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Hybrid Memory: Altering the Target Market Changes the Value Proposition
By Bob Merritt and Sherry Garber, Convergent Semiconductors
In an industry that has spent billions to offer smaller, faster and cheaper devices based on an underlying theory that the industry-wide value proposition would be best served by doubling the number of transistors per silicon area at a constant rate, the shift toward a consumer-oriented market based on mobile devices is forcing a reassessment of this approach. As process nodes shrink and manufacturing complexity increases, and the semiconductor industry is once again attempting to fund impending large capital investments in a mature market burdened by commodity pricing, an increasing number of current projects point to the integration of application-focused performance attributes as being the major target application that will support the next generation of new technologies.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said at the keynote presentation for the Intel Developer Forum in September 2009, "I can easily see a time where Intel will ship more SoCs than standard microprocessors." A statement from TI's OMAP platform marketing manager in a recent interview with Chip Design magazine also captured the technology and manufacturing challenges resulting from this shift in technology emphasis: "When you have a chip that includes wireless, LAN connectivity, Bluetooth and GPS, all of those technologies have to be integrated with each other. Through-silicon vias are one approach we are looking at. There also has to be more integration at the package level."
In Cadence's recent vision paper EDA360, on the complexity of future SoC designs, the company points out that, "Today, systems and semiconductor companies are undergoing a disruptive transformation so profound that even the best-known companies will be impacted… The disruptive transformation we are speaking of is not about EDA developing new design tools. It is not about new methodologies. It is not about the functional verification crisis, or the move to electronic system level (ESL) design, or any of the issues that have dominated discussions about EDA to date. It is about something much larger. It begins with a shift from design creation to integration in the electronic systems industry, and results in a new focus on profitability." Cadence paper: http://www.cadence.com/eda360/Pages/default.aspx?CMP=100427eda360_sb
We completely support that scenario. Within that context, we anticipate an emerging new class of devices that incorporate memory technologies combined at a higher level of integration into a single IC device along with logic or analog circuitry. This device can be used as a standalone memory device such as today's NAND solid-state disk drives, or with all the enhanced digital/analog features the additional logic can bring to bear, as exemplified by Ramtron's MaxArias Secure Wireless FRAM Memory, in which the memory array is powered by energy harvested from RF reception. The ability of these new devices to continue to act as a unique device by way of common interfaces defines its hybrid qualities and flexibility of features as well as enables rapid market acceptance.
We believe there will be an expanded set of these devices over the next decade that includes the performance attributes of memory, logic, and analog technologies. Basic memory technologies will be packaged with logic and analog features using the emerging advanced packaging technologies and eventually combined into a single die using a common fabrication process. The higher functionality and profitability from incorporating these capabilities into a single package will become a major enabler for emerging nonvolatile memory technologies that are more compatible with CMOS logic processes, and will result in significant displacement for those companies that have not embraced the significance of this capability.
The following chart identifies a targeted gross margin of 45 percent for Hybrid Memory companies extrapolated by Convergent Semiconductors that lies between the reported gross margins for selected memory and logic companies.
Targeted Gross Margin for Hybrid Memory
Source: Morningstar, Corporate Reports, and Convergent Semiconductors
Cadence's vision paper further describes a future requirement for higher levels of integrations for more complex SoC designs that are partially brought about by the transitions in manufacturing strategies discussed above. Those same market conditions and EDA requirements are also eventually applicable to higher levels of performance and integration for multiple die in single packages. The value proposition for this end product is based on utilizing the flexibility of existing silicon while relying heavily on externally designed silicon and software IP, with an overall cost/performance ratio geared toward mature process nodes and embedded software development in order to achieve aggressive cost/performance advantages.
We believe that this conversion will occur over a period and will be accomplished in several phases, which are described below.
Phase 1 — Multi-Chip Package (MCP) Hybrid Memory
The essence of the packaging concept is to identify the functional boundary conditions at which the performance and the interface are optimized. Multi-Chip Packages (MCP) and Multi-Chip Modules (MCM) are already in general usage by memory companies and OEMs, hence the "Hybrid Memory" (HM) label we have applied to the technology trend. MCP is the packaging choice for smart phones. Products in high-volume production already range from pre-packaged ICs on small printed circuit boards meant to mimic the package footprint of an existing chip package all the way to fully-custom chip packages integrating many chip dies onto a single high-density substrate. Existing programs to improve the performance and lower the costs of TSV technologies, higher levels of design integration for EDA companies, and more sophisticated programs for predicting the performance of known good die (KGD) all improve the manufacturing efficiencies in this phase.
SiP Hybrid devices take advantage of the ability to combine memory die (or a memory plane) with digital logic circuitry (or digital layer). SiP incorporates a mix of components (logic, analog memory functions) into a single package. This stage is easily identified by heavy reliance on more complex TSV technology. These devices offer additional performance, flexibility, and time-to-market advantages compared to discrete semiconductor devices. Products based on technologies are already being implemented with high-performance thru-silicon-via technology used for vertically stacked memory dies in a single IC package, such as OneNAND and eMMC. This second phase will be implemented in the mobile consumer segment where the benefit is great from time-to-market advantages, and from the ability to assemble more complex product configurations.
The third phase, Partial Hybrid, begins to de-emphasize commodity memory products and supports more complex combinations of components, along with standardized interfaces like SPI or equally well-established parallel interfaces. This phase is outside the standard five-year forecast window for volume adoption. The distinguishing characteristic of this phase is the integration of some logic or analog functions into a common memory/logic process. One of the primary characteristics of many of the new and emerging non-volatile resistive memory technologies such as phase change memory, is the closer compatibility with standard CMOS logic processes. The maturity of those memory technologies should be developed to the point that they can become a factor at this level of production in applications with limited requirements for external memory. In terms of a time scale, this would also roughly correspond to the growing difficulties of supporting charge storage technologies would have become problematic due to the extremely small amount of material in the cell mass. This phase offers a lower risk and higher value opportunity to accelerate the production of new memory technologies. This ability to mix together within a single process features that have traditional required different processes will enable the ability to rapidly add new capabilities to existing digital products. This additive ability extends the current model of adding more memory to electronic devices over time. Consumer devices of the future will implement this phase to reduce BOM cost and increase feature variability.
Phase 4 — Full Hybrid Memory
The final transition phase, Full Hybrid, is driven by the ability to combine high-performance logic and high-performance nonvolatile memory within the same die. Full Hybrid Memory solutions will also drive new revenues for CAD suppliers and foundry equipment suppliers as a single process emerges for both memory and logic devices. For companies developing new memory technologies, this new market category promises to offer a faster means for new memories to enter the market, and provides the early market movers an opportunity to define and establish a dominant market share in a category we believe could rival the current global market for memory devices.
At this phase, we expect that the ability of EDA systems capable of supporting a level of integration combining more complex elements from different die would have achieved a similar level of importance as the ability to insert more transistors per silicon area.
Customers look forward to highly customized hardware and software solutions that are able to address the ultimate market of a single buyer. However, that goal seems to be in conflict with maintaining traditional cost/performance except for a limited number of very large IC manufacturers.
The ultimate motivation for the shift to Hybrid Memory will be the recognition by the memory companies, OEMs, and the end customer that a fundamental shift has occurred in how semiconductors can best adapt to end-market applications. Establishing hardware customization opportunities that follow software's level of customization are essential in order to achieve this degree of product flexibility.
The entire spectrum of manufacturing will have opportunities to advance along with the four phases of HM. Of key importance to equipment manufacturers will be the extended demand for generations of processing equipment. While new technology and the equipment it requires will continue to be in demand, so will expanded capacity for established technology. Demand for a given generation of equipment will continue to be required for new or expanded fab capacity to produce the packaged hybrid memory of Phase 1 and 2 or the advanced use of technology of Phase 3 and 4.
