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Bill Ackerman '88 epitomizes how the Amherst College liberal arts education prepares you to think innovatively, constantly seek new opportunities and explore different career paths. He will be speaking at the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning Food for Thought Lunch. Come learn more about his career and how his liberal arts education at Amherst College led to his unique career path in business including roles in financial management, journalism, corporate audit, sales, strategy, investment advice, and now as the head of human resources at Fidelity Investments.
Ackerman is passionate about identifying and solving business opportunities and problems in unique ways rather than the easy way. He believes that an organization's strongest assets are often their people and that for an organization to thrive, it is important that every person in the organization feels valued. He has brought this philosophy to his latest opportunity, and his first stint in HR, as the head of human resources at Fidelity Investments. He is eager to share his insights and perspectives on how your liberal arts education can lead you on a path not only of self-discovery, but also a constant weaving path of learning and new opportunities (in and out of business). His full biography is below.
Full biography for Bill Ackerman '88:
Bill Ackerman is head of human resources (HR) for Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 26 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. During his tenure with the firm, Ackerman has held a variety of leadership positions across several of the company's divisions. He was named head of human resources in 2014 and currently oversees the HR function, the Fidelity Real Estate Company, and Enterprise Events & Corporate Sponsorships. Prior to this role, he led the firm's Strategy and Planning Office.
Ackerman has acted in strategic operating roles in various parts of Fidelity, including the company's Personal Investing and Workplace Solutions divisions. In addition, he held several leadership positions within Fidelity's COLT Telecom Group in London, including COLT Finance & Planning, COLT Marketing Development and COLT eBusiness. He also held the roles of senior vice president, business development and chief financial officer for Fidelity Ventures Telecom Group in Boston and Tokyo.
Prior to joining Fidelity, Ackerman worked at General Electric (GE) where he held a number of business and finance-related roles at GE business units around the world. He is a graduate of GE's Financial Management Program and Corporate Audit Staff. Ackerman was a journalist in California and a freelance writer for other publications.
Ackerman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College where he majored in economics. He earned his master's degree in Communications from Stanford University.
Lunch will be served. Please register in advance through Handshake. Space is limited and a waiting list will begin once the seats are filled.
Startup studio Loeb.NYC is continuing its commitment to entrepreneurial internships in NYC. Michael Loeb '77, P'21 (serial entrepreneur, founder of Loeb Enterprises/Loeb.NYC, and co-founder of Priceline), along with Nicole Williams (founder of portfolio company 'WORKS', three-time bestselling author and regular talk show guest), have collaborated to bring you the Loeb.NYC Summer Internship Program for the fourth year in a row.
Loeb.NYC's 10-week internship program provides training and first-hand NYC startup experience to approximately 40 bright undergraduate students with an enthusiasm for business and innovation. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to learn about entrepreneurship and make a difference at a startup. Attend this information session to learn more about the internship program and how to successfully apply to be part of the Summer 2020 cohort!
The internship kicks off in early June, when interns join Michael and Nicole at Michael's Southampton house (if you've seen Billions on Showtime, it's that Hampton house), where they are immersed in a one-day training program. The next day, the CEOs of the startup companies selected for the summer program pitch their businesses and summer projects to the interns. After individual meetings between the startups and the students, each intern is matched with a company that closely fits their skills and interests. To ensure this program is a success for interns and companies, company CEOs create defined assignments with meaningful work and oversight.
The internship program is supportive and comprehensive. Each intern receives a subject matter introduction to business and entrepreneurship, obtains support throughout the ten weeks, and is provided with resources enabling them to succeed. Every week, interns visit the Loeb.NYC home office for our version of an evening 'Ted Talk' featuring world class entrepreneurs discussing, well, just about anything they want to. In addition, interns participate in a weekly roundtable where progress is reviewed and concerns discussed.
Students who are selected for this internship will receive a stipend from the college to facilitate their participation.
*This internship is a part of the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program. Students must enroll in the Houston Program first before applying. Visit the Loeb Center website to learn more about applying to the Houston Program or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mark your calendars! Next month we are having our fall community event, "The Entrepreneurial Spirit: An Amherst Alum's Roadmap to Success." This event is open to all students, faculty, staff and local Amherst community members.
The first portion of this event will be a panel-style Q&A with all of the alums, then for the second half of the evening, each attendee will be able to pick from three workshop options each one facilitated by a pair of alums. Each workshop will have a theme and the alums will cover that topic as it relates to their specific business. This will be a great way to ensure people get to hear more from any alum they choose and learn about aspects of their businesses that may not have been covered in the Q&A.
We are thrilled to have these well-established Amherst alums join us for this event! Below is a list of each alum who will be joining us, and a brief description of them and their business.
Cait Scudder, business coach and success catalyst
"My mission is to equip ambitious, visionary women with the structure, systems and support you need to launch and lead a wildly profitable business and have a good time doing it. I've taught hundreds of women and counting how to leverage their unique gifts and boldly rise into next level, pack-leading entrepreneurs from self doubt and burnout straight into boss babes earning between $10K-$50K in a matter of months."
Brendan McKee, Silver Therapeutics
Brendan McKee '07 is the co-founder and CFO of Silver Therapeutics, a vertically integrated cannabis company with locations in Boston, Orange and Williamstown. Our mission is to provide enjoyment and wellness through our locally curated craft cannabis products. ST opened the second stand alone adult use retail on the East Coast and is the only group in the city of Boston with a vertically integrated Host Community Agreement. As a company, ST continues to embrace the #ILOVESOCIALEQUITY campaign and exceed the states expectations to be inclusive and provide opportunities to groups that have been disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. ST is one of the few locally owned and operated cannabis groups in MA with plans to expand their repeatable model to contiguous states and beyond.
Carlissa & Laken King, Worldgirls
Inspired by their upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, twin sisters Laken and Carlissa King sought to create dolls that spark creativity and celebrate togetherness. With rich storytelling that's aspirational and engaging, each Worldgirls doll embodies a specific archetypal trait—Warrior, Healer, Explorer, Rebel, and Scholar—so that children can identify with the dolls unique passions rather than their looks. More than just dolls, Worldgirls is the ultimate team representing girls from different countries and backgrounds who come together to learn, break down barriers, and have fun while doing it!
Parker Holcomb, CoLane
CoLane is a truckload broker automating time-consuming tasks with AI and robotic process automation with a superpowered coworker we call Archie. The more information Archie processes, the more patterns and behaviors he can identify and respond to. This includes information with drivers and dispatch, track & trace, driver empty updates, and handing many of the other endless communications taking place in truck brokerage.
Chloe McKenzie, BlackFem, Inc.
Chloe McKenzie is creating a new reality. And she is starting where it matters most, the financial institutions that typically overlook financially disadvantaged population and school districts with high concentrations of girls of color. Chloe is revolutionizing the financial services industry and education system by offering integrated, culturally-responsive financial and wealth literacy programs and interventions so that we can break the cycle of poverty. Armed with the skills, resources, and most importantly, confidence they need to succeed, our communities will be empowered to articulate and assert their worth.

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Exynos Mongoose 1 (M1) is an ARM microarchitecture designed by Samsung for their consumer electronics. This was Samsung's first in-house developed high-performance low-power ARM microarchitecture.
- 1 History
- 2 Process Technology
- 3 Compiler support
- 4 Architecture
- 5 Overview
- 6 Core
- 7 Core cluster
- 8 Die
- 9 All M1 Processors
- 10 Bibliography
The Mongoose 1 (M1) microarchitecture was Samsung's first in-house design which was done entirely from scratch. A design team was assembled and in roughly 3 years, they've gone from requirements to tape-out. The design was done at Samsung's Austin R&D Center (SARC) which was founded in 2010 for the sole purpose of developing high-performance, low-power, complex CPU and System IPs. A large portion of the design team consists of many ex-AMD Austin engineers as well as ex-IBMers. The Mongoose 1 microarchitecture was led by chief architect Brad Burgess. Previously Burgess was an AMD fellow and the chief architect of AMD's Bobcat microarchitecture, a low-power x86 design.
Process Technology[edit]
M1 was fabricated on Samsung's 14 nm process.
Compiler support[edit]
The M1 is Samsung's first in-house design from scratch.
