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June 2014 revenues of Taiwan stock exchange listed companies (many with manufacturing in China) were just released:
Source: Financials of Taiwan-listed companies with Custer Consulting Group interpretation
Americas show strongest year-over-year growth; global sales remain well ahead of 2013 pace
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.86 billion for the month of May 2014, 8.8% higher than the May 2013 total of $24.69 billion and 2.0% more than last month's total of $26.34 billion. Sales in the Americas increased 10.6% year-over-year in May, marking the region's twelfth consecutive month of double-digit growth. All monthly sales numbers are compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization and represent a three-month moving average.
"The global semiconductor market posted healthy growth throughout all regions in May, led by continued strength in the Americas," said Brian Toohey, president and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. "Year-over-year sales increased across nearly all semiconductor product categories, with DRAM and analog products leading the way. Overall, the global market has posted growth each month for over a year, and sales are expected to increase for the foreseeable future."
Year-over-year and month-over-month sales increased across all regions for the first time since August 2010. Sequential monthly sales were up 2.1% in Asia Pacific, 2.1% in Europe, 1.8% in the Americas, and 1.6% in Japan. Compared to May 2013, sales increased in the Americas (10.6%), Europe (10.1%), Asia Pacific (8.6%), and Japan (5.3%). Japan posted three straight months of year-to-year growth for the first time in nearly two years.
Source: www.sia-online.org
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to reach $336 billion in 2014, a 6.7% increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter's forecast of 5.4% growth, according to Gartner, Inc. Sequential growth in the second quarter of 2014 is outpacing expectations, as can be seen in many companies including foundry leader TSMC, which is expecting second-quarter sequential growth of over 20%.
"2014 semiconductor growth is widespread across many chip types and applications," said Bryan Lewis, research vice president at Gartner. "DRAM is once again expected to lead in 2014 with 18.8% annual growth, but other areas are also doing well, including analog, FPGAs, ASICs, and non-optical sensors. ASICs are driven by Apple, with strong sales of its iPhone expected in the second half of 2014. ASICs will also benefit from the strong ramp of the latest video game console generation, particularly the Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox One. Overall semiconductor growth is widespread, with the non-memory segment growing 5.2% in 2014, compared with only 0.8% in 2013."
"Smartphones and ultramobile devices, including tablets, are the growth areas from a system point of view," said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. "Traditional desk-based PCs and notebook units are continuing to decline 6.7% in 2014. Total production unit growth for ultramobile devices, including tablets, is expected to rise over 30% in 2014. Low-cost utility tablets (white box) continue to drive new growth in the tablet market."
DRAM pricing remains firm, and this, coupled with growth in key system markets, is helping propel the DRAM market to exceed $41 billion in 2014. Memory is a feast-and-famine market due to big supply and demand cycles, and Gartner predicts the next big memory oversupply downturn to hit in 2016, weakening overall semiconductor growth.
Source: www.gartner.com
SEMI projects back-to-back years of double-digit growth in worldwide semiconductor equipment sales according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast, released at the annual SEMICON West exposition. The SEMI outlook calls for the total semiconductor equipment market to grow 20.8% in 2014 to reach $38.4 billion and to expand another 10.8% in 2015 to exceed $42.6 billion.
Following two years of spending declines, key drivers for equipment spending are investments by foundry and logic fabs for sub 20nm technology, NAND flash makers for leading edge technology (including 3D NAND) and capacity, DRAM technology upgrades for mobile applications, and expansion of advanced packaging capacity for flip chip, wafer bumping, and wafer-level packaging. All regions of the world are projected to see equipment spending increases in 2015. Front-end wafer processing equipment is forecast to grow 11.9% in 2015 to $34.8 billion, up from $31.1 billion in 2014. Test equipment and assembly and packaging equipment is forecast to experience growth next year, rising to $3.1 billion (+1.6%) and $2.6 billion (+1.2%), respectively. The forecast indicates that next year is on track to be the second largest spending year ever, surpassed only by $47.7 billion spent in 2000.
"Mobility and interconnectivity require leading-edge process technologies, both at the fab level and in packaging, and are key factors for growth in equipment spending," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "We expect capital spending to increase throughout the remainder of 2014 and into 2015."
Growth is forecast in all regions except ROW in 2014 and all regions in 2015. Taiwan is forecast to continue to be the world's largest spender with $11.6 billion estimated for 2014 and $12.3 billion for 2015. In 2014, North America is second at $7.2 billion, followed by South Korea at $6.9 billion. For 2015, South Korea is in second ($8.0 billion) in spending, followed by North America ($7.3 billion).
In 2014, year-over-year increases are expected to be largest for China (47.3%), North America (35.7%), South Korea (33.0%), and Europe (29.7%). Year-over-year percentage increases for 2015 are largest for Europe (47.8% increase), ROW (23.5%), Japan (15.6%), and South Korea (15.0%).
The following results are given in terms of market size in billions of U.S. dollars and percentage growth over the prior year:
Source: www.semi.org
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending is projected to total $38.5 billion in 2014, an increase of 15% from 2013 spending of $33.5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Capital spending will increase 7.1% in 2014 as the industry begins to recover from the recent economic downturn and total spending will follow a generally increasing pattern in all sectors through 2018.
"While capital spending outperformed wafer fab equipment (WFE) spending in 2013 that is not true for 2014," said Bob Johnson, research vice president at Gartner. "Total capital spending will grow by 7.1%, while WFE will increase 16% as manufacturers pull back on new fab construction and concentrate on ramping new capacity instead. Momentum from exceptionally strong fourth-quarter 2013 sales was carried forward through the first quarter. Sales are expected to bounce around a flat trend line through the remainder of 2014. In the longer-term profile, growth continues through 2015, dips slightly in 2016 and increases through 2018."