New alliances are being formed, and new opportunities are unfolding at an accelerated pace as all semiconductor companies seek optimal realignment as the world's economies recover. The commitment of major semiconductor companies to the development of new memory technologies makes headlines on a regular basis.
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Convergent Semiconductors and Edison Labs combine engineering expertise, semiconductor industry experience, logic and memory marketing insight, manufacturing infrastructure knowledge, and OEM design experience. These services offer the strategic analysis needed to understand the converging technology and application demand trends that will define investments and products for the decade.
A series of reports details this trend from concept to reality by presenting memory-enabled devices, the infrastructure to produce them, and the applications that will sustain new memory technologies. The reports also examine why so many of the new memory technology participants are outside of the recognized circle of high-volume memory manufacturers.
Additional information is available on our website: www.convergentsemiconductors.com
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Cancer patient illegally evicted from home at gunpoint
Thanks to the friendly people at Wells Fargo and the Orange County Sheriffs Department (OCSD), a 37-year-old woman in a wheelchair who suffers from a rare, malignant and metastatic form of breast cancer was illegally evicted at gunpoint from her home.
Niko Black, a Native American Mescalero Apache, told the OC Weekly:
I'm in my bed and I see them storming my property, [so] I crawl to my wheelchair. They break down my door. I'm sitting there in my wheel chair. I'm about 100 pounds of shriveled-up cancer and a threat to no one. Sergeant Bob Sima puts a gun to my face, finger on the trigger, no safety and walks around me. There's no reason, except for to threaten my life, for an intimidation factor, to put a gun to my head.
Niko had legally declared bankruptcy and had been fighting Wells Fargo in a civil suit against eviction. She had owned her home for almost 20 years and had lived there since she was a child. She never even had a mortgage with Wells Fargo, and has entered into a civil suit around the fraud they have perpetrated against her, fraud that goes back many years.
After she filed bankruptcy, the court sided with Niko and put a stay on Wells Fargos eviction. Despite this, officers from the OCSD along with Wells Fargo employees harassed her on several occasions.
"Wells Fargo filed a motion about an inch thick all the reasons why they should be allowed to evict me," Black said about the court order. "The federal judge denied them and stated very clearly they are not to. The bank illegally acquired an unlawful detainer, an eviction, without due process. They did it with fraudulent paperwork."
Niko says that paperwork was signed by forgery with obvious misspellings of her name and filed a civil lawsuit. That is consistent with the claims of a $43 trillion class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo and 1807 other defendants. Her intransigence, she believes, is the reason why she's been subjected to this entire ordeal.
So Niko refused to open her door for police on October 10, on which was taped a copy of a court order (see slideshow) obtained from Federal Bankruptcy Judge Theodore C. Albert in late August that she firmly believes should have prevented the OCSD from carrying out the eviction. The deputies acted anyway on behalf of the county council and Wells Fargo. Finally, officers broke into her home and forcibly evicted her at gunpoint.
With neighbors lining up outside watching, Black's health began to worsen. "I needed my medication, I couldn't breathe and I was having a seizure," she told the OC Weekly. Niko said that deputies were unresponsive to concerns about her condition and one officer even remarked that she looked good to him. An ambulance finally arrived at her friend's behest and took her to a hospital.
Following the events of October 10, Judge Albert has ordered Wells Fargo and county officials to appear in court on November 13 to explain why they should not be held in contempt for violating the stay and be made to pay punitive damages.
Meanwhile, law enforcement is furiously spinning their side of the story. On October 22, Sgt. Sima used a local radio talk show to state that it is standard protocol to have weapons drawn in the clearing of a house, but that no guns were pointed at Blacks head, claiming that deputies were following instructions from the county council.
Just following instructions (or orders). That one was heard at the Nuremberg trials where former SS officials from Germany were tried for war crimes. These events are yet another example of how the US is turning into a police state that serves banks and corporations, not the American people, which is one of the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.
While law enforcement agencies, city officials and Wells Fargo will have to explain their actions in court, Nikos health is deteriorating.
"Because I have a very aggressive form of cancer, every appointment, every day is crucial," she says. "I'm a person with a lower immune system. That's why all my nursing care, my physical therapy, my medical equipment, everything is set up for home care. This violates the Americans with Disabilities Act."
A social worker as well as the head of the hospital that she was taken to have both written in support of Niko being immediately returned to her home for medical care. Attorney Stephen R. Golden has agreed to represent Niko pro bono.
"All I want to do is go home," Black says. "All I want to do is save my life."
One of Nikos best friends, Linda Rife of Tustin, CA, has started on online petition in support of her plight. The petition, directed at John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo, reads: Wells Fargo: Don't break the law - leave cancer patients alone. You can sign it here. Updates are posted on a Facebook page created for Niko.
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BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — A 60-year-old National Park Service employee was critically injured in an apparent assault in southeastern Arizona, and her government-owned truck was later found in a border town about 40 miles away, authorities said Thursday.
Karen Gonzales, a uniformed maintenance worker with the Park Service and a longtime seasonal employee, was found unconscious Wednesday afternoon in a picnic area restroom at Chiricahua National Monument.
Gonzales suffered head trauma and was airlifted to a Tucson hospital, where she remained in critical but stable condition, Park Service spokeswoman Michelle Fidler said.
Gonzales' government vehicle was found several hours later in the city of Douglas by tracking the worker's cellphone, which was still inside.
Authorities were processing the vehicle Thursday searching for clues in the case, Fidler said.
"It appears to be an assault and robbery," Fidler said. "We're still investigating all leads."
No suspects have been arrested or identified, authorities said.
Perryn Collier, a spokesman for the FBI in Phoenix, said the agency was assisting in the investigation being conducted by the Cochise County sheriff's office and Park Service law enforcement officials.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas said the pickup truck was found in the middle of the border town of Douglas. There was no immediate evidence that whoever abandoned it had crossed the border into Mexico, she said.
Douglas is about 40 miles south of the national monument, which is in mountains and desert on the east side of a broad valley that runs north from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The region is used by drug smugglers and people entering the United States illegally.
"We do have significant foot traffic and vehicle traffic that's attributed to illegal activity," Capas said.
Deputies were working closely with federal and state law officers to "identify the suspect(s) who apparently seriously injured a federal employee," Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels said in a statement released by his office.
The monument was the site of the still-unsolved 1980 disappearance of a Park Service ranger, Paul Fugate, who was last seen when he went on foot patrol.
Also in the region, the unsolved shooting death of a Douglas-area rancher, Rob Krentz, helped spur passage of a 2010 Arizona law targeting illegal immigration.
Krentz was gunned down in March 2010 while checking water lines on his property. Authorities believe — but have never produced substantive proof — that a scout for drug smugglers killed Krentz.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down some parts of the 2010 law two years later, including the requirement that immigrants obtain or carry immigration registration papers. But the high court upheld a requirement that Arizona officers question the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally.


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BOVINE RESOURCES— "Cattle stand first among the animals serving man. They are outnumbered, it is true, by sheep, and they are outranked in man's esteem by the horse and the dog, but no other domestic animal renders such a variety of important services to human well-being. To the American or European consumer cattle represent beef, veal, milk, butter, cheese and leather; they yield in addition hormones and vitamin extracts, bone meal for feed and fertilizer, and high-protein concentrates for livestock feeding. However, more than a third of the world's 800 million cattle are engaged primarily in the generation of brute energy for the tasks of plowing, hauling and milling."
