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Trading Volume at 4-Year Lows: Distrust? Regulation? Apathy?
As the markets have plunged over the past two days, one question is emerging: What has happened to trading volume?
On Tuesday, the Drudge Report dubbed the phenomenon as being a "Wall Street ghost town". CNBC's John Melloy has called it "one of the biggest mysteries on Wall Street. How can stocks be in their fourth year of a bull market and trading activity be so low?" Per Melloy's analysis, traders may be favoring alternative asset classes over equities. Options and futures markets may be becoming more popular.
According to TradeMonster.com's Pete Najarian, "The options market has been breaking records for nine straight years and the shift has been a growing field that provides protection and leverage." Interestingly, Credit Suisse analyst Ana Avramovic commented that "high-frequency trading, which accounts for half of all market activity, has been on the decline since last summer."
Melloy suggested in his analysis that trading volume may be low because "the average investor simply doesn't trust this market anymore." Doug Kass: "There is no fresh money going into the markets. Why should we be surprised the retail investor is not there? We've had two huge drawdowns in stocks since 2000, a flash crash two years ago and real incomes are stagnating."
An alternate idea is that financial regulation is to blame for low volume in that regulation "has restricted trading activity by the major banks." One could argue that the more the government regulates something, the less of that thing there is. On the other hand, one could contend that banks should be held responsible owing to their part in the causing the Great Recession. On this line of thought, the Crosscurrents financial newsletter author Alan Newman commented, "The financial industry has placed itself above the investing public ('muppets') and will take every advantage it can secure. The public's confidence has been shattered, possibly beyond repair."
It is interesting to note that in January 2012, TheStreet.com's Robert Holmes suggested that a mass exodus from the stock market may be coming. Of course, at that time Holmes was writing in the context of a possible 20 percent drop in the stock market that could potentially bring about a fall in investor confidence, a rise in political uncertainty, a rise in unemployment, and more central bank intervention. Holmes: "For investors, another collapse in 2012 could mean that many throw in the towel on the stock market" thereby potentially causing a "generational change in investing and spending habits."
In light of the above discussion, the decline in trading volume could be owing to a blend of distrust, regulation, apathy, and perhaps a bit of thrift. In taking into account the implementation of the "Volcker Rule", scheduled to take effect on July 21, 2012, liquidity and volume could further decline. According to Reuters, "The Volcker rule, named for former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker who championed the measure, aims to prevent banks from making risky trades by prohibiting short-term trading for their own profit in securities, derivatives and other financial products. It will also prohibit banks from investing in, or sponsoring, hedge funds or private equity funds." With less liquidity for equities with a ban on proprietary trading by commercial banks, one has to wonder if the Volcker Rule could somehow lead affected banks to more so embrace the foreign exchange markets and other accessible asset classes.
Another dimension to the issue of low trading volume could be a general societal skepticism toward the stock market. Perhaps investors and traders are leaning more toward a "lazy portfolio" buy and hold strategy. MarketWatch's Paul Farrell has previously commented, "The more you trade at Wall Street's casino, the richer your broker gets." From this perspective, a buy and hold strategy can be advantageous; investing should be boring and dull -- like "watching paint dry or watching grass grow." Aside from affecting trading volume, the perception that Wall Street is merely a casino could be affecting demand for precious metals as well; so goes the cliche, "gold has never been worth zero." In December 2011, I explored the analogy of the stock market being like a casino. At that time, I noted that "if the world were to act like a casino, rational players would refuse to play." On the topic of equities remaining a viable avenue for investment, I discussed that "if individuals and firms stop investing in stocks, then we will all be at a loss."
That being said, societal skepticism toward the stock market is only compounded by the perception that algorithmic trading has left human investors at a disadvantage as individual consumers are left to deal with less disposable income owing to rising food and fuel costs. The 2008 financial crisis seems to have compromised the delicate tripartite balance between Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street. And less disposable income for the consumer means less discretionary funds left over for investment in things like stocks, bonds, and precious metals.
This line of discussion brings to mind Graham Summers' recent commentary on Zero Hedge that as capitalism has been undermined since the financial crisis began in 2008, we will not have any real recovery until trust is restored in the financial system. From this perspective, perhaps a decline in trading volume reveals a subtle decline in trust within the financial system. Then again, in light of low trading volume, if distrust of the financial system is rising, how sure can we be that we are in fact in the fourth year of a bull market?
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Libyan Premier and Foreign Minister Mohieddine Fekkini today joined King Hassan II of Morocco in a communique expressing their loyalty to the Palestine Arabs and the "firm intention" of the two nations to collaborate with "friendly" countries for "aiding the people of Palestine to recover their rights." The communique was issued at the conclusion of a state visit to Morocco by the Libyan Premier.
At the same time, the ultra-nationalist Istiqlal (Freedom) Party, now in the opposition, demanded that the Moroccan Government set up a bureau for the boycott of Israel "conforming to the ideals of the Arab League."
The party violently attacked the Government, accusing it of "sympathy" for Israel. Istiqlal demanded that the Government set up a bureau as soon as possible to boycott Israel "economically, commercially and industrially."
An article in the Istiqlal Party organ, Al Alam, also charged that Jewish schools and other institutions in Morocco were "providing Zionist teaching," and that these teachers were Jews who had come to Morocco "with French passports issued to them by the Israeli Ambassador in Paris."

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Tzipi Livni Pushing Shimon Peres to Run for Israel's Premiership
Former Kadima chairwoman believes the only way to overturn the current government is to unify the center-left bloc - and that only Peres can achieve that; Peres associates: 'Peres will not run. Period.'
Tzipi Livni may be contemplating a return to politics herself after a term as chairwoman of Kadima, but meanwhile she is strongly urging President Shimon Peres to step down from his lofty post and run as prime minister on behalf of the center-left camp.
Livni has been discussing the idea with Peres, 89, by phone and during meetings in his office. Haim Ramon, formerly a minister with Kadima, has joined in the persuasion effort.
Political sources with knowledge of these conversations assert that while Peres has not ruled out the option of running, nor has he acceded to the request.
Livni's effort stems from the fact that she doesn't feel comfortable with either of the political scenarios on the horizon: that she will be forced to be number two on a list headed by former prime minister Ehud Olmert (if he decides to jump back into the fray), or that she will run at the head of an independent list. On the other hand, she has no problem being Peres' number two – if in fact he decides to run. Livni has been saying recently that the only way to topple Netanyahu and replace the current government is by unifying the center-left bloc.
