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This document focuses on the status information that all Cisco 79xx IP phones provide on their display for troubleshooting problems. This information can be used to determine the type of codec in use for a call in progress. It also provides real-time information on the performance characteristics for a call in progress.
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There are no specific prerequisites for this document.
This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions.
The information presented in this document was created from devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If you are working in a live network, ensure that you understand the potential impact of any command before using it.
The Cisco IP Phone 79xx display can be utilized for troubleshooting purposes via the Information (I) button on the phone to display information on a call in progress. Press this button twice during an active call to activate this feature.
Note: The "i" button looks like this .
This menu provides the following information:
RxType/TxType—The codecs currently utilized in the current active voice conversation.
RxSize/TxSize—The size of the payload of the codecs, in this case 20 msec of voice/packet.
Note: The 79xx MGCP IP phones only support a payload size of 10-40 msec.
RxCount/TxCount—Amount of packets sent/received.
AvgJtr—Average jitter is the estimated average jitter observed in the last 16 RTP packets (the averaging function is just a simple low-pass filter).
MaxJtr—Maximum jitter is the maximum jitter seen during the life of the RTP receive stream. Remember that this is not for the life of the call, but for the stream. If you put a person on hold, the stream goes away and needs to be restarted and hence new values here.
RxDisc—The number of packets discarded inbound on this Cisco IP Phone 79xx.
RxLost—The number of packets that did not arrive inbound on this Cisco IP Phone 79xx.
Things to focus on for troubleshooting:
The RxType/TxType tells you what codec is being used for the conversation between this IP phone and the other device. See if they match on both sides. If they do not match, verify that the other device can handle the codec conversation or that a transcoder is in place to handle the service.
The size of the sound samples should match on both devices. This is found in the RxSize/TxSize fields.
The RxCount/TxCount is useful for troubleshooting dropped packets, one way voice problems, and voice activity detection (VAD).
In the voice world, jitter relates to the inter gap of packets in the network. Ideally, voice packets should be received synchronously with a constant (but not too long) delay. Unfortunately, most networks deliver voice packets asynchronously. In other words, there is a variance in the time between voice packets. This is referred to as jitter. When the time between voice packets (jitter) varies beyond the playout buffers on the receiving device, the called party will hear gaps in the voice stream.
In an ideal world, a stream of packets containing voice would arrive at the end device (called party) with exactly the same amount of inter packet gap. This would result in a jitter value of 0. In the real world, the gap between voice packets can vary from packet to packet introducing jitter in the sequence.
To cope with this issue, 79xx phones contain a first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue that acts as an elastic packet buffer. It tries to keep the flow of voice packets to the DSPs constant by playing out the packets with a constant inter packet gap. This helps ensure acceptable voice quality. The 79xx jitter buffer will handle up to two seconds of jitter. Jitter is measured in ms.
If the inter packet gap of an incoming voice stream varies between 0 ms and 2 s, the 79xx's FIFO buffer will be able to mask this variation and no gaps in the incoming voice stream will be detected by the called party. On the other hand, if an incoming voice stream experiences an inter packet gap in excess of 2 s, the 79xx's FIFO buffer will have been drained while waiting for the next voice packet. In this situation gaps in the voice stream will be detected. This is explained in more detail below.
In the example below each packet has exactly the same amount of delay between it and the next packet in the sequence. In this case the constant delay value between the packets (5 ms) results in a jitter value of 0.
In a real network situation the inter packet delay is rarely constant:
As a stream of voice packets passes through the buffers of any routers and switches that exist between the source and the destination, gaps are inserted between the packets. These gaps will vary in size because the load on the routers and switches between the source and the destination will be changing constantly.
In the above diagram we can see the inter packet gap range from 5 to 14 to 10. The end devices in the network (IP Phones in this case) have to compensate for these variations so that the packets are played out to the listener (called party) at a constant rate. This requires that the FIFO buffers always have voice packets available to play out.
The size of a 79xx's FIFO buffer varies based on the amount of jitter experienced in the incoming voice stream. If the jitter value of an incoming voice stream is low, the 79xx will use a smaller FIFO buffer than when the the jitter value of an incoming voice stream is high. It is possible however, that the rate of change in the jitter value will be faster than the 79xx can cope with. In this case, the listener (called party) will experience a brief gap in the voice stream while the 79xx adjusts its FIFO buffer size.
Note: The Cisco IP Phone 79xx increases the FIFO buffer size quickly and decreases it slowly.
The size of the FIFO buffer has a direct effect on the delay between a voice packet being sent and being received by the destination. As the FIFO buffer grows larger, the delay in moving packets out of the FIFO buffer increases. See the next section on Delay for more information on this subject.
The following diagram shows a FIFO buffer removing the jitter from an incoming voice stream.
If you are experiencing gaps in your voice calls (cutouts) check the AvgJtr and MaxJtr values. If, for example, the average jitter value is 5 and the maximum jitter value is 3000, there is a chance of a problem because the variance between the two values is very high. If this happened fast, there might not have been enough time for the 79xx's FIFO queue to compensate. This type of behavior can be found in networks that have periodic high rates of activity such as large routing table updates or batch file transfers. In these cases traffic loads go from low or moderate to high and back again in a very short period of time.
Note: The Cisco IP Phone 79xx can typically handle up to 20 percent packet loss without noticeable quality degradation.
Delay is the amount of time it takes a voice packet (or voice stream) to travel from the source to the destination. In most cases delay will vary over the course of a voice stream (conversation). In a properly tuned network, the maximum delay between the time a calling party speaks and the called party hears what was said is less than what the average person can detect. In other words, there is no perceptible delay in the conversation - words are heard as soon as they are spoken.
In some cases delay across the network will increase to a level that is detectable by the human ear. In a worst case scenario the conversation will deteriorate to the point where each person has to indicate that they have stopped speaking so that the other person will know that they can talk without being interrupted by voice packets that have not yet been received. If you are familiar with Ethernet you might call this behavior a late collision.
All networks impose some delay in the transmission of packets from source to destination. Even a network with a constant inter packet gap of < 1ms will experience some delay in the time between when a source device sends a packet and the destination device receives it. Slow speed serial links (64K and below) create more delay than a high speed link such as an OC12 because of the time it takes to serialize the bits onto the transmission medium.
