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Festivals are a place to let loose and have fun, but self-care is important in order to ensure that you have a good time. The following list is a guide for what to bring to make sure your Harvest is a positive experience. Please take good care of yourself at all times and ensure that you are protected from the elements: use sunscreen and protective clothing, stay in the shade, drink enough water, eat enough to keep yourself going and get some sleep (yes, you can sleep at the festival!). Water is available for free; ice is available for purchase at the general store. Food vendors offer meals and snacks on site. EMS and security are available 24 hours per day. Take good care of yourself and those around you and most importantly, HAVE FUN!
If you want to arrive early to get a head start on your camp spot, you may enter the grounds after 6pm on Wednesday July 3 for an early entrance fee. During the event free re-entry is permitted with a wristband. But, why don't you just stick around? We're awesome. The front gate re-opens on Thursday July 4 at 11am.
Family Camping is a home-away-from-home for the family that likes to festival. It is located close to the festival grounds, food vendors, showers, toilets, playground and security. Close proximity to amenities makes it easier for families to make quick trips back to camp if needed. The family camping area is also the best spot for RVs due to there being ample flat ground in this area. It should be noted that this space is situated in close proximity to the stages, which will be playing music late into the evening and morning. Most parents report, however, that their little ones are tuckered out from all the fun and activities of the day that they tend to sleep regardless. Quieter campsites are available but are located much deeper into the campground and are a further walk from amenities. Families are welcome to camp in the family campground, quieter zone or anywhere they feel most comfortable! For more information check out our Family Planning Guide.
Astral Harvest cares for the Earth, the people and the future generations.
The festival has made some great changes that allow us to become better stewards of the sacred land we are so blessed to use and we continue to become more conscious every year.
We are not able to do these great things without your continued help! One of the best ways that you can give back to the hard-working organizers, volunteers and landowners is to help maintain and even regenerate the land!
Please be mindful of others and the environment
Please store and properly dispose of cigarette butts (personal butt containers will be available at the information booth, or you can bring an old pill container or film canister)
If you are smoking on the dance floor please do so on the periphery; be mindful towards others with respiratory conditions
Do not move or displace fire rings
Please dispose of your butts and garbage responsibly (DO NOT PUT BUTTS IN FIRE RINGS)
Fires only in designated fire rings at camp
DO NOT put garbage in the fire rings!
Keep your cooler, garbage, and bottles in your vehicle at night
Do not burn food
Do not leave food out and do not use the forest as composting grounds
If you see a bear: Remain calm, place any items in your hands slowly on the ground and back away slowly. Make loud sounds that may scare the bear away.
Pick up garbage/ recycling when you see it and place it in the proper bins.
Separate your refundables from other recycling in clear plastic bags.
We are excited to announce that we are now able to take recycling on site. Blue bags will be available for all recyclables except for glass which we ask you to please take with you when you leave.
If you place your filled garbage and recycling close to the paths, our lovely volunteers will collect them twice per day.
Take out what you bring in (leave no trace/ leave a regenerative trace)
Keep your campsite tidy during the festival and clean it up before you leave
Stay on the festival side of the river area; the other side of the river is private property
Read the signs and stay in bounds as there are private residences near the festival grounds
Do not throw anything into the forest, even if it's biodegradable
Pack reusable water bottles, travel mugs, dishes and cutlery. Reusable bottles will also be available for purchase.
Bring food with less packaging! Purchase food items in bulk and store in reusable containers.
Keep it simple and bring in only the food or other supplies you think you really need. We do have great vendors onsite to support you if you need extra food!
Leave items that can become MOOP (matter out of place) at home. MOOP are items that do not originate from the land but can be easily lost into the landscape at festivals. This would include feathers, loose fur, small jewelry, nails, screws, and glass.
Purchase high-quality camping gear when possible so it will last longer and becomes less disposable.
Carpool to the festival when possible
Check in on friends. Tell each other where you are going and what you are up to!
Take turns cooking and cleaning so everyone gets a break.
Check in with others if they seem upset or may be feeling alone. There is a sanctuary on site that you can guide people to. Find staff or volunteers if you see someone in stress or who needs help.
Be well rested and sober before leaving the festival, elect a designated driver!
Rest before you drive! If you have been awake for 18 hours or more, or if you have had 6 hours of sleep or less in the past 24 hrs, you are at a high risk for a drowsy driving crash, even if you don't feel sleepy
Be responsible and look after your friends; don't let them drive under the influence
Stay hydrated. Drink lots of water, before you leave and while you drive.
Astral Harvest values the intention of caring for the land we all hope to visit for many years to come. Our Green Initiatives are put in place to help protect our long-term vision to respect the place many of us call "home". This season we are continuing to expand our green initiatives and are excited to announce the recycling program. Astral Harvest now accepts all types of recycling except for glass. Blue bags will be available for this. In addition, we are excited to continue to mandate that All food and drinks must only be served using compostable or reusable dishes and cutlery. We are currently visioning the expansion of our composting and hope to become a fully, "Leave a Regenerative Trace" festival.


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Bruno Browning – Red Light
June 5, 2014 in Singles
Two fine underground deep house cuts from Mr Browning here, coming on his own Las Vegas-based Soulsupplement Records.
On the A, Red Light has the kind of fat-bottomed struttin' funk with which the likes of Salted and Transport made their name in spades – albeit at a lower, more 2014 tempo – topping it off with luxuriant synth washes, a hint of sax and a cheeky vocal bite from Roxanne. Over on the B, meanwhile, Gracie's Groove is a slow-building jam wherein the aforesaid saxophonist (or possibly clarinettist, in this instance?) gets to really show what he can do against a backdrop of tuff beats and a looping beast of a bassline, complimented by some tinkly Farfisa organ work as various vocal snips n' shouts play out over the top.
"Truly for the deepest of cats" is how the hype sheet trumpets this one, and they're not wrong.
Out: This week
About: You can find Soulsupplement Records here, here and here.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
More panorama photos
Friday, September 16, 2011
My hometown
The above photos I took from the top of the building that you can see marked in this photo, and this photo I took from the place you can see below.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
My son's wedding
Big hello to all,
I've been absent for so long as a blogger but it wasn't my intention to be so. It's just happened. I was occupied with some other things; some were nice and some were less nice. The most beautiful out of all is that my older son got married and that happy couple live near us but in their own house which construction was completed only several days before their wedding.
I've missed you all and I hope that I will be able to catch up with your posts soon.
Thank you very much to all of you who didn't forget me. It is wonderful feeling to know that people think of you and care for you. For that reason, big hug and kisses I am especially sending to my dear bloggers: Zondra Art - Rijeka, Sandra, S. Etole, Anna and Titania.
Girls, your messages mean me a lot.
Veliki pozdrav svima,
Dugo sam bila odsutna kao blogerica, ali mi to nije bila namjera. Jednostavno se tako dogodilo. Bila sam okupirana nekim drugim stvarima; neke su bile lijepe, a neke manje lijepe. Najljepša od svih je da se moj stariji sin oženio i da sretni mladenci žive blizu nas ali u njihovoj vlastitoj kući čija je izgradnja završena samo nekoliko dana prije njihovog vjenčanja.
Sve sam vas poželjela. Nadam se da ću biti u mogućnosti da vidim vaše postove što prije.
Veliko hvala svima vama koji me niste zaboravili. Predivan je osjećaj kad znaš da ljudi misle i brinu za tebe. Zbog toga, posebno šaljem veliki zagrljaj i poljupce mojim dragim blogericama: Zondra Art - Rijeka, Sandra, S. Etole, Anna and Titania.
Djevojke, vaše poruke mi puno znače.


