Miz Mayhem. Photo by Jim McCue, Maryland Jockey Club.
While both the $75,000 Concern for three-year-olds on the main track and the $100,000 Stormy Blues for sophomore fillies on the turf may have appeared to be polar opposites on paper, the winners perhaps proved to have plenty in common just on Saturday but perhaps for their long term potential as well.
Heading into the Concern Stakes, a seven-furlong open event on the main track for three-year-olds, Whereshetoldmetogo (Jeremy Rose) arrived off a 10-length victory over allowance foes at Delaware Park that prompted fans to make him the 8-5 favorite from post two although Midnight Poker had beaten him handily in the $85,000 Robert Hilton Memorial at Charles Town three starts back. The only Maryland-bred colt in the field in a race named for a Maryland-bred Hall of Famer, Whereshetoldmetogo lived up to his billing as the choice and impressed his rider and owner with his recent efforts.
Rose had never been aboard Whereshetoldmetogo until his previous outing at Delaware Park when he trounced allowance/optional claiming foes by 10 lengths in 1:08.3 for six furlongs. It was the type of performance that easily lured the veteran rider down from Delaware Park to Laurel Park for a mount that would prove to be his only ride of the day.
Esposito noted that throughout much of his career as a race horse owner he had little luck, which is how he came up with the name Black Cloud for his stable. But the recent successes of Whereshetoldmetogo has given the owner plenty of optimism for the future.
Then several races later on the card, Miz Mayhem easily lived up to her role as the 1-2 favorite in the $100,000 Stormy Blues Stakes at 5 1/2-furlongs on the lawn for three-year-old fillies when she bided her time through the her stages, then swept past the leaders in the lane to score by over a length in 1:01.69. It was the third straight stakes score for Miz Mayhem and her fifth straight win overall and validated jockey Edgard Zayas's decision to bypass a full day of mounts at Gulfstream Park to head to Laurel Park for just three rides.
Miz Mayhem, a three-year-old daughter of Yesbyjimminy trained by Edward Plesa and owned and bred by Laurie Plesa, Miz Mayhem has won five of seven starts this year and seven of 13 overall, with this score pushing her career earnings past $260,000. She has won five of seven starts on the turf for Plesa, including three straight stakes and she gave Zayas every indication that she can continue to ascend through the stakes ladder.


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Government measures aim to boost employment chances in a post-Covid economy
Adults without A-levels are to be offered a free college course to help boost their employment opportunities in the beleaguered post-Covid-19 economy, as Boris Johnson reiterates the government's warning that not all jobs can be saved.
As part of a package of measures unveiled by Downing Street, people who do not have A-levels or equivalent qualifications will be able to study a college course in England from April paid for via the £2.5bn national skills fund.
At present, the government pays for a first A-level equivalent qualification up to the age of 23, but this is being extended to all ages for courses deemed to be valued by employers with further details of those available due to be set out next month.
Higher education loans will also be made more flexible, in a move the government says will allow people to space out their study by splitting it into segments, transfer credits between colleges and universities, and enable more part-time learning.
In a speech on Tuesday, the prime minister will announce a new "lifetime skills guarantee" and is expected to say: "As the chancellor has said, we cannot, alas, save every job. What we can do is give people the skills to find and create new and better jobs. So my message today is that at every stage of your life, this government will help you get the skills you need."
He is set to add: "We're transforming the foundations of the skills system so that everyone has the chance to train and retrain."
A No 10 source indicated that "very significant" additional funding would pay for the lifetime skills guarantee, although the exact cost of measures has not yet been set out by the government.
It comes after the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, last week announced a multibillion-pound winter jobs plan: a combination of wage top-ups, cash flow support for companies and an extended VAT cut for the hardest-hit sectors. "As I've said throughout this crisis, I cannot save every business. I cannot save every job. No chancellor could," he said.
Labour has been critical of the government's handling of the economy during the pandemic, with the shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, using a speech last week at her party's online event replacing the annual conference to pinpoint perceived failures. Dodds argued more should be done to help people retrain and specifically called on the government to bring forward the money earmarked for the national skills fund so it could be used immediately.
As part of its new measures, the government says it is pledging more funding to small and medium-sized firms taking on apprentices, particularly in construction and creative industries, as well as allowing more flexibility in how training is structure.
The government highlighted figures showing that in the year 2000, more than 100,000 people were doing Higher National Certificates and Diplomas, compared to fewer than 35,000 now. Meanwhile, the number of people enrolled on foundation degrees has dropped from 81,000 to 30,000. It means only one in 10 adults have a higher technical qualification as their highest qualification, compared with 20% in Germany and 34% in Canada, Downing Street said.
The government is committing £8m to digital skills boot camps, expanding pilots in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands to four new locations. A free online skills toolkit designed to help people train in digital and numeracy skills was launched earlier this year, and is being expanded to include 62 extra courses.
Reforms will be backed by investment in college buildings, including more than £1.5bn in capital funding, the government added.
The shadow education secretary, Kate Green, said: "A week ago Labour called for a national retraining strategy fit for the crisis Britain faces, but what the government proposes is simply a mix of reheated old policies and funding that won't be available until April.
"By then many workers could have been out of work for nearly a year, and the Tories still think that they will need to take out loans to get the training they will need to get back in work.
"These measures will not reverse the devastating impact of a decade of cuts, and will not give workers the skills and support they need in the months ahead."
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Discussion in 'Setup & Repair [DB]' started by playbass0410, Aug 14, 2012.
I have to replace my old pickup (piezo in the bridge wings) with a new one and now are faced with the phenomenum that especially at the A string the plugging with my fingers is amplified as loud PLOP sound by the amp.
My old one did not amplify the plugging PLOP this loud but unfortunately has some loose contact and thus has to retire but is not any longer available.
