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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What to expect at today's Apple event — On Thursday, before an audience of industry analysts, tech reporters and invited guests, Apple (AAPL) will unfold its long-awaited "iPhone software roadmap." The event starts at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) in Building 4, Town Hall on the company's Cupertino campus.
Discussion: MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, MacScoop, Bb's RealTech, TGDaily.com, MacDailyNews, Infinite Loop and One More Thing
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Apple Shares Rising Ahead Of iPhone SDK Event
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac: New iPhone applications to appear tonight
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: Reminder: Live coverage of iPhone Software Roadmap
Tom Krazit / One More Thing: Be here Thursday for live iPhone SDK coverage
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Steve Jobs lying about Flash not working on iPhone? — RUMOR ALERT — I have not substantiated this with anyone at either Adobe or Apple, so might turn out to be totally false: — Today I got a note from someone I know who works closely with Adobe and Apple.
Discussion: MacDailyNews
CBC News:
Flash video not suitable for iPhone, Apple CEO says — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any time soon, saying the technology doesn't meet his company's performance standards for video.
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: iPhone Fans: No Flash Player For You
Samzenpus / Slashdot: Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
iPhone Users: There Will Be No Flash Soup For You
iPhone Users: There Will Be No Flash Soup For You
Discussion: TechSpot News and Mashable!
Jose Vilches / TechSpot News: Steve Jobs: Flash not good enough for iPhone
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?
Steve Jobs speaks out
Steve Jobs speaks out
Discussion: iLounge and MacDailyNews
Tom Corelis / DailyTech:
Acid3 Test Unleashed, Murders Every Current Browser — Putting browser makers on notice, again — Just a few months after the announcement that Internet Explorer 8 successfully passed the Acid2 standards compliance test, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) announced last Monday that it unleashed Acid2's successor, Acid3.
Discussion: MacUser
Derik DeLong / MacUser: Because Acid2 needed another sequel, Acid3 tests browsers
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft's hits multiple Internet home runs — I just had dinner with a bunch of Italy's top tech bloggers and technologists and Marc Canter. Plus I've been talking with people all day long. Microsoft hit major Internet home runs today with its announcements, based on what I'm hearing from formerly-skeptical developers.
Discussion: istartedsomething, Smalltalk Tidbits … and OStatic blogs
Long Zheng / istartedsomething: Sorry for the poor MIX08 coverage
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: The Elephant in the Room — Scoble (and lots of other people …
Reuven Lerner / OStatic blogs: Why Did Microsoft Change its Mind?
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived
Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived
Discussion: Zero Day, Between the Lines, Neowin.net, Quick Online Tips, Ars Technica, Download Squad, PC World, Inquirer, LinuxInsider, Google Blogoscoped, eWeek, WebProNews, SEO and Tech Daily and Digg
Larry Dignan / Zero Day: IE 8 to add malware blocking
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: IE 8 activity providers and the big sales pitch
Steven Parker / Neowin.net: Lukewarm reaction to first IE8 beta
Peter Bright / Ars Technica: New IE8 beta 1 tantalizes, rough edges and all
Melissa J. Perenson / PC World: Hands-on With Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Brad King / LinuxInsider: Microsoft Loosens Fist With New, Open IE8
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Internet Explorer 8 Beta Is Out
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: Microsoft Ships IE 8 Beta
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Internet Explorer 8 Pops Up In Beta
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and Silverlight 2.0
Harry McCracken / Techlog:
Internet Exporer 8 and the Boring Era of Web Browsers
Internet Exporer 8 and the Boring Era of Web Browsers
Discussion: CNET News.com, p2pnet, 901am and LiveSide
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com: IE 8, Firefox 3 to tackle malware
Leo Blanco / 901am: Internet Explorer 8 simply a minor upgrade
Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2?
Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2?
Discussion: Download Squad, istartedsomething, Ajaxian, CyberNet and Hardware 2.0
Long Zheng / istartedsomething: IE8 & Acid2: Yr doin it wrong
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - Tour
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft shows IE 8 at Mix
Microsoft shows IE 8 at Mix
Discussion: Mashable!, Lifehacker, Webware.com, WinBeta and All about Microsoft
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Should Firefox Be Scared of IE8?
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Available for Download
Elsa Wenzel / Webware.com: Social browsing app Me.dium ready for IE 8
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: IE 8 to feature WebSlices, Activities
Sebastian Kanthak / Official Google Data APIs Blog:
3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed — Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access …
Discussion: Download Squad, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, The Social Times, ProgrammableWeb, The Real McCrea, techno.blog, Google Code Blog and Feld Thoughts
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Google releases Contact API
Chris Obdam / The Next Web: Google opens up their contacts, who follows?
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Google Releases Contacts API
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: Google Opens Their Social Graph
John Musser / ProgrammableWeb: Google Releases Contacts API
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts: Google Contacts Data API
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Releases an API for Contacts — Google wants to make everyone happy today. After releasing a calendar sync tool, Google makes it possible to sync other valuable data: your contacts. The new Contacts Data API "allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds.
Discussion: All About Symbian, VoIP Blog, Google Blogoscoped and Mashable!
Steve Litchfield / All About Symbian: Google, Contacts and Sync
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Contacts API Released
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Google Contacts API. Own Your Data Across Networks.
Shirin Oskooi / Official Google Blog:
Google Calendar Sync — I've suffered major headaches trying to sync all my calendars. I used the Microsoft Outlook calendar on my desktop computer at home, but since I wanted to be able to access my schedule from anywhere, I also kept a copy of it on Google Calendar.
Haochi / Googlified: Google Calendar Sync for Outlook
Jason Harris / Web Worker Daily: Google Releases Google Calendar/Outlook Sync tool
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Google Calendar now syncs with Outlook, Windows Mobile
Garett Rogers / Googling Google: Google is about to let you sync with your Outlook
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Syncing Google Calendar With Microsoft Outlook
Audley Jarvis / All News Feeds: Google Calendar Sync to the rescue
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile: Sync Your Outlook Calendar With Google Calendar
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Plaxo is better than new Google Calendar sync
Matt Kulick / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Introducing Google Calendar Sync
Introducing Google Calendar Sync
Discussion: WebProNews, Google Blogoscoped, InformationWeek Weblog and Google Operating System
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Calendar Tries To Get Along With Outlook
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Synchronize Google Calendar With Outlook
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek Weblog: Google Calendar Adds Outlook Sync
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis' Bankruptcy Filing: Nobody's Fault, But... Ziff Davis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this afternoon, as we reported first here, and a total of 23 documents were filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The two main ones are embedded below as PDFs (after the jump).
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Ziff Davis Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Discussion: TGDaily.com, Ziff Davis Media, Epicenter, Valleywag, Money Out Blog, Blue's News and Mashable!
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Ziff Davis Succumbs to Bankruptcy
Mary Jane Irwin / Valleywag: Print magazines about tech prove a bankrupt idea
Alain Sherter / Money Out Blog: Anyone want a URL? Bankrupt Ziff Davis has lots
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Ziff Davis Files Bankruptcy, Gets $24.5M to "Restructure"
Vinnee Tong / Associated Press:
Ziff Davis Media Files for Bankruptcy
Ziff Davis Media Files for Bankruptcy
Discussion: TechCrunch, Podcasting News, Engadget and CNET News.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Ziff Davis Media Takes A Dip In The Deadpool
Ryan Block / Engadget: Ziff Davis files chapter 11 bankruptcy
Steven Musil / CNET News.com: Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy protection
Tech Bytes / Tech Bytes at Use Bytes:
Microsoft Blews : A Blogrunner or a Memeorandum or a Sphere ? — The BLEWS website at Microsoft research says - "While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Lynn Davidson / NewsBusters.org: Microsoft's Upcoming News Site Will Rate Media Bias
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Blews Brings Back Memories Of Rocket Pops At The Beach
Microsoft Blews Brings Back Memories Of Rocket Pops At The Beach
Discussion: Data Mining and Blogcosm
Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: Twitter in Plain English — This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from our fans. We've received a number of requests from people who want their — friends to use the micro-blogging service Twitter, but can't seem to explain it well. We hope this video helps.