PASSIVE NATION— "Poll after poll among our youngsters has given statistical confirmation of the phenomenon of American life which David Riesman, in his book The Lonely Crowd, named 'other-direction'—extreme sensitivity to the opinions of others, with a concomitant conformity. As a nation we seem to have a syndrome characterized by atrophy of the will, hyper trophy of the ego and dystrophy of the intellectual musculature. This rather unpleasant por-trait is an inescapable conclu-sion from the mass of data on the attitudes of the younger generation. More than half believe that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the local police should be allowed to use wiretapping at will, that the police should be permitted to use the 'third degree,' that people who refuse to testify against themselves should be forced to do so."
CARE OF LEPERS— "For the past several hundred years the care of lepers has received considerable attention in the Philippine Islands. If the segregation of lepers would stamp out the disease, this would be a good investment. But in the Philippines, medical evidence is by no means conclusive regarding the efficacy of segregation. A colony has, however, been opened on the little island of Culion, and a large number of lepers collected in it. It is contemplated that only such persons shall be declared lepers as by microscopical examination are found to have leprosy bacilli in their tissues. One noteworthy fact was observed while the lepers were being collected, that only about one-half of those who were previously reported as lepers were, on careful examination, found to be so."
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WRITE— "The spring of 1908 found us with [government] contracts on hand, the conditions of which required performance not entirely met by our flights in 1905. The best flight of that year, on October 5, covered a distance of a little over 24 miles, at a speed of 38 miles an hour, with only one person on board. The contracts call for a machine with a speed of 40 miles an hour, and ca-pable of carrying two men and fuel sup-plies sufficient for a flight of 125 miles. Our recent exper-iments were undertaken with a view of testing our flyer in these particulars, and to en-able us to become familiar with the use of the control-ling levers as arranged in our latest machines. —Orville and Wilbur Wright"
The entire article from 1908 is available here.
Read more about how Scientific American helped get the "aeroplane" off the ground.
ANILINE DYES— "F. Grace Calvert, an eminent English chem ist, four years ago said 'ere long, some valuable dye-ing substance would be pre-pared from coal.' A few weeks ago he stood before the Society of Arts in London and showed them a beautiful purpleish blue color rivaling that of orchil [a vegetable dye], and having the great advantage of not being destroyed by light. These colors, for there are many of them, have been prepared from the alkalies of coal tar by Messrs. William Henry Perkin and Arthur H. Church, two rising discoverers, and have been called by them nitroso-phenyline and nitroso-naph-thyline. The colors have been tried on silk, and found perfectly fast."
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Two-alarm fire leaves several Dover residents out in coldBy JOHN QUINN
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December 27. 2012 10:20PM
DOVER - In the midst of a wind-driven snowstorm, area firefighters battled a two-alarm fire for hours that destroyed a house on Horne Street Thursday.
Police, firefighters and emergency personnel responded at 1:46 p.m. after a fire was spotted throughout a 2�-story New England style home at 26 Horne St., according to Fire Lt. Dave Hanna.
Hanna said the windy weather and six to eight inches of snow on the ground made everything harder for firefighters.
"The cold definitely slows everything down," Hanna said, adding fire crews had to work extra hard to stretch hoses, move ladders and stay warm.
Hanna said there were no injuries and it helped to have so many fire departments at the scene - especially since firefighters were able to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading.
Hanna said local crews were assisted by firefighters from Durham, Portsmouth, Rochester, Rollinsford, and Somersworth. He added firefighters from Durham, Newington and Berwick, Maine provided station coverage.
While Hanna said he wasn't sure anyone was home when the fire began, the five to six residents in the home will need to find a place to stay.
He estimated the fire, smoke and water caused about $300,000 in damage.
While firefighters from neighboring communities were released, Hanna said local crews cleared the scene around 6 p.m. He added one fire crew will stay at the scene overnight to secure the area for the investigation, watch for rekindling and keep everyone safe.
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10 Quick Dinner Ideas Before Trick or Treating
Ready, set, go! It's Halloween, which makes it likely that dinner tonight is going to be squeezed between work/school and festivities. Whether you're attending a party after work or taking your children trick or treating after school, you're likely in need of a quick and easy (yet hot and filling) dinner tonight. Here are ten ideas from The Kitchn that won't take a lot of time or a special shopping trip:
- 1 Anelletti Pasta with Sausage and Greens
- 2 Girl Scout Stew
- 3 Bacon, Kale, & Turkey Stew
- 4 Garlic Greens with Pine Nuts and an Egg
- 5 Lentil Soup with Lemon Yogurt Cream
- 6 Avocado-Lime Black Beans
- 7 Couscous With Chickpeas, Fennel, and Citrus
- 8 Old-Fashioned Sloppy Joes
- 9 Pasta with Feta, Broccoli, and Sausage
- 10 Quick and Easy Fried Rice
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Do you know if you're having an impact on Twitter, Facebook and other social media networks? Do you want some tips on how to measure your social media influence?
As Twitter continues to grow, tools to enhance your Twitter experience and measure your influence are popping up all over the web. In this article, I'll highlight five free tools that offer easy ways to keep track of your influence on Twitter and beyond.
#1: Klout
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Dear Dee,
We've hung out two nights throughout the course of our lives, and both times I've desperately wanted to make out with you. The ironic thing is the first time we met, about two years ago, we were making fun of a couple in our group who had just gotten together and their public make out scene was vomit-inducing, at best. Fast forward 24 months and possibly 24 first (shite) dates, and we were again thrown together at said couple's wedding.
I forget the exact reasons I didn't make a move the first time around, probably some combination of the following: I don't operate that quickly, we were with some of your extended family, I'm kind of a p-word. This time around though, the reason was far clearer: I can't play the rat race that happens at weddings. Sure, I've been to some where there are seventeen single females looking to make out, but this situation was entirely different. You were literally the only eligible female at the event (not entirely true, but the other two I'm thinking of are in that friend zone).
From the rehearsal dinner on Friday night onwards (my speech alone should've been enough for you to want to tear my clothes off…I kid, I kid), it was clear that I would be competing with approximately a dozen single men for your attention. Perhaps if I didn't know anyone else at the wedding my mindset might have been different…but there were about 75 people I knew there, and a good chunk of them I actually wanted to see (this is exactly the opposite of what happens when I go to the bar most weekends). Maybe if I was guaranteed at least a boob grab or something I would've made more of a concerted effort. I guess I just don't see the point of spending all night at a wedding with some cool people pining after one girl's (even if she is cute & fun) attention.
Is that abnormal? That I'd rather spend times celebrating with my (pseudo) family & friends than shower you with affection? Is this a sign of a bigger problem. If so, I might be f*cked, and not in a good way.
Oh, out of curiosity, if I had approached you somewhat early on Saturday and said, "listen…I'm not going to join in the competition for you, but just know that I'd love to make out later on if you want to," what would you have said?
See you in a couple years I hope,
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's leading chipmaker Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it had restarted production at its semiconductor facility in Thailand and resumed shipping discrete chips used in smartphones and tablet PCs.
Toshiba's plant in Pathumthani, located north of Bangkok, was shuttered for almost a year after a massive flood hit the country last year. Production at the facility restarted on November 1 and shipments began on Wednesday, Toshiba said.
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What's Wrong With Slate
And three ways to fix it.
Editor's Note: This week Slatecelebrates its 10th anniversary, an occasion we are marking with nostalgia and self-congratulation. In the spirit of equal time, we've asked some of the magazine's most persistent critics to tell us what's wrong with Slate.
Over the last decade, Slatehas consistently been at the top of my reading list. It's thoughtful, timely, and a pleasure to read. I've criticized it more than I've criticized other publications, but that's largely because I've read it more than other publications.
As a frequent reader, I'd love to see Slatebetter use both its medium—online publication—and its genre—news and policy analysis that's thoughtful and responsible, yet often light and witty. In this spirit, let me offer three suggestions to Slate's editors and writers.