Advocates of the move claim that Peres' candidacy at the head of such a bloc makes sense for two reasons: Peres is the only one able to capture valuable seats from the right, due to his enormous public approval rating. Secondly, he is the only person able to convince the ultra-Orthodox Shas party to endorse him as prime minister to whoever replaces him as president, based on his good relations with the party's spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and joint chairman Aryeh Deri.
Livni's associates confirmed in a statement that she had suggested to the president to run, since she believes there is no one more worthy to lead the centrist camp. They added that Livni's place on the list had not come up in her conversations with Peres.
The President's Residence said Peres had no comment about the private conversations he has been having. "Peres will not run. Period," said officials close to the president.
On Tuesday, Peres himself told Israeli reporters escorting him on his trip to Moscow: "I'm the president of the State of Israel. I do not and will not concern myself with other matters."
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Phil Waugh tipping the Waratahs for greatness
The NSW Waratahs have received the ultimate nod of approval, with the state's most-capped player declaring Michael Cheika's record-setting class of 2014 as possibly the most complete team in Super Rugby history.
Boasting 18 internationals and the inside running to a home grand final, former captain Phil Waugh believes only the Crusaders or an injury to attacking trump Israel Folau can stop the Waratahs from winning their maiden title.
''The talent and experience and the potential of the team they've got together now in that squad is right up there with one of the best that not just the Waratahs have seen but also probably Super Rugby has seen,'' Waugh said.
''I look across the park and it's probably the most complete team.''
Waugh, who led NSW to the 2008 final and also contested the 2005 decider in a 132-game, 11-year Super career, said the Waratahs, with the likes of Michael Hooper, Benn Robinson, Wycliff Palu, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Rob Horne and Kurtley Beale, were ''just a very, very mentally strong team''.
Above all, though, Waugh believes the halves pairing of Nick Phipps and Wallabies five-eighth Bernard Foley sets the Waratahs apart from their rivals.
''You could argue in the history of Super Rugby that the teams with the best nine and 10 are always the most successful,'' he said.
''You go back to Gregan-Larkham (Brumbies), Marshall-Mehrtens (Crusaders), Dan Carter-Andy Ellis (Crusaders), du Preez-Steyn (Bulls), Carlos Spencer-Steve Devine (Blues).
''In recent times, Kerr-Barlow-Cruden (Chiefs), Genia-Cooper (Reds), the importance of the nine and 10 is critical and I really like the way Nick Phipps and Bernard Foley are combining.
''Then you throw Kurtley Beale into the mix when he steps into first receiver.
''For mine, I think that the balance of the team is very, very strong.''
The former Wallabies captain said the Waratahs, who wrapped up their maiden minor premiership with a six-try demolition of the Highlanders on Sunday, had the forward firepower, kicking smarts and backline talent to win in all conditions.
The only potential perils Waugh could see for the Waratahs were the seven-time champion Crusaders, who they are favoured to meet in the August 2 grand final, and an injury to Folau, the competition's leading tryscorer.
''For mine, the Crusaders are the only team that can beat the Waratahs,'' he said.
''With Kieran Reid coming back, Richie (McCaw) coming back, Dan Carter coming back, they're obviously very, very experienced players and in critical positions as well.
''So they're a team who are very, very dangerous.''
The Waratahs lost to the Sharks and Western Force when Folau was sidelined mid-season with a throat injury.
''There's certainly a correlation between when Israel was out for those couple of games and the results,'' Waugh said.
''So you'd have to say that the impact Israel has from a balancing point of view, a points-scoring point of view and the energy that he provides to the team, you'd say he's a critical member of the team.
''But, look, I think they're in a very, very good spot.''


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The fall semi-annual meeting of the St. Croix Vally Syttende Mai Society will be held at 7 p.m. on Thurs. Nov. 15 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
The St. Croix Valley Syttende Mai Society was founded in 1976 and celebrates Norway's Constitution Day in May and also meets in November for a semi-annual gathering.
The headline entertainment for the Fall St. Croix Valley Syttende Mai Society's Meeting will be Leroy Larson and the Minnesota Scandinavian Show Band. The group's past appearances include the Norsk Hostfest, performances at the Library of Congress, and appearing at the Kennedy Center for the Arts and on Norwegian radio.
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NEW YORK — The price of oil fell slightly Tuesday after the International Energy Agency predicted demand will grow at a slower pace into next year because of the sluggish global economy.
Benchmark oil dropped 19 cents to end at $85.38 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price international varieties of oil, fell 81 cents to $108.26 per barrel in London.
The Paris-based agency lowered its forecast for fourth-quarter oil demand by 300,000 barrels per day to 90.1 million barrels. Its forecast for 2013 dropped 100,000 barrels per day to 90.4 million barrels per day. Meanwhile, global oil supplies increased 800,000 barrels per day to 90.9 million barrels per day in October, the agency said.
The IEA blamed the weak European economy for slowing demand for oil and energy products. Another factor in lower fourth-quarter demand is Superstorm Sandy, which disrupted oil imports and gasoline deliveries on the U.S. East Coast by knocking out power and flooding fuel terminals and refineries, the agency said.
For the week that ended Nov. 9, gasoline demand in the region hit by the massive storm fell nearly 10 percent from the comparable week of 2011, according to John Gamel, a gasoline analyst for MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse. Demand nationwide fell 4.7 percent.
Among other energy futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange:
— Heating oil fell 3.84 cents to end at $2.961 per gallon.
— Gasoline futures 2.25 cents to end at $2.654 per gallon.
— Natural gas rose 16.9 cents, or 4.7 percent, to end at $3.739 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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GSP: Why Facing Anderson Silva Would Have Been the Biggest Mistake of His CareerDecember 6, 2012
A superfight with Anderson Silva would've been great for everyone but Georges St-Pierre.
The hopes of millions of MMA fans was let down on Thursday when it was revealed St-Pierre would not be facing Silva in his next fight.
According to UFC President Dana White, the French Canadian will likely defend his welterweight title against Nick Diaz.
For years, fans have salivated over the possibility of St-Pierre fighting Silva. Who wouldn't want to see the two top pound-for-pound fighters in the world compete against one another at a major venue?
The bout would've created a media buzz unlike anything MMA fans have ever seen and possibly even taken the sport to new heights.
At 37 years of age, the window is closing on Silva's illustrious career. He wants to put on the biggest fights possible, and it doesn't get any bigger than a superfight with St-Pierre, who White claims to be the UFC's biggest pay-per-view draw.
