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When we first came to Chicago, we settled in what's been called the Polish Triangle, an area bordered by California, Milwaukee, and Division. I don't know how many Poles there were there, but it felt like everyone was a Pole. A lot of the store owners, priests, cops, trash men, teachers, librarians, either spoke Polish or had family that spoke Polish. You would walk past stores that had signs that said, "Mowimy Po Polsku" (We speak Polish). There were taverns and restaurants too with names that reminded the DPs of home: Sawa, The White Eagle, Old Warsaw.
But not everything was like a scene from some old movie about the American Melting Pot and how it worked to make us all a happy family of Americans. There were people who looked at DPs like they were vermin. We got some of this from the older Polish immigrants, and we got this from some some non-Poles too. I remember walking around with my father looking for rooms on Milwaukee Avenue that we could rent, and having people turn us away when they heard we were DPs. DPs were dirty, unreliable. They were drunkards, wife beaters, criminals, and bar fighters.
I'm not sure why this was. I would have thought that people would have been sympathetic to the DPs, aware of the kinds of trials and struggles they had experienced in the slave labor and concentration camps, but maybe I'm being naive. People probably just saw DPs as another problem, guys and gals after their jobs on the assembly lines at the Motorola and Zenith plants, or down at the docks in Calumet City or Navy Pier.
At first when we came to America, we lived in single rooms. We would rent a room in an apartment on Belden Avenue or Hamilton Street, and there would be other DP families renting other rooms in this apartment. I remember our first Christmas in the US. We were living in one of these rooms and a guy dressed as Santa was going from room to room passing out simple toys to the DP kids in those rooms. I got a tin army tank and a ball with a star on it. My sister got a jack in the box. America didn't seem so bad.
All the time, my parents were working. My father worked the day shift, and my mother worked the night shift. This way there would usually be somebody home with my sister and me. My parents did this for years. Sometimes my dad would work two shifts, the 8am to 4pm, and the 4 pm to midnight shift; and he would do this 6 days a week. He wouldn't come home except on Saturday night, and then he would stay until Monday morning. When he was away working his double shifts, he slept in a room in the factory. I remember visiting him once. He had a cot to sleep on and a little box to store his stuff.
He and my mother worked in all kinds of factories, string factories, TV factories, perfume factories. My mother even worked for a time in a factory making walkie-talkies for the GIs fighting against the Communists in Korea. She worked the punch presses in the molding room. She'd come home with burn scars on her arms from the black plastic that melted and settled on them. Fifty years later when she was in a hospice dying from a stroke, I held her hand, and I could still read the scars there.
All of this crazy work my parents were doing started bringing in enough money so that we were moving out of the single rooms into double rooms and then whole apartments and then into an apartment in a building my parents bought at 2633 Potomac in Chicago. It must have been 1954, three years after we got to America, that they bought that first building.
Reading over this, I feel like I'm almost writing about the great American success story. The immigrants who come here with nothing but sand in their pockets; and in a couple of years, they're buying apartment buildings and driving around in black Cadillacs, smoking fat Cubans and dreaming about dating Marilyn Monroe--but it wasn't like that.
The war had come down like a hammer on my parents, and they were still reeling from the blow. My father drank whenever he could. He never drank when he was working but when he wasn't working he would be down at the White Eagle tavern on the corner or down at the Sto Lat tavern on the next block. He was a black-out drunk. The only thing that would stop him from drinking was getting so drunk that he would pass out. When I got older, I would be sent to look for him in the bars on Division Street. I would find him pretty much gone, still able to walk but barely. I would help him make the trip home. Sometimes, I couldn't get him up the stairs to our second floor apartment, and I would set him down in the basement where he would sleep it off.
When he would drink, what he wanted to do was talk about the war to anybody. He would talk about the camps and the beatings he got and what happened to him and his friends. And he would talk about the great Polish generals of the Second World War, Sikorski and Anders, and how the Polish soldiers fighting along side the Allies took revenge on Hitler and the Germans for what they did to Poland and Warsaw, how they leveled both like they were wooden outhouses. He loved to sing the songs that came out of the war, especially the one about the red poppies that covered the battlefield of Monte Cassino where so many Polish soldiers died, fighting up that mountain in the middle of the boot of Italy. I can still hear his voice getting deeper and quieter as he sang about those poppies and how the blood of the Poles can still be seen in those red flowers.
He also used to carry around a picture of a gallows in Germany where 5-6 Poles were hanging. He would take this into the bars with him and show it to whomever he could, and he would start talking about what happened to these men and the others in the concentration and slave labor camps he had been in. The photograph finally got so ragged from being passed around in the bars on Division Street that there was nothing left of it but tatters. After my father died, I looked for that photo in the shoebox of old pictures my mom kept under the TV set. I couldn't find it. He must have been carrying the tatters around in his old age.
But losing that old gallows picture didn't matter to him, because he could also talk about the scar on his head, and he could point to his dead eye, the one that never closed. He would tell strangers about how he was clubbed by a Nazi guard for refusing to eat soup that was so inedible that even a starving man – which he was – would have to think twice before spooning that stuff into his mouth.
Sometimes, I would get my drunk father home, and my mother would start in. Normally, she was very quiet, unemotional, almost frozen. But when she saw him like this, she would explode.
She hated his drinking, and she would slap him and kick him and curse him. I learned all the Polish swear words I needed to know from her: psia krev, pierron, schlag trafi, kurva matzh, and others. He would just lie on the floor and take it. Sometimes he would try to crawl away from him, and she'd follow him across the living room floor, kicking him or beating him with a broom. He never raised a hand to hit her. He would just say, "yes, I deserve it" or "I'm sorry, Tessa." That's what he would call her, that or Mamusha. That means mother in Polish.
She would explode like this sometimes when she felt that my sister Donna had done something wrong too. If she sassed her, or refused to eat something my mother prepared, or tried to get out of watching me, my mother would slap her or chase her around the house with a broom. My sister would try to hide even under a bed, but my mother would get her, drag her out and beat her. As my sister got older, she would realize that there was no place in the house that she could hide so she ran outside, ran into the night, and after my mother quieted down, I would go out looking for my sister, trying to find her at a friend's house or hiding somewhere in a neighbor's basement.
My mother was the opposite of my father in a lot of ways. He would drink and she wouldn't. She would get violent and abusive, and he never raised his hand to my sister or me or my mother. Another way was in how they treated the war, responded to it. While my father took every occasion to talk about the past, she never wanted to talk about what happened. If I asked her to tell me something about what had happened in the war, she would ignore me, just turn away. I felt that all of what was bad about our situation, being DPs and having a drunk father and a violent mother, came from the war somehow, but she wouldn't tell me about it. If I pressed her, all she would say was, "If they give you bread, eat it; if they beat you, run."
Even when we were living in America and safe at last, she never got much beyond that warning.


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Fab Spending Heads for 88 Percent Growth in 2010
Memory and Foundry Companies Start Catching Up – and Add More Capacity
By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff and Dan Tracy, SEMI Industry Research and Statistics, San Jose, California (February 25, 2010)
The latest edition of SEMI's World Fab Forecast reveals that Fab spending, which includes construction and equipping Front-End Facilities, from R&Ds to volume fabs, is expected to increase to over $30B, about 88 percent growth year-over-year (see Table 1).
