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As the era of green computing has come, cost saving becomes a critical issue in modern heterogeneous computing systems. Task scheduling plays an important role in cost saving, especially in embedded systems. In this paper, we tackle the problem of scheduling tasks on heterogeneous multicore embedded systems with the constraints of time and resources for minimizing the total cost, while considering the communication overhead. This problem is NP-hard, and we propose static heuristic techniques ISGG, RLD and RLDG to solve it. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms significantly outperform other existing approaches in terms of cost saving.
This paper proposes a Universal Application Storage System, comprising the card side, the terminal side and the back-end system. The card side provides a universal and secured infrastructure for data storage, where data are organized and stored in a card file system with several security mechanisms. In the terminal side, a Unified SE Access framework is presented to simplify the access to various forms of smart cards. Through this framework, the back-end system can establish a direct connectivity to the card, and performs authorized operations by exchanging APDUs in a secure channel.
Vector coprocessors (VPs) may not be efficient due to data dependencies and limited vectorizable code. We propose VP sharing where a VP can simultaneously execute multiple threads of similar or disparate vector lengths for improving throughput. A virtualization technique dynamically allocates physical vector registers to threads, thus eliminating the need to solve register name conflicts statically. An FPGA-based prototype of a multi-core processor is used for benchmarking. Impressive speedups of up to 333% and total energy savings of up to 37% are shown with proper thread scheduling and power gating compared to a similar-sized system without support for simultaneous multithreading.
Design, Analysis and Verification of Real-time Systems based on TPN Refinement
Security issues in Cyber-Physical Embedded Systems include that Embedded Sensor Networks are likely to be attacked by different kinds of attacks, due to the limitations in power, storage, and processing capabilities. Hence, we propose a new attack-defense game model to detect malicious nodes using a repeated game approach. Attackers and defenders make different strategies to achieve optimal payoffs. Importantly, error detection and missing detection are considered in Intrusion Detection Systems where a game tree model is introduced. Simulations show that the proposed model can outperform All Monitor and Cluster Head model in energy consumption and detection rate, respectively.
A hybrid genetic algorithm for the bottleneck traveling salesman problem
Computation of Minimal Siphons in Petri Nets by Using Binary Decision Diagrams
Space Utilization Enhancement of File Systems for Embedded Storage Systems
Wireless Non-contact ECG and EEG Biopotential Sensors
This article presents a vector-aware register allocation framework for compilers to improve register utilization on GPU shader architectures; the full SIMD width is not often utilized in these architectures, meaning that registers are underutilized when applying a traditional register allocation method. The experiments demonstrated that the proposed framework decreased 92% of register spills in total and made 91.7% of the examined shader programs spill-free. These results indicate an opportunity for energy management of the space that is used for storing spilled variables, and for allowing fewer registers in architectural designs without significant performance degradation due to spills.
Transition-based Deadlock Prevention Policy for FMSs Using Graph Technique
Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) as an emerging paradigm has attracted intensive attentions from research community and industry. However, the design of CPSS involves multiple challenges in security, energy, reliability and user satisfaction on design solution. In this paper, we take these design issues into a whole to consider, and system-level design optimization in energy consumption, security level and user satisfaction can be fulfilled while satisfying constraints for system reliability. Also, a smart office application is presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of design optimization.
A multi-representative re-fusion (MRRF) approximate data collection approach is proposed in which multiple nodes with similar readings form data coverage set (DCS).The reading value of the DCS is represented by an R-node. The set near Sink is smaller while the set far from Sink is bigger which can reduce the energy consumption in hotspots area. Then a distributed data aggregation strategy is proposed, which can influx the value of R-nodes far from each other with similar readings. Both our comprehensive theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that the MRRF approach increase the lifetime and energy efficiency.
We propose a static analysis approach specifically for interrupt-driven programs based on sequentialization techniques. We present a method to sequentialize interrupt-driven programs into non-deterministic sequential programs according to the semantics of interrupts. The key benefit of using sequentialization is the ability to leverage the power of the state-of-the-art analysis techniques for sequential programs to analyze interrupt-driven programs, for example, the power of numerical abstract interpretation. Furthermore, to improve the analysis precision and scalability, we design the specific abstract domains to analyze sequentialized interrupt-driven programs by considering their specific features. Finally, we present encouraging experimental results obtained by our prototype implementation.
Current flash translation layers can be classified into a page-mapping FTL, a block-mapping FTL, and a hybrid-mapping FTL. In the paper, we propose a joint operation mechanism to rethink the advantages of the page-mapping FTL, the block-mapping FTL, and the hybrid-mapping FTL. With the joint operation mechanism, a flash translation layer can consider the main memory requirements, improve the system performance, and reduce the garbage collection overhead. The experimental results show that the proposed joint operation mechanism can achieve the goal under realistic workloads and benchmarks.
Design of Petri Net-Based Deadlock Prevention Controllers for Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Differential Fault Attack is a powerful cryptanalytic technique to retrieve secret key by exploiting the faulty ciphertexts generated during encryption procedure. This paper propose a novel DFA attack which is effective on ITUbee. In our DFA, two faults injection are enough to recover the secret key with a computation complexity of $2^{43}$ round function operations. This computation complexity could be further reduced to $2^{25}$ round function operations with two more faults. We emphasize that the last round of ITUbee should be special protected. Furthermore, our DFA method can be tailored to any other block cipher employing a similar structure.
Online contests need security guarantee especially on synchronization. In this paper, for synchronic and secure start in a contest, we update security requirements of confidentiality, anonymity and synchrony comparing to our previous work. Based on the updated requirements, we propose a general framework of Advanced Secure Synchronized Reading (ASSR) system that can hold multiple contests simultaneously by Cloud. Importantly, the system can ignore the impacts of heterogeneity on transmission and computing in embedded computing environment by a novel Randomness-reused Identity Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (RIBKEM). Finally, our analysis shows that ASSR enhances synchronization achievement for online contests.
Formal Validation of Downtimeless System Evolution in Embedded Automation Controllers
This paper addresses the problem of parallelizing Simulink models on multi-core architectures considering communication cost between blocks on different CPU cores. Utilizing the block diagram of the Simulink model, we derive the dependency graph between the different blocks. In order to solve the scheduling problem, we describe a Mixed Integer Linear Programming formulation for finding a feasible mapping of the Simulink blocks to different cores. We study the scalability and efficiency of our approach with synthetic benchmarks of randomly generated directed acyclic graphs. We present case studies to demonstrate applicability of our approach for single-rate models to real world problems.