- ARM v8.0
- 2.6 GHz clock frequency
- 2.3 GHz for multi-core workloads
- Sub 3-watt/core
- 14 nm process (FinFET)
- Core
- Advanced branch predictor
- 4-way instruction decode
- Most instructions map to a single µOP, with a few exceptions
- 4-way µOP dispatch and retire
- Out-of-order execution
- Out-of-order load and stores
- Multistride/multistream prefetcher
- Low-latency and low-power caches
Block Diagram[edit]
Core Cluster Overview[edit]
Individual Core[edit]
Memory Hierarchy[edit]
- Cache
- L1I Cache
- 64 KiB, 4-way set associative
- 128 B line size
- per core
- Parity-protected
- 64 KiB, 4-way set associative
- L1D Cache
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- 64 B line size
- per core
- 4 cycles for fastest load-to-use
- 16 B/cycle load bandwidth
- 16 B/cycle store bandwidth
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- L2 Cache
- 2 MiB, 16-way set associative
- 4x banks (512 KiB each)
- Inclusive of L1
- 22 cycles latency
- 16 B/cycle/CPU bandwidth
- 2 MiB, 16-way set associative
- L1I Cache
Mongoose 1 TLB consists of dedicated L1 TLB for instruction cache (ITLB) and another one for data cache (DTLB). Additionally there is a unified L2 TLB (STLB).
- TLBs
- 256-entry
- 32-entry
- 1,024-entry
- Per core
- 4K-entry main BTB
- 64-entry µBTB
- 64-entry return stack
- 8K-entry L2 BTB
Mongoose 1 was an entirely brand new architecture from the ground up that implemented the ARMv8 ISA. The architecture supports both AArch64 and AArch32 including Thumb modes. The architecture is a quad-core design which was intended to be paired with another low-power ARM IP core.
The M1 has a speculatively executing out-of-order 4-wide pipeline.
There are two pipeline stages for the branch predictor for generating addresses. There are three cycles for fetching instructions from the instruction cache and delivering them to the instruction queue. There are three decode stages, two renaming stages, and a single dispatch stage.
Both pipes for the execution stage goes through a scheduling cycle followed by a register read cycle. Instruction execution may take a cycle or more depending on the ARM instruction being executed. There is a single cycle for the write back and forwarding. In the case of a load operation, there is an additional translation tag cycle, data cycle, and an alignment and write back cycle.
The last row (in blue) are the 22 cycles latency path for loading data from the level 2 cache.
The front-end is responsible for fetching the correct stream of bytes from the cache based on the traffic flow predictions by the branch predictor and feeding the decoders which decode the instructions into simple signals. The goal of the front-end is the ultimately keep the back-end busy executing as much instructions as possible.
Fetch & pre-decoding[edit]
With the help of the branch predictor, the instructions should already be found in the level 1 instruction cache. The L1I cache is 64 KiB, 4-way set associative and has its own iTLB consisting of 256 entries. Up to 24 bytes are read from it each cycle into the instruction queue which allows them to hide very short branch bubbles. The instruction queue is a slightly more complex component than a simple buffer. The byte stream gets split up into the ARM instructions its made off, including dealing with the various mis-aligned ARM instructions such as in the case of thumb mode.
Branch Predictor[edit]
The M1 has a perceptron branch predictor (Samsung advertises it as a "neural network" predictor) with a couple of perceptrons which can handle two branches per cycle. The unit is capable of indirect predictions as well as loop and stream predictions when it detects those traffic patterns. The unit has a 64-entry µBTB that can be used for caching small tight loops and hot kernels. Additionally, there is a 4K main BTB which covers the entire footprint of the instruction cache and allows for higher accuracy. There is a 64-entry call return stack.
The branch predictor feeds a decoupled instruction address queue which in turn feeds the instruction cache.
From the instruction queue the instructions are sent to decode. Decode is a 4-way decoder which can handle both the ARM AArch64 and AArch32 instructions. Up to four µOPs are decoded and sent to the re-order buffer.
For some complex ARM instructions such as the ARMv7 load-store multiples instructions which result in multiple µOPs being emitted, M1 has a side micro-sequencer that will get invoked and emit the appropriate µOPs.
Execution engine[edit]
Renaming & Allocation[edit]
As with the decode, up to four µOPs can be renamed each cycle. For some special cases such as in ARMv7 where four single-precision registers can alias into a single quad register or a pair of doubles, M1 has special logic in the rename area to handle the renaming of those floating point µOPs. For the case of a branch misprediction, M1 has a perform fast map recovery ability as a branch misprediction recovery mechanism.
M1 has a 96-entry reorder buffer which feeds the dispatch queue 4 µOPs per cycle.
From the dispatch queue, up to 7 µOPs may be issued to the integer cluster and up to 2 µOPs may be issued to the floating point cluster.
Integer cluster[edit]
The dispatch queue feeds the execution units. For integers, there is a 96-entry integer physical register file (roughly 35-36 of them is architected) which means data movement is not necessary. In the integer execution cluster, up to 7 µOPs per cycle may be dispatched to the schedulers. The schedulers are distributed across the various pipes. In total the integer schedulers have 58 entries and those entries are distributed in mixed sizes across the 7 schedulers.
For the first pipe the M1 has a branch resolution unit. The next three pipes have integer ALUs with only the first one capable of also multiplication and division. It's worth pointing out that while all three pipes are capable of execution the typical integer ALU µOPs (i.e., two source µOPs), only ALUC (complex ALU) can also execute three source µOPs. This includes some of the ARMv7 special predicate forms. Generally speaking, most of the simple classes of instructions (e.g., normal add) should be a single cycle while the more complex operations (e.g., add with barrel shift rotate) would be a cycle or two more.
The last three pipes are for the load address adder, store address adder, and store data.
Floating-point cluster[edit]
On the floating point cluster side, up to 2 µOPs may be issued to a unified scheduler which consists of 32 entries. There is a 96-entry floating point (vector) physical register file (roughly 35-36 architected). There are two pipes and both pipes have an integer SIMD unit (NEON). The first 0 features a 5-cycle FMAC and a 4-cycle multiplier while the second pipe incorporates a 3-cycle floating-point adder. Additionally, the first pipe also includes a cryptography unit and a floating point conversion unit while the second pipe incorporates a floating point store unit.
Once execution is complete, µOPs may retire at a rate of up to 4 µOPs per cycle.
Memory subsystem[edit]
The M1 has a 32 KiB 8-way set associative level 1 data cache which is ECC protected. Loads and stores are done fully out of order with all the typical forwarding and light prediction that prevents thrashing. The M1 is capable of a single 128-bit load each cycle and a single 128-bit store each cycle. Note that both operations can be done at the same cycle. The level 1 data cache has a 4-cycle load latency and can support 8 outstanding misses to the L2 hierarchy.
It's worth noting that the dTLB is only 32 entries which is considerably smaller than the 256-entry iTLB. Brad Burgess, Chief CPU Architect for the M1, explained that the reason for this is because the front-end is designed with a lot more room in mind as far as handling a larger TLB capacity natively in its pipeline. It's also physically laid out much further on the floor plan. This allows the L2 TLB to service the dTLB more aggressively.
The M1 has a multi-stride prefetcher which allows it to detect patterns and start the fetching request ahead of execution. While Samsung hasn't gone into too much detail, they noted that there is also some stream/copy optimizations as well which accelerate certain observable traffic patterns.
Core cluster[edit]
The M1 consists of four cores and a shared level 2 cache. Samsung has gone with a four-bank hierarchy with the L2. It is 2 MiB, 16-way set associative and ECC protected broken into 4 banks. Being inclusive of the L1, there are filtering being done for the L1 first. The bank storing the data depends on the address. The exact organization was not detailed. Each bank can return up to 16 bytes per cycle to the cores and has a 22-cycle latency.
Core Floorplan[edit]
Core Cluster Floorplan[edit]
All M1 Processors[edit]
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600,000 KHz
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- Burgess, Brad. "Samsung exynos M1 processor." Hot Chips 28 Symposium (HCS), 2016 IEEE. IEEE, 2016.
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Vista received well-deserved criticism for bringing few noteworthy new features in its train when it arrived to take over from Windows XP. In contrast, Windows 7 offers plenty of new stuff to like. Fortunately, you can add many of these features to your Vista or XP machine by using downloads and Web services.
Media Streaming
What it is: Windows Vista can already stream music, videos, and other content between networked PCs in your house, but Windows 7 goes a step farther: It makes your media available over the Internet. By taking advantage of that option, you can watch a recorded TV show at a friend's house, say, or stream your mammoth music library to your storage-strapped netbook.
