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If I knew then what I know now, this one might have been a lot easier. These words are swimming in my head as I write this story on Richard Widmark. I was stationed for a few years at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., at Eatontown, in the U.S. Army. This was 1968 to 1971. On several occasions I made trips to Bridgeport, Conn., with an Army buddy whose home was there. It did not take me long to find out how close all destinations are when in the northeast part of our country. I traveled all over the New England states and up and down most of the East Coast.
Roxbury, Conn., is less than an hour away from Bridgeport. Widmark had friends in this part of the state and liked the area. The Widmark family bought their almost nine-acre country farm in Roxbury in the mid-1960s. They had homes on both coasts now. The house, built in 1917, was a sprawling, shake shingle, 2,500-square-foot rustic Litchfield home, set in a spacious level open meadow, surrounded by mature gardens. The property also included a one-room schoolhouse on an additional four acres that Widmark and his daughter Anne eventually donated in 1997 to the Roxbury Land Trust in memory of his late wife, Jean Widmark, who died that same year. This is the Widmark Preserve. They purchased and donated another 22 acres later on in 2004. I missed this little bit of "Eden" back then, though I've seen the property now on the Internet. I was a different person then, with other priorities, so I didn't know how close I was to giving my own future something tangible to look back on. The 8.75-acre farm sold for $1,200,000 in 2012. Like I said, this might have been a lot easier.
The genesis for the movie "Cheyenne Autumn" was research Widmark had done in the early 1960s at Yale University (also less than an hour from Roxbury, in New Haven) into the suffering of the Cheyenne Indians. Widmark was a very curious well-read person with an insatiable appetite for news and the hopeful betterment of his fellow man. He showed his work to John Ford, and two years later, Ford sent Widmark a finished screenplay. Ford wanted to do another picture with Widmark after directing him in "Two Rode Together" (1961).
Ford made "Cheyenne Autumn" in 1964 starring Widmark, Carroll Baker, and a cast that just couldn't get much better. Karl Malden, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Victor Jory, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Harry Carey Jr., Ken Curtis, Ben Johnson, Sal Mineo, Deloris del Rio, John Carradine, Mike Mazurki, Patrick Wayne, John Qualen, and the amazing Mae Marsh, along with the Ford Company stock players bring this tale to life. I actually met one of the cast, Karl Malden, on the other coast in San Diego, Calif. Malden and Widmark were good friends since when they were both in radio in the late '30s and early '40s.
Malden and Widmark made six movies together. In the summer of 1976, my older brother and I made a trek to visit another brother who was living on Coronado Island off the coast of San Diego. We took a southern route out and came back through the northern part of the country. We took in San Diego's Sea World one day and had these girls diving for pearls for us. I was making a trip along a long pool heading to the restroom. A man in a porkpie hat, loud Hawaiian shirt, and large sunglasses, was coming right toward me. I knew that nose. I just kept staring. I stopped, and the guy says, "Yeah, It's me, buddy boy." and he stopped. "Karl Malden," I said. He nodded yes, I said I was a fan of his work, and I watched his television show. We chatted for probably less than a minute. I was kind of dumb struck and only remember for sure that he was making his TV series, "The Streets of San Francisco," just up the coast at the time. I thought of all the questions I should have asked him a lot later. I guess that made me zero for two then.
"Cheyenne Autumn" takes place in 1878, where chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalban) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) lead over 300 starved and weary Cheyenne on a 1,500-mile journey from their reservation in the Oklahoma territory to their ancestral hunting ground homeland in Yellowstone, Wyo. The government has failed to deliver the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne in their barren desert encampment. The starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth, and so they also break the accord. The government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Widmark) is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe.
The press misrepresents the native's motives for their trek as a malicious act. Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz (Edward G. Robinson) tries to prevent violence from erupting between the Army and the Indians. During the hunt Captain Archer grows to respect the noble courage of the Cheyenne and decides to help them. James Stewart is cast as Wyatt Earp, and Carroll Baker plays a pacifist school teacher who is Archer's (Widmark) love interest.
Most of the location filming was done in Monument Valley and Moab, Utah, but the snow sequences were actually shot on the Double Tree Ranch in Gunnison, Colo. The historic mountain valley ranch was discovered by Ford. He filmed part of "The Searchers" (1956) there, and it would also serve as a stand in for the Oklahoma-Wyoming winter landscape in this film.
This was to be Ford's last western, and he was saying goodbye to the landscapes that he brought to the screen for movie-goers for almost 30 years. He also wanted to direct James Stewart one last time, and so the Dodge City card playing scene with Arthur Kennedy (Doc Holliday) and Ford regular John Carradine (Jeff Blair) is kind of stuck in the movie to offer a little light-hearted relief.
