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PALACE MALICE -- Both Palace Malice and trainer Todd Pletcher were feeling good Sunday morning following the colt's 3 1/4-length victory over Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the Belmont Stakes.
"He is a remarkable horse," said Pletcher. "He bounces out of his races really well. It was a tough race, a demanding race, and he surprises me how resilient he is. He was feeling very good this morning."
With three different horses having won the Triple Crown races, the 3-year-old division remains a work in progress, said the trainer.
"It's not coincidental at all that the horse who won the Belmont ran in the Derby and skipped the Preakness," said Pletcher, who won the 2007 Belmont with the filly Rags to Riches. "If you want to win the Belmont, it makes a lot of sense to sit out the middle one. The fresh horse is always going to have an edge, in my opinion.
"I think it did more to leave the division wide open," he added. "Everyone kind of goes into the rest of the summer and the fall of the year with similar resumes. I don't think there's a clear-cut leader. Largely it will depend on what happens in the fall of the year. It will be interesting to see how they stack up when that happens."
For Palace Malice, that path likely will run through Saratog and the Grade IIJim Dandy on July 27, followed by the Grade I Travers on Aug. 24.
"Honestly, the way he's feeling this morning, I don't know that I am going to be able to give him much time off," Pletcher said. "He's just that kind of horse. He's a high-energy, good-feeling horse. He'll go back to the track four days from now. We'll probably carry forward to the Jim Dandy."
OXBOW / WILL TAKE CHARGE -- Belmont runner-up Oxbow departed Belmont Park early Sunday morning and was expected to arrive at D. Wayne Lukas's Churchill Downs barn by 6:30 p.m.
"Everyone was tickled with his performance," said Leigh Bentley, assistant to Lukas. "He ran super and seemed to come back great. Everyone was quite pleased."
Oxbow, who ran sixth behind Orb in the Kentucky Derby, was a front-running 1 3/4-length winner of the Preakness. In Saturday's Belmont, the Awesome Again colt was forwardly placed through an opening half-mile in :46.66 seconds and three quarters in 1:10.95, struck the lead with a mile going in 1:36.47 and held on well to finish 3 1/4 lengths behind Palace Malice, who was never far behind those early fractions.
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ORB -- Shug McGaughey said Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who finished third in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, came out of the race in good shape but was "a little tired."
"I went down and looked at him a little later and he was kind of hanging his head," he said. "He was tired. He'll get a good month of rehab time and see where it takes us."
McGaughey said the five-week run through the Triple Crown series was a "thrill in a lot of ways."
"I understand the game well enough to know you can't win them all," he said. "He won five in a row, three graded stakes, two grade I's – not bad. Hopefully we can get him back on his feet and get him back going in the right direction. I would love to run him in the Travers.
"I was satisfied with the decisions I made," he added. "I don't think I took a horse over there that wasn't ready to run. To try to make up that much ground is almost impossible because it's so tiring. Those horses shook loose and we couldn't catch them."
McGaughey said he shouldn't have been surprised by Palace Malice's victory.
"Palace Malice was (a surprise) but he shouldn't have been because I know how high Todd is on him," he said. "I know he'd been working really well. And Niall Brennan, who sold him, said that Todd was really high on him."
There's sad news about McGaughey's Point of Entry, winner of the Grade I Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap. He suffered a non-displaced condylar fracture of his left-hind cannon bone and will undergo surgery in the next few days at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky.
McGaughey said his staff discovered the injury early Sunday morning, and veterinarian Dr. James Hunt came to the barn and performed an X-ray.
"He'll be on the shelf for a while," McGaughey said. "How long, I don't know. We took the bandage off, and his ankle was blown up."
McGaughey said surgery will be performed on Point of Entry by equine orthopedic surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage. He expects one or two screws to be inserted into the leg.
Bramlage said Sunday afternoon he had examined the X-rays and found the fracture was not a complete separation.
"It does need screws," he said. "This is the kind of fracture we treat all the time. We expect him to come back and run well. It requires surgery, but it's a pretty responsive injury."
McGaughey remains hopeful Point of Entry, owned by the Phipps Stable and Frank Stronach, can return to the races this year in time for the Breeders' Cup Turf in November.