How to get it: The new OS's media-sharing system has at least one major drawback: It requires Windows 7 to be running at both ends. Third-party alternatives, on the other hand, usually have no problem with different versions of Windows–or even with different platforms (Mac and Linux). Simplify Media, for example, can stream music files saved in various formats from your desktop music library (or from any friends whom you care to invite) to any other PC. An associated iPhone app (Simplify Music 2.0) handles streaming on the run. Both the software and the service are free.
Another possibility is Orb, which streams music, videos, photos, and–if your PC has a TV tuner–live or recorded TV shows. Using Orb can even help you share documents.
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What it is: An ISO image is a single file that contains the archived contents of a CD or DVD. Windows 7 enables you to burn ISO images to optical media, so you can crank out your own bootable discs. (Microsoft distributed the Windows 7 Release Candidate as an ISO file, which users had to burn to a DVD for installation on their PCs. Ironically, anyone working on a Windows XP or Vista system needed to use third-party software to handle the job.)
How to get it: Several free utilities can burn ISO images from Windows XP or Vista PCs (and with more options than you'll get in Windows 7). I'm partial to ISO Recorder, but you may also want to try Active ISO Burner or IsoBuster.
Improved Windows Paint
What it is: Windows' ancient, bare-bones graphics program, Paint, finally gets a thorough remodeling in Windows 7, complete with a jazzy new Ribbon interface (very similar to the one that people either love or hate in Office 2007), additional brush and shape choices, and various small but meaningful tweaks.
How to get it: Though you can't obtain Windows 7 Paint in Vista or XP, several similar Vista- and XP-compatible programs are even better. Regular PC World readers have seen us talk frequently of the open-source GIMP and the freeware Paint.Net, two Photoshop-caliber image editors. Either of these apps can run circles around Win 7's Paint, and neither will cost you a dime.
Too fancy for you? Try a Web-based paint program. Two good free options are Pixlr and Sumo Paint.
What it is: Though Paint underwent an extreme makeover in Windows 7, the operating system's new Calculator was built from the ground up. This spiffy new number-cruncher includes Programmer, Statistic, and Scientific modes, and comes with handy templates for figuring stuff like mortgage payments and gasoline mileage.
How to get it: Some time ago, interested parties extracted the actual Windows 7 Calculator code from an early build of the operating system, and that code has been making the tech-blog rounds ever since. It runs just fine in XP and Vista. If you're averse to bootlegs, you can get most of the number-wrangling you need, free of charge, from eCalc.
Windows Search
What it is: Vista owners already enjoy the benefits of Windows' integrated search capabilities, which help users easily find specific apps, documents, e-mail messages, and the like. Windows 7 promises to make search results more coherent and to integrate them with Libraries for better organization.
How to get it: Windows Search is one of the main reasons I don't miss Windows XP–it's that good. How can an XP user take a similar step up? Simple: Install Copernic Desktop Search, which indexes all of the e-mail, documents, and media on your hard drive to permit lightning-fast searches. In fact, even Vista and Win 7 users should check it out, since it supports many more file types (the total exceeds 150) than Windows Search.
Windows XP Mode
What it is: When Vista debuted in 2007, a lengthy procession of unanticipated software incompatibilities drove users crazy. To help assuage fears about Windows 7's dexterity with older applications at its launch, Microsoft recently announced Windows XP Mode–an add-on that runs veteran programs in a "virtual" XP environment, thereby guaranteeing operational compatibility.
How to get it: You probably don't need it. XP Mode was created with business users in mind, since incompatible applications can be an extremely serious problem for them. As a result, it's available only for Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise. That said, if you use Vista and you're still struggling with software compatibility issues, try Microsoft's Windows Virtual PC. This free download offers more or less the same capabilities as Windows XP Mode (which is essentially a specialized version of Virtual PC). Warning: Microsoft admits that this program may not work when loaded on netbooks or on other recent PCs.
Internet Explorer 8
What it is: Scoff away, Firefox snobs, but Internet Explorer 8 is a browser to be reckoned with. It's faster and more secure than previous versions of IE, and it offers unique features such as Web Slices (reminiscent of RSS feeds, and designed to help you keep tabs on changes at regularly updated sites) and InPrivate Browsing (which leaves no trace of your surfing activities).
How to get it: Internet Explorer 8's amped-up antimalware and antiphishing features make it well worth using. The browser runs just fine in Vista and XP, and it is available for download for either OS. Some Vista users will receive it automatically through Windows Update.
For a collection of free downloads that will help you replicate the Windows 7 experience on your Vista or XP system, see "How to Get Windows 7 Without Windows 7: Features."
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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (August 1, 2011)
Rodopi Press Amsterdam / Atlanta announces a new series of literary studies entitled Dialogue under the general editorship of Michael J. Meyer. The series will offer new and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative readings and approaches to classic texts (those which have received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental Literature). The call for papers on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar will work as follows: the series editor or a guest editor will list several different topics or approaches to Plath's novel. These topics should have in the past elicited a significant level of disagreement among critics or have an inherent controversial element. Ultimately, the editor will select a number of essays from younger scholars or those with limited publication or more recent PhD degrees and a number of essays from scholars who are considered experts in the field. The latter scholars may write an essay that responds to the topics listed or may be selected by the editor to respond to the paper of a younger scholar. The goal will be to pair the readings and to establish a dialogue between the two respondents. Another possibility would be to share the senior scholar's response with an emerging scholar to establish a sort of Point / Counterpoint reaction. The major goal of the series would be not only to open the door to voices which are already silenced by the selective nature of academic presses but to encourage new approaches and insights that will both enliven The Bell Jar and promote further discussion of the novel. Emerging scholars will be defined by the following criteria: MA ABD or recent PHD, Instructor, lecturer or Asst Prof status , publications limited to articles in journals and monographs and / or chapter studies; they will have 6 years or less from the awarding of a doctoral degree. Experienced scholars will demonstrate the following: teach at the Associate Prof level or above, have at least 7 years experience from the awarding of the PHD, be published in book length studies, and are considered to be an authority or well-known commentator on the title or author.
If interested, please contact Don Tresca at firstname.lastname@example.com
All proposals should be submitted by August 1, 2011.


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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences:
- Charlie Grant, Allison Wong, Allie Kaleta, Rachel Choice, Frank Fernandez, Kelly Kuboushek, Sami Graff, Clare Huguelet and Levi Bernhard for "Newscast" for the LCTV Decision 2016 newscast.
- Allison Wong, Payton Van Vors, Kelly Kuboushek, Rachel Choice, Charlie Grant and Sarah Muller for "Newscast" for LCTV News 11-30-16.
- Makaila Haase and Juanita Bustamante for "Non-Fiction" for their documentary, Earning the Halo.
- Allie Kaleta, Sami Graff, Aidan Wojciehowski, Rachel Choice and Sarah Mueller for "Sports: Program/Series" for SportsZONE 10-5-16.