Variable Partitioning and BSL Optimization
We present ScorePlus, a software-hardware hybrid and federated experiment environment for Smart Grid. ScorePlus incorporates both software emulator and hardware testbed, such that they all follow the same architecture, and the same Smart Grid application program can be tested on either of them without any modification; ScorePlus provides a federated environment such that multiple software emulators and hardware testbeds at different locations are able to connect and form a unified Smart Grid system; ScorePlus software is encapsulated as a resource plugin in OpenStack cloud computing platform, such that it supports massive deployments with large scale test cases in cloud infrastructure.
Distributed scratchpad memories (SPM) in embedded many-core systems require careful selection of data placement to achieve good performance. We propose SPMPool to share the available on-chip scratchpads on many-cores among executing applications with varying memory requirements in order to reduce the overall memory access latency. By pooling SPM resources, we can assign underutilized memory resources to applications based on their needs determined at runtime. Experiments on workloads with variant inter-application memory-intensity show up to 76% reduction in memory access latency for configurations ranging from 16 to 256 cores compared to limiting executing cores to use their local SPM.
A Network Congestion-Aware Memory Subsystem for Manycore
We present a new numerical abstract domain based on ellipsoids designed for the formal verification of switched linear systems. We overcome the difficulty that ellipsoids do not have a lattice structure by exhibiting a canonical operator over-approximating the union. We show that it can be computed in $O(n^3)$ elementary algebraic operations. We finally develop a fast non-linear power-type algorithm, which allows one to determine sound quadratic invariants on switched systems in a tractable way. We test our approach on several benchmarks, and compare it with the standard techniques based on linear matrix inequalities, showing an important speedup on typical instances.
Compositionality in Synchronous Data Flow: Modular Code Generation from Hierarchical SDF Graphs
In this paper, we propose an improved hard real-time scheduling approach to schedule streaming applications modeled as acyclic Cyclo-Static Dataflow (CSDF) graphs on a Multi-Processor System-on-Chip platform. The proposed approach converts each actor in a CSDF graph to a set of real-time periodic tasks. The conversion enables application of many hard real-time scheduling algorithms which offer fast calculation of the required number of processors for scheduling the tasks. In addition, we propose a method to reduce the latency of a graph when scheduled as real-time periodic tasks. Experiments on a set of real-life streaming applications demonstrate efficiency of our approach.
Design of Liveness-enforcing Supervisors for S3PR based on Complementary Places
Data Embedding in Image-media using Weight-function on Modulo Operations
Achieving Energy Efficiency through Run-Time Partial Reconfiguration on Reconfigurable Systems
We propose a reliability-aware reconfigurable last-level cache architecture (R2Cache) that supports various reliability-wise efficient cache configurations. Our cache vulnerability model jointly accounts for the data and tag vulnerabilities along with the active cache area in different execution phases. To enable run-time adaptations, we introduce a lightweight online vulnerability predictor that exploits the knowledge of performance metrics like number of L2 misses. Based on the predicted vulnerabilities, our run-time reliability manager reconfigures the cache such that, the total vulnerability for all concurrently executing applications is minimized under user-provided tolerable performance/energy overheads. Compared to state-of-the-art caches, R2Cache provides significant vulnerability savings.
Physical Activity Recognition using Multiple Sensors Embedded in a Wearable Device
Energy Efficient and High Performance Software Architecture for Storage Class Memory
Data Reorganization for Scalable Video Service with Embedded Mobile Devices
The mission and life critical properties of distributed real-time systems require modeling, analysis and formal verification during design. Timed input-output automata (TIOA) and the UPPAAL software package are two widely used modeling and verification tools for this purpose. To this end, we develop the algorithm TUConvert for converting TIOA models to UPPAAL models and formally prove the correctness of our algorithm. Different from the previous work, our algorithm allows converting TIOA models of distributed real-time systems to networks of UPPAAL models. The conversion and formal verification of a distributed real-time industrial communication protocol modeled as TIOA illustrates our algorithm.
Exploiting Timing Error Resilience in Processor Architecture
Partitioning sporadic task systems upon memory-constrained multiprocessors
ENFFiS: An Enhanced NAND Flash Memory File System for Mobile Embedded Multimedia System
Editorial: Security of Embedded Systems and Cyber Irons -- Embedded Systems for Security
Harmonic Segment-based Semi-partitioning scheduling on Multi-core Real-time Systems
Half-Wits: Software Techniques for Low-Voltage Probabilistic Storage
Profile Assisted Online System Performance and Power Estimation for Adaptable Embedded Systems
Experiences with Context Management in Emergency Medicine
Addressing Network-on-Chip Router Transient Errors with Inherent Information Redundancy
Applications in risk-critical domains such as emergency management and industrial control systems need the near real-time stream data processing in large scale sensing networks. The key problem is to ensure online end-to-end security of data stream. Existing data security solutions cannot be applied in such applications as they cannot deal data stream with high volume and velocity data in real-time. To address this problem, we propose a Dynamic Key Length Based Security Framework (DLSeF) based on shared key derived from synchronized prime numbers; the key is dynamically updated in short intervals to thwart potential attacks to ensure the end-to-end security.
This paper advocates a semantics-directed approach to bridging the conceptual gap between hardware design and implementation. We present a case study in the design of secure single- and dual- core processors, formally derived via principled techniques grounded in functional programming and equational reasoning. The case study comprises the development of secure single- and dual-core variants of a single processor, both based on a common semantic specification of the ISA. We demonstrate via formal equational reasoning that the dual-core processor respects a no-write-down information flow policy. The semantics-directed approach enables a modular and extensible style of system design and verification.
Guest Editorial for Special Issue of ESWEEK 2015
Fault modeling in discrete event systems using petri nets
In the embedded systems domain, obtaining performance and power consumption estimations is extremely valuable in numerous cases. This is particularly true during design stage, as designers of complex embedded systems face an increasingly large design space. In this paper, we propose a methodology to estimate the secondary storage performance and power consumption in an embedded system. We target dedicated flash file systems used with the Linux operating system. The methodology is composed of three sequential phases: exploration, modeling and simulation. Validation against real measurements shows that the estimation error stays below 10%.
Combining formal Methods For the Development of Reactive Systems
MORPHEUS:An heterogeneous dynamically reconfigurable platform for designing complex embedded systems
Efficient Localization Scheme with Ring Overlapping by Utilizing Mobile Anchors in WSNs
Petri Net Modeling and One-step Look-ahead Maximally Permissive Deadlock Control of AMS
Using Memory Profile Analysis for Automatic Synthesis of Pointers Code
This paper proposes a Universal Application Storage System, comprising the card side, the terminal side and the back-end system. The card side provides a universal and secured infrastructure for data storage, where data are organized and stored in a card file system with several security mechanisms. In the terminal side, a Unified SE Access framework is presented to simplify the access to various forms of smart cards. Through this framework, the back-end system can establish a direct connectivity to the card, and performs authorized operations by exchanging APDUs in a secure channel.