I previously wrote about the way Ford could be during the filming of any of his movies, and the antics were no different during the making of "Cheyenne Autumn." Widmark still liked working with Ford, and he knew better than to fall for his little games. He would also not put up with anything that Ford decided to push to the limit. Ford had this habit of picking one actor that he would ride the entire film. Actor Mike Mazurki was the unfortunate goat on this film. He was a former professional wrestler, and his filmography is impressive. He and Widmark had made the film noir classic "Night and the City" (1950) where he played a wrestler called "The Strangler." His film persona and whiskey voice are instantly recognizable to even the occasional film buff. Ford was shooting a scene, one too many times, with Widmark, an officer, and Mazurki, a sergeant, where they are riding along at the head of a column. Widmark discovers a whiskey bottle in Mazurki's saddlebag. Ford had been relentlessly picking on Mazurki the whole movie. Widmark was fed up with it. Ford tells Widmark to hold the whiskey bottle "Up higher, so the camera can see it," and he yelled back at Ford, "You mean like this?" smashing the bottle against a big rock. The contents of the bottle splattered all over the place, scaring the horses, and even making Ford jump. He was telling Ford to let up on Mazurki. Widmark got off his horse, picked up his chair, walked across the desert, and sat in it. It became deadly silent for a long time. Ford finally spoke in a soft voice with mock awe, "What a terrible temper." A pot calling the kettle black. Five more minutes of silence went by with Widmark sitting in his chair, back to everyone. Ford finally got up, walked over to Widmark, leaned over him, and with his hand, tickled him under the chin, "Kootchie ... Kootchie ... Koo." Widmark let go with his famous laugh and came back to work. Ford left Mazurki alone for the rest of the filming.
Widmark said of Ford later on, "Underneath, he was a very complex guy. He was a nut-ball, but I was fond of him."
Well, it's time to get this prairie dust out of our throats for awhile and head back east to Princeton. We can get back to Widmark's career later. I think a doughnut and cup of coffee are in order, so I'll take a look at the Widmark bakery, and we'll see what was going on with him growing up with the movies.


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SOURCE: Edwards Lifesciences
December 04, 2012 09:00 ET
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 4, 2012) - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, today will provide investors with information on the initiatives expected to result in strong double-digit sales and earnings growth in 2013. During its annual investor conference at its headquarters in Irvine, Calif., Edwards' management will also discuss the company's strategy for long-term growth, technology pipeline, ongoing U.S. transcatheter heart valve launch and financial goals for 2013.
"We expect 2013 will be another very rewarding year for Edwards Lifesciences as we deliver new life saving technologies to patients around the world," said Michael A. Mussallem, chairman and CEO. "We are investing aggressively to drive breakthrough innovations in heart valve treatment and to build on our legacy as a trusted partner in the care of critically ill patients.
"We project strong underlying1 sales growth fueled by the ongoing launch of our SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve in the U.S. Global sales of our market-expanding transcatheter valves are expected to grow to between $710 million and $790 million in 2013."
During the conference, Edwards' management will present the company's financial goals for 2013, which include total underlying sales growth of 13 to 16 percent, a gross profit margin of 74 to 76 percent, diluted earnings per share growth of more than 25 percent and free cash flow2 of $300 million to $340 million, with all goals excluding special items. "Our strong bottom line growth projection includes the estimated impact of the medical device excise tax, as well as investments to prepare for the launch of our SAPIEN XT transcatheter heart valve in Japan. We also expect to continue our investment in research and development at approximately 15 percent of sales in 2013, which positions us well to serve many more patients with our innovative technologies and generate significant growth for years to come," said Mussallem.
Among the specific topics to be discussed at today's event are:
In addition to Mr. Mussallem, other members of Edwards' management team presenting at the conference include:
Thomas M. Abate, corporate vice president and chief financial officer;
Donald E. Bobo, Jr., corporate vice president, Heart Valve Therapy;
Carlyn D. Solomon, corporate vice president, Critical Care and Vascular; and
Larry L. Wood, corporate vice president, Transcatheter Valve Replacement.
Guest Speakers to Provide Clinical Perspective
Also speaking at the conference are interventional cardiologist John G. Webb, MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, and cardiothoracic surgeon Robert Saeid Farivar, MD, PhD, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, who will discuss their perspectives on heart valve therapies.
Webcast Information
The Edwards Lifesciences 2012 Investor Conference can be accessed via live webcast at http://ir.edwards.com/investor-conference.cfm beginning at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on December 4, 2012. The webcast will also be archived on the Edwards Web site after the conference concludes.
About Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies in the areas of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring that enable them to save and enhance lives. Additional company information can be found at www.edwards.com.
