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S6 E21 How Insensitive
Lexie is surprised to hear that Izzie has sent Alex divorce papers. Alex insists that what he and have Lexie have isn't a "thing" but Meredith tells him, "You should make it a thing or put a stop to it."
Miranda puts the team through sensitivity training prior to admitting a 700-pound patient with stomach problems. Miranda orders Cristina and Jackson off the case, so they end up with a mother who didn't realize she was having a heart attack. Cristina, who usually can't stand children, stays with the woman's little girl and we realize it reminds her of when she lost her own father at a young age.
Derek has to face Gary Clark, the angry husband of a patient whom Derek ordered not to be resuscitated, in accordance with the terms of her DNR. Derek's lawyer advises him to remain unemotional and not to offer any sympathy. Clark is furious to hear that Derek made the decision to end his wife's life in "less than a minute. "You're a coward, Dr. Shephard. You're a coward and a killer," he says. Derek tries to go after Clark after the deposition, but his lawyer stops him, saying that Clark has no case. 'The kindest thing you can say to him now is nothing. I know you want to do more, but it's over."
Derek unknowingly opens up a can of worms when he mentions to Meredith that he was "surprised" that Owen "didn't go to bat" for Teddy. When Meredith sees Teddy thank Owen for "putting in a good word," her disapproving expression gives away the fact that she knows Owen did the exact opposite.
The 700-lb patient wants to go home to die, rather than face surgery, but Alex tough talks him into trying, saying, "You have a wife who loves you, who stuck by you through all this. You can't just walk out on her now." Inspired by his large patient, who survives the surgery, Alex surprises Lexie with a kiss at work and suggests they go home together.
Owen accuses Derek of not maintaining a professional confidence. Meredith insists she said nothing, but Derek guesses that her expression gave her away. "What am I supposed to do, control my face?" she asks him and he says yes! "Cristina is still my best friend," she argues. "Am I supposed to stand around and watch her get hurt?" "Nothing. You do nothing," Derek tells her.
Cristina spends all day with the heart patient's daughter and when Jackson signals her that the mom didn't make it, Cristina relates what sounds like a first-person experience of grief. Jackson compliments her on how good she was with the little girl and asks about her own loss. Cristina isn't in the mood to confide and snaps, "Go be somebody else's dishrag." Cristina is visibly upset but when Meredith asks her what's going on, she asks her to get Owen and he's the one to whom she sobs, "I miss my dad."
Meredith asks Derek how the deposition went and he tells her, "I don't know anymore what I can and can't say or who I can say it to," so she summons Mark. "He needs to talk to somebody and it can't be me." Derek and Mark out their frustrations by hitting some golf balls on top of the hospital roof.
A hot patient of Callie's gives her her phone number. Callie tells Arizona, "I'm not going to use it, but I can't stop wondering if maybe she wants a baby one day."
"I can't be the one who keeps you from having a baby," Arizona says, and even though they still love each other, Arizona goes to pack her things.


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Dark matter is the physical mystery of our time. We know from many different results that a fair percentage of the Universe consists of matter that doesn't seem to interact in any way other than gravity. But with every statement like that, there is a limit: our measurements are only so sensitive, which leaves space for dark matter to interact. If it does, the interactions have to be weak. Hence, most physicists think that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).
Not all candidate dark matter particles fit with experimental data, so they can be discarded, right? Maybe not, according to physicists at Harvard. "Wait," I hear you say, "data is king, so they can't be right." But they actually can, because when data gets turned into models, assumptions often get involved. The underlying reason for kicking dark matter proposals out is the assumption that the entirety of dark matter consists of a single type of particle (or, more accurately, many different types of particles with very similar properties). But who is to say that dark matter doesn't consist of a mix of different particles with vastly different properties?
Setting off for the shores of a universe that has a complex distribution of dark matter particles begins with a journey of small steps. In this case, the researchers considered a population that has a mixture of standard WIMPs and a population of dark matter that doesn't interact with ordinary matter, but does interact with itself. Think of this second population as a mirror universe of protons and neutrons that can clump together through electromagnetic-like forces but are almost untouchable by ordinary matter. A universe composed of these two populations of dark matter will look very different from one composed of only WIMPs.
There is some room to produce a more familiar universe—as long as there isn't too much of this new dark matter, the universe won't mind—so the researchers calculated just how much dark matter could be strongly interacting. They found that this comes out to about five percent, which is roughly the amount of ordinary matter that is in the Universe. An interesting coincidence, if nothing else.
Interacting dark matter has observational consequences, though, which is what makes it interesting. In a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way, it will accumulate in a disk. That means that our dark matter detection experiments, like Fermi and PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics), should see more dark matter than expected. And although the results are uncertain, both Fermi and PAMELA have reported possible dark matter signals that are stronger than expected.
But the dark matter disk doesn't have to be oriented in the same plane as ordinary matter. So the expected excess experienced by an observer in a galactic disk can vary from zero upward to some maximum amount, depending on the relative orientation of the ordinary matter and dark matter disks, adding yet another free parameter into the mix. This, I think, is a bad thing.
This richer model of dark matter may really come into its own, though, in explaining some odd results. For instance, the bullet cluster observations can be explained by either standard WIMP dark matter or by a mixture of different dark matter components. But the Abel 520 cluster observations are not so easily explained by WIMPs alone, though a more complex version of dark matter might make sense of it.
Unfortunately, we don't yet know. This paper was more about the bounding possibilities: how much freedom is there in the mixture? We would still need a more developed model before dark matter distributions can be compared to real astronomical observations. But this model is timely, because the Planck and Gaia missions will shine an awful lot of light on dark matter.
So where does that leave us? Well, we still don't know what dark matter is, but this paper shows that the possibilities are much wider than the ones we've generally considered. In some ways, that's a lot of fun, because it opens data to new interpretation and should result in a more consistent model. On the downside, our limited observational power may mean that we have to wait a long time to arrive at a unique description of dark matter.
Physical Review Letters, 2013, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.211302

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Envista necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 115 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
The Art Of Speaking
I am developing a series of training courses that explore the four topics of leadership, communication, teamwork and productivity. I am really passionate about what I do because I have seen what a difference good communication skills can make to a person's confidence, relationships, career prospects and influence.
Our values are that the training should be...
Enjoyable - Because this is what makes life worthwhile.
Reliable - Quality courses, delivered professionally every time.
Valuable - Our courses have immediate practical applications and will be recognised by employers as such.
We are a highly socially responsible organisation who donate a percentage of proceeds to charity and a percentage of places on our courses to aid individuals who are experiencing hardship or whom aspire to return to the workplace after a period of absence.
Do check out our website for further information - http://www.theartofspeaking.org
The training programme will be open to all, however my target audience will typically be aged 25-55, English speaking, professional people based in Europe and Australasia. Both male and female clients will be equally encouraged to join however the pricing will position the brand at the higher end of the socio-economic scale.
Clients will typically be motivated to improve their communication skills for one of these reasons.
- Taking on a management position for the first time.
- They want to improve their success with sales, dating or interviews.
- They have a speech to prepare for (weddings, award ceremonies etc).
- They would like to overcome social anxiety or low self-esteem.
- They would like to learn how to deliver entertaining presentations.
- They would like to improve the quality of communication in their relationships.
The letterhead should be suitable for A4 and A5. Put address "http://www.theartofspeaking.org" at the bottom, preferably orange and a watermark that suggests the character of our logo (not the logo itself). I need one variant with the "The Art Of Speaking" logo centred at the top of the page and one without.
I need one "business" card design with three variants, each distinguished by a different base colour (orange for regular members, light blue for committee and purple for employees - all these colours are in the logo). One side of the card should be vividly coloured with a texture, the logo featured prominently and the web address underneath.
The front side should be mostly white with some styling that is consistent with the back. A smaller copy of the logo should be present on this side also.
- When used as a business card this needs to have space for a name, job title, department, telephone number, email address and website address.
- When used as a name tag the only information will be the person's name and department in large writing.
- When used as a flash card for learning games there will be a title, a short paragraph of body text and then a line of subtext (eg: a reference to a website for further information).
This card will be printed in NZ with dimensions 55mmx90mm and in the UK where it will be cropped further to 55mmx85mm. Please set bleed accordingly.


