Another Release on Altera's Cyclone V SoC, and another COMMENT, beginning a further extension of the story line.

From:  Market Wired, carried on Yahoo

COMMENT - The individual seated at the left is John Fund, who received the singularly valuable assistance of Green Hills Software, Inc., in early 2003, when an officer of the company mailed him a document which he put up on line as part of a continuing campaign to destroy the credibility of Morgan Pillsbury, who he had battered and tried to have murdered the year before.  

The document, a deposition, was uncertified, and therefore it was not legal to copy or provide it to anyone.  

Several months earlier, Morgan had vented her spleen against Sidney Blumenthal, who, she said, had hacked her computer, stealing information about Fund and the Bush Administration.  Morgan hacked Sid's computer, installing a keylogger.  

She found a lot more than comments from Sid's editor, and these were revelations the Bush administration was very anxious not find the light of day.  They still are.

Nothing about it was political.  It started with the Weaselsearch Tape, on which you can hear John and Morgan discuss how to artfully lie as John opines on how you present what you want the facts to be. 

An article was written in 2001, published September 4th, by John Connelly, who also writes for Vanity Fair.   It was titled, "Sex, Lies, and the Tape."

NEWS RELEASE

Integrated ARM-Based Hard Processor System (HPS) Combined With FPGA Advances Reductions in System Power, Cost and Board Space

Press Release: Green Hills Software – Tue, Apr 23, 2013 8:00 AM

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SANTA BARBARA, CA and SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2013) - DESIGN West, Booth 1320 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the upcoming availability of its industry-leading INTEGRITY® RTOS and comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for the Altera^® Cyclone^® V SoC. Green Hills Software supported solutions include the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) with SMP configuration; its award-winning MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE); a full suite of middleware including network stacks, file systems and conformant POSIX; and the Green Hills JTAG Probe.

"Our Cyclone V SoC products provide customers a superior architecture, both from a silicon and an embedded software perspective, and the addition of Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI tools support only furthers our architectural advantage," said Chris Balough, senior director of SoC product marketing at Altera. "Support for INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI tools enables our customers to quickly develop small footprint, low-cost and high-performance scalable systems with absolute reliability and safety targets in mind."
Altera Cyclone V SoCs include several distinctive features that enable developers in the wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets to create custom SoC variants optimized for system power, board space, performance and cost requirements. The integrated ARM-based hard processor system found in the Cyclone V SoC consists of a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, peripherals, and memory interfaces, and is connected with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone.
With the Cyclone V SoCs, Altera is the only FPGA vendor today shipping SoCs that offer 32-bit error correction code (ECC) support, which helps ensure data integrity throughout the memory system. ECC support is a requirement for customers who are designing highly reliable systems. ECC functionality is built into the SoC's external DRAM memory interface and an extensive number of on-chip memory instances and peripheral interfaces, including L2 Cache, scratch RAM, Ethernet MACs, USB ports and flash memory interfaces. Other unique features in the device family include a high-bandwidth memory controller with built-in memory protection, flexible boot capability and integrated PCI Express® (PCIe®) across all SoC devices.
The comprehensive Green Hills support for the Altera Cyclone V SoC includes:

• INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) with SMP configuration
• Full suite of middleware, with:
  • High reliability / journaling file systems
  • Wear leveling FLASH storage
  • TCP/IP v4/v6 Network stack
  • POSIX Conformant System interfaces
• Award-winning MULTI development environment
• Industry's fastest C/C++ ARM compilers
• Green Hills JTAG Probe

Green Hills Software's flagship run-time offering is the INTEGRITY RTOS. The INTEGRITY RTOS' success is due to its advanced separation kernel architecture, incorporating memory protection, guaranteed resource availability, secure remote management and deterministic real-time response. INTEGRITY technology is independently certified to numerous safety and security standards in industrial safety: the highest level for industrial safety certification (IEC-61508 SIL 3), and the highest level of security certification (Common Criteria - ISO/IEC 15408), railway safety (EN 50128 SWSIL 4), medical (FDA Class III), the avionics (DO-178B Level A), and EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest Common Criteria security level ever achieved for any software product.
In addition, the Green Hills tool suite has recently been independently qualified by multiple agencies for use in developing application code that requires certification up to the highest safety levels, covering industrial safety IEC 61508 SIL 4, railway EN 50128 SIL 4 and the new automotive ISO 26262 ASIL D standard.
"Combining the INTEGRITY RTOS's independent certification pedigree and proven use in the world's most reliable systems with Altera's ECC-enabled SoCs empowers customers to develop the most advanced, highly reliable solutions, while achieving excellent power, performance, size and cost metrics," commented Dan Mender, vice president business development, Green Hills Software. "Altera's Cyclone V SoCs provide the ultimate combination of hardened intellectual property (IP) for performance and power savings with the flexibility of programmable logic."
Availability Green Hills Software will sell its solutions for the Altera Cyclone V SoC in 2Q 2013.