This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements can sometimes be identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "should," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "project," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "guidance," "outlook," "optimistic," "aspire," "confident" or other forms of these words or similar expressions and may include, but are not limited to, Mr. Mussallem's statements; the Company's 2012 and 2013 financial goals or expectations for sales and sales growth, gross profit margin, net income and net income growth, earnings per share and earnings per share growth, R&D expense, free cash flow and other financial expectations; strategies for long-term growth; and expectations regarding the development and introduction of new products, indications and technologies (including expected timelines and outcomes of clinical trials, regulatory approvals, reimbursement and market opportunities). Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by management of the Company and are believed to be reasonable, though they are inherently uncertain and difficult to predict. Our forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of the statement. If the Company does update or correct one or more of these statements, investors and others should not conclude that the Company will make additional updates or corrections.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or experience to differ materially from that expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results or experience to differ materially from that expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements include the unexpected changes or developments in opportunities for the Company's transcatheter valve programs and the ability of the Company to continue to lead in the development of this field; the Company's success in developing new products, obtaining regulatory approvals, and creating new market opportunities for its products; quality or manufacturing issues; the availability and levels of reimbursement for the Company's products; the impact of competitive products; changes in currency exchange rates; unexpected changes to the timing or results of pending or future clinical trials; actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies; and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011.
To supplement the consolidated financial results prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), the Company uses non-GAAP financial measures. The Company uses the term "underlying" when referring to non-GAAP sales information, which excludes discontinued and acquired products and foreign exchange fluctuations, and "excluding special items" to also exclude gains and losses from special items such as significant investments, litigation, and business development transactions. Guidance for sales and sales growth rates is provided on an "underlying" basis, and projections for diluted earnings per share, gross profit margin, net income and growth, and free cash flow are also provided on the same non-GAAP (or "excluding special items") basis due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting such items. Management does not consider the excluded items part of day-to-day business or reflective of the core operational activities of the Company as they result from transactions outside the ordinary course of business. Management uses non-GAAP financial measures internally for strategic decision making, forecasting future results and evaluating current performance. By disclosing non-GAAP financial measures, management intends to provide investors with a more meaningful, consistent comparison of the Company's core operating results and trends for the periods presented. These non-GAAP financial measures are used in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP and reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of the company's operations that, when viewed with its GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting the company's business. These non-GAAP measures should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, the corresponding measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP; therefore, the information is not necessarily comparable to other companies. The Company is not able to provide a reconciliation of projections for underlying sales and sales growth or projected gross profit margin, net income and growth, projected earnings per share guidance and projected free cash flow, excluding special items, to expected reported results due to the unknown effect, timing and potential significance of special charges or gains, and management's inability to forecast foreign currency changes and charges associated with future transactions and initiatives.
Edwards, Edwards Lifesciences, the stylized E logo, CENTERA, Edwards INTUITY, Edwards SAPIEN, Edwards SAPIEN XT, SAPIEN, SAPIEN 3, GlucoClear, and GLX are trademarks of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation.
1 "Underlying" amounts are non-GAAP and in this press release assumes a constant foreign currency rate in 2012 and 2013.
2 Free cash flow is defined as cash flow from operating activities less capital expenditures.
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When the Clarks Wallabee was originally introduced in the early 1960s, the shoes were made in Kilkenny, Ireland at the Padmore & Barnes factory. From 1964 to 1987, Clarks maintained ownership of the factory, where they first invented the Wallabee's signature silhouette. Although both companies have since parted ways, there's a definite difference in the construction of today's Clarks Wallabees and the recently-resurrected Padmore & Barnes in-house line—where you can find the P204 shoes and chukka boots still honestly handcrafted in the same place they were born. While Wallabees are a polarizing style often associated with either the prep set or hip-hop culture and the Wu-Tang Clan, they're a comfortable and surprisingly versatile footwear choice. The slightly square toe and thick crepe sole can add just the right amount of contrast to a pair of jeans, chinos or military jacket. Plus with St. Patrick's day coming up, they're an ideal way to go Irish.


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On Wednesday I was out and about at lunchtime, at the market across from the office building where I was attending a governmental meeting. Low and behold there were fresh Louisiana strawberries, freshly brought in from Pontchatoula. Theyve been around since Christmas, but as the season progresses, the berries get deeper in color and sweeter in taste, and truly beat the pants off any Californian or Mexican berries. I just wanted to throw that out there so that you all dont think that the only thing of note in the Pontchatoula area is Marguerite Perrin, the infamous God Warrior from last season.
Are you there Fox? Its me, Marguerite.
After being treated to numerous flashbacks to the last time ole Mags was on the show, tearing up the Distribution Letter of Doom, we catch up with her. She tells us that she prayed about it, and ultimately decided to take the money. She had gastric bypass surgery and is down 72.5 lbs, to 295 lbs. Shes trying to be more active and lose the weight. She believes she put the money towards life and is living a great one with her charismatic family. These family members include her husband Barry, her eldest daughter Ashley, her younger daughter Brooke, and Ashelys little girl Abigail. Ashley is 24 and still living at home; shes apparently quite shiftless and does not get out of bed until late most days. Barry has changed jobs since we last saw the Perrins because the warehouse he operated was flooded during Katrina. Marguerite says shes tried to learn patience since her last appearance. She claims that seeing herself on television acting like a raving loon made her hid in her bed for weeks until Jay Lenos booking agent called and she fame whored it up in LA.
Drawing the short straw.
