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"I learned not to sweat the small stuff. Sometimes it all just works out anyway even if it wasn't the way you planned. I'm well rounded in my experiences.'
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"I do have a creative side and it is never too late to try new things in your classroom."
"I learned that I could push myself to do more than I ever thought I could. I was very worried about the canoe trip but I had a blast. It was the best part of the week."
"WOW! I learned too much to adequately respond to this question. I learned how to conduct a stream analysis including the identification of macro invertebrates. I learned the incorrect way to dismount a canoe. I learned to makes nature art, journals, poetry and music. I learned that there is a network of other environmental educators in my state and local area. I learned that to fully appreciate and understand the environment requires a journey of self discovery, the identification of personal values and beliefs, and experiences that link those beliefs to the natural world.
"I confirmed my love of the environment. Being there for that week just makes me want to work there year round. I love the activities that we do and I love how well they work in a classroom with students."
"I always come away with a wide variety of activities that I can do with my students."
"That I should believe in myself more. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do some of the things, such as canoeing. I found in myself that inner strength that I had all along and I had a wonderful weeK.".
"I found out that I am much more capable of using Environmental Education in an everyday classroom."
"I learned that I still continue to enjoy learning out in the field and applying what is learned to the real world.".
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"I had a great experience spending so much time interacting with other educators. I love to be creative…no matter what the form. I actually LIKE canoeing. I love the feeling of having a community of educators that understand what my work situation is like on a daily basis."
"I have a great appreciation for the outdoors and a desire to take care of it. I learned many wonderful activities to share with others to help get them outdoors, and hopefully develop an appreciation as well.".
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Appliances are an important part of our residence life. Having to do without one for any type of length of time makes us value just exactly how important our major devices are. Needing to purchase out due to the fact that the cooktop no more works can obtain really expensive or otherwise having a place to keep our perishable food items since the refrigerator does not get chilly enough, can truly make life in the contemporary globe feel like life in the eighteenth century. With normal upkeep of our devices, we can assist guarantee that our cooktop, refrigerator as well as other significant appliances will function properly and last a very long time. A new device will certainly feature a proprietors guidebook. It is extremely suggested that new proprietors constantly read the manual and also come to be knowledgeable about their new device.
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Opera uncloaks browser for Apple fondleslabs
The old no-interpreted-code trick
Opera has developed a version of its Opera Mini browser for the Apple iPad, and it intends to show the thing off next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company alluded to the browser with a press release on Thursday morning, saying it will also demonstrate new versions of Opera Mini for Android, iPhone, J2ME, BlackBerry, and Symbian. A company spokesman told us the company will not be officially introducing the browser in Barcelona, but merely "previewing" it. No date for its official release has been set.
Apple still bars third-party applications from interpreting code on iOS devices, so Opera can't put its full-fledged Opera for Tablets browser on the iPad. But with Opera Mini, all webpages are sent through proxy servers and compressed before they're sent down to the browser, so no code is interpreted on the device. Apple allowed an iPhone incarnation of Opera Mini into the Apple App Store last year.
Unveiled this fall, Opera for Tablets is designed for Android, and it's based on the company's Opera Mobile browser, which can use Opera's proxy servers but doesn't by default. In Barcelona, Opera will also introduce new versions of Opera Mobile for Android and Symbian.
Opera also announced today that more 100 million people now use an Opera browser on their mobile phones. According to the company, 90.4 million people use Opera Mini every month and roughly 15 million people use Opera Mobile. Opera Mini is ideal for phones with low-bandwidth connections, including feature phones, because it taps into those proxy servers. ®


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Catron County Standoff Over Habituated Wolf Ends With Lethal Removal
— by Laurie Schneberger
On July 6, much to the relief of ranchers in the region, Mexican wolf AF 924 was lethally removed. Despite wolf team inability to make a swift decision in issuing the removal order that lasted for a week past the third and fourth confirmed livestock kills, the order was carried out.
During the three weeks prior to the removal, Catron County leadership was threatened with arrest by federal agents if they removed the wolf non-lethally. Despite the fed´s threats, the county wolf interaction investigator had placed a hava-heart trap in the area in order to remove AF 924 and turn her over to the interagency wolf management team.
As soon as the third strike, a cow and a calf both confirmed, wolf depredations occurred, the County told the Wolf Interaction Investigator to stand down and remove his traps.
While it is unfortunate that the wolf was shot, the outcome was necessary to end the wolf's aggressive behavior and her habitual localizing at a neighborhood home. Unfortunately for the people in the area as well as the wolf pack, FWS had not felt the wolf's behavior was bad enough to warrant non-lethal removal for her human fixation.
The majority, but not all of the team did feel it was necessary to shoot her for livestock depredation. The minority members on the team appear to have attempted to stop the removal but only succeeded in forcing a strike on each separate wolf rather than both strikes on both wolves. SOP 13 does not allow this type of gerrymandering of policy however, it has become commonplace in the program when dealing with habituated problem wolves or chronic livestock killers. Especially when agency personnel do not want to remove the wolf or wolves in question.
The agency also claims there are four pups in the Durango litter, however until the death of the female no attempt was made to feed these pups although the only consistent food source in the area have been calves belonging to the Adobe Ranch.
Now the agency is claiming that they will help the male to supplemental feed the pups.
Evidence has not yet shown there are pups and to date no pups have been confirmed. It is believed that the claim of pups is being used to generate sympathy for the program and that Durango Female 924 lost her first litter of pups in the wilderness prior to moving to the Garcia camp area.
Witnesses state that there appeared to be no evidence of milk production on the female's body. Nor has she spent any significant time in a den as other known wolves in the same region are doing. Instead she made wide circles in the area of the Slash and Adobe Ranches looking for food with her mate. She would also take her mate and spend nights at the Miller's home on the ranch. This behavior is not indicative of the existence of pups in the pack.


