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Madden NFL 2003 – Defense FAQ
PlayStation 2
Defense FAQ by JWatson
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 09/18/02
Madden NFL 2003 for PS2
Defensive Specialist FAQ
Version 1.0
written by: Jeremy Watson
A small note about this FAQ, this faq will concentrate on strategies only
and then extras will be added later. If there is anything I might have left
out or you as the reader wants added...
E-mail me at email@example.com
How to read this FAQ:
<Q> Commonly asked questions
<Online> Online tip only
<tip> General help
<4-3> Specfic Formation Tips
<Draft> Drafting Tips
/\/\/\ New Section
<Q> So what exactly does this FAQ cover?
This in-depth strategy guide covers defensive strategies for Madden 2003.
Since I only have the PS2 version of the game, the strategies are based on
gameplay from that system. PC, XBOX, and Gamecube users might not see the
same effects. Since defense in obviously the key to becoming a Madden God
and the advent of online play has made the Madden world a lot more
complicated, defensive strategies are very important to winning and losing.
I won't give away any special secrets since I still want to win online
(currently 12-7 profile: Watts Online).
General Defensive Strategies
*** R2 Defensive Preview ***
Just like in NCAA Football 2003, Madden 2003 has implemented the use of the
R2 button for a look at your defensive scheme pre-snap. This shows what your
coverage is and who is blitzing. This is the ultimate tool for learned how
each defense is designed and how to use them in Madden 2003. Press and hold
R2 pre-snap to see exactly what each of your defensive players are doing and
know where your weaknesses might be.
<tip> Beginners should play against the Computer to learn how Madden 2003
handles the AI for the defensive players that you aren't controlling. Knowing
where the AI might leave you vulernable in each defense can help you make
adjustments to correct these problems.
<Online> Go ahead and press R2 pre-snap to take a look at your defense if you
want, the other player with not be able to tell what your play is because it
isn't shown on their screen.
<tip> After you have learned what you like to do on defense, make sure you
set up your audibles before playing. Make sure you have at least 2 plays to
stop the run up the middle and 2 plays to protect against 4 WR and the deep
pass. This will make your defensive audibles well rounded for any situation.
<Online> A lot of "cheese" online players will do nothing but throw the deep
ball on every play. To combat this you need to have at least 2 audibles that
you are sure can cover these deep routes. This protects against the "hey I
know your coverage, I'll run hurry up offense and exploit your weaknesses"
strategy these players use to win games. You'll also need 2 audibles to stop
the run up the middle. A lot of players will run a pass play to get your
Dime or Quarter defense on the field and then run hurry up into a power run
up the middle to exploit your weakness. With a quick audible you can shut this
type of player down.
*** Pre-Snap Shifts ***
You can do a number of pre-snap shifts by pressing button combinations at the
line. Here is a list of what you can do (L1+down means press L1 then down):
Combo Action
Triangle+Down Bump and Run coverage
Triangle+Up Secondary plays off and deeper
Triangle+Right Secondary plays over their covered WR
L1+Left/Right DL shifts left or right
L1+Down DL pinches down inside
L1+Up DL slides outside
R1+Left/Right LBs shift left or right
R1+Down LBs pinch inside
R1+Up LBs slide outside
<tip> Shifting you DL to the strong side every play is not the best strategy
in every situation. Some players like to run to the weak side of the field
making line shifts harder to decide on. Use bump and run carefully, if you
blitz the QB while using bump and run and you don't get to him, expect one of
their WRs to be wide open deep. If you stay back, expect a timing route to be
open. Knowing your opponent will help you decide what to do. If you have safety
help in deep zones, I recommend running bump and run.
<Online> Shifting your line and changing your coverage in different ways helps
to hurt the way your opponent is able to read your defense. You should know
enough about your defense to figure out how to confuse the other player and not
blow any coverages.
*** Situational Substitutions ***
Know you player's strengths! Many teams have specialized players with
attributes designed for certain situations. You might have a LB with great
speed and instincts when it comes to coverage, but he might not have a higher
overall rating than your other starting LBs. You might want to try using him
in the Dime defense only or on special teams. Franchise mode brings this
strategy into play a lot more because you can draft these specialized players
in the later rounds and actually get some use out of them right away. Not only
is this better for your team, but these players will improve better since
player progression is based on stats in Madden 2003.
<Online> Stay away from making too many changes to your lineup online. This
only causes frustration amongst other players who have to sit there and wait
for you to decide on every little detail. 1 or 2 substitutions at the most is
acceptable, save this strategy for your franchise.
<tip> Try multiple things to maximize your advantage on defense. Do you have
2 great SS? Try putting them both in on the 46 defense. Have more of a slow
run stopping DL? Try putting a faster LB as a DE for your Dime defense. In
the end it is all up to you, but the fact is that this strategy helps you two
fold. First it gives your other non-starting players much needed playing time,
thereby keeping their ratings up for the following years. Secondly it keeps
players fresh on the field, most importantly against those long drives and late
in the 4th quarter when you need it the most.
General Defensive Styles
*** Bend Don't Break ***
This strategy works well if you don't mind giving up some yards, but you just
don't want to give up any big plays and you want to keep the score down.
Dropping at least one of your safeties into a deep zone is a must for this
style of defense. Control one of your safeties and try to take away the deep
ball by watching the deeper WRs and covering anyone who might have a step deep.
If your opponent doesn't use much motion, try using a bump and run while
picking a play where one of your LBs blitzes.
<Online> If you can take away the deep ball 90% of the time, you'll be able to
stop more than 50% of the Online players out there who rely on this play to
convert long yardage situations.
<tip> For any ball thrown deep, forget about trying to make the INT with
triangle. This style of defense is all about not allowing anything deep.
Instead, switch to the closest defender when the pass is thrown, get into
position and use the L1 button to swat the ball away. You MUST learn how to
do this in order to have a great defense on Madden 2003!
*** Pressure, Pressure, Pressure, and more Pressure ***
This defense is all about one thing, get to the QB and bust up the timing of
a pass play. Shift you LBs, bring a safety blitz, bring all 3 LBs, or blitz
a CB. Whatever works to get pressure on the QB is a good idea for this
defense. Watching the battle in the trenches between your DL and their OL,
you might find a way to expoit a weakness that produces pressure without
even blitzing. An example of a weakness in the OL is when your best DE gets
double-teamed every time unless you pinch your DL down and bring a LB off
the corner. This allows you superior DE to break his one on one block and get
more pressure.
<Online> There are people who live and die by the blitz online. Personally, I
find this strategy a little too risky to use every time. I tend to watch for
advantages early on, but play a bend but don't break style of defense. Once I
know what I want to try, I'll bring the safety or 2 LBs to mix it up.
<tip> A simple shift of your DL or LBs might allow you to shoot the gap and
get a lot more pressure than a normal setup. Find out what works as early as
you can in a game so you take advantage of it later in the game.
*** Know the Coverage ***
No matter what style of defense you choose to implement, coverage is usually
where the game is won or lost. A blown coverage that leads to a huge play is
every defensive player's nightmare. If you aren't sure or your opponent uses a
lot of motion to confuse your coverage or create mismatches, hold down the R2
button pre-snap to see what your coverage is.
<Online> Since different opponents do different things, you don't really have
to stick to your zone as much as playing against the CPU. Normally if your
safety is suppossed to be in a short middle zone, you had better get there
against the CPU, but against a human opponent it is different. Maybe you know
after a few series that your opponent likes to throw to their backs in the flat.
You might want to control that safety and move into an even shorter flat zone.
Whatever you decide against a human opponent, just make sure you've got guys
covered, whether or not it might be by design or not.
<tip> While playing the CPU, make sure you cover your zone if you aren't
controlling one of the pass rushers. If you don't, the CPU will exploit this
all day and you'll have trouble stopping anything on defense.