Variations in delay are caused by the same situations that lead to long inter packet gaps as described in the section on jitter above. In the case of delay, however, the causes typically last longer than a few voice packets. Instead of causing an increase in the inter packet gap for a few packets in a conversation, these problems affect entire conversations.
Note: The Cisco IP Phone 79xx does not provide a delay counter. Delay can be measured by network analyzers and other network management devices.
Minor delay problems do not affect voice quality as badly as jitter can. This is because jitter can cause breaks in the voice stream where entire spoken words can be lost, whereas with delay, all of the spoken words will eventually arrive. In other words jitter is very similar to packet loss in an over subscribed network - the packets over flow the interface buffers and get dropped, which means that they never arrive at the destination.
The diagram below shows the combined effect of delay with jitter, which go hand in hand. The packets are transmitted at a constant rate. The IP network does not forward the packets as quickly or consistently, which has resulted in larger and varied inter packet gaps. In addition, the fourth packet is still somewhere in the network.
The cumulative delay in a network depends on how many router and switches your traffic needs to pass through between the source and the destination of any conversation.
In an IP environment, one way of measuring the delay would be to use the traceroute tool, but this will only work for router hops. In addition, some hosts that support traceroute run it at a very low CPU priority, which helps during a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. This means that there is an imposed delay on the part of the CPU that will be added to the time that the packets took to go from one hop to another. In other words - don't place a lot of faith in the numbers reported by traceroute.
There are third-party network analysis tools that can send packets and measure delay down to the nsec. They are very useful for testing network design prototypes under loaded conditions prior to implementing them. It should be noted however that a robust, well designed and tuned voice network should not have consistent delay and jitter problems.


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I thought we were extra lucky because we had managed to avoid all of the nasty bugs that went around this winter. We had a few colds between the four of us, but nothing too major. Until a few days ago...
Friday at lunchtime Naomi didn't want to eat and I shortly figured out why. She had an upset tummy and lost her breakfast. I thought it was just the biscuits and gravy that didn't agree with her stomach, because she acted completely fine afterwards. She continued to expel any and all food/drink from her stomach throughout the afternoon, but was acting completely normal so I just assumed it was the food she ate that her little tummy couldn't handle. By the time Jared got home from work, her stomach had settled down and she ate her dinner fine.
Saturday morning was uneventful, all seemed well, so we headed up to the church picnic. We had a blast, even though our Home Bible Study's volleyball team didn't win the tournament (I'm not bitter!) and my chili didn't win the cook-off (though I did win it back in 2008! Still like bragging about that:).
After lunch and playing three volleyball games in the hot sun, we headed home and all rested for a bit. I felt crummy with a headache and nausea and spent most of the afternoon on the couch. Before bed Charlotte told me her tummy hurt. She always has an ailment of some sort or another (at least in her head), so I didn't think much of it. But after about 5 minutes of being in bed, she opened her bedroom door and told me she didn't feel good. Then she puked. I rushed her to the bathroom and avoided a huge mess to clean. I hoped that was the end of it and put her back to bed, but she started crying a little while later because she had thrown up in bed. :( So I piled some blankets on the floor in our bedroom for her to sleep in there for the night. But there wasn't much sleeping that went on because she got sick several times throughout the night. Around 4:00 her stomach settled enough for her to sleep till 8:30. She was absolutely pitiful through the night. "Mommy, I don't want to feel sick any more. Can you make me feel better?" Oh, it broke my heart :( On top of that, I was feeling the worst I have in a long time. You know that feeling you have about a minute before you throw up? I had that all night long. Not fun.

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Features for the JENSEN Heavy Duty MINI Waterproof Radio Package
- JHD910 – Waterproof AM/FM/WB Radio Features:
- 12V DC Power
- AM/FM Electronic Tuner (US/Euro)
- Front panel audio AUX-in for use with iPods, MP3 players & portable CD players
- 7-Channel NOAA Weatherband tuner
- Weather Alert automatically switches to WB mode when NOAA warning broadcast is received
- 2-wire connection allows unit to maintain station presets
- Clock runs up to 30 days when vehicle battery is disconnected
- Corrosion and UV-resistant faceplate
- 30 programmable station presets (18FM, 12AM)
- Built-in job site work timer
- Electronic seek up/down/volume/bass/treble/balance
- 12/24 hour clock
- Backlit controls with selectable amber or green illumination color
- Daylight readable display with wide viewing angle
- 3.5mm headphone jack pigtail & 2-channel stereo speaker output
- 2-channel amplified audio output (15 watts)
- One-touch audio mute
- Dimensions: 5-3/16"W x 3-3/8"H x 1-7/8"D
- JXHD35 – Heavy Duty 3.5" MINI Waterproof Surface Mount Speakers Features:
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- Max Power Handling: 30 Watts
- Magnet: 2 oz.
- Sensitivity @ 1W/1 Meter: 85dB
- Frequency Response: 80-20 Hz-kHz
- Nominal Impedance: 4Ohms
- Tweeter Type: Dome
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Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new president.
Musharraf's purge of the court last year deepened his unpopularity and helped his political foes to a victory in February elections. Musharraf resigned under pressure last month.
However, the second-largest party then quit the ruling coalition over the failure to restore all the judges — including the ousted chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.
Tassadiq Hussain Jillani, Shakirullah Jan and Syed Jamshed Ali were sworn back into the court at a ceremony Friday.
Law Minister Farooq Naek said Chaudhry was also welcome to take a fresh oath, but said he could not return as chief justice because removing the judge who replaced him could trigger a "constitutional impasse."
"There cannot be two chief justices," Naek told reporters at the court.
Deep divide
The move deepens the rift between the ruling Pakistan People's Party of Asif Ali Zardari, the front-runner to become president in a vote by lawmakers on Saturday, and that of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Zardari has countered calls to restore the judges by arguing that it would require constitutional amendments to untangle a legal mess bequeathed by Musharraf.
But Zardari also appears wary of Chaudhry, who stood up to Musharraf and questioned a pact signed by the former military ruler that quashed long-standing corruption charges against Zardari and his slain wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Zardari has accused Chaudhry of "playing politics" and called for sweeping judicial reforms expected to crimp the ability of the court to check the activities of the government.
He has dismissed as naive the country's lawyers movement, whose yearlong protests undermined Musharraf and turned Chaudhry into a figurehead for a burgeoning pro-democracy movement.