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Doctors using botox to treat, cure common disorder
Treatment being used for TMJ
Liza Hunter is getting botox but not for what you think. She's one of an estimated 35 million Americans living with TMJ, or temporomandibular joint disorder. The condition is best known for jaw and face pain and lockjaw.
"I'm waking up with headaches, and I've actually broken one of my back molars so badly that it required a root canal," said Hunter.
So when she heard doctors at Visage Sculpture in Newton, Mass. were using neurotoxins like Botox and Dysport to treat TMJ, Hunter jumped at the chance for some relief.
"I'd hit the ceiling with the night guard," said Hunter. "I was really excited."
Masha Banar, a board certified physician associate at Visage Sculpture, performed the treatment by injecting neurotoxin directly into the masseter, the largest muscle in the jaw.
"They temporarily prevent the muscle from flexing, thus allowing it to relax and in some cases even shrink or atrophy," said Banar. "It's a very quick, easy treatment."
So quick, Hunter was in and out in just 5 minutes.
"Oh my gosh! That was so easy. That was incredibly fast. It did not feel invasive at all," said Hunter.
"It takes usually an average of three to five days for the product to start working," said Banar.
After that, patients can expect to come in for routine maintenance three to four times the first year and then one to two times per year after that at a price of $300 to $550 a treatment.
The side effects are the same as any other injectable.
"Too little can possibly be ineffective and too much can actually affect chewing," said Banar.
Botox for TMJ is not yet FDA-approved, but more and more doctors are using it off-label for the condition.


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I'm using Windows 7 and multiple versions of Power Manager, including the lastest 6.63.1 on an X220.
If I hibernate the computer, when I resume, everything is very slow. For instance, it takes several seconds for a page to show after clicking a tab in Chrome, but that is just an example, almost everything is unresponsive. This occurs for about 5 - 10 min, but everything will eventually work normally. It appears to be related to high page file usage. The longer I wait to resume after hibernation, the more severe the problem seems to be upon resuming.
Disabling the Power Manger service did not correct the problem, but after uninstalling Power Manager, the problem completely dissappeared.
I have seen multiple reports of this from other people. This person links it to Power Manager, but does not give much detail.
This person also links it Power Manager, but gives a description of how he did it, which may be useful to you.
I have not reinstalled Power Manager, because the computer is unusable after hibernate. I like the program though, so it would be nice if you could address this problem.
Best wishes,
Solved! Go to Solution.
Since no one has replied to this, I assume nothing is being done about it.
Maybe this is not the right place to report bugs. I looked and did not see an official way to report bugs though, and I saw several other people posting reports on the forums. If this is not the right place, could you direct me to the right place? I use two X220s, so it would be nice to fix this.
Best wishes,
I haven't heard of this specific problem before. Are you using Power Manager's power plans, or are you using a Windows power plan, at the time this problem happens?
When you are in the slow state, check the advanced power settings in Control Panel. Processor Power Management -> Maximum processor state.
Sorry for the slow reply. I never got an e-mail notifying me.
I currently have Power Manager uninstalled since I use hibernate frequently and my computer was nearly unusable. Previously I was using Power Manager's plans and the problem occured using any plan as I remember, and it wasn't an issue with the maximum processor state. I had heavy disk usage, especially access to the Page File, which is what the person in the second link I posted also described. CPU usage was low. The disk usage was seemingly not related to Power Manager (Chrome was usually the worst), but removing Power Manager completely resolved the problem. If you would find it helpful, I can reinstall Power Manager to confirm that it is not the CPU, but I'm quite confident that even with Maximum Processor state at %100, CPU usage was low when it was slow, and that disk access was the culprit.
The person in the second link says he used the steps here to determine where the issue was: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140247-trace-windows-7-bootshutdownhibernatestandbyresume-issues/
I didn't really follow anything at that site, but in general it seems to me that somehow Power Manager is causing programs to swap most of their data to disk during hibernation. Upon resuming, the programs are all simultaneously trying to read from the page file, causing everything to lock up.
12-10-2013 05:16 PM - edited 12-10-2013 05:18 PM
I discussed this with Power Manager team and they think this problem can happen due to a feature of Power Manager called Fast Hibernation Resume. The idea is that Power Manager will page out most application memory to disk before the hibernation. Then the hibernation file will be as small as possible, resulting in a faster resume time. But I guess it can cause this side effect you found if multiple applications have to page in lots of memory from disk, after the resume. Then you would end up with heavy disk usage and slow application performance, until finally the memory is restored from pagefile.
Anyway, if you want to try Power Manager again, please install the latest version and then apply this reg file to disable the function that we think is causing your problem:
Reboot after applying the reg file. This assumes you are running 64-bit Windows. If you are running 32-bit Windows, let me know and I will give you a different reg file.
Hi there,
I own a Lenovo S440 since November 2013 and I can report identical behaviour to the OP. Especially with heavily-used programs like internet browsers with multiple windows open, the time to restore them fully was excessive. It took over 3 minutes to restore most of my browser tabs and have the system in a generally usable condition. (New program launches would take a long time owing to the heavy hard disk accessing and use).
I read this thread and decided to uninstall the power manager to see what would happen. The difference was like between night and day! Resuming from hibernation was so much quicker.
I am running windows 7 professional preinstalled with a core i5 CPU and 4 GB RAM.
02-26-2014 07:59 AM - edited 02-26-2014 08:03 AM
Sorry it took me so long to try this. I installed Power Manager 6.64.2 and added the registry key you provided. So far it seems that resuming from hibernation works fine, so I accepted this as the solution, but I haven't used the computer much since I tried this.
Although the Fast Hibernation Resume feature, on the face of it, seems like it would increase performance, it is actually slower. With or without the feature activated, the same amount of memory is written to disk during hibernation and read from disk when the computer resumes (even though the hibernation file itself is smaller, the information written to the page file still has to be read back in), so the difference between normal hibernation and Fase hibernation Resume is soley related to how quickly the two read from and write to disk. Unfortunately, the way you've described Fast Resume, it would read and write slower than a typical hibernation.
During a normal hibernation, all information in memory is written continuously to disk, and on resume the disk is read continuosly back into memory. Because it's continuous, the hard disk doesn't need to move the head around, and it can reach full speed, so it goes very quickly.
With Fast Resume activated, during hibernation many processes simultaneously try to access the page file, and since Windows will share time between processes by quickly switching between them, it will be a disorderly access of the hard disk, and the head will jump around, which is very slow. Similarly, during resume, many processes try to access the page file simultaneously, and again access to the hard disk is disordered, and extremely slow.
I suspect that this was not noticable before, because computers did not have enough RAM to hold very large amounts of information in memory, so not much was transfered to the page file. Now that computers can easily have 16 GB of RAM, this is becoming an issue. Unfortunately, it seems that Fast Hibernation Resume was a well-intentioned feature, that is actually quite detrimental, and should probably be removed.
To whomever asked why use Lenovo Power Manager when it merely duplicates features in Windows, Power Manager has some very useful features that Windows doesn't include, such as battery charge thresholds. Configuring options is also much easier with Power Manger than in the quite poor interface provided in Windows.
Cheers, and thanks for helping fix this.
Thanks for getting back..........but, (and pardon my
ignorance).......what's this program I have in my task bar tray called
Lenovo Energy Management Software, ver 220.127.116.11?
(Can't remember if it shipped with the computer........added itself
later.......or I downloaded it.)
Can you recommend the ONE program I should be using........and is it
possible/necessary to get rid of the Windows one (since you seem to be
dead-set against it? :-) )
Michael Scott
St. Catharines, ON, CAN


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About 300 college students from San Jose boarded buses Monday and traveled to Sacramento to urge lawmakers to favor a bill allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees, a spokesman said.
Students from San Jose-Evergreen Community College District arrived in Sacramento at about 8 a.m. to rally support for Senate Bill 850, which would permit students at two-year colleges to earn four-year degrees, district spokesman Rolando Bonilla said.
The students, who attend one of the district's two institutions, San Jose City College and Evergreen Community College, were scheduled to meet Monday with South Bay Area legislators including Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, and state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, Bonilla said.
The group will lobby for passage of SB 850 as part of the annual "March on March" event at the state capital by students at two-year colleges all over the state to show support for public education, Bonilla said.
SB 850, introduced in January, would set up a pilot program letting each of California's community districts set up one B.A. degree program per campus that would serve an "unmet need" in the area and not duplicate programs at nearby four-year state colleges and universities, according to Bonilla.
Each campus would consider what degree would best suit certain job skills needed in the community they serve, charge a special fee to administer the degree program and may enter into agreements with local businesses to provide educational services, Bonilla said.
The bill, co-sponsored by state Senators Marty Block, D-San Diego and Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would benefit community college students by allowing them to obtain baccalaureate degrees at a lower cost than tuition and other expenses charged at four-year colleges, Bonilla said.


