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The horse that wins the Kentucky Derby in 2015 may come into the world tonight in the Bluegrass State.
From January into June, about 8,000 registered thoroughbred colts and fillies will be born in Kentucky. As 3-year-olds, a few may be Triple Crown contenders.
NPR's Noah Adams just spent time near Lexington, Ky., with Eduardo Terrazas, who runs a boarding farm and expects to deliver 51 foals this season.
As Noah reports for Morning Edition, the first things you notice when you meet Terrazas are his eyes — "smiling and very tired; when the babies are coming it's hard to find any time to sleep." Terrazas says that "for two nights in a row, I think I only slept one hour one day and about two hours the next day. ... I deliver every foal."
On the night Noah is there, a mare has trouble. Her breathing is heavy. The placenta is thick and "she's not going to be able to break her bag," Terrazas says. The horse needs his help. Terrazas uses scissors to move things along.
After some tugging and some gushing, a colt is born. Minutes later, the little guy is standing — "trying to figure out what legs are for," as Noah says. And Terrazas is soon brewing a pot of coffee. For him, barn coffee is always the best. He'll need it. There's a mare in the stall next-door who needs attention.
To see a little of what it's like when Terrazas is at work check this video that Glenye Cain Oakford put together for the Daily Racing Form.
While in Kentucky, Noah also spent time at both of Lexington's equine hospitals. At Rood & Riddle, Dr. Bonnie Barr and her intensive care team are also among those who don't get much sleep during foaling season. One colt has come in because he wasn't breathing after birth.
"The farm veterinarian did CPR," Barr tells Noah, and at the hospital he's been put into "kind of ... a drug-induced coma." Seven of the facility's eight intensive care units are full.
And it was at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Noah writes in the following message, that he heard some other particularly compelling stories.
An 'Otherworldly' Experience
By Noah Adams
One night in the neonatal unit at Hagyard Equine, I met Dr. Kim Sprayberry. We visited a couple of newborns, and she talked about the dedication of the staff and the intensity of the work.
She later sent me a photograph she had taken of an ailing foal being carried inside — it had been in the front seat of a pickup. It's the one picture that stays in my mind after my time in the Bluegrass.
Sprayberry also told me about the spring of 2001 and the onset of what would come to be named mare reproductive loss syndrome. Thousands of fetuses were aborted; hundreds of foals died shortly after birth.
The cause, it was later determined, was an infestation of tent caterpillars. The mares ate the caterpillars, which have sharp, hairy cuticles that made microwounds in the horses' bowels and led to infection.
"It was horrible. The crux of the whole thing was April 17th," Sprayberry said. "I was on call, and we took in 17 mare-foal pairs in one night. We didn't have places to put them. We'd break open a bale of straw, and the farm guy would be sleeping in a chair hanging onto the mare's lead rope, and the foal would be lying on the little pallet of straw with a IV stand.
"We had a $1 million foal stuffed between the washing machine and the dryer where we'd made a pallet. We had mares and foals out in their horse trailers in the parking lot. Our technicians would use that as a stall, and as soon as one little foal would expire, we'd take it out and get another pair in. It was otherworldly," Sprayberry recalled, standing within the dim quiet of the neonatal unit.
"I was at the door here in the morning," she said, "and there would be piles of little dead foals, and we would have farms call and say, 'Hey, I'm coming in.' "
In the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, the thoroughbred foaling season is underway, meaning sleepless nights for the farm managers and stable hands, as they help new baby horses into the world. NPR's Noah Adams went there to experience one of those births, and pay a visit to an equine neonatal intensive care unit where newborn foals are treated.
NOAH ADAMS, BYLINE: I noticed when I first met Eduardo Terrazas - at his foaling barn - I noticed his eyes. Smiling and very tired. When the babies are coming it's hard to find any time to sleep.
EDUARDO TERRAZAS: For two nights in a row I think I only slept one hour one day and about two hours the next day. Normally I'm here with the guys at night, they call me and I come here âcause I do like to be here on every birth. I deliver every foal.
ADAMS: Every foal this season will mean 51, for Eduardo Terrazas, who came to Kentucky from Mexico years ago, worked as a stallion manager before starting his own boarding farm. It's called Terrazas Thoroughbreds, south of Lexington. They take care of sixty mares year-round, and 120 others which are shipped in to have their foals, or be bred, or both.
TERRAZAS: I have mares from New York, California, Canada, three from Argentina, Florida, New Jersey.
ADAMS: His foaling barn has a wide center aisle, doors stand open at both ends. The stalls are concrete block, painted white, clean straw. In late afternoon Eduardo checks the mares who are close to their due date. Is there a certain look in the eyes? Does the rump look like it's dropping. Is the udder gathering milk, getting waxy? The most likely mother doesn't really seem ready.
TERRAZAS: You can see her bag is fuller, however the milk hasn't come down to the nipples yet. At this point, I don't really think we're going to have one tonight.
ADAMS: Eduardo, who lives ten minutes away, leaves to pick up his kids from school and it's home for dinner and maybe some sleep on the couch, his cell phone on his chest, to vibrate if his night watchman calls.
Lexington has two world class equine hospitals, and that's because of the money that's involved in thoroughbred breeding and racing. Horses sell at auction for millions â stud fees can easily go over $100,000.
DR. BONNIE BARR: We are standing in the intensive care unit at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital. It's primarily for the neonatal foals, so newborn foals that are sick.
ADAMS: Dr. Bonnie Barr leads an intensive care team at Rood and Riddle. These are also people who don't go out of town or get much sleep during the foaling season. The hospital's NICU has eight stalls. On this afternoon seven are full.
BARR: Last night we had a foal that came in that was just born on the farm and it wasn't breathing on the farm. The farm veterinarian did CPR. They brought the foal in here immediately. It was breathing by the time it got here. My concern with the fact that he had a lack of oxygen right at birth is that it can affect his brain. There he is.
ADAMS: The colt is quiet in a front corner of the stall, supported on a foam pad, with blankets. Eyes covered, cotton in his ears.
BARR: So right now he's kind of in a drug-induced coma because when he came in he was very hyper-responsive, not acting like a newborn foal. And then the excitement that happened when you just walked in here, is his mother was showing me some signs she was just kind of quivering that maybe she's having a problem post-foaling. It was a good size foal and they can have complications after foaling.
ADAMS: Most of the stalls have both the mother and the baby. There is one orphan foal whose mother died soon after giving birth. They'll bring in a nurse mare. Another newborn was not tolerating her mother's milk.
BARR: We've got her on some intravenous fluids and then the kind of milky white bag is total parental nutrition made up of dextrose, lipids, and protein.
ADAMS: She looks good right now.
BARR: She does, yes. Earlier she was rolling around in the stall saying my belly hurts. Not saying it, but showing me that her belly hurts and everybody else in here.
ADAMS: Veterinarian Bonnie Barr â watching over babies and mares at Rood and Riddle. The hospital also has 24 ambulatory vets with their trucks full of equipment ready for calls from out on the farms. And that's usually at nighttime during the foaling season. It is nighttime when Eduardo Terrazas walks in out of the cold and dark to find the mare he's been watching. She's almost ready but having trouble. She's lying down, breathing is heavy.