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Symantec expects to receive approximately $6.3 billion in net cash proceeds
Raises stock repurchase program to $2.6 billion and maintains dividend at $0.15
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — August 11, 2015 - Today, Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its information management business, known as Veritas, to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group together with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and other expected co-investors for $8 billion in cash. The transaction, which was unanimously approved by Symantec's Board of Directors, is expected to close by January 1, 2016.
Upon closing of the transaction, Symantec expects to receive approximately $6.3 billion in net cash proceeds, subject to certain customary post-closing adjustments. Symantec will take a comprehensive and disciplined approach to capital deployment focused on both returning capital to shareholders and investing in the business. The Symantec Board has authorized a $1.5 billion increase to its existing share repurchase program, bringing the total to $2.6 billion, with $2 billion expected to be returned to shareholders over the 18 month period following the close of the transaction. The Board has also determined that Symantec will maintain its quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per common share, which represents an overall increase to the company's dividend payout ratio post-separation. Between its dividend and share repurchases, Symantec expects to return about 120% of its after-tax domestic cash proceeds from the sale to its shareholders.
Michael A. Brown, Symantec president and CEO, said, "This transaction strengthens our financial foundation, paving the way for Symantec to grow its security business and increase its lead as the world's largest cybersecurity company. We believe the agreement with the investors, including The Carlyle Group and GIC, delivers an attractive and certain value for the Veritas business, and is in the best interests of all stakeholders."
The Symantec Board of Directors explored a variety of strategic alternatives to maximize the value of Veritas. In reaching the conclusion that the sale agreement is in the best interest of Symantec shareholders, the Symantec Board considered, among other things, that:
The transaction delivers and generates the best value of the Veritas business for Symantec shareholders and delivers certainty in the valuation of a standalone Veritas.
The all-cash transaction provides Symantec with significant proceeds to continue organic and inorganic investments in the rapidly growing market for security products and services, and to support its capital return initiatives through the purchase of common stock and its dividend. Symantec has returned more than $10 billion to shareholders in the past ten years and remains committed to returning significant cash to shareholders.
The increased certainty of a sale simplifies the separation process for Veritas customers, partners and employees.
John Gannon, Symantec Executive Vice President and Veritas General Manager, said, "Since the Board first announced the separation of Veritas, we have been preparing the company to operate independently and evolving our business strategy, while continuing to deliver industry-leading solutions to our customers. We are thrilled to partner with The Carlyle Group and GIC, which have a strong track record of successfully growing businesses and share our dedication to Veritas' strategy and success. Veritas will continue to provide next-generation information management solutions to serve the world's largest and most complex environments, including multiple cloud deployments, managed services and on-premise infrastructure."
The Carlyle Group has announced separately that Bill Coleman and Bill Krause will become CEO and Chairman, respectively, of Veritas upon closing of the transaction.
Carlyle Managing Directors Patrick McCarter and Cam Dyer said, "Veritas is a market innovator with global scale, an iconic brand, and significant growth potential. Bill Coleman is a proven leader whose strategic vision and strong execution skills will leverage Veritas' new-found position as a private, stand-alone company to grow the firm and provide customers an integrated information management solution. Our significant experience investing in software businesses, as well as our extensive experience with carve-out transactions, positions us well to support Bill and the existing management team in creating value at Veritas."
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Investment Bank and Jefferies have agreed to provide debt financing for the transaction.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is serving as financial advisor to Symantec and Fenwick & West LLP and Baker & McKenzie LLP are serving as legal counsel. BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, and UBS Investment Bank are serving as financial advisors to Carlyle and GIC. Alston & Bird LLP, Allen & Overy, Latham & Watkins LLP, and Covington & Burling LLP represented The Carlyle Group. Ropes & Gray LLP and Sidley Austin LLP represented GIC.
Conference Call
Management will discuss the details of this transaction and its first quarter fiscal year 2016 results on a conference call scheduled for today, August 11, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT. Interested parties may access the conference call on the Internet at http://www.symantec.com/invest. To listen to the live call, please go to the website at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. A replay and our prepared remarks will be available on the investor relations home page shortly after the call is completed. Symantec today also issued a press release regarding its first quarter fiscal year 2016 results.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is an information protection expert that helps people, businesses and governments seeking the freedom to unlock the opportunities technology brings -- anytime, anywhere. Founded in April 1982, Symantec, a Fortune 500 company, operating one of the largest global data-intelligence networks, has provided leading security, backup and availability solutions for where vital information is stored, accessed and shared. The company's more than 19,000 employees reside in more than 45 countries. Ninety-nine percent of Fortune 500 companies are Symantec customers. In fiscal 2015, it recorded revenues of $6.5 billion. To learn more go to www.symantec.com or connect with Symantec at: http://www.symantec.com/social/
Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
About The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global alternative asset manager with $193 billion of assets under management across 128 funds and 159 fund of funds vehicles as of June 30, 2015. Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, many of whom are public pensions. Carlyle invests across four segments – Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Market Strategies and Investment Solutions – in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. Carlyle has expertise in various industries, including: aerospace, defense & government services, consumer & retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, real estate, technology & business services, telecommunications & media and transportation. The Carlyle Group employs more than 1,700 people in 35 offices across six continents. www.carlyle.com
About GIC
GIC is a leading global investment firm that is uniquely positioned for long-term and flexible investments across a wide range of asset classes, including public equities, fixed income, real estate, and private equity. Established in 1981, the firm manages Singapore's foreign reserves. In private equity, GIC invests through funds as well as directly in companies, partnering with its fund managers and management teams to help world class businesses achieve their objectives. GIC employs more than 1,200 people across offices in Singapore, Beijing, London, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.gic.com.sg.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements regarding the pending sale of our information management business to The Carlyle Group, which may be considered forward-looking within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws, including statements regarding the expected benefits to be realized as a result of the sale; statements with respect to our anticipated proceeds from the sale and our expected use of such proceeds; statements with respect to our continuation of our current dividend; and statements with respect to the proposed timing of the closing of the sale. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from results expressed or implied in this press release. Such risk factors include those related to: receiving all regulatory approvals, satisfying all closing conditions and consummating the pending transaction; separation of the company into the security business and the information management business; general economic conditions; maintaining customer and partner relationships; fluctuations in tax rates and currency exchange rates; the timing and market acceptance of new product releases and upgrades; the successful development of new products, and the degree to which these products and businesses gain market acceptance. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements in this press release. We assume no obligation, and do not intend, to update these forward-looking statements as a result of future events or developments. Additional information concerning these and other risks factors is contained in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K for the year ended April 3, 2015.