Has anyone experienced a disgusting loud plop sound from the right hand fingers too? And ... is there a solution besides EQuing the sound to death or using a feedback friendly microphone?
What's your piezo exactly? I've tried several PU and I have noticed as a general rule that the closer to the string the PU is, the more it is prone to that string/finger noise (and bridge wing is one of the closest position). Usually nothing that can't be attenuated with EQing though, but you definitely get a different vibe. But what you're describing sounds more like an incorrect installation, are you sure it's properly fitted? Or perhaps an impedance mismatch, are you using a preamp? More details or pics could help.
If the only thing wrong with your old pickup was some losse contacts, why not repair it? A quick hit with a soldering iron should do the trick.
@RSBBass - its the contact directly at the piezo element and its shrinkwrapped and sealed.
Yeah the shadow is the one with one piezo under each foot of the bridge and a preamp hanging over the tailpiece, sorry never tried it! The only advice I can give you as for its installation is to make sure the bridge is really perpendicular with the top of the bass, so there as much pressure as possible on the entire surface of the piezo. Otherwise I'm pretty much clueless, but I still believe you should be able to get a decent sound with this PU and a good preamp. Perhaps somebody experienced with this particular model could be more helpful, I guess you would get lotta more answers if you would post in the "amps mics & pickups"... Good luck!
This "plop" sound - is it like a loud THOK!, like someone hitting a log with a rubber mallet? I've gotten that particular tone with certain string/bass/pickup combinations. Anything else in your setup changed recently? Did you have to loosen your strings for some reason, and could the soundpost have moved? Are you using a preamp with whatever you have now?
Well ... lot changed ... fingerboard, bridge, nut ... so its not that easy. But - the old pickup just did not be that sensitive.
I do not use a preamp - in the past I did use a fishman platinum but once on a jazz rehearshal a violinist dropped by so I lent him my fishman so he could play with us. I rummaged for my BOSS GT-10B MFX that retired in a dark and dusty corner that I had formerly used for EB. It was a surprise - a vivid full bodied sound that sentenced the fishman to be sent to ebay.
I have a question. OP is the plug, plop, thok sound also noticable acousticly without amplification and on every string?
I experience a thok sound only on my A string acoustic ( although silent) ald amplified ( louder ) and I think it is a right hand technique issue.
Does anyone have any insights here ?
And yes - it is related to technique - using the full flesh of the plugging finger an stay somewhat away from the fingerboard end yields a warm tone without that thok sound.
Playing horizontal with two finger sytsem more on the finger tips for max speed and this near fingerboard end for pronouncing attack articulate the THOK badly.
So yes of course the THOK reacts to technique used..... but .... I haven't had this problem before regardless which of right finger techniques I was using. So the THOK is not a destiny..
Not to beat a dead horse but shrink wrap should be easy to cut off on the old piezo. Use a heat sink to keep the piezo from melting and re-attach the lead. What do you have to loose by trying?


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Time changes in U19 International Series
Published 2nd August 2016
Media are advised that the match times in the U19 International Series on Friday, 12 August, and Saturday, 20 August, have been changed to allow for the games to be broadcast live on SuperSport.
The tournament, which features three rounds of matches on 12, 16 and 20 August respectively, will see the SA Schools and SA Schools A teams, England, Wales, France and Italy go head-to-head.
All the matches in the two opening rounds will be broadcast live on SuperSport 1 (channel 201), while the final round of games on 20 August will be broadcast on Channel 198, a SuperSport Pop-Up channel.
The revised fixtures are as follows:
Friday 12 August – City Park Stadium, Crawford
12h00 – England U18 vs France U18 (SS1)
13h30 – SA Schools A vs Italy U18 (SS1)
15h00 – SA Schools vs Wales U18 (SS1)
Tuesday 16 August – Bishops, Rondebosch
13h00 – Wales U18 vs Italy U18 (SS1)
14h30 – SA Schools "A" vs England U18 (SS1)
16h00 – SA Schools vs France U18 (SS1)
Saturday 20 August – Paarl Boys High, Paarl
11h15 – France U18 vs Italy U18 (Channel 198)
12h45 – SA Schools A vs Wales U18 (Channel 198)
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A closer look at the Maguire dealership proposal for Ithaca's waterfront
by Brian Crandall February 9, 2016 February 10, 2016
ITHACA, NY – This article is intended to be an exploration of the project itself. A look into the controversy and contrasting views of the project will be including in a follow-up.
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Let's start with a little backstory. Carpenter Business Park was formally established in 1991 during the Nichols administration, when the city was hoping to pull industrial and commercial business from the burgeoning suburbs back into the city. The city had purchased the vacant land from NYSEG in 1986, and earlier than that, the property was used as landfill for construction materials. The community gardens lease began when NYSEG still owned the land in 1982, and the gardens' land is currently leased from the city. Ithaca has had plans to develop an industrial park on the site since the 1970s, but the problem is that the site is relatively small and isolated with one only access road (Carpenter Circle). The city explored development options with a couple private entities in the late 1990s, but no deals were finalized.
In the early 2000s, a company under the name Ithaca Templar LLC bought several of the parcels for $2.2 million, but the land remained vacant and the properties eventually went into foreclosure. The foreclosing lender put the land back on the market last spring. Enter Carpenter Business Park LLC, and the $2.7 million August and September land/building sales that my colleague Nick Bogel-Burroughs covered for the Voice. Nick provides a great background on the land sales and initial city reaction to the then-rumor that the Maguires had purchased the land.
