text:
The most credible, nationally recognized, and universally accepted certification for Individuals working within the dignitary and executive protection community in order to Enhance the level of professionalism in the industry.
To create an acknowledged and accepted mechanism and process for achieving dignitary And executive protection certification. To educate dignitary and executive protection practitioners as to the legal, ethical, and procedural responsibilities associated with protective operations. To foster the personal and professional growth of dignitary and executive protection professionals through higher education and specialized credentialing and by advocating for the advancement of all methods, practices, research, and studies associated within this field of endeavor. To recognize superior standards of commitment, training, and experience of ABCDEP members.
The American Board for Certification in Dignitary and Executive Protection (CDEP) announces its completion of a methodical and comprehensive investigation into the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a successful dignitary and executive protection professional. The study focuses on the evolving scope of dignitary and executive protection, and spotlights the multi-faceted expertise required of a successful professional in this role.
The Certified in Dignitary and Executive Protection (CDEP) exam administered by CDEP, a Board sponsored by The American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, CHS® (ABCHS) is designed to differentiate between candidates that meet minimum standards for the CDEP credential and those who do not.
A committee of subject matter experts (SMEs) is necessary to oversee the examination process. A panel of CDEP professionals representing over 330 years of experience collected and collated the list of tasks: members of the American Board for Certification in Dignitary and Executive Protection developed the task list and ABCHS Staff oversaw the collaboration of the list.
The content of the CDEP examination is based on the results of a job analysis study. A model commonly used for credentialing exams, and used for the CDEP, is a task inventory to produce a comprehensive list of professional tasks performed on the job, after which a wide range of practitioners in the field rate each task on aspects such as importance and time spent on the task in a normal work week. This provides empirical evidence for which tasks are more important or more frequent in the job; those tasks should obviously have more weight on the final test than rare or unimportant tasks.
|Domains of CDEP Exam
|Fundamental Protection Tasks
|Threat Assessment
|Advance Operations
|Protective Formations
|Security Agent Operations
|Improvised Explosive Devices
|Motorcade Operations
|Surveillance and Surveillance Detection
Purpose of Certified in Dignitary and Executive Protection:


text:
Last week, the FT published an interview with Sir Michael Wilshaw. Lots of interviewees, especially in public policy, are very guarded. Sir Michael is not. This may give his press handlers nightmares, but everyone should welcome it. This is for educationally minded people more than data nerds, but I thought I'd put up some more of his thoughts.
I'll not publish the whole thing yet (there are a few things we discussed that I intend to return to). So this is still a highlights package. First, a few shorter snippets. It's very striking how often London Challenge, a policy to improve schools in the capital, came up. Sir Michael, who rose to prominence as a London head teacher, kept praising that policy. For example, speaking about the north, he said:
What is it about those areas like Hull and Grimsby and North Lincolnshire that prevents those youngsters doing well? Some of it is quite honestly a political failure where we've known that these areas were failing for a number of years and if local politicians really want to address this, they can put pressure on both schools, local authorities, the department for education to do something about this. We've shown through London Challenge what can be done in London. London is certainly… and I've been a London teacher all my life. It wasn't a good place to be in the 70s and 80s and 90s; now it's one of the top performing parts of the country through London Challenge. Same happened in Manchester. So, why can't we do that in these areas?

subset: commoncrawl


text: Contents[show] FunctionEdit undefined Default ValueEdit undefined Possible ValuesEdit undefined NotesEdit undefined Retrieved from "http://slingbox.wikia.com/wiki/SBCore.PlayerProperties.StreamTypeVideo?oldid=4695" Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you've made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Categories: SBCore.ini Add category Cancel Save


text:
November 25
de Wil van Iersel
Acerca del libro
November is the third month of my project Every Day a New Book. This time I work every day on a book about speed.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Arte y fotografía
Cuadrado pequeño, 18×18 cm
20 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación nov. 29, 2012
- Etiquetas ABC Artists' Books Cooperative, abcselection
Acerca del creador
'Every Day a New Photo Book' is a project over a period of 12 years it's a photographic research into time and society. From September 2010 until August 2021 I will take every year another month to make every day a new Book. For every month I have a new theme what I then research on a daily basis. In the evening I make a book with the result of that day it's publish directly on this website where you can browse through it and you'll get the possibility to order it. At the end of the month the books come together in a black cassette and are available in my bookshop. For additional information please contact me at email@example.com


text:
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 8/11/2012 (1746 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
LONGREACH -- They might be an anachronism, but watch a direct descendant of William the Conqueror walking through the outback Australian dust and you can't help but be impressed by the endurance of the British Royal Family.
Australia is once again playing host to the Royals -- the old ones that is.
The newly minted celebrity couple Prince William and Kate dropped by briefly in September. But Will is leaving it to dad to do the hard yards in Australia, with Prince Charles landing in the outback town of Longreach in Queensland Monday afternoon for a six-day tour to mark his mother's Diamond Jubilee.
His wife Camilla, the Duchess of Kent, placed her Royal foot on Australia soil for the first time around 4:10 p.m. as she trotted across a blistering tarmac and remarked soon after to a little girl: "It is hotter here than where I am from.''
At just over 40 C and more than 15,000 kilometres from Gloucestershire, that was probably true. But, displaying that stiff upper lip that has presided over every challenge from Agincourt to the London blitz, the Royals trooped on for two solid hours.
With Charles fitted out in a tan suit and Camilla in a sun frock (and briefly, and rather endearingly, clutching a parasol) they visited among other things the Stockman's Hall of Fame, which pays tribute to the Australian cattle industry.
The couple also dropped by the Qantas museum, which honours our early aviation adventurers, and later hosted a barbecue for more than 300 people under a few nearby leafy trees.
It's difficult from this distance to discern the Canadian attitude towards the Royals. But given there's no widely publicized push for a Canadian republic, and given the enthusiastic reception Will and Kate received on their recent tour, it's assumed they're regarded with some affection by the average Canuck.
In Australia, where the republic debate has flared and spluttered for more than two decades, very few of even the most hardened pro-republicans actively resent the Royals at a personal level.
And, in the case of Charles, it's not hard to see why. Self effacing and funny, he's evolved in recent decades into the nation's pleasantly eccentric uncle -- the one who stayed with us for few years when they sent him out here to boarding school and who remembers us at Christmas.
Donning an Akubra hat, Charles appeared effortlessly at ease at Longreach, treating locals with that off-hand, informal affection he knows Australians respond so readily to.
"Did the boss let you off work early to come out and see us?'' he asked Stephen Rossberg, a fourth-generation Longreach resident, who later praised the heir to the throne as a "great bloke.''
Welcoming the spread of wine, beer and beef laid out for him as a "bonza'' barbecue, he also won a laugh with the admission: "I'm so jet-lagged I feel a few sausages short of a barbie.''
And, much like the aforementioned uncle, he kept everyone entertained with memories of school days, poor academic records and the trials of an Aussie summer.
"I cannot pretend to remember a great deal about my school curriculum but I can recall in every detail the long treks through the bush in searing heat,'' he said.
"I remember funnel-web spiders, bull ants, leeches that could only be removed with a cigarette end, snakes of every description and kangaroos that overtook us on cross-country runs through the bush."
It was all very jolly, and what with the empire all but gone and little chance of mustering an army to conquer new kingdoms, affability is now his key asset.
That and an emphasis on a shared past will keep his family relevant when the much loved Queen Elizabeth II departs this world, and Charles becomes the chief mourner in a cortege of genuine sorrow across the Commonwealth.
With the gravity of advancing his age, a settled domestic life and a young heir to follow in his footsteps, his elevation to the throne should be seamless.
Australia might jettison the monarchy in the decade ahead. But the British won't easily dismiss a family that, ignoring the odd nude romp in a Las Vegas hotel room, provides a ready platoon of accomplished ambassadors to spread good will around the world, and a living tourist attraction to rival a conspicuously empty Palace of Versailles.
And Charles III, if he does keep his name, has a certain ring to it.
Michael Madigan is the Free Press correspondent in Australia. He writes mostly about politics for the Brisbane-based Courier Mail.


