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Harvick Wins Texas, Moves To Championship 4
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas –Kevin Harvick finally checked Texas Motor Speedway off his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series to-do list Sunday while checking into the Championship 4 Playoffs with a hustle-from-behind victory over Martin Truex Jr. in the 13th annual AAA Texas 500.
Harvick, of Stewart-Haas Racing, ended a daunting 0-for-29 streak dating to 2001 in Cup around TMS' high-banked/1.5-mile oval when he completed a pass around Truex exiting the re-profiled Turn 1 and 2 complex on Lap 325 of the scheduled 334-lapper.
With the win, Harvick joined Playoff point-leader Truex and Kyle Busch in the Championship 4 event set for the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 19.
Busch, the 2015 series champion from Joe Gibbs Racing, clinched with a victory at the half-mile Martinsville Speedway last Sunday. Truex's runnerup result in Fort Worth gave him 4,168 points and placed him 57 points ahead of the closest winless Playoff driver behind him, Brad Keselowski in fourth. The final open spot will be filled next Sunday on the 1-mile Phoenix Raceway.
"I'm happy to finally get to Victory Lane here in Texas…damn it's good!" Harvick beamed after parking his No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford Fusion at the start/finish line, where he was greeted by a group of rowdy fans pressing against the frontstretch fence. "We've been qualifying well here and racing well ever since I've been at Stewart-Haas Racing and just never got it to work out to go to Victory Lane. Today we had to earn it.
"To be able to pass the No. 78 (of Truex) for the win is something that's huge for our confidence and team knowing we need to go to another 1.5-mile at Homestead to race for the championship. I'm really proud of everyone on our Mobil 1 Ford. This thing was a hot rod today. Great to check that one off, baby!"
Harvick and team co-owner Tony Stewart noted SHR went into this season after switching OEMs from Chevrolet to Ford. "We had to overcome a lot with that change," said Stewart, a retired three-time Cup champ. "But at the same time, everybody in the field had an aero change, aero-package-wise, too.
"What I saw tonight is something that I'm really encouraged about. It wasn't just the fact of winning this race, but it's just how it was won _ how Kevin drove those last 20, 25 laps. I know Kevin and I can tell you watching his driving style, there's something those other three guys that are going to make it to Homestead to be worried about. I've seen this man when he gets locked-in like this, and he's strong right now."
Harvick's margin of victory was 1.580-seconds at an average speed of 143.234 mph. Harvick led five times for 38 laps on a day when 13 drivers took turns pacing the race.
Coincidentally, record race-time temperatures in the low-90s were July afternoon/brain-frying hot in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Temperatures inside the cramped Cup cockpits were reported at 120 degrees.
Harvick didn't wilt as he began to reel Truex in following the day's eighth caution on Lap 284 for Kyle Larson's fiery crash into the Turn 2 wall. The resulting cleanup prompted NASCAR to red flag the event for 10 minutes, 29 seconds. The winning move went down on Lap 325 through the Turn 1 and 2 complex after Harvick did some on-the-fly homework.
"I saw the No. 42 at the beginning of the race really driving into Turn 1 really deep," said Harvick whose previous best finish in Fort Worth was second in November 2014 and April 2015. "For me, I knew I needed to do something different in order to get past Martin. I tried to just start driving it in there and we kept going faster and faster. I picked up like two-tenths. I kept driving it in there and one lap I got close enough to get the air off the back of his car. I actually got to the outside and was able to pass him on the outside. That's a credit to the racetrack for getting it rubbered-up and all the things they have done to prep it."
To recap, TMS' entire racing surface and pit road were repaved during the offseason. In addition, Turns 1 and 2 were re-profiled from 24 degrees of banking down to 20 degrees. That area also was widened from 58-feet to 78-feet to promote more passing opportunities. Turns 3 and 4 have retained their traditional 24-degree banking.
Truex, who led four times for a race-high 107 laps in his No. 78 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Toyota Camry, indicated Harvick's winning move was almost inevitable.
"I knew he was quicker," said Truex, of Furniture Row Racing. "Once he got around the No. 11 (Denny Hamlin) I guess it was, he started coming really fast and that's all I had. Just struggled a little on the long run today, which was normally where we're our best. He seemed to be better when he got out front _ we were good when we got out front toward the middle of the race and we just got too loose in those long runs. I would get loose in the corners, looser and looser.
"I did all I could do on the inside, but we had the No. 6 (Trevor Bayne) and some other dummy racing side-by-side in front of us and I was way loose in traffic and I got loose going into (Turn) 1 and Harvick jumped to my outside. He was just faster in the end. He was just gone. He was quicker, got me in a bad spot and he was gone. One of those deals. I think we could have held them off on a clean racetrack, but the No. 6 car is in the damn way every week. That's pretty normal."
On the plus side, Truex took satisfaction that his team's body of work this season allowed him to clinch a Championship 4 slot one week early. "It feels great," said Truex, who posted his 24th top-10 finish in 2017 and his 14th top-10 result in 25 races at TMS. "It feels amazing _ that's what we set out to do this year was to make it to Homestead and fight for the title and we feel like we're right there. I just can't wait to get there and get back to work. I wish we could have won today _ it would have been a little sweeter going and locking it up in Victory Lane _ but we were off a little bit there at the end."
Harvick joined Kyle Busch as the only drivers to have won at TMS in all three NASCAR touring series. A five-time winner here in the XFINITY Series, Harvick has single wins in both the Camping World Truck Series and now in Cup.
Kyle Busch was a non-factor after cutting a tire on the opening lap en route to a 19th-place finish, one lap down. He will take his Martinsville win and 4,118 points into Phoenix Raceway.
Hamlin's third-place finish in the No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota left him fifth in the standings with 4,092 points, 76 behind Truex and 19 in back of Keselowski, the 2012 Cup champion from Penske Racing who placed fifth in his No. 2 Wurth Ford and has 4,111 points.
"You know, obviously the No. 4 and No. 78 were really fast all day," said Hamlin, who led three times for 65 laps. "We had a really good FedEx Camry, just had a couple bad restarts there where I went high, lost my track position and we had to take two (tires) to get that track position back that I lost. Overall, a good day. I mean great points day. We scored a lot of points, but lost _ lost positions there with the No. 4 winning, so we'll just keep digging, keep giving ourselves a shot to win and hopefully next week will be our week."
Ryan Blaney is sixth in points in his No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center Fusion with 4,089, 79 behind the leader and three behind Hamlin. Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 24 Hooters Chevrolet SS, is seventh in points with 4,062, 106 behind the leader and 27 behind Blaney.
Meanwhile, seven-time/reigning Cup champion Jimmie Johnson is eighth in points with 4,060 _ 108 behind Truex and two behind Hendrick Motorsports teammate Elliott after a miserable finish of 27th _ three laps down to Harvick. Johnson admitted he and crew chief Chad Knaus were exiting Texas scratching their respective heads.
"Yes, probably more than anyone else is," said Johnson, who said he fought a corner entry handling issue in his No. 48 Lowe's Chevy SS all day. "We've got to figure something out. Kansas (another 1.5-mile speedway) was a lot like this. It was just extremely difficult to drive the car and carry entry speed. And then we had a loose wheel and then contact on a restart. We started off in a hole and just kept digging a deeper one as we went.
"I'm definitely disappointed. And, I honestly just feel bad for my team. These guys are working so hard. And to work this hard and not see any speed go back in the car and have bad results as the last three weeks have been is pretty disappointing."
Still, a win by any of the aforementioned five Playoff wannabes next Sunday in Avondale, in the Arizona desert, will advance him into the Final Four.
"It's been a good track for us," said Johnson, a seven-time Cup winner at TMS. "But this last half of the year has been really weird. In places where we expect to run well and traditionally do, we haven't. But I know we're building a better race car and taking a few new ideas to Phoenix and we'll go there and fight as hard as we can. And that's one thing this team will never do is give up."
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race – AAA Texas 500
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas
Sunday, November 5, 2017
- (3) Kevin Harvick (P), Ford, 334.