Now a little background on the Maguires. The Maguire family of auto dealerships, started in Trumansburg in 1977, is the eleventh-largest employer in the county with over 420 staff. Phil Maguire and company previously approached the town of Ithaca with the idea of developing a headquarters and series of dealerships on Route 13 near Seven Mile Drive. However, the town board wanted to make the area a Planned Development Zone (PDZ, similar to the city's PUD), while Maguire wanted an outright rezoning, which would have given the company more freedom with the way they used the property. The two parties couldn't come to terms, and the proposal was tabled. Had it been a few years earlier, the plan probably would have been more acceptable, but as proposed it was counter to the small business and low-density residential the town was envisioning for the Inlet Corridor in its newly-passed Comprehensive Plan.
Meanwhile, in the past few years, the city's been trying to figure out how to redevelop the Waterfront, and Carpenter by extension. Currently, it's industrial land. Commercial buildings need only be 2 floors to be legally permitted, but residential is not. Waterfront mixed-use zoning had been floated in late 2013 and early 2014, but several city officials and at least one common council member shot the idea down. Then came last June's Form Ithaca charrettes of what could be done under the ideas of the new 2015 Comprehensive Plan, and the passage of the plan itself. The dense, mixed-use, walkable allure grew stronger and has become the city's official stance, but the zoning has yet to be updated as the plan recommends (it's a long process, and the work is ongoing).
The city does allow for Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) on industrial land that could allow residential use, but only at the Common Council's discretion. A proposal is currently in work for what's called a Temporary Mandatory PUD that would force all waterfront projects to be approved by the Common Council along with the Planning Board. The Voice has written about that here.
So in the current case with the waterfront, it's a situation all too familiar to the Maguires – the core of the issue is that the proposal conflicts with a newly-passed Comprehensive Plan.
The Maguire proposal incorporates a number of energy saving features. Above is a copy of the site plan. The area to the upper right is the NYSDOT redevelopment with the preferred layout; essentially a placeholder, since development is years off, if it ever happens. The Maguires propose a $12 million, 50,000 SF LEED Gold building with rooftop gardens, solar panels, extensive landscaping, rainwater harvesting, and a solar-powered battery charging station for electric cars. This location would sell the Ford, Lincoln and Nissan brands. The site proposes employee, service and some car display parking where power line right-of-ways (ROWs) prevent construction of permanent structures.
The project, with a proposed launch later in 2016, is intended as a Phase I — Phase II would renovate the current Ford/Lincoln/Nissan dealership at 504 South Meadow Street into the new Hyundai/Subaru location (at a cost of $5 million), and then Phase III would expand the Fiat/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram location into the old Hyundai/Subaru space (cost of $1 million). The three-year set of plans would result in about $18 million of investment.
Community benefits would be complimentary parking for the community gardens and farmer's market, and sales and tax revenues. A report from TCAD suggests an increase of $340,000 annually in property tax revenue, and $436,000 annually in sales taxes ($776,000 total, of which the city's share is about $294,000). TCAD projects the direct creation of 57 jobs when all phases are completed, with an average annual wage of $44,300. TCAD also predicts 13 spinoff jobs.
Along with the Maguires, local firms TWMLA, T.G. Miller P.C., and Schickel Architecture are working together on the proposal.
Correction: The history of the Carpenter Business Park has been amended. The community gardens were established in 1982 when NYSEG owned the land, not "the late 1980s". The Voice regrets the error.
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Tradeoffs To Improve Performance, Lower Power
Customized designs are becoming the norm, but making them work isn't so simple.
March 11th, 2021 - By: Ann Mutschler
Generic chips are no longer acceptable in competitive markets, and the trend is growing as designs become increasingly heterogeneous and targeted to specific workloads and applications.
From the edge to the cloud, including everything from vehicles, smartphones, to commercial and industrial machinery, the trend increasingly is on maximizing performance using the least amount of energy. This is why tech giants such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others are creating custom silicon for their targeted applications.
Compute technology historically has swung between general-purpose and domain-specific, but the rising cost of scaling and the diminishing PPA (power, performance, and area) benefits, along with a focus on more intelligence in these systems, are tilting the scale heavily toward customization. That specificity can be designed into a complex SoC, but it also can involve advanced packages with different compute elements such as GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, custom accelerators, and different memory types and configurations.
"GPUs already were being used in the high-performance computing community, and people could see the power advantage," observed Steven Woo, fellow and distinguished inventor at Rambus. "AI was a target application, as well, for what people wanted to do on the next supercomputers, so discussions began around how to use these GPUs as accelerators. But in all of this, GPUs give you a really difficult power envelope to operate under. You just look at the power envelope and see there's no way to move the data around like you used to before. You know the picojoules per bit to move a piece of data. You look at that and say, 'There's no way I can do what I used to do.'"
In the past, developers could just wait for the next silicon node and there would be a bigger, more capable processor running on a smaller geometry technology base, able to deliver higher performance at lower power.
"As scaling has slowed, this is no longer a viable strategy," said Russell Klein, HLS platform program director at Siemens EDA. "To meet increasing computational demands today, developers have been looking to alternative approaches. This is especially true on the edge, where there can be severe constraints on compute resources and available energy. There is always a tradeoff between having an accelerator be programmable and extracting the greatest performance and efficiency. GPUs, TPUs, and similar arrays of small processors have great flexibility in that they can be easily reprogrammed, but they leave a fair amount of performance and efficiency on the table. To achieve the absolute highest performance and efficiency, a fixed hardware accelerator is required."
But there is a tradeoff between performance and energy efficiency. "Going as fast as possible means pushing the clock frequency and voltages to their limits. It also means adding more computational elements, more and larger cache memories, and wider data paths. All of these improve performance, but use more energy," Klein said.
Particularly at the edge, this shift is being driven by the explosion in data and the penalties — economic, power, time — in moving all of that data to the cloud, processing it, and sending it back to the edge device. In fact, the edge buildout is a result of those factors and the need for real-time, or at least near real-time, results.