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The fate of the judges is also important to Musharraf, who has played down suggestions he will be forced into exile by threats from Sharif to have him tried for treason.
Musharraf imposed emergency rule last November in order to purge the court and halt legal challenges to his plan to stay on for another five years as president.
The retooled court issued orders granting him immunity from prosecution for a crackdown that Musharraf himself admitted was unconstitutional.
The government already changed a law lifting the maximum number of judges in the Supreme Court from 16 to 29 — meaning none of the judges who issued those protections will have to make way for any who return.


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A little wind tore this tent apart.
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I would not buy this tent again.
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I use this tent for setting up a comfy base camp. It is definitely only a car camping tent. It has amazing room and easily sleeps 4 with a lot of space. With two persons on cots it's as if you have your own hotel room.
My concern was that it wasn't going to be that water tight. The Colorado summers have frequent rainfall in the evening often accompanied by moderate winds. I was concerned that the open air design wouldn't be that waterproof.
I was wrong. I've had this tent in numerous downpours over the last year. No water has entered the tent. I haven't bothered to seal the seams and rarely bother to stake out extra lines to the rain fly. Still, it doesn't leak. It does well in winds too for a tent this size. It does take two people to set up. It is large and weighs a lot.
If it had a slight vestibule over the entrance, I'd give it a five. If you're looking for a roomy car camping tent that sets up easily, withstands wind, and is water tight, this tent is a very good choice. I have own a lot of tents and this ranks up there for its intended use.
Design: Family Camping
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: Not too tough, but require two people.
Weight: A lot -- car camping NOT backpacking
Price Paid: $300
Bought this tent on the way up to our campsite as I thought the extra size would be nice (first time camping with a 2.5 yr old). Tent went together very well, staked it down through all of our gear into it and went to sleep.
Over the course of the next two days we had at least one 2 hour Lake Michigan thunderstorm blow through. At first no worries however, within 5 minutes of the rain starting a large puddle had formed in the flat center of the tent. No leaks (initially) but the tent was unable to throw the water off and it continued to collect. Simple push up in the middle was able to get the water off (but you can't do this all the time in the middle of the night).
By the third day of severe rain some of the seams where the standing water was collecting were beginning to leak, making both the wife and to a much lesser extent the daughter somewhat miserable. Agree with the other posters' comments about the doors opening up directly into the path of falling water.
Great tent for a dry location with only minimal showers, would not recommend for any location that can receive downpours...
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: Very east to assemble and set-up
Weight: With all items and ground cloth 28 lbs
Price Paid: $339
We got caught in a wind storm the first night using this tent. It held up GREAT! Awesome tent.
Design: Tall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Must have 2 people
Weight: Average
Price Paid: sale
I purchased the Hobitat 6 and used it on a four-day camping trip with my dogs.
I set it up with my sister in late night darkness. It took about 40 minutes because it was dark, we had about six hours of sleep in two days, we were trying to be quiet because it was after quiet hours, and I did not properly prepare by setting it up or reading the directions before taking it on the trip. At only 5'2" in stature I had to jump for the final step - a bar is attached to the top of the tent to hold the rain fly up to prevent pooling water - I had to jump to unzip the opening, pop the stick up, and zip the opening again. Next time it will take maybe 10-15 minutes, even in the dark. I did purchase the footprint and although it is labeled "Hobitat 6" it is about 3' too small for the tent - it doesn't clip in and when we went to straighten it we had to un-stake the tent and roll it up to get to the footprint. I have owned and used footprints on my other tents and this is surely an REI mistake, the footprint will go back to the store.
The sides are so straight that I was able to put my dog's crate (32"Hx48"Lx27"W) only about 6" from the wall! It also fit a queen sized 8" thick air mattress and there is room to bring a side table or portable camping closet if I wish but I just used the top of the dog crate.
Overall we are really hard on tents - my dogs were oblivious to the screen over the door and it withstood having them pop their heads into it for four days. They were able to open the door by nosing the zipper if it was closed to the bottom instead of the top of the door. The side window mesh didn't hold up to my Great Pyrenees jumping on it - she was trying to look out the window to me, but it wasn't meant for dog nails and 100 pounds of downward force so I am solely to blame. I will have to fix the hole in the screen. The tent survived happy dogs romping around in the morning. The poles took a lot of abuse from the dogs and they withstood all they were put through.
We were camping in mixed hardwood forest and it held up to strong wind and rain. There was a wonderful breeze and air movement passing through the tent doors – it was great to get away from the biting flies and take a nap even during the hottest part of the day. I had a wonderful view of the river since the doors are so large. Make sure you stake this tent because it's not terribly aerodynamic.
I am thrilled with my purchase! I couldn't be happier! The materials are strong, the shape is right, it's a freestanding pop up (although I would stake it down). The only thing it is missing is a view of the stars when the rain fly is on it. Although it is about 30 pounds lighter then other brands with steel poles, it is still a car-camping tent.
Design: "Three-season pop up Cabin"
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: A novice can do it.
Weight: 25lbs
Price Paid: $260
We got a Hobitat 6 and used for three days. It's very roomy which is what we liked about it. However, it rained pretty hard the first night. There were a number of small leaks but we survived.
The design of the entrance is terrible since the tent sheds water right where the door is and when it's raining you will get soaked entering the tent. Water pooled in the top of the tent even though there is a sponge that is suppose to push the fly up far enough so you wouldn't have water collecting.
We returned the tent for a full refund and no problems to REI. We felt lucky that we had perfect weather to really test out the tent. The tent worked great when it wasn't raining but unless you plan on camping only where you get no rain or light rain I can't recommend this tent.
Sleeps: 4
Ease of Setup: easy
This tent is massive. I'm 6'2" and have to jump to reach the top. Performs quite well in rain as the nasty New England spring taught me. Don't forget the eyebrow awning over door, I mistakenly thought if we weren't using the door who needs to put the pole in? Wrong, only time it has leaked.
So easy to put together my 11-yr-old did it, by herself, without directions.
Only quibble is the zippers tend to stick a bit, will need some wax to loosen them up.
