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Using formal verification to create robust IP
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Using formal verification to create robust IP
| Jay Littlefield
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| Contemporary system-on-chip (SoC) design demands the use of pre-existing intellectual property (IP). It is simply not practical to develop many millions of gates of new logic from scratch while meeting both project resource and time-to-market constraints. Accordingly, SoC teams look for opportunities to reuse logic from previous designs, share IP available within the company, or license IP blocks from commercial sources.
Given the criticality of IP in today's designs, it is vital that an IP provider thoroughly verify each design before it is used in SoC projects. This is equally true for designers providing blocks for reuse within their company, often via an internal design repository, and commercial providers. A designer's job may hinge upon how well his or her blocks can be leveraged by other projects in the company. A commercial IP provider's very existence relies on positive customer experience and a good reputation.
SoC designers evaluating IP also know the important of verification, but it can be very hard to assess verification quality for a block designed by someone else. Today, this assessment is accomplished by inquiring about past user experience and evaluating the verification methods used by the IP provider. As this article will discuss, current methods leave some gaps in IP verification and therefore some shortfalls in the metrics used to gauge verification thoroughness.
This article presents the technique of formal analysis as a superior method to verify an IP block under all possible user scenarios, and to thereby produce a higher-quality reusable design. This article also explains how formal verification relies on assertions of designer intent, some generated automatically and some specified explicitly by the designers, and how these assertions assist with IP verification using both simulation and formal methods.
Traditional IP verification
As shown in Figure 1, most IP is verified in the same way that most chips are verified: by using a suite of self-checking simulation tests to provide stimulus to the design and to ensure that the design produces the expected results. Once the designer completes the IP block, either the designer or a dedicated verification engineer develops a testbench around the block to provide stimulus generation and results checking. Next, the engineer develops a series of tests that use these capabilities to verify the design.
Figure 1 � Traditional standalone IP verification relies exclusively on manual and automatic simulation tools
Traditionally, the IP team develops a test plan for all the features to be verified, checking off each feature as the appropriate tests are written, debugged and run successfully. Today, the team is more likely to use a testbench automation tool to generate constrained-random stimulus, which can exercise corner-case behavior that would be hard to hit with explicit tests. Constrained-random tests are especially effective for generating variable sequences of processor instructions and bus transactions.
Whatever the mix of hand-written and automatic tests, any simulation-based method requires metrics so that the development team can assess the thoroughness of the verification. For RTL-based designs, code coverage is the traditional answer. More recently, designer-specified functional coverage points have become more common to supplement code coverage. These metrics have the advantage of directly correlating to design functionality and therefore having more meaning to the engineers.
The combination of simulation-based testing and coverage metrics is a powerful way to verify an IP design, but it inherently has holes. Simulation, by its very nature, only exercises a tiny percentage of all possible design behavior. Each individual test resets the design to a known state and then applies a series of changes to the inputs. Even across an extensive test suite, many legal input sequences are never exercised. Formal analysis is the only way to dramatically improve verification thoroughness.
Automatic formal analysis
The process of formal verification is easy to initiate, since it begins with automatic analysis of the design and extraction of assertions for certain important types of design properties. This step, sometimes called implied intent verification, uses formal analysis to find proofs or counter-examples for these assertions. A proof means that the assertion is always correct; a counter-example is a demonstration of the conditions under which the assertion can be violated.
These assertions represent complex sequential design properties that identify corner-case design errors, especially valuable in the early stages of RTL development. Therefore, IP designers should run a formal verification tool as soon as each RTL block has been coded, and whenever changes are made. The tool analyzes the RTL for every applicable instance of a design element, extracts all the relevant assertions, and performs formal analysis on these assertions. The automatic assertions can include:
Clock intent verification
Perhaps the most valuable automatic assertions are those that check correctness of multi-clock designs. Many IP blocks, especially those that implement external interfaces, contain portions of logic running on independent, asynchronous clocks. For example, most PCI blocks allow connection to a chip running at a frequency unrelated to the PCI clock. Other bus protocols extract their clocks from incoming data, so there is no relationship at all between the interface clock and the rest of the chip.
Experienced IP designers know that meta-stability is a real concern for designs with multiple clock domains. Whenever a signal passes from one clock domain to another, care must be taken to include an effective synchronizer so that meta-stability does not produce incorrect data in the receiving clock domain. Designers must take additional steps to ensure that multiple signals (such as bits of a bus) crossing clock domains do not fall out of correlation in the receiving domain.
Proper multi-clock design is greatly simplified by the automatic analysis of clock intent verification (CIV). This approach definitively identifies most types of multi-clock design errors and provides detailed warnings about suspicious logic. The CIV process starts with a structural analysis of an RTL design, tracing all clocks and resets from the state elements. This process can automatically identify:
Although formal analysis is an exhaustive technology, in practice not all assertions can be proven in complex designs. For this reason, CIV also generates the three types of assertions in a form suitable for simulation. If a proof cannot be found, but the assertion runs with no violations throughout a test suite of many millions or even billions of cycles, then the designers gain a high degree of confidence in the correctness of their multi-clock design.
Designer-specified assertions
Automatic assertions, while very effective at eliminating many IP design problems, cannot find all types of errors. Assertions represent designer intent, and only certain types of intent can be extracted automatically from RTL. IP design (and verification) engineers can specify their own assertions, sometimes called expressed intent. The same formal analysis methods used for the automatic assertions can be used to verify the designer-specified assertions. Typical assertions for an IP block might include:
Assertions in simulation
All common assertion libraries and languages are designed to work in simulation. As shown in Figure 2, during stand-alone IP verification, the internal and interface assertions can run in parallel with the traditional simulation tests to provide an extra level of checking for the design. Even when the testbench detects a design error at the IP outputs, assertion violations can help to determine the precise location of the design bug. This is especially true for large and complex IP blocks, in which tracing back from the outputs to a bug is hard.