"I don't know what the down time is until (Bramlage) looks at him," McGaughey said. "He said maybe two weeks stall, two weeks hand walk and them maybe start riding him under tack. But I'm not going to be too hopeful on that. Best-case scenario, maybe we can get a race into him in September. Best-case scenario, maybe the Breeders' Cup is not out of the question. The intention all along was to retire him at the end of the year. I don't know whether Mr. Stronach and Mr. Phipps will want to roll the dice and see what happens. If (Bramlage) says it might be a long rehab time, we might have to pull the rug out from under him. I'm hoping, myself, that's not the case. The primary goal was the Breeders' Cup."
INCOGNITO -- Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin reported Sunday morning that Incognito emerged from his fourth-place finish in the Belmont Stakes in good shape and will point toward the Saratoga meet for his next start.
"He came out great; he's happy," McLaughlin said. "He ran well. I don't know where we go, but obviously the Travers would be great to point for, with his pedigree. If he could ever win that, he'd be a nice stallion. We feel like he belongs with them, anyway."
A gray son of A.P. Indy, Incognito came from mid-pack to finish behind Palace Malice, Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby champion Orb in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont, beaten just six lengths.
It was the seventh career start and only second in a stakes for Incognito, who was ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. for the first time, replacing injured regular rider Mike Luzzi.
"He ran a great race, and I thought Irad rode a great race for his first Belmont," McLaughlin said. "He galloped out strong again yesterday. I don't think he ever gets tired. I don't think it matters if it's a mile or a mile and a half, he just seems to keep going."
McLaughlin believed the Belmont fit perfectly into a Triple Crown storyline that included the first Derby for trainer Shug McGaughey, and a Preakness win for 77-year-old D. Wayne Lukas, his training mentor, 50-year-old jockey Gary Stevens, Dogwood Stable's Cot Campbell, former Lukas assistant Pletcher and Mike Smith.
"The winner was impressive. He ran very well. I didn't see that coming," McLaughlin said. "All three races are good stories for American racing, with Wayne and Gary and Stuart Janney and the Phippses and Shug in the Derby. And yesterday, Cot, he was the original syndicator. It was nice for him to win."
MIDNIGHT TABOO / OVERANALYZE / REVOLUTIONARY / UNLIMITED BUDGET -- While Pletcher made history by saddling a record five starters in the Belmont, he does not think that will happen in the Mid-Summer Derby.
"There's a lot of nice races around so I'm sure we'll find spots for them," he said. "We'll try to spread them out as best as we can, but the Travers is kind of the next big coveted prize.
"Unlimited Budget (sixth in the Belmont) will most likely go to the Coaching Club American Oaks on July 20 if she comes out of this well, which so far she has."
Revolutionary (fifth), Overanalyze (seventh) and Midnight Taboo (twelfth) also returned from their efforts in good order, said Pletcher, as did Forty Tales, winner of the Grade II Woody Stephens presented by NYRA Rewards.
"We'd probably look at the Amsterdam for Forty Tales," he said.
BUSY MAN -- While Pletcher said he did not get to sleep until midnight, he was up at 4:00 this morning to get back to the barn and work a number of horses for upcoming races. Among them were Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar (:49.48 training track 35/51) and Dreaming of Julia (:48.24 training track 8/51), both of whom are pointing to the Coaching Club American Oaks, and Verrazano (:47.41 training track 1/51) who will run next in the Grade III Pegasus on June 16 at Monmouth Park. Also on the worktab for Pletcher were Discreet Dancer (:48.62 training track 14/51), Kauai Katie (:49.42 training track 31/51) and Dark Thunder (1:01.46 training track 1/10).
FREEDOM CHILD -- As disappointed as he was in Freedom Child's 13th-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Tom Albertrani said he was pleased with how well the Malibu Moon colt, who was the third choice in the betting at 8-1, looked on Sunday morning.
"He came out good," Albertrani said. "It was maybe a little too much and a little too far. I know the track was a little bit on the faster side, but it's hard to say. They were kind of packed up together. The winner was just sitting a length or two off of us into the first turn and coming out of the turn, so maybe we just didn't get the trip.
"I was hoping that he'd show up a little bit better. He looked great. What are you going to do? He had trained great. I couldn't have a horse look better for a race."
Owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, St. Elias Stable and breeder Spendthrift Farm, Freedom Child sat right behind fractions of :23.11 and :46.66 set by long shot Frac Daddy but began to drop back with a half-mile to run and wound up beating only the pacesetter.
The Belmont followed an eye-opening 13 1/4-length victory in the Grade II Peter Pan for Freedom Child on May 11 at Belmont Park, which came after the chestnut was declared a non-starter in the Grade I Wood Memorial.