Media Contact:
Kristen Batch
Symantec Corp.
Investor Contact:
Sean Hazlett
Symantec Corp.


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How to Buy Real Estate for At Least 20% Below Market Value, Volume 1
Volume 1: 136 pages, 8 1/2 x 11paperback, $34.95
Volume 2: 120 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 paperback
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- John T. Reed's real estate investment background
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- Volume 2, Table of Contents
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Bargains are not defined by recent peak value. Rather, they are defined by how far below CURRENT market value you can buy it. Despite the fall in the overall market, there are techniques that can be used to find bargain purchases. I have a two-volume book on the subject: How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value.
Buying real estate and hoping it would go up in value worked some of the time in some places in the past, and will again some time in the future. This book, in contrast, contains strategies that work almost all the time in almost all markets and regions. And if the whole market goes up while you are making bargain purchases, you get that profit, too. But you are not dependent upon market-wide appreciation for your profits.
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The two volumes combined contain about 180 actual case histories, often giving the name and phone number of the investor who did the deal.
The first chapter gives an overview of the various ways bargain purchases come about. The second chapter thoroughly discusses the ethical issues involved in what many call "stealing" property. The other chapters each cover a separate technique for making bargain purchases. See the table of contents for the list of techniques covered.
Has the current recession altered how you approach bargain purchases? You bet! One effect is that pre-foreclosures and foreclosure-auction bargains have all but disappeared in many markets. The reason is the properties are underwater (mortgage balance exceeds current property value). At the pre-foreclosure and foreclosure auction phases, investors buy equity. If a property is underwater, it has no equity. So almost all the pre-foreclosures and auctions draw no bids and just flow through the pre-foreclosure and auction phases to become OREOs ("Other Real Estate Owned" by banks as a result of foreclosure). At that time, the mortgage balance becomes ancient history and the bank just sells it for what it can get. Are those OREOs big bargains? No. The lenders ought to be cutting prices faster, but for whatever reason, they are not. They are incurring significant carrying costs for month after month to hold out for a top price. They are also now listing the properties with real estate agents so they generally sell for market value or close to it.
Some Florida investors found that the lenders who are the most financial difficulty give the best sales prices while other lenders that are relatively strong and profitable are less willing to bargain.
Which volume should you buy?
I am often asked which volume is better? This used to be one book. I cut it into two volumes because it was getting too big. Volume one contains an overview and ethics chapter plus 15 chapters on 15 different techniques. Volume 2 contains 18 more chapters on 18 more techniques.
Which volume should you buy? Both. The only reason to buy just one is that you are explicitly interested only in topics covered in one volume and have no interest in any topic covered in the other. (You can read which topics are in each volume by looking at their tables of contents. See below.)
All investors should know about all the techniques. Even if you do not adopt each as your strategy, you will probably encounter opportunities to use almost all of them over the course of your career. If you have never read about them, you will probably be blind to the opportunity and miss out as a result.
Vandalized OREOs
One unexpected opportunity that is good right now is vandalized OREOs. Many OREOs are heavily vandalized either by the owner who got foreclosed or by squatters or neighborhood vandals. These are the only properties that I am hearing that are real bargains at present. These are part bargain purchase OREOs and part fixers. See my book Fixers for details on how to do those. A great many bargain purchase opportunities also include fixer characteristics.
Short sales
In theory, you can still buy at the pre-foreclosure stage if you do a short sale. That's a deal here the lenders agree to release the property from their lien for less than they are owed because the property will not sell unless they do. But my son's recent experience and reports from around the country cause me to conclude that short sales are generally a waste of time. The lenders take forever. Time is money. Screw them. You have better things to do. Let them learn to speed up with some dumber investor than you.
Some investors take the attitude that the long time it takes to get answers from the lender on most short sales is good because it drives away impatient buyers. As long as you do not have to make repeated follow-up calls to make sure the lenders do not forget about your offer, that could make sense. Also, you need to be careful that the market does not change during the wait such that you no longer want the property in question that the price the lenders finally agreed to.
Lower minimum bid
A similar thing can happen with underwater properties at the foreclosure auction. The foreclosing lender can set the minimum bid below the loan balance. They should if they want it to sell at the auction. But they rarely do.
Reselling to get your profit
People automatically assume that collapsed prices mean bargains. In fact, while it is easier to find properties to buy nowadays, remember when the profit comes. It comes when you resell the property, not when you buy it. The late Paul Thompson was a foreclosure auction buyer. I asked once if high foreclosures was a great time for him.
No. It just makes it easier to buy, but it simultaneously makes it harder to sell. And you have to do both to make money. It just changes the pie chart of where you spend your time. Nowadays, you spend more time selling and less time buying. It's not better. It's just different. The skills required are different.
In addition to needing more marketing expertise, you also need to work much harder to figure out the current market value of the property in question. With fewer sales and recent falling prices, confidence about current market values is hard to come by, but it is crucial to investing in any market conditions.
Financing is different
Financing is harder to get now, so you need to think about it more and make sure you have it lined up in advance as best you can. This is especially true of any speed strategy. All strategies involving vacant properties, like rehab and flipping, are speed strategies. Another common speed strategy is being faster than all the other buyers in your market. If you have to execute fast, you'd better make sure your financing is locked or at least probable. You cannot assume it will be there based on pre-2007 experience. We're not in 2006 any more, Toto. Because it's always a topic of great interest, I have written six different books on real estate finance.