TERRAZAS: She, uh, she's got a thickened placenta here, so she's not going to be able to break her bag, so I'm going to break it for her. So we need something sharp to puncture it.
I'm breaking it now.
ADAMS: And first to appear, the front hoofs and the forelegs, stretched out. Between the legs, you can see the nostrils, then an eye, and it's open.
TERRAZAS: Come on mama, I help you. You see he's a little sideways.
What do we do? We just kind of tug. We don't push or pull unless we have to. Once you pass the shoulders sometimes they get hung from the hip, but this mare is an old pro.
ADAMS: And with a gush, the foal is clear, out on the straw. Eduardo cleans the nostrils and mouth.
MICHAEL TERRAZAS: Is it a boy?
ADAMS: Eduardo's family has come to watch the birth. Ten year old Michael wants to know if it's a boy. His sister tells him dad hasn't had a chance to look yet. The umbilical cord is tied, Eduardo gives the foal an enema solution, a small oxygen tank is hooked up.
TERRAZAS: Not everybody does this but I give all my babies the first four or five minutes with oxygen in case they lost oxygen during the delivery.
ADAMS: And soon the baby horse is standing, trying to figure out what legs are for. The legs are tall. You look from one animal to another and wonder how the little one was ever up inside the big one. The mother gets a shot, a painkiller, lots of praise, as she licks her baby, which is indeed a boy. It's a colt.
TERRAZAS: So the owners, as soon as the baby is born, they get a picture of their - their baby.
ADAMS: Cell phone pictures are sent off to the owners, in Georgia. This little thoroughbred is an investment. The owners had paid a stud fee of $25,000. The colt will most likely bring $100,000 at the yearling auction.
Eduardo Terrazas celebrates the birth by brewing a pot of coffee. He says barn coffee is always the best. And then he turns to the next door stall and a mare that may just be waiting for things to quiet down.
In the Bluegrass state this foaling season â late January into June â 8,000 registered thoroughbred colts and fillies will be born. And one of them just might win the Kentucky Derby as a three-year old.
Noah Adams, NPR News.
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Oscar Futures: Django and Les Miz Enter With Guns Blazing
Will a strong box office boost their Oscar odds?
Every week between now and January 10, when the nominations are announced, movies and stars will help themselves — or sometimes, hurt themselves — in the Oscar race. Vulture's Oscar Futures will listen for insider gossip, comb the blogs, and out-and-out guess when necessary to track who's up, who's down, and who's currently leading the race for a coveted nomination.
Let's check out this week's chart:
Les Misérables. And we're off to the races: After a round of critical battering, Les Miz burnished its image with a big opening day at the box office on Christmas. With nearly $40 million banked in just three days, it's possible that this could be our highest-grossing Best Picture contender after the nominations come in.
Django Unchained. Though it couldn't topple Les Miz — and The Hobbit supplanted it at the box office yesterday — Django still opened strongly, delivering Tarantino's highest opening-day gross ever.
Ben Affleck (Argo). As congressional chatter threatened to overwhelm Argo's Oscar buzz, Affleck put those senatorial rumors to bed. Meanwhile, Roger Ebert gave Argo the top spot on his year-end top-ten list.
Ang Lee (Life of Pi). Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell is presumed to be the weak sister in this category, but at least he keeps grabbing headlines and riding the party circuit. Meanwhile, all's gone quiet in Lee's corner.
Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables). A strong opening week at the box office solidifies Jackman's nod here.
Matt Damon (Promised Land). Damon's star power is crucial in this antihero role, but the film's too small to rate against these other showy, sure-to-be-nominated performances.
Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild). Can A.O. Scott's big New York Times love letter to Beasts help boost the chances of young Wallis, left out in the cold by the Golden Globes?
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock). She surprised with two nods from SAG and the Globes, so why hasn't there been a peep since? Mirren's been busy filming the sequel to Red, but one wonders if her sudden momentum two weeks ago hasn't wasted away.
Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained). A solid Django opening, a Today show confessional, and the (unconfirmed but delightful) report that he walked his Titanic co-star Kate Winslet down the aisle at her recent wedding? You win the week, Leo.
Russell Crowe (Les Misérables). Critics keep hammering Crowe's performance in the film. Won't anyone step up to defend him? (I tried, kind of.)
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables). Annie Hath continues her press tour, a mere prelude to victory at this point. That brief YouTube leak yesterday of Hathaway's "I Dreamed a Dream" helped; as Movieline editor Jen Yamato wrote in her headline, "Listen to Anne Hathaway Sing 'I Dreamed a Dream,' Pinpoint Exactly When She Earns That 'Les Mis' Oscar."
Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy). Kidman remains even this week; while the race is Hathaway's to lose (and she won't), it's impossible to ignore the momentum Kidman has gained as of late. It truly will be an honor just to get nominated for a film that no one would have dared to predict laurels for months ago.

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Clyde Bergemann GmbH v. Magaldi, Court of Appeal The Hague, 13 July 2010, Case No. 200.023.759/01
Patent on a system for the extraction of ash from a steam generating boiler. Bergemann argues a lack of inventive step of Magaldi's patent based on a combination of two prior art documents. In the first instance this argument was refused because of a violation of the principles of due process of law, since it was only argued at the hearing. The combination consists of an earlier patent application and a brochure contained in its prosecution file.
Magaldi argues that the (non-digital) prosecution file was not publicly accessible before the priority date of the patent, relying on case T 413/99 (in which the TBA ruled that a thesis in a library that was not yet catalogued was not part of the prior art). The Court of Appeal rules that the fact that the public does not know in advance what the contents of a prosecution file are, does not alter the fact that it is publicly accessible and thus prior art. The Court of Appeal then held that claim 1 of the patent was invalid for lack of inventive step based on this combination of documents and that all subsequent claims also lack inventive step.
Read the judgment (in Dutch) on www.boek9.nl here.
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Jessica Rieman's curator insight, April 23, 2014 1:37 PM
This issue is very distrubing. First of all it talks about the poor inocent women and girls who leave their house so they are automatically a victim and should be forwarned that they will be hurt if leaving thie house like as if they should be resticted to their home life and never leave. This would be demonstrated as the old India but they are living or rying to live in the New India where the Women in this soicety should nto be subjected to these kinds of crimes. For example something that really took me was "The accused are almost always young high school dropouts from surrounding villages, where women who work outside the home are often seen as lacking in virtue and therefore deserving of harassment and even rape." And then this quote by one of the accused mothers; ""If these girls roam around openly like this, then the boys will make mistakes," the mother of two of those accused in the rape said in an interview, refusing to give her name."" Like come on get your stuff together, you should have raised your children better than this. I have to wonder what this society thinks and whether or not people are questioning what kind of society they are living in and if this society is pressured by the values of the sexes.
Jess Deady's curator insight, May 4, 2014 9:06 PM
Getting away with rape in any country is absolutely disgusting. Especially in India where women have been brutalized with no punishment to the predator, these women have a right to stand up for themselves. Being stalked and raped is something that the police need to get a grip on happening to their citizens.