The family unlucky enough to draw the short straw and swap with the Perrin clan are the Brown-Malone family from St. Petersburg, Florida. The neighborhood that this family lives in is shown to be working class, but with cute older cottage style homes. Latoya and her husband Abasi are fervent believers that African Americans are owed reparations for the years spent in slavery. She is also interested in building a strong African-only community in her area that celebrates all aspects of African culture, including dance and arts. Abasi is a host on a local talk show which focuses on expanding black power. Abasi says hes not prejudiced against white people, but prejudiced for black people. That logic doesnt quite sit on all four legs, but he comes across as a fairly standup guy in that, when he met Latoya she already had a daughter, Shachaamah. He said hes pledged that if he ever had kids, hed be around them as a stable father, and hes doing that for Shach. Latoya says the family is not well-off, and they work hard to get by, sometimes living from paycheck to paycheck, but they also work hard in their community to motivate people to build a strong African community.
Finally, a sign!!!!!
After all these polite introductions to the families, its time for the moms to wake up early and get on planes. Its a short flight between St. Petes and New Orleans, and soon enough Barry is off to the airport to collect Latoya. Having been through this before, he and the girls have the foresight to make a sign to find the new mom. Abasi hasnt been through the process before and he doesnt have a sign. Hes resigned to the fact that hell probably be stuck with some white woman, but hes going to suck it up and deal.
Latoya finds Barry pretty easily, on account of the sign. Her immediate impression is that hes very country, which is indisputable. He informs her that theyve been on the show before and that his wife was the God Warrior. Latoya reacts with an Oh, my poor, poor husband. Barry then proceeds to act the fool, rattling off all the black celebrities that he met on Marguerites tour of fame whorery, including Flavor Flav and Shaquille ONeal. Im quite sure this impresses no one, especially given that Flavor Flav is a big-time fame whore and Shaquille ONeal went to LSU and is frequently around these parts. They eventually get to the house, and Latoya says it is very different from hers. She says the kids seem friendly and the family seems set financially.
Marguerite is having quite the different experience in the car with Abasi. He immediately launches into race talk, and asserts that Hurricane Katrina was a weapon of mass destruction unleashed on the poor black communities by the United States government. He also mentions one of the bridge incidents where the evacuees who made it across the bridge to the West Bank were turned away with shotguns. Marguerite, amazingly, has little to say and tries to just not engage him in his rant. They get to the house after a long ride, and Marguerite meets Shach, who is the same age as her grandchild. Marguerite inquires what they do for fun, and then Abasi gets a beverage, chugs it down, and belches. He then goes on and on about belching, passing gas, and using the bathroom. Marguerite is overcome with dry heaves, and mercifully a commercial comes on. Abasi is apparently very rude to guests in his house. Youd think for 5 days and $50K, you could refrain from belching on your guest.
Oh my god, she did NOT just pull that old story out of the bag!
On the second day of the trade, Marguerite gets up and gets dressed and decides she is going to make an effort to get to know Abasi and have a nice conversation about what he likes to do. She innocuously asks him what kind of music he likes. She says she likes hip hop music and then says she met some musicians who are decidedly not hip hop. She then claims she likes Eminem and wonders why Abasi doesnt like him. Give me a breaktrying to bond with an admittedly militant black man by bringing up the 2000s version of Vanilla Ice? Thats embarrassing. Abasi does not like Eminem at all and generally takes umbrage with any white person performing black music. Marguerite does not share this view, and asserts that she is color blind and does not see races. She then proceeds to say that when she was a child, they had a black maid and treated her like an aunt. This is the oldest southern belle story in the book. I cannot tell you how many times Ive heard this story as some sort of proof that the teller isnt racist. They may not be, but clearly this isnt the best evidence. Abasi says that the maid was just a slave to her family and goes on a tangent about millions of blacks being held in jail, and that blacks are more likely to do hard time than whites, and so on. He then says she should try being black for one week, but shed probably kill herself. She retorts that shed love it and would be hip hoppin around and eating gizzards. Why yes, thats not racist at all.
Kathy with a K gets the devil in her eyes.
Latoyas day starts a bit more pleasantly, but takes a turn for the worse. She wakes up and goes to the kitchen, and Brooke is in the kitchen doing something. Barry has already taken Abigail to school, and slack-ass Ashley is still asleep. Brooke tells Latoya that Marguerites friends are coming over for brunch at 10:15. They will be making a green salad and angle hair pasta with shrimp. The rest of the ladies will be bringing a dish as well. Latoya fixes the salad and makes the pasta dish, while Brooke makes sweet tea. Ashley still sleeps. These friends of Marguerite who are coming over are the same friends who harangued the last woman who swapped about her non-belief in a specific god, so you know they are quite the charming group.
They arrive one by one, each bearing a separate plate of food which theyve clearly purchased from some store. Latoya comments that its a real southern belle type of thing and she is dead on; Ive lived in south Louisiana almost all my life, but being from the north originally, I still feel like Im peering in on some freaky foreign cultural experience whenever I attend a function populated nearly entirely by these daughters of the confederacy types. To get a drop on Marguerites friends, imagine The Real Housewives of Orange County, but with far less skilled plastic surgeons. Theres one woman who needs a chin implant so badly, I want to call Dr. Rey for her.