For White, it's fairly obvious why he's adamant about St-Pierre fighting Silva. He can give the fans the fight they want to see while simultaneously break the bank with blockbuster ticket and pay-per-view sales.
The superfight makes sense for everyone else involved, but what about St-Pierre? Does fighting Silva make sense for him?
The timing isn't the greatest.
St-Pierre was out of action for well over a year after undergoing surgery for a torn ACL in 2011. He looked fantastic in his UFC return against Carlos Condit at UFC 154, but after the fight, St-Pierre admitted that he felt a little rusty.
Silva is the last opponent anyone wants to face if they're not 100 percent back in the swing of things.
The other obvious discrepancy is Silva's size advantage. People often talk about how Silva would be dwarfed in a superfight with Jon Jones. Well, the same thing would apply to St-Pierre in a bout with Silva.
The mantra in MMA is that a fighter is only as good as his or her last fight.
Unfortunately, this holds true amongst most fans, who typically alienate fighters after a loss. St-Pierre has a great thing going at welterweight with sponsorships and large pay-per-view paydays.
A bout against Silva might have been the biggest mistake of his career. How many times have we seen fighters get knocked out and become a shell of their former selves?
It makes little sense for St-Pierre to risk his career and livelihood by stepping into the Octagon against a larger fighter who also happens to be the greatest knockout artist in the history of the sport.
Perhaps MMA fans have become spoiled by fighters like Silva, BJ Penn and Randy Couture. All three of these legends were willing to move up and down in weight, but this is what makes them special.
Fighters shouldn't be pressured into taking fights at heavier or lighter weight classes. They should be able to compete where they feel most comfortable.
Luckily, there are plenty of great fights left for St-Pierre at welterweight to keep him occupied. As for Silva, he doesn't need to beat up on a smaller guy to further his all-time status.
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It was another great week of Sneaker News Blogs: WDYWT submissions and it was surely a tough task to whittle it down to the twenty best. We've got another mixed bag, from Basketball classics from Nike and Reebok to colorful kicks of this decade, and it covers a wide range of brands and labels. Remember, submitting your kicks to the Sneaker News Blogs: WDYWT is easy as pie so if you haven't gotten in the groove yet, what's stopping you? Our readers never fail to surprise us with their heat, so check out this week's Top 20 submissions and be sure to vote for your favorite kicks!
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How Thank You Cards Build Loyal Customers
Like many of you, I do a lot of social media engagement. I attend a lot of meetings. I talk too much on my cell phone. I give way too many presentations.
However, there's one thing I don't do enough of: saying "thank you."
Sure, I say thank you as it is appropriate directly to the person or persons who deserve thanks, but so often more needs to be done—and not even immediately. The solution is old fashioned thank you cards.
Last week I bought a stack of 100 thank you cards (with my logo) and have made a determination to use them as much as I can—even for the smallest things.
Here's why am I doing these things, and why you should too.
1. Writing a thank you card breaks through the digital clutter of our lives
We receive so much mental noise through our ear phones and computer screens. A thank you card is a pleasant interruption of the digital noise around us and brings a smile to the recipient's face.
2. Thank you cards show you care
By taking the time to write a note of thanks, the recipient knows that you really value them. We are so busy running our businesses that we don't take the time to breathe, think and express thankfulness. In many cases, a hand written thank you note goes farther than a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.com
3. Building relationships of trust and "like" are important in business
My fellow OPEN Forum writer John Jantsch says that marketing is getting people to know, like and trust you. Thank you cards help make this happen in a big way.
4. Don't be forgotten
A few years ago I bought some tickets to go on a trip from an online ticket service. A friend of mine who sells tickets asked me why I did not turn to him. It was nothing personal, but I simply forgot that he sold tickets at the time I was browsing around Travelocity.com. Thank you cards help people to not forget about you. Send thank you cards and send them liberally.
5. Thank you cards are great marketing tools
I was interviewing Barbara Corcoran recently about her use of Dymo labels. She said that in one mailing she put her face (as it was very recognizable) on address labels that she was sending out to customers. Sending a few thank you cards, over the course of a year is a good way to say thank you, but also market your business. Why do you think Amazon.com, Dell and others have their logo all over their boxes?
6. Sending thank you cards disciplines you to not use the computer so much
Many of us have lost the art of hand written communication. We can easily send a 140 character Tweet, but we can't clearly communicate about our business. A hand written thank you note forces us to stop typing and write (with a pen) a thoughtful message to another human.
I'm sure there are so many more reasons why using thank you cards is great for you, your business and the recipient. Whatever your reason, order a batch of thank you cards today and send them out on a regular basis.


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USN-741-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-741-1
19th March, 2009
mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.10
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software description
- mozilla-thunderbird
- thunderbird
enabled, an attacker could exploit these flaws to crash Thunderbird and
possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-0352)
Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered flaws in the browser engine. If a
cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774)
Georgi Guninski discovered a flaw when Thunderbird performed a cross-domain
same-origin policy in Thunderbird by utilizing nsIRDFService and steal
private data from users authenticated to the redirected website.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- thunderbird 184.108.40.206+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- thunderbird 18.104.22.168+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
- Ubuntu 7.10:
- thunderbird 22.214.171.124+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
- mozilla-thunderbird 126.96.36.199+220.127.116.11~prepatch080614k-0ubuntu0.6.06.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Thunderbird to effect
the necessary changes.


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Arbor View lineman Franklin Johnson to play football at Augustana
Published on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 (9 a.m.)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE sent 04/10/13
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Franklin Johnson, a standout athlete from Arbor View High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, has announced his decision to enroll this fall at Augustana, where he plans on being a member of Coach Rob Cushman's Viking football program.
The 6' 2", 250-pound Johnson was a first team all-conference selection at center for Arbor View's undefeated Sunset Northwest Conference champions this year. The two-year letter winner also logged time at defensive tackle and helped Coach Dan Barnson's Aggies finish 10-1 overall and reach the NIAA Division I Sunset Region semifinals.
With Johnson helping pave the way, Arbor View rushed for an average of 369.3 yards per game and 8.2 yards per carry in 2012. The Aggies scored 48 rushing touchdowns and averaged 39.7 points per game. Johnson earned Player of the Week and Spotlight Player recognition and was selected to play in this summer's Lions Club All-Star game.
