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HANG TIME, Texas — All-Star.
It's a word that explodes rather than rolls off the tongue. It's the gaudy label that usually gets attached to the players who crackle, pop and send sparks flying like an electricity transformer that's been struck by lightning.
But what of the players who spend their long careers quietly humming through the power lines and rarely getting noticed?
The patron saint of the overlooked is Eddie Johnson, who played 17 seasons with the Kings, Suns, Sonics, Hornets, Pacers and Rockets, 1,199 games and scored more points (19,202) than any player in NBA history without once being selected to play in the All-Star Game. He still ranks in the top 50 all-time scorers in the league, ahead of Hall of Famers Gail Goodrich and Scottie Pippen.
Sitting at Johnson's right hand is Derek Harper, who played 16 seasons with the Mavericks, Knicks, Magic and Lakers and retired in 1999 ranking 11th on the all-time steals and 17th in career assists and never got a single chance to take an All-Star bow.
So with a nod of appreciation for their efforts and in honor of Johnson and Harper, it's time to take a look at a six-pack of current players who have been flying under the radar and might be due some All-Star love before they're gone:
Jamal Crawford, Clippers, 13th season — All those years of playing for bad teams in Chicago, New York, Golden State and Portland with the only two playoff seasons of his career mixed in with the Hawks has built up and often well-deserved reputation as a mad gunner who'll take any shots as soon as he's in the building. But consider those teams, consider that he was often cast in exactly that role to provide big points off the bench. Now he's in a perfect place in reserve with the best-in-the-NBA Clippers and is having the time of his career.
Al Jefferson, Jazz, 9th season — He's learned to use those big hands to become a very good passer out of double-teams, but his strength is still as a low post scorer from the left block. His scoring average is down a bit over the past few seasons because he doesn't have to carry so much of the load with an influx of talent. Nothing at all fancy about the way he plays, but shows up every game to put in an honest night's work and produces. Playing the bulk of your career in Minnesota and Utah will never help anybody's profile. He has deserved his due.
Kevin Martin, Thunder, 9th season — How foolish now does anyone feel who wondered if this guy would be able to step into the hole left by James Harden's departure in Oklahoma City? There's no beard and he doesn't have the explosiveness, but having already proven over a seven-year span in Sacramento and Houston that he could carry an offense, now he fits like a hand inside a custom-sown glove with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. He's shooting a career-best-by-far 45.5 percent on 3s, 93 percent on free throws and, most important, has not caused OKC to miss a beat.
Andre Miller, Nuggets, 14th season — How does a guard you'd never want taking a shot with your life on the line keep moving ahead in his second decade in the league? But using his slick veterans moves to get to the rim himself or to use his amazing passing skills to get up his teammates for layups or dunks. Either way the result is usually an easy finish. In every one of his seasons there have always been other point guards who were faster and quicker and could fill up the basket more. But a guy with his smarts and productivity should have taken one All-Star bow by now.
Josh Smith, Hawks, 9th season — Because he's still only 27, because he can still make your jaw drop from either a stupendous or stupid shot, the NBA world has managed to turn right by Smith. That's despite his putting together a career stat line — soon to be 10,000 points, 5,000 rebounds, 2,000 assists and 1,000 blocked shots — that will rank him among the all-time greats. There are signs that he's finally learning and other times when his shot selection still makes you cringe. If there is a current player who can eclipse Eddie Johnson as the best to never play in a single All-Star Game, it's J-Smoove. But at 27, maybe there's still plenty of time.
Anderson Varejao, Cavs, 9th season — For the early part of his career he was merely the one-trick pony who threw himself around like a bucking bronco just let out of the chute. But now Varejao is leading the league in rebounding at 14.4 per game, also averaging a career-high 14.1 points and therefore is tied for fourth place in double-doubles with 16 in his first 25 games. While the big question around the league is whether a would-be contender will be able to pry him away from the rebuilding Cavs, the other is if Cleveland's place near the bottom of the standings will cost Varejao his earned recognition as an All-Star?


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Have you ever seen a child throw a temper tantrum to get what they want? I'm sure at this time of year most of us have. The child may not even know they want something, like a lollypop, but once they see it (especially if others are getting one) they need it.
Have you noticed how the automakers are acting? We didn't hear how bad the finances were until our government opened up the purse and pulled out the big red "bailout" lollypop for the banking industry. Then the big three started holding their collective breath to get a big lollypop.
I expect they too will get a loan or bailout from tax money. I guess it's because they can't get loans from the banks … the ones we just infused with over $700 billion. I think before we go ahead and print money we don't have, we must understand why the banks won't back these companies – if that's true. If it's the they are just too great of a risk – then why should the American people? I doubt the American people will get a return on the last big government investment (the banks).
Here's the bigger issue – competing with a labor market as large as China's 803 million people, with an average wage of .57 cents per hour, compared to America's 151 million person labor pool and the average UAW worker making $75 an hour in wages and benefits. It's not hard to see the bailout would be the same as bailing out a toy manufacturer, clothing manufacturer or anything else China now makes.
I have no idea how you compete with such a difference in labor costs. I do know that people are people, by that I mean quality can be made anywhere. That being said I also know the concessions that'll be taken from the UAW workers will not level the playing field.
Overall, I think we will see a leveling off of the world economy. I don't think America's standard of living will be as low as India, but I expect that once the world economy levels off, the world will be something like Mexico. This would not be great for America but for the majority of the world, a vast improvement.
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Fort Gibson WMA covers 21,798 acres in Wagoner and Cherokee Counties. Located north and east of Wagoner, Oklahoma.
Fort Gibson WMA is a mixture of upland and bottomland habitats. Upland areas consist of tall grass prairie mixed with farm fields and brushy thickets. Bottomland areas consist of Crosstimbers oak forest with cottonwood and sycamores in and around Fort Gibson lake.
WMA Driving Directions:
North Portion – From Wagoner: 2 miles north on U.S. Hwy 69.
South Portion (WRP) – From Wagoner: 2 miles south on State Hwy 16, 1½ miles east on E0760
(Wagoner Jack Rd).
Game Species of Interest:
Deer: White-tailed deer are present in fair numbers.
Quail: Bobwhite are present in fair numbers.
Rabbit: Cottontail are present in fair to good numbers.
Furbearers: Coyote, bobcat and raccoon are present.
Dove: The area has small grain agricultural fields that provide fair to good dove hunting.
Squirrel: Fox squirrels are present in fair numbers.
Waterfowl: There are usually good duck and goose hunting opportunities on and around Fort Gibson lake.
Nongame Species of Interest:
Bald eagle: Eagles winter on Fort Gibson lake.
Description of Fish and Wildlife Management Practices:
Approximately 2,700 acres are planted to row crops, annually. Controlled burns are utilized to manage upland habitats. A 3,500 acre waterfowl refuge, in the Jackson Bay area, is managed for waterfowl with 9 wetland units and numerous fields planted to wheat, sunflower, milo and millet.
Camping and Facilities:
No camping is allowed on the area. However, numerous US Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds are available around the lake.
A rifle range can be found on the south side of Toppers road east of Wagoner. The range offers two shooting benches and a 100 yard range.
Fishing Opportunities:
Fishing opportunities exist in numerous ponds on the area. Fort Gibson lake offers good fishing for white bass, catfish, crappie and black bass.