Discussion: odd time signatures, Mark Evans, HeyJude and TechLifeBlogged
Karoli / odd time signatures: Twittering and Flittering
Judy O'Connell / HeyJude: Twitter in plain English
Scott Kingery / TechLifeBlogged: Twitter in Plain English
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Ask.com Says They Don't Want to Become Women's Site — Yesterday an Associated Press report by Michael Liedtke stated that Ask.com wants to "abandon" its effort to outshine Google in a "dramatic about-face," instead focusing on "finding answers to basic questions about recipes, hobbies …
Discussion: Search Engine Watch
Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Google Likely to Get EU Approval to Buy DoubleClick — European regulators plan to approve Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick Inc. without conditions, rejecting complaints by Microsoft Corp. that the deal would hurt competition, according to three people with direct knowledge of the case.
Discussion: Bits, WebProNews and Search Engine Journal
Saul Hansell / Bits: Europe Lets Google's DoubleClick Deal Out of the Penalty Box
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Unofficially, Google Wins DoubleClick Deal In EU
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: EU Regulators Close to Granting Google's Acquisition of Double-Click
Chris Williams / The Register:
EU preps Google-DoubleClick rubberstamp
EU preps Google-DoubleClick rubberstamp
Discussion: eWeek, paidContent.org, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Financial Times
David Kaplan / paidContent.org: Google/DoubleClick Merger To Receive Approval From European Regulators …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Europe Set to Green Light Google's DoubleClick Acquisition
Business Week:
Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future — In a conversation with BusinessWeek.com, the social networking site's CEO holds forth on recent hires and going public — As Facebook tries to sustain its supercharged growth, it's bringing in adult supervision. — The social networking site hired Sheryl Sandberg …
Discussion: FaceReviews and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews: Facebook is Growing Up — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB — Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), a forthcoming service that will allow customers and developers to host their data in a Microsoft-hosted database. — Microsoft officials were reticent …
Discussion: OakLeaf Systems, DBMS2 and WinBeta
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Musicians still waiting on a YouTube payday — How important is music to Google's YouTube.com? Out of the top 12 all-time most viewed YouTube clips, nine are professionally made music videos. At least one rock video has been watched more than 75 million times on YouTube.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Musicians: We Want Our YouTube Bucks!
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
YAHOO! GETS UPPER HAND IN M'SOFT FIGHT — Your move, Mr. Ballmer. — That's essentially the message Yahoo! sent to the Microsoft CEO with its decision yesterday to extend the March 14 deadline to nominate directors to its board. — And if Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang thought his famously fiery counterpart …
Discussion: Valleywag and Silicon Alley Insider
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: You've hurt Mr. Ballmer's feelings, Jerry
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft May Go All Cash, Raise Yahoo Bid to $31
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Social Networking Moves to the Cellphone — PARIS — Social networks may be nothing new to habitués of the Internet. Several years of competition among Facebook, MySpace and Friendster have generated tens of millions of members. — But now the market is teeming with companies …
Discussion: WebProNews and localmobilesearch.net
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: GyPSii Brings Social Networking Service To iPhone
Greg Sterling / localmobilesearch.net: MoSocial Nets Proliferating in Europe
Matthew Miller / Forbes:
Gates No Longer World's Richest Man — Warren Buffett is the richest man on the planet. — Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ) stock, America's most beloved investor has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago.
Discussion: Between the Lines, CNET News.com, BloggingStocks and Silicon Alley Insider
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid
Steven Musil / CNET News.com: Gates dethroned as world's richest man
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: Forbes 400: As Buffett replaces Gates as richest man, age of software closes


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In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than ethanol, but they are also more compatible with existing gasoline-based infrastructure. For isobutanol to become practical, however, scientists need a way to reliably produce huge quantities of it from renewable sources.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemical engineers and biologists have now devised a way to dramatically boost isobutanol production in yeast, which naturally make it in small amounts. They engineered yeast so that isobutanol synthesis takes place entirely within mitochondria, cell structures that generate energy and also host many biosynthetic pathways. Using this approach, they were able to boost isobutanol production by about 260%.
Though still short of the scale needed for industrial production, the advance suggests that this is a promising approach to engineering not only isobutanol but other useful chemicals as well, says Gregory Stephanopoulos, an MIT professor of chemical engineering and one of the senior authors of a paper describing the work in Nature Biotechnology.
"It's not specific to isobutanol," Stephanopoulos says. "It's opening up the opportunity to make a lot of biochemicals inside an organelle that may be much better suited for this purpose compared to the cytosol of the yeast cells."
Stephanopoulos collaborated with Gerald Fink, an MIT professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute, on this research. The lead author of the paper is Jose Avalos, a postdoc at the Whitehead Institute and MIT.
Historically, researchers have tried to decrease isobutanol production in yeast, because it can ruin the flavor of wine and beer. However, "now there's been a push to try to make it for fuel and other chemical purposes," says Avalos, the paper's lead author.
Yeast typically produce isobutanol in a series of reactions that take place in two different cell locations. The synthesis begins with pyruvate, a plentiful molecule generated by the breakdown of sugars such as glucose. Pyruvate is transported into the mitochondria, where it can enter many different metabolic pathways, including one that results in production of valine, an amino acid. Alpha-ketoisovalerate (alpha-KIV), a precursor in the valine and isobutanol biosynthetic pathways, is made in the mitochondria in the first phase of isobutanol production.
Valine and alpha-KIV can be transported out to the cytoplasm, where they are converted by a set of enzymes into isobutanol. Other researchers have tried to express all the enzymes needed for isobutanol biosynthesis in the cytoplasm. However, it's difficult to get some of those enzymes to function in the cytoplasm as well as they do in the mitochondria.
The MIT researchers took the opposite approach: They moved the second phase, which naturally occurs in the cytoplasm, into the mitochondria. They achieved this by engineering the metabolic pathway's enzymes to express a tag normally found on a mitochondrial protein, directing the cell to send them into the mitochondria.
This enzyme relocation boosted the production of isobutanol by 260%, and yields of two related alcohols, isopentanol and 2-methyl-1-butanol, went up even more—370% and 500%, respectively.
There are likely several explanations for the dramatic increase, the researchers say. One strong possibility, though difficult to prove experimentally, is that clustering the enzymes together makes it more likely that the reactions will occur, Avalos says.
Another possible explanation is that moving the second half of the pathway into the mitochondria makes it easier for the enzymes to snatch up the limited supply of precursors before they can enter another metabolic pathway.
"Enzymes from the second phase, which are naturally out here in the cytoplasm, have to wait to see what comes out of the mitochondria and try to transform that. But when you bring them into the mitochondria, they're better at competing with the pathways in there," Avalos says.
The findings could have many applications in metabolic engineering. There are many situations where it could be advantageous to confine all of the steps of a reaction in a small space, which may not only boost efficiency but also prevent harmful intermediates from drifting away and damaging the cell.