Figure 2 � Assertions aid in standalone IP verification by checking that designer intent is not violated.
One great advantage of assertions is that they can run in any simulation, whether verifying the IP block or an entire SoC. When the provider delivers the IP to the SoC team, the CIV and designer-specified assertions should be provided along with the design itself. Then, the SoC verification team can run the assertions in full-chip simulations, as shown in Figure 3. Both the internal and IP interface assertions are extremely valuable in helping the SoC team ensure that they have integrated the IP block and are using it correctly.
Figure 3 � Assertions in IP aid in chip-level verification by isolating design errors at their source.
The assertions on the IP block inputs are especially useful, since they check that the stimulus provided by the rest of the chip is correct. An IP team designs the logic to operate correctly within the range of legal input sequences. Failure to follow these rules usually results in the IP block misbehaving. For example, most AMBA-based blocks are designed to expect only legal protocol from the AMBA on-chip bus; illegal sequences will likely cause the blocks to generate illegal protocol in return.
The assertions internal to the IP block are also useful during chip-level simulation. If the IP design somehow gets into an inconsistent internal state, this might indicate that it was not integrated properly into the SoC or that there is a bug in the IP block itself. It is very embarrassing for a provider when an SoC team discovers an IP bug. However, this is greatly preferable to a bug ending up in silicon, endangering both the SoC project and the survival of the IP provider.
There is a way for an IP provider to eliminate the possibility of a bug making it to SoC simulation; the comprehensive use of formal analysis during stand-alone IP verification. Formal algorithms can exhaustively explore all possible design behavior over all time, ensuring that no SoC team can ever use an IP block in a way that has not already been fully verified. The result is a very robust IP design that can be safely reused by anyone.
Formal verification of IP
The use of formal analysis for IP verification involves two phases. The first phase � automatic assertions for CIV and other types of design properties � has already been discussed in detail. All IP designers should make automatic formal analysis a part of their verification process; it is easy to use and as natural as running lint tools, measuring code coverage, and using other traditional techniques. SoC teams should insist that any potential IP providers run automatic formal analysis.
The second phase is the formal verification of the designer-specified assertions as well as the assertions generated from CIV. As shown in Figure 4, this entails one additional step. The internal IP assertions and those on the IP block outputs are treated as targets for formal analysis, while the input assertions are treated as constraints. This ensures that formal analysis considers only legal input sequences as it tries to find either a proof or a counter-example for each target assertion.
Figure 4 � Formal verification of IP ensures that no possible legal input sequence can violate the designer assertions.
The specification of constraints might appear to be a burden for using formal verification, but in fact it is a natural outgrowth of the overall verification process. An accurate set of assertions to capture an IP block's input protocol provides great benefit for both stand-alone and chip-level simulations. Treating these assertions as formal constraints is easy, and in practice the set of input assertions from simulation is very close to that needed for accurate formal verification.
As formal verification has emerged as a more mainstream technique, a great deal of work has been done to improve the power and capacity of formal algorithms. Automatic formal analysis can be performed on designs of virtually any size, and many types of IP blocks can be exhaustively analyzed for the designer-specified assertions as well. For very large IP blocks, there may be divide-and-conquer methods available to formally verify sub-blocks and work up to the complete IP design.
Successful IP providers take verification seriously and use a wide range of techniques to produce the most robust possible design. Traditional methods include sophisticated stand-alone simulation environments, extensive suites of hand-written and constrained-random tests, coverage metrics, and lint analysis. These methods are necessary, but unfortunately not sufficient, to verify complex IP blocks well enough to find all bugs before integration into an SoC.
Only the comprehensive power of formal verification can create a truly robust IP block. Automatic formal analysis eliminates many common design errors, including improper handling of signals crossing between multiple, asynchronous clock domains. The addition of designer-specified assertions allows formal analysis to verify that the IP design will work as intended in any future SoC integration, a very powerful guarantee not possible with simulation alone.
IP providers should use formal verification to ensure that their designs will work properly and not result in chip re-spins. SoC teams should carefully evaluate the verification processes for any potential IP providers, insisting that formal analysis play a key role. The result will be a more successful commercial IP industry, higher confidence in reused designs of all types, and a dramatic reduction in the number of chip turns required to fix design bugs.
Jay Littlefield (firstname.lastname@example.com) is Director of Applications Engineering at Real Intent, Inc. His background includes simulation and formal verification. Real Intent provides the Verix Assertion Verification System, which offers a hierarchical formal analysis capability including clock intent verification.
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Nasheed's Closest Man arrested for having sex with an underage girl
Maldives former President's closest ally, Hoara Ibrahim Rasheed, has arrested today from an apartment, where the police found him having sex with an underage girl. Ibrahim Rasheed, former under-secretary of the President Office, was arrested when police found him having … Continue reading
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Time is running out: We must unite and stop the doom we face in the name of democracy now or it will be too late
By HauMaldives Once CNN Anchor and political science scholar Fareed Zakaria writing about the rise of illiberal democracy wrote about the rise of fascist and separatist government that are formed in the new and emerging democracies of the world. He … Continue reading
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Corruption in the name of Democracy
According to the Auditor General of Maldives audit reports of the past few years had revealed massive cases of corruption involving former President himself, his political appointees and party activists. One of the reports revealed that a local company belonging … Continue reading
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From the twitter account of an MDP activist who is arrested due to the brutal attack on Dr. Afraasheem. As the activists of MDP keep applauding the attack Nasheed, leader of MDP, fugitive, is defying court order.