text: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TPWD News Release 20091009b | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This page contains only plain text, no HTML formatting codes. | | It is not designed for display in a browser but for copying | | and editing in whatever software you use to lay out pages. | | To copy the text into an editing program: | | --Display this page in your browser. | | --Select all. | | --Copy. | | --Paste in a document in your editing program. | | If you have any suggestions for improving these pages, send | | an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com and mention Plain Text Pages. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [ Note: This item is more than seven years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [ Additional Contacts: Tom Harvey, Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept, (512) 565-3679, email@example.com; Brian Hill, Houston Zoo, Pager: (713) 801-8040, email@example.com ] Oct. 9, 2009 Coalition Protects Habitat, Releases Captive-reared Houston Toads AUSTIN, Texas -- Recent rains in Central Texas not only watered residential lawns and filled ranch cattle tanks, but also brought much needed relief to one of the most imperiled species in Texas -- the endangered and elusive Houston toad, Bufo houstonensis. Ironically named the Houston toad, it disappeared from Harris County by the 1970's. Historic prolonged droughts combined with rapid urbanization and habitat loss are the primary reasons for the toad's decline. A true Texas native, the Houston toad is found nowhere else in the world, only in the deep sandy soils and the pine and oak forests of a few counties in east central Texas. Bastrop County is the species' final stronghold, but studies suggest its population is in serious decline. However, a recovery team of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, Texas State University, the Houston Zoo and private landowners is working to return the Houston toad to its historic range. University and zoo scientists are leading a head start program to hatch wild eggs and then rear juvenile toads in captivity and release them in the wild is one component of a broader recovery effort for the species. However, experts say no matter how many toads are raised and released, the species will not survive without good habitat. The toad's continued existence depends on partnerships between the Houston Zoo, United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Texas State University, Environmental Defense Fund, Lost Pines Habitat Conservation Plan and especially the private landowners that manage their land in the best interest of the toad and its habitat. Bastrop State Park has steadily expanded in recent decades, recently adding land through grants and donations in areas specifically acquired to provide Houston toad habitat. The park has expanded from almost 3,500 acres in 1979 to close to 6,000 acres today. Also, project partners have assembled a half dozen or more private landowners with more than 7,500 acres of occupied toad habitat in Bastrop County into an overall strategy of habitat improvement using prescribed burns and other actions, with plans to release headstarted toads into the improved habitat. TPWD awarded a Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) grant to fund Houston toad recovery in 2007 totaling $167,488, about 43 percent of which was government funding and the remainder was matching contributions from landowners, Environmental Defense Fund and the Houston Zoo. This year, private landowners submitted four new LIP grant applications for Houston toad recovery, applications now being reviewed for grant awards that will be made later this fall. Texas landowners are making a difference by actively working toward watershed restoration, forest management and improving pond quality by modifying grazing and access regimes for livestock. For example, Jim Small of Bastrop and his family have been stewards of the toad since the 1980s, when the first efforts to breed the species began. Since then, out of an awareness of the toad and a strong stewardship ethic, Jim and his family have improved habitat quality by prescribed fire, selective tree thinning and excluding cattle from active Houston toad breeding areas. After obtaining a safe harbor agreement with the USFWS, Small and his family now seek to increase their efforts on behalf of the toad and are implementing strong wildlife research and stewardship programs to benefit the toads. To make good land management feasible, financial support and incentives are available through state, federal, local government and private programs so property owners do not have to shoulder the financial burden alone. Landowners like the Small's have taken ownership of the restoration of the toad and will be the key to bringing this species back from the brink of extinction. The Bob Long family, owner of Round Bottom Ranch in Bastrop County, has also been part of the private landowner partnership working to protect the toad since 2002. The Longs received a LIP grant in 2004 for toad habitat restoration, and this April they received a TPWD Lone Star Land Steward award in the Pineywoods ecoregion category to recognize their longstanding contributions. In the spring of 2007, the Houston Zoo began receiving egg strands from the Bastrop County Houston toad population, collected by Texas State University. The eggs were hatched at the zoo, transported back to Bastrop County and released at the exact same location. Researchers are careful to keep toad eggs separated, so they can return adult toads back to the same breeding pond where the egg strands were collected. A series of toad releases into the wild has since taken place in 2007, 2008 and this year. This type of conservation program is known as head starting. The plan is to give the toads a fortunate beginning - a "head start" -- helping them survive through the most hazardous stage of their existence, allowing them to mature and create more Houston toads. Houston toads are known to be "explosive breeders," appearing in large numbers at breeding ponds where males chorus to attract females over a few nights during the breeding season. This season usually peaks in March and April. Breeding activities are believed to be triggered by rainfall, warm night time temperatures and high humidity. A good rain can create temporary ponds and fill existing ponds allowing the toads to breed and deposit eggs. Eggs are deposited in strings in the water, and hatch into tadpoles that develop into juvenile toadlets about 60 days after being deposited. Large numbers of eggs are produced, but each egg has less than a one percent probability of survival. Recognized by Parents magazine as one of the Ten Best Zoos for Kids, the Houston Zoo is an exciting live animal adventure that provides a unique educational and conservation resource serving 1.6 million guests annually. Set in a 55-acre lush tropical landscape, the Zoo is home to more than 4,500 exotic animals representing more than 800 species. Operated by the not-for-profit Houston Zoo, Inc., the Houston Zoo is dedicated to the conservation of endangered species, the provision of engaging educational opportunities and the creation of stimulating exhibits that broaden the experiences of guests and encourage their curiosity. The Houston Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). For more information, visit the Zoo Web site. Media Kit: A Houston Toad media kit containing photos and other material is available for download from the Houston Zoo's FTP site at ftp://22.214.171.124. At the log in page, enter "zooprinters" in the username window and "print*12jobs" as the password. Click on Houston Toad Press Kit to access fact sheets and photographs. Online Video: Video showing Houston toads and the head starting project is on the TPWD YouTube channel, one of four "social media" outlets the agency is currently piloting, the others being Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. As of Oct. 9, the TPWD YouTube channel had 132 videos posted, with new video topics added weekly. TPWD YouTube videos cover state parks, fishing, hunting, wildlife, boating safety, how-to topics and news reports on a variety of subjects. --- On the Net: http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/htoad/ http://www.houstonzoo.org/HoustonToad/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8s2RUjpxGg -30-


text:
SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's and women's cross country teams concluded their spring training seasons competing at the UNF Invitational and the Walt Disney World Invitational in April. Continuing to new make new strides on the course, many Lions continue to exceed expectations as they get prepared for their fall championship season.
In the latest runs, sophomore Tereza Novotna concluded the spring outdoor meets with two event wins in the 5000m at Embry Riddle, as well as the 3K steeple chase victory at Disney. Later, Novotna ran a college-best at the UNF 3K steeple run, pacing herself at a time of 11:11.60. Jillian Browne also ran a career-best in the 5K at the UNF Best Western Invite with a time of 19:40.73.
Brian Haynes also pieced together an outstanding spring, running a personal-best time of 16:42.46 on the track. Eric Dirth, who enjoyed his most successful fall in 2011, continued his enhancement as he improved by over 30 seconds in the 3000m, and also ran a personal-best in the 3K steeple at 10:48.06.
For a complete list of results, please visit the links below.
Walt Disney World Invitational – Men
Walt Disney World Invitational – Women
UNF Invitational – Men
UNF Invitational - Women
All-around each student-athlete competed and made new advances this spring, giving new marks for each Lion to hit in 2012.
"Overall, everyone made great strides," said Head Coach Melissa Miller-Mangen. "Tereza, Jill, Bryan, and Eric guided the way and did an excellent job competing against a competitive field of runners. The upperclassmen also performed well this spring in the distance events. The group will guide us to a strong cross country season."
Miller-Mangen and the rest of the Lions will return to course for their championship season in September 2012.
For more on the cross country teams, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


text:
Upcoming Events...
I took some time off from the road at the beginning of 2014 - getting ready to get back on the road again, lots of trips scheduled from February till the end of June. This is just looking at public events for the next three months, hope to see you at one of them!
Virtual Developer Day Feb 4th
I'll be speaking, along with Jonathan Lewis, about the last 20 years or so of technology and where we think it is all going as part of the Virtual Developer Day - an entirely online event with many technical speakers. Something to definitely look into!
RMOUG Feb 6th-7thAt the beginning of February, I'll be at RMOUG Feb 6th and 7th. Truth be told, this won't be a trip for me - I'm located in Denver, CO now (since the beginning of the year). I will just be returning from Toronto at the beginning of the week (I know all of the best places to go in February!).
Ohio Feb 11th-13thOf course, if it is February - it must be Ohio. That is the best place to fly into and then drive around in during that month :) I'll be coming down from Ottawa (another 'must see' location in February) and spending Feb 11th in Dayton, Feb 12th in Cincinnati and the 13th in Columbus. Hitting all of the user groups across the state.
Real World Performance Netherlands, Germany and Bulgaria Feb 18th-21st
Then I'm off to continue the Real World Performance tour with Andrew Holdsworth and Graham Wood. This month we are hitting the town of Breda in the Netherlands on the 17th, Munich in Germany on the 18th and finally Sofia in Bulgria on the 21st.
Hotsos Symposium Mar 3-6th
If it is March, then it is definitely time for the annual Hotsos Symposium. I'll be returning this year with a few sessions. It should be nice and warm in Dallas in March!
Ireland March 11th-12th
I'll be in Ireland on March 11th for the Ireland OUG conference. I'll be speaking on performance and the new In-Memory capabilities coming in Oracle Database 188.8.131.52 soon. On the 12th - I'll be delivering a one day Optimizer Master Class.
Real World Performance London and Latvia
The tour continues with a date of March 26th in London and March 28th in Riga Latvia.
Belgrade Serbia, April 1st-2nd
I'll post more details when I have them, but I'll be doing a two day seminar on the optimizer and developer related topics at this time. It will be in conjunction with Oracle University so you can monitor their event website for information soon too.
IOUG Collaborate April 7th-11th
I'll be doing a one day optimizer seminar and four other sessions during the week. April in Las Vegas - perfect time to be there! And Admin Savage will be speaking too - love the mythbusters!
Oracle Conference on the James, April 24th
I'll be doing a keynote and a technical session in the morning of the 24th for the VOUG and HROUG. Lots of great speakers here - definitely check this out if you are in the Virginia area!
Manila, Philippines - week of April 28th
I'll be doing some events in Manila this week - details to follow soon!


text:
Reba Nance
Sue Betram
Questions about managing your law practice? Call or e-mail Reba Nance or Sue Bertram to find out about law practice management, law office technology, or Casemaker and LEXIS research programs. They can put on an Internet seminar, tell you how long to keep your files, and help you untangle your office systems.
You'll also want to talk with Reba Nance if you want to know about professional liability insurance issues.