The researchers are now trying to further boost isobutanol yields and reduce production of ethanol, which is still the major product of sugar breakdown in yeast.

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Geneva, 28 September 2011. The kick-off meeting for ELENA, the Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring, starts today at CERN1. Approved by CERN Council in June this year, ELENA is scheduled to deliver its first antiprotons in 2016. This week's kick-off meeting brings together scientists from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA. The project is led by CERN.
"ELENA is a new facility aimed to deliver antiprotons at the lowest energies ever reached in order to improve the study of antimatter," said CERN's Stéphan Maury, Head of the ELENA project.
ELENA will consist of a small new decelerator ring that will be installed in same building that houses CERN's existing Antiproton Decelerator (AD). It will slow antiprotons down to under a fiftieth of the current AD energy, bringing an improvement of a factor of 10-100 in antiproton trapping efficiency. At the AD, antiprotons have to be slowed down by passing them through a series of foils, a process that results in the loss of some 99.9% of the antiprotons extracted from the AD before they reach the experiments.
"This is a big step forward for antimatter physics. Going to extra low energy increases the trapping efficiency for antiprotons, which will not only improve the research potential of existing experiments, but will also allow CERN to support a wider range of antimatter experiments," said Walter Oelert, an antimatter pioneer at CERN, who has actively supported the ELENA project.
Ever since the Nobel Prize winning discovery of antiprotons in 1955, these particles have proved to be an important research tool. In the 1980s, they played a pivotal role in the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN, which also led to a Nobel Prize.
CERN's achievements with low-energy antiprotons include the trapping and accumulation of large numbers of antiprotons in the early 1990s, which led to very precise comparisons of protons and antiprotons. In 1995, the first antiatoms - antihydrogen - were created at CERN, opening the way to new experiments on antimatter and, more recently, the trapping of antihydrogen atoms. One experiment at the AD has also made preliminary studies of the potential for using antiprotons in cancer therapy. In the future, experiments will make detailed comparisons of hydrogen and antihydrogen atoms, and measure the influence of gravity on antihydrogen.
Construction of ELENA is scheduled to begin in 2013, in parallel with AD running. When complete in 2016, ELENA will be able to support more experiments than the AD can today, giving CERN - a laboratory best known for the high-energy frontier of particle physics - a grandstand seat at the low-energy frontier.
1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Israel is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.


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I love walking through the tall grass at Parma High School on my walks. My mom even took a video of me doing it not too long ago, but here is a picture she pulled out of it to show you again.
You can hardly see me in this one, which is why I like it. It's fun to hide in the tall grass. Here is a close up of me that you can see me much better:
Then, when I came up the hill and looked down, anxious to tromp through my favorite tall grass spot, this is what I saw:
I was confused and sad and disappointed and shocked and upset all at the same time! Where did my tall grass go???? Who took it away????? No one consulted me.
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The main criteria for bunging stuff up on this little blog has to be: 1) Is it unavailable on CD? 2) Is it suitably difficult to find, therefore people might be interested in hearing it? As long as tunes fulfill those two criteria, they're in. This tune scores particularly heavily on point 2). Let me explain......
1986 finds me working in Our Price records, more often than not at its two branches in Watford. I was a cocky little kid, and not above telling the shop managers which records they should and shouldn't be ordering from the reps. The reps were the mobile salesmen from various record labels, who would pass by our shops on a weekly basis, park their Granada estates outside and stagger in with an armful of promotional stock. They would then attempt to coerce you into ordering as many copies as possible of their priority acts for that week. Often, the deal would be sweetened with the rep passing over FOC (free of charge) stock, so the shop would make a clear profit, or else we'd end up with some Belouis Some slipmats, or a Danny Wilson promotional T-shirt (oh, the glamour.) On this visit, the rep for Pinnacle had, amongst a pile of other stuff, this little beauty. It's Max Splodge (surely you guessed that?) of Splodgenessabounds "fame", in one of his many attempts to repeat the success of "Two Pints Of Lager...." This time, the target of his attention was Sigue Sigue Sputnik. "The Year Of The Bean" is a barely-disguised pastiche of "Love Missile F-111", with a lyric attempting to join the Sputnik vision of cold, robotic modernity to the 100th birthday of the Baked Bean. And it's therefore got LOADS of fart noises on it. These, it has to be said, are funny the first time you hear them, but lose their, ahem, sparkle soon afterwards. Perhaps the central failing of the record is that it seeks to try and make SSS funny, when in truth, they were doing a pretty good job of it themselves, albeit unintentionally.
So far(t), so good. The rep played the single in the shop, the manager thought it was daft, so did I; but I reckoned it would sell. So, I got the rep to put us down for 3 copies, and asked if we could get one now, and put it out in the racks. The rep went out to his Granada, coming back with a disconsolate look on his face. "Sorry lads, that's the only copy they gave me. You can buy it now, if you're desperate" Well, we weren't desperate, but we bought it anyway (it was always good to look after the reps, you'd get paid back somehow, in the future). As it turned out, I was wrong about the single: no-one wanted to buy it. Except me. Yes, over the course of the next few weeks, I became rather attached to it's juvenile charms, and persuaded the manager to let me have it as a staff purchase. We put it's number down on our order sheet, next to the three copies that we still hadn't received.
And they never turned up. I can remember phoning in the Pinnacle order over the next few months, spouting a long list of catalogue numbers down the phone "Rough Trade RT 121 for 6, Demon 56 for 10......" and every time I got to this records catalogue number "....and Mad 03 for three copies..." the computer would just emit a squawk and the girl on the order desk would say "I'm sorry, that's no longer on our lists" It had vanished. But now, it seems that it never even made it as far as the record buying public anyway: according to this it seems to have been the victim of a record company that went into liquidation, and hardly any copies ever saw the light of day. Rumour has it that Max Splodge himself doesn't even own a copy. If that's all true, I'm guessing that the copies that were given to reps were the only ones to reach the public, if indeed they ever did. If the record had a thousand-copy print run (fairly standard) there would probably have been around 50 copies which were given to the reps to drum up interest. My copy is one of those. Whatever, it's probably one of the rarest records I've got, as well as being one of the silliest. If anyone else out there knows anything more about this particular slice of buffoonery, you know where I am.
Max Splodge is still very much with us, his myspace is here. There's a great Splodgenessabounds reissue, which you can get here containing pretty much all you'll ever need (including the 40 seconds of GENIUS which is "Yarmouth 5-0")
So, to finish, enjoy, but be warned: may contain fart noises.
Phut Phut Splodgenik "86, The Year Of The Bean" (mp3)


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2012 Hyundai Veloster recalled for sunroof assemblyThu, 20 Dec 2012
Hyundai is recalling 2012 Veloster hatchbacks built between Nov. 1, 2011 and April 17, 2012. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the panoramic sunroof assembly may have been weakened during installation at the factory. The report also says that the glass panel may break while the car is in motion, which could lead to injury or a crash.
A preliminary evaluation was opened in October regarding 11 consumer complaints of a shattered sunroof. Hyundai says it identified 76 warranty claims, 20 customer complaints and six field reports referring to the glass. The company is not aware of any accidents that resulted from the glass breaking.
Hyundai will notify owners, inspect and replace the glass assembly free of charge. The recall will begin in January.
Concerned owners can contact Hyundai at (800) 633-5151 or contact the NHTSA safety hotline at (888) 327-4236.