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CLEVELAND, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- CC Sabathia struck out nine in his return from the disabled list and allowed only a solo homer Friday in carrying the New York Yankees past Cleveland 3-1.
Sabathia (13-3) spent 15 days on the disabled list with elbow inflammation. His showing Friday came as good news for the Yankees as they try to fight off Tampa Bay in the American League East.
Asdrubal Cabrera hit a home run off Sabathia in the fourth inning that created a 1-1 tie, but the New York ace gave up only three other hits in 7 1/3 innings.
Nick Swisher put New York in front with a two-run homer in the seventh and the Yankees went on to hand Cleveland its ninth consecutive loss.
David Robertson came in for Sabathia and recorded the final two outs in the eighth. Rafael Soriano took the mound in the ninth and gave up two singles to open the inning. He then did not allow any of the next three Indians to get the ball out of the infield and wound up with his 32nd save.
Rookie reliever Cody Allen (0-1) gave up the homer to Swisher and his first major league decision became a loss.
New York's lead over Tampa Bay was increased to 3 1/2 games when the Rays fell to Oakland.


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Bureau of Mines
View from Northeast
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Location: North Campus
Built 1945
The Bureau of Mines was constructed in 1945 as a research station for the mining, quarrying, metallurgical and other mineral industries.
The building stood vacant for a time, was used for storage of radioactive materials, and in the late 1950s was taken over by the physics department for experiments in nuclear physics and atomic physics. NC State's first nuclear reactor was housed in the building until it was superseded by newer equipment in the Burlington Engineering Laboratories. The first reactor has now been adopted by Mississippi University.
The Bureau of Mines was then converted into an office and research facility by adding levels to what had previously been high bay areas. It is a four-story building located near the free-expression tunnel behind Cox Hall. The building bears architectural touches from the Federal period.


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Thinking Blogger Awards
The reason why I participated in 2000 Bloggers was because.. well, I don't know. It was the first thing that introduced me to the concept of memes. When I saw it coming up on MyBlogLog, already some 800 people were part of it. I thought I had to rush in to participate, hoping I could make it before the rest of the 1200 spots were filled in less than 5 minutes! It wasn't the case, as I found out, because it was a one man organisation. I then checked Wikipedia for more information on memes and it seemed like these were around for quite a while. I am just glad no one tagged me on '5 Things You Didn't Know About Me' because I wouldn't have taken it. The idea behind that is quite simple. When I started this blog, I decided not to include any personal stuff, because I already keep in touch with my friends through emails and more recently MyBlogLog. Besides, I'm not a celebrity, who cares about my private life?
Now Divya tagged me on the Z list. I wouldn't mind putting it here as well but I don't know if I, or my readers, would relate to any of the blogs listed. That is, provided they click any links there. In fact, I can share my experience with you. I clicked some of them and to be honest I wasn't wrong about what I thought earlier. It is a list but just too random! This is also the sole reason why I don't have a blogroll. There are far too many blogs I read on a regular basis and not all of them are even closely related to what I blog about. How would I know which ones, from the wide range of blogs, would be of interest you too?
Moreover, blog search engine Technorati is not quite happy about these kind of things due to their SEO effects. Some bloggers also feel uneasy targeting the search engine algorithms, namely: Amy Gahran, Jeremiah Owyang, Zoli Erdos, Jason Kaneshiro, Tony Hung, Blog Bloke, and Dawud Miracle (in chronological order of posts). The only good thing about the Z list is we know who started it. I was curious who started the '5 Reasons Why I Blog', and if I went through all the people who got tagged I would eventually arrive at the blog that started it all, but I couldn't be bothered to find out! What's more, it is not certain that I would end up finding something that would make me think.. or at least something I could relate to. I agree with Zoli when he said "links are good, but they are supposed to refer to content." For example, if he didn't guide me to the blogs that discussed this issue (names above), it would probably take me more time, if not impossible, to hunt them down in search engines with all the link pollution caused by the 2000 Bloggers project.
So, I have decided not to join any memes in the future. My aim with this blog is to offer content that is interesting, informative and things that could really help my friends who are reading it. But how can I leave the world of blogging memes without starting one? =) This is the beginning of a new blog meme and, no, it is something more imaginative than the X list.
It is called '5 Blogs That Make Me Think' and I am tagging the following bloggers for the first list:
1. Don To Earth by Donald Crowdis,
2. Own Your Brand by Mike Wagner,
3. Creative Design by David Airey,
4. Evolution.. not just a theory anymore by Greg Laden,
5. Aa..ha! [Thinking Inside The Blog!] by Nirmala Pal.
Congratulations, you won a !
Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).
That was that! Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking! It is the first time I am starting something with my blog so I hope it doesn't come back to haunt me.
Happy link-love-sharing, whatever it is!
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Sending a message to a number from the list of received calls
Adding to a number from the list of received calls
Sending DTMF tones
DTMF tones (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) can be sent once a telephone connection has been established. You need this function to communicate with touch tone-activated telephone systems (e.g. for controlling your voice mailbox or when dialing in remotely to your answering machine).
Establishing an additional call
You can establish a further call while there is another call active.
Some cell phones do not support making or accepting a second call. If this is the case, themenu item is grayed out while there is a call active.
The active call is retained if the second connection is established.
You can switch between the two calls or hold a conference call. To find out more about this, please refer to the section "Call waiting (swapping) and conference" on page 59.


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AlGaSb buffer layers for Sb-based transistors. Journal of Electronic Materials. 39:2196-2202. 10-1226-1246.pdf (876 KB). 2010.
Demonstration of high-mobility electron and hole transport in a single InGaSb well for complementary circuits. Journal of Crystal Growth. 312:37-40. 09-1226-1530.pdf (310.4 KB). 2009.
Sb-based n- and p-channel FETs for High-Speed, Low-Power Applications. IEICE Transactions on Electronics. E91-C:1050-1057. 08-1226-0261.pdf (724.12 KB). 2008.
High mobility p-channel HFETs using strained Sb-based materials. Electronics Letters. 43(15):834-835. 07-1226-2532.pdf (121.35 KB). 2007.
InAlSb/InAs/AlGaSb quantum well heterostructures for high-electron-mobility transistors. Journal of Electronic Materials. 36:99-104. 06-1226-3301.pdf (299.25 KB). 2007.
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Time Warner Cable is offering free antennas to its customers who have had CBS blocked from their service in the protracted retransmission standoff between the two companies.
Also read: Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout
TWC announced on Friday that it has a limited number of free indoor antennas available to subscribers in the affected areas.
Subscribers can pick up the antennas at Time Warner Cable locations in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, Los Angeles/desert cities, New York City, Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Also read: CBS' Les Moonves 'Frankly Mystified' by Time Warner Mess
In addition to the free antennas, TWC is offering to provide $20 toward the purchase of broadcast antennas at select Best Buy locations.
CBS stations have been blacked out for about 3.5 million customers in New York, Los Angeles and Texas — plus in other areas scattered throughout the nation — since Aug. 2, when negotiations over retransmission fees broke down. CBS contends that it receives lower compensation than other, less-popular stations. Time Warner Cable, meanwhile, contends that its retransmission fees are based on a variety of factors.
Also read: CBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Politically Motivated, Temporary Agreement
Throughout the standoff, the rhetoric has remained heated, with CBS calling a compromise offer from Time Warner Cable a "sham," and Time Warner Cable accusing CBS off engaging in "punitive conduct."
Maybe the subscribers could stick the antennas in their ears to drown out the back-and-forth bickering between the two companies instead.