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: cake
Weight: for car camping, but you knew that
Price Paid: $299


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PlayStation Now Update at E3 2014: Open Beta for PS4 in July, 100+ PS3 Games Available
Shawn Layden, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, announced at the Sony E3 2014 press briefing that PlayStation Now will be available as an open beta for PlayStation 4 owners in North America on July 31.
Access to the open beta will then be available to PS3 and Vita owners shortly thereafter. By the end of the year, newer Sony Bravia TV models will also have access to PlayStation Now with the use of a DualShock 3 controller.
PlayStation Now, Sony's streaming game service, will have over 100+ PS3 games available to users including Dead Space 3, God of War: Ascension, Ratchet and Clank Into the Nexus and Ultra Street Fighter IV.
The beta will continue to be free, but no word has been released yet as to what the price will be or how long rentals will be available when the service goes live.


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We bought you this segment of drunk Florida International fans at the Beef 'O'Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl earlier this week, and it resulted in quite a few nasty emails my way from FIU folks, featuring phrases like:
This is the best news you have to report today? First of all, they don't even sound drunk.
Thus, in the interest of fairness, here's a Marshall fan of a certain age captured on the Tropicana Field scoreboard screen flipping everyone the revolving double-bird. Hope this squares everything up. [ESPN]


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Do you remember what you were doing on October 25, 2001? No? Me neither.
Do you remember what you were doing on October 25, 2001? No? Me neither.
But I do know that was the day Windows XP first became available for purchase. That is a long time ago for people. This was before the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and before the euro.
But it is truly ancient in terms of computer technology.So it is inevitable that the time has come to retire Windows XP. In less than a year (April 8, 2014), Microsoft will be ending support for Windows XP and Office 2003. Microsoft has tried this several times, but this time, it is for real.
So what does this mean for you and your business?
There are two very real, and bad, consequences. The first, and most important, is that there will be no more security patches provided.
As virus writers and hackers find new ways to exploit XP, those vulnerabilities will remain unpatched. XP is already much less secure than more-current operating systems.
Once Microsoft stops supporting XP, it will become the wild, wild, west. It will be trivial to gain control of your computer and the data on it.
If your business has sensitive or proprietary data — and don't we all? — then it will be unconscionable, and possibly criminal, to continue using a computer with Windows XP as the operating system.
And even if the bad guys don't steal your data, they will be able to delete it or crash your computer at will.
I cannot stress this enough:
Starting April 8, 2014, you should expect that your Windows XP computers will be at the mercy of viruses and hackers.
The second bad consequence of this change is that software and hardware vendors are already stopping support of Windows XP.
As they write new software or develop new hardware such as printers and scanners, they do not create XP drivers, and do not test or certify these products to function on Windows XP computers.
So what options are available if you still use XP? In most cases, you will need to replace your computer. Most computers more than three years old simply are not capable of running Windows 7 or Windows 8.
To see if your computer is capable of running Windows 7, you can go to microsoft.com and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.
When planning to replace your hardware, also be sure to check software, printers, scanners, etc., to be sure they are certified to run on Windows 7 or 8.
This process takes time, so please begin the process sooner rather than later. For example, Windows 8 comes with Internet Explorer 10. Many Web applications and websites are not able to function with Explorer 10.
Businesses that rely on their computers to keep their staff productive should replace their desktop computers and servers at least every five years.
If you have computers older than that, or have newer computers running Windows XP, now is the time to plan to upgrade. Seriously.
-- Greg Miller of CMIT Solutions of Goshen specializes in supporting computers, servers, and networks for small- and medium-size businesses. He can be reached at 291-8833, firstname.lastname@example.com, or cmitsolutions.com/GoshenNY.


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IT departments' 'lack of visibility' into virtualisation
- 12 April, 2011 04:38
Nearly half (49 per cent) of firms that use virtualisation say they have delays in resolving IT problems because of a lack of visibility into their whole IT infrastructure, according to a survey.
45 per cent of respondents also said that the lack of visibility is slowing down their organisation's adoption of virtualisation.
The global survey of 253 CIOs, carried out by Vanson Bourne on behalf of VMware management solutions provider Veeam Software, also revealed widespread desire among the respondents for a single management tool that can provide visibility into both on-premise and virtualised systems. All those surveyed were users of VMware vSphere.
80 per cent of respondents who currently use specialist tools but would prefer to use traditional enterprise-wide management tools, said that they were not able to because the traditional tools did not give the required level of granularity for monitoring, managing and making changes to virtual infrastructure.
"They [traditional tools] don't provide any visibility or only very basic visibility because those frameworks were not built with virtualisation in mind," said Ratmir Timashev, CEO and president of Veeam.
"The virtual environment is much more dynamic and you have to plan for more capacity in advance, whereas in the physical world you have more time [to plan]."
45 per cent of respondents also said that the lack of visibility is slowing down their organisation's adoption of virtualisation.
Furthermore, respondents expressed a desire to be able to manage different virtualisation systems from the same dashboard.
71 per cent said they had difficulty doing so managing the VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors from a single console, while 68 per cent wanted a single dashboard for managing them both.
"The future of virtualisation must be about co-existence," Timashev said.


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New Statue of Roberto Clemente Unveiled in the Bronx
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roberto Clemente's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Bronx celebrated by unveiling a new life-size statue of the player at Roberto Clemente State Park in Tremont.
Roberto Clemente had over three thousand hits playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Off-the-field, he was known for his humanitarian work, especially within the Hispanic community. He died in a plane crash in 1972 en route to Nicaragua, where he was travelling to personally deliver aid supplies to earthquake victims.
According to the state Parks Department, this is the first statue of a Puerto Rican legend constructed in New York. Carmen Fernandez grew up in the Bronx and is writing a book about Clemente's legacy. She says it's about's time a Puerto Rican got immortalized in New York.
"That this is the first boricua to be memorialized in a statue, to me, is just mindboggling."


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You had the idea. Who takes it from here?
For those with an entrepreneurial spirit, every business venture starts with a lightbulb moment. It's a thrill you've probably felt yourself; that sense of realisation that your idea could transform how people do business. And that's seriously exciting.
Our lightbulb moment came back in the '80s, when the Rebbettes family engaged a respected London accountant to sell our business. We had received a speculative offer for the company, which we were advised to accept. No attempt was made to source any other interest, improve the offer, or market the business any wider than that.