Foreclosure rescue scams
It used to be that you could bamboozle homeowners who were being foreclosed into deeding you their home on the pretext that you were going to rescue them and save their home and credit. Invariably, such deals result in in the investor getting the house really cheap and the person who thought he was being rescued out in the street.
This was never moral. I never advocated it. I have long urged investors to comply with the sorts of suitability rules securities brokers have to comply with. Suitability says you do not do a sophisticated deal with an unsophisticated person even if you explain it to them. The problem is they think they understand but they do not. Many have said that's their problem. Morally, that's incorrect.
More importantly, politicians in legislatures have discovered it. They call it predatory lending or foreclosure rescue scams and they are outlawing it and urging prosecutors to give it a higher priority. The pertinent laws often use the word "unconscionable" to describe these scams. I agree. In some cases, like Illinois, the new law essentially outlawed whole approaches to pre-foreclosures.
So if you are buying pre-foreclosures, which are still viable in markets where few houses are underwater, you'd better check to see what the pertinent laws are, and make sure you check for laws that were recently passed. California has long had such laws and I talk about them on page 18 of Volume 1 of How to Buy Real Estate For at Least 20% Below Market Value.
The second chapter of ...20% Below Market Value is about the ethics of making bargain purchases. Generally, if you have been following that advice, you would have nothing to worry about regarding the new laws against "predatory lenders" and "foreclosure rescue" scammers.
Because it scares buyers away, the current recession ought to magnify the number and profitability of current bargain-purchase opportunities—except where properties are underwater. When properties are underwater, the only profit is from short sales or lowered minimum bids in forced sales. There is a chapter on short sales in Volume 2 of How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value only it's called Discount Lien Releases, another name for short sales.Big-picture effect of recession on bargain opportunities
34 of the 36 chapters in How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Valuecover specific techniques. In most cases, the drop in market values has thinned out the number of bidders bidding against you for the bargains in each category. I already discussed the various phases of foreclosures and short sales. Here are the other chapters where bidders are almost certainly fewer in the current recession (the chapters in bold also should have increased numbers of properties for sale in the current recession):
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Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicists Say
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space.
The definition of the speed of light has some broader implications for fields such as cosmology and astronomy, which assume a stable velocity for light over time. For instance, the speed of light comes up when measuring the fine structure constant (alpha), which defines the strength of the electromagnetic force. And a varying light speed would change the strengths of molecular bonds and the density of nuclear matter itself.
A non-constant speed of light could mean that estimates of the size of the universe might be off. (Unfortunately, it won't necessarily mean we can travel faster than light, because the effects of physics theories such as relativity are a consequence of light's velocity). [10 Implications of Faster-Than-Light Travel]
Two papers, published in the European Physics Journal D in March, attempt to derive the speed of light from the quantum properties of space itself. Both propose somewhat different mechanisms, but the idea is that the speed of light might change as one alters assumptions about how elementary particles interact with radiation. Both treat space as something that isn't empty, but a great big soup of virtual particles that wink in and out of existence in tiny fractions of a second.
Cosmic vacuum and light speed
The first, by lead author Marcel Urban of the Université du Paris-Sud, looks at the cosmic vacuum, which is often assumed to be empty space. The laws of quantum physics, which govern subatomic particles and all things very small, say that the vacuum of space is actually full of fundamental particles like quarks, called "virtual" particles. These matter particles, which are always paired up with their appropriate antiparticle counterpart, pop into existence and almost immediately collide. When matter and antimatter particles touch, they annihilate each other.
Photons of light, as they fly through space, are captured and re-emitted by these virtual particles. Urban and his colleagues propose that the energies of these particles — specifically the amount of charge they carry — affect the speed of light. Since the amount of energy a particle will have at the time a photon hits it will be essentially random, the effect on how fast photons move should vary too.
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As such, the amount of time the light takes to cross a given distance should vary as the square root of that distance, though the effect would be very tiny — on the order of 0.05 femtoseconds for every square meter of vacuum. A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second. (The speed of light has been measured over the last century to high precision, on the order of parts per billion, so it is pretty clear that the effect has to be small.)
To find this tiny fluctuation, the researchers say, one could measure how light disperses at long distances. Some astronomical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts, produce pulses of radiation from far enough away that the fluctuations could be detected. The authors also propose using lasers bounced between mirrors placed about 100 yards apart, with a light beam bouncing between them multiple times, to seek those small changes.
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The second paper proposes a different mechanism but comes to the same conclusion that light speed changes. In that case, Gerd Leuchs and Luis Sánchez-Soto, from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light in Erlangen, Germany, say that the number of species of elementary particle that exist in the universe may be what makes the speed of light what it is.
Leuchs and Sanchez-Soto say that there should be, by their calculations, on the order of 100 "species" of particle that have charges. The current law governing particle physics, the Standard Model, identifies nine: the electron, muon, tauon, the six kinds of quark, photons and the W-boson. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]
The charges of all these particles are important to their model, because all of them have charges. A quantity called impedance depends on the sum of those charges. The impedance in turn depends on the permittivity of the vacuum, or how much it resists electric fields, as well as its permeability, or how well it supports magnetic fields. Light waves are made up of both an electric and magnetic wave, so changing those quantities (permittivity and permeability) will change the measured speed of light.
"We have calculated the permittivity and permeability of the vacuum as caused by those ephemeral virtual unstable elementary particles," Soto-Sanchez wrote in an email to LiveScience. "It turns out, however, from such a simple model one can discern that those constants contain essentially equal contributions of the different types of electrically charged particle-antiparticle pairs: both, the ones known and those so far unknown to us."
Both papers say that light interacts with virtual particle-antiparticle pairs. In Leuchs' and Sanchez-Soto's model, the impedance of the vacuum (which would speed up or slow down the speed of light) depends on the density of the particles. The impedance relates to the ratio of electric fields to magnetic fields in light; every light wave is made up of both kinds of field, and its measured value, along with the permittivity of space to magnetic fields, governs the speed of light.