Kendra King's curator insight, March 28, 2015 8:37 PM
It is hearting to see the police force in the modernized area taking such a strong stance. As the article showed it is greatly needed because the reason rape largely happens is because the traditional aspects of Indian culture continue on strongly in the village areas. These men were told for the longest time that women cannot amount to anything and for them to act free is wrong. This type of thinking is heavily engrained into the members of the society so they won't just stop acting this way on their own accord. Arresting and convicting these men will send a message that their actions are not tolerated and aren't right despite what they were taught.
It also amazes me that this stance exists because the modernized area were also told these stories at one point too. The only explanation I have for the differences is that the more modernized areas are more welcoming of the freedoms seen in the West. To be clear though, the freedoms are more of a western trait. Thus globalization in this instance might have actually helped the positive result of the police force come about because of the positive influence seen in the Western countries economy and life style when they let women have more freedom.
Unfortunately, globalization can't completely solve rape just yet. The article ends by asserting that to report rape "is a very difficult thing in the Indian context." Yet, reporting rape anywhere is hard to do. In fact, the mention of 1 in 10 under reported rapes is a statistic similar to that of the United States. Similarly, many victims will refuse to cooperate or even contemplate taking their own life to avoid testimony (in fact many do). In either situation, most rape victims feel they lost their "honor." I am not sure when reporting rape or how reporting rape will ever become any easier. However whichever country can figure it out will need to show the rest of the world how. As I do look forward to the day that globalization could decrease rape on a large scale.


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September 09, 2013 19:01 ET
Conservation Groups Release Joint International Statement on Invasive Asian Carp
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN--(Marketwired - Sept. 9, 2013) - Ducks Unlimited Inc. (DUI) and Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) jointly released a statement this week on the threat to the Great Lakes presented by non-native carp. The conservation groups called on governmental and non-governmental organizations to move toward the ecological separation of the Great Lakes watershed as soon as possible, as part of a comprehensive strategy to protect the Great Lakes from Asian carp and other invasive species.
"DU is concerned about the potential negative impact to waterfowl and wetlands, especially with two of the species, grass and black carp," said Becky Humphries, director of DUI's Great Lakes and Atlantic Region. "Grass carp can eat their weight in vegetation daily, which over time can have a devastating effect on waterfowl food resources in the Great Lakes."
Humphries added that jumping carp also pose a threat to waterfowl hunters who often travel in boats during low-light conditions.
"The Great Lakes are a key mid-continent migration rest stop for millions of waterfowl each spring and fall, traveling between Canada and the United States," said Dr. Mark Gloutney, director of DUC's Eastern Region. "The wetlands and shallow bays of the lakes provide food resources for many key species of waterfowl, especially canvasbacks, redheads and lesser and greater scaup."
Gloutney and Humphries agree that ecological separation is the best long-term solution to preventing not only the current wave of Asian carp invasion, but protecting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds from future invasions in both countries.
DUI and DUC strongly encourage federal, tribal/aboriginal, provincial, state and local agencies and public organizations to take quick action once the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) is released. Ecological separation will not be easy, but the past success of partnerships such as the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement indicate that it can be.
To view Ducks Unlimited's complete statement on Asian carp, go to www.ducks.org/2013CarpAgreement.
Ducks Unlimited Inc. is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 13 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information on our work, visit www.ducks.org. Connect with us on our Facebook page at facebook.com/DucksUnlimited, follow our tweets at twitter.com/DucksUnlimited and watch DU videos at youtube.com/DucksUnlimitedInc.
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If any article of manufacture or produce requiring brands, stamps, or marks of whatever kind to be placed thereon, is sold upon levy, forfeiture (except as provided in section 5688 with respect to distilled spirits), or other process provided by law, the same not having been branded, stamped, or marked, as required by law, the officer selling the same shall, upon sale thereof, fix or cause to be affixed the brands, stamps, or marks so required.
(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 831.)
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Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Perry Ellis ended his freshman season at Kansas sitting in a locker room in Arlington, Texas stunned and confused wondering how he and his fellow Jayhawks fell to Michigan in the Sweet 16.
"That loss hurt pretty bad," said Ellis. "It really made me understand how important the little things are and how simple things can be the difference in a season."
It was a rough ending to a great season for KU, one that saw Ellis start slow but finish strong. The 6'9" forward who averaged 5.8 points a game had things click in the Big 12 Championship. Ellis torched Iowa State for 23 points in semifinal game, earned a spot on the all-tournament team and helped the Jayhawks claim the championship.
"My late push last season definitely helped my confidence. I remember thinking I can really do this and play at this level if I put my mind to it," said Ellis.
Once Ellis and the Jayhawks returned to Lawrence it was time to get back to work. Ellis spent the remaining months of the spring semester and the entire summer in the gym each day preparing for the upcoming season.
"Everyday I tried to get in the gym and work on my shot or lift," said Ellis. "I wanted to make sure I was doing something every day to get better and help my team move forward. Coach Hudy really helped me with weights and conditioning over the summer and I felt I improved as a player."
The work put in this summer by Ellis also caught the attention of his coach, Bill Self.
"Perry easily could be our leading scorer this season or he could be our fourth leading scorer," said Self. "He certainly is talented enough to be our leading scorer, he's been great. He had a great last third of the season last year. He had a really good spring and a great summer. But I think Perry will be able to take the next step."
Kansas came into the 2013-14 season with plenty of hype after signing six freshmen including top recruit Andrew Wiggins. Ellis, who spent his freshman season as a role player coming off the bench, was now going to be relied upon as a leader.
"We're counting on Perry to be an upperclassman this season. He'll be a stud," said Self.
Ellis wouldn't disappoint early as the Wichita, Kan., native led KU to a 94-83 victory over Duke in the Champions Classic in Chicago. Ellis finished the game as the team's leading scorer posting a career-best 24 points.
"The Duke game was big for many reasons but with us being such a young team I knew it was my responsibility to step up and be a leader out there against such a great team like Duke," said Ellis.
The 24-point outburst wasn't a surprise for Ellis, who also spent the summer developing a variety of post moves based off a former KU great.
"I watched a ton of tape on Marcus Morris and just tried to copy how he played and how he fit in the system," said Ellis.
Things wouldn't remain perfect for KU or Ellis, as the Jayhawks would fall three times over the next two weeks to Villanova, Colorado and Florida. One would expect such struggles to rattle a young team. Kansas turned to Ellis who often thought back to last season when he learned how to be a leader from guys like Jeff Withey, Kevin Young, Elijah Johnson and Ben McLemore.
"Every day at practice I watched those guys and just tried to soak up as much information as I could from them," said Ellis. "They taught me a lot about basketball at this level and made me more comfortable on the court. More importantly, they taught me how to respond to adversity and adapt to challenge."
Ellis would use those memories as motivation to help KU get back on the winning track.
"During our slide I saw guys getting down and getting frustrated," said Ellis. "I knew I needed to change things so I tried to keep the locker room loose and joke around with the guys. It's different than being a leader in high school. Here, everybody is good and is a big-time player so you have to approach leading differently. We finally got some confidence back after beating New Mexico. Now, it's just really focusing on one game at a time and not worrying about the future, conference championships and accolades. If we focus now, those things will take care of themselves."
Currently, the Jayhawks are 8-3 with two final non-conference tests remaining against Toledo and San Diego State before beginning their quest of winning a 10th-straight Big 12 Regular-Season Championship. Ellis is hoping the experience of being on a championship team will help him down the road.