It felt wrong. We knew we could do better, and so we did – after some serious legwork, we eventually sold the business, for a value 40% higher than that original offer. On went the lightbulb. How many other owner-managed businesses would benefit from such an approach? How many other businesses were selling for less than their real market value?
Fast-forward 25 years, 24 offices, and 240 staff around the world, and BCMS – specialist advisor to privately owned businesses – has grown way beyond any of our expectations. But what I love about my job remains the same. As part of our seminar programme, I get to meet other business owners, running some exceptional businesses in a dizzying array of sectors. Their ingenuity, passion and commitment never fails to astonish me.
One thing I have learnt along the way is that every idea needs people to make it happen. In the beginning, that person is probably you. As your business grows, it becomes the people around you. Over the past 25 years we have been lucky enough to employ some brilliant staff, who have taken that initial idea, developed it and refined it. We've trained and recruited experts in every field of deal-making, across five continents, and we now advise on more transactions that any other comparable advisor, anywhere.
If you're looking to grow your business, change your focus, sell up, or start a new venture, my question is the same.
You had the idea. Who takes it from here?


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The N Greenlights the Third Season of the Critically Acclaimed Teen Drama South of Nowhere From The Tom Lynch Company
The GLAAD Award-Nominated Program for Best Drama Series Resumes Production
in Los Angeles This Spring on 16 New, Original Episodes Slated to Premiere
Fall 2007
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 -- The critically acclaimed teen drama,
South of Nowhere will return for a third season on The N, the nighttime
network for teens, it was announced today by Sarah Tomassi Lindman, SVP and
General Manager, The N. The series which was recently nominated for its
second GLAAD Award in the category of Best Drama Series explores one
family's journey of honesty and self-discovery in the fast-paced City of
Angels. This spring, production will begin on 16 new original 30-minute
episodes from The Tom Lynch Co. that are slated to premiere Fall of 2007.
"We are proud to begin production on a series that continues to be
applauded by both our teen viewers and an esteemed organization such as
GLAAD," said Lindman. "We have created an authentic teen series that speaks
to our audience with honesty and acceptance."
South of Nowhere is a fictional story about a contemporary American
family and their multi-faceted journey of self-discovery. Set in Los
Angeles, the series chronicles the five members of the Carlin family as
they try to define themselves and make sense of their lives while they
undergo a huge transition -- moving from a small town in Ohio to the big
city of Los Angeles. The Carlins find they are unprepared for the
fast-paced, metropolitan environment and the overcrowded, "anything goes"
L.A. public school the family's three teenagers attend. The family is at
the heart of the series and while their characters are unique, they reflect
many American families today -- bound by their evolving identity and their
close relationships.
"We are thrilled that South of Nowhere has been picked up for a third
season," said creator Tom Lynch. "The N has consistently been the right
network and the right partner for this series about teens growing up in Los
Angeles. The new season promises to be the most explosive, heartfelt, and
funny one yet."
Tom Lynch, founder and CEO of The Tom Lynch Company, began his career
as a rock-n-roll producer on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and as
creator-writer- producer of Night Tracks. With an extensive roster of
television hits to his credit -- including Caitlin's Way, Just Deal, Skate,
Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension, and the Emmy-nominated Scout's
Safari, which was set and filmed on location in South Africa -- Lynch
rediscovered his musical roots with the hip-hop sitcom Romeo!, starring rap
artist Master P and his real-life son, Romeo, and Class of 3000, a
co-production with Andre Benjamin of OutKast, which debuts this fall. Lynch
and the company that bears his name continue to create groundbreaking,
uniquely fresh, innovative shows that resonate with audiences around the
world by "illuminating the magic of the human experience" -- celebrating
all the drama, the humor, the quirkiness and reality of human beings'
The N, the nighttime network for teens, is a programming arm of MTV
Networks and is currently available in 55 million households via cable,
digital cable and satellite television. The N's mission is to be the
authentic voice for teens and help them figure out their lives with
relevant, topical programming on-air and online at the network's Emmy
Award-winning web site http://www.The-N.com. The N airs everyday from 6:00 p.m. to
6:00 a.m. (ET). The N and all related titles, characters and logos are
trademarks of Viacom International Inc.
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The Koshland Science Museum explored the science at the core of public policy decisions, linking scientific research to everyday life. The museum's exhibits and programs were derived from reports produced by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The mission of the museum was to help people use science to solve problems.
To ensure scientific accuracy and objectivity, the Koshland Science Museum engaged panels of leading experts to assist museum staff and designers in all facets of exhibit and program development. The Museum Advisory Board provided oversight to the work of the Scientific Steering Committees who participated in developing specific exhibits. Both the Museum Advisory Board and the Scientific Steering Committees were comprised of leading experts from a wide range of fields. This section details the members and affiliations of the Museum Advisory Board and Scientific Steering Committees. For detailed biographies of the museum's advisors, contact the Koshland Science Museum Office.
Museum Advisory Board
- Chair: May Berenbaum, Swanlund Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois
- Bruce Alberts, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- C. Gordon Bell, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Susan Hanson, Research Professor, School of Geography, Clark University
- Gail F. Koshland, Lecturer, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona
- Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- Inder M. Verma, Professor, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Mary Lou Zoback, Professor, Environmental and Earth System Science Department, Stanford University
Life Lab—The Science of You Scientific Steering Committee
- Co-chair: Floyd Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute (Emeritus)
- Co-chair: Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Enriqueta C. Bond, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Emeritus)
- R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Johanna Dwyer, Tufts Medical Center
- Lynn Goldman, The George Washington University
- Adrian Ivinson, Harvard Medical School
- Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania
- Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois
- Margaret Riley, University of Massachusetts
- David B. Reuben, University of California, Los Angeles
- Virginia Stallings, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Earth Lab—Degrees of Change Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University
- Robert Bindschadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University
- Paul Falkowski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Chris Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Inez Fung, Berkeley Institute for the Environment
- Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Jane Long, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Philip Mote, Oregon State University
- Maxine Savitz, Honeywell Inc.