Logic spending remains the key driver of capital spending throughout the forecast period, but due to the anticipated softening of mobile markets it will grow less than memory. Memory will provide most of the growth in capital spending through 2018, with NAND Flash being the primary impetus.
Capital spending is highly concentrated among a handful of companies. The top three companies (Intel, TSMC and Samsung) continue to account for more than half of total spending. Spending by the top five semiconductor manufacturers is nearly 63% of total projected 2014 spending, with the top 10 accounting for 77% of the total.
Gartner predicts that 2014 semiconductor capital spending will increase 7.1%, followed by 9% growth in 2015. The next cyclical decline will be a slight drop of 3.5% in 2016, followed by a return to growth in 2017 and 2018.
The positive outlook for capital spending in 2014 is a result of strong demand across most semiconductor segments. Strong anticipated sales in the smartphone and ultramobile product areas are stimulating investment in the more advanced logic facilities. In memory, a favorable DRAM pricing environment is anticipated to produce strong revenue growth that will stimulate investments in new facilities. Propelled by the success of solid-state drives, NAND Flash is increasing investment in additional capacity.
Overall, the long-term outlook is for continued investment in leading-edge logic as foundries and major integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) move into the FinFET era. In memory, the outlook for NAND Flash is especially strong as it begins to become a major presence in data centers. The result will be steady growth in spending for semiconductor equipment through 2018, with only a minor dip in 2016 as DRAM spending responds to an anticipated oversupply condition.
The capital spending forecast estimates total capital spending from all forms of semiconductor manufacturers, including foundries and back-end assembly and test services companies. This is based on the industry's requirements for new and upgraded facilities to meet the forecast demand for semiconductor production. Capital spending represents the total amount spent by the industry for equipment and new facilities.
The WFE forecast estimates market revenue based on future global sales of the equipment needed to produce the wafers on which semiconductor devices are fabricated. WFE demand is a function of the number of fabs in operation, capacity utilization, their size and their technology
Source: www.gartner.com
PC Industry Experiences Mixed Results as Mature Markets Return to Growth, While Emerging Market Shipments Continue to Decrease
After eight quarters of declining shipments, worldwide PC shipments experienced flat growth in the second quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.8 million units in the second quarter of 2014, a 0.1% increase from the second quarter of 2013.
"While the worldwide PC market stopped two years of declining shipments in the second quarter, there were mixed results, as stabilization in developed markets was offset by a decline in emerging markets," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. "The PC industry in emerging markets has been impacted by the allure of low-cost tablets. These low-cost tablets continue to take spending from new PC units, meaning that it will take more time for PC sales to stabilize in emerging markets.
"The PC market's installed based has been declining as buyers switched to tablets and smartphones for entertainment and social media consumption. The 2Q14 results suggest that the consumer installed base restructuring peaked during 2013. We are seeing a slowdown in premium tablet sales, which have already penetrated a large number of households. PCs are now growing off a smaller installed base of newer devices, with more engaged users. Therefore, we expect to see slow, but consistent, PC growth. While the end of support for Windows XP drove some of the sales in developed markets, it is the underlying business replacement cycle that will stabilize the market."
Source: www.gartner.com
Worldwide PC Market to Show Relative Revival in 2014 after Falling 9.5% in 2013
Worldwide Tablet Market to Slow Down in 2014 and Reach 256 Million Units
Worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.4 billion units in 2014, a 4.2% increase from 2013 according to Gartner, Inc.
"2014 will be marked by a relative revival of the global PC market," said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. After declining 9.5% in 2013, the global PC market (desk-based, notebook and premium ultramobile) is on pace to contract only 2.9% in 2014.
"Business upgrades from Windows XP and the general business replacement cycle will lessen the downward trend, especially in Western Europe," said Atwal. "This year, we anticipate nearly 60 million professional PC replacements in mature markets." The traditional PC market (desk-based and notebook) will follow the same downward trend and is on pace to contract 6.7% in 2014 and 5.3% in 2015.
As with any devices, adoption goes through phases from the early to the late adopter; tablets are currently moving onto the latter part of that curve in mature markets. Gartner estimates that sales of tablets will see a relative slowdown in 2014 to reach 256 million units, an increase of 23.9% from 2013. Lower demand from users for tablets with smaller screens, some in favor of larger screens, in mature markets, and the shift toward phablets in South-East Asia are slowing global tablet penetration. "The next wave of adoption will be driven by lower price points rather than superior functionality," said Atwal.
Sales of mobile phones are expected to reach 1.9 billion units in 2014, a 3.1% increase from 2013. Sales of smartphones, which exceeded those of the rest of the market in 2013, will continue to do well, and Gartner estimates that smartphone sales will represent 88% of global mobile phone sales by 2018 — up from 66% in 2014.
In the operating system (OS) market, Android and iOS are driving the growth with a 30% and 15% increase, respectively, in 2014. "We expect the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 6 will attract pent-up demand for users who want a larger screen," said Annette Zimmermann, research director at Gartner. "Windows phones will exhibit strong growth from a low base in 2014, and are projected to reach a 10% market share by 2018 — up from 4% in 2014."
Source: www.gartner.com
Walt Custer is an industry analyst focused on the global electronics industry. Prior to forming Custer Consulting Group he was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Morton Electronic Materials, a global supplier of specialty chemicals and process equipment for the PCB industry.
Custer has been a member of the IPC trade organization since 1975 where he received both the President's and the Raymond E. Pritchard Hall of Fame Awards. He is currently a member of the IPC Executive Market & Technology Steering Committee. Custer is also a Director of the EIPC European PCB trade organization.
He authors regular "Market Outlook" columns for Global SMT & Packaging magazine, the Journal of the HKPCA and the TTI MarketEYE website. View other posts from Walt D. Custer.