"I think playing on last year's team showed me how much work it takes to win the Big 12," said Ellis. "Our league is always tough and every game is a challenge."
Winning championships isn't something new for Ellis. He led Wichita Heights High School to four-straight Kansas State Championships during his prep career en route to being named Gatorade Player of the Year all four years as well. Ellis knew coming to KU would be a great way to continue his winning ways.
"I wanted to remain near my family and KU was the perfect fit," said Ellis. "I also knew they would really help me develop and ultimately, I'd be put in the best position to compete for a National Championship."
Despite all five starters from last year's lineup departing, Ellis believes KU has what it takes to make it all the way this year."Faces change every year but one thing that remains the same in Lawrence is expectations," said Ellis. "We know if we do the things Coach asks us to do, we'll have a good chance come March."


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SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 20, 2014 — North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.29 billion in orders worldwide in February 2014 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00, according to the February EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 1.00 means that $100 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in February 2014 was $1.29 billion. The bookings figure is 0.7 percent higher than the final January 2014 level of $1.28 billion, and is 20.1 percent higher than the February 2013 order level of $1.07 billion.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in February 2014 was $1.29 billion. The billings figure is 4.5 percent higher than the final January 2014 level of $1.23 billion, and is 32.2 percent higher than the February 2013 billings level of $974.7 million.
"Equipment bookings and billings continue along a steady trend in the first quarter," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "The book-to-bill ratio remains at or above parity for the fifth consecutive month, and the booking and billing values remain well above the figures reported one year ago."
The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
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Source: SEMI, March 2014
The data contained in this release were compiled by David Powell, Inc., an independent financial services firm, without audit, from data submitted directly by the participants. SEMI and David Powell, Inc. assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the underlying data.
The data are contained in a monthly Book-to-Bill Report published by SEMI. The report tracks billings and bookings worldwide of North American-headquartered manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, not billings and bookings of the chips themselves. The Book-to-Bill report is one of three reports included with the SEMI Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS).
SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains. Our 1,900 member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Edit 9 October 2013: A new version is out! Please download 1.2 from here.
I've been working off and on, as my real job permits, on this visualization tool for SQL Server data files. This is an educational or exploratory tool where you can more readily see how the individual data pages in MDF/NDF files are organized, where your tables and indexes live, what effect operations like index rebuild or index reorganize have on the physical layout of the data pages.
The viewer will scan a whole database, using only SQL and DBCC commands, and will render a color-coded representation of all the data pages represented in colored bands. Each partition of each index or heap in the database is assigned a color, so that you can see where all the bits and pieces of an object are located in the files. Above the colored bands there are grayscale or white pixels that show the page type in SQL Server (most are white, which are data pages. Unused/empty regions of the file show as gray). In the image above, for example, all the bright green areas are one index, all the purple areas are one index, and so on.
There is mouse-over functionality. If you move the mouse cursor over the graph, then details about each page populate the text fields at right, including the object and index the page belongs to, the page type, whether the page represents a fragment, where the previous and next pages are for the same object, etc.
Why create something like this? I am a visual person, and I have a theory that many issues we have in computing come down to not being able to see what's going on. This is especially true as we learn about unfamiliar technology – we have to develop a mental model of structures like B-trees or linked lists or files in order to understand what's happening. I hope this tool, combined with other knowledge, will help people form an accurate understanding of how data file internals work in SQL Server, faster than working purely in the abstract with tools like DBCC Page or DBCC Ind.
This is a freeware tool provided for your fun, education and entertainment. However, there is no warranty of any kind and you use it at your sole risk. The tool is free but offered under the GNU General Public License 3. If successful, and people are interested, I'll move this work to some sort of open source project.
The app requires .NET Framework 4.0 and the SQL Server management tools. I've tested it on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8. It can be run against a database on a local or remote SQL instance. I believe it will work on any database in SQL Server 2005 or later, but have not tested every possible scenario.
I believe this tool to be relatively risk free, but I would avoid running it against live production data. The tool's data collection is simple: it will issue a few system table selects to get things like object names, and then it will execute a DBCC PAGE statement against every page in the database. All other processing after that is done locally in the application itself. It does not modify the database.
I would love to hear about bugs you come across, or additional features you think would be valuable. Please contact me through this site. Note that I am a DBA first, and an amateur .NET developer a distant second, so please be gentle.
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Merrill, thanks for sharing this, I can't wait to get some in-depth file layout learning on!
As Jason said, thank you for sharing this!!. It will be very helpful in my courses.
Wow, this is a fantastic tool! Thanks for taking the time to share it - looking forward to experimenting with it this week!
You all are quite welcome - I've had fun and learned a lot working with it.
Here is an ORM that works with SQL Server
Great, thanks a lot!!!!
This is a great tool. Thank you !
Early in my career as a DBA, I have to admit I didn't quite "get" what all the fuss was about with the
Thanks so much for giving me a tool the drool set in management can wrap there head around. You have done much to promote our industry. All the best..
Quick question dealing with a test host on different domain. Is there a way to pass sql login credentials under SQL Server Instance. Will try to hack just thought to help the next guy..
Mudluck - SQL auth is not available in the released version but I do have that on my list for future enhancements. If you are up to hacking a little c#, you could modify the section in the source that creates the connection string for the DB - it's nothing complex.
Back in the spring I released a 1.0 version of a utility that will show the structure of SQL Server files
Just ahead of presenting it at SQL Saturday in my home town of Minneapolis / Saint Paul, I'm happy to


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Whether centuries old or the latest contemporary creations, works on paper are extremely light sensitive and can only be displayed in the galleries for short and infrequent periods of time before they must be returned to the safety of the dark, climate-controlled vault. Some of these works, however, also make brief appearances in the Prints and Drawings Study Room, frequently requested by professors for their classes to view as exemplars of specific techniques. This exhibition brings together nearly 100 of these highly popular contemporary works on paper, many of which have not been seen in our galleries in years (or ever), offering visitors an intriguing look at how this rich collection is used pedagogically.
While tools and artistic methods are often privileged over historical significance or connoisseurship in these educational sessions, the exhibition offers abundant examples by artists whose works on paper were celebrated in their time and continue to influence subsequent generations. Harlem Renaissance artist Romare Bearden's iconic collage, The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pintoricchio and Benin), makes a rare and welcome appearance, given that it is not often exhibited due to its fugitive materials—cut and pasted papers, graphite, and touches of black and gray wash. Also included are multiple works by Carroll Dunham, Martin Kippenberger, and Ed Ruscha, some being exhibited for the first time in Chicago. In addition, curators from the Ryerson Library have selected post–World War II comics publications by artists whose careers and aesthetic interests are related and sometimes influential to the other artists on view. Shown in this context are drawings informed by the conventions of graphic narratives, slapstick humor, and prescient social commentary.
Also on view are drawings by Chicago-based artists such as Julia Fish, who has a particular affinity for working on paper. Over the years, she has created drawings that not only extend her painting ideas but also exist as separate, self-contained bodies of work. Always focused on her immediate environment, Fish creates drawings based on memory and observations of the conditions surrounding her garden, as well as the properties of her house. She employs media specifically to evoke, rather than mimic, physicality, weight, touch, and time. Also a professor of art at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Fish is a frequent visitor to the Prints and Drawings Study Room herself and uses our diverse collection in part to teach students in the techniques demonstrated in this exhibition.


