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Blue whale's bones may help Pescadero students
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Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer
Jan. 2, 2011 Updated: Jan. 14, 2012 8:55 p.m.
1of4Science teacher Dan Sudran on Thursday Dec. 23, 2010, at his Pescadero, Calif., home, displays his collection of bones from a dead beached Blue Whale discovered South of Half Moon Bay almost three months ago. Surdan hopes to use the bones as education tools for school kids. The long Mandible, (jawbone) from the whale is measure at over 18 feet from point to point and weighs some around 1,500 pounds.Michael Macor/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of4Science teacher Dan Sudran on Thursday Dec. 23, 2010, at his Pescadero, Calif., home, has collected several major bones from a dead beached Blue Whale discovered South of Half Moon Bay almost three months ago. Surdan hopes to use the bones as education tools for school kids. Long Beach State Graduate student Erika Fox, (right) helps carry a vertebrate bone to her car with the help from Sudran. The college plans to use a few of the bones for class study.Michael Macor/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of4Science teacher Dan Sudran on Thursday Dec. 23, 2010, at his Pescadero, Calif., home, has collected several major bones from a dead beached Blue Whale discovered South of Half Moon Bay almost three months ago. Surdan hopes to use the bones as education tools for school kids. Long Beach State Graduate student Erika Fox helps carry a rib bone to her car with the help from Sudran. The college plans to use a few of the bones for class study.Michael Macor/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
4of4Science teacher Dan Sudran on Thursday Dec. 23, 2010, at his Pescadero, Calif., home, has collected several bones from a dead beached Blue Whale discovered South of Half Moon Bay almost three months ago. Surdan with pieces of the Whale's vertebrate, hopes to use the bones as education tools for school kids.Michael Macor/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
The biggest bone of any animal to ever live on Earth is lying in a backyard in Pescadero.
The bone is 20 feet long and weighs about as much as a Volkswagen Beetle. It's not from a dinosaur - it's the right jawbone from an endangered blue whale, which, until a few months ago, was swimming blithely off the San Mateo County coast.
"This bone is beyond belief," said science teacher Dan Sudran, in whose backyard the bone now resides. "Normally you'd have to get a helicopter to move something like this. But we did it ourselves. No one got hurt and here it is."
Awe-inspiring and rare, the bone ordinarily would be headed for a museum or laboratory, where scientists could pore over its every greasy groove. But the final resting place for this specimen will be Pescadero Elementary School, where kids can climb on it, play on it and hopefully learn from it.
Teachers plan to develop an entire curriculum around the whale bone, from reading to art to learning about the vast ocean just down the road.
The public will get to enjoy the whale bone, too. The bone will be placed in front of the school, at 620 North St., amid the artichoke fields and bed-and-breakfast inns.
The tale of the whale began Oct. 2, when a deceased blue whale washed onto Bean Hollow State Beach just south of Pescadero. The whale, 80 feet long and pregnant, had apparently died after crashing into a ship.
Ship collisions are among the leading cause of death for blue whales, which once numbered in the hundreds of thousands but were nearly hunted to extinction a century ago. Now about 20,000 of the gentle giants swim the world's oceans.
It's no minor event when an endangered marine mammal turns up dead on a local beach. Half a dozen agencies claim some form of ownership of the remains, for research, education or protection.
But no one was more interested than Sudran, who was overcome with an Ahab-like obsession with the decomposing whale.
"I was sleeping, sort of, but my first thought every morning was, What are we going to do? How are we going to get this whale?" said Sudran. "I thought, the kids need to have it."
Sudran has built a career on hands-on science instruction for kids. He won a Jefferson Award in 2009 for founding Mission Science Workshop, a nonprofit science lab in San Francisco's Mission District. He's been collecting bones for 20 years, and saw the jawbone of a blue whale as the holy grail.
The long, curved mandible has an important job for the whale. It controls the whale's massive mouth, which takes in tons of krill-filled water for the whale to filter. Unlike a human's jawbone, a blue whale's jaw has no teeth attached to it - only baleen, a comb-like sieve to keep the krill from escaping.
Sudran got permission from myriad agencies to remove the remnants of the whale, not an easy task considering their rarity. The last blue whale to turn up in Pescadero was in 1979, and only one or two blue whales a year wash up on the California shore, according to the Aquatic Mammals Journal.
"We passed on it because we already have a blue whale on display," said Helen Taylor, spokeswoman for the California Academy of Sciences, one of the organizations that has dibs on dead marine mammals. "But we collected a few samples."
The next step was moving the bone, which had lodged in some rocks amid the surf. After hours of experimenting, it took 14 men and a complicated array of lassos to dislodge the bone, haul it up the beach and rope it to a pickup truck.
Sudran dropped it in his backyard until the school is ready to take it, probably this summer.
Meanwhile, he's arranged new homes for other parts of the whale, including about 20 vertebrae, ribs and parts of the left jawbone, which broke in several pieces.
Some of the bones are headed to Cal State Long Beach's marine biology department. Graduate student Erika Fox of Concord was in Sudran's backyard last week to retrieve a few bones.
"I'm totally shocked at how big these vertebrae are," she said, attempting to lift the 80-pound specimens into the trunk of her hatchback. "It's not very often you get to study bones from an animal this big - the osteology, the shape, the size. This is just really cool."
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Republican Governors Association
stated on July 29, 2022 in Email:
"Governor Tony Evers gave counties the green light to defund Wisconsin's police departments."
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By Alan Hovorka August 12, 2022
Democrat Evers didn't give Wisconsin counties 'the green light' to defund police
The RGA cited a GOP bill, vetoed by Evers, that would have reduced state aid to communities that cut spending on police.
But the Evers veto simply keeps the status quo – it was not a proactive step to encourage reductions.
Evers has explicitly said he opposes defunding police departments and allocated $100 million in federal pandemic relief to enhance law enforcement.
Heading into November, look for Republicans to hammer Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on crime and police funding.
Indeed, they already have been.
As Republicans were still picking Tim Michels as their nominee to face Evers, the Republican Governors Association sent an email blast to Wisconsin reporters on July 29, 2022 that contained this quote from spokeswoman Maddie Anderson:
"Wisconsin families are desperate for a leader whose top priority is keeping their communities safe. Instead, Governor Tony Evers gave counties the green light to defund Wisconsin's police departments. Elections have consequences, and Evers will come to find that out very soon."
The email came after a violent week in Milwaukee left a 6-year-old girl dead.
The defund the police angle is an echo of attacks on Democrats that began after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked protests across the nation. Many protests called for police budgets to be dramatically cut or, in some cases, the departments eliminated and replaced.
We rated False a previous claim by Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch that Evers is "a big proponent of this defund the police movement." In fact, Evers has said slashing police budgets "goes too far" and directed $100 million in COVID relief money toward enhancing law enforcement.
So, let's look at the RGA claim that Evers gave cities and counties "the green light" to defund police departments.
A veto and a message
When asked for backup, Anderson pointed to an Aug. 6, 2021, veto by Evers of a bill that would have cut state aid to cities and counties that reduced any part of their police budgets and given that money instead to cities that didn't cut police spending.
He vetoed it on the same day he signed a separate Republican bill to set use of force standards for police departments.
In an Aug. 1, 2022 email, Anderson argued: "He vetoed a bill that would have dissuaded counties from defunding police departments. Sent a clear message to counties that there is no penalty for defunding or reallocating resources from police departments. Hence the green light."
Let's dig deeper.
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"Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them."
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First, we should note that the veto means there is something behind the claim, even if it's now being misrepresented. Despite how Anderson framed it, the Evers veto leaves the status quo in place. In that respect, nothing changes. And, as we know, state aid and local governments, particularly as it relates to police spending, can get sticky.
In his veto message, Evers said he killed the bill because it placed "onerous restrictions" on the ability of local governments to set their budgets.
The bill would have reduced shared revenue payments to municipalities that decreased spending on police, fire and emergency services or reduced the number of people employed in those areas. The legislation specifically targeted municipalities employing at least 30 people in those areas and only applied to portions of the emergency service budget for hiring, training and retaining employees.
The nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum issued reports in June 2020 and August 2021 on police funding trends in Wisconsin. The reports found spending on policing n Wisconsin peaked in 2013 and was trending downward well before the rise of the "defund the police" approach captured national attention.
Even as funding has fallen, spending on police remains the largest piece of municipal spending in the state. The forum concluded those declines in funding are more related to counties and municipalities struggling under state-imposed limits on how much they can collect in the property tax levy and flat state aid. Local governments have largely shielded police and fire services from budget cuts in the past decade, the report found.
Anderson's argument that the veto gives a green light on cutting budgets runs counter to the governor's own statements and actions.
Just days after the Floyd case, Evers specifically opposed cutting spending on law enforcement in a meeting with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters and editors.
In a June 4, 2020 article, Evers was quoted as saying: "We're always going to need police service" and that "to completely defund police departments ... that isn't going to work.'"
Later, as noted, Evers provided more than $100 million to law enforcement through federal relief funds.
The Republican Governors Association claimed Evers gave Wisconsin counties "the green light" to defund the police.
A spokesperson for the association pointed to a veto of a Republican bill that would penalize counties and municipalities that reduce police budgets regardless of context. So, it's not like there is nothing there. But that veto simply kept the status quo – it was not a proactive step by Evers to force or encourage cities and counties to cut law enforcement.
What's more, Evers has flatly stated he does not support defunding the police, and directed $100 million in pandemic aid to law enforcement.
So, the statement "contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression."
That's what we call Mostly False.
Maddie Anderson, Republican Governor Association regional spokesperson, email, Aug. 1, 2022
PolitiFact Wisconsin, Democrat Evers is not 'a big proponent' of defunding police, as GOP challenger Kleefisch claims, May 20, 2022
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Tony Evers spending $50 million in federal funds to boost police forces, clear court backlogs, March 15, 2022
Wisconsin Policy Forum, Some cuts to police predate calls for defunding, August 2021
Wisconsin Policy Forum, Dollar for Dollar, December 2020