Statements of fact and or opinions expressed in MarketEYE by its contributors are the responsibility of the authors alone and do not imply an opinion of the officers or the representatives of TTI, Inc.


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Journal ArticleChakrabartty, SK and Subramanian, NR (1980) Low-frequency and small perturbation equation for transonic flow past wings. AIAA Journal, 18 . pp. 1147-1149. ISSN 0001-1452 Kumar, A and Yajnik, KS (1980) Internal separated flows at large reynolds number. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 97 . pp. 27-51. ISSN 0022-1120 Shankar, PN and Sinha, UN (1980) Weakly sheared, two-dimensional inviscid flows past bodies. Journal de Mecanique, 19 (1). pp. 125-148. |

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There are a number of factors—resolution, tolerance, material selection, surface finish—to consider when designing for the industrial 3D printing process of stereolithography (SL). For our latest tip, we'll discuss the four stereolithography finishing options available at Proto Labs, and when it makes sense to use each.
Stereolithography (SL) technology uses a build platform that requires support structures for all features so they don't float away or collapse during the build process. These support structures are removed after the build is complete, but they do leave visible markings on the part.
In an unfinished state, after the support structures are removed, dots or nibs are noticeable where structures were attached to the part surfaces. So, when would leaving a part unfinished make the most sense?
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A natural finish provides a surface finish that absent of dots or nibs, which leaves a more desirable cosmetic appearance. The surface is not as clear on the down-facing surfaces that had supporting structures, but the top surface would remain clear. When should you use a natural finish?
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text: Will Blizzard Shock and Awe During Next Month's Financials?Brian Crecente1/20/10 10:00amFiled to: Surprisesactivision blizzardFinancialsIndustrydiablo IIIStarcraft expansionModern Warfare 348EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Activision Blizzard are holding a lot of cards and I want to see all of them. It probably won't show em all during next month's conference call, but it still promises to be very interesting. The company said this morning that it intend to release its fourth quarter and calendar year 2009 results on Feb. 10. Typically, that means they'll also be talking about what's to come in the way of raking in the loot and that means games. August's call with Actiblizz was certainly enlightening, but what will we hear this time around? Maybe we'll finally get a Diablo III date, though I doubt it. Could be will hear about Blizzard's "other" project, also unlikely. But I bet we'll get a bit more on Modern Warfare 3, rumored to take place in Vietnam, and maybe even a bit about other upcoming, but still illusive titles. Advertisement Advertisement What do you think?Reply48 repliesLeave a reply


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The future of the Wales Rally GB could be thrown into doubt because of a crackdown by police on speeding.
Seventeen drivers, including Colin McRae and Richard Burns, were punished in Neath magistrates court on Monday for speeding offences relating to the 2002 event.
A spokesman for the FIA, the sport's world governing body, said: "Actions of the police and magistrates seem to indicate this is an exceptionally dangerous location for a rally. The FIA has therefore asked its safety delegate for a report on the suitability of the local public roads for a world championship event."
South Wales Police again used mobile speed cameras during last weekend's event to catch speeding competitors and fans. Magistrates handed out fines totalling £7,350 yesterday and deducted a total of 57 penalty points. McRae and Burns were each fined £150 and received three points on their licences.
The timed special stages are held on private roads or Forestry Commission land, but competitors have to use public roads between stages. If Wales lost the rally it would be a blow to the local economy, which benefits by around £15m a year.
There is concern at what seems a heavy-handed police approach. Marcus Gronholm, of Finland, was stopped near Swansea last weekend and prevented from continuing to the service park because of a damaged front wheel on his Peugeot.
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text: The moment I smelled the first whiff of "Umbrella-gate," I knew it was ridiculous. The more I saw about it, the more evident it was that this was nothing more than naked racism and/or full-blown Obama Derangement Syndrome. It's nothing short of ridiculous. Let this photo, currently floating around on Facebook, be the last word on it, all right? Okay then.


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,Lifestyle brand Claire Murray recently announced plans to produce new lines of laminated fabric products, including table linens and bath accessories.
New York-based Logan James Ltd., the licensing and brand management group for Claire Murray, described the partnership between both companies as "ideal."
"It's the kind of stuff you use for patio parties and outdoor entertaining," Claire Murray, ceo and principal of Claire Murray, told Home Textiles Today. "It will be great for spring and summer for all kinds of entertaining, but in an informal fashion."
Price points were not available at press time, but Murray said the lines target upscale boutiques and are also being sold at Murray's own stores nationwide and in the catalog and on the website, www.clairemurray.com.
Under the licensing partnership with Telefun, Claire Murray will expand its offerings to include fabric laminated place mats with coordinating cloth napkins for the table and wastebaskets and tissue box covers for the bath. Other categories outside home textiles include: serving trays, bowls, stationery, clipboards and notepad holders.
Telefun, founded in 1988, produces all of its goods in the United States. Another major licensor of the company for the same types of products is home goods licensing property Tracy Porter.
Using the same fabrics being incorporated in Telefun's goods, Murray is also producing a line of coordinating quilts with licensee Hedaya Home Fashions, based in New York.
To help promote the new quilt line, Murray has organized a national quilting contest. Consumers who want to enter the contest must incorporate Murray's French Country fabrics in their home-sewn quilts. The contest will take place in May Cape Cod, Murray told HTT.
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Yusof, A. M. and Idris, N. H. and Malek, N. A. N. N. and Wood, A. K. H. (2009) Use of granulated modified zeolite Y for the removal of inorganic arsenic and selenium species. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 281 (2). pp. 269-272. ISSN 0236-5731
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Column studies were performed to evaluate the performance of modified zeolite-Y with ion Fe (zeolite-FeY) in removing As(III), As(V), Se(IV) and Se(VI) from groundwater. The removal capacities for zeolite-FeY was carried out on arsenic and selenium species in aqueous solution by co-precipitation technique with DBDTC-Pp complex in the pH range of 1.5-2.5 followed by the neutron activation analysis (NAA) using a TRIGA-MkII reactor with an average flux of 2.1 × 1012 neutrons cm-2 s-1 and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) technique as comparison. The accuracy between the results obtained from both techniques were compared and evaluated.