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Athens, Ga. – Carl F. Jordan, a senior research scientist emeritus in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, will present a seminar on his new book, "An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture: Energy Use Efficiency in the American South," on Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. in the ecology auditorium.
Following his talk, Jordan will be joined by three of his former graduate students—Robert Buschbacher, associate in tropical forestry in the Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative at the University of Florida; Krista Jacobsen, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky; and Justin Ellis, executive director of the Soque River Watershed Association in Clarkesville—for a conversation about the major themes he and his students have explored, and continue to explore, over the course of his career.
A reception will follow the discussion at 6 p.m. in the ecology lobby.
Jordan, who retired in 2009 after more than 30 years at UGA, began his career researching the impacts of agriculture and forestry on ecosystems around the world. In 1993, he purchased a 100-acre former cotton farm on the outskirts of Athens, which he has used as a living laboratory to develop and teach sustainable farming principles and practices ever since. Much of the information in his new book is based on the research conducted at his Spring Valley EcoFarms.
"Over the years one of the hallmarks of ecology at UGA has been to set bold new ideas that often are perceived as ahead of their time," said Odum School Dean John Gittleman. "Like the ecosystem concept, Carl Jordan has looked at agricultural systems not only from an anthropocentric point of view but also at how farmland can enhance and stabilize biodiversity. No one thought this was possible. Carl's work and that of his students have shown it can be done."
Jordan was invited to write "An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture" by publisher Springer Verlag as the first in its new Environmental Challenges and Solutions series. He took the opportunity to pull together lessons learned over 40 years of his own research and that of the 35 graduate students he has mentored. The book is dedicated to them.
"Whenever I have a graduate student who's about to finish, I ask myself, what have I learned from this student?" he said. "I feel that I learn as much from them as they've learned from me. This book has given me the opportunity to take all the ideas that I've gotten from my students and to elaborate on those and put it all together into a meaningful whole."
The book takes a holistic approach rather than focusing on individual parts and problems of agricultural ecosystems.
"The book looks at properties of the entire agricultural ecosystem such as nutrient cycling efficiency and energy use efficiency," Jordan said. "Because of the interactions between the parts of the system, the system properties cannot be predicted from studies of the individual components."
Jordan explained the main message of the book is that agricultural sustainability can be improved by substituting the free services of nature for energy subsidies such as fertilizers and pesticides commonly used in industrial agriculture.
"One of the most important of these services is conserving and recycling of nutrients by the community of soil microorganisms," he said. "This is accomplished by restoring the soil organic matter upon which these communities feed. Another is the control of pest insects by beneficial insects, accomplished by promoting habitat for the beneficial (insects)."
Those are ideas put into practice at Spring Valley EcoFarms, where Jordan continues to research and teach.
"Continuing to work at Spring Valley is what keeps the ideas coming," he said. "With every class that comes through, I get a different idea and keep on working. If I ever write another edition of this book, I already have some new ones to incorporate."
For more information about the Odum School of Ecology, see www.ecology.uga.edu. For more information about Spring Valley EcoFarms, see www.springvalleyecofarms.org.


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General Motors CEO Mary Barra apologized again for the flawed ignition switch tied to at least 13 deaths at the shareholder's annual meeting, and said the company is poised to succeed despite the recall crisis.
"I have and will be guided by two clear principles: to do the right thing for those that were harmed and to make sure we accept responsibility for our mistakes and commit to doing everything within our power to prevent this problem from ever happening again," she said.
Barra insisted the company is doing well despite the controversy about the ignition switch recall, which was delayed for at least 10 years. She pointed to strong profits, and to the fact that GM posted its best sales since 2008 in May.
"Today, GM is a very good company. Tomorrow, we can be a truly great company," she said. "We can only achieve this goal if we hold each other to the highest possible standards."
Last week, the company released an internal probe of its recall process that found "a pattern of incompetence and neglect" at the automaker.
Related: GM axes 15 employees after 'rundamental failure' in recall delay
"The attitudes and practices that allowed this failure to occur will not be tolerated," Barra said. She pointed to 15 employees who were dismissed and another five who were disciplined in the wake of the report.
The company has announced it will compensate accident victims, although it has yet to say how much money it will put aside to do so.
Barra told reporters before the meeting that it should have an estimate of what it will cost to compensate victims by the end of this month. GM said it would start accepting victim claims in August.
"I believe if we do the right thing for customers....we will be doing the right thing for shareholders," she said.
Related: GM's recall death toll may be more than 13
Barra was praised by GM Chairman Theodore Solso, who said the board is unanimous in its support of her performance since she became CEO in January.
"All of us on the board believe Mary has done a tremendous job," he said. "The board has complete confidence Mary will lead GM to make the necessary changes."
There were about 10 people who were protesting outside the meeting about GM's inaction that led to the botched recall. Included in the group were some parents whose children were killed in accidents involving the recalled vehicles. They said it was important for them to be at the meeting to show that this is about human lives.
"This is their home court, where we need to be," said Ken Rimer, whose step-daughter Natasha Weigel was killed in the backseat of a Chevy Cobalt that crashed in 2006. A friend of hers, Amy Rademaker, died in the front seat in the same accident.
"These two young girls died because of what they didn't do, so we want to make sure they remember what happened," said Rimer, who drove 11 hours to attend the meeting.
However, none of the protestors spoke during the shareholder comment period that followed Barra's remarks.
-- CNN's Amanda Hobor contributed to this report


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Last week it was reported that a daily (low) dose of aspirin can significantly reduce the risk of dying from a variety of cancers, and a study published in PloS Biology now opens a new window on the role of inflammation in cancer.
Although the host immune system is known to have conflicting roles in cancer initiation and progression, both acting as a surveillance and elimination system but also assisting expansion and metastatic spread of tumours, very little is known about the very early role of the immune system in cancer. Using zebrafish larvae, researchers at the University of Bristol, the University of Manchester and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan have now been able to observe, for the first time, how oncogene-transformed cells in the skin co-opt the innate immune system to promote their growth from the very earliest stages of development. The team exploited the translucency of the larvae to obtain live images of the earliest interactions between the cancer cells and the immune environment. Using larvae with fluorescently tagged leukocytes, the team were able to observe recruitment of neutrophils and macrophages to oncogene-transformed melanocytes or mucus-secreting cells. As well as engulfment of the transformed cells, the team saw many examples of cytoplasmic tethers linking the two cell types.
They discovered that a key attractant for the leukocytes was hydrogen peroxide. Both the transformed cells themselves and otherwise healthy neighbouring cells were found to produce hydrogen peroxide, which is also a key molecule that recruits neutrophils to a wound. Blocking the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide prevented recruitment of immune cells and reduced the number of transformed cells, suggesting that immune cells may provide trophic support to the transformed cells just as they promote repair at a site of tissue injury. Unlike the case of wound healing, however, where the inflammatory response resolves, the inflammatory response to transformed cells seems to amplify and progress towards a chronic inflammatory state similar to that seen in chronic non-healing wounds.


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Another backflip? Back in May, Microsoft said that you'll need have the motion-sensing Kinect plugged in at all times in order for your Xbox One to function, but now they're reversing course once again.
We already knew that you could turn off the Kinect, but now Microsoft says it doesn't have to be plugged in at all. Speaking to IGN, Microsoft's Marc Whitten shared the news that the Xbox One will indeed work without Kinect.
"That said, like online, the console will still function if Kinect isn't plugged in, although you won't be able to use any feature or experience that explicitly uses the sensor," he said.
