TREAT, IST 1999-11459) and a Danish Medical Research Council grant on getting research into practice.
Competing interests: None declared.
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I cut out a piece of red 'n' white polka dot fabric for the mushroom hat and appliquéd it on (used iron-on adhesive); used mainly split stitch; used satin stitch on the frills of the dress; running stitch detail on the apron; and a bit of reverse appliqué for the rain-drops. It sits stretched over a 300mm embroidery hoop.
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The school board this week approved a new five-year contract with the company.
Chartwells receives a management and administration fee based on the number of meals served, said Les Hoyt, assistant superintendent for administration. Food service management is estimated to cost $275,000 in 2008-09.
The fee makes up a small portion of the $12 million cost of food service, Hoyt said. Chartwells manages operations, but Amarillo ISD employs the workers.
Under Chartwells management, more students are eating in school cafeterias, according to Amarillo ISD. Total participation is up 25 percent.
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Chartwells has eliminated frying, replaced whole milk with 1 percent and skim milk, and stopped selling candy bars.
Next school year, Chartwells will provide a breakfast program, expand vegetarian options and eliminate table salt.
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1995 Toyota Tacoma Regular Cab V6 2dr Regular Cab 4WD SB
This was my first truck I have purchased on my own, when I was 18. Great truck!! It now has 270,000 miles and keeps on going. Things I had to replace or repair: U joint in drive shaft (80,000 miles & 120,000 mi), Powersteering pump (100,000 mi), starter (120,000 mi) and that's all that comes to mind. Right now, I do have a an oil leak, need to replace spark plugs more frequently since there is an oil leak there too but the truck keeps running fine and it passed smog (CA is a big deal). The car, in my opinion is very reliable. Toyota trucks, compact size, are great cars!
The speed when first purchased car.
Maybe better gas mileage.
Easily the greatest vehicle I've ever driven. I've never had to fix anything that wasn't a perishable commodity. Brake pads only once, spark plugs once. Not bad for a 13 year old truck. Even took her cross country CA to NC... she kicked that out like it was driving to the store. Gas mileage is awesome for a truck. A story: Wife was buying her Yaris, and the salesman asks me what I'm driving, like to sell me one too, I tell him "that 1995 Tacoma right there". His smile drooped and he he walked away. I am convinced this truck will outlive me. I get offers on it from strangers almost once a week... and no soap. I love this truck!!!
Everything. I take her out on the back roads in eastern NC all the time to get to fishing holes. The rednecks here bag on me for not having 4wd, but then they see me go off road, and it shuts them up. Even the interior fabric cleans up easily!!
Someone mentioned the cup holder, and I agree. Kind of a not so stable place to put it. Same for the paint chips on the hood. But for the ONLY complaint to be the cup holder and paint? Toyota did SOMETHING right!!!
I bought this truck last year after my wife and I bought a house. I needed to get rid of my car payment and needed a cheap, reliable truck, so this fit the bill. Got it for $2800 with 145K, bald tires, and a dented bumper. I changed out some of the parts that would likely leave me stranded (battery, starter, cables, alt.) after my starter went bad. I changed ALL fluids, cleaned it up and now I feel like I have a new best friend. The bed has enough room to hold all of the supplies I need to keep me busy doing yardwork all day. My wife is a doctor now and I have the opportunity to have a REALLY nice car, but I continue to drive "the old goat" anywhere and everywhere. Thanks Toyota!
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Whether the Michigan Wolverines return to the Final Four in 2014 will depend heavily on the play of sophomore forward Glenn Robinson III, who played a key role for John Beilein's squad as they won five NCAA tournament games and reached the title game a year ago.
Robinson and the Wolverines' 2014 tournament journey will begin on Thursday against 15th-seeded Wofford, who won the Southern Conference Tournament to secure an automatic berth in the Big Dance.