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Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
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Deposited On: | 20 Jul 2011 09:00 |
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This is very similar to what Cobra has said.
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Rumor: Marine Corps Officers' Wives Told to Stock Food, Water, and Some Cash for Possible Electronic Banking Disruption
This is very similar to what Cobra has said.
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- AnonymousDecember 8, 2012 at 7:26 PM
When was this sent out? so about 2 weeks from the time they are told maybe sooner.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 8, 2012 at 8:39 PM
The hacker group Anonymous were planning to hack the trading floor and create a moment of mass terror as the people would feel the need to withdraw all there earnings. I can see how this could be linked. That would, in term, mean that the group Anonymous were being run by puppeteers of the government. Maybe this is there last attempt of the year to censor the internet. The reason I know this plot is because I worked with Anonymous in Op V, but I never did meet the guys who pulled of the big hacks and got the ball rolling. I guess us Anons are working for an unknown force we see as to be working towards the good of the people. I pray that my intuition is wrong and I don't regret ever being a part of this group.
ReplyDeleteRepliesI had someone contact me last week who claims to have been one of the founders of Anonymous. They haven't told me a lot, mostly afraid I won't believe them, but apparently the group started as an effort by hackers to expose Scientology, and as a result of that success was contacted by benevolent ETs and earth resistance to collect data on the Cabal which they have done collecting data of crimes and where money goes and who it goes to. All of this is now in the hands of positive military people. They've also supported Julian Assange in various ways.
The cabal has several tactics, at first they ignore you, then they call you crazy, then the attack your character, then they say you do it for money, then if that doesn't work they say you are part of them so that well meaning people get put off from listening.- AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I like what you said Obi. Not easy to be clear about everything and everyone. Forgive me for being "provincial" I live on a horse ranch where there are 38 horses and I sometimes wonder about what will happen if the water goes down. We are in the desert.
I have sometimes mentioned this and only one person ever suggested anything which was, "turn the animals loose so they can find a stream or river" In the AZ desert? For Christs sake! There is no water.
The horses are not mine. My landlords. But I do care about them. To me a sticky problem is a challenge. It seems to me there are a lot of people more attached to their comfort Zones who won't really look at tricky situations. Or as someone said, to a lot of people animals are just animals. I thin k that what Jesus is supposed to have said, "What you do to the least of these, you do it unto me" was soemthing he really did say. To me it is about defending those who can not defend themselves. Nobody said the power was going off. Just possible disruption in the electronic system.
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2012 at 9:36 PM
If she bought a truck full of toilet paper, she's been listening to Drake.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 9, 2012 at 12:13 AM
Sounds like a good idea all the time. Sound like minimum preparedness. Have you not read this?
It is official.
http://forums.armageddononline.org/threads/37297-Letter-To-_____.-2012-VS.-EMP - AnonymousDecember 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM
WoW:-) I Hope this come's out as expected............
Thanks AK for all the Grt things u DO
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GH - AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 1:13 AM
If there was an EMP, I assure you that power would not be restored to the area for months. The san onofre nuclear power plant would most certainly go into melt down. Being as it is about a hundred yards off the water, the damage to the marine life would be catastrophic. Oceanside is but a few miles away and the marine corps base camp pendleton encompasses the surrounding land. The federal disaster evacuation perimeter guidelines were just modified to reflect a 20 mile evacuation radius from a nuclear disaster site, so stocking food and water would be of no use in oceanside or on the base.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM
After having survived Sandy and the subsequent Nor'easter I would like to give some advice.
Focus on things that will keep you warm. From what I witnessed and went through, it appeared that most people died as a result of long term exposure to cold. The media is focusing on storm surges, fallen trees and damaged homes. The real killer of these storms was the cold and the death toll "SHOULD" eventually reveal that. Death from exposure to cold is not visually exciting to people and is not photographed. The public wants to see that "Special Effects" experience of material damage. The government including their puppet police, state troopers and national guard was more concerned about property than people. This was not a hurricane with warm air for the weeks afterwards. I am in one of the warmer areas and the temperatures dropped to the upper 20s. I had no heat for almost 2 weeks. There were very few places to run because most places were without heat, yet no one opened public buildings that had heat to save lives. This storm was war not a garden party of rules and propriety. At some point the only law is "I must survive". Traditional Law Enforcement and Bureaucracy made this near impossible. The focus was to protect property and not lives. SHAME ON YOU!


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In this post, I chose to use 'better' rather than 'secure' or 'faster' because this is my opinion. This is not a test on security or whatever. This is my two cents worth.
The Mozilla Foundation was founded in 1998. Since then, the Mozilla Suite has just reached version 1.8.x and Firefox has reached a glacial 1.0.3. needless to say, deveopment has been slow.
The question whether open source software is more secure is debatable. I wouldn't say Firefox is more secure. It is more standards compliant, but hardly anymore secure than IE. For example, while Firefox does not support vbscript or activeX, it does support extensions. A lot of people install extensions from unknown sites. Also, most of the extensions are not signed. Hypothetically, this means that if you install extensions regardless of the source, you could get screwed. Besides, IE has allowed control over vbscript and activeX for a while through Internet Zones. Its a pity people don't/haven't use(d) them (Win XP SP2 removes this problem alltogether). IE also features much better cookie management.
Firefox's security is an illision. The only reason, it feels secure, is because it doesn't have enough market share to warrant significant spyware development. Given time, I'm sure Firefox will have just as many problems as IE.