The real key to good coverage is matchups. Obviously your opponent is going to
try and get a LB on a WR or single coverage down the field deep. You might see
a lot of motion to try and get these matchups. If your opponent uses a lot of
motion, stay away from the bump and run, because you might get beat deep. One
strategy that many players employ is to put a DB on every WR. Watch out for
players who have a good reciever in the backfield though and make sure you watch
to make sure they get nothing big. Teams like Baltimore and Kansas City use the
TE like a 3rd WR and you'll have to watch the matchups you have on these guys
every play. If you are going to blitz, try to bump the WR at the line to mess up
any sort of timing route. Think about how you like to pass and try to take that
away from the other team.
Let your defense do the work, but don't expect a shutout every game. Frustration
can cause a blown coverage or missed opportunity. If you still aren't sure where
to go in coverage, try controlling a blitzer or just let the computer move your
guy by not touching the controller at the start of the play. Then make the
adjustments you need to stop the offense. As you play more games, you'll get
better at knowing where to go.
*** Who should I control? ***
I've seen players win online with many different styles of play and they all
control different players on defense. Some people control one of the pass
rushers, while others play a safety to take away the deep ball. Since the
camera zooms out so you can defend the deep passes in Madden 2003, any of these
choices is a good one if you know your responsibilities before the play. You'll
get better at knowing what you should be doing by basically making mistakes
and learning from them. I like to control the safety on the big side of the
field so that I can protect against anything deep and help support the run.
*** Audibles ***
You have 5 defensive audibles that you can choose during each game. You should
have 2 deep ball and 2 run defense audibles. The 5th can be anything you want,
but you'll probably want something that takes away the flats and still covers
the run well. With these audibles you should be able to handle just about
anything. Remember what personal you have in the game, for example, if you come
out in a 46 and audible to a Dime you are going to have 2 LBs playing DB roles.
Be careful to know what players are in the game and not audible into something
that will put you at a huge disadvantage.
<Online> There are 2 major things you just have to be able to defend when
playing online, the first is the hurry-up offense. Many players will hurry to
the line and continue exploiting the same weakness over and over again. For
example, let's say you come out in a Dime and your opponent keeps going to
the line and running straight up the middle against the weak middle of your
defense. This is why it helps to have a good mixture of audibles. The second
thing to worry about is the deep pass/QB run. Players who play with the
Steelers, Eagles, 49ers and Rams are famous for running Shotgun and throwing
the ball deep all day, especially when they are behind. Sometimes they will
send everybody deep and then run with the QB. This is the hardest thing to
defend in Madden because the AI struggles to help you. This style of play,
know as "cheese" to some is worthy of devoting 2 audibles for you defense
against it.
<tip> Setup your audibles for each profile in the Options Menu at the first
Madden menu. This way you can save them for later use.
General Defensive Formations
The following section details each of the defensive formations, their
strengths and weaknesses, and a report card for their grade against different
types of formations. The formations are as follows:
Normal - Any formation with 2 WRs, 1 RB, 1 FB, 1 TE. This includes sets where
both WRs are on the same side of the field.
Big - Any formation with 2 TEs. This includes Goaline, Singleback 2TE, and
I-Form Twin TE.
3 WR - Any formation with 3 WRs. This includes Singleback and the Shotgun
Normal set.
4 WR - Any formation with 4 WRs.
5 WR - Any formation with 5 WRs.
*** 3-4 ***
Strengths: Flats (if in zone), Runs up the middle (safety blitzes), and
passes to the middle of the field.
Weakness: Runs up the middle (if in zone), Deep outs and corner routes, and
Flats (if blitzing).
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal B+ A- A- Runs up the gut? Try a Safety Blitz
Big B- A B+ Runs up the gut? Try a SS Blitz
3 WR A- B- B Deep throws down the middle
4 WR A C+ B Deep outs and corner routes
5 WR A- C+ B Deep Slants down the middle
Overall B+ B B Stick to Normal and Big
<Online> The 3-4 is better at stopping the inside run than you think. Try
using this defense against those players who like to run up the gut all day.
Risk bringing a safety or two, then have another 3-4 as an audible as backup
in case your opponent also likes to throw into the flats.
<tip> Yes the 3-4 will work against 4 and 5 WR passing plays. Most of the
zone plays in the 3-4 cover both the short middle and quick out well which
is what the CPU likes to do. Online opponents will exploit your zone with a
deep corner or out if they have time in the pocket.
*** 4-3 ***
Strengths: Pressure on the QB, Short passes over the middle, and middle runs.
Weakness: Flats (unless you sacrafice the middle), Deep outs and corners,
and Toss/Sweep runs.
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal B+ B- B Toss hurting you? Try a CB Blitz
Big B+ A B+ Sweep? Try shifting your LBs Pre-Snap
3 WR A C B Deep throws period
4 WR A- F D- Deep and short passes, any pass
5 WR A+ F F Forget it
Overall A- C B- Stick to Big and maybe Normal
<Online> The 4-3 can be used to get a lot of pressure on the QB and mess up
the timing of some online opponents. Most of the people online have a way of
countering this style of defense. If you want to risk it, bring the house and
hope for a sack. Otherwise I really don't like this defense much at all. It
doesn't really stop anyone because everyone is ready for it.
*** Nickel ***
Strengths: Pressure on the QB, Short passes over the middle, and middle runs.
Weakness: Flats (unless you sacrafice the middle), Deep outs and corners,
and Toss/Sweep runs.
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal B B B Toss to weak side and middle runs
Big C- B+ C Up the gut hurts
3 WR A- B+ B+ Flats are hard to defend
4 WR A- B- B Corner routes, Flats
5 WR A- C- C One WR will be open
Overall B B- B- Too many weak spots to use much
<tip> The Nickel keep you safe from anything over the middle, but does a poor
job of covering the outside WRs. You can get very frustrated trying to cover
everybody even against a Normal formation. Stay away from this defense except
when you are sure it will work.
*** Dime ***
Strengths: 4 DBs for coverage, Protects against the deep ball, and blitzing
DBs work very well.
Weakness: Flats (if you blitz), Runs of any kind, and comeback routes (zone).
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal C+ A- B- Any run is dangerous
Big D- B+ D Runs and quick passes to the TE
3 WR B A B+ Flats and Draw plays
4 WR B+ A A- Watch the back out of the backfield
5 WR C+ A- A- Watch the run by the QB
Overall B- A- B+ Runs and QB draws
<tip> If you are good, you'll probably be using the Dime defense or a variation
of it about %50 of the time. Play both zone and bump and run type coverages
throughout the game to keep your opponent off guard. Blitzing can work wonders
as well. Don't give up on a blitzing Dime stopping a running play, it has been
known to happen.
<Online> You need to watch out for both the deep ball and the QB draw when
playing online. This is one of the hardest things in the game to stop. Why do
you thing everyone uses the Steelers or the Eagles? The easiest way to protect
against these two options is to use a Dime and blitz a player who is fast
enough to get the other team's QB before he throws or scrambles.
*** 46 ***
Strengths: 8 men in the box vs. Run, Blitzes, and any pass that takes time.
Weakness: Quick slants and outs, corner routes (if you don't blitz), and
Screen passes.
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal A A- A Quick slants (don't blitz so much)
Big A- A- A- Screen passes and Corner routes
3 WR A+ B- B+ Screens and any quick pass
4 WR A+ C+ B- Any pass unless you get pressure
5 WR A F D- At least 2 WR open right away
Overall A B- B+ Quick passes mostly
<Online> Many players will use a variation of this defense all game long
online. Shifting the line and LBs to break in for the sack even though it
can be beat easily with a corner route and both backs blocking. It is a
great defense that limits the run and gets so much pressure that you are
forced into a quick pass. Stay away from it online, if you play anyone who
knows how to beat it.
<tip> Experiment with this defense against the CPU and see what you like
best about it. The 46 is great against Normal and Big sets, you might want
to protect against the screens though.