Latoya is, understandably, uncomfortable at the lunch and the conversation rolls around to Katrina and its aftermath. Latoya says that she has a friend in St. Petes who was displaced from New Orleans and cant go back because she didnt have insurance to cover her losses. These women, especially one fake blonde named Kathy, cant quite understand how this could be, since there have been major, major donations made to relief funds. I seriously dont want to get up on a soap box on this issue, but when the state agency in charge of helping homeowners rebuild processes 3 cases a week instead of the 200 cases its supposed to, there is absolutely no wonder why people arent rebuilding at a greater pace. That, coupled with the massive gulf coast insurance litigation, prohibits even upper middle class people from rebuilding to the extent they wish, let alone the un- and under-insured. These bitches ignorance has no excuse, but they pin their argument on the fact that there was plenty of FEMA abuse going on, and implying that it was only blacks perpetrating that abuse (which is far from the truth). After the lunch is over, Latoya says that she expected as much from the women, because the south has been bred on slavery. Kathy counters in an interview that white people are in the minority now.
Road trips.
Abasi has concluded that Marguerite just doesnt get what hes saying, so he wants to take her on a tour of St. Petersburg. He shows her his neighborhood, the formerly black neighborhood that has been gentrified, and ends up droning on and on about gentrification, the building of highways through the black neighborhoods rather than the white neighborhoods and displacement of black people from the original places they inhabited. Marguerite just comments on the pretty pelicans she sees along the beach and tries to ignore Abasis tirade. She says he tries her patience, and Id think hed try anyones patience.
Meanwhile, Latoya has asked to go on a tour of the devastation in New Orleans. Barry agrees and thinks its a good idea. They start out in Mid-City and take St. Claude down into the Lower Ninth, out to Chalmette, and likely came back and went out to New Orleans East, like along Chef Mentuer. Sorry to say that a lot of the area looks the same, given the flood and devastation, so I cant be more specific or certain of where they went. They stop at a house that looks to be in the East, closer to the Lake, since most houses around it are gone completely. They get out of the car and go in and see how high the water gothigh enough to fill the light bulb in the ceiling fan. Latoya and the Perrins find this amazingly sad that the destruction has ruined so many homes and lives, and Latoya says that itll clearly take more than a year to come back from this level of decimation.
Hot head explosion!
You know it and I know itMarguerite has been acting too calm up until now. Shes got to get crazy and so does Abasi, because why else would they pair her with him? Finally that moment comes. Abasi says that Marguerite absolutely has not gotten what hes been saying and he just doesnt care any more, but he will invite her to come along to the taping of his television show. Meanwhile, Marguerite has been working on a floral arrangement with Shach, who is a cute little girl who actually gets along with Marguerite. Clearly Shach is destined for sainthood. After Abasi tells Marguerite about the show, she asks what the show is about. He says that its about bringing issues to the community. She asks if it is a show to address basic municipal things like roads. He says no, its all about the black community and representing that community because no one else does. She asks if it is a black-only show. He says no, it is not. She then asks if theyve ever had a white guest, and he scoffs, saying not to his recollection. She wonders if theyd let a white person on the show, and he says hes just not interested in what white people have to say. It becomes clear that Abasi is against integration altogether, with a separate African community away from all white people. Marguerite is tired of Abasis fixation and obsession with all things racial (as am IId think if the toast burnt, hed turn it in to a racial rant) and asks him to please not shout at her, and speak in a conversational tone. He gets peeved and starts shouting more and more, at which the old Warrior in Marguerite comes out, and she looses her cool, shouting that shes not going to listen.
With that, the episode ends, and the promise of more shouting is made. Tune in next week when Latoya calls Ashley on her slothfulness and Abasi declares Marguerite the enemy.


text: All are welcome to the Wolf Creek Players Annual meeting on Sunday, February 17, 3 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church in Dysart. Come and enjoy a performance by some members of the organization as well as learn what they have been doing and what is ahead for this community theatrical group. In addition, enjoy a light soup supper. Mark your calendars now to attend the Wolf Creek Players annual meeting.


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America is settling in nicely to Season 3 of Downton Abbey. I freely admit that I am an avid Downton fan, and even during the frantic stress of finishing my cookbook, the opening theme for the show never, ever ceases to give me peace and calm. Thank you John Lunn for your brilliant contribution to TV soundtracks. I could actually manage to play "Damaged", but generally love listening to the music. I am not sure I can get used to the theme song with lyrics, but buy it and judge for yourself. I haven't gone so far as to download the Downton Abbey ring tone- I am afraid I would jump for a TV remote and not my cell phone.