- (7) Martin Truex Jr. (P), Toyota, 334.
- (2) Denny Hamlin (P), Toyota, 334.
- (35) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 334.
- (10) Brad Keselowski (P), Ford, 334.
- (8) Ryan Blaney (P), Ford, 334.
- (36) Joey Logano, Ford, 334.
- (34) Chase Elliott (P), Chevrolet, 334.
- (1) Kurt Busch, Ford, 334.
- (4) Erik Jones #, Toyota, 334.
- (19) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 334.
- (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 334.
- (15) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 334.
- (6) Daniel Suarez #, Toyota, 334.
- (18) Aric Almirola, Ford, 334.
- (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 334.
- (14) Danica Patrick, Ford, 333.
- (13) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 333.
- (5) Kyle Busch (P), Toyota, 333.
- (25) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 333.
- (23) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 333.
- (26) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 333.
- (21) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 332.
- (27) Ty Dillon #, Chevrolet, 332.
- (28) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 332.
- (22) Landon Cassill, Ford, 331.
- (9) Jimmie Johnson (P), Chevrolet, 331.
- (37) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 330.
- (29) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 330.
- (24) David Ragan, Ford, 329.
- (38) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 325.
- (30) * Joey Gase(i), Chevrolet, 322.
- (32) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 322.
- (31) * Ray Black II(i), Chevrolet, 305.
- (17) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 304.
- (20) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 303.
- (11) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, Accident, 282.
- (33) * David Starr(i), Chevrolet, Accident, 237.
- (39) Corey LaJoie #, Toyota, Engine, 227.
- (40) * Gray Gaulding #, Toyota, Engine, 159.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 143.234 mph.
Time of Race: 3 Hrs, 29 Mins, 52 Secs. Margin of Victory: 1.580 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 8 for 40 laps.
Lead Changes: 27 among 13 drivers.
Lap Leaders: 0; D. Hamlin (P) 1-46; K. Larson 47-53; A. Dillon 54; C. Elliott (P) 55; M. McDowell 56-59; R. Newman 60; K. Larson 61-69; K. Harvick (P) 70-88; D. Hamlin (P) 89-91; K. Harvick (P) 92-97; K. Larson 98-143; M. Kenseth 144-154; D. Earnhardt Jr. 155-157; K. Kahne 158-160; K. Larson 161-172; K. Harvick (P) 173; M. Kenseth 174-184; M. Truex Jr. (P) 185-225; K. Harvick (P) 226-227; K. Busch (P) 228-234; J. Logano 235; M. Truex Jr. (P) 236-238; M. Kenseth 239-245; M. Truex Jr. (P) 246-271; D. Hamlin (P) 272-287; M. Truex Jr. (P) 288-324; K. Harvick (P) 325-334.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): M. Truex Jr. (P) 4 times for 107 laps; K. Larson 4 times for 74 laps; D. Hamlin (P) 3 times for 65 laps; K. Harvick (P) 5 times for 38 laps; M. Kenseth 3 times for 29 laps; K. Busch (P) 1 time for 7 laps; M. McDowell 1 time for 4 laps; D. Earnhardt Jr. 1 time for 3 laps; K. Kahne 1 time for 3 laps; J. Logano 1 time for 1 lap; C. Elliott (P) 1 time for 1 lap; A. Dillon 1 time for 1 lap; R. Newman 1 time for 1 lap.
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Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino will welcome Atletico Madrid taking a cautious approach in Tuesday's UEFA Champions League tie at Camp Nou.
The Spanish rivals will put their battle for the Liga title on hold when they meet in the first leg of their quarter-final at Camp Nou on Tuesday.
Both sides come into the eagerly-awaited tie in fine form, with La Liga leaders Atletico winning their last six games in all competitions and Barca coming out on top in their last five matches.
There was nothing to choose between the teams in the previous three meetings this season, as they played out a goalless draw in the league and also drew both of their Supercopa de Espana encounters in August - with Barca winning on away goals.
Martino expects fellow Argentinian Diego Simeone to set his Atleti side up to frustrate Barca, but he has hopes those tactics could backfire.
"I always like that opponents wait for us, as it means they will attack us a little less," he said.
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He said: "It's over 180 minutes and we can't take too many risks in one leg as there's another one to come.
"We've not scored many goals against Atletico, but we need to play the way that we want to play and be organised.
"It is important not to concede, but the most important thing is to win first leg as that pushes the responsibility onto the opponent.
"The secret of all games played against Atletico is the intensity has been key and our main weapon is the way we play the game.
"I don't think it's going to be an open game, I think that's unlikely but I do think that when they play away from home, they want to score an early goal.
"If a goal scored in the first 15-20 minutes it could be more of an open game, but both teams know there is a chance of coming back in second leg."
Barca and Atleti will meet in the second leg in Madrid next Wednesday and also lock horns in what could be a title decider at Camp Nou on the final day of the Liga season.

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This super yummy recipe diverges from I consider "traditional" boonies fare. It is based on this recipe from Bon Appetit. It may seem exotic, but with the exception of the spices, almost everything in it is probably already in your pantry and freezer. I've adjusted the recipe to my tastes by adding more spice and some dried fruit, and leaving out some of the onions. I also use one of the value packs of chicken that comes with 8 thighs and 2 breasts, rather than 8 thighs and 8 drumsticks.
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At this summer's AirVenture in Oshkosh, Germany's Calin Gologan introduced his new E-Plane line of electric powered aircrafts: the Elektra One (one-seater), Elektra Two (two-seater) and Elektra Four (four-seater).
Just recently Gologan revealed that the molds of the fuselage and wings of the Elektra One are "as good as finished."
"At the end of November we will be so far to show you pictures from the whole aircraft and give you some technical specifications," he promised.
The prototype of the Elektra One will be presented at AERO 2010 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April at the E-Flight-Expo trade show, he added.
Gologan said he had followed the global development of electric planes for decades, when a competition convinced him to start the Elektra One project. NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation initiated a prize for the most energy-saving aircraft in the world. The Green Prize Challenge in aeronautics — with prize money totaling $1.5 million — is slated for 2011.
In his quest to win the prize, Gologan has formed an international team of engineers and pilots to develop the Elektra One, which integrates modern technologies such as batteries, electric motors, solar cells and the lightest fiber composite structures.
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Okay, let's have it, Miley Cyrus. Are you toking or what? Do you get high? Are you a stoner, a pot head? When are you just gonna come out and admit it?!? "You can't ask someone and expect them to say yes," Miley says in a recent interview. So once again, Miley isn't denying that she's friendly with Mary Jane, and she's not confirming it, either. But she still has a lot to say about it. For example, Miley says, "I think alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana -- people can be mad at me for saying that, but I don't care."
ORLLY, Miley? Yes, really. "I've seen a lot of people spiral down with alcohol, but I've never seen that happen with weed." I've heard plenty of other people make the same claim. And yet, I know someone who is currently in recovery for his marijuana addiction. Of course pot has some medicinal benefits, especially for chronically ill patients. But I think the stuff can be tricky, especially for creative people who use it to fuel their output and to keep that magic feeling of inspiration going as long as possible.
Oh, but that's such a bummer. Let's go back to Happy Fun Times Miley Cyrus. "As long as it isn't illegal, there are far more dangerous things. And it's legal in the state of California. So I'm happy to live in California, a place where you can be whoever you want to be." Including a pot head! Not that Miley would describe herself that way.
What's with all the coyness about this open secret? She mentions the duet she did with Snoop Dogg, "Ashtrays and Heartbreak," and adds, "so people can put it together themselves," again hinting that she tokes, but refusing to explicitly admit it. Is it because of her age? I just feel like this hinting around is kind of silly and childish. I mean, speaking of Snoop, he's pretty explicit about his pot smoking. You actually can ask some people if they smoke and expect them to say yes.
Maybe when Miley turns 21, she'll come clean ... about pot smoking, that is. I kind of get the impression it's something she likes a lot, and maybe she's justifying her habit use with that remark about alcohol. I'm just going to be the boring grownup here who says beeee caaaaaarefullllllll ...