"The main challenge for these designers is meeting the highest possible performance inside a given energy budget," said George Wall, director of product marketing for Tensilica Xtensa Processor IP at Cadence. "These use cases are driving the proliferation of domain-specific processing solutions. It's all about computes-per-milliwatt and computes-per-millijoule in these use cases, and there is just no way to get there effectively without tailoring the compute resources to the task at hand. It doesn't matter whether it's automotive radar, or object classification for autonomous vehicles, or voice command recognition in a noisy environment. The growth of machine learning algorithms in these areas reinforces the explosive growth of compute requirements in these areas. But there is only so much energy to go around, and no one wants a bigger car battery, for example."
This is particularly important in automotive electronics. "Intelligence requirements within the vehicle, and communication to and from the vehicle, are both increasing dramatically," said Robert Day, director of automotive partnerships in Arm's Automotive and IoT Line of Business. "However, defining what 'edge' means in a particular context, and then what sort of applications and processing are required for each variant of edge differ dramatically. In automotive, these could be roadside units that are linked to cameras that are watching the environment, connected to infrastructure elements such as traffic signals, or connected to vehicles in their locale. A common theme with these units is the local processing and aggregation of data, rather than feeding the data directly to the cloud for processing."
The cloud still plays a role, but one that leverages its massive compute capability with an acceptable level of delay in results. "This data, once processed locally, can then be fed as an environmental snapshot to the cloud, which can then process the data further to provide a view of the world for that locale, be it weather, traffic, or accidents," said Day. "This consolidated information can be fed back to vehicles within that locale to aid with driver assistance, route planning, and autonomous driving. These edge units will often run similar workloads to the cloud, but will need to run on more efficient, 'embedded' computing elements, including CPUs, GPUs, and MLAs. These edge units also could communicate to local vehicles, directly warning them in 'real time' of possible dangers such as accidents, weather conditions, or vulnerable road users in the vicinity."
Minimizing data movement
Core to the design is understanding what works best where, and then partitioning the compute, memory, and I/O based upon performance and power requirements, with as many customized elements as time and cost will allow.
"You actually see the benefits in practice now," Rambus' Woo said. "Probably the biggest things that we see are that domain-specific processors are very good at matching the resources needed for a particular computation, not including the kitchen sink, and only including what you really need. People realized that computation is important in a lot of this, but what's a bit more of a bottleneck is the movement of data. As a result, these domain-specific processors keep pushing forward the ability to compute faster and faster, but if you can't keep those pipelines full, then there's no point in doing it. A lot of this is also about moving data on and off chip. Once these chips have data on-chip, they try not to move it around. They try and use it as much as they can, because if data us constantly being moved on and off, that's not a good thing either. AI accelerators, in particular, need more bandwidth as compute engines get faster, and there's only a couple of really good memory solutions that will work. When you do have to move data, you want it to be as power efficient as possible. Then, once you get it on your chip, you try not to move it around at all."
Some system architects take the approach of keeping some of the data stationary, and changing the computation going on around the data. "Think of it as a vast array of little compute cells," said Woo. "These compute cells can hold a little bit of data, and there are different combinations of transistors to do different kinds of calculations on that piece of data. It's actually better to have those compute resources all in one place, and then not to move the data around, than it is to have unique and dedicated resources and to be shipping the data back and forth between these little compute units. In machine learning, this is called weight stationary. Applied in machine learning, you perform all those repeated computations, multiplying a weight against an input. The weight is kept in one place, then other data is flowed through the architecture. The weight is used over and over again in some of these calculations, so it's to your advantage to keep it, and make it stay put if you can."
That has a big impact on performance, but it also requires a deep understanding of data movement within a particular domain.
"Efficiently caching data and intermediate results is critical for optimal performance," said Siemens' Klein. "Anything that minimizes the movement of data and reduces the size of memories in the design will improve power and performance. Moving computations from software on a general-purpose processor to hardware can dramatically improve the operating characteristics of the system."
A hardware accelerator can dramatically outperform software for a number of reasons, he explained. "First, processors are fairly serial machines, while a hardware accelerator can perform lots of operations in parallel. Second, processors have a limited set of registers for holding intermediate results. In most cases they need to write results out to a local cache, or maybe even to main memory, which is slow and consumes a lot of power. In a hardware accelerator, data can be passed directly from one processing element to the next. This saves a lot of time and a lot of energy. Finally, a hardware accelerator can be tailored to the specific task it will be working on. The multiplier in a general-purpose processor needs to be able to handle anything any program can send to it, meaning it needs to be 32 or 64 bits wide. The multipliers in a hardware accelerator may only need to be 11 bits or 14 bits wide, whatever is needed to support the computation being performed."
Many applications can move from floating-point to fixed-point number representation. Fixed-point operators are about half the size of equivalent floating-point operators. Further, these applications do not always need 32 bits to represent the numbers. Depending on the range and precision needed, a smaller representation can be used. This benefits the design in a number of ways. First, there is less data to move and store, which means smaller memories and smaller data paths. Second, the arithmetic and logical operators can be smaller.
Multipliers, one of the larger operators in a design, are roughly proportional to the square of the size of the factor inputs. An 8-bit fixed-point multiplier is about 1/16 the size and power of a 32-bit fixed-point multiplier. Note that a 1-bit multiplier is an "and-gate." There's nothing magical about the power of two. An accelerator, a multiplier can process any sized number, any number of bits. Any reduction in operand size, so long as it does not impair the computation, benefits the design.
Inferencing is one example of an algorithm that can use significantly reduced precision and still deliver good results. "Neural networks are typically trained using 32-bit floating-point numbers, but they can be deployed for inferencing using a much smaller fixed-point representation for features and weights," Klein said. "The values in neural networks are usually normalized to between 1.0 and -1.0, meaning most of the range of the floating-point number representation is simply not used. The quantizing effect of using fewer bits can actually improve neural network performance in some cases. In a recent example, we were able to use 10-bit fixed-point numbers and still be within 1% of the accuracy of the original floating-point neural network implementation. A 10-bit fixed-point multiplier is about 1/20th the area and power of a 32-bit floating-point multiplier. That's a big savings."