Wisconsin Policy Forum, A High-Level Look at Police Funding Trends in Wisconsin, June 2020
The Associated Press, Evers OKs use-of-force bill, vetoes plan to defund cities, Aug. 6, 2021
Tony Evers, veto memo, Aug. 6, 2021
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Protesters have demanded police departments be 'defunded.' Tony Evers says that goes too far, June 4, 2020
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Houston Rockets' Tari Eason showcases veteran traits in growing role
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The rookie forward continues to be a bright spot for the NBA's second-youngest team.
Michael Shapiro, Chron
Jan. 24, 2023 Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 11:54 a.m.
Houston Rockets' Tari Eason, right, tips the ball away from Minnesota Timberwolves' Jaden McDaniels during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Houston.
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Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason had a simple message for his team before Monday's 119-114 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Eason and the Rockets entered the contest losers of thirteen straight, with the losing streak taking an increasing toll on the spirit of the NBA's second-youngest team. Following a Saturday night loss in Minnesota that featured just 10 points from second-year standout Jalen Green and numerous instances of poor effort, a late-January matchup seemed to take on heightened importance.
The rookie out of LSU urged his teammates to bring increased energy out of the gate.
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"I just told the team before the game, 'be desperate,' and I think that's what we did tonight," Eason said. "Everybody played desperate. Everybody played their tails off."
It was more than Eason's words that fueled the Rockets as they leapt out to a 20-9 lead in the first quarter. Eason stuffed the stat sheet in the opening frame, tallying seven points, four rebounds, two assists and a plus-11 in seven minutes. He quickly set the tone with a strip of Anthony Edwards in the opening minutes, with a dunk and roar following shortly after. Houston's effort issues across the last month were arguably the most concerning aspect of the 13-game losing streak. Eason is able to lift the group like few, if any, rookies league-wide.
Anthony Edwards #1 of the Minnesota Timberwolves drives between Tari Eason #17 of the Houston Rockets and Eric Gordon #10 of the Houston Rockets during the fourth quarter at Toyota Center on January 23, 2023 in Houston.
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"Tari came out with a lot of energy," Green said postgame. "He's a big energy guy for us, always talking to us, trying to motivate us all the time, so that's super big that he came out, brought that energy, and I think us as a [starting] five fed off that."
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Eason's first 47 professional games are perhaps the most pleasant development of Houston's ugly season thus far. The No. 17 pick in the 2022 NBA draft appears to be another quality non-lottery selection for general manager Rafael Stone, albeit with less upside than 2021 No. 16 pick Alperen Şengün. Eason is already a plus defender. He's adept at switching onto both bigs and smalls, and he's an attentive team defender. Eason makes post entries hell for opposing guards. He has quick hands and is a smart gambler when shooting into passing lanes. Eason is one of 16 players (and the only rookie) with eight games of at least three steals, and on Monday night, he added a pair of blocks. Eason's defensive IQ and large frame should carve out at least some rotational role across the next decade.
The defensive production isn't necessarily a surprise given Eason's pre-draft profile. His offensive growth thus far suggests he could be a steal for Stone just outside the lottery. Eason is attempting just two triples per game, but his stroke is improving as he enters Tuesday at 37.6 percent from three. He's made a three-pointer in six of his last eight games, and is more than comfortable as a corner shooter. You don't have to squint too hard to see Eason growing his volume to P.J. Tucker's peak (4.7 three-point attempts per game) in Houston, and while Eason is struggling to finish at the rim, he's a decisive and aggressive straight-line driver. As Houston too-often bogs down into one-on-one basketball, Eason is a solid connector.
One January win won't cure the issues at the Toyota Center overnight, and frankly, relying on a rookie to provide a mental boost every evening isn't exactly a recipe for success. But Monday's win was instructive when evaluating the future of Houston's roster. Eason is a malleable two-way player, one who sports a unique emotional maturity for a 21-year-old rookie. As the Rockets work to build their next playoff team, Eason is a player who could fit into any roster construction.
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Williamstown girls blow away regional field | News, Sports, Jobs
Photo by Jay W. Bennett
Wood County Christian's Michael Cline, left, runs alongside Wheeling Central's Aidan Scott in the 3200 during Friday's Class A, Region I meet in St. Marys. Cline won the race in a Region I record time of 10 minutes, 11.44 seconds.
ST. MARYS — Numerous Class A, Region I track records went by the wayside Friday evening at Bill Hanlin Stadium.
Ritchie County's Olivia Cress scored 40 points and broke regional marks in the 300 hurdles (46.39) and the high jump (5-7) while also besting the field in the 100 hurdles (15.50) and the long jump (17-4.75) en route to helping the Rebels to 101 points, but well behind champion Williamstown's 200.
Alyssa Sauro, who has been invited to the 15th edition of the International U18 Mountain Running Cup on June 26 in Saluzzo, Italy, broke regional records in the 800 (2:19.79), 1600 (4:51.92) and the 3200 (11.29.23). Teammate Brianna Winsett, who joined Sauro, Ava Lightfritz and Reagan Ortiz on the victorious 4×8 (10:24.20), was runner-up in all three events.
Shelby Smith won the 400 with a regional record time of 57.36 for the Yellowjackets of head coach Zach Hall, who also had Emma Berman and Madelyn Anderson finish one-two in the pole vault with respective efforts of 9 feet, 6 inches as well as Kyndra Johnson (32-8) and Emme Stull (32-5) going one-two in the shot put.
The Paden City shuttles team of Brandis Dalrymple, Hallie McDonald, Jocelyn Sawinski and Mady Still edged Williamstown's Tara Fleming, Avery Smith, Sydney Anderson and Izabel Zide, 1:11.25 to 1:11.71, to keep the 'Jackets from sweeping the relay events.
Ritchie County's Gus Morrison runs in the hurdles during Friday's Class, Region I track meet in St. Marys.
WHS claimed the 4×1 (Ella McMullen, Berman, Jalie Henthorne, Brookelyn Reynolds: 51.27), the 4×2 (McMullen, Berman, Henthorne, Smith: 1:48.86) and the 4×4 (McMullen, Berman, Reynolds, Smith: 2:01.36).
Erica Davis was a double-winner for the host Blue Devils. She topped Magnolia's Jaci Rohde, 12.86 to 13.02, in the 100 and edged Smith in the 200, 26.03 to 26.20.
Tyler Consolidated's Sydney Deaton was first in discus with a throw of 93 feet, 7 inches to best runner-up Becca Shamblin of Williamstown's 91-10 effort.
Although Rebel Gus Morrison now owns the Region I best time of 14.89 in the 110 hurdles thanks to his qualifying effort, he was disqualified in the finals. He secured gold in the 300 hurdles (39.82), the long jump (21-0.25) and the 400 (52.47). The Rebels trumped Wheeling Central, 120-92, for the regional crown.
Two other boys etched their names in the records books. Wood County Christian's Michael Cline broke the 3200 record with a time of 10:11.44. Wheeling Central's Aidan Scott now owns the 1600 mark thanks to his clocking of 4:40.41. Scott also nipped Magnolia's Brady Renner, 2:04.80 to 2:05.11, to secure a win in the 800.
St. Marys' Josh Roush was a double-winner thanks to posting times of 11.35 and 23.35 in the 100 and 200, respectively. Blue Devil teammate Braden Hashman, the runner-up in the 300 hurdles, finished ahead of Ritchie County's Marlon Moore to win the 110 hurdles — 15.14 to 15.52.
Other individual regional champions included Magnolia's Austin Beverling in the high jump (5-10), Ritchie County's Kodi Camp in the pole vault (12-6), Williamstown's Aiden Corbett in the shot put (45-9) and Blue Devil Ethan Weikart in the discus, whose throw of 125 feet, 10 inches was seven inches better than Silver Knight runner-up David Grimes.
Hashman and Roush were joined by Peyton Girard and Evan Doering on the victorious 4×4 team that finished in 3:35.68.
Ritchie County had relay triumphs in the 4×8 (8:48.03) thanks to Cayden Moore, Heath Knight, Jeremiah Dalton and Russell Owens along with the shuttles (1:02.20) that featured Dom Worstell, Ethan Haught, Jonah Hamilton and Moore.
Class A, Region II
WEST UNION — Host Doddridge County rolled to the Region II titles at Cline Stansberry Stadium as the Bulldog girls beat South Harrison, 175-76, while the boys scored 187 points to easily top Trinity's 89.
Lexi Lamb helped lead the way for the girls with wins in the 800 (2:19.81), 1600 (5:11.87), 3200 (11:05.35) as well as running a leg on the winning 4×4 (4:23.68) with teammates Catherine Cottrill, Faith Galagar and Carrie Lloyd. Not to be outdone, Abby McDonough swept the hurdles (100, 16.89; 300, 49.51) and won the pole vault after clearing 9 feet, 6 inches.
The Bulldogs' 4×2 (Payton Currey, Nora Sias, Lloyd, Galagar: 1:54.64) and 4×8 (Bailey Holden, Emily Gola, Cassie Cumberledge, Cottrill: 11:01.17) also finished atop the podium.
South Harrion's Shellie Baughman swept the throws by going 32-9 in the shot put and 113 feet, 9 inches in the discus.
The DCHS boys were aided by two golds apiece from Leo Stinespring (100, 11.37; 200, 23.86) and Trent Gola (800, 2:08.35; 3200, 10:49.30).
Seth Richards won the 300 hurdles with a time of 42.38 and Bulldog teammate Kaden Smith did the same after clearing 12 feet in the pole vault.
Adam Burnside was runner-up in both the shot put (44-7) and discus (129-9). The Bulldogs also earned 10 points in the 4×1 (Elisha Galagar, Jaycent Ash, Talyn Snyder, Stinespring: 45.85), the 4×4 (Snyder, Caleb Lloyd, Galagar, Stinespring: 3:37.86) and in the shuttles after Smith, Riley Curran, Gabe Bates and Richards crossed in 1:03.47.
Class A, Region IV
CHARLESTON — Calhoun County's Savannah Cunningham scored 40 of the Red Devils' 60 points at Laidley Field thanks to wins in the 100 (13.60), 200 (28.99), 400 (1:02.02) and the 800 (2:37.94).
Gilmer County's Kiley Richards won the shot put by throwing 34 feet, 4 inches. The only other area individual champions for the girls came in the 300 hurdles with Ravenswood's Lauren Raynes (52.64) and in the pole vault where Wahama's Michaela Hieronymus cleared 8 feet, 6 inches.
Wirt County's 4×8 quartet of Brooklyn Rood, Megan Cutlip, Meredith Cottrell and Shaylie Allen posted a winning time of 13:11.80. Wahama's Heidi Cade, Lacey Neal, Hieronymus and Alyssa Vanmeter clocked in at 55.78 to win the 4×1.
White Falcon Rowen Gerlach collected two wins thanks to throwing 48 feet, 3 inches in the shot put and 147-4 in the discus.
Gilmer County's Ean Hamric topped the field with his long jump of 18 feet, 9 inches. Also winning a regional event as an individual was Ravenwood's Wyatt Milhoan, who posted a 53.23 in the 400. Hamric was runner-up in the 100, 200 and 400.
The lone victorious relay team from the LKC was Wahama's 4×4 that finished in 3:47.07 with Gavin Hieronymus, Wyatt Harris, Sawyer VanMatre and Josiah Lloyd.
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2019 Hungarian GP: Winners & Losers
The Hungaroring has been the stage for infamous on-track battles throughout its celebrated 34-year history. Who can forget the 2006 duel between Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso in the first ever wet Hungarian Grand Prix, with the race win famously going to Honda's Jenson Button?
In 2019, Budapest provided the perfect conditions for a cat-and-mouse chase that will be written in the Formula 1 records: Lewis Hamilton's hunt of Max Verstappen.
Over 230,000 fans filled the stands to watch a race-long Mercedes and Red Bull Racing sparring match with Hamilton ultimately victorious with his seventh Hungarian win.
Hamilton displayed why he is the reigning World Champion in spades. Being pipped in qualifying by his Mercedes teammate Valterri Bottas, Hamilton lined up P3 in Budapest but as Bottas struggled with lock-ups in the first two turns, the Briton seized the opportunity to pass and set his sights on race leader Verstappen. Overcoming the flu that plagued him at the German Grand Prix last weekend, Hamilton applied pressure to the young Dutchman as they ran side by side at Turn 4, but it wasn't enough… yet.