1. Use Your Medium—Link to Original Documents. Reporters, columnists, editors, I don't trust you. Don't take it personally: I don't trust anyone. Nor should you trust things I write. Everyone makes mistakes, sometimes caused by our ideological preconceptions and sometimes just by human frailty. Remember the line about a good journalist: He's the one who, when his mother tells him she loves him, tries to get it confirmed through two independent sources. Many readers approach journalists' articles the same way.
So, if, for instance, you think you've nailed President Bush in an error, link to the whole speech, so people can see the context. That way, when you're mocking Bush for saying, "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein," readers can easily go to the full quote, and see that it says
I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. … I appreciate Joe Agris, the doctor who helped put these hands on these men. … These men had hands restored because of the generosity and love of an American citizen …
Bush was shaking the prosthetic hands of people whose real hands had been cut off by Hussein. In context, there's nothing risible about his statement (as Spinsanity also noted; for similar examples, see here, here, and here).
Because of this, I think the Bushisms column shouldn't have run this statement. But I realize that others may disagree. That's why, rather than the impossible first-best world of "always quote accurate sources, and in context," I prefer the second-best world in which writers try their hardest to be accurate, but also provide the sources so readers can judge for themselves.
Likewise, say you want to claim that "the violent crime rate in Canada is 10 times lower than in the United States." Include a link to the document that supports this assertion—or, if the document isn't on the Web, and you can't put it online, at least link to a paragraph that cites the source.
As it happens, the most authoritative sources suggest (based on 1999 data) that the violent crime rate in Canada is roughly similar to that in the United States, and certainly not 10 times less. The Canadian homicide rate is indeed much lower, but by a factor of four, not 10. The "10 times lower" claim, the Slate people told me, came from a Sept. 5, 2004 article in the Spokane Spokesman-Review; that article didn't give a precise further source, and the book it generally refers to (Seymour Martin Lipset's Continental Divide) doesn't seem to support the assertion.
Linking to the source, or at least identifying it, would alert readers that the author is (in this case) relying on a newspaper account, not on the underlying study. Having to provide this link might also remind the writer and the editor that the claim may deserve stronger support, or perhaps should be removed if no such support is available. And maybe a link would make readers trust you more, precisely because they know you're willing to provide the original sources.
Of course, Slateeditors' time is limited, even if on the Internet space no longer is. I can't expect you to provide a link for every sentence. But providing such links when you're criticizing the person you're quoting, or when you're making an important but likely controversial factual assertion—seemingly standard practice at leading nonprofessional blogs—doesn't seem too hard.
2. Use Your Medium—Provide Better Corrections. Most newspapers' corrections practices have long been nearly useless. If a correction is ever published, it appears several days later in a separate corrections section, which I suspect only a few readers read.
Slate, I'm sorry to say, isn't much better. For instance, when Charlton Heston announced in 2002 that he had Alzheimer's, Slate ran an Explainer that claimed that California law required Heston to give up his guns if he were "diagnosed with full-blown Alzheimer's." That turns out to have been an error. Six days later, Slateposted an addendum to the original article alerting readers to the possible error, and 15 days after that, after investigating the matter, Slate corrected the article.
The trouble is that correcting an article on its original Web page will only reach those readers who visit an old article—for instance if a Google search takes them to that piece. Yet most regular Slatereaders will just read the article once, when it first comes out. They'll thus never notice the correction.
Slate's Other Web Sites column did link to my criticism, and since 2003 Slatehas run a periodic Corrections column. Yet most regular Slatereaders don't regularly visit the Corrections column: Slatetells me that in the last week of May 2006, the Corrections page got 1,200 unique visitors while the entire site got 2.2 million. Nor does the front page make clear to readers that a particular piece they had read before has been corrected; the Corrections column, when it appears, is simply labeled "Corrections: Slate's mistakes."
Why not do better than the newspapers? When there's a serious error in an article, why not put up an item on your front page that says "Retracting Our Charlton Heston Explainer," "Correction: Canada Isn't So Safe From Violent Crime After All," or some such?
That way, most of the readers who had seen the original piece will at least know that there was an error in it. You're not as limited as newspapers are: Including an extra item on the variable-size Slatedaily front page may be a little bit of a distraction, but it's not as great a cost as adding a new story to a fixed-size newspaper front page.
3. Watch Your Genre—Stay Serious Without Being Too Serious. I like Slate's wit. Humor, including political humor, makes political magazines more interesting. Yet it seems to me that serious magazines (serious in the good sense) need to be scrupulously fair even in their humorous items.
I take it that we'd all agree that political humorists shouldn't make up quotes and pass them off as real. (Situations where it's clear to readers that the quote is fictional are a different matter.) Likewise, even humorists shouldn't make a speaker look ridiculous by omitting important details that the speaker's audience knew about but that the joke's audience might not. Nor should they mock a speaker by quoting the speaker out of context, when the in-context quote is quite sensible.
As I noted above, I've often criticized Slate's Bushism of the Day feature for the latter two errors. (That's what makes me one of Slate's "most persistent critics.") Many of my readers have responded with variants of, "Relax, it's just a joke." And indeed jokes can't live up to the standards of precision that we expect from a 1,000-word article.
But when the editor of an opinion magazine quotes a politician to mock him—not just as a joke, but as political commentary—the quotes need to be fair as well as funny. Otherwise, thoughtful readers who are drawn to the magazine for its serious content may be understandably upset about the departure from journalistic standards of fairness. And they may wonder whether editors or writers who have shown a willingness to mock politicians by quoting them out of context might also be unfair to those politicians in their serious work.
There's also another danger with running political jokes, especially ones that aim at making a substantive political criticism in a substantive political magazine. The existence of a recurring joke column, whether "Bushisms" or the 2004 campaign season's "Kerryisms," tempts the author into finding facts to fit his joke template rather than building jokes around interesting or amusing facts.
One might think of it as the Independent Counsel problem, borrowing from what Justice Scalia (quoting Justice Jackson) said 10 years before the Clinton/Lewinsky matter (paragraph break added):
[W]hen a special-purpose independent prosecutor is chosen, there's a special risk that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone …
It is in this realm—in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense—that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.
The harms caused by excessive prosecutorial zeal are of course greater than the harms caused by excessive journalistic zeal, especially in the lighthearted field of poking fun at politicians' foibles. Still, journalists, like prosecutors, may lose a necessary sense of perspective and fairness if they set their agenda to be "Let's find something that X did wrong," rather than "Let's find something that someone did wrong, whoever that someone might be."
Petty errors of the sort that ordinary speakers (especially tired ordinary speakers) routinely make may thus get blown up into an occasion for mockery. Necessarily careful answers may get blown up into supposedly improper "caveats and embellishments," and get pejoratively labeled "Kerryisms" even when the question really does call for a complex answer rather than a simplistic one. That's not the recipe either for fair commentary or for effective political humor.
If Slate were just a humor magazine, then keeping journalistic perspective and even a sense of fairness might be less important. If it were just a policy or politics magazine, then being funny would be less important. But given that Slate tries to have both serious content and a sense of humor, it needs to uphold the standards of both genres.


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Baby Mother not invited
Guy Ritchie is on the guest list for the Royal Wedding. Without a plus one. Which means he can't bring his girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley who is pregnant. I guess the Royal People don't want you unless you're, like, official. Being the knocked up GF doesn't count. Or maybe they only extended him one spot because they didn't want to take the chance that he'd bring his ex-wife Madonna.
Can you imagine?
Attached – Guy with Jacqui after spending 6 hours at the Kabbalah Centre in London on Monday. Apparently, since Guy's two sons, Rocco and David Banda, are being raised in Kabbalah – pending a possible breakup in favour of Opus Dei - UK gossips are speculating that Jacqui is being asked to consider bringing up the new baby by the same faith. Here we go. Let the judging begin!