Table 1
Since June 2009, SEMI's World Fab Forecast has consistently predicted spending growth rate of more than 60 percent (%) for 2010. Even when other analysts predicted 20 to 30%, the "ground up" methodology of the World Fab Forecast produced higher estimates for this year. This latest increase in the growth prediction is mainly based on announced increases in capital spending plans by Foundries and Memory companies over the past couple of months.
Also, a number of existing fab projects which were put "on ice" will move forward: for example, TI's RFAB, TSMC's Fab 12 Phase 5, and UMC's Fab 12A P3/4 (former Fab 12B). Other fab projects put "on ice" which may continue are Samsung's Line 16 and IM Flash in Singapore. SEMI's World Fab Forecast also reveals plans for new fabs on the horizon (starting groundbreaking), such as TSMC Fab 14 Phase 4, possibly Flash Alliance Fab 5, and a few more.
Even with 88% Increase: It Will Take until 2011 to Catch Up with 2007
Even with this large growth in spending in 2010, it will take a growth rate of 49% in 2011 for fab spending numbers to catch up to 2007 spending (see Table 1 above). Also, 2010 spending plans will, of course, depend on continued recovery in the overall global economy, though the persistently high unemployment rate, the debt crisis, and other factors contribute to uncertainty in any outlook.
The past two years (2008 and 2009) were years of deep, double-digit negative growth, with 2009 showing historic low spending rates. Comparing 2010 spending with 2008, however, spending is currently trending essentially flat. If 2010 is compared to 2007 (the last spending peak), then the lofty-sounding 2010 growth drops into negative double digits (see Table 2 below).
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The Rate of Facilities Closing is Going Down
According to our records, 27 volume fabs closed in 2009, including eleven 200 mm fabs and Qimonda's state-of-the-art 300 mm fabs. Another 21 facilities are expected to close in 2010. So a total of about 48 facilities will be closed in 2009 and 2010. At this point, we expect about four facilities to close in 2011.
Most fabs closed by memory companies were 200 mm fabs, though the majority of fabs closed worldwide were those with wafer sizes below 200mm (see Graph 1). A number of 200 mm fabs remain in production worldwide. Over 190 facilities with 200 mm wafers size are expected to be in operation through the end of 2010, with about one-third for foundries and just about one in ten remaining for Memory.
Graph 1: Count of Facilities Closed and Starting Operations
Installed Capacity Increases at Slow Pace
SEMI's World Fab Forecast showed declines of –3 to – 4% in installed fab capacity in 2009, the first time capacity declined year-over-year in the history tracked in the SEMI database.
Since mid-2009, foundries have increased their spending and also their installed capacity plans for 2010 (see Graph 2). Spending for Memory went mainly into upgrading existing capacity, but in recent months, additional investments for new installed capacity have been announced. Most of this is for fab projects that began a couple years ago but were put on-hold.
There are more indications that Memory companies will first revive some existing fab projects which were placed on hold, before beginning new ones. So at the moment, only a couple of new fab projects for high-volume fabs are in the horizon for this year, and it may take until 2011 and 2012 before new capacity comes on-line, from these new projects.
Graph 2: Installed Capacity by Product Type without Discretes
In 2009, the industry cut installed capacity at a pace never observed before. Also, many companies introduced severe cost cutting measures, with massive lay-offs and restructuring. At the same time, demand for chips eventually turned the corner and began to increase throughout the year, and Average Selling Prices (ASPs) improved in favor of the device makers in the second half of 2009.
As the global economy continues to recover in 2010, worldwide GDP is expected to turn from shrinking (about –1% in 2009) to growth in 2010 (3 to 4%). As reported elsewhere, government stimulus packages continue to be applied: over 50% of pledged economic stimulus will be spent in 2010, versus just 30% in 2009.
Therefore, there are concerns that capacity, severely curtailed in 2009, will lag behind the new demand. Recent semiconductor industry data shows device shipments have returned to pre-downturn levels. In 2010, capacity is projected to grow 5 to 6% over 2009, though only 2% over 2008.
Top Fab Spenders Will Build Out their Share to about 86% by 2011
Encouraged by improving sales and profits, many companies began to announce increased investments.
Changes are coming fast and between the SEMI November 2009 World Fab Forecast edition and the current reports, significant updates have been incorporated into the database.
In November 2009, six companies nicknamed in an article "The Fantastic Six," were each expected to invest $1B or more each for fabs equipping for a total of about $14B. In the four months since the article was released, this number has grown to eight companies who will likely spend $1B or more, for combined spending of almost $20B for fabs equipping.
Looking at the Top Ten spenders on fabs since 2007, the share of total spending by these companies will increase to 84% of the market in 2010 and to at least 86% in 2011 (see Graph 3). At first glance, this may be due to consolidations, such as Globalfoundries and Chartered. A second look at the data shows the increase in Top 10 spending share is mainly associated with the same companies— and associated alliances— that led spending in 2007. These companies will also spend more in 2010 and 2011.
Graph 3: Share of Top 10 Spenders in Growth Years 2007, 2010 and 2011 *
* The spending numbers of the Top 10 are consolidated including alliances.
Foundries Double their Spending
In looking at spending by industry device segment, the share of spending by foundries will be much higher in 2010. Compared to 2007, foundries have more than doubled their share for equipping spending, to 33% in 2010, while Memory accounts for 46% of spending in 2010 compared to 65% in 2007 (see Charts 4 and 5 below)
Chart 4 and 5: Share of Equipment Spending by Product Type in 2007 and 2010
In total, the estimate for 2010 Fab spending has increased to $30B (from about $25 B reported in November 2009). This projection is based on recent announcements from a few companies who plan to spend more, such as such as TSMC, Inotera, Hynix, UMC, Intel, Samsung and a new venture between Grace and HHNEC named Hua Li Microelectronics.
The 88% increase in fab spending appears high. However, it comes after a year with unusual, historic low spending. Comparing 2010 to 2008 shows that spending is essentially flat. It will take more than 88% to come back to usual spending levels for 2010. Until then we have to wait for 2011.
SEMI World Fab Forecast report provides from high-level summaries and graphs; in-depth analyses of capital expenditure, capacity, technology and products, down to the detail of each fab; and forecasts for the next 18 months by quarter. These tools are invaluable for understanding how 2010 and 2011 will look, and learning more about capex for construction projects, fab equipping, technology level, and products.
The difference between the SEMI Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Subscription (WWSEMS) data and the World Fab Forecast and its related Fab Database reports is that the fab database reports track any equipment needed to ramp the fab, upgrade technology nodes, expand or change its wafer size whether it is new equipment, used equipment, or in-house equipment, while WWSEMS tracks only new equipment.
Please visit www.semi.org/fabs for additional information on these reports.
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Connect your device to your PC via USB cable. Go the the tools folder in Android SDK, and run the batch file titled 'ddms'
This will launch the Dalvik Debug Monitor Service. You should be able to see your device connected on top. In the bottom messages pane, the debugger may continue to give errors, just ignore them.
Under Device menu, click Screen Capture or press Ctrl + S within the Debugger window.
Now you will have the Device Screen Capture window at your disposal. showing the current screen of your device. You can rotate the image, save it, or copy it to clipboard. When navigating to a new screen on device, click Refresh on the one you want to capture and the image will change. Click Done when you are finished.
This method may not be the easiest, but this is the official way to do it. The images are saved in PNG format and don't take much size. A caveat of using this method for taking screenshots is that your memory card is not accessible to the device while in debug mode. Hence, screenshots of movies, music, etc are hardly possible.
The screenshots can be of any interface in the device as long as the USB Debugging interface remains intact.