Mobile devices use "polling loops" that periodically query devices and "pull" events to applications. These loops constantly rouse the CPU, thus increasing power consumption. This paper describes the implementation of an alternative "push" event model that eliminates polling loops. It uses recent advances in mobile device technology to allow the CPU to sleep until an event occurs, and then pushes the event to the appropriate application. In experiments, our push model reduced power consumption by up to 23.8\% and reduced latency--the time between the occurrence of an event and the response to the event--by an average of 13.6 milliseconds.
Learning Execution Contexts from System Call Distribution for Intrusion Detection in Embedded System
Symmetric-key cryptography can resist the potential post-quantum attacks expected with the not-so-faraway advent of quantum computing power. In this paper, we propose, assess, and benchmark reliable constructions for stateless hash-based signatures. We propose and benchmark fault diagnosis methods for this post-quantum cryptography variant through case studies for hash functions, and present the simulations and implementations results (through application-specific integrated circuit [ASIC] evaluations) to show the applicability of the presented schemes. The proposed approaches make such hash-based constructions more reliable against natural faults and help protecting them against malicious faults and can be tailored based on resources available and reliability objectives.
Distributed Reconfigurations of Intelligent Control Software
Parallelizing Sequential Programs With Statistical Accuracy Tests
Hardware-Based Load Value Trace Filtering for On-the-Fly Debugging
Thermal-Aware Task Scheduling in 3D Chip Multiprocessor with Real-Time Constrained Workloads
A Hard Real-Time Capable Multi-Core SMT Processor
This paper proposes a solution to the integrated problem of Through-Silicon Via placement and mapping of cores to the routers in a three-dimensional mesh based Network-on-Chip system. TSV geometry restricts their number in three-dimensional ICs. Mapping plays an important role in evolving good system solutions in such a situation. TSVs are placed with detailed consultation with the application. The integrated problem has been first solved using the exact method of Integer Liner Programming . Next, a solution has been obtained via a Particle Swarm Optimization formulation (PSO) with several augmentations onto it have been proposed to generate good quality solutions.
Power-aware dynamic mapping heuristics for NoC-based MPSoCs using a unified model-based approach
In this paper, we address the problem of mapping an application onto a real-time multiprocessor platform with the objective of maximizing total throughput. We propose that the optimal solution to the problem is composed of three components: actor mapping, retiming, and ordering. The entire problem is systematically modeled into a SAT problem, and a specific HSDF theory solver is developed and integrated into the SAT solver for efficiency enhancement. Two alternative integration methods are presented to achieve early branch pruning in the search space. Extensive performance evaluation shows our approach provides significant throughput improvement and is scalable to industry-sized applications.
This paper presents Clover, a compiler directed soft error detection and recovery scheme for lightweight soft error resilience. The compiler carefully generates soft error tolerant code based on idempotent processing without explicit checkpoint. During program execution, Clover relies on a small number of acoustic wave detectors deployed in the processor to identify soft errors by sensing the wave made by a particle strike. To cope with DUE (detected unrecoverable errors) caused by the sensing latency of error detection, Clover leverages a novel selective instruction duplication technique called tail-DMR (dual modular redundancy).
This paper defines a new class of Petri nets called Parallel Process Nets (P2Ns) that can well model such concurrent systems in which multiple parallel processes both share some common resources and interacte by sending/receiving massages. Collaborativeness and close collaborativeness are proposed for P2Ns. The former guarantees that a modeled system is both deadlock-free and livelock-free while the latter also ensures it starvation-free. They are illustrated through some classical examples such as Producer-Consumer Problem and Dinning Philosophers Problem. At last, P2Ns are applied to the modeling and analysis of two real systems: hospital information system and elevator scheduling system.
Synthesizing Parsimonious Inexact Circuits through Probabilistic Design Techniques
Dependable Management System for Ubiquitous Camera Array Service in an Elder-Care Center
Adaptive Real-Time Systems with Energy-Harvesters
We consider a battery-less real-time embedded system equipped with an energy harvester. It scavenges energy from an environmental resource according to some stochastic patterns to supply the system periodic real-time tasks which follow a dual-criticality model. The success of jobs is threatened in case of energy shortage. Further, each task has a minimum required success-ratio that needs to be satisfied in steady-state. We analytically evaluate the behavior of such a system for a given schedule. Accordingly, we propose a scheduling algorithm that satisfies both, the temporal and success-ratio constraints of the jobs, while respecting task criticalities and corresponding system modes.
Formal validation of a deterministic MAC protocol
A RF4CE-based Remote Controller with Interactive Graphical User Interface
A Rule-Based Quasi-Static Scheduling Approach for Static Islands in Dynamic Dataflow Graphs
Write Activity Reduction on Non-Volatile Main Memories for Embedded Chip Multi-Processors
Configurable Memory Security In Embedded Systems
Detection of Harmful Schizophrenic Statements in Esterel
In heavily duty-cycled embedded systems, the bulk of the energy is consumed by the microcontroller in idle mode. Existing solutions address this problem by placing the microcontroller in a low power mode, preserving application state in SRAM, or by checkpointing it to FLASH, which are energy inefficient. In this paper, we propose a HW/SW architecture to implement a new sleep mode by performing extreme supply voltage scaling of the microcontroller. We utilize an energy harvester for providing the lower supply voltage and demonstrate using a photodiode that the current consumption in the proposed sleep mode can be reduced by 100x.
Trapezius Muscle EMG as Predictor of Mental Stress
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are increasingly used for high performance computing. Additionally, mobile devices such as smartphones became widespread, and these are increasingly incorporating computationally intensive applications that involve some form of environmental recognition such as augmented reality (AR). However, the devices with low computation power cannot satisfy such demanding computing requirements. The computation of these devices could be reduced by offloading computation onto GPUs on the cloud. We proposed a GPU distributed frame work called GPUrpc, which enables general-purpose use of GPUs over the network. This paper show an efficient architecture of offloading computation that can reduce communication overhead.