Asked just how "off" the Kinect can be when it is plugged in, Whitten answered totally off.
"You have the ability to completely turn the sensor off in your settings. When in this mode, the sensor is not collecting any information. Any functionality that relies on voice, video, gesture or more won't work. We still support using it for IR blasting in this mode. You can turn the sensor back on at any time through settings, and if you enter into a required Kinect experience (like Kinect Sports Rivals for instance), you'll get a message asking if you want to turn the sensor back on in order to continue."
This is yet another entry to add to the list of stunning reversals in Xbox One policy made by Microsoft over the past few months. In June, Microsoft switched course on Xbox DRM, and they've flipped on all sorts of other policies since then.
Microsoft has said they have no intentions of selling an Xbox One without Kinect, so the Kinect is still mandatory in that sense. But Microsoft has changed their minds once or twice before.
The Xbox One will cost $500, Microsoft has said. That's with the Kinect. For comparison, the PS4 will be $400. The Wii U premium package costs $350.
UPDATE: A Microsoft spokesman has answered a couple of our questions:
Can games that use Kinect for supplemental features and commands still be played without Kinect, or will any game that uses Kinect at *all* need the Kinect plugged in?
If Kinect is only used to enable supplemental features in a particular title, then you will still be able to play that game if Kinect is unplugged. Games where Kinect is required – like "Kinect Sports Rivals," for example – will of course need the sensor to be plugged in.
Does Microsoft still have no intentions of selling a Kinect-free bundle?
Though we've changed this requirement, Kinect is still an essential and integrated part of the Xbox One platform. By having it as a consistent part of every Xbox One, game and entertainment creators can build experiences that assume the availability of voice, gesture and natural sensing, leading to unrivaled ease of use, premium experiences and interactivity for consumers. We also strongly believe that once you try the all-new Kinect and the game and entertainment experiences it enhances or enables, you won't want to use your Xbox One without it.
And here's Microsoft senior exec Albert Penello, posting on NeoGAF about the flip. (Bolded emphasis mine)
We still believe in Kinect. We aren't interested in splitting the development base. The more demos I've seen, the more I've used it – the more impressed I am. The team feels strongly about Kinect, and I hope we're able to prove that when you use it.
We also have a ton of privacy settings to allow people to turn off the camera, or microphones, or put it in a state just for "Xbox On" and IR blasting – there will be a lot of user control for that.
The thing we all understood, and hence this change, is that there are some scenarios where people just may not be comfortable. We wanted people to be 100% comfortable, so we allow the sensor to be unplugged. And clearly the "it dropped" scenario is possible.
The most obvious thing is watching a DVD/BD, or streaming a movie, or HDMI pass-through, your experience isn't impacted (except you miss voice and IR blasting)
There is no "gotcha", but obviously, if there is a game that REQUIRES Kinect (like Rivals), or something where Kinect IS the experience (like Skype), those won't work.
That said, for people who have privacy concerns there are user control settings, which we believe are great.


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TVN will supply the full scope of VOD services and content packages, including first-run theatrical movies, family and kids content, TV network and specialty programming. The separate agreements represent nearly a quarter million new VOD HHs.
The other NCTC members recently completing deals with TVN are Prairie Wave, Surewest, Sigecom, InterMountain Cable, Guadalupe Cable, Pioneer, Braintree Electric, San Bruno, Southern Cable, Alameda, Morristown, and Cap Rock.


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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US patents in 1926 and 1933 (1,900,018). Moreover, Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen were investigating the field effect transistor in 1947. Though, the extreme difficulties sidetracked them into inventing the bipolar transistor instead. Shockley's field effect transistor theory was published in 1952. However, the materials processing technology was not mature enough until 1960 when John Atalla produced a working device.
A field effect transistor (FET) is a unipolar device, conducting a current using only one kind of charge carrier. If based on an N-type slab of semiconductor, the carriers are electrons. Conversely, a P-type based device uses only holes.
At the circuit level, field effect transistor operation is simple. A voltage applied to the gate, input element, controls the resistance of the channel, the unipolar region between the gate regions. (Figure below) In an N-channel device, this is a lightly doped N-type slab of silicon with terminals at the ends. The source and drain terminals are analogous to the emitter and collector, respectively, of a BJT. In an N-channel device, a heavy P-type region on both sides of the center of the slab serves as a control electrode, the gate. The gate is analogous to the base of a BJT.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness" applies to the manufacture of field effect transistors. Though it is possible to make bipolar transistors outside of a clean room, it is a necessity for field effect transistors. Even in such an environment, manufacture is tricky because of contamination control issues. The unipolar field effect transistor is conceptually simple, but difficult to manufacture. Most transistors today are a metal oxide semiconductor variety (later section) of the field effect transistor contained within integrated circuits. However, discrete JFET devices are available.
Junction field effect transistor cross-section.
A properly biased N-channel junction field effect transistor (JFET) is shown in Figure above. The gate constitutes a diode junction to the source to drain semiconductor slab. The gate is reverse biased. If a voltage (or an ohmmeter) were applied between the source and drain, the N-type bar would conduct in either direction because of the doping. Neither gate nor gate bias is required for conduction. If a gate junction is formed as shown, conduction can be controlled by the degree of reverse bias.
Figure below (a) shows the depletion region at the gate junction. This is due to diffusion of holes from the P-type gate region into the N-type channel, giving the charge separation about the junction, with a non-conductive depletion region at the junction. The depletion region extends more deeply into the channel side due to the heavy gate doping and light channel doping.
N-channel JFET: (a) Depletion at gate diode. (b) Reverse biased gate diode increases depletion region. (c) Increasing reverse bias enlarges depletion region. (d) Increasing reverse bias pinches-off the S-D channel.
The thickness of the depletion region can be increased Figure above (b) by applying moderate reverse bias. This increases the resistance of the source to drain channel by narrowing the channel. Increasing the reverse bias at (c) increases the depletion region, decreases the channel width, and increases the channel resistance. Increasing the reverse bias VGS at (d) will pinch-off the channel current. The channel resistance will be very high. This VGS at which pinch-off occurs is VP, the pinch-off voltage. It is typically a few volts. In summation, the channel resistance can be controlled by the degree of reverse biasing on the gate.
The source and drain are interchangeable, and the source to drain current may flow in either direction for low level drain battery voltage (< 0.6 V). That is, the drain battery may be replaced by a low voltage AC source. For a high drain power supply voltage, to 10's of volts for small signal devices, the polarity must be as indicated in Figure below (a). This drain power supply, not shown in previous figures, distorts the depletion region, enlarging it on the drain side of the gate. This is a more correct representation for common DC drain supply voltages, from a few to tens of volts. As drain voltage VDS increased,the gate depletion region expands toward the drain. This increases the length of the narrow channel, increasing its resistance a little. We say "a little" because large resistance changes are due to changing gate bias. Figure below (b) shows the schematic symbol for an N-channel field effect transistor compared to the silicon cross-section at (a). The gate arrow points in the same direction as a junction diode.
The "pointing" arrow and "non-pointing" bar correspond to P and N-type semiconductors, respectively.
N-channel JFET current flow from drain to source in (a) cross-section, (b) schematic symbol.
Figure above shows a large current flow from (+) battery terminal, to FET drain, out the source, returning to the (-) battery terminal. This current flow may be controlled by varying the gate voltage. A load in series with the battery sees an amplified version of the changing gate voltage.