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Speech by His Excellency Dr Mohamed Waheed, President of the Republic of Maldives at the High Level Meeting on the Rule of Law
Mr President, Mr Secretary General, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates It is a pleasure and an honour to stand before you today, representing my nation, in advocacy of a principle, that we hold dear. I congratulate you Mr President, on being elected … Continue reading
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Blatant Lies of Tory Activist
Nasheed resigned from office and claimed that he did not resign. Nasheed announced his resignation in the public media and in the presence of his cabinet. Despite the public announcement, hours later, Nasheed said that he was resigned under gun … Continue reading
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Amnesty is Blind and Biased
Abbas Faiz of Amnesty is watching these videos. But simply finalizing reports drafted by MDP.
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We have all heard of it, and we all use it at sometime or the other, but should we consider buying autographs via those on facebook? Because of my previous post about obtaining a refund on ebay from a fake seller, I have had a several emails asking me about items that customers have purchased via people on facebook. These 'sellers' appear to be simply people who use the site for the usual social media reasons, and will offer items which they claim are obtained on their visits to premiers etc, often showing images of famous people signing items at these events. All very believable, but how genuine are they?
The truth it would seem is very different, as it turns out that the items that i have been shown are not authentic and in some cases the buyers have failed to get any refund either! There are of course some genuine AFTAL and UACC registered dealers who use this way to promote their business, and there is nothing wrong with that, although you should always double check the sellers membership with either of those associations, and not simply accept what they tell you. These 'private' sellers are a very different kettle of fish though, as based on what i have seen they are often offering fakes at a tempting price with a convincing story, but if you find out the truth later you will have zero chance of getting any kind of refund.
Recent emails to myself have shown that some of the sellers accept their payments by direct bank transfer, which is something you should avoid at all cost, as once paid this way the bank will never help you with any refund, you are simply on your own, and of course the seller knows this. Cash is also no no too for obvious reasons, paypal should be your first choice as at least that way you have some means of getting a refund if it all goes wrong.
So my advice has to be, be very wary of any seller of signed items on Facebook. There are of course genuine sellers, but in the main they will also have proper website with full contact details, and are likely to be a member of AFTAL or a UACC Registered Dealer (not just a member, and always double check this!) otherwise you stand a very good chance of finding yourself out of pocket.
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FMBrew's Oktoberfest 2017
Break out your lederhosen and grab Das Boot, it's time for FMBrew's Fifth Annual Oktoberfest!
In true Oktoberfest fashion, one day is not enough! So the Fort Myers Brewing Company is excited to bring you four days of partying, including over 50 specialty FMBrews, live music, and food trucks!
Thursday – Sept. 28th: We're kicking off the holiday weekend with a food truck rally and live music from country crooner Bobby James!
Food Truck Rally: The Nosh Truck, The Sizzle Truck, Rollin' Raw Bar, Flavour Street, and Slider City food truck
Live Music: Bobby James 6:30 – 10:30
Open 3 – 11pm.
Friday – Sept. 29th: Our annual Oktoberfest Sausage Fest with Up North Doggs serving up gourmet Kobe Beer sausage dogs! If sausage isn't your thing, don't worry – Organically Twisted Food Truck will be making their FMBrew return, and Taste of the South Extreme Southern Cuisines LLC will be serving up a menu full of awesome southern eats.
Live Music: Soulixer 6:30 – 10:30
Open 3 – 11pm.
Saturday – Sept. 30th: Our annual Oktoberfest extravaganza! We'll be rotating over 50 FMBrews throughout the day, including FMBrew's own Oktoberfest Ale, as well as a food truck rally and live music all day long!
Food Truck Rally: The Nosh Truck, Hungry Pony Foodcart, Up North Doggs, Taco Tummy, Doner Kebab King Karl, Currie's Smokin' Hot BBQ
Live Music: The Woodwork 2:30pm – 6pm followed by High Five Friday 7pm – 11pm
Open noon – 11pm.
Sunday – Oct. 1st: Hangover Party! End the long weekend with leftover specialty brews, live music, and awesome eats to help nurse that weekend buzz.
Food Trucks: Sweet Cheesus & Red Roc Cravings
Live Music: The Good Bad Kids 2pm – 6pm
Open noon – 8pm.
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FMBrew is pet & family friendly! We ask that pets please stay on a leash & outside. While we have an outside and inside seating area, during our big events we tend to fill up fast, so feel free to bring your own chair!
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- Melt butter in small saucepan; stir in flour and cook about one minute, stirring. Remove from heat and stir in stock with rosemary, thyme and pepper. Return to heat and continue cooking until mixture thickens.
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By Dayo Fasasi
An automobile company in Beijing, China has unveiled the spectacular invention for a pollution solution, which could glide over other road buses and cars.
While we are praising driver less car from the United Arab Emirates UAE, its counterpart the People's Republic of China has invented an elevated bus.
The new invention is called Transit Explore Bus or TEB for short. It was first showcased in early May at a technology exhibition in Beijing. According to reports, the "straddling bus", which owes more to Blade Runner than China's car-clogged highways, is supported by two legs that run along rails laid along the roadside.
A local exhibitor, who saw the expo said, "Those legs allow the TEB's giant frame to glide high above the gridlock at speeds of up to 60km per hour. Equally, vehicles that are less than two meters high will be able to drive freely underneath the bus, even when it is stationary".
The project coordinator Song Youzhou, said "The biggest advantage of the TEB is that the bus will save lots of road space. These buses are capable of transporting up to 1,400 commuters. As well as be produced for 20% of the price of an underground train. One TEB could replace 40 conventional buses."
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A TEMPORARY art installation has drawn attention from Dublin's iconic Poolbeg Chimneys on Sandymount Strand.
An art collective known as Reckless Rainbow has taken responsibility for the creation, which was installed on the famous beach yesterday morning following a short appearance at the Castlepalooza music festival in Tullamore, Co Offaly last weekend.
The work of art is based on Brigid's Cross, a Christian symbol which is believed to afford protection against darkness.
The collective has launched a crowd-funding campaign to build another work of art, called Brigid's Crossing, for display at the seven-day Burning Man festival in Nevada in the US from August 25, which features the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy.