Area-Efficient Convolutional Deinterleaver for Mobile TV Receiver
In this work, we present ``light-weight'' implementations of elliptic curve crptography on Optimal Prime Fields (OPFs) with a view towards high performance and security for resource-constrained embedded devices. We introduce a highly optimized library for OPFs arithmetic with performance/security optimized variants, and then describe both optimized implementations of scalar multiplication over OPFs. The former using GLV method on twisted Edwards curves reaches an execution time of 3.14M cycles (over a 160-bit OPF) on an 8-bit ATmega128 processor, while the latter based on Montgomery curves executes in 5.93M cycles. Our implementations significantly improve the state-of-the-art in scalar multiplication on desired platforms.
As a promising bio-cryptographic technique, Fuzzy extractor seamlessly binds biometrics and cryptography for template protection and key generation. However most existing methods hardly satisfy the following issues simultaneously: 1) Fingerprint registration, 2) Verification accuracy, 3) Security strength, 4) Computational efficiency. In this paper, we introduce a bio-crypto-oriented fingerprint verification scheme - Selective Vertex-indexed Triangulation (SViT) which maps minutia global topology to local triangulation with minimum information loss. Then a SViT based fuzzy extractor framework (FE-SViT) is proposed and high verification accuracy is achieved. The FE-SViT is highly parallelizable and efficient which makes it suitable for embedded devices.
In this article, we investigate how to adaptively manage the low-critical workload during the runtime to provide the service for low-critical tasks as much as possible and guarantee the hard real-time requirements for high-critical tasks. Unlike the previous methods that enforce an offline bound, runtime adaption approaches are proposed where the coming workload of low-critical tasks is adaptively regulated by considering the actual demand of high-critical tasks. In order to reduce the online management overheads, a lightweight scheme with O(n·log(n)) complexity is developed. Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed workload management approaches.
OLED is regarded as a promising alternative to mobile displays. This paper introduces the design, algorithm, and implementation of a framework called CURA for quality-retaining power saving on mobile OLED displays. First, we link human visual attention to OLED power saving and model the OLED image scaling optimization problem. Then, we present the algorithm used to solve the problem, and prove its optimality even without an accurate power model. Finally, we implement two practical applications on a commercial mobile tablet. The results of experiments conducted on the tablet demonstrate that CURA can reduce significant OLED power while retaining image quality.
Intermittently powered sensing devices that rely purely on energy harvesting are rarely able to maintain a sense of time after a power failure. This makes working with sensor data that is time sensitive, especially difficult. We propose a novel, zero-power timekeeper, that uses remanence decay inherent in capacitors and SRAM to measure the time elapsed between power failures. Our approach computes the elapsed time from the amount of decay of a capacitive device, either on-chip SRAM or a dedicated capacitor. This enables hourglass-like timers that give intermittently powered sensing devices a persistent sense of time.
Reducing interleaving semantics redundancy in reachability analysis of time Petri nets
For preemptive scheduling with shared cache, different tasks may cause interference in the shared cache, leading to Cache-Related Preemption Overhead (CRPD). Cache partitioning can be used to reduce or eliminate CRPD. We propose integration of cache partitioning and Preemption Threshold Scheduling to optimize schedulability for both Fixed-Priority and Earliest Deadline First scheduling algorithms on a uniprocessor. We force each subset of tasks assigned the same cache partition to be a non-preemptive group by assigning the same preemption threshold to them, which eliminates CRPD both within each cache partition and between different cache partitions.
Upcoming reconfigurable Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) present new challenges for the design and early estimation of technology requirements due to their runtime adaptive hardware architecture. The usage of simulators offers capabilities to overcome these issues. In this paper, MPSoCSim, a SystemC simulator for Network-on-Chip (NoC) based MPSoCs is extended to support the simulation of reconfigurable MPSoCs. Processors and peripheral models used within the virtual platform are provided by Imperas/OVP and attached to the NoC. For evaluation of the simulator, timing and power consumption of the simulated hardware are estimated and compared with a real hardware implementation on a Xilinx Zynq FPGA.
The AMC-IA mixed-criticality scheduling analysis was proposed as an improvement to the AMC-MAX adaptive mixed-criticality scheduling analysis. However, we have identified several necessary corrections to the AMC-IA analysis. In this letter we motivate and describe those corrections, and discuss and illustrate why the corrected AMC-IA analysis cannot be shown to outperform AMC-MAX.
The expected advanced network explorations and the growing demand of mobile data sharing and transferring have driven numerous novel applications in Cyber-Physical System (CPS), such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, current ITS implementations are restricted by the conflicts between security and communication efficiency. Focusing on this issue, this paper proposes a Security-Aware Efficient Data Sharing and Transferring (SA-EAST) model, which is designed for securing cloud-based ITS implementations. Applying this approach aims to gain a secure real-time multimedia data sharing and transferring. Our experimental evaluation has shown that our proposed model has an effective performance in securing communications for ITS.
Robustness Analysis for Battery Supported Cyber-Physical Systems
An Efficient, Low-Cost Routing Framework for Convex Mesh Partitions to Support Virtualisation
Enabling Power Efficiency through Dynamic Rerouting on-Chip
Energy and Thermal-Aware Video Coding via Encoder/Decoder Workload Balancing
Schedulability Analysis of EDF Scheduled Embedded Real-Time Systems with Resource Sharing
Probabilistic Temporal Logic Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems
Miniaturized Wireless ECG Monitor for Real-Time Detection of Epileptic Seizures
GANA: A Novel Low Cost Conflict Free NoC Architecture
With its applicability spanning numerous data-driven fields, the implementation of graph analytics on multicore platforms is gaining momentum. The most important component of a multicore chip is its communication backbone. Due to inherent irregularities in data movements manifested by graph based applications, it is essential to design an efficient on-chip interconnection architecture for multicore chips performing graph analytics. In this paper we explore the design-space for various Network-on-Chip (NoC)-enabled multicore platforms for graph analytics and we demonstrate that the small-world network-enabled wireless NoC (WiNoC) is the most suitable NoC for the graph applications considered in this work.
High-performance and low-energy buffer mapping method for multiprocessor DSP systems
Providing DoS Resistance for Signature-Based Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks
Formal Specification of Medical Systems by Proof-Based Refinement
Cyber--physical systems generally have a dedicated purpose and, therefore, the embedded real-time control system is designed with a fixed set of functionalities. This results in a large amount of implicit and explicit static knowledge about the software system, at compile and provisioning time. Over the decades, compilers learned to extract and to exploit static knowledge in different program types. More recently, optimizations were lifted to the inter-procedural or even to the whole-program level. However, [...]