Do you agree that alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana?
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MicroUnity's First Generation Technology
MicroUnity began design and implementation in the late 1980's of a general-purpose microprocessor that could process digital media—audio, video, graphics, RF data streams—in real time using software rather than special-purpose hardware.
One key advance was dynamic partitioning of a microprocessor's datapaths, registers, and execution units to perform operations in parallel on several sizes and types of digital media data. For example, a microprocessor dynamically partitions 128 bits of internal datapaths and registers into 16 concatenated (8-bit) bytes of data, or 8 (16-bit) doublets, or 4 (32-bit) quadlets. The concatenated data is of various types—e.g. integer (fixed point) and floating point, as shown below:
The microprocessor also dynamically partitions its execution units to operate on these "groups" of concatenated data. For example, below is a Group Floating-point Multiply and Add instruction, which operates in parallel on partitioned groups of four (32-bit) floating-point numbers. Similar instructions operate in parallel on fixed point data of the sizes above, and perform other operations - subtract, compare, square root, etc. The combination of compare-and-set operations with group mux enables conditional processing in parallel while eliminating the overhead of branches and condition code registers.
Group Floating Point Multiply-Add
A processor with a 128-bit data path can perform 16 operations per cycle on 8-bit integer video data in response to one instruction (or block of instructions), followed by 8 operations on 16-bit fixed-point audio data in response to a second, followed by 4 operations on 32-bit floating-point graphics data in response to a third, etc. In other words, the partitioning of the data and execution units varies dynamically, adapting to the varying sizes and types of data as necessary in a given set of multimedia applications.
Media processing also requires parallel rearrangement and rescaling of data, for example as shown in the illustrations below:
Other examples of MicroUnity's first-generation innovations in media processing included: configureable cache- and buffer-type access methods; multiple-priority memory systems for real-time multiprocessing; interfaces and control for media peripherals; handling of exceptions (such as overflow and underflow) in parallel group operations and a variety of methods for hyperthreading and multi-core media processing. These inventions and others are described in MicroUnity's patents. The net effect of these first-generation innovations was to improve cost and power dissipation by more than an order of magnitude in the processing of digital video, graphics, and communications data using general purpose microprocessors.
BroadMX: the Next-Generation of Software-Upgradeable Broadband
BroadMX is MicroUnity's answer to the question: How will the next order of magnitude of cost/power improvement come about?
BroadMX is a programming model and synthesizable hardware library that makes the most advanced broadband algorithms—including 4G wireless, HD video, and photorealistic 3D graphics—practical to implement and upgrade in software.
BroadMX reduces the instruction count of real-time applications by an order of magnitude with a simple, classical programming model based on new compound operations called BroadOps that extend group operations to 2-D arrays and other compound data structures. By reducing instruction and intermediate result overhead, BroadMX results in a smaller code footprint and lower power consumption over a wide range of performance levels. A typical BroadOp may replace 20 or more first-generation multimedia instructions, while using the bandwidth resources of a single instruction.
For example, the BroadMX convolve operation shown below uses the same number of 128-bit operands used in a single instruction (e.g. the group multiply-add shown above) of a state-of-the-art multimedia CPU. Convolve computes eight 16-bit elements, each extracted from the full 35-bit sum of eight 16-bit products. A multimedia CPU requires 16 multiply-adds, 12 additions and 30 data rearrangements, for a total of 58 instructions to perform the same function with 32 bits of internal precision. Full 35-bit precision would require even more instructions.
BroadMX includes four classes of BroadOps:
- ENSEMBLE OPS multiply, add, and convolve groups of 8-, 16-, 32-, 64- and 128-bit data types, including integer, polynomial, Galois field, and (optional) floating point. These accelerate filters, correlators, resamplers, error-correction, etc.
- CROSSBAR OPS switch up to 256 bits from two concatenated 128-bit input registers into 128 output bits. These accelerate bit manipulation, scrambling, interleaving, encryption, etc.
- GROUP OPS add, subtract and perform logic on 128-bit "groups" of 8-, 16-, 32-, 64- or 128-bit data, including compound ops such as compare-set, shift-add and 3-input add/subtract and boolean ops. These accelerate basic integer arithmetic and logic decisions.
- WIDE OPS access compound data structures such as matrices, switch arrays and translation tables from memory and retain them in "WideCaches" embedded in the datapath. These accelerate bandwidth-intensive compound ops such as matrix multiplies, bit-granular switching and vector translates.
WideOps and WideCache enable software access to the bandwidth required for the most general BroadMX functions while preserving operand interfaces of existing datapaths. For example, the BroadMX crossbar function has an array of 128 muxes, each needing 8 bits to address 256 bits from two register inputs. As shown below, a "wide switch" instruction uses a third register input as a pointer to memory containing the128-byte switch control array needed for complete bit-level control of the muxes.
Upon first use, wide switch is effectively a CISC instruction that fetches the 128-byte control array using the existing memory bus in multiple cycles. However, a BroadMX WideCache retains this data in a 1024-bit memory accessible to the crossbar matrix. Subsequently, wide switch can reuse the switch address array from the local WideCache and execute as a RISC instruction in a single cycle.
Without WideCache, a 256x16 crossbar op SELECT16BITS as shown above (*) would be the most powerful operation to enhance a CPU for bit switching within the 3x128-bit input operand limit. Eight of these instructions, along with eight LOADs and seven ROTMERGE, would assemble the 128-bit result of BroadMX wide switch 16 bits at a time in 23 instructions. In fact, current processors lack SELECT16BITS and would have to assemble the output one bit at a time, resulting in a much higher instruction count.
Basic crossbar ops perform rearrangements with high regularity—such as byte permute, shuffle, swizzle, extract, shift, rotate, compress, expand, deposit and withdraw. In all these cases a strip of "expansion logic" generates the 128 8-bit addresses for the crossbar matrix from a single 128-bit input register or immediate data without using a WideCache entry.
A wide matrix instruction extends ensemble ops much as wide switch extends the crossbar. It produces a 128-bit vector result from an input vector multiplied by a 1024-bit (8x8x16 in the 16-bit case) matrix array accessed indirectly from memory and retained in WideCache accessible to the multipliers within the ensemble unit. The convolve operation shown earlier essentially constructs a matrix in expansion logic that slides an 8-element window one step per row across the 16-element time series formed by concatenating two 128-bit inputs—without using a WideCache entry.
A wide translate instruction translates each of sixteen bytes of input into the corresponding byte of output through sixteen independent tables, 8-bits wide by 256 words deep, as shown below. The bank of tables is specified by a pointer and loaded from memory on first use with the same WideCache mechanisms discussed above in the ensemble and crossbar units. An input address mux can pair indices together for 16, 32 and 64-bit wide tables and mask indices to pack multiple smaller tables (with depths any power of two between four and 256 words) into one WideCache line. A conventional multimedia CPU would require up to 47 instructions to perform the same function.
BroadMX hardware blocks implemented as synthesizable Verilog are easier to port and integrate with existing SOC design flows than hard or firm core designs. These blocks can be assembled into BroadMX cores configured to meet a wide range of performance, die area and power requirements. Configuration variables include memory sizes, interface widths, issue rates and thread count.
For high performance application, instructions per cycle can be scaled from single to four-way issue, and the number of parallel threads can be scaled from one to four threads. For low power and low cost applications, the individual units can be configured for lower issue rate.
For example, the Ensemble Unit configuration options include 'full' 128x128-bit or 'quarter-size' 64x64-bit. The quarter-size E unit can execute all vector ops (up to 32-bit integer and 16-bit complex data sizes) in a single cycle, and basic convolve and matrix ops in four cycles. The quarter-size E unit matches applications that are dominated by vector ops, such as wireless baseband processing.
In a typical four-threaded configuration, the light-weight ALU units can be replicated with the thread state. Each G-ALU is integrated with its private register file, as shown below, so that operand wires for the most frequent operations are as short as possible. The heavy-weight units (multiplier ensemble, switch, table) share the operand bypass network. This structure saves area, reduces contention, and simplifies the software effort required to keep the heavy-weight units well utilized.