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Director-General, Kuwait ambassador inaugurate information stand
14 November 2013, Rome – Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Sheikh Ali Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, Ambassador of Kuwait to Italy, have inaugurated an information stand in the central atrium at FAO headquarters to promote the 3rd Arab Africa Summit, being held in Kuwait on 9-10 November.
The stand also features information on activities of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, which helps Arab and other countries to develop their economies including agriculture. The Fund has so far provided $3.4 billion to 43 countries.
The Director-General expressed his satisfaction with the initiative and underlined the importance of enhancing joint collaboration to the benefit of Kuwait and the Near East and North Africa Region.
Ambassador Al-Sabah reiterated the strong belief of Kuwait in FAO and its mandate and stressed that his country is willing to work with FAO on future initiatives.


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Experts remain divided over the costs associated with generating electricity from nuclear sources and the economic impact of potentially halting construction of the controversial Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市).
Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Francis Liang (梁國新) said it costs less to generate electricity using nuclear energy compared with other forms of power generation.
Liang made the remarks on whether to halt construction of the power plant, as has been demanded by anti-nuclear activists and other concerned citizens, at a hearing on Thursday.
Explaining the potential impact that halting construction could have on electricity prices, Liang put the respective costs per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity generation from nuclear energy at NT$0.72kWh, coal at NT$1.64kWh, natural gas at NT$3.81kWh and wind energy at NT$2.64kWh, citing figures from last year.
Electricity generated using solar energy wholesales at between NT$6.7kWh and NT$9.4 kWh, Liang said at the hearing at the legislature which was attended by government officials, lawmakers and energy specialists.
However, Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信) expressed skepticism about the figures provided by the government.
Hsu said the authorities have been excluding the costs of nuclear waste disposal and a possible atomic accident when calculating the cost of power generation using nuclear energy.
He called on officials to take those two factors into account.
Hsu's views were echoed by energy expert Chen Mo-shing (陳謨星), who said the government should take into consideration the costs of nuclear waste disposal instead of focusing only on fuel costs and fixed expenses in their calculations.
Chen also questioned the perceived negative impact halting the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant would have on the economy, saying that electricity generated using alternative energy sources would be cheaper than using nuclear energy.
"How will doing away with nuclear energy adversely impact the economy given that it is actually more expensive to generate power in this way?" Chen said.
James Kuo (郭國榮), former principal engineer at American Electric Power (AEP), a major electricity utility in the US, proposed converting the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant into a natural-gas fired facility.
Kuo said that such a conversion was feasible, citing precedents including the coal-fired Zimmer Plant in Ohio and the gas-fired Midland Cogeneration Facility in Michigan.
According to Kuo, who was involved in the conversion of the Zimmer Plant, AEP and private investors decided on the project in 1984 in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident — a partial nuclear meltdown at a nuclear reactor on the island in Pennsylvania in 1979.
It cost more than US$1 billion to convert the 95 percent completed nuclear plant into a coal-fired one, Kuo said.
Work on the conversion began in 1986 and concluded in 1991, Kuo said in a report, adding that it was the world's first nuclear-turned-coal fired plant.
Kuo said converting the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant into a natural-gas fired plant would be cheaper than continuing its construction.
Kuo estimated it would cost NT$65 billion (US$2.2 billion) to convert the plant — where the first and second reactors are more than 95 percent and 92 percent complete respectively — while it would cost NT$450 billion to finish its construction.


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as tired as i was carrying him outside at 2 am saturday night, the still chill and crunch of icy leaves was a nice way to feel the onset of winter and introduce him to the first frost. it was cold over the weekend so i made this amazing butternut squash soup—with just enough sweet and spice.


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Grammy Award winning drummer, producer and bandleader Joe McCarthy has lead a diverse career which has taken him from Symphony Orchestra and Big Band, to Afro Cuban, Bebop, and beyond. Joe is the leader/founder of Afro Bop Alliance, an Afro Cuban Jazz Ensemble based in the Washington DC area. The band's 2011 release, UNA MÁS, on OA2 records follows Afro Bop Alliance, released in conjunction with Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project on Heads-Up International, winner of the 2008 Latin Grammy for Latin Jazz Album of the Year and nominated for the 51st Grammy Awards in the same category. The band's 2 previous releases, Encarnacion and Camino Nuevo have received critical acclaim, worldwide. Joe has performed and or recorded with: The Caribbean Jazz Project, Eddie Daniels, Slide Hampton, Pat LaBarbera, Wayne Bergeron, Linda Oh, Luis Perdomo, Antonio Hart, Poncho Sanchez, Dave Samuels, Arturo O'Farrill, Michael Mossman, Ray Vega, Jimmy Bruno, Michael Formanek, Mitch Seidman, Luques and Zaccai Curtis, Mundell Lowe, Alain Mallet, Christian Howes, Roberto Quintero, Boris Kozlov, and Arturo Stables.
Joe is the Leader and Drummer for the United States Naval Academy Band's Jazz Ensemble, The Next Wave and Principal Percussionist of the USNA Band's Wind Ensemble. The Next Wave has released their debut, Just Gettin' Started.
Joe is also co-leader of the Vince Norman/Joe McCarthy Big Band with their 2007 release of Words Cannot Express, and 2010 release of Bright Future on OA2 Records.
Active in education, Joe is an Adjunct Professor of Drumset and Afro-Cuban Percussion Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC and George Mason University in Fairfax VA. Joe is in demand as a clinician throughout the US and abroad. He has written for Jazz Improv Magazine, Latin Percussion's "All About Rhythm" and has contributed to the educational websites of Zildjian and Innovative Percussion. Joe's Afro-Cuban Big Band Play-Along Book/CD and DVD of the same name are published by Alfred Music and have received rave reviews. Joe proudly endorses Zildjian Cymbals, Yamaha Drums, Vic Firth Drum Sticks, Lp Percussion, and Remo Drumheads.


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The Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics announced today that the March 1, 2014 men's and women's basketball double-header will feature ceremonies honoring two Pioneer greats. Women's basketball alumnus Amanda Pape, Class of 2007, will be honored for her induction into the Northeast Conference Hall of Fame and long-time head men's basketball coach Dave Bike will have the court named in his honor.
The women's team is hosting Long Island University Brooklyn in an NEC contest at 1 p.m., which will be followed with the men's regular season finale versus Central Connecticut State University at 3:30 p.m. The women will honor three seniors; Enjoli Bland, Elise Lorenz, and Ericka Norman and the men will salute their two seniors; Mostafa Abdel Latif and Louis Montes, prior to the start of each game.
Pape and Bike will be honored at halftime of their respective games. Pape will be presented with her NEC Hall of Fame plaque during the women's halftime, and at halftime of the men's game, the playing floor in the Pitt Center will officially be christened 'Dave Bike Court'.
Pape led Sacred Heart to its first NEC Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006 and a pair of NEC regular season titles in 2005-06 and 2006-07. The Pioneers compiled an 87-34 overall mark and an incredible 59-13 record in conference play in her four seasons.
Still the program's all-time leading scorer, and third in the NEC, with 2,045 career points, Pape was named the NEC Player of the Year as a junior in 2005-06. That season she set single-season school marks in scoring, free throws and steals and was also named the MVP of the NEC Tournament after a 25-point, 14-rebound performance in the title game win over Quinnipiac. Pape, who also established Sacred Heart School records for steals, field goals, free throws and scoring average, was an All-League selection in all four seasons, with first team accolades in her final three seasons, and was named NEC Rookie of the Year in 2004.