Mobile Query Services in a Participatory Embedded Sensing Environment
A Complete Self-Testing and Self-Configuring NoC Infrastructure for Cost-Effective MPSoCs
Designing Best Effort Networks-on-Chip to Meet Hard Latency Constraints
Crosstalk noise in on-chip optical networks affects the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), limiting the interconnect scalability. We propose a class of algorithms to map the application tasks onto a generic mesh-based photonic NoC, such that the worst-case crosstalk is minimized. We also present an experimental setup used for evaluating several architectural solutions in terms of crosstalk noise and SNR. The setup is used to collect extensive results from a number of real-world applications. The collected results show that the crosstalk noise can be significantly reduced by adopting our approach, thereby allowing higher network scalability, and exhibiting encouraging improvements over application-oblivious architectures.
Dynamic Effort Scaling: Managing the Quality-Efficiency Tradeoff
A Novel Embedded Interpolation Algorithm with Negative Squared Distance for Real-Time Endomicroscopy
This paper targets at optimizing I/O for mobile virtualization. Among all the I/O operations, a large percentage is to update metadata. Frequently updated metadata not only degrade overall I/O performance but also severely reduce flash memory lifetime. In this paper, we propose a novel I/O optimization technique to identify the metadata of a guest file system. Then, these metadata are stored in a small additional NVM which is faster and more endurable to greatly improve flash memorys performance and lifetime. The experimental results show that the proposed techniques can improve write performance to 45.21% in mobile devices with virtualization.
In this paper, we study the indexing problem of using phase change memory (PCM) as the storage medium for embedded multiversion databases in cyber-physical systems (CPSes). Although the multiversion B+-tree (MVBT) index has been shown to be efficient to manage multiple versions of data items in a database, it can have serious performance problems when the databases are on PCM. Thus, we propose a new index scheme, called space-efficient multiversion index (SEMI), to enhance the space utilization and access performance in serving various types of queries over PCM with analytical studies and experiments to prove its efficiency.
Recent research reported that application data management in Android involves frequent fsync() operations. This study presents an efficient fsync() method, called eager synching, which is based on a simple idea: write less, and write sequentially. To sync a file, eager synching writes only a subset of all dirty data in the page cache to a sequential log space using a few sequential block write requests. We have successfully implemented eager synching in ext4 and F2FS, and our experimental results show that eager synching reduced the average and max fsync() latencies by up to 72% and 91%, respectively.
PROARTIS: Probabilistically Analyzable Real-Time Systems
FMRI provides researchers with an effective tool to understand cerebral functions. Ensuring the security of exchanged fMRI data becomes a main concern. Hence, security mechanisms ensuring protection of such data are strongly required. We remark that the mechanisms commonly employed for data protection are doomed to fail when dealing with imaging data. We propose a novel watermarking scheme explicitly addressed for this kind of images to be used for several purposes, such as authenticity and integrity. We show how to integrate our scheme within a COTS fMRI system equipment. Finally, the efficiency of our scheme has been assessed through testing.
Virtual Platforms are advantageous to develop and debug complex software for multi- and many-processor systems-on-chip since they provide unrivalled controllability and visibility. However, they are generally underutilized in practice for debugging. Finding a bug is still done using manual means rather than automated or systematic solutions, purely relying on experience and intuition. This article presents a novel framework for debug visualization and execution control that helps to identify and test possible concurrency related bug scenarios by manipulating an abstract event graph. Its efficacy is demonstrated on a quad-core target running Linux and a distributed automotive platform.
Authentication technologies based-on biometrics are attracting an increasing interest. Despite its advantages, speaker-recognition development is constrained by the heavy computational effort and the hard real-time constraints. In this paper, we give a survey on the state-of-the art on speaker-recognition acceleration. We aim to provide an overview of approaches dealing with acceleration techniques for speaker-speech recognition applications. Indeed, we find many flexible solutions (GPPs/DSPs) suffering from low-achieved-performance. We also have high-performance-solutions based-on ASICs/FPGAs, but at the expense of flexibility. Based-on available results, we compare the application requirements vis-a-vis the performance achieved by the systems. This leads to the projection of new-research-trends.
Hardware Architectures for Embedded Speaker Recognition Applications - a Survey
Architectural heterogeneity has proven to be an effective design paradigm to cope with an ever-increasing demand for computational power within tight energy budgets, in every computing domain. Pro- grammable many-core accelerators are nowadays widely used not only in high-performance computing sys- tems, but also in embedded devices, where they operate as co-processors under the control of a general- purpose CPU (host processor). The necessity to efficiently cope with the huge HW/SW design space of described heterogeneous SoCs calls for advanced full-system simulation methodologies and tools, capable of assessing various metrics for the functional and non-functional proper- ties of the system.
Loosely Time-Triggered Architectures (LTTAs) are a proposal for constructing distributed embedded control systems. They build on the quasi-periodic architecture, where computing units execute nearly periodically, by adding a thin layer of middleware that facilitates the implementation of synchronous applications. In this paper, we detail two protocols, Back-Pressure LTTA and Time-Based LTTA. Compared to previous work, we present controller models that can be compiled for execution, a simplified version of the Time-Based protocol and optimizations for systems using broadcast communication. We also compare the LTTA approach with architectures based on clock synchronization.


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By WINNELLE HORNE
Director, Levy County Quilt Museum
The Log Cabin Quilters met Thursday, Dec. 10 at the Levy County Quilt Museum. It was a busy day. Quilting was done, as well as work on the Double Nine Patch. The applications have been sent to the Florida State Fair, so far we have 20 quilts, crafts and what have you going down. We have always done well down there.
We have been told that longtime quilter Goldie McHenry is at Haven Hospice in Chiefland. McHenry is 96 and has spent much of the last year receiving care down in Ocala. Haven Hospice have been taking care of my son for over a year and he's doing great. It is not a place to go to die but to get well. They do great things, and the staff and volunteers are the best.
We will not be having Ray Franks and the Can't Hardly Play Boys out any more. They have other plans and will be soon going back North. We will miss them.
We still have spaces on the bus going to the Fair on Feb 15. The cost is $23, and we will have passes for everyone. For more information or to make reservations, call 352-493-2801.
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Complex Analysis
By Elias M. Stein Rami Shakarchi
Princeton University PressCopyright © 2003 Princeton University Press
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Chapter OnePreliminaries to Complex Analysis
The sweeping development of mathematics during the last two centuries is due in large part to the introduction of complex numbers; paradoxically, this is based on the seemingly absurd notion that there are numbers whose squares are negative. E. Borel, 1952
This chapter is devoted to the exposition of basic preliminary material which we use extensively throughout of this book.