Society of Professional Journalists:
Mark of Excellence Award, Best All-Around Television Newscast: Allison Wong, Payton Van Vors, Dimitri Villanueva, Rachel Choice
Iowa Broadcast News Association (2016):
- Spot News – Caroline Foglton, "Visitation Fire"
- Photography – Charlie Grant, "Dubuque Artist"
- Feature – Allison Wong & Charlie Grant, "Dubuque Artist"
- Series – Rachel Choice & Dimitri Villaneuva, "Rendez Vous with Ray"
- Public Affairs – Melissa Link & Maddie Galloway, "Behind the Bump: A Birth Mother's Story"
- Sports Coverage – Aidan Wojciehowski, "Josh Ruggles"
- General Reporting – Allison Wong, "Dubuquers Still Adjusting to Medicaid Privatization"
- Best Newscast – LCTV News Staff
- Best Sportscast – SportsZONE Staff
- Overall Excellence in Reporting – Allison Wong
- Overall Excellence in Anchoring – Allison Wong & Dimitri Villaneuva
- Overall Best Use of Online Media – LCTV Staff, "myduhawk.com"
- Overall Excellence, LCTV Staff
- Photography – Kelly Kuboushek, "Wet Weather Challenges Farmers"
- Farm and Agribusiness – Kelly Kuboushek, "Wet Weather Challenges Farmers"
- Sports Coverage – Allie Kaleta, "Concussion Complications"
- General Reporting – Allison Wong & Charlie Grant, "Dubuque Traffic Stop Study"
- Sports Play-By-Play (Web-Based) – Dustin Dawson & Tara Shingler, "LIVE Sports Compilation
- Series – Allison Wong & Charlie Grant, "Dubuquer in Dublin"
- Political Coverage – Payton Van Vors, "Early Voting Opportunities"
- Photography – Dimitri Villaneuva, "Rendez Vous with Ray"
Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association (2016):
- Documentary/Special: First place, "Behind the Bump: A Birth Mother's Story" and Award of Merit, "Earning the Halo"
- Photojournalism: First place, "Dubuque artist creates larger than life sculpture"
- Newscast: First place, "LCTV News 11-30-16"
- Series: Award of Merit, "Dubuquer in Dublin"
- General Reporting: Award of Merit, "Dubuquers still adjusting to Medicaid privatization"
- Sportscast/Program: Award of Merit, "SportsZONE 10-5-16"
Iowa College Media Association (2016):
Best Newscast:
First place, LCTV News 12-2-15, Allison Wong
Second Place, LCTV News, Payton Van Vors
Third Place, SportsZONE 3-2-16, Joel Schmidt
News Programming:
Second place, LCTV LIVE: Holiday Edition 2015, Staff
First place, Shots Fired, Allison Wong
Entertainment Storytelling:
First place, Rendez Vous with Ray, Rachel Choice & Dimitri Villaneuva
Second place, Dubuquer in Dublin, Allison Wong & Charlie Grant
Variety, Music, & Comedy Show:
Third place, DuNite, Staff
Second place, LCTV LIVE Basketball, Staff
Short Documentary:
First place, Plumery Tails, Aidain Wojciehowski & Rachel Choice
Second place, Dex, Josh Larson
Long Documentary:
First place, Earning the Halo, Makaila Haase & Juanita Bustamante
Promos, PSA's, Commercials:
First place, Inspire Cafe, Kelly Kuboushek & Jack Sarcone
Second place, Hate School?, Miriam McKee
Experimental Video:
First place, Camp Monster, Keontae Neely
Second place, Colombia Rotoscope, Juanita Bustamante
Honorable mention, Can't Blame a Girl for Trying, Sami Graff & Bailey Hussey
Corporate Video:
First place, This is Heartland, Austin Cousins
Second place, Victory Outreach, Joel Schmidt, Trey Davis & Greg Cormier
Short Film:
Third place, In Nothing Flat, Brody Kuhar & Clare Huguelet


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Courtney & Kylee
I'm always looking for a good nutrition bar or quick meal. I love grab-and-go items because (just like everyone else) I'm often short on time. My favorite bars incorporate protein so that I'm not hungry two seconds later. So here's my take on Lara bars…
What Courtney loves about Lara bars:
- They are a grab-and-go item.
- They are healthy, gluten free…the works.
- They are made in interesting flavors.
What Courtney hates about Lara bars:
- They taste horrible! True story: My husband walks up to me holding a Lara bar I had just bought to review. He asks me to try it and make sure it's "okay." I took a small bite and almost spit it back out. It was nasty! How it ever made it to a grocery store shelf is beyond me. We both took another nibble or two then threw the rest away. I don't even know how to describe how awful it tasted. The flavor was suppose to be blueberry muffin. It tasted like a moist, stale muffin that had been smashed up with some soggy nuts. I didn't even get a hint of blueberry. Nasty! Nasty! Nasty! To be fair, I tried a cherry pie and an apple pie flavored bar too. But both of the other bars were heinous too. Yuck! The only one I could halfway eat was the apple pie flavored bar, but even then I didn't finish it. I eat almost anything so for me not to finish something is extremely unusual. Sorry to say it, but I will never buy a Lara bar again. I couldn't choke another one down if my life depended on it.
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Courtney's rating on Lara bars: Never again! 🤢
Between working and workouts and running errands, having an easy, on-the-go snack is absolutely essential for me! And it seems there are so many nutrition and protein bars constantly coming out that it shouldn't be hard to find something you like. That's the attitude I went in with when picking up the Lara Bar at the grocery store. I liked the packaging and with flavors that mostly ended in "pie" I was stoked to eat something sweet without blowing my sugar intake for the day. However, whoever decided they could name those bars as apple pie and blueberry pie flavored must have had their tongue cut out because those flavors tasted nothing like pie!
What Kylee loved about Lara bars:
- The packaging. Though this sounds trivial, the bars just look so eye catching and cute. Love it.
- It does keep you full for a respectable amount of time. After eating half of one (that's all I could handle), it did keep me full for a longer time than I would have expected.
- Flavor variety. There is quite a few different flavors available at most grocery stores so you can try out a few.
What Kylee hates about Lara bars:
- It tastes & looks like blueberry or cherry poop. Quite simply it's just plain gross. The apple pie was the only flavor that was actually somewhat salvageable.
- The texture is nasty. And I'm not usually bothered by texture too much but this felt like putting in a wet paper towel with nuts wrapped inside in your mouth!
- They're not cheap! Granted, I did not buy the box which is a little cheaper, but still. For what it gives you, I would not typically spend that much on a single bar.
Kylee's rating of Lara bars: Never again! 🤢


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It is not at all uncommon today for many homeowners to attempt to sell their home on their own, especially with the many home selling tools available via the Internet. One of the primary reasons listed by most homeowners for selling their home without using a real estate is the money they plan to save on the commission. Unfortunately, many homeowners discover the hard way that while they had planned to save money on the sale of their home they actually end up losing money. In fact, studies indicate that homeowners who do it themselves through for sale by owner, or FSBO, listings end up selling their homes for approximately 15% less than homeowners who use a real estate agent.
Homes sold by their owners without the benefit of an agent frequently sell for less because the owners simply sell the home for far less than it is actually worth. In many cases, this is because FSBOs are commonly attractive buyers who are looking to save money. These buyers typically think that because you're saving on the commission you can afford to lower the asking price.
Still yet, in other cases, the homeowner may not know what price to ask for the home when they decide to put it on the market. Sometimes this lack of education of the real estate market can result in overpricing the home so that it sits on the market so long the seller ends up selling it for a song. In other cases, the homeowner may sell the home for less money than it is worth by jumping at the first offer.
Another common problem contributing to the low sales price of many FSBOs is the lack of exposure. There is no doubt about the fact that maximum exposure helps homes to sell faster and at higher prices. When the property is exposed to multiple buyers, it is far more likely to garner more and higher offers. Due to the limited marketing opportunities of many homeowners who choose to sell their homes on their own, this kind of exposure simply is not possible.
It should also be noted that above and beyond the potential loss of profit involved in FSBO sales, many homeowners are not prepared for all of the legalities that they will have to deal with. In a home sale where an agent is involved, it is the agent who works with buyers regarding financing as well as handles arrangements such as appraisals, surveys, title insurance, contracts, etc. In a FSBO sale, there is no experienced agent to guide you along the way. Experienced real estate agents know how to ensure buyers are qualified to purchase a home before they instigate a contract with them.
When you're handling everything on your own you could easily find yourself working with a buyer who simply is not financially qualified to purchase your home. As a result the transaction may fall through before it ever closes and you will have wasted a significant amount of time and expense in the process. It is also important to know that when selling your home on your own you are exposing yourself to numerous legal liabilities. Just the seller's disclosure alone is a mistake with several risks. Unless you're extremely familiar with the legal end of selling a home, you could find yourself in above your head.
It is also important to consider the time you will need to dedicate to the sell of your home if you handle it on your own. Many homeowners find out after the fact they simply were not prepared for the amount of time they would need to spend on the home selling process. Not only will you need to spend time marketing your home but you will also need to spend time following up on leads, answering phone calls, scheduling home shows and dealing with significant amounts of paperwork. All of this can cut into your leisure time and affect your privacy. Make sure you're prepared for this when making the decision to sell on your own.
If you do decide to sell your home on your own without an agent, make sure you do your homework up front to ensure you do not fall into these potential risks. If you're not sure how much to ask for your home, find out. Many real estate agencies offer a complimentary market analysis. This gives you the opportunity to have the real estate agent look at your home and provide you with an educated decision on how much your home may bring on the current market. It will then be your decision whether you want to list the property or try selling it on your own.