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Brussels, 7 January 2002
Air passengers rights: Commission proposes to reinforce protection against denied boarding, cancellation and long delays
The Commission has adopted a proposal of regulation to protect the rights of air passengers when facing denied boarding, cancellation of their flight or a long delay. " Too many Europeans have a bad surprise when checking-in for their flight. We want to cut the number of passengers who suffer from denied boarding; our proposals will make this practice much less common. We want to protect passengers against cancellations of flights for which operators are responsible, particularly when unexpected and made at a late stage." said Loyola de Palacio, Vice-President of the Commission in charge of Energy and Transport. "Strengthening the rights of passengers will help restore their confidence in air travel" she underlined.
Roughly one quarter of a million air passengers each year get a bad surprise at EU airports when checking-in for their flight. They have bought a ticket and reserved a place. They are then told by the operator that their flight has been overbooked and they have to take a later one. Denied boarding causes passengers great inconvenience and loss of time. Equally bad surprises are cancellations without warning and delays that leave passengers stranded for hours at an airport.
The Community already has a regulation on denied boarding dating from 1991 but, although it was an important step forward in the protection of passengers, it has proved too weak and limited. It does not effectively deter airlines from denying boarding. It does not cover cancellations for commercial reasons or long delays. It does not apply to non-scheduled flights, chartered by tour operators. The Commission proposes today to give passengers effective protection all-round by taking 4 main measures:
Extend air passenger rights to passengers of all kinds of flights.
The present regulation is limited to scheduled flights, about half the market. The new one would cover it all, that is both scheduled and non-scheduled flights (including air transport sold as part of a package holiday).
Cut denied boarding.
The new regulation would dramatically reduce the frequency of denying boarding against a passenger's will. It would do so through a combination of two measures:
In addition to financial compensation, passengers denied boarding would continue to enjoy both these rights:
Volunteers would also be able to choose between an alternative flight and reimbursement of their ticket.
Minimise the inconvenience of cancellations.
When airlines or tour operators cancel flights and are responsible for doing so, the new regulation would require them to contact passengers before departure time and negotiate with them the conditions for surrendering their reservations. Passengers who cannot be contacted or do not volunteer would have the right to compensation at the at the rate fixed for denied boarding (cancellation is denied boarding in an extreme form).
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For the second time in as many months, a federal claims court has delayed the deadline for the U.S. Postal Service to respond to allegations in a lawsuit that Northrop Grumman Corp. filed against the agency over a contract dispute, according to Federal Times.
U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge George Miller postponed the deadline due to "scheduling issues and the limited availability of relevant USPS personnel [that] have delayed progress toward filing a response," Miller wrote in his decision.
The lawsuit filed earlier this year claims that USPS owes the contractor nearly $180 million for a $902 million automated mail processing equipment contract agreed to in 2007. Northrop Grumman said USPS added many post hoc changes to the contract, which called for 100 machines to sort magazines, large envelopes and other flat pieces of mail, Federal Times reported. The changes also included new technical specifications in machine design and an inordinate number of meetings with USPS personnel, according to Northrop Grumman.
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...it will slip between the fibers on your pocket, fall on the floor, get vacuumed up and get accidentally thrown away.
The future is here.
People already lose 17" laptops. This will be no different.
If you make the minimum size something like a cell phone it will just be that much more powerful.
Good luck trying to mass manufacture those.
Didn't they say the same thing about reducing die sizes to the nanometre scale?
That was my point - back then creating working dies at 22 nm, which is as good as we can do right now really, would have been laughed at by some. "That's only 100 or so atoms! Good luck!"
The team doing this has demonstrated that they can be much more accurate with single atom placement than in the past, so I don't doubt we'll be building at the single atom scale in mass production eventually, and probably within my lifetime easily.
No. The limit is a single atom. Not unless someone comes up with a way of making a transistor out of free quarks. We'd have to have some sort of breakthrough in physics to do that and that's not even on the horizon yet.
-theoretical ---we are not even here yet.
-demo devices
-prototype devices
-production/commercial devices
I thought going beyond the limit of a single atom was the purpose behind Quantum computing?
It should be interesting to see what happens in the next few years. SInce following the trend now leads to subatomic 200pm process sizes in 20 years or so. Apparently the current lithography technology has limits around 10nm.
I'm not going to get behind the line on this one; I always seem to get lazy, and then lose out. Not this time, by gods! I'm placing my hold on "The Young Man's Illustrated Primer" at the library right now!
We were making single atom transistors ten years ago, but it was hit or miss whether the atom would end up in the right place.
Today, we can place the atom with high precision, in silicon, so that the devices can be made reliably.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
Today, we can place the atom with high precision, in silicon, so that the devices can be made reliably.
Cornell demonstrated a single atom transistor [eetimes.com] nearly 10 years ago, and today we are still pretty much at the level of demonstrating / playing / investigating.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
It is a pretty big jump from building a single demonstration / proof of concept device and connecting it and integrating it into a design that works reliably at speed. IBM seems to be getting some interesting results with a single atom DRAM [eetimes.com], but that is still way closer to a laboratory curiosity than an option for shipping silicon.
But that is just the Fab side of things. To actually design and build chips with this sort of technology is almost certainly going to require some serious upgrades to EDA tools.