- James Sweeney, Stanford University
- John Michael Wallace, University of Washington
- Eric Wood, Princeton University
Safe Drinking Water is Essential—Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Daniel P. Loucks, Cornell University
- Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
- Simón González, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- James M. Hughes, Emory University
- Robert M. Hirsch, U.S. Geological Survey
- Kimberly Jones, Howard University
- R. Rhodes Trussell, Trussell Technologies
- Henry J. Vaux, University of California/Berkeley
- Hamé M.Watt, Independent Consultant, Washington, DC
Infectious Disease: Evolving Challenges to Human Health—Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Elliot Kieff, Harriet Ryan Albee Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Harvard University
- Gail Cassell, Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Disease, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Bryan Grenfell, Alumni Professor in Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
- Diane Griffin, Professor and Chair, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Michael Osterholm, Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Public Policy, University of Minnesota
- Peter Palese, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- David Relman, Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology , and Immunology, Stanford University
Global Warming Facts & Our Future—Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Eugene Rasmusson, Professor of Meteorology, Senior Research Scholar emeritus, College of Computer, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
- Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences, Earth & Mineral Sciences Environment Institute, Pennsylvania State University
- Ann Fisher, Senior Scientist, Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
- Jerry Mahlman, Senior Research Associate, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Pieter Tans, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Professor Adjoint, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado
- Mike Wallace, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean; Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
Wonders of Science—Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Robert Kirshner, Professor of Astronomy, Associate Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Daniel Kleppner, Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
- James S. Langer, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Vice President, National Academy of Sciences
- Richard Losick, Professor of Biology, Harvard University
Putting DNA to Work—Scientific Steering Committee
- Chair: Daniel Koshland, Jr., Professor, Graduate School, Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Bruce Alberts, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- David Botstein, Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
- Christopher Somerville, Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
- Brian J. Staskawicz, Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley


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Lindor takes next step in development at Double-A
Eighth-overall Draft pick from 2011 debuts with Akron after Futures Game
AKRON, Ohio -- If Francisco Lindor is nervous about playing Double-A baseball, he's not admitting or showing it.
Lindor, the No. 1 prospect in the Indians' farm system, took questions from a herd of reporters Tuesday afternoon in the third-base dugout at Canal Park, before the shortstop made his debut for Double-A Akron. Alongside his new manager, fellow Puerto Rican Edwin Rodriguez, Lindor talked about his short professional career and the type of ballplayer he considers himself.
"I'm going to go out there and give it my all every single day," said Lindor, who has "Be Consistent" on his glove and alluded to in his Twitter handle (@Lindor12BC). "I try to be the best person I can be, not only on the field -- off the field, with my family, teammates, friends, everyone."
Lindor, 19, has been all over the place the past few days. On Sunday, he was in New York for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, in which he came off the bench and grounded into a double play for the World Team. After that, Lindor was back in North Carolina, where his season began with Class A Advanced Carolina, before an 8 1/2-hour car ride brought him to Akron late Monday.
"I was with my sister. It was long," said Lindor, who played in last year's Futures Game, as well. "I went through West Virginia -- I'd never seen so many mountains together. It was cool, driving up. I'm excited that I'm here. So I'm happy, I'm happy to be here."
Lindor posted a .316 batting average and .666 OPS in 83 games at Class A this year. The switch-hitter collected 26 extra-base hits -- 19 doubles, six triples and a homer. He scored 51 runs and drove in 27. He also took 35 walks and struck out 39 times. And he stole 20 bases in 25 attempts.
He had a .952 fielding percentage in 82 games at short, turning 51 double plays and committing 18 errors.
The Indians decided it was time to advance their first-round selection from the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, announcing the decision Saturday.
"Francisco is an exceptional talent and person, and the promotion to Akron is just one more step in his progression of becoming a Major League player," Ross Atkins, the club's vice president of player development, said in an email. "Francisco has continued to improve in every aspect of his game and we felt as though Akron would be the best environment for him to continue doing just that."
The 5-11, 175-pound Lindor delivered a stellar showing with Cleveland for 10 games during Spring Training, going 7-for-24 while putting a .292/.320/.417 slash line together.
The Indians have been nothing but excited about Lindor since selecting him with the eighth overall pick of the 2011 Draft out of Montverde Academy (Fla.). It didn't matter that Lindor was only 17 years old. The organization knew what he was capable of.
"I don't doubt you could throw him in a Major League game and he'd look like he belongs," Indians manager Terry Francona recently said. "Now, could he hold his own enough to put up some numbers? Probably not yet, but the fact that he's been moved to Double-A is a significant step in his career."
With Akron, Lindor is much closer to Cleveland than he was in Carolina. That fact isn't lost on Lindor, though he's savvy enough to realize the advantages of not getting too far ahead of himself.
"My focus right now is playing Double-A baseball every day," Lindor said. "I see [Cleveland] in the future, but I'm focusing on playing today and winning today."


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Jurors in murder trial hear police interviews
Wilton man accused of stabbing girlfriend to death in 2008
A state police investigator who interviewed a man accused of killing his girlfriend testified Wednesday that the man became emotional when talking about the confrontation that led to her death.
Benjamin Duling, of Wilton, is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the April 2008 stabbing death of Shelly McGrade. Prosecutors said he stabbed McGrade twice in a home they shared with their two children.
State Police Lt. Jim Geraghty said he interviewed Duling five times after McGrade was stabbed. Three of the interviews were played for the jury Wednesday morning, and in each one, Duling wept as he gave more details about what he said happened between him and his girlfriend.
Duling told police in the taped interviews that McGrade didn't want to go on a trip to London with him and the kids, and that sparked a violent confrontation.
Duling told Geraghty during the interviews that the couple argued often, but their fights usually blew over.
But in the interviews, Duling told Geraghty that McGrade grabbed a kitchen knife that night, and the two struggled.
During one interview, Duling can be heard telling Geraghty, "She's gone. I love her. I miss her."
Duling's lawyers said the stabbing was a case of self-defense.


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- 2x store-bought sponge cakes
- 1 litre strawberry ice-cream
- 1½ cups (330g) caster (superfine) sugar
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ cup (125ml) water
- 4 eggwhites, at room temperature
- Halve the cakes horizontally, place on a tray lined with non-stick baking paper and freeze for 1 hour or until very firm. Place the ice-cream in an electric mixer and beat for 1–2 minutes or until softened. Place the ice-cream in the freezer for 1 hour or until firm but spreadable.
- Working quickly, spread 1⅓ cups ice-cream between each cake layer, pressing slightly before creating the next layer and finishing with a layer of cake. Smooth the sides with a palette knife and return to the freezer for 2–3 hours or until completely frozen.