text:
Ask the Experts: Krisztián Flautner VP of R&D, ARMby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2014 12:00 PM EST
- Posted in
- CPUs
- Ask the Experts
- SoC
62 Comments
Back to Article
AndreiLux - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHello, two main (related) questions here:
My first question is regarding ARM's case for synchronous clock and voltage domains as an actual advantage over asynchronous ones. ARM seems to be definitely convinced that going synchronous is the right choice, but except for one whitepaper which Samsung has released regarding bit.LITTLE some time ago (http://mobile.arm.com/files/downloads/Benefits_of_... there has never been any in-depth technical justification for the matter.
How far has ARM actually researched into the matter to come to this conclusion? What are the ramifications against it? Not only on a architectural basis, but also on a platform basis (PMIC voltage rail power conversion overhead increase for example)?
Current power management mechanisms seem extremely "dumb" in the sense that they almost never are able to control DVFS and Idle states in such a manner to actually make full efficient use of the hardware in terms of power efficiency and performance. Current Linux kernel discussions are (finally) trying to merge these mechanisms into the scheduler to improve their functioning. My understanding that the upcoming A53/A57 have also more advanced retention states over the current generation of cores to allow for better use of idle states, much like the A15 generation of SoCs got rid of legacy hot-plugging of cores in favor of power-gating C-states.
My second question is what the reasoning is that hardware PPMU controllers which would be in charge of DVFS are basically inexistent in the current mobile ARM space? ARM's reasoning until now is that a hardware controller is not able to have a full "overview" of system load to base its decisions on, but that doesn't explain why a software-policy based hardware controller could not achieve this, as it would have advantages of both worlds with none of the disadvantages. We achieve much finer granularity, order of magnitudes greater than current software based ones are currently running on. Any comments on the matter? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkSome of what you are asking about are implementation choices that our silicon partners would make which I cannot really comment on. But roughly speaking for cores in a MP cluster we would expect these to run these at the same voltage, and synchronous frequencies, and communication with the L2 cache would be synchronously as well (L2 typically run at 1/2 speed of L1). The interface between the CPU and the bus-fabric is often asynchronous. Different cores within the cluster can be power-gated, but the primary supplies (sometimes different supplies for RAM and logic) would be the same.
The following document states some of these assumptions:
"The CPU clusters are connected to the cache coherent interconnect through an asynchronous bridge to enable each CPU cluster to be scaled independently in frequency and voltage. The independent DVFS operation of the CPU clusters allows the system to more closely track the performance requirements in loads where there is a mix of high-performance and background activity."
As for controlling DVFS state, some of our system designs use a dedicated Cortex-M3 processor in the system to manage the various power states. The reason for the dedicated processor is that there is much more going on in a SoC than just activity on the application processors and it's easier to observe this activity from different positions on the SoC. And you'd like to be able to make power-related decisions without having to wake up the big CPUs all the time - let them rest as much as they can. M-class processors have much lower-latency and consume less power, so they are a natural place in the system for making power-related decisions. Reply
maltanar - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThe computer architecture research community seems to increasingly lean towards hardware accelerators and heterogeneity (not just big.LITTLE and GPGPU, but all sorts of mixes of architectural and microarchitectural techniques) for increasing energy efficiency/performance as Moore's law and Dennard scaling don't seem to work that well anymore.
My question is...does ARM R&D see some future for widely applicable accelerator-rich architectures, or do they deem it to be a passing trend? If they are here to stay, there will probably quite a few software-related issues that will follow and I'm quite curious as to how ARM R&D thinks these may be addressed. Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkIt's not a passing fad: SoCs have been accelerating various functions for many decades now. Do I think that this will become more central to our strategy? No. There are a number of reasons for this. The functions initially accelerated by external hardware often end up being incorporated into the architecture over time. This usually makes their use easier and provide a stabler software target. Coordinating the activities of a large number of accelerators is as hard a problem as the general parallelization problem; you can have some good application-specific solutions but very difficult to make broadly applicable…. And there is always Amdahl's law to worry about - it applies to accelerators as well.
I do see a role for increasing heterogeneity in system but this is about how we best cater to supporting different styles of parallelism and activity levels in different applications rather than speeding up the individual compute kernels. Reply
Ikefu - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhat do you see coming down the road from ARM that is relevant to the DIY Maker and the Internet of Things? I'm intrigued by the forthcoming Arduino Zero and am an avid user of linux boards like the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone black for my robotics projects. How do you see ARM being able to improve this space in the future? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWhat we can do is reduce the barrier of entry for the "long tail" of developers who are looking to build prototypes and then take them to product. Availability of hardware and modules is one important factor but equally important is the software / toolchain story around them. We have some exciting plans for mbed (check out mbed.org) that we'll be talking about later this year. Reply
BMNify - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - link"Availability of hardware and modules is one important factor "
thats good if the IP people really want is there, mbed.org seem interesting if you can cater for the novice as well as the semi-pro.
for instance none of the curent vendors produce what many people want, and looking in the long tail to design/make/perhaps produce in 10's/100's of PCB etc then im optimistic in my view that most interested people will want access to
dual/quad DRAM controllers compatible tested IP for the likes of the 3.2+ GBytes/second NVR Everspin ST-MRAM DDR3 modules
and even mbed.org slices http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/12/29/xmos-xcore-... Reply
Khenglish - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThe fabrication companies are having much difficulty in achieving high enough yield to mass produce 20nm processors. Yield problems will increase as companies attempt to shrink to even smaller processes and adopt FINFETS. How concerned are you that we are near the end of the road of continual CMOS process shrinks for increased transistor counts and performance improvements? How confident are you that for the next 5 years or so that we will continue to see transistor level device improvements that can be implemented into future processors? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkDon't forget that Moore's Law is an economic law and the primary reason it will stop is because of economics (not because of physics). If a manufacturer doesn't get enough bang for his buck, they will get off the treadmill. My team has been working on predictive technology models to understand the issues with future generations of processes: there are conceivable combinations of technologies to create new process nodes for the next decade or more. The real question is whether it is actually worth doing so as the improvements may not be commensurate with the expense. Reply
PeteH - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWill 2014 be the year Michigan football finally returns to the top of the B1G? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI'm pretty sure for the fans it never actually left the top spot ... Reply
nemi2 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWill clock-less ARM cores like the "Amulet" and "ARM996HS" become mainstream? will we hear more about them? do they have a significant power savings advantage for mobile and other low power applications? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkNo. We've been involved in many asynchronous implementation projects but none of the potential benefits ultimately panned out. This is not necessarily the fault the people involved. The ideas were interesting but as they weren't mainstream, there wasn't an ecosystem there to support them. The implementers usually had to make do with poorer quality tools and cores that were originally designed for synchronous operation. So it's one of these things: the ideas may have been sound in theory but it takes much more than that to build a successful product that delivers on the promises. Reply
JCP2014 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkMy questions are about big.LITTLE that ARM has been championing for the last few years:
First, Given the early issues with big.LITTLE designs (infamously Exynos 5410), what will ARM do to prevent problems like this in the future? Now that A15/A7 issues seem to have been ironed out, might similar issues arise with A57/A53 in the future?
Second, how much optimization does big.LITTLE require on the kernel/OS side to get best efficiency/performance results? Do you currently work with Google, Microsoft, etc to integrate this capability into their stock kernel? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkRegarding your first question, we can't comment on specific partner SoCs or their implementations, so any questions on Exynos 5410 should be directed to Samsung.
What we can say is that big.LITTLE and coherency are fully supported in the ARM CPU and system IP. In fact, there are now several shipping examples of big.LITTLE MP (global task scheduling) in the market, and expect big.LITTLE SoCs to be predominantly big.LITTLE MP enabled from this point forward.
There are specific enhancements in the latest ARM CPUs that improve CPU performance, introduce 64-bit support, and will additionally improve big.LITTLE performance in the following ways:
+ Even faster coherency transactions
+ A higher performance LITTLE core (Cortex-A53) means the big cores (Cortex-A57) can remain asleep for a larger percentage of workloads
big.LITTLE software continues to evolve as well, in the optimizations and tuning of big.LITTLE SOCs, and in coordination with other power management frameworks and other system components.
Expect more advances in the software to come as big.LITTLE continues to improve over time.
Regarding your second question, perhaps the best way to answer is to point you to a blog that my colleague Brian Jeff, posted last year entitled "Ten things to know about big.LITTLE" http://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/20...
In this blog, Brian talks about how big.LITTLE software effectively operates underneath Android in the kernel and you don't have to directly change Android middleware. The Linux kernel is patched with code that handles the big.LITTLE thread scheduling.
ARM keeps its ecosystem partners updated on big.LITTLE software techniques and approaches, but for comments on a specific OS, you'll need to ask the OS vendor directly. Reply
TylerGrunter - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThe first time I heard about A15 cores they were designed for microservers, the first time I heared about about A57 cores they were targeting microservers (with what looks like better luck this time).
Both ended or will end up in mobile devices. Two questions arise regarding this:
Does ARM have a plan to develop some bigger core with higher IPC that can compete with Intel cores? (Apple Cyclone comes to mind)
In case it´s a yes: Will you ensure those cores can be used later on mobile devices? Can you give us some insight of how? I guess it´s quite challenging to design both for ultra performance and low power consumption at the same time.
What´s your view in wereables? I see them as a huge promise, but created of lot of niches, which makes it difficult to monetarize. Are you planning anything ultra low power for them?
One last question. I have the feeling Moores law is coming to an end, seeing that the 20nm node is presenting serious challenges and cost per transistor is rising. What´s the next step one the big up slope of reducing nodes is reached? What technology do you think will substitute sylicon? Is there anything on the pipe already? Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkThey could do what Apple did, and build some cores that will only go in 2-core set-up in mobile, and at 1-1.2 Ghz speeds. Then take those cores and put them at 2-2.5 Ghz in PCs. However, I don't think this is ARM's plan. As we've seen with Apple's Cyclone, it's not among the most efficient. It will be interesting to see Nvidia's Denver cores which aren't just huge, but also clocked at 2.5-3 Ghz.
But as I mentioned in another comment at the end of the comments page, ARM doesn't need to do this. They can just wait it out, and will eventually reach parity with Intel in performance anyway (since Intel doesn't care about improving performance as much with the latest generations). Reply
Wreckage - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIs there a future for a desktop ARM chip (non-SOC)? There had been a rumor of Apple moving iOS to the desktop and I could see Android making a similar move. It sounds like Project Denver and the move towards 64-bit are in line with this kind of transition.
Is this something that ARM is working on? Reply
ImSpartacus - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkAre you talking about something socketed? Reply
BMNify - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkyes i think he is, but my thinking has aways been longer term, given that cortex is destined for hyperscale eventually the efforts so far are odd in their choices to advance ARM everywhere.
while the Cavium ThunderX Server SoC Features up to 48 ARM 64-bit Cores
seems a nice step up, i dont know the size of the SOC (you do probably) it seems to me that the way they all pack the ARM cores into a generic sled seems very wasteful to date plus masses of redundant steel doesn't help ether , could that ThunderX fit on a generic SoDIMM module ?.
if so id really like ARM to get behind one of the existing SoDIMM module formats, or better yet, use your long tail information to create a brand new free generic ARM(64) SoDIMM module SoM industry standard with the base carrier/daughter board (multi 4+) SoM enabled, something far better than the existing limited scope barely good enough standards today see http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/05/24/aaeon-annou... for the state (it is) of the art yack :) and do far better with an eye to create 100+ ARM SoM on a generic sled and perfectly happy to take one of those server SoM and put it in a small ARM STB box if you like, cross compatibility at the core no real sub dividing in to pro segments as such, dont throw it away recycle it if you will.... Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhat's your take on the impact of ISA on the overall CPU architecture? Is it still a big deal these days with millions of transistors surrounding it? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkThat depends on what you mean by "big deal"? :)
The ISA matters because it's a contract between a software ecosystem and silicon vendors. There are many ways of burdening an ISA with features that make one or both parties' lives difficult. To avoid this, ARM runs an Architecture Review Board which consists of both internal and external members. We keep on finding, that simplicity matters and deprecating features is as important as adding new ones. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkThis is exactly why you should be trying to deprecate ARMv7 ISA as soon as possible! So then you can only build pure ARMv8 chips, without the baggage of ARMv7. Instead, you keep building cores like Cortex A12 and A17. You need to be committed to ARMv8, and forget ARMv7. Reply
ComputationalScientist - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkOne advantage of Intel architectures compared with ARM for scientific computing is higher precision and range floating point using IEEE 754-recommended extended precision. Floating point computing often requires internal computations at a higher precision and range than double to cater for ill-conditioned data and unstable algorithms e.g. tiny values in probability models in my work. Are there any plans to improve floating point precision in ARM cores ,e.g. with IEEE 128-bit binary floating point, to cater for scientific computing in the future? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkAs far as I know Intel supports extended precision in the legacy sense but they don't necessarily make it fast. At ARM, we don't get requests for higher precision than what we already offer, even from people interested in building supercomputers. Also, it's important to note that ARM supports subnormal floating point operation in hardware, which is typically faster than what you find in most competitors' chips. Reply
name99 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkVery simple question.
Now that ARM is on track for 64-bit, IMHO the next obvious requirement (in terms of visible API) is hardware TM. Can you let us know ARM's plans for this? Do you already have the instructions and their semantics defined? Reply
KFlautner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkARM is interested in many new technologies such as hardware support for TM but wants them to have a proven benefit commensurate with its cost to implement for ARM's target markets before we deploy the technology. For ARM's markets, the benefit of the technology is still to be proven, but we remain interested in the technology. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkby "hardware TM" i assume he means Hardware transactional memory (controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing., not the david may way:) not TM Hardware as in the ugly variety of door seals, closers on their site :)
"ARM is interested in many new technologies " good i just noticed "UK: Plastic Logic" did some new Flexible OLED Screens and finally a partner program ,perhaps ARM can nip down the road and give them a leg up by doing a controller Ip for them and even help them with their questionable advertising :)
perhaps even get a selection/few pro bono Plastic Logic kit and make a slice to use it and give away as a prize or some such, the guy need help getting the word out it seems for a long time now, im a fan, but its taking far to long for them to provide super cheap consumer plastic displays for even DIY projects... Reply
sinPiEqualsZero - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkYou hear a lot about how other companies are trying to replicate ARM's success in the power-efficient arena. Is the reverse true? That is, does ARM have any interest in broadening their product offerings to include processors of comparable power to desktop PCs? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkI would argue that everyone in the processor industry is now on the efficiency bandwagon. It's just that ARM has evolved under that efficiency pressure - due to its focus on the mobile industry - for longer than others. What differs between products is the market and the power budget available. Having a larger power budget doesn't mean that one can afford inefficient designs: the goal is still to get as much performance out of a given power budget as possible. If you take a look at our high-end cores, they are already desktop-class. However, the core isn't everything, our silicon partners need to see the business case for building desktop-oriented processors (with appropriate amount of in-chip caches, memory system, etc.) ... you can see this starting to happen in the server market now. Reply
lada - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhat security measures does ARM have against industrial espionage and the now infamous NSA meddling with firmwares, software and anything computing related? Have ARM HQ been infiltrated? Are ARM designs safe, or contain some hardware "backdoors" for i.e. elevating rights (userspace to kernel, TrustZone, etc.) ? Are sources of ARM processors open to security audits? Does ARM do security audit on its own? Are sources versioned in a way that would detect "hacks" - changes(backdoors) to the sources ?
And vice versa, does ARM have access to partners' IP that means third party ARM processors sources, or modified commodity ARM designs? To review them for security purposes?
These are all questions I've always wished to ask. Reply
mercurylife - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - link+1
Good Question Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkI've asked that before, and ARM doesn't seem interested in answering it. Shame. Reply
Netmsm - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHello
Would You state Your opinion about evolution of x86 ARM embedded devices? What is Your analysis about that? Is this showing that in future at long term, ARM won't be able to compete with x86 in terms of response to market needs? Or not, and embedding ARM in x86 based processors is a competiton advantage solely?
Thanks Reply
Jonathan_Rung - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHello! Compared to the great tech-savvy questions posed here, this may be a little too... mainstream to warrant your attention, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
About four years ago, Intel's attempts to cut into the consumer SoC market amounted to a big flop, but sometime around the release of the Razr i, they seemed to be getting their act together. More recently, the Intel Celeron 2955U is arguably the best choice for Chromebooks when considering the dual and quad Exynos alternatives. As we've seen with Haswell, it's clear that Intel is really focused on improving their mobile processors as consumers gravitate towards mobile products and ARM eats up marketshare. Assuming Intel and AMD continue to prioritize low voltage/thermally constrained consumer devices, will ARM eventually yield to Intel/AMD in the mobile OS space and focus on embedded (boring) systems? I think ARM SoCs are still clearly the best choice for smartphones, but in about four years time, Intel's ability to compete in the mobile OS space has gone from "complete joke" to "somewhat viable." The Cortex-A50 series sounds great and I can't wait, and I know that nobody can predict the future, but what's your best guess for five, ten years down the line? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkWe don't have any intentions on giving up on the mobile market. ;) What you see playing out with competitive offerings is not really about technology but about business models: ARM is a much lower-cost ecosystem-based play, not an old-school high-margin vertical. I've placed my bets on which one I think will win long term. ;) Reply
Jonathan_Rung - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkThank you for responding! Reply
Factory Factory - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkLately we've seen CPUs and GPUs looked at for different general compute tasks - CPUs for latency-sensitive, complex, and/or single-threaded calculations and GPUs for throughput-based, shallow, highly-threaded calculations. Is there a third type of processor with a different balance of deep vs. wide, or perhaps one going in a different direction altogether, that you see becoming more relevant in the future? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkThere are some interesting new workloads that are becoming relevant and some of these may warrant specific architectural support and/or new microarchitectures. An area I find interesting from an architecture point-of-view is machine learning. But we'll need some time for the algorithms to settle before we'd design in too much deep support for new workloads. Reply
Jaybus - Monday, June 09, 2014 - linkAre you talking about adding neurosynaptic cores alongside ARMv8 cores? Sort of a right-brain to go with the current left-brain? I know IBM Research has talked of going in that direction as well. Reply
lada - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWhatever happened to the ARM BIOS and/or other I/O standardization efforts? ("One Linux for all ARM systems") Will we see BIOS of some sorts, standard peripherals to rely boot on, or standard SATA controllers ? I think it's mandatory for ARM to grow into PC/server space to have standardized components besides instruction set (and with A5x 64bit ARM cores and up I see the best outcome in the cleanup of an ISA, but what about peripherals? Timers, interrupts, something for one kernel to rule them all?) To make Linus happy? ;)
Some auto-discovery of peripherals akin to PCI,USB ? It wouldn't eat so many high-frequency transistors and could speed the development of kernel many times, IMO.
Writing from RPi, best regards and thanks for the answers and your opinion. Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkCheck out linaro.org . This is an organization we've set up to cater to the needs of the ARM-based Linux ecosystem. I think they've taken many of the right steps to make Linus happier.... As far as standardization, we have also been working on various platform design documents that help our partners deploy functionality in a common way to reduce unnecessary fragmentation.
A great example of this is the Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification we collaborated on with our silicon and software partners.
Johan from AnandTech had a good write up on it earlier this year http://www.anandtech.com/show/7721/arm-and-partner... Reply
mercurylife - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkPart 1: How about a teaser about the next 64bit 'Big' Core ?
Part 2: What can we expect from the next iteration of ARM Trustzone ?
Thanks! Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linka) It's going to be 64 bit! ;)
b) It's capitalized differently: TrustZone
Sorry - I cannot really say much about future ARM products and roadmaps. Reply
aryonoco - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - link1) Which one gives you more sleepless nights, Intel or Imagination Technologies?
2) Is ARM likely to make a big core SoC like Apple's Cyclone? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkNot sure either of these cause me sleepless nights but they do give my subconscious some story lines to work on when asleep. ;) I don't think competition is a bad thing ...
Check out: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6420/arms-cortex-a57... ... The A57 is our current "big" core. Reply
Dmcq - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkDo you think there might be a comeback for ThumbEE type facilities in the 64 bit architecture to support JIT code or run time checking of things like overflows?
It seems like everything is being virtualized, does this stop some type of developments that are incompatible with good virtualized performance?
What is the main thing you know now that you really wish you knew or fully understood five years ago? Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkThanks for the questions.
a) We do look at JIT performance as one of the metrics we optimize for. But we often find that it's better to cater to JITs at the microarchitecture level rather than at the architecture (instruction set). We've found that there are way too many different approaches to writing good JITs, and there are conflicts on when and how much the well-intentioned JIT-oriented instructions can be exploited.
b) I am not aware of any architectural development that we didn't do because of virtualization issues. However, I agree with you, there are ways of catering to virtualizability and others that make it harder. Architects do think about these issues.
c) It's a long list... But not much of it is related to computers. ;) Not because I claim to have known everything about the subject - but the objectives have been clear: how do you increase the efficiency of your designs (Performance / W) while keeping the costs down. It's a tall order and the means of achieving it change over time. But this metric has been front-and-center at ARM over much of its existence and I don't expect this to change radically. Reply
twotwotwo - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkHrm, chances are I'm too late, but an oddball question:
OS X, Android, and Chrome OS all use some kind of compressed swap, running a cheap algorithm like LZO or Snappy on not-recently-used pages of RAM--it's a neat trick to pretend you've got more memory than you really do, and it works well because CPUs are so stupid-fast now.
Early slides for AMD's Seattle SoC advertise a dedicated compression coprocessor. I don't know how much dedicated hardware even helps with compression (from what little I know of the algorithms, it seems like you'd mainly need fast random access to a smallish memory cache, which the CPU should already be really good at). But if you could make some sort of compression "free", that could boost devices' effective RAM for the buck (or improve effective I/O speed for the buck, as the SandForce SSD controller's compression does).
So, I suppose you can't really talk plans, but is dedicated compression IP an interesting area? Reply
OreoCookie - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkIntel covers its markets with variants of essentially two cores (Atom-class cores and Core-class cores) while ARM already has many more (at least 3 current A-series cores, discounting Cortex-M and Cortex-R cores). Is ARM comfortable with this strategy or is there a need for more specialized cores that address only a certain market? (E. g. does it make sense to bring a dedicated server core to market which is no longer suitable for smartphone and tablet applications?) Reply
KFlautner - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkWhich cores get used for which market is ultimately up to our silicon partners.
What ARM does is make sure is that we offer all the features that they need to take ARM cores into the appropriate segments. Reply
OreoCookie - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkSure, but it seems to me that there is a burgeoning ARM server market, demand seems to be there. Since the requirements for server cores are different from those you have in mobile applications, I was wondering how ARM will address that market. (Apart from offering custom cores for that market, bringing suitable interconnects to market could be another approach.) Reply
KFlautner - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkARM does offer server class interconnects. Take a look at this story on our CCN interconnect technologies http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/05/08/arm-serve... Reply
chrone - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkHi Anand and Krisztian,
When will we see a high performance single thread CPU and powerful GPU in ARM?
4/8 cores do not make sense in mobile platform since they only throttles a lot and makes the transition animation stutters or janky on Android due to the low performance when throttling. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkWhat do you mean? Cortex A57 not powerful enough for mobile? Or do you mean in PC's?
ARM doesn't need to target PCs with a higher performance/higher power consumption CPU and GPU. They will get there in a few years. "There" being around the same level of performance with Intel's mainstream Core chips. Why? Because Intel will forego chasing performance because:
1) it's getting increasingly more expensive for them to do so
2) chasing lower power consumption is much easier at this point, and also a pretty marketable feature.
Plus ARM CPUs are increasing in performance with each generation much more than Intel's CPUs do. So in a few years we'll see parity. ARM should be more concerned with Performance/Watt, since that's really where they will have to worry about Intel, since Intel is a node and a half ahead of ARM chips right now (although this gap will shrink with the arrival of FinFET, but still). Reply
samirotiv - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkHello,
Could you please tell me a little about the kind of branch predictors that are used in ARM CPUs?
Is there scope to use the more modern predictors, such as TAGE, or are more primitive predictors, such as Gshare, used because of their simplicity? Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkWhere's Cortex A55, and why didn't we see it launch at the same time with A53 and A57? Reply
findx - Saturday, June 07, 2014 - linkIt was mentioned earlier that:
"An area I find interesting from an architecture point-of-view is machine learning. But we'll need some time for the algorithms to settle before we'd design in too much deep support for new workloads."
Beyond SIMD for matrix routines, what types of new architecture level support do you envision helping machine learning workloads? Reply
Wardrive86 - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkDoes the increase in single precision NEON performance in the Cortex a57 (vs a15) come from just a clock speed increase? Can you talk about any enhancements that has been made to the FPU and NEON? Reply
martinez.lopez.alvaro - Monday, June 09, 2014 - linkIs there any interest by ARM of targeting the HPC market? Or more specifically, does ARM want to be in the top500 list with ARM cores alone (i.e without third parties accelerator, something like Intel Xeon Phi)? Reply
quadrivial - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkApple Cyclone (A7) hard-launched in September of last year. ARM's A57 won't hard launch until the middle of next year (close to 18 months later).
How does the first-party ARM design team fall so far behind when foreknowledge of the new ISA gives them a head start in micro-architecture design and implementation? What is ARM R&D doing to catch up with their licensees? Reply
sverre_j - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkBack to the question about the new 64-bit ISA.
I was surprised to leard that the ARMv8 instructions translate into microops. Was this done to cater for instructions that need to be broken up into pieces? Were there other reasons for doing so?
Thanks. Reply