A roll of the dice to pit Hamilton for the second time on Lap 48 was a risky tactic by Mercedes but gave the 34-year-old new Medium compound tyres to hunt down the Red Bull driver with just over 20 laps left. Mercedes responded, "It's hammer time," giving the Brit the encouragement to annihilate Verstappen's 19-second lead. With Verstappen having stayed out, his tyres were gone, and Hamilton was able to snatch the lead with three laps to go. The result means the defending titleholder extends his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 62 points over Bottas heading into the summer break.
When asked about how he felt after the epic drive Lewis said: "[I feel] tired which is how it should be but I feel really grateful for the day and really for the team for continuing to believe in me and continuing to push to the limits and take a risk and a chance on me.
"For a race to be able to push like that, I'm telling you I was on the limit all the way."
A seemingly impossible chase: Hamilton had barely 20 laps to close a 19-second deficit to race leader Verstappen.
He may have lost the race lead and win to Lewis Hamilton within the final minutes of the thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix but the 21-year-old Red Bull Racing star led from his first career pole for the majority of the 70-lap race in another faultless performance. The Dutch driver was unhappy with his team's decision to keep him out after Hamilton stopped for new tyres, a move that ultimately cost him the win, but he showed that he is the man to challenge Hamilton's dominance posting the fastest lap of the race after a late pit stop.
The predominantly orange-coloured crowd erupted in support for Verstappen's P2 podium finish, earning him 19 championship points, closing the gap to only 7 points behind Valterri Bottas in the championship standings.
"He was clearly a bit faster than us and I was struggling for grip after a few laps," Verstappen said. "It was just not our day in terms of pace compared to Lewis, but compared to the others we were still way faster and overall, it was a good weekend."
The Woking squad showed good consistency in Hungary with Carlos Sainz matching his German Grand Prix P5 finish in Budapest. Getting the jump on his teammate Lando Norris off the start line, Sainz pulled away from Nando and Red Bull's Pierre Gasly in the midfield to briefly battle with the Ferrari duo of Charles Lerlerc and Sebastian Vettel. The 24-year-old held his position to bring home his best Hungarian Grand Prix result.
Lando Norris finished in ninth place proving the steadily improving pace for the revived McLaren team, which has recorded points in each of the last five races and are closing the gap on the frontrunners. McLaren currently lies fourth in the Constructors' Championship, 41 points ahead of nearest rivals Scuderia Toro Rosso.
"[It's] my second consecutive P5, which I think I've never done in my life, so I'm very very happy with that," said Sainz.
"Especially this P5 – I don't know why but it tastes a lot better than the Hockenheim one. In a normal race where we just managed to beat Pierre (Gasly) and finish ahead of a Mercedes, it felt particularly good this time."
He may have out-qualified his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to start from the front row of the grid next to Max Verstappen but sadly that was the end of the good news for the Mercedes man who finished in eighth place.
Bottas is suffering a traditional mid-season funk.
He locked up into Turn 1 and then made contact with two drivers on the opening lap in Budapest, first tapping his front wing against the rear of Hamilton's car through Turn 3 and then further damaging the wing on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari in the run to Turn 4. The Finn went to the box for a new nose which cost him a 14-second stop and a demotion to last place.
Bottas gradually clawed his way back up the order showing the Mercedes' pace and came home a lap down on Hamilton. With an uncertain future in 2020, the 29-year-old will be looking to hit the reset button over the summer break after scoring only four points in the last two races, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by "disappointed" Team Principal Toto Wolff.
"He wanted to do particularly well and that went all wrong, touching with Lewis and touching with Leclerc and from then on I think there's nothing more to expect from anybody because you know you've just blown it," said Wolff.
The team brought their drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc home in third and fourth respectively, a result that would have been sweeter if it wasn't for the 65-second gap to Hamilton's winning Mercedes.
Vettel ran longer in his first stint which allowed him to pit for Soft tyres to capitalise on their late performance and overtake his teammate Leclerc to seal the final spot on the podium with only a few laps to go.
The Ferraris struggled on the high-downforce Hungaroring.
Leclerc came back from a troubled qualifying session that saw him spin on the exit of the final corner, damaging his rear wing.
After a close call with Bottas on Turn 4 of the opening lap at the Hungaroring, the Monégasque driver kept his Ferrari on the tarmac but couldn't fend off seven-time champion teammate Vettel for P3.
Reflecting on the lacklustre speed of his Ferrari in Hungary, Vettel said: "Obviously I can't be happy because we were not fast today.
"Losing 60 seconds in 70 laps is probably fair – that's what we were missing. Maybe we didn't pick the absolute fastest strategy but overall we're just not quick enough today so [there's] lots of homework for us. It's not really an eye-opener. We knew it before so it's up to us to address it in the next couple of months really to hopefully make a difference by the end of the year."
Ricciardo was set to line up in P18 after a debacle with Racing Point's Sergio Pérez derailed his qualifying efforts but the Australian started from the rear of the grid due to Renault opting to swallow an engine penalty for a strategic change of Power Unit elements before the race.
The 30-year-old climbed his way through the field on track that is notoriously difficult to overtake on, a fact Ricciardo was reminded of when he failed to pass an offensively aggressive Kevin Magnussen to finish in fourteenth.
"It was frustrating not to get past Magnussen," said Ricciardo.
"I felt he was moving under braking, and I couldn't do anything. I wasn't happy about that as we could have progressed even further at the end. There are some positives and the summer break will be good for us. We'll reset, take some time off, we know we're in it together and we'll be targeting a better second-half of the season."
F1 now goes into its summer break, which concludes with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on August 30-September 1. Ferrari is the most successful team at the Belgian circuit with 13 wins and Vettel taking the top step of the podium in 2018. With Hamilton and Verstappen placing second and third last year, fans are awaiting a fierce battle to the end.
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Data Retention – update
By way of update to my earlier data retention post, five points. First, Simon over on Tuppenceworth has made available, with permission, a recent Sunday Times piece (25 February 2007; pdf) on the issue (kudos, Simon). Second, this led to the Labour party's press release last week (welcomed here by Digital Rights Ireland (DRI)). Third, the Dutch Data Protection Authority has raised serious doubts about the EU Data Retention Directive (pdf) (thanks to Antoin for bringing this to my attention offblog).
Fourth, Karlin has written another hard-hitting piece in the Irish Times (2 March 2007; sub req'd; but it might be available here) on the government's inaction in the face of DRI's litigation. A flavour: under the headline "Retention of mobile data a threat to everyone's privacy", she concludes:
… it has taken a long, long time for politicians to finally scrutinise this appalling piece of legislation. A tiny handful challenged it in the Dáil, and silence greeted its passage two years ago. Last summer, the Data Protection Commissioner's office revealed that requests for records were coming in by the thousands from gardaí, expressed concern at the lack of oversight in the process, and still, politicians said nothing. It has taken a reiteration of the same information – that some 10,000 requests are made annually – finally to galvanise some debate. Let's hope some more voices join in as the court case moves forward.
Finally, picking up on Karlin's piece, Public Enquiry argues that, as a consequence of this figure of "an incredible 10,000 requests a year" we should be very afraid. He's absolutely right.
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Eoin says:
27 April, 2007 at 12:27 am
It's not just the Gardaí, it's also the army, according to Public Enquiry.
11 May, 2007 at 1:44 pm
As for the UK's implemention of the EU Directive, see Richard Taylor's piece in the The Times (10 May 2007).
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The chipmaker gets a few days' jump on OEMs with a Core i5 prototype of its own. We put the ultrabook through our benchmark tests.
The first ultrabook to use one of Intel's third-generation Core "Ivy Bridge" processors isn't from HP or Dell or Toshiba. It's from Intel itself—a sleek 3.1-pound slimline with a snappy UltrabookTM logo on the lid. That's supplied as a reference design to show off the new CPU in the same way that AMD and Nvidia provide generic graphics cards to the press and manufacturing partners when they're introducing a new graphics processor.
Since the system will never be offered to the public, we won't give it a full review or grumble about details like its lack of an Ethernet port (it has just two USB 3.0 ports, one on each side). What we'll tell you instead is that its 22-nanometer process Intel Core i5-3427U processor brings a hefty boost in productivity performance while still delivering good battery life—and a clear improvement in integrated graphics, although anyone hoping that ultrabooks will suddenly become great gaming machines will be disappointed.
In the engine room, as mentioned, is the 1.8-GHz, Core i5-3427U—the faster of two dual-core, low-voltage (17-watt) Intel Core i5 processors in Intel's new lineup (the other is the 1.7-GHz, Intel Core i5-3317U). The new chip easily outruns the 1.6-GHz Intel Core i5-2467M that powers a plurality of first-wave ultrabooks like the Dell XPS 13, HP Folio 13-1020us, and HP Envy 14 Spectre. In fact, it matches or beats the 1.8-GHz, Core i7-2677M seen in step-up models like the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s and Toshiba Portege Z830-S8302.
Subjectively, the Intel reference ultrabook felt quick and responsive—loading and switching among applications with never a wait, booting from cold to the Windows desktop in a brisk 22 seconds, waking from sleep in 2.5 seconds. Put through our battery of objective benchmark tests, it was even more impressive. Its Cinebench 11.5 score of 2.6 is the highest we've seen from an ultrabook (although the Toshiba Z830-S8302 came close at 2.32). So is its PCMark 7 score of 5,106—almost 2,000 points ahead of the HP Folio 13-1020us.
The reference system broke the two-minute barrier in our Handbrake video encoding test—1 minute 50 seconds, more than half a minute faster than most Core i5 ultrabooks we've tested—while its time of 4:15 in our Photoshop CS5 test put it solidly into Core i7 rather than Core i5 territory. These are unabashedly great numbers for an ultralight laptop.
Its graphics test scores were more ambiguous. The "Ivy Bridge" processors' DirectX 11-compatible HD Graphics 4000 integrated graphics are a real step forward compared to the "Sandy Bridge" generation's HD Graphics 3000, but a step doesn't equal a sprint: Our gaming tests fell short of the 30 frames per second (fps) playability threshold. Both in Lost Planet 2 and Crysis, the Core i5 ultrabooks we've tried have struggled into the teens at 1,024-by-768 resolution. The Intel reference ultrabook posted 21 and 25 frames per second (fps), respectively—a big percentage improvement, but not enough to ring the bell for users dreaming of Battlefield 3 or Batman: Arkham City on a 3-pound portable.
Still, most users aren't expecting an ultrabook to keep pace with a desktop replacement or gaming laptop. They're looking for take-it-anywhere, swift-to-start productivity—and for long battery life, which the Intel reference ultrabook delivered. Sure, its time of 7 hours, 43 minutes in our MobileMark 2007 rundown test is about an hour shy of the PC Labs ultrabook record held by the HP Folio 13-1020us, but the latter's 59Wh battery is bigger than the Intel's 49Wh pack.
For more, see Dell Business PCs Get an Ivy Bridge Boost.