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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the time for resolving Iran's nuclear dispute with the West was limited, and urged the world to seize the opportunity of his election.
Iran has been engaged in on-off negotiations with major world powers and the United Nations about its nuclear program for more than a decade, and has been subjected to several rounds of U.N. and Western economic sanctions.
The last round of talks with the big powers - the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany - was held in April in Kazakhstan, before Rouhani's election, and both sides have said they want to continue soon.
"The world must know completely that this period of time for resolving the nuclear issue will not be unlimited. We have a specified period of time," Rouhani, a centrist cleric who took office last month, said in a live interview on state television.
"The world must also use this period of time and this opportunity that our people created in this election. We will also use this opportunity. God willing, I am hopeful we can, step by step, solve this problem."
Western countries in particular object to Iran's uranium enrichment program and fear it may be developing a capacity to build nuclear weapons. Iran says the program is purely peaceful and designed to meet its energy needs.
Rouhani, who succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative known for his bellicose rhetoric on the international stage, has pledged moderation in Iran's foreign and domestic policies and called for "constructive interaction" with the world.
He has also made a number of appointments that suggest a more pragmatic foreign and nuclear policy, while reiterating Iran's consistent line that it has a right to enrich uranium.
Rouhani said on Tuesday he would meet with the foreign ministers from some of the six powers - Russia, China, France, Britain, the United States and Germany - when he attends the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month.
"I believe that if the opposite side has a serious will, the nuclear issue can be resolved in a not very long time," he said.
"In the nuclear issue, the end of the game must be a win-win game. Win-lose has no meaning," he said. "We can have a win-win game, we are ready for a win-win game. I think the beginning of this work will start in New York."
Rouhani's attempts to create a better atmosphere for the talks have been complicated by the war in Syria, currently absorbing most of the big powers' diplomatic attention.
Shi'ite Muslim Iran is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main ally against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels, so a mooted U.S. strike against Assad would be almost certain to spur demands for a tough anti-Western posture from the hardliners who dominate Iran's parliament and the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
Rouhani expressed strong support for a Russian-backed plan aimed at averting a U.S. strike, under which Syria said it would hand over its chemical weapons and join a convention that prohibits their use.
"The probability that this danger (of a U.S. strike) has lessened is very great," Rouhani said.
Rouhani and other Iranian officials have condemned the use of chemical weapons, pointing to their use against Iranian soldiers by the Iraqi army during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has joined this treaty, the chemical weapons ban treaty, and we believe that all countries in the region must join these requirements and this treaty," Rouhani said.
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This secretly (well, not so secretly now that I am blogging about it) pleases me. I will be shivering in 30 below wind chills soon enough. Let the sun hang on and warm the days awhile longer. I won't complain.
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Paul Green and Tod Barringer were walking towards their seats in Steele's torts class. Green, looking over his shoulder, asked Barringer, "Did you get to see the Dean yesterday to complain about 'General Patton'?"
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Tod Barringer noticed Paul Green looking down at his wristwatch, and said, "Relax Paul; the crazy bastard won't be here for another five minutes."
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"Holy Christ, Loretta. The guy's gotten to you! You survived the last class and even got a bit of an 'attagirl' so all of a sudden this asshole's your hero? Or, maybe you figure that you won't get called on again for months, and now he's everyone else's problem. What a load of shit."
"Gimme a break, Tod. All I'm saying is that, sure, the guy has an unusual style, but he does seem to know the stuff."
Barringer and Green both laughed out loud. Barringer chided Kelly, "Unusual style??? You really slay me, Loretta. One minute you're about ready to puke with fear of being called on by the guy, and the next minute you're ready to sign on to his crazy chicken shit. You may buy into all this military baloney, but I don't. And, as far as knowing his stuff, I seriously doubt it."
Josh Schulman, a student seated several seats away, overheard Barringer and offered, "The guy is a bit of a mystery. I looked for him in Martindale, but I couldn't find him. I also Googled him, but there were so many John Steeles that I gave up. I finally found his name in a Georgetown newsletter on the net, but it only showed him as a contributor to the alumni fund. Other than that I can't find anything on him."
Barringer replied, "I don't much give a damn what Steele's background or credentials are. I don't think any of us has to put up with his brand of shit or as Loretta would say, 'his unusual style'."
At exactly 8:30, Steele walked into the lecture hall. "Atenn-HUTT!"
Everyone ceased talking and snapped to attention.
As was the case in prior classes, he stepped to the center of the classroom, put the casebook on the lectern and stood at a brace while he passed his gaze over the students. He seemed to spend a full second or two concentrating on each student's face. It was absolutely unnerving.
While they were still standing at attention, he carefully removed his drill sergeant's cap, using two hands so as not to bend the brim, and placed it on the desk. He performed this ritual in a deliberate – almost reverential way. It reminded some of the students of the manner in which a priest handles the communion chalice during a Catholic mass. It was eerie.
He turned back towards the class and yelled, "SEATS!" He was happy to hear one loud thud as all the students sat at exactly the same time.
"Well, I see that you are managing to learn to properly stand at attention and to sit down. Now, if I can just get you to pull your head out of your asses just a little further, you might even learn a little gott-damned law in this class.
Seth Tomkins noticed for the first time that Steele did not bring notes with him to class. Had anyone else picked up on this? All of his other professors used notes. He concluded that he must have been too rattled during the prior classes to notice. What is the deal with this guy?
Seth turned to the page in his notebook on which he had previously sketched the patches that were sewn onto Steele's sleeves, and he began to draw a schematic diagram of the ribbons on Steele's uniform, noting the colors and distinctive patterns of each of the decorations. Tomkins reasoned that, if Steele's background was not in Martindale- Hubble or available in Google, (he also had tried both sources), his uniform might tell his story.
Steele began, with his booming voice, "All right, people. Listen up. Last class, Kozloski and Kelly dragged you sorry asses through the process of figuring out most of the things that go into making up a tort. That will be our jumping-off point today."
Steele looked at a student in the second row and said, "BERTELLI, Joseph! On your feet!" No one missed it. Steele did not bring the seating chart with him. He had memorized the damned thing!
Joe Bertelli was shocked to hear his name, having been lulled into believing that, given the absence of a seating chart, Steele didn't intend to have people recite that day. Nevertheless, he quickly rose from his seat, and while doing so, he felt that this was as good a time as any to be called upon. He had read the assignment, and he had thought about it. In fact, he and his study group had extensively bullshat the assignment over the weekend. They had even gone so far as to try to predict how Steele would handle the material. He honestly felt that he was fully prepared and, besides, maybe getting it over with now would keep him out of the bull's-eye for several weeks, or maybe even longer. He took a deep breath, sucked in his gut, threw his chest out, and carefully lined up his thumbs with the seams of his trousers.
Steele eyeballed Bertelli and said, "Not bad, Bertelli. You almost look squared away. All your dipshits, take a look at Bertelli here. He's looking like, with a bit more practice, he might actually be able to be a raw-CROOT in my beloved Army."
The students looked at Bertelli, again not quite believing that someone was being praised in a law school lecture hall for properly standing at attention!.
Bertelli, interpreting Steele's remark as actually resembling something like faint praise, stood even straighter.
"There's one gott-damned problem, Bertelli. Do you know what that might be?"
"Bertelli's short-lived wave of pride and relief faded, as he answered, No sergeant."
"It's your 'gig line,' Bertelli – your gott-damned gig line!"