BroadMX software is cleanly implemented on a base of C/C++ intrinsic functions covering the mathematical range summarized in the table below. This direct mapping results in extremely efficient compiled code. BroadMX does not require mastering an unconventional programming paradigm.
BroadOPS intrinsic functions are powerful blocks of computation. The C code below shows the four block transformations that comprise the innermost loop of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). SubBytes is a single wide translate table lookup instruction, ShiftRows and MixColumns merge into a single wide multiply matrix Galois instruction and AddRoundKey is a single group xor instruction. This loop executes Nrnd times (typically ten) to decrypt 128 bits of data. The entire AES inner loop can be unrolled into just three BroadOps per round; one Load per round will also be needed if the keys are fetched from memory. The same function on a multimedia CPU requires about 70 instructions per round.
BroadMX continues to evolve—adding BroadOps for streamlining seemingly more intractable portions of communications algorithms—for example, Reed-Solomon error correction. Some of these advances are explained in MicroUnity's patent portfolio.


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Update by user Sep 11, 2014
Got my car back :) so far so good. The Kennesaw store service department is awesome.
I have to admit I should have just went to them in the first place. They were awesome to us. Everything is fixed on the car, they got ALL of the oil out of the carpets even. It smells like a new car and runs great.
It NEVER felt like this. I am SO grateful to the guys in the service department. After that kind of treatment I would actually think of buying another car from there.
If any of you read this know how grateful we are and how awesome it is that you guys listened to us. :) I hope I never see any of you again :0) (in a good way)
Update by user Aug 29, 2014
Okay - I have to say that Carmax has stepped up to the plate. They took my car and are doing a bunch of tests on it.
They gave me a loaner and are not making me pay a deductible for anything they find. I really have to say I am impressed at the level of customer service they are now showing.
We shall see what happens but I am feeling very positive for the first time. Thanks Chris, Scott and Andrew so far :)
Update by user Aug 08, 2014
Purchase date: October 19, 2011 Miles 31,699
Issue - Miles 33,251 E-Brake Failed rolled out of car port
Issue - Miles 48,908 Air pipes leaking/Intake Duct, Profile Gasket and Hose Clamp
Issue - Miles 50,250 Gasket Set, HEAD GASKET, and Thermostat
Issue - Miles 50,254 Passenger Airbag went out while on the test drive for the HEAD GASKET JOB Issue - Miles 50,852 Engine Mount, Hose Clamp, Power Steering Hose, Oil Pan Gasket, Hose Clamp, Hydraulic Fluid. Issue - Miles 51,934 Profile Gasket Issue - Miles 52,168 Faulty Front Brakes and same as 1st issue the EBrake Failed Issue - Miles 53,324 Intake Duct, Profile Gasket Issue - Miles 53,498 Battery went out, no biggie but by this time any time on the side of the road made me crazy!
Issue - Miles 54,681 Intake leak/ Profile Gasket Issue - Miles 56,331 Oxygen Sensor, Snorkel and Profile Gasket Issue - Miles 58,692 Exhaust Manifold crack, this was a bad one! Issue - Miles 59,187 HAPPY BDAY TO ME ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AGAIN! Smoke coming out of vents, over heated on our way to a festival, HEATER CORE OUT! Issue - Miles 60,004 Convertible top broke - makes a sunroof but won't go down.
COST OF THIS CAR TO CARMAX HAS BEEN AROUND $13,000 in repairs COST TO ME - $3,000 or so and unreal amounts of time on the phone, at the shop, standing on the side of DANGEROUS ROADS, at NIGHT, as a WOMAN, the stress of all of this in our lives. The money we could have spent on trips or FUN - You tell me this wasn't a SALVAGE CAR!
Update by user Aug 08, 2014
Well NOTHING came of us attempting to get them to do the right thing. They are a disgusting company.
I went into the Kennesaw, GA location to see if I could get them to do anything. OH BY THE WAY I got the car out of the shop AGAIN and 800 or so miles later the convertible top breaks. It opens into a sun roof but won't go down. NICE that is why we bought a convertible.
I don't even care anymore about that. At least it hasn't left me stranded yet since my birthday debacle. Anyway, the people at the Kennesaw store patronized the *** out of me, took me to a different room away from their precious victims I mean customers. They were talking to me like I was a 2 year old and then told me they were terribly sorry but Carmax wasn't to blame for any of this.
You know I was actually told by a CarFax rep that Carfax is not a reliable way of checking to see if your car has been in an accident or had parts taken off of it and replaced with other parts. They are right it is my fault for not taking that piece of *** to a mechanic and having it gone over with a fine tooth comb. Although I loved the car so much I maybe didn't want to hear it. Yes shame on us for trusting a company like this, taking them at their word that they inspect their cars.
We are *** for doing that but this is a GREAT lesson to those reading this. The warranty DOESN'T MATTER, the MECHANICAL CHECK OUT does! SO to sum up, I am still in the same spot I was a month ago, except I have been to the shop TWICE since my last update. My roof is still broke, I am not paying for anything else on this piece of JUNK.
I have covered the Cooper in signs and lemons and often do a parade lap around Carmax parking lot. Lucky I now work close so my lunch break has taken on a whole new thing. I have written the CEO of Carmax and certify mailed it. I expect NOTHING from that.
I will keep updating as I break down. I am sure another one is just around the corner. If you want a car GO SOME PLACE ELSE, EVEN IF YOU LOVE THE CAR. These people DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU ONCE YOUR PEN HITS THAT PAPER WORK.
If you do, I wish you the best of luck, you are going to need it and like my post says GET READY TO PAY! Even if you buy their *** max care JOKE of a warranty.
Update by user Jun 18, 2014
Well my car is finally repaired, going to get it today. I am going to try and make it back over to the dealership to give them one last chance to make this right. If they don't help us I am going to start my protest :)
Update by user Jun 05, 2014
So far no happy ending in site. I went to Carmax today driving a loaner car.
I asked for a manager the front greeting lady obviously uncomfortable with the stack of work orders i could literally cover that mini cooper in, goes to retrieve the "manager" I had asked for. He then ushers me to a private area incase I freak out in front of the other sales MEAT they are trying to feast on. Half way through my stories of missing work, standing on the side of the road on my birthday, this last break down I failed to mention was my bday, fun for me!and trying to show him the work orders, I found out he isn't a manager at all. He does the common banter and tries to woo me about how I couldn't possibly have older kids "you look too young!" Avoiding the side track maneuver, I get us back on track with "I am at the end of my rope." This last break down turned out to be the heater core, ph joy a new issue that I can again pay the $300 deductible for for Max "care." So that will be $1,800 that I have paid in deductible.
This month that makes my car payment $1100.00 for a car that has been in the shop for 11 days in the past month. So back to my story. He goes and gets another "manager" because at that point I think the crying was making him even more uncomfortable, I didn't do that for show by the way, I really was losing my mind a little. The other guy came back with him and listened as a witness I am sure to this other guy tell me that it's not their fault, it's not my fault, that is just what happens to cars sometimes.
If I want to hang out for a little while they can appraise it. I told him at the beginning the car was at the shop as we speak. I realize they want me to get into another car. I told him I still have the loaner car from the dealership and that I need to pay the deductible and they will fix it.
He said well when you do that bring it back and we can appraise it. Basically, there is nothing we can do. Oh and don't bring it back here without it being repaired first, that will make the appraisal less, WHAT REALLY! Oh and so how will these 30 other repairs do to the appraisal now that you know its a junk car.
I was thinking all of this of course. I shut down when the first guy left to get the second guy. He gave me his number and I walk out the door wasting, yet again, more time on this endless nightmare. My advice, GET THE MAX CARE, NOT THE CHEAP ONE I GOT FOR $1700 extra.
I am tired.
I have one more hail mary I am going to try with the corporate office. I am not going to get excited, maybe I should try reading the Secret and will this into a resolution.