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Sudeley Castle
Romantic ruins, award-winning gardens and one thousand years of fascinating history are among the many reasons to visit the 'Queen of the Cotswolds'.
A special exhibition about resident Tudor Queen, Katherine Parr features a film by Dr David Starkey. The last and surviving wife of King Henry VIII, she lived at Sudeley after his death and is now entombed in St Mary's church in the grounds.
Tudor Fun Days, literary events and family activities continue throughout the year. New for 2013: A Roman exhibition, Garden Tours and Gardening for Wildlife Tours.
Sudeley's unique Gardens are amongst the finest in England. The centrepiece Queens Garden sits on the original Tudor Parterre and billows with hundreds of varieties of old fashioned roses. Overall Sudeley boasts ten stunning gardens, under the guidance of consultant Sir Roddy Llewellyn.
An Adventure Playground and Wildlife Trail along with regular Owl Talks in the Pheasantry provide family entertainment.
Tours of the private family apartments Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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Inherent Charm
Ok, so remember in our last post how I mentioned how lots of things were happening? Here's one of them: Outside of the world of art, sound design, analog circuitry, glitched images and nostalgic writing about the passage of seasons there's also the whole concept of what it is that I actually "do" for a living. In my case, I've been fortunate that for the past two years what I did was directly related to art, sound design, analog circuity, glitched images and nostalgic writing about the passage of seasons. And for the foreseeable future, that's still going to be the case, with one small exception – on top of the aforementioned, we'll also be adding the title of Academic Technologies Administrator to the list. Well, that's more of the general job description – the title is something else, but long story short, I accepted a position at a school in Baltimore, Maryland and will be moving to Charm City over the next few weeks for an anticipated start date in early October. Meaning, there might be a slight lull in productivity while we (being Pau and I) change locales – it might take a second here to set up a new workshop, as well as gather the materials from New York and Costa Rica before we reach full-productivity in the electronics department again. As the sign says, "Pardon our Dust," or something like that. At the moment, inventory s a little low – basically whatever we have is available on Etsy – give us a month or so and that will change. As in larger production runs, a new design or two on the horizon and a couple surprises just in time for the holidays. In all, this is very exciting and we're happy to share the news. In the meantime, we'll update y'al when we can as we get settled in our new port-of-call.


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One of my favorite travel blogs, The Lazy Travelers, is written by two fun and adventurous women, The Wino and The Romantic, who also love a relaxing day, taking in the scenery of a new place with a nice glass red wine and some local eats. I am thrilled to announce that they published an interview with me in their Jetsetters series, and even more thrilled (in all my super dorkiness) that they think we could be friends! Look, Mom, I'm making friends!
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After our love of reading, the next best thing is giving our favourite books to friends and family we know will love them too. Read on to see what we at Picador are giving this Christmas – and what we're hoping to receive!
Chosen by Ansa Khan Khattak, editorial assistant
This year I discovered Edward St Aubyn and have, ever since, been pressing his books into the hands of everyone I know. (The Patrick Melrose Novels collection is also large enough to look nice and substantial wrapped up under the tree.) I'll be giving Yes Please to my sister, whose love for Amy Poehler knows no bounds, and stealing a copy of Vivienne Westwood for myself – mainly for the chance to gain an insight into the Seventies from the point of view of someone so responsible for defining the style of the era, but also because, as an object, the book is a thing of beauty.
Chosen by Kris Doyle, senior editor
I'm going to give a copy of Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly to my sister; she's an art student and I think this book will appeal enormously. Part personal memoir, part biographical record of an extraordinary woman's influence on the UK's culture: popular, musical, political, visual – not to even mention the ongoing innovations in fashion. There are stunning pictures from across her career, too, so I know she'll love this.
Two books I've loved this year are In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman and Poetry Notebook by Clive James: one marks the beginning of what I'm sure will be a remarkable career and the other is a valediction of sorts. Clive is one of our finest minds and his combination of erudition, passion and felicitous prose makes Poetry Notebook an extraordinary tribute to a life spent in devotion to poetry; to share this book is to give the gift of unbridled and infectious enthusiasm. Rahman's brilliant, capacious debut is a masterpiece for the moment. The scope of the novel's canvas is complemented by the author's penetrating exploration of the minds and souls of its protagonists; the result is an original, intelligent and emotionally powerful book.
As a failed scientist, I'm looking forward to reading a couple of books by doctors this Christmas: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and Do No Harm by Henry Marsh. I'm also hoping to have my first encounter with the mysterious Elena Ferrante, the Italian novelist whose Neapolitan series has recently taken the literary world by storm.
The book that's made my Christmas is The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. This beautiful and profound novel has become a word-of-mouth bestseller thanks to booksellers across the UK. To all of them, my thanks.
Chosen by Sophie Jonathan, assistant editor
I'm giving multiple copies of The Miniaturist this Christmas. Not only because it's gorgeous and atmospheric and thrilling and just the most delicious story, but because the special edition on sale from Waterstones is BEAUTIFUL. I can't imagine anything more pleasurable than unwrapping such a lovely object!
There are very few people in my life who haven't yet had Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel pressed upon them, but come Christmas I'll be giving that to a couple of lucky friends. It is a stunning novel that asks what we would preserve if the world as we knew it were to be taken away from us. It's full of art and beauty and some of the most sublime writing, but it's also a page-turning thriller and one of the most easily recommendable books I've ever come across. Emily's fans range from Liza Klaussmann to Samantha Shannon and Lauren Beukes, Patrick deWitt, Ann Patchett and Donna Tartt, so if you don't believe me perhaps you will them!
And for a bit of Christmassy warmth and good feeling I think I'll be spreading the love with a few copies of 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino. This novel is just wonderful. Effervescent and exciting and incredibly good fun to read – I can't recommend it highly enough.
Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl is on my wish list after my sister sniggered her way through it when we were on holiday together in October. I can't borrow her copy because she read the ebook, so I'd love to receive the hardback for Christmas. And I'm definitely going to be curling up with H is for Hawk this Christmas. I've actually already been given it (shh) but I think it deserves a deferral so I can properly snuggle up with it over the holiday.
Chosen by Maddy Beresford, digital publishing executive
The book that really made me think this year was In The Light Of What We Know. It is an incredibly beautiful hardback, with a mottled, map-like cover that echoes the book's global perspective, travelling as it does from Oxford academia to rural Bangladesh to corrupt NGOs in Afghanistan. Erudite, profound and sometimes cruel, it's a thoughtful gift for anyone from the family mathematician (there's uncertainty principles aplenty) to your political younger brother.
On a slightly different tack, one of the books that I will be giving liberally is Edith Olivier's Wiltshire, reissued through Bello. For someone who grew up in the heart of ancient Wessex, Olivier's exploration of Wilton, Stonehenge and the surrounding area is evocative and has a period charm all of its own. Pair it with one of Picador's backlist, V.S. Naipaul's brilliant The Enigma of Arrival, and you practically have a Wiltshire-themed gift set (admittedly a niche interest, but it'd serve just as well for anybody interested in the history of the English countryside, or a writerly Londoner considering a move to the country).
Chosen by Sarah Blake, poetry editor
I have a tradition to suggest: read Dylan Thomas at Christmas. There's something about the wistfulness of Under Milk Wood that makes it perfectly suited to the festive season. A long past time and place are memorialized in Thomas's lilting, sea-inflected rhythms. Richard Burton's reading is the definitive recording. A Child's Christmas in Wales shares something of the dream-like, nostalgic, half-remembered quality of Under Milk Wood. Christmas is bound up with childhood and therefore, for adults, involves an element of looking back. Thomas seems to provide the right cadence for this time of year, measuring the present against the past and finding the past, perhaps inevitably, glowing enticingly, filled as it is with snowballs and moonlight, and the 'two-tongued' 'carol-singing' sea.