Another important safety precaution is to make sure you hire a competent attorney experienced in real estate matters to help guide you along the way. While the cost will certainly detract from your profit, it could keep you from much higher legal liability costs.
Keep in mind that it is no coincidence that homes which receive the best exposure on the market sell quicker for higher prices. If you do elect to sell your home on your own make sure you use a multi-pronged marketing approach. Sure, a For Sale sign in the yard is great, but you will need to go above and beyond this technique. Take out ads in the newspaper and look into websites that provide coverage for FSBOs. Host an open house party. Give your home the exposure it describes. If for some reason, you feel you can not open market the property, remember this may mean you have less money when you do sell it.
Finally, do not forget to weigh the cost you may be saving by avoiding the commission with the profit you may be giving up. While real estate commission rates do vary from one region to the next, on average most consumers pay an average commission rate of about 6.5%. Considering the fact that selling your home on your own could cost you 15% at closing, even if you do sell your home on your own and save the commission you could still be losing at least 8% on the sale of your home. On the other hand, if you use an agent, even with the commission you could stand to bring in more more money on the final sale than if you handle it on your own.Immobilienmakler Heidelberg Makler Heidelberg
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Maybe it is compulsive blogging disorder that I am suffering from because I felt I could not commence my Marseille stay without reporting about Portugal first. The last four days, my friend and travel companion Michelle and I followed the recommendations I had obtained from friends, coworkers and family. We went to Sintra, we listened to Fado and we ate at the Ponto Final restaurant.
It was also my first airbnb experience which was interesting. The hosts barely spoke to us but their apartment was impeccably clean and rather high standard. However, their elevator frequently stopped and refused to release its passengers and the room was so cold I could hardly fall asleep. I think the fact that the Portuguese do not have radiators is some kind of weather escapism: they want to believe it is always 20 degrees and higher in their country. But it's not. We got our fair share of rain and what puzzled me was that the rain felt lighter when coming down on one's skin. So odd…! I was walking home the first evening when I noticed that but I could not pay attention to this circumstance for a long time because dozens of young people in black capes appeared around me. One of them carried what first looked like a broomstick and I concluded that a previously unreleased Harry Potter volume must be currently filmed in Lisbon ("Harry Potter and the Erasmus Student of Portugal"). On closer examination, I found the broomstick was in fact a giant wooden spoon and the cape-wearers had ties with spoons attached to them. Back in our room, I googled, "weird Portuguese rituals with spoons" and found it was part of the praxes, a (controversial) student tradition.
During our stay, Michelle and I closely observed the people around us and switched languages accordingly. If Germans were close, we guarded our privacy by switching to Swedish, if Swedes were to be heard, we became all German. At the Fado restaurant, a Norwegian couple overheard us and it made the Scandinavian's day to meet us. He was very friendly and super happy to have met someone from the North who also was on "ferie" in Portugal. We were also happy because you can hardly listen to Norwegian without being happy.
Despite our linguistic disguise, we were frequently mistaken for locals. People kept asking us for directions or information on public transport. We must have appeared very competent. Our foreignness was quickly demasked though when we replied – in English or Spanish. In four days, the only words I actively picked up were "bom dia" and "obdrigada" (the longest word for thank you in any Western European language?) and my brain worked hard to make sense of what I read and heard. Portuguese is a complete mystery – it looks like distorted Spanish and sounds like Polish or another Eastern language. Completely impossible to understand anything at all! My brain seemed to not concede to this fact though but instead built its interpretations: the supermarket chain "Pingo Doce" because "Pinguin Twelve" before my inner eye.
We did not make it to any museums but we took a trip to Sintra where you can see two castles and a Moorish fort. The bus trip up the hill was adventurous for German standards and up there it was considerably cooler. We wandered through what looked like a jungle and tried to educate ourselves by reading the "Talking Heritage" signs. I have to say Sintra has a long way to go when it comes to those. More than once the sign read, "Stones from probably 10th century. We don't know what they were used for."
Despite our lack of self-education on Lisbon's history, I managed to learn that the name of the city means "Enchanted Port" which I find very poetic, and we got a glimpse of Portuguese culture when we listened to the very nice Fado songs. (On the first evening, I also listened to depressing Portuguese poetry but I did not understand a word.) Fado is special and beautiful and it made me wonder why the Portuguese are excelling in melancholic ways of expression. I'm guessing it has to do with history.
And now I am in Marseille! Getting here from the airport took three times as long as normal because of an AC/DC concert-induced traffic jam. On the motorway, a house had giant letters saying in French, "JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS". What a welcome.
Our rooms looks literally right onto the Sea which is wonderful. Marseille happens to be the birth place of Desiree Clary, who happens to be the mother of the currently reigning Swedish royal house of Bernadotte. So far I've only seen a metro station named after her but tomorrow we'll try to find out if we can find more traces.


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Contemporary Economics: An Applications Approach
Thomson/South-Western, 2006 - 464 pŕgines
Like the author's best-selling, highly regarded International Economics text, this book integrates a clear and concise presentation of economic theory with an abundance of real-world cases and applications. Rather than discussing economic theory in the abstract, and then including real-world applications in separate sections, the text weaves applications into all theoretical discussions. There is no other Survey text that emphasizes real-world applications to this degree.
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FontExplorer X and Quark 6.5
February 20th, 2007
In my last post on FontExplorer, Transitioning to FontExplorer X, I alluded to some problems I was having with it and Quark 6.5. I'd like to expound upon that a little bit.
In order to get on the same page, I want to define some standard font management terminology first. I am talking about using OS X in this post, but many of the more general concepts probably apply to font management on Windows machines as well.
- System Font Folders:
- OS X comes with three default font folders, each serving a different purpose:
- Contains all fonts necessary for the operating system to run. Font stored here are accessible to all users on the system.
- Contains most fonts necessary for standard applications to run. Font stored here are accessible to all users on the system.
- Contains fonts only accessible to a single user.
- Font Database:
- This is the folder that your font management application stores your fonts in. This folder can be called any number of things, stored in any number of file formats, and in any number of locations. It all depends on the particular font management application and your setup. The important thing to remember is that this folder is distinct from all of the system font folders.
- Auto-Activation of Fonts:
- This happens when you open a document or application and your font management software intercepts a call for a font that is not currently activated. The font management software then activates the font for you. This can be done either through intercepting a system-wide call for a font or via a plugin.
- Manual Activation of Fonts:
- This is when you use your font management software to activate one or more fonts. After manually activating a font, it will be available to all applications on the system until the font is deactivated.
- Auto-Activation Plug-In
- A Plug-In that auto-activates fonts that are requested by an application. These plugins are written for a specific application (usually ones like Quark and InDesign).
Currently I am using FontExplorer 1.1.2 and Quark 6.5.2. I have also tested these problems using Quark 6, Quark 6.1, and Quark 6.5 and gotten the same results.
In the first versions of FontExplorer there seemed to be some sporadic problems with the auto-activation plugin for Quark 6.5. Sometimes it would work fine, but other times the font either wouldn't activate at all, or only parts of the typeface would activate. Often times there were problems with the italic versions of typefaces. For whatever reason I also seemed to have a particularly difficult time with Univers 39. Since I've installed FontExplorer 1.1 (and up), which includes version 1.24 of the Quark 6.5 plugin, things seemed to be going very well with auto-activation. In fact, I haven't noticed any problems with auto-activation in Quark 6.5 using FontExplorer X 1.1 and up.
The real problems between FontExplorer and Quark seem to happen when fonts are manually activated. A normal workflow for creating a Quark document should go something like this:
- Open Font Management application
- Activate desired fonts
- Open Quark
- Create a new document
All of the fonts that you activated should be available in Quark's font menu at this point. In an ideal world, you should also be able to activate and use additional fonts without having to quit Quark. Clearly though, this is not an ideal world.
Unfortunately, in this case, after following the steps listed above, many1 of the fonts simply do not show up in the Quark font menu. There is no logical reason for this that I can figure out. The problem is reproducible. I've isolated two fonts that always have this problem: Duc De Berry LT Std and Serlio LT Std (both OpenType). Also, no amount of quitting Quark, deactivating and then reactivating the fonts or cleaning the font caches will work. The fonts simply will not show up in Quark.