We begin with a quick review of the algebraic and analytic properties of complex numbers followed by some topological notions of sets in the complex plane. (See also the exercises at the end of Chapter 1 in Book I.)
Then, we define precisely the key notion of holomorphicity, which is the complex analytic version of differentiability. This allows us to discuss the Cauchy-Riemann equations, and power series.
Finally, we define the notion of a curve and the integral of a function along it. In particular, we shall prove an important result, which we state loosely as follows: if a function f has a primitive, in the sense that there exists a function F that is holomorphic and whose derivative is precisely f, then for any closed curve [gamma]
[[integral].sub.[gamma]] f(z) dz = 0.
This is the first step towards Cauchy's theorem, which plays a central role in complex function theory.
1 Complex numbers and the complex plane
Many of the facts covered in this section were already used in Book I.
1.1 Basic properties
A complex number takes the form z = x + iy where x and y are real, and i is an imaginary number that satisfies [i.sup.2] = -1. We call x and y the real part and the imaginary part of z, respectively, and we write
x = Re(z) and y = Im(z).
The real numbers are precisely those complex numbers with zero imaginary parts. A complex number with zero real part is said to be purely imaginary.
Throughout our presentation, the set of all complex numbers is denoted by C. The complex numbers can be visualized as the usual Euclidean plane by the following simple identification: the complex number z = x + iy [member of] C is identified with the point (x; y) [member of] [R.sup.2]. For example, 0 corresponds to the origin and i corresponds to (0, 1). Naturally, the x and y axis of [R.sup.2] are called the real axis and imaginary axis, because they correspond to the real and purely imaginary numbers, respectively. (See Figure 1.)
The natural rules for adding and multiplying complex numbers can be obtained simply by treating all numbers as if they were real, and keeping in mind that [i.sup.2] = -1. If [z.sub.1] = [x.sub.1] + i[y.sub.1] and [z.sub.2] = [x.sub.2] + i[y.sub.2], then
[z.sub.1] + [z.sub.2] = ([x.sub.1] + [x.sub.2]) + i([y.sub.1] + [y.sub.2]); and also
[z.sub.1][z.sub.2] = ([x.sub.1] + i[y.sub.1])([x.sub.2] + i[y.sub.2]) = [x.sub.1][x.sub.2] + i[x.sub.1][y.sub.2] + i[y.sub.1][x.sub.2] + [i.sup.2][y.sub.1][y.sub.2] = ([x.sub.1][x.sub.2] - [y.sub.1][y.sub.2]) + i([x.sub.1][y.sub.2] + [y.sub.1][x.sub.2]).
If we take the two expressions above as the definitions of addition and multiplication, it is a simple matter to verify the following desirable properties:
Commutativity: [z.sub.1] + [z.sub.2] = [z.sub.2] + [z.sub.1] and [z.sub.1][z.sub.2] = [z.sub.2][z.sub.1] for all [z.sub.1], [z.sub.2] [member of] C.
Associativity: ([z.sub.1] + [z.sub.2]) + [z.sub.3] = [z.sub.1] + ([z.sub.2] + [z.sub.3]); and ([z.sub.1][z.sub.2])[z.sub.3] = [z.sub.1]([z.sub.2][z.sub.3]) for [z.sub.1], [z.sub.2], [z.sub.3], [member of] C.
Distributivity: [z.sub.1]([z.sub.2] + [z.sub.3]) = [z.sub.1][z.sub.2] + [z.sub.1][z.sub.3] for all [z.sub.1], [z.sub.2], [z.sub.3] [member of] C.
Of course, addition of complex numbers corresponds to addition of the corresponding vectors in the plane [R.sup.2]. Multiplication, however, consists of a rotation composed with a dilation, a fact that will become transparent once we have introduced the polar form of a complex number. At present we observe that multiplication by i corresponds to a rotation by an angle of [pi]/2.
The notion of length, or absolute value of a complex number is identical to the notion of Euclidean length in [R.sup.2]. More precisely, we define the absolute value of a complex number z = x + iy by
|z| = [([x.sup.2] + [y.sup.2])].sup.1/2],
so that [absolute value of z] is precisely the distance from the origin to the point (x, y). In particular, the triangle inequality holds:
|z + w| [less than or equal to] |z| + |w| for all z, w [member of] C.
We record here other useful inequalities. For all z [member of] C we have both |Re(z)| [less than or equal to] |z| and |Im(z)| [less than or equal to] |z|, and for all z, w [member of] C
||z| - ||w| [less than or equal to] |z - w|.
This follows from the triangle inequality since
|z| [less than or equal to] |z - w| + |w| and |w| [less than or equal to] |z - w| + |z|.
The complex conjugate of z = x + iy is defined by
[bar.z] = x - iy,
and it is obtained by a reflection across the real axis in the plane. In fact a complex number z is real if and only if z = [bar.z], and it is purely imaginary if and only if z = -[bar.z].
The reader should have no difficulty checking that
Re(z) = z + [bar.z]/2 and Im(z) = z - [bar.z]/2i.
Also, one has
||z|.sup.2] = z[bar.z] and as a consequence 1/z = [bar.z] / ||z|.sup.2] whenever z [not equal to] 0.
Any non-zero complex number z can be written in polar form
z = [re.sup.i[theta]],
where r > 0; also [theta] [member of] R is called the argument of z (defined uniquely up to a multiple of 2[pi]) and is often denoted by arg z, and
[e.sup.i[theta]] = cos [theta] + i sin [theta].
Since |[e.sup.i[theta]| = 1 we observe that r = |z|, and [theta] is simply the angle (with positive counterclockwise orientation) between the positive real axis and the half-line starting at the origin and passing through z. (See Figure 2.)
Finally, note that if z = r[e.sup.i[theta]] and w = s[e.sup.i[??]], then
zw = rs[e.sup.i([theta]+[??])],
so multiplication by a complex number corresponds to a homothety in [R.sup.2] (that is, a rotation composed with a dilation).
1.2 Convergence
We make a transition from the arithmetic and geometric properties of complex numbers described above to the key notions of convergence and limits.
A sequence {[z.sub.1], [z.sub.2], ...} of complex numbers is said to converge to w [member of] C if
This notion of convergence is not new. Indeed, since absolute values in C and Euclidean distances in [R.sup.2] coincide, we see that [z.sub.n] converges to w if and only if the corresponding sequence of points in the complex plane converges to the point that corresponds to w.
As an exercise, the reader can check that the sequence {[z.sub.n]} converges to w if and only if the sequence of real and imaginary parts of [z.sub.n] converge to the real and imaginary parts of w, respectively.