Chosen by Francesca Main, editorial director
2014 has been a particularly glorious year for brilliant books by clever, funny and inspiring women, and Amy Poehler's Yes Please is no exception. A memoir, an essay collection, a treasure trove of memories and a manifesto for life, it's a joy on every page. I will be torn between giving the beautifully designed hardback and the star-studded audio edition, which features a cameo from Kathleen Turner and Patrick Stewart reading haikus about plastic surgery. I'll also be wrapping up copies of Marie-Helene Bertino's 2 a.m. At The Cat's Pajamas, which is set on the magical night before Christmas Eve and features the most irresistible jazz-singing, menthol cigarette-smoking nine-year-old I've ever encountered in fiction. Whilst my relatives are distracted with those two, I'll be delving into some of the riches Picador has in store for 2015, including Liza Klaussmann's Villa America, Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways and Belinda McKeon's Tender.
Lee Dibble, marketing director
Who doesn't like Amy Poehler? She's smart, funny, inventive and loves a comedy outfit. She's essentially the perfect dinner party guest. Her book Yes Please takes a meander through her normal-interesting-inspiring life, with lots of laugh out loud episodes, some food for thought, scribbles and some seriously good photo action. It's a gloriously heavy tome so it feels expensive; I know lots of my London girlfriends will love it.
I'm going to give my mum a copy of The Miniaturist. She doesn't read very often, but I think she'll love this atmospheric mystery set in seventeenth century Amsterdam; it rips along at a good pace that will keep her hooked. If you need any more convincing, Waterstones named it their book of the year. (Last year was Stoner, so you know they've got good taste.)
I'd love a copy of Do No Harm in my stocking. It was a recommendation from a friend a while ago that I still haven't got round to reading.
Chosen by Rosanna Boscawen, picador.com editor
I have passed all the books in Kent Haruf's Plainsong trilogy onto my mum, and for Christmas I'll be giving her his first novel, The Tie That Binds. The lives of the characters are among the most moving I have ever read, and they are certainly the most beautifully drawn. Euphoria by Lily King is one that I'll be giving to friends - based loosely on the life of the famed anthropologist Margaret Mead and set among a tribe in Papua New Guinea, it's a story of three magnetic scientists who had a huge impact on each other and their field of study. My dad will be getting a copy of F*** You and Goodbye: An hilarious and illuminating collection of the most cutting, witty and spite filled resignation letters in history by Matt Potter. The subtitle says it all – it's hilarious.


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Grey Gardens at The Walter Kerr Theatre
Backstage with the Playwrights
East of Doheny, Staunch Entertainment, Randall L. Wreghitt/Mort Swinsky,
Michael Alden and Edwin W. Schloss, in association with Playwrights Horizons,
Christine Ebersole
Grey Gardens
(Grey Gardens, the Documentary Film)
At the
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219 West 48th Street
A Jujamcyn Theatre
Book by Doug Wright
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Musical Staging by Jeff Calhoun
Directed by Michael Greif
Starring: Mary Louise Wilson
Featuring: Matt Cavenaugh, Erin Davie, Kelsey Fowler,
Sarah Hyland, Michael Potts, Bob Stillman
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Scenic Design: Allen Moyer
Costume Design: William Ivey Long
Lighting Design: Peter Kaczorowski
Sound Design: Brian Ronan
Projection Design: Wendall K. Harrington
Hair & Wig Design: Paul Huntley
Orchestrations: Bruce Coughlin
Music Director: Lawrence Yurman
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Edith Bouvier Beale (1896-1977) and her daughter, Little Edie (1917-2002), were the aunt and the first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. For over twenty years, the two women, born into high society, lived together in East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY, at the 28-room, Grey Gardens, recluses in an unhealthy and unkempt manner. In 1972, the National Enquirer exposed their sad situation, and the Suffolk County Health Department fined and condemned the property for health code violations (1972). Jackie Onassis helped to clean and repair the deteriorating mansion, during which time (1974) the documentary, Grey Gardens, was filmed. The Broadway musical is based on this documentary. In 2007, a new film, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, will be produced. (Assisted by Program and Wikipedia Notes).
From the moment the hidden orchestra struck its first chord and the curtain rose to the sad 1973 Prologue set of two recluse women trying to survive in a squalid, crumbling mansion, filled with stray cats and many cans of cat food, you could feel the energy of a great show. These were not just any two women. These were the Beales, one, Edith Bouvier Beale (Mary Louise Wilson), the aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and her daughter, Little Edie Beale (Christine Ebersole), Jacqueline and Lee Bouviers cousins. (See a book signing about Lee and Jacquelines youthful vacation with Lee Bouvier Radziwill at Rizzoli). The Prologue is brief, and Little Edie is mostly hidden behind the window, but the mother-daughter biting humor is sharp, tight, and revealing of the next two Acts.
Act I is set in 1941 in the same Grey Gardens mansion, when it was filled with plush furniture, bar, piano, oriental rug, high ceilings, and the velvet veneer of luxury. Thanks to Wendall K. Harringtons projection design, one has the illusion of generous gardens, trees, and property. An engagement party is being prepared, and the guests will arrive soon, to celebrate the scintillating Little Edies (Erin Davie) impending marriage to Jo Kennedy, Jr. (Matt Cavenaugh). Yes, THE Jo Kennedy, Jr. Both little Jackie and Lee (Sarah Hyland and Kelsey Fowler), who both looked strikingly like the child versions of their respective characters, are preened and the embodiment of youthful horsy set. Brooks, Sr. (Michael Potts), the ever-ready butler/gardener, is white-gloved and supportive. George Gould Strong (Bob Stillman), Mrs. Bouvier Beales (now played by Christine Ebersole) gay pianist friend, who lives in upscale fashion for the price of musical accompaniment to Ediths domestic cabaret, reminds me of a caged Cole Porter.
J. V. Major Bouvier (John McMartin), Ediths father and Little Edies grandfather, is cruel, cold, and destructive to the emotional needs of his daughter (whos divorced from her husband), but thrilled at the new Bouvier-Kennedy match. Unfortunately, Big Edie, realizing that shes about to lose the company of her daughter, confides to Joe Kennedy, Jr. about Little Edies past carousing and her reputation with the boys. In true Kennedy style, the women who marry Kennedys must be chaste and ingénue, so Joe quickly disappears, prior to the guests arrival. In anger, Little Edie disappears as well.
In Act II, 1973, almost thirty year later, mother and daughter (Mary Louise Wilson and Christine Ebersole) are alone with dozens of cats (again thanks to Mr. Harringtons projection designs), Brooks, Jr. (Michael Potts), the handyman, Jerry (Matt Cavenaugh), and visions of Norman Vincent Peale (John McMartin) and a choir (the remaining Act I cast as choir). This is the act that rivets the production, with the saucy songs of woe, bits of family history (including Joe Kennedy, Jr.s plane crash in World War II), and the searing struggle of wits between the Big and Little Edies. In fact, its apparent that Little Edie returned to care for her hungry mother, assuming she was at deaths door, when, in spite, her mother became even stronger.
The book, above, amazingly, is just the structure of this sensational musical. The high points are Christine Ebersoles canary-like vocals, as both mother (Act I) and daughter (Act II). In Act I, Bob Stillman actually accompanied Ms. Ebersole with panache, when the wine was flowing and the hearth was warm. Drift Away was elegant and lyrical, while Mother, Darling, also joined by the musically talented, Erin Davie, was foreboding of the less fashionable future. Marry Well was also prescient, sung by Major Bouvier, Brooks, Jackie, Lee, and Little Edie, considering that Jackie married a President and Lee married a Prince. Little Edies rendition of The Telegram was Ms. Davies high point, as she learned that her father would not attend the party. In Act II, Mary Louise Wilsons evocative The Cake I Had was one of her showcase moments, while The House We Live In, sung by Christine Ebersole and company, gave new meaning to home sweet home.