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Newcrest offers rewarding careers for high-performing individuals in a dynamic and exciting industry. We are constantly searching for passionate people to join our talented team.
Our workforce is located in Australia, Canada, Fiji, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In every location our people live our values and share our vision of being the Miner of Choice™.
We genuinely care about our people; this is reflected in our commitment to developing our people and maintaining a safe environment in which they feel secure to be the best they can. This extends to the communities in which we operate, building strong relationships with local governments, businesses, people and their cultures. Through a foundation of respect we can all work together to create a safe and sustainable future for all.


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LAS VEGAS -- Just about everything with a battery or cord is on display in the desert, including massive-screen TVs, wearable tech and window-washing robots.
The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas, and The Times has sent a gaggle of reporters to comb the convention center for what's next, best or a little offbeat.
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September 2, 2013, VANCOUVER, BC- The Vancouver Whitecaps FC (10W-9L-7D) managed to claim a 2-2 draw in heart-stopping fashion Sunday evening versus Chivas USA (5W-14L-7D) in front of a raucous crowd of 18,767 at BC Place.
Whitecaps FC recovered from an early two-goal deficit to salvage a much needed-point. Two spectacular goals from the in-form Erick Torres gave the Goats a 2-0 lead within the first quarter of an hour.
However, the Blue and White were able to recover through a well-taken strike from Budweiser Man of the Match Gershon Koffie in the 64th minute and an equalizer from second-half substitute Tommy Heinemann in the dying moments of second-half injury time.
The match got off to a frantic start as both sides had tremendous chances to open the scoring, but it was the Goats who broke the deadlock in the third minute.
After Andy O'Brien got his head on Carlos Alvarez's ball in, the Irishman's clearance was finished with a spectacular bicycle kick from Torres – a goal that stunned Vancouver and the home crowd.
The 'Caps came within inches of manufacturing an immediate response. In the build-up, Koffie played a perfectly-weighted ball into the path of Kenny Miller behind Chivas' back four. The Scottish striker's shot beat Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy, but struck the outside of the post.
Unfortunately for Vancouver, the miss proved costly. Chivas USA doubled their lead in the 14th minute through Torres once more. This time, the 20-year-old Mexican striker clinically directed Edgar Mejia's cross into the bottom left corner of the goal. The goal gave Torres his sixth goal in six weeks since joining MLS on loan from Chivas' parent club, Guadalajara.
The Blue and White kept making strides forward and came close again on 36 minutes. Young-Pyo Lee played a through ball the length of the pitch, which found a streaking Kekuta Manneh. The 18-year-old had a blast from distance but his shot was well parried by Kennedy out for a corner. O'Brien was able to get his head to the end of the ensuing corner, but his attempt was cleared off the line.
Chivas USA led Whitecaps FC 2-0 heading into halftime despite the home side amassing 55 per cent of possession and having more attempts at goal – eight to Chivas' five.
Straight out of halftime, Manneh made a darting run into the heart of Chivas' defence all the way from the centre line and laid it off to Miller, who scuffed at the attempt.
Two minutes later, Whitecaps FC keeper David Ousted made a sprawling save on Bryan de la Fuente to keep the match within reach.
It proved to be a game-saver, as the 'Caps finally got the goal they had been pressing for in the 64th minute. First, Koffie intercepted Kennedy's boot up field, then proceeded to score from 40 yards out, catching the Goats goalkeeper off guard and out of position.
Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie made a daring, albeit necessary, tactical substitution in the 80th minute, summoning Heinemann to replace O'Brien. The move left his side to play with three in the back.
Chivas USA nearly made Rennie's side pay on 86 minutes. Substitute Tristan Bowen was played in all alone, but Ousted came quickly off his line to influence Bowen into rushing his opportunity.
In time added, the 'Caps were all over the Goats, which eventually resulted in Heinemann's well-taken equalizer. The 6-foot-4 striker finished the play, but his teammates should be credited for the brilliant build-up. Substitute Erik Hurtado headed an excellent Manneh cross across the face of goal for the hulking American, who had the task of tapping it in. It was Heinemann's first MLS goal of the season.
After finding the equalizer, Vancouver continued to press. Hurtado nearly went on to win it with the final kick of the game but his ambitious attempt from just outside the 18-yard-box was just sailed high and wide.
For the second straight match, the 'Caps were on the wrong end of a potential play-of-the-year candidate. Last match it was Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo's diving save and Sunday it was Torres' first of two tallies.
And for the second straight game, the boys in Blue and White conceded in the third minute of the match. But this time, they battled back and earned an important point to send them back to sixth place in the Western Conference.
The 'Caps will hope to carry this momentum into a three-game road trip, starting next week with a pivotal matchup at FC Dallas – the team directly below them in the standings. Kickoff is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. PT September 7 at FC Dallas Stadium.
Budweiser Man of the Match: Gershon Koffie
Referee: David Gantar
Attendance: 18,767
Scoring Summary:
3′ – CHV – Erick Torres
14′ – CHV – Erick Torres (Edgar Mejia)
64′ – VAN – Gershon Koffie
90′ + 3 – VAN – Tommy Heinemann (Erik Hurtado, Kekuta Manneh)
Match Stats:
Shots: Vancouver 19 – Chivas USA 9
Shots on Goal: Vancouver 4 – Chivas USA 3
Saves: Vancouver 1 — Chivas USA 2
Fouls: Vancouver 9 – Chivas USA 10
Offsides: Vancouver 2 – Chivas USA 0
Corners: Vancouver 4 – Chivas USA 1
42′ – CHV – Carlos Borja
57′ – VAN – Young-Pyo Lee
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
22.David Ousted; 12.Young-Pyo Lee, 40.Andy O'Brien (29.Tommy Heinemann 80′), 16.Johnny Leveron, 2.Jordan Harvey; 31.Russell Teibert (19.Erik Hurtado 56′), 28.Gershon Koffie, 8.Matt Watson (14.Daigo Kobayashi 65′), 23.Kekuta Manneh; 9.Kenny Miller, 7.Camilo Sanvezzo
Substitutes not used: 18.Brad Knighton, 11.Darren Mattocks, 24.Carlyle Mitchell, 27.Jun Marques Davidson
Chivas USA
1. Dan Kennedy; 12.Marco Delgado, 2.Bobby Burling, 4.Carlos Bocanegra, 5.Carlos Borjoa; 30.Oswaldo Minda (13.Josue Soto 88′), 20.Carlos Alvarez (25.Steven Purdy 83′), 8.Edgar Mejia, 14.Bryan de la Fuente; 9.Julio Morales (7.Tristan Bowen 64′), 10.Erick Torres
Substitutes not used: 24.Patrick McLain, 7.Tristan Bowen, 11.Gabriel Farfan, 15.Eric Avila, 26.Matthew Fondy