Johnson also lettered as a thrower in Coach Tyrel Cooper's Aggie track & field program.
Franklin is the son of Franklin and Lisa Johnson of La Vegas, Nevada and plans on pursuing a computer science major at Augustana.
Johnson joins a Viking program with an outstanding tradition that includes 21 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin titles, four NCAA Division III national championships, 22 CCIW "Players of the Year" and 29 academic All-America selections. Cushman will be in his third season as Augustana's head coach in 2013. The Vikings went 5-5 last year and finished fourth in the CCIW.
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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:23, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:56, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > codeWarrior wrote: > > > > Lookas as if you've managed to turn off your computer mid-transaction > > > > thereby corrupting the postgreSQL commit logs (pg_clog)... > > > > > > > > You should never just turn off a database server... always shut it down > > > > normally... Turning it off was a major mistake. I dont know if you can > > > > recover or not as the system (postgreSQL) now thinks it is in the middle of > > > > a transaction... > > > > > > PostgreSQL should never get corrupted by turning off the server. It > > > isn't ideal to do that, but it should not get corrupted. > > > > Unless it is installed on hardware that lies about fsync. > > > > Which almost all ATA drives, parallel and serial, do, sadly. > > Ah, yes, that one. We do have a section in the 8.1 beta docs about that > which will help in the future: > > http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/reliability.html I still remember when I found out that basically all IDE drives lied about this. So I built my server with battery backed cache and SCSI drives, and part of it's acceptance testing was having a heavy transactional load placed on it and have the power switch flipped off. We did that about 10 times with different loads, and it never failed to come right back up. So, 6 months later, when an electrician dropped a piece of clipped off copper wire into one of our three power conditioners in the hosting center, thereby causing an overload that blew out all three power conditioners AND the UPSes they were connected to, and emergency power was restored, my machine was the only one in a hosting center of about 100 servers that came up perfectly. Well, almost perfectly. We had to reboot it because it came up too fast and none of the nfs servers it normally sees were there yet. The nfs servers were all bsd boxes, and they all came up too, except for the ones with >1 fried drives in their RAID 5s, which was only a couple. It was nice knowing my research and all on PostgreSQL had paid off. There were plenty of machines with MySQL and with Oracle which did not survive the power outage.
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There is this annyoing weirdness in Sybase. Better to have it read by people and spidered by Google than not, so here it is.
If you, in a stored procedure, have an output parameter of type bit and it doesn't have a value (it may be passed in with a NULL value) when the procedure returns, the ct-lib on the client will crash due to faulty TDS data.
This can happen if e.g. a foreign key constraint is violated and an error is raised before you touch the variable.
The solution is to make sure the variable always has a proper bit-like value, so put
select @is_weird = 1
at the beginning of the procedure before anyhing can go wrong.


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What methods do people use to spot patterns of how various things affect their blood sugar?The usual software is pretty useless to me because I don't seem to have regular patterns. I don't tend to go high or low at one particular time of day consistently. I might go low some nights but not others, or high after some meals but not others, and I want to see what might be causing these. When I look at a modal day graph of my readings there is just no pattern. When I did a CGM for a week two years ago there was also no pattern. I have tried testing basals and such but, again, two different days will result in two different results!I have cut back carbs to usually around 70-80g most days hoping that would help since so many people find success, and it has not helped much. I will stick to it but I think I need to start looking at other factors.Also related, curious how many Type 1s here are able to stay between 4 - 11 (70-200) most of the time. Especially young women (like 20s and 30s) and those diagnosed as kids.I don't know if I'm just being unrealistic but I would really like to be able to get to a point where I can stay within this range for an entire day at a time! I know there will always be highs and lows but right now I am not able to stay within 70-200 in any given day which I just find frustrating. I don't know if I've ever had a day where my overall range has been less than 100-150 points. This is not a new thing—I was looking back at my records from about two years ago when my A1c was in the high 6s and even then I was not able to stay between 70-200 most days. When I look back at my records from when I was on MDI and even before that as a kid/teenager, my control is even worse (like 50-350 on an almost daily basis)!I really, really want tight control and am willing to put in the work, but at the same time continually feeling like I'm not really getting results does not help my motivation at all.
I too often get frustrated that I'm not doing as good as person X or person Y says I ought to. Or even just as well as I'd like to be doing. At some point psychologically I have to work on me and what I can attain, and not what someone who has very easy to control diabetes is able to maintain.
I do have a hard time when someone comes to a discussion board moaning about how awful it is that they hit 140 and that's the worst their bg has ever been and how come they can't do better like they're supposed to. Mostly I can keep my mouth shut and not say anything condescending but I'm not always that successful.
I never thought of it like this but this "no pattern" thing is my situation also. It is always interesting when my endo sees 2 or 3 days of lows or highs at a certain time and says 'here is a pattern' and wants to change something. The fact is, it is not a pattern. Because without changing anything, the next three days will show something else entirely. Someone said the other day that posters are the "cream of the crop" of diabetics. Well, that may be true for most, but certainly not for me.No, I do not stay between 70 and 200.Do you have a cgm? I do not but I have decided that is the only way to control the BG range, at least for those of us with bouncing BGs. I hope to get one after the first of the year. I have been trying to wait for the new smaller MM one since I have a MM pump. If only we could get progress info from FDA.....
Jen, I figure you've done this already... have you looked at meal logs next to the modal day? I know you said the same meal produces different results - just wondering if you're eating the same meal at the same time of day? (Just fishing here.)
My endo often says he can't find any patterns in my readings. Which makes me feel a bit better because at least it's not just me ... But I'm the same way. Even if I happen to go low twice on two days in a row, I can not change anything and the next day I won't be low. Or I can adjust my pump settings and the next day I'll go high instead of low. It drives me crazy. It's like I fix one thing, move on to the next, and as I'm fixing that the first thing goes out of whack again. For example, I thought I had my overnight and morning readings nailed consistently being between 80-120 and was trying to work on after-breakfast readings, but now my overnight/morning readings are all out of whack again only a few weeks later. I understand always needing tweaking, but I constantly feel as if I'm just trying to "get the basics" down, never mind fine-tuning!
I don't have a CGM and at the moment can't afford one (and health benefits will not cover one), but I am definitely getting one as soon as I'm able to, because I think it would help a lot.
I do eat pretty much the same things every day as long as I don't eat out. I think I need to start keeping logs that record absolutely everything but then the problem I find is how to use all that information in an organized way that can show cause and effect. And also how to decide how much to record without constantly writing stuff down.