About Green Hills SoftwareFounded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY and SuperTrace are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:

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The Media After Gosnell (John Fund praises Kirsten Powers who used to work for the rats!)

From:  National Review Online  | April 15, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:32:15 AM by neverdem

COMMENT - John Fund is the fellow who once worked at the Wall Street Journal and evaded charges of domestic violence with the cooperative efforts of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, the first two numbers on his speed dial, in 2003. 

In 2001 an article,  titled, "Sex, Lies, and the Tape," authored by John Connolly of Vanity Fair and the Tape,   made its appearance online, accompanied by what is now known as the Weaselsearch Tape.  Transcript  

The tape was made by the woman John Fund had talked into aborting his child, then battered and tried to kill. Morgan Pillsbury, left destitute, recorded the tape to persuade her mother, Pillsbury-Foster, in 1999,  she was not lying.  

Morgan has issues with the truth, there is no doubt. But then again, so does John.  In late 2002 Morgan was living in hiding in Georgia because of attempts on her life.  

John Fund is pro-life, you know.  He says so.  But, the reality behind his article, hiding behind the horror of the Gosnell Clinic, is using abortion for political positioning, his real job being as a political operative working with and for Karl Rove.     

Back to 2003.  Where did I read that date before?  Right, an earlier entry on this blog regarding an article appearing in the Wall Street Journal., the COMMENT to which, in part read, "Craig Franklin and Dan O'Dowd rendered service to the Wall Street Journal's long time Editorial Page Editor, John Fund in 2003 by providing to him a document which could not legally be supplied, this being an uncertified deposition from a prior action for which Dan O'Dowd had asked to hold a Power of Attorney for purposes of ensuring the settlement agreement was carried out. Fund immediately put the document up on line, where it remains today.    A third party saw the enveloped document, was told what it contained, and that it was addressed to Fund.  This was reported to Pillsbury-Foster only in 2008, five years after  government contracts began to flow for Dan."

Motive, motive, motive.  Piles of money fast tracked into Dan O'Dowd's pockets moved Green Hills to generously share the uncertified deposition in their file.
 

Why would Karl and Dick be so motivated?  An article outlining their motives, which became far more urgent in November of 2002, will be out soon.  Sign up to receive updates.  

Article below: 

Now it’s time for journalists to report on the “meat-market style” abortions at a Delaware clinic.

If there were an award for Most Constructive Shaming of the News Media, the clear winner would be Kirsten Powers, the brave Fox News pundit and Daily Beast columnist. Last Thursday, she called out the mainstream media for failing to adequately report on the ongoing trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who is charged with murdering seven newborn infants and a patient seeking an abortion. Powers’s USA Today piece provoked an instant response from many sheepish journalists.
Megan McArdle of the Daily Beast acknowledged she

“should have” written about the “horror Doc’s” clinic. The Washington Post made the stunning admission that “we should have sent a reporter sooner.” Dylan Beers, Politico’s media reporter, flatly stated that “Gosnell should be front-page, top-of-the-hour news by prime time tonight.” Jeffrey Goldberg, a Bloomberg View columnist, concluded, “It’s remarkable that it took this long.”
Indeed, the silence had been stunning since the Gosnell trial began back on March 18. No mention of the story at all on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, or MSNBC, and no front-page stories in any major paper. National Review, The Weekly Standard, Breitbart.com, and Michelle Malkin, on the

other hand, provided early and consistent coverage. J. D. Mullane, the columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times who has been a tiger on the story, reported last week what he found in the courtroom: In the entire 40-seat section reserved for the media, he was the only one present. A couple of local journos were scattered elsewhere around the courtroom.
The lack of interest is striking in an era when “if it bleeds it leads” thinking pervades the media. As Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times noted last week:

The Gosnell case would seem to contain all the ingredients of must-see television: a formerly respected community leader accused of unspeakable acts; the death of a young immigrant woman; a parade of former employees offering graphic testimony on the gruesome deaths of more than 100 just-born infants; and even the implication by the doctor’s lawyers that the charges have been motivated by racism. Dr. Gosnell is black and his clinic was in a mostly minority neighborhood.