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AUGUSTA — A representative of Maine's hospitals said Monday he is surprised and disappointed that Democratic lawmakers want to combine a decision on Medicaid expansion with a proposal to pay a $186 million debt to hospitals.
While hospitals support both the debt payment and expanding Medicaid coverage to 55,000 additional Mainers, differing time frames for legislative action mean that linking the two issues could slow down the payment of $484 million in state and federal money owed to hospitals, said Jeffrey Austin, lobbyist for the Maine Hospital Association. If Maine pays the hospitals money owed for past care provided to Medicaid patients before October, the state will save $5 million, he said.
A $186 million payment by the state would trigger about $298 million matching federal payments, bringing the total payment to hospitals to $484 million.
"We feel we've met all of our obligations to be paid," Austin said. "Linking the two is unacceptable."
Gov. Paul LePage blasted Democratic leaders in a statement Friday after they told him of the plan in a meeting Thursday, saying they reneged on their commitment to pay back hospitals.
But Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, said Democrats have been clear about wanting to work to lower the cost of health care and paying hospitals during the session.
"As we make this final payment, we should be linking in driving down the cost of health care," he said. "We believe one package is the best approach."
Speaker of the House Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, said in a statement Monday that the Legislature will be sending the governor a bill that combines the issues.
"It's important to approach health care in a comprehensive way," Eves said. "To do one without the other would leave our work only half done."
Adrienne Bennett, LePage press secretary, said resolving the Medicaid issue will take longer than repaying the hospitals because the administration is looking for the best possible Medicaid-expansion deal from the federal government.
The federal government would pay 100 percent of the state's costs for the expansion from 2014 to 2016, then gradually reduce reimbursements to 90 percent of the cost. The LePage administration, meanwhile, told the Obama administration that Maine will consider participating in the expansion if the federal government pays for affected recipients for 10 years. Bennett said the administration hasn't gotten an answer on that proposal.
LePage issued a statement Monday calling upon legislators to vote on his original hospital payment proposal.
"Republicans and many good Democrats have been ready for months to pay the hospitals, and the Maine people know it is the right thing to do," LePage said. "I'm calling on Democratic leadership to let legislators take a simple up or down vote on my plan," the governor added.
Alfond said that's not his party's plan.
Alfond said he also supports getting the best deal for the state with regard to Medicaid expansion, but the Legislature will likely have the information it needs on expansion in time to move forward on both issues.
The Legislature's Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee has said it plans to draft a bill to pay the hospital debt, effectively paying for it with liquor contract revenue.
Meanwhile, the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee is mulling a proposal from Rep. Linda Sanborn, D-Gorham, to expand access to Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor.
Several advocacy groups, including AARP Maine, plan to launch statewide radio and newspaper ads on Wednesday to support that proposal.
Alfond said Democratic leaders will be moving forward to combine the two bills into one proposal.
The Democrats' effort to use the hospital payment as leverage to win Medicaid expansion follows LePage's own efforts to link issues together as leverage.
Democrats at first opposed the governor's effort to link liquor revenue with the hospital payment. LePage also has linked the hospital payment to the release more than $100 million in voter-approved bonds.
"Every day, the governor comes out with, from my perspective, very, very controversial ideas and some of them are linked to other things. Some of them are separate items," Alfond said. "We have deal with each one of them, roll up our sleeves and get the work done for the state of Maine."
LePage has said he is opposed to expanding Medicaid, but he engaged the federal government in talks on the issue after a number of Republican governors in other states said they were open to it.
An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation has projected that Maine will save $690 million in the next 10 years if it accepts federal dollars under the Affordable Care Act to provide care to approximately 55,000 Mainers.
But Republican legislators have been wary of expansion. House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette, R-Newport, said the timing of Democrats' proposal is troubling.
"Any attempt to couple Medicaid expansion with repayment of the hospitals simply will not happen in the next eight weeks," he said, referring to the end of the legislative session in June. "We're putting the repayment of the hospitals at risk."
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Ultrasound and MRI scans in 100 multiple sclerosis patients and 100 healthy age- and sex-matched controls failed to show any abnormalities consistent with the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) theory, Canadian researchers said.
"We found no evidence of reflux, stenosis, or blockage in the internal jugular veins or vertebral veins in any study participant," wrote Ian W. Rodger, BSc, PhD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues online in PLoS ONE, which "provides compelling evidence against the involvement of CCSVI in multiple sclerosis."
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- Ultrasound and MRI scans in 100 multiple sclerosis patients and 100 healthy age- and sex-matched controls failed to show any abnormalities consistent with the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency theory.
- Point out that the data from this study do not support the existence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency as a feature of MS.
Several previous studies have reached similar conclusions, but this was the first in Canada, where MS patients have been especially vocal in their support for the CCSVI theory first propounded in 2009 by Paolo Zamboni, MD, of the University of Ferrara in Italy.
In the new study, Rodger and colleagues recruited 100 patients from McMaster's MS clinic and 100 controls without known neurological diseases for the prospective study. They underwent Doppler ultrasound imaging of their internal jugular, vertebral, and deep cerebral veins, conducted by two ultrasonographers and a radiologist who had received a week of training in Zamboni's clinic in Ferrara.
Patients also had MRI-based measurements of blood flow in the target veins.
The 100 patients included 25 each with relapsing-remitting, secondary progressive, primary progressive, and "benign" MS (relapsing-remitting disease with an annual attack frequency of less than one, with relatively mild attacks and minimal residual disability).
Mean patient ages ranged from 44.2 (SD 9.2) in the relapsing-remitting group to 52.7 (SD 7.9) in the primary progressive patients, with disease duration averaging 10.1 years in the latter group to 19.9 years in those with secondary progressive MS. Mean age for the 100 controls was 48.0 (SD 9.0).
The imaging studies were analyzed for the presence of each of five abnormalities established by Zamboni for detecting CCSVI:
- Reflux in the internal jugular or vertebral veins
- Reflux propagated upward to the deep cerebral veins
- Stenosis or anomalies in the proximal internal jugular vein
- Internal jugular or vertebral vein flow not detectable by ultrasound even on inspiration
- Change in internal jugular vein cross-sectional area upon repositioning from supine to upright
Rodger and colleagues found internal jugular vein anomalies in two patients and one control participant, and a change in the cross-sectional area with repositioning in one patients and one control.
But no patients or controls met two criteria, which Zamboni had established as the minimum for a diagnosis of CCSVI. In fact, neither venous reflux nor internal jugular vein stenosis were not seen in any of the study participants.
"The data from this study do not support the existence of CCSVI," Rodger and colleagues wrote.
They went on to suggest that the previous reports of CCSVI being widespread in MS patients, by Zamboni and others, resulted from "operator-induced venous abnormalities" inadvertently created during the ultrasound procedures by postural shifts and breathing artifacts.
Lack of ultrasonographer blinding to participants' disease status was a limitation to the study, the researchers indicated, but they noted that the radiologists who interpreted the scans were blinded.
The study was funded by the Harrison McCain Foundation, the W Garfield Weston Foundation, Charity Intelligence, the St Joseph's Healthcare Foundation, and individuals in the community.
Study authors declared they had no relevant financial interests.