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Of EuTRiPD
The Madrid team (CSIC) published about the effect of paracalcitol on peritoneal fibrosis in October 2014: click HERE.
The EuTRiPD Amsterdam team published in Journal of Renal care in January 2014: click HERE.
Joint publications of the EuTRiPD Poznan-Berlin teams:
The proto-oncogene c-Fos transcriptionally regulates VEGF production during peritoneal inflammation
Regulation of Chemokine CCL5 Synthesis in Human Peritoneal Fibroblasts: A Key Role of IFN-?
A publication of the EuTRiPD Heidelberg team in Topthema Paediatrie can be read HERE.
About (EuTRi)PD
Publications of Principal Investigator professor Nick Topley and his Cardiff University team:
Fight against peritoneal membrane failure advances
Interleukin-6 Signaling Drives Fibrosis in Unresolved Inflammation
In September 2013 EuTRiPD was mentioned in a publication on patients with kidney failure, in REMEDIE, the newsletter of Cardiff University. See page 3.
Our Principal Investigator professor Nick Topley wrote a publication on PD. Click HERE to read.
Coordinator Rob Beelen presented the project and some of its highlights and results during the ERA_EDTA 2014 in Amsterdam. Find the presentation HERE.
Three of the EuTRiPD ESRs presented the project during the Kidney Research UK Fellows Days in Durham, September 2013. Find their poster HERE.
During the ERA-EDTA congres in May 2012 Prof.dr. Christoph Auftricht presented the EuTRiPD project and its goals. You can find the handout of this presentation HERE.
Want to learn more on peritoneal dialysis, please look at the informative Baxter presentations "How to do PD","How does the peritoneal membrane work" and "Choosing and Planning PD".
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Principal Investigator Nick Topley from Cardiff University was interviewed by hemodialysis.com on PD: Local vs Systemic Inflammatory Effects on Survival.


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2017-11-23 | EfD Discussion Paper
Households' Risk Perceptions in Response to Shale Gas Exploitation: Evidence from China
Qin, Ping and Xiaolan Chen. 2017. "Households' Risk Perceptions in Response to Shale Gas Exploitation: Evidence from China." EfD Discussion Paper Series 13-17.
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In 2014, China became the world's third country to realize shale gas commercial development, following the United States and Canada. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive discussion on risk perception related to shale gas in China. This paper aims to understand Chinese residents' risk perceptions toward shale gas exploitation. A survey was conducted with 730 interviewed participants in two counties of Sichuan province (Weiyuan County and Gong County). This study shows that, in China, an elderly female tends to perceive lower risks, and a higher education level is commonly associated with lower risk perception. Besides the socio-demographic characteristics, two major findings are also explored in this study. First, household's perceived benefits from shale gas exploitation do not statistically significantly affect their risk concerns. Second, the respondents' environmental consciousness, including their anticipation of environmental impacts and their perceptions about environmental degradation, plays a crucial role in their perception of the risks of shale gas exploitation. This implies that local residents' judgments on the severity of environmental impacts significantly contribute to their risk perceptions. These findings therefore contribute to local authorities' policy making in protecting local residents from the risks of shale gas exploitation and in better communicating about risk with the residents.
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Antiquities of Samarkand. Tomb of the Saint Kusam-ibn-Abbas (Shah-i Zindah) and Adjacent Mausoleums. Mausoleum of Sha Arap. Section of Inscription on the Front Facade
This photograph of a decorative inscription from an unidentified mausoleum in the northern cluster of shrines at the Shah-i Zindah necropolis (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) is from the archeological part of Turkestan Album. The six-volume photographic survey was produced in 1871-72, under the patronage of General Konstantin P. von Kaufman, the first governor-general (1867-82) of Turkestan, as the Russian Empire's Central Asian territories were called. The album devotes special attention to Samarkand's Islamic architecture, such as 14th- and 15th-century monuments from the reign of Timur (Tamerlane) and his successors. Of particular note is Shah-i Zindah (Persian for "living king"), built on the elevated site of an ancient settlement known as Afrosiab and revered as a memorial to Kusam-ibn-Abbas, a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad. Although the patron of this mausoleum has not been conclusively identified, its date of construction is known to be 1360-61. Despite major damage, the mausoleum facade has a rich array of polychrome ceramic ornamentation in floral, geometric, and inscriptional forms. The facade arch, or peshtak, is framed by a carved, glazed terracotta band of script in the cursive Thuluth style. The letters are set within an intricate tendril pattern, and the band has a tile border. This view shows a fragment of the inscription on the lower left side of the facade.
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Самаркандския древности. Гробница святаго Куссама ибни Абасса (Шах-Зиндэ) и мавзолеи при ней. Мавзолей Ша-Арап. Часть надписи на фасаде
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Google Doodle, in its ongoing quest to educate the world, today celebrates what would have been the 160th birthday of bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, who is credited with inventing the Petri dish. The dish — for those of you who have been out of junior high for a bit — allowed scientists to examine a specimen like bacteria by creating a shallow, enclosed space that remained contamination-free and pure.
Google honors his work with a homepage Doodle that shows six separate Petri dishes. When users click anywhere on the image, they can see each dish get swabbed, and then see the actual bacteria from a dog, a lock, a plant, and more appear.
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A Wi-Fi World Adventure: Travel in the Age of Twitter
Some people yearn for a more innocent time -- you know, the agrarian past where people immersed themselves in the joys of using a washboard, hand gathering eggs, and milking cows on their own little plot of heaven while living organic, using the outhouse, and cultivating rare kinds of corn. I am not one of those people.
When my parents bought their first PC back in my teen years, I eagerly learned Basic, Word Perfect (which still has the best editing feature of any document program -- what is so difficult about adding that functionality, Microsoft? Hmmmmm?), and DOS. The thrill of not having to retype a paper so exceeded the learning curve that I was hooked.
