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Our Brand Story
The purpose and promise of our new brand
NOTE: The "Brand Story" was written for the employees of The Mount Sinai Health System and was distributed via intranet on December 14, 2013
Everyone knows Mount Sinai.
But not everyone knows what we stand for.
That is why we are introducing our new brand. To better communicate our distinctive, energetic, and creative identity to everyone who touches Mount Sinai. To bring us all together — through better messaging, communications, and actions that embody our brand.
Just as we want Mount Sinai to represent the single source for groundbreaking research, excellence in education, and compassionate clinical care, so Mount Sinai itself must become one unified brand. This means that everyone — physicians, scientists, clinical staff, students, and employees — must have a common understanding of who we are and what we stand for.
A successful brand unifies and clarifies identity, but it is also a discipline that guides an organization's strategic thinking, communications, and behavior. One mission. One voice. One set of values. It is an organizing principle that integrates our legacy, our locations, disciplines, talents, and expertise — and the human mission that binds everyone here.
All of which makes our new brand far more than a logo change. Our rebranding initiative builds on all the exceptional work we have done and the accomplishments we have achieved. It focuses and directs our future efforts into a carefully phased, definitive plan that enables us to express ourselves consistently in everything we say and do, how we interact, how we behave.
We took a long hard look at the core of who we are and why we are here. We conducted considerable research, both inside and outside the institution, to distill our strengths and qualities into a promise designed to make us the first choice for our workforce, our patients, and our donors. For everyone in our community: suppliers, vendors, constituents, and your next-door neighbors.
The time to change is now
We need this change to compete effectively to meet the challenges that lie ahead. With competition increasing and health care reform changing the landscape for everyone involved, we have to clearly and simply communicate that Mount Sinai is the choice for exceptional care and experiences, from preventive medicine to treatment for the most complex human conditions. Our new brand will bring us together around this promise. There is no better time to elevate our profile, define our presence, and deliver our message to all our audiences.
The people who rely on us most — patients from our neighborhood, across the nation, and around the world — will better understand who we are and what we have to offer through this change. As will our partners, providers, physicians, scientists, faculty, students, and prospective students who already know us as one of the nation's pre-eminent medical centers.
It is therefore vital that we present a cohesive, coherent brand. One worthy of our legacy, reputation, and of the people who make us what we are. One that represents a singularity of purpose and commitment.
In short, it is the ideal moment for cutting through the clutter to affirm who we are, why we are here, and where we are going.
What will change
All branded materials and assets will be changed to our new identity, but this will occur over a period of time. The conversion will happen in a fiscally responsible manner; we also want to give people time to understand and adjust to the change.
With our new brand identity, you can expect one key outcome: consistency. This unified mindset has emerged directly from our business strategy, and will inform brand-related decision-making at all levels consistent with our objectives – clinical, academic, medical and, more significantly, human.
We will have one culture: collegial, collaborative, and devoted to compassionate, comprehensive patient care, advanced research, and exceptional education. A consistent look, feel, and tone to all communications, signage, apparel, stationery, and vehicles. And a consistent experience for everyone who works here, has a relationship with us, or walks through our doors for treatment.
We will all be part of one big story, one that makes a real difference.
With each of us writing it, telling it, living it in everything we do.
Your brand: your role
You are Mount Sinai. You are the brand.
Our institution's reputation has always relied on you, and likewise our new brand will live and succeed only with your full support.
Therefore it is important that we maintain the spirit of openness and collaboration that has taken us this far, in order to make this a successful transition for everyone involved.
We urge you to familiarize yourself with the Mount Sinai Brand Center, home to all the tools, resources, and information you will need to understand, articulate, and represent our new brand. From signage to communications to uniforms to conversations to brand updates.
This will be an exciting, competitive move that will bring each of us even closer together. And closer to the people who need and depend on us most. It is a new chapter in our 160-year history. A chapter that, with your continued support, assistance, and dedication, will enhance and extend our success.


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I just finished my first semester of college, and I still have absolutely no idea what I want to major in. My interests are way too broad for me to be able to choose one subject and commit to it. I have considered everything from law to medicine to television to writing... but I hate to limit myself to just one.
Any advice or experiences you would like to share would be a great help. how do you like your given careers/majors?
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Re: college majors
I did whatever was easiest for me. Philosophy was the path of least resistance. I wanted to major in psychology, but it was too annoying at UC which is generally all about research. The problem now is that I have a degree and it all felt a bit pointless.
I'd figure out right away whether you're leaning towards obtaining a BA or BS. Humanities generally don't have to decide right away, but if you're leaning towards science you need to focus on it more. A lot more. The one thing I wish I would have done is go to the professors' office hours when I was fulfilling my breadth requirements and talk to them more. Not just about the present course, but what they found interesting in their field of study. Most people don't realize that your professors can be your greatest counselors. In my experience, the classes aren't what's valuable from college; it's the opportunity to sit down and talk to some of the most intelligent, committed, people you'll ever meet. And they generally love it when you take things further than what's being presented in the course.
It also helps if you're a major procrastinator like I was, and can often be the difference between a B and an A. Especially in the lower division classes where they know everyone is forced to be there. If you come to office hours at all they tend to adore you, but you might catch a bit of their passion if you come talking about theories and their own work.
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I'll share a quote from a biography I recently read in response to this question. "When you walk down the street, when you're in the shower, when you don't have to be thinking about anything else, isn't this what you think about? .... You ought to find something that you love so much that when you don't have to think about anything, that's what you think about."
That struck me when I read it. Made me think about what it is that I really love to think about and would like doing for the rest of my life.
So, what is it that gets you fired up? What do you think about when you don't have to think about anything else? If you don't know, maybe you still need to take more of the generals before you decide. Don't be afraid to do some exploring. And just because you pick one major does not necessarily mean you cannot take other extra classes just for fun.