Allen Moyers sets are intricately illustrative of this tale of riches to rags, while William Ivey Longs Act I flowing dresses and jewelry appear in stark contrast to the sassy put-togethers of Little Edie in Act II. The clothes also shine a light on the level of mental togetherness in Edies life, 1941-1973, couture to trash. Yet, that trash never looked better on any woman, and she knew how to show her legs. One could not help rooting for the survival of these two needy ladies, even when they both lusted a bit for Jerry. When they ate cat food caviar, they bore themselves naked. Kudos to Christine Ebersole; and, Kudos to Doug Wright (Book), Scott Frankel (Music), Michael Korie (Lyrics), Jeff Calhoun (Musical Staging), and Michael Greif (Director) for a must-see-again, new Broadway hit musical. Lawrence Yurman, Conductor, kept the orchestra in the appropriate moment and mood.
While the program notes both fact and fiction as the book for this production, I look forward to seeing the new version of the documentary about the Bouviers and Beales, The Beales of Grey Gardens, created by the Maysles Brothers, as a sequel to their award-winning documentary, Grey Gardens, known for its cinema verité.
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. . exporting table OLD_POTRXDST EXP-00014: error on row 27905296 of table OLD_POTRXDST EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1115 encountered ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 20 (block # 430943) ORA-01110: data file 20: /dev/rdsk/c100t1d0s8' ORA-07372: sfrfb: read error, unable to read requested block from database file. NCR System 3000 Error: 5: I/O error Additional information: 430943 Additional information: -1978599220 Additional information: 134504096Is this a problem with the object or is the data file corrupt? How can I fix this? Could the file size be the problem? How can I check this? Thank in advance!
dbv file=filename blocksize=xxxxYou will need to know the block size for this file. If the dbv utility reports that everything is correct, then Oracle can talk with the file just fine and you might have some block-level corruption. The dbv utility will report some corruption as well.
If the dbv utility cannot read the file, then you have an OS issue with this filesystem. Your sysadmin should be able to fix the problem. If the dbv utility can read the file, then you have an issue with corruption in the file. Your best option at that point is to restore the file from a good backup.
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Looking back, some years back from now, a new spark has shined up in morocco.
Between passion and ambition to develop a new musical project in order to share some great moments throughout music. The idea was to lead the Moroccan music with new melodic rock in an epic atmosphere.
Far from what metal bands giving the image to this kind of music, Analgesia tries with its originality in choosing the best of music, and the way to the success, which was the aim of all analgesia's members. In January 2006, Analgesia stated seriously to record the first album, which commenced thirteen months of preparation and hard work before, with a line up made from FIVE great musicians, all of them share the passion of Analgesia. Under the title "Return to the Self" the first album was a mixture of traditional melodic metal with some epic shades and lyrics that really appease, making you think deeply of the meaning of this world, to return to yourself.
The first album which on-warded the band, a dream has begun. Through so many local lives, beginning with the "TownFest" 2006', in where the name of the band showed up the first time, the event was historical for the band, their impressive performance that everyone talked about, made new fans for the band. After this success Analgesia was invited in the big live Metal Fest I, then II, which has made more and more fans for the music of the band. After a whole year of successful lives, the band was more known; its music and lyrics were learned by heart by fans.
Analgesia appeared with a new line up, a classical female voice that stands out to replace the former singer of the band. Since then, the musically has been developed; the band got a lot musical experience that they commenced to bring more and more classical elements into the music, the idea of a choir showed up (which appears in some old songs that have been remade) which created a thin line between classical and metal music. No one could ever deny the glory of the band in the greatest festival of metal music in Morocco "L'boulevard" in 2007 in which the band was invited.
First results could be seen by the public in a form of innovative style, the nice melodic music was received as weird by some people as lot more who were duly impressed. December the 22nd of 2007 the memorable date for the band, an acoustic show was given in the capital of Morocco, hundreds of fans were there to see Analgesia in a new style, candles, acoustic guitars, a remake for the first album songs, great covers, some new compositions were made especially for this show, and various talented musicians. The band received so many greetings that it regained a new motivation. The band continued to give great shows, and recorded some new soundtracks with some well-known musicians.
The feedback of the new songs was so impressive that it has confirmed the proficiency of the band in the whole country. The media has heard a lot about the success of the band then, that Analgesia was invited to Festival "Mawazine" and especially to perform again in the greatest events of the year : the tenth edition of the international Festival "L'boulevard", it was a perfect show in the national theatre of Morocco. After the masterfully live, a true circus of the media-type began (radio, magazines and webzines) called the band for some interviews, and the national TV made a special report for the band in the principal TV news.
After this victory which firmly confirmed the wide fame of the band Analgesia showed up with a new look, a new keyboardist who has the feeling and the same goal as the other members; the ambition to making good music to the ears of symphonic music fans. A new era has begun then, the band wanted to achieve their success, furthermore, to be more popular. They stated to work hardly for the new album, "Era of the Storytellers" The new musical style, changing and evolving the new music and the new waives in a symphonic extraverted rock album with all the quality and the power. Don't be surprised if you find yourself taken in so different worlds in one album, which will make you go to a small trip throughout time, and dream thereby the lyrics.
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>> Last night, if you're a Twitter follower you would have seen myself and seemingly THE WHOLE WORLD tweeting commentary alongside the Olympics Closing Ceremony in London, with the general consensus being that it wasn't a patch on (Sir) Danny Boyle's Opening Ceremony. LOL-est tweets of the night came courtesy of @ChristopherShannon @WilliamOliver and @WillBroome. With a preceding digital montage of David Bowie and a few sneaky twit pics courtesy of PR mogul Daniel Marks from TCS, I was getting mighty MIGHTY excited over the imminent appearance of all the supers strutting in British designers as featured in British Vogue's Olympics-themed shoot in the current September issue (which in turn made it a HUGE coup for Vogue). The representation of British Fashion at an event that has an audience of circa one billion people worldwide is the sort of priceless publicity that can't be underestimated. To the inevitable soundtrack of David Bowie's Fashion, trucks adorned with Nick Knight's imagery of the models came trooping out and once the billboards were torn down, they revealed Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell (both in Alexander McQueen), Stella Tennant (in Christopher Kane), Georgia May Jagger (in Victoria Beckham) Lily Cole (in Erdem), Jourdan Dunn (in Jonathan Saunders and Stephen Jones), David Gandy (in Paul Smith), Lily Donaldson (in Vivienne Westwood and Karen Elson (in Burberry) who then proceeded to strut down towards the centre of the Union Jack formation in the Olympic Stadium. The gesture was impressive but was the message properly conveyed? Business of Fashion wasn't sure. Imran Amed tweeted "OK, has to be asked. That was a representation of British Fashion on global stage, in front of 300 million people? #missedopportunity" Christopher Shannon didn't beat around the bush: "That 'fashion' bit was crinnnngeeeeeee #closingceremonies" I said, perhaps in Tweeting haste "Saying it in small voice in case people pelt me with apples but fashion segment felt vaguely *hollow* ?"