People have always been quick to blame Microsoft for not rolling out patches on time. I'm sure the Firefox users are going to face the same problem sooner or later, with the increasing popularity of the 'fox.
Note 1 : I wrote this post a while ago. While I still like Firefox, I've noticed that it seems to have memory leaks. One window, with no other tabs open uses about 44MB RAM and 86MB virtual memory. Since then I've been using Opera more and more.
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Leaving south florida now for vegas. Looking forward to my dinner with a major gaming industry CEO.
Michael Yormark (@PanthersYormark) July 09, 2012
SUNDAY: For what it's worth, Florida Panthers president and chief operating officer Michael Yormark tweeted this at about 11 a.m. on Sunday:
On the road again this week. Heading to vegas for a very important dinner on monday night.
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Of course, Canucks goalie and poker aficionado Roberto Luongo has been spending his weekend in Las Vegas at the World Series of Poker. He is awaiting a trade out of Vancouver and Florida has been reported as one of the more probable destinations.
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September, 2003, Vol. 03, Issue 09 We Get Letters & E-MailBeginning this month, letters that were not published in the print version of Massage Today will appear online. Readers can respond to these letters via e-mail at . Please write "WGL Online" in the subject line.Editor's Note: Some letters have been edited for clarity. Colorful Reaction to 'Shades of Gray' Greetings Cliff: Regarding your editorial in the April 2003 issue ("Shades of Gray" www.massagetoday.com/archives/2003/04/14.html), one more point of contention for your list: How to design these laws so that a massage education does not become a requirement for a touch modality in which it is not needed? For example, a massage education is not necessary to practice Polarity Therapy safely and effectively, yet some massage school owners and national associations continue to try to use state law initiatives to force all touch therapists through their programs, for the obviou$ rea$on. Little wonder that non-massage folks continue to resist the state-law movement. John Chitty, RPP, RCST Multiple Perspectives on 'Who Owns Manual Therapy?' Editor's note: The following letters are in response to Cliff Korn's May editorial (www.massagetoday.com/archives/2003/05/10.html). I would suggest that you take the time to understand [the Chiropractic] profession's point of view before writing an editorial about something [of which] you obviously know very little. Chiropractic is the greatest supporter and promoter of massage therapy, and yet here you are biting the hand that feeds you. I think you need to ask some questions before you will understand. My barber spends a few minutes after every cut, massaging my shoulders and neck. It feels good! This is technically a chair massage! As a profession, how will you respond if every barber were given the opportunity to take a three-day seminar, which would then allow them to offer chair massage as a service? Give it some thought. Take your time and ask a few questions before shooting your mouth off and creating a problem where none existed before. Print this as a response to your editorial and I suspect your readers will respond in favor of my point of view. Notice that I am a licensed massage therapist in Texas and not just a chiro. Paul McLemore, RMT, BS, DC I am a licensed massage therapist in Connecticut, and nationally certified. I am blessed with a diverse practice in which I hold office hours in a chiro clinic two days a week, do spa work two days and have a (primarily) sports-based clientele in my home office the balance of the time. Your observations are spot-on regarding the lack of recognition of overlapping scopes of practice. I have had a DC tell me "Just worry about the 'soft stuff'; I'll handle the healing." This, in the case of a patient who was so heavily armored it was not possible for the doc to perform an effective adjustment. The implication was that if I were able to significantly relax the musculature, he would be able to facilitate the healing process. How's that for embracing the holistic model? Another interesting story came from my contact with a principal in a principal in a physical therapy group. She had arranged a meeting for me to explore the possibility of adding massage therapy to her business. Several of her patients, most of whom were referrals from orthopedists, had specifically requested massage in addition to PT. She stated she "... didn't really get it, but if they wanted some 'fluffy stuff' to make them feel better, she'd be happy to charge them more to cover [my fee]". When I suggested to her that massage was not just "fluffy" but proven to be therapeutic, she snickered and said, "If that were the case, you or your colleagues would be on staff working in hospitals already"! Swallowing some pride, I decided it would be best to encourage her to find another LMT, wishing her good luck in the process. It continues to amaze me that there is an enormous dialectic between healing arts and the health care industry. If the whole point of offering "health care" is to facilitate the healing process in individuals (or to assist in maintaining wellness) then the only logical viewpoint is from the holistic model. All around us are volumes of evidence, both anecdotal and empirical, which argue there is an unmistakable, if indescribable, link among the mind, body and spirit. To presume to "treat" any one of these aspects solely is folly. How many times have your heard someone say, "I've been to several doctors and not one could tell me what was wrong, let alone help me"? Enough to suggest that there may not be anything wrong with the doctors; but the system sure is sick? Where does the responsibility rest in reconstructing the paradigm? With those of us who perform the work every day and have the ability and opportunity to educate the public at large, and our colleagues in health care. For most of us, it will be on a one-on-one, face-to-face basis. For others, the public forums are the way. Seems to me there is some truth in the observation that no one "owns" manual therapy...we all do, whether trained on a doctoral level or just a guy who bumps his elbow walking through a doorway and rubs it himself, just to make it feel better. Neal Delaporta, LMT While I don't claim to speak for anyone else, I don't think Chiropractic in general is trying to contain or eliminate the massage therapy profession. Delbert Lyons I read your editorial yesterday with much interest. I became aware of Kansas SB 225 after receiving a survey from one of the massage professional associations that seemed to indicate licensure of massage therapists was being contemplated by the Kansas legislature. I conducted a search on the legislature's web site and SB 225 was returned. I contacted the massage professional association to express my extreme concern regarding this bill. The response I received indicated that the association's legislative monitoring group would follow and report on the bill. Alas, they did not. SB 225 alarmed me because "therapeutic massage" is specifically mentioned within in the scope-of-practice for physical therapists and, although language in the bill provides an exclusion for massage therapists, that exclusion seemed to me to be overly restrictive. Here is the pertinent exclusion text: Kansas SB 225 Section 10.C.18: While I have no difficulty with the second portion of the above ("no drugs"), [the phrase] "Relaxation, muscle conditioning or figure improvement" is, in my opinion, an extremely limited description of a massage therapist's scope-of-practice. This bill was signed into law by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on April 11, 2003, despite the lobbying done by Kansas chiropractors. I do not know if any massage therapists lobbied for or against the bill. I would hope that any massage therapists would have lobbied against this bill, as chiropractors did. I naively relied on the professional association to monitor and report on the bill's status. I will not make that