Unfortunately starting tomorrow my schedule is no longer consistent (it's been really consistent the past three months) and that is going to make things even harder, but is not something I can help.
Finding patterns often takes me many weeks to figure out. I'm like you - so different from day to day.It also seems like once I figure out what's wrong and make a change to a basal rate or an I:C ratio, I mess up a whole other part of the day! My ranges can be pretty big too sometimes. Just to give you an idea of where another T1 is...the past few days have been:10/24: 46-18710/25: 56-20410/26: 44-21310/27: 44-25610/28: 58-137 (ok, that one was actually pretty decent)10/29: 47-25810/30: 88-170 so far
Your range looks similar to mine:
10/24 - 56-36210/25 - 41-26610/26 - 83-194 - Great day!10/27 - 59-23010/28 - 104-23810/29 - 92-21410/30 - 52-212
Thanks for letting me know it's not just me! I also get what you mean by feeling like you change one thing and it messes some other part of the day up.
It is a total pain writing everything down... I did it last week. I transferred all my BGs, food, stress, exercise, etc. to a spreadsheet organized by time, then organized it by time of day, then by meal.... I did discover a few things. Not having a regular schedule will for sure throw yet another monkey wrench in the works ;(
I'm the one who mentioned "cream of the crop". I didn't mean to imply that you had to have great results, but the fact that you're here learning about and discussing diabetes puts you in a special category. My endo indicates that she has a huge number of patients who hardly test at all and won't follow most or any of her instructions.I think there is no doubt that some of us have an easier time getting good BG results than others. Certainly the stage of life you're in can make a big difference. Raging hormones for teenagers, women at that time of month, etc. can make blood sugar go haywire. And I think that some people have more hormone interference at each stage than others. Although the term "brittle" is outdated, I still believe that this journey is harder for some than others.What I find so frustrating about Type 1 is all the things that can influence blood sugar: food, type of insulin, timing of injections, hormones, activity level, stress, type of carbs, pump site effectiveness, etc. and etc. I can't count the times that I've had great willpower and "followed all the rules" and then had a pump site go bad and send my BG into the 300's. Or eat my normal breakfast and then get a post-meal reading 150 points higher than yesterday.I do think that my expectations for my BG readings are highly influenced by reading these message boards. If I eat any carbs, it is unusual for me to stay below 140 after the meal without going low later. I'm incredibly insulin and carb sensitive and often I struggle to identify meaningful patterns. It's unbelievable to me how many people here say that they can almost always stay between 70 and 140 and sometimes I feel stressed because I can't do that. That just isn't the diabetes I know. However, I'm 35 years into this disease with no significant complications. I manage to keep my a1c's below 6 despite some of the huge peaks I have. So I have to think I'm doing just fine.These boards are great and I learn so much from them. I'm inspired by everyone (well, almost everyone) here. Anyone who takes time to read and/or post here is "cream of the crop" as far as I'm concerned.
It is human nature to see patterns, even when there are no patterns. To me this means that if I cannot see a pattern then there really is no pattern. I had a hard time letting go of the dream that my BG will do the same as long as I do the same. This simply is not the case. I experience a high degree of randomness. The randomness seems to be more of a good day/bad day randomness than randomness within a day. I suspect that insulin absorption plays a big role. I am lucky enough to have a Dexcom 7+. The dex tells me whether it is a good day or a bad day and I adjust my insulin accordingly. It is important that I recognize as early as possible what day it is. I can never assume that today will be like yesterday.
Does whatever gizmo you are looking at give you the Standard Deviation? That's the first thing I look at most of the time these days. The pump sort of keeps track of some of the other numbers but if I look at that and it's ok, I relax. Then I remember that I have to get the "real" number from the doc before I can really relax.
I recall your other report that there were some post parandials that were running up, did you try shooting more insulin (ratio-wise...) at them to see if that would help? I had this wierd stretch recently where my middle of the night numbers were running up and up and up so I turned my pump up, and them up some more and then some more and it finally fell into line. Now, of course, it's running low every morning so I guess I got carried away but, as I'm out of it in the AM and have an A1C coming up, I figure "I'll get around to it"...
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I attribute the randomness to what we don't know about D, the factors we're not even aware of. We have a lot to learn.
I've checked out Diabetes Pilot which is what I've been using and it doesn't have standard deviation! Something to e-mail them about and request. It doesn't seem to be available on my meter, either (Ping), but I haven't checked ezManager and it might be available there. What kind of SD do you aim for?
I haven't tried upping my I:C ratio because it's already at 1:7 which I think is kind of ridiculous ... Plus, my readings after meals are sometimes high but sometimes fine. I'm nervous of upping it and then ending up crashing low. I want to wait until I get needled infusion sets and see if they help at all before fiddling with pump settings.
Those are good reasons to be calm about making changes. I usually aim for the 20s in general and now seem to be 'aiming' for the low 20s as opposed to the high 20s. Maybe its sort of the "continuous improvement" philosophy I learned in Tae Kwon Do or something? I had it on the One Touch Ultra Smart and the MM meter reports also provide it.
I don't look at ratios as "ridiculous" as the goal is to have the BG be ok, regardless of what the ratio is? I agree about waiting for new sets, etc.
If your I:C ratio seems ridiculous, it is possible that you are taking too much insulin as bolus and not enough as basal. How many units of each do you take each day (on average)?
My basal is equal to about 25 units (24.9) and my boluses for the past few days have been 24.6, 18.8, 20.6, etc. (eating about 70-80g of carbs). A lot of those boluses are made up of corrections rather than covering carbs. My basal and bolus rates change about every two weeks, though, going up or down by about 0.15-0.20u for the basal and the ratio changing by about 1:2-1:3 (and correction ratio changing correspondingly). I think this is a big reason that testing these settings is so hard! I've been having random lows at night (some nights, but not all) so I'd be nervous upping my basal rates overall, though maybe just during the day would help ...I just find 1:7 ridiculous because my ratio used to be more like 1:10 to 1:11 (during this "phase"). I've never taken as low as 1:7 (and 1:6 if I up it even more). I think I might be having problems with infusion sets/insulin absorption so have ordered sets with a needle instead of cannula to see if they help at all. I should hopefully get them sometime next week and will fiddle with pump settings after that (am hoping it might get my I:C ratio back to where it used to be, though).But as I said in the post, I don't think my problem is as "simple" as just adjusting one or two pump settings. I think if it were that simple I would have achieved a desirable range years ago (I have been putting in a really concerted effort for about six years now, minus about six months I went through major burnout).