Ft. Gibson WMA Map - best general purpose map, pdf format (8.5x11)
Area map courtesy of US Army Corp of Engineers
Information on the lake and surrounding area
For additional information and area attractions:
Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
Post Office Box 52002
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Upper McClellan-Kerr Waterway Association
PO Box 2361
Muskogee, OK 74402
Muskogee Convention and Tourism
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Stilwell Area Chamber of Commerce
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Holiday in woods at lake
Holiday Park Buitengoed 't Lageveld is located in a beautiful wooded area. In this holiday park in Overijssel you can still find tranquility, here you can relax in a comfortable holiday home with family and friends. From your holiday home you can explore the region of Twente all by yourself. Opposite of Buitengoed 't Lageveld you can find the recreational area, which is no less than 36 acres. The recreational area has a sandy beach, a lake and a play garden. From the holiday park you can reach the lake easily by foot. Plenty of opportunities near your holiday home for swimming, hiking and relaxing. The holiday park offers all kinds of facilities to the guests. At the reception you can rent bicycles and receive information about interesting places you can visit, while staying in this holiday park in Overijssel. The holiday park offers a sandwich service and activities for children during school holidays. On request you can rent a cot, high chair and towels.
From your holiday home you can visit Avonturenpark Hellendoorn, 10 km and Ponypark Slagharen, 34 km. These are two amazing amusement parks for all ages. From your holiday home you can visit Almelo, this city is located near holiday park Buitengoed 't Lageveld. From this holiday park the city Enschede and the Hansa city Ommen are easy to reach by car. Nature lovers should definitely visit National Park De Sallandse Heuvelrug, a beautiful natural area with spectacular views. Near the holiday park you can find a golf course. In the immediate area of this holiday park you can find Wierden, a nice village with friendly locals. In the direct environment you can visit nice restaurants, where you can get familiar with the authentic local cuisine. From the holiday park you can easily reach a public swimming pool, named De Kolk. Please visit Ootmarsum or one of the other nostalgic villages, that make this region in Overijssel so special.


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This event is hosted by Susan Miller ( Founder of WSBA )
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mfaith wrote:This is by no means an official update, but I'll gladly share with you what I know at this point. So, an early cut of the new site (let's call it an alpha version) was made available to staff to review and provide feedback on. We did that and created a rather detailed (and non-trivial) list of adjustments we wanted to have made. I'm sure they're working hard to incorporate a good portion of those adjustments before rolling it out to a larger beta audience. So I guess all I'd say is hang in there. It's very close to being ready, and I think you guys'll dig it. But yeah, I'll see if Yamar can drop in and give a more official update with more info. Appreciate all of you guys' patience.
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Product description
These super candle or tealight holders succeed in giving the traditional a modern twist. The classic oil lamp chimney protects the candle flame in the old style while the red or copper loop carrying handle gives a contemporary feel. The chimneys come with little lids which stay in place when the candles are not in use. These stylish, Italian designed items are perfect for use indoors or out.
Candle lanterns: H30 x Diameter 10.6cm
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Rollins College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, and master's, and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, telephone 404-679-4500, at http://www.sacs.org for questions about the accreditation of Rollins College.*
Rollins obtained its SACSCOC accreditation in 1927 and has had no lapses in accreditation. Rollins' accreditation was last reaffirmed in 2015; Rollins' next reaffirmation of accreditation is scheduled for 2025, and the College will submit a Fifth-Year Interim Report in 2021.
Additional accreditations or approvals held at the program level are:
A portion of institutional memberships is presented.
*The contact information for SACSCOC is provided in order to enable interested constituents to (1) learn about Rollins' accreditation status, (2) file a third-party comment at the time of the College's decennial review, or (3) file a complaint against Rollins for alleged non-compliance with a standard or requirement. Standard inquiries about the College, such as admission requirements, financial aid, educational programs, etc., should be addressed directly to Rollins College and not to the Commission's office.


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Garmin nuvi 66LMT Automotive GPS System with Lifetime Update USA, Canada Maps & Live Traffic
The new Garmin nuvi 66LMT adds top features to the Garmin Essential line without sacrificing quality or value. The nuvi 66 LMT features a large dual-orientation display, so you can view it horizontally or vertically. It also adds myTrends predictive routing, as well as the ability to use auto-sort multiple destination routes, as well as view multiple points of interest along a route. The nuvi 66 features maps for the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, plus Canada.
The latest Essential series units include the nuvi 55 base model, nuvi 55LM (which adds lifetime map updates) and nuvi 55LMT (which adds lifetime map updates plus live traffic. Upgrade to the nuvi 56, nuvi 56LM or nuvi 56LMT, which add maps for Canada and Alaska as well. At the top of the line are four units with giant 6.0" diagonal screens: the nuvi 65LM, nuvi 65LMT, nuvi 66LM, and nuvi 66LMT (this page).
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- Easy-to-use dedicated GPS navigator with 6.0" dual-orientation display
- Does not rely on cellular signals; unaffected by cellular dead zones
- Preloaded with detailed maps of the U.S. and Canada
- Lifetime Map Updates
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- Navigate complex interchanges with ease
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For driving directions on the road, put away the smartphone and power on your nuvi. nuvi 66 is an easy-to-use, dedicated GPS navigator that does not rely on cellular signals and is unaffected by cellular dead zones. nuvi provides easy-to-follow, spoken turn-by-turn directions with street names.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Meir Har-Zion (pictured left with Ariel Sharon), once described as the "greatest Jewish warrior since Bar Kochba" passed away at age 80 last Friday.
Har-Zion was born in British Mandate Palestine in 1934. Already as a youth, Har-Zion became legendary among his peers when in 1953 he and his girlfriend managed to infiltrate neighboring Jordan and visit the ancient city of Petra. Over a dozen Israeli youth had been killed in preceding years while attempting this rite of passage.
Two years later, Har-Zion was one of the founding members of the feared and fabled Unit 101 put together by Ariel Sharon as something of a retribution squad to counter rampant cross-border Arab terrorism.
Hailing back to an era of brutal tribal justice that Sharon wrote his enemies would understand well, Har-Zion's actions nonetheless clashed severely with developing modern norms. For example, when Har-Zion's beloved sister, Shoshana, was abducted and murdered by Jordanian Bedouins in 1955, he was inconsolable, and together with two comrades-in-arms set off on a mission of revenge that ended in the execution of five Jordanians. Har-Zion's superiors in the IDF protected him from punishment, but the diplomatic damage had been done.
Later that year, Har-Zion was part of an attack on a Jordanian army position during which he was seriously injured in the neck and arm. An IDF medic managed to perform life-saving battlefield surgery, but Har-Zion's military career was officially over.
Or so everyone thought. Despite being a disabled veteran, Har-Zion fought, and fought with distinction in both the 1967 and 1973 wars.
Former IDF chief of staff and minister of defense, Moshe Dayan, described Har-Zion as "the finest of our commando soldiers, the best soldier ever to emerge in the IDF," and Sharon famously described him as "the elite of the elite."
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Party's Over, Chicago Schoolchildren! Your Teachers Strike Vacation Ends Tomorrow
With apologies to Chicago's many students (who were undoubtedly having a pretty awesome extended vacation), Chicago's teachers strike will end tomorrow.