Tradeoffs
To make this work requires a reasonably good estimate of the power, performance, and area for each option under consideration. Manually developing an RTL implementation is impractical when considering any more than a couple alternatives, which is one of the reasons why high-level synthesis has surged over the past couple years.
But rising design complexity and focus on specific domains also has increased the demand for quicker ways of making tradeoffs across a number of disciplines.
"For domain-specific processors, as the name indicates, you have to have a good knowledge of the domain," said Markus Willems, senior product marketing manager, processor solutions at Synopsys. "That must be translated into an architecture. Then, you need to give it to the hardware designers, along with the software development tools for that processor — because in the end it's a processor, so your end users expect to have a simulator and debugger and compiler and everything. That's already four different groups that you need to bring together."
This has a big impact on design methodologies. "Adopting an Agile approach is crucial for a domain-specific processor, because you need to make sure that you're always verifying it against your domain," Willems said. "It's simple for controllers. Everybody knows RISC, but probably in the first years of RISC we also went through this process. Fortunately, by now everybody knows what it is supposed to do so, so then it's about squeezing out the micro-architecture. Now, with a domain-specific processor you're back into the step of innovation. If you innovate, there is uncertainty. You want to make sure you bring it back so that all the necessary disciplines are accounted for, because that's what enables engineering teams to innovate."
Fig. 1: A multidisciplinary Agile design flow. Source: Synopsys
But making that work also requires a number of tradeoffs, particularly around power and performance. Both of these are key to the user experience, and they are foundational to the whole domain-specific approach. "While lower-cost compute capabilities and wireless connectivity enable this mega trend in the market today of pushing more decision making out to the edge, the enhanced user experience is what this edge compute capability enables," said James Davis, director of marketing at Infineon Technologies. "This is the value to the end-user."
Examples of this could be in security system applications, where the edge compute capability needs to detect humans vs. animal, or voice wake-word detection in other applications. Davis noted that to optimize power and performance in these applications, systems architects and designers now can utilize autonomous peripheral control techniques. To make that as efficient as possible, they can determine which portions of a processor are active at different times in a particular use-case. That minimizes the overall system power, while allowing higher power portions of the system to be turned off or put into sleep mode.
There are other benefits, too. "This is yet another aspect of the design that systems designers need to consider and optimize," he said. "With these new connected edge applications, we're always being watched with battery-operated cameras or listened to with smart speakers from various suppliers or with connected sensors. They're monitoring our steps, health, heart rate, etc. While enhanced edge compute capabilities enable more distributed computing, they also enable these advanced user experiences while protecting our privacy. This means instead of constantly sending this data to the cloud for processing, where the data could be compromised in transit or in the cloud, these systems can run the complex DSP/machine-learning algorithms at the edge and never send private data to the cloud. So, in addition to power and performance tradeoffs, an aspect of performance that affects the user experience is privacy and security that also needs to be considered."
Further, Andy Heinig, head of the Efficient Electronics department at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS noted that to reach the more and more challenging power goals, optimization on different levels are necessary from the lowest transistor level and gate level up to the system level. "On system level the optimization can be done on the part of the software but also on the part of the hardware architecture. The biggest performance gains can be realized by hardware-software co-optimization. It allows the design of domain specific processing solutions. But to realize the greatest performance gain, it is not enough to look at the system level because some relevant impacts can only be seen on transistor level (e.g. power, performance, area, …). That is why models with very good correlation between the different levels as well with power, performance and area aspects are necessary in the future."
One option that is gaining traction is advanced packaging. Already, some of the most advanced chips from Apple, Intel, and AMD are using this approach to customize their designs. Intel and AMD are using chiplets to make that whole process simpler.
"There's a difference between the traditional multi-chip module (MCM) and the goal that people are shooting for now with chiplet heterogeneous integration," said Marc Swinnen, director, product marketing for the semiconductor business unit at Ansys. "With MCMs, a standard chip is taken out of its package and placed with multiple other chips on a dense substrate, such as ceramic, laminate, or silicon interposer. However, the way the chiplet effort is progressing, a lot of the savings are in power and speed. When you break a chip apart into heterogeneous blocks, you're going to pay a penalty in area, obviously, but you also want to avoid having to pay the penalty in speed and power."
The way to do that is to remember that chips today have big I/O drivers that go off chip. "These chips have to drive a PCB trace, and PCB traces are big and long, have to take ESD shocks, and support a built-in external interface," Swinnen said. "If you're going to mount the chip on a substrate, where the wires are really short and really thin, you actually can get rid of these big I/O drivers and use much higher-speed, higher-throughput, low-power drivers that have an extremely short range and can't drive much of a signal. And the good news is you don't need much on these chiplets. That's the promise — you can get rid of this entire power ring and get high-speed, low-power communication into chips, and make the cost of breaking them apart bearable."
The downside is these individual chiplets, interconnects, and packages have to be designed especially for this purpose, so they aren't really usable for anything else. It may take awhile, and a number of standards, before the industry has enough critical mass to make this work on a multi-vendor scale.
"If you look at where this has been implemented today by Nvidia, by Intel, by Qualcomm, they do have domain-specific versions of those chips, but they've been designed in a vertically integrated manner such that they design the package, the chips, the whole system," he said. "It's all one company and that works. But with an open market, where you take a random chip off the shelf and think it's going to work across a number of applications, we're not there yet. Also, to what degree will the chip need to be designed for its specific packaging environment versus the generic environment that we have today?"
