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What is a Cyber Incident Response Plan?

In part 1 of this 3-part blog series, we’ll delve into Cyber Incident Response Planning and how to address and manage the repercussions of a cyberattack or incident.




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Canada Starts Accepting Applications from GTA Construction Workers

Canadian federal government has started accepting applications below the latest Temporary Public Policy for Construction Workers with Out-of-Status in GTA (Greater Toronto Area).Temporary Public Policy was declared in July 2019 to offer a chance to workers…




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5-minute Tablea Coffee

5-minute Tablea Coffee appeared first on CASA Veneracion

It’s tempting to say that I have no idea why this tablea coffee recipe is one of the highest-trafficked posts in my blog. I do have a good idea. It’s delicious. And so easy to make too. This was originally posted in March of 2011 when my love affair with tsokolate tablea seems was in …

5-minute Tablea Coffee was written by Connie Veneracion and originally published in CASA Veneracion.



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Arvind Kejriwal: From An Impressive Debut To A Conscious Rebranding

On January 30, Arvind Kejriwal said at a campaign meeting in Delhi: "Vote me if you think I am your son, if you think I am a terrorist, then please vote BJP". A politician urging voters to pick their...





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Instant money transfer through social media channels

Axis Bank's Ping Pay - Instant money transfer through social media channels




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Light Snow and 31 F at Jamestown, Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport, NY


Winds are from the West at 15.0 gusting to 25.3 MPH (13 gusting to 22 KT). The pressure is 1017.0 mb and the humidity is 76%. The wind chill is 20. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.




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Mostly Cloudy and 39 F at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County / Dunkirk Airport, NY


Winds are from the West at 18.4 gusting to 29.9 MPH (16 gusting to 26 KT). The pressure is 1016.4 mb and the humidity is 50%. The wind chill is 30. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:53 am EDT.




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Mpumalanga Cop Cleared of Wrongdoing After 'Mohammed' Comments Made During Arrests At Mosque

[News24Wire] Minister of Police Bheki Cele has revealed that a police officer accused of making blasphemous comments while arresting a group of Muslim men at a mosque last month, has been cleared of wrongdoing.




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Last Obstacle Falls Ahead of Zuma Corruption Trial As Thales Case Dismissed By Concourt

[Daily Maverick] The last legal challenge to the prosecution of former President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thales has been dismissed by the Constitutional Court. On Friday, the apex court ruled that Thales' attempt to persist in having the prosecution permanently stayed had no chances of success.




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NCAA calls Kansas' violations 'egregious, severe'

The NCAA enforcement staff, in its reply to Kansas regarding charges of five Level I rules violations, said coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend "embraced, welcomed and encouraged" Adidas' influence to help high-profile recruits sign at KU.




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Mick Jagger and Will Smith to perform in India Covid-19 concert

International and Indian celebrities to take part from home in fundraising event

Mick Jagger and Will Smith will be among dozens of international and Indian celebrities performing from their homes in a four-hour concert to raise funds for the battle against coronavirus in India, where the number of cases is surging.

The country’s cricket captain Virat Kohli, actors Priyanka Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan are some of the top domestic names billed to perform or read messages during the event on Sunday.

Related: Mobs stop Indian doctors' burials: 'Covid-19 took his life, why take his dignity?'

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Coronavirus is a crisis for the developing world, but here's why it needn't be a catastrophe | Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee

A radical new form of universal basic income could revitalise damaged economies

  • Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel prize in economics for their work on poverty alleviation
  • Coronavirus – latest updates
  • See all our coronavirus coverage
  • While countries in east Asia and Europe are gradually taking steps towards reopening their economies, many in the global south are wondering whether the worst of the pandemic is yet to come. As economists who work on poverty alleviation in developing countries, we are often asked what the effects of coronavirus will be in south Asia and Africa. The truth is, we don’t know. Without extensive testing to map the number of cases, it’s impossible to tell how far the virus has already spread. We don’t yet have enough information about how Covid-19 behaves under different conditions such as sunlight, heat and humidity. Developing countries’ more youthful populations may spare them the worst of the pandemic, but health systems in the global south are poorly equipped to deal with an outbreak, and poverty is linked to co-morbidities that put people at a higher risk of serious illness.

    Without the information widespread testing provides, many poorer countries have taken an extremely cautious approach. India imposed a total lockdown on 24 March, by which time the country had about 500 confirmed cases. Countries such as Rwanda, South Africa and Nigeria enforced lockdowns in late March, long before the virus was expected to peak. But these lockdown measures can’t last forever. Poorer countries could have used the quarantine to buy time, gather information about how the disease behaves and develop a testing and tracing strategy. Unfortunately, not much of this has happened. And, far from coming to their aid, rich countries have outrun poorer nations in the race for PPE, oxygen and ventilators.

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    India chemical leak: more evacuations amid fears of second gas release

    Everyone within 5km of the plant in Andhra Pradesh told to leave over fear of repeat of accident that has left at least 11 dead

    Indian officials have evacuated more people from the area around a chemical plant in the south of the country that leaked toxic gas, killing at least 11 people and sickening hundreds more.