Bertelli, not having any idea what Steele was referring to, did not respond, but remained at attention, looking straight ahead.
"Bertelli, did you hear me? Your gig line is screwed up. Fix the gott-damned thing!"
Class had been underway for only a couple minutes and already Steele had everyone, not just Bertelli, in a state of nervous confusion. A gig line? Not one of them had any idea what Steele was talking about.
Steele did not speak again. He stared at Bertelli, until Bertelli could no longer stand it. He mustered up his nerve and responded, "What's a gig line, sergeant?"
"Gott-dammit, Bertelli, what the hell took you so long to ask? I knew gott-damned well that you wouldn't know what a gig-line is. You know how I knew that, Bertelli? One, because you're a gott-damned civilian, and I never – repeat – never met a gott-damned civilian who knew what a gig line is, and two, I sure as shit didn't tell you in either of our past two classes what a gig line is. I was really interested to see whether you paid attention to what I said in the first class, and do you remember what that was, don't you Bertelli?"
Bertelli went into brain-lock. He remembered that Steele said all sorts of things in the first class, most of them downright crazy – stow your gear, authorized equipment, stand at attention, at ease, but none of them seemed to be what Steele had in mind now.
"I don't know what you are referring to, sergeant."
"You don't? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? Do you remember that, during the first class, I made myself clear that if you didn't understand something, I gott-damned well expect you to sound off and ask me. Does that ring your friggin' bell, Bertelli?"
"Yes, sergeant, I remember that you said that."
Steele didn't say anything. He simply stared into Bertelli's eyes. Bertelli felt himself becoming unhinged.
Steele knew that often a fixed stare and protracted silence was the best way to get everyone's attention. He played the silence like a maestro.
Assured that he had everyone's undivided attention, Steele shouted, "SO ASK ME, GOTT-DAMMIT!"
"Oh…I…..didn't realize that that's what you wanted. You want me to ask you what a gig line is?"
"Bertelli, I'm beginning to think you have the brains of a piss-clam."
"What's a gig line, sergeant?"
"Well, EEEU-FRIGGIN'-REEKA, Bertelli. You finally got it. I was starting to think that maybe you'd been beaten with the Stupid Stick when you were a kid. Your gig line is the imaginary straight line that should run from the edge of your shirt seam, where the buttonholes are, past the edge of your belt buckle, down through edge of your zipper seam. And YOUR gig line looks like shit!"
Bertelli looked down, and his shirt was only partially tucked in, and the part that was tucked in was rumpled over his trousers. What did he say about zipper seams and buckles? How nuts is this guy?
Steele surprised the class by quickly opening the buttons on his "Class A" jacket, exposing his starched shirt, and holding the edge of the casebook to his stomach to show the class how a proper gig line looks. Damned if there wasn't a perfectly straight line that ran from the edge of his shirt, past the edge of his brass belt buckle through the edge of his zipper seam.
"This is a squared away gig line, Bertelli. You look like a gott-damned unmade bed!" The students couldn't believe what they were seeing or hearing. It was just too crazy.
Bertelli fidgeted with his shirt, trying to tuck it in with his thumbs, which was not working. He knew that the only possible way to do what Steele seemed to want would require unbuckling his belt, unbuttoning his pants, unzipping his fly and starting from scratch. He wondered, could this crazy bastard want me to drop my drawers right here so I can tuck in my shirt to create a goddamned gig line? Gig line!! This is insane.
Steele returned the casebook to the lectern, re-buttoned his jacket and stared at Bertelli.
Bertelli, not knowing what else to do, began to unbuckle his belt. Steele yelled, "Bertelli, are you out of your gott-damned mind? If you're thinking of "dropping trou" right here, spare us. Next time you come to class, I would like to see a gott-damned squared away gig line. Just a suggestion. You read me?"
"Yes, sergeant, Bertelli replied, wondering when this would be over. His back began to ache from standing so long at attention."
"All right, Bertelli. At ease."
Bertelli welcomed the opportunity to "relax," to the extent relaxing was possible once Steele had your number.
"You remember what we said about what kinds of things were necessary for there to be a tort?"
Bertelli thought, finally, we're getting to the assignment. Dammit, I'm ready.
"Yes, sergeant."
"Outstanding. Give me a one sentence summary."
"Bertelli collected his thoughts and replied. A tort results when a person's negligence causes injuries to another person, and it gives the injured person the right to seek damages in court."
"Well done, Bertelli. And negligence is…?"
Directly quoting Steele's words from the previous class, Bertelli said, "Negligence is some dumbshit doing something a reasonable person wouldn't do, or failing to do something a reasonable person would do."
Steele, having recognized his own words being played back to him, smiled inwardly, and barked, "Now you sound like a gott-damned scholar, Bertelli. OUTSTANDING." This produced a muffled chuckle from a few students. Steele did not let on that he heard it. He pressed on.
"OK, we're off to a pretty good start here. Now listen up, Bertelli, and think, gott-dammit.
Steele began, "Let's say that you've stopped at the supermarket to pick up a few things. You're standing just off the produce aisle, behind the canned peas, but you can clearly see the entire produce aisle. You following this, Bertelli?"
"Yes, sergeant."
"OK, so you're standing there, and you see Jody walking down the produce aisle, and you've been wanting to kick Jody's ass ever since you returned from duty overseas. No matter that Jody happened to be a well-respected man in the town – the town librarian, for Chrissakes – you just want to kick his ass, and you have no doubt that this shitheel has it coming."
"You with me, Bertelli?"
Bertelli sensed another trap, and he was determined not to fall for it again. "I don't think I completely understand, sergeant." His mind raced. He mentally ran through the assignment, and he was certain that there was no mention of any Jody, and none of the cases dealt with anyone who had an ass-kicking coming. Where the hell was this going? "It sounds like I need to know about this fellow Jody."
"Excellent gott-damned question, Bertelli. You've just proved that learning can take place, even with only a half a brain. 'Jody' is the name we use in my beloved Army to refer to the son of a bitch who is romancing your girl or your wife, and driving your gott-damned Cadillac while you're away from home on duty. So, you with me now, Bertelli?"
"Yes, Sergeant."
"OK. So, this son of a bitch Jody is walking down the produce aisle. He doesn't see you. He comes closer. You're waiting for just the right moment. When he is about five feet away, you step in front of him and hit him with your best shot, breaking his nose and knocking him flat on his ass. You got that, Bertelli?"
"Yes, sergeant." Bertelli still wondered where this was going.
"Is that a tort, Bertelli?"
Bertelli thought, Jesus, I read all the stuff carefully. I know damned well that these facts are nothing like anything in the assignment. This isn't fair. "Well, sergeant…I think…."
Steele cut him off in mid-sentence, "Don't answer this second, Bertelli remain at ease, and think about it."
"STEVENSON, Edward! On your feet." Ed Stevenson, the student a few seats down from Bertelli, thought, oh shit, as he heard his name called without warning. Stevenson stood at attention, at the wrong end of Steele's glare.
"At ease, Stevenson. You heard the facts. Is knocking Jody on his ass and busting his nose a tort?"
Stevenson had read all but a few pages of the material, and, as was the case with the previous assignments, he was having some difficulty seeing the point of some of the cases. That said, he didn't recall anything in the assignment that was anything like this. He felt himself beginning to sweat.
"I'm not really sure, sergeant." Hoping with all his being that the key to all this was not in the few pages he had skipped, Stevenson continued, "I read the cases, but I honestly don't think any of them dealt with anything at all like this."