Despite being 16-point favorites to prevail, Beilein said he doesn't believe his team is looking ahead, per MLive.com's Brendan F. Quinn:
I think our team is pretty mature that way and they realize this because of what they did last year. They're just kids that sort of 'get it' a little bit and realize that at this time of year, everybody can really play...That's why this thing is the greatest event on earth. Because there are 68 teams and truthfully there are upsets waiting to happen all over the place. That's why everybody loves it.
With tipoff fast approaching, we'll break down Robinson's blueprint for success in the second round and project his final stat line vs. the Terriers.
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Michigan will rely heavily on sophomore sharpshooter Nik Stauskas, but Robinson will also have a say in how deep the Wolverines go.
And while Robinson and Michigan can afford to struggle against Wofford, he can't go missing for long if the Wolverines are going to return to the national championship game, per Detroit Free Press' Jamie Samuelsen:
I honestly forget Glenn Robinson III is on this team sometimes.— Jamie Samuelsen (@JamieSamuelsen) March 16, 2014
Coming into the tournament, the 20-year-old forward is Michigan's third-leading scorer and a key contributor on the glass, averaging 13 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. With Mitch McGary out, Robinson will need to be an even bigger factor on the boards this March.
He's certainly capable of stepping up. At 6'6", 220 pounds, Robinson is a long, athletic forward who can elevate with ease. His scoring prowess and basketball IQ also stand out.
Against overmatched Wofford, Robinson will need to attack the basket and avoid settling for long-range shots. Despite shooting 32.4 percent from beyond the arc as a freshman last season, Robinson is only shooting 27.6 percent from distance this year, going 0-of-3 against Michigan State in Sunday's Big Ten tournament final loss.
By playing aggressively from the start, Robinson will be able to put the Terriers in early foul trouble and get to the line for easy points. Although his three-point shooting numbers are down this season, he's improved his stroke at the charity stripe, connecting on 75 percent of his free throws compared to just 67.6 percent last year.
So long as Robinson is maximizing his athleticism and taking smart shots, he doesn't need to score 20 points for Michigan to move on to the round of 32.
Which player will have the biggest impact for Michigan vs. Wofford?
After all, the Wolverines project to get plenty of scoring from Stauskas, Caris LeVert and Derrick Walton Jr.
Defensively, Robinson will need to utilize his length to alter shots and secure rebounds. Limiting second-chance points will be key for Michigan in avoiding the upset. With Robinson likely to play 30-plus minutes, his focus on that end of the floor will be critical.
Wofford junior Lee Skinner is someone Robinson will likely be battling throughout Thursday's game. The 6'6" forward is the Terriers' third-leading scorer and leading rebounder, pulling down nearly nine per game.
If Robinson can slow Skinner and at least match him in points and rebounds, Michigan will have a great shot to survive and advance.
Projected Final Stat Line: 18 points (7-of-12 FG, 1-of-3 3PT, 3-of-4 FT), 7 rebounds and 1 assist.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority PA President Mahmoud Abbas is giving up on forming a unity government with Hamas, a senior aide in Ramallah said on Thursday.
According to Yasser Abed Rabbo, Abbas has asked PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to form a new government, after months of stalemated Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Hamas.
"If they continue like this, it could last for years," Rabbo said.Neither Fatah nor Hamas is hopeful that the next round of talks, scheduled for May 16, will be successful.
"There are no signs on the horizon of a power-sharing deal with Fatah," Hamas official Mahmoud Ramahi said.
Ramahi reiterated that "the movement will not accept" the Quartet's -- United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia -- three benchmarks of renouncing terror, recognizing Israel's right to exist and accepting previously signed agreements between Israel and the PA.
But, he added, any attempt by Abbas to form a government without Hamas "would undermine" the coalition talks.
Though the PA government accepts the concept of "two states for two peoples," it does not acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.
In June 2007, after Hamas defeated PA security forces and took control of the Gaza Strip, Abbas dissolved the then-three-month old unity government, formed an emergency government, deposed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh as prime minister and appointed Fayyad in his place.
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