The chip industry is just beginning to wrestle with all of the possible options to maximize performance for the minimal amount of energy for specific applications. That's a system-level challenge, and it's one that spans everything from a distributed supply chain to more tightly integrated hardware and software.
"You can come up with the most sophisticated architecture that has great ways of reducing power, but if your software team has to program everything in assembly, they will not take advantage of all the capabilities," said Synopsys' Willems. "It would be like giving them a race car while they're taking driving lessons. That's really the challenge — to keep programmability in mind from a software developer's perspective."
At the same time, architects and designers need to remember that domain-specific computing places stress on lots of other things surrounding the design. "The processing gets so much faster that the I/O becomes even more important," said Rambus' Woo. "Memory, chip-to-chip communications, and the concepts seen in things like HBM memory where you stack to try and improve the power efficiency — all of this argues for things like moving toward stacked architectures, shorter distances, and extremely power-efficient I/Os. This means memory interfaces are going to be that much more important, and that's going to be true anywhere at the edge. It'll be true at the end points. You'll see a lot of people doing things with on-chip memory, on-chip caches, and related things, if they can. If they can't, stacking would be probably the best way to address the problem. You really don't have many choices. You really don't have many ways out of the box, so you've got to figure out how to change the architecture to take advantage of those things."
But this isn't an option. It's something all design teams will have to wrestle with.
"Facebook is making its own chips, along with Google, Amazon, and others," said Ansys' Swinnen. Everybody's seen that if you don't have control over that hardware, and you fall back on generic solutions, the other guys will just pass you by."
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The agenda included an overview of a proposed multi-use stadium for the east side of downtown. The presentation was impressive, compelling, and showed a world-class team has been assembled to plan initial design and financing. That presentation alone was worth my time, and convinced me the project is one that deserves serious study and consideration.
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Bill laid out a fascinating blueprint for how they did it in Durham. It required a combination of people coming together who cared about their community, who were tired of the status quo, who were willing to put time and financial resources into the project, who developed a common vision and strategy, and who then executed that strategy without compromise. They made downtown development a community priority, and worked hard to create an environment ripe for private investment.
DDI's blueprint for development included a set of "non-negotiable" principles, including that each initiative requiring incentives must be a good deal for the taxpayers. It included creative approaches to project financing, persistent and dogged determination to execute the strategy and to overcome obstacles and, most importantly, the recognition that building strong relationships with key players in the downtown area (landlords, developers, government leaders, community leaders, business leaders) was the key to success.
Bill noted that, in many ways, 20 years ago Durham was far worse off than High Point is today. But it had three critical assets to build upon: available buildings with character, a highly-regarded University, and local talented people who were willing to work together toward a shared vision.
Applying the Durham approach to High Point: we have a downtown that certainly has challenges due to the concentration of showroom space, but that also has a considerable amount of available unused retail space with character, as well as parking lots capable of development. We have a highly-recognized University bringing talent and attention to our City. And based on the level of attendance and interest I witnessed at the CVB meeting, we have community, business and government leaders who see a need for change in downtown High Point and appear willing to lay aside differences and begin to work together.
High Point needs a galvanizing project – something to begin to get people excited and help them believe change may really be around the corner. Whether that project is the mixed-use stadium or another concept, I am convinced that if the folks in Durham can revitalize their downtown, so can we. It will require making downtown development a community priority. It will require laying aside differences and prioritizing initiatives. It will require investment of financial and other resources from the private and public sectors. It will require leadership and political courage. But if the meeting I attended is any indication, we may have just seen the spark we need to light the flames of excitement, involvement and commitment in our city.


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Dr. Yasmine Mawji MDCM, CCFP(EM)
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Yasmine Mawji has worked as an Emergency Physician for the past 21 years at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mawji has previously held the position of Program Director for Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Clerkship at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Noah Farber MD, CCFP(EM)
SEME Program Assistant Director
Noah Farber works full time as an Emergency Physician at both an urban tertiary care centre as well as a community hospital. He is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Farber completed the Comprehensive Instructor Course at the Harvard Centre for Medical Simulation and is the lead of the simulation curriculum for SEME.
Nancy Medeiros HBSc.
SEME Coordinator
Nancy Medeiros has been the Program Coordinator for he SEME program since its inception in 2012. Nancy began working for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto as an Administrative Coordinator for the Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Program in 2002. She is a University of Toronto graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Dr. Ian Chernoff MD, CCFP(EM)
Ian Chernoff is an Emergency Physician at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital. He has 8 years of community Emergency Medicine experience in urban and semi-rural settings. Dr. Chernoff has been involved in the SEME program since its inception. He has extensive teaching experience in Point of Care Ultrasound, and is the ultrasound lead for the SEME program. He has completed Fellowship training in ultrasound, and has Master Instructor certification with the Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society.
Dr. David Dushenski MD, CCFP(EM)
Dave Dushenski has been a staff Emergency Physician for over 20 years. He is the Chief of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr. John Foote MD, CCFP(EM)
John Foote has worked for 21 years as a full-time emergency physician in Toronto at a community hospital and an urban tertiary care centre. He is the Director of Education at the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Director of the Emergency Medicine/Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Toronto. He serves as the National Chair for the EM Committee of the Canadian College of Family Physicians and as a member of the CAEP Academic Executive Committee.
Dr. Maria Ivankovic MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP
Maria Ivankovic is a staff Emergency Physician at the Credit Valley Hospital, Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga and St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ivankovic is a Master Instructor in bedside ultrasound (EDE) and loves to teach.
Dr. Sameer Kumar MD, FRCP(C)
Sameer Kumar is a Critical Care Physician at the Credit Valley Hospital, Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga. He is the Physician Lead, Simulation at the hospital. Dr. Kumar is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has earned Testamur status in Adult Echocardiography with the National Board of Echocardiography.