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By Tiernan Ray
BTIG Research's Walter Piecyk, reflecting today on Dish Network's (DISH) proposed a $25.5 billion merger with Sprint-Nextel (S), and Sprint partner Clearwire (CLWR), announced April 15th , advises that Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) should consider helping Dish to "leave a lasting mark on the industry."
As Piecyk sees it, Dish founder and CEO Charlie Ergen, "enjoys being disruptive," and could be in a position to capitalize on the shift of consumer video watching to wireless mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad. (In fact, Ergen himself views his proposal for Sprint as replicating Apple's success with the iPod and iTunes.)
Piecyk charts those disruptive qualities he sees in Ergen's moves over the years, which have included things such as buying startup Slingbox, and introducing the commercial-skipping device known as "The Hopper":
He has also embraced disruptive technology with the acquisition of Sling and the launch of the Hopper DVR which skips advertisements, auto-records all PrimeTime programming and streams all live and recorded content to wireless devices. Of course, the initial decision to launch satellites for TV is as disruptive as it gets […] The combination of Sprint/Clearwire/Dish would have a lot of spectrum and not many customers. That means a lot of excess capacity to offer services that consume levels of data that cable companies have dismissed as unsuitable for wireless networks. That might be the case if you are serving 80 million customers on 100 MHz of spectrum depth but when you only have 50 million customers and 270 MHz of spectrum, there is plenty of capacity to attack the wired broadband world more aggressively. More importantly, Ergen has the nationwide content relationships and the Sling functionality to offer that content ubiquitously on day one.
Given all that, Piecyk thinks if Google or Apple got behind Ergen's plan, they could help him change the industry "before someone derails" Ergen's vision:
The wireless industry […] has been long on promises about the integration of home and wireless but short on delivering. New competition tends to change that. It took Time Warner Cable less than a month to announce a WiFi initiative in Austin after Google Fiber announced it was coming to that market. Imagine how fast Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T) might react if Google or Apple bankrolled a portion of Charlie's disruptive plan or integrated it with their Google Fiber project.
For more on Ergen's bid for Sprint and Clearwire, see my Tech Trader column in this week's Barron's print magazine.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Humanist scholar
The Dutch humanist, Desiderius Erasmus, was born at Rotterdam, apparently on October 28, 1466, the illegitimate son of a physician's daughter by a man who afterwards turned monk. He was called Gerrit Gerritszoon (Dutch for Gerard Gerardson) but himself adopted the tautalogical double name by which he is known. He attended the school of the "Brothers of the Common Life" at Deventer. On his parents' death his guardians insisted on his entering a monastery and in the Augustinian college of Stein near Gouda he spent six years -- it was certainly this personal experience of the ways of the monks that made Erasmus their relentless enemy. At length the Bishop of Cambrai made him his private secretary. After taking priest's orders Erasmus went to Paris, where he studied at the Collège Montaigu. He resided in Paris until 1498, gaining a livelihood by teaching. Among his pupils was Lord Mountjoy, on whose invitation probably Erasmus made his first visit to England in 1498. He lived chiefly at Oxford, and through the influence of John Colet his contempt for the Schoolmen was intensified.
In 1500 he was again in France, and for the next six years lived chiefly at Paris. To this period belong his Adagiaand Enchiridion Militis Christiani. In 1506 he made a short visit to England, carried out a long-desired journey to Italy, and at Padua acted as tutor to Alexander, Archbishop of St. Andrews, natural son of James IV of Scotland. His visit closed with a short stay in Rome, whence he carried away a far more friendly impression than did Luther when he made his visit.
The accession of Henry VIII, and the invitation of Lord Mountjoy, induced Erasmus once more to make England his home. In his satire, Encomium Moriae (1509), we have him in his happiest vein, as the man of letters and the critic of kings and churchmen. Erasmus resided chiefly at Cambridge, where he acted as Margaret professor of Divinity and professor of Greek. After 1514 he lived alternatively in Basel and England, and from 1517 to 1521 at Louvain. In 1519 appeared the first edition of his Colloquia, usually regarded as his masterpiece. The audacity and incisiveness with which it handles the abuses of the Church prepared men's minds for the subsequent work of Martin Luther.
In 1516 was published his annotated New Testament, virtually the first Greek text, and in 1519 his edition on St. Jerome in nine folio volumes. In both of these works the aim of Erasmus was to introduce a more rational conception of Christian doctrine, and to emancipate men's minds from the frivolous and pedantic methods of the Scholastic theologians. But when the Lutheran revolution came he found himself in the most embarrassing position. Those of the old order fell upon him as the author of all the new troubles. The Lutherans assailed him for his cowardice and inconsistency in refusing to follow up his opinions to their legitimate conclusions. In 1521 he left Louvain, where the champions of the old faith had made his stay unendurable and with the exception of six years in Freiburg, he spent the rest of his life at Basel.
He edited a long succession of classical and patristic writers, and was engaged in continual controversies. The most important of these were with Ulrich von Hutten, Luther, and the Sorbonne, Hutten judged Erasmus harshly for not taking his place by the side of Luther; and with Luther himself Erasmus, after long hesitation, crossed swords in his De Libero Arbitrio (1523). Attacked by men like Hutten on the one side, he was as fiercely assailed on the other by the Sorbonne. By his Ciceroniansus he raised against himself new adversaries -- those humanists, namely, who set style above matter. Yet during his last years Erasmus enjoyed great fame and consideration. He died July 12, 1536.
Erasmus stands as the supreme type of cultivated common sense applied to human affairs. He rescued theology from the pedantries of the Schoolmen, exposed the abuses of the Church, and did more than any other single person to advance the Revival of Learning.
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Erasmus displays cunning wit in his satire In Praise of Folly. Erasmus' characterization of Folly is cleverly constructed, and the irony in his essay is thick. Folly (the essay's central character) praises herself endlessly, arguing that life would be dull and distasteful without her. Of earthly existence, Folly pompously states, "you'll find nothing frolic or fortunate that it owes not to me." Folly venerates her comrades, Self Love, Flattery, Oblivion, and Pleasure, whom she believes promote friendship and tolerance within society. Above all, Folly lauds self-deception and foolishness, finding Biblical support in favor of her beliefs. In conclusion, Folly speaks directly of Christianity, regarding its religious authority and practices. Erasmus adopts a pure Latin style commonly shared by many Renaissance humanist writers. In addition to its rhetorical brilliance, In Praise of Folly makes a fierce statement about 16th century Christian ideals.
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SOMERSWORTH — "I was confident this was going to pass," Real Roseberry said Wednesday in reference to his tax cap petition. "And it did by a lot. Taxes here are going up, not down."
On Tuesday, Somersworth residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of instituting a tax cap by a vote of 3,080-2,087.
This amendment will limit the increase in the city's property tax rate during a fiscal year to an amount not to exceed the property tax rate established during the prior fiscal year increased by a factor equal to the change in the National Consumer Price Index-Urban, as published by the United States Department of Labor, for the calendar year immediately preceding the year of the budget adoption. And although many have spoken out against such a cap citing considerable consequences on schools and other city agencies, Roseberry said he's simply looking for accountability.
"I'm not here to hurt anyone, I just want accountability," Roseberry told Foster's last week. "I'm fighting for the taxpayers — we need this."
Roseberry collected more than 800 signatures in favor of his tax cap petition back in 2008. Ultimately, the tax cap was voted down that same year with 58 percent in opposition and 42 percent in support. But since 2008, Roseberry picked up an additional 250 signatures — something he believed could ultimately translate into roughly 1,200 votes come Tuesday. And even though he got much more than the 1,200 he expected, he still wasn't shocked by the result.
"This isn't surprising at all," he said Wednesday. "Taxes here are too high and people now understand that."
Dover, Rochester, and Manchester are other cities in New Hampshire with tax caps already in place. The amendment passed Tuesday would provide that capital expenditures and the total, or any part, of the principal and interest payments of any municipal bond could be excluded from the tax cap limitation upon a two-thirds vote of members of the City Council.
The amendment would also provide that the tax cap limitation could be overridden by a two-thirds vote of all members of the City Council.
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SOMERSWORTH — "I was confident this was going to pass," Real Roseberry said Wednesday in reference to his tax cap petition. "And it did by a lot. Taxes here are going up, not down."