The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates decided this afternoon to end the city's first teacher strike in 25 years and return more than 350,000 students to the classroom Wednesday. The voice vote was taken after some 800 delegates convened at a union meeting hall near Chinatown to discuss and debate a tentative contract. Union leaders had already signed off on the agreement with Chicago Public Schools.
"We said we couldn't solve all the problems. . .and it was time to suspend the strike," CTU President Karen Lewis said at a news conference after the vote. "The issue is, we cannot get a perfect contract. There's no such thing as a contract that will make all of us" happy, Lewis said. But "do we stay on strike forever until every little thing we want can be gotten?" she said.


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Hartzell Propeller Inc.'s high technology, blended airfoil propeller system for the Adam Aircraft A500 has passed the final hurdle for certification on the aircraft.
A recent FAA regulation requires all new pusher propeller installations, such as the aft propeller on the Adam A500, to ingest airframe ice shed during an inadvertent icing encounter without causing a hazardous condition. After extensive analysis and coordination among Hartzell, Adam and the FAA, a simulated ice ingestion test was developed. The test was conducted using a compressed-gas gun at the University of Dayton Research Institute's Impact Physics lab to shoot softball-sized ice balls at the propeller at speeds up to 520 miles per hour. This test simulated a long section of wing leading edge ice striking the propeller blade at the most critical position, angle and velocity. Despite the severity of the test, the propeller's structural integrity and critical feathering functions were maintained, passing the FAA's requirements. This makes the A500 the first production aircraft to have passed such a stringent test.
The propellers are 78-inch diameter, three-bladed designs using Hartzell's proprietary blended airfoil technology. This is the first application of the technology in a pusher configuration.
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by Oskar V. Conle & Marina Friede (9. 2002)
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In September 2002 we spontaneously decided to fly to Mexico (Peninsular Yucatan) for a short vacation. This trip was actually more for relaxing than for collection insects.
We stayed in the five-star-resort "Bahia Principe Tulum" at the Riviera Maya. This region of Yucatan is well known for it´s beautiful white beaches and blue water along the coast.
Yucatan is a very plane peninsula, mainly covered with tropical rainforest. The most spectacular and characteristic highlights for the region are the beautiful Mayan temples and the large underground caves (Cenotes), which are spread over the whole peninsular.
Yucatan is a typical all-inclusive-tourism-country, which means that more individualized travelling is quite complicated. Most of the tourists visiting Yucatan spend all of their vacation in one of the large hotel resorts, without getting in touch with the beautiful nature of the country.
Despite the warnings of our hotel security we decided to rent a car for exploring the peninsular. We should mention that Mexicans obtain their driving license without any examination. They only have to pay about 30 Dollars and have to be at least 14 years old. That explains the way they are driving. One of the rules you have to know when driving in Yucatan is that you have to give way and drive on the side-lane when a truck starts to overtake from behind. The worst drivers are the ones of large busses. The roads are full of knee-deep wholes which easily lead to a flat tire.
For us the following Mayan temples were the most beautiful: Tulum, a very pictorial temple situated at a very beautiful beach; Coba, a temple in the middle of the rainforest (about 45km in distance to the coast); and Chichen-Iza the largest temple in Yucatan. Everyone going to Yucatan should visit these extremely interesting old Mayan buildings.
Concerning the collecting of insects (especially at night), we were warned not to do that because of the high criminality of the country.
But real entomologists can not be stopped so easily from collecting insects (this is an innate collecting instinct!). So we went collection four times (nights) despite the warnings.
Equipped with our standard collecting tools we started looking for insects near by our Hotel (close to the sea) and an other time near by the Coba temple (45km inside the country). Two collecting nights did not bring any results, because it was too dry and had not rained for a long time. During a very humid night we found a large female of Pseudosermyle phalangiphora at Coba and a further mating pair of this species at Aktun-Chen near by our Hotel at the Riviera Maya. Insects of other orders were very common.
During our day-trips we saw many colourful grasshoppers (mainly Romalea species) and thousands of bird-eating-spiders (Brachypelma vagans) along the roads.
We do not know any other place on earth were we saw a higher quantity of butterflies flying around (mainly Pieridae and Nympahlidae). In some locations we were surrounded by hundreds of butterflies.
Everybody who wants to do some entomological research in Yucatan, or collect some insects there, should protect him selves of Malaria and the high criminality.
There are also some further health-risks in Yucatan: for example, nearly 80% of all tourists visiting Mexico get infected by a very painful diarrhoea. This diarrhoea is dangerous and results of contaminated food or beverages.
We recommend all visitors of Yucatan to choose only the best hotels and only drink well-cocked water.
Yucatan is worth a visit because of its beautiful Mayan temples, its impressing tropical rainforests and least but not last its beautiful white beaches.


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The CLS website will comply with U.S. copyright law and licensing agreements.
The CLS website will be updated on a regular basis by the Communications Committee. ACRL requires every three months.
All updates and additions to the CLS website will be made with the approval of the CLS Chair or CLS Communications Committee chair.
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A CLS Communications Committee member will periodically (every three months) review the links on the CLS web pages and provide the webmaster with updated information.
If committees, discussion groups, or other affiliated groups of CLS decide to build a website, they should notify the CLS Chair and/or the CLS Communications Committee chair in advance of such intent. Section policy is to have the pages mounted at the CLS website. Exceptions to this can be made only by the CLS Chair after discussion with the webmaster and the CLS Communications Committee chair.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Looking to continue a trend of finishing higher than the previous year, the Lipscomb men's track and field team begins the Atlantic Sun Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in Johnson City, Tenn. Hosted by ETSU, the championship meet takes place at the David E. Walker Track at Gentry Field.
"We have been on a progression (as a team) and one of our goals is to score more points than ever before, have more all-conference performers than ever before and finish higher than ever before," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "We are looking to be the best team we have ever had and keep moving forward until we are in contention to win."
Junior Tucker Peabody, the defending champion in the 200m, enters the meet with the top time this season, running in 21.36 seconds at the Niswonger Invite, the same track the championships are held.
Peabody also enters with the fifth best time in the 60m, running in 6.91 seconds. Freshman Jalen Thompson is not far behind as he enters with the eighth-best time, running in seven seconds flat.
Freshman John Kingstedt, who has only run one race this season, enters with the seventh-best time in the 3000m run. Kingstedt finished third at the Hoosier Hills Invite in a time of 8.35.97.
"He hasn't had a deficit in his training (running only one race)," Taylor said. "He isn't at a deficit compared to our team. The problem is that we don't train for indoor with our distance runners, we plan for a peak in the outdoor season.
"We are expecting the 3000 to be a highly competitive event with a lot of different possibilities to where people can finish."
Senior Tim Muller has also had a great indoor season, and enters the championships with the seventh-best time in the mile. Muller clocked in at 4:18.79 at the Hoosier Hills Invite.
Sophomore Gemikal Prude, who tied the school that was set in 1977, ranks second in the high jump after a leap of 2.08 meters. Prude is second behind Andre Dorsey of Kennesaw State who owns a leap of 2.13 meters.
Sophomore Houston Ward, who set a flurry of school records in the early portion of the season, enters the meet third in the shot put. Ward had a toss of 14.89 meters in the shot at the TSU Invite. A heave of 14.49 meters in the weight throw enters Ward into the meet in fourth place on the A-Sun performance list.