Curiously, if you take one of these problematic fonts and copy it to any of the system font folders (may require a restart), the font appears in Quark without a problem. Great, but this doesn't help us, since we're circumventing the whole 'font management' thing entirely by doing this. Remember, the whole reason why we're using font management software is because we have lots of fonts, too many to leave activated all of the time.
I struggled with this problem for quite some time looking for possible solutions or workarounds. I even tried pulling out my hair, but that didn't seem to work either. Searching for the problem yielded only a couple of results. Over on the FontExplorer discussion board, there were a couple of posts with similar problems (no solutions):
On Creative Guy, there are some interesting tips for fonts in Quark. They sounded promising, but didn't fix this particular problem:
Finally I found this post on Jason Santa Maria. The post itself isn't that interesting, the comments are where it gets good.
Jerald says: First off… I totally dig FEX. Here is my problem. Quark 6.5 will not recognize loaded fonts more than half the time unless I log out and log back in.
Tim Diacon says: Quark is the bane of my life! FEX works perfectly with everything except Quark which will not activate fonts which are active in other programs! I've tried the Jaws solution posted earlier but still not working – anyone worked out a solution?
Hey look, a suggested solution:
Jerald says: Follow up to my experiences with auto activation in Quark. Removing the items in the JAWS folder as described in my previous post resulted in less than stellar results.
The following seem to work:
- Log out and log back in. This is cumbersome but works 100% of the time. Quark will pick up the newly activated fonts. Make sure you have FEX set to keep the fonts activated after restart/logout.
- Quit FEX and Quark. Relaunch FEX first and Quark second. This is more convenient than number one but will only work 90% of the time. Still a bummer I have to do this.
- Switch to InDesign. This option offers the benefit of not having to deal with Quark in the first place.
Okay, cool, at least we're starting to get somewhere now. I tried Jerald's suggestion and it did work. But logging out and then back in again just to get a font to work? There has got to be something better.
Using Jerald's fix as a starting point, I began playing around with things (again). I eventually discovered the following process which gets those pesky fonts to show up in the Quark font menu.
- Open FontExplorer X
- From the Menu Bar, choose FontExplorer X > Preferences
- Click on the Advanced icon
- Make sure that "Deactivate all fonts which have been activated during the active session on quit" is not checked.
- Activate all desired fonts
- Quit FontExplorer (FontExplorer X > Quit FontExplorer X or Apple + Q)
- Open FontExplorer X
- Open Quark
After following these steps, the temperamental fonts should appear in the Quark font menu. Obviously, this is still a hack. It would be great if these things just worked. This hack however is relatively painless. I released this fix into the wild (read: design students in the labs) and have gotten positive results so far.
One last note: This whole problem appears to be fixed in Quark 7. Unfortunately I (and presumably many others) can't just wave a magic wand and have Quark 7 installed on all of the computers. Also, we are talking about Quark. Isn't there some adage about that: for every bug fixed, five more are born.
- I'm working with approximately 2,500 fonts here, so I didn't actually count how many are having this problem. It's not all of them, but it's definitely more than a couple of them. We will just leave it at many. ↩
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1. zoe
ah… so this was the sighing and maniacal typing in the office today. I guess the bright side is Quark 7 should arrive just in time for you to leave for jury duty!


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Winter Commercial Property Roofing Damage
Roofing Insurance
As a roofing contractor, you need to advise your clients of the signs of winter damage to their commercial property. If you have recently installed a roof for a commercial customer, the contract that you signed with your customer allows the client to make claims against your general liability insurance for a period of time. You want to make sure that winter damage, which should be claimed against building insurance, is not claimed as shoddy workmanship against your contractors' insurance.
Ice Dams and Icicles
If when you installed a new roof, you insulated it well; you may have set up conditions for an ice dam. Well-insulated roofs tend to retain more snow and when that snow melts, it can freeze and dam up. The melting snow can also form into icicles. Those icicles falling from the roof can injure passer-byes, creating another form of liability that needs to be handled by the building-owners' insurance not your roofing insurance.
Even though cities like Boston have been in the news regarding their record snowfall this year, Phoenix and parts of Arizona are experiencing high precipitation rates. Arizona buildings tend to have low-sloping roofs. When a roof is low-sloping; excess percipitation has trouble draining from it, and ponding can occur, which is a concentrated amount of percipitation. If ponding occurs on a roof that you've recently installed; you need to identify the culprit as winter damage, so it won't be mislabeled as a poor drainage system, which your roofing insurance would be liable for.
Ceilings and walls can indicate the effects of winter damage from snow and ice on your roof. Ceiling tiles or boards that are sagging or falling out signal potential roofing problems. Along with that, contractors should note sprinkler systems that are downsliding and not as securely anchored to the ceiling as normally. Contractors should also alert commercial clients of the potential relationship of roofing damage to cracks in the masonry and the inability to get doors or windows opened.
Again all the damage that is caused to ceilings and walls by winter weather conditions can also be seen by your customer as a result of your faulty workmanship. As a roofing contractor, you need to assert your expertise and distinguish winter damage from your workmanship. It's important for your reputation and your roofing insurance premium that winter damage is never misidentified as poor workmanship.
Roofing Systems
One item that is usually protected under general liability insurance is roofing systems. However, roofing systems take quite a beating during the winter. Winter weather causes a barrage of problems for roofing systems. These problems include roof collapses, severe roof leaks, sagging roof members like metal decking or plywood sheathing and bowing truss bottom chords or web members.
If the above problems can be classified as winter damage, it is because the problems resulted from the fact that the weight of snow or ice was in excess of what the roofing system was built to handle. Otherwise, these problems would have been caused by inferior workmanship and materials, which is your responsibility and the manufacturer of the products you used. Before you take on liability for damages, make sure those damages are result of your actions not Mother Nature's.


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Make Marietta Memories
Easy access to I-75, minutes from Dobbins ARB and Marietta Square
Stroll the farmers market in Marietta Square, shop for something fashionable at Marietta Trade Center, or visit family at Dobbins Air Reserve Base (MGE), all while staying comfortable at our Wyndham Garden Marietta hotel. Our thoughtful amenities and spacious guest accommodations make it easy to settle in the moment you walk in the door. If you're visiting students in the area, Kennesaw State University Marietta and Life University are just minutes away, and you can easily take I-75 to reach Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).


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Boarding safety
The body parts most affected by injuries are the wrists, the tailbone, and the head. Useful safety gear includes wrist guards, padded or protected snowboard pants and a helmet. Goggles are also used by most people, even though they are not a necessity (debatable snow blindness does happen).
Padding can be useful on other body parts like hips, knees, spine, shoulders, and in the obvious places based on gender. Padding can be specialized for snowboarding, or it can cross sports. For example, knee pads used for volleyball can be useful for snowboarding. They can be useful for the many times that a snowboard rider may wish to rest on the knees, such as after coming to a stop.
General safety tips for winter sports, alpine conditions and skiing should also be respected.
Mountain maintenance is a very important aspect of safety. In places where the mountains are steep and the snow is deep, avalanches are extremely common. In order to keep these parts of the mountain safe, Ski Patrol will set off dynamite to control the avalanche. The idea behind this is that the chances of someone being caught in a large avalanche is less likely. This maintenance is done on a day to day basis.


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Reid steps up for Sun Valley Post Office
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nv., was instrumental last year in keeping the Reno Main Post Office open last year, which saved about 300 local jobs.
Reid said Tuesday that he is working to keep the Sun Valley Post Office going. It is a bi-partisan effort as Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nv., state Sen. Don Gustavson, R-Sparks and Washoe Commissioners Kitty Jung and Bonnie Weber have also pushed to keep the post office open.
"I am working with the USPS to ensure they understand how important the Sun Valley post office is to the region," Reid said in a prepared statement. "I am hopeful they will come to the same conclusion, as they did with the Reno processing plant, to keep it open. This is why we need postal reform, which the Senate passed last year on a bipartisan basis, but it got nowhere in the House."


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This time, Gentle Readers, we will explore something completely different. It is still related to embedded systems, for a suitably generous definition of "embedded." Several weeks ago I read a posting by Yossi Kreinin regarding CPU architectures optimized for very high level languages, plus a followup on the same topic.
Yossi said:
Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren't "brain-damaged"/"built to run C"/"a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)"? You do think so? I have a challenge for you. I bet you'll be interested.
My challenge is this. If you think that you know how hardware and/or compilers should be designed to support HLLs, why don't you actually tell us about it, instead of briefly mentioning it?