The Ping meter is pretty similar to the UltraSmart so I'll have to take a closer look and see if it's somewhere in there.
I just downloaded my pump data and it is in the ezmanager software. My standard deviation for the past week is 3.9 (70 mg/dl). For the past month it's 3.4 (61 mg/dl). For the past 90 days it's 3.6 (65 mg/dl). So it seems to be holding pretty steady, at least.
Our DD has had Type 1 for more than six plus years and though we do have days where she no higher than 200, with no lows they are rare. I think you hit the nail on the head when you specify those diagnosed as children because I believe LADA has a longer, slower, gentler progression, although it is still Type 1. I, too, would love for her to be able to stay within those ranges, but it is unrealistic and not possible. We test often and treat the highs immediately; as well as the lows. As far as "pattern" is concerned, there is a pattern of sorts. But within this pattern, there are basal adjustments almost every day, either up .50 or down .50. I call this "tweaking." She also has subpatterns, where sometimes she has dawn phenom and sometimes not. As long as there are no major adjustments, such as during puberty, the rise and fall in basals will become evident and we will tweak up or down. It is more difficult when a major increase is called for in the evening hours because it will not last and there will be lows. We have a somewhat stable period (when whatever the basal is, it will stay within that range) from 1:30am thru 4pm. In that stable period there can be the Dawn phenom rise from 2 to 6am (or not) and a possible drop from 2pm to 4pm (or not). I guess what I'm getting at is that there are two or three familiar basal pattern subsets that overlay the basic basal pattern. You kind of intuitively know when she goes high at 2am, to apply more basal because tonight she is having dawn phenom, etc. Once that happens it tends to occur two or three days in a row. Constantly moving target but if you keep a written log, I think you may be able to identify your own patterns and I believe they will be multiple. In short, if you are willing to wear a cgms, that would be your best bet because you can then proactively manage your blood sugars. Type 1 is diabetes mel., uncontrollable. And I believe it is exactly that, uncontrollable swings in blood sugar that can be managed. Not controlled. The younger the age of diagnosis, I believe, the more severe. This does not mean you cannot have good A1cs, by the way. But on a cgms, your graphs most likely will never be flat.
While we are often told that our bodies are like a simply machine, our blood sugar is "only" affected by what we eat and if we just counted our carbs our calculated our boluses we could achieve control. Sadly, this is just not the case and some of us have more problems. I think part of what can drive us crazy is that there are lots of variables. We know about some of them. Stress. Different blood sugar responses to different foods that have seemingly the same number of carbs. Allergies. And then there are variables that we are not aware of. And that is the challenge in spotting patterns. If you already knew what variables affected your blood sugar, you would have spotted them long ago.
So what do you do? Well, one possibility is to just start a journal to augment your log. You already log your carbs, blood sugar readings and all your insulin dosing. And you probably write down things like exercise and stress level. But do you write down what kinds of things you ate? Wheat, eggs, dairy, soy, etc. What about how large the meal was and whether you were full for hours. What about how you felt, headache, stuff nose? What about how much water/liquids you drank?
Perhaps others have suggestions for things they look for or that they discovered in their patterns. Maybe this will help.


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Gamers will be heading to the cloud this summer when Sony Computer Entertainment marks the U.S. debut of its streaming game service branded as PlayStation Now.
Plans call for PlayStation Now, dubbed PS Now, to deliver a variety of popular PlayStation 3 game titles on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 systems followed by the PlayStation Vita systems. In addition to PlayStation platforms, most 2014 U.S. models of Sony's Bravia brand televisions will support PS Now. Eventually, plans call for the service to expand beyond PlayStation platforms and Sony devices, allowing users to stream PlayStation games on numerous other Internet-connected devices, according to the company.
"We are thrilled to deliver entertainment experiences only possible from PlayStation through our new streaming game service," said Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "PS Now will allow users to engage in the world of PlayStation, whether they're existing fans or have never owned a PlayStation platform."
The company's vision, shared with those who attended the CES in Las Vegas is to enable users to instantly enjoy a wide range of full games on the Internet-connected consumer electronics devices they use every day. The accessibility of PS Now means, for example, that PS4 users in the living room can continue playing a game on a PS3 system in their bedroom. Or PS Vita users can enjoy instant access to a game wherever there's Wi-Fi connectivity, such as outdoors, then can switch to a supporting Bravia TV's big screen and play the same game after arriving home.
According to the company, PS Now will offer choice to gamers with how they want to access content. Gamers can rent by title for specific games they are interested in, or they can choose a subscription that delivers additional value with the ability to explore and play many games available across a wide variety of genres.


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Next Mazda MX-5 to Lose 220 LBS
Mazda's severed ties with Ford and recent shift to a single, scalable platform have birthed a series of noteworthy products, but there's one major question mark left in the company's portfolio.
It still isn't clear what Mazda plans to do for either of its performance nameplates. Information on the next MX-5 is still scarce, but a new report suggests Mazda plans for its new roadster to weight in 220 lbs lighter than the current car.
That's significant considering the current car only weighs 2,447 lbs when equipped with the soft top and a manual transmission. Both the convertible hard top and the automatic transmission add weight.
SEE ALSO: 2015 Mazda MX-5 to Get 1.3L Turbo
Mazda will partner with Fiat to build the car, which will lead to both a new MX-5 and a new Spider for Alfa Romeo. While Mazda hasn't made details about the car availble, past speculation suggests the car will be powered by a turbocharged 1.3-liter four cylinder rather than the 2.0-liter naturally aspirated four it uses today. That, at least in part, could help account for the weight savings.
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Crystal Shawanda To Open For Toby Keith
RCA/Nashville recording artist Crystal Shawanda has been added as an opening act for Toby Keith at the Turning Stone Event Center February 11th. She will join Eric Church as the musical table setters for Toby who will be making his second Event Center appearance. A native of Ontario, Canada, Shawanda has yet to make a significant impact on the country music charts but if you check out this video for her recent release "You Can Let Go" you'll see it's just a matter of time


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J.K. Rowling sued by author's estate over Harry Potter
The estate of the late Adrian Jacobs added Rowling as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in June against Bloomsbury Publishing PLC for alleged copyright infringement, the AP says. The lawsuit, filed in a London court, claims Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire copied substantial parts of Jacobs' 1987 book, The Adventures of Willy the Wizard -- No. 1 Livid Land. Jacobs' estate says other ideas ended up in other books, not just Goblet, which is fourth in Rowling's series.