*** Quarter ***
Strengths: 7 DBs take away the deep Fly routes, Middle of the field is
blanketed, and and run to the outside.
Weakness: Deep corner routes, any run up the middle, and QB draws.
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal D B- C- Up the gut runs and quick pass to TE
Big F B- D- Forget it
3 WR C- A- B Deep corners, draw play
4 WR D A- B In routes down the field, QB draws
5 WR D- A A- QB draws and 5th WR deep corner
Overall D A- C+ Run situations are a no go
<Online> Quarter is great to stop the pass online, but a lot of online
players will counter this by running with the QB. This makes the Quarter less
useful and the Dime more attractive in online play. I use it only if it is a
long way to the first down.
<tip> Since you don't have to worry about the QB draw against the CPU as much,
the Quarter is a very good option for stopping passing teams. Blitzing out
of the Quarter usually forces the CPU to make a quick throw. Don't expect
the deep ball when playing the Quarter.
*** Goaline ***
Strengths: Fill every gap and shutdown the Run.
Weakness: Fade routes, Deep Fly routes, any pass where the QB has time,
Toss/Sweep (if you blitz inside)
Report Card:
vs. Run vs. Pass Overall Vulnerabilities
Normal A+ C- A- Watch the Toss and deep Fade routes
Big A B- A- Watch the #2 TE
3 WR A+ D C- 3 WR will get wide open
4 WR A+ F F Forget it
5 WR A+ F F Forget it
Overall A+ D- C+ Any pass with 2 seconds time
<Online> You are going to need a run stopping defense for those players
who like to run hurry-up pounding running type games. What they do is get
you into a pass defense and audible to a running play or hurry-up so
you can't change your personal. Personally I like the 3-4 to accomplish this
task, but some of you might want to go with the Goaline.
*** Punt Returns ***
Make sure you are ready to make a fair catch (triangle) in case your
blocking breaks down. For the most part, kicks are difficult to block, but
you can go for it if you want.
<Online> Don't assume that your opponent will ever punt on 4th down. %25
of the online players out there will go for it every time, many will try a
fake at least once especially if they are ahead. Just be aware that your
online opponents don't have to play it safe if they don't want to.
*** Field Goals and Extra Points ***
No I don't know how to block these yet. The blocking is usually solid no
matter what. Your only hope is to break through the middle on the snap and
get a hand up. Good Luck.
<Online> As with punting, don't expect online opponents to ever kick Field
Goals unless it is a game winner or something. Always be ready for an audible
or a fake.
Advanced Defensive Play Calling
This section contains some of my favorite defensive plays and how to use
them effectively.
*** 3-4 Drop Zone ***
This defense covers the short zone with all 4 LBs, rushes only 3 and, puts 4
deep in a zone. This play even works against 4 WR sets and is decent against
the run. Expect only 4-5 yards even up the middle and nothing short. The
deep middle zone might be a little weak, but if you control a safety you
can defend it yourself.
*** 3-4 Man Zone ***
Want to shut down the flats and screen passes? This defense puts your 2
OLBs into flat zones and covers the deep ball well. Expect 4-5 yards on up
the middle running plays and 1 WR to be one on one deep. You only have 3
rushers, so you'll need to defend the deep pass by controlling a safety.
*** 3-4 SS Blitz ***
Want to stuff the inside run with a 3-4 defense? Your SS will move up to
the line pre-snap for the blitz making this defense a lot like the 46. This
will probably make you opponent either audible or get stuffed for only 1-2
yards up the middle. A great run defense and useful for a punt return, if
you want to go for the block.
*** 4-3 Man Under ***
I like to use this defense against the CPU when then come out in a
Singleback 2TE set. This defense matchs up with that formation well, but
against online opponents it doesn't work very well.
*** 4-3 Whip Man ***
Yes, the old staple from Madden 2002 that everybody knew about. It is still
works well and gets a lot of pressure on the QB, but it is isn't as good
as some of the other plays. You can try shifting your line and LBs to gain
an advantage, but this year's Madden doesn't give up sacks to this defense.
*** 4-3 Fire Man ***
Another blitz out of the 4-3 makes it hard to run inside. If you oppponent
can get outside the tackle though, it may backfire. The flats are probably
going to be wide open as well so watch out for that with a safety.
*** 4-3 Strong Zone ***
A simple strong zone that does okay on a 1st down if you don't mind giving
up 5-10 yards. If you like the 4-3, you should try mixing this or another
one of the 4-3 zone defenses into your arsenal.
*** Nickel Man Lock ***
Sort of a base Nickel defense achieves good coverage, but no pressure on
the QB. Expect a WR to eventually get open and use your safety to provide
support. I usually only use this against the CPU, because human players
can dimantle this defense.
*** Dime LB Blitz ***
Shift you DL to pinch inside (L1 then down) and watch as your 5 rushers
cause chaos up front. Remember you are blitzing so you'll need to jam the
WRs at the line and help support with the safety. If they send a back out
for a pass, you'll have to cover him with your safety yourself.
*** Dime CB Blitz ***
Blitzing your CB from the outside make work if your opponent doesn't
leave a back in to block for his QB. The speed of this CB negates the QB
draw and usually forces a deep pass. Jamming the WRs will throw any timing
route off the mark.
*** Dime Pinch Zone ***
A zone blitz of sorts, is a godd change of pace from the above 2 plays
which require man coverage. If you'd rather play zone, this is the defense
for you.
Defense and the Draft
When playing in Madden 2003's franchise mode, you need to draft rookie
players that will help your team win. Expect the CPU to pick these
positions first: CB, DE, DT and MLB
*** Who should I draft??? ***
Should I go out and get the best CB with my 1st pick? Should I pick faster
LBs or slower/smarter LBs? Personally I like picking great LBs because I
like to run in the 3-4 defense. Besides even if your rookie LB doesn't
start right away, you can use them effectively on special teams. The final
decision is up to you and that is why Madden is such a great game.
Think about who you really want. Yeah maybe there is a great CB in the draft,
but he is only 5'9'' and you think he might get strong armed by bigger WRs.
Do you really want to trade up to get him in the draft?
<tip> If you are planning on winning most of your games, trade your 1st and
2nd round picks to another team for their 1st and 2nd round picks. The other
CPU controlled team will always make this trade and at least you won't end
up with the 32nd pick in the 1st round. You can do this for all of your picks
before week 6 in the regular season.
*** Should I make defense my first priority in the draft??? ***
In a word, YES! Defense seperates the decent Madden players and teams from
the greatest Madden ballers. A good defense will keep you in games. Remember
that you can only control one player on defense, while you actually control
the main playmaker on offense. This means the CPU AI takes over for you on
the other 10 guys, leaving a lot of room for error. Unlike the offense,
where all you really have to worry about is the blocking, defense has 10
other guys who sometimes make mistakes.
Defensive Tips
This section contains my tips for improving your defensive players through
free-agents and draft picks. I highly recommend that you not use this
section and develop your own strategy because this part of the game is the
most fun.
############################## Who to draft??? ##############################
There is a lot of debate on what position to draft first. Should you use your
#1 pick to always get the best CB or fill the positions that you are weakest.
Believe it or not, I say that the LB position is the most important position
on defense and in the game. You can get a variety of specialist LBs to handle
situations and make your defense very tricky. Although CBs are much coveted
in the game of Madden, I've noticed that there isn't much difference between
a 75 overall and an 85 overall CB. There is a huge difference bewteen a 75
overall LB and an 85 overall LB however. A LB with 72 speed might have 7
sacks in a season and 8 passes defenced, while one with 67 speed will only
record 3 sacks and 5 passes defenced. This could be the difference between a
win and loss in more than one game.