text:
I don't have this camera, but recently tried a friends. The specs indicate it should be a good camera, and it certainly lives up to it. The 10 mega pixel pictures give a good, clear picture in standard conditions, but can lack in quality in high light conditions. Built into this camera, like a lot of Casio cameras these days is the impressive quick upload to youtube that it allows you. When ever you take a video in this mode, it changes the video size and quality so that it maximises quality when you come to upload, ideal if you do lots of videos and to do so relatively cheaply without having to spend money on a separate video camcorder The lens is of good quality is quite sufficient, a 28mm wide angle lens and this also helps with the 4x optical zoom. The ISO is good when set high, so pictures are as clear as possible. Rechargeable battery as standard is good and will last for a reasonable amount of time, usually about 4 hours, turning it on and off. A simple camera to use, with good pictures produced!
Love this camera, I got it last December 2008.
The camera is so easy to use, power up and press the shutter button and there you have taken a 10.1 meg picture!
The camera also allows you to use the quick settings button, where the camera is pre installed with settings that are good for different environments such as sports or fireworks or night time. All you have to do is select the setting you want to then take the picture and you will see a great image come out.
The camera is really easy to use; it's the perfect size and weight so you are able to hold it just right.
The camera also comes with a nice youtube setting, which allows you to record in a format that is suited for youtube, have used this feature quite a lot and it's fantastic.
The camera has a nice 4 times optical zoom, this is enough for everyday use, you are able to get from one end of a room to another.
It comes with a rechargeable battery which does last long, without having to charge it again.
The camera exceed in natural day light conditions, where I have captured some of the best pictures that I have taken. And for indoors the flash with the camera is great, it's bright enough. The only bad thing about the flash would be its position, right where you hold the camera, so you sort have to adjust your fingers when using the camera, but you then get use to this.
Overall a great camera.
I haven't had much luck with digital cameras in the past, to be fair i sat on one of them and dropped another in a puddle! hmmm...! So after learning a few lessons the hard way, i decided rather than going for the high priced cameras i would go for what i would say is a mid-priced digital camera. With its 10.1 megapixels the images are as you would expect very detailed and large in size. I wouldn't bother buying a camera with much less megapixels as you would be better off not bothering and using your mobile phone camera as most mobiles have good quality cameras integrated these days. I havent really made much use of all the extra features available as i have no need to personally but out of curiosity i found that the settings and features are easy to locate and navigate through. The reasons you should buy this camera in my opinion are as follows;
good quality images and videos
good flash, positioned in the top-middle of the camera so your finger doesn't get in the way of it!
sleek and attractive
Battery life is the best i've known in any camera i've owned
light, easy to hold and carry
user-friendly control pad (you do not have to be a rocket scientist to work out how to change any settings!)
Basically a great all-rounder which i am sure can do just as good a job as the priced-out-of-this-world cameras.
(Oh and this one has already lasted longer than the last two did put together!)