mistake again. Kansas currently does not have licensing requirements (or even registration) for massage therapists, therefore there is no other scope-of-practice definition for massage therapy in Kansas statutes. Your editorial focuses on Kansas chiropractors attempts to usurp some of the massage therapy scope-of-practice and ignores the excessive limitations on massage therapy's scope-of-practice being imposed by the state legislature. I wholeheartedly agree with your editorial's suggestion the various professions should be working together to arrive at overlapping scopes of practice. It is clear that Kansas legislators need an enormous amount of education regarding massage therapy. However, it seems to me that the general massage community would have been better served if your editorial illustrated the need to be much more vigilant in monitoring pending legislation rather than accusing the chiropractor's of attempting to grab power. These accusations seem to be designed to vilify chiropractic as a profession rather than to encourage massage therapists to partner with chiropractors and physical therapists in providing the much needed education to our lawmakers. Cim Roesener, NCTMB Just wanted to drop a quick note to tell you how important your "Who Owns 'Manual Therapy'?"article is to all practicing somatic therapists. When my articles were released last year [in Massage magazine], I figured I would get some flack from some fringe "watchdog" group of Chiropractors. Sure enough, immediately after the first installment hit the stands, the magazine received a biting letter to the editor complaining that I was teaching massage therapists bone work and that they alone had legal rights to any mobilization of bones. He slammed me for referring to bodyworkers as "manual therapists" throughout the article and scolded me for not simply referring to my reading audience as "massage therapists." I wrote back a very nice response, but in the next issue Gregory Lawton, DC, president of the Medical Massage Association wrote a nasty letter back to the chiropractor essentially reminding him of how the AMA had treated them, and how it made them feel. Essentially stating what your piece said, except not as eloquently. The letter was so harsh, Massage magazine had to edit much of it. This practice among healthcare professionals of "drawing the line in the sand" has to go. We should all be working toward a common goal of educating our public in all forms of manual therapy technique in the best ways we know how. Erik Dalton, PhD I am a chiropractor and bodyworker with my own clinic. I am also one of the pathophysiology instructors at Bodymechanics School of Myotherapy and Massage. After reviewing your editorial, it seems you have made some assumptions about the chiropractic perspective on who should have the ability to adjust patients. The tone of the article makes us all seem like a very insecure bunch of doctors and I need to clarify that I am not, and neither are most of my colleagues. That said, you do have some good points. First off, it seems the legal wording of the law in Kansas as you quoted it is far too broad and doesn't seem to fit the definition of chiropractic as we are taught in chiropractic college. It certainly covers the scope of practice of a chiropractor, but it is not a good definition of chiropractic. The key defining factor, theoretically, that sets chiropractors apart is the high velocity low amplitude thrust (HVLA) to specific spinal segments and joint complexes. That can be argued when looking at chiropractic and osteopathic joint manipulative techniques, but that's the main idea The Kansas law does seem to override common sense when it comes to comparing chiropractic, as they have defined it, with existing professions, such as osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage. All those profession utilize the mobilization of tissues. Not to mention that a classic definition of chiropractic would exclude any electrical modalities. Chiropractic means "by the hand." I just don't see how that can be defensible in court and I wonder how it was passed into law in the first place. The whole idea of a "turf" war about protecting the HVLA thrust as a technique that should be exclusive to chiropractors seems to be a big misunderstanding on your part (which may be propagated by politicians). Anyway, both chiropractors and osteopaths have been utilizing HVLA type techniques since the onset of both of those professions. The reality is not a factor of wanting to "own" a technique -- the issue is safety. The 500-1000 hours of most massage therapy programs is no where near sufficient to learn the physical skill and clinical knowledge to know how to adjust, when it is appropriate to adjust, and, especially, when it is not appropriate to adjust a patient. The issue is similar with physical therapists, as their education is essentially a masters level education. The knowledge base is simply not enough to be able to gather a full clinical picture of whether a patient is safe to adjust with an HVLA technique. Chiropractors have approximately 5,000 hours of education in chiropractic college, and I know that osteopaths have a similar education. Some people may feel that 5,000 hours is not necessary, but I have seen a number of patients that have been hurt with an HVLA type thrust from both massage therapists and physical therapists, as have many of my colleagues. My purpose in writing this is not to attack your article. You made some good points, but I hope you have seen mine as well. Chiropractic and massage together make an great pair in helping patients recover much faster than either alone. I know there are a number of doctors in the American Chiropractic Association that took offense to the picture you painted of the chiropractic perspective. We should be working hard to make a positive environment for maximal patient benefit, not putting out fight songs. Michael W. Neely, DC Questions About Sports Massage Editor's note: The following letters are in response to Michael McGillicuddy's July article, "The Art and Science of Pre-Event Massage" (www.massagetoday.com/archives/2003/07/11.html). Dear Michael: I was pleased to see your article about pre-event massage. I am a massage therapist in PA (prior to that I was in Tampa). My business provides sports massage to college athletes. I read the part of you article that stated: "A pre-event massage administered too close to the start of an event that requires an athlete's instantaneous response can actually interfere with the start." We provide pre-event massage at swimming competitions. How much time do you recommend between the massage and the start of a swimmer's race? I appreciate you feedback -- thanks again for the good article. Suzanne Irwin Michael McGillicuddy responds: The first person I heard talk about not doing pre-event massage on swimmers was Benny Vaughn. He stated that they noticed that their swimmers starts were just a little bit slower when they received pre-event at the swim site before competing. They would do pre-event massage at the hotel where the team was staying, but not at the site. You must watch your athlete's response to pre-event massage. If they are a fraction of a second off on the start, you could be doing them a disservice. Not all athletes respond the same; however, if you notice the start times are not as quick as they should be, do not administer pre-event massage close to the competition. I enjoyed your article regarding pre-event sports massage. Since the first day of massage school, I wanted to focus most of my attention on athletes. However, getting into that field has seemed more complicated than expected. I was just wondering how you might suggest focusing more on sports massage and getting the clientele or applying for a position with a sports team. Rochelle Beirmann, CMT, NCTMB Michael McGillicuddy responds: When I got out of massage school, I knew I wanted to do sports massage. I joined the Florida State Massage Therapy Association sports massage team, and we worked a sporting event almost every weekend. 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January 30, 2008
"I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them."