    There was confusion about whether the wider evacuation orders were sparked by a renewed leak at the LG Chem factory in Andhra Pradesh, or by the fear that rising temperatures at the plant could lead to another leak.

    Related: India's chemical plant disaster: another case of history repeating itself

    Related: 'Bhopal’s tragedy has not stopped': the urban disaster still claiming lives 35 years on

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    Miller, Sumlin among Arizona coaches taking cut

    Arizona AD Dave Heeke, football coach Kevin Sumlin, men's basketball coach Sean Miller, women's basketball coach Adia Barnes and baseball coach Jay Johnson will take 20% pay reductions as part of the university's financial mitigation plan.




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    How the coronavirus is affecting college sports: Latest on NCAA cancellations, eligibility, recruiting and more

    From the start of the college football season to cutting sports to an extra year of eligibility, here is the latest information on how the coronavirus is affecting colleges.




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    Russian KHL says it will not name a champion

    The Kontinental Hockey League says it will not name a champion after it stopped the season part-way through the playoffs because of the coronavirus pandemic.




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    NHL, NHLPA cancel international games in 2020

    The NHL has postponed its international games in 2020, the league and players' union announced in a joint statement on Friday.




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    El enigma de la COVID-19: ¿Por qué el virus arrasa en algunos lugares y en otros no?

    Los expertos se preguntan por qué el coronavirus es tan caprichoso. Las respuestas pueden determinar el mejor modo de protegernos y durante cuánto tiempo tendremos que hacerlo.




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    [Men's Basketball] Men's Basketball Prepares for Game Against Nebraska Christian College




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    [Men's Basketball] Haskell Men's Basketball Defeat Nebraska Christian College




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    Gary Smith at DAC 2015: How EDA Can Expand Into New Directions

    First, the good news. The EDA industry will grow from $6.2 billion in 2015 to $9.0 billion in 2019, according to Gary Smith, chief analyst at Gary Smith EDA. Year-to-year growth rates will range from +4% to +11.2%.

    But in his annual presentation on the eve of the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2015), Smith noted that Wall Street is unimpressed. “The people I talk to want long-term steady growth, no sharp up-turns, no sharp downturns,” Smith said. “To the rest of Wall Street, we’re boring.”

    Smith spent the rest of his talk noting how EDA can be a lot less boring and, potentially, a whole lot bigger. For starters, what if we add semiconductor IP to EDA revenues? Now we’re looking at $12.2 billion in revenue by 2019, Smith said. (He acknowledged, however, that the IP market itself is going to take a “dip” due to the move towards platform-based IP and away from conventional piecemeal IP).

    This still is not enough to get Wall Street’s attention. Another possibility is to bring embedded software development into the EDA industry. This is not a huge market – about $2.6 billion today – but it is an “easy growth market for us,” according to Smith.

    Chasing the Big Bucks

    But the “big bucks” are in mechanical CAD (MCAD), Smith said. In the past the MCAD market has always been bigger than EDA, but now EDA is catching up. The MCAD market is about $6.6 billion now. Synopsys and Cadence are larger than PTC and Siemens, two of the main players in MCAD.

    There may be some good acquisition possibilities coming up for EDA vendors, Smith said – and if we don’t buy MCAD companies, they might buy EDA companies. Consider, for example, that Ansoft bought Apache and Dassault bought Synchronicity. (Note: Siemens PLM Software is a first-time exhibitor at DAC 2015).

    What about other domains? Smith said that EDA companies could conceivably move into optical design, applications development software, biomedical design, and chemical design. The last if these is probably the most tenuous; Smith noted that EDA vendors have yet to look into chemical design.

    Applications development software is the biggest market on the above list, but that means competing with Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. “You’re in with the big boys – is that a good idea?” Smith asked.

    Perhaps there’s an opening for a “big play” for an MCAD provider. Smith noted that mechanical vendors are focusing on product data management (PDM). This “is really the IT of design,” Smith said. “They have a lot of hope that the IoT [Internet of things] market is going to give them an opportunity to capture the software that goes from the ground to the cloud. Maybe we can let them have PDM and see if we can take the tool market away from them, or acquire it away from them.”

    In conclusion, Smith asked, should the EDA industry accelerate its growth? “The mechanical vendors have already shown interest in acquiring EDA vendors,” he said. “We may not have a choice.”

    Richard Goering

    NOTE: Catch our live blog from DAC 2015, beginning Monday morning, June 8! Click here

     

     

     




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    About using Liberate to create .lib for a cell with two separate outputs.

    Hello, my name is Hsukang. I want to use Liberate to create a .lib file for the following circuit. This is a scan FF with two separate outputs.   The question is that no matter how I described its function, the synthesis tool said its a manformed scan FF.  Has anyone ever encountered anything like this?How should I describe the function correctly?I found that almost standard flip-flop cells are with only one output Q or have Qn at the same time. Does Liberate support scan flip-flop cells with two separate outputs ?