"Stevenson, gott-dammit, this is not like the gig line question. You should be able to answer this question. But, guess what, Stevenson. You just might have to think!"
Stevenson knew that he could guess and have a fifty percent chance of getting the right answer, but he also knew that any answer he gave would be followed by a barrage of questions. He froze.
"Stevenson, we don't have all gott-damned day for you to think about this, so let's start from the end and work forward. You think we can do that, Stevenson?"
"Yes, sergeant."
"OK. Was Jody injured when Bertelli knocked him on his ass in the supermarket?"
"Yes, sergeant. He got a broken nose."
"And, that broken nose will require a doctor's care. Jody might even have to miss some work at the library, and he may well be in a good deal of pain for a while, correct, Stevenson?"
"Yes, sergeant."
"And, all those things amount to damages, right Stevenson?"
Yes, sergeant."
"Now, was Bertelli's knocking that son of a bitch Jody on his ass something a reasonable person would do?"
"Well, I would do it, sergeant."
"I didn't ask you whether you would do it, or whether I would do it, or whether the man in the gott-damned moon would do it. I asked you if a hypo-gott-damned-thetical reasonable person would do it."
Stevenson followed Steele's lead and answered, "No, a reasonable person would not knock Jody on his ass."
"So, I ask you again. Was Bertelli's punching Jody's lights out a tort?"
Stevenson felt he might win points by thinking out loud and proving that he had mastered the analysis. He began, "Well, we have damages that were caused by someone doing what a reasonable person would not do, therefore, we have negligence, and …."
"NEGLIGENCE?? Did you say negligence?? What the hell are you thinking about? Does that mean that Bertelli did not carefully slug Jody? Maybe he should have hit him harder? Softer? In the family jewels? Jesus Christ, Stevenson, just when I was beginning to think that you might have your shit together, you prove that you're dumb as a bag of rocks. Take your gott-damned seat."
Not surprised by being placed back in the line of fire, Bertelli answered, "Yes, sergeant."
"See if you can help Stevenson here. Do we have a gott-damned tort or not?"
"Yes, sergeant, we have a tort."
"How do you figure, Bertelli? Because I believe it is clear to everyone in the class, other than Stevenson over there (who should save daddy's money and apply for a job as a pop-up target at Fort Dix), that we don't have negligence here."
Bertelli responded, "We don't have negligence here, but I think this must be a tort, because intentionally hurting someone seems to me to be even worse than negligently hurting someone, and if negligence is enough for a tort, then purposely hurting someone also has to be enough."
Steele looked from one side of the class to the other, while saying, "Did all you mutton-heads hear what Bertelli said? SOUND OFF!"
"YES, SERGEANT, the class bellowed."
"Good, because that's the correct gott-damned answer! And guess what we call the brand of tort the results when someone's intentional conduct causes damages? I know that this may be hard for some of you knuckleheads to understand, but we call that an intentional tort. Now, spare me the bullshit. I know damned well that the reading assignment did not specifically deal with intentional torts – those are covered later in the book, but I want you dipshits to learn to work with what you know and use that to figure out the right answer. Hell, if you're out in the bush and the enemy tries to kill your ass in some way you've never seen before, you damned well can't get him to stop trying to kill your ass by telling him that what he's doing was not covered in your reading assignment!" ARE WE CLEAR ON THAT?"
The class responded, 'YES, SERGEANT."
"Excellent. Give me a gott-damned ATTITUDE CHECK!!"
It took a second or two for this to register from the previous class, but the entire class seemed to get it all at once. They responded, in loud unison, "WE LOVE THIS SHIT!"
"Very well. Take your seat, Bertelli."
"HOFFMANN, Roger!! On your feet!"
Hoffmann rose and assumed the position of attention, this coming easier to him than it did for some of the students, owing to his having been a Boy Scout for five years.
Steele began, "Hoffmann, let's put you back in the same supermarket – next to the same produce aisle, behind the same canned peas. You read me, Hoffmann?"
"Yes, sergeant, I do."
"What's different this time is that someone accidentally broke a bottle of cooking oil on the floor in the produce aisle. It's slippery as hell. You know that, because you damned near slipped on it yourself. Got that, Hoffmann?"
"Yes, sergeant, oil on the floor, really slippery."
"Now, here comes that son of a bitch Jody walking down the produce aisle directly in the path of the oil. The dumbshit is not looking down, and you know that he will damned sure slip on the oil and break his ass. Furthermore, you know that all you would have to do is call his attention to the oil on the floor to permit him to walk safely around it. Still with me, Hoffmann?"
"Yes, sergeant."
"But you have no intention of warning Jody. In fact, you want to see that rat bastard Jody slip on the oil and break his ass. In fact, you're enjoying the little drama unfold as Jody the shithook briskly walks closer and closer to the oil. You think, I hope the bastard really hurts himself. Still reading me Hoffmann?"
"Yes, sergeant."
"So, you remain silent and sure as shit, Jody goes ass over tea kettle, slams his face into the floor and breaks his gott-damned nose. Jody catches a glimpse of you walking out of the supermarket laughing your ass off."
Hoffmann began to feel the heat, for just the thought of the question he knew was coming tied his brain in knots."
"So, Hoffmann, is that a tort? Can Jody successfully sue your ass for damages?"
Hoffmann sensed yet another Steele trap, but this seemed like a no-brainer. He responded, with surprising confidence, "Yes, sergeant, that would constitute a tort."
"Hoffmann, we all know that Zippy the chimp would have a fifty-fifty chance of getting the right answer, so why don't you tell me (and your buddies in the class, who better gott-damned well be paying attention), how you came to that conclusion. We'll skip the injury and damages part, because I think it is clear that Jody was pretty well banged up after the fall. I think we can also agree that it was your not warning Jody about the oil that caused him to slip on it, because you are to assume that if you warned him, he would not have fallen. Can we agree on all that, Hoffmann?"
"Yes, sergeant." Hoffmann's knees were becoming weak. Every other student in the class was suffering vicariously with Hoffmann, as Steele relentlessly pushed him into a corner.
"In fact, Hoffmann, let's get right to it. Seems to me that we are down to your decision not to warn that bastard Jody about the oil. If that decision amounted to negligence or an intentionally bad act calculated to hurt Jody, seems to me that he can sue your ass off in tort. So, what is it, Hoffmann?"
Hoffmann was so tense that he was developing tunnel vision. He struggled to gain control of himself, but his voice still shook when he answered, "Well, I think it is an intentional tort, sergeant because I intended for Jody to fall on the oil."
"An intentional tort?? And just what intentional act did you commit that caused Jody to fall? Did you spill the oil on the gott-damned floor?"
"No, sergeant, but I didn't warn him."
"So, Hoffmann, you're standing there and doing and saying absolutely NOTHING amounts to a gott-damned ACT??. Get your head out of your ass, Hoffmann!"
Hoffmann felt sick. "I guess it was not an intentional tort, sergeant."
"Good gott-damned guess, Hoffmann. Now, how about negligence?" Steele could see that Hoffmann appeared to be about to crater. "Hoffmann, you look like hell. Take ten seconds to get your shit together, and then answer the gott-damned question."
Ten seconds passed, and Hoffmann answered, "I think that I should have warned Jody about the oil and not warning him amounted to negligence."
"So, you're saying that you had some kind of obligation to warn this rat bastard, shithook about the oil?"
"Yes, sergeant, an obligation."
"Would you say that you, therefore, had a DUTY to warn this louse?"