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Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori (älbĕr´tō fōō´jĬmôr´ē), 1938–, president of Peru (1990–2000), b. Lima, Peru. The son of Japanese immigrants, he was educated in Peru and attended Univ. of Wisconsin. Fujimori was an unknown economist when he scored an upset in the 1990 presidential elections. He inherited a nation experiencing a severe economic crisis and facing one of Latin America's most brutal guerrilla insurgencies, the Shining Path. He slashed inflation and restored economic confidence by cutting subsidies, aggressively collecting taxes, and raising prices.
In 1992 he suspended congress and the courts and declared emergency rule to combat corruption and the Shining Path terrorism. Under strong international pressure, he announced elections to a new congress, but these were boycotted by the principal opposition parties. A break with his wife, Susana Higuchi, a civil engineer, led to her abortive attempt (1994) to contest his bid for reelection; they were divorced in 1995. In the presidential election (1995), he defeated Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
Despite high popularity ratings from the Peruvian public, Fujimori was widely criticized for autocratic rule and suppression of opposition voices. He retained office in the 2000 presidential election after Alejandro Toledo Manrique withdrew from the May runoff because of the expectation of fraud; in April, the election commission had been accused by observers of trying to steal the election in the first round. After his chief adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, was accused of bribing opposition lawmakers in September, Fujimori offered to hold new presidential elections in which he would not run, but he ultimately resigned in November while traveling in Japan. He remained in exile in Japan, and the Japanese government subsequently recognized him as a Japanese citizen.
Charged by the Peruvian congress with dereliction of duty for failing to return, he also had a variety of Peruvian criminal charges filed against him, and was banned from holding elected office until 2010. In 2005 he visited Chile as a prelude to launching a bid for the Peruvian presidency and was detained at the government of Peru's request; a subsequent attempt to register him as a Peruvian presidential candidate was denied. In Sept., 2007, following a prosecutor's recommendation, the Chilean courts approved his extradition to Peru. Despite being placed under house arrest during the court proceedings, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Japan's Diet in July, 2007. In Dec., 2007, he was convicted in Peru of ordering an illegal search in 2000. In 2009 he was also convicted separately on human rights and bribery charges and pleaded guilty to wiretapping and embezzlement charges arising from the 2000 election; in 2015 he wasconvicted of diverting government funds in the 2000 election. In 2017 he was pardoned, ostensibly for health reasons, by President Kuczynski, but Kuczynski had recently survived an impeachment attempt by supported by Keiko Fujimori (Alberto's daughter) that had been frustrated by a faction aligned with Kenji Fujimori (his son).