P-channel field effect transistors are also available. The channel is made of P-type material. The gate is a heavily doped N-type region. All the voltage sources are reversed in the P-channel circuit (Figure below) as compared with the more popular N-channel device. Also note, the arrow points out of the gate of the schematic symbol (b) of the P-channel field effect transistor.
P-channel JFET: (a) N-type gate, P-type channel, reversed voltage sources compared with N-channel device. (b) Note reversed gate arrow and voltage sources on schematic.
As the positive gate bias voltage is increased, the resistance of the P-channel increases, decreasing the current flow in the drain circuit.
Discrete devices are manufactured with the cross-section shown in Figure below. The cross-section, oriented so that it corresponds to the schematic symbol, is upside down with respect to a semiconductor wafer. That is, the gate connections are on the top of the wafer. The gate is heavily doped, P+, to diffuse holes well into the channel for a large depletion region. The source and drain connections in this N-channel device are heavily doped, N+ to lower connection resistance. However, the channel surrounding the gate is lightly doped to allow holes from the gate to diffuse deeply into the channel. That is the N- region.
Junction field effect transistor: (a) Discrete device cross-section, (b) schematic symbol, (c) integrated circuit device cross-section.
All three FET terminals are available on the top of the die for the integrated circuit version so that a metalization layer (not shown) can interconnect multiple components. (Figure above(c) ) Integrated circuit FET's are used in analog circuits for the high gate input resistance. The N-channel region under the gate must be very thin so that the intrinsic region about the gate can control and pinch-off the channel. Thus, gate regions on both sides of the channel are not necessary.
Junction field effect transistor (static induction type): (a) Cross-section, (b) schematic symbol.
The static induction field effect transistor (SIT) is a short channel device with a buried gate. (Figure above) It is a power device, as opposed to a small signal device. The low gate resistance and low gate to source capacitance make for a fast switching device. The SIT is capable of hundreds of amps and thousands of volts. And, is said to be capable of an incredible frequency of 10 gHz.
Metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET): (a) schematic symbol, (b) cross-section.
The Metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) is similar to a JFET except the gate is a schottky diode instead of a junction diode. A schottky diode is a metal rectifying contact to a semiconductor compared with a more common ohmic contact. In Figure above the source and drain are heavily doped (N+). The channel is lightly doped (N-). MESFET's are higher speed than JFET's. The MESFET is a depletion mode device, normally on, like a JFET. They are used as microwave power amplifiers to 30 gHz. MESFET's can be fabricated from silicon, gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, silicon carbide, and the diamond allotrope of carbon.
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DANVERS, Mass., Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support and recovery technologies, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval (PMA) for the Impella RP® heart pump. Culminating from five years of research, this approval follows the prior FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) received in January 2015 and adds the Impella RP heart pump to Abiomed's platform of PMA approved devices.
With this approval, the Impella RP heart pump is the only percutaneous temporary ventricular support device that is FDA-approved as safe and effective for right heart failure as stated in the indication:
The Impella RP System is indicated for providing temporary right ventricular support for up to 14 days in patients with a body surface area ≥1.5 m2, who develop acute right heart failure or decompensation following left ventricular assist device implantation, myocardial infarction, heart transplant, or open-heart surgery.
Data submitted to the FDA in support of the Impella RP heart pump PMA included the RECOVER RIGHT1 FDA-approved, prospective, multicenter, single-arm study, which commenced after the company received FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) approval in November 2012 and concluded in 2014. Since that time, Abiomed completed a Continuous Access Protocol (CAP) as well as a prospective, multicenter post-approval study (PAS). These data was presented in the plenary session of the 2017 Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation2. The Impella RP heart pump is reimbursed by Medicare and other major payers. Abiomed will complete a PMA post-approval study with 60 consecutive patients in Abiomed's Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved, FDA audited prospective cVAD Registry.
Right Ventricular Failure (RVF) is associated with increased mortality, longer lengths of stay in the intensive care unit and potential end-organ dysfunction1. The Impella RP heart pump stabilizes the patient's hemodynamics, unloads the right ventricle and allows for native heart recovery. Delivered through a catheter requiring only a small hole in the leg, the Impella RP heart pump is designed to provide the flow and pressure needed to compensate for right heart failure. The device does not require a surgical procedure for insertion, and it provides more than four liters of blood per minute for hemodynamic support.
"The Impella RP has opened up a new era in cardiovascular medicine. With its percutaneous, single vascular access, the Impella RP offers physicians a minimally-invasive procedure for patients who have previously had limited options for treatment of right heart failure," said Mark B. Anderson, M.D., FASC, co-principle investigator for the RECOVER RIGHT trial and vice chair of cardiac surgery services and cardiothoracic surgeon to the Hackensack University Medical Group. "The cumulative data from the FDA studies demonstrate that Impella RP potentially offers survival benefits for these critically ill patients in need of hemodynamic support."
"This latest PMA approval for Impella RP enables physicians for the first time to percutaneously treat a broader population of patients with right heart failure," said Michael R. Minogue, President, Chairman and CEO of Abiomed. "Abiomed would like to recognize the FDA as well as our physicians, scientists and employees for the extensive clinical research and review that allowed this FDA PMA approval. Abiomed now offers a platform of minimally-invasive devices that support both sides of the heart to enable heart recovery and we are committed to education and training for the entire heart team as we move to full commercial availability."
- Anderson MB, Goldstein J, Milano C, et al. Benefits of a novel percutaneous ventricular assist device for right heart failure: The prospective RECOVER RIGHT study of the Impella RP device. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015; 34(12):1549-1560.
- Anderson, MB, et al. Impella RP Post Approval Study: First Multi-Center, Prospective Post Market Approval Results for the Impella RP in Patients with Right Ventricular Failure. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017; 36(4):S64-S65.
Abiomed's right-side heart pump, the Impella RP® device, is FDA approved to treat patients experiencing acute right heart failure or decompensation following left ventricular assist device implantation, myocardial infarction, heart transplant, or open-heart surgery. The Impella 2.5®, Impella CP® and Impella 5.0® are FDA-approved heart pumps used to treat heart attack patients in cardiogenic shock, and have the unique ability to enable native heart recovery, allowing patients to return home with their own heart. The Impella 2.5 and Impella CP devices are also approved to treat certain advanced heart failure patients undergoing elective and urgent percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) such as stenting or balloon angioplasty, to re-open blocked coronary arteries. To learn more about the Impella platform of heart pumps, including their approved indications and important safety and risk information associated with the use of the devices, please visit: www.protectedpci.com.
The ABIOMED logo, ABIOMED, Impella, Impella 2.5, Impella 5.0, Impella LD, Impella CP, Impella RP, and Recovering Hearts. Saving Lives. are registered trademarks of ABIOMED, Inc. in the U.S. and in certain foreign countries.
Based in Danvers, Massachusetts, Abiomed, Inc. is a leading provider of medical devices that provide circulatory support. Our products are designed to enable the heart to rest by improving blood flow and/or performing the pumping of the heart. For additional information, please visit: www.abiomed.com.
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Ingrid Goldberg Ward
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This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding development of Abiomed's existing and new products, the Company's progress toward commercial growth, and future opportunities and expected regulatory approvals. The Company's actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements based upon a number of factors, including uncertainties associated with development, testing and related regulatory approvals, including the potential for future losses, complex manufacturing, high quality requirements, dependence on limited sources of supply, competition, technological change, government regulation, litigation matters, future capital needs and uncertainty of additional financing, and other risks and challenges detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave—but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains—and, like other rootless young African-American men of that era, joins up with the U.S. cavalry.