"I am saddened that yet another claim has been made that I have taken material from another source to write Harry," said Rowling, who was added to the suit once the estate, which is based in Australia, found out the statute of limitations to sue her had not yet run out as previously thought. "The fact is I had never heard of the author or the book before the first accusation by those connected to the author's estate in 2004; I have certainly never read the book."
But they heard of you, J.K., and isn't that what's important?
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Azzam, the world's largest and fastest private yacht, reportedly belongs to a "mysterious" Arab billionaire, said to be one of the richest men on the globe.
Some reports claim that the superyacht is owned by an oil mogul from the United Arab Emirates, while earlier reports have said that a member of Saudi Arabia's royal family is the new proud owner of the 'biggest and baddest' yacht in the world.
Riddled in secrecy, it is not yet clear who the owner of the boat is or why the name has yet to be revealed.
The boat is over 590 feet in length and about 55 feet more than the previous world-record holder, the Eclipse, which is owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
The ship is currently docked at the Lurssen shipyard in Bremen, Germany, according to UAE's Top News.
"To put that in perspective, the Azzam super yacht is almost two full football fields in length, and hosts a variety of unique features, from a defensive missile system to no less than two helipads," said a report by the Examiner.
According to the report, the yacht allegedly cost over $600 million to build and has been in the making for almost four years.
The superyacht – which sails at roughly 35 miles per hour – has many features that have not yet been disclosed, said the Examiner, adding that it has "bullet proof glass in and around safe rooms and the master bedroom, a mini-submarine that can be detached to visit the seafloor, a movie theater, a restaurant and even a disco room."
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Tickets Go on Sale 8/1 for Complicite's MNEMONIC at Red Tape Theatre
Casting has been completed for Red Tape Theatre's (RTT) upcoming production of Mnemonic by Complicite, presented in association with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, directed by Artistic Director Brandon Ray. (Full cast list below) Tickets for this Chicago Premiere will go on sale Friday, August 1st, 2014 at www.redtapetheatre.org. All performances will be held at the DCASE Storefront Theater, located at 66 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL. Tickets during the regular run for Mnemonic, will be $15 General Admission with Preview tickets discounted at $12 and all Thursday night performances being "Pay What You Can". Performances are Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm.
RTT is also excited about our current Indiegogo campaign underway. This specific campaign is designated to raise a minimum of $2000 to help bring Mnemonic to the DCASE Storefront theater stage. As of the time this press release was written, we have secured 24% towards our goal, a total of $485 in contributions with another 12 days left in the campaign. Supports have until August 9th at 11:59pm to make a contribution towards the campaign and can do so at http://igg.me/p/855354/x.
Mnemonic by Complicite
Originally conceived and directed by Simon McBurney
Devised by the company
Directed by Artistic Director Brandon Ray
September 2-October 5, 2014 (Opening Performance: Friday, September 5, 7:30pm)
Crossing continents and centuries, Mnemonic's frayed narrative weaves together the discovery of Ötzi the iceman, a woman's search for her absent father and the longing for a love lost. By persistently exploring "how we remember, what we remember, why we remember," Mnemonic calls us to question not only who we are but where we ultimately come from.
Mnemonic opened in July 1999 at the Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield and toured throughout Europe, receiving praise and The Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. It was revived in 2001 where it toured to the National Theatre London as well as a successful run off-Broadway at the John Jay College Theater, receiving the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement off Broadway for Unique Theatrical Experience.
Complicite began in 1983 by a small group of actors influenced by the French mime artists, Jacques Lecog and Phillippe Gaulier. They decided to use their training in theatrical movement and to start a traveling "physical theatre" performance group. What makes Complicite extraordinary is their ability to balance between text, live performance, sound design, and visuals. Their use of all these elements, in combination with their unique movement-based performance style makes them a prime example of successful post-modern theatre and the voice of the new post-modern and technology-driven era. We live our lives in multiplicity and fragments, and Complicite has taken that and put it on stage to examine.
About the Director - Artistic Director, Brandon Ray, was formerly the inaugural Artistic Director of Chicago's New Leaf Theatre. While at New Leaf, he directed the Joseph Jefferson award-nominated productions of As It Is In Heaven and the US premiere of David Hare's The Permanent Way. Other Chicago directing credits include The Sovereign Statement for the Neo-Futurists, Reckless and Accelerando at New Leaf, Three Hymns of Apathy at the side project, With Every Wish at Petri Dish Theatre and Beatrice and Beau at Collaboraction's 9th Sketchbook festival.
The complete cast for Mnemonic is as follows:
DIRECTED by Brandon Ray
ALICE- Meghan Reardon*
ALICE U/S- Charlotte Cannon
VIRGIL- Chris Carr
VIRGIL U/S- Sean Wilberg
SPINDLER- Robert Oakes
Sarah Grant*
Krista Taylor*
Stephanie Shum
Emma Ladji
Jake Szczepaniak
Pavi Prozcko
David Cady
David Giannini
Gage Wallace
*Denotes RTT Ensemble Member
About Red Tape Theatre - Red Tape Theatre, now in our 11th season, is committed to the creation of new and experimental work through collaborations with our ensemble, playwrights, musicians, dancers, and visual artists. Red Tape's plays invite our audiences to re-imagine their world and serve a vital purpose in our community: to arrest attention and create empathy. This work is supported by our Fresh Eyes Playwrights Workshop and the Chicago Fringe Artist Networking Night, both of which are produced annually.


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Mixed-signal chip designs with embedded digital signal processing are becoming more and more commonplace these days. How can you bring low-power processors, such as the ARM Cortex-M0, into such designs quickly and efficiently? A lunch panel discussion at the recent Design Automation Conference (DAC 2012), sponsored by Cadence, provided some answers.
The panel discussion was moderated by John Murphy, alliance group director at Cadence. Participants were as follows, shown left to right in the photo below:
The entire event consisted of questions and answers, except for a very brief presentation by Cosaro. He noted that NXP has a long history of developing microcontrollers, and that all of its MCUs have transitioned to ARM cores. He said that microcontrollers typically lag 3-4 years behind logic design when it comes to advanced nodes, but observed that "microcontrollers are dialing down to deep submicron processes, and what we're doing now is taking advantage of all the things that were done by leading-edge guys and bringing them back into our process nodes. We're doing back biasing and things like that to reduce leakage current."