Since it is sometimes not possible to readily identify the limit of a sequence (for example, [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), it is convenient to have a condition on the sequence itself which is equivalent to its convergence. A sequence {[z.sub.n]} is said to be a Cauchy sequence (or simply Cauchy) if
|[z.sub.n] - [z.sub.m]| [right arrow] 0 as n, m [right arrow] [infinity].
In other words, given [??] > 0 there exists an integer N > 0 so that [absolute value of [z.sub.n] - [z.sub.m]] < [??] whenever n, m > N. An important fact of real analysis is that R is complete: every Cauchy sequence of real numbers converges to a real number. Since the sequence {[z.sub.n]} is Cauchy if and only if the sequences of real and imaginary parts of [z.sub.n] are, we conclude that every Cauchy sequence in C has a limit in C. We have thus the following result.
Theorem 1.1 C, the complex numbers, is complete.
We now turn our attention to some simple topological considerations that are necessary in our study of functions. Here again, the reader will note that no new notions are introduced, but rather previous notions are now presented in terms of a new vocabulary.
1.3 Sets in the complex plane
If [z.sub.0] [member of] C and r > 0, we define the open disc [D.sub.r]([z.sub.0]) of radius r centered at [z.sub.0] to be the set of all complex numbers that are at absolute value strictly less than r from [z.sub.0]. In other words,
[D.sub.r]([z.sub.0]) = {z [member of] C : |z - [z.sub.o]| < r},
and this is precisely the usual disc in the plane of radius r centered at [z.sub.0]. The closed disc [bar.[D.sub.r]]([z.sub.0]) of radius r centered at [z.sub.0] is defined by
and the boundary of either the open or closed disc is the circle
[C.sub.r]([z.sub.0]) = {z [member of] C : |z - [z.sub.0]| = r}.
Since the unit disc (that is, the open disc centered at the origin and of radius 1) plays an important role in later chapters, we will often denote it by D,
D = {z [member of] C : |z| < 1}.
Given a set [OMEGA] [subset] C, a point [z.sub.0] is an interior point of [OMEGA] if there exists r > 0 such that
[D.sub.r]([z.sub.0]) [subset] [OMEGA].
The interior of [OMEGA] consists of all its interior points. Finally, a set [OMEGA] is open if every point in that set is an interior point of [OMEGA]. This definition coincides precisely with the definition of an open set in [R.sub.2].
A set [OMEGA] is closed if its complement [[OMEGA].sup.c] = C - [OMEGA] is open. This property can be reformulated in terms of limit points. A point z [member of] C is said to be a limit point of the set [OMEGA] if there exists a sequence of points [z.sub.n] [member of] [OMEGA] such that [z.sub.n] [not equal to] z and [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. The reader can now check that a set is closed if and only if it contains all its limit points. The closure of any set [OMEGA] is the union of [OMEGA] and its limit points, and is often denoted by [bar.[OMEGA]].
Finally, the boundary of a set [OMEGA] is equal to its closure minus its interior, and is often denoted by [partial derivative][OMEGA].
A set [OMEGA] is bounded if there exists M > 0 such that |z| < M whenever z [member of] [OMEGA]. In other words, the set [OMEGA] is contained in some large disc. If [OMEGA] is bounded, we define its diameter by
A set [OMEGA] is said to be compact if it is closed and bounded. Arguing as in the case of real variables, one can prove the following.
Theorem 1.2 The set [OMEGA] [subset] C is compact if and only if every sequence {[z.sub.n]} [subset] [OMEGA] has a subsequence that converges to a point in [OMEGA].
An open covering of [OMEGA] is a family of open sets {[U.sub.[alpha]]} (not necessarily countable) such that
In analogy with the situation in R, we have the following equivalent formulation of compactness.
Theorem 1.3 A set [OMEGA] is compact if and only if every open covering of [OMEGA] has a finite subcovering.
Another interesting property of compactness is that of nested sets. We shall in fact use this result at the very beginning of our study of complex function theory, more precisely in the proof of Goursat's theorem in Chapter 2.
Proposition 1.4 If [[OMEGA].sub.1] [contains] [[OMEGA].sub.2] [contains] ... [contains] [[OMEGA].sub.n] [contains] ... is a sequence of non-empty compact sets in C with the property that
diam([[OMEGA].sub.n]) [right arrow] 0 as n [right arrow] [infinity],
then there exists a unique point w [member of] C such that w [member of] [[OMEGA].sub.n] for all n.
Proof. Choose a point [z.sub.n] in each [[OMEGA].sub.n]. The condition diam([[OMEGA].sub.n]) [right arrow] 0 says precisely that {[z.sub.n]} is a Cauchy sequence, therefore this sequence converges to a limit that we call w. Since each set [[OMEGA].sub.n] is compact we must have w [member of] [[OMEGA].sub.n] for all n. Finally, w is the unique point satisfying this property, for otherwise, if w' satisfied the same property with w' [not equal to] w we would have |w - w'| > 0 and the condition diam([[OMEGA].sub.n]) [right arrow] 0 would be violated.
The last notion we need is that of connectedness. An open set [OMEGA] [subset] C is said to be connected if it is not possible to find two disjoint non-empty open sets [[OMEGA].sub.1] and [[OMEGA].sub.2] such that
[OMEGA] = [[OMEGA].sub.1] [union] [[OMEGA].sub.2].
A connected open set in C will be called a region. Similarly, a closed set F is connected if one cannot write F = [F.sub.1] [union] [F.sub.2] where [F.sub.1] and [F.sub.2] are disjoint non-empty closed sets.
There is an equivalent definition of connectedness for open sets in terms of curves, which is often useful in practice: an open set [OMEGA] is connected if and only if any two points in [OMEGA] can be joined by a curve [gamma] entirely contained in [OMEGA]. See Exercise 5 for more details.
2 Functions on the complex plane
2.1 Continuous functions
Let f be a function defined on a set [OMEGA] of complex numbers. We say that f is continuous at the point [z.sub.0] [member of] [OMEGA] if for every [??] > 0 there exists [delta] > 0 such that whenever z [member of] [OMEGA] and |z - [z.sub.0]| < [delta] then |f(z) - f([z.sub.0])| < [??]. An equivalent definition is that for every sequence {[z.sub.1], [z.sub.2], ...} [subset] [OMEGA] such that lim [z.sub.n] = [z.sub.0], then lim f([z.sub.n]) = f([z.sub.0]).
The function f is said to be continuous on [OMEGA] if it is continuous at every point of [OMEGA]. Sums and products of continuous functions are also continuous.