Following her senior campaign, Pape received the Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance Gold Key as the Hank O'Donnell Female Athlete of the Year. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Bike spent 35 seasons as the head men's basketball coach at Sacred Heart, ending his storied career with 530 career victories. He led the Pioneers to the 1986 NCAA Division II National Championship and was named the NABC National Coach of the Year. Bike was also at the helm of the Pioneers as they made the transition to Division I status and led Sacred Heart to the NEC Tournament in six seasons and championship game appearances in 2007 and 2008.
The second head coach in Pioneer history, Bike came to Sacred Heart in 1965 and spent two seasons as an assistant coach for Don Feely. He earned his degree as part of SHU's third graduating class and after four seasons as an assistant at Seattle University, returned as the head coach for the 1978 season.
Bike coached over 1,000 games with the Pioneers, including a run of seven straight NCAA regional championship game appearances during the 1980's. He coached Sacred Heart to five NCAA Division II Regional Championships and four New England Collegiate Conference titles. During his tenure he coached six NABC All-Americans and had three players named Regional Player of the Year.


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TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson prefers that her team peak at the right time, rather than stack up top score after top score early in the regular season only to stumble in the postseason when it matters most.
TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson prefers that her team peak at the right time, rather than stack up top score after top score early in the regular season only to stumble in the postseason when it matters most.
"We're not like football where if we lose one meet you can't contend for the national championship," Patterson said. "For us, what we've done best over the years is we have built and peaked at the right time. I don't hate to lose, but if we're getting better and we're getting deeper and we're making the adjustments we need … then I think that helps us."
The Crimson Tide will face the No. 1 Florida Gators Friday for the first time since Alabama edged Florida by .075 to win the 2012 national championship.
The two teams are taking different paths to the same goal: a national championship. Florida is off to a scorching start in 2013, posting three straight scores of 197 or above.
Alabama, meanwhile, is using the slow and steady approach. The Crimson Tide hasn't crossed the 197 threshold yet and suffered its first loss of the season Saturday at Georgia. But even in defeat, Alabama posted its highest team score of the season, and is slowly building each week so that it is at its best at the NCAA championships.
"This team does a great job with peaking at the right time," senior Ashley Sledge said. "You win some, you lose some. I think it's just going to make us that much better."
Florida seems to come so close every year, but still has not joined the elite group of teams that has won an NCAA championship. The Gators have won eight Southeastern Conference championships, one more than Alabama, but never a national title.
"For the last four years, I've voted [Florida] No. 1 in my preseason poll," Patterson said. "I thought they were the most talented team in the country. When we won in 2011 everyone was surprised. And I think [former UA gymnast] Kayla Hoffman said it the best: sometimes it's not the most talented team that wins, sometimes it's the heart and the intangibles that surround you."
Alabama faces top teams week in and week out - all but one team on its 2013 schedule is currently ranked in the top 25 - and that's by design. The team feels that it can benefit from being put in pressure situations so that when the postseason comes, it isn't intimidated by the competition.
"We can't control what Florida does," Sledge said. "Florida is an absolutely great team, they're No. 1 in the nation right now. But all we can do is what we can do and we're just focusing on the little things that will make us a good team vs. a great team."


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U.S. stock futures fell, signaling the market will extend a weekly decline, amid concern a political impasse over the federal budget will hurt the economy. Treasuries rose while the yen strengthened and energy led commodities lower.
Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures (CME:SPZ13) fell 0.4% at 9:05 a.m. in New York while the rate on 10-year Treasury notes lost two basis points to 2.63%. The yen appreciated against all but one of its 16 major peers as Japan's finance minister damped speculation the government will cut the corporate tax rate. The pound advanced 0.3% against the dollar as Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told a U.K. newspaper he does not support increasing asset purchases. Italian bonds and European shares slid following a debt auction.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's plan to avert a shutdown by shifting to a debt-ceiling fight ran into opposition from some Republicans in another setback for efforts to keep the U.S. government operating after Sept. 30. Britain, France, the U.S., Russia and China agreed on a resolution requiring Syria to give up its chemical weapons, which the full Security Council of the United Nations will discuss today.
"People are just headline watching in terms of the debt ceiling," said Nick Xanders, an equity strategist at BTIG Ltd. in London. Investors will "have to wait and see what happens with the votes in the next couple days and whether or not the lights go out in a couple of weeks," he said.
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The U.S. Senate plans to vote today on an emergency budget to prevent a shutdown of the federal government when the new financial year starts on Tuesday. The bill must then return to the House.
Among stocks moving in pre-market U.S. trading, J.C. Penney Co. slid 8.3% after the retailer began selling 84 million shares to raise cash. Nektar Therapeutics tumbled 20% after a study of the slow-release painkiller NKTR-181 failed to meet its goals. Nike Inc. surged 7.1% as fiscal first-quarter profit topped analysts' estimates.
The U.S. Bloomberg Dollar Index slipped 0.2%. The pound rose 0.3% to $1.6095, after climbing to $1.6163 on Sept. 18, its highest level since Jan. 11.
"Given the recovery has strengthened and broadened, I don't see a case for quantitative easing and I have not supported it," Carney said, according to the Yorkshire Post.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Operations continued Friday to remove thousands of gallons of oil from a leaking barge on the Mississippi River, and vessel traffic remained restricted, a Coast Guard officer said.
Lt. Aaron Jozsef said Friday that crews had removed more than 250,000 gallons of a mixture of oil and water from the barge. The barge began leaking after crashing into a railroad bridge Sunday near Vicksburg.
The damaged barge is pushed against the bank on the Louisiana side of the river, directly across from Vicksburg's Riverwalk and Lady Luck casinos.
The oil is being pumped off the damaged barge and onto another barge, a process known as lightering. It's not clear how long the process will take.
Once the oil is removed, the Coast Guard will check the structural soundness of the barge before moving it.
"We're taking it slow, one step at a time, being methodical," Jozsef said.
Jozsef said some restrictions will remain in place until the oil is removed from the empty barge and salvage operations are completed.
Vessel traffic is being restricted on a 16-mile stretch of the river. Southbound commercial traffic was being allowed to pass through the area during daylight hours, and northbound commercial traffic will be permitted to move at night.
Two barges hit the bridge before dawn on Sunday, but only one was leaking. It had eight compartments carrying a total of 668,000 gallons of oil. One of those compartments was punctured, and it had about 86,000 gallons of light crude oil in it.
Jozsef said Coast Guard officials continue to estimate that about 7,000 gallons of oil are unaccounted for, but some of it may have seeped into void spaces on the barge rather than into the river.
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CBS Broadcasts Buffalo Bills Fan's Horrifying Fall from the Upper Deck of Ralph Wilson Stadium (GIFs)
It's certainly not easy being a Buffalo Bills fan. Everyone knows that. After four straight losing Super Bowl appearances to kick off the 1990s, the team hasn't even been to the playoffs this millennium. That's tough. Still, as depressing as Bills home games have been for the last decade and a half, I had no idea fans had become so bored that they've taken to performing death-defying stunts just to keep themselves entertained.
What the hell am I talking about, you ask? I'm talking about the Bills fan who decided to slide down a railing in the 300 level of Ralph Wilson Stadium yesterday—for fun, apparently—and fell off, plummeting to the level below.
The miraculous part? It's not that the guy survived, although that is certainly something for which we are grateful (sadly, some people aren't so lucky). No, the really miraculous part is that the fall was broadcast live on CBS. It appeared in the upper left hand corner of the screen as CBS was coming back from commercial at the start of the second quarter.
Take a look:
In. Sane.
Like I said, the guy who fell actually survived. And judging from the pic somebody posted on Twitter, his injuries don't even look that serious:
The crazy thing is, when this guy found out the Bills actually won the game, he probably thought the trip to the emergency room was totally worth it.
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Decorations and toddlers rarely mix. We asked on Facebook: How do you keep your tot—and your tree—safe? We got a ho-ho-whole lotta tricks:
"Styrofoam ornaments: affordable and cute!" —K.L.