So who should you draft? Basically draft what you want. If you'd rather have
that CB who 6'2'' but a bit slower rather than a CB who has blazing speed and
is only 5'9''. I say go for it. Keep in mind that the computer usually drafts
any decent DL and CB in the first and second rounds. After that, just look
for specialist players like a third down pass-rusher, a tank of a man to clog
the middle, or a speedy coverage LB.
Should you make defense your main priority in the draft? In a word, yes!
Defense always seperates the good Madden teams from the bad. Think about it,
on offense you control the player with the ball and you can make up for a
bad player with weak stats. On offense there are really only two things you
can't make up for, one is poor blocking and the other is dropped passes. On
defense, however, you control only one player at a time, some of your players
are sometimes off the screen and sometimes you just get blocked into the
ground. Since most of your defense is computer controlled, you want the best
computer controlled players you can get.
*** What about Free Agency??? ***
Free Agents can save your team. Watch for a lot of rookie to be available
after the draft because team's couldn't afford to sign them. You can
usually pick up several 60-70 Overall Rating rookies out of Free Agency.
*** Should I consider Trading ***
Try swapping players for draft picks or the other way around. The CPU is
a lot smart when it comes to trades this year. You can still trade players
for draft picks.
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Jaitley has little room for maneuver: the government has budgeted for a fiscal deficit of 3.2% of GDP this year, down from 3.5% in 2016-17 but above its original target of 3%. Early hiccups with the rollout of the GST, while entirely expected, have cut tax revenues. Meanwhile, rising global oil prices could limit the government's ability to keep high taxes on petrol and diesel, which have helped it to whittle down the fiscal deficit since 2014. In any case, India's credit rating would not survive a budget blowout: it currently carries the lowest investment grade rating and cannot afford to be cut to junk status, which would send foreign investors scurrying for the door. Even talk of a stimulus has pushed up bond yields over the past week.
All in all, it's hard to see how the government can spend more than an extra 0.3% of GDP, which would maintain the deficit at last year's level. Yet whether such a modest stimulus can spark the economy into life is far from clear. Meaningful demand is unlikely to return until India begins to solve its "twin balance-sheet problem"—the conundrum by which banks saddled with nearly US$ 200bn of souring debt are in no position to lend, while over-indebted firms are too scared to borrow. Despite the central bank's mandate to force the biggest defaulters into bankruptcy, there is still no plan to inject fresh capital into the banking system.
The fundamental question hanging over the economy is whether it is merely experiencing short-term pain as it adjusts to much-needed structural reforms, or whether it is mired in a deeper malaise that could take two or three years to shake off. Despite fair criticisms over their implementation, both demonetization and the GST are much-needed attempts to bring cash into the formal economy and expand India's puny tax base. Modi's government has also overseen a new bankruptcy law, greater opening to foreign direct investment, inflation targeting and fiscal devolution. All of these moves should put long-term growth on a more solid footing.
Until late summer, markets unquestionably bought this bullish structural story while largely ignoring cyclical weakness. But after a winning streak that saw equity indexes reach record highs and foreigners exhaust rupee-denominated bond quotas, sentiment is turning. Investors are finally tiring of overpriced stocks and the slow recovery in corporate earnings, while the rupee has begun to weaken after gaining 6% against the US dollar this year. That is good news for India's struggling exporters, but bad news for foreign bondholders.
Udith and I continue to be long-term India bulls, but we cannot ignore the seriousness of the cyclical downturn. We have predicted that investment will begin to revive in 2018-19, and we may still be proven right. With elections looming in early 2019, Modi's government must do all it can to get the economy moving over the next 18 months. But its admirable reluctance to blow the budget, even while contemplating a fiscal stimulus, means that the stench of underperformance will hang over India's funky economy for at least the next year.
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After a long time..!!
Well I finished my thesis with a 2.0 (German grading system). I would give a special thanks to my guide Dr. Stefan Lankes for guiding me through out the thesis. Along with my bachelor thesis I was also able to manage a pass in all my exams held at RWTH, thus completing my B-Tech.
I came back from Germany on 30th July and was really busy in completing the formalities at Amrita. It was a bit difficult and confusing situation but all in all, its done now and I got all my certificates and degree. 🙂
My convocation was on 27th August. It was in pure traditional Kerala style with Kerala outfits. I was extremely happy to meet all my friends after exactly 1 year. It was kind of nostalgic feeling..love you all MY ITians. Good to see you guys after really long tme… 🙂
I have applied for my visa and I am expecting to fly back to Germany for my regular masters by Oct mid. Oh..btw, my application for MSc in Software Systems Engineering is accepted by RWTH and thus will continue in RWTH with my masters. And and and…I will not be called as Erasmus anymore….Erasmus tag is removed..hehe 😀
For now I am going to visit my native place and looking forward to enjoy with all my cousins. Gonna enjoy my vacations till Oct mid and then….GOD BLESS ME!!! 😀
Context Switch – Software vs Hardware Approach
A context switch(also known as task switch or process switch) is a mechanism of storing and restoring the state of a CPU which is assigned to a particular process(or task). A context is the contents of CPU's registers and program counter at any point in time. During a context switch, kernel performs the following steps:
1. It suspends the process which is currently executed and stores the CPU's state for that process somewhere in the memory.
2. Retrieve the context of the next process from memory and restores the CPU's registers with the new register values.
3. It then returns to the location indicated by the program counter in order to resume the process.
Multitasking is successfully achieved using the very basic concept of context switching. In a multitasking operating system, multiple process execute in a single CPU seemingly simultaneously. These process does not interfere with each other. The illusion of concurrency is achieved by the means of context switches that occurs in a fraction of second.
The next task to be loaded into the memory is decided by the scheduler based on an algorithm. There are several scheduling algorithms available like, Round Robin, Priority based, Priority based Round Robin etc.
Context Switch can be performed either by using Software mechanism or Hardware mechanism.
Hardware approach uses a special hardware feature of x86 processors. This special feature is called Task State Segment(TSS). TSS is a data segment that contains the state of a processor which is associated with a particular task or a process. Each task has its own execution space like general purpose register, segments, flags, task registers etc. TSS maintain this execution state for each task. A task switch in this case can explicitly be invoked using instructions like CALL or JUMP. Thus, CPU automatically loads the new state of the process from the TSS.
Software approach is used to save and reload only the state that needs to be changed. The basic principle of software approach is to provide a function that saves the current stack pointer and reloads the new stack pointer. When this function is called, the current instruction pointer pointing to current stack pointer is stored in the old stack and the new instruction pointer pointing to the new stack pointer is popped off the new stack when the function returns. General purpose registers, flags, data segment and all other relevant registers must also be pushed on to the old stack and popped off the new stack.
As hardware approach saves almost all the register state it is slow when compared to the software approach. Performance being the main target of any operating system, software context switch is widely used in most modern operating system. Moreover, 64bit architecture does not support hardware context switches and are reliable only on software context switching.
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Registers in 32 bit and 64 bit Architecture
After reading Bran's kernel tutorial and understanding the design of most basic kernel development, it was time for me to begin my real work, i.e the implementation of 64 bit kernel. Thus to begin with, I started reading the different types of registers available in both 32 bit and 64 bit Architecture. Well without wasting much time, let me go though it quickly.
There are following four types of Registers.
1. General Purpose Registers
2. Segment Registers
3. Program Status and Control Register
4. Instruction Pointer Register
1. General Purpose Registers
In 32 bit, 8 general purpose registers are EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, EBP and ESP.
In 64 bit, there 64 bit 16 general purpose registers and default operand size is 32 bit.Registers RAX, RBX, RCX, RDX, RSI, RDI, RBP, RSP and R8-R15 are available.
All of them serve the following purpose :
Operands for logical and arithmetic operation, Operands for address calculation and Memory pointers.