The new tech that comes along still excites me. Though I'm by no means an early adopter, I'm usually in the second wave. I like waiting for bugs to be worked out. My only exception to that rule is with my iPhone, because the iPhone is innately cool.
I love technology because it makes life easier, more connected, and smarter. It's incredibly useful when it comes to distances. I know because I traveled a great distance to Australia for winter break. I wondered if I could use my phone, blog, Tweet, stay connected via Facebook and email, and upload pictures so seamlessly that no one would know I was on the other side of the world. Why, yes I could. It would just take a bit of extra work and money.
Before leaving, I disabled my Facebook and Twitter updates so that I wouldn't be hammered with excess texts.
Next, I wanted to make sure my iPhone was fully functional; to receive data, texts, and phone service that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Well, it only cost an arm. Note to Steve Jobs: Dude, it's all well and good that you've made the best phone ever, but AT&T's inane billing absolutely sucks the joy out of the ease of phone use. In your next contract with them, demand simplification. Please.
But I digress.
AT&T has a complicated phalanx of confusing parts and pieces in its billing. It took me over an hour on the phone with three different people to ensure that I didn't end up spending $25,000 in data charges (yes, that happened to a customer). Why can't this be easy? Why is it so blankety-blank expensive to have phone service in a country where you have a network and sell the phone, like in Australia? I should be able to get local rates while I'm there. What's wrong with a flat fee per week that's full service? If I didn't know better, I'd swear that AT&T keeps things complicated to make loads of money by screwing unsuspecting customers -- and even well-informed ones -- with all the roaming and data fees.


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The crazy thing about growth is that it is almost inevitable. There are very few things in life that stay exactly the same from birth till death and most of them aren't even alive. August it's the eighth month and I've heard that means it's the month of new beginnings. I've seen so many posts about I'm ready to grow, this month is going to be all about growth, growing and glowing, etc.
However, I haven't seen very many posts about people being ready to be stretched in in unimaginable ways or being uncomfortable for seasons (not just one but for multiple seasons). In your season of growth you may have to let go of some things that you have been holding onto you so that you'll be able to grow. These are things such as friendships, relationships, outdated goals and even your comfort zone. Holding onto a negative relationship or friendship stunts your growth. You won't be able to grow in the way that you need to by holding onto what you want – you need both hands to be open to accept this newfound growth.
I think about a flower, if the flower is in a bad environment it won't bloom. This is the same for you if you're in a bad environment or surrounded by bad things or people you won't be able to bloom to your fullest potential . Sure you might grow a little but it'll never be as much as you could've. The conditions have to be just right for that flower to bloom, and even then the little seed is stretched and expanding in ways that were previously unforeseen. You could even think about a little caterpillar in the same way.
I have personally just came out of what I believe to be a tremendous season of growth. Growth seemed cool until I was actually going through it. I'm not gonna lie and say that my season of growth was perfect. I was praying for God to grow me in "tremendous ways," but when I was actually being stretched and growing – I was low-key miserable. I was upset and I felt like things were not getting better and that my situation was actually getting worse. But as soon as I accepted the fact that this was a type of growing pain, things started to change for me. My outlook on the situation changed immensely. I started looking for things to push me more outside of my comfort zone than I already was. I figured since I'm already out of this box I might as well keep going.
The hardest part was actually realizing that this season of growth was not going to kill me. As much as it hurt, as uncomfortable I was, as unhappy I was – THIS WAS NOT GOING TO KILL ME. I think once I realized that I wasn't going to die things started to turn around for me. I really had to realize that some of the best things are born of the struggle. And honestly if I had been given them, the first time I even asked for them – I wouldn't have been appreciative of it. I would have just looked at it just another thing.
Basically to summarize, if you are looking to grow, be prepared for the growing pains that come with them.
Are there some areas in your life that you are looking to grow in?? What are they? Share below in the comments! I would love to hear about them!
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Students at Emmaus Catholic College, Kemps Creek recently had the pleasure of working with well renowned light painter, Peter Solness during an exciting workshop held at the school.
Peter Solness is an expert in the field of 'Light Painting' which is a photography concept that uses different sources of light in complete darkness to light up differently when exposing the camera to a scene.
During the workshop Mr Solness demonstrated ways of using hand held torches, different colour LEDs and torches on string etc; in order to create different effects for still life, portraits and landscape photography. Students worked in groups to create stunning photographs captured at night on the beautiful school grounds.
Creative and Performing Arts Leader of Learning, Luke Connelly said the students had a great time working with Peter.
"They really enjoyed learning the relationships between aperture and shutter speeds in order to create long exposure photographs," Mr Connelly said. "The workshop was initially planned for the Year 10 Photography and Digital Media class, but due to overwhelming interest we also opened it up to some Year 11 Photography, Video and Digital Imaging students as well as Year 8 students."
Year 8 student, Andre Dubier attended the Light Painting workshop. He writes about it below:
Andre Dubier
Peter Solness "Light Painting" Photography Workshop
On May 29th, Year 8, Year 10 and Year 11 students attended a workshop hosted by Peter Solness. Peter is a well renowned light painter which is a form of photography involving the use of lights to highlight objects otherwise blinded by the dark of night.
First we were showed some of his own work, which was just incredible. In one of his photos he was able to transform an unappealing billboard into a magnificent object just through light. With this in mind we split into groups of five and began our own creative journey. In our first photo we attempted to use lights to transform a flower into a glowing feature, after some time and with numerous adjustments we were able to create quite an artwork, if I do say so myself.
After the flower we moved onto some portraits and decided to use white light to highlight the features of the face, with a background of colour. The tricky thing about portraits is the person in the image must remain completely still otherwise the photo will look blurred.