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U.S. intelligence ensnared in politics over election security briefings
Aug 31, 2020 6:45 PM EST
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With Election Day just over two months away, Americans will begin casting ballots in a few weeks. The U.S. intelligence community has already warned of multiple attempts by foreign powers to intervene in the November election. But now comes word of changes in how top U.S. intelligence officials will brief Congress about the threats. Lisa Desjardins and Nick Schifrin join Judy Woodruff to discuss.
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Judy Woodruff:
Americans will begin casting ballots in this fall's general elections in just a couple of weeks, and Election Day itself is just a little more than two months away.
But now there is word of changes in how top U.S. intelligence officials will brief Congress about other nations' attempts to interfere in the election.
For more on that, I'm joined by our own Lisa Desjardins and Nick Schifrin.
So, hello to both of you.
Lisa, first of all, tell us a little more about what is happening and why this matters?
Lisa Desjardins:
Speaking to many sources today, both parties are very concerned about threats to election security this year coming from foreign adversaries.
And I have learned there was scheduled a briefing for the House Intelligence Committee in mid-September. But, Friday, John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, set a letter to both chambers of Congress — or sent a letter to saying that all briefings in-person would be canceled.
This led to a confusing back-and-forth for the next 24 hours about what exactly he meant. And now, it seems, sources are telling me the understanding — this is coming largely from Republicans — is that now Republican senators will be briefed, but not House Democrats.
So, just to review, here is what we're talking about. As a co-equal branch of government, these are the two committees that usually are fully briefed, House Intelligence, led by Democrat Adam Schiff, and Senate Intelligence, now led by Republican Marco Rubio.
The change, Judy, as we understand it right now, is that only the Republican Senate Intelligence Committee — I'm sorry — only the Senate Intelligence Committee, both parties on that committee, will be briefed fully in-person. Everyone else will get written statements.
OK, so, why does this matter? First of all, briefings provide a great deal more information in-person than on paper. Separately, this shows the mistrust that is growing between lawmakers, who usually put politics aside on this issue.
And it's coming at an important time, Judy. There are real concerns right now about Russia in particular attempting to manipulate this election. And as one senator, Angus King, pointed out to me on a phone call, there is a feeling that, in 2016, the public was warned too late about what Russia was doing, and there is concern that again the public may not be aware of what is going on right now.
And, Nick, what is the intelligence community saying about this?
Nick Schifrin:
Judy, an ODNI official told me that — quote — they're "committed" to meet their statutory responsibilities to keep Congress informed, but they wouldn't confirm what Lisa just reported about whether there will be some in-person briefings to either the Senate or the House Intelligence Committees.
As for the motivation, they're very clear. Those letters that Lisa just mentioned were sent to congressional leadership and committees on Friday. And Ratcliffe wrote that he didn't want information — quote — "misunderstood or politicized."
He told Fox News that that meant he didn't want to see information leaked.
John Ratcliffe:
We have had a pandemic of information being leaked out of the intelligence community, and I'm going to take the measures to make sure that that stops.
I asked Ratcliffe's office about leaking. All they would say is that, "We take unauthorized disclosures of classified information seriously."
And to add to that, Judy, I asked lawmakers also.
And Senate Republicans could not pinpoint a specific example of a leak that came from Democrats that they thought was a problem. Instead, they said it is a general politicization of intelligence. Democrats pushed back. They think they're being penalized for being too aggressive or more aggressive on this issue.
And some Democrats do believe, as Nick just reported, that this action could be illegal.
And, Nick, finally, you have been also talking to former intelligence officials. What are they saying?
Yes, these former officials, Republicans, Democrats, senior career intelligence officials, they accuse Ratcliffe of misleading the public on the threat to the election.
In that Fox News interview, he insisted that China was the U.S.' top threat. And many officials across the government do believe that China is the long-term strategic threat that the U.S. is most concerned about.
But the immediate, overt threat to the election is Russia. And that was even in a recent statement released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It said pro-Kremlin actors were to denigrate former Vice President Biden and boost President Trump's candidacy, whereas China's goal was long term, shape the policy environment, pressure political figures considered anti-China, and deflect criticism.
And that really leads to former officials' fear of the politicization of the intelligence community. First, Ambassador Ric Grenell, a Trump ally with no intelligence experience, became acting director, and now John Ratcliffe, nominated and withdrawn last year, also a Trump ally with no intelligence experience, confirmed a few months ago.
And now former officials tell me that senior career intelligence officials are leaving the intelligence community, for fear it's being politicized.
And all of this happening just weeks before the election, before people start voting.
Nick Schifrin, Lisa Desjardins, thank you both.
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Jay Bridgement of Robina State High School was officially sworn in today as the 2017 City of Gold Coast Junior Mayor.
Deputy Mayor Councillor Donna Gates congratulated Jay saying his community spirit was inspiring.
"Our Junior Council members make a valuable contribution to our community, not only in their work with Junior Council, but through their active involvement at school and as volunteers," Cr Gates said.
"It's fantastic to see the number of young people participating in Junior Council growing each year This year, more students and schools than ever are participating," she said.
More than 126 students and 29 schools are taking part in what has become the largest Junior Council in Queensland (since it commenced in 1993).
"It's an opportunity for young people to have their voice heard as they contribute to our city, while they learn about local government," Cr Gates said.