"I got a small artificial tree and used toys to decorate it. That way, they could play with it and leave the big tree alone." —D.D.O.
"Soft beanies and stuffed toys down low on the tree and jingle bells so we know when one of our little ones is grabbing at the tree." —L.W.D.
"We gave our son his own three-foot-tall tree with kid-friendly ornaments he could decorate and redecorate as he saw fit. He became so obsessed with that and his kid-friendly nativity scene that he left all the other stuff alone." —E.M.
"I convinced my son the tree was hot! The lights do get a little warm, right?" —A.S.H.
"We made our own tree out of lights, which hung on the wall. It was higher than our son could reach, and we just hung the ornaments on the light strings." —S.P.
"Ribbons instead of hooks to hang ornaments, baked-dough ornaments with nontoxic paints, pretty ribbons over lights." —M.U.
"We packed books and similar heavy items in large diaper boxes, wrapped them as gifts, and stacked them as a barricade around the tree. Everyone admired it!" —N.F.K.
"We bought an iron garden fence that was about three feet tall and bolted the 2.5-foot sections together to make a hexagon fence around the tree." —L.C.S.
"I tell my son there are spiders in it, and he stays away!" —D.A.
"I had a felt tree on the wall, with felt decorations." —N.K.B.
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James Haswell, 67 - July 15, 2009
James Dean Haswell, 67, of Boise, ID, formerly of Arnold and Callaway, died Saturday, July 4, 2009, at Boise.
A memorial service was held in Idaho on July 11. A private family memorial service will be held at a later date in July.
Haswell was born March 1, 1942, to James "Russell" and Margaret (Whipple) Haswell at Arnold. He attended schools in Nebraska and Commerce City, CO, and resided at Callaway and North Platte.
He served in the Navy and was stationed on the USS Hornet.
Haswell's employment included construction work in Alaska and Leo's Flowers in North Platte. He helped manage a rodeo in Idaho with his brother, Allen. He enjoyed working with his hands, according to family members.
He was preceded in death by: his father, James Russell Haswell; a sister, Linda Haswell; uncles—Carl Whipple and Eugene "Jr." Whipple; an aunt, Bethel Whipple Willis.
Survivors include: his wife, Judy of Boise; his mother, Margaret Haswell-Jersin of Gothenburg; brothers—Ivan "Levi" Haswell of Bellville, KS, Leslie "Bud" Haswell of North Platte, and Allen Haswell of Idaho City, ID; sisters—Peggy Mathes of Indian Mound, TN, Annettie Haswell of Gothenburg, and Laurie Kay Ratterree of Florissant, CO; daughters—Jamie of Eugene, OR, Angie and Beth Ann, both of Boise; six grandchildren; numerous extended family members.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the "James Haswell Gold Dust Arena" c/o Judy Haswell, 300 Main St., Idaho City, ID 83631.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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Alexis Bledel sparkles in an Oscar de la Renta dress at the premiere of The Conspirator on Monday (April 11) at NYC's Museum of Modern Art.
The 29-year-old actress accessorized with Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, a Cecelia clutch, and Piaget jewelry.
Alexis's co-stars, James McAvoy and Robin Wright, also came out to support the drama at the premiere sponsored by Piaget, Leblon, and Wall Street Journal.
Earlier in the day, Alexis and James were spotted at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station to catch a train to NYC after premiering the film in the nation's capital.
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CAMBRIDGE, UK - Jan. 29, 2004 - ARM (LSE:ARM) Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, today announced that Samsung Electronics, a leader in advanced semiconductor technology has licensed the PowerVR MBX 3D graphics solution from ARM for use in high-end mobile APs for smart phones and PDAs.
The PowerVR MBX solution from ARM will be used as a graphics accelerator in an application processor for mobile applications such as wireless gaming, delivering low-power reliance and high-memory efficiency.
"As the market demand develops for high-end technologies like 3D graphics on mobile devices, we look forward to seeing an increase in the demand for ARM® core-based 3D solutions through the expertise of our Partners." said Ed Plowman, 3D Graphics product manager, ARM.
PowerVR MBX graphics accelerators from Imagination Technologies enable PC and games console-quality 3D graphics on embedded ARM core-based devices. Supporting a full 2D and 3D feature-set and offering a performance level suited to mobile and embedded devices, the PowerVR MBX solutions use a unique screen-tiling technology to reduce the memory bandwidth and power consumption to levels suited to mobile devices, providing excellent price-performance for embedded SoC devices.
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You are invited to a public screening of the documentary Maafa21, which exposes the purpose and history of Planned Parenthood and its founder Margaret Sanger as advocates for the population reduction and eventual elimination of the black population in America. You and your guests are invited to attend. Please publicize this fully on any media outlet accessible to you. We will have two area locations for this screening (see below).
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma laws requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound image placed in front of them while they hear a description of the fetus and that ban off-label use of certain abortion-inducing drugs are unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The state's highest court determined that lower court judges were right to halt the laws. In separate decisions, the Oklahoma Supreme Court said the laws, which received wide bipartisan support in the Legislature, violated a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court case.
The Oklahoma court said it has a duty to "follow the mandate of the United State Supreme Court on matters of federal constitutional law."
The Legislature passed the ultrasound law in 2010. Oklahoma is one of several states that have passed laws requiring doctors to both perform an ultrasound and provide a verbal description of the fetus before an abortion. The other law was approved in 2011.
The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights challenged both laws, and Oklahoma County judges had halted their enforcement while the court cases made their way through the judicial system.
Michelle Movahed, a staff attorney for the abortion-rights group, said the rulings represent a "sweeping and unequivocal" rejection of the Legislature's attempt to restrict the reproductive rights of women.
Nancy Northup, the center's president and CEO, said Oklahoma has been a testing ground for a national network of organizations she said are hostile to women, doctors and the rights of both.
"But despite their best efforts to chip away at women's fundamental rights, the courts have consistently rejected these extreme assaults on reproductive freedom," Northrup said in a statement.
State Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whose office appealed lower-court decisions that invalidated the laws, said he is considering appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We disagree with the court's decision, particularly with the fact that the question on whether Oklahoma's Constitution provides a right to an abortion was left unanswered," Pruitt said in a statement.
The ultrasound law was struck down in March by District Judge Bryan Dixon, who ruled that the statute was an unconstitutional special law that could not be enforced because it addressed only patients, physicians and sonographers dealing with abortions without addressing other medical care.
Tony Lauinger, chairman of the anti-abortion group Oklahomans for Life, said he believes the state Supreme Court has misinterpreted the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision. He said the Oklahoma ultrasound measure provides a level of informed consent for women seeking abortions, something he said the federal decision permits.
"The ultrasound law does not prohibit abortion. It regulates abortion," Lauinger said.
The other state law was rejected in May by District Judge Donald Worthington, who ruled it violated "the fundamental rights of women to privacy and bodily integrity."
The law required doctors to follow strict guidelines authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and prohibited off-label uses of certain abortion-inducing drugs such as RU-486. Such moves include changing a recommended dosage or prescribing it for different symptoms than the drug was initially approved for.
The law also required doctors to examine women before prescribing the drugs, document certain medical conditions and schedule follow-up appointments.
Pruitt said he was disappointed with the court's decision.
"There is overwhelming evidence that the off-label use of abortion-inducing drugs leads to serious infections and death for many healthy, unsuspecting women. This is not OK," Pruitt said.
All nine justices on the court joined in the decision involving the abortion-inducing drugs, while eight justices concurred in the ultrasound ruling. Justice Noma Gurich, a former Oklahoma County judge who issued an injunction blocking enforcement of that law in July 2010, recused herself from the decision.