Upon reflection, I'll probably need to adjust that tweet. It definitely wasn't hollow for the designers involved. That stage for designers like Erdem, Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and to a lesser extent for Burberry, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen was immense, without parallel and completely justified. If the Closing Ceremony was going to be a celebration of British culture and what it has to offer the world, then fashion quite rightly should have its spotlight. Whether having supermodels strutting to a David Bowie track in a bizarrely staid and slightly old-fashioned catwalk set-up with clothing credits read over the loudspeaker was the best format to celebrate British fashion, remains a question mark for me. The segment seemed to be stuck in a generic timewarped view of fashion that didn't seem to connect with what's actually going on in fashion today. Oh, strutty models. Oh, strike a fierce pose at end of catwalk. Oh, credits read out loud in manner of a catwalk show at The Clothes Show at NEC Birmingham. In any case some of the fashion namechecks were completely lost on the British audience at home anyway seeing as the BBC lowered the sound when they read out "Burberry", "Jonathan Saunders" etc in accordance with the broadcasting corporation's zero-branding policy. Not sure if international audiences got a better hearing. Hadley Freeman of The Guardian has also questioned the appearance of models after two weeks of celebrating female athletes that embody the polar opposite of the figures a la Kate, Naomi and Co. That's probably an even more potent counter-argument considering how inspired I, along with practically every Londoner I know, have been over the athletes' achievement and sheer tenacity.
This isn't an outright dirge. It was a difficult feat for the British Fashion Council to pull off a feat like this, fighting to even have fashion represented on an already packed schedule of acts and choreography. Marks, director of London PR company The Communications Store, who I think was the primary orchestrator of this segment in the show said on Twitter "What an amazing night. Fashion well represented. Nearly didn't happen at all. A story for another time. Two years of hard work to make that happen. Celebrate it!"
Therefore, on a final note let's not dwell on format and celebrate the FASHION. My favourite looks were definitely Christopher Kane's Ziggy Stardust-esque chainmail graphic suit and Jonathan Saunders golden panelled white dress, complemented by Stephen Jones' headdress. Chainmail in Kane's A/W 12-3 collectionw as the backdrop to all that awesome plastic thread embroidery and in another so-wrong-it's-right moment, shined a refreshed spotlight on this often questionable material. Let's also think about whether a show like that will indeed see any sort of positive uplift on those brands featured, not necessarily in direct sales (that would be ambitious) but in Google searches and people merely enquiring about these designers or their names sticking when people come and visit London in the tourism and retail uplift that the organisers and government hope for as a positive upshot of hosting the Games. That's the sort of gold that can't be weighed and counted just yet.


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The direct implementation of interleaver functions in WiMAX is not hardware efficient due to presence of complex functions. Also the conventional method i.e. using memories for storing the permutation tables is silicon consuming. This work presents a 2-D transformation for WiMAX channel interleaver functions which reduces the overall hardware complexity to compute the interleaver addresses on the fly. A fully re-configurable architecture for address generation in WiMAX channel interleaver is presented, which consume 1.1 k-gates in total. It can be configured for any block size and any modulation scheme in WiMAX. The presented architecture can run at a frequency of 200 MHz, thus fully supporting high bandwidth requirements for WiMAX.
A very low cost re-configurable hardwareinterleaver for two standards, 3GPP-WCMDA and 3GPPLong Term Evolution (3GPP-LTE) is presented. Theinterleaver is a key component of radio communicationsystems. Using conventional design methods, it consumes alarge part of silicon area in the design of turbo encoder anddecoder. The presented hardware interleaver addressgeneration architecture, utilizes the algorithmic levelhardware simplifications to achieve very low cost solution.After doing the hardware optimizations the proposedarchitecture consumes only 3.1k gates with a 256x8 bitmemory for the fully re-configurable dual standardinterleaver address generator. The interleaved address iscomputed every clock cycle except the case of pruning (ifblock size is less than the row-column matrix) in 3GPPWCDMA.In this case one additional clock cycle is consumedfor valid address generation.
A low complexity hardware interleaver architecture is presented for MIMO-OFDM based Wireless LAN e.g. 802.11n. Novelty of the presented architecture is twofold; 1) Flexibility to choose interleaver implementation with different modulation scheme and different size for different spatial streams in a multi antenna system, 2) Complexity to compute on the fly interleaver address is reduce by using recursion and is supported by mathematical formulation. The proposed interleaver architecture is implemented on 65nm CMOS process and it consumes 0.035 mm2 area. The proposed architecture supports high speed communication with maximum throughput of 900 Mbps at a clock rate of 225 MHz.
A hardware efficient, multi mode, re-configurable architecture of interleaver/de-interleaver for multiple standards, like DVB, WiMAX and WLAN is presented. The interleavers consume a large part of silicon area when implemented by using conventional methods as they use memories to store permutation patterns. In addition, different types of interleavers in different standards cannot share the hardware due to different construction methodologies. The novelty of the work presented in this paper is threefold: 1) Mapping of vital types of interleavers including convolutional interleaver onto a single architecture with flexibility to change interleaver size; 2) Hardware complexity for channel interleaving in WiMAX is reduced by using 2-D realization of the interleaver functions; and 3) Silicon cost overheads reduced by avoiding the use of small memories. The proposed architecture consumes 0.18mm2 silicon area for 0.12μm process and can operate at a frequency of 140 MHz. The reduced complexity helps in minimizing the memory utilization, and at the same time provides strong support to on-the-fly computation of permutation patterns.
This paper presents a flexible interleaver architecture supportingmultiple standards likeWLAN,WiMAX, HSPA+, 3GPP-LTE, and DVB. Algorithmic level optimizations like 2D transformation and realization of recursive computation are applied, which appear to be the key to reach to an efficient hardware multiplexing among different interleaver implementations. The presented hardware enables the mapping of vital types of interleavers including multiple block interleavers and convolutional interleaver onto a single architecture. By exploiting the hardware reuse methodology the silicon cost is reduced, and it consumes 0.126mm2 area in total in 65nm CMOS process for a fully reconfigurable architecture. It can operate at a frequency of 166 MHz, providing a maximum throughput up to 664 Mbps for a multistream system and 166 Mbps for single stream communication systems, respectively. One of the vital requirements for multimode operation is the fast switching between different standards, which is supported by this hardware with minimal cycle cost overheads. Maximum flexibility and fast switchability among multiple standards during run time makes the proposed architecture a right choice for the radio baseband processing platform.
Parallel, radix-4 turbo decoding is used to enhance the throughput and at the same time reduce the overall memory cost. The bottleneck is the higher complexity associated with radix-4 parallel interleaver implementation. This paper addresses the implementation issues of radix-4, parallel interleaver and also proposes necessary modifications in the interleaver algorithms for parallel address generation. It presents a re-configurable architecture which enables the use of same turbo decoding core to be used for multiple standards. The proposed interleaver architecture is capable of handling the memory conflicts on-the-fly. It consumes 12.5K gates and can run at a frequency of 285MHz, thus supporting a throughput of 173.3Mpbs, which can cover most of the emerging communication standards.
A very low cost hardware interleaver for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) turbo coding algorithm is presented. The interleaver is a key component of turbo codes and it is used to minimize the effect of burst errors in the transmission. Using conventional design methods, it consumes a large part of silicon area in the design of turbo encoder and decoder. The presented hardware interleaver architecture utilizes the algorithmic level hardware simplifications as well as the iterative modulo computation to achieve very low cost solution. After doing the hardware multiplexing and optimization the proposed architecture consumes only 1.5 k gates (without pre-computation) and 2.2 k gates (with pre-computation). In both cases the interleaved address is computed every clock cycle except the case of pruning, in which one additional clock cycle is consumed.