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What is depression, and why should it be treated?
Loredana Dumitrașcu
Imagine yourself entering a shopping mall with your sunglasses on. Even though the lights are shining brightly, you cannot see them. Everything around you is dark and cold. But as soon as you remove your glasses, the world comes alive: the windows of the shops shine attractively, you see the brightly-coloured clothes, and the dazzling screen of your phone blinks with an incoming message.
Depression is like wearing sunglasses inside: even when life is colourful and bright, you cannot see it.
We are regularly confronted with sadness and disappointment—when we do not get the success or recognition we are expecting, when we are rejected by someone who is important to us, or, in the most painful cases, when we lose someone dear to us. However, it is a long way from sadness to depression.
It is believed that a major depressive episode is experienced when at least two out of these three symptoms are present, for most of the day, every day for two weeks[1]: profound sadness or a state of constant irritability; a lack of interest in activities which are normally pleasant; and a drop in energy, which leads to chronic fatigue and a reduction in activity.
Another classification[2] of depressive symptoms involves the existence of two major criteria: a depressive mood or irritability, and a lack of interest in pleasant activities (anhedonia), along with at least four of the following, experienced daily, for at least two weeks: changes in body weight (significant weight loss or gain without following a specific diet); loss of appetite; sleep disorders (insomnia, or the tendency to sleep too much); a lack of energy and constant fatigue; feelings of guilt without a clear reason, or the feeling that one lacks personal value; a lack of focus and memory difficulties; an inability to make decisions; and dark or suicidal thoughts.
Dysthymia is a light form of depression[3], a permanent state of sadness which lasts at least a year, which may or may not be accompanied by major depressive episodes.
A depressive disorder cannot be diagnosed by a person who lacks specialised knowledge. A psychiatrist is the person who can best identify, differentiate, and treat depression. Even so, if you notice one of these signs in yourself or one of your friends, it is probably depression.
Things get complicated when depression is accompanied by anxiety disorders. These are manifested either through a state of anxiety and anticipation for negative future events, or through an intense fear accompanied by palpitations, cold sweats, breathing difficulties, or digestive disorders. Anxiety is extremely hard to deal with, and one usually needs to seek help from an expert.
An oft-asked question: Why me?
The causes of depression, regarded as a biochemical imbalance in the brain, are frequently discussed. The complexity of the phenomenon, however, cannot be explained by the quantitative fluctuations of a single substance. We are talking about millions of chemical reactions[4] in which mediators and neurotransmitters are involved, which lead to the moods we have, and to the way in which we perceive and experience the world in which we live.
Studies on identical twins show that genetic factors are 30-42% responsible for the variations that cause anxiety and depression symptoms[5]. This means that, in stressful conditions, those who are vulnerable will suffer from depression and anxiety in the same way in which others suffer from high blood pressure or diabetes.
Difficult life situations do not bypass us, even at a young age: family problems (tensions, separation, divorce or abuse), school difficulties (unfavourable school situations, moral harassment or bullying[6]), conflicts with friends, or rejection in romantic relationship or otherwise. There are also cases in which biochemical changes in the brain appear without a definite cause.[7]
The society we live in generates favourable conditions for the development of anxio-depressive disorders. Individualism, loneliness, and family and community estrangement make us vulnerable to the trials of life[8]. The difficulty of finding a job that fits with what one has studied is followed by financial problems, and a feeling of helplessness and failure. However, it has been observed that people who have a satisfying social life, friends and family that live close to them, and an authentic faith in God are balanced, have a sense of purpose, and are more shielded from the storm of anxio-depressive disorders.
In 2001, the World Health Organization estimated that one in four persons will have a neurological or mental health problem during his or her lifetime[9]. Approximately 350 million people suffer from depression globally, this being the main mental health problem found in teenagers and young people, according to the World Health Organization[10]. A study conducted in the United States of America shows that about 8% of young people between the ages of 18 and 22 have experienced a major depressive episode in the last year[11]. Suicide as a consequence of depression is the second highest cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 29.
A journey from depression to hope
The good news is that depression can be treated and controlled. The bad news is that there is no magical recipe for completely dealing with this problem. Each of us has his own temperament, and thus his own vulnerability. Each of us lives in a particular social context, close to or far away from family, with our own accomplishments and disappointments, and with our own past and future prospects. Julie K. Hersh, author of the book Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope[12], presents five stages of depression management.
The first step is characterised by a lack of awareness concerning the issue at hand. Although we are unwell, we cannot clearly explain what is happening to us or why it is happening. We often go to the doctor for tests and nothing is found to be physically wrong with us. In this stage we often need a "mirror"—a friend, a parent, a mentor—to draw our attention to the fact that we have changed, and that we are obviously going through a difficult season.
The second stage is denial: "No, this cannot be happening to me!" Although those around us can point to the symptoms on the list mentioned above, we ignore what is happing to us and believe we do not need help.
Resistance is the third stage. We accept that we have problems, but we feel we can deal with them on our own, without treatment and psychological help. It is true that a healthy lifestyle helps a lot. A good diet, physical exercise, rest and relaxation, time spent with family and friends, and a close relationship with God—all of these partly solve the problem. Proper professional treatment, however, is very important to re-establish the biochemical balance of the brain. Who would refuse a course of antibiotics if one knew he had a serious but treatable infection? Depression should be thought of in the same way.
The fourth stage is inertia. Although we understand what is happening, and know what the solutions are, it is hard for us to apply them. Julie Hersh unravels the secret to success: go slowly, taking baby steps, day by day, until new actions become habits. "Despite medical progress," Hersh says, "far too many people do not understand how to protect their brain from mental illness. Rest, physical exercise, a healthy diet, diminishing stress and social support are as important for mental health as is giving up smoking for the lungs."
The last stage is acceptance. This is when we know what we have to do, and do it. Depression may reappear, even after a long period of balance, but we are certainly on the path to hope.
"I had a black dog, his name was depression"[13]
This is the title of an animated movie directed by writer and graphic designer Matthew Johnstone to mark World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2012. The movie portrays the way in which the 'black dog' of depression progressively takes over each element of our interior life and our relationships until it becomes one with us. However, there is hope for any person wishing to get his life back: specialised helped provided by psychotherapy and pharmaceutical treatment, together with strong support from friends and family and spiritual counselling, can turn the black dog into a manageable puppy. Even if it never leaves us, we can learn from it and become more empathetic, more sensible, and more human.
Despite the fact that depression is a negative experience which makes us more aware of our vulnerability and transience, we can still learn something from it. We learn that we have certain limits which should not be crossed. We learn to give things their due importance. We discover how much we need each other. We form new habits which keep our bodies healthy and our minds clear. We understand that without God, we cannot be fulfilled. We gain the courage to live life to the fullest. We welcome the surprises it brings, and trust in a future as bright as a spring afternoon—seen without sunglasses.
[1]"«International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems» (10th edition), World Health Organization, http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en#/V".
[2]"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition), American Psychiatric Association, 2013, http://psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596".
[3]"Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and M. Hilt Lori (ed.), Handbook of depression in adolescents, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, LLC".
[4]"«What causes depression?», Harvard Health Publications, 9 June 2009, http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-depression".
[5]"K.S. Kendler, A. Heath, N.G. Martin and L.J. «Eaves Symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depressions. Same genes, different environments?» in Archives of General Psychiatry, 1987, no. 44, p. 451-457."
[6]"Using superior force to influence or intimidate someone. It is a repeated and intentional behavior, through which the aggressor persecutes, injures, and intimidates the victim verbally, relationally and / or physically."
[7]""More than Sad: Facts about depression in teens", American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, http://afsp.org/our-work/education/more-than-sad".
[8]"Iain Wilkinson, Anxiety in a Risk Society, Routledge, London, [1969] 2001."
[9]""Mental disorders affect one in four people" in The world health report 2001 – Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope, World Health Organization, 2001, http://www.who.int/whr/2001/en".
[10]""Adolescents: health risks and solutions", (Fact sheet N°345), May 2014, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs345/en".
[11]""Major Depressive Episode among Full-Time College Students and Other Young Adults, Aged 18 to 22", The NSDUH Report, 3 May 2012, http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH060/NSDUH060/SR060CollegeStudentsMDE2012.pdf".
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Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510
by Andrei Frumusanu on May 25, 2021 9:00 AM EST
Cortex-X2
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2022 Generation: Moving Towards Armv9 The Cortex-X2: More Performance, Deeper OoO The Cortex-A710: More Performance with More Efficiency The Cortex-A510: Brand-new Little Design Comes in Pairs New DSU-110 L3 & Cluster: Massively More Bandwidth A new CI-700 Coherent Interconnect & NI-700 NoC For SoCs Conclusion & First Impressions