Really, the challenge would not normally appeal to me:
- I generally don't spend time on high-level languages. I make my living in the guts of the system writing assembly and C code, where Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/<ShinyNewLanguage>/etc do not play.
- I like C. Really, I do. I like assembly coding too. Really, I do.
- I think von Neumann architectures are fine.
However in the past few years I've worked on three different ASICs involving custom embedded CPUs for the datapath (more accurately: two CPUs and one glorified state machine), and Yossi's challenge is interesting in a contemporary problem space. So I'll give it a whirl. Be warned, Gentle Readers, that it will probably suck. You have been warned.
The instruction set
In 2008, I believe the instruction set is the wrong place to look for these performance gains. The overwhelming effort put into optimizing the performance of current CPU architectures represents an enormous barrier to entry for a new instruction set. Intel itself has not made much headway with Itanium, unable to successfully compete with its own x86 products. A decade ago RISC was hailed as the superior alternative, but x86 now stands over the dead bodies of several of its erstwhile RISC competitors: Alpha and PA-RISC, for a start. Modern CPU instruction sets are pragmatically extended with new opcodes as needed, witnessed by the sheer number of times Intel and AMD have added more vector instructions to their x86 implementations.
Also (and crucially) CPU architectures so specialized as to only run code from a single programming language tend not to survive. There is a reason that Lisp Machines and the P-system CPUs no longer exist: they weren't terribly adaptable.
So I won't be suggesting a radically new instruction set.
Exploring the problem space
As I see it, there are three standout features of various high level languages which one might attempt to optimize for in the CPU design:
- dynamic typing: Type checks are performed at run time, not compile time like C or Java
- stackless languages: like Erlang, to support astonishing numbers of threads
- functional languages: functions have no side effects and there is no global state. The complete state a function operates on will be passed to it, by value not by reference
For #1, Dynamic Typing: I don't think pushing type information down to be directly visible to the CPU is really productive. I'm quite likely wrong in this (there have certainly been a large number of processors over the years with tagged arithmetic operations), but I'm also not really qualified to comment further. So I won't.
For #2, Stacklessness: Many CPU designs have precious little hardware dedicated to "the stack." For example, in MIPS32 by convention two registers are used to store sp and fp, but they are really just normal registers and the compiler uses regular ADD/MOV/etc instructions to adjust them. Other CPU families may have more hardware supporting the concept of a stack, but I just don't think there is much to be gained by removing it. There is also a whole lot to be lost, if it is no longer possible to run stack-based languages like C.
For #3, Functional Languages: I believe this is the topic which has the most traction, and is where we'll focus for the rest of this writeup. Passing a large footprint of arguments by value implies a great deal of copying. Of course the runtime for these languages make efforts to avoid unnecessary copies, but perhaps modifications to the CPU can help the runtime perform this function more efficiently.
Avoiding unnecessary copies
Though the programming model for a functional language may guarantee each function call receives its own independent copy of all arguments, in implementation the runtime will avoid copying large amounts of data unnecessarily. If a function only reads and never writes an argument, it can be allowed to reference the parent's copy of the argument. The crucial bit, of course, is ensuring that there is no code path which results in writing to the parent data.
If the functional language compiles down to machine instructions, then any possible code path which results in modification of an argument makes it unsafe to reference the parent data. Even if the language is implemented by a VM, there is overhead in checking each store bytecode at runtime to ensure its target is allowed.
In other problem spaces there is a well-understood technique for optimistically allowing a child a read-only reference to the parent's data: Copy On Write. The relevant pages of memory will be mapped read-only. If a process attempts to write to this page it will trap into the operating system, which will make a private copy of the page for the process to modify. If Copy on Write were available, the functional language runtime would have another option available.
The trouble with applying existing Copy on Write mechanisms to functional languages is the sheer frequency of mappings. The current uses of Copy on Write are infrequent: process creation, periodic (but rare) snapshots of data, etc. The overhead of calling into the Operating System to change page tables is acceptable for these uses. The overhead of calling into the OS to change page tables for every function call would likely be prohibitive.
Overview of the proposal
"There is no problem in computer programming which cannot be solved by an added level of indirection." -- Dr Maurice Wilkes64 bit CPUs are now the norm in the general purpose computing market. This is a truly staggering amount of virtual address space. If the application code could manage a section of its own address space with very low overhead, it could create and destroy mappings as needed. For cases where it makes sense, the language runtime could set up a read-only alias mapping of the parent data, and pass the alias address to the function. If the function attempts to modify its arguments there would be a trap, and a copy could be made.
Before delving further lets examine when it makes sense to do this:
- if the function cannot possibly write to its arguments, and the runtime can be certain of this, there is no reason to create an aliased mapping. Just pass in the parents data.
- if one or more of the arguments to the function are relatively small, just copy them. The brute force solution is cheaper than trying to finesse it.
- if the function might modify its arguments and they are large, we have a candidate for an aliased argument.
What would the hardware need to provide, the Gentle Reader might ask? Nothing much really, just a second MMU TLB. Simple. Ok, I kid, thats actually an enormous burden to place on the hardware, but I think it might be worthwhile. This is how I think it would work:
- I'll refer to the new TLB as the Aliasing TLB, which is looked up first. I'll refer to the existing MMU as the System TLB.
- The CPU has a pair of limit registers, giving an upper and lower bound of addresses to be looked up in the Aliasing TLB. Most processes would probably not use the Aliasing TLB at all, and the limit registers would be zero.
- Applications using this mechanism would be given a section of their address space to manage - an exabyte should do. Whenever there is a context switch, system code (i.e. the kernel) updates the limit registers for the new running process.
- Memory operations whose target is within the range of the limit registers would be looked up in the Aliasing TLB. We'll come back to the miss case later, for now assume an entry is found.
- The result of the Aliasing TLB lookup is a mapping to another virtual address, plus permission bits.
If the permissions allow the operation, the CPU now has a new virtual address to use as the target of the memory operation. This new virtual address (labelled Va in the diagram) proceeds down the "traditional" CPU MMU path, searching the System TLB to find the physical address. If the original target address was not within the range of the limit registers, then the unmodified virtual address goes to the System TLB to be translated to a physical address.
Handling a miss
Everything is fine and dandy if the CPU finds a matching entry in the Aliasing TLB, but what if it doesn't? I'm very fond of software-managed TLBs like MIPS and Sparc v9, and had initially written up a section on how the CPU could directly vector over to a TLB miss handler in the application's address space. The handler would need to be locked into memory so it could never be paged out, and immediately switch to a pre-allocated stack specifically for TLB handling, and ... yeah, it was really complicated.
On further reflection, I don't think it needs to be that complicated. There are two characteristics of the Aliasing TLB which are different from the System TLB: entries are added to the Aliasing TLB immediately before they are used, and the entries only live for the span of one function call - generally speaking, a very short lifespan.
When the OS adds a new entry to page tables the new entry is generally not immediately added to the System TLB, instead it will be added the first time the TLB faults on the new address. With the Aliasing TLB, when a new entry is added it should immediately be pushed into the hardware before resuming processing. We're expecting to immediately hit that address, and the number of Aliasing TLB misses would be dramatically reduced by doing so. Perhaps the misses which remain can take a more normal path of trapping into the OS, which would perform an upcall to the application to service the Aliasing TLB miss.
Page sizes
Function arguments can be of any size and alignment, and may not be aligned to any particular boundary. An earlier draft of this posting proposed segmented memory support, to handle arbitrary argument sizes. On further reflection, I don't think it needs to be that complicated. The Aliasing TLB mechanism only makes sense for relatively large arguments, and I think it is a reasonable tradeoff to require the runtime to pad such arguments to be an even multiple of a page size.
I do think it is important to support multiple page sizes, with the normal page size of the System TLB as a lower bound and truly enormous pages at the upper end. CPU MMUs have supported multiple page sizes for a long time, though Operating Systems generally only use one size for all memory pages. This is to avoid the complexity of fragmentation if one tried to actively page out memory with multiple page sizes in use. Some OSes do use large pages to map in things which can never be paged out, like the framebuffer.
Page replacement is not a concern for the Aliasing TLB: it is mapping one virtual address to another, there is no concept of removing a page from memory. If we have a 128 Megabyte argument to map, we might as well use a 128 Megabyte page to map it. Assembling a bunch of small mappings to handle a huge region is only beneficial in very specific cases. The software will take advantage of multiple page sizes in the Aliasing TLB.