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ATHENS, Greece — Evanthia Plakoura's life recently became a lot more complicated.
Conversations with her boss switched to email only. Visits to the doctor require additional planning. She feels helpless in Greece's bureaucratic labyrinth.
"It's like someone flicked a switch and turned off your voice," said Plakoura, a deaf woman who works at the Education Ministry.
Plakoura joined some 2,000 disabled demonstrators at a rally in central Athens this week to protest sweeping benefit cuts imposed in Greece's economic crisis that have deprived her of sign-language translation.
In August, a five-year-old program providing deaf people with interpreters was suspended after the government abruptly cut its funding to less than half. Overnight, 15,000 deaf people around Greece were left without help to report a crime to the police, rent a house or go to a job interview.
Funding cuts have opened up gaps across welfare services, with slashed services and longer waiting times for vulnerable groups including the blind, recovering organ-transplant patients, autistic children, and paraplegics in need of physiotherapy.
"This program is very important to us. It's our bridge to the outside world and it's vital for our education," Plakoura said in sign language, her speech relayed by one of the very translators whose help is being cut off.
"People have gone back to writing things down, or taking a relative, but it's not the same thing," she said. "It makes things very difficult for us, and especially for elderly deaf people."
The axed program is the latest casualty of Greece's draconian austerity measures that have battered social services as demand for help by the recession-hit public increases.
Independent welfare programs that rely on grants from the state offer a tempting target to a government fighting the threat of bankruptcy. Unlike state-run programs, which enjoy strong legal protections, the government can simply turn off the money taps.
As a result, independent programs to assist the disabled, the elderly, psychiatric patients and recovering drug users have all suffered steep cuts, occasionally with dramatic consequences.
An alarming rise in HIV infections in 2011 has been blamed in part on problems with needle exchange programs for drug users. Between January and October this year, 190 new infections of the deadly virus were reported among intravenous drug users, compared with 14 in the first 10 months in 2010, according to the Health Ministry.
Groups representing the disabled and other vulnerable Greeks have held several demonstrations outside the Finance Ministry, on Athens' main Syntagma Square, but getting attention is difficult in a city where between four and five protests are held every day.
At his suburban headquarters, Costas Gargalis, who heads the National Association of the Deaf in Greece, is struggling to keep his 60-member network of interpreters together, hoping to restart the program sometime next year.
"Since the program was suspended, it's been really chaotic," he said. "Some people can pay for interpreters on occasion, but others have simply postponed their tasks forever."
Gargalis, who is deaf, spends his working day in hectic silence: swiftly thumbing text messages on his cell phone, poring over fax requests from around Greece, and making video calls over the Internet.
His interpreters program started with an annual state grant of euro250,000 ($333,200) in 2006; that was steadily reduced to euro180,000 ($240,000) this year, before being suddenly slashed to euro80,000 ($106,600) in August.
"We were immediately over-budget and had to suspend the program. And even then, interpreters were left unpaid for two months of work," said Gargalis.
At previous funding levels, deaf people were offered 25 hours a year with interpreters. If the program is restarted next year, they will receive no more than 10 hours, Gargalis said.
"The amount of money we are asking for is laughable," he said, speaking through an interpreter. "This is a matter of survival for us."
Interpreters for the deaf need six years of training to get their license, and are paid below-minimum wage to crisscross Greek cities daily and provide help communicating.
"People generally become interpreters because they are interested in the subject," registered interpreter Costas Christodoulakos said.
"Now they are obliged to look for other work and take on other commitments, often unrelated to their interpreting jobs," he said. "What else can they do?"
Greece's debt-shackled economy has been kept alive by international rescue loans for the past 19 months, and creditors are pressing for more aggressive spending cuts, as the Socialist government continues to miss deficit-cutting targets and heads into a fourth year of recession in 2012.
Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos promised this week to submit protesters' demands to the country's new prime minister, and invite disabled groups to join negotiations on a major new tax code due to take effect next year.
Health care is facing major cuts this year -- down from euro7 billion originally planned to euro5.6 billion ($9.4 billion to $7.5 billion), excluding state insurance subsidies.
Since the debt crisis started in late 2009, store closures have exceeded 20 percent in some commercial parts of Athens, while more than 275,000 people have lost their jobs nationwide, the vast majority in the private sector, pushing the unemployment rate to more than 16 percent.
"The unemployment rate among disabled people is normally more than double the national average ... so there is an urgent need for disabled people to be protected (from the cuts)," Yiannis Vardakastanis, leader of the National Confederation of Disabled People, said in an interview.
"The effects of the initial (government spending) cuts were not immediately obvious. But the cuts being made now have brought parts of the care system to a state of near-collapse."
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In light of the imminent shut down of the Latitude service, Google is recommending Latitude users switch to Google+ which does offer location sharing and check-ins. There does not appear to be an alternative for the Google Latitude API at this time however. According to a post in the Google Latitude API Group, "currently there is no replacement API for programmatically inserting data into location history."
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I am trying to understand the reason for a performance-related issue relating to macromedia flash & video/audio on puppy.
I've been trying Puppy 1.0.6 on a couple of Via SP13000 & ML8000 boards (512Mb/DDR400 RAM & HD). I've noticed that some Flash content is sluggish - imagine an on-screen flash button with an accompanying sound effect - when you click the button an audio effect can be heard. I've noticed there is a noticeable lag between clicking & hearing the audio. By comparison, I've installed Win98SE on the same hardware setup & found the lag is virtually non-existent by comparison. So I think hardware can be ruled out. Apart from Flash plug-in code difference (using the same base version on both OSes), a difference I can imagine is the perhaps the installation of specific video & audio chipset drivers for the Win98 case. I wonder what is the situation with Puppy? Via uses AC97 for audio.
About video - the Via uses integrated video. According to
, the ML8000 uses the VT3122 chip known as "CastleRock" & is part of the VIA CLE266 northbridge. For the SP13000, it uses the VT3118 chip with "Unichrome Pro" (A) found on the CN400 (and PM800, PM880 and PN800). I think this is very specific to Via - what would puppy use in this case? If it's generic, could it cause the issue I notice?
I see that Via
source code for "console framebuffer driver" for the graphics chipset (the prev link might be better). Would using this help? If so, how can I try it.
Apparently epios (another distro) is targetting via specifically, and I think ubuntu
via-specific drivers (at least for graphics). So I guess trying these would distros might answer my question.. before I do, has anyone had any experience with seeing variation with puppy audio/video performance using a specific driver? Or maybe this is due to some kind of interrupts issue?
Any tips to diagnose or resolve this is appreciated. Sorry if this is a newbie lame question.
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I came across this site which looks promising for via video drivers http://www.openchrome.org
looks like an interesting read also ("How all driver components fit together").
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Hi- my Epia is only an M10000, so don't have much direct experience with the probs you are having, but...
there are so many alternative settings in the VIA BIOS, I'd look there first, especially for anything sound related. Are you doing 2 channel or 5.1? Have you changed the default encryption settings? How's the AGP set? How do you have the P&P set? The OS should parallel the BIOS settings, Lotsa things seem to change the priority that the Epia mobo does things.
If you are sure its an OS thing, I'd try another distro and see if the lag is the same. But I'd guess its not the driver, its the 'think about it' prior to activating the driver.
I'm glad to hear from another Epia user, because they are great boards, but in the US have few users that aren't doing carputers or somesuch. The guru center for them seems to be the UK, we don't even have the nano N boards yet.
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Thanks for your reply. You'd think it would be BIOS independent since Win98 is fine, which is what made me think of the driver issue. But I'll try your suggestion - thanks. I'm about to try epiOS to see if it's any different since they use the unichrome driver.
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My quick check shows that epiOS produces a better flash experience (ala my issue reported initially), suggesting drivers are a key issue. I probably have to investigate how to compile in drivers.. this is new territory for me..
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I use a VIA ML8000 and my experience is that Puppy uses the CPU for all of the graphics processing instead of the GPU. I think a different X server may be the answer. I haven't had any luck with MU's Xorg though. My VIA refuses to boot into Puppy after installing it.
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There also is a via-driver for the kdrive-Xserver:
But I could not try that myself, as I have a SIS-card.
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Thanks dvw86 & MU for your replies.. hmm different X server? That's interesting.. I'd like to try your suggestion and report. Thank you again.
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I'm thinking of getting one of these Epia systems, too.
From a little Googling it appears that VESA works, unaccelerated.
Accelerated XF86 drivers are available from the long-standing Unichrome Project, and more recently from Via's own "official" driver package.
From what I can tell, the main driver in both packages is similar or identical, but the packages are distinctly different in implementing MPEG2/DVD hardware support.
Which of these MPEG2 libraries you choose to use will affect how applications like MPlayer, Xine, MythTV, etc. need to be compiled and configured.
I think that recent versions of XFree86 / X.Org include the Via driver, via_drv.o, so perhaps MU's xorg682c.pup package has this driver and accelerated performance can be achieved without any extra bits & pieces necessary ... though without MPEG2 support of course.
There will probably be some tweaking of /etc/X11/xorg.conf necessary. This may help - www.epialinux.org/files/epia_howto/ar01s06.html
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tempestuous, thanks alot for your help again!
MPEG2 acceleration is not required in this instance, so sounds like if the driver has basic 2D graphics acceleration, it will be better already (compared to VESA).
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There also is a via-driver for the kdrive-Xserver
Hi Mark
I am finally getting back to investigating this.. seems like there are 2 approaches here to getting Via support as indicated by you & tempestous. Today I just tried the above approach, and found that using Xvia (with kdrive) on my SP13000 caused a bail out to busybox... maybe this is the same issue dvw86 saw? So I guess that Xvia does not support the later graphics chipset (CN400/UniChrome Pro). I'll probably give it a go on the ML8000A board (non-pro chipset) later. I gather the "xorg682c.pup" referred to by tempestous is different?
If the above doesn't pan out, if anyone is interested to provide some driver code, I'd be glad to test & provide feedback - hopefully we can fold some Via support into Puppy.
BTW I'd be glad to hear of any benchmarking tool for testing graphics performance that anyone happens to know about.
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A minor update & an observation.. I tried the xchips.pup & found there was no bail out to busybox. So at least I could try something different. I've been using a flash benchmarking content, and I can't see any animation performance difference between xvesa (puppy fdo) & vchips (kdrive), perhaps not surprisingly, on my SP13000.
BTW when viewing some flash animation with synchronised audio, I have noticed the lag beween animation & audio cue gets worse over time. That is, when I first run the content (immediately after loading it), the animation & audio cue synchronisation is reasonably ok (not much lag) but using the same content over time, the sync delay gets worse.. this isn't happening on Win98 - maybe this is a flash player issue on linux - or an audio driver issue? Any clues? Anyway I'll try the other suggestion from tempestous.
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I tried xorg682c.pup with the via driver setting & found the same issue - bail out at busybox. I tried it on my other board (ML8000A) & found xorg682c.pup with the via driver setting works, so obviously the via driver is not compatible with the Unichrome Pro driver. Incidentally for the SP13000, I tried other drivers that I thought might be candidates (S3, S3virge, savage) but no go on these either. I've also noticed that Xorg does not always exit (reported previously) properly.
Anyway using xorg with via driver, I still see the sync lag issue, so I am not sure if it's a video driver issue anymore.. I'm kinda puzzled why simply changing to Win98 makes this all go away.. except for the obvious - MM optimised for Windows and not for the Linux plugin or maybe Windows deals with plugins better (from resource POV) - dunno..
So could there be some audio driver issue?
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I'm keeping my eye on developments for Epia graphic support, too. It seems the Via driver in XOrg 6.8.2 is not fully accelerated - it needs some other support modules. I just read on the viaarena forums that opensource developments (which are now split into 2 forks) make their way back into the XOrg source, but hardware acceleration is only right in the XOrg 6.9.x betas.
You may need to wait for the next stable XOrg ... or compile XOrg 6.9.x ... or compile the bleeding edge version from http://openchrome.org/
The original opensource project, http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ has become conservative.
Having said all this ... there's no guarantee that an accelerated X server will solve your Flash problem.
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In the last year I've participated in two or three "Nutrition Strategy" meetings held by HISD Food Services, sessions which convene stakeholders from the district, the parent community, the public health profession, the urban gardening movement and elsewhere to discuss our district's school food. One of our first tasks was to draft a new mission statement for HISD Food Services, a statement which now routinely appears on the department's emails and communications material:
Our Nutrition Mission: "Houston ISD will be a leader in child nutrition and wellness by providing the highest level of nutrition possible on our campuses, by providing comprehensive nutrition and wellness education, and by engaging the entire HISD community to teach our children the benefits of making healthy choices."
I do believe HISD is working toward these goals and it was my intention to start this blog off on a positive note by sharing news of some of those good developments. But last week I received a tweet that gave me serious pause. It was a photograph of one child's "lunch" in an HISD middle school cafeteria — bright red, baked Flaming Hot Cheetos (aka "hot fries") covered with processed nacho cheese sauce.
Just to be clear, this was not a lunch brought by the child from home, nor was it purchased by the child off campus. This "lunch" consisted of foods offered to our children by the district itself, motivated entirely by profit.
As readers of The Lunch Tray know, I appreciate the financial and logistical obstacles facing any school district operating under the National School Lunch Program, and I believe my expectations for what can be achieved in terms of school food reform are realistic. I'm not one of those parents who insists that school food must be organic, locally-sourced, grass-fed, fair trade and sustainable. All of that would be great, to be sure, and I hope we see such food on lunch trays in the future. But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared food, more whole foods, fewer highly processed and chemically-preserved entrees, and a more varied menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.
And when it comes to the district's "a la carte" lines, which is where the child above obtained his or her bright orange "lunch," I'd like HISD to take seriously its mission to offer "the highest level of nutrition possible." As San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow once put it on The Lunch Tray, products like Reduced Fat Doritos. Baked Flaming Hot Cheetos, and 100 calorie Rice Krispies bars are "better for you" "in the sense that it is 'better for you' to be hit on the head with a brick only twice instead of three times." Clearly such foods are not offering the "highest level of nutrition" possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.
As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers. I'll keep you abreast of our progress here on The Spork Report.
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