It's that time of the year again, and after last month's unveiling of Arm's newest infrastructure Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2 CPU IPs, it's now time to cover the client and mobile side of things. This year, things Arm is shaking things up quite a bit more than usual as we're seeing three new generation microarchitectures for mobile and client: The flagship Cortex-X2 core, a new A78 successor in the form of the Cortex-A710, and for the first time in years, a brand-new little core with the new Cortex-A510. The three new CPUs form a new trio of Armv9 compatible designs that aim to mark a larger architectural/ISA shift that comes very seldomly in the industry.
Alongside the new CPU cores, we're also seeing a new L3 and cluster design with the DSU-110, and Arm is also making a big upgrade in its interconnect IP with the new cache coherent CI-700 mesh network and NI-700 network-on-chip IPs.
The Cortex-X2, A710 and A510 follow up on last year's X1, A78 and A55. For the new Cortex-X2 and A710 in particular, these are direct microarchitectural successors to their predecessors. These parts, while iterating on generational improvements in IPC and efficiency, also incorporate brand-new architectural features in the form of Armv9 and new extensions such as SVE2.
The Cortex-A510, Arm's new little core, is a larger microarchitectural jump, as it represents a new clean-sheet CPU design from Arm's Cambridge CPU design team. A510 brings large IPC improvements while still having a continued focus on power efficiency, and, perhaps most interestingly, retains its characteristic in-order microarchitectural.
An Armv9 CPU Family – AArch64 only for all practical purposes*
The new CPU family marks one of the largest architectural jumps we've had in years, as the company is now baselining all three new CPU IPs on Armv9.0. We've extensively covered the details of the new Arm architecture back in late March. Cornerstone features of the new ISA include the new enrollment of prior optional/missing Armv8.2+ features that weren't guaranteed in mobile and client designs (mostly due to the older A55 cores), and the introduction of new SVE2 SIMD and vector extensions.
One big change we've been expecting for quite some time now is that we'll be seeing a deprecation of the 32-bit AArch32 execution mode in upcoming Arm Cortex-A mobile cores. The clock has been ticking for 32-bit apps ever since Google's announced in 2019 that the Google Play store will require for 64-bit app uploads, and the company will stop serving 32-bit applications to 64-bit compatible devices later this summer
While Arm is declaring that shift to happen in 2023, for all intents and purposes it's already happening next year for most global users. Both the Cortex-X2 flagship core and the Cortex-A510 little cores are AArch64-only microarchitectures that are no longer able to execute AArch32 code.
With that said, sharp readers will note that two out of three CPUs isn't a complete shift, and the reason for that is because the Cortex-A710 actually still supports AArch32. Arm states that the reason for this is primarily to meet the needs of the Chinese mobile market, which lacks the homogeneous ecosystem capabilities of the global Play Store markets, and Chinese vendors and their domestic app market require a little more time to facilitate the shift towards 64-bit only. This means we'll have an odd scenario next year of having SoCs on which only the middle cores are able to execute 32-bit applications, with those apps being relegated to the middle A710 cores and missing out on the little A510 cores' power efficiency or the X2 cores' performance.
On the big core side, the new Cortex-X2 and Cortex-A710 are successors to the Cortex-X1 and Cortex-A78. Both designs are mostly designed by Arm's Austin design team, and represent the 4th generation of this microarchitecture family, which had started off with the Cortex-A76 several years ago. These cores should be the last of this microarchitecture family before Arm hands things off to a completely new design with next year's new Sophia cores.
In terms of design philosophy, the X2 and A710 generally keep the same overarching goals the X1 and A78 had defined: The X-series continues to focus on advancing performance by increasing microarchitectural structures and by Arm being willing to make compromises on power within reasonable limits. Meanwhile the A710 continues to focus on advancing performance and efficiency through smarter design and with a large focus on maximizing the power, performance, and area (PPA) balance of the IP.
One point Arm makes in the above slide is having optimized critical paths and physical design for sustained voltage operations – this is more of a goal the company is striving for in the next generations of "middle" cores rather than something that's specifically reflected in the Cortex-A710.
This year, we are also finally seeing a new little core. We had covered the Cortex-A55 back in 2017, and since then we haven't had seen any updates to Arm's little cores, to the point of it being seen as large weakness of last few generations of mobile SoCs.
The new Cortex-A510 is a clean-sheet design from Arm's Cambridge design team, leveraging a lot of the technologies that had been employed in the company's larger cores, but implemented into a new in-order little microarchitecture. Yes – we're still talking about an in-order core, and Arm still sees this to be the best choice in terms of extracting the best efficiency and "Days of use" of mobile devices.
Even though it's a in-order core, Arm made a comparison that the new design is extremely similar to a flagship core of 2017 – namely the Cortex-A73, achieving very similar IPC and frequency capabilities whilst consuming a lot less power.
The new design also comes with a very interesting shared complex approach and shares the L2 and FP/SIMD pipelines with a second core, a design approach Arm calls "merged core" and undoubtedly will remind readers of AMD's CMT approach in Bulldozer cores 10 years ago, even though there are quite important differences in the approaches.
The Cortex-X2: More Performance, Deeper OoO 2022 Generation: Moving Towards Armv9 The Cortex-X2: More Performance, Deeper OoO The Cortex-A710: More Performance with More Efficiency The Cortex-A510: Brand-new Little Design Comes in Pairs New DSU-110 L3 & Cluster: Massively More Bandwidth A new CI-700 Coherent Interconnect & NI-700 NoC For SoCs Conclusion & First Impressions
ChrisGX - Thursday, May 27, 2021 - link
Yes, @melgross, @mattbe and @mode_13h are absolutely right. Apple has an architectural license from ARM, viz. a license for the ARM ISA rather than any physical IP. Not deterred by that some individuals commenting here seem to want to suggest that Apple has infringed on ARM's IP or somehow by nefarious means has acquired crucial information about proprietary tech found in ARM chips without stumping up the cash for it. These suggestions are pathetic. If a patent infringement is being alleged please tell us the patent number so that we can determine for ourselves whether there really has been a patent infringement. Or, is a criminal conspiracy with other parties to steal trade secrets from ARM being asserted? There is an obvious problem with that idea. Does anyone seriously suppose that ARM would fail to have Apple before a court demanding a huge settlement for theft of trade secrets, if it had any reason to think that Apple had been engaged in such an exercise? Uninformed individuals are just making up things that chime with their sense of how things must be. Hmm...here's a thought. If you know so little about a topic that you wouldn't be willing to stake your reputation on it or swear to in a court, say, then perhaps saying nothing on the topic would be a better choice than pretending to possess knowledge that you so obviously don't possess. Reply
mode_13h - Saturday, May 29, 2021 - link
> Uninformed individuals are just making up things that chime with
> their sense of how things must be.
Welcome to the world of internet comment forums.
> If you know so little about a topic that you wouldn't be willing to stake your reputation on it
We don't do "reputation". Everybody is on equal footing, here. Just challenge them with facts, references, and sound logic. Reply
jeremyshaw - Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - link
Thanks SarahKerrigan, igor velky. I was mostly thinking of configurations we didn't commonly see. We have seen 4xLITTLE, 2xbig.4xLITTLE, etc even the 8xA78C. The slides on page 5 cover setups we have seen before. Mostly curious if the fabric is tied to specific configs like was implied at the 8xA78C launch, or if it's flexible enough to have, say, two X2, two A710, four A510, or something like one X2 with four A510 (like Intel's Lakefield), etc. IMO, there are a lot of embedded controllers that don't need a lot of CPU throughput, but can benefit from one faster core for UI. Reply
Kangal - Saturday, May 29, 2021 - link
I'm more interested in seeing a 3+5 design.
The "Large Cores" just aren't good on a phone, a tablet maybe, not on a phone. We're already getting throttling on the "Medium Cores" (eg Cortex A78/A710). And most tasks on Android are handled great in Dualcore mode, and very few in Quad-core mode, when looking at the schedulers. So Three Medium Cores will offer 95% of the performance of your regular flagship processor. Extending the Small Cores to a group of five, also can help efficiency by having more performance in the lower zone, reducing the amount of times the large cores need to be stressed.
However, with what was announced today, we can actually expect a REDUCTION in 2022 ARM processors compared to 2021 ARM processors. I mean we're talking about 10% gains in X2, 10% gains in A710, and 1% gains in A510, when compared to a design that should be on a better node with better cache. That's not guaranteed with the continuing Chip Shortage. IN FACT most chipmakers are willing to "cheap out" and simply use the marketing of "running on ARMv9" to justify the higher cost and lower performance.
They stuffed up with the naming scheme btw. And they really stuffed up by not removing 32-bit support completely. And they stuffed up with not doing a blank-sheet approach, for a revolutionary ARMv9 design. We're going to see the smallest gains in Android Phones, just like it happened when people were comparing the QSD 800/801/805 to the QSD 808/810 (Cortex A57) back in 2015. Which hopefully means ARMs other divisions in UK/France can pick the slack and come with a proper successor. This would be the Cortex A72 to their Cortex A57, a la, 2022 A710 versus the 2023 A730. Though I doubt the little cores will get any improvement besides a 10% bump due to the node lithography improvements.
psychobriggsy - Monday, June 21, 2021 - link
Theoretically this should support 16 A510s (8 clusters), as each cluster shares a port on the interconnect.
We may see 2X 4B 4L configurations (10 cores) one day, but in the main I guess we're stuck with 1X 3B 4L (8L?) options. I see budget chips using 4L+4L (wider FP on some).
Wonder if there's room for an A310 chip (4 int cores per cluster, 1 shared FP, 2-wide). Reply
docola - Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - link
does the shift to 64 bit cpus and apps mean that todays phone will start
becoming obsolete starting next year? Reply
iphonebestgamephone - Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - link
If you are on a 32 bit phone yeah Reply
fun... so this means i shouldnt buy an expensive phone for another 1 or 2 years,
because this is gonna be one of those rare REAL shift in tech... sigh.... Reply
supdawgwtfd - Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - link
Current phones support 64bit instructions...
No need to delay. Reply
great thanks! i know i sound ignorant in here oh well Reply