"He was pretty aggressive," Albertrani said. "He was rating fine. He was sitting in a good spot in second and it looked like he was traveling well. Oxbow came up alongside him and Luis (Saez) said he kept pushing him along and he never had a chance to just make him relax. Maybe he just used up a lot of energy."
Freedom Child will now be pointed toward the Saratoga meet and 3-year-old races like the Grade II Jim Dandy and Grade I Travers.
"We'll just go shorter," Albertrani said. "We'll look at Saratoga, the Jim Dandy or something like that. There's the Travers. It depends on how he comes back. We've got options. Everything depends on how he bounces back. If he comes back like he did out of the Wood and runs another Peter Pan, we'll play it by ear."
OTHER BELMONT RUNNERS -- Notes unavailable.
KUDOS TO TRACK MAINTENANCE -- Trainers Todd Pletcher, Shug McGaughey and Kiaran McLaughlin were among those who had high praise for NYRA vice-president of facilities and racing surfaces Glen Kozak, whose crew had the main track in tip-top shape Saturday after being pounded with as much as five inches of rain Friday into Saturday morning.
"Glen did an outstanding job of maintaining the track," said Pletcher. "It wasn't over-harrowed. Those guys did a remarkable job. It was a good, safe track after the rain."
Added McGaughey, whose Kentucky Derby-winning Orb finished third: "The track was in fabulous condition, and that's a tribute to Glen Kozak."
"I think the NYRA track crew, and Glen Kozak deserve a lot of credit," said McLaughlin. "They did a great job to get the track to be fast. It looked great."
Muddy for the first five races on Saturday's card, the track was upgraded to "good" for the sixth race and "fast" by the time the ninth race went off at 4:42 p.m. The Belmont went off at 6:38 p.m.


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On methodological naturalism, I don't see how historical study can adopt any other approach, any more than criminology can. It will always be theoretically possible that a crime victim died simply because God wanted him dead, but the appropriate response of detectives is to leave the case open. In the same way, it will always be possible that a virgin conceived, but it will never be more likely than that the stories claiming this developed, like comparable stories about other ancient figures, as a way of highlighting the individual's significance. And since historical study deals with probabilities and evidence, to claim that a miracle is "historically likely" misunderstands the method in question.
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In an announcement on September 3, Microsoft says they have added NFL to the list of events that Cortana can predict. The American football season starts on September 4, so it is timely. In order to use this feature, just ask Cortana: "Who will win, team A or team B?"
Cortana's prediction feature is based on Bing's prediction engine. Bing on the desktop has enabled such predictions for reality shows on TV like the singing competition The Voice before.
Microsoft has earlier explained how Bing Predicts works, and how it is able to predict with a high level of accuracy. It is natural that they use all the signals and the data they have, to take it to one of the most popular sporting events in the American calendar.
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For pro football, we model the respective strengths of the teams by examining outcomes from previous seasons including wins, losses, and the very rare tie outcome (two games since 2009), factoring in margin of victories, location of contest, playing surface and roof cover (or lack thereof), weather and temperature conditions, scoring by quarters, and multiple offensive and defensive statistics. In addition to this prior model, we identify fans on Web and Social sites and track their sentiment to understand the aggregate wisdom of this expressive crowd. This introduces data which statistics alone cannot capture, providing real-time adjustments which surprisingly can capture injury news and other substantive factors in win probabilities.
I understand these things are more fun than useful, and I am not sure anyone who gambles will rely on this to make any bets, but it is good to see Microsoft showing off their machine learning prowess through normal use cases like predictions of NFL games.
If you are on Windows Phone 8.1, you can start asking right away. The beauty of most of Cortana's features is that they are all web services-enabled, which means it does not require any client or app updates. Once Microsoft turns that feature on from the server side, it is available for everyone to use.
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TV shows such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, or House are clearly-labeled fictional shows created to entertain. Still, they have the power to influence many. One study found that over 80% of med and nursing students watch (and are influenced by) medical dramas; other study inferred that most patients are educated about CPR via medical shows; while another believed ER helped the public become more informed about teen obesity.
The TV shows, although relevant, are far from being a precise depiction of medicine. The storylines carry inaccuracies (for example, most patients treated with CPR are young and suffered an acute trauma, as opposed to elderly patients with chronic cardiac conditions), exaggeration (in fiction, 75% of those patients survive, in contrast to 40% in the medical literature), and even absurdities (such as lungs in a box –oh wait, that one was real).