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|31st-December-2008, 02:15 PM
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Re: college majors
Well, so far I am leaning towards a BA. I always got good grades in my science classes in high school, but I never had a real passion for it. I didn't go to any of my professors' office hours last semester, but that seems like great advice. The charm of going to a small private liberal arts college is supposed to be one on one time with the teachers, so I might as well take advantage of it. waterstiller, what UC did you go to?
Usually when I have nothing else to think about I tend to think about different television shows (characters, plot points, etc). I have always loved to come up with my own characters and stories. Unfortunately, I don't know how to express those ideas in any tangible form. I thought taking a class like Mass media would be a good start, but I hated it (tons of useless busy work). So I guess it is a good idea for me to stick with GE classes for now.
I hate not being able to figure out something so important though.
thanks for the advice.
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I'm getting a General Studies degree. I know, it sounds like a cop out... but it's the best decision I probably made during college. I've been taking psychology, philosophy, anthropology, etc. etc. You can take classes you're interested in, and get a B.A. Almost like what college is actually suppose to be! Learn what you want to! Yeah!
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But what do you do what with a degree in general studies? that might sound a bit shallow, but with all the money it's costing me I really can't afford learning for the sake of learning.
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Lana VanAuker of Canfield calls her shot, "The Mirrow of Mill Creek."
Luke Rowe, 4, right, and his sister Trista, 6 months, picked out their pumpkins at Detwiler Farm in October. They are the children of Mark and Tiffany Rowe of Boardman, who also sent in this photo.
Jeremy Lodwick of Youngstown is just hanging out with the scarecrows at his Great-grandma Vargo's house in Hubbard.
Jimmy, left, and Shayleigh Leslie, 11-month-old twins of Jimmy and Melissa Leslie of Austintown, enjoy going "pumpkin patching" at Whitehouse Fruit Farm. The twins were born in November of 2009. Photo sent in by Jimmy and Melissa Leslie.
Lana VanAuker of Canfield submitted this close-up taken at the Mill Creek MetroParks Experimental Farm in Canfield.
Jeremy Lodwick of Youngstown is playing in the leaves at his Great-grandma Vargo's house in Hubbard.
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Camren, left, and his brother Caleb help their grandpa clean the yard before an Ohio State football game. Their proud grandparents, who sent in this photo of the two little Buckeye fans, are Tom and Erin Chizmar of Youngstown.
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Jenna had minimal competition. Kelly had nothing that even resembled competition. Steph, meanwhile, was not only on a team of losers, but also up against Tom and Ian, who between the two of them won every single challenge.
Jenna had minimal competition. Kelly had nothing that even resembled competition. Steph, meanwhile, was not only on a team of losers, but also up against Tom and Ian, who between the two of them won every single challenge.
Last edited by user name; 10-12-2005 at 02:29 AM.
Very interesting stats, Shady...Mr. Probst, would you like to withdraw your remarks re: the strongest female survivor ever?
In order for the ranking based on the "stats" to be somewhat accurate and equally fair, the number of individual immunity challenges each of them participated in would have to be equal. Stephanie only participated in 1 or was it 2 Individual Immunity challenges. So granted she's 0 for 2 or 1 for 3 if you count the fire starter as an indiv immunity, but the comparison and ranking is skewed if all did not have the opportunity to participate in an equal number of challenges.
I think Jeff's comment was based on the fact that Steph was considered to be the strongest on her previous tribe and one of the reasons she was booted after she merged was to deny a potential physical threat like her her the opportunity to win individual immunities.
Also ... as for the editing ... has anyone considered that Steph wouldn't switch out and took multiple, time-consuming, unsuccessful throws because she wanted Yaxha' to catch-up ? It's entirely possible that it was strategic, as she realized they could flip Judd or maybe already had flipped him, and so she was actually working toward her own strategic goal(s) of having the majority tribal alliance on the new Nakum ?
About Brooke ... if she wanted to have some control over the outcome, why wasn't SHE the first one up throwing those things ? She left it up to Steph, then Judd ... and ya' snooze ya' lose so ... my opinion is she got triple o'd by Stephanie and is just a sore loser.
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no matter how you look at it the fire starting thing against BJ is not a challange at all. It certainly wasn't any kind of team challange as it was head to head but it wasn't individual either because she did not compete against the 7 other people out there that are in the game. She only went against BJ. If she's not competing against the others in any way, its just not a challenge.
Jeffs comment was "probably the strongest woman ever to play the game" and so have many of the posters here. Nothing about just the season or any of that other stuff. Sorry but people have been saying she is the strongest and most competitive woman to ever play the game when in truth she is at the bottom of the pile after the merge. I'm checking stats to see if she has a leg to stand on.I counted stats from the merge on. At that point, you get yourself to the merge, its all on your shoulders how well you do. No one to blame it on but you so you better put your money where your mouth is. If someone is stronger, smarter or more competitive, they will get themselves further plain and simple. Some have gotten farther with less or no wins than others while some have had huge numbers. It's not " the strongest and most competitive women survivor, up to episode 8". I'm gonna get the numbers up there so everyone can compare how people did against everyone else
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Maybe Jeff just meant she has the physical strength, i.e. best body
Jeff's comment was not "probably the strongest female to ever play survivor". it was " arguably the strongest female to ever play survivor", so argue away!!
Is it possible that when Jeff called Steph "arguably the strongest woman to ever play this game" he was talking in terms of literal - ability to lift stuff - strength? That's the only way it makes sense IMO, because any wider interpretation would of course be highly, highly debatable.