2. Segment Register
In 32 bit, there are 6 segment registers. They are, CS, DS, SS, ES, FS and GS. They are all 16 bit segment selectors, which points to the particular segment in memory. A particular segment can be accessed by the corresponding segment selector which has to present in an appropriate segment register. Each of the segment registers is associated with one of the three types of storages: code, data or stack. CS registers mainly points to code segment. DS, ES, FS and GS register points to data segment and SS register points to Stack segment.
In 64 bit mode, CS, DS, ES, SS are treated as if each segment base is 0, regardless of the value of the associated segment descriptor base. This creates a flat address space for code, data and stack. FS and GS are exception and both are used as additional base registers in linear address calculations.
3. Program Status and Control Register
The 32 bit EFLAGS registers contain the group of status flags, a control flag and a group of system flags.
Status flag: bits 0, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 11 are the status flags and they indicate the result of any arithmetic instructions.
Direction flag(DF) : The direction flag(bit 10) controls string instructions eg: MOVS, CMPS, SCAS, LODS and STOS). Setting up the DF flag causes the string instruction to auto increment whereas clearing the DF flag causes the string instruction to auto decrement. STD and CLD instruction sets and clear the DF flag, respectively.
Apart from above, there are few flags which control the operating system and should not be modified by the application.
In 64 bit mode, EFLAGS is extended to 64 bits and are called RFLAGS. The upper 32 bits of RFLAGS are reserved and the lower 32 bits are same as the EFLAGS.
4. Instruction Pointer Register
Instruction Pointer register contains the offset in the current code segment for the next instruction to be executed. It cannot be accessed directly by the software. It is controlled implicitly by control transfer instructions like JMP, JCC, CALL and RET.
In 32 bit mode, instruction pointer is EIP which is 32 bits long and in 64 bit mode, instruction pointer is 64 bits long and named as RIP.
Reference : Intel and AMD Manuals.
Linker Scripts – Inner Concepts
Every link is controlled by a linker script. This script is written in the linker command language. The main purpose of the linker script is to describe how the sections in the input files should be mapped into the output file and to control the memory layout of the output file. Linker always uses linker script. If we do not specify then it takes in the default script that is compiled into the linker executable.
Basic Linker Script Concepts :
The linker combines input files into a single output file. Both output file and input file are object files. The output file is often executable. These object file contains different sections, which have its own name and size. A section may be marked as loadable, allocatable or none. The loadable section means that the contents should be loaded into the memory when the output file is run. The allocatable sections with no contents, means a certain area in memory should be kept aside, but nothing in particular should be loaded there A section which is neither loadable nor allocatable contains some sort of debugging information.
Every loadable or allocatable section will have two addresses:
1. VMA – Virtual Memory Address. This is the address the section will have when the output file is run.
2. LMA – load Memory Address. This is the address at which the section will be loaded.
In many cases the two address will be the same. An interesting example where these two address are different is when a data section is loaded into ROM and then later copied into RAM when the program starts. Here the ROM address would be LMA and RAM address would be VMA.
Every object file also has a list of symbols called symbol table. A symbol may be defined or undefined. Each symbol has a name and each defined symbol will have an address. After compiling a C or C++ file, we get a defined symbol for every defined function and global or static variable. Every undefined function or global variable which is referenced in the input file will become an undefined symbol.
Simple Linker Script Example :
The simplest possible linker script has just one command: 'SECTIONS'. We use the 'SECTIONS' command to describe the memory layout of the output file.
Lets assume our program consists only of code, initialized data and uninitialized data. These will be in '.text','.data' and '.bss' sections respectively. Assume also that these are the only sections that appear in our input files.
Example : lets say that the code should be loaded at the address 0x10000 and that the data should start at address 0x8000000. The corresponding linker script for this would be
2. {
3. . = 0x10000;
4. .text : { *(.text) }
5. . = 0x8000000;
6. .data : { *(.data) }
7. .bss : { *(.bss) }
8. }
'SECTIONS' is a keyword followed by a series of symbol assignments and output section descriptions enclosed in curly braces.
Line 3 sets the value of the special symbol '.' which is the location counter. If address is not specified then the address is set from the current value of the location counter. The location counter is then incremented by the size of the output section. At the start of the 'SECTIONS' command, the location counter has the value '0'.
Line 4 defines an output section '.text'. Within the curly braces , we list the names of the input sections which should be placed into this output section. The '*' is a wildcard which matches any file name. The expression '*(.text)' means all '.text' input sections in all input files.
Since the locations counter is 0x10000, when the output section '.text' is defined, the linker will set the address of the '.text' section in the output file to be '0x10000'.
The remaining lines define the '.data' and '.bss' sections in the output file. The linker will place '.data' output section at address 0x8000000. After that the location counter will be 0x8000000 plus the size of the '.data' output section. The linker will then place the '.bss' output section immediately after the '.data' output section in memory.
The linker will ensure that each output section has the required alignment, by increasing the location counter if necessary
In the above example, the specified address for the '.text' and '.data' sections will probably satisfy any alignment constraints, but the linker may have to create a small gap between the '.data' and '.bss' sections.
Reference : The GNU Linker
Keyboard – Kernel's Perspective
The keyboard is the most common way for a user to provide a computer input. Thus it is necessary to create a driver for handling and managing the keyboard inputs.A scancode is simply a key number. The keyboard assigns a number to each key on the keyboard, this is your scancode. The scancodes are numbered generally from top to bottom and left to right. The lookup table is called a keymap, and this lookup table is be used to translate scancodes to ASCII values. The keyboard is attached to the computer through a special microcontroller chip on your mainboard. This keyboard controller chip has 2 channels: one for the keyboard, and one for the mouse. The keyboard controller has an address on the I/O bus that can be used for access and control. The keyboard controller has 2 main registers: a Data register and a Control register. Anything that the keyboard wants to send the computer is stored into the Data register. The keyboard will generate an IRQ1 indicating that it has data ready to be grabbed. When the IRQ happens, we call this handler which reads from corresponding port. This data is the keyboard's scancode. For this example, we check if the key was pressed or released. If it was just pressed, we translate the scancode to ASCII, and print that character out with one line.
Reference : Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial
IRQ, PIC and PIT
IRQ – Interrupt Request
Interrupt Requests or IRQs are interrupts that are raised by hardware devices. Some devices generate an IRQ when they have data ready to be read, or when they finish a command eg : writing the content of buffer to the disk. In short, a device for example, from sound card to network card, mouse, keyboard, serial ports etc will generate an IRQ whenever it wants the processor's attention.
PIC – Programmable Interrupt Controllers
Any IBM PC/AT Compatible computer has 2 chips that are used to manage IRQs. These chips are called PIC. One acts as a master IRQ controller and another one acts as a slave IRQ controller. The slave is connected to IRQ2 on the master controller, whereas master controller is directly connected to the processor itself. Each PIC can handle 8 IRQs. Master PIC handles IRQ0 to IRQ7 and slave IRQ handles IRQ8 to IRQ15.Whenever a device signals an IRQ, the CPU pauses whatever it was doing and calls the ISR to handle the corresponding IRQ. The CPU then performs whatever actions were required and tells the PIC that the CPU has finished executing the correct routine.
PIT – Programmable Interval Timer
The programmable Interval Timer(PIT) is also called the System Clock, is a chip used for generating interrupts at regular time intervals. It has 3 channels. Channel 0 is mapped to IRQ0 and is used to interrupt the CPU at predictable and regular times. Channel 1 is system specific and Channel 2 is connected to the system speaker and is used in order to make computer beep. Out of three, main Channels to be considered are Channel 0 and 2. Channel 0 allows to accurately schedule new processes later on, as well as allow the current task to wait for certain period of time.