Update by user Jun 02, 2014
Finally go ahold of a nice man at Carmax. We shall see what happens, hopefully this has a happy ending...
Original review posted by user Jun 02, 2014
Long story short: LEMON
Bought a 2006 Mini Convertible with 30,000 miles. It now has 59,188.
It's been in for repairs, sometimes for up to a month, over 15 times. The photos are of the work orders that I could find. There is one more to add to the collection because it is sitting in the shop right now. I got it out of the shop on May 3rd on May 31st It over heated a block from my house you can see the needle pegged hot in the photo.
This shouldn't happen to a car with this many miles and this many repairs done. It was towed back to the shop. We still owe $19,000 on this PIECE of ***. In order to get rid of it we have to sell it back to car max and pay $8000 in cash.
To keep it, I have to take out another credit card to cover the $300 deductible we have paid 5 times now. I took out a credit card just for the deductible and that card is maxed out. I have had to call Carmax Finance and plead with them to put a payment that month on the back end of our loan 2 times because the car payment for that month would be $800. This car is a JUNKER, we have to rent a car to go any place outside of our AAA covered tow radius, we bought a convertible to enjoy and drive to the beach, we never have.
I have been to Carmax to see what they can do for us. They tried to sell us another piece of *** Mustang but we didn't have the $8000 cash to cover the overage of the current piece of *** we currently have.
I guess the end result is I can use this experience to warn others, that is the only good that will come out of this HORRIBLE car experience. Good luck.
Product or Service Mentioned: Carmax Loan.
Monetary Loss: $35000.
Most of the problem is you not carmax they sold you something you wanted and it was a lemon . lemons are in every make and model .
you can buy a brand new car and it could be lemon right off the bat . just BC its new doesn't garuntee that it will run good for a while . you let mechanics do a lot of unnecessary work on the car that didn't need to be done on it. You had about 30 repairs that weren't needed on the car .
then you finally found a mechanic that fixed the real problem with the car . read the manual on the car it will tell you if that part need to be replaced after a certain amount of miles . take the car in to several mechanics .
get different diagnosis from different companies . just like going to the doctor .
You would think carmax would stop keeping these mini coopers on their lots. Why would any company try to sell something that will cause them so many issues?
Oh yeah, carmax makes money on the sale and the repairs and it's the owners headaches now!! Silly me
Know I'm late to the party, but for anyone else considering a Mini Cooper let this be a lesson. Every *** one of them is a pile of ***.
It really doesn't matter who inspects it.. it may be fine at the moment but that won't last long!
Sucks this happened to you..
I'm sure next time you'll buy using your brain and not emotions. Find a good independent mini/BMW guy and keep it regularly checked, this will keep things from snowballing.
To me, carmax is making millions on the uneducated folks who just want to buy a vehicle. I am willing to bet if people did their time consuming (well worth it) research on vehicles and dealerships before they bought, carmax would be in a much different position.
I am a BMW technician and I always try to work on minis when they come in. Why? Because I always am garunteed an easy job that is AT LEAST three hours book time so, any job excluding maintence usually makes me about 60$ no matter what.
What did you expect? You bought a Mini.
Read rewiews about that car.
They are problematic to pur it kindly.
I have not had any experiences with car max, but I am inclined to steer away from there.
It's a Mini, every single Mini is junk no matter where it's bought from. And buying any used car without a warranty is not a real good idea in the first place. I'd cut your losses now and get out of that car ASAP.
Stop looking for unreliable vehicles!! Especially from carmax!!!!
Hey, thanks for the helpful advice! I am going to write that down!!!!


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A ticket for the fast and comfortable Skyliner limited express, connecting Narita Airport to the heart of Tokyo in as little as 36 minutes*1, and the "Tokyo Subway Ticket", which allows users to freely ride any Tokyo subway line for 24, 48 or 72 hours, all at a specially low priced set.
*1 Fastest time (in minutes) between Narita Airport Terminal 2・3 Station and Nippori Station.
This is a convenient and affordable ticket package for the fast and comfortable express Skyliner that will take you from Narita Airport to Keisei Ueno in as little as 41 minutes*1 and a taxi that will take you to your hotel*2 in the city while you enjoy sightseeing out of the car window from Keisei Ueno Station.
*1: Fastest travel time between Narita Airport Terminal 2•3 Station and Keisei Ueno Station.
*2: Hotels located in 11 cities in Tokyo.
"Greater Tokyo Pass" is a Plan Ticket which allows unlimited rides for 3 days on railway lines and streetcars operated by 12 companies and ordinary fixed-route buses of 51 companies in the Kanto area.
>Ride the Skyliner for an additional \1,230 when using the Greater Tokyo Pass! The Skyliner gives you a faster and more comfortable ride!
Explore Tokyo's historic Shitamachi("Lower Town") to your heart's content with this one-day pass. In addition to unlimited one-day travel among all Keisei Line stations in Tokyo, this pass provides discounts and benefits at shops along the train line. The ShitamatiBiyori Pass is ideal for sightseeing in Shitamachi during your stay in Tokyo. ※If you are staying outside Tokyo, we also offer the one-day pass with a round trip tickets to Tokyo from the station at which you purchased the ticket. Please inquire with a station attendant for details.
Keisei Narita Station is the closest station to historic Naritasan Shinshoji Temple. The Narita-Kaiun Pass is a round trip ticket between Keisei Narita Station and the station where you purchased the pass, combined with an assortment of discounts and benefits at shops and facilities around the temple. This is a convenient sightseeing option for airport transit passengers with a few hours between flights.


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- 1. Second Languages Take Backseat
From the time we were in elementary school we have always been taught the value of learning a second language for our futures. But now that we are pretty much there, have you seen much need for this second language? As a recent college student I have found that many college-aged adults have taken the time to learn languages such as Spanish and Italian. The issue that has come about is that they have no need to use it. This is not true for all who learn a second language, but a decent number are experiencing this.
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Today I'm highlighting some classic books whose exceptional opening lines are "hooks" that will grab kids' attention and make them want to keep reading...
"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING!' and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP!' so he was sent to bed without eating anything." Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
"In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines." Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans
"Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking." Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
"The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness." The Iron Man (changed to The Iron Giant in 1968), Ted Hughes
"The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world." The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson
"Up until I was fourteen years old, no boy on earth could have been happier." Summer of the Monkeys, Wilson Rawls
"'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug." Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
"Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares." A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday." Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Ian Fleming
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
It's not too early to start planning your child's summer reading list! I love re-visiting favorite childhood books - often reading their opening lines brings the whole story rushing back into my mind!
This is the second installment of my favorite opening lines (you can see Part 1, here). I tried to include good examples for both boys and girls...Do you have any to add?
This is the second installment of my favorite opening lines (you can see Part 1, here). I tried to include good examples for both boys and girls...Do you have any to add?


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Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 4 and 4S full review
The Mophie Juice Pack Air is a real iPhone (battery) life saver – it's a great battery case for iPhone 4 and 4S.
If the iPhone has a fault it's its weak battery life. Depending on which apps you use an iPhone often needs charging every day, and the Apple mobile has a tendency to run out of juice just when you need it most – Pod's Law.
Who hasn't picked up their iPhone on the way out of the house before a long day only to switch it on and be confronted with the dreaded red sliver of low battery life? Oh, the self recrimination of failed home recharging…
When you're away from your home/office opportunities for even a quick power charge are extremely rare.
The Mophie Juice Pack Air (for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S) is a stylish case that conceals a 1,500mAh-capacity rechargeable battery that can give a failing iPhone a full charge just when you need it. That's right, a full charge. Got an iPhone 5: Mophie Juice Pack Helium battery pack for iPhone 5 review.
A common complaint with battery cases for the iPhone is their weight and bulk. The Juice Pack Air is slim and lightweight. Once you've carried it around for a few days you really won't notice the difference in your pocket.
See also: iPhone accessory reviews
Its minimal aesthetics are sympathetic to Apple's award-winning design. In fact it's so stylish that I've had compliments on its looks before I told people about its amazing battery boost.