ADDED: I don't like this form of protest. Real individuals would be dragged into what is an ugly process, so it's not a prankish display of disrespect for campus authorities. I would like to see Brandeis students do what Wisconsin students did when the university invited them to feel offended and tattle: Ignore the system.
AND: For those who wish I'd say something more about the Brandeis incident. I did. Back in November.
25 comments:
- B said...
What are the chances of this standing up to First Amendment scrutiny? If it were the basis of a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, would the University or the accused policy violator be more likely to win?
Who should win? - 1/30/08, 8:03 AM
- rhhardin said...
The I-am-offended letter sounds like a fine writing assignment for freshman English classes at every university.
- rhhardin said...
Are I-am-offended letters subject to the same rules? Or can you offend the recipient without being punished.
I-am-offended letters can be the new broadsheet, if they're exempt. Distribute copies. - 1/30/08, 8:12 AM
- Kirby Olson said...
Has FIRE lost a case yet?
- Susan said...
Personally, I am offended by the calling of those rotating round discs "Lazy Susans". As a person of the Susan persuasion, I can assure you that I am an industrious worker and I think I can speak for all Susans when I say that we are tired of being lumped together and called lazy.
- PatHMV said...
You can't just ignore the system in this circumstance. This isn't just encouraging students to tattle on each other, it's a code which applies to you whether you participate or not.
You're correct that this would cause real people real problems, potentially, which is why I would strongly suggest that the pranksters and mischief makers target primarily those who have themselves used the provisions or otherwise called for the suppression of dissent. But I think Glenn's call is appropriate in general, as a form of civil disobedience.
These speech codes are ridiculous, but when action is taken in any one particular case, the injured party usually comes appears unsympathetic, and it's easy for most people to dismiss them; no decent person would have told that joke, you know... To effectively combat them, with hardened university bureaucrats and administrators defending them, is to use them until their absurdity is apparent to every one.
In practice, these codes are aimed at only one side, protecting politically correct viewpoints from attack, while allowing the politically correct to attack the people they don't like in any manner they please. It is not until the non-PC side insists on equal enforcement that the PC side will have any realization of how bad such speech codes are. - 1/30/08, 8:33 AM
- MadisonMan said...
But Ann, if they ignore the system to report being offended, some poor university bureaucrat might lose their job!
- Michael said...
Ignore it? Nonsense. Power-hungry fools abusing their authority should be mocked. Shame is often far more effective than a court case.
- Joshua said...
InstaGlib is such a child.
- Randy (Internet Ronin) said...
I thought you would be more concerned about the real issue at hand, and that is quite similar to what happened to your associate who mentioned the Hmong during his lecture at the law school last year. Try clicking on "University Diary" on your sidebar and read Margaret Soltan's extensive reports about what is going on there.
FWIW, I agree the response is juvenile. The issue, however, is not what you portrayed it to be. This is about academic freedom. - 1/30/08, 10:28 AM
- XWL said...
Real individuals would be dragged into what is an ugly process, so it's not a prankish display of disrespect for campus authorities.
That's precisely why this sort of protest is necessary, not why it's undesirable. The bureaucratic nightmare of the process will not be fixed until those that the bureaucrats have affinity for are faced with the very bureaucratic nonsense they have unleashed.
When it's fratboys accused (doesn't matter whether wrongly or rightly) of being 'insensitive' nobody bats an eyelash, when it's the marxist wimyn studies professor of color who is taken to task for her racist and sexist rhetoric, only then will there be some thought as to the value of offense in a collegial atmosphere.
I think if you want to break colleges of the culture of 'offense for me, but not for thee', then you have to make use of the system to destroy the system.
Absurdity must be fought with absurdity. Students who do this won't just be random mischief makers settling a score (except the ones who use the system to do just that), they'll be Dadaist artists in the fine art of finding offense. - 1/30/08, 10:41 AM
- SGT Ted said...
The call to file complaints based on being offended is the appropriate thing to do, in order to show the complete absurdity and intent of these rules. Trying to protect the subjective feelings of someone by shitting on the 1st Amendment is intellectual thuggery and has no place on an American College Campus.
The hard left has made the Universities their personal Stalinist playgrounds and crap like speech codes and viewpoint "re-education" needs to be stopped. It thus fitting to practice the favorite leftwing tactic of civil disobedience to shut these thugs down.
The best disinfectant for such anti-intellectual rulemaking is sunlight and ridicule. - 1/30/08, 10:45 AM
- Elliott A said...
Anyone not protesting deserves to be adversely affected. There is no such thing as an innocent bystander when a university unleashes institutional tyranny.
- Smilin' Jack said...