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WHAT: ARM revealed today at the Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose that the number of licensees for its Cortex-M3 processor had reached 28, including six of the top 10 worldwide semiconductor companies*. The most recent licensee is Accent, a leading fabless ASIC provider offering highly differentiated design and turnkey services for state-of-the-art SoC silicon solutions.
Previous Cortex-M3 processor licensees include Actel, Atmel, Broadcom, Energy Micro, Luminary Micro, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Zilog.
Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers (MCU) are available today in many different product families from an increasing number of chip vendors including Luminary Micro, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba. In total there are now almost 250 Cortex-M3 processor-based MCUs available running at up to 100MHz. These devices contributed to an increase in ARM processor-based MCUs shipped during 2008 of more than 95% to 255million units. ARM expects many of its other Cortex-M3 licensees to have devices available during 2009, in a broad range of markets and applications including automotive, MP3, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, motor control and industrial microcontrollers.
In line with the growing number of licensees, the ecosystem of tools, middleware and RTOS vendors supporting the Cortex-M3 has also expanded dramatically. IAR, SEGGER, Keil and Code Red have all recently announced enhanced or extended support for developers using the Cortex-M3 processor.
The ARM Cortex-M3 processor was specifically developed to provide a high-performance, low-cost platform for a broad range of applications. From the lowest cost version (at US$1) with basic functions, to devices with a large number of peripherals and a lot more memory, or from devices that are targeted at industrial applications, to products that are focused on consumer electronics.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com/.
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Author Notes: This is a decadent, delicious egg and dairy-free dessert that will satisfy even the most discerning chocoholics. If you don't tell, they'll never know it's avocado-based. —zora
Food52 Review: Chocolate lovers of all stripes will appreciate this rich, easy to prepare confection. Avocados provide the creamy smoothness of traditional chocolate mousse. Part of the beauty of this recipe lies in its versatility. The dessert can be lightened up by eliminating the coconut milk, or made even quicker by substituting raw cacao powder for the bittersweet chocolate. For a colorful touch top with fresh berries or chopped pistachios sprinkled with sea salt or a smidgen of cinnamon. —Ellen M.
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teaspoon vanilla extract
tablespoons agave syrup
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- in a heatproof bowl, melt the chocolate in the coconut milk over hot water, or in the microwave. Stir until smooth, cool slightly.
- Put remaining ingredients in a food processor bowl, and add cooled chocolate mixture. Blend until completely smooth.
- Spoon into dessert cups. Serve well-chilled, with a dollop of coconut cream, if desired.
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Augmented reality apps are awesome. Sure, you look a little special spinning 360 degrees while trying to shoot down a gang of aliens trying to attack your office block/home/train carriage, but who cares? It's fun. Designed to work specifically with a dedicated app called Alien Attack, this plastic shooter uses trigger to touch screen tech (read: two conductive pads which prod the screen when triggered) to take down your extra terrestrial enemies. Sadly it's the only compatible app, but hopefully by the time boredom kicks in RED5 will have launched the games it's currently working on, like Pigeon Shooting and Tin Can Shoot.
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FRAMINGHAM � Transportation Secretary Richard Davey said Thursday the state�must continue to bring in revenue for transportation projects�by�keeping the gas tax indexed to inflation and likely maintaining tolls along the Massachusetts Turnpike.
"We need more revenue to invest in our entire system, not less," Davey told Daily News editors. "There�s need everywhere. The turnpike is probably among the best-conditioned roads. It�s still in need."
Tolls, under state law,�on the Turnpike west of Rte. 128 could be removed once bonds related to the highway are paid off and the road is in good repair, but Davey said he�does not expect the Turnpike to be in a state of good repair when bonds are paid off�in 2017. Davey said the state has invested in the Turnpike including paving projects, but there is more to be done, such as replacing aging bridges. And the Pike, he said, is in better shape than many other state roads.
While tolls are needed, "I completely get we have an equity issue (with tolls) we need to address," he said, since MetroWest commuters pay Pike tolls while drivers going to greater Boston on other highways are tolled only if they take the Tobin Bridge or tunnels to Logan Airport.
MassDOT in December released a plan that evaluates�putting tolls in place�on other roads, such as�routes 128 and 3. Adding tolls on interstate highways would require federal approval.
Davey said state leaders should look at congestion tolling, where people would be charged more if they travel at peak times.
He said it would make sense when the state switches to all-electronic tolling to have more instances where people who use transponders on their cars to pay tolls receive a discount over those who do not. With open-road tolling on the Pike, drivers without transponders would have their license plates photographed and would receive a bill for the toll in the mail - an added expense for the state.
The secretary said there are no plans to increase tolls this July, although increases are expected�in the future. Registry of Motor Vehicles�fees will go up this year and there is a proposal to increase MBTA fares.
Davey on Thursday also made the case for keeping the gas tax indexed to inflation, as lawmakers approved last year. There is a movement seeking to end that practice through a fall ballot question.
Without�indexing the gas tax to inflation, the buying power of the tax drops while needs continue to rise, as the state saw in recent decades when the gas tax did not increase.
"We needed to do more but we had much less to do it with," Davey said.
He estimated indexing it to inflation costs the average driver $5 more per year. That translates into $2 billion in revenue for MassDOT over a decade.
Marty Lamb, a Holliston resident and co-sponsor of the ballot question movement, said lawmakers should have to vote to increase a gas tax, rather than have it tied to inflation.
"If they believe they need more revenue coming in (in the future) for whatever purpose - roads, highways, MBTA pensions, governor�s office renovations - let (lawmakers) vote on it," Lamb said.
Davey noted other taxes such as the income tax are tied to how much money people make.
Davey also highlighted several projects that benefit MetroWest residents, including upgrades to the Framingham/Worcester and Fitchburg commuter rail lines, replacing the Burns Bridge on Rte. 9�between Worcester and Shrewsbury and buying new commuter rail locomotives and railcars.
Davey said the state is committed to $12 million of work near the Rte. 9 and I-495 intersection, but there are other more expensive projects recommended as part of a study of the 9/90/495 area for which the state doesn't have funding.
Toll revenues could help with some of that if legislation is changed to allow toll collections to be spent on roads near the Turnpike, in addition to the Pike itself, Davey said.
"The challenge I think ultimately is MetroWest is benefiting from significant growth, which is good news," Davey said. "We in state government have to get ahead of that growth."
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"Paper Tears," an exhibition of all new works by artist Jaybo Monk opened recently at Soze Gallery in LA. I connected with him to discuss his new body of work, and how it relates to poetry, travel, what came before and what comes next.
K: Congratulations on a beautiful show and a really solid opening! How have you felt about the exhibit?
J: Thank you, to be honest I forget my work soon as it has been done. I consider every show like pages from a book that continuously get closer to its end , therefore I am more interested in the next page as the one I just have read.
K: This new work of yours in "Paper Tears" is quite an evolution from past works in a way I love. They are much smaller and feel more personal. Can you tell us a little about how you may have approached this series differently than works in the past?