Onto the last stage of the night, we were given the freedom to create any photograph we wanted near the cross above H Block. This was perhaps the hardest part of the workshop as we were tasked with lighting up an entire hilltop at which time we decided to create photographs by leaving the background and foreground dark and only one or two subjects highlighted by light.
This opportunity has provided me with new skills and a different outlook on photography.


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Case Study Argonaut GarageJason Simms
Forward and Onward with Class and Style
Argonaut's Berkeley location has annual projections for the young facility at $720,000.
One of the first marketing techniques Simms utilized for his Berkeley facility was a direct mail advertising campaign. And the research that accompanies such a marketing effort provided a valuable revelation: Nearly 16,000 people within a five-mile radius of the new Argonaut location owned hybrids.
Taking Your Shop to the Metrics Level
At Simms' original shop in the Kensington neighborhood, he had a trusted, second-in-command employee, who had worked at his side for five years. When she decided to make a career change, it provided the final impetus for Simms to close that facility.
"Because of the nature of what it was—a small, neighborhood shop—I couldn't just grab somebody off the street and stick them in there. I think it would've failed," Simms says of his first location. "So, we decided to shutter that location and move everything down the hill to the second location."
Simms had always been steadfast in his belief that he wanted employees to do work they're passionate about, while making a legitimate profit. In late 2016, he still felt that way, though transitioning strictly to the Berkeley location required adapting to a fairly different customer base than what his original shop yielded.
"Now we have very few drive-in customers," he says. "We're relying on my former customers to come down the hill. And so the marketing side of what it takes to run just a stand-alone shop—where I don't just have people driving in my door all day—is definitely something new."
One of the first marketing techniques Simms utilized for his Berkeley facility was a direct mail advertising campaign. And the research that accompanies such a marketing effort provided a valuable revelation: Nearly 16,000 people within a five-mile radius of the new Argonaut location owned hybrids.
Suddenly, the clouds started to part, as Simms had a definitive target demographic for his marketing. As he shifted his business model, Simms made sure his staff took several training classes dedicated to hybrids, and he purchased special equipment devoted to that vehicle segment, like dedicated factory scanners for Toyotas and Hondas, and a new high voltage insulation tester.
Another key element of Argonaut's rejuvenation came from its revamped website (argonautgarage.com). Simms spent roughly $1,500 to have AutoVitals build a visually appealing, SEO-friendly website to build out its online presence.
"Through AutoVitals there are 40 search parameters," Simms notes, "and [with] those 40 SEO points we targeted everything that had to do with hybrids."
Argonaut Garage's unique octopus logo certainly doesn't hurt its marketing efforts, either.
"Berkeley is a pretty smart city, so I wanted a name that was a little cerebral," Simms says. "We also wanted to reflect in our logo the classic side of what we're doing, the history of auto repair. … If you Google what an argonaut is, the first result is an octopus. So we took that octopus and ran with the idea."
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"AutoVitals is an amazing part of my team. They have taken my shop to the next level. Their ability to work with me to up my game is great!"
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On the market for an iPhone? Here's a breakdown of all the currently shipping iPhones from Apple.
Apple's NFC Ambitions Extend Beyond Apple Pay to Building Security, Transit Ticketing
The Apple representatives have talked to technology providers like HID Global and Cubic, which enable secure access to buildings and transit fare systems, respectively, said people briefed on the discussions. Spokespeople for the companies declined to comment about any discussions with Apple, but executives there discussed how they could integrate their systems with the iPhone.Apple debuted NFC in its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and is using the short-range wireless technology for mobile payments processing.The technology has wide-ranging applications beyond payments, including a replacement for office and hotel security cards, home automation processes and more.
Besides the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple has also included an NFC chip in the new iPad Air 2 and Retina iPad Mini 3 to provide secure element of Apple Pay information for in-app purposes on those devices. Future iterations of the device, could however, add antennas and other components to enable NFC functionality for a variety of purposes.
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I think they had to work on all that stuff, Apple Pay, transit ticketing, etc. for a long time not just one year, right?
Or did Apple decided in January 2014 that NFC could be useful for the above mentioned ideas?!
Therefore my question: Why wasn't NFC included in the iPhone 5s?
They knew that NFC will be needed in a future iPhone (and "future" here is defined as one year). So, why not including it??
I really love this company, truly I do. Steve and Apple shaped me and how I think about life and about my career path since I am 10 (1994).
But right now, Apple is playing games with its customers and I don't like it.
I can remember 1997 so I never criticised Apple's high margins. I am always happy when they crush the competition.
But, there are loyal customers guys like you and me that pay the higher price because we love Apple (in the past when they were small and now, ruling the industry) we know that the products are worth it but looking on this behaviour (also the iPad Mini update) makes me feel bad.
Right now, Apple doesn't treat their customers with respect.
Maybe they should worry about getting apple pay to be accepted at local drugstores first
That's like telling Apple they should fix the United States' health care system, just because they have the Health app. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Bring it on! Apple was late to the party but they can bring a ton of goodies for everyone at the party to enjoy.
others came early to the party but Apple is the one that get the party started. Others are "chit-chat " while waiting for Apple to come to the party.
that way I can keep holding my phone and not need to switch to the wallet.
others came early to the party but Apple is the one that get the party started. Others are "chit-chat " while waiting for Apple to come to the party.
Apple gets dressed and combs their hair before they get to the party. They might not be the first one in the door, but when they show up they're dressed to kill. LOL
Maybe they should worry about getting apple pay to be accepted at local drugstores first
Exactly the opposite... but thanks for playing...
The more ubiquitous Apple can make their nfc-enabled devices, the more pressure there will be for retailers to get on the bandwagon.
I've been tossing around the idea of how awesome it would be for a replacement for the ORCA card here in the Seattle area based on smartphone NFC technology for a while now.
This would excite me greatly. Especially if I didn't even have to manually add funds, and the two-hour transfers carried over to that type of system.