Earlier this year, the state Supreme Court halted an effort to grant "personhood" rights to human embryos, citing the same 1992 U.S. Supreme Court case. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the case on appeal.


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Body found outside New London apartment complex
New London — The body of a 58-year-old man with a penchant for bringing fresh flowers to one of the employees at the local homeless shelter was discovered July 12 behind a downtown apartment complex, police confirmed on Friday.
Richard Oliveri, whose cause of death police said appears to be from natural causes, was found in a storage area outside the Crocker House, which is at the corner of State and Union streets.
His body, discovered on the afternoon of July 12 during Sailfest, was taken for an autopsy to the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Results of toxicology reports are pending. New London Police Deputy Chief Peter G. Reichard said there were no outward signs of trauma.
Based on the stage of decomposition, Reichard said that Oliveri's body appeared to have been there for several days.
Cathy Zall, executive director of the New London Homeless Hospitality Center, said Oliveri was a fixture in the New London area for years but that his health had deteriorated. After spending time at a nursing home and being away for several years, Zall said he had reappeared suddenly. Oliveri was frail and using a walker.
"We had not expected to see him," Zall said. "We admitted him right away. He was frail, very sick. I don't know what happened between the last time we saw him … but I'm sorry to hear it ended."
At the St. James overnight shelter on Federal Street, worker Celida Baez said Oliveri would occasionally bring her flowers that he picked himself.
"He used to tell us stories of how he owned a flower shop on Fishers Island," Baez said. "He was a real lovable person and always showed me lots of respect."
Baez said Oliveri always knew what type of flowers he had and would give her tips on their care.
"I'm sorry he's gone," Baez said. "He was here when we first opened the shelter years ago, about nine years ago. He'd leave, we wouldn't see him for a while. That was how Rich was."
Baez said the last time she saw Oliveri, known to have a drinking problem, was around July 4 and he had been taken to the hospital by ambulance for unknown medical reasons. What happened after that time is unclear.


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Want to see the world and collect a healthy paycheck? Just grab your laptop and go.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Anthony Page stood on the beach of Malaysia's tiny Perhentian Kecil Island and marveled at the isolation. Around him were bamboo huts and miles of blue water. Much of the island was jungle, inhabited by coconut-hurling monkeys and giant monitor lizards. Yet he wasn't entirely cut off. At night, when the electricity came on, Page could pull out his laptop and hook up, via satellite link, to the Web. "There's always an Internet connection somewhere, even in the poorest, most desperate country," he says.
Page, 35, had been traveling for almost a year before he got to the island. He hit the road in 2005 when his job as a Web developer in London was outsourced to India. Tired of the grind, he decided to take a leaf from the people his job had gone to: He would work with clients long-distance over the Internet; his office would be the nearest power and Internet hookups.
"Ten years ago, there's no way this would have worked," he says. "Now there are hardly any barriers." With so many choices for voice, e-mail, and video communication, many jobs today can be done without a brick-and-mortar office. Getting paid couldn't be easier; PayPal and other advances in electronic money management make overseas financial transactions nearly friction-free.
Telecommuting, of course, is hardly a new idea. Nearly everyone knows someone who works at home. But relatively few ask the next logical question: Why stay at home? Today there may be only hundreds of - or at most a few thousand - professionals who have decided, like Page, to make their living as they see the world. Their numbers seem to be growing, but no government tracks their movements. If they weren't well-educated and relatively affluent, they would be called vagabonds. A better term might be "white-collar nomads."
Living and working on the road came naturally to Page. "I've always been interested in travel," he says. "If you have a laptop, there's no reason you can't work too." He gets a steady income from a few simple websites that he's built and plastered with ads. One of them, WorkingNomad.com, has become a clearinghouse for those who aspire to live the same way.
Clients, for their part, now understand that a professional working outside an office - or just outside - can still be reliable. Simon LePine is an insurance salesman and entrepreneur who spends his time climbing mountains in Canada and Alaska. "Whenever I talk to a client, they wonder where I am today, what mountain I've climbed," he says. "They appreciate it."
So how did Page, LePine, and their peers free themselves of office and home? And how can you do the same?
First, focus on your job; you need to be comfortable doing it in familiar surroundings before you can do it hunkered over your laptop in a hotel thousands of miles away. Then, like a good Buddhist, be prepared to give up everything. "Selling our furniture and buying a one-way ticket out of the country was scary," says Trygve Inda, a consultant and software developer who has seen more than 60 countries in five years of working travel with his wife, Karen. "I think that jump off the cliff holds a lot of people back."
Once you've decided to jump, pack smart. You'll need a laptop, of course. Nomads favor the Mac, since viruses and other malware typically attack PCs. An unlocked world phone or PDA that can be switched across networks, or VOIP software like Skype, is also vital. Since you might not see a CompUSA for months, every item in your pack should have a comprehensive damage warranty. Get a keychain drive to back up vital files, and keep it close.
In addition to the essentials - which also include tough clothes, a backpack, and the usual traveler's gear - you might want to pack some extra gadgetry to make your life simpler, like a Wi-Fi hotspot locator. Remember, though, that every item added is more weight to carry around. Inda believes that traveling light, stowing most of your gear in home bases around the globe, is the way to go. "Doing everything with a laptop and a backpack is fine, but it gets hard," he says. "I'd like to have three different places on three continents."
There's one big advantage of taking your job on the road: You can feel rich, even if you're not. With no mortgage or rent, and given the low cost of living in many countries, a little money can go a long way. "I've managed to save a lot because I'm not living in London," Page says. Taxes, of course, must still be paid. Professional wanderers file in their country of citizenship.
Naturally, there are downsides. "It's not always great," Page admits. "I used to work with a lot of people, and it was very social. Now I work on my own a lot - and that's a huge negative, to be honest." Self-management skills are also essential: While home-based workers have to fight off the temptation to raid the fridge, mobile workers have to put off sightseeing in some of the world's most spectacular locales.
For Inda, merging work with travel has actually reduced the chances that he'll have time to relax. "The longest I've ever left the business unattended was four days," he says. "I don't feel like I've had a proper vacation in five years."
Figuring out how to get into a country and how long you can stay can be an extra headache. Some countries require a visa before you arrive; others issue it at the border or send you to a consulate once you arrive. Sometimes a well-placed bribe does the trick. "Just coordinating my life," Inda says, "is a huge nightmare."
That may help explain why WorkingNomad.com's user groups now have more than 1,000 members (though Page knows only a handful who have actually embarked on the life). Most members seem to be more comfortable asking questions and getting moral support than going ahead and taking the plunge.
Despite the hassles, the white-collar nomads we spoke to have no regrets. Gregory Moulinet, a French-born graphic designer who runs a firm called Nomadesign with his Japanese wife, Yoko Chiba, says traveling through the United States and Japan has been a life-changing experience. "I can't imagine how things would be if I'd stayed in France," he says. "Maybe I would have made more money and taken less risks. But I don't think I would be so rich in memories and experiences."
For Inda, it boils down to gaining a new perspective on your place in the world. "People ask me where I live, and I'm not sure what to say," he reflects. "I'm not sure where I live. I live in the world."To send a letter to the editor about this story, click here.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Organizers of the annual bullfighting festival in Ecuador's capital are calling it quits a year after it stopped killing bulls in accordance with the will of voters.
Ecuador approved a 2011 ballot question banning the killing of animals for entertainment.
The Quito festival had run for 52 years, attracting top bullfighters and generating about $15 million in revenues over six days. This year's festival was to have begun Dec. 1.
In a letter to the mayor, organizers blamed the cancellation announced Friday on the killing ban and continued opposition to the spectacle.
More than 40 bulls were killed during past fights.
Bullfighting will continue in some smaller Ecuadorean towns. Bulls will be killed in some and not in others, depending on how towns voted last year.