J: Since I remember I always have drawn my ideas on paper before I even put them in words. Each morning I wake up out of a dream, I try to remember it in a visual form. What I normally do on a bigger scale is the result of more than one dream. In "Paper Tears" I show one dream at once. The medium I used is also more personal: pocket aquarelles, pencils, ink… they also have a kind of diary aspect in them, involving time between each piece.


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Digital health is a symbiotic relationship between information technology, computers and healthcare to optimize efficiency, quality of services and healthcare outcomes for the patient and the provider.
On 15th August 2015 the new Prime Minister of India made a call to move towards a digital India by revolutionizing healthcare delivery through the use of telemedicine. Models of telemedicine and m health have a proven efficacy and are both scalable and replicable in both an urban and rural setting. This has greatly increased healthcare accessibility to India's rural population providing them with many cost effective healthcare solutions. The success of this has been as a result of acceptability of information technology at hospitals across cities all over India.
Electronic medical records or EMR's are a safe way of storing medical information for long periods of time. They can be accessed anywhere at any time by either the patient or healthcare provider. They reduce dependence on storage space, save time and paperwork for the provider.
The patient get to access their own records, actively participate in their healthcare management, seek reliable information on the internet, make informed choices and reduce their cost of healthcare expenditure.
Digital health tools help patients to book appointments with doctors, arrange for home collections for pathology samples, home delivery of regular prescription drugs thus making healthcare more convenient and efficient.
Patients can view their diagnostic test results on the digital platform, share the information with the provider and mutually make a plan of care best suited to individual needs.
Remote patient monitoring helps patients and providers to assess chronic health conditions that require regular follow up without the need for frequent hospital visits or indoor treatment.
For people living in rural areas telemedicine provides access to doctors working in urban tertiary healthcare facilities and provides healthcare service delivery of the highest standards.
In India what's app is the most frequently used mobile app to share information between patients and doctors and also between doctors to discuss patient conditions or diagnostic reports to provide the best healthcare outcome for the patient.
Drug information systems help to alert a pharmacist to potentially harmful drug interactions, reduce prescription errors and help patients to take their medications regularly.
There can be no substitute for a face to face consultation and examination by a doctor yet with increasing pressures of work life balance, time constraints and distances involved digital health is an innovative way of providing cost effective healthcare delivery.


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Consumers in the United States spent more money online in one day, this past Monday, than they spent in any other one day in history. Online browsing and shopping resulted in $1.25 billion in sales on Cyber Monday, up 22 percent from the previous one-day record, last year's Cyber Monday. The $1.25 billion in sales on Cyber Monday reflects the fact that more people shopped online than last year, up 11 percent, and the average shopper spent more money than last Cyber Monday, an increase of 9 percent.
When Cyber Monday was invented in 2005 by shop.org, the National Retail Foundation's e-commerce division, it was based on the theory that more people had broadband internet access in their workplaces and would wait until sitting at their desks in their offices before shopping online after the holiday weekend.
At the time, Cyber Monday was not an event and there was no indication that the Monday following Thanksgiving was anything special in terms of online shopping activity. Retailers, however, bought into the idea and started creating marketing campaigns that encouraged people to shop on Monday.
Consumers simply followed the deals and succumbed to the hype surrounding yet another day dedicated to shopping, created by the organization that represents retailers, who obviously stand to benefit from more consumer shopping. More consumers neglected their work in the office this year to spend time browsing and shopping online than any Cyber Monday in the past, with more than half of all shoppers spending money from work.
Cyber Monday was not even the biggest day for online shopping until last year. This new holiday is an interesting story about how you can make anything you want real with enough marketing.
I'm just starting to organize my holiday shopping list. I've purchased a few items already but didn't make any extra effort to shop on Monday. How much did you spend on this year's Cyber Monday?
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Chrysler Group LLC Announces 'Autorama High School Design Competition 2013' to Benefit United Way for Southeastern Michigan
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Chrysler Group LLC Announces 'Autorama High School Design Competition 2013' to Benefit United Way for Southeastern Michigan
- Product Design Office of Chrysler Group LLC to lead new effort to further showcase the automotive spirit of the Motor City
- Competition sponsors include College for Creative Studies (Detroit) and legendary hot rod show, the Detroit Autorama and United Way for Southeastern Michigan
- Student entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. (EST) Friday, Feb. 8 to the school's designated teacher or counselor
CAMPAIGN: Community and Education
CONTENT: Press Release
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 3, 2013 / 3BL Media /PRNewswire/ - Chrysler Group LLC today announced details of the "Autorama High School Design Competition 2013."
The competition gives all high school students currently attending a Detroit Public School the opportunity to explore their creative side and design a future luxury Chrysler brand vehicle they envision for the year 2030. Managed by the Chrysler Group Product Design Office in Auburn Hills, Mich., student entrants are encouraged to draw inspiration from Detroit's history and passion for the automobile, while reflecting upon the Chrysler Group's popular "Imported from Detroit" marketing campaign.
"This year our product design team has been looking at creative ways to further support United Way for Southeastern Michigan as part of our overall corporate initiatives to help improve lives for people and communities in need," said Ralph Gilles, Senior Vice President – Product Design, Chrysler Group LLC. "With additional help from the College for Creative Studies and one of the best custom car shows in the world–our own Detroit Autorama—we'll hopefully inspire some new and aspiring automotive designers right here in our own backyard."
Gilles earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from the College for Creative Studies (CCS) and currently serves on the CCS Board of Trustees and Capital Committee.
Student submissions must be hand drawn on a single sheet of 14" x 16" paper with the use of pencil, markers or paint and include the student's name, school, grade level and contact information.
Students have until 5 p.m. (EST) Friday, Feb. 8 to submit their drawing to their designated teacher or counselor at their school.
The judging panel will include designers from the Chrysler Group Product Design Office, along with faculty from CCS and Detroit Autorama.
"Transportation Design is an important program to CCS's educational environment and to the life of the auto industry as a whole," said Mark West, Paul and Helen Farago Chair of Transportation Design at College for Creative Studies. "Initiatives like the 'Autorama High School Design Competition' help us sustain the growth of the program. An important feat, in part, because our program supplies more automotive designers to the industry than any other school in the world."
Finalists will be notified on Feb. 22. Winners will be announced at the special award presentation event on Mar. 8 at Cobo Hall in Detroit to help kick off the 61st annual Detroit Autorama.
Competition winners will receive the following prizes:
- Freshman-junior class finalists:
- First place receives an iPad, summer automotive design course at CCS and three passes to Detroit Autorama
- Second place receives a summer automotive design course at CCS and three passes to Detroit Autorama
- Senior class finalists:
- First place receives an iPad, summer automotive design course at CCS or $5,000 scholarship to CCS (if accepted), three passes to Detroit Autorama and a tour of Chrysler Group's Product Design Office in Auburn Hills, Mich.
- Second place receives a summer automotive design course at CCS, three passes to Detroit Autorama and a tour of Chrysler Group's Product Design Office
About Chrysler Group LLC
Chrysler Group LLC, formed in 2009 to establish a global strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A., produces Chrysler, Jeep®, Dodge, Ram, Mopar, SRT and Fiat vehicles and products. With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler Group's culture of innovation, first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925, and Fiat's complementary technology that dates back to its founding in 1899.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., Chrysler Group's product lineup features some of the world's most recognizable vehicles, including the Chrysler 300 and Town & Country, Jeep Wrangler, all-new Dodge Dart, Ram 1500, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and Fiat 500. Fiat contributes world-class technology, platforms and powertrains for small- and medium-size cars, allowing Chrysler Group to offer an expanded product line including environmentally friendly vehicles.