So, shows are inaccurate and both the public and early med students are buying it. Should we be concerned?
Not really, says anesthesiologist and former professor Dr. Silvana Russo (disclaimer: sister of the author). Older students, she tells, are able to pinpoint inaccuracies once they have completed a certain amount of clinical hours. Dr. Russo believes that the TV shows are invaluable tools to reach younger, inexperienced (and perhaps more easily distracted) medical students.
When she taught 1st year medical students, Dr. Russo showed movie clips where characters suffered heart attack (and later were revived by CPR). She then paused the film mid-action, while asking the class to evaluate: what's wrong with this scene? "Find the error" was the hook used to get students engaged with the material.
Depict memorable scenarios
Back to the Emergency Medicine class, Dr. Wichelman's aim went beyond capturing the student's attention. She believes using a patient story (real or fictional) is a memorable way to start a lecture. In that particular ER episode, Ray Liotta's character Charlie Metcalf explains how he resorted to "pruno", or prison wine (a concoction that involves fruit peels, a sock, and toilet water). By watching Metcalf's drama unfold, the young medical students learn about addict's desperate behaviors, which is an important part of treating such patients.
The point of showing TV clips is to capitalize on the drama. For Professor Deana Midmer, "many commercial videos have highly dramatic and graphic content and are often very powerful in their depiction of the behaviors and thought processes of the movie's characters."
Also, Dr. Wichelman's goal was to expose students to the pacing of an emergency room, difficult patients, emotional complications, and ethical scenarios. It helps set the stage for the clinical realities the med students are about to face.
Finally, it exposes the students to other life circumstances that they never (and perhaps never will) face. For Kevin Goodman, "[medical] dramas allow medical students to engage at an intellectual and emotional level with other people's experiences of socially significant health issues such as poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and chronic and critical illness, to name a few. They mine social attitudes regarding race, class, sex, gender and ethnicity, as rich sources of dramatic conflict, and in doing so broaden the definition of health and illness to include its many social determinants."
Bringing clips to your med class
Start by choosing your clips. The literature is packed with examples. In one psychiatry class, instructors used clips from ER that portray patients symptomatic of histrionic, antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorders. They also used ER clips to illustrate how to breaking out bad news to patients (in this case the instructors used portrayals of a terminal geriatric patients, young patients with cancer, or HIV-positive young adult male). Prof. Timothy Hall (pdf), in his mental health law seminar, uses clips from TV shows such as The Sopranos (where mob boss Tony Soprano seeks psychiatry treatment for panic attacks) and a long list of films. Prof. Midmer has another list of films, as well as a few guidelines: make that clip short, and follow up with a group discussion. In the non-fiction realm, Dr. Wichelman also uses procedure videos and patient testimonials that she finds on Youtube or other sources (one example of a source is Medtube).
Above all, the use of film and TV clips in class creates a memorable, lasting impression on the future of doctors. "It is a classic teaching method in medicine", Dr. Russo says, "the student doesn't forget a case they see actually portrayed, as opposed to just reading about the case in a textbook."
Matthew J. Czarny, Ruth R. Faden, Marie T. Nolan, Edwin Bodensiek, and Jeremy Sugarman. Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics. Am J Bioeth. 2008 December; 8(12): 1–8. doi: 10.1080/15265160802559153
Diem SJ, Lantos JD, Tulsky JA. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation on television. Miracles and misinformation. N Engl J Med.1996;334:1578-1582.
Goodman, Kevin. Imagining doctors: medical students and the TV medical drama. Virtual Mentor – American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. March 2007, Volume 9, Number 3:182-187.
McNeilly DP, Wengel SP. The "ER" seminar: teaching psychotherapeutic techniques to medical students. Acad Psychiatry. 2001;25:193-200.


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The City of Sarasota and the American Civil Liberties Union have signed a consent decree that stops police from "interfering with the exercise of First Amendment rights" when dealing with the homeless.
The decree, a 60-day injunction, prohibits police from interfering with panhandlers — someone standing on a sidewalk soliciting assistance — unless they impede traffic, pedestrians or create an unsafe situation.
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Only because they faced an offense far more disjointed than their own were the Bears able to withstand another lethargic start. Jump-started by two defensive touchdowns — their first since Week 9 — the Bears trounced the woeful Cardinals on Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The 28-13 victory improved the Bears to 9-6 and kept them in the NFC playoff race. They need to win the regular-season finale against the Lions in Detroit on Sunday and have the Packers defeat the Vikings at the Metrodome to claim a wild-card spot. The Bears have won eight of their last nine vs. the Lions, who will look to be a spoiler while trying to get wide receiver Calvin Johnson 2,000 yards on the season. He needs 108.