Some scientists are a bit skeptical, though. Jay Wacker, a particle physicist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, said he wasn't confident about the mathematical techniques used, and that it seemed in both cases the scientists weren't applying the mathematical tools in the way that most would. "The proper way to do this is with the Feynman diagrams," Wacker said. "It's a very interesting question [the speed of light]," he added, but the methods used in these papers are probably not sufficient to investigate it.
The other issue is that if there really are a lot of other particles beyond what's in the Standard Model, then this theory needs some serious revision. But so far its predictions have been borne out, notably with the discovery of the Higgs boson. This doesn't mean there aren't any more particles to be found — but if they are out there they're above the energies currently achievable with particle accelerators, and therefore pretty heavy, and it's possible that their effects would have shown up elsewhere.
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February 17, 2009 - By Janelle Weaver
STANFORD, Calif. - Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that a commonly available non-addictive drug can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from opioids with little likelihood of serious side effects. The drug, ondansetron, which is already approved to treat nausea and vomiting, appears to avoid some of the problems that accompany existing treatments for addiction to these powerful painkillers, the scientists said.
Opioids encompass a diverse array of prescription and illegal drugs, including codeine, morphine and heroin. In 2007, about 12.5 million Americans aged 12 and older used prescription pain medications for non-medical purposes, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, administered by the federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
"Opioid abuse is rising at a faster rate than any other type of illicit drug use, yet only about a quarter of those dependent on opioids seek treatment," said Larry F. Chu, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia at the School of Medicine and lead author of the study that was published online Feb. 17 in the Journal of Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. "One barrier to treatment is that when you abruptly stop taking the drugs, there is a constellation of symptoms associated with withdrawal." Chu described opioid withdrawal as a "bad flu," characterized by agitation, insomnia, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
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But the responses vary among the laboratory animals. There are "different flavors of mice," explained Peltz. "Some strains of mice are more likely to become dependent on opioids." By comparing the withdrawal symptoms and genomes of these different strains, it's possible to figure out which genes play a major role in addiction.
To accomplish this feat, Peltz and his colleagues used a powerful computational "haplotype-based" genetic mapping method that he had recently developed, which can sample a large portion of the genome within just a few hours. This method pinpoints genes responsible for the variation in withdrawal symptoms across these strains of mice.
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The scientists were able to jump from "from mouse to man" by sheer luck: It turns out that ondansetron is already on the market for the treatment of pain and nausea. As a result, they were able to immediately use this drug, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, in eight healthy, non-opioid-dependent humans. In one session, they received only a single large dose of morphine, and in another session that was separated by at least week, they took ondansetron in combination with morphine. They were then given questionnaires to assess their withdrawal symptoms.
Similar to mice, humans treated with ondansetron before or while receiving morphine showed a significant reduction in withdrawal signs compared with when they received morphine but not ondansetron. "A major accomplishment of this study was to take lab findings and translate them to humans," said principal investigator J. David Clark, MD, PhD, professor of anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Chu plans on conducting a clinical study to confirm the effectiveness of another ondansetron-like drug in treating opioid withdrawal symptoms in a larger group of healthy humans. And the research team will continue to test the effectiveness of ondansetron in treating opioid addiction.
The scientists warned that ondansetron will not by itself resolve the problems that arise with continued use of these painkillers. Addiction is a long-term, complex process, involving both physical and psychological factors that lead to compulsive drug use. "This is not a cure for addiction," said Clark. "It's naïve to think that any one receptor is a panacea for treatment. Treating the withdrawal component is only one way of alleviating the suffering. With luck and determination, we can identify additional targets and put together a comprehensive treatment program."
Collaborators on this study included De-Yong Liang, PhD, the study's co-lead author, previously a research associate in the Department of Anesthesia and currently a research associate at the Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education; Xiangqi Li, MD, a life science research assistant in the department; Nicole D'Arcy, a medical student: Peyman Sahbaie, MD, a research associate at the institute; and Guochun Liao, PhD, of the pharmaceutical company Hoffman-La Roche. This work was supported by grants to Clark from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and grants to Chu from the NIH and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
The researchers are working with the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing to seek a patent for the use of ondansetron and related medicines in the treatment of drug addiction.
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Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.
Many supporters of clean technologies make it seem as though anthropogenic climate change is an absolute fact. To some of them anthropogenic climate change is almost like a religion where any debate or doubt is not tolerated. Some of them may call me a heretic just for writing this post.
At the same time, those on the other end of the spectrum are equally religious in their fervor and certainty that anthropogenic global warming is a fraud. They are certain that human emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases could never impact our climate. And they may twist this post to use it as yet another data point against claims of global warming and added rationale to do nothing except increase fossil fuel exploration.
In both groups, it is my perception that most have read little about the topic other than the popular press. And I find both groups equally sad in their myopic viewpoints. If both of these camps would open their eyes, I suspect there would be much greater agreement on the need for action on clean technologies rather than the divisiveness that their polarizing views create.
There are solid scientific theories and extensive data, anchored by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, that indicate the possibility that over time man-made emissions of greenhouse gases could impact the global climate and may have already begun to do so. To dismiss them out of hand because there is some reasonable doubt is irrational.
Similarly, to speak about anthropogenic climate change as a certainty or to claim that there is no disagreement among scientist is simply incorrect. There are large numbers of reputable climate scientists who remain unconvinced. The reality is that all predictions of global warming are based on very complex climate models. We can forecast the weather a few days out with reasonable accuracy but if you try predicting next year's summer temperature — let alone long-term global climate conditions — things fall apart quickly. Long-term climate models are anything but accurate.
We know with certainty that past natural occurrences have caused significant changes to the atmosphere, resulting in climate changes. So, there is little question about whether changes in the atmosphere can cause climate changes. Rather, the question is whether man-made emissions are significant enough to cause a change on their own and to overcome the large natural forces on our climate that include sun spots, variations in the earth's orbit, and volcanoes all of which have not been taken into account in forecasts of global warming.