It’s natural to think that some of the lack of interest stems from the gruesomeness of the details. Gosnell’s “practice” was so grisly that some people might wish to turn away and ignore the nightmare. But unpalatable images and facts don’t stop the media from reporting on the horrors of famine-stricken North Korea, even though there are almost no pictures available. It seems undeniable, then,

that abortion politics played a role in the blackout. When Mullane asked a member of the court’s staff why there was so little media interest, the man pointed to the filthy medical equipment set up in the courtroom as an exhibit and asked, “If you’re pro-choice, do you really want anybody to know about this?”
It’s not as if there isn’t good reason for pro-choice journalistic sleuths to pursue the story for simple muckraking purposes. It’s a stunning tale of bureaucratic neglect and incompetence. Despite its law against partial-birth abortions, Pennsylvania stopped regular inspections of abortion clinics in 1993. But regulators still received frequent — and credible — complaints about unsanitary or horrific practices taking place behind Gosnell’s clinic door. And they did nothing.
A 2011 grand-jury report singled out racism and politics for the “see no evil” attitudes. “We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion,” the grand-jury report stated. Philadelphia district attorney Seth Williams, a liberal Democrat and one of the prosecutors in the case, maintains that abortion clinics are held to lower standards than other businesses are. In 2011, he asked, “How is it that we have more oversight in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of women’s hair salons than we do over abortion clinics?”
Kudos to those in the media who are now quick to play catch-up on Gosnell. We might owe some of this course correction to the fact that the chief critic of media malpractice on Gosnell, Kirsten Powers, is not a conservative. Powers is a former Democratic political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House, and she supports most liberal causes, but she hasn’t spent her entire career in the media or the professional Left. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, understands the values of the Heartland, and is a practicing Christian. From her perspective, many people at both ends of the political spectrum wear ideological blinders. “This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the Left,” she told the Religious News Service last week. “It should be a top concern for Americans, especially if you are a liberal and you believe dissent is a critical part to democracy.”
It’s sad that it took a liberal such as Powers to shame so many journos into waking up and doing their jobs. The blunt truth is that if a conservative had written her piece, the response would have been far more muted — or journalists would have attacked the messenger. Jeff Toobin of CNN offered a preposterous explanation for the media’s handling of the Gosnell case: “Well, the people making those [media] criticisms are by and large conservative. They are saying the liberal media is trying to protect abortion rights by not showing this horror show. I don’t buy that at all. . . . It’s a business decision. We are not operating with the political agenda here. We pick stories, by and large, for reasons that we think people would be interested. I don’t think we’re covering this up.”
Moving forward, there are two good ways to test Toobin’s hypothesis.
First, two former nurses at Planned Parenthood of Delaware told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia this month that conditions at the clinic there are dangerous. Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich, one of the former nurses, said: “It was just unsafe. I couldn’t tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was.” “They could be at risk of getting hepatitis, even AIDS,” added the other nurse, Joyce Vasikonis. Channel 6 reported that both nurses were stunned “by what they called a meat-market style of assembly-line abortions.” It noted that in Delaware, abortion clinics are not subject to routine inspections: “Planned Parenthood is essentially in charge of inspecting itself.” Will any national reporters follow up on Channel 6’s reporting? 
Second, a leading Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania is Allyson Schwartz, a five-term Democratic congresswoman who represents part of Philadelphia, where Gosnell had his clinic. Democrats are openly fretting that Schwartz, a passionate liberal, has political baggage. Not only has she voted against any and all restrictions on abortion, but from 1975 to 1988 she ran a women’s health clinic in Philadelphia where abortions were performed. Schwartz is “a dream candidate for Republicans,” one Democratic strategist told Philly.com this month before the Gosnell story erupted nationally.
J. D. Mullane is one journalist who is on the case. He has peppered Schwartz with questions on Twitter for days now. One sample: “Thoughts on Gosnell? Did you know him? Did you ever refer women to his clinic while you directed yours?” We’ll see how many journalists follow his lead with questions about her stance on partial-birth abortion, her record at her clinic, and her thoughts on the poor regulatory history of abortion clinics in Pennsylvania. So far, there has been only silence from the Schwartz camp.
— John Fund is national-affairs columnist for NRO.