text:
Futuremark 3DMark Vantageby Jarred Walton on 4/29/2008 12:00 AM EST
- Posted in
- Software
19 Comments
Back to Article
Juddog - Friday, May 09, 2008 - linkAll that happened was a page came up saying page not found? WTF kind of benchmark has to connect to the web and display their page first?
I tried to make it run about 15 different ways, none worked. First time I have uninstalled an Onion benchmark. 3dmark01, 03, 05, 06 all run flawlessly on my system (vista x64), only Vantage has this issue.
What a waste of a download, I am highly disappointed. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - linkI used 3DMark mainly as a basic test of system stability (looping for several hours) and because the graphics were pretty. After 3DMark01, the newer versions have almost nothing that reflects real-world game performance; the most you can say is that you can test whether a graphics card supports certain features of DirectX properly.
Charging for pretty much every feature is silly. I can understand charging review sites, but gamers aren't going to pay this kind of money for essentially what is an e-manhood measuremeant (Mine's better than yours! Nyah! Nyah!), and if gamers stop using FutureMark tools, then review sites will stop using them to show results. Which, IMO is probably a good thing, as the results are meaningless in terms of whether you're capable of playing Game X, Y, or Z at good frame rates with your existing graphics card.
I think Futuremark's move has finally put a bullet through their foot, but time will tell. Reply
Clauzii - Monday, May 05, 2008 - linkThanks to Anandtech for the review - with a LOT of pics. (Should I stitch them togeth..... nahhh ;) So also thank You for the clip :) (Doesn't matter it is a bit choppy - it would have been on my machine anyway, if run in realtime!!)
Goodbye 3DMark. Thank You for the nice Years (since 1999 on the RivaTNT). Even though You got nice colors and epic landscapes; so does nature. But now You want money from me to look at You? Even more, if You shall be usefull to me? And a LOT more if I'd wanted all of You? No thanks.
brian_riendeau - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - link[quote]It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because Futuremark may have relegated 3DMark Vantage into irrelevance by this decision. Now, you can't test and retest your system to see how any tweaks may or may not affect your score[/quote]
This sums up all of my thoughts on this. I have always had Futuremark software on my PC, and it gets run at various times to check new drivers, see if tweaks affected the system, and sometimes just out of boredom. At some point in time, I paid $20 for 3DMark05 as well since it was "only $20" and I was using it all the time. Now Futuremark puts out a new benchmark which is basically "pay to benchmark". Well why the heck am I going to pay for it, when most people won't? I can't just compare scores with anyone now, so I will keep my money, less people will buy it, and in a few months time, 3DMark might be just a memory.
Also it certainly does not help that the first GPU benchmark looks like total crap, and the whole scene for the CPU benchmark looks like crap as well. Is this 2001 and we are supposed to be dazzled by water effest from in GPU #1 test? Does anyone realize that, umm, hardly any games take place on the surface of the water?!?! Why does almost all of GPU #1 test look worse than Half Life 2?
I gotta say I was a Mad Onion/Futuremark fanboy right up until today. It was not perfect, but it was readily available and a pretty decent tool for comparing that I have defended on various forums. Anytime I buily a system for someone, I would install 3DMark and leave the icon right on their desktop and show them how to run it for the eye candy. This whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Reply
Locutus465 - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkFor $20 I figure what the hell, honestly I really enjoy looking at the pretty pictures in 3DMark's benchmarks. I'm also really curios to see how my new system stacks up compared to the others I'm sure are out there already. Reply
Locutus465 - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkSo I installed this and ran it durring lunch today.... First of all, holy system killer, this really brought my system to it's keens which was interesting to see.
As far as the app it's self, first and formost it's fairly buggy still. I like the web integration idea they have going on but it breaks all over the place. The benchmarks them selves are fairly interesting to watch, what I really found interesting is they managed to murder your GPU and CPU resources very effectivly all the while not generating all that compelling of graphics. Doom3 / quake 4 look better than the first benchmark, and they run faster too. The second benchmark, the space one which actually ran faster than the first did manage to look fairly nice.
And, all in all... My current all AMD system is dwarfed by their fastest system lol. I'm not sure what all hardware they had in that system but wow... Still, not very dissapointed with my results. I'm running 100% stock speeds (thought just last night I finally installed a better cpu hsf) and I still lack any sort of cross fire. Reply
ViRGE - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkI know I'm not the only one here who has never given a damn about 3DMark for benchmarking purposes, I've always used it for the graphics. The previous versions have been a couple years ahead of mainstream games and had offered a good look in to where games were going. In other words, it was really damn pretty.
Vantage has largely missed the boat on that. GPU test 1 is really unimpressive, it seems to spend too much resources on overexaggerated water and cloth simulations, and not much on anything else. GPU test 2 is better with a whole test devoted to a space scene, but then again nothing interesting happens, it's mostly camera panning and a bunch of damn asteroids.
Worst of all, Demo mode is gone, which is a real disappointment. Futuremark hails from the greatest demoscene group of all time, The Future Crew; past benchmarks (3dMark '05 in particular) included some rather impressive demo modes. The lack of a demo mode just highlights the fact that they missed a chance to do something jawdropping, GPU Test 2 in particular is just begging for a real space battle (boy do I miss space sims).*
While I realize it's a benchmarking product and sold as such, I really do think the greater utility of the product was offering a good look at what modern hardware could do and what future games would look like. Futuremark shot themselves in the foot here making something so visually unimpressive and artistically uninspired.
* Please may the Futuremark game be this Reply
acejj26 - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkwhy does the first thumbnail of Jane Nash look like someone is peeing? am i the only one who sees that? Reply
Matt Campbell - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkPlus her jetski looks like the model from 1977 in The Spy Who Loved Me.
piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkUgh, multiple benchmark types? Surely the attraction of 3DMark is there was one, single comparable score, run at defaults that everyone could run.. Vista only requirement? I'm still running XP so I won't be touching this. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkoh and 3DMark2001 is still my favourite of the lot Reply
Griswold - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - linkI bet, it blends perfectly into the picture of "yesterdays world". Reply
KHysiek - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkthat comes with Vantage. Now yout get hardly anything above nothing for free. Reply
skinflickBOB - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkI happen to run a business too. When I started out 11 years ago, I made one vow - to make profit - sl long as my means remained honest.
Yeah, who'd want to earn money for a living eh?
I suppose you go out and work for free too do you?
Or lets all open up a business and not concentrate on charging for our services...
It's a simple concept really - we don't have to buy it do we?
michal1980 - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkyes business provides a service. However 3dmark provides nearly nothing to an end user. It was only remotly popular for stability testing, and o.c. fanbois.
You dont play 3dmark, no games are based off of it. And the only reason it was popular at all, is because its free. Now the limited version costs 7 bucks. For a bench mark progarm. phhff sorry, vantage is an epic fail. Reply
BigLan - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkYeah, I saw it was released yesterday and was interested, but wanting $7 just to upload to the ORB? Reply
Kyanzes - Friday, May 02, 2008 - linkIt's a major suckage that you have to pay for providing statistical data. I certainly won't pay for this "service", lol. 450MB download for a run-once benchmark? Stick it up to where it belongs. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkArticle updated (page 2). Honestly, I never even realized the new registration system until I saw this comment. Ouch. Okay, so $20 is not that big of an expense - especially if you're already spending thousands of dollars to try and top the ORB charts - but with the included advertising it seems the Basic mode at least should have remained free. Reply
AssBall - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - linkYou missed the point totally while you were preaching your personal business ideals. He said they changed it so you get nothing with the free version anymore. Reply