Often there is a focus in the media on recent variations in climate as a source of evidence for anthropogenic climate change. Variations in climate over short periods of time are highly suspect as evidence. While most scientists seem to agree that there have been increased temperatures and other climate changes over the past century or so, what cannot be said with certainty is that the increased CO2 levels caused this as opposed natural climate change events that have and continue to happen regularly to our planet. Even the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which is the backbone of support for anthropogenic climate change, found that its confidence in human contribution to such measured weather events (e.g., temperature, severe storms, sea level, etc.) could be as low as 50% for most of the events and 66% for the others (pages 23 and 52 of the Technical Summary).
Climate change is measured over extremely long periods of time – not a few years or tens of years. Some of the best long-term data on historic CO2 concentrations and temperatures is derived from glacial ice core data that spans back 400,000 years. This data shows that the concentration levels of CO2 in the atmosphere today are strikingly more than 20% higher than any level measured in the past 400,000 years (See Figure 1). The recent rapid increase corresponds well with the industrial age and temperature variations are in high correlation with CO2 concentrations. This is hard data to ignore or simply write-off.
Figure 1 – Data from Vostok Ice Core (400,000 years)
Figure 2 –Estimated CO2 and Temperature Changes over 500+ Million Years
But interestingly over longer periods, the level of CO2 today is far below the estimated levels during many times in history (Figure 2) raising the possibility that the current spike may have other natural contributors. And the correlation between temperature and CO2 that seems so apparent in the 400,000-year ice core data becomes much less clear when looking over many millions of years.
While most scientists seem to believe that, in isolation, increased CO2 concentrations create an increased "greenhouse" effect whereby the CO2 acts like a blanket, preventing more of the heat radiated by the earth from going back into space, at what concentration level and over what time period remains a point of uncertainty and debate. In addition, how other factors that may occur with warming such as increased moisture and clouds as well as changes in absorption of CO2 into the ocean at varying temperatures will affect the warming dynamic and other climate change is much more uncertain.
The bottom line is that we won't truly know if man has caused climate change until after it has already occurred for a very long period of time.
And that's the rub. The theoretical costs to the human race of global warming are high: rising ocean levels, decreased polar ice, increased severe weather and significant changes in precipitation patterns. If they occurred to a significant degree, all could have sizeable economic and health implications. But there is no certainty that we will ever pay such a price. More compelling is what we know with near-certainty:
· Fossil fuels are a finite resource and they do pollute. Reduction of pollution is always a good thing. And with booming energy demand in China and India, fossil fuels are a resource that will become scarcer and more expensive. You can argue about the pace, but few argue that it will happen. Even oil rich countries such as Saudi Arabia have begun to accept this fact.
· Increased sources of cost-effective energy and more energy-efficient consumption have and will continue to lead to increased standards of living.
· Nations with greater diversity of energy sources have greater economic and national security.
· The U.S. Defense Department believes that climate change will impact our national security.
· If anthropogenic global warming is real, by the time we start paying the price for the damage we have done it will be too late to turn things back quickly.
To claim with certainty that man is causing climate change or to claim there is no risk of anthropogenic climate change are equally incorrect and equally polarizing.
While it is not certain, there is evidence that suggests that human emissions of greenhouse gases may be changing our climate in ways that could have dramatic impacts. We can do nothing and roll the dice that everything can be OK. Or we can take steps to diversify our energy sources away from fossil fuels and increase our energy efficiency, thereby not only reducing the risk of anthropogenic climate change but also increasing the robustness of our economy and our national defense.
Although there should be debate about the specifics of how to best advance the availability and utilization of cleaner technologies, support for cleantech innovation should be the ultimate bipartisan issue without the divisiveness created by talking about anthropogenic climate change as if it is a fact or as if it is fiction.
David Gold heads up cleantech investments for Access Venture Partners. He is also the author of the GreenGoldBlog.


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by Tom Laemlein
I've been working with Dale Dye of Warriors Inc. to put together a photo study on the infantry weapons of the Vietnam War. The conflict in Vietnam is particularly interesting for students of small arms as all of Southeast Asia became both a proving grounds for the latest infantry weapons designs as well as an international "arms bazaar", featuring any firearm that had been made from the late 19th Century until the 1960s.
The M16 rifle made its debut during the Vietnam War and its modern design created quite a sensation. By the end of the 1960s, the M16 could found in the hands of most US troops deployed in Vietnam, and was also beginning to be issued to South Vietnamese troops (ARVN) as well. Viet Cong forces were happy to acquire as many M16s as they could capture, steal, or buy on the black market.
In my research to find photos of the small arms of the Vietnam War, I have found a large number of images of the M16. The two that make up the basis for this short article are particularly unique though, as I have never seen (or heard of) an M16 configured this way. I have photos of the M16 equipped with the XM148 grenade launcher. Similarly, I have photos of the M16 equipped with the AN/PVS-2 "Starlight" scope. But I never dreamed of putting them both on the same rifle! Someone from a US Air Force base security unit dreamt this one up in 1967. It kind of makes sense though, seeing as how the security team was unlikely to have to carry this monstrosity very far from their post. Let's take a look at how this heavily modified (and I do mean "heavily") M16 stacks up, weight-wise:
- M16A1 rifle: 8.79 pounds loaded
- XM148 grenade launcher: 3 pounds
- AN/PVS-2 "Starlight" scope: 6 pounds
So, this M16 "fully equipped" weighs in at just about 18 pounds! Not what one would expect from a light combat rifle (called the "Mattel rifle" by many of its detractors). The bulky Starlight scope (providing ambient light amplification up to 1000x) makes the rifle lop-sided already, but I never suspected that it weighed so much. The Colt-manufactured XM148 grenade launcher "balances out" the overloaded rifle. I can only wonder how it was to handle. Maybe one of the readers may have had some experience with this combination during the Vietnam War. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
Tom Laemlein runs Armor Plate Press, a military history publishing company that specializes in producing photo studies of 20th Century weapons systems.


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by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2017
Following its huge victory on tax cuts, the White House cited 81 major achievements in 12 categories during President Donald Trump's first year in office.