"Yes, sergeant, a duty."
Steele bellowed, "Duty? You didn't spill the gott-damned oil, did you?"
"No, sergeant."
"You're not an employee of the gott-damned supermarket are you?"
"So, what's the basis for this so-called duty?"
"Sergeant, I just don't know the answer. None of this is making much sense. I'm confused."
The class expected this remark from Hoffmann to trigger a shit-storm from Steele. That's why they were all surprised when Steele said, "Well, I'll grant you this Hoffmann. I guaran-gott-damn-tee you that you're not the only in the class who is confused by this, so let me lay it out for you and your fellow confusees."
"Here's the bottom line. The law does not require that you do anyone any gott-damned favors. It does not require you to ACT, unless you have a legal DUTY to act, and the law (not common-gott-damned-sense) that determines under what circumstances you have a duty."
Steele continued, "Hell, suppose you're sitting with your feet dangling in the pool at some hotel, and a toddler falls into three-feet deep water right next to you, and is in the process of drowning. All you would have to do to save the kid is to reach down and pull her out of the pool. You know what your legal obligation is? Let me answer that for you. You have no gott-damn obligation. You have no gott-damned duty. Hell, you can just sit there, finish your beer and watch the kid drown, and no one can sue you for anything." Steele felt himself losing his temper talking about this, just as he did when he was a 1L at Georgetown when his professor posed the drowning toddler problem to his class. Back then, he ended up apologizing to the professor for having blurted out in class, "You gotta' be full of shit. That's the dumbest gott-damn thing I have ever heard!"
"So, in the supermarket example, Hoffmann didn't have any duty with respect to Jody, but the store owner and the store's employees had a duty to warn about the oil and to clean it up, because Jody was a customer. In the toddler example, the shithead sitting by the pool drinking his beer could let the kid drown because he had no duty, but a lifeguard or the kid's parents sure as hell would have a duty to save the kid. The bottom line is that, before you can even think about whether you have a tort you have to first make damned sure that the law creates a duty on the part of the dumbshit you're trying to sue. Then you have to see if the dumbshit breached the duty, and if so, whether that breach caused the damages."
"THAT, you lagerheads, finishes up the four ingredients you need for a tort. LISTEN UP!!!" Steele stood erect and in much the same manner he would use to instruct a bayonet class, he barked, "The four elements of a tort are: DUTY…BREACH…CAUSATION… and DAMAGES!!!"
"What are the four elements of a tort? SOUND OFF!!!"
The class responded, "Duty, breach, causation, and damages."
The class hollered back, "DUTY, BREACH CAUSATION and DAMAGES."
"And what do you have it one of the elements is missing? I'll tell you what you have. You have SHIT."
"What do you have if one of the elements is missing? SOUND OFF!!!"
Some of the students were openly smiling when the class responded in unison, "YOU HAVE SHIT!!"
"YOU HAVE SHIT!!" Now, a few of the students actually seemed to be enjoying themselves.
"If you dim lights can remember that every time someone dumps a boatload of confusing shit in your lap, you'll be more than half way home. DO YOU READ ME?"
"Very well. Now, listen closely to me, because the following is NOT Law 101; It's gott-damned LIFE 101." Steele paused for effect, and then stated, "If this drill sergeant ever sees any of you sit back and let a kid drown, this drill sergeant will do two things. I'll save the kid, and then I'll kick your ass. DO YOU READ ME?"
"Excellent. If you remember one gott-damned thing from this class, remember this. And, I am as serious as a gott-damned heart attack. And, that is, just because you have the right to do something, does not make it the right thing to do."
"Have I made myself clear?"
"OUTstanding! Read the next 50 pages in your casebooks for next class. ATENN-HUTT!"
Everyone in the class sprang to their feet.
"Give me a gott-damned ATTITUDE CHECK!"
The class responded, "WE LOVE THIS SHIT!!"
"Nicely done. "DISMISSED!"
As Steele turned away from the exiting students to put his drill sergeant's cap back on, he overheard several conversations. They were buzzing about the drowning kid. Things are working out just fine, Steele thought.


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Possible tornado kills 3 in northern Alabama
ROSALIE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say three people have been killed as a line of storms and possible tornadoes moved across northern Alabama overnight.
Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen tells The Associated Press the three killed were all in a mobile home in Rosalie in northeast Alabama. Another person in the home was critically injured.
Harnen also says there have been a number of other injuries and he estimates that 16 to 20 structures in Jackson County have been destroyed.
National Weather Service meteorologist Lauren Nash says there have been multiple reports of possible tornadoes across several counties in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee.


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Anyone who sends obscenity-laced iMessages to their friends already knows that there are certain words that iOS' auto-complete feature just won't help you finish. I've had many a swear remain mistyped or, worse, get corrected to a non-swear despite fairly obvious typos.
Those aren't the only words that iOS won't help you type, though. The Daily Beast has gone through the iOS dictionary and found about 14,000 words that appear to be spelled correctly when typed correctly, but the built-in spellcheck tool won't help you fix them otherwise (at least, not before you type the words enough that the phone adds the terms to your custom dictionary). They found that many of them were simply obscure—words like "sheepshank," "sempstress," and "nephrotoxin" made this list. However, there were plenty of others that are perfectly common but more likely to be objectionable. The following words made their highlight reel.
- abortion
- abort
- rape
- bullet
- ammo
- drunken
- drunkard
- abduct
- arouse
- Aryan
- murder
- virginity
- bigot
- cuckold
- deflower
- homoerotic
- marijuana
- pornography
- prostitute
- suicide
For the obscure words, the piece speculates that Apple just didn't want to consume space in the stock spellchecking wordlist with words that would be used so rarely. Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation director for international freedom of expression, suggested that Apple's omission of the more frequently used but potentially sensitive words came close to censorship. It "isn't censorship outright," she said, "but it is annoying, and it's denying choice to customers."
In any case, your phone won't prevent you from telling your pals about a drunken prostitute or your homoerotic pornography collection. You'll just have to know how to spell those words on your own.


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Super Bowl notebook
WEATHER NOT A FACTOR: After all the hand-wringing over the possibility of playing a cold-weather Super Bowl in an open-air stadium, the high on Sunday could reach 50 degrees. The low is expected to be in the low 30s.
There's a slight chance of rain during the game. Wind is projected at 8 miles an hour in a stadium where swirling wind can cause problems with the passing and kicking games.
"The forecast is terrific," commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday.
AN IDEAL SUPER BOWL MATCHUP: Sunday's game features Denver's No. 1 offense against Seattle's No. 1 defense. The Broncos scored the most points, and the Seahawks allowed the fewest.
"Both sides have been fairly historic in what they've accomplished," Denver coach John Fox said. "I'm talking about Seattle's defense and our offense.
"I've got great pride in our offense (but), it's a team game. I remind everybody that there's three phases of the game. There haven't been very many championships in any sport where your big players didn't play big.
"I think you express that to your team, and they understand this is a performance-based business. You do your best to prepare them and get their minds' right."
MANNING'S PASSES QUACK: Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman was paying Peyton Manning a compliment, but it didn't come out that way.
Manning isn't known for having a strong arm, but he's incredibly accurate and has unbelievable timing with his receivers. Sherman called some of Manning's passes "ducks." Manning was asked about Sherman's assessment.