London has recently introduced not only the use of contactless/NFC payment on all transport but it also can cap the amount spent so that you never go over the cost of a travel card:
Ie. Say a weekly travel card is £35.00. If you travel £30 worth on Monday, then £5 on Tuesday you will get free travel for the rest of the week.
Of course with Apple Pay this will need to be altered to occur (presumably so that the caps can happen they need to know who you are) but it's something that I can see Apple working with given the huge public transport network here.
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How I Became An Expert on Companies
Getting The Right Eavestrough Cleaning And Repair Services For every property and household, eavestrough maintenance is always necessary as it provides a great use for the whole structure. Eavestrough cleaning can be hard at times. When you feel the need to maintain or repair your house's eavestrough, make sure that you get the proper help for such task. That's because maintenance and repair of eavestroughs are things that a professional should do. Eavestrough cleaning might seem a simple task, but in reality, such thing requires the right tools so that no danger could come to the one doing the cleaning service. Other than that, eavestrough cleaning is a tiresome task that you wouldn't want to endure all day. Cleaning the eavestrough is also a dirty task that can take up the time for the entire day. It is for such reasons that one must look for a group who can offer quality eavestrough maintenance service. Not only that they have the experience to deal with such task, they can also assure you that they will get the job done right. If you happen to find yourself in the need of an eavestrough repair service, make sure that the company you choose has a reliable background and a good reputation. Be sure that you'll inquire about the recent transactions that the company has gotten to ensure that their services are of quality. If you happen to notice that the owner of the company is trying to avoid your inquiries, it may be best to look for another maintenance company who can offer better eavestrough maintenance services. If you don't want to end up regretting on choosing an eavestrough maintenance company, be sure to ask the necessary questions. Also, asking people who knows the company will surely give you an insight on how they do things and how satisfied their customers were. In addition to that, the company's insurance offers must be taken into full consideration before the deal is done. It is important that you know how much you are insured by the company so that you won't have to worry about the eavestrough or the worker if something goes wrong. Asking for the company's license is also a must if you don't want people messing with the eavestroughs illegally. If they can't show you the proper credentials or license, then it's time you find a better one who's got the necessary paperwork. You should not try to hire average eavestrough maintenance companies.
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Also, the appearance of the company itself is also a good factor to determine whether they can give you a quality service for the eavestrough maintenance. This will help you gain a better impression of the company.
The Key Elements of Great Experts
By remembering these things, you'll have a higher chance to find the right company who can provide you with quality eavestrough service.


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Rihanna has teamed up with Calvin Harris for her next single, according to reports.
The track, which is currently untitled is being produced by Harris, who is also set to tour with the singer for the next three months. He previously teamed up with Kelis on recent single 'Bounce'.
The track comes just days after Rihanna announced that she's bringing a new album out later this autumn.
The release will come a year since her last record 'Loud', which was released in November 2010. Since the release of her first record 'Music Of The Sun' in 2005, the pop diva has dropped a new album every year, except for 2008.
The singer is due to perform in the UK for her 'Loud Tour' in November taking in a series of dates at London's O2 Arena. To check availability for Rihanna tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094
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Get Your Foodie On Wednesday At "Taste The West Side"
The event features quite a few restaurants and breweries from the west side, and it benefits a great cause.
The event features quite a few restaurants and breweries from the west side, and it benefits a great cause.
Starting at noon on Monday, March 12, all Michigan Meijer stores will sell a limited amount of Founders Brewing Co.'s Kentucky Breakfast Stout.
It's no longer an "if you're feeling nice" thing, it's a law you have to stop.
It was loud and didn't exactly sound like thunder.
The question is a bit on the easy side when you hear it, but did you know we held this spot in history?
The Amway Family Fireworks are Saturday at Ah-Nab-Awen Park next to Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and the Grand Rapids Public Museum along the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids.
Activities, including music, entertainment, food, family-friendly fun and more, run from 5 p.m. until 11 p.m., with the fireworks going off at 10:30 p.m.
Here's a primer to help you attend and enjoy the Fourth of July event, with the title sponsor being Ada-based Amway. See you there.
Where can you get the best fries in Grand Rapids? We did the research so you don't have to.
Summer's almost here and we want to spend as much time as we can with our friends and family… including the furry family members! We totally understand...
Last weekend, the Friends of the Musketawa Trail hosted the Gold Spike Trail Tour. The biennial event covered the entire Musketawa Trail, running from Marne to Muskegon, and connected with the Fred Meijer Pioneer Trail in Grand Rapids to the east.
After the GRPD shared photos of their new friend Travis and his awesome police car, a man sent Travis' mom a message offering to make his car look a little more official.


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One of the numerous(*) readers of this blog has posted a review of James Kunstler's The Long Emergency. Summary: we're fucked, and the solution is to hunker down, start a commune that grows its own vegetables off the grid.
A blog called Rhinocrisy comments on a lecture by Richard Heinberg, who also seems to be a long-term commentator in this space. This one is particularly sad because it lists all the lost opportunities, over the last 25 years, where we could have done some realistic preparation for the current situation. Oh well.
How to not get completely depressed: I've been hearing predictions of dooms since the 70s (back then it was overpopulation) through the 80s (Reagan: the bombs fall in five minutes) and beyond. Nothing lasts forever, so someday a doomsayer will be right, but the odds of any one particular one being on the money are small.
Also, a lot depends on the ability of the economic system to adapt, vs. the speed of any troubles. Kunstler seems to take the view that we've infrastrured ourselves into a corner -- the suburban lifestyle can't work at all without cheap gas, and as soon as we peak everything collapses in a hurry. Thus his title. Contrast that with the cheery optimism of proclaimed genius freakonmicist Steven Leavitt, that everything is peachy because the market will simply adapt to higher oil prices. This seemed to be a really perfect example of blinkered thinking -- yes the market will adapt, but how fast, and with what cost (human and otherwise)? The comments on that post contain some good discussion.