Jobs and the economy
Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
Ended Obama's deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama's Clean Power Plan.
EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
Protecting the U.S. homeland
Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
Ended the Obama-era "catch and release" of illegal immigrants.
Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Protecting communities
Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
Combating opioids
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The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
Protecting life
In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
Created a VA hotline.
Had the VA launch an online "Access and Quality Tool," providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
Promoting peace through strength
Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
Worked to increase defense spending.
Empowered military leaders to "seize the initiative and win," reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
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This website provides much in-depth, helpful information for the many millions of allergy sufferers in Great Britain, where allergy specialists are very difficult to find. Because Allergic diseases can affect any part of the body, and involve several medical specialities, it is suggested that the Broad Introduction should be read before referring to the section of the website which seems most relevant to your personal allergy or intolerance problems.
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Coherent Accelerator Interface (CXL)¶
The coherent accelerator interface is designed to allow the coherent connection of accelerators (FPGAs and other devices) to a POWER system. These devices need to adhere to the Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture (CAIA).
IBM refers to this as the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface or CAPI. In the kernel it's referred to by the name CXL to avoid confusion with the ISDN CAPI subsystem.
Coherent in this context means that the accelerator and CPUs can both access system memory directly and with the same effective addresses.
Hardware overview¶
POWER8/9 FPGA +----------+ +---------+ | | | | | CPU | | AFU | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------+ +---------+ | PHB | | | | +------+ | PSL | | | CAPP |<------>| | +---+------+ PCIE +---------+The POWER8/9 chip has a Coherently Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP) unit which is part of the PCIe Host Bridge (PHB). This is managed by Linux by calls into OPAL. Linux doesn't directly program the CAPP.
The FPGA (or coherently attached device) consists of two parts. The POWER Service Layer (PSL) and the Accelerator Function Unit (AFU). The AFU is used to implement specific functionality behind the PSL. The PSL, among other things, provides memory address translation services to allow each AFU direct access to userspace memory.
The AFU is the core part of the accelerator (eg. the compression, crypto etc function). The kernel has no knowledge of the function of the AFU. Only userspace interacts directly with the AFU.
The PSL provides the translation and interrupt services that the AFU needs. This is what the kernel interacts with. For example, if the AFU needs to read a particular effective address, it sends that address to the PSL, the PSL then translates it, fetches the data from memory and returns it to the AFU. If the PSL has a translation miss, it interrupts the kernel and the kernel services the fault. The context to which this fault is serviced is based on who owns that acceleration function.
POWER8 and PSL Version 8 are compliant to the CAIA Version 1.0.
POWER9 and PSL Version 9 are compliant to the CAIA Version 2.0.
This PSL Version 9 provides new features such as:
Interaction with the nest MMU on the P9 chip.
Native DMA support.
Supports sending ASB_Notify messages for host thread wakeup.
Supports Atomic operations.
Cards with a PSL9 won't work on a POWER8 system and cards with a PSL8 won't work on a POWER9 system.
AFU Modes¶
There are two programming modes supported by the AFU. Dedicated and AFU directed. AFU may support one or both modes.
When using dedicated mode only one MMU context is supported. In this mode, only one userspace process can use the accelerator at time.
When using AFU directed mode, up to 16K simultaneous contexts can be supported. This means up to 16K simultaneous userspace applications may use the accelerator (although specific AFUs may support fewer). In this mode, the AFU sends a 16 bit context ID with each of its requests. This tells the PSL which context is associated with each operation. If the PSL can't translate an operation, the ID can also be accessed by the kernel so it can determine the userspace context associated with an operation.
MMIO space¶
A portion of the accelerator MMIO space can be directly mapped from the AFU to userspace. Either the whole space can be mapped or just a per context portion. The hardware is self describing, hence the kernel can determine the offset and size of the per context portion.
AFUs may generate interrupts that are destined for userspace. These are received by the kernel as hardware interrupts and passed onto userspace by a read syscall documented below.
Data storage faults and error interrupts are handled by the kernel driver.
Work Element Descriptor (WED)¶
The WED is a 64-bit parameter passed to the AFU when a context is started. Its format is up to the AFU hence the kernel has no knowledge of what it represents. Typically it will be the effective address of a work queue or status block where the AFU and userspace can share control and status information.
User API¶
1. AFU character devices¶
For AFUs operating in AFU directed mode, two character device files will be created. /dev/cxl/afu0.0m will correspond to a master context and /dev/cxl/afu0.0s will correspond to a slave context. Master contexts have access to the full MMIO space an AFU provides. Slave contexts have access to only the per process MMIO space an AFU provides.
For AFUs operating in dedicated process mode, the driver will only create a single character device per AFU called /dev/cxl/afu0.0d. This will have access to the entire MMIO space that the AFU provides (like master contexts in AFU directed).
The types described below are defined in include/uapi/misc/cxl.h
The following file operations are supported on both slave and master devices.
A userspace library libcxl is available here:
This provides a C interface to this kernel API.
Opens the device and allocates a file descriptor to be used with the rest of the API.
A dedicated mode AFU only has one context and only allows the device to be opened once.
An AFU directed mode AFU can have many contexts, the device can be opened once for each context that is available.
When all available contexts are allocated the open call will fail and return -ENOSPC.
- Note:
IRQs need to be allocated for each context, which may limit the number of contexts that can be created, and therefore how many times the device can be opened. The POWER8 CAPP supports 2040 IRQs and 3 are used by the kernel, so 2037 are left. If 1 IRQ is needed per context, then only 2037 contexts can be allocated. If 4 IRQs are needed per context, then only 2037/4 = 509 contexts can be allocated.
Starts the AFU context and associates it with the current process. Once this ioctl is successfully executed, all memory mapped into this process is accessible to this AFU context using the same effective addresses. No additional calls are required to map/unmap memory. The AFU memory context will be updated as userspace allocates and frees memory. This ioctl returns once the AFU context is started.
Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_ioctl_start_work
struct cxl_ioctl_start_work { __u64 flags; __u64 work_element_descriptor; __u64 amr; __s16 num_interrupts; __s16 reserved1; __s32 reserved2; __u64 reserved3; __u64 reserved4; __u64 reserved5; __u64 reserved6; };
- flags:
Indicates which optional fields in the structure are valid.
- work_element_descriptor:
The Work Element Descriptor (WED) is a 64-bit argument defined by the AFU. Typically this is an effective address pointing to an AFU specific structure describing what work to perform.
- amr:
Authority Mask Register (AMR), same as the powerpc AMR. This field is only used by the kernel when the corresponding CXL_START_WORK_AMR value is specified in flags. If not specified the kernel will use a default value of 0.
- num_interrupts:
Number of userspace interrupts to request. This field is only used by the kernel when the corresponding CXL_START_WORK_NUM_IRQS value is specified in flags. If not specified the minimum number required by the AFU will be allocated. The min and max number can be obtained from sysfs.
- reserved fields:
For ABI padding and future extensions
Get the current context id, also known as the process element. The value is returned from the kernel as a __u32.
An AFU may have an MMIO space to facilitate communication with the AFU. If it does, the MMIO space can be accessed via mmap. The size and contents of this area are specific to the particular AFU. The size can be discovered via sysfs.
In AFU directed mode, master contexts are allowed to map all of the MMIO space and slave contexts are allowed to only map the per process MMIO space associated with the context. In dedicated process mode the entire MMIO space can always be mapped.
This mmap call must be done after the START_WORK ioctl.
Care should be taken when accessing MMIO space. Only 32 and 64-bit accesses are supported by POWER8. Also, the AFU will be designed with a specific endianness, so all MMIO accesses should consider endianness (recommend endian(3) variants like: le64toh(), be64toh() etc). These endian issues equally apply to shared memory queues the WED may describe.
Reads events from the AFU. Blocks if no events are pending (unless O_NONBLOCK is supplied). Returns -EIO in the case of an unrecoverable error or if the card is removed.
read() will always return an integral number of events.
The buffer passed to read() must be at least 4K bytes.
The result of the read will be a buffer of one or more events, each event is of type struct cxl_event, of varying size:
struct cxl_event { struct cxl_event_header header; union { struct cxl_event_afu_interrupt irq; struct cxl_event_data_storage fault; struct cxl_event_afu_error afu_error; }; };The struct cxl_event_header is defined as
struct cxl_event_header { __u16 type; __u16 size; __u16 process_element; __u16 reserved1; };
- type:
This defines the type of event. The type determines how the rest of the event is structured. These types are described below and defined by enum cxl_event_type.
- size:
This is the size of the event in bytes including the struct cxl_event_header. The start of the next event can be found at this offset from the start of the current event.
- process_element:
Context ID of the event.
- reserved field:
For future extensions and padding.
If the event type is CXL_EVENT_AFU_INTERRUPT then the event structure is defined as
struct cxl_event_afu_interrupt { __u16 flags; __u16 irq; /* Raised AFU interrupt number */ __u32 reserved1; };
- flags:
These flags indicate which optional fields are present in this struct. Currently all fields are mandatory.
- irq:
The IRQ number sent by the AFU.
- reserved field:
For future extensions and padding.
If the event type is CXL_EVENT_DATA_STORAGE then the event structure is defined as
struct cxl_event_data_storage { __u16 flags; __u16 reserved1; __u32 reserved2; __u64 addr; __u64 dsisr; __u64 reserved3; };
- flags:
These flags indicate which optional fields are present in this struct. Currently all fields are mandatory.
- address:
The address that the AFU unsuccessfully attempted to access. Valid accesses will be handled transparently by the kernel but invalid accesses will generate this event.
- dsisr:
This field gives information on the type of fault. It is a copy of the DSISR from the PSL hardware when the address fault occurred. The form of the DSISR is as defined in the CAIA.
- reserved fields:
For future extensions
If the event type is CXL_EVENT_AFU_ERROR then the event structure is defined as
struct cxl_event_afu_error { __u16 flags; __u16 reserved1; __u32 reserved2; __u64 error; };
- flags:
These flags indicate which optional fields are present in this struct. Currently all fields are Mandatory.
- error:
Error status from the AFU. Defined by the AFU.
- reserved fields:
For future extensions and padding
2. Card character device (powerVM guest only)¶
In a powerVM guest, an extra character device is created for the card. The device is only used to write (flash) a new image on the FPGA accelerator. Once the image is written and verified, the device tree is updated and the card is reset to reload the updated image.
Opens the device and allocates a file descriptor to be used with the rest of the API. The device can only be opened once.
Starts and controls flashing a new FPGA image. Partial reconfiguration is not supported (yet), so the image must contain a copy of the PSL and AFU(s). Since an image can be quite large, the caller may have to iterate, splitting the image in smaller chunks.
Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_adapter_image:
struct cxl_adapter_image { __u64 flags; __u64 data; __u64 len_data; __u64 len_image; __u64 reserved1; __u64 reserved2; __u64 reserved3; __u64 reserved4; };
- flags:
These flags indicate which optional fields are present in this struct. Currently all fields are mandatory.
- data:
Pointer to a buffer with part of the image to write to the card.
- len_data:
Size of the buffer pointed to by data.
- len_image:
Full size of the image.
Sysfs Class¶
A cxl sysfs class is added under /sys/class/cxl to facilitate enumeration and tuning of the accelerators. Its layout is described in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
Udev rules¶
The following udev rules could be used to create a symlink to the most logical chardev to use in any programming mode (afuX.Yd for dedicated, afuX.Ys for afu directed), since the API is virtually identical for each:
SUBSYSTEM=="cxl", ATTRS{mode}=="dedicated_process", SYMLINK="cxl/%b" SUBSYSTEM=="cxl", ATTRS{mode}=="afu_directed", \ KERNEL=="afu[0-9]*.[0-9]*s", SYMLINK="cxl/%b"


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