text:
New BooksFriday, November 18th, 2011
These works can be found on our New Book shelf in Bailey/Howe, an ever-rotating sampling of things we're adding to our collection. You can also review all our newest books online, and subscribe via RSS to receive alerts about acquisitions, by discipline.
In The Vegetarian Imperative, Anand M. Saxena, a scientist and lifelong vegetarian, explains why we need to make better choices: for better health, to eliminate world hunger, and, ultimately, to save the planet. Our insatiable appetite for animal-based foods contributes directly to high rates of chronic diseases-resulting in both illness and death. It also leads to a devastating overuse of natural resources that dangerously depletes the food available for human consumption. Supported by up-to-date and accurate scientific data, The Vegetarian Imperative will make you rethink what you eat-and help you save the planet.
The Vegetarian Imperative by Anand M. Saxena
In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899–1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. One critic described the work as "halfway between constructivism and costume jewelry," unwittingly putting his finger on the contradiction at the heart of these paintings and much of Fontana's work: the cut canvases suggest avant-garde iconoclasm, but the glittery ornamentation evokes outmoded forms of kitsch. Anthony White examines a selection of the artist's work from the 1930s to the 1960s, arguing that Fontana attacked the idealism of twentieth-century art by marrying modernist aesthetics to industrialized mass culture, and attacked modernism's purity in a way that anticipated both pop art and postmodernism.
Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch by Anthony White
Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of Tibet's youngest nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature, a sense of the spiritual in all things. She married a monk, had two children and lived in peace and prayer. The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything for Kunsang. When Chinese soldiers began destroying her monastery, she and her family were forced to flee in a hair-raising trek across the Himalayas in winter—-and ultimately all the way to Switzerland.
Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Opression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen
Featured here–in their own words–are major research mathematicians whose cutting-edge discoveries have advanced the frontiers of the field, such as Lars Ahlfors, Mary Cartwright, Dusa McDuff, and Atle Selberg. Others are leading mathematicians who have also been highly influential as teachers and mentors, like Tom Apostol and Jean Taylor. Fern Hunt describes what it was like to be among the first black women to earn a PhD in mathematics. Harold Bacon made trips to Alcatraz to help a prisoner learn calculus. Thomas Banchoff, who first became interested in the fourth dimension while reading a Captain Marvel comic, relates his fascinating friendship with Salvador Dalí.
Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs Edited by Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson


text:
$keys = array('name', 'address');
handle = fopen("data.csv", "r") ;
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
// ?
What is the most efficient way of turning a sample data.csv file such as this:
name, address
"C Stunt", "Letsby Avenue"
"Ishood Coco", "Arfway house"
into an associated array such as
$arr[0]['name'] = "C Stunt" ;
$arr[0]['address'] = "Letsby Avenue" ;
$arr[1]['name'] = "Ishood Coco" ;
$arr[1]['address'] = "Arfway house" ;
Naturally the real csv file has many more columns than this, I just wondered if there was an easy way of doing it, rather than re-assigning the values by hand?
... and when it bites you no the *rse don't come running to me...
Y'see - thats why I know I will never, ever be a ninja like you - just as I know I will never play for England nor become a famous Hollywood actor.
Thank the lord for ninjas, soccer players and actors though.
I admire your 'JFDI fu' Mr.Geraghty, good luck and godspeed.
Sometimes there is a clash between SRP, JFDI and the clock and sometimes the wrong one wins, and I know it and I feel bad but at least I know why and I don't care - so shoot me.
If have never needed to do this to a csv file before, in the unlikely event that I ever do then I will go back and refactor.
(just seeing that makes me more inclined to go back NOW... the force ... is strong ... I feel weak ...I can resist...)
I mean I just know, know, know in my bones that I should be unit testing this too, but it has to get out the door and onto a website like, yesterday.
ps Thanks to all for your input on this one by the way, really interesting list of solutions.
I still think additional filtering should be separate from the object that composes the associative entry.
This particular method (or rather any method) should 'do one thing and one thing only' to quote Uncle Bob. In this case, it's determining whether or not the entry is acceptable for the associative array.
It's a code smell, definitely.
How would you change that filter? You have to alter the object internals, and well, you know how that goes.
Create a filter for each filter, which sounds kinda obvious when you say it like that, from an OO POV.
Don't make me crack open the SRP wiki link.
In order to filter the original csv file, I used Salathes idea and am mucking about in the accept() method.
This works as expected, but looks wrong;
public function accept()
$item = $this->getInnerIterator();
$i = $item->current() ;
if( $this->_count === count(parent::current()) && $i[14] === "ABC" )
return true;
I'll probably abstract away the hard coded match between item 14 and ABC, but am I accessing the 15th array item in the best way, or is there something obvious I missed?
There's nothing stopping the class from bring rewritten to accept an SplFileObject in the constructor, but then you'd have to keep track of whether we're looking at a CSV file and behave accordingly since pretty much everything else in there is tailored towards this particular, individual use case. That's a detail for Cups to ponder, to see which he prefers.
I can be less awesome if you'd prefer. (:
Thanks Salathe!
I was thinking of doing something similar, but didn't like the idea of creating the CSV and flags internally. However, the combination of the LimitIterator and FilterIterator is something I hadn't considered.
I like that a lot.
Thanks again.
ps. If you weren't so awesome, I think you'd be my current nemesis.
For what it's worth, a minimalist version of Anthony's AssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator might be of use. It uses a FilterIterator (to only accept rows with count(headers) fields) which extends IteratorIterator (which does the iterator of our SplFileObject without us having to redefine the basic iteration methods).
(The class name is just poking fun, probably best not to keep it for yourself.)
class MinimalistFilterIteratorVersionOfAnthonysAssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator extends FilterIterator
protected $_headers, $_count;
public function __construct($path)
// Build CSV file iterator
$csv = new SplFileObject($path, 'r');
// Remember column names and count
$this->_headers = $csv->current();
$this->_count = count($this->_headers);
// LimitIterator allows us to always skip the headers
parent::__construct(new LimitIterator($csv, 1));
// Returns a nice assoc. array
public function current()
return array_combine($this->_headers, parent::current());
// Skip this line if it does not have $_count number of fields
public function accept()
return $this->_count === count(parent::current());
$csv = new MinimalistFilterIteratorVersionOfAnthonysAssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator('data.csv');
foreach ($csv as $row) {
When I first looked in the fgetcsv manual I found this old project
And did not really down the page any further, but revisiting it I just noticed that there are some refs to the SPL, but they just use fgetcsv rather than an SPLFileobject.
It would have been interesting if there were some test cases for all this stuff.
That parsecsv class seems to want to emulate really simple sql statements, and may have been born from frustrations with formatting and encoding - and just seemed overkill to me.
I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else was searching on this subject.
Whoa, 3 very different answers there, thanks people.
@Anthony I was hoping there was an SPL -based solution after seeing your pastebin-housed SPL experiment a few weeks ago.
The initial target block of code you set works fine and seems to handle empty values as expected.
As I have a series of operations to do, that target code will allow me to quickly extract the initial values from a large csv file, to create the smaller one.
I might as well explain the whole thing.
1 I wget a largish csv file nightly ( ~4k rows) and cache it.
2 I extract only those rows of interest to me, around 100 rows.
3 Some of those text fields will then be checked for "transformations" ie turning email into  links etc, squirt it into a template.
4 The result is then duly cached for 24 hrs.
So you see, between steps 2 and 3 it'll make much more sense for me, or anyone else using the data to be able to reference the array-elements by name.
Regarding the filtering, see FilterIterator, use it to wrap AssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator and only return the rows meeting the criteria you set within FilterIterator::accept().
Other than that, AssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator still needs some refactoring but the premise is there.
So far, I have.
$csv = new SplFileObject('data.csv');
foreach(new AssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator($csv) as $line => $entry){
foreach($entry as $key => $value){
printf('(%d) %s => %s
', $line, $key, $value);
(0) name => C Stunt
(0) address => Letsby Avenue
(1) name => Ishood Coco
(1) address => Arfway house
class AssociativeSplCsvFileObjectIterator implements Iterator
$csv = null,
$keys = array(),
$position = 0;
public function __construct(SplFileObject $csv){
$this->csv = $csv;
public function rewind(){
$this->position = 0;
public function current(){
return array_combine($this->keys, $this->csv->current());
public function key(){
return $this->position;
public function next(){
function valid(){
return $this->csv->valid();
protected function setKeys(){
$this->keys = array_values($this->csv->current());
I can't say I'm happy with the Iterator yet though.
Right, I'm on a mission to SPL'ize this, for reference, I need to recreate the following.
$file = new SplFileObject('data.csv');
$keys = null;
foreach($file as $line => $entry){
if(null === $keys){
$keys = array_values($entry);
foreach($entry as $key => $value){
printf('(%d) %s => %s
', $line, $keys[$key], $value);
(1) name => C Stunt
(1) address => Letsby Avenue
(2) name => Ishood Coco
(2) address => Arfway house
I'd extend or implement the SPL Iterator interface, assign the keys on the first iteration and return the set key from Iterator::key() on subsequent requests.
You can the use this with the standard SPL File object (which reads CSV's) and read the data as you go.
Very memory efficient.
$handle = fopen("data.csv", "r");
$count = 0;
$headers = array();
$arr = array();
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
if ($count == 0)
$headers = $data;
for ($i = 0; $i < count($headers); ++$i)
$arr[$count][$headers[$i]] = $data[$i];
$row = array_combine($headers, $data);
P.S. Unless you really know and trust your CSV file, it's probably worth checking the length of the $data is the same as the number of headers before combining.


text:
Blog Directory
Browse the Blog Directory
Browse blogs from wide range of categorized blogs on our blog directory. Whether you are looking for niche blogs, personal blogs, Germany blogs, Regional blogs, Central America blogs you can find them all in our blog directory.
Submit your Blog
Or, Submit your blog and be included on our search engine friendly blog directory.
Germany Central AmericaBrowsing Germany Blogs » Regional Blogs » Central America Blogs
Find the featured blog sites about regional Central America at BlogsDB. Add Central America blogs and get listed on our leading blog directory on cyberspace.


text: Stor-Mor Mobile Storage has been in the storage business for almost 20 years. Our goal is to give you the customer the best possible solution for your storage needs. We offer rentals, purchases and special modifications to meet the needs of every customer and situation. Please take a look around and if there is anyway that we can help you fill out a quote request or contact us and we will be happy to find a solution to your storage needs!