Steph is indeed physically powerful:
Nakum seemed to be doing just fine in the winning department until she was switched over there. I'd really be curious if she was switched back to Yakha is they'd start losing all over again.Originally Posted by user name
They really built a mountain out of a molehill with Steph. Sure she's athletic but so have many others been. She's in shape, i'll give her that, again so have many others been over the years. Lifting as in strength? She woldn't even be the strongest in that catagory either, that might even go to Sue Hawk (she's one scary woman). They built Stephup as a fan favorite to attract attention but she really couldn't back it up at all. Kind of a jack of all trades but master of none as far as the game goes. Mediocre ability and zero mental game. What's most amazing is there are women that played that are almost twice her age and less athletic that did so much better than her. You don't get that far unless you know what your doing or have something going for you in most cases.Originally Posted by karalott
It's funny the excuses isn't it? Steph had the toughest people to play against while other women that did better than her had wimpy competiton. LOL There's always some other explanation why she has done so bad and so many others have done so good. They aren't better or smarter or more determined than her its just luck of the draw, lousy team mates, tough competion, there was an earthqauke, the dog ate my homework and its a conspiracy!! I think she would do much better if she just admited to herself that she really isn't all that great as she thinks she is. I think that's why she keeps losing among other things. It doesn't enter her mind that Danni or Cindy or anyone else really is a better, more skilled player. Therefore she grasps at any excuse to explain away the loss instead of seeing what's really wrong and try to adapt to weakness and find a different way to win.
Steph is the biggest story line they have right now. The editors always go for the best footage and she is providing it. We have a history with her so it is the obvious choice. Often it takes a few weeks before much happens.
They also know who wins and what they choose to show are clues. I do not fault the editing at all! It would be a dull show if they focused on exactly how each challenge went. They are telling a story and I am happy to watch it.


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King Oberon & An Unrecorded Series Skirmishes between Faerie-King Oberon and a long unrecorded succession of short-lived human kings dot what history was recorded in Albion pre-Raven King (then called an older name for Albion, which was England). It seems that, in their struggle for control of the land, humans had held out from sheer numbers and fey from their wild magic, causing some 600 years of stalemate. Constant warfare wasted lives and energies of both races, such that they fell behind other potential empires around the world, such as the Remun Empire that dominated mainland Europe.
The Raven King One human commoner's brief tryst with Faerie-Queen Titania (recounts of this event contradict one another; William Shudder-Lance eventually popularised the Unknown Author's account of the human's metamorphosis into a 'reverse satyr' – donkey head, human body – in his play in 1559) produced a half-fey who later overthrew both kings. For the first time, Albion was ruled as a united kingdom of fey and human subjects, and he ushered in a new age of unprecedented magical development and power.
Much of this was due to the races bleeding into each other. The humans were quick learners of magic, though their methodical practise of the art bemused the fey to whom magic was innate and whimsical – the magicians stemmed from this. The fey were gleeful about the concept of laws and oaths, something which they took great pleasure in adapting and perverting for their shrewd tricks – the terrible dangers of a 'fairy bargain' are remembered to this day.
His reign lasted for about 400 years before a group of human Martians (worshippers of Mars) – then a minority and thus overlooked – produced treachery to a scale uncommon of humankind and opened Albion's gates for the Holy Remun Empire. The Empire and their god Mars drove the Raven King from his throne and severed the connection between Albion and Faerie. Many rebellions were plotted against the Martian Church, but the fact remained that magic had dried up in Albion; the remains entombed in history and books did not function properly, and around the turn of the 12th century ceased functioning at all.
Mars The god officially ruled for 3 months before he appointed a human monarch from his followers. This is the only recorded instance of Mars governing directly (that is, without acting through an exarch), and many attribute this as the reason why anti-Martian rebellions died out so rapidly. Others say Albions just never really liked fey.
King Henry VIII The House of Plantagenet that Mars appointed led on to The House of Lancaster, who were later succeeded by the House of Tudor, who produced Henry VIII. After five hundred years of goodwill with the Martian Church (London had become thought of as 'the second capital of Mars' after Remun in Italy), Henry VIII separated Albion from Remun and Mars in order to annul his marriages. The end result of this later became a skipping rhyme in his daughter's rule: _p=. King Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded: One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded._
Queen Mary After the death of Henry VIII, policies were interrupted by several squabbles for the throne, including the reign of Lady Jane Grey, 'Queen of Nine Days'. The crown, however, finally fell onto Mary, and she began to revoke the religious separation between Mars and Albion. However, her contact with Remun mysterious stopped during her three pregnancies, the product of which was one child. For some reason, she did not resume the Martian policies, even after the birth of Princess Alice.
Queen Alice Since Henry VIII's severing of Remun ties, there has been religious confusion within Albion. The majority of the population, tired of the strictness of Mars, have begun to practice a form of loose Martian faith, where the values of law and good are still held but relaxed and without the absolute devotion that Remun demanded. The advent known as the Revival occurred in the last years of Mary's reign, and from it emerged an increasing amount of magicians for the first time in four hundred years. Because of this, many have also turned to Faerie for religious fulfilment, much like in the first days after the Decline, where magic lingers but is disconnected still.
At the tender age of 13, Queen Alice seems unprepared for these challenges. Even from this early stage of her reign, however, she doesn't seem to sway one way or in the other in the religious debate as her mother and grandfather did. Her one agenda seems to be hunting down her half-aunt, Elizabeth…


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Research suggests that only one third of chip design projects ship on time. Increasingly complex product requirements will only worsen the schedule pressure and make the design problem harder; design teams must overcome new challenges with each new technology node. Serious concerns are rising throughout executive management and design teams alike, on how to address the factors that can slip the project schedule.
Figure 1. Major Factors Affecting Project Schedule
The design community badly needs a remedy for better productivity – not simply at the task level, but across the whole chip design process. Now, more than ever, commercial success is a function of the design team's ability to meet the (ever-shrinking) chip schedule. Our long-term research commitment to investigate and develop productivity solutions mirrors this trend.
Three Ways to Improve Productivity
Our analysis has identified three key themes that can help design teams to improve productivity. Based partly on our research into the pain points that hurt designers most, these can mitigate project risk and accelerate time-to-results.
According to our research (Figure 1), software and verification impact chip schedules more than any other task. It takes a significant amount of project time to create test plans, achieve the required coverage and perform mixed signal simulation and system validation. Once the chip is available, it often is the software associated with the chip which becomes the gating factor for a chip design to reach volume production.
Unpredictability is the scourge of the design community. If you cannot predict with certainty how long a particular task will take, it is very difficult to guarantee the project schedule.