The trajectory of Elijah's army career parallels the nation's imperial adventures in the late 19th century: subduing Native Americans in the West, quelling rebellion in the Philippines. Haunted by the terrors endured by black Americans and by his part in persecuting other people of color, Elijah is sustained only by visions, memories, prayers, and his questing spirit—which ultimately finds a home when his troop is posted to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903. Here, living with little beyond mountain light, running water, campfires, and stars, he becomes a man who owns himself completely, while knowing he's left pieces of himself scattered along his life's path like pebbles on a creek bed.
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Monsters vs. Aliens (Blu-ray 3D)
Monsters vs. Aliens
2009 (2010) - DreamWorks Animation (Paramount)
Monsters vs. Aliens was the first Blu-ray 3D title available to own, if only packed in with Samsung's 3D glasses starter pack. Still, this disc represents most enthusiasts' very first taste of what the Blu-ray 3D format has to offer.
Monster House (Blu-ray 3D)
Monster House
2006 (2010) - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
We've all known that cranky old neighbor who screams "Get off my lawn!" at you. But what if he actually a reason for doing so? Mr. Nebbercracker has mysteriously amassed a dragon's horde of tricycles, basketballs and kites beneath his house over the last 40 years, and it's up to intrepid young DJ (whose parents are away for the weekend), and a self-absorbed teenage babysitter, to crack the mystery of how and why.


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Yep. Last year I wrote a novella for Privateer Press set in the world of Hordes. It is called Instruments of War and I had a great time writing it. I haven't been able to talk about it much because Privateer Press hadn't made their official announcement yet. One day I posted on Facebook about how I was writing about a fantasy race that was so hard they made the Klingons look like hippies. This is that story.
As most of you know, I love to paint miniatures and I love wargames and RPGs. I've been playing Warmachine for a year now and I've painted a pile of them. (as can be seen on my Sunday afternoon nerd hobbies posts). I've got a big Skorne army and a huge Mercenaries army. They've got a big world, fun game setting, and some great groups of characters to work with. I even had Trip Jones make a comment about playing Warmachine during Monster Hunter Legion, because I'm as big a geek as Trip is. 🙂
I'd been posting on the PP forum, mostly to put up pictures of my minis to get feedback from much better painters. One day there was a post about how the players wished there were Warmachine novels, but some of the posters didn't understand just how challenging it was to actually create a series of IP related novels. So I chimed in, introduced myself and what I did for a living (got to establish that street cred). Turned out that some of the folks at PP were already fans of mine and they were happy to find out I was a fan of theirs. Next thing I know, I'm writing a novella about one of my favorite characters and telling their origin story.
Don't worry, this will not cut into the speedy writing of future MHI/Grimnoir/D6/other things. The PP stories are shorter, and as a writer there is a huge time difference between writing in somebody else's world instead of having to do all the extra work of creating your own. And since I'm already a complete geek for this game setting, it wasn't like the homework part is a challenge. Here, Larry, read more game books. Oh no. My job is soooo hard. 🙂
So I will let you guys know when this is available. I'm pretty pleased with it, and you don't have to be familiar with the setting to enjoy a story of sheer badassitude.


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When discovering analogies, we find there are many different analogies. Because we use analogies to describe things, there need to be different analogies to describe different things.
For instance, to describe antonyms, we need an analogy that describes opposites. So we might say tall is to short as sharp is to dull. An analogy can also describe part of a whole. Such as, window is to house as branch is to tree.
Analogies can be fun to learn! Analogy games make learning analogies even more exciting! Try watching this great video to learn all the analogy types.


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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, today welcomed the arrival of its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, unveiling a special livery design honouring its prestigious partnership with Manchester City Football Club.
The aircraft was delivered to Etihad in Abu Dhabi on 18th October 2019, ahead of its inaugural flight to Manchester Airport today. On arrival, the flight and its passengers were met by Omar Berrada, Chief Operating Officer for Manchester City, City legend Joleon Lescott, Karen Bardsley and mascots for a welcome ceremony to mark the historic occasion. Guests travelling on the inaugural flight were given City branded merchandise on arrival.
Robin Kamark, Chief Commercial Officer, Etihad Aviation Group, said: "As we celebrate a decade of this successful partnership, we are proud to see the Manchester City colours grace our runways and skies, as the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner takes flight. This livery pays tribute to the Club's incredible accomplishments on and off the pitch.
"Manchester is a very important destination in the Etihad network serving both business and leisure travellers. We are proud to showcase the city, and our partnership with the club through this uniquely branded aircraft. It is only fitting that its first commercial flight is to Manchester."
Omar Berrada, Chief Operating Officer at Manchester City, said: "Manchester City's partnership with Etihad Airways continues to go from strength to strength and this new livery is yet another example of how Etihad are celebrating the achievements of the Club with fans around the world. This is an exciting milestone in our partnership, and we can't wait to see the City crest and colours take to the skies!"
In the coming months, the specially painted City Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will also be scheduled to fly in and out of destinations including Manchester, Jordan, Spain, Indonesia and China.
Etihad Airways flies to Manchester Airport 14 times a week, providing guests with direct access to the UK's cultural hotspot. In addition to flights to and from London Heathrow, the airline conveniently connects the UK to Abu Dhabi and international destinations throughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
The brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner features Etihad's innovative, award-winning cabin designs and products, including the unique 'fixed wing' headrest for maximum comfort while travelling in economy. The Business Studios feature direct aisle access and a fully-flat bed of up to 80.5 inches in length. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is also one of the most economic aircraft in the sky.
The new Manchester City-themed livery is the first since 2011, when Etihad Airways unveiled the "Blue Moon Rising" A330-200 in celebration of its second daily service to Manchester.
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Psalms, in Metre, Selected from the Psalms of David
Protestant Episcopal Press, 1835 - 99 pagini
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Pagina 49
Episcopal Church. righteous , even as he is righteous . | with thee and the HOLY GHOST , He that committeth sin is of ... shall fall from heaven , others standing idle in the market . and the powers of the heavens shall place , and said ...
Episcopal Church. righteous , even as he is righteous . | with thee and the HOLY GHOST , He that committeth sin is of ... shall fall from heaven , others standing idle in the market . and the powers of the heavens shall place , and said ...
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... heaven its arch extends Above this little spot of clay , So much his boundless love transcends The small respects that we can pay . 7 As far as ' t is from east to west , So far has he ... shall attend on such as still Proceed in his ...
... heaven its arch extends Above this little spot of clay , So much his boundless love transcends The small respects that we can pay . 7 As far as ' t is from east to west , So far has he ... shall attend on such as still Proceed in his ...
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according ALMIGHTY Amen angels answered behold believe beseech thee Bishop bless blood body bring called cast CHRIST our Lord Church Collect comfort commandments death deliver desire dwell earth enemies eternal everlasting evil eyes face faith Father fear follow give given glory Gospel grace grant hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly HOLY GHOST hope HYMN Israel JESUS CHRIST judge keep King land light live look mercy mind Minister morning peace praise prayer present Priest promise PSALM Psalm of David receive rejoice righteous rise saints saith salvation Saviour servant sing sins song soul SPIRIT stand strength thanks thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thy holy thy name tongue trouble trust truth turn unto thee voice
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Pagina 44 - Christ ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Pagina 48 - But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Pagina 48 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
Pagina 103 - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones Judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Pagina 153 - God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men ; we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings. The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.