The Packers will be motivated against the Vikings with a first-round bye and the No. 2 seed in the NFC on the line.
"I've always been a big Packers fan," Bears coach Lovie Smith said. "It's not hard at all for me. We have a tough division, but as we said this week, we can't do much about that. All we can do is get a win against Detroit."
Reserve cornerback Zack Bowman, playing against the Cardinals' heavy package, recovered a fumble by Beanie Wells for the first score of the game and Charles Tillman returned an interception 10 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, the Bears' ninth defensive touchdown of the season, leaving them one behind the 1998 Seahawks for the most in NFL history.
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"With running lanes like that, you can make moves in the open field and get extra yards," Forte said. "It is unfortunate I had to leave the game, but I felt like we were really starting to roll in the running game."
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"It wasn't pretty," Cutler said. "I thought the offensive line did a great job. I missed a lot of throws."
Cardinals quarterback Ryan Lindley was benched for Brian Hoyer after the Tillman interception and the Cardinals struggled moving the ball at all, converting only three of 15 third downs. Julius Peppers had a season-high three sacks to give him 111/2, his most in three seasons with the Bears. The biggest play for the Cardinals was Justin Bethel's 82-yard return of a blocked Olindo Mare field-goal attempt.
So, the Bears, thanks in part to the Ravens' victory against the Giants on Sunday, have a chance as they prepare for the Lions. No one knew how they would respond after losing five of their previous six games. Their mantra has been that the playoffs already have started. That is why it wasn't surprising to hear the hollering through the cinder-block walls of the locker room afterward.
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Robert Nye:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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Robert Nye was born in London, England, on March 15, 1939, into a working class family. A precocious student, he attended Southend High School and had published poems in the London Magazine by the age of sixteen. He left school in 1955 and did not pursue additional formal study. Between 1955 and 1961, he worked at a variety of jobs: newspaper reporter, milkman, laborer in a market garden, and orderly in a sanitarium.
Nye married his first wife, Judith Pratt, in 1959. In 1961, they moved to a remote cottage in North Wales where Nye devoted himself full-time to writing. There he developed an interest in the Welsh and Celtic legends reflected later in his fiction and children's literature. His first literary success, Juvenilia I (1961), was a collection of short poems. A second volume, Juvenilia II (1963), won the Eric Gregory Award. To supplement his writing income in the early 1960s, Nye began to review poetry for British literary journals and newspapers. He became the poetry editor for The Scotsman in 1967, and was named poetry critic of The Times in 1971, while also contributing reviews to The Guardian.
Nye expanded his literary genres to include children's literature with the publication of Taliesin and March Has Horse Ears in 1966. Nye published his first novel, Doubtfire, in 1967. That same year he divorced his first wife, then in 1968 married Aileen Campbell. The two moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they lived until 1977.
Nye's next publication after Doubtfire was a return to children's literature, Beehunter: Adventures of Beowulf (1968). In 1970, he published another children's book, Wishing Gold, and received the James Kennaway Memorial Award for his collection of short stories, Tales I Told My Mother (1969).
During the early 1970s Nye assumed two new roles: playwright and editor. He wrote numerous plays for BBC radio including "A Bloody Stupit Hole" (1970), "Reynolds, Reynolds" (1971), and "A Doubtful Fire" (1972), and wrote an unpublished libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera, Kronia (1970). He continued to write poetry, publishing Darker Ends (1969) and Divisions on a Ground (1976), and edited A Choice of Sir Walter Raleigh's Verse (1972). It was also during this time that Nye wrote several articles and essays on the life of Thomas Chatterton.
Nye held the position of writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh, 1976-1977, during which time he received the Guardian fiction prize, followed by the Hawthornden Prize for his novel Falstaff. He then moved to Cork, Ireland, writing and maintaining his position as poetry critic for the Scotsman.
Nye died on July 2, 2016.
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, typescripts, holograph manuscripts, book proofs, galley proofs, published materials, book reviews, and correspondence document Robert Nye's creative and critical writing from 1959 through 1975. The papers are organized into two series: I. Works, 1959-1975, undated (12 boxes); and II. Correspondence, 1959-1975, undated (2 boxes).