"I believe it to be true," he said. "They say he's a smart player, and I think that's a real reach with what he is saying there. I do throw ducks. I've thrown (for) a lot of yards and touchdown ducks. I'm actually quite proud of it." MANNING'S QUARTERBACKS COACH: Greg Knapp is a longtime quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator. He coached the Texans quarterbacks before moving to Oakland as offensive coordinator. He coached Peyton Manning this season.
"I started my career in the NFL in San Francisco, and a guy named Steve Young was there," Knapp said. "To come full circle and have another future Hall of Famer to coach makes it really exciting.
"Peyton can't get enough. Then he does a good job of deciphering what's applicable and what's not."
One thing about Manning impresses Knapp the most.
"As a talent evaluator for college and even free agency, the toughest thing to evaluate is process," Knapp said. "Can the guy process in the pocket during the heat of battle? He might be one of the best I've ever been around that can process, `Ok, I've got these tools to use, and in 10 seconds I've got to make a decision, and execute in less than four.'
"That trait he has is so special because it's not like he's up there audibling all the time. It might look like it sometimes, but he likes to be given direction.
"He also has a tool kit available that if he wants apply, say, `I'm going to use this play or this protection change.' That's easy to do as a coach. You can create a lot of that stuff in the classroom, but can a guy process and apply it? He does, impressively."
THIS ONE'S FOR PAT: Manning wants to win a second Super Bowl. He's gratified to hear so many of his teammates say they want to win for him.
"When you play in the Super Bowl, you're playing for a lot of people," he said. "I always feel like you're playing somewhat for your family, your hometown.
"If somebody wants to win a game for you, boy, that's extremely flattering. I know I'd like to win it for the Broncos and (owner) Pat Bowlen. He deserves another championship."


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Issa: Lerner lost her rights
Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she's prolonging the political war.
Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination, and then moving on, she chose defiance.
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And her bravado has prompted House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to say she has waived her constitutional right to not comment.
( PHOTOS: Who's taken the Fifth?)
Now, he plans to haul the director of the IRS's tax-exempt department back to the committee for questioning.
"When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement," Issa told POLITICO. "She chose not to do so — so she waived."
Lerner shocked the committee room in the opening moments of Wednesday's hearing by delivering an opening statement denying any wrongdoing and professing pride in her government service.
( Also on POLITICO: Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth)
"I have not done anything wrong," said Lerner, who triggered the IRS scandal on May 10 by acknowledging that the agency had singled out conservative groups applying for tax exemptions. "I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee."
Beyond that, she refused to answer the committee's questions, immediately triggering a debate among panel members over whether she had just voided her Fifth Amendment rights.
At the very least, Lerner's speech prolonged the process. She's almost certain to be back on Issa's turf when Congress returns in June from the Memorial Day recess. If she refuses to talk then, the committee could ultimately pursue a contempt charge.
Issa said late Wednesday that he's consulting the House parliamentarian and outside counsel to determine how to proceed.
Legal experts, however, say Issa's argument that Lerner has waived her Fifth Amendment rights might not be as strong as he suggests.
"I don't think a brief introductory preface to her formal invocation of the privilege is a waiver," said Stan Brand, a Washington lawyer who was the general counsel for the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
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For one, this is Congress, not a courtroom, says James Duane, a professor at Regent University School of Law.
"[T]his woman was not the defendant," he said, rejecting comparisons between the committee room and a court room. "This is not a trial."


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Greenious wrote:ijor wrote:Timing depends, of course, on the CPU as well. I don't have personal experience with the CMOS part, but the 68HC is supposed to be fully compatible, even on undocumented features.
The asynchronous delays in the same cycle, such as tCO, are probable smaller (note that doesn't mean less cycles). Conceivable, and just conceivable, this might have some relevance. But if so, then this shouldn't be specific to the CMOS CPU. Some NMOS variations are faster than others. For instance, the MegaSTe CPU.
May be Jeff was thinking on the 68SEC000, the CPU used in the Minimig, I understand. This is a different beast and not 100% compatible.
68HC should be compatible, I believe HBS640 T28/36 used it, aswell as any other accelerator going beyong 16MHz, and this is the first time I've heard it's not 100% compatible.
I'm also inclined to think Jeff is thining of the SEC version.
No no. this was an M68HC000 @ 16Mhz.


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Nelson Piquet won the Italian Grand Prix, which took place at Imola rather than the usual Monza circuit, and in so doing overtook Alan Jones in the drivers' championship. A month earlier Jones led by 11 points and many were proclaiming him as champion elect. But Piquet's win ensured the season would go to the wire.
Rene Arnoux and Jean-Pierre Jabouille led in their Renaults from Piquet, the Alfa Romeo of Bruno Giacomelli and the Ferrari of Gilles Villeneuve and as Jabouille moved past his team-mate, Piquet rather cheekily followed suit and left Arnoux back in third. When Jabouille missed a gear on the third lap, Piquet pounced and took the lead.
Villeneuve moved past the Alfa Romeo of Giacomelli before his tyre exploded on the fifth lap and the Ferrari left the road at 180mph with a massive whack into the barriers. The car disintegrated on impact and the main monocoque was thrown back in to the oncoming traffic. Remarkably, Villeneuve emerged with just concussion and a cracked helmet.
Jones had fought from seventh at the end of the first lap to third, but it took him until almost halfway through the race to pass Jabouille, and by then Piquet was out of sight and he was having his own problems. "I had very weak brakes from the 15th lap," Jones explained. "From then on the metal was to the floor."
Jabouille retired on the 60th lap while in third because of gearbox trouble, and his team-mate Rene Arnoux ended back in tenth after battling dodgy shock absorbers. That allowed Carlos Reutemann to take third, a remarkable comeback after he had overheated his clutch on the grid and dropped to the back of the field and then lost fourth gear.
Jody Scheckter, retirement looming, was fortunate to escape a huge crash when his Ferrari smashed into a wall backwards at the same point Villeneuve had crashed. "It was my fault," he shrugged. "I went out on cold tyres and hit a bump on the fastest curve."


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Following months of vicious negotiations and a crippling transit strike, BART workers on Friday turned out to vote on their hard fought contract with BART management.
And in a lopsided vote, both of BART's unions ratified the four year deal.
Union SEIU 1021 announced its 88-percent approval Friday night. ATU Local 1555 announced it got 85-percent approval Saturday morning.
BART board of directors are scheduled to vote on the new contract at a meeting later this month, where it is expected to approve the deal.
The unions' strikes stemmed from an ongoing labor dispute that required federal mediators to step in to negotiate terms about wages, benefits and safety and work conditions.
BART issued the following statement following the unions announcements:
BART's four year labor contract agreements, approved by its two largest unions, lay the groundwork for continued reliable service for years to come. The contracts address the growing cost of employee benefits, allow the use of modern technology to streamline operations while eliminate waste, and ensure financial sustainability to allow BART to reinvest in its 41 year old system.
Workers turned out all day Friday at the Oakland Mariott Hotel to mark a simple yes or no on the ballot.
"I'm relieved," said worker Ricky Rideout as he entered the room to fill out his ballot. "Finally happy we came to a proposal that we are able accept."
The new contract will give workers a 12.5 percent raise over four years, and add about $37 dollars in workers' monthly healthcare contributions.
"Some members feel we should've got more," said Arantes prior to the vote. "On average people feel this a fair contract and we're getting the feeling it's going to be a yes vote."
Arantes reiterated the oft-repeated union line, that workers regretted the strike but felt they were forced to it by BART management. "I'm very sorry for the public, my apologies for the strike," said Arantes, "but it's something we had to do and it's an important right that workers have to protect themselves."