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Q: The scaling process is a path we've been on in the digital world, but analog doesn't scale well due to advanced node effects. What methodology challenges need addressing in order to move to the next process node?
Cosaro: There are analog parts the customer sees, such as ADCs and op amps. There's also the systems stuff, the regulators and things like that. So the problem of integrating analog is not just about the customer parts, it's about the system parts too. It's a challenge to make all that work correctly because typically there are many power domains. You might have a battery domain where voltage ranges from 1.8V to 5V.
Q: Power is very critical in embedded devices, but at the same time we have to be connected to the outside world, which is causing a shift from 8 and 16 bits to 32 bits. Doesn't this run contrary to low power concerns?
Pajak: Microcontrollers typically have applications where you wake up, take a sensor reading, and go back to sleep. Processors in the Cortex-M range are able to do this in fewer cycles and effectively reduce the amount of the active duty cycle for the device. A communications stack typically has 32-bit addresses. Moving this around with an 8-bit microcontroller, an 8051 for example, is going to take more cycles, so the entire device is powered up longer.
Cosaro: We've done a lot of benchmarking on code size, and we'll see maybe a 50% reduction in code size running the same algorithm in M0 class processors compared to an 8051,
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Pajak: Flash power can dwarf the processor power, so reducing the amount of flash activity goes a long ways to reducing the device power. In the Cortex-M architecture, versus 8-bit architectures, we've seen code size cut in half, with fewer instruction fetches from the flash.
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Nizic: On the digital side we have a well established methodology supported by CPF (Common Power Format). At Cadence, we have extended our CPF support across our analog tools as well. For example, in simulation we can establish the state of the signals between digital and analog, so when digital shuts down we properly set the signals for analog.
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Pajak: One consideration is the impact of flash on die size. The area of the processor is very, very important - in the Cortex-M0 we get this down to 12K gates in a minimal configuration. You also have to consider the rest of the logic on the chip.
Cosaro: Memory probably has the biggest impact on cost. In general, you start paying for memory once the footprint goes above 64K. If you can make the logic smaller that's good - if you can make the memory smaller, even better.
Q: MCUs typically interact with the outside world using analog interfaces and signals. This has to be part of system verification. But an analog solver significantly slows simulation. Can you abstract analog to higher levels?
Nizic: We put together a demo that models a system with a sensor and a regulator, controlled by two ADCs. Verilog-A and real number modeling don't slow the simulation, but they can model the behavior of the pressure sensor and regulator and engage the ARM core to adjust to the required pressure.
Q: Software is a big challenge. Do people need to consider analog as they're doing system-level modeling?
Pajak: From the Cortex-M0 user view, peripherals exist as a memory map. Programmers don't see the analog domain; they see a number from an address in memory that comes into an ADC. There's no need to use assembler. You can do it all in C.
Cosaro: In our environment we don't really know what the end application is going to be. We do multi-mode simulations, and we have models of ADCs. To make sure they're going to interact correctly with software, we write testbenches that correlate with what we think the customer is going to do.
Q: Now that more third-party IP is used in [mixed-signal] chips, what challenges in the ecosystem need to be overcome?
Cosaro: Taking the IP and making it into something that the user understands how to use. If I buy IP, it should come with documentation so it can be integrated. That's the biggest challenge for us.
Pajak: We license processors to companies like NXP and they have end users. We go to great efforts to make sure we have documentation not only for the purchaser of the core, but we also provide end-user documents that explain how the processor will work.
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Some funny comments here...how can serious people compare CORTEX M0 code size with a 30 years old 8051 architecture !!! World has changed guys.Just look around and be a little more open to compare with nowadays 8 bits architectures


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Like many of her 14,000 fellow attendees, photographer Aly Bucholz came to Monday's "Get Motivated!" business seminar at the Valley View Casino Center hoping to get pumped, jazzed and entrepreneurially energized.
But first, she had to get in.
"They wouldn't let us come in with our coffee," laughed Bucholz, as she and videographer Todd Whittington hung around outside gulping their java. "But I really love the energy here. I love it when people come together to get into the right mind set to go out and accomplish something."
With a roster of such heavy-hitters as comedian Bill Cosby, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, the "Get Motivated!" touring show came to town with the promise of dispensing a life-changing buzz. And it wasn't the kind you get from caffeine.
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At the rate LSU is going, its 2013 recruiting class could be filled by July 4.
The Tigers grabbed commitment No. 16 from Lakeland, Fla., athlete Kennard Swason on Tuesday afternoon -- the second commitment of the week. Swanson pledged his services just one week after he received his scholarship offer. He gives the Tigers their third athlete commitment of the this class, but it doesn't seem like there will be much doubt about the two-way player's future in Baton Rouge.
Although he also lines up as a defensive end for Lake Gibson High School, Swason's future with the Tigers is at fullback -- a crucial position during the Les Miles era of powerful running offenses.
Fullback doesn't usually get people's adrenaline flowing, as it's not exactly an eye-catching position. But LSU fans should know better than most what it can mean for an offense to have a big, mean upback throwing haymakers for the tailback. James Stampley filled that role beautifully for LSU, as he pancaked and bulldozed his way through gaps to help the Tigers rack up an absurd total of 2,836 rushing yards in 2012.
Before Stampley, there was Quinn Johnson, the 6-foot-1, 263-pound behemoth who is entering the fifth year of his NFL career as a blocker. With Johnson plugging holes in 2007 and 2008, the Tigers rushed for a whopping total of 2,998 and 2,1168 yards, respectively. In 2009, the year after Johnson's departure, that total dropped to 1,596 -- the worst team rushing performance of Miles' tenure at LSU.
Obviously there are other factors at stake, but the importance of a good blocking fullback can't be understated for a team that likes to run the ball down opponents' throats as much as LSU.
The Tigers still have the services of 6-foot-1, 280-pound heavy-hitterJ.C. Copeland for two more years in the fullback spot. But the addition of Swanson seems to suggest LSU doesn't want to suffer another letdown in the blocking spot. Ideally, Copeland's presence gives Swanson a year to get to campus and bulk up -- although at 6-foot, 250 pounds, it's not like he needs to do much -- before he needs to worry too much about contributing.
Good blocking is key for a team that hands the ball off nearly 600 times, as LSU did last fall. With the addition of Swanson, it looks like they'll have a reliable fullback for the foreseeable future.