Pagina 70 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Pagina 114 - And I saw another Angel ascending from the East, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four Angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Pagina 64 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me ; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom , and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Pagina 275 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock; also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
Pagina 261 - PREDESTINATION to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.


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The following is a release from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association:
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack received a letter from 147 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 18, 2011, regarding USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration's (GIPSA) proposed rule on livestock and poultry marketing. The so-called GIPSA rule was proposed June 22, 2010, and as a result of pressure from members of Congress, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) and other industry groups, USDA is currently conducting an economic analysis on the proposed rule. In the letter, which was led by Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Reid Ribble (R-Wis.), the members of Congress urge Secretary Vilsack to proceed in a transparent manner, which includes allowing stakeholders to comment on the rule before moving forward.
"Particularly in a climate in which additional scrutiny is being applied to regulations seen as overreaching or overly burdensome, we urge the department to proceed in a transparent manner that allows for those most impacted by this action a chance to comment on not only pending changes to the rule and the accompanying economic analysis as well," penned the members of Congress, adding that a timeline for completion of the economic analysis and any further action is also needed.
NCBA President Bill Donald said the 147 members of Congress stood up for U.S. cattlemen and women.
"The proposed GIPSA rule puts big government smack dab in the middle of our business. It is the most pervasive invasion of federal government into the private marketplace I have ever witnessed," said Donald, who is a Montana rancher. "I am proud we have leaders inside the Beltway willing to hold this administration accountable for its actions."
The members of Congress stated in the letter that it is troubling that USDA appears to be using the rule-making process to accomplish objectives specifically rejected by Congress. Colin Woodall, NCBA vice president of government affairs, said the elected leaders are holding USDA accountable in a big way. He said it is unprecedented to see an agricultural issue receive this level of bipartisan alignment.
"It is clear that USDA's unpopular rule goes above and beyond the intent of Congress," said Woodall. "Withdrawing the rule and developing a solution that is consistent with the intent Congress made clear in the 2008 Farm Bill is the only acceptable solution for Secretary Vilsack. This rule absolutely cannot move forward as written."
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that it has allocated $8,441,000 in health and safety training grants for fiscal year 2011.
Grantees will use the funds to provide federally mandated training to miners. The grants cover training and retraining of miners working at surface and underground coal, and metal and nonmetal, mines, including miners engaged in shell dredging or employed at surface stone, sand and gravel mining operations.
Funds have been awarded to 47 states and the Navajo Nation, which had to apply for the grants. They are administered by state mine inspectors' offices, state departments of labor, and state-supported colleges and universities. Each recipient tailors the program to the needs of its mines and miners, and also provides technical assistance.
The state grants program was authorized by the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States first received funding to provide health and safety training to miners in 1971.
"These grant awards continue a tradition of cooperation between MSHA and the states that can really contribute to the development of a strong safety culture in the mining community," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. "There are many different facets to creating a safe work environment, and training workers and supervisors is an important one."
Under the grants, in addition to health and safety training, some states offer training for mine operators specifically on compliance with health and safety standards, as well as training for miners on their rights under the law and for mine rescue teams on being prepared in the event of a mine emergency.


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United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (UN OIOS) 27 Jul 2004 report titled "Report Into Allegations of Certain Irregularities [ID Case Nos. 0186-03, 0258-03 No.1, 0258-03 No.2, 0464-03, 0594-03]" relating to the Economic Commission for Africa. The report runs to 4 printed pages.Note
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UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES This report is protected under the provisions of ST/SGB/273, paragraph 18, of 7 September 1994" STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION REDACTED REPORT OF INVESTIGATION ID CASE NO Nos. 0186/03, 0258/03 No. 1, 0258/03 No. 2, 0464/03 and 0594/03 27 July 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 REPORT INTO ALLEGATIONS OF CERTAIN IRREGULARITIES AT THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (ECA) (ID Case Nos. 0186/03, 0258/03 No. 1, 0258/03 No. 2, 0464/03 and 0594/03) 1. ID/OIOS received the following complaints in relation to the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA): (i) Case No. 0186/03 - that there were irregularities in the award to a vendor of the catering contracts to manage the Main Cafeteria, the Delegates Lodge and the Press bar. It was further alleged that the vendor paid a staff member in order for the vendor to be awarded the said catering contracts. (ii) Case No. 0258/03 No. 1 - that a staff member constructed another staff member's house utilizing labour and material from the United Nations. (iii) Case No. 0258/03 No. 2 - that a manager illegally recruited a staff member by ignoring the rules and that the staff member employed her niece at L3 level. Further, that the staff member employed more than ten relatives (none of whom were named) in the general services section of the ECA. (iv) Case No. 0464/03 - that a manager employed a renown individual of an international organization for the purpose of spearheading his election campaign for the directorship position at that organization and further that the manager is using UN money for this purpose. (v) Case No. 0594/03 - that a staff member at ECA was terminated after she turned down the sexual advances of a manager. 2. After a thorough investigation of these matters, ID/OIOS has concluded the following: (i) Case No. 0186/03 - the evidence in this case does not support the allegation made. It is recommended that the staff member be exonerated in relation to this allegation. (Rec. No. IV03/186/01) (ii) Case No. 0258/03 No. 1 - The staff member did not construct the other staff member's house but assisted him in renovating it and doing minor work on it. The staff employed in his Unit carried out the work (independent contractors) utilizing UN tools, under his supervision, on evenings and on weekends. The staff member, however, was not paid for rendering such services. Even though it seems clear that the staff member was merely trying to be helpful in providing the service, in so doing he was in breach of Regulation 1.2 (o) which provides that "Staff members shall not engage in any outside occupation or employment, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 whether remunerated or not, without the approval of the Secretary-General" and by using UN tools � in breach of Staff Regulation 1.2q. This Regulation provides that "Staff members shall only use the property and assets of the Organization for official purposes and assets." Normally when a staff member is in breach of a Staff regulation, some administrative or disciplinary action would be recommended. However, because of the limited use in this case and the apparent lack of personal benefit, no recommendation is made as to the staff member's action in this case. It is however suggested that these regulations be brought to the attention of this staff member and staff members in general in order that they exercise greater judgment in their off duty activities and consider that their actions may be seen to affect their integrity. (iii) Case No. 0258/03 No. 2 - the evidence in this case does not support the allegations made. It is recommended that the manager and the staff member be exonerated in relation to these allegations. (Rec. No. IV03/258/01) (iv) Case No. 0464/03 - the evidence in this case does not support the allegation made. However evidence gathered shows that there were irregularities in the recruitment of the individual in that the requirements of the Administrative Instruction for Consultants � ST/AI/1999/7 section 4.2 were not followed. Instead of identifying several qualified candidates for the assignment, the individual only was identified as the person to be hired for the position. Section 4.2 provided that "on an exceptional basis and only in a case of force majeure a consultant may be engaged even though he or she was the only candidate considered provided a reasoned documented justification for such an exception is recorded prior to the selection". No reasoned documented justification was recorded prior to the individual's selection to bring this case within the exception provided. It is recommended that to promote transparency, ECA management should take steps to ensure adherence to the recruitment process as stipulated by the Administrative Instruction ST/AI/1999/7. (Rec. No. IV03/464/01) (v) Case No. 0594/03 - the evidence in this case does not support the allegation made in this matter. Moreover, it was found that the complainant did not seek recourse or review of the termination of the contract though the usual UN � JAB and/or UNAT channels. It is recommended that the manager be exoneration in relation to this allegation. (Rec. 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