Dr. Eric Letovsky MDCM, MCFP(EM), FRCP
Eric Letovsky is the Chief of the Emergency Medicine Program at Trillium Health Partners, which consists of the emergency departments at Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital, and Urgent Care Centre at the Queensway Health Centre. He is the Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Dave MacKinnon MD, CCFP(EM)
David MacKinnon has served as the Deputy Chief of the Emergency Department at St. Michael's Hospital since 2011. He is both an Emergency Physician and a Trauma Team Leader at the hospital. He completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario and Family & Emergency Medicine residency at Queen's University. His current and recent roles include work in quality improvement, patient flow, medical imaging in emergency patients, education, global health, and ED redesign.
Dr. Sev Perelman MD, MSC, CCFP(EM), FCFP, CHSE-A
Sev Perelman is an Emergency Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has been the Director of SIMSinai for the last 6 years which has allowed him to design and participate in numerous educational initiatives and research projects. Dr. Perelman is credentialed by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator – Advanced and is a co-chair of the SSH bench-marking committee. He is an award-winning teacher and has been an invited speaker at several national and international conferences.
Dr. Jonathan Pirie MD, MEd, FRCPC, FAAP (PEM)
Dr. Jonathan Pirie is a staff physician in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He currently is the Director of Simulation for Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Simulation Fellowship program. His clinical interests include resuscitation, fever, and risk for serious bacterial infection, and procedural sedation.
Dr. Nadia Primiani MDCM, CCFP(EM)
Nadia Primiani is an Emergency Physician at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital. She previously worked in Vancouver and Calgary before coming to Toronto. Dr. Primiani is the Post Graduate Education Coordinator for the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre and her academic interests include medical education and simulation.
Dr. Arun Sayal MD, CCFP(EM)
Arun Sayal is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Since 2005, he has run a weekly Minor Fracture Clinic at NYGH. Combining his ED and fracture clinic experiences, CASTED was created in 2008. CASTED is a series of practical, high-yield, hands-on orthopaedics courses. Over 250 courses have been presented across Canada. Dr. Sayal has won over a dozen awards for his teaching in the ED and with CASTED.
Dr. Brian Wall MD, BSc(Eng), FRCP
Brian Wall is a staff emergency physician at North York General and St. Michael's Hospitals. Focusing on emergency airway management in his fellowship, Brian is an active AIME national airway course instructor and has published Cochrane research concerning procedural sedation. Locally, he is an award-winning clinical teacher with a budding interest in ECG quality assurance.


A Las Vegas mom is glad she followed her gut instinct and got a second opinion after she received an estimate for hundreds of dollars in car repairs she did not need.
Monica Padilla needs her car to get around for work and her three kids.
Last week, the air conditioner on her 2014 Hyundai Sonata started to act up.
"When something like this happens, you're not prepared for it, plus with the triple digits were having made it much worse," said Padilla.
Padilla elected to bring her car to a Pep Boys located near Rancho and Cheyenne to have it checked out.
Technicans at the repair shop looked under the hood and gave Padilla's car a grave diagnosis.
"They said my air compressor was kaput, that's what they said," added Padilla.
Contact 13 obtained the invoice from Pep Boys and quotes a list of charges for a new compressor and additional repair work.
"I was very upset, because I don't really have $1,300 just lying around," said Padilla.
Padilla said the store even offered a 10 percent discount and a Pep Boys credit card to pay for the repair work.
Padilla said her gut told her to seek out a second opinion so she brought her car to the dealership.
"It was a lot of money, especially on one income, and I'm on a budget," said Padilla.
According to paperwork Padilla provided Contact 13, technicians at the dealership found a plastic bag was stuck in a blower motor causing a disruption in the air conditioner.
Technicians noted once the bag was removed and the system recharged, the air conditioner was blowing 36 degree air.
The report showed no other mechanical issues and the dealership charged Padilla $140.
"It was my gut feeling, always get a second opinion," said Padilla.
"We have attempted to contact the customer and we will always make it right if one of our technicians misdiagnosed a customer's vehicle. At Pep Boys, we strive to provide our customers with an exceptional experience every time they come to one of our locations. We are continually investing in training and education to improve our technicians' skills and enable them to provide outstanding customer service."
Padilla tells Contact 13 the director of Pep Boys Nevada has called to apologize.


Who Wants To Visit New York City?
I just love New York, dream of visiting there sometimes. Read this nice site Visit New York City para we can find more information on New York. So kayo what do you want to visit if nakarating kayo sa New York? Ako sa Manhattan Time Square kasi it's so busy city.
i'd like to visit new york and do food trips over there.
they have all kinds of cuisine there.. middle eastern, and mexican/ cubans, and ofcourse the new york staples like gray's papaya..
ME ME ME! I wanna go but I don't have a visa yet. I plan to get one this year. Wish me luck!
I want to see NY in Autumn. When is the best time to go?
NYC is everything you expect and more.
If you get bored in NYC,its your fault.
Summer is when the weather is best, tsaka eto yung time na may pinakamaraming tourists dito. Yun nga lang may days na ang init eh pareho ng sa Pilipinas. Pero maganda rin ang spring lalo na pag pumunta kayo sa Central Park tapos kaka bloom pa lang ng mga trees and flowers...sobrang ganda *okay* Tsaka don't forget to walk around the city at night, the lights are incredibly beautiful.
i live in new york. and i wouldn't move from here at all. its the best city in the world. if you wanna be in the center of the world, new york city is the place to be! you will see different kinds of people everywhere you look. its a big melting pot and that's what i love about NYC!