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#ifndef itkCenteredTransformInitializer_h
#define itkCenteredTransformInitializer_h

#include "itkObject.h"
#include "itkObjectFactory.h"
#include "itkImageMomentsCalculator.h"

#include <iostream>

namespace itk
{
/** \class CenteredTransformInitializer
 * \brief CenteredTransformInitializer is a helper class intended to
 * initialize the center of rotation and the translation of Transforms having
 * the center of rotation among their parameters.
 *
 * This class is connected to the fixed image, moving image and transform
 * involved in the registration. Two modes of operation are possible:
 *
 * - Geometrical,
 * - Center of mass
 *
 * In the first mode, the geometrical center of the moving image is passed as
 * initial center of rotation to the transform and the vector from the center
 * of the  fixed image to the center of the moving image is passed as the
 * initial translation. This mode basically assumes that the anatomical objects
 * to be registered are centered in their respective images. Hence the best
 * initial guess for the registration is the one that superimposes those two
 * centers.
 *
 * In the second mode, the moments of gray level values are computed
 * for both images. The center of mass of the moving image is then
 * used as center of rotation. The vector between the two centers of
 * mass is passes as the initial translation to the transform. This
 * second approach assumes that the moments of the anatomical objects
 * are similar for both images and hence the best initial guess for
 * registration is to superimpose both mass centers.  Note that this
 * assumption will probably not hold in multi-modality registration.
 *
 * \ingroup ITKRegistrationCommon
 * \ingroup ITKTransform
 */
template< typename TTransform,
          typename TFixedImage,
          typename TMovingImage >
class ITK_TEMPLATE_EXPORT CenteredTransformInitializer:public Object
{
public:
  ITK_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CenteredTransformInitializer);

  /** Standard class type aliases. */
  using Self = CenteredTransformInitializer;
  using Superclass = Object;
  using Pointer = SmartPointer< Self >;
  using ConstPointer = SmartPointer< const Self >;

  /** New macro for creation of through a Smart Pointer. */
  itkNewMacro(Self);

  /** Run-time type information (and related methods). */
  itkTypeMacro(CenteredTransformInitializer, Object);

  /** Type of the transform to initialize */
  using TransformType = TTransform;
  using TransformPointer = typename TransformType::Pointer;

  /** Dimension of parameters. */
  static constexpr unsigned int InputSpaceDimension = TransformType::InputSpaceDimension;
  static constexpr unsigned int OutputSpaceDimension = TransformType::OutputSpaceDimension;

  /** Image Types to use in the initialization of the transform */
  using FixedImageType = TFixedImage;
  using MovingImageType = TMovingImage;

  using FixedImagePointer = typename FixedImageType::ConstPointer;
  using MovingImagePointer = typename MovingImageType::ConstPointer;

  /** Moment calculators */
  using FixedImageCalculatorType = ImageMomentsCalculator< FixedImageType >;
  using MovingImageCalculatorType = ImageMomentsCalculator< MovingImageType >;

  using FixedImageCalculatorPointer = typename FixedImageCalculatorType::Pointer;
  using MovingImageCalculatorPointer = typename MovingImageCalculatorType::Pointer;

  /** Offset type. */
  using OffsetType = typename TransformType::OffsetType;

  /** Point type. */
  using InputPointType = typename TransformType::InputPointType;

  /** Vector type. */
  using OutputVectorType = typename TransformType::OutputVectorType;

  /** Set the transform to be initialized */
  itkSetObjectMacro(Transform,   TransformType);

  /** Set the fixed image used in the registration process */
  itkSetConstObjectMacro(FixedImage,  FixedImageType);

  /** Set the moving image used in the registration process */
  itkSetConstObjectMacro(MovingImage, MovingImageType);

  /** Initialize the transform using data from the images */
  virtual void InitializeTransform();

  /** Select between using the geometrical center of the images or
      using the center of mass given by the image intensities. */
  void GeometryOn() { m_UseMoments = false; }
  void MomentsOn()  { m_UseMoments = true; }

  /** Get() access to the moments calculators */
  itkGetModifiableObjectMacro(FixedCalculator, FixedImageCalculatorType);
  itkGetModifiableObjectMacro(MovingCalculator, MovingImageCalculatorType);

protected:
  CenteredTransformInitializer();
  ~CenteredTransformInitializer() override = default;

  void PrintSelf(std::ostream & os, Indent indent) const override;

  itkGetModifiableObjectMacro(Transform, TransformType);

private:
  TransformPointer m_Transform;

  FixedImagePointer m_FixedImage;

  MovingImagePointer m_MovingImage;

  bool m_UseMoments;

  FixedImageCalculatorPointer  m_FixedCalculator;
  MovingImageCalculatorPointer m_MovingCalculator;
}; //class CenteredTransformInitializer
}  // namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#include "itkCenteredTransformInitializer.hxx"
#endif

#endif /* itkCenteredTransformInitializer_h */

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If technology doesn't help you to do your job better, why use it? The same question can be said when using translation software. We know translation technology helps us do our job better. However, it can also be a hindrance when translators or project managers are not proficient in the tools they work in.
Attitudes toward translation tools vary greatly among translators. What ultimately matters is that translation tool has to make sense to the translator in their daily workflow. While we cannot always work with translators on the same technology, we try to be compatible with other systems and help in any way we can. On the other hand, probably 99% of our work relies on working with these tools simply to be able to meet customer needs. The ability of a talented translator to be proficient in the translation tools and to understand the value of the translation tool is has a direct relation to our success.
Language Solutions primarily works with SDL Studio, but we also have experience with other translation technology. Here are some ways to think about translation technology that make you work smarter, not harder.
Agencies who do not charge project management time for file preparation may get complacent and let their translators handle the file setup. Translators focus on words, context, relevance, etc. If a file has a lot of broken segments, unnecessary formatting tags, code, or text out of context, the translation tool will simply not be of relevance to the translator. As translators, it's important to call upon that factor and either charge for the time to work with the file or send it back to have it cleaned up. If you want to learn more about what we look at in preparing a file for translation, read all about it for InDesign or Word.
How often do people really set up their software to meet their personal needs as opposed to running with the default settings? Maybe not if you use a program every now and then, but most translators use translation software on a daily basis.
Some translators may work in multiple platforms. Most of the translation software platforms work in the same way where you have a bilingual view. They make use of Translation Memory and a Termbase database technology that can be called upon automatically or manually. Translation happens in target segments and can be addressed a translation status. All these operations can be manually set up so that they can be accessed in the same way. Project Managers and Translators should invest a little bit of time to setup their translation environment in a way that makes sense. That includes setting up how to confirm segments for translation, how to search for translation memory strings (concordance) and other operations.
Translation technology has to compensate for the fact that you are not working directly in layout. Take some time to learn the different ways in which your software is informing you about content structure and see whether your software has the ability to preview translations in layout. If your translation document was processed from Word or PowerPoint, chances are you can preview the translation so see things in context. In SDL Studio, you can also see what segments are part of the same paragraph, or table cell or whether it is a headline or not. That information is shown on the right hand side of the target segment.
Translators who have worked long enough to know what it was like to work on translations before translation tools may feel more comfortable working in a bilingual Word table. Adoption of technology can be intimidating. Translation technology is as much of a monetary investment as it is an investment of time. While there are plenty of resources available for each tool, we find that translators often are helped by training "in the moment". A simple session through free programs like Teamviewer to address current issues with a file or feature can be a great help to move projects forward and learn from best practices.
Translators work in different ways. Some prefer to go over a file in multiple rounds and focus on one thing at a time (translation of words/creative writing, formatting, fine-tuning and accuracy). Others may prefer to do everything at once and run a final check at the end. Translation tools are flexible to accommodate quality checks for different work methods. However, often we see that the tools are not used to its fullest extent.
Accuracy reporting in translation software can sometimes become a nuisance. Some of these tools have become so extensive that, in a simple one page document, you may end up with 30 messages that may not even be relevant. However, professional translators typically work in one or two language pairs at the most and so they can set up their report settings to default to whatever makes sense. For instance, if you translate a lot for the United States in a language other than English, having the software automatically check for foreign punctuation may not be sensible. Typically we see that decimal points stay in the English format so the setting should be adjusted to check for US decimals. Spanish translators can typically check for Spanish punctuation. French translators have the ability to check for intentional spaces before the colon. Eliminate any settings that do not make sense in your language and save your settings as a default workflow.
The software that we work with (SDL Studio/Trados) can verify the translation as you go along. Translators who don't mind being interrupted by warnings or error messages as they translate should be able to address most issues before they run a final check. Some may prefer to run a different check during translation than when they run a final check at the end so; for instance you might want to access the Termbase for terminology and check for missing format tags, but not necessarily for global punctuation this can be addressed at once at the end. Working smarter with a tool like Studio by saving different verification profiles could help you to work through a file quickly while making use of all the features.
Agencies like ourselves like to run our own verification reports. Translators who have already taken the time to do a verification often get less push-back and it helps to have translators send out a verification report so that it is clear that any false errors were addressed. Agencies that push-back on a file may frustrate translators if it contains a lot of false positives. Sending along a verification report with a job could help to eliminate some of the back and forth. Ultimately, it's in both the translator's and agency's best interest to ensure that checks were run and confirmed to ensure accuracy.
Some of the highest loss in productivity comes from working with incompatible software. For translators who do not work with the same software as their agency client, the biggest challenge is to ensure that files can be converted to and from one platform to the next. While it used to be more important for agencies to work with translators who use the same software, we don't really feel it is necessary to dictate translators what software they use as long as it is compatible with certain translation standards. It does help when a translator knows how to import and export files from other software.
Knowing what kind of file types your software can accept will be helpful in a working relationship with an agency that runs different software. Most compatible software has best practices for importing translation files, Translation Memories and Termbases into their workflow. Being familiar with your software is one extra step project managers and translators alike should take in order to work productively and reduce some of the technological frustrations.
We look to provide continued support to our translators and the translation community in working with translation software. If you like to work with an agency on your translation needs that supports and promotes excellence in our industry, please contact us.


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