Since the notions of convergence for complex numbers and points in [R.sub.2
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Skip to comments.President Obama Asks Medvedev for Space on Missile Defense After My Election
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Full title: President Obama Asks Medvedev for Space on Missile Defense After My Election I Have More Flexibility
SEOUL, South Korea At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have more flexibility to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him space.
The exchange was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room for remarks by the two leaders.
The exchange:
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President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
When asked to explain what President Obama meant, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told ABC News that there is room for the U.S. and Russia to reach an accommodation, but there is a lot of rhetoric around this issue there always is in both countries.
A senior administration official tells ABC News: this is a political year in which the Russians just had an election, were about to have a presidential and congressional elections this is not the kind of year in which were going to resolve incredibly complicated issue like this. So theres an advantage to pulling back and letting the technical experts work on this as the president has been saying.
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Totalitarian SOB.
"Pssst,, hey, lets keep this on the down low. I have to wait until after the election before i can do things you want,,that my people do not."
Evil low life,, most Un-American president in history.
Obama wants a chance to give away the U.S. secrets and those of all of "one of our greatest allies" <——pick one.
0 is down with committing outright treason. There is no WAY he should have security clearance.
Treason!!! where are our checks and balances ?
Jake Tapper at ABC is the exception to the rule.
And at least Bill Clinton got a few million in campaign donations from the Chinese for those hard drives with the missile guidance system info. What does Obama get for concessions to the neo-Coms?
Who is Hussein working for?
When I heard his remarks this morning my blood pressure went through the roof. Not only will he give Russia more, he really believes he's going to be re-elected. I wonder why? He is very sure of himself for some reason.
This man is a danger to this country and its people. If something isn't done to remove him..we are toast.
Nope. Not us.
Neo-Coms - New Communists - though Putin is really an old Commie that likes to show off his physique!
Neo-Cons - That's a bit derogatory for Libs who've seen the light.
He's pretty confident he's going to win. Just like Robert Mugabe or Hugo Chavez facing an election. People can go to the polls but the outcome is not in doubt.
A-friggin'MEN! I swear, I was so decided not to reward the RNC with a vote for Rino Romney, but the kenyan in the white hut's actions over the last few days ("he could've been my son" and this open mike crap) have forced me to change my mind. I would vote for a brain dead butt monkey to get rid of the kenyan.
And all that for a biscuit for Michelle's big butt.
And all that for a biscuit for Michelle's big butt. A tragedy and then a farce, and now I see what Marx meant.
America is ... soooo ... screwed ...
I'm sure it's no coincidence that at the same time the Traitor in Chief is giving away our security the Russian media has been hammering away at Obama's fake birth certificate.
I'm guessing Vladimir got the dirt on Obama and now he's using it to extort from Obama what Gorbachev could never get from Reagan.
Perhaps Obama will have more flexibility to unilaterally disarm the US of its nuclear weapons?????? Or maybe more flexibility to distance the US from NATO? Or maybe Israel?
Wow. Maybe Putin will want to contribute to Obamas re-election with all that at stake. Or offer the services of the KGB...
Amazing how Obama, without fail, makes allies of our enemies.
This was posted in 2009. Wonder what they are today?
SHOCKING: Death threats against Obama up 400% - Diggdigg.com/news/.../SHOCKING_Death_threats_against_Obama_up_4...Cached
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
Aug 29, 2009 A CNN source with very close to the U.S. Secret Service confirmed to me today that threats on the life of the president of the United States have ...
Sounds to me like he knows the fix is in.
Didn't some foreign country buy the voter tallying machines or something?
I'm sure that is going to be their next tactic. Big bad American people threaten obama...news at 6. Break out the violins, someone hates Barry!!
Got news, 59%+ hate this marxist trash and the scum he floats with!!
Venezuela (Smartmatic) bought Sequoia Diebold some years ago through a shell company in The Dutch West Indies. Chavez and his Cuban handlers had their mands all over Smartmatic.
Not sure about the machines, but my "FRAUD" meter is running amok.
OK. Thanks for the explanation.
Thanks Welly
That is a great way to search. Thanks!
Well duh. Can you say Banana Republic. That check & balance left 25 yrs ago.
Obama is going to give away the farm win or lose the election. The lame duck session will be the scariest event in our lifetime with all the RINO's at the table.
Putin and Medvedez are men of at least honor and loyalty abd commitment to their country. They do lie, cheat and steal. Therefore, they must totally despise Obama for his cowardly treachery to a country that has entrusted our lives, way of life and futures to him. Totally sickening. I'm sure the Ruskies scornfully laugh at the POS quisling.
This Traitor should be arrested and sent to Leavenworth,He is selling out our Defense secrets to the Russians in Plain sight
0bama is not just un-American...he is ANTI-American.
And, still the sheeple tolerate him. It's so very true; we get the government we deserve.
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Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire Paperback – June 10, 2006
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To make matters worse, this fall LaHaye will release "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," a hyper-violent, graphically advanced video game, similar to "Grand Theft Auto." Instead of bashing prostitutes' heads and blowing away cops, you kill assorted 'evildoers.' Standaert points out in an article entitled "Grand Theft Armageddon" that this is the latest (and most violent) in a series of video games to advance LaHaye's apocalyptic narrative, reach out to people who haven't been exposed to the book, and raise funds for LaHaye's political activism (he boasts of spending half of his earnings on his political agenda). Incidentally, LaHaye is the co-founder of the "Moral Majority."
In addition to Standaert's book, Chip Berlet has important books and a website that reveal this ominous growth of an ugly dominator world view.
This book more properly deserves 3.5 stars, but I went with 4 since 3 would seem like damning with faint praise. There are a couple deficiences that when known make the book more readable. First, the organization tends to be a little slipshod. The chapters read more like a group of essays rather than a cohesive monograph; as a result it often seems like Standaert is trodding over the same ground from chapter to chapter. Second, due to this lack of organization his analyses a) often come across as personal attacks on LaHaye rather than objective conclusions, b) don't really speak to those who may have sympathies towards LaHaye et al's brand of Christianity, even fleetingly, but who need to be convinced more compellingly. Such people may be inclined to see Standaert as vindicating LaHaye's paranoia and misplaced literalism (some further explanation of the author's own spiritual inclinations may have helped delineate his points). Those who do not believe in this type of millennialism will find an impressive array of facts to respond to LaHaye's supporters.
Third, there are small typos and misspellings that may drive those so inclined to notice such things crazy--e.g. referring to German chancellor Helmut Kohl as "Kohn."
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