What will be fun to see is when one "protected category" goes after another--e.g. a fundamentalist Muslim group claims they are deeply offended by the presence of women without burkhas on campus. Steel Cage Match of the Protected Categories!
- Pogo said...
The French call this "work to rule".
It is a method of destroying absurd or deletirious authority in part by aggressively complying with every rule or regulation to the letter.
This hyper-compliance causes a slowdown or completely overwhelms the process.
For example, in one company my Dad worked for, cost cutting rules meant that engineers could only get a new pencil when their old pencil was less than 2.5 inches long. So he took all of his co-worker's pencils home and cut them into 2 inch pieces, and all these guys turned the short pencils in the next day, asking for replacements.
The humilating pencil rule quickly died.
I consider this form of protest truly artistic, and essential when fighting a gross injustice such as this. - 1/30/08, 1:15 PM
- Bruce Hayden said...
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Brandeis private? U. Wisconsin is public, which is why the 1st amdt. is implicated. But that shouldn't affect a private school.
That said, this school has gone beyond most others in this ridiculous speech code. It appears to protect about everyone from college Republicans through Vietnam vet drag queens (yes, Vietnam Vet status is one of the protected categories, as is sexual orientation).
So, my suggestion is to make complaints about the more egregious professors in the victim advocacy departments, like Women's studies, Black studies, etc. After all, that feminist professor railing on about white male privilege is being racist and sexist at the same time, and many of the white males are likely quite offended. No doubt that is quite hurtful speech to them. - 1/30/08, 1:37 PM
- Revenant said...
Real individuals would be dragged into what is an ugly process, so it's not a prankish display of disrespect for campus authorities.
Those "real individuals" shouldn't be tolerating the existence of the system.
Say a company refuses to hire black people. Is it wrong to organize a boycott of that company? After all, the boycott will cost the company business, resulting in employees (ones who had nothing to do with the anti-black policy) being laid off, and investors (perhaps ones who did not directly support the policy) losing money. Those "real people" are harmed by the boycott. But I would argue that it is *necessary* to put those people through that pain and inconvenience, because there is no stronger motivation than enlightened self-interest.
Every professor at that university should be marching into the administration office to say "either this policy goes or we walk". They aren't doing that for one simple reason -- they, as individuals, don't especially care if the occasional politically-incorrect professor or student gets nailed as long as the system doesn't hurt *them*.
So, make the system hurt them. - 1/30/08, 2:16 PM
- Blake said...
This is one area I've disagreed with Althouse before: It seems Ann has praised the fact that laws--not just speech codes, but laws in general--are selectively applied.
That strikes me as a recipe for tyranny. There are so many laws now, and so vague they are, that anyone could be harassed to ruin by a bureaucrat with the desire to do so.
This speech code amounts to the same thing. Either it applies to everyone or it should be abolished. - 1/30/08, 3:26 PM
- Blake said...
For some reason I'm reminded of this:
All those innocent contractors brought in to do the job were killed. Casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look: you're a roofer. Some juicy government contract comes your way. You've got a wife and kids and a two story in suburbia. This is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. Along come these left wing militants that blast everything within a three mile radius with their lasers. You didn't ask for that. You had no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape by a living. - 1/30/08, 3:35 PM
- Synova said...
I'd favor T-shirts with the message,
"What is your special protected class?" in nice block letters. And maybe "your" underlined.
Though, in the end, it probably matters more what the school defines as harassment and what they define as a hostile environment. - 1/30/08, 5:32 PM
- Ann Althouse said...
Randyy: "I thought you would be more concerned about the real issue at hand, and that is quite similar to what happened to your associate who mentioned the Hmong during his lecture at the law school last year. Try clicking on "University Diary" on your sidebar and read Margaret Soltan's extensive reports about what is going on there. FWIW, I agree the response is juvenile. The issue, however, is not what you portrayed it to be. This is about academic freedom."
I'm not sure what you're saying other than that you want me to do another post on the underlying controversy, which I wrote about when it originally came up back in November, here. I compared it to the Wisconsin incident then. This post is just about the protest Glenn suggested. - 1/30/08, 8:50 PM
- Randy (Internet Ronin) said...
Sorry Ann, I didn't recall your earlier mention of the subject. Thanks for pointing it out.
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- Sir Archy said...
To Professor Althouse.
As a Ghost of a Person dead these 250 years and more, the Occasions upon which I may have been given Offense, have been practically Numberless. To whom should I have complain'd when I was ill-used for being a Scotsman? In genteel Company, I said nothing, or offer'd some small, witty Remark, shewing thus my bemus'd Contempt. At other Times, I made Reply with my Fists, and have beat many a Fellow for Impertinence. The English have never learnt that we have the Advantage of 'em, especially by way of physical Strength & Vigour; and that there is a Price to be paid for the continual childish Japes & Jests they seem habituated to make at our Expense.
'Twas possible in my Day, as it is in This, to go to Law for Libel & Slander; but to what Court should I have made Complaint, Madam, of the small daily Insults & Offenses that afflict all Men? To Whom should I have apply'd for Redress when my Ears were hourly smitten by obscene Taunts aim'd at my Race? ('Why is a Scotsman like a Hæmorrhoid?' &c., &c.) I may tell You that I was inculcated, by making my Way thus insult'd, with a Mental & Physical Toughness, that I should otherwise have never possess'd.
Is it hardly surprising, Madam, that Those who seek the Shelter of Academick Bowers would also seek Redress from every possible Word & Action that could violate their feeble Sensibilities, and that Byzantine Rules & Star Chamber Courts should have sprung up to enforce the Namby-Pamby among effete Students & spineless Professors?
Praying, Madam, that You may not take Offense at my Picture of Academick Life, and report Me to the Authorities,
I remain, as ever,
Your humble & obt. Servant,
Sir Archy - 1/31/08, 9:13 AM