The difficulty of achieving design closure is one particular problem, but it isn't the only one. Many chip methodologies struggle to accommodate late specification changes. And managing increasingly complex sets of timing constraints can also delay tapeout by weeks.
So what's the antidote to poor time-to-results? Figure 2 is a simplified framework illustrating Synopsys' focus on key productivity aspects of the chip development flow, highlighting three ways to improve productivity. Our research suggests that using a software-to-silicon verification flow, using a convergent design platform and having access to a broad range of proven IP are critical to achieving better productivity.
Figure 2. Synopsys Productivity Focal Points
#1 Comprehensive Software-to-Silicon Verification Solution
The verification process becomes more efficient if it incorporates system-level, functional and mixed-signal verification within a single environment. An integrated solution has to span software and hardware domains and enables both earlier start and increased productivity of software development by providing virtual platforms and FPGA prototypes for pre-silicon software development. Having access to a comprehensive, integrated solution means that a verification engineer can work at a high level of abstraction to achieve fast runtimes, and still perform detailed analysis of custom circuitry where appropriate. A comprehensive verification solution will include:
System Analysis
Traditionally, algorithm designers have used standalone tools or programming environments to create and verify their system-level designs. Refining those designs towards implementation using this approach can be time-consuming and error-prone. In contrast, using a model-based electronic system-level (ESL) design creation, simulation and analysis environment that is tightly integrated with the entire verification platform, improves overall design and verification efficiency.
Functional Verification
Functional verification productivity can be enhanced in several ways. An environment that supports a design-for-verification (DFV) methodology enables design engineers to specify design intent at the outset. Using assertions ensures that designs are verification-ready, and allows early and systematic detection of bugs. New verification technologies such as intelligent constraint solvers help designers to reach coverage goals faster by automating key tasks. The use of testbench automation tools, verification IP and code-checking technology all contribute to faster, better verification.
Low-Power Verification
Low-power verification benefits from technologies that provide comprehensive verification of voltage-control techniques, which increase accuracy and accelerate time-to-market. Multi-voltage simulation allows verification of the functional states of a design in all different power modes, as well as accurate verification of power transitions and sequences.
Mixed-Signal Verification
Achieving tight integration of mixed-signal capabilities within the RTL verification flow means providing a unified verification environment that incorporates fast simulation speeds with high accuracy, excellent ease-of-use and advanced debugging features.
Functional Equivalence Checking
Quickly verifying RTL-to-netlist functional equivalence for ultra-large ASIC, SoC and FPGA designs has traditionally been a challenge. Complex designs use numerous optimizations and are composed of extensive datapath, memory and full-custom blocks. Functional verification tools with easy-to-use, full-chip coverage are a requirement for market leading design flows.
Virtual and Hardware Prototyping for Software Development and System Verification
The software component of many projects is increasing in size and complexity, and the progress of many of today's chip projects is held up by software development. There are, however, some ways to counter this.
A growing number of design teams recognize the boost to productivity from beginning software development before the hardware is available. The use of a virtual platform enables pre-RTL software development to take place and can help to remove the software bottleneck from the project schedule. Synopsys provides a fully integrated tool environment for developing, running and debugging virtual platforms, which comes with native SystemC TLM-2.0 support.
FPGA-based prototypes help designers improve their time-to-market and avoid costly device respins by helping them to find the last few hard-to-find hardware bugs, starting software development earlier in the design cycle and integrating hardware and software well ahead of chip fabrication.
Multi-core Verification Technology
Faster runtimes come from improvements in both software and hardware, and multi-core hardware platforms now offer an excellent opportunity to enhance tool runtime – assuming that the software is capable of exploiting the multi-core hardware. By ensuring its key applications are multi-core ready, Synopsys has improved the runtimes of many of its verification products. For example a 2X speed-up for circuit simulation using quad-core vs single-core platforms.
Verification Methodology
The VMM methodology defines industry best practices for creating robust, reusable and scalable verification environments using SystemVerilog. It enables verification novices and experts alike to develop powerful transaction-level, constrained-random verification environments. A comprehensive set of guidelines, recommendations and rules help engineers avoid common mistakes while creating interoperable verification components. The VMM Standard Library provides the foundation base classes for building advanced testbenches, while VMM Applications provide higher-level functions for improved productivity.
Customer Results
Feedback from a leading super-computer customer demonstrates a 2X improvement in overall verification productivity thanks to the use of Synopsys VCS® with native testbench (NTB) technology and adoption of the VMM.
Discovery AMS has been adopted by more than 100 Synopsys customers for mixed-signal verification. Many customers report 3–10x higher verification throughput over using only transistor-level simulation.
The use of Synopsys' Innovator virtual platform helped wireless handset design teams begin its firmware, driver and OS development and porting six to nine months before silicon became available. FPGA prototyping using Synopsys' Confirma helped a Wimax 802.16e startup design team cut its overall project schedule by six months.
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Managing design implementation using a convergent platform means having excellent correlation between steps in the design flow, and advanced technologies and automation that work predictably to reach design closure quality so that your chip is ready for tapeout.
Look-ahead Technology
Design tools that share analysis engines and are tightly correlated can predict how different activities will affect the design – early prediction is vital for efficient design planning and feasibility analysis. Intelligent look-ahead technologies can predict and avoid downstream issues, which means less iterations are required to achieve design closure. Intelligent look-ahead design is especially beneficial where it enables synthesis to create a better starting point for the place and route process. Similarly, manufacturing-aware place and route creates a better starting point for design for manufacture (DFM) and sign-off.
Quality of results can also affect productivity. For example, improving routing quality by using fewer vias, less notches and jogs, makes for a smoother path to manufacturing.
Automated Digital and Custom Implementation Flow
Platform integration improves the automation of tasks, and makes it possible to perform advanced design functions such as multi-corner, multi-mode (MCMM) analysis. Concurrent MCMM throughout the flow accelerates closure for timing and power. If you can predict and fix congestion issues before place and route, you can speed-up each iteration.