Miscellaneous notes and drawbacks
- The most serious downside of the Aliasing TLB is the latency it adds to instruction processing. To hide that latency the CPU will need additional pipeline stages, possibly many additional stages. Nobody wants a repeat of the SuperPipelineing of the Pentium IV, the additional pipelining may be a fatal drawback of this idea.
- We'll need Address Space Identifiers (ASID) for the Aliasing TLB. The OS must populate the ASID of the currently running process in a CPU register, and any mappings created by the user code must inherit this ASID. If we allow application code to supply the ASID we'll destroy the security of the system: it could set up nearly arbitrary mappings in another process.
- The map addresses in the Aliasing TLB are always looked up in the System TLB, never recursively looked up in the Aliasing TLB even if they fall within the specified range of addresses. I do not believe multiple levels of indirection add any capability to the mechanism, and the hardware complexity in the pipelining would be prohibitive.
- I don't think it is reasonable to expect application code to deal with page coloring, so a CPU implementing an Aliasing TLB should use physically indexed caches (or some other solution which does not burden the software with coloring). This is probably not an issue, I believe page coloring has not been employed by any common processor for about ten years. A long time ago I worked on software for a Sparc processor which required it, and still bear the scars.
The disclaimer
Would an Aliasing TLB really boost the performance of a functional language runtime, and by how much? I've no idea. That is the sort of question best answered by an analysis of the behavior of existing functional language runtimes. Analyzing instruction and memory traces is the seventh most boring task in all of computer science, which means it is very, very boring. Since I'm writing this for a blog post, I choose to skip the boring and tedious stuff in favor of emphatic handwaving.
I'm not sure I've actually addressed the challenge Yossi issued. He was pretty clearly seeking CPU instruction set ideas, and I haven't provided any. Also the challenge was issued in late January and subsequent comments indicate it is pretty much wrapped up, so I'm late to the party. Nonetheless it was interesting to write this up, so to me the time was well spent.


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Why an Instant Eggnog Mix? I realize the holidays have been over for quite some time, but I find myself with a strong desire for some eggnog. The only problem is I can only find eggnog around the holidays. I could buy all the ingredients, drag out my blender and make a batch, but then I would have leftovers, more than I would consume in the allotted time.
That's when I came up with an idea. Why not create an instant eggnog mix. It took some doing, but I do like the result. It's pretty yummy if I don't say so myself.
Instant Eggnog Mix
Ingredients: Makes approximately 10 cups of the mix
- 4 cups powdered milk
- 2 cup nondairy vanilla creamer
- 2 cup powdered whole eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3.4 oz. instant vanilla pudding
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
Measure and pour all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Whisk the ingredients until thoroughly blended. Using a canning funnel, pour the mixture into five 1-pint milk bottles or jars and label with instructions. You can give the jars away as gifts or store them in your pantry. The mix will last up to 6 months.
Instructions Label: To serve, add ⅓ of a cup of the mix with 8 oz. of ice cold water in a pint jar with a tight lid. Cap the jar and shake it vigorously. Allow the mixture to rest for a minute or two, then vigorously shake it again. Pour the eggnog into a glass. Garnish it with a sprinkle of cinnamon, nutmeg, and top off with a dollop of whipped topping.
Variation: For an adult drink why not add 1 to 2 ounces of Light Rum or Bourbon to each serving.
Notes: Finding powdered whole eggs is a bit tricky, but it is available at many large sporting goods stores in their camping supply section or on Amazon. Why do you shake it, and then allow it to rest and share it again? It's to help the instant whole eggs to bloom in the liquid.
I know you get tired of hearing it but always opt for the best and freshest ingredients you can find for all my mixes.
Instant Eggnog Mix is yet another one of my beverage mixes to make and enjoy. You now have another fun beverage mix recipe to combine with the others to make a fabulous gift basket for any special occasion.
This Instant Eggnog Mix, as well as all my other beverage mixes, are particularly nice to have on hand when the desire strikes for a unique single serving beverage.
Time for a drink…
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Happy Valentine's Day!
I wanted to share a quick decorating idea I came up with last week when I was out thrifting
I came across these metal heart shape "things" I have no idea what their true purpose would be for but in my mind they were an awesome thrifty valentine decoration item. Wouldn't they look great in the center of my repurposed picture frames?
Again, consulting my paint stash, I discovered I had a can of red spay paint. I decided to use the "box method" to hold the heart when spraying. That way it was very easy to spray in the garage and transport the box/heart back into the house to dry. I will be so happy when it starts to warm up and I can move all painting to the garage.
After a couple of rotations and applications, it was completed. I removed the boxwood wreath from the picture frame, and used the same ribbon to attach the heart. Done! A super easy Thrifty Valentine decoration.
It might not be up for long, but that's ok because it only took a matter of minutes. What's on your decorating agenda? Would love to see.


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Brazil mining giant Vale (NYSE: VALE) said Tuesday the risk of a new dam break as a consequence of an unstable embankment at its nearby Gongo Soco open pit, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, had decreased.
The miner and emergency services had warned that a section of the now defunct mine had an estimated 10% to 15% chance of disintegrating. If that happened, Vale had said, it would rupture the Sul Superior dam, located only 1.5 kilometers (nearly one mile) away, putting the nearby town of Barão de Cocais at risk.
Vale's Operations Director, Marcelo Barros, said all preventive measures for any possible scenario have been taken. "All the residents of [the potentially affected area] were relocated, we removed more than 3,000 animals and transferred pieces of sacred art to places outside the Self-Rescue Zones (ZAS)," he said.
Even if the pit slide doesn't rupture the Sul Superior dam, the emergency level remains at 3, which is the highest classification.
Almost 700 people living around the dam were evacuated in early February after monitoring systems detected abnormal movement in the northern slope of the pit.
The latest alert comes four months after 242 people were killed when a dam burst at Vale's Córrego do Feijão mine, also in the state of Minas Gerais.
Brazil has since banned the construction of new upstream dams, which are cheaper but less stable than other types of tailings dams, and ordered the decommissioning of existing ones.
In March, the company was hit by a local court injunction that forced it to freeze operations at 13 of its tailings dams in the South American country. Under pressure from federal and state prosecutors for failing to do enough to prevent the disaster, Vale named company veteran Eduardo Bartolomeo as chief executive to replace Fabio Schvartsman, who stepped down after the incident.
Shortly after, Brazilian prosecutors began probing more than 100 high-risk dams across the country. They say they doubt the legitimacy of the safety audits carried out at the nation's mines, especially considering that Córrego do Feijão was certified as stable by German consulting group Tüv Süd only days before the deadly accident.
Gongo Soco is one of 87 mining dams in Brazil built like the one that failed in January. All but four have been rated by the government as equally vulnerable, or worse.
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In Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation he uses the notation $2^{\mathcal{O}(f(n))}$ to denote some asymptotic running time.
For example he says that the running time of a single-tape deterministic turing machine simulating a multi-tape non-deterministic turing machine is
$\mathcal{O}(t(n)b^{t(n)})=2^{\mathcal{O}(t(n))}$ where $b$ is the maximal number of options in the transtition function.
I was wondering if someone can clarify the exact definition of this for me:
My assumption is that if $g(n)=2^{\mathcal{O}(f(n))}$ then there exists $N \in \mathbb{Z}$ and $c \in \mathbb{R}$ s.t.
$g(n) \leq 2^{cf(n)}=(2^{f(n)})^c$ for all $n>N$.
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"Now let us speak of material healing. The science of medicine is still in a condition of infancy; it has not reached maturity. But when it has reached this point, cures will be performed by things which are not repulsive to the smell and taste of man — that is to say, by aliments, fruits and vegetables which are agreeable to the taste and have an agreeable smell. For the provoking cause of disease — that is to say, the cause of the entrance of disease into the human body — is either a physical one or is the effect of excitement of the nerves." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 257
"… It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical science will lead to the doctors' healing their patients with foods. …At whatever time highly-skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 153
"It is, therefore, evident that it is possible to cure by foods, aliments and fruits; but as today the science of medicine is imperfect, this fact is not yet fully grasped. When the science of medicine reaches perfection, treatment will be given by foods, aliments, fragrant fruits and vegetables, and by various waters, hot and cold in temperature." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 258