Reference : Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial
IDT and ISR
IDT – Interrupt Descriptor Table
The IDT is used to show the processor what Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) to call to handle an exception. IDT entries are also called Interrupt requests whenever a device has completed a request and needs to be serviced. IDT entries are similar to GDT entries. Both have base address, access flag and both are 64 bits long. The main difference lies in the meanings of the address fields. In an IDT, the base address is the address of ISR that the processor should call when this interrupt is called. An IDT entry doesn't have a limit, instead it has a segment that need to be specified. The segment is the same as located ISR. This will allow the processor to pass on the control to the kernel through an interrupt that has occurred when the processor is in a different ring like when an application is running.
ISR – Interrupt Service Routine
Some exceptions push an error code onto the stack. Thus to decrease the complexity, a dummy error code of 0 is pushed onto the stack for any ISR that doesn't push an error code already. This is done to keep a uniform stack frame. To track the exception, the interrupt number is also pushed on to the stack. The assembler opcode 'cli' is used to disable the interrupts and prevent an IRQ (Interrupt Request) from firing, which could cause the conflicts in our kernel. To protect the kernel, each ISR is made to jump to 'isr_common_stub'. The assembler opcode 'isr_common_stub' will save the processor state on the stack, push the current stack address onto the stack, call the 'fault_handler' function and finally restore the state of the stack.
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Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Paolo Di Giamberardino,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Alexandre Dolgui,
IMT Atlantique, France
Hans Doran,
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
António Dourado,
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Vasile Dragan,
Romanian Academy, Romania
Venky Dubey,
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Ioan Dumitrache,
University "POLITEHNICA" of Bucharest, Romania
Richard J. Duro,
Universidade Da Coruña, Spain
Marc Ebner,
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany
Petr Ekel,
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mohammed El-Abd,
American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Ashraf Elnagar,
University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Ali Eydgahi,
Eastern Michigan University, United States
Simon Fabri,
University of Malta, Malta
M. Fadali,
University of Nevada, United States
Christophe Farges,
Bordeaux University, IMS – UMR 5218 CNRS, France
Luca Ferrarini,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paolo Fiorini,
University of Verona, Italy
Juan Flores,
University of Michoacan, Mexico
Mauro Franceschelli,
Università di Cagliari, Italy
Georg Frey,
Saarland University, Germany
Toyomi Fujita,
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan
Toshio Fukuda,
Nagoya University, Japan
Takeshi Furuhashi,
Nagoya University, Japan
Mauro Gaggero,
National Research Council of Italy, Italy
John Gan,
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Iván García Daza,
University of Alcalá, Spain
Maria Garcia-Planas,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Len Gelman,
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Paulo Gil,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Giuseppina Gini,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Adriana Giret,
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Arthur Gómez,
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Amr Goneid,
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Irene Gregory,
NASA Langley Research Center, United States
Lucian Grigorie,
Military Technical Academy ''Ferdinand I'', Bucharest, Romania
Lech Grzesiak,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Jan Haase,
Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany
Maki Habib,
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Jörg Hähner,
Universität Augsburg, Germany
Kensuke Harada,
Osaka University, Japan
Jennifer Harding,
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
John Harris,
University of Florida, United States
Noelia Henrández Parra,
Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Arturo Hernández - Aguirre,
Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico
Suranga Hettiarachchi,
Indiana University Southeast, United States
Diana Hintea,
Coventry University, United Kingdom
Yasuhisa Hirata,
Tohoku University, Japan
Wladyslaw Homenda,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Naira Hovakimyan,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Jonathan How,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Yisheng Huang,
Nat. Ilan Univ., Taiwan
Daniela Iacoviello,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Koji Ikuta,
University of Tokyo, Japan
Atsushi Imiya,
IMIT Chiba University, Japan
Gianluca Ippoliti,
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Dmitry Ivanov,
Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Sarangapani Jagannathan,
Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Gerrit Janssens,
Hasselt University, Belgium
Thira Jearsiripongkul,
Thammasat University, Thailand
Michael Jenkin,
York University, Canada
Wootae Jeong,
Korea Railroad Research Institute, Korea, Republic of
Myong Jeong,
Rutgers University, United States
Isabel Jesus,
ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Márcio José da Cunha,
Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Marc Jungers,
CNRS - Université de Lorraine, France
Fabrício Junqueira,
University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Michail Kalogiannakis,
University of Crete, Greece
Parminder Kang,
De Montfot University, United Kingdom
Mansour Karkoub,
Texas A&M Universiy, Qatar
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University of Tsukuba, Japan
Rafael Kelly,
CICESE Research Center, Mexico
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University of Science & Technology, Korea, Republic of
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Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Waree Kongprawechnon,
Thammasat University, Thailand
George Kovács,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Krzysztof Kozlowski,
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Ondrej Krejcar,
University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Masao Kubo,
Narional Defense Academy of Japan, Japan
Kolja Kühnlenz,
Coburg University of Applied Sciences ans Arts, Germany
Nikolay Kuznetsov,
Saint-Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Halina Kwasnicka,
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dong-Soo Kwon,
KAIST, Korea, Republic of
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Istia - LARIS, France
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King's College London, United Kingdom
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Tampere University of Technology, FAST Laboratory, Finland
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University of Valenciennes, France
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Pusan Nat'l Univ., Korea, Republic of
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Greah Université Le Havre, France
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University of Oulu, Finland
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Irstea, France
Fabrizio Leonardi,
FEI University, Brazil
Rory Lewis,
University of Colorado, United States
Yangmin Li,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Christos Liambas,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Gordon Lightbody,
University College Cork, Ireland
Veronique Limère,
Ghent University, Belgium
Huei-Yung Lin,
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
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The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
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Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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University of Minho, Portugal
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University of Porto, Portugal
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Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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Wuhan University of Technology, China
Yu-Shen Lu,
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
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CEA -French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France
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Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Damian Lyons,
Fordham University, United States
Danilo Maccio,
National Research Council of Italy, Italy
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Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
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Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Colorado State University, United States
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ISEP/IPP, Portugal
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King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
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Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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University of Calgary, Canada
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Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
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INRIA, France
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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University of Queensland, Australia
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Queen's Unviersity Belfast, Ireland
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University of Girona, Spain
Nadhir Messai,
CReSTIC, France
Konstantinos Michail,
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
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Seattle University, United States
Sanya Mitaim,
Thammasat University, Thailand
Masoud Mohammadian,
University of Canberra, Australia
S. Moosavian,
K. N. Toosi Univ. of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vladimir Mostyn,
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Vassilis Moulianitis,
University of the Aegean, Greece
George Moustris,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Riccardo Muradore,
University of Verona, Italy
Saeid Nahavandi,
Deakin University, Australia
Cairo Nascimento Júnior,
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
Andreas Nearchou,
University of Patras, Greece
Juan J. Nieto,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
George Nikolakopoulos,
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Ivan Nunes da Silva,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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University of Guadalajara, Mexico
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USP - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
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University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Yeungnam University, Korea, Republic of
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INRIA, France
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University of Alcalá, Spain
Pushparaj Pathak,
Indian Institute of Technology, India
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University of Ottawa, Canada
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Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Qingjin Peng,
University of Manitoba, Canada
Fernando Pereira,
University of Porto, Portugal
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The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