Custom analog mixed signal (AMS) is a key ingredient in today's consumer-driven SoC designs. In today's designs we observe that custom and digital functions are highly interdependent, analog IP usage is mainstream, and embedded memory is on the rise. Legacy environments retrofitted to address today's AMS design challenges are incomplete, inhibit interoperability, and are unproductive.
A new, intuitive environment that addresses both custom design and verification, natively built on OpenAccess to ease migration --uses open PDK libraries to promote interoperability, and unifies the process of digital and analog design -- will significantly enhance SoC designer productivity.
Reducing the die size is another example of a task which, if automated, improves time-to-results. With a growing focus on cost reduction, shrinking the chip area is becoming more important than ever and can take weeks of time when done manually.
Comprehensive Power Management
Advanced low-power techniques can dramatically reduce power and cost while increasing the performance and functionality of chips. The UPF standard allows easy and accurate capture of low-power design requirements. Specifying low-power requirements at the start of the chip design process allows the implementation of advanced low-power design techniques to be automated. These include automatic hierarchical clock gating, top-down multi-voltage synthesis and design planning, multi-threshold leakage optimization, low-power placement, power-aware clock tree synthesis, power gating, state retention, power network synthesis and analysis, and automatic test pattern generation.
Design-for-Test Automation
DFT insertion tools add scan chains into designs to assist automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tools in achieving high defect coverage. The most advanced ATPG solutions also have diagnostics capabilities that accurately pin-point the source of test failures and feed this data directly to yield management solutions to enable faster yield ramp-up. At smaller geometries, on-chip process variations can add enough extra delay to adversely impact circuit timing so that parts no longer function within specifications. Consequently modern ATPG tools need to create a variety of deep sub-micron (DSM) tests to maintain high defect coverage. The most advanced ATPG solutions now include power-aware pattern generation to reduce switching activity during test.
Scan compression tools synthesize on-chip compression logic to significantly reduce both test application time and test data volume. The most advanced tools work with implementation flows to achieve high compression with minimal impact on die size, routing congestion and circuit timing.
Hierarchical Design Automation
Designers have long used hierarchy as a way of managing design complexity. A design environment that enables concurrent hierarchical design can improve tool runtime and capacity, and allow you to more easily make changes to sub-blocks in the design hierarchy. A hierarchical design approach can also be more amenable to the use of multi-core processing, which also allows you to manage larger, more complex chips more efficiently.
Multi-core Implementation Technology
Running on quad-core platforms, key Synopsys implementation and sign-off tools show a 2-3x run-time improvement over single-core platform.
Out of the box methodologies, provided with design environments in the form of scripts that run the tools, enable designers to become quickly productive. As well as making the tools easier to use, they allow new technologies and techniques to be readily adopted. Typically, methodologies will be adapted for each major part of the design flow such as synthesis, design planning, place and route and sign-off.
Customer Results
After switching to Synopsys' Galaxy™ Design Platform, a wireless design team reduced RTL-to-GDSII time to results from 14 days to two days for an ARM1176 processor core running at more than 600MHz using 45nm process technology.
Moving from a flat to a concurrent hierarchical design methodology enabled a mobile multimedia processor team to reduce total design turn-around-time by 40 percent on a six million gate, 90nm chip.
Leading technologies in the Galaxy Design Platform helped a consumer SOC design team to achieve smaller die area and meet reduced power targets on a complex 250 million transistor 45nm device.
#3 Access to Quality IP
According to Synopsys' most recent survey, two-thirds of all designs now undergo at least one re-spin, and almost half of all re-spins are caused by functional problems within IP blocks.
There are three clear benefits of having access to a broad portfolio of pre-qualified commercial IP. We have seen that it is possible to reduce the IP qualification schedule by 30 percent and the cost by 20 percent, and we can also considerably reduce the risk of having to re-spin the silicon.
Synopsys provides a broad portfolio of IP for interfaces, bus fabric and memories, as well as traditional library elements, complex IP cores and verification IP.
Customer Results
According to the design team that delivered the world's first dual HDTV decoder chip, using Synopsys' DesignWare® and an IP-based assembly flow proved 2.5x more productive than the approach they had used previously. Any team looking to achieve optimal productivity improvements will find it necessary to use good quality IP, including models that support both design and verification.
While adopting any of these productivity solutions can reduce design time, the most efficient approach is to put a comprehensive strategy in place that will intelligently use of all of them. This puts you in the best possible position to substantially reduce chip design schedule as indicated in Figure 3 and enable you to capture new market opportunities.
Figure 3. Example Time-to-Market Gain on Consumer SoC
About the Authors
Irwan Sie is a technical solutions architect at Synopsys and has over 19 years of design engineering experience. Prior to Synopsys, he was director of IC Design at ESS Technology working on many successful digital video and audio multimedia SOCs, and has held senior engineering positions at VideoCore Technology, Philips Semiconductors, and Sun Microsystems where he worked on the design and verification of SuperSPARC® microprocessors and was awarded the Sun Microsystems Engineering Excellence Award. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Rutgers College of Engineering and M.S.E.E. from Lehigh University.
Rajiv Maheshwary is senior director of solutions marketing at Synopsys, responsible for customer marketing and time-to-results strategic initiatives. Mr. Maheshwary has over 20 years of IC design and EDA product and strategic marketing experience, holds a B.S.E.E. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MBA in marketing from Lucas Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University, and a Japanese Language Business Proficiency Certificate from Berlitz and the Japan Foundation.
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I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 home ultimate 64 bit and I am pretty sure this problem started right away...
I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 with a dual monitor setup - HP LP2475w connected via DVI, and a Samsung Syncmaster connected via VGA.
The problem is that when the system has been idle long enough and the monitors are supposed to power off, about half the time (unpredictable), although the monitors go black, they don't turn off (the backlight is on and the power LEDs show they are on).
Both monitors show the same behavior at the same time (e.g. either both will power off correctly, or both will fail to power off), so the problem isn't monitor-specific.
Back when I had XP on this same setup, I didn't have this problem.
Anybody experiencing a similar issue or have any ideas what might be the problem here? I started with Windows standard drivers but them installed NVIDIA's drivers, but it made no difference.