"This will be our hardest week of training this season," Taylor said. "The overall health of the men's team is pretty good. We are in pretty good shape and ready to go."
With the championships signaling the close of the indoor season, Taylor is looking for positives to be carried over into the outdoor season along with bonds that can be made by the team.
"We are trying to build momentum for the outdoor season which begins just a week later," Taylor said. "The championships are a great opportunity for our guys to bond together and really work for each other.
"They are motivated and that will be a good thing to build off of for the outdoor season."


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Martin and Laura have an interesting debate about the feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing. Can molecular assemblers be developed to create new materials, new devices, and even macroscopic objects? Find out... If Martin ever wakes up!
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LOS ANGELES (Jan. 5, 2010) - Actor� recipient Sandra Bullock, who is nominated this year for her leading role in "The Blind Side," will present Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award to Betty White at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards�, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today.
The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, the only industry accolades devoted solely to actors honoring actors, will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. An encore presentation will air on TNT at 11 p.m. (ET/PT). (Viewers watching via satellite or in HD should check local listings.)
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Screen Actors Guild is honoring White for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments. Past recipients of SAG's Life Achievement Award include James Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Karl Malden, Clint Eastwood, Edward Asner, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford and George Burns among others. A complete list of the 45 previous Life Achievement Award recipients can be found at www.sagawards.org.
White and Bullock worked together when White played Ryan Reynold's scene-stealing Grandma Annie in Bullock's chart-topping romantic comedy "The Proposal." With a storied and extensive career in television and film that spans nearly six decades, White is a living legend who continues to inspire others with her work as an actor, author, producer and philanthropist, and her lifelong devotion to the welfare of animals. This past year, White voiced the elderly Yoshie in Oscar-winner Hayao Miyazaki's animated adventure "Ponyo," made her farewell appearance on the daytime drama "The Bold & the Beautiful," and made a cameo appearance as herself on "30 Rock." White will next be seen in the Disney feature "You Again," starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and Kristin Chenowith.
Bullock currently can be seen in the smash hit "The Blind Side." She was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award� in 2006 as a member of the cast of "Crash." Some of Bullock's most memorable films include blockbusters such as "While You Were Sleeping," "Miss Congeniality," "Speed" and "Two Weeks Notice."
"The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards" will be produced by Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards�, LLC. Jeff Margolis is the executive producer and director. Kathy Connell is the producer. JoBeth Williams, Daryl Anderson, Scott Bakula, Shelley Fabares and Paul Napier are producers for SAG. Gloria Fujita O'Brien and Mick McCullough are supervising producers. Benn Fleishman is executive in charge of production. More information is available online at www.sagawards.org.
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STMicroelectronics Leads European Research to Secure Lead in Advanced MEMS Devices
Lab4MEMS, an ENIAC Pilot-Line Project, Leverages ST's End-to-End MEMS Facilities to Develop Enabling Technologies for Next-Generation Applications
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has begun working with research partners to develop a pilot line for next-generation MEMS devices augmented with advanced technologies such as piezoelectric or magnetic materials and 3D packaging. The project was launched by the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) Joint Undertaking (JU), a public-private partnership in nanoelectronics.
In coordinating the EUR 28m, 30-month Lab4MEMS project, ST is working with universities, research institutions and technology businesses across nine European countries. The project benefits from ST's MEMS facilities in France, Italy and Malta to establish a complete set of manufacturing competencies for next-generation devices, spanning design and fabrication to test and packaging.
With over 800 MEMS-related patents, more than three billion devices shipped and extensive in-house production capabilities currently producing more than 4 million MEMS devices per day, ST is ideally placed to lead the Lab4MEMS research into next-generation devices. The project will develop technologies such as Piezoelectric (PZT) thin films to enhance current pure-silicon MEMS, enabling improvements such as larger displacement, higher sensing functionality and greater energy density. These are needed to build smart sensors, actuators, micro pumps and energy harvesters meeting the demands of future data-storage, ink-jet, healthcare, automotive, industrial-control and smart-building applications, as well as consumer applications such as smartphones and navigation devices.
The project will also develop advanced packaging technologies and vertical interconnections using flip-chip, through-silicon vias and through-mold vias, enabling 3D-integrated devices for applications such as body area sensors and remote monitoring. A key target is to perfect a PZT deposition process compatible with mass production, and integrate it into complex MEMS processes to enable innovative actuators and sensors on System-On-Chip industrial products.
Lab4MEMS is one of the Key Enabling Technologies (KET) Pilot-Line projects contracted by the ENIAC JU to develop technologies and application areas with substantial societal impact. "The ENIAC JU research agenda has synergies with ST's commitment to improving quality of life through technology," said Roberto Zafalon, European Programs Manager, R&D and Public Affairs, STMicroelectronics. "Lab4MEMS is an important project that will benefit consortium members and stakeholders, including ENIAC member states. Ultimately, we expect the results to translate into long-term prosperity and valuable knowledge-based employment opportunities."
The ENIAC JU is a public-private partnership involving ENIAC member states, the European Union, and the Association for European Nanoelectronics Activities (AENEAS). It is currently contributing some EUR 1.8bn towards the costs of R&D projects, which it selects through a competitive process assessing responses to its Calls for Proposals. The Lab4MEMS project, coordinated by ST, was selected in 2012 and work began in January 2013.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2012, the Company's net revenues were $8.49 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
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Efficient LED technology looks set to flick the switch on traditional incandescent lightbulbs forever, say researchers.
Look up at the ceiling above you, and chances are there is a centuries-old piece of kit swinging from a cord. The light bulb has been hanging around for more than 150 years. Yet between its invention and the present day, its design has hardly changed.
But now the days of the traditional incandescent bulb look numbered. These electricity-sapping glass orbs have fallen out of favour with environmentally-conscious governments and consumers. And waiting in the wings is a new breed of hi-tech light based on the humble LED (light-emitting diode), the small lights found in everything from TV remote controls to bike lights. Not only do they promise to solve the bulb's environmental woes, their backers say they will also respond intelligently to your surroundings and even influence the way we behave.
"LEDs are about to change the way we see things forever," says Tim Holt, chief executive of Strathclyde University's Institute of Photonics in Scotland. "We are only just at the start of the LED lighting revolution."
Already, the efficiency and long life of LEDs is making them a popular – if costly – option in places where changing bulbs is inconvenient or expensive, such as in motorway lights, traffic signals, airport runways or on large buildings and bridges. For example, the Louvre museum in Paris is currently replacing 4,500 bulbs with LED equivalents, a change that is expected to result in a 73% reduction in energy consumption. Plans are also in place to replace the 25-year-old lighting system that illuminates Tower Bridge in London with LED lighting in time for the 2012 Olympic Games
But the real hope of the LED industry is that arrays of these tiny twinklers packed into something that resembles a bulb will become the light of choice in your bedroom, bathroom or study, allowing them to grab a slice of a global lighting market that was worth an estimated €52bn in 2010. Their cause is helped by the numerous governments around the world which have chosen to phase out the sale of incandescent bulbs. An EU-wide phase-out is already underway, and in November 2011 the Chinese government announced that the import and sale of incandescent bulbs would start to be banned from October 2012. Over 1 billion incandescent bulbs were sold in China during 2011, meaning the announcement was enough to drive investors into a frenzy: the share price of Cree, a United States-based LED manufacturer, increased by almost 10%.