While workers voted in Oakland, a group of about 20 angry BART riders gathered at the Pleasant Hill BART station to call for an end to transit strikes in the state.
The group was led Orinda Councilman and Assembly Candidate Steve Glazer, who gathered 20,000 signatures calling on the state legislature to ban transit workers from striking.
The group marched behind a banner reading "Ban Bart Strikes" to the office of State Senator Mark De Saunlier, who heads California's powerful transit committee.
"A strike is too impactful on people, commuters, riders and our economy," said Glazer. "We need our state legislators to step up and support on transit strikes."
Bart rider Susie Huang who turned out for the march, said during the strike, she noticed far fewer students on the campus of U.C. Berkeley where she takes classes."They have no way to come to class," said Huang.
Workers at other transit agencies like San Francisco's Muni, are forbidden to strike by local ordinances.
But former San Francisco Mayor, and current California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said banning strikes was not a silver bullet. "When I was mayor we had some contentious with our muni workers," said Newsom, "but that didn't stop them, even though they can't legally strike, from in some cases all being miraculously sick."
Arantes said banning strikes would have a chilling effect on workers' rights. "If you were to ban the right to strike then you're going to get to the point where you have an oppressive employer," said Arantes, "you start getting unhappy workers, and safety starts getting down."
Arantes said the union hoped to work in advance to lay the groundwork for a better relationship with BART, and avoid another vicious contract battle in four more years.


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Brandeis University student contracts tuberculosis
Health officials order tests for students, faculty, staff
A student diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis on Tuesday forced Brandeis University officials to order tests for 250 students, faculty and staff, despite what is believed to be little risk of the disease spreading on campus, our news partner Wicked Local reported.
Dr. Debra Poaster, Medical Director of the Brandeis Health Center, said the university decided to test so many people as a precaution.
"We've been very conservative about who we've been testing," Poaster said by phone Thursday evening, Dec. 6. "So if they did not get notified they are no more at risk than if they took the Chinatown bus and sat next to a stranger for four hours."
After Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel notified the community in an email Thursday afternoon, Provost Steve Goldstein reinforced at a faculty meeting that members of the Brandeis community should increase their awareness and knowledge of the infection but not be overly concerned about the risk of getting it.
"Thankfully the person has been isolated and is responding well to therapy," Goldstein said to an auditorium of nearly 50 faculty and staff. "At this stage, there is no reason to believe that anyone else has TB or is at significant risk."
As of Thursday evening, the university was still waiting on test results from about five people who had been in immediate contact with the sick student. Officials declined to comment on whether the student was currently on campus.
Officials from the state Department of Public Health participated in campus meetings and phone calls with university administrators this week, following standard protocol for response to a TB diagnosis. Poaster also recalled a case of TB reported on campus about three years ago.
A bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes the infection. While the bacteria typically attacks the lungs, TB bacteria can attack other parts of the body, including the kidney, spine and brain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). TB can be fatal if not treated properly. Many people can be infected with TB but not show symptoms of the disease while the infection is latent or inactive, officials said.
"Some people estimate that 40 percent of the world harbors latent TB," Poaster said.
The Mass. Department of Public Health received reports of 196 cases of active TB in 2011, and TB cases have declined by 27 percent over the past three years.
Only people sick with the active disease, spreading it through the air, can infect others. It cannot be spread through handshakes, touching bed sheets or toilet seats, sharing food or kissing, according to the CDC. Those who test positive can be treated to prevent the inactive TB from turning into the active infection. Symptoms of pulmonary TB include more than two weeks of coughing with thick, cloudy or bloody mucus; fever; fatigue, sudden weight loss or shortness of breath.


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It seems fitting that President Barack Obama's inauguration for a second term was held Monday as we also commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The two men are forces in the political and social worlds. While one is here today working to make our lives and the lives of others better, the one who died too young left a lasting impression. It is truly a shame they cannot work side by side in the interest of our great country.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led the civil rights movement like no other. We celebrate the work of King and other civil rights proponents. King was assassinated in April 1968 while in Memphis protecting the rights of the oppressed. Obama was just six years old.
Today our president understands his role and place in history. Like others, he has benefited from King's work. He has during his first term, and we are sure he will during his second term, acknowledge King's message and work.
Obama gives much credit to King for his own political victories. In particular, he cites the 2008 election success. America's first black president delivered his second inaugural address looking out across the National Mall toward the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech nearly 50 years ago.
Obama's speech on Monday was spirited and progressive. He challenged us as he should, to be better people and to work together to make our lives better.
Here is a snippet of what he said:
"This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. America's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: Youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.
It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.
That is our generation's task - to make these words, these rights, these values - of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time."
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LAS VEGAS--Hollywood should offer Jeff Bezos the keys to the city.
The Amazon CEO and his troops rode to the aid of the five major film studios backing UltraViolet, the name of the effort to promote the studios' vision of digital lockers and create the next generation home-entertainment format.
In the fall, when the studios began releasing movies for UV, conspicuously missing was participation from any significant Web retailer. But today, Bill Carr, Amazon's executive vice president of digital, said during a panel discussion at CES, that the merchant had signed a deal with one of the major film studios to support UV rights.
Carr and the home-entertainment chiefs from Sony, Fox, Universal and Warner Bros., who were also members of the panel, declined to identify which studio. (I was the panel moderator and even backstage they wouldn't give up the name.)
By itself, a single studio inking a deal with a single retailer is a baby step. Sure, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the consortium behind UV, advanced the ball, but we'll have to wait to see if the agreement is a sign that UV has begun to spur broader adoption among retailers.
In addition to the Amazon announcement, Samsung provided UV with a larger hardware profile by announcing that the company's 2012 Smart Blu-ray disc players would be UV compatible. DECE also announced that it has signed up more than 750,000 households in the three months since officially launching.
Taken all together, it was a good CES showing for UV and its studio supporters. Still, UV's apparent trouble to attract support from distributors is puzzling. I've heard from my studio sources that the deals are complex and some retailers are still studying what impacts selling UV films might have on their businesses.
UV is a set of standards and specifications that will enable film owners to play their movies on scores of different devices or store them in any digital-locker service. In a world where films play anywhere and on anything, devices and services become less important. Hardware manufacturers and service providers must compete on such things as price and selection. The content takes on more significance.
Is this giving some retailers pause?
One thing is for sure, UV didn't just pop out of box last fall. While the technology was rolled out three months ago, DECE was formed more than three years ago. Among its earliest members were retailers such as Wal-Mart and Netflix. Online film distributors have had a long time to ponder UV.
I wrote this week that Netflix--a subscription rental service and certainly not a great fit for a sales-focused service like UV--has opted out of DECE. In September, I wrote that Wal-Mart was close to signing. At the time, I was told Wal-Mart, parent company of the Web movie service Vudu, was "on the fence." Well, that's a long time to be up there.
For sure, UV can boast a partnership with a major retailer in Amazon and top device maker in Samsung and deserves some credit. But the next test is how fast UV can get Amazon to build out its UV offering and whether other retailers will sign up in coming weeks.
I'm betting that UV would become more attractive if DECE could bring Disney into the fold. Disney has its own locker service effort but Mitch Singer, a Sony exec and DECE president, said during the panel that his group has spoken in the past to Disney about joining and they would love to have Disney as a member.
Hey, Disney, in case you hadn't noticed, that's an olive branch.
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