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Within moments of showing up at Giannetto's farm, a scrubby stretch of pastures and vineyards a few miles outside the southern Sardinian town of Dolianova, the old man decides that we ought to slaughter a goat. I think momentarily about protesting that a whole beast is too much food for the five people on the farm that day. But I feel it would be rude to refuse the hospitality, as it is woven deeply into the shepherding culture of inland Sardinia. Plus, Giannetto may be graying and portly, but he's still built like a brick wall. Even a friendly don't-sweat-it slap on the back with his André the Giant hands would probably send me flying. So I just nod. Within minutes, Giannetto vanishes over a hillock, only to return swinging a baby goat upside-down by the legs; Sardinian tradition maintains that young animals have the most delicious flesh. The kid looks about nonchalantly and does not so much as bleat.
As prodigious head-to-hoof eaters, farmers like Giannetto can render a lot of meat off of even a little corpse like this one. Depending on the occasion, the creature's blood can be used for a soup like sanguinaccio. The organs can be skewered and wrapped in intestine and diaphragm to make the savory holiday treat su cordula, although the kidneys and testicles are often roasted on their own, and the liver is sometimes eaten raw at the site of the slaughter. The whole goat can be roughly quartered and roasted over an open flame. And if you manage to catch the kid at just the right age—between two and three months old, before it's started eating grass—you can even make a potent (and ostensibly illegal) form of soft cheese out of the mother's milk in its raw, steaming stomach.
This peculiar cheese—known as caligù or su callu, depending on whom you talk to—is one of Sardinia's lesser-known but more ubiquitous specialties. It's also one of the most primal dairy products you'll encounter in the modern world. Upon killing a kid, a farmer simply takes its milk-filled stomach, ties it off in a tight knot or sews it shut, perhaps covers it in mesh to keep the flies off, then hangs it from the ceiling of a cool, dark room. He then waits for a few months until the natural rennet within curdles and hardens the milk into a thick, creamy cheese and desiccation tightens the gut into a pungent, leathery rind.


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Landslide Buries about 20 in Northern China
Reuters reports that a landslide in Shanxi has killed twenty people from the same village:
The "massive landslide" hit in Zhongyang county in Shanxi province in the late morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The official, who declined to be identified, told Reuters that they were checking exactly how many people were missing, and that a rescue mission was underway.
He said they had no confirmed death reports yet.
In September of last year, a mudslide triggered by dammed up tailings from an iron ore mine killed over 250 people in the same province.


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"When One" "FTW Squad" "NYCX Bitch!" "Ladies and Gentlemen" "Motherfucking When!" "Unhuh" "Whener Oner"
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Osborne Clarke has revealed revenue growth of 8 per cent for the 2010-11 financial year.
Osborne Clarke has revealed revenue growth of 8 per cent for the 2010-11 financial year.
The firm brought in £90.3m in fee income for the year to 30 April, up from £83.7m in 2009-10. UK turnover was up 6 per cent to £73.4m, while the firm's German arm saw its revenue grow by 18 per cent to £16.9m.
Managing partner Simon Beswick told The Lawyer: "This is as good a performance as we could have hoped to achieve this year.
"It was a year of very different parts so part of the way through we never thought we would get anywhere near this result, but we had a great last few months."
Osborne Clarke has yet to reveal its profit figures although Beswick said he expected net profit to increase, while profit per equity partner (PEP) would see "a small increase" after the number of equity partners at the firm rose by 10 per cent.
Beswick highlighted projects, real estate, finance and corporate as the practice areas that saw the best results during the year. Revenue from the projects group grew by 31 per cent, while real estate was up 16 per cent. Property litigation also had a strong year, growing by 35 per cent across the firm.


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In Israel or Gaza, Declaring Sympathy for the Other Side Is a No-go Zone
Concern for Palestinians does not mean lack of concern for Israelis. But my Facebook 'friends' thought otherwise.
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The politics of the gay marriage debate in Massachusetts have now moved from the legislative branch to the executive branch, with Gov. Mitt Romney and Atty. Gen. Thomas F. Reilly sparring over whether the state should ask its highest court to delay same-sex marriages until voters can cast ballots on a constitutional amendment banning them. Following the state legislature's approval Monday of a proposed amendment to the Massachusetts constitution banning gay marriage but allowing civil unions, Romney called on Reilly to ask the supreme judicial court for a stay on its mandate that same-sex couples be issued marriage licenses beginning May 17, at least until state residents get a chance to vote on the amendment, which would be November 2006 at the earliest. On Tuesday, Romney asked Reilly to appoint a special assistant to handle the request if the attorney general himself were unwilling. Romney said he wants to prevent any confusion that could ensue if gay marriages take place beginning in May and are then outlawed by voters--a separate question, he argued, from the issue of the constitutionality of gay marriage as ruled on by the high court in November.
But Reilly declined, arguing that the court had made itself clear in its original November decision and in an advisory opinion issued in February. "I was struck by the fact that [Romney's] letter did not set forth one single legal argument," said Reilly, whose office represented the state in the landmark same-sex marriage case. "The arguments the governor makes are political arguments. The governor's job is to implement the law of the state, and I expect him to do that." That left a Romney aide fuming: "Under our constitution, the attorney general is the gatekeeper to the supreme court. By his action, he's closed the gate on the people of Massachusetts," Romney communications director Eric Fehrnstrom said Tuesday. "His suggestion that it is the job of the client to make the legal argument is ridiculous. There are plenty of lawyers to make legal arguments. What we need is for Tom Reilly to appoint one of them to represent us."
Several experts on the role of attorneys general in state government said Tuesday that Romney has no power to circumvent Reilly, a Democrat viewed as a possible gubernatorial opponent to Romney in 2006. "The law in Massachusetts is clear that the attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of the commonwealth," said Boston attorney Robert Sherman, who served as special counsel to Reilly's predecessor. "It's the attorney general who makes the decision and not the governor." Romney reiterated his commitment Tuesday to abide by the law of the land as it exists on May 17 and said he would not order city clerks to defy the court edict. There is a section in the state constitution that gives the governor the power to weigh in on the "causes of marriage," but Romney said he had not
explored whether this clause gives him any legal power to stop same-sex marriages. Romney could potentially sue the attorney general's office, arguing that Reilly does not have the legal power to deny his request. Similar lawsuits have been filed in the past but have been rejected by the supreme judicial court.