- Place 1¼ cups sugar (275g), cream of tartar and water in a medium saucepan over high heat and stir with a metal spoon until the mixture is just combined. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to medium and cook for 4 minutes.
- Place the eggwhites in an electric mixer and whisk until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining sugar and whisk until stiff peaks form. While the motor is running, add the sugar syrup in a thin, steady stream and whisk for 2–3 minutes or until thick and glossy.
- Place the cake on a serving dish and spread with the meringue. Using a kitchen blow torch, toast the meringue for a few seconds or until golden. Serve immediately or return to the freezer until ready to serve. Serves 8–10.
Tips + Tricks
+ When freezing the sponge cake layers, separate them with non-stick baking paper or the layers will stick together.
+ Before softening the ice-cream, place in a metal container in the freezer to prevent the ice-cream from melting.
+ Keep the cake in the freezer for 2–3 days.
+ Remove the cake from the freezer 20 minutes before serving.
+ Exercise a little caution when using the blowtorch, especially if you are serving the cake on a delicate platter.
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The effects of concussions have rightfully been the focus of an increasing amount of press over the last several years. Some stories are particularly disturbing: the motor deficits seen with boxer Muhammad Ali, incidences of suicides and depression suffered by professional and college-level football players, and the recent plight of National Hockey League star Sidney Crosby, who has been sidelined for a month with concussion-like symptoms, are just a few newsworthy stories.
Head trauma is a very serious issue. Athletes are bigger and quicker, and hit harder than they did decades ago. This likely corresponds with an increase in diagnosed concussions in professional and amateur sports. Recent research, however, is bringing to light something startling about concussions: Many athletes are suffering brain damage not only from hard hits, but also from repeated smaller "micro-traumas" to the head.
Micro-traumas to the brain can be seen with something as innocuous as heading a soccer ball, or a football lineman pushing up against a opponent when the ball is snapped. If these activities are repeated over and over again, the end result can be just as disturbing as a diagnosed concussion.
From a rehabilitation standpoint, head injury patients are among the most difficult to treat. Chronic headaches, neck pain, and shooting pain down the arms are very common chronic conditions that arise from head and neck trauma. "Myofascial pain," or pain stemming from the muscle, nerves, and other soft tissue structures, is a common occurrence as well. Behavioral differences are noted when brain tissue is repeatedly knocked against the skull; depression, aggression, and changes in motor speech function are a few examples.
Young athletes often fail to recognize that multiple minor head traumas can have terrible long-term consequences. My advice to parents may sound excessive, but is it truly worth a few years of competition and fun for your child given what we now know about head trauma? I for one thank my parents for keeping me away from football in high school. Parents should take the potential of head injury into account when deciding what sports are appropriate for their children to participate in. It also goes without saying that if your child sustains a concussion, you should really consider pulling your child from that sport if the potential to re-injure is present.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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YANKEES: New York taken down by Philadelphia Phillies prospect Domonic Brown
CLEARWATER, Fla. >> Domonic Brown's chance to contribute is right now. Tommy Joseph's opportunity should come in due time.
Brown and Joseph hit long home runs in the seventh inning and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied past the New York Yankees 4-3 Tuesday for their first win of the exhibition season.
Brown connected off Zach Nuding, sending his second home run this spring over the batter's eye in center field. the 25-year-old Brown, once the Phillies' best prospect, is competing for the vacancy in left field.
"That was a well-struck baseball ... the ball went a long ways," Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel said. "He put a good swing on it: nice, short and compact, with balance at the plate."
"His swing is more fluid and compact," he said. "It's more explosive."
Joseph, a catcher considered by some as the Phillies' current top hitting prospect, sent a two-run drive deep over the left-field fence. He was acquired from San Francisco last summer in the trade that sent Hunter Pence to the eventual World Series champions.
Ichiro Suzuki went 3 for 3 to lead the Yankees. He legged out an infield single, stole second and scored on Mark Teixeira's double in the first inning off Kyle Kendrick.
Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick gave up three hits and one run in two innings.
Kendrick, a swingman on the pitching staff in the last three years, has a permanent spot in the rotation for the first time since the spring of 2008, when he was coming off his rookie season.
"It was nice to get out there," Kendrick said. "I was excited. A little amped up a little bit in the first inning. I felt good. The body felt good. I was throwing mostly strikes."
New York right-hander Jose Ramirez impressed in his spring debut. The 23-year-old retired five of the six batters he faced.
The only Phillies batter to reach off Ramirez, Ryan Howard, walked to lead off the second and was quickly erased on a double-play grounder.
"The young man was starting his first game, seeing Howard and (Jimmy) Rollins and those guys," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "He did a nice job."
Yankees relievers David Robertson and Joba Chamberlain each pitched a scoreless inning.
J.R. Murphy took over for Yankees catcher Bo Wilson in the bottom of the sixth and went 2 for 2 with a two-run homer and a long double.
NOTES: Yankees 3B Kevin Youkilis was scratched from the game because of a sore left oblique. He will be re-evaluated later this week. ... Philadelphia 2B Chase Utley was scratched from the lineup minutes before the game. Manuel decided to rest Utley for precautionary reasons. There was a tornado watch in the area and heavy rains flooded Bright House Field in the morning. Utley had missed each of the last two spring trainings with chronic knee pain. ... RHP reliever Mike Adams is scheduled to make his first appearance this spring on Thursday when the Phillies host the Atlanta Braves. Adams had surgery to correct thoracic outlet syndrome after the 2012 season. He signed a two-year, $12 million deal with the Phillies as a free agent in December. ... LHP John Lannan will make his Phillies and spring debut on Wednesday in Fort Myers against the Minnesota Twins. ... Yankees LHP Nik Turley is scheduled to start against Baltimore in Tampa on Wednesday.


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Live milling demonstrations with HAAS & YCM
Givat Shmuel, Israel – July 17, 2012 – Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ and TASE: CIMT) today acknowledged the highly successful reception that its signature solutions, CimatronE and GibbsCAM, received at the recent ACMEE trade show in Chennai, India.
"The manufacturing industry's high regard for CimatronE and GibbsCAM was amply demonstrated recently when they were selected as the software of choice by two of the world's leading machine tool companies for live demonstrations at the ACMEE trade show," said Mr Edsel Vaz, Cimatron's country manager for India.