I go to NYC once in a while, sometimes I drive, sometimes I take a bus or train and once in a while I fly. It's a great city, hindi ka ma-bo-bore sa NYC, pero pag summer o kahit anong time of year, lalo na sa midtown Manhattan, ang DAMING TAO!! I mean talagang MARAMING TAO! Yun bang sa kalsada na naglalakad ang mga pedestrians kasi siksikan na sa sidewalk. And forget about driving driving around midtown, baka masiraan ka lang ng bait. I suggest mag-park ka na lang somewhere and go around using the subway or taxi.
It's been almost three years now since I've been to NYC. Maybe this summer I'll be driving up there to visit again.
Yup. There's always something to do and something new to discover in NYC. I've been living here since birth and I never get sick of it.
And yea, forget driving! I hate driving through Chinatown especially at night going to holland tunnel!
Nice pics, brienne! I want to go to new york now na! How cold does it get during autumn? what about spring?
I love NY but not most of the people.
There's a Red Ribbon opening soon I believe in Queens also.
I love NYC but 4 days is enough.
As much as i love to go and spend time in their museums,art galleries,to walk in their ever crowded streets,shop at M n M building/store and Toy R US with ferris wheel inside.
No way i live there permanently.
I love New York as well and it's my 3rd most favorite city in the world. I prefer Manhattan below 14th St, especially Greenwich Village. The buildings aren't that tall, it's always buzzing, and the place reminds me a bit of London.
Up in midtown, they actually pedestrianized parts of Times Square when I was there and I think it's going to be permanent. They need to have more public spaces like this.
New York could have been my favorite city in the world if it wasn't relatively lacking in history, has better public spaces, and if it had a better and cleaner subway system (I was surprised how dirty it was). This is why, in my opinion, New York cannot hold a candle to my favorite city in the world, London. It has everything New York has: excellent West End theaters (comparable to Broadway), bustling and varied nightlife, multicultural, the biggest financial center in the world (tied with New York), cultural facilities (opera, orchestra, etc.), political clout, great shopping and dining, etc. Plus, it has history, much better and cleaner public transport, better public spaces, arguably better architecture, and easy connections to mainland Europe (Paris is only 2 hours by train).
I love the Greenwich Village together with SoHo!
That's where the commoner's at!


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It is the spectacular natural realm which makes the area around Achensee so special. As the biggest lake in Tirol, Achensee is also a refuge for lots of sailors, surfers and kite-surfers. In summer they gather with sun-worshippers, who are keen to take a dip and not only enjoy the breath-taking views in the region's bathing lakes, but also the pure water in Achensee. The lake is surrounded by two mountain ranges – on one side the Karwendel mountains rise up with their rugged rocky peaks, while on the other side chamois and Golden Eagles greet you from the summits of the Rofan mountains. This gem of a place captivates with its gentle Alpine pastures, as much as it does with its precipitous rocky cliff faces. This means that Achensee is the perfect starting point for hikes, mountain bike tours and climbing adventures.
Set in the midst of a breathtaking natural backdrop, the region of Achensee is alluring in winter too with its wide ranging, top-quality holiday offers. Families in particular really get their money's worth when it comes to skiing. The region has long made its mark on Nordic athletes as being a top cross-country hub. The unique landscape at Tirol's biggest lake speaks for itself – snow-covered peaks, five picturesque villages and a glistening white landscape, which promises pure winter magic. Coupled with perfect activities on offer for your holiday, from cross-country to skiing, touring, winter hikes through to new trendy sports such as snowkiting and paragliding in winter, a holiday at Achensee provides everything you need to set your heart aflutter. The region is known in particular for its extensive cross-country offers. With more than 200 kilometres of separate slopes for classic cross-country skiers and skaters, its own practice slope, barrier-free cross-country skiing and snow-making facilities in several holiday towns, Achensee maintains its pioneering role in all matters cross-country skiing in Tirol.
The Achensee region provides a total of four ski areas and two small practise hills with around 53 kilometres of pistes. These areas are, in the first instance, known for their considerable family friendly attitudes and special range on offer for ski munchkins. The six ski schools also provide suitable courses.
Those of you who would like to investigate the winter wonderland on Achensee away from the piste can let off steam on the five toboggan runs or relax during a horse-drawn carriage ride in one of the Karwendel valleys. The region is therefore a haven for those who want to get active and recuperate from the stresses of day-to-day life. On the following pages you can read and get information about the complete range of activities on offer at Achensee in the winter!


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Escape Route: Under Fire Manchester United Manager Offered 'New' Job
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Manchester United's Champions League exit to German side Wolfsburg, and defeats to Bournemouth, Norwich City, and Stoke have put the Dutchman on the brink of the sack.
However, if he is forced to leave Manchester United, Louis van Gaal still has a potential escape route, with Netherlands' national team coach Danny Blind raising the idea of him becoming the technical director for his national team.
Van Gaal's position is safe for Saturday's home match against Swansea City, and probably the Old Trafford FA Cup tie with Sheffield United a week later. But, his long-term future remains uncertain, with Manchester United already five points adrift of fourth place in the Premier League table.
Such an outcome would provoke new doubts in Van Gaal – about whether he is the man to take the club forward. However, Danny Blind has claimed that the 64-year-old would be an ideal appointment as a technical director of the Royal Dutch FA.
Danny Blind said: "With Van Gaal, I could achieve a lot. He is in the top category. But there are also many other options to think of where the shoe could fit. I do not know if that will happen. You have to offer an exciting job and it must be someone with respect. It's difficult."
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Q: set registry setting using BHO in C# I am trying to set a registry value using BHO.
it is working when i test a web application hosted in my machine, but when I check the created BHO is working with other websites, like Google.com, yahoo.com or any other website, it is not working.
I can read the registry value.
I have tried this method as well [RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree]. It is not working.
Is there any access rights I need to set? I could not found LowRegistry which is mentioned in  given link.
please help me on this.