Of course, the death warrant for the incandescent bulb has been signed before. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) – or energy efficient bulbs, as they are more commonly known – were supposed to spell the end of the light bulb in the 1970s. But despite rising to prominence in the 90s and constantly improving, they have failed to deliver on their promise. In part this is down to them costing more than regular bulbs, taking an age to warm up and often producing low quality light. And that is without even mentioning the environmental concerns over bulbs that contain mercury.
LEDs, it is claimed, will help overcome these problems. These tiny lights were invented by GE in the early 1960s and were initially only available in red, a property that defined the look of early pocket calculators and digital watches. Over the years, however, more colours have appeared.
These are all made in the same way: from wafers of semiconductor, the material used to make computer chips. As their name suggests, LEDs consist of a simple diode. In traditional electronics these are two metal posts – an anode and a cathode – placed very close to one another, through which power can only flow in one direction. In LEDs, the anode and cathode are formed by depositing two areas of semiconductor that have been "doped" – impregnated with impurities – next to one another. As power flows through the junction between these two patches, some of it is unable to make it through and is instead emitted as photons of light. The colour of the light is dictated by the properties and structure of the semiconductor used to make the LED. For example, the bluish light seen in many pocket LED torches is created using materials such as zinc selenide and indium gallium nitride.
Like a LED balloon
Although this may sound complicated, the manufacturing process to create LEDs is well understood. And – like all processes involving semiconductors – it is coming down in cost all the time, and at predictable rates. In fact, the rates are so predictable that there is even a law – called Haitz's law – that describes the fall. This states that every decade, the cost of producing useful light will fall by a factor of 10, whilst the amount of light generated increases by a factor of 20. Haitz's law, first proposed in 2000 by now-retired scientist Roland Haitz, is considered to be the LED equivalent of Moore's Law – a computer industry axiom which states that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a computer chip at a fixed cost will double every 18 or 24 months.
This is crucial for LEDs, which are currently around ten times more expensive than incandescent bulbs. Yet decreasing costs are only one part of the excitement.
In traditional incandescent bulbs, only about 5% of the electricity used is converted into light, while the rest is wasted as heat – the bulbs are therefore little more than tiny electric heaters which give out light as a fortuitous side-effect. A CFL tends to be around four times as efficient as a 60W bulb, but LEDs can be up to ten times as efficient.
As a result, the potential energy savings in the future from LED lights are enormous. Although the United States currently has no plans to phase out all incandescent bulbs, the US Department of Energy estimates that if the whole country switched to LED lighting over the next 20 years, this could result in energy cost savings of $120bn, reduce electricity consumption for lighting by a quarter, and reduce carbon emissions by 246 million metric tons. In China it is a similar story, where its central planning agency expects to save 48 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year, once China's phase-out is complete, and hopes to reduce annual carbon emissions by 48 million tons.
And LEDs have another environmental trick up their sleeve: they last far longer than most other light sources. Incandescent bulbs last around 1,000 hours before burning out, while comparable CFLs last 8,000 to 10,000 hours. LEDs do not burn out in the same way but simply get dimmer over time, and when they fall to 70% of their initial brightness their useful life is considered over. A good LED light should have a useful life of between 30,000 and 50,000 hours, and maybe up to 70,000 in the future, meaning less are thrown away and less are made.
But LEDs do not have it all their own way. One of the biggest challenges they face is the quality of the light that they produce. LED bulbs tend to generate a stark, cold light – a world away from the warm, yellowish light we are used to from incandescent bulbs. This can cause illuminated objects to take on unnatural colours, which the human eye can find uncomfortable or just odd.
This is the result of manufacturers building bulbs from efficient blue LEDs. To create a "white" light, a phosphor coating is applied that emits other colours in the visible spectrum. When these mix – like shining light through two prisms – they produce a white light. Crucially, however, there are "gaps" in the spectrum, and it is these missing chunks that cause the harsh effect.
To get around this, scientists and manufacturers are now working on using a combination of blue LEDs and less efficient red ones to create a warmer glow. Others are working on new phosphor recipes that can convert blue LED light to more parts of the visible spectrum, effectively filling in the gaps.
But other problems remain. For example, light from LEDs also tends to be highly directional – emitting light in a tight beam. This can be very useful in certain situations, such as illuminating a painting, but it is hardly a selling point for consumers wanting to replace the bulb in their reading lamp. Most manufacturers get around this problem by fitting reflectors and diffusers in their bulbs, but while this is effective it tends to reduce the overall efficiency of the bulb.
That has not stopped the industry moving ahead, however. Already, 50W and 60W equivalent bulbs are on the market. But going any higher may be difficult.
"100W bulbs have been demonstrated in the lab, but I don't think they will be on the market for a year or two," says Robert Karlicek, director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at the New York-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
White light, white heat
The problem, he says, is one that blights traditional bulbs: heat.
Specifically, LEDs do not radiate heat away like other bulbs do. As a result, they have to be attached to bulky heatsinks, to allow circulating air to draw the heat away.
This is where problems arise. Currently, packing all of the components into the space of a traditional bulb allows a heatsink able to cool an LED bulb producing the equivalent of a 50W or 60W conventional bulb. But the bigger the output, the bigger the heatsink needed. Quite simply, there is not enough space for a heatsink big enough to dissipate the heat from a 100W-equivalent LED.
But this problem would become irrelevant if consumers are prepared to rethink their approach to lighting, rather than simply focusing on updating old incandescent bulbs with newer LED technology, according to Fredric Maxik, chief scientific officer at Florida-based manufacturer Lighting Science Group.
"When the first digital head was put on to a reel-to-reel audio system, it was complicated and heavy, but people thought that that was going to be the future of digital audio. That was replacing old technology with new technology. But of course, they hadn't thought of something like the iPod," he states. "Instead of retrofitting lights with LEDs, we now have the possibility of making completely new lights that don't look like any light that we know of. Instead of hiding the heatsink, we should be making it part of the design of the light itself." Since LEDs last so long, it should be possible to do away with the whole concept of a light fitting with a separate disposable light bulb altogether, Dr Maxik says.
The possibility of creating innovative lighting using LEDs may be enticing to interior designers, but it is the prospect of using processors built in to LED lights to make intelligent lighting systems that is getting many of the researchers involved in the industry excited. At the most basic level, this can include a motion sensor which switches on the light when someone approaches, or a system which alters the brightness of the light automatically. "You could very easily design a light that learns your habits and tunes its brightness to save energy," says Dr Maxik. "If you like a certain amount of light in your room, then as it begins to get dark outside the window, the light would compensate by becoming brighter automatically."
When individual lights are given the power to talk to each other, or to lighting controls, then the potential for smart lighting becomes even greater. To do this, LED lights can use visible light communication – essentially sending signals to each other by pulsing themselves on and off too rapidly for the human eye to notice. This could be used to send signals between street or motorway lights, so that they only switch themselves on when people or cars are approaching. The same street lights could also be used to transmit internet data around a neighbourhood, and internal lighting could be used to send internet data around buildings such as hospitals, where wi-fi is not allowed. A system that can transmit high definition video using LEDs has already been demonstrated by a researcher at the University of Edinburgh.