"The machining of superior quality products in record time is achieved when the right machines, tools and software work hand-in-hand. CimatronE and GibbsCAM are solutions world-renowned for their ability to prepare the product for manufacture and to work effectively with a range of machines and tools, no-matter how complex the job."
CimatronE and GibbsCAM were showcased at ACMEE by KKMSoft, a partner of Indian Cimatron reseller Aditya. Leading machine tooling companies YCM and HAAS used CimatronE and GibbsCAM respectively to run their live machining demonstrations at the event.
CimatronE is an integrated CAD/CAM solution for both toolmakers and manufacturers of discrete parts, which provides full associativity across the manufacturing process, from quoting through design and delivery. Its applications include: mold and die design, electrode design, 2.5 to 5-axis NC programming and discrete part production.
GibbsCAM is a full-featured CAM system that provides powerful capabilities without sacrificing ease of use. Optimized for production manufacturing, GibbsCAM supports 2 through 5-Axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire EDM and integrates seamlessly with all major CAD systems.
For further information on Cimatron products in India, email Mr Vaz, [email protected].
About Cimatron
With 30 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM software solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles and ultimately shorten product delivery time.
The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
Cimatron's shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the symbol CIMT. For more information, please visit Cimatron's web site at: http://www.cimatron.com
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|Posted: December 8, 2009
Making the case for using exotic materials to keep improving microchips
|(Nanowerk News) The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors are now getting so small that theyre running up against fundamental physical limits: soon, it will be impossible to squeeze any better performance out of them. Researchers in MITs Microsystems Technology Laboratories, led by professor of electrical engineering Jesus del Alamo, have been investigating whether transistors made from more exotic materials can keep the processing power coming. At the International Electron Devices Meeting this week in Baltimore the premier conference on microelectronics they are presenting four separate papers that offer cause for hope.
|Del Alamos group works with compound semiconductors, so called because, unlike silicon, theyre compounds of several other materials. In particular, the group works with materials that combine elements from columns III and V of the periodic table and have names like gallium arsenide and indium gallium arsenide.
|A test chip used to evaluate the performance of indium gallium arsenide in logic circuits. (Image: del Alamo group)
|Electrons travel through these so-called III-V materials much more rapidly than they do through silicon, and III-V semiconductors have been used for years in high-speed electronics, such as the devices that process data in fiber-optic networks. But according to del Alamo, the transistors in III-V optical components are larger by several orders of magnitude than the transistors in computer chips. Whether they can maintain their performance advantages at dramatically smaller scales is the question that del Alamos group is tackling.
|In a computer chip, transistors serve as on-off switches that help execute logic operations comparing two values, for instance, or performing arithmetic functions. But transistors can also be used to amplify electrical signals as they do in transistor radios. Last year, del Alamos group built a III-V transistor that set a world record for high-frequency operation, meaning that it was able to amplify higher-frequency signals than any previous transistor. While that gives some sense of the transistors capacities, two of the four papers being presented in Baltimore assess properties of the transistor that better predict its performance as a logic element.
|To measure those properties, del Alamo says, the group built chips with multiple transistors that were identical except for the length of their most critical element, called the gate. If a transistor is a switch, the gate is what throws it. When the gate is electrically charged, it exerts an electrostatic force on a semiconductor layer beneath it; that force is what determines whether the semiconductor can conduct electricity or not.
|By comparing the performance of transistors with different gate lengths at different frequencies, del Alamos group was able to extract precise measurements of both the velocity of the electrons passing through the transistor and the electrostatic force that the gate exerted on the semiconductor layer.
|Electron velocity, del Alamo says, is the key velocity that is going to set the performance of a future logic switch based on these kinds of materials, and we have obtained velocities that are easily two and a half times higher than the best silicon transistors made today. While the electrostatic force exerted by the gate was lower than the researchers had hoped, measuring it so precisely allowed del Alamos group to develop better physical models of III-V transistors behavior. On the basis of those models, del Alamo says, he believes that the gates performance is a manageable problem.
|Before the industry is willing to switch from one technology to the next technology, people in the industry would want to make sure that they were making the right bet, the right investment, says Robert Chau, a senior fellow at chip giant Intel who has worked closely with del Alamos group. So obviously, people will need to thoroughly understand the physics behind this proposed new technology. I think thats what Professor del Alamos group has been doing getting to the science of the device operation.
|The third paper is in a similar vein, a collaboration with researchers at Purdue University who have developed simulators to model the performance of III-V transistors that are even smaller than the MIT prototypes. Del Alamos group used its precise measurements of the prototypes performance to help the Purdue team calibrate its simulator. The fourth paper, however, addresses a different topic: it proposes a new design for III-V transistors that, del Alamo says, will work better at smaller scales, because it permits a thinner layer of material to separate the gate and the semiconductor material beneath it.
|For all their speed, III-V semiconductors have a disadvantage as a next-generation chip material: theyre rarer, and therefore more expensive, than silicon. But while the MIT prototypes were built entirely with III-V materials, del Alamo envisions a silicon-like technology where just under the gate you take silicon out and stick in indium gallium arsenide. Its a minute amount of material that is required in every transistor to make this happen. Indeed, III-V is not really in competition with silicon, Chau agrees. It still will be a silicon transistor. Its just that youre using this non-silicon element to make it even better.
|Source: MIT
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Intelligent HPC Workload Management Across Infrastructure and Organizational Complexity
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Moab HPC Suite – Enterprise Edition multi-dimensional policies are also able to factor in organizational priorities and complexities when scheduling workload. Moab ensures workload is processed according to organizational priorities and commitments and that resources are shared fairly across users, groups and even multiple organizations. This enables organizations to automatically enforce service guarantees and effectively manage organizational complexities with simple policy-based settings.
Moab HPC Suite – Enterprise Edition is architected to integrate on top of your existing resource managers and other types of management tools in your environment to provide policy-based scheduling and management of workloads. It makes the optimal complex decisions based on all of the data it integrates from the various resource managers and then orchestrates the job and management actions through those resource managers. Moab's flexible management integration makes it the ideal choice to integrate with existing or new systems as well as to manage your high performance computing system as it grows and expands in the future.
Moab HPC Suite – Enterprise Edition Components
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Moab HPC Suite System Compatibility
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