This paper presents a novel hardware interleaver architecture for unified parallel turbo decoding. The architecture is fully re-configurable among multiple standards like HSPA Evolution, DVB-SH, 3GPP-LTE and WiMAX. Turbo codes being widely used for error correction in today's consumer electronics are prone to introduce higher latency due to bigger block sizes and multiple iterations. Many parallel turbo decoding architectures have recently been proposed to enhance the channel throughput but the interleaving algorithms used indifferent standards do not freely allow using them due to higher percentage of memory conflicts. The architecture presented in this paper provides a re-configurable platform for implementing the parallel interleavers for different standards by managing the conflicts involved in each. The memory conflicts are managed by applying different approaches like stream misalignment, memory division and use of small FIFO buffer. The proposed flexible architecture is low cost and consumes 0.085 mm2 area in 65nm CMOS process. It can implement up to 8 parallel interleavers and can operate at a frequency of 200 MHz, thus providing significant support to higher throughput systems based on parallel SISO processors.
HSPA evolution has raised the throughput requirements for WCDMA based systems where turbo code has been adapted to perform the error correction. Many parallel turbo decoding architectures have recently been proposed to enhance the channel throughput but the interleaving algorithm used in WCDMA based systems does not freely allows to use them due to high percentage of memory conflicts. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis for reduction of interleaver memory conflicts while generating more than one address in a single clock cycle. It also provides trade-off analysis in terms of area and power efficiency for multiple architectures for different functions involved in the interleaver design. The final architecture supports processing of two parallel SISO blocks and manages the conflicts by applying different approaches like stream misalignment, memory division and small FIFO buffer. The proposed architecture is low cost and consumes 4.3K gates at a frequency of 150MHz. This work also focuses on reduction of pre-processing overheads by introducing the segment based modulo computation, thus providing further relaxation to SISO decoding process.
This paper presents a unified, radix-4 implementation of turbo decoder, covering multiple standards such as DVB, WiMAX, 3GPP-LTE and HSPA Evolution. The radix-4, parallel interleaver is the bottleneck while using the same turbo-decoding architecture for multiple standards. This paper covers the issues associated with design of radix-4 parallel interleaver to reach to flexible turbo-decoder architecture. Radix-4, parallel interleaver algorithms and their mapping on to hardware architecture is presented for multi-mode operations. The overheads associated with hardware multiplexing are found to be least significant. Other than flexibility for the turbo decoder implementation, the low silicon cost and low power aspects are also addressed by optimizing the storage scheme for branch metrics and extrinsic information. The proposed unified architecture for radix-4 turbo decoding consumes 0.65 mm(2) area in total in 65 nm CMOS process. With 4 SISO blocks used in parallel and 6 iterations, it can achieve a throughput up to 173.3 Mbps while consuming 570 mW power in total. It provides a good trade-off between silicon cost, power consumption and throughput with silicon efficiency of 0.005 mm(2)/Mbps and energy efficiency of 0.55 nJ/b/iter.
3G evolution towards HSPA and LTE is ongoing which will substantially increase the throughput with higher spectral efficiency. This paper presents the system architecture of an LTE modem based on a programmable baseband processor. The architecture includes a baseband processor that handles processing such as time and frequency synchronization, IFFT/FFT (up to 2048-p), channel estimation and subcarrier demapping. The throughput and latency requirements of a Category 4 User Equipment (CAT4 UE) is met by adding a MIMO symbol detector and a parallel Turbo decoder supporting H-ARQ. This brings both low silicon cost and enough flexibility to support other wireless standards. The complexity demonstrated by the modem shows the practicality and advantage of using programmable baseband processors for a single-chip LTE solution.
As the use of FPGAs increases, the importance of highly optimized processors for FPGAs will increase. In this paper we present the microarchitecture of a soft microprocessor core optimized for the Virtex-4 architecture. The core can operate at 357 MHz, which is significantly faster than Xilinxpsila Microblaze architecture on the same FPGA. At this frequency it is necessary to keep the logic complexity down and this paper shows how this can be done while retaining sufficient functionality for a high performance processor.
In this paper we discuss how various design components perform in both FPGAs and standard cell based ASICs. We also investigate how various common FPGA optimizations will effect the performance and area of an ASIC port. We find that most techniques that are used to optimize a design for an FPGA will not have a negative impact on the area in an ASIC. The intended audience for this paper are engineers charged with creating designs or IP cores that are optimized for both FPGAs and ASICs.
Networks on chip (NoC) has long been seen as a potential solution to the problems encountered when implementing large digital hardware designs. In this paper we describe an open source FPGA based NoC architecture with low area overhead, high throughput and low latency compared to other published works. The architecture has been optimized for Xilinx FPGAs and the NoC is capable of operating at a frequency of 260 MHz in a Virtex-4 FPGA. We have also developed a bridge so that generic Wishbone bus compatible IP blocks can be connected to the NoC.
This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to how to build a customized backend tool for a Xilinx based design flow. A Python based library called PyXDL is presented which allows a user to manipulate XDL files which contain a placed and routed design. Three different tools are presented which uses this library, ranging from a simple resource utilization viewer to a tool which will insert a logic analyzer into an already routed design, thus avoiding a costly complete rerun of the place and route tool.
In this paper we investigate the feasibility of creating a
core router based upon a network on chip. The investigated
architecture uses 16x10-Gbit Ethernet ports. The purpose
of this is to show that it is possible to create such a solution
considering current process technologies. This is done
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and pin count. The results show that such a solution
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The purpose of our work has been to evaluate the practicality of using a 16-bit floating point representation to store the intermediate sample values and other data in memory during the decoding of MP3 bit streams. A floating point number representation offers a better trade-off between dynamic range and precision than a fixed point representation for a given word length. Using a floating point representation means that smaller memories can be used which leads to smaller chip area and lower power consumption without reducing sound quality. We have designed and implemented a DSP processor based on 16-bit floating point intermediate storage. The DSP processor is capable of decoding all MP3 bit streams at 20 MHz and this has been demonstrated on an FPGA prototype.
Complex matrix inversion is a very computationally demanding operation in advanced multi-antenna wireless communications. Traditionally, systolic array-based QR decomposition (QRD) is used to invert large matrices. However, the matrices involved in MIMO baseband processing in mobile handsets are generally small which means QRD is not necessarily efficient. In this paper, a new method is proposed using programmable hardware units which not only achieves higher performance but also consumes less silicon area. Furthermore, the hardware can be reused for many other operations such as complex matrix multiplication, filtering, correlation and FFT/IFFT.
This paper presents a linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) symbol detector for MIMO-OFDM enabled mobile terminals. The detector is implemented using a programmable baseband processor aimed for software-defined radio (SDR). Owing to the dynamic range supplied by the floating-point SIMD datapath, special algorithms can be adopted to reduce the computational latency of detection. The programmable solution not only supports different transmit/receive antenna configurations, but also allows hardware multiplexing to obtain silicon and power efficiency. Compared to several existing fixed-functional solutions, the one proposed in this paper is smaller, more flexible and faster.
This paper presents a space-time block coding decoder for MIMO-OFDM enabled mobile terminals. The decoder is implemented using a programmable baseband processor aimed for software-defined radio (SDR). The dynamic range supplied by the floating-point SIMD datapath allows special algorithms to significantly reduce the computational latency of decoding. The programmable solution not only supports different transmit/receive antenna configuration, but also allows hardware multiplexing to obtain silicon and power efficiency. Compared to several existing fixed-functional ASIC solutions in literature, the one proposed in this paper is by far the smallest, fastest and with more flexibility.