That's what I said... that we've been able to build these things for ten years. As the article explains, the big difference here is the precision of the placement of the atom, making the devices much more manufacturable (though not on a mass-scale, of course).
And yes, there are other steps involved in making actual devices. But we don't have to work in a single pipeline. As the process engineers get closer to making this sort of thing mass producible, the software engineers will be simultaneously upgrading the EDA tools, and the design engineers will be thinking of ways to use this new device. It'll go into high price, low yielding devices at first. Probably military tech, or cutting edge instruments for physicists. Those pilot projects will be used to the design tools, tune the process, and maximize the yield.
It'll be quite some time before they reach consumer electronics, if they ever do, but I wouldn't toss them aside as non-manufacturable.
That's what I said... that we've been able to build these things for ten years.
Yes, and this is what you didn't say: and today we are still pretty much at the level of demonstrating / playing / investigating.
Did you lose interest after getting to the end of what you wrote?
Did you read how they did it?
The scientists placed the single phosphorus atom using a device known as a scanning tunneling microscope. They used it to essentially scrape trenches and a small cavity on a surface of silicon covered with a layer of hydrogen atoms. Phosphine gas was then used to deposit a phosphorus atom
We were making single atom transistors ten years ago, but it was hit or miss whether the atom would end up in the right place.
Today, we can place the atom with high precision, in silicon, so that the devices can be made reliably.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
Wasn't aware of such progress. Do you have some citations I could examine? I'm aware we can "see" individual atoms using electron tunneling microscopy-and even manipulate them a bit. Thank you, very much
Spot on.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
A little known fact about Moores law. People usually don't know this, but Moores law is actually an inverted bell curve, so a few years from now, circuits will actually start to grow bigger and bigger every year. In the future we will have computers as big as mt to perform the simplest tasks. Unfortunately the bottom of this bell curve occurs at the same time as the end of the Mayan calendar, so not to many people will be around to worry about it.
You aren't into nanotech, are you?
Massive nano-scale manufacturing is much closer to reality than you seem to assume. Look into it. No spoon on hand for me to spoonfeed right now, sorry.
You aren't into nanotech, are you?
Massive nano-scale manufacturing is much closer to reality than you seem to assume. Look into it. No spoon on hand for me to spoonfeed right now, sorry.
Did you read how they did it?
The scientists placed the single phosphorus atom using a device known as a scanning tunneling microscope. They used it to essentially scrape trenches and a small cavity on a surface of silicon covered with a layer of hydrogen atoms. Phosphine gas was then used to deposit a phosphorus atom at a precise location, which was then encased in further layers of silicon atoms.
Does that seem like a scalable process to you? Here is what the article says:
While offering astounding precisi
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http://www.sme.org/metv/ [sme.org]
MEMs devices [youtube.com], in contrast to nanoscale devices, are having a huge real world impact today and have been for some time. Nanomaterials are having an impact. Nanodevices... it looks to me like lots of laboratory work, lots of interesting projects, some fantastic demonstrations, but not much being manufactured or shipping as product.
As for the single atom transistor - interesting demonstration that is necessary for the development of future devices, but not even close to being manufacturable on any real scale.
The key, and what is happening now, is that the tools are being made. Once the tools are made, the rest is a matter of development. Don't be doubtful. Time moves faster than your expectations.
With transistors that small, how would you harden a microchip against radiation? Would the extra redundancy not make it worthwhile. That is to say, is there an optimal compromise between transistor size and resources consumed through redundancy allocation?
Do you need to? Are normal computers radiation hardened? I realize there are situations that do use that, like satellites, but they are always behind the curve technology wise due to the extra requirements for a harsh environment, so no problem with this, they could use more classic lithography.
Also you could just encase the chip/board/unit/whatever in something to resist radiation. I'm not saying that is a workable solution in all cases, but in many it would be just fine. Just shield the chip and call it good.
Do you need to? Are normal computers radiation hardened?
Exactly, I have no idea. I though all modern CPUs relied on some form of ECC correction. Certainly for the L1 and L2 cache at least. It's also why server memory uses ECC too. IMHO, I think all computers and handheld units should employ error correction well.
Google [arstechnica.com] performed a 2 and half year study of this topic. Worth reading as I'm sure it can be applied to CPUs if not transistor technology overall.
Are normal computers radiation hardened?
Yes. They are hardened against the normal background radiation that is ubiquitous. That's why there's more-or-less a minimum amount of energy that's required to change a single storage bit, otherwise it gets flipped too easily by a stray alpha decay from the chip's packaging. We entered the era where packaging is made from low-radiation materials some time ago to help with this, but it only helps, since existenace here on Earth is bathed in a certain level of radiation.
That isn't to say normal chips are hardened against abnormal levels of radiation, but they most certainly are designed with a given level of anticipated background.
Normal computers aren't radiation hardened, but the point is that they store and process information based on more than just the quantum state of a single particle. It takes a great deal more unwanted energy to cause them to flip to the undesired state. This kind of thing would many times more vulnerable to stray radiation, heat or stray electromagnetic fields than the smallest conventional transistor.