Several lawmakers are also seeking ways to avoid the legalization of same-sex marriage in May. Rep. Paul Loscocco (R-Holliston) said Tuesday that he is preparing a bill that would abolish the state's civil marriage law, replacing it with civil unions for both gay and straight couples. Under his bill, which could
potentially take effect before May 17, marriage would become solely a religious institution. He said he wants to craft the language in a way that would ensure that straight couples who enter into these civil unions would continue to have all the federal benefits of marriage and be recognized as married in other states.


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New take on MPG
There's lots of threads about mileage (mostly not good), but I thought I'd try to put a new spin on it. I just finished a 2500 mile road trip over 10 days. Thought I'd share my #'s for those who troll the site and are curious, and perhaps something interesting for the rest of us.
We're talking stock FD1, 2012 Compass LTD (18" wheels), CVT, 1 person, two suitcases, 6900 miles on odometer at start, and 87 octane regular gas from national brands (mostly the same fuel NASCAR uses). All numbers are from the computer after at least 30 min in each test condition (I reset MPG each time), but I also did old-fashioned division at fill ups, which confirmed the numbers are close enough for government work.
The standard reference point is 50 degrees (ish), no wind, flat ground, nearly sea level 65 MPH = 26 MPG (exactly the sticker) with RPM about 2400
+/- 10 kts wind = +/- 1 MPG
Hills (altitude changes of about 1000') = -1 MPG
Some actual examples for me:
-- Driving south on I81 into a 20kt wind at 70 MPH = 22 MPG
-- 60 MPH on flat ground with about 10kts tailwind gave me 28 MPG.
-- 70 MPH flat with no wind was 25 MPG
Almost everything affects this little motor, even what you think are crosswinds seems to cost you about .5 MPG (65 MPH at sea level with ~10kts of crosswind gave me about 25.5MPG). A comfortable driving range is 250 miles in almost any road condition. For those of you with a computer, mine was quite accurate in it's miles to empty. Once I got it down to what I estimated was 12 miles to empty (it doesn't register below 30 to go) and it took 13 gallons.
Your actual mileage may vary! Drive safe, Bruno
Thank you for your interesting study! I guess this thing does get pretty good gas mileage; you just gotta' understand all the factors involved. For acceleration, how hard should we accelerate at from 0mph? 2000rpm? 2500rpm? 3000rpm?
I generally average 24 MPG +/- for mixed driving( 70-80% city )and see 30+ MPG all higwhay from my 2011 FDI Patriot( 2.4L CVT w/ 225/65R17 ). I have seen as high as 35.8 MPG all highway from it( hand calculated and accurate - not onboard computer numbers ). That is on flat highways, no wind, etc... and using CC set at 60-62 MPH.
I recently took my Dad to the Baseball HOF in Cooperstown, NY from home here in NH. The trip was through western MA and into NY where it is ALL mountains. Good lord I felt like I was on a roller coaster! Those hills/mountains really impacted my MPG.
On the trip to NY the weather was nice and almost no traffic at all so I was able to do my usual 60-62 MPH in CC. Net result was 27 MPG. Good for the EPA rating( 21/26 )but way down for my usual results.
On the way back we were racing to stay ahead of a big winter storm rolling East( NY to NH the whole way :rolleyes: ). There was also a lot of traffic. I ended up going 70-75 MPH at times to try and stay ahead of the snow and also to get past groups of vehicle congestion and away from trucker convoys that were a real pain. MPG for the return trip fell down to 25 MPG( barely ).
All in all the MPG was good, based on the EPA ratings for the vehicle, considering the conditions and all. I was disappointed as I generally see so much better though. Just goes to show how going 70 MPH+ hurts your MPG as does road conditions. Those hills kept me at or near 3000 RPM's almost contantly. Just killer.
I am taking my Dad to Williamsburg, VA this fall and the roads on that trip( have made it before )are a lot flatter plus I usually drive overnight to avoid traffic. I expect to see 30 MPG+ on that trip.
And lest we not forget to subtract a couple of mpg's for those of us who only have access to 10% Ethanol gas.
We have had E10 here since 2006 when it became mandated and replaced MTBE. My MPG #'s are on E10 just FYI.
Wait you didnt do the original write up...I was referring to the OP
2007 Compass Limited FWD 5_speed manual
Just hit 220k mi. yesterday. I get mad when I average less than 28MPG. I know I have been setting traffic alot.
I average 29 to 30 constantly. Once I get my winter off in a few weeks. That number should go up slightly. If driving a long distance I will average over 30MPG easily.
Thanks for the great comments.
Or do you mean in general? Best ever MPG I have got( 35.8 )had AC on and windows up.
This is off the subject of this thread. Wmillonig mentions he was considering the Compass with a manual but couldn't get the towpackage.
Gee Chrysler has changed alot of things around.
My '07 has the tow package. It has engine oilcooler for towing. I wanted that. I then installed the factory mopar hitch.
I know too that getting a manual in a Compass now limits you to only the Sport package. The manual is not available in higher trim levels.
With the Patriot, you can get the manual also in the Lattitude package.
I know this because I was considering trading mine in on a new Compass. I can't get a new Compass equipt the same as I have now.
So in time I'll find another car company to do business with.
yes, I guess they build what sells. I had a Ranger pickup back when, the tow capacity with the auto tranny was way more than the manual, so it seemed normal. It hadn't occurred to me that it used to be avail in the Compass with the tow pkg. But I gotta say, for all its faults, the CVT is sweet on the highway. And looks like only a couple of mpg hit for the 4x4.