This paper studies efficient complex valued matrix manipulations for multi-user STBC-MIMO decoding. A novel method called Alamouti blockwise analytical matrix inversion (ABAMI) is proposed for the inversion of large complex matrices that are based on Alamouti sub-blocks. Another method using a variant of Givens rotation is proposed for fast QR decomposition of this kind of matrices. Our solutions significantly reduce the number of operations which makes them more than 4 times faster than several other solutions in the literature. Furthermore, compared to fixed function VLSI implementations, our solution is more flexible and consumes less silicon area because the hardware is programmable and it can be reused for many other operations such as filtering, correlation and FFT/IFFT. Besides the analysis of the general computational complexity based on the number of basic operations, the computational latency is also measured in clock cycles based on the conceptual hardware for real-time matrix manipulations.
This paper presents a novel power amplifier (PA) architecture based on the combination of radio frequency pulse width modulation (RFPWM) and multilevel PWM. The architecture provides better dynamic range at high carrier frequency compared to RFPWM. The benefits of this architecture over multilevel PWM are that it only requires a single PA and no combiner. The average efficiency for an 802.11g baseband signal is better than multilevel PWM. Our results also shows that the proposed technique exhibit a constant dynamic range at carrier frequency of 3, 4 and 5 GHz, in contrast to RFPWM which shows a decrease in dynamic range for increase in carrier frequency.
This paper presents two novel transmitter architectures based on the combination of radio-frequency pulse-width modulation and multiphase pulse-width modulation. The proposed transmitter architectures provide good amplitude resolution and large dynamic range at high carrier frequency, which is problematic with existing radio-frequency pulse-width modulation based transmitters. They also have better power efficiency and smaller chip area compared to multiphase pulse-width modulation based transmitters.
For 10 Gigabit Ethernet a CRC-32 generation is essential and timing critical. Many efficient software algorithms have been proposed for CRC generation. In this work we use an algorithm based on the properties of Galois fields, which gives very efficient hardware. The CRC generator has been implemented and simulated in both standard cells and a full-custom design technique. In standard cells from the UMC 0.18 micron library a throughput of 8.7 Gb/s has been achieved. In the full-custom design for AMS 0.35 micron process we have achieved a throughput of 5.0 Gb/s. The conclusion, based on extrapolation of device characteristics, is that CRC-32 generation for 10 Gb/s can be designed with standard cells in a 0.15 micron process technology, or using full-custom design techniques in a 0.18 micron process technology
The limitation in networking is no longer only the physical transmission media but also the end equipment, which has to process the protocol control fields. In most end terminals this processing has been performed by the main processor, but different types of co-processor have lately appeared to relieve it from this task. These co-processors have high power consumption since they are based on a RISC core. Instead ASIC:s can be used, but they lack flexibility and are specific for only one single protocol. It is clear that a new approach is needed.
A general-purpose protocol processor is specified with a dedicated architecture for protocol processing. This paper defines a functional coverage, analyses the control requirements, specifies functional pages and a controller unit. The general-purpose protocol processor is aimed for network terminals, therefore routing is not completely supported. However it should be possible to use it as part of a router with some minor modifications. The general-purpose protocol processor is partitioned into two parts, a configurable stand alone part and a program based microcontroller. The configurable part performs the protocol processing without any running program. The processor does not execute any cycle based program, instead execution is controlled by configuration vectors and control vectors. The microcontroller assists with the interface to the host processor and handles the configuration. It is concluded that by partitioning the control into three levels, the architecture is flexible and verification is simplified. The proposed architecture also has higher performance and lower power dissipation than other solutions.
A general-purpose protocol processor is specified with a dedicated architecture for protocol processing. The paper defines a functional coverage, analyses the control requirements, and specifies functional pages and a controller unit. The general-purpose protocol processor is for network terminals, and therefore routing is not completely supported. However, it should be possible to use it as part of a router. with some minor modifications. The general-purpose protocol processor is partitioned into two parts: a configurable stand-alone part and a program based microcontroller. The configurable part performs the protocol processing without any running program. The processor does not execute any cycle based program; instead execution is controlled by configuration vectors and control vectors. The microcontroller assists with the interface to the host processor and handles the configuration. It is concluded that by partitioning the control into three levels, the architecture is flexible and verification is simplified. The proposed architecture also has higher performance and lower power dissipation than other solutions
Discrete Fourier transforms of 3 and 5 points are essential building blocks in FFT implementations for standards such as 3GPP-LTE. In addition to being more complex than 2 and 4 point DFTs, these DFTs also cause problems with data access in SDR-DSPs, since the data access width, in general, is a power of 2. This work derives mappings of these DFTs to a 4-way SIMD datapath that has been designed with 2 and 4-point DFT in mind. Our instruction set proposals, based on modified Winograd DFT, achieves single cycle execution of 3-point DFTs and 2.25 cycle average execution of 5-point DFTs in a cost-effective manner by reutilizing the already available arithmetic units. This represents an approximate speed-up of 3 times compared to an SDR-DSP with only MAC-support. In contrast to our more general design, we also demonstrate that a typical single-purpose FFT-specialized 5-way architecture only delivers 9% to 25% extra performance on average, while requiring 85% more arithmetic units and a more expensive memory subsystem.
This paper presents the novel heterogeneous DSP architecture ePUMA and demonstrates its features through an implementation of sorting of larger data sets. We derive a sorting algorithm with fixed-size merging tasks suitable for distributed memory architectures, which allows very simple scheduling and predictable data-independent sorting time.The implementation on ePUMA utilizes the architecture's specialized compute cores and control cores, and local memory parallelism, to separate and overlap sorting with data access and control for close to stall-free sorting.Penalty-free unaligned and out-of-order local memory access is used in combination with proposed application-specific sorting instructions to derive highly efficient local sorting and merging kernels used by the system-level algorithm.Our evaluation shows that the proposed implementation can rival the sorting performance of high-performance commercial CPUs and GPUs, with two orders of magnitude higher energy efficiency, which would allow high-performance sorting on low-power devices.
Since the breakdown of Dennard scaling the primary design goal for processor designs has shifted from increasing performance to increasing performance per Watt. The ePUMA platform is a flexible and configurable DSP platform that tries to address many of the problems with traditional DSP designs, to increase performance, but use less power. We trade the flexibility of traditional VLIW DSP designs for a simpler single instruction issue scheme and instead make sure that each instruction can perform more work. Multi-cycle instructions can operate directly on vectors and matrices in memory and the datapaths implement common DSP subgraphs directly in hardware, for high compute throughput. Memory bottlenecks, that are common in other architectures, are handled with flexible LUT-based multi-bank memory addressing and memory parallelism. A major contributor to energy consumption, data movement, is reduced by using heterogeneous interconnect and clustering compute resources around local memories for simple data sharing. To evaluate ePUMA we have implemented the majority of the kernel library from a commercial VLIW DSP manufacturer for comparison. Our results not only show good performance, but also an order of magnitude increase in energy- and area efficiency. In addition, the kernel code size is reduced by 91% on average compared to the VLIW DSP. These benefits makes ePUMA an attractive solution for future DSP.
This paper demonstrates how QPP interleaving and de-interleaving for Turbo decoding in 3GPP-LTE can be implemented efficiently on baseband processors with lookup-table (LUT) based addressing support of multi-bank memory. We introduce a LUT-compression technique that reduces LUT size to 1% of what would otherwise be needed to store the full data access patterns for all LTE block sizes. By reusing the already existing program memory of a baseband processor to store LUTs and using our proposed general address generator, our 8-way data access path can reach the same throughput as a dedicated 8-way interleaving ASIC implementation. This avoids the addition of a dedicated interleaving address generator to a processor which, according to ASIC synthesis, would be 75\% larger than our proposed address generator. Since our software implementation only involves the address generator, the processor's datapaths are free to perform the other operations of Turbo decoding in parallel with interleaving. Our software implementation ensure programmability and flexibility and is the fastest software-based implementation of QPP interleaving known to us.