Since white light is made up of a spectrum of different colours, the possibility of manipulating the light spectrum emitted by LED lights offers some of the most intriguing possibilities. "If we can control spectral distribution, this would give us a control knob that we have never had before," says Dr Karlicek. For example, it should be possible to tune lights to give out a dose of near-violet light that would have antiseptic-like qualities, he adds. These could be used to keep countertops in kitchens clean, or to help maintain sanitary conditions in washrooms.
Spectral tuning could also make people more productive, Dr Karlicek believes. "There's certainly evidence that certain distributions can affect the ability of the brain to sleep or learn, for example," he states. Although more research is needed, he suggests that it may be possible to design lamps that emit tailored light for students to use, to help them study more effectively, or ones that counter natural circadian rhythms to help night workers to stay awake.
Whilst these kinds of tricks mean the LED could have a bright future, there are other technologies hot on its heels. Recent research at the US government-owned Sandia National Laboratories showed that it is possible to generate white light that is pleasing to the human eye, by mixing the light from red, blue, green and yellow lasers, while a Illinois-based company called Eden Park Illuminations hopes to commercialise technology that involves sealing plasma behind glass in tiny aluminium foil micro-cavities, to produce ultra-thin, flexible lighting sheets.
But Dr Karlicek believes that LEDs are here to stay. "Plasmas, incandescents and fluorescents will go the way of the vacuum tube after the invention of the transistor," he promises. "People still use vacuum tubes for some applications, and similarly incandescent bulbs may never go away completely. But it is not a question of if, but of when LED lighting will be the norm throughout the world."
You may never look up at the ceiling in the same way again.


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0001-PersistentHashMap-ported-from-Clojure.patch contains a port of Clojure's PersistentHashMap.
0002-...-.patch rewires cljs.core/hash-map and cljs.compiler/emit's :map method to use cljs.core.PersistentHashMap. With that in place, the regular cljs test suite runs fine.
As a quick sanity check,
(loop [m cljs.core.PersistentHashMap/EMPTY i 0] (if (< i 10000) (recur (assoc m i :foo) (inc i)) (loop [i 0] (if (< i 10000) (do (assert (= :foo (get m i))) (recur (inc i)))))))
runs fine under Rhino. Timing this loop produces the expected results: it takes 1.1s on my machine as written above and 10.5s with cljs.core.HashMap/EMPTY bound to m. With 100000 iterations, PersistentHashMap takes 11.8s, whereas HashMap takes forever.
- iron out any remaining bugs, add in missing protocols (if any) etc.,
- test HashCollisionNode and related code,
- use other map types for small maps and switch at some threshold.
See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure-dev/DMcV4QwApuY/discussion.
Note that I'm developing this code on a branch at
The branch may be ahead of the patch here (as it is at the time of this writing); I'll update the patch periodically.
The rewiring gets tested on a separate branch:
Some notes after a quick look. Don't use js*. We have (make-array n) now.
Don't create a protocol for the node interface. Protocols are nice but introduce overhead. Just add those methods via Object.
Thanks! Updated both branches with these changes, plus a new bit-shift-right-zero-fill function in core (with accompanying compiler macro).
Please attach new patches here with the changes - thanks.
I also notice that you're using js* in a couple of other places to inline array constructors. But array is already a compiler macro - again no need for js*.
These patches bring master in line with my persistent-hash-map branch; the "rewiring" are coming in a moment.
Ah, actually the original rewiring patch still works.
@David Nolen: Thanks for the review! No js* left in PHM now.
Incidentally, I've run a couple of tests of hash collision handling – seems to work fine so far. Also, the way sets are implemented in cljs, they too are persistent with the PHM impl wired for use in cljs.core/hash-map.
One more thing: PHM needs a function to count bits set in a given (presumably integral) number, which I've introduced under the name of cljs.core/bit-count. It is currently not marked private, but it resides in the PHM section of core.cljs. I think it might be generally useful, so I'm inclined to add a docstring and add it to the bit ops section; otherwise it should probably be marked private.
Cool. Can you please construct a single patch with all the changes, thanks.
@David Nolen: Sure. The new patch includes all changes (in particular it wires up the compiler and hash-map to use PHM) and places bit-count in the bit-ops section (with a docstring).
Please remove any code behind #_. Looking more closely at your code, why are you using atoms? Is the added-leaf field only set once per node? If so why not a ^:mutable field for those deftypes.
added-leaf? is set at most once per an `assoc` to a PHM to signal that the new PHM needs to have an incremented count in relation to the original. Clojure's impl uses mutable Boxes for this purpose. Looking at this again, I guess a singleton array would make more sense than an atom; I'll make the change.
Sounds good.
All in one.
Looks good! I ran some quick perf tests - access times on small maps vs. ObjMap is actually a significant performance hit. I'll review the patch more thoroughly. I do note that update performance on V8 is pretty stellar.
Fantastic work! I think we're getting very close.
I've got an updated version on a branch here:
Unfortunately I've got to dash right now, so I'll post a new monolithic patch sometime later. I'm closing in on a transient hash map implementation too – it should be ready sometime very soon now.
Many thanks for the review and all the helpful tips, David! The latest branch incorporates some of the changes you suggested, with others due to land next time I'm at the keyboard.
The latest changes are available in two branches on my fork, phm and phm-transient.
phm is just the old monolithic commit. phm-transient, on the other hand, introduces TransientHashMap, TransientObjMap, various performance-related fixes (as per David's suggestions; one thing I haven't got around to yet is the alternative bit-count impl – will do that soon) and I believe even a bug fix or two. It's available for viewing at
I'll post the patch here in a moment. I'll also rip it apart into single-concern commits if appropriate – I'm afraid I got into the flow on this during a longish train ride, so it's another monolithic commit for now.
Meant to be applied on top of the previous monolithic patch.
Yes please move the transient work into a separate patch, thanks!
Ok, no problem. Will do that in the next batch sometime soon, since again I need to dash right now. Should any bugs surface in the meantime, I'll fix them as soon as possible too.
PHM without the transient stuff available at
Will attach patch in a moment.
Here's the patch. Applies cleanly onto the current master.
Before moving forward with this it would be useful to get a jsperf benchmark comparing performance to ObjMap and HashMap for big/small, access/update, string/non-string keys. Mind putting this together? Once we have that we can pick a strategy that won't slow down existing programs.
Here's a first cut at some tests... but I must have something or other mixed up, because the results are crazy. Any hints will be greatly appreciated.
This is the code used by the test cases:
And here is the current batch of tests:
A further pair of test cases for associng non-string keys:
Also, to make the earlier comment clearer – the results are crazy, because in Chrome PHM just totally trounces everything, even at small map sizes.
I have a new branch based off of the latest PHM code and including transient support for PHM (but not ObjMap – leaving that on the previous phm-transient branch for now).
Here's the branch:
And here's a jsPerf test (with transient/assoc!/persistent! being twice as fast to build a PHM of 10000 entries than assoc in Chrome):
Here's the patch (applies cleanly on top of the previous PHM patch).
I've updated the test with slightly modified preparation code (I used a version with cljs.core/hash-map not using transient – no difference in this case, but still, now it's using the actual code from the patch).