I did do a write up on this and how to create your own 'Tow Package' awhile back - http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f98/q...5/#post7067041
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It is hard for him, the poor boy, as he keeps reminding me!
What a hard knock life this poor kitty lives! :)
Sleep, for kitties, is an art form!
Hard work being a cat Ash!:)))
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State police have charged a Delaware man with trying to hire someone to attack two attorneys.
Authorities announced Monday that 28-year-old David Yarborough of Bear was arrested last week and charged with attempted assault, stalking and criminal solicitation.
Police say authorities received a tip last week from a concerned citizen that Yarborough wanted him to find someone to harm some people.
A detective then posed as a hit-man and contacted Yarborough. Police say Yarborough initially said he wanted an attorney killed, but later changed his mind, saying he wanted the attorney injured so badly he'd never walk again.
Yarborough allegedly told the undercover detective that the attorney recently represented him on criminal charges and indicated that he also wanted a prosecutor in the attorney general's office attacked.


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Analysis of the remains of human sacrificial victims found at an ancient Peruvian temple suggest that they were prisoners of war.
Roughly 70 sacrifice victims have been found there so far—an indication of frequent human offerings. That alone suggests the slaughter of captured warriors rather than rare killings of elites to appease the gods in religious rituals, Verano says. The victims were killed, displayed, and later swept into pits.
"You don't deny a proper burial, deflesh, mutilate, and turn your elites' bones into trophies as they did [at Huacas de Moche]," says Verano, whose work has been partly supported by National Geographic Society grants. "You don't make a drinking mug out of your elite [ruler's] skull."
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A miniature masterpiece of love, murder, and the spotless disposal of corpses
From the wicked imagination of award-winning writer Warren Ellis comes Dead Pig Collector, a love story with a classic Ellis twist. So while it might be a love story, it's also about killing people and disposing of their bodies in the most efficient manner possible.
Dead Pig Collector introduces readers to Mister Sun, a very proficient businessman whose trade is the murder and spotless removal of human beings. Like any businessman, he knows each transaction is only as good as his client - and today's client, in Los Angeles, has turned out to be so dangerously stupid that Mister Sun's work and life are now in jeopardy…
Warren Ellis is the author of FSG's first digital original, Dead Pig Collector; the New York Times bestselling novel Gun Machine; and the underground classic Crooked Little Vein. He is also the award-winning creator of a number of iconic, bestselling original graphic novels, including Red, Ministry of Space, Planetary, and Transmetropolitan, and has been behind some of the most successful reimaginings of mainstream comic superheroes, including Iron Man. He has written extensively for Vice, Wired, and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and is working on a nonfiction book about the future of cities for FSG Originals. He lives on the southeast coast of England.
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Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane of Mumford and Sons stopped by Chicago Music Exchange yesterday morning to search for a few new instruments to take with them on the road. Both Marcus and Ted have an affinity for vintage gear and get really excited to visit the shop every time they pass through Chicago.
Marcus was on the hunt for a new (to him) Fender Telecaster, something with some Springsteen vibe. After picking and playing several iconic teles, he stumbled across this really unique piece that just found its way to Chicago Music Exchange two days prior. It's a 1967 Fender Telecaster in a blonde finish. What really sets this guitar apart from the others is the modified pickup in the neck. The original pickup was replaced with a vintage Gibson Patent Number pickup that really gives this guitar a screaming rock n' roll sound.
Ted and I (Chris Hershman) sat down in our bass guitar room and began to discuss his journey becoming a bass player and his ongoing search for the right instrument. In his early years at university, Ted played guitar as his primary instrument and decided to take up double bass (upright and electric) to maximize his ability to play as many gigs as possible. Ted recalled the early days when he and the band were playing small venues and how elated he was to get his first endorsement. Unfortunately new manufactures are unable to provide Ted with vintage instruments that he's keen on, which leads him to our shop where there are an abundance of great vintage bass guitars.
Below, Ted is pictured testing out this 1970 Fender Jazz bass in an Olympic White finish that he ended up leaving the store with. Ted explained that ever since he bought his first vintage Jazz bass several years ago, he's been constantly on the search for other great vintage basses. The 1970 Jazz bass Ted picked up had beautiful binding all the way around the neck and a color matching headstock. You could really tell Ted was feeling this bass, especially after tying several other classic basses such as the Hofner Violin bass and a '70s Gibson EB-2, he always came back to Jazz bass.
Ted discussed what he was looking for in the instrument. Something that you can vibe and play with ease as soon as you get it in your hands. He searches for that bass that fills the air and lays down an incredible low-end presence in mix. Ted explains that his favorite feeling during a live show is feeling that low-end rumble come through the stage he's standing on. He says (in his very english accent) that "feeling" your sounds is the one of the most electrifying feelings in a performance as a bass player.
Both Marcus and Ted left with great vintage guitars and claimed to be inspired and satisfied with their recent transitions to a more electric rock sound. We'll have to wait and see how these guitars influence their next album.
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CME: Futures Plummet Wednesday17 January 2013
Live and feeder cattle contracts crashed with triple-digit losses, pressured by aggressive technical selling and signs of cash weakness, according to John Harrington, DTN Livestock Analyst.
Live cattle futures plummeted after midday to end with losses of $1.17 1/2 to $1.90, stated the after the bell recap.
Futures came under heavy pressure after the start of light cash cattle trade in Texas and Kansas at $125 today.
Feeder cattle futures faced pressure much of the day, but selling really picked up after midday. Futures ended just off session lows with losses of $1.25 to $2.15.
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(Carson City, NV) — The Clark County School District is hoping to tackle truancy with a large bill tying incentives such as teen drivers' licenses and parents' hunting licenses to school attendance.
The Assembly Education Committee on Monday heard AB64, the Graduation Priority Act — an effort to raise the graduation rate in a state that ranks first in the nation for dropouts.
The bill comes with both punishments and rewards to prod students to finish high school, including provisions that make graduation policies more flexible and others that allow principals to bring law enforcement to investigate a truancy case.
AB64 requires students to show proof of school attendance or graduation before they can get a driver's license or work permit.
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