text: Australian Government Agencies. Show: Government Customer Showcase Australian agencies rely on Adobe software to improve internal efficiencies and ensure easy access to solutions for millions of people nationwide. Product Version: CC Views: 470 Added: Apr 05, 2010 Runtime: 00:01:51 Tags: Flash, Australia, acrobat, government, livecycle, acrobat reader, deewr, dha, diisr, gpa


text:
About Tesla
Palo Alto, California-based, Tesla Motors uses proprietary technology, world-class design, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to create a new generation of highway capable electric vehicles. We utilize an innovative distribution model based on Company-owned sales and service centers. This approach allows us to maintain the highest levels of customer experience and benefit from short customer feedback loops to ensure our customer needs are fulfilled. We believe our operational infrastructure provides us with a competitive advantage compared to traditional automobile manufacturers.
The Role
Provide in depth technical support to vehicle technicians at all Tesla Service locations, utilizing knowledge of vehicle behaviors, vehicle architecture plus electronics and mechanical theory, to ensure speedy repair of customer vehicles and to minimize vehicle downtime. Develop and maintain all tools, machinery and equipment used in the diagnosis and repair of Tesla Roadster vehicles. Perform supporting activities for engineering and manufacturing to implement new vehicle firmware and hardware upgrades that improve vehicle and system performance. Provide weekly support for technical issues arising in the E.U. and APAC theaters of operation.
Tesla Motors is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, present or past history of mental disability, genetic information or any other classification protected by state or federal law.
United States
|Web Site:
|1050 Bing Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
United States
|Cleantech / Energy
Support Tesla Motors with Social Media services
Find more Field Support Engineer jobs


text:
SYRACUSE, NY - The Syracuse Chiefs received eight strong innings from starting pitcher Zack Duke and handed the Gwinnett Braves their ninth straight loss with a 5-2 win Sunday night.
The Syracuse Chiefs scored a pair of runs in both the seventh and eighth inning and beat the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves 6-2 on Friday in Syracuse, N.Y.
LAWRENCEVILLE - A two-out, two-run double by Indianapolis right fielder Brandon Boggs led the Indians to a 4-2 win and a series sweep over the Gwinnett Braves on Thursday afternoon at Coolray Field.
The Indianapolis Indians scored three runs in the third inning and two more in the fifth en route to a 10-2 win over the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves on Wednesday at Coolray Field.
Columbus second baseman Cord Phelps went 2 for 3 with three RBIs, leading the Clippers to a 6-2 victory over the slumping Gwinnett Braves on Sunday afternoon at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville.
Jair Jurrjens surrendered four earned runs on a grand slam from Russ Canzler in the sixth inning and the Gwinnett Braves lost the first of a four-game series to the Columbus Clippers on Thursday at Coolray Field.
The Pawtucket Red Sox erased a 1-0 deficit with a six-run seventh inning, defeating the Gwinnett Braves 6-1 on Sunday afternoon in Pawtucket.
The Gwinnett Braves took a three-run lead to the bottom of the ninth, withstood a furious rally from Pawtucket and held on to win 5-4 in Game 1 of the four-game series at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I. on Saturday night. The win, combined with a 4-3 Columbus win over Charlotte, moves the G-Braves to within 2 1/2 games of the first place Knights in the International League South standings.
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs came back from a 2-0 deficit with five runs in the bottom of the seventh to beat the Gwinnett Braves 5-2 in Game 3 of the four-game series. The G-Braves are now 2 1/2 games behind Charlotte in the International League South, as Charlotte won its fourth straight game Thursday night.
The Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs used a high-powered, 16-hit attack to hand the Gwinnett Braves their fifth loss in the last six games with a 10-1 drubbing Tuesday night in Game 1 of the four-game series at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pa.
The Atlanta Braves' top pitching prospect, right-hander Julio Teheran, turned in his best performance of the season on Sunday night, pitching a complete game, the first of his professional career, and leading the Gwinnett Braves to a 5-1 win over the Charlotte Knights.
The Charlotte Knights scored three times in the first inning against Triple-A Gwinnett's starter Kris Medlen and never trailed, going on to a 5-2 win on Saturday night at Coolray Field. With the win, the Knights not only swept the first half of the home-and-home series, but also closed to within a 1/two-game of the G-Braves for first place in the International League South Division.
LAWRENCEVILLE - Kris Medlen last put on a Triple-A Gwinnett Braves uniform in 2009, just before being called up to Atlanta for his major league debut.
WASHINGTON - Friday night's game between the Washington Nationals and Atlanta Braves has been postponed by rain.
The Gwinnett Braves fell short of a series victory, settling for a split against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. The G-Braves lost the series finale 14-4 at Coolray Field on Thursday.
Page 4 of 15
Privacy policy and Terms of service


text:
Did you know?
The Cape Town City Hall has a permanent exhibition honouring the life of Nelson Mandela.
It's a balmy evening along the Grand Parade in central Cape Town as people dressed in everything from tuxedos to blue jeans arrive at the stately City Hall.
Tonight's benefit concert for the South African Air Force Association has excited everyone, because they know they're going to be entertained by the best the city can offer.
The Navy Band will be followed by the rousing skirls of the Cape Town Highlanders in their saucy kilts, the Cape Town Male Voice Choir and a couple of wonderful tenors and sopranos. A popular local radio personality is the master of ceremonies.
A night of superlatives follows, and everyone goes home lifted by some quality music. This is the Cape Town City Hall at its finest, its grand auditorium providing a platform for world-class performances. It's also very heartening to know that both the Cape Town Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras take to the stage here on a regular basis. It adds even more cultural lustre to this stylish city.
As you pass the City Hall on your 'dawn patrol' of central Cape Town, the amber morning light falls directly on its sandstone-coloured Italian Renaissance-style facade. You could be in London, Florence or somewhere in the morning traffic of Rome.
Inside, it's a symphony of mosaic floors, old stained glass, a classic pipe organ and marble staircase. That bell tower at the Cape Town City Hall has an astounding 39 bells and reminds many visitors of London's Big Ben.
The auditorium has seen royalty and 'regular folks' alike since the opening of the City Hall in 1905. In 1947, as part of the British Royal tour of South Africa, the lovely young Princess Elizabeth was the belle of a grand ball staged here.
But every high-born personal appearance ever made at the Cape Town City Hall was totally eclipsed on 11 February 1990, when a newly-released Nelson Mandela stood on the balcony and addressed the jubilant people gathered below on the Grand Parade square.
'Today the majority of South Africa, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future,' Mandela said. 'Our march to freedom is irreversible.'
An estimated 250 000 people cheered from the square below. And millions around the world joined them in celebration...
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Cape Town Visitor Information
Tel: +27 (0)21 487 6800
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cape Philharmonic Orchestra
Tel: +27 (0)21 410 9809
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cape Town City Hall
Tel: +27 (0)21 465 2029
How to get here
The Cape Town City Hall is in Darling Street, opposite the Grand Parade, one block up (west) from the Castle.
Best time to visit
Early in the morning is best for photography of the City Hall exterior – otherwise try to take in an evening performance inside.
Around the area
While in the City Hall area, visit the District 6 Museum, Greenmarket Square, the Houses of Parliament, the various Iziko Museums and the South African National Gallery.
Tours to do
There is no shortage of accredited tour guides – check the Cape Town Tourism website for choices.
Get around
If you observe the normal rules of international urban safety, the city centre of Cape Town is a great place to walk around in – most of the sights are close together.
What will it cost
Tickets to the performances are usually R80+ per person.
Length of stay
City Hall performances last 2-3 hours. A walking visit – by appointment only - is worth 30 minutes of your time.
What to pack
If possible, have a wide-angle lens available for photography of the exterior of the City Hall.
Where to stay
Central Cape Town has plenty of accommodation – check the listed Cape Town Tourism website.
What to eat
Some of the best informal fish and chip shops in Cape Town outlets are just outside the City Hall, on the Grand Parade.
What's happening
Check the listed Cape Philharmonic Orchestra website for dates of performances.


text:
Topic: I can hardly believe it myself!
Well, I haven't posted in a while but I do want to share my good news, hopefully it will be good information for others on this site.
I found out today, with amazement, that there are no active tumors in my liver! As I type it, I can hardly believe it! To get to this point, I have had a liver resection in February, multiple rounds of cisplatin/gemzar, radioembolization in August of this year (which is now considered a success), and 3 rounds of FOLFOX6 chemotherapy. There is no 100% way to know if one or the other did the trick or if it's a combination of both. I will continue with the FOLFOX chemo until, well I don't know yet. But I will get another PET scan in 3 months.
I just want everyone to know that there is definitely hope to be had. I know this doesn't mean I'm cured but maybe I can relax a bit and enjoy, really enjoy, my life without as much anxiety and worry as I have had for the last year (my husband and family too!).
This site means so much to me, and gave me hope when I needed it the most, and continues to give me so much knowledge and support. I only hope that I can give back as much as I've received.
Keep hope!


text:
TONY Smith expects his Warrington Wolves side to regroup after defeat to Castleford Tigers and believes the loss can spark the focus they need to challenge this season.
Smith's side suffered their biggest defeat since a 62-18 loss to London Broncos in August 2012 at the Mend-A-Hose Jungle, but have a break from Super League next week when they host Doncaster in the Challenge Cup.
However, Smith recalled Wolves' last Challenge Cup triumph and remembers a heavy defeat to Catalan being somewhat of a turning point in their season.
"I can remember a feeling of going to Catalan about two years ago and getting pumped by a similar score," said Wolves' head of coaching and rugby.
"But I think we went on to win the Challenge Cup that year and finish the year very, very strong so some of these days can really bring you together as a group and focus you.
"That's what we're going to have to do, we'll get out there again in Super League in a couple of weeks' time and our focus will turn over to Challenge Cup this week and we'll regroup and refocus."
Smith admitted it was a disappointing display in attack from his charges, especially after promising performances from the likes of Gareth O'Brien in the win against Widnes on Friday.
"Nobody shone for us," he added. "I'm not saying people didn't try, but there wasn't too many shiners or glowing lights in our team.
"It was a tough day for young half backs to shine, a tough day for a lot of our players to shine but we've had other days like this in the past and you have to bring yourself together.
"They were a lot sharper, particularly second half, and I've asked some of my staff to see if they can go and unpack some of our attacking game; I think it was left on the coach."
Smith felt the Tigers, who have lost only twice this campaign compared to Wolves' five defeats, put in a strong defensive display.
"It wasn't a great day for us and Cas played well," he explained. "We didn't handle their ability to capture defensively, they're very, very good at that, probably the best at it at the moment; catching you and holding you up in the air and buying time.
"If you don't deal with that, if you can't combat that then they are going to buy themsleves a lot of time and they had a lot of time today. We're going to improve on that.
"When those sorts of tactics are working well they're hard to combat and we didn't combat it well at all today."