Please a create a new ticket and put the transient patch there, thanks!
Makes sense, will do right now.
There is an issue which hasn't occurred to me previously – a lot of code (including TwitterBuzz) will simply break with PHM wired in due to the way in which people use -strobj. Of course nobody ever promised -strobj to work... But a replacement would be nice.
For the sort of uses of -strobj I see at first glance, making js-obj accept varargs like hash-map does (and array!) and construct a JS object with appropriate entries would be an adequate solution; the rest could be expected to use a conversion function.
If breaking -strobj proves to be a major problem, though, I do have code ready (on an older branch previously linked to from here, phm-transient) which causes ObjMaps to be constructed for small maps with string keys (then a PHM is built using a transient when a non-string key is encountered or the OM grows too large).
Added a test case for 6 key `assoc` @ http://jsperf.com/cljs-persistent-hash-map-miniscule-assoc. PHM still wins in Chrome and FF1 and loses by a reasonable margin to ObjMap on Iceweasel.
Also, for completeness, here's a 20 key, "mutable is fine" `assoc` / `aset` test with JS object included: http://jsperf.com/cljs-persistent-hash-map-vs-js-object-small, where unsurprisingly JS objects dominate. (Note that transients are a lot faster than PHM for building large maps – see the test linked to in a previous comment, http://jsperf.com/cljs-persistent-hash-map-transient-support.)
4 key `assoc`: http://jsperf.com/cljs-persistent-hash-map-minuscule-assoc.
8 key `assoc`: http://jsperf.com/cljs-persistent-hash-map-teeny-assoc.
Same results, basically.
This great. For completeness can we compare against defrecord w/ 4 keys? Thanks!
Sure, here's a test:
Initial test run suggests that a record is significantly faster for {assoc} onto fields and significantly slower if using {_extmap} (NB. here the {_extmap} is itself a PHM).


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The latest teaser reveals an image of an unannounced product and asks, "What's your Tab life?" Below the question are the numbers 78910, which many people believe are Samsung's different Tab sizes (7, 8.9, and 10 inch). Samsung launched the 7-inch Tab last year and showed off the 10.1 inch Honeycomb tablet at Mobile World Congress, so the 8.9 inch version should fit nicely between them.
Rumors suggested that Samsung Mobile was planning to unveil the Galaxy Tab 8.9 last month at MWC, but the device was pulled from the Unpacked event at the very last moment. We do not know if the product was not ready in time or Samsung chose to hold it over for their next event.
When it comes to the specs of the Galaxy Tab 8.9, I would expect it to be comparable to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom. That means you will find Android 3.0, a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and all the other bells and whistles.
The Tab 8.9 might also be one of the thinnest tablets, according to the teaser image provied by Samsung. We can see the back of a tablet with a bulge around the headset jack. This means Samsung's new tablet could end up being thinner than the Apple iPad 2, which measured in at 8.8 mm.
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Digital Agenda: more than half EU Internet surfers use foreign language when online
While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites in their own language, 55% at least occasionally use a language other than their own when online according to a pan-EU Eurobarometer survey released today. However, 44% of European Internet users feel they are missing interesting information because web pages are not in a language that they understand and only 18% buy products online in a foreign language. The results underline the need for investment in online translation tools so that EU Internet users are not excluded from finding information or products online because they lack the language skills. Currently the European Commission manages 30 different research projects working at the interface of language and digital content, supported by €67 million of EU funding and the new projects submitted this year will get an additional €50 million. One of the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe is to ensure more accessibility to web content for everyone (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200).
Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, said: "If we are serious about making every European digital, we need to make sure that they can understand the web content they want. We are developing new technologies that can help people that cannot understand a foreign language."
The survey shows that while there is a huge amount of quality online content available, not everyone can use it to equal advantage, due to varying language skills. On average one out of two Internet users in twenty three Member States uses a language other than their own to read online. However this figure hides great variations as between 90 and 93% of Greeks, Slovenes, Luxembourgers, Maltese and Cypriots indicated they would use other languages when online, but only 9% of UK citizens, 11% of Irish, 23% of Czechs and 25% of Italians said they would do so.
English as the lingua franca on Internet
The survey confirms that English is the most commonly used language when it comes to reading and watching content on the Internet in a different language than one's own: almost half of Internet users in the EU (48%) would use English at least "occasionally" while Spanish, German and French would be used by 4% to 6% of users. Again practice varies greatly between Member States: 90% of Internet users in Cyprus, 97% in Malta and 85% in Greece and Sweden use an English language website if the information is not readily available in their language, but only 35% of Italians, 45% of Latvians, 47% of Romanians and 50% of French would do likewise. On the other hand, Luxembourgers prefer to use French (67%) and German (63%) to English (55%). In the UK and Ireland, where not many Internet users mentioned using a second language, French was the most commonly used foreign language for reading or watching content on the Internet (9% and 7%, respectively).
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Most people are faced with a situation of using another language when they are looking for information (81%), but 62% use it also in social relationships, typically when communicating online with friends, or for professional reasons (52%).
As many as 44% of respondents feel that they miss interesting information because web pages are not in a language that they understand: this is the case for 60% of Greeks, 58% of Spaniards and 56% of Portuguese.
Buying online
Buying online is an area where people prefer to use their own language. Only 18% of EU internet users buy online in another language frequently or all the time, and 42% said they never buy online in a language other than their own. Men (61%) are also using foreign languages more than women (51%) to buy online.
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While almost 9 in 10 respondents (88%) consider all websites produced in their country should use their national official languages, about 8 in 10 (81%) nevertheless think such websites should also have versions available in other languages.
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The Commission currently manages 30 research and innovation projects promoting language technologies that can help Internet users to access information in other languages. For example, the iTRANSLATE4 project is developing the first internet portal providing access to free online translation between more than 50 European and world languages, and allows users to simultaneously compare different translation results given by the most commonly used tools (e.g. Google, Bing, Systran, Trident, Linguatec). The EU's contribution to this project is €2 million.
Further progress in language technologies requires broad collaboration and continuous dialogue between industry, researchers, the public sector and citizens. The META-NET project, with EU support of €6 million, is building a technology alliance (already over 200 members) for multilingual Europe.
The first ever Eurobarometer survey "User language preferences online" was conducted in January 2011. The sample consists of 500 Internet users in each Member State. In total 13 500 respondents were interviewed.
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• The Schedule
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
UCSB Gauchos at the University of the Pacific Tigers
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
UCSB Gauchos at UC Davis Aggies
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• UCSB Ends Regular Season Oct. 28
UC Santa Barbara will play its final regular season game on Friday, Oct. 28 when it hosts Cal Poly in a 7:00 p.m. game at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The game will be the final home appearance for several Gaucho seniors who will be saluted prior to kickoff. Tickets for the match, and all UCSB events, can be purchased by calling 805-893-UCSB, from the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus or online by clicking here.
• The Gaucho Record
UCSB enters its Friday night game at Pacific with an overall record of 6-9-2 and a Big West record of 1-4-0. In their last game, the Gauchos snapped a four-game losing streak with a 2-0 home win over UC Riverside.