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About United Way for Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan mobilizes the caring power of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties to improve lives in measurable and lasting ways throughout the region. The organization is led by a diverse group of volunteers from business, labor, government, human services, education and the community. United Way provides opportunities to invest in the metropolitan Detroit community through its annual Campaign and is a leader in convening partners to impact local residents each year by increasing economic self-sufficiency, protecting children and youth at risk, strengthening families, empowering neighborhoods and communities, and promoting health and wellness. Additional information is available at www.LiveUnitedSEM.org.
About College for Creative Studies
College for Creative Studies (CCS) is an integrated learning community located in Detroit. A private, fully accredited college, CCS enrolls 1,400 students pursuing Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. CCS also offers visual art opportunities for learners of all ages through its Community Arts Partnerships and Continuing Education programs. For more information, visit www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/about.
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Murrysville crashes cause damage, affect traffic
Murrysville crashes cause damage, affect traffic
MURYSVILLE, Pa. —
Three cars were involved in two separate accidents in Murrysville early Friday morning.
First, a vehicle struck a garage on Lillian Avenue, just off William Penn Highway, at about 12:30 a.m. Westmoreland County 911 dispatchers said one person was taken to an ambulance.
The bottom right side of the structure had what appeared to be significant structural damage.
At about 6:30 a.m., a car and an SUV were in an accident on Route 22, about a half-mile from Route 286. They both ended up against the hillside along the side of the highway.
Eastbound traffic on Route 22 was restricted to one lane while a tow truck removed the damaged vehicles.
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Watching the mid-October stock market collapse, rise, then collapse again was not a pleasant experience. Television news showed the anguish of traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as even blue-chip stocks like PepsiCo Inc. fell to new lows.
They had it easy; they could go home when the market closed at 400 p.m. The shock and awe they suffered was mild compared with the migraines that many of the nation's ferrous scrap dealers endured.
Ferrous scrap prices didn't simply plunge in mid-October. They fell into an abyss.
With steel product sales sagging, inventories piling up and mill operating rates falling, none of the mills was buying even a pound more than they needed to meet their production requirements. Many steel mills didn't want scrap—some didn't even want the scrap they already had ordered—while those who were buying took far less than the usual tonnage purchased for each month's melt program.
One respected industry analyst estimated that mills were producing at only about 77 percent of their capacity in early October, although capacity utilization rates calculated by the American Iron and Steel Institute were still showing domestic mills' operating rates in the 80s.
Scrap is a purchased commodity. Some steel mills avoid buying it when they have their own blast furnaces and home scrap to remelt to make finished steel products. Others need to buy each month, but when the market is in a swoon—as was the case in mid-October—they don't buy scrap like they were doing earlier this year, when they lined up as much tonnage in the first week of each month to make certain enough would be delivered to the mill throughout the following weeks.
When the ferrous market and its prices fall, they still buy—but they buy down and continue to buy down, an accepted purchasing practice. They keep buying a single truckload or two, making the next price lower than the previous purchase and making sure each dealer knows they bought that truckload of busheling or bundles at a lower price than he or she was seeking.
Despite well-publicized acquisitions and mergers by some of the steel and scrap industry's largest players, the average scrap company is still a small, proprietor-operated business. The yards take in scrap from local industrial plants or from the hordes of small peddlers that clamber to get on the scale, get paid and out on the road again. When their market collapses, as it did in October, they can't call Charles Schwab or Merrill Lynch and tell them to sell 10,000 tons of No. 1 bundles. There are a limited number of outlets for that material, and when they don't want it, it sits in the dealers' yards.
At the same time, though, the dealer still has a payroll to make. Wages must be paid to the workers who have sorted, baled or shredded that metal.
If they are handling several industrial accounts from nearby manufacturing plants, they will be watching the mail for the check that pays for the scrap. Not too many years ago, manufacturers were glad that somebody hauled it away and did something useful with much of it. Today, ferrous scrap almost has the status of a product line at some manufacturing plants, even though at the end of October much of the metal was still sitting on the ground at the dealers' yards. I doubt that many of their industrial accounts cared.
For scrap dealers and processors, there is no offloading of their risk to some offshore bank or trading house, and no hedge funds are plying company owners with millions of dollars. There is no roadmap showing them the nearest London Metal Exchange or Comex warehouse. In simple terms, there are several piles of metals—some to be sorted, some not—that need a home at a local steel mill or an iron foundry.
Those piles could be sheet steel punchings from a stamping plant, girders and beams from an old bridge or a mountain of junk cars and appliances waiting for their last ride up the conveyor to the shredder's hammers. They are not cash. They are the rejected pieces of our advanced manufacturing economy—worthless until they are transformed into something that can be remade into, say, steel sheet, rebar or an I-beam.
On Wall Street, if a broker wants to sell 100,000 shares of PepsiCo and it is trading at $54 a share, he may be forced to wait until the price falls to $53.95 a share before he finds a buyer.
There are more than a few scrap dealers who wish they had it that easy. That mills would offer prices is not unusual—that's the normal give-and-take each day in the scrap trade. What troubled many was the absence of much demand.
Most mill buyers will say that price is important, but not their top concern. Supply is. How can you make 100,000 tons of cold-rolled sheet if you only have 50,000 tons of scrap? You can't, and at the same time you have a lot of workers standing around waiting for something to do.
A veteran scrap buyer at a major mill once said, "They (his bosses) will never shoot me for paying more for scrap, but they will shoot me if we ever run out."
That issue is more critical today than it was years ago, when mills operated with a month's supply of scrap on the ground. Today, it is often five to seven days of melt material and a promise from suppliers that the rest will be delivered on an ongoing basis throughout the month. MICHAEL MARLEY
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Peter Lemiska: Democrats of the 1960s wouldn't recognize today's radical party
Four years ago, Jeanne Shaheen and her Democratic colleagues faced a moral dilemma. They knew the health care bill before them was based on patent lies, but they were under intense pressure from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They had to choose between personal integrity and party loyalty. While their decision has benefited some, their blind loyalty has devastated millions of Americans, previously happy with their health insurance.
For the countless New Hampshire residents who lost their trusted health care providers, Shaheen has some words of consolation: they can get their old doctors back if they are "willing to pay more." But the real impact of Obamacare is still unknown. Much of the law has been unlawfully delayed — but not eliminated — to protect Congressional Democrats from outraged voters in November. Yet even with that help, Shaheen and incumbent Democrats are nervous.
But the party should also be concerned about its dwindling membership. For when Democrats cast their ballots in November, they will also face a dilemma. Many will have to decide whether their party loyalty is strong enough to overcome growing misgivings about its radical new agenda. Today's Democratic Party is not the party their grandfathers proudly supported so many years ago.
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson launched the so-called War on Poverty. It was a noble concept, but it was rife with abuses, it expanded government dependency, and it did little to reduce poverty. The poverty rate had begun a precipitous drop prior to Johnson's initiative and stood at about 19 percent when the program began. Despite enormous resources expended over the years, today that figure is still about 16 percent. But today's Democrats have another solution. They call it redistribution of wealth. Their War on Poverty has become a war on wealth.