The low-profile case has a hard, protective shell, but a lovely smooth soft-touch back.
My one gripe with the case is that the top section occasionally became semi-detached when pulled from a trouser pocket, but it slides back into place with a touch.
As with all good iPhone cases it allows access to ports, buttons and cameras, although the dock connector is concealed. This isn't much of a pain when you want to sync to your computer as you can sync via the supplied micro USB cable, and, if not, the phone slides out of the case simply and easily.
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Experience is a good thing – they say age brings wisdom, which it does, because all the mistakes over all the years still sting. Some things are just embarrassing, even if whatever it was one did was what was done at the time. Popular culture has its imperatives, so the tie-dye love-bead sixties gave way to the sleek seventies – and guys were suddenly wearing white Nehru jackets. That might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but what followed, pastel polyester leisure suits with the giant bell-bottom pants, was just cruel – and Farah Fawcett was the only woman who ever looked good with big hair, feathered out to forever. Actually she would have looked just as good bald – all the other women with big hair back then just looked perpetually startled. It was an odd time – even Burt Reynolds, with his spiffy little moustache, was considered cool. Now that's a camp-retro thing. Those of us who never shaved ours off are just being ironic, like in those Austin Powers movies where Mike Meyers travels back to that absurd age and mocks it for all it's worth – which isn't much. Disco died and we all moved on. What were we thinking?
The point is that it's always better to know better now, no matter what you thought you knew then. Multiple embarrassments can be assimilated into something that passes for wisdom. Conversely, persistently refusing to accept you had been a real jerk, caught up in the foolishness of the moment, can render you a dim bulb, always unable to see what's what. Yeah, you can say you stand on unwavering principle, and everyone has their pride – but pride is often the same thing as stupidity. Mitt Romney, when he was running for president, would puff out his chest and proudly tell us, again and again, that he would never apologize for America. He even wrote a book no one ever read, No Apologies, all about how there never was or ever can be anything that America should be embarrassed about, ever, as the whole concept is impossible. America, because it is America, can make no mistakes – that's the beauty of our system or something. Now on cool evenings he walks around his giant La Jolla estate, down the coast out here, in his Members Only jacket. Sometimes he takes the grandkids to Disneyland over in Anaheim. It's all very retro.
The foolishness of the moment takes many forms of course. In 1997, William Kristol and Robert Kagan started up that Project for the New American Century – basically a Washington think tank set up to work out what America should be doing in the world now that the Cold War was over. That sucked in all the big-gun neoconservatives, and Dick Cheney, and the answer to what we should now be doing now was that we should remake the world, by military force, into what we wanted it to be – a world of representative democracies with totally unregulated free-market economies based on the accumulation of vast wealth by the few right people, and where no one picked on Israel too. We were the only superpower that had been left standing. We might as well do something useful with all that firepower. No one else, really, had any power at all now.
This became the new big thing – these guys flooded the academic journals and the media with this thinking, with William Kristol's Weekly Standard leading the way. Soon they found a pliant fellow they could run for president, who, even if he didn't quite get what they were getting at, would say and do the right things. When George Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a committee to find him a likely vice president, Cheney slyly said that he himself was just the man. These folks then had the right man to whisper in Bush's ear, to bring about what needed to be brought about – and we were soon off to transform the Middle East, and then the world, starting with Iraq, as no one really cared about Afghanistan. And no, these folks weren't embarrassed that it turned out that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, or that all the stuff they had said about Afghanistan and getting that Osama fellow was just bullshit. That was beside the point. There was a master plan, and it was pretty damned cool.
That master plan failed. We've left Iraq and we're leaving Afghanistan and Middle East wasn't transformed. The Arab Spring wasn't our doing, even if that actually is transforming things there. It's also producing trouble, like the Muslim Brotherhood winning control of Egypt in an open democratic election of all things. That's not what we had in mind. None of this is what we had in mind. The whole Project for the New American Century was an embarrassment. We should learn from it. That's what embarrassments are for.
Don't tell that to the neoconservatives. They're impervious to embarrassment. In fact, that's why they hate that Obama nominated Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense. Hagel was with them once, voting for and enthusiastic about the war in Iraq, until he saw what was happening and bailed on them. Obama just nominated someone who will show the nation, and the world, that these guys might just as well be standing around in pastel polyester leisure suits and they don't like it much.
Peter Beinart puts it a different way:
Had a Martian descended to earth in January 2003, spent a few days listening to Washington Republicans talk foreign policy, and then returned in January 2013, she [yes, an amusing choice] would likely conclude that the Iraq War had been a fabulous success. She would conclude that because, as far as I can tell, not a single Republican-aligned Beltway foreign-policy politician or pundit enjoys less prominence than he did a decade ago because he supported the Iraq War, and not a single one enjoys more prominence because he opposed it. From Bill Kristol to Charles Krauthammer to John McCain to John Bolton to Dan Senor, the same people who dominated Republican foreign-policy discourse a decade ago still dominate it today, and they espouse exactly the same view of the world. As for those conservatives who opposed Iraq – people at places like the Cato Institute and The National Interest who believe that there are clear limits to American military power – our Fox News–watching, Wall Street Journal–reading Martian would have been largely unaware of their existence in 2003 and would remain largely unaware today. Our Martian friend might know somewhat more about Ron Paul than she would have a decade ago. But that familiarity would consist largely of the knowledge that respectable Republicans consider Paul a nut.
Beinart finds this astonishing:
When Democrats took America into Vietnam, protesters rioted in the streets at the party's 1968 convention. Academics like McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow became such pariahs after serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that they could not return to their old universities. Prominent pro-war columnists like Joseph Alsop became laughingstocks. Former Vietnam hawks like Zbigniew Brzezinski had to intellectually reinvent themselves to secure government jobs when the Democrats returned to power under Jimmy Carter.
Not so now:
The Iraq-era GOP, by contrast, has constructed an intellectual cocoon so hermetically sealed that it has remained uncontaminated by the greatest foreign-policy disaster of the past thirty years. That's partly the result of the "surge," which allowed the Republican foreign-policy establishment to claim, in my view incorrectly, some measure of vindication. It's partly because Iraq required no draft, and thus ordinary Americans never mobilized as dramatically to oppose it, which allowed foreign-policy elites to remain more insulated from shifts in the public mood. It's partly because the institutions where conservative foreign-policy-types work – places like The Weekly Standard, Fox News, and the American Enterprise Institute – have no natural mechanism for reconsidering their view of the world.
When Vietnam went south, the intellectual climate at Harvard (where Bundy served as a dean) and The New York Times (which had initially backed the war) changed because Harvard and The New York Times had missions that transcended any particular perspective on American foreign policy. By contrast, hawkish nationalism is so intrinsic to the identity of places like Fox, the Standard, and AEI that abandoning it would threaten their reason for existence.
That's the real problem with Hagel:
That hawkish line consists of hostility to any diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff that involves meaningful American compromise and cautious optimism about the impact of an American military strike. More generally, it means supporting as large a defense budget as possible, irrespective of its impact on America's fiscal health. This is the perspective that Republican foreign-policy pundits call "mainstream" and from which they say Hagel diverges. And they are right. Taking a hawkish line on Iran and military spending is as mainstream in today's GOP as was taking a hawkish line on Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2003, because Republican Washington has created an ecosystem in which the wisdom of that prior hawkishness is irrelevant to contemporary debates.
Popular culture has its imperatives, as so does the political culture:
What makes Hagel so important, and so threatening to the Republican foreign-policy elite, is that he is one of the few prominent Republican-aligned politicians and commentators (George Will and Francis Fukuyama are others, but such voices are rare) who was intellectually changed by Iraq. And Hagel was changed, in large measure, because he bore within him intellectual (and physical) scar tissue from Vietnam. As my former colleague John Judis captured brilliantly in a 2007 New Republic profile, the Iraq War sparked something visceral in Hagel, as the former Vietnam rifleman realized that, once again, detached and self-interested elites were sending working-class kids like himself to die in a war they couldn't honestly defend. It is certainly true that some politicians who served in Vietnam – for instance, John McCain – did not react to Iraq that way. But it is also true that the fact that so few American politicians and pundits lived the kind of wartime hell Hagel endured made it easier for them to pass through the Iraq years unscathed. …
At the heart of the opposition to Hagel is the fear that he will do what Republicans have thus far largely prevented: bring America's experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan into the Iran debate.