But any practical computer is going to have to contain millions of these things. If you want to carry out a computation with such a machine, either you have to protect it with conditions that have a minimal chance of causing a computational error or you will have to engineer it with redundancy and error correction mechanisms that may in the end be bigger and less reliable than a classical solution.
With transistors that small, how would you harden a microchip against radiation?
Simple. Side effect of the whole equipment required to keep it in cryogenic conditions.
Back to room sized computers
Pretty much - that's how transistors work. The phosphorous has a extra electron (compared to the silicon) and the combination forms an extrinsic semiconductor, which you then use to make junctions and transistors and diodes etc.
Just having the phosphorus atom isolated doesn't do much for you, so I think the article is referring to "silicon based computers of today" without really thinking about it properly - you still need to dope it to make it useful for making computer chips, despite it already being an intrinsic semiconductor.
Maybe they the whole thing?
What's this going to do to their sales???
They're stopping at 22/7 sales.
I told them they were being irrational, but there's no stopping them.
I hate being a nay-sayer, but the NYT article is making quite a spectacle about this whole thing. What the group has truly done is demonstrate a novel method for placing a single phosphorus atom within silicon and proceeded to measure the semiconducting properties of the resultant device with quite good precision. Because the doping is the result of a single atom, they can resolve more than just "on" and "off", and in fact can read three states from it, so it gets its quantum computing title.
As a materials scientist, I'm worried that they don't show any long-term data and all their results appear (from my not-so-thorough reading of the originating Nature Nanotechnology report) to be based on a single device. How repeatable is this result and how consistent are the signals across multiple devices? How far will the phosphorus atom diffuse over the lifetime of the device? Or even over the first few hours of its operation at room temperature? How closely can these devices be placed to each other on the silicon chip without getting cross-interference or depriving the dopant of its discrete quantum states? The dopants in a normal device aren't too terribly close to each other. And finally, how big must the surrounding structure be?
Don't get me wrong, this is excellent science and well deserving of its publication in such a prestigious journal, but the spectacle that the NYT is creating around this and the dreams of such a tiny device is a bit premature.
Congratulations, whether it will be used for QC or not (which is what is think, but i worked for some time on a competing kind of quantum bit), its a cool thing, and for sure it is a big step forward which will IMHO influence many devices.
As somebody having worked on QC i personally find every newspaper report mentioning QC having a certain hype. Usually they make it sound like: "This device will go into a working QC" instead of "this device enables to examine physics never examined before".
I want steam based computing. Big things lots of spinning wheels and whistles.
Down with this mamby-pamby micro electronics.
I want steam based computing. Big things lots of spinning wheels and whistles. Down with this mamby-pamby micro electronics.
Just be careful with overclocking.
In this respect this story is similar to the one with 'Tetris in 140 bytes' (except for external libraries, etc.).
Look, I've built a car from a single atom! It is embedded into a small cavity in the bodywork of a volkswagen.
Exactly what I was thinking. To say the the article is lacking in detail is an understatment. All transistors have 3 parts: base, emitter, collector (or source, gate, and drain with FETs, etc). Clearly, this cannot be accomplished with ONE ATOM.
Also, transistors don't store anything (as in binary 1 for on (charged) and 0 for off (discharged)). That would be a capacitor. Transistors can be used to charge or discharge capacitors, but they do not store energy.
Also, transistors don't store anything
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Principles_of_operation [wikipedia.org] would appear to disagree with you.
2+2 might eventually end up being 4
In other words, they are trying to build a computer for postmodern/liberal types Thanks, but no, thanks, I'll stay with my conservative/rationalist Turing-machine-based computer.
That will seek out and replace missing, damaged and/or defective areas of the brain (stroke/accident) or even gradually replace the entire brain so seamlessly that the individual in completely unaware until they can be moved into an artificial body.
Which will be the in and which the out and which the gate?
Electron in, Proton out and Neutron the control? Neutron in, Proton out and Electron gate? Proton in, Electron out and Neutron the gate?
Will we be able to switch them around for different applications?
E-P-N for algebraic computation, for example, N-P-E for reverse polish, maybe P-E-N for secure applications (or word-processing)?
And if these trans-atom transistors are installed in quantum applications, will there be E=NP problems?
Many dream of tiny nanobots that can swim the blood stream... but as the computers on board get faster and more powerful, there will come a day when one tiny little robot will say, to another tiny little robot, something like, "Do you really care if this clown gets eaten alive by cancer? I mean, what is it to us? We're smarter than he is anyway, shouldn't he be serving us rather than the other way around?"
Then the two tiny robots switch from hunting cancer cells to hunting Purkinje fibers.
Now the only problem is finding it.
Are you sure you left it on the bench before we went to the pub to celebrate, Bruce?
This would be useful if the supporting infrastructure wouldn't require a house full of hardware to determine the tri-state conditions.
Aren't 0201 SMDs tough enough to hand solder already?
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