This paper presents ePUMA, a master-slave heterogeneous DSP processor for communications and multimedia. We introduce the ePUMA VPE, a vector processing slave-core designed for heavy DSP workloads and demonstrate how its features can used to implement DSP kernels that efficiently overlap computing, data access and control to achieve maximum datapath utilization. The efficiency is evaluated by implementing a basic set of kernels commonly used in SDR. The experiments show that all kernels asymptotically reach above 90% effective datapath utilization. while many approach 100%, thus the design effectively overlaps computing, data access and control. Compared to popular VLIW solutions, the need for a large register file with many ports is eliminated, thus saving power and chip area. When compared to a commercial VLIW solution, our solution also achieves code size reductions of up to 30 times and a significantly simplified kernel implementation.
There is increasing interest about floating-point arithmetics in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) because of the increase in their size and performance. FPGAs are generally good at bit manipulations and fixed-point arithmetics, but they have a harder time coping with floating-point arithmetics. An architecture used to construct high-performance floating-point components in a Virtex-4 FPGA is described in detail. Floating-point adder/subtracter and multiplier units have been constructed. The adder/subtracter can operate at a frequency of 377 MHz in a Virtex-4SX35 (speed grade -12).


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For years many have passed this house and marveled at the floral display at 3725 North Vassault Street in Tacoma, Washington State. USA. Here is his display for 2011. We went up to the owner and told him how much we had enjoyed his garden all these years and he invited us to tour his creation. We found the backyard to be as beautiful as the front. He is Vietnamese, shy, very soft spoken, and speaks very little English, so we couldn't discuss too much with him about the garden.
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If you're looking for the newer Dallas series that premiered in 2012, you can find all the information you're looking for on this Dallas TV Show 2012 page!
Series DecriptionThe Dallas TV show was a 60 minute primetime soap opera drama series on CBS about a family that had created a dynasty out of the Texas oil industry. From the Southfork ranch, they wheeled and deeled in the business world and dealt with their personal lives involving love, affairs, jealousy and even hate. The series pretty much revolved around trying to outmaneuver others people both financially and personally and to keep others from doing the same to them.
Dallas CastLarry Hagman ................. J.R. Ewing
Linda Gray ................... Sue Ellen Ewing Lockwood
Patrick Duffy ................ Bobby Ewing
Ken Kercheval ................ Cliff Barnes
Victoria Principal ........... Pam Ewing (1978-1987)
Barbara Bel Geddes ........... Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow (1978-1990)
Steve Kanaly ................. Ray Krebbs
Charlene Tilton .............. Lucy Ewing Cooper (1978-1990)
Susan Howard ................. Donna Krebbs Dowling (1979-1987)
Howard Keel .................. Clayton Farlow (1981-1991)
Priscilla Presley ............ Jenna Krebbs (1983-1988)
Deborah Rennard .............. Sly Lovegren (1981-1991)
Sherril Lynn Rettino ......... Jackie Dugan (1979-1991)
Sheree J. Wilson ............. April Ewing (1986-1991)
Omri Katz .................... John Ross Ewing (1983-1991)
Deborah Tranelli ............. Phyllis Wapner (1981-1991)
Joshua Harris ................ Christopher Ewing (1985-1991)
Roseanna Christiansen ........ Teresa (1982-1991)
Danone Camden ................ Kendall Chapman (1982-1991)
Shalane McCall ............... Charlotte Wade (1983-1988)
Audrey Landers ............... Afton Cooper (1981-1989)
Don Starr .................... Jordan Lee (1978-1990)
Fern Fitzgerald .............. Marilee Stone (1978-1990)
Jim Davis .................... Jock Ewing (1978-1981)
Jenilee Harrison ............. Jamie Ewing Barnes (1984-1986)
John Beck .................... Mark Graison (1983-1986)
George Kennedy ............... Carter McKay (1988-1991)
Dallas TriviaDallas was the top-rated series on the air for three seasons! When it aired, the "Who Shot J.R." episode became the most watched episode in television history! The final episode of "M*A*S*H (1972)" beat that record in February of 1983. Larry Hagman was threatening to leave the series due to a contract dispute. The producers got prepared, just in case. If he would have left, the ambulance carrying J.R. to the hospital after his shooting would have crashed and caught fire in an accident. J.R. would have required extensive plastic surgery and Robert Culp (Star of the 1965 series, "I Spy") would have taken over the role.
"Knot's Landing (1979)" was the only Dallas "spin-off" but there's no doubt that it inspired the productions of several others such as "Falcon Crest (1981)", "Dynasty (1981)", and "The Colbys (1985)". In fact, Robert Foxworth who was offered the role of J.R. Ewing and turned it down, agreed to do a very similar role later on "Falcon Crest". After Foxworth turned down the role of J.R. Ewing, Larry Hagman refused the starring role in the series, "The Waverly Wonders" to become J.R. That was a good move as "The Waverly Wonders" didn't last very long.
Old Dallas fans of the 1978-1991 series were thrilled when TNT announced that they were bringing Dallas back to television on June 13, 2012 along with Larry Hagman as J.R., Patrick Duffy as Bobby and Linda Grey as Sue Ellen! Hopefully, new fans will find the lust for wealth at any cost just as exciting as ever with the new young cast members including Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo and Brenda Strong!
Larry Hagman owns a ranch in Ojai, California named, "Odd Ball". Larry has some traits that may relate to that name. He has a ring made from his gallstones that were removed during a liver transplant. One day each week he doesn't speak at all to test his self-discipline. He makes autograph seekers either tell him a joke or sing him a song before he will give them an autograph. He's a vegetarian and his nickname is "Mad Monk of Malibu".
Larry is the son of Mary Martin, best known for her role on broadway as Peter Pan. Larry also is the godfather to Bridget Fonda.
Patrick Duffy's son Conor played the role of "Little J.R."on the final episode of Dallas. His son Padraic played Mark Harris on the show. On the series, "The Man from Atlantis (1977)", Patrick also played a character named Mark Harris.
Dallas would often make the audience believe that someone had died and then find ways to keep them alive. Several characters died in someone's dream and then they'd wake up. Sometimes there would be a report that someone had died and then they'd show up alive and the report turned out to be false.
The dream death that had the most impact on the series was Bobby Ewing's death. Originally, he died because Patrick Duffy left the series in the seventh season. Then he decided that he wanted to return for the ninth season. Patrick's wife told him that the only way that could happen is if his death had really been someone's dream. Duffy relayed this idea to the producers and even though that meant that they entire eighth season would become Pam Ewing's dream, they went along with the idea and Patrick Duffy returned.
When Jim Davis passed away, his character was reported as missing in the Amazon jungle. After a while, he was declared legally deceased. A picture of Jim was placed over the fireplace at Southfork Ranch after his death.
Both J.R. and Bobby married and divorced their first wives twice on Dallas. Then they each got married to a new wife. J.R. divorced his second wife too and Bobby became a widower when his second wife died.
Episodes List With Original Air Dates
Dallas First Season
Dallas Second Season
Dallas Third Season
Dallas Fourth Season
Dallas Fifth Season
Dallas Sixth Season
Dallas Seventh Season
Dallas Eighth Season
Dallas Ninth Season
Dallas Tenth Season
Dallas Eleventh Season
Dallas Twelfth Season
Dallas Thirteenth Season
Dallas Fourteenth Season
Other TV Series:Dallas (Premiered June 13, 2012 on TNT)
TV MoviesDallas: The Early Years (3/23/1986)
Dallas: J.R. Returns (11/15/1996)
Dallas: War Of The Ewings (4/24/1998)
Dallas Reunion: A Return To South Fork (11/7/2004)
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