The Works series consists largely of holograph notes and corrected typescripts. The Creative Works subseries (8 boxes) comprises the largest portion of the Works series. It consists of notebooks, original, carbon copy and photostat manuscripts, book proofs, and galley proofs. These materials provide detailed evidence of the creation and refinement of Nye's work in poetry, essays, short stories, libretti, play, novels, and children's literature. The majority of these materials date from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
Nye's extensive work as a poetry and fiction critic and editor is reflected in the subseries Critical Works (3.5 boxes). It contains reviews intended for publication in The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Times, and The Tribune. His lengthy, abandoned effort to publish an edition of Thomas Chatterton's poetry is documented by workbooks, original, carbon, and photostat manuscripts, published works, and reviews. The Chatterton materials also contain the oldest item in Nye's papers, a 1911 publication of Chatterton's poetry, heavily annotated by Nye. Another editing endeavor of Nye's, A Choice of Sir Walter Raleigh's Verse, is represented by several manuscripts, a script, and a book proof.
The Correspondence series is particularly illuminating of Nye's literary activities and his relationship with contemporary authors, critics, editors, and publishers. The bulk, consisting of correspondence between Nye and Derek Stanford (1 box), details both authors' creative and private lives. Nye's letters frequently mention works in progress and his feelings about his craft. A smaller subseries of incoming correspondence contains letters from various literary persona. A list of correspondents appears at the end of this inventory.
Because of Nye's sparing use of paper it is common to find fragments of many works on a single sheet. In addition, a single manuscript may incorporate papers of varying types and sizes.
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Simple installation, easy to use. Because the GHD2521F2 records the channel's digital transport streams, a recording looks and sounds just as good as the original broadcast. Subtitles/alternative soundtracks are retained by recordings. Freeview Playback certification means SeriesLink, Pause Live TV, etc.
The lack of an S-video output may displease those using DVD recorders without RGB Scart input, or older TV's whose sole RGB input is already connected to a DVD player. You may be able to pause live TV, but the contents of this timeshift buffer can't be 'saved' permanently if you decide the show is worth keeping.


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Ambient Light Sensing Made Easy with X-FAB
X-FAB is the first foundry to offer a ready-to-use ambient light sensing solution for its customers. Ambient light sensing is widely used in applications such as tablet PCs, television sets, laptop computers and smart phones. X-FAB is providing fully characterized photodiodes and IP for embedded light sensing applications. Those photodiodes feature best-in-class sensitivity across a wide spectral range. In addition, X-FAB has optimized its technology for 1/f low noise performance to enable signal conditioning circuitry with optimal linearity and sensitivity.
Ambient Light Sensor - Block Diagram
Ambient Light Sensing
Ambient light sensors have to detect the brightness of the ambient like the human eye. The human eye is sensitive in a range from xlux up to 10,000 lux for wavelengths from 500nm to 600nm. The spectrum of silicon covers the sensitivity of the human eye. But silicon has a much higher sensitivity for infrared wavelengths. To create an ambient light sensor in silicon the infrared part has to be suppressed by filtering or calculation.
Photo Diode (Stacked)
Photo Diodes for ambient light sensors need a high sensitivity for visible light. IR portion of the light should be suppressed. Due to the modularity of X-FAB technologies different diodes with different doping profiles are available for using in ambient light sensors.
As low cost version a stacked photo diode can be used. The photo current at the p+ Anode shows a much smaller portion of IR- versus a standard Si photo diode.
Examples for stacked diodes:
- XC06: dpdnw, dpw
- XH035: dwplw
Photo Diode (Combined)
Creating a more accurate sensor can be done by using a combined photo diode, for instance diodes dlw and dwplw in XH035. Diode dlw (CH0) is sensitive for the full spectrum from UV to IR light. Diode dwplw (CH1) is especially sensitive for IR light. A sensitive curve which is close to the human eye sensitivity can be calculated by using CH0 and CH1.
Example for combined diodes:
- XC06: dp/dnw
- XH035: dwl/dwplw
- XH018 dphoa/dphob
Amplifier (AMP)
Ambient light sensors needs a low noise amplification of the photo diode current. In case of a voltage or digital output the current of the photo diode has to be converted by a trans impedance amplifier to a voltage.
X-FAB offers a high selection of primitive devices which can be used for low noise amplifiers. Beside high ohmic MOS transistors other good matching devices are available for designing transimpedance, operation and other amplifiers. Fