I knew we were looking at a long day when it took us half an hour just to get the blood work done. We got to the cancer center at 8:40 am in a room at 9:30 am. I feel I know these rooms so well I want to start hanging pictures. Maybe a movie poster. This is going to be the new chemo and it was supposed to take four hours. We were a little worried about the new chemo understandable considering what happened before. I decide I want to get my coffee early because I don't want to miss anything. As I'm walking to get coffee, I look ahead and see a four car crash in the middle of an intersection. Two cars are completely totaled. Seeing that made me realize other people are having a morning they didn't want.
When I got back to the room, I noticed Michelle had this red stuff on her wrist. Turns out while I was gone the nurse which Michelle started calling Mrs. Doubtfire did something wrong and blood started squirting all over the sheets, pillow and floor. Well as I've said before, I cannot see even a small amount of blood let alone squirting all over the place so my coffee run was very good timing. I pictured Dan Aykroyd in that old Saturday Night Live skit when he played Julia Child and cut his finger cooking and the blood was squirting straight up in the air and all over. They started the prep meds and but poor Michelle, her IV was really hurting her and the nurse needed to move it which in itself was a frightful thought. It seems Michelle is going to become a human pin cushion today. So Mrs. Doubtfire takes the IV out and then we don't see her again and she's gone. She's just gone and we're waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and I would say 45 minutes went by while nothing is happening with Michelle. If this were a movie the title would be, The Patient that time Forgot. I kept looking out of the room to see if I could find her but she was nowhere. Maybe she got scared off by all the blood and didn't want to come back. Finally the head nurse came in and said she was the pro at finding veins and she was going to put the next IV in. Now we haven't even started a new chemo yet but finally the IV is in and we're waiting to start and again the nurse was nowhere to be found. She finally came back and we started the new chemo, held our breath and everything went well.
Now we're going on six hours and I decide I need to walk to the store and get Michelle's prescription and return some Tupperware to a friend that lives close to the hospital. On my way to the store I drop off the Tupperware in a mailbox of the house I thought was the right place. But on my way back, I realized that I had the wrong street and the wrong house, in the wrong mailbox. It's lucky that the people hadn't come home yet and I could retrieve it and return it to its rightful owner. By this time it's taken me so long Michelle is done and she's waiting for me. I get back, I get her and we break out eight hours later. This is only part one of a two-part chemo and we have to turn around and come back the next day. Can't wait!
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HINTERLAND WHO'S WHO AT CANADA BLOOMS
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Most Canadians who had television in the 1960s or 1970s will remember it — the haunting strains of a lone flute, the trademark theme of Hinterland Who's Who (HWW). It all started in 1963, with black-and-white vignettes about the loon, the moose, the gannet and the beaver. Today, HWW continues to bring Canada's amazing wildlife directly into people's homes. The new public-service announcements carry on the classic theme of the original vignettes but also address the need to conserve and protect native species and their habitat. HWW also maintains a robust website (HWW.ca), full of information about wildlife and how the public can help it. This includes creating habitat for native species through gardening.
"HWW has inspired thousands of Canadians to connect with wildlife in so many different ways over five decades." says Wade Luzny, CEO and Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Wildlife Federation. "Getting outside in your garden and enjoying wildlife in your own backyard is a great first step to appreciating and learning more about the wild species that surround us. At Canada Blooms, HWW will create a direct link between gardeners and urban wildlife."
HWW will be present at Canada Blooms on Saturday, March 16th, and Sunday, March 17th, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Canadian Wildlife Federation Natural Playground, designed and built by Bienenstock. There will be special presentations featuring our English-speaking host, Jody Gienow, and several live animal guests, at 10:00 AM and 12:00, 2:00 and 4:00 PM. The Canada Blooms public will also have a chance to participate in HWW's 50th anniversary by paying tribute to this iconic programme. People will be asked to film themselves singing the HWW tune or wishing HWW a happy anniversary. These videos will be featured on our 50th Anniversary Tributes Board, on http://www.hww.ca/en/about-us/50th/, in in an effort to join all Canadians together.
There are many initiatives planned for 2013 to celebrate HWW's 50th Anniversary. Stay tuned on HWW.ca! With the public's participation, the Hinterland Who's Who Anniversary is sure to be a great success!
About Hinterland Who's Who
Hinterlands Who's Who is a joint program of the Canadian Wildlife Federation and Environment Canada. Together, they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the series. Hinterland Who's Who has been bringing Canadians closer to our wilderness heritage for 50 years. Visit the Hinterland Who's Who Web site at: www.hww.ca
Annie Langlois
Canadian Wildlife Federation

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Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Diabetes Mellitus
Topics: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Larry W. Minor
[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 191 (Monday, October 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61139-61140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-25328]
[FMCSA Docket No. FMCSA-2011-0192]
Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Diabetes
Mellitus
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of final disposition.
SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its decision to exempt thirty-three
individuals from its rule prohibiting persons with insulin-treated
diabetes mellitus (ITDM) from operating commercial motor vehicles
(CMVs) in interstate commerce. The exemptions will enable these
individuals to operate CMVs in interstate commerce.
DATES: The exemptions are effective October 3, 2011. The exemptions
expire on October 3, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elaine M. Papp, Chief, Medical
Programs, (202) 366-4001, fmcsamedical@dot.gov, FMCSA, Room W64-224,
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590-0001. Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Electronic Access
You may see all the comments online through the Federal Document
Management System (FDMS) at: http://www.regulations.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments, go to http://www.regulations.gov and/or Room W12-140 on the
ground level of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of DOT's dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, or other
entity). You may review DOT's Privacy Act Statement for the Federal
Docket Management System (FDMS) published in the Federal Register on
January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-785.pdf.
On August 4, 2011, FMCSA published a notice of receipt of Federal
diabetes exemption applications from thirty-three individuals and
requested comments from the public (76 FR 47291). The public comment
period closed on September 6, 2011 and no comments were received.
FMCSA has evaluated the eligibility of the thirty-three applicants
and determined that granting the exemptions to these individuals would
achieve a level of safety equivalent to or greater than the level that
would be achieved by complying with the current regulation 49 CFR
391.41(b)(3).
Diabetes Mellitus and Driving Experience of the Applicants
The Agency established the current standard for diabetes in 1970
because several risk studies indicated that drivers with diabetes had a
higher rate of crash involvement than the general population. The
diabetes rule provides that ``A person is physically qualified to drive
a commercial motor vehicle if that person has no established medical
history or clinical diagnosis of diabetes mellitus currently requiring
insulin for control'' (49 CFR 391.41(b)(3)).
FMCSA established its diabetes exemption program, based on the
Agency's July 2000 study entitled ``A
[[Page 61140]]
Report to Congress on the Feasibility of a Program to Qualify
Individuals with Insulin-Treated Diabetes Mellitus to Operate in
Interstate Commerce as Directed by the Transportation Act for the 21st
Century.'' The report concluded that a safe and practicable protocol to
allow some drivers with ITDM to operate CMVs is feasible.
The September 3, 2003 (68 FR 52441) Federal Register notice in
conjunction with the November 8, 2005 (70 FR 67777) Federal Register
notice provides the current protocol for allowing such drivers to
operate CMVs in interstate commerce.
These thirty-three applicants have had ITDM over a range of 1 to 38
years. These applicants report no severe hypoglycemic reactions
resulting in loss of consciousness or seizure, requiring the assistance
of another person, or resulting in impaired cognitive function that
occurred without warning symptoms, in the past 12 months and no
recurrent (2 or more) severe hypoglycemic episodes in the past 5 years.
In each case, an endocrinologist verified that the driver has
demonstrated a willingness to properly monitor and manage his/her
diabetes mellitus, received education related to diabetes management,
and is on a stable insulin regimen. These drivers report no other
disqualifying conditions, including diabetes-related complications.
Each meets the vision standard at 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10).
The qualifications and medical condition of each applicant were
stated and discussed in detail in the August 4, 2011, Federal Register
notice and they will not be repeated in this notice.
Discussion of Comment
FMCSA did not receive any comments in this proceeding.
Basis for Exemption Determination
Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, FMCSA may grant an exemption
from the diabetes standard in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(3) if the exemption is
likely to achieve an equivalent or greater level of safety than would
be achieved without the exemption. The exemption allows the applicants
to operate CMVs in interstate commerce.
To evaluate the effect of these exemptions on safety, FMCSA
considered medical reports about the applicants' ITDM and vision, and
reviewed the treating endocrinologists' medical opinion related to the
ability of the driver to safely operate a CMV while using insulin.
Consequently, FMCSA finds that in each case exempting these
applicants from the diabetes standard in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(3) is likely
to achieve a level of safety equal to that existing without the
exemption.
Conditions and Requirements
The terms and conditions of the exemption will be provided to the
applicants in the exemption document and they include the following:
(1) That each individual submit a quarterly monitoring checklist
completed by the treating endocrinologist as well as an annual
checklist with a comprehensive medical evaluation; (2) that each
individual report within 2 business days of occurrence, all episodes of
severe hypoglycemia, significant complications, or inability to manage
diabetes; also, any involvement in an accident or any other adverse
event in a CMV or personal vehicle, whether or not it is related to an
episode of hypoglycemia; (3) that each individual provide a copy of the
ophthalmologist's or optometrist's report to the medical examiner at
the time of the annual medical examination; and (4) that each
individual provide a copy of the annual medical certification to the
employer for retention in the driver's qualification file, or keep a
copy in his/her driver's qualification file if he/she is self-employed.
The driver must also have a copy of the certification when driving, for
presentation to a duly authorized Federal, State, or local enforcement
official.
Based upon its evaluation of the thirty-three exemption
applications, FMCSA exempts, Michael J. Alexander, Larry E.
Baumgartner, Stanley R. Boots, Carl D. Braddock, Dean A. Chamberlin,
Michael E. Conner, Edna R. Contreras, Craig E. Cusick, Ronald D. Fatka,
Robert M. Fleming, David W. Hammons, Frank B. Hernandez, Jeffrey D.
Horsey, Dale A. Iverson, John H. Krastel, Joshua L. Kroetch, Larry D.
Lilley, Edward J. Linhart, Larry D. Matson, Michael L. O'Clair, David
W. Payne, Matthew B. Rhodes, Jim B. Robertson, II, Donald M. Rush, Jr.,
Barry A. Sircy, Andre M. St. Pierre, John S. Starchevich, Michael B.
Tortora, Gregory J. Vigil, Charlotte C. Watson, Wayne W. Wenzel, Shaun
M. Wheeler and James J. Wolf, Jr. from the ITDM standard in 49 CFR
391.41(b)(3), subject to the conditions listed under ``Conditions and
Requirements'' above.
In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315 each exemption will
be valid for two years unless revoked earlier by FMCSA. The exemption
will be revoked if: (1) The person fails to comply with the terms and
conditions of the exemption; (2) the exemption has resulted in a lower
level of safety than was maintained before it was granted; or (3)
continuation of the exemption would not be consistent with the goals
and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315. If the exemption is
still effective at the end of the 2-year period, the person may apply
to FMCSA for a renewal under procedures in effect at that time.
Issued on: September 26, 2011.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2011-25328 Filed 9-30-11; 8:45 am]
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It could be 14 years later, however the Parr household, a.ok.a. The Incredibles, doesn't appear to have aged a bit.
Pixar's expertise has taken issues up a couple of notches, although. This sequel to the 2004 film is a formidable feat of animation, significantly in its motion sequences.
It's additionally a welcome return go to with that otherwise-normal household of superheroes: Mr. Unimaginable/Bob (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl/Helen (Holly Hunter), and their three children Violet (Sarah Vowell), Sprint (Huck Milner, right here) and child Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile).
This time round, Hunter's Elastigirl takes heart stage as she groups up with a few wealthy siblings keen to assist convey superheroes — who at the moment are formally unlawful — again to their former glory. Tech firm homeowners Winston and Evelyn Deavor (Bob Odenkirk and Catherine Keener, each nice) enlist her to put on a tiny digital camera as she foils crimes, so the general public can see simply how tremendous she actually is.
It's satisfying to observe Hunter's character get to stretch her legs — so to talk — as she heads out alone on her Elasticycle, thrilling a carful of teenage ladies she passes on the freeway. The animators go into overdrive as she saves a runaway practice at sundown, the clouds turning a psychedelic pink overhead.
The mysterious villain-hypnotist she's preventing, Screenslaver (Invoice Smart), is type of impressively darkish for a Disney movie, issuing manifesto-esque statements about how superhero worship is a dumb substitute for coping with actual life. I questioned if Marvel had been allowed to learn the script beforehand.
Jack-Jack proves fairly difficult for his dad.
Bob, in the meantime, is studying the way to be a stay-at-home father or mother whereas his spouse's away, and it requires the square-jawed behemoth to make use of new muscle groups. Violet's acquired boy issues (or as Sprint places it, "Is she having adolescence?"), and the child, whose nascent superpowers had been seen close to the top of the primary movie, goes haywire.
There's one sequence in which Jack-Jack takes on a raccoon in the yard that's a few minutes of pure, blissful cartoon comedy. It may stand by itself as a brief (and it'd be one I favored higher than "Bao," which precedes this characteristic; its dumpling-comes-to-life plot, in which a lady raises a dumpling-child as her personal, struck me as awfully maudlin for kids).
Lastly, all of it gets to be an excessive amount of, so Bob takes the infant to go to "Aunt Edna," a.ok.a. Edna Mode (Brad Chook), the scene-stealing, bob-haired designer from the primary movie. She's "not a child particular person" (duh!) however takes a shine to the newly wonderful Jack-Jack.
After all, no Pixar movie could be full and not using a John Ratzenberger cameo (I received't spoil the fun of determining who he's, however his character made an look in the final one as effectively), and Isabella Rossellini pops in as a Madeleine Albright-esque ambassador who's a giant Elastigirl fan. Samuel Jackson's Lucius/Frozone reveals up once more to assist save the day, and a brand new crop of disarmingly awkward superheroes are launched, if considerably underused, together with Sophia Bush because the turquoise-haired, dimension-splitting Void.
At practically two hours, "Incredibles 2" might be a little bit shorter. Because it nears its conclusion it drags on a bit, which is when the largely-kid viewers round me began to lose focus. Additionally, it appears oddly regressive in this period to have a supposed household man so unacquainted with the day-to-day of elevating his personal youngsters.
I'm holding out hope for an "Incredibles 3" the place Violet and Elastigirl workforce up in opposition to a baddie who goes by The Patriarchy.


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DOURAN Group is one of the most successful IT companies in Iran that has been established with aims to provide a variety of products and services in the field of Information Technology. This group that passed more than 17 years of its establishment, with organizing about 350 staff and use of last world's knowledge, has an extensive activity in producing and providing specialized equipment and services in field of ERP, Network & security. The presence of three teams in production, technical and systematic in the form of a group, however, close cooperation with international companies, has provided technical capability and high performance for this group to run large national projects.


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United Cement Group (UCG) - the largest in Central Asia Cement Holding.Information about plants, cement production. Sale of cement, cement bulk of Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan. Cement plants in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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In a few days, our Year of the Earth Dog shall complete, and we shall usher in the Year of the Earth Pig. Chinese New Year is a special celebration that we share with our families and friends. It is full of cultural symbolism, ritual, and history. Many Malaysians, Singaporeans and Bruneians of Chinese heritage can tell you of the special significance of each of the 15 days of Chinese New Year.
Day 1: Joyous beginning with lion dances, fireworks, parades and gift-giving. The birthday of all chickens.
Day 2: Married daughters visit their birth family and everyone pays respect to the God of Wealth. The birthday of all dogs.
Day 3: Paying respects to the deceased and no social activities. The birthday of all pigs.
Day 4: The birthday of all sheep.
Day 5: More fireworks and eating special dumplings. The birthday of all cows.
Day 6: The birthday of all horses.
Day 7: Renri or the birthday of all humans and the tossing of yee sang (fish salad with mixed ingredients) for wealth and prosperity.
Day 8: Eve of the Jade Emperor's Birthday.
Day 9: The Jade Emperor's Birthday, which is very important to Hokkien Chinese.
Day 15: Chap Goh Mei which means the Fifteenth Day, celebrated with lanterns by everyone and gift-giving of oranges by single ladies looking for a romantic partner.
At MSBCA, there are many activities this month. I encourage everyone to try something out! It could be to make arts & crafts, to learn a new recipe at a cooking class, or even to watch our dancers perform in public! Many of these activities are just a click away, thanks to the hard work of our webmaster and editor Tracey and the ideas from many members which helped launch MSBCA's new online registration system. This system has been a long time in the making and serves to promote our club and enhance accessibility to all.
On Saturday, January 12, MSBCA held its first quarterly Board & Coordinators potluck meeting where we gathered, mingled, and heard ideas and suggestions from the leaders of our community. It was a very enjoyable and collaborative experience. The first two months of our Board of Directors have been revolutionary: to reorganize and clean the "hardware" of the club, to set up new or upgrade existing guidelines, and to strengthen our overall organization system through better practices. So far, the feedback I've received from the membership has been positive. I thank all fellow Board members and Coordinators for their hard work and patience, and hope the lunar new year shall be a prosperous one for us all.


WOW! What a perfect day it was for a wedding. I had a blast helping plan Morgan and Jarred's wedding with them. Morgan was well organized, and she knew just how her wedding was going to be.
The day started at the Hyatt Place with hair, makeup and dressing. Then a Hummer limo arrived to take the ladies over to St. James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights. Morgan and the bridesmaids waited in the bride's room of the church, while Jarred and the groomsmen waited in the priest room for the ceremony to begin.
The ceremony setting was simple yet elegant. As the guests and bridal party entered the church, music was being played by a harpist and pianist. Yes, this was a special day for Morgan and Jarred. Nevertheless it had me reminiscing of my own wedding, for it was my anniversary as well. After the "I do's" and the presenting of Mr. and Mrs. by Bishop Rassais, each guest received their bottle of bubbles and gently enveloped Morgan and Jarred in tiny, glistening orbs as they made their grand exit into the Hummer limo.
The reception for 210 guests was held at the Makray Memorial Golf Club in Barrington. The color theme included black napkins, white table cloths, and a centerpiece of deep red roses surrounded by votive candles. Morgan and Jarred lovingly displayed, on the fireplace mantel, several wedding photos of their parents, grandparents and great grandparents from their wedding days. Morgan stated that this was a symbol of longevity for marriages in their families.
During the cocktail hour guests were presented with a special signature drink created by Morgan and Jarred. While the guests enjoyed the cocktail hour, Morgan and Jarred strolled on the beautiful greens of the golf course as the photographer captured additional wedding day memories for them. Later, the couple danced their first dance as husband and wife, as guests observed from their seats in the ballroom. After the wedding cake was cut, the maid of honor, best man, and lastly the parents each gave very special toasts to the new couple. The Cagen Music Band had the dance floor packed and moving the whole evening, and R.E.M. videographer and photographer captured the special moments. What a fabulous party! Thanks to all that made Morgan and Jarred's wedding and reception a HUGE success!!!


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This also provides the Different types of modules which provides the user having a password can change the setting of the systems such as time & date ,password change ,ID settings, registration of new user ,delete the user from registration list if he /she left the organization ,also number of entry marked i.e. logs & users information all these changes are possible through hardware as well as software .The data of entries ,logs users registered are stored in EEPROM on hardware & it will be loaded into software whenever needed through serial communication .There are two modes in the system which is mark mode & identify mode .In identify mode it will give entry to only those which are registered users & in mark mode it allows any user to enter after card swap.
All the data/information is transferred to the software through RS232 communication.
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VB based payroll GUI & Report generation, Drivers for: RFID reader , Lcd, Keyboard, eeprom etc & entire working flow.
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My grandmothers were the quintessential matrons: they grew lush gardens, baked pies, canned peaches, crocheted doilies and then peacefully passed away in their nineties.
My life has been a bit different, and I just hope I don't die tomorrow by getting hit by a wine truck while dancing in the street on my way to a book signing event.
My paternal grandmother never owned a driver's license because she never needed to go anywhere. She could walk to the grocery store and post office, and she was content to sit in her rocking chair in her tidy little house. She finished crossword puzzles every day, read her Bible and believed her life was blessed beyond measure. She was correct.
My maternal grandmother sewed dolls and grew glorious gladiolas to enter in the Jerome County Fair. She stored the numerous winning ribbons in a shoe box because she was humble, quiet and unpretentious. Only after her death did I learn that all she wanted in life was to own a piano. I wish I could have given one to her.
Their tough example gave me a strong foundation that sustained me during the numerous personal calamities and monstrous mistakes in my life.
My children married spouses who already had children, so I became an instant grandmother. And I'm not called Gramma. My daughter's daughter was born in Hawaii, so I became Tutu, the Hawaiian name for grandmother.
I look at my granddaughters with wonder and worry.
What will their future hold? Can they travel the world, employ their talents and be strong in relationships? Will they treasure the self-sufficient strength of their great-great-grandmothers? Will they be able to grow a garden, bake a pie, preserve peaches and crochet doilies? OK, no one needs doilies anymore, but the other skills are important.
I hope they can learn from this weathered Tutu that they also can have a job, chart their own path, own a business and challenge the boundaries. They can go beyond my grandmother's wildest dreams, and I relish their feisty and vibrant spirit. I imagine the day when they get married and then bring me a laughing baby to rock. I think Great Tutu will be a fitting name.


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1.1 The general order and delivery conditions of the film and music industry in Austria, apply to all contract productions, with the exception of promotional films. They are fundamentally for legal transactions between businesses and are an essential part of every offer and every contract. Should there be exceptional legal transactions made with clients, under the current Consumer Protection Act BGBl Nr 140/1979, they are only valid insofar as they do not contradict the first main part of this law. A legal binding of the producers occurs only through the business confirmation of the offer/order (confirmation is permitted through fax or e- mail with a digital signature) or with the undersigned contract. With the undersigning of the contract, or with the order-confirmation, the general order and supply conditions will have been accepted.
1.2 The client`s production of the film, regardless as to the carrier material, follows on the basis of the approval of the screenplay being made available to him, or his acceptance of the written conditions of the offer. The producer`s, or on his behalf developed treatments, scripts, drawings, plans and similar documents, remain as his intellectual property, provided that no use for this can be found in the film or no fee has been agreed upon. Any use, in particular the disclosure, reproduction and publication requires the explicit approval of the producer. Any delivered contracting documents to the client, may be required to be returned.
1.3 In the production contract or the accepted offer, it is stipulated for which distribution areas, media coverage and time periods the film is to be produced.
2 COSTS
2.1 In the contractually agreed price, are all the production costs and a demonstrationable first copy as in the intended measures contained in the rights granted, in accordance with section 7.2.
2.2 Filming postponements due to weather (weather risk), are usually not included in the calculated production costs. In this bracket, additional costs plus OPEX will be included in the invoice.
2.3 An extra contract can be drawn up for the production of treatments or scripts. In this contract, the agreed price by the client must also be paid when the treatment or script cannot be filmed, or resignation of the contract takes place. If a screenplay or a previously existing film is made available by the client or a from him appointed trustee, the full legal transfer is to be carried out with the producer.
2.4 If the client requires the completion of a particular insurance, he is to inform the producer of this no later than the conclusion of the contract and reimburse the costs.
2.5 The client bears the cost of any expert advice he
may seek out of his own accord.
3 PRODUCTION, MODIFICATION, FOREIGN LANGUAGE VERSIONS, DELIVERY DEADLINE
3.1 Filming begins at the earliest, only after the undersigning of the production contract or the acceptance of the offer has taken place.
3.2 The responsibility of the artistic and technical design of the work, lies by the producers. The producer is to instruct the client as to the location and intended running of the film.
3.3 Should the client require changes in the film`s timing arrangements, the manuscripts, the script or already produced parts of the film, these are to be made at his own expense with the exception of legitimate complaints. The producer is to inform the client without delay, of the anticipated cost of these changes.
3.4 Should the client, after acceptance of the film have further requirements for change, he is to put these changes in writing
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. The producer has the obligation and the authority to make these changes, the costs of which are to be borne by the client.
3.5 If, for artistic or technical reasons, any amendments are proposed by the producers after the approval of the script has taken place, that lead to additional costs beyond the agreed upon production price, they will require prior written consent of the client. Not explicitly approved additional costs can not be claimed. The length of the film is stipulated in the production contract. The terms are considered to be met if the difference in length of the final cut is no more than 5% of the agreed upon length.
3.6 In the case of the production of foreign language versions of the film through subtitling or dubbing, a corresponding agreement must be made.
4 LIABILITY
4.1 The producer is commited to produce a technically perfect product. He expressly provides a guarantee that the production has faultless sound and picture quality.
4.2 If in the production of the film circumstances occur, which make conventional production not possible, so the producer must expect to represent himself for gross negligence.
The same applies if the film is not completed in the arranged time. The inability to manufacture, or the non-timely completion of the film, for which neither the client nor the producers are responsible, allows only that the client withdraws from the contract. The previously provided services plus OPEX will however be charged.
4.3 Defects, recognised by the producers are to be removed by him. If these corrections can not be carried out without the participation of the client or his advisor, the producer can, after unsuccessful corresponding attempts at correcture over a statutory period of at least two weeks, regard the contract as fullfilled. The producer is entitled to refuse the elimination of the mistakes until the time designated for the correction of the mistakes is over.
4.4 The producer is liable for all legal violations commited by him during the production
. However the client carries the risk of any props that have been made avilable to him.
5 RESIGNATION OF THE CLIENT FROM THE CONTRACT
5.1 If the production contract has been issued and the client, through no fault of the producers resigns from the contract, the producer is entitled to include the actual net cost, the share in OPEX and the total profit loss in the invoice.
5.2 In the event of an order resignation which occurs in the period between 10 and 4 days before filming begins, the producer is entitled to include 2/3 of the calculated net cost accepted by the client, plus OPEX and the total profit loss, in the invoice.
5.3 By an order resignation from the client which occurs between 3 and 1 days before filming begins, the total calculated commissioned cost will be invoiced.
6.1 Unless otherwise agreed, the following payment conditions apply: 1/3 when the contract is signed 1/3 when the filming commences 1/3 when the production is inspected In the event of a production volume of at least € 250.000,- excluding VAT., the last third will be divided as follows: 1/6 at the rough-cut inspection 1/6 at the time of delivery and final inspection
7 COPYRIGHTS, PATENT RIGHTS
7.1 The film will be produced on the basis of the script accepted by the client and the film producer. The producer has § 38/1 Urh.g at his disposal concerning all the necessary patent copyright rights (except if they concern a copyright company), in particular those necessary in fullfilling the contract`s requirements for distribution, transmission, performance and protection even after the completion of the work managed by him.
7.2 It is to be agreed upon in the production contract, after the full production costs have been paid, to what extent the utilisation rights (spatially, temporally) are permitted.
7.3 Excepted from the rights in every case from those permitted, are the rights for duplication, adaption, addition, foreign language dubbing and the use of excerpts in picture and/or sound, in as far as they have not been contractually, expressly agreed upon and for which at least lost profits to the production have been paid separately. This is without prejudice to any claims for damages.
7.4 The client should expressly declare himself in agreement, with the statutory declarations made by the producer to the appropriate copyright companies.
7.5 To secure the copyright rights, the raw material (picture and sound), in particular negatives and mastertape as well as the rest-material, remain with the producers.
7.6. The producer commits himself, in lieu of costs, to the appropriate proffesional storage of the original of the delivered visual and audio material. The storage period is seven years for television productions and five years for all other productions.
7.7 In as far as the rights excepted from those permitted, as in section 7.3, are compensated and contractually assigned for utilisation by the client, he claims liability as in section 7.6 for the storage, insofar as not otherwise agreed.
7.8 With the delivery of the film the risk for the copied documents goes to the client, even if the film is in storage by the producer or a printing laboratory assigned by him.
8 OTHER PROVISIONS
8.1 The opening title credits and the closing credits are part of the script, and are to be approved by the client.
8.2 The producer is entitled to display his company name and it`s logo as part of a copyright notice. He also has the right to show, or have shown, the film for competitions and festivals as well as for selfpromotion (example). For self-promotion, the use of excerpts, or other visual material on the producer`s own web-page is permitted as long as the promotional presentations remain unchanged.
8.3 In the case where a number of clients are granted the contract for a film, it must be retained in writing which client has the power of attorney over the other clients as to the clarification of the producer`s preceding delivered points. This applies particularly to the notation of those persons responsible for the inspection of the film.
8.4 Insofar as several co-producers are contractingpartners of the clients is the definition of point 8.3 logical
8.5 Changes in the production contract and/or the production conditions require written confirmation. Should, through a provision in the production contract, manufacturing and supply conditions be ineffective, so is the validity of the remaining provisions not affected.
8.6 The completion of the contract is to be carried out at the headquarters of the producer.
8.7 In the event of disputes, an agreed upon competent court is to be summoned to the producer`s headquarters. This court must be in compliance with Austrian law.
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Building on the positive feedback enjoyed by the First Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads and Second Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads, this third workshop will again bring together researchers and practitioners in computer architecture and commercial workloads from industry and academia. In the course of one day, we will discuss work-in-progress that utilizes commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer architectures. By discussing this ongoing research, the workshop will expose participants to the characteristics of commercial workload behavior and provide an understanding of how commercial workloads exercise computer systems. There will be discussions on the difficulties associated with using commercial workloads to drive new computer architecture designs and what can be done to overcome them.
The Final Program for the workshop is listed below, with an abstract for each talk. There will be plenty of time for audience participation. A panel with a round-table discussion will be held after the technical presentations. There will be no proceedings for the workshop since we encourage the presentation of work-in-progress and research in early stages. Copies of the foils used by the speakers will be distributed to the attendees.
Several recent studies of database management systems (DBMSs) performance on current processors have shown that such workloads have a different behavior than other codes widely used for computer architecture evaluation [May94]. DBMSs are highly structured codes, that perform many procedure calls and have plenty of control statements to handle all types of error situations [Nav98]. This causes a great level of control flow activity in the code and bigger instruction working sets than in other common integer codes. Recent work has shown that those instruction working sets can be a problem for the instruction cache sizes used in current generation microprocessors [Ail99]. With all this evidence, it seems interesting to study how DBMSs exercise the different parts of the fetch engine of current processors, and how different improvements on the fetch engine can help their execution.
Dynamic Branch prediction schemes have led to processor designs where the instruction supply and execution are clearly decoupled, being easy nowadays to hear about front-end and back-end engines. A front-end or fetch engine is characterized by the speed at which it can deliver instructions and the 'quality' of the instructions that it delivers. The speed is directly related to the effective bandwidth and latency of the fetch unit. On the other hand, the 'quality' of the delivered instructions depends on the accuracy of the branch predictor. During years, researchers have been working in order to keep instruction fetch latencies low and obtain higher branch prediction accuracies. However, the fetch bandwidth has become important when the execution width of processors has grown. This work focuses on the evaluation of the performance effects that several variations of the fetch engine parameters produce on the execution of Decision Support Systems (DSS) workloads. Our study uses Postgres 6.3 running TPC-D queries 3 and 17 over a 100MB Btree indexed database workload. We have used a user level simulator of an out of order superscalar processor derived from the simplescalar v3.0 tool set. First of all, we look at the performance that can be expected from a perfect fetch. With this, we see that a 4 wide issue processor with a perfect fetch engine of the same width, can achive an IPC of 2.66 which shows a performance increase of 59% over a basic configuration with 32K byte cache and a 4096 two bit counter bimodal predictor.
With the evidence that fetch may help to improve the performance of DBMSs execution on current superscalars, we analyze the impact of the i-cache and the branch prediction mechanism. On one hand, an undersized i-cache may drop the performance of our applications significantly. For instance, a perfect i-cache with perfect branch prediction has an IPC of 2.39 while a 16K byte i-cache in the same situation has an IPC of 1.45. On the other hand, we show that the effect of the branch prediction mechanism is bounded by the i-cache size. In particular, we show that the effect of increasing the size and quality of the branch predictor has a larger effect on larger i-caches. For instance, for a 16K byte i-cache, the percentual difference between the worst (1K two bit counter Gshare) and a perfect branch predictor is 8.5% while, the same branch predictors show a difference of 22.6% on a perfect i-cache.
Finally, we have evaluated the benefits that can be expected from a better fetch bandwidth. We have tested a hipothetical fetch mechanism that always returns a fixed number of, possibly wrong path, instructions per cycle. For example, on a 4 issue processor, a 4 instruction fetch engine with the previous characteristics, improves a conventional mechanism that stops at the first branch found in a 5.54%. Also, on the same 4 issue processor, fetching and decoding 8 fixed instructions per cycle improves the the fetching of 4 fixed instructions in a 2.62%, reaching a total IPC of 2.31. As a conclusion, our study reveals that a well dimensioned fetch engine is of great importance for DBMS performance. In particular, an i-cache able to capture the working set of the application is essential. Also, we have found that the size of the i-cache can clearly bound the improvements of branch predictors.
[Ail99] Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood 'DBMSs on a Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?', Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Pp 266-277, Morgan Kaufmann 1999.
[May94] A. M. Maynard, C. M. Donnelly and B. R. Olszewski, 'Contrasting Characteristics and Cache Performance of Technical and Multi-User Commercial Workloads', Proceedings of the 6th Intl. Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pp 145-156, 1994.
[Nav98] Carlos Navarro, 'Caracterizacion de la ejecucion de consultas sobre Postgres95', Projecte final de carrera, Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona, UPC, June, 1998.
The key challenge posed by decision support (DSS) database workloads is the explosive growth of their I/O capacity and computational requirements. Dr. Greg Papadopoulos, the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems, estimates that the I/O capacity and associated processing demands for decision support double every 6 to 12 months , a rate supported by the large commercial systems summarized in the Winter Very Large Database (VLDB) surveys  . This evidence implies that DSS growth is faster than the growth rate of disk capacity (which doubles every 18 months) and the growth rate of processor performance (which also doubles every 18 months). These phenomenal growth trends require a more scalable I/O system design for these data-intensive services.
To address these trends, we describe a storage system design that uses "intelligent" disks (IDISKs). An IDISK is a hard disk containing an embedded general-purpose processor, tens to hundreds of megabytes of memory, and gigabit per second network links. We analyze the potential performance benefits of an IDISK architecture using analytic models of DSS operations, such as selection and join, which are based on measurements of full-scale DSS behavior.
We find that IDISK outperforms cluster-based and SMP-based systems by up to an order of magnitude, even though these alternate systems possess faster processors and higher aggregate memory capacity. This high performance is attributable to the increased data and computational parallelism possible in an IDISK architecture, and to IDISK's ability to compensate for smaller memory capacity by using multi-pass algorithms that trade off disk I/O bandwidth for memory capacity.
 G. Papadopoulos. "Moore's Law ain't good enough," Keynote speech at Hot Chips X, August 1998.
 R. Winter and K. Auerbach. "Giants walk the earth: the 1997 VLDB survey," Database Programming and Design, volume 10, number 9, pages S2 - S9+, September 1997.
 R. Winter and K. Auerbach. "The big time: the 1998 VLDB survey," Database Programming and Design, volume 11, number 8, August 1998.
This paper aims to provide an understanding of multimedia applications that use floating point computations performance on recent general-purpose microprocessors using streaming SIMD ISA extensions. We use eight benchmarks to study the impact of these extensions on general application performance and identify the possible bottlenecks introduced. The introduction of floating point SIMD instructions in general purpose microprocessors is quite recent, and there isn't currently a lot of studies on the subject. On the other hand, integer SIMD workloads have already been well studied.
Our purpose is to provide a better understanding of performance improvements in multimedia applications due to these ISA extensions. We have used Altivec, introduced by Apple and Motorola in their newest microprocessor: the PowerPC G4. Altivec works with 128 bits vectors and allows both integer and single precision vector processing.
The eight micro-kernels we use as benchmarks have been extracted from commonly used multimedia applications. We will compare the original optimized C kernel with an Altivec optimized one. These eight micro-kernels are FIR/IIR filter, min/max, vertice transformation and projection, normals transformation and normalization, backface culling, phong lighting, DAXPY and generic matrix-matrix multiplication.
Various audio filtering and speech compression are based on FIR/IIR filter, the Viterbi algorithm used in speech recognition uses the minmax kernel. Mesa, a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL uses 3-D geometry transformations and lighting to render 3D polygonal scenes. Vertice transformation, projection, perspective correction, normals transformation and renormalization, backface culling and phong lighting are the critical parts of geometry transformations. Some functions like DAXPY, the sum of two floating point arrays and generic matrix multiplication have been studied too because of their intensive use in numerical algorithms. All these kernels have been hand tuned using well known technics like loop unrolling and software pipelining.
For our performance evaluation, we used tools provided by Apple and Motorola. The Altivec kernels are not fully written in assembly. A set of C functions that work on variables instead of registers and that maps on Altivec instructions allows easiest programming, and fine tuning. We generate execution trace with pitsTT6 tool by linking the kernel with pitsTT6 library and calling the functions to start tracing and to end it. The G4 simulator gives a lot of statistics on the execution of the tt6 trace. All the results provided come from the simulation of a G4 processor executing the previously extracted TT6 execution trace.
The speedup obtained with Altivec for these benchmarks range from two (FIR/IIR) to ten (64x64 generic matrix multiplication). The final speedup for the 3D geometry pipeline is 4 when using two dynamics light sources ie two pass into the phong lighting step which is the most accelerated part of the 3D kernel. The use of streaming Altivec prefetch improves the global perfomances by a factor of 1.1 times to 2 times.
The memory behaviour of our micro-kernels is characterized by streaming data access. Datas are quite never reused and the first level cache size has no impact on our micro-kernels performances when over 4Kb. Most of the benchmarks become memory bound when using Altivec, but the use of prefetch lessens this tendance. We also study the impact of increasing memory bandwidth on the final performance of these benchmarks. The performance improvement using a doubled memory bandwidth at a constant latency is for most of the benchmarks around 20%. For the 3D benchmarks we also evaluated the importance of data organisation on the performance improvement due to the use of vector processing. We found the same results as Intel on its SSE streaming media extensions. On all the benchmarks we explain the reason for the performance improvement, and for over 4x improvement using 4 element wide SIMD processing.
To summarize the floating point benchmarks we have studied are improved by the use of Altivec streaming SIMD extensions from 2 times to 10 times. The impact of prefetch ranges from 1.1 times to 2 times performance enhancements. Improving main memory bandwidth without lowering latency has a noticeable impact on final performance due to streaming software directed prefetch.
Disk I/O is recognized as the performance bottleneck for many database applications. Correspondingly, most database algorithms pay careful attention to what pages on disk are buffered in memory. In particular, buffer management has been a topic of considerable study. However, most work in this area assumes that a disk page is the unit of buffering. With the rising size of disk pages, more and more data today fits on a single disk page. The question we seek to address in this paper is whether one can benefit from buffering at the granularity of tuples rather than pages. The intuition is that if only one (or a few) tuples on a disk page are hot, then it is a waste to buffer the entire page rather than just the specific tuples. To this end, we devise a fine-granularity Hot Entry buffer management scheme that can be used in tandem with a standard page-based buffering scheme of choice. We are going to present two basic fine-granularity schemes -- Hot Index-Entry buffering and Hot Data-Entry buffering. Through experimental evaluation, we demonstrate the benefit of fine-granularity buffering. In particular, for the TPC-C benchmark, we are able to demonstrate that the number of disk accesses is reduced by up to a factor of 2.
The field of computer architecture grew up in a time when processors were extremely expensive and the focus of most optimization work. Even though important aspects of the hardware have changed significantly since then, sometimes attitudes and priorities are slow to reflect the current state of affairs. This talk will explore some of the past and current work within the industry on computer architecture for commercial servers, illustrated with some examples of issues now being struggled with. Today's work is strongly influenced by the need to better understand the changes in future workloads, new ways people will be using servers, and the need to live within development and product cost constraints. The talk will conclude with speculation, ranging from practical to whimsical, about future architecture priorities for commercial servers.
The importance of high performance storage systems has grown rapidly as industry increasingly depends upon data to manage daily business. Integrated Cached Disk Arrays (ICDAs) are used to house the large databases developed to run today's businesses. Many ICDA systems have been designed to use standardized host interfaces (e.g., SCSI, UltraSCSI, ESCON and Fibre Channel). These systems include terabytes of storage, large caches, and provide fault-tolerance using redundant interconnects, non-volatile RAM, and RAIDs (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). To maximize I/O throughput, write buffering, and prefetching algorithms are employed. Currently, a number of manufacturers provide systems which allow multiple hosts to connect to a shared pool of storage, supporting a variety of host adapters.
As these systems grow in size and complexity, the demand placed on their internal interconnect structure becomes a bottleneck. Currently bus-based structures are used in many of these systems. Bus-based topologies are well-suited to applications that produce moderate internode communication, but fail to scale as the number of nodes increases. Since I/O systems need to transfer large amounts of data, more scalable interconnect structures are needed to scale the performance of these systems.
In this paper, we evaluate a number of different internal interconnect topologies for high performance ICDAs. We utilize actual commercial workloads taken from live customer environments. We use these workloads to drive our analysis, and perform event-driven simulation to assess the scalability of different switch technologies and topologies. The target workloads include decision support, datamining and online transaction processing.
There are are a number of studies that have used the old TPC-B instead of the current TPC-C benchmark as a representative workload for online transaction processing (OLTP). The primary reason for this is that TPC-B has much simpler setup requirements, and therefore lends itself better to monitoring and simulation experiments. In our previous work, we have shown how TPC-B can be scaled down to make it amenable to such experimentation. Furthermore, our previous performance monitoring experiments with TPC-B and TPC-C have shown that the two benchmarks have similar processor and memory system behavior, with TPC-B exhibiting somewhat worse memory system behavior than TPC-C. We have also pointed out that this latter difference may possibly make TPC-B more representative of actual customer database applications, which are widely aknowledged to exhibit poorer performance than TPC-C.
This talk presents a much more detailed comparison of the TPC-B and TPC-C workloads. First, we have applied our scaling methodology (used for TPC-B) to TPC-C, and show that TPC-C can also be successfully scaled down for experimentation. Second, we present results based on monitoring the performance of the two workloads on both 21164-based (in-order) and 21264-based (out-of-order) Alpha multiprocessors. We also provide detailed simulation results, based on full-system simulations (including kernel activity) in our SimOS-Alpha environment. Our simulation results are also presented for both in-order and out-of-order processor models, along with varying memory system parameters.
The comprehensive comparison presented in this talk allows researchers in this area to better understand the differences between TPC-B and TPC-C. Furthermore, these findings make it easier to compare results from studies that use one or the other benchmark, and in some cases allow for an approximate extrapolation of results for one benchmark based on actual results for the other benchmark.
In the last five to ten years, an increasing number of studies have explored the processor and memory system behavior of commercial applications, such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support (DSS) databases, web servers, and multimedia applications. The I/O characteristics of these workloads, however, have been largely ignored. Given the I/O-intensive nature of many commercial server applications, this lack of attention is unfortunate.
Our presentation summarizes the I/O characteristics of two commercial server workloads, electronic mail and TPC-D-based DSS. Our study is based on the examination of disk traces from full-scale servers: our electronic mail server supports thousands of users, and our DSS system uses a 300 GB scale factor TPC-D database. We begin by describing high-level I/O characteristics, such as request size distribution, request rate distribution, relative frequency of reads and writes, and spatial locality of requests. We continue by discussing how these characteristics vary over the logical storage volumes and physical storage devices in each system, and how they vary over the duration of the traces. For the DSS workload, we relate the logical and physical storage characteristics back to the table, index and log access patterns presented by the queries. To aid in the iterative process of characterizing application behavior, we have developed a general, extensible framework for analyzing I/O traces. We describe this framework, and how it was used to complete our analyses.
Our experience indicates that it is insufficient to summarize the I/O characteristics of these applications with single figures of merit, such as overall average request size. Instead, we must look at different components of the storage system separately, and examine distributions of interesting quantities to gain an accurate understanding of application behavior. This more complete picture allows us to design I/O subsystems to more closely match the needs of these workloads.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is in the process of developing a new benchmark, TPC-W, that attempts to model the application behavior of online web merchant sites. TPC-W consists of a web serving component that models online browsing and purchasing, as well as an on-line transaction processing (OLTP) component that models order processing and tracking. We implement this benchmark based on the preliminary specification that TPC has made available for public review. The remote browser emulation, web merchant application logic, and web server of our version of TPC-W are implemented completely in Java, using the Jigsaw Java Web Server, the servlet interface for dynamic html and forms processing, and relational database connectivity through the standard JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) interface. The OLTP component is implemented using the IBM DB2 relational database management system.
We characterize our implementation of TPC-W by running it under a full-system simulation environment in a single-tier configuration. Work is in progress to bring up our TPC-W implementation under two different instruction sets (PowerPC and SPARC) running under their respective full-system simulators (SimOS-PPC and SimICS). We discuss the challenges we faced in bringing up a complex, networked, multitier workload implemented in a new language (Java) on a full system simulator. We also present preliminary data characterizing the instruction stream, branch predictability, cache behavior, and multiprocessor data sharing patterns of this new workload.
Once mature, we plan to make our implementation of TPC-W available in the public domain to encourage widespread use of realistic, modern application benchmarks in computer architecture research. Updates will be posted to http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~mikko/tpcw.html.
In this talk, we discuss the simulation methodology used for performance analysis during microprocessor development at HAL computer systems. The system development effort is aimed at large scale commercial and scientific applications, from 8-128 processors. Our aim is to develop a simulation methodology capable of generating realistic workloads so as to enable microarchitectural tradeoff decisions to be accurately made at the microprocessor level.
Using this methodology, we run the Solaris operating system for Ultrasparc II processors, completely unmodified, including firmware. This enables us to run any application program, including large commercial and scientific applications, with confidence that the instruction stream generated will be very close to that ultimately generated on the real hardware. We will discuss our approach to generating workloads for use in simulation, including database applications.
Our most recent design effort is the SPARC64 V processor, an eight issue trace cache based machine, which will ship in 2001 at a frequency of 1GHz. This is a very aggressive and complex microarchitecture, containing both control and data speculation, making simulation a demanding task. We will discuss our methodology for dealing with speculation, including compromises made to enable us to run complex operating system code reliably. We will also discuss our functional correctness and performance verification methodology used to ensure that performance predictions will be achieved by real hardware.
Application performance in current superscalar processors is highly dependent on the branch prediction accuracy. In this work, we study branch prediction in commercial workloads.
First, branch prediction was approached using simple static branch predictors, obtaining moderate prediction accuracy. More complex static prediction heuristics and the use of profile feedback information increased the accuracy of these static predictors, reaching 80-90% accuracy.
Next, the transistor count increase in modern processors allowed the implementation of dynamic branch predictors. Bimodal branch predictors keep information on the recent behavior of a branch, and predict that it will keep doing what it has done in the recent past. Two-level branch predictors keep extra information on the branch behavior and the outcomes of the previously executed branches, reaching 90-95% prediction accuracy.
Finally, hybrid predictors combine a bimodal and a two-level predictor, exploiting the synergy between the two predictors, reaching higher accuracy at a lower implementation cost.
We have shown before that most branches in a database kernel tend to behave in a fixed way, either always taken or always not taken. This is a characteristic that can be easily exploited by a static branch predictor using profile feedback information.
In this work, we focus on the combination of a dynamic branch predictor and a static (profile based) predictor for a database workload. We show how this mixed software hardware approach can be implemented with any dynamic predictor, even with combined branch predictors, with negligible hardware cost. The combination of a static and a dynamic predictor will use the dynamic predictor only for those branches which exhibit a variable behavior, that is, for those branches that can not be accurately predicted using the profile information.
We examine the static-dynamic predictor combination with two different targets: achieving higher prediction accuracy, and minimizing the predictor cost without reducing the current prediction accuracy. We show which combinations work well, and which combinations dont, based on the synergy of the dynamic predictors used and the static predictor.
Computer systems as well as the workloads running on them are both getting more complex. Memory hierarchies are getting deeper and the size of higher level caches are doubling almost every year. All these factors pose difficulties in accurately evaluating architecture alternatives for future systems. No single tool is suitable for evaluating every component of a system. This talk will cover some of our recent experience with tools for evaluating future servers at IBM.
Topic:What Tools Do We Use to Evaluate Future Memory Systems?


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Summer used to come with down time, but June's CT Health Reform Dashboard update is anything but quiet. 17,688 HUSKY parents are scheduled to lose coverage at the end of next month. Serious concerns have been raised about the notices to members that miss critical information to help them plan for their health. Based on those who lost coverage last year, over 6,500 working parents are expected to become uninsured this summer. Unbalanced notices are also an ongoing issue in Medicaid's plans to move members into financial risk payment models. Advocates are urging changes to draft notices that include balance the potential benefits with the risks of this very new model. The Health Care Cabinet has completed its survey of other states' reforms. Now comes the hard part – making recommendations for Connecticut. The Governor's CON Taskforce is also beginning their work making recommendations to ensure access and affordability in a competitive health care market. New reports confirm again that costs of coverage on AccessHealthCT, CT's insurance exchange, are among the highest in the US, but the exchange has indicated interest in options to address the problem.


If you've been charged with or convicted of a DUI in Tennessee, you're probably overwhelmed and wondering what comes next. In most cases you'll have to get an ignition interlock installed in your vehicle. An ignition interlock device, or IID, is a breathalyzer that connects to your ignition and won't allow you to start the car until you pass the test.
Having an ignition interlock installed in Tennessee is a critical step to obtaining a special restricted license. It's important that you have your ignition interlock installed by a reputable, state-approved, and registered service provider who can help you through the process and help you get back on track.
Complete your verification with Tennessee. As soon as we get your ignition interlock installed we'll issue you a registered certificate. That certificate confirms that your vehicle has a state-approved IID installed, which you'll need in order to obtain a special restricted license.
Get your license. Most of the time, Tennessee restricted licenses are offered after you serve your suspension. In other words, you'll probably only be obtaining an IID and a restricted license after you've served out whatever suspension you were given. However, there are certain cases where the courts might let you obtain a restricted license during your suspension, as well. While each case is different and only your Tennessee DUI attorney can tell you which of these situations applies to you, once you are able to obtain your restricted license, be sure to do so as soon as possible. Follow all procedures and file all necessary paperwork so you can obtain your restricted license in a timely manner and get going with your IID program. The sooner you start, the sooner you'll have your independence back.
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Tansu is a specific style popularized by storage chests from 8th century Japan. Described by the artist as "a bridge between art and craft" this reproduction door pull is handmade at a one-person studio in Northern Israel.
Lead time on this solid copper hardware is about six weeks.
Seijaku 102 is $85 (August 2006).
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Seoladh an dlúthdhiosca CEOL 2017 le hEoghan McDermott go hoifigiúil aréir in Óstán Copper Face Jacks i mBaile Átha Cliath.
Bhí scaifte breá i láthair agus an stáisiún raidió 2FM ag céilúradh le cóisir d'éisteoirí an Eoghan McDermott Show.
Bhí ceol beo ó The Blizzards, a rinne taifeadadh ar amhrán do CEOL 2017, agus bhí an DJ iomráiteach John Gibbons ag seinm ar an oíche chomh maith.
Chuir Conradh na Gaeilge agus Raidió Rí-Rá an dlúthdhiosca CEOL 2017 le chéile i gcomhpháirt le RTÉ 2FM.
Chuir an Conradh tús leis an togra ceoil seo siar sa bhliain 2005 mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge agus tá dlúthdhiosca eisithe acu achan bhliain ó shin.
Agus rud eile speisialta faoi na dlúthdhioscaí seo ná go mbíonn siad ar fáil saor in aisce!
I measc na gceoltóirí atá le cluinstin ar CEOL 2017 tá Picture This, Walking On Cars agus Gavin James, Gabrielle Aplin ó Shasana agus Matt Simons ó na Stáit Aonaithe.


Six songs that tell the story of Pfizer's courtship of AstraZeneca | City A.M.
Earlier today, Astrazeneca officially rejected a second takeover approach from US rival Pfizer, saying the new terms of the £50 per share offer were "inadequate, substantially undervalue AstraZeneca and are not a basis on which to engage with Pfizer".
In honour of the increasingly complex relationship between the two pharma giants, we've compiled a playlist to help get you through the next few hours (days, weeks?) of the negotiations.
Okay, so big pharma isn't quite rocket science, but AstraZeneca was clearly not impressed much by Pfizer's opening gambit, rejecting an initial approach back in January after flying over to the US for meeting with execs.
We're not sure who's got the brains and who's got the looks in this tie-up (it's probably a bit of both), but the line "I'm looking for a partner, someone who gets things fixed" is oddly appropriate.
Yo I'll tell you what I want what I really really want: independence for our rapidly progressing pipeline and job security for future R&D, that's what. Girl Power.
This one goes out to Ian Read - the Scottish-born Pfizer chief executive who flew rather more than 500 miles across the Atlantic this week to woo politicians and Astrazeneca execs alike, before returning to New York to prepare this morning's sweetened offer.
With a second rejection on the table, will it be a case of never, ever getting back together - or is Pfizer just never gonna give this one up...?


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Defined by slim silhouettes, innovative materials, and simple constructions, the MODO collection combines design and function for beautiful results.
.2 Examples of Social Science Data Collection Methods and Sample Works .
P2 (spatial designer) explicitly chose an "incorrect" color to indicate to the client that the final color had not yet been chosen.
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The collection also contains personal papers and photographs, artifacts, and audiovisual material.
Among the many tracks was SportsTrade, and I watched former San Francisco 49er Terrell Owens talk about Building a brand on and off the field.


Sound Confident, Look Good, and Feel Great Speaking English!
1. She looked like a movie star.
2. A. My new boyfriend sent me some flowers and a very nice card !
B. Wow, he sounds like a very romantic guy!
3. The place was so cozy and warm it felt like home.
4. I met her only a few times, but she seemed like a nice person.
We can also use "feel like" to talk about what we are in the mood for (the things and actions that match the way we are feeling). Verbs following this expression are always in the gerund form.
I feel like dancing tonight, let's go out!
B. No thanks, I don't feel like it.
How about a little video clip?
Here's a little video for you, I hope it sounds good, looks good and makes you feel good!