In short, the man is dangerous. They'll be seen as jerks:
What the Republican foreign-policy establishment fears is that with Hagel as secretary of defense, it will be impossible for Obama to minimize the dangers of war with Iran, as George W. Bush minimized the dangers of war with Iraq. Hagel would be to the Obama administration what Dwight Eisenhower was in the 1950s, what Colin Powell was in the 1990s, and what, to some degree, ex-Mossad head Meir Dagan was in the Netanyahu government, the military man who bluntly reminds his colleagues that war, once unleashed, cannot be easily controlled. "Once you start" a war with Iran, Hagel told the Atlantic Council in 2010, "you'd better be prepared to find 100,000 troops, because it may take that." You can't say "it'll be a limited warfare. I don't think any nation can ever go into it that way." For Hagel's ex-friends in the Republican foreign-policy class, such a statement is kryptonite, because they know that given the American public's weariness of war, a president who outlined the risks that way would have trouble gaining popular support. It's also likely that Hagel's position would be reinforced by the leaders of the uniformed military, some of whom have already expressed skepticism about bombing Iran.
This could then be the end of an era:
Barack Obama has been commander in chief for nearly four years, but in important ways, the Obama era in American foreign policy has not yet begun. It will begin when Democrats express their foreign-policy views as fearlessly as do their Republican counterparts and when those Republican counterparts can no longer impose their historical amnesia about the catastrophes of the last ten years on public debate. It will begin when the American right can no longer marginalize public officials with whom it disagrees about Iran by hurling charges of anti-Semitism with a promiscuity that would make Al Sharpton blush. It will begin when Obama surrounds himself with advisers more interested in shifting the foreign-policy "mainstream" than parroting it. It will begin when Obama declares independence from the Bush-era assumptions that have so far constrained his foreign policy. And with luck, we will one day look back upon Chuck Hagel's nomination as the day it did.
Andrew Sullivan concurs with this:
Unlike so many of the lemmings and partisans of Washington DC, Hagel actually called out the catastrophe of the Iraq War as it happened. The neocons cannot forgive him for exposing what they wrought on the nation and the world. For good measure, he has a Purple Heart and has served in combat. Not easy to say about most of the Iraq War armchair warriors and war criminals.
Which is to say, as Chuck Todd said this morning, this nomination is about accountability for the Iraq War. All those ducking responsibility for the calamity – Abrams, Kristol, Stephens – are determined that those of us honest enough to resist, having supported in the first place, be erased from history. Or smeared as anti-Semites. Or given that epithet which impresses them but baffles me: "outside the mainstream". Rephrase that as – after initial support – being "outside the Iraq War mainstream" in DC – and you have a major reason to back him.
William Kristol, a man who refuses to be embarrassed, fires back:
If you read the oeuvre of Hagel's defenders, you'll see that Hagel must be appointed in order to spite many of his critics, whom they deeply dislike. Hagel's defenders are welcome to their dislikes. But dislike of hawks, neocons, or friends of Israel isn't really a good reason to select Chuck Hagel. And there's something comical about many of the defenses of Hagel. His defenders rise up in high dudgeon to condemn Hagel's critics as smear merchants for criticizing Hagel as anti-Israel and soft on Iran – and then, if they're among the honest Hagel defenders, they praise Hagel for being anti-Israel and soft on Iran.
Sullivan is having none of that:
The language! We're not talking about dislike of people. We're talking about dislike of the mindset that got us into the Iraq War. We're talking about dislike of those who refuse to take moral responsibility for anything and actually believe, with the blood of tens of thousands on their hands, they have some right to question a veteran with two Purple Hearts. They need a reality check: Obama won the election, not Romney. It says a huge amount about the Greater Israel lobby that they assume that national elections in no way should impede their usual control of Middle East policy in Washington – but just showing them that the battle to retrieve our democracy from lobby groups is worth something.
And Hagel is not anti-Israel. Kristol is anti-Israel, having fanatically supported this Israeli government's suicidal behavior, and the toxic, illegal social engineering on the West Bank that will render Israel either a non-democracy or a non-Jewish state.
Sullivan is itching for a fight here:
At the hearings, we can see McCain's vision versus Hagel's, and see the difference between a man who refuses to adjust his global mindset after Iraq and a man who has had the strength and character to do so. So many Americans are likely to agree with Hagel over military restraint, diplomatic patience, and cutting defense bloat. The reason the Greater Israel lobby is in such a froth is that the weakness of their arguments could be publicly exposed – by a Republican. And there isn't enough AIPAC money and intimidation to stop that happening.
The jig is up, so to speak.
Sullivan also digs up this Chuck Hagel quote from 2002:
If disarmament in Iraq requires the use of force, we need to consider carefully the implications and consequences of our actions. The future of Iraq after Saddam Hussein is also an open question. Some of my colleagues and some American analysts now speak authoritatively of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds in Iraq, and how Iraq can be a test case for democracy in the Arab world. How many of us really know and understand much about Iraq, the country, the history, the people, the role in the Arab world? I approach the issue of post-Saddam Iraq and the future of democracy and stability in the Middle East with more caution, realism and a bit more humility… Imposing democracy through force in Iraq is a roll of the dice. A democratic effort cannot be maintained without building durable Iraqi political institutions and developing a regional and international commitment to Iraq's reconstruction. No small task.
Sullivan then points out how William Kristol attacked Hagel at the time:
Iraq's uncertain future, as opposed to its totalitarian present, has become the principle [sic] concern of many realists. "What comes after a military invasion?" Senator Chuck Hagel would like to know. "Who rules Iraq? Does the United States really want to be in Baghdad, trying to police Baghdad for twenty or thirty years?" … Predictions of ethnic turmoil in Iraq are even more questionable than they were in the case of Afghanistan. Unlike the Taliban, Saddam has little support among any ethnic group, Sunnis included, and the Iraqi opposition is itself a multi-ethnic force…
The executive director of the Iraq Foundation, Rend Rahim Francke, says, "We will not have a civil war in Iraq. This is contrary to Iraqi history, and Iraq has not had a history of communal conflict as there has been in the Balkans or in Afghanistan…"
Sullivan adds this:
Which one would you trust to have input on foreign policy in the coming years? A pro-Greater Israel fanatic who has been proven definitively wrong about almost everything in the past decade? Or one of a handful of senators who stood up against the tide for war and his own party and asked all the questions I didn't?
Kevin Drum, on the other hand, sees other reasons the Republicans are upset:
I won't pretend to have a firmly considered opinion about Hagel. On general principle, I don't like the idea of nominating a Republican to run the Pentagon yet again. Doing it once is one thing. Doing it a second time sends a message that there just aren't enough Democrats around who are qualified to run the war-making branch of government.
Still, there's no getting around the smartness of the strategy. When it comes to defense policy, Obama's tenure has mostly been marked by (a) withdrawing troops from warzones, (b) cutting the Pentagon budget, and (c) repealing DADT. Getting a Republican on board as the public face of those policies gives them a bipartisan cast that would be nearly impossible to get otherwise. This is one reason that I think Republicans are so unnerved by Hagel. Despite what they say, their real problem is that they don't like the idea that one of their own will be telling the country that it's OK to withdraw from Afghanistan and it's okay to shave the defense budget a bit.
There's that too, but it all blends together. Multiple embarrassments can be assimilated into something that passes for wisdom. Conversely, persistently refusing to accept you had been a real jerk, caught up in the foolishness of the moment, can render you a dim bulb, always unable to see what's what. Take your choice – but you really don't want to be the guy hanging around in a pastel polyester leisure suit these days. Disco is dead, the victim of its own silliness. So is neoconservatism.