• Finally, Some Breathing Room
After a run of seven consecutive games that were either decided by one goal or ended in a tie, UCSB had to be happy with a two-goal margin in its last game. In particular, the Gauchos had to be happy that the two-goal margin was in their favor as they defeated UC Riverside 2-0. Through 17 matches this season, 13 have either ended in a tie or finished with a one-goal margin
• A Step In The Right Direction
After a stretch of four matches, two of which went overtime, that saw them total a mere two goals, the Gauchos scored two in their last contest against UC Riverside. The two goal output equaled UCSB's second highest total of the season and it was just the third time this year that they scored more than one in a game. In 17 outings, the Gauchos have scored 16 goals in 2011.
• Ortega Heats Up
Junior Erin Ortega has scored three goals for Santa Barbara in 2011. She is tied for second on the team and her third score, which gave the Gauchos a 1-0 lead over UC Riverside on Sunday, was a tremendous individual effort. When the Highlanders tried to clear a ball out of the box in the second half, an outstretched Ortega intercepted the pass and drove, nearly uncontested, towards the goal. She then put a perfectly placed shot into the left post. In addition to her three goals, she also has a pair of assists which is tied for the team-lead.
• Shelton's Return Sparks Gauchos
Midfielder Erica Shelton returned to the UCSB lineup on Sunday against UC Riverside and the difference in the team's play was stark. Shelton was named Big West Offensive Player of the Week after scoring goals in the Gauchos' 1-0 win at San Diego State and 1-1 tie at Cal State Bakersfield, results that extended their unbeaten streak to a season-best three in a row. She then injured her knee and missed the team's next four games, all losses. In her return against the Highlanders, Shelton played 69 minutes and recorded a team-high six shots, two of which were on frame.
• A Fresh Face
Freshman Indiana Mead notched UCSB's second goal in the win over UC Riverside, her third of the season. Mead is tied with Erin Ortega for second on the team in goals and she leads all Gaucho freshmen in goals and points.
• Oh, Henry!
Sophomore goalkeeper Makenna Henry has played all 1,575 minutes for UCSB this season. On Sunday, she earned her sixth win and her fifth shutout, lowering her goals against average to 1.20. In her last eight contests, Henry has allowed seven goals and posted a 0.86 goals against average. In fact, if you subtract two overtime penalty kick goals, she has actually allowed just five scores in the last eight games for a goals against average of 0.62. In her two seasons at UCSB, Henry has played 3,212 minutes, allowed 38 goals, recorded a 1.06 goals against and 11 shutouts.


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Q: Are lung problems common after a transplant?
It is estimated that 30 percent to 60 percent of all hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients develop some type of post-transplant lung problem. These can be infections, such as aspergillus or cytomegalovirus (CMV), or non-infectious problems such as bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP).
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Q: What causes lung problems after a transplant?
Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) are the most common noninfectious lung problems occurring in allogeneic transplant patients. Currently, BO is classified by the National Institutes of Health as a form of graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) in the lung. Patients are generally at risk for BO if they have GVHD at other sites, are older, had poor lung function before transplant, and had respiratory viral infections. BOOP is seen in association with GVHD, but can occur without active GVHD. Currently, the cause of BOOP is unknown. However, we believe this is also an immune mediated problem that results in inflammation in the lungs. Infectious lung problems generally occur in patients taking immunosuppressive therapy for GVHD.
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BOS is generally a disease of the small airways, where the small airways become narrower presumably due to GVHD, to the point that airflow is limited through the airways. On lung function testing, this appears as an obstructive pattern. When detected, BOS is usually severe and generally irreversible. The goal of therapy with immunosuppression is to prevent progression. Unfortunately, BOS is often "silent" and clinically unnoticed until it is severe. BOS is generally not detectable using standard chest X-ray or CT, but can be detected using a high resolution CT scan. Respiratory infections can also cause airflow obstruction, so patients generally need a bronchoscopy to make sure an infection is not present before initiation of therapy. Therefore, our efforts here have focused on how to identify patients earlier, so treatment may be started to stop the progression of BOS before it becomes severe. BOOP is an inflammatory disease that involves the small airways and the alveoli, the gas exchanging units in the lungs. Most commonly, this results in a restrictive pattern on lung function testing, which means that the lungs cannot expand well. BOOP is detectable using a CT scan or chest X-ray. However, because it looks like pneumonia, additional studies such as bronchoscopy and lung biopsy are usually necessary to confirm the diagnosis. BOOP differs from BOS in that it is very responsive to immunosuppressive therapy. Most BOOP cases are completely reversible, although a small percentage of the population will have steroid resistant or dependent BOOP.
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Møre og Romsdal is one of 19 counties in Norway
Møre and Romsdal is one of 19 counties in Norway and is located in the northern part of Western Norway. Møre and Romsdal has a coastline with a total length of 7,700 kilometres facing the Norwegian Sea, and covers an area of 15,000 square kilometres.
A quarter of a million people inhabit this beautiful and diverse county. More than half live in the southern part of the county – Sunnmøre. Sunnmøre is also home to the largest town in the county, Ålesund, with a population of more than 40,000.
Møre and Romsdal consists of 36 municipalities, which vary in size and characteristics. The smallest municipality, Stordal, has approximately 1000 inhabitants, while the largest, Ålesund, has more than 40 times that figure. It goes without saying that the challenges facing the municipalities vary a great deal.
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Shangri-La Toronto
"What's that?" I asked my cab driver, "It's gorgeous." 'It' was a silvery sculpture that reached into the sky and bought to mind flight and freedom right there on the pavement in downtown Toronto.
"It's the Shangri La" said my driver.
"You're kidding!" I said. "I'm staying there tomorrow."
I can't help myself; I get giddy with delight over a fancy hotel. Holly Golightly may have gone weak at the knees over Tiffany, but for me it's a top class hotel that makes me think: "…the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there." The check-in was fast, the service with a real smile and within minutes I was leaving the airy lobby with its Fazioli piano and zipping up to my room. When you notice details like how cool the carpets are (reminiscent of cherry blossom and bamboo leaves) as you trot to your room, then you can bet that your socks will be suitably knocked off when you get inside.
They were.
I was wondering how Toronto would compare to Vancouver and the TO did not disappoint; a ludicrously huge and comfy bed, a decadent bathroom with a big-enough-for-two soaker tub overlooking the city and a satisfyingly high count of amenities from emery boards and tooth brushes to a mini-loofah and lashings of L'Occitane to raid.
I was there to check out the sister spa to the Miraj in Vancouver – this is a glossier and more sophisticated version of the great little hammam on West 6th – but the principal remained the same – and the treatment and therapist was just as good – leaving me to relax on satiny cushions admiring my equally silky skin after a heavenly steam, skin-brightening scrub and a final oil application.
Drinks in the lobby lounge later were a treat – the menus come tucked away in a little compendium of books and champagne buckets stand ready for your bubbles. I'd heard wonderful things about the Bosk restaurant, and after a slew of strictly casual fine dining experiences, it was lovely to feel that here was a restaurant worth dressing up for. Bosk may have an east coast address but it certainly had a west coast feeling with local, organic and sustainable woven through the menu and the seafood treated with loving care. A pleasingly large by-the-glass wine selection makes food pairing a pleasure – my advice? Ask the sommelier to match for you – you won't be disappointed and you'll definitely try delicious new things.
I travelled as a guest of Tourism Toronto and stayed as a guest of the Shangri-La– all views are, however 100% my own.
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