    Thanks.





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    How to write Innovus Gui command to a cmd/log file?

    HI, I have been using the Innovus GUI commands for several things and wonder if those command can be written to a log or cmd file so I can use it in my flow script? Is there such options that we can set?

    Thanks




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    VIVA Calculator function to get the all outputs and apply a procedure to all of them

    Hi,

    I am running simulation in ADEXL and need a custom function for VIVA to apply same procedure to all signals saved in output. For instance, I have clock nets and I want to get all of them and look at the duty-cycle, edge rate etc.

    It is a little more involved than about part since I have some regex and setof to filter before processing but if I can get all signals for current history, I can postprocess them later.

    In ocean, I am just doing outputs() and getting all saved signals but I was able to do this in VIVA calculator due to the difficulties in getting current history, test name and opening result directory

    thanks

    yayla

    Version Info:

    ICADV12.3 64b 500.21

    spectre -W =>

    Tool 'cadenceMMSIM' Current project version '16.10.479'
    sub-version  16.1.0.479.isr9




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    Select all members of a constraint with SKILL

    I want to select a constraint, and then run a SKILL command that returns a list with the members of that constraint. Is this possible?

    Thx,




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    Default param values not saved in OA cell property.

    When I place a pcell and do not change the W parameter (default is used) the value is not saved in the OA cell property.

    When I change the default value of the super master now, the old pcell will get the new default value automatically because there is nothing saved inside the OA cell for this parameter.

    Do you have any Idea, that how we can save the default values in the OA cell properties so that this value doesn't get updated if the default values are updated in the new PDKs




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    How to check a cluster of same net vias spacing, with have no shape or cline covered

     

    Hi all,

    I have a question regarding the manufacture : how to check a cluster of same net vias spacing, with have no shape or cline covered




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    Find pin attached to a cline

    Hello All,

    After selecting a cline (using axlSingleSelectBox), may I know how to obtain the dbid of the 'pin' connected to the end of the cline?

    Thanks All




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    Creating a circle at 10 mil air gap from a pin

    Hi, I'm trying to create a circle from a pin with 10 mil air gap and at 45 degree rotation. The problem that im facing is that, I'm unable to get the bBox upper left coordinates. Because I want my circle to be placed from that coordinate with a 10 mil air gap. And the pins are "regular" and are placed on "Etch/Top" Layer. Kindly help me in solving this issue.




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    Breaking a clineseg into multiple segments with SKILL code

    Hello All,

    May I know if there is a way to breakup a selected clinesegment into a few clinesegments by just using SKILL code

    Thanks All




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    Importing a capacitor interactive model from manufacturer

    Hello,

    I am trying to import (in spectre) an spice model of a ceramic capacitor manufactured by Samsung EM. The link that includes the model is here :-

    http://weblib.samsungsem.com/mlcc/mlcc-ec.do?partNumber=CL05A156MR6NWR

    They proved static spice model and interactive spice model.

    I had no problem while including the static model.

    However, the interactive model which models voltage and temperature coefficients seems to not be an ordinary spice model. They provide HSPICE, LTSPICE, and PSPICE model files and I failed to include any of them.

    Any suggestions ?




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    Exploring Genus-Joules Integration is just a click away!!

    Joules RTL Power Solution provides a cockpit for RTL designers to explore and optimize the power efficiency of their designs. But this capability is now not just limited to RTL designers!! Yes, you as a synthesis designer too can use the power analysis capabilities of Joules from within Genus Synthesis Solution!!

    But:

    • How to do it?
    • Is there any specific switch required?
    • What is the flow/script when Joules is used from within Genus?
    • Are all the Joules commands supported?

    To answer to all these questions is just a click away in the form of video on “Genus-Joules Integration”; refer it on https://support.cadence.com (Cadence login required).

    Video Title: Genus-Joules Integration (Video)

    Direct Link: https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1O0V0000091CnXUAU&pageName=ArticleContent

     

    Related Resources

    Enhance the Genus Synthesis experience with videos: Genus Synthesis Solution: Video Library

    Enhance the Joules experience with videos: Joules RTL Power Solution: Video Library

    For any questions, general feedback, or future blog topic suggestions, please leave a comment. 







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    CES 2020 Survey by CITE Research/Dassault Systèmes: Consumers Want Personalized Products but Won’t Wait for Them and Expect a Cost Benefit for Their Data

    •Survey of 3,000 consumers in the U.S., China and France examines views on personalization in healthcare, mobility, retail, and home and city environments •Personalization in healthcare, prioritized over other categories, will require AI, 5G and home assistant technologies to achieve, according to respondents •Consumers will pay on average 25.3% more for personalization, but they expect a savings in return •Generation X, millennials, and Generation Z are more willing to pay and share data...





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    Google And Skype Could Be Hit By India Data Curbs




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    Hackers Are Selling A Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit For $500,000




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    How To Hack A Company By Circumventing Its WAF For Fun And Profit - Part 2