The national Democratic Party platform of 1964 mentioned the word "wealth" only once, referring to the wealth of our nation. Its 2012 platform negatively referred to that word 19 times. Never before has a major political party sought to divide our country along socio-economic lines. The class envy that Democrats now cultivate is dangerous to the country and contrary to the principles upon which it was founded. In fact, it mirrors socialist and Communist doctrine: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
In their 1964 platform, Democrats had harsh words for those principles: "We believe your Communist ideology to be sterile, unsound, and doomed to failure..." They trumpeted capitalism: "The American free enterprise system is one of the great achievements of the human mind and spirit."
Today, this newly-discovered wealth would be distributed through massive entitlement programs, crushing the competitive spirit and creating more government dependency. Government spending is euphemistically called "investment." In that context, the 2012 Democratic platform contained more than 50 references to the term "invest." Today's Democrats have forgotten John F. Kennedy's admonishment: "Ask not what your country can do for you...."
They've also forgotten these words from their 1964 platform: "Our goal is a balanced budget in a balanced economy." Then, the national debt stood at a paltry $300 billion. Today, it is more than 56 times that amount, yet Democrats continue to demand higher debt limits to help pay for more entitlements.
One other notable change in the party surfaced during its 2012 convention. Debating the party platform, chaos erupted when members of faith insisted on including some reference to "God." Ultimately, they prevailed over the furious objections by more radical Democrats. Considering that their positions on social issues contradict the teachings of most organized religions, their objections were inevitable. Going back to 1960, no one balked at this simple invocation written into the Democratic platform: "In this spirit, we hereby rededicate ourselves to the continuing service of the Rights of Man ... in America and everywhere else on God's earth."
We'll soon see if this new party recognizes the long-held faith of its members, or if it embraces the words of Karl Marx: "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
Life-long Democrats have seen a fundamental change in their party. It is no longer what it once was. It has been heavily influenced by radical, socialist, and communist principles, and is working to create a godless, hedonistic, egalitarian society, dependent on the state for food, shelter, education and health care. That may be why a recent Gallup Poll shows that only 31 percent of Americans now identify themselves as Democrats, down from nearly 60 percent 50 years ago.
Peter Lemiska is a retired Secret Service agent in Contoocook.


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Three BCTC employees chosen as Community Connectors
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 15, 2012) Three members of Bluegrass Community amp; Technical Colleges staff were named as connectors last Tuesday by the Bluegrass Community Connectors Project.
Bruce Manley, Director, Winchester-Clark County Campus; Joellen Reed, Resource Development, Winchester-Clark County Campus; and Erin Howard, Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, Cooper Campus were among the 144 community members that were chosen throughout the state.
The connectors were chosen from among 5,000 nominations received from the public via online balloting since last August. The project was designed to recognize individuals who turn ideas into actions, many times without recognition.
The projects goal was to create new networks of local activists to expand the good
work they are already doing in their communities. According to the United Way of the
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To make a sorbet, all you need to do is make a simple syrup (fancy word for sugar dissolved into water). Add your favorite citrus juice (or puree), and you're in business.
I've posted a Meyer Lemon Sorbet before, but I have to say that the basil adds a very interesting dimension. It takes almost a dozen Meyer lemons to make this sorbet. If you can't find Meyer lemons, don't sweat it. Eureka lemons would work, fine, but they are a bit more tart-- so you might want to add more sugar.
Simple sugar is so easy to make, that I'm astounded that anyone would actually buy it! Really? The ratio is equal parts sugar, added to water. It's brought to a boil, then simmered until the sugar is dissolved. This is how you make "sweet tea", or "Mojitos" or sorbets. I store mine in a canning jar, with a tight-fitting lid, and it will keep for a couple of weeks.
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Dr. Jon S. Dellandrea, holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Oxford University, as well as Honorary Degrees from the University of Toronto and Nipissing University.
Having started his advancement career at the University of Toronto, in 1979, he moved to Waterloo to lead the development efforts at the University of Waterloo, culminating in his appointment as Vice-President University Development in 1983. He remained in this position for six years.
From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Dellandrea served as President of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation. He returned to the University of Toronto to serve as Vice-President and Chief Advancement Officer, a position he held for 11 years. He successfully led the single largest fundraising campaign in the history of Canadian universities. The campaign succeeded in raising in excess of $1.2 billion one year ahead of schedule. As a result of the successful campaign, endowed student aid rose from $68.7 million in 1995 to $463 million in 2004.
From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Dellandrea was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development and External Affairs) at the University of Oxford where he launched a campaign for over $2.5 billion, making it the largest campaign to date in Europe.
As an educator, Dr. Dellandrea has taught at the University of Waterloo and held faculty appointments at the University of Toronto Scarborough in the Management and Economics Division, as well as the Rotman School of Management. He is a senior fellow of Massey College.
An active community volunteer, Dr. Dellandrea was a member of the Board of Directors of the Council for Canadian Unity, the Board of Mount Sinai Hospital and former Board member of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, the Toronto Community Foundation and is a member of the Internal Board of Right to Play. He has served as Counsel to Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
In 2001, he became the first Canadian to receive the Laureate Award of the Institute for Charitable Giving in the United States. Dr. Dellandrea was also appointed as a member of The Order of Canada in 2006 for his contributions to higher education.
In December 2010, he was installed as the third Chancellor of Nipissing University, and in April 2012, Dr. Dellandrea was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation.


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The GC Men's Basketball team are ready to begin their 2012-2013 season and, though they will miss their graduating seniors, they have a string recruiting class that is sure to propel the team through the SLIAC.
Last season, GC scored an average of 85.8 points per game, recorded 39.1 rebounds per game, and had 9.1 steals per game. They ended their season with a record of 15-9, going 10-6 in the SLIAC. They failed to qualify for the Conference tournament
Greenville will miss the presence of the 2012 graduating class. GC lost their top four scoring players from the 2011-2012 season, Markeith Brown, K.J. Hilliard, Jonas McBride, and Dondrale Campbell. These four men combined to score an average of 45.1 of the Panthers' average of 85.8 points per game. The absense of these senior leaders from last year have left big shoes for the team to fill.
Fortunately, the Greenville staff thinks they have found just the men to do it. Transfer students, MarQuel Brown and Tevin Rollins, both from Los Angeles, Calif., are expected to be big for Greenville this year. The team also returns upperclassman Ben Giertz, Alex Mumphard, and Jordan Smith, all players who contributed last season and will step up to lead the team.
The Panthers will take to the court on Friday Nov. 16, when they travel to Westminster to play in the Tip-Off Classic.


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With a textured, antique brass surface accented by small, inset crystals, this clasp makes a glamorous statement. The magnetic closure is easy to operate, while the generous loops will accommodate 1.0mm leather or multiple strands of thread. The Nickel Free and Lead Safe plating is naturally hypo-allergenic (Meets California Prop 65 Requirements). We do not recommend magnetic jewelry for anyone who is fitted with a Pacemaker. It is also not intended for jewelry worn by young children. The end rings are soldered so we recommend 5mm/18gauge jump rings in matching finish, if needed.
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