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University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
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Jaume I University, Spain
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Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Libor Preucil,
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Fei Qiao,
Tongji Univ., China
José Ragot,
Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France
Oscar Reinoso,
Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Mihailo Ristic,
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Juha Röning,
University of Oulu, Finland
Hubert Roth,
University Siegen, Germany
António Ruano,
University of Algarve, Portugal
Jocelyn Sabatier,
IMS Laboratory - Bordeaux University, France
Christophe Sabourin,
IUT Sénart, University Paris-Est Creteil (UPEC), France
Mehmet Sahinkaya,
Kingston University London, United Kingdom
Priti Sajja,
Sardar Patel University, India
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Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Abdel-Badeeh Salem,
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Roberto Sanchis Llopis,
Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Marcello Sanguineti,
University of Genoa, Italy
Jurek Sasiadek,
Carleton University, Canada
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Waseda University, Japan
Daniel Schmidt,
SEW EURODRIVE GmbH, Germany
Gerhard Schweitzer,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
André Gustavo Scolari Conceição,
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
João Sequeira,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Roman Sergienko,
Gini GmbH, Germany
Madhavan Shanmugavel,
Monash University, Malaysia
Jinhua She,
Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Michael Short,
Teesside University, United Kingdom
Manuel Silva,
ISEP-Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Carlos Silvestre,
University of Macau, China, and Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, China
Vasile Sima,
National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics, Romania
Dan Simon,
Cleveland State University, United States
Daniel Simon,
INRIA, France
Arpita Sinha,
IIT Bombay, India
Adam Slowik,
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Andrzej Sluzek,
Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Burkhard Stadlmann,
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Wels, Austria
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University of Kassel, Germany
Raúl Suárez,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Kamesh Subbarao,
University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Katia Sycara,
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Les Sztandera,
Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), United States
Tianhao Tang,
Shanghai Maritime University, China
Tomasz Tarczewski,
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Abdelhamid Tayebi,
Lakehead University, Canada
Daniel Thalmann,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Simon Thompson,
AIST, Japan
Gui Tian,
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Germano Torres,
PS Solutions, Brazil
Wa-Muzemba Tshibangu,
Morgan State University, United States
Avgoustos Tsinakos,
University of Kavala Institute of Technology / Athabasca University of Canada, Greece
Antonios Tsourdos,
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Ali Turgut,
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Bartlomiej Ufnalski,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Gulay Unal,
Anadolu University, Turkey
José Valente de Oliveira,
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Roberto Valenti,
MathWorks, United States
Angel Valera,
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Antonis Vardulakis,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Cesar Vargas-Rosales,
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico
Alexandra Velasco,
Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Colombia
Ramiro Velazquez,
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
Hugo Vieira Neto,
Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil
Arnoud Visser,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Damir Vrancic,
Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Bernardo Wagner,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Mattias Wahde,
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Axel Walthelm,
Siemens AG, Germany
Feng Wan,
University of Macau, Macau
Long Wang,
Peking University, China
Jingyu Wang,
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China
James Whidborne,
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Warren White,
Kansas State University, United States
Min Wu,
China University of Geosciences, China
Wenjun Xu,
Wuhan University of Technology, China
Farouk Yalaoui,
University of Technology of Troyes, France
Qinmin Yang,
Zhejiang University, China
Weiwei Yu,
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Marek Zaremba,
Université du Québec (UQO), Canada
Massimiliano Zecca,
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Jie Zhang,
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Primo Zingaretti,
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Alois Zoitl,
Johannes Keppler University, Austria
Loredana Zollo,
Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
Argyrios Zolotas,
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
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I got some more scoresheets back from another competition I entered, and – like last time – they were not good. But honestly, I actually feel much better about this than after the previous competition, and I have couple reasons why.
The scores – a 23 and a 24 – are roughly the same as I received last time (23 and 24.5), but the feedback related to the IPA (The Howler) matched up pretty closely with my hypotheses about why these beers were tasting and scoring so poorly.
Oxidation – mainly from poor packaging – is something that came up in every judge's review of every one of the four beers, if not by name than by description. I am a pretty big noob when it comes to packaging for competitions, so this seems like an obvious area for improvement. It's also worth noting that I've been drinking The Howler from the keg for a couple weeks now and haven't noted any of the off-flavors the judges picked out. What I have noticed are their other critiques:
- Low/subdued aroma – I had an abbreviated dry-hop on this beer in order to package it for the competition
- Low carbonation – the beer was rushed and wasn't fully carbonated when packaged
- Low hop flavor – something I'd noted myself for a next pass at this beer.
I entered these competitions with the hope of getting this kind of constructive feedback. I think proper packaging alone would be enough to add 6-8 points to the overall score and move it up into the "Very Good" range. It's a beer I enjoy and plan to brew again, especially with some guidance on modifications to improve it.
Frankly, I should have been entering competitions much earlier in my homebrewing "career." This sort of feedback is invaluable even if it hurts to read. So I've bookmarked some upcoming comps; let's up we start seeing some higher scores.


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·Manage multiple suppliers of engineering consulting expertise, test equipment, software, and air transportation of satellites for US Government and Commercial, Domestic Subcontracts. Contract Value over $1,000,000.
·Administer the master subcontracts for domestic and international suppliers, including: RFQ's and RFP's, statements of work, non-disclosure agreements, technical assistance agreements, cost analyses, price analyses, terms and conditions, and master subcontract agreements. Support the entire Commercial Space Subcontracts team's contracts, valued at over $200,000,000.
·Develop, analyze, and evaluate bids and proposals to help meet program schedule and objectives. Created savings opportunities of over 30%.
·Contracts fluency with Firm Fixed Price, Cost Plus, and Time & Material contracts implementation.
·Familiar with all Lockheed Martin compliance documentation, including: Lockheed Martin Acquisition Procedures, Federal Acquisition Regulations, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations, and Commercial Acquisition Procedures.
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·Made recommendations based on performed variance analyses, staffing plan changes according to updates to the Estimate-to-Complete, material spreads, and labor reporting proposal effort.
·Partnered with Program Management Office, Engineering, Manufacturing Finance and Business Operations, Quality, Export Control, Human Resources, and Supply Chain Management to support Space Based Infrared Systems program.
·Owner of Government Pro Forma Cost, Orders, Sales, EBIT for Commercial Space Systems for upper management.Lead on Export Control and Human Resources staffing metrics. Supported contract closeouts.
Founder and Leader of NESSC (New Employees of Space Systems Company)
·Chair of NESSC (New Employees of Space Systems Company) program, for improving entry level professional employee retention rates within Lockheed Martin.
·Led and coordinated 10-15 functional leaders, developed and executed yearly plans, and devised schedule for execution of all initiatives.
·Selected to represent Lockheed Martin Newtown campus of 1200 employees to be featured in an LM Stories article.
·Results: 25 professional development events, 20 community service and charity events, 25 networking events, and 5 mentoring connections events.
·Coordinated and was directly involved in communications media, including Mission Statement, SharePoint website, Unity website, newsletters, emails, formal invitations, and surveys.
·Supervised budget decisions and usage, and coordinated with Legal when applicable.
·Partnered with organizations – Lockheed Martin and outside.
Received President's Volunteer Award and Business Area Recognition Award.


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The moment of absolute hilarity for me was went I went to photograph them and noticed that they were the *exact* same colour as the tissue paper a store clerk wrapped my purchase in. A-HA! I have re-invented the traditional Easter Egg Hunt in macaron form! Let's test your skills... how many mac shells can you see in this picture (and FYI, I have *not* retouched or edited the pics in any way!)
The ingredient list for my pistachio macarons is different tis month, but the method is the same, so to save myself some typing, and you a lot of reading, I'm only giving you the ingredient list this time. Not to worry, the directions can be found here. As for the filling, I made a simple, dark chocolate ganache with a splash of pistachio syrup for flavour (100ml cream, 120g chocolate, 30g butter, 15ml pistachio syrup), and the directions for ganache can be found here or here.
Pistachio Macarons
3 egg whites, room temperature and properly aged
2 Tbsp (30g) granulated sugar
1 Cup (125g) ground almonds
3 Tbsp (30g) ground pistachios
1 1/2 Cups (205g) icing sugar
pinch of salt
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
"To my favourite 17 year old High-school girl" - Billy Collins
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Thanks for this! Funny. Like his deadpan humor!
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He will always be my poet champion! I love that he has more kids and schools reading poems...making them see how fun poems can be
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This exhibit explores two new bodies of work focused on the cumulative effect of passing impressions. The first body of work is a series of crystallized images selected from the artist's image archive. The archive is a collection of found photographs and hyper feminine imagery that highlights the obsessive pre-determinism of femininity.