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London Contemporary Music Festival in Peckham
This looks excellent.
Woah, woah.
Looks brilliant. Thanks for the heads up.ThierryEnnui and marilyninthesky this'd this
- Cementimental this'd this
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Glenn Branca Ensemble. Need to go to this.
Looks interesting, thanks!
- LdnMetropolitanElite and badmanreturns this'd this
Will definitely be trying to get a ticket for the Parmegiani/Raime show
Don't suppose anyone has any insider knowledge of when the tickets will actually be available do they?
says booking's available from today
BUT WHEN? I can't see any links on the website at the moment. Hoping to get down there for quite a bit.
yay, booking is open
Got tickets for
Towards a new definition of opera
New complexity and noise
Glenn Branca
- malick this'd this
Great stuff
Got Raime, Morricone and new definition of opera. In my ends for a change too!
Raime, Morricone, Branca and Conrad.
Awesome. Only about 10 mins from home too.
Raime and Morricone for me
I assume they're oversubscribing to accommodate for no-shows? Seems a bit crazy that everyone can have 4 free tickets.
It sort of stems from projects that were done there over the last few years
to open access to classical music for those who may not be interested or able to hear it normally - starting with Rite of Spring in the same car park: http://www.trosp.me/rite
to help with the continued gentrification of Peckham?
Gentrify Pecknam?
Was going to say "Are were kidding?", but on second thoughts it's well placed for a city commute, isn't it?
- sfajack this'd this
Hmm, but that's a tiny part of it.
Still think it's got a long way to go yet.
There's a limit to how gentrified Peckham can get...
...with its current housing stock I would say. Also, large swathes of the area around Queen's Road Peckham are still proper rough - probably still the cheapest place to buy in zone 2 however.
Bell...end...en Road.
Brilliant. (sorry bit immature for a contemp. music thread)Raanraals this'd this
Booked this:
New complexity and noise
Music for loudspeakers
Keyboard breakdown
Annoyingly, I'm away for Glenn Branca
thanks for posting
I had my first live experience of effete egghead music with Steve Reich at ATP and now I want more.
booked for branca and new noise
me too
gonna be fucken awesome
I'm in for Drone Day and Coming Together
and I'm well up for going to Immersive Opera when they open up bookings. Unfortunately I'm busy for Morricone, would have loved to see that
Just booked a whole bunch
Glenn Branca was amazing when I saw him at Primavera, looking forward to Raime and Morricone as well
Oooh, this sounds good
Booked tickets for Morricone, Keyboard Breakdown and Glenn Branca.
Great stuff, booked a few
looking forward to Branca and Drone Day in particular
Morricone clashes with Mogwai at The Barbican :(
Got tickets for Branca, Drone Day and Music For Loudspeakers though - excited.
Frank's Bar has just reopened too...
Ah cool
I saw this the other day, didn't eralise registration has opened!
I'm going to see the piano and the snd performance. Ace.
nah you're gonna be there alone
(favourite shite joke)
im going tomorrow thobadmanreturns and malick this'd this
Fair enough.
Has Drone Day changed lineup slightly?
Got a ticket for Part 1, but could've sworn there was something else there, like a La Monte Young or Tony Conrad piece, & there's a Tony Conrad piece on Part 2 that I don't recall if it was there before or not.
Don't think so, thought there wasn't a huge amount for part 2...
Very much looking forward to Morricone and Lachenmann tomorrow night.
Found an old email to a friend where I made reference to LMY
So definitely looks like that's disappeared from Part 1. Part 2 probably is the same as it was.
How's this been going for everyone?
I went to drone day yesterday. Came in with just over an hour left of the first part (the ticket said 2pm-7pm and I thought that sounded like a bit of overkill) and really enjoyed that set. Very pretty.
The 2nd part was a whole heap of fun. Not sure what I expected, but it wasn't that. Really liked Charlemagne Palestine's piano piece. The first piece was fascinating, her vocals were great, although it all got a little wearying by the end but they pulled it back by that guy in the turquoise trousers being a genuinely strange, likeable old showman. Great encore. All in all, very good. I'm not back there until next Sunday now.
Really enjoyed Friday
The setting is phenomenal, even with the added train noise. Wasn't sure about some of the Lachenmann stuff (well, the brushing the keys bit mostly) but otherwise though it was highly enjoyable/interesting stuff.
Can't wait for the Raime/Parmegiani show on Saturday now. Gonna go a bit early and try and spend some time on the roof in the sun.
The Lachenmann stuff was an acquired taste, yeah
The last Morricone piece they played was great
Glenn Branca was great on Sat and I stayed for all of drone day part 1. One guy playing on his laptop was completely mesmeric. Was struggling to move at one point.
Went Friday, Saturday and Sunday night
Glenn Branca honestly blew me away on Saturday. I was lucky enough to be sat in the front row so had great sound and view. Glorious glorious noise. When the power blew it was hilarious. I'm sure it wasn't really them but it makes a great story.
Last night was brilliant too. I was properly zoning out to Charlemagne Palestine, it was hypnotic. Great venue too, I thought in a few cases the train noise actually added to the experience.
Back for Raime/parmegiani on Saturday.
Good video of Glenn Branca
taken by a guy who must have been stood behind me. Even catches the beginning of the tantrum that would lead to him turning his music stand over and storming off.
bit of a storm in a teacup that though wasn't it?
seemed like he was joking/was finished anyway
Yeah I think so
Though did they actually play the 'UK Premiere' piece?
presumed everything up to the steve reich piece was new
coz when he played that he said you might have heard this at steve reich's birthday.
They played quite a bit from the ascension the sequel.
Recognised quite a bit from it, it also includes that steve reich tribute track.
Went to Glenn Branca, was fucking awesome
especially that apocalyptic black cloud pissing on everything.
Was meant to go yesterday but had to cancel, disappointed about that.
ended up going to the friday of the first weekend (morricone and lachenmann)
which was good, but often too quiet with the trains etc.
missed branca to go to braid. braid were amazing, but i hear branca was too
missed the drone day cos i fell over
went to friday of the second weekend, which was just amazing - somehow never seen steve noble play before and he's just too amazing, as was all the improv taht night
sunday afternoon apparently Coming Together was amazing and i'm sad i missed it.
sunday night was an odd one. wasnt enjoying the harpsichord stuff, then they had a guy play a piano that was rigged for midi, whgich was interesting. he supposedly "played" terry riley's Persian Surgical Dervishes, which are a series of improvisations he did in the early 70s, so the piece that was played really had very little in common with what it was billed as. thankfully what was played was rad as fuck.
then they took the midi rig off the piano and a guy smashed through a few hundred years of piano history, from mozart to xenakis, before doing the 1963 fluxus piece "piano activities", which is basically taking the piano apart on stage, whilst it was still mic'd up. i thought it was fucking cool.
this guy didn't:
he basically argues that destructive performances aren't appropriate nowadays because there's a recession, and that doing a piece like this in a "poor" area like peckham is disrespectful, and that the piano should have been given to a school or something.
i think all of his arguments are shite, and that he may as well be at a (free entry) fireworks display crying about what a waste of money it is.
all of his arguments are shite
how disrespectful to put on a free 2-week programme of contemporary music in `one of London's most deprived areas`. How about the Rolling Stones get rid of their excessive lighting budget (or whatever) and give 100 pianos to schools. What an utter cunt.ethricdouble and badmanreturns this'd this
also, this patronising idea that all schools need is a piano and their dreams will come true. no mention of how they'll store the piano and pay for its servicing. pianos are widely seen as a liability nowadays - look on freecycle and gumtree etc for the amount of people trying to get rid of them without paying to have them taken to the dump.
i hope that every single thing he does for pleasure that can't be rigorously defended academically is ceased immediately and its costs donated to the nearest school.
and that's even if you think that his argument that destructive art was good in the 60s and 80s but bad now (as if the entire point of the art was that it was brand new) makes any sense at all, unless you subscribe to the idea that there is one singular narrative running through art, which every piece can be judged in relation to.
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