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Friday, September 23, 2005
Doom, doom, and more doom
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I have long held that the disaster scenarios of the past never came true because enough voices in the wilderness shouted out "WARNING!" loudly enough, to allow human consciousness and ingenuity to drag us back from the precipice.
Kunstler makes a persuasive case that the force that brought us back from the precipice wasn't just ingenuity or consciousness, but ingenuity and consciousness in the use of cheap oil.
Without the cheap oil, will ingenuity be enough? He argues, depressingly, and relentlessly, that it will not. I'm convinced he's right.
So another way of phrasing that might be: were the doomsayers wrong, or merely too early?
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Accident insurance
Accidents happen. Accident Insurance provides cover to you and your dependents against the financial strain you may incur if, unfortunately, you have an accident. The coverage of an accident insurance generally includes:
- accidental death
- dismemberment
- permanent disablement
- weekly allowance during the period of temporary disablement (subject to a term as specified in the policy)
- medical expenses arising from the treatment of the injury
Many policies have a benefit schedule which spells out the corresponding benefits against each type of accidental bodily injury. It provides a scale of percentages of the lump sum payable, depending on the extent of the disability, whilst some determine the benefits by the type of injury or loss, e.g. loss of limbs or sight.
Similar to critical illness insurance, accident insurance can be sold as a standalone policy or as an attached rider to a life insurance policy.
Do you need accident insurance?
You may consider accident insurance if you are the primary bread winner as the protection can help ease the financial worries of your family when you lost.
If you're employed, meanwhile, your employer may have worker's compensation insurance, which would also help offset some financial strains brought about by an accident that occurred at your workplace.
Accidents covered generally include traffic accidents, homicide, falls, heavy equipment accidents, and drowning, among others. As with all types of insurance, there are exclusions as to what types of accidents are covered which you should check carefully before buying the policy. Some of these include:
- death by illness
- suicide
- war injury
- natural causes (ie, old age)
- death while under the influence of any non-prescribed drugs or alcohol
- overdose with toxic or poisonous substances
- engagement in dangerous activities eg professional sports
Things to note
Before you purchase accident insurance, do note that:
- The claim processing period may be longer than with other types of insurance policies. For example, an autopsy may be required to verify the nature of the death and/or the accident may have to be officially investigated before a claim will be approved by the insurance company.
- Some policies offer no-claim bonus if no claims are paid for a specific period. No-claim bonus may be in various forms eg increase in the amount of benefits, refund of a certain percentage of premiums, or discounts on renewal premiums, etc.


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Almond Complexion Bar
This soap with ground almonds and almond oil is reputed to clean clogged pores. An excellent emollient, it is known to soften, smooth and condition the skin.
This super-fatted bar made with the remarkable oil of avocado is a gentle soap. Avocado oil is highly therapeutic. It contains proteins, amino acids, and relatively large amounts of vitamins A, D, and E. Avocado oil regenerates skin cells, softens body tissue, and can help heal scaly skin and scalp.
This is a remarkable super fatted bar made with olive oil and the essential oil of chamomile. Perfect for sensitive and delicate skin. Chamomile flowers have been added for additional therapeutic value. Glycerin, castor oil, goat's milk, honey, coconut cream and vitamin E are also added for their enriching characteristics.
Chamomile & Helichrysum
This remarkable super fatted bar, made with olive oil and the essential oils of chamomile and helichrysum, is the gentlest of bars, perfect for sensitive delicate skin. Helichrysum is a healing oil that is particularly good for skin issues such as eczema, psoriasis, acne and other skin inflammations. Chamomile flowers have been added for additional therapeutic value. Olive oil also lends moisturizing skin qualities, making this a very mild soap for all skin typer. Glycerin, caster oil, goat's milk, honey, coconut cream and vitamin E are also added for their enriching characteristics Paraben and sodium lauryl sulfate free.
Charcoal Facial Bar
This bar, bade with a specially processed activated charcoal, has the ability to absorb and draw out toxic impurities that our skin is often exposed to from the environment. Made with the incredible oils of olive, avocado, babassu, macedemia and mango butter your skin will feel smoother and softer because of their skin rejuvenating qualities. The essential oil of peppermint and tea tree have been added for added skin conditioning. This bar is free of parables, sulfates and petroleum products.
Cleopatra's Secret
A rich lathering soap of coconut cream, roseclay powder, Kansas honey, 20% shea butter, this soap is nourishing and hydrating. The essential oil of rosewood, with its soft sweet spicy scent, is used for its captivating fragrance and also its ability to stimulate and regenerate cell growth, minimize lines and wrinkles, and soothe sensitive inflamed skin from psoriasis and acne. This bar, made with coconut and olive oils, is enriched with sweet almond oil, caster oil, avocado oil, glycerin, cocoa butter, goat's milk and Vitamin E. Free of parables, sodium lauryl sulfate and other harsh foaming agents.
Cool Cucumber
My son Sam has always loved cucumber soaps and for a good reason. Cucumbers make an excellent skin cleanser, especially for the face. Besides being made from the pulp and skin of whole cucumbers, these creamy bars are enriched with shea butter, cocoa butter, glycerin, avocado oil and vitamin E. So this bar has some very cool healthy qualities to add to your shower.
European Green & Rose Clay Bar
A gentle European clay cleansing bar made with essential oil of lavender. This bar is great for troubled skin! Vitamin E, cocoa butter and shea butter have also been added for extra skin conditioning.


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We have established Café & General Business Brokers to provide a quality service to our clients, including fair and reasonable negotiations with buyer enquiries to achieve the best results for all concerned.
Café & General is based in Melbourne and also provides services to regional areas of the State.
We anticipate strong and steady growth over a period of time combined with the growing strength of our team.
The company is family owned and operated and we anticipate a prominent position in the marketplace.