The second body of work features largely obliterated images skimmed over acetate. These ghostly images mimic the erasure of individual identity and rewriting of personal history that can occur in the process of creating the hardened perception of gender, self or other.
About the Artist:
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Wilcox is an artist and art educator currently teaching at Pittsburgh's CAPA high school. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Wilcox's artistic practice works with figures and symbols of the feminine to create an external representation of the obsession with images and self-image that is prevalent in today's DIY mediated world. These representations take a variety of forms that play on the nature of photography and the captured image.


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Evaluation of different artificial intelligent models to predict reservoir formation water density
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Tatar, A, Naseri, S, Bahadori, M, Rozyn, J, Lee, M, Kashiwao, T & Bahadori, A 2015, 'Evaluation of different artificial intelligent models to predict reservoir formation water density', Petroleum Science and Technology, vol. 33, no. 20, pp. 1749-1756.
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Nearly all hydrocarbon reservoirs are bounded by water-saturated rocks, namely aquifers. In addition to natural water drive, there is an artificial water drive mechanism in which water is injected into formation to intensify the reservoir pressure. This method, employed to induce the hydrocarbon production, is called water flooding. Several laboratory researches have shown that oil recovery can be heightened by making some alterations to injected brine salinity through water flooding. Accordingly, acquiring exact information about the PVT characteristics of brine is necessary. Density is a property of great importance as it is employed in various physical, chemical, geothermal, and geochemical aspects. The authors aimed to develop a dependable intelligent method to accurately predict the brine density at elevated temperatures and pressures. MLP and GA-RBF models were utilized in this study. The results showed that the proposed model is capable of accurately predicting the brine density at elevated pressures and temperatures for different concentrations of brine. The correlation factor of 1.0000 and root mean squared error of 3.27E-05 demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed model.


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LOS ANGELES — Adult film actress and entrepreneur Vicky Vette has announced she is doing a special live show on Thanksgiving Day.
Members of VickyAtHome.com and VNALive.com will be able to see the one-hour show on Nov. 26, starting at 3 p.m. (PST).
''Thanksgiving is usually about spending time with friends and family," Vette said.
"However, a lot of people are lonely and without company at all. I could not think of a better way of thanking my fans and members by spending time with them on Thanksgiving Day," she added. "The show is fully mobile, so people can tune in wherever they may be.... even at the dinner table!"
Vette is celebrating a nomination by XBIZ for Adult Site of the Year — Performer (which she won in 2014) as well as Web Star of the Year (which she won in 2012 and 2013).
She is also nominated for Businesswoman of the Year by XBIZ. Vette independently runs a website network without assistance from another company. She owns and operates the VNAGirls.com network for stars such as Julia Ann, Nikki Benz, Puma Swede, Sophie Dee and more.
During the 2016 XBIZ Awards in Los Angeles at the Andaz Hotel, Jan. 13-16, Vette will be in attendance. Voting is now open for the awards until the midnight deadline on Sunday, Dec. 6.
Fans can vote for Vette here.


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We do chore services, respite care, and everything in-between. To learn more about the many Rock Care services, click below.
Rock Care Sikeston Office
1817 East Malone, Sikeston, MO
Rock Care Columbia Office
25 South 4th Street, Columbia MO
Rock Care is available in 18 counties.
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Need a caregiver you already know and trust? Rock Care Direct is the company for you.
"We guarantee you rock solid in-home care!"
Rock Care Kansas City Office
PO Box 468, Grandview, MO
In-Home Services, Consumer Directed Services & Mental Health Services.
Need help with mentally challenged loved ones? We can help with that too.
We focus on improving the lives of our clients by making sure they can remain in their homes during the golden years of their lives.
We cook, we clean, we run errands, and so much more. Rock Care In-Home Services does it all.


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Q. Which foundation plants should I use for my landscape?
The botanical name for `Green Wave' is Taxus cuspidata `Green Wave'. It has dark green foliage, low-mounded, spreading habit with graceful arching branches, 3-4' by 6-8'. This yew is considered to be a good substitute for Taxus baccata `Repandens'. It may be available at Angelica Nurseries. `Everlow' is Taxus x media `Everlow', a low-spreader, resistant to wind desiccation and can be considered as a substitute for Taxus baccata `Repandens'. Taxus baccata `Repandens" may be more available than the other two yews and although it can grow to 12' wide at Longwood gardens where it was probably planted over 50 years ago, in this area, they might spread to 4-5' in 15 years and are easy to prune. An area 14' wide could accommodate 3 plants, two close to the entrance and one in between but farther forward. `Repandens' may be easier for you to locate as many nurseries are getting new plants in at this time of year.


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All opinions are mine alone. #northpolefun
Hi friends!
I'm talking about Christmas today.
It's coming whether you're ready or not, so we might as well pretend like we're ready, right? Right.
I love holiday traditions. There is something comforting about knowing that in all the chaos that can come with the holidays, there are some things that are the same every year. We didn't get to do a lot of our holiday traditions last year because we were still trying to find normal. I want to get back to them this year! Every year for all of my life we have had advent calendars. You know those German cardboard ones with the perforated doors and the molded chocolates? Yep, those. LOVE them. Every so often my mom would step up her game and we would do something fancy, but those cardboard ones were there every year without fail.
Those simple traditions are the ones that stick.
Hallmark wants to help you create those simple traditions with Northpole. Not only is there an adorable, interactive website for your family to explore, but there is a whole line of toys and books that will be exclusively found at Walmart!
We love the Northpole Communicator. It works a bit like an advent calendar in that kids get to check in with Northpole once a day. Each time they are answered by whoever is closest to their communicator up at Northpole. Sometimes it's an elf, or it could even be Santa himself! Whoever answers tells you what is happening in Northpole, and then asks a question or two. It's fun. Abbey loves it!
We also love the book, Once Upon a Northpole Christmas. It's about how one little elf helps everyone reset their priorities and saves Christmas. The world has gotten so caught up in trying to make Christmas perfect that they have lost their joy. Sound familiar? This one is going to be a regular in our Christmas book basket!
Our book came with the Snowflake Beacon, which will glow on the Christmas tree to make sure Santa can find us.
Simple traditions are the ones that stick. Does that mean that we shouldn't make those fancy, hand-cut felt, glitter covered advent calendars? Of course not! If they bring you joy, go for it! If they bring you stress, just scroll on by!
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To find your store that will be carrying the Northpole products, go HERE
Also, if you have the Hallmark Channel, make sure not to miss the movie preimier of Northpole!
To find the advent activity that brings your family joy, check out my Advent Pinboard!


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Landon gets to read to our Library Dog, Romeo, three times this summer. That's one way to trick a reluctant reader into read :)
Before you link up, check out my two posts about our fun road trip to Pennsylvania and Hersheypark this weekend!
And don't miss these other Wordless Wednesday hosts: Live and Love Out Loud, Dear Crissy, Project Alicia, Mist and Lilies, Mommy Paradise, Better in Bulk, Jenny Rain, and Verena's Schoene Welt!


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Pizza and other great offerings at Paradise
Our history dates back four generations. We have always enjoyed serving italian food that is prepared by a long line of italian chefs brought up in italian families. Still today that tradition continues with their backgrounds and reciepes passed down from parents and grandparents.
Unbelieveable value for your experience and pleasure. $25 per person...Includes family style servings - antipasti - three appitisers - four+ entres - coffee.
Let us plan your event with you. Contact Joe at 914-736-3334
For a limited time -- Take-out only -- Large Salad, Large Plain Pizza, 4 Chicken Cutlet Parmigiana For 4-6 persons
We are also the perfect location for your corporate or private events! We cater to you and offer the perfect ambiance.
Paradise is a family-run restaurant in Verplanck. We are proud to serve our family recipes of exquisite and authentic Italian cuisine to the area for over 70 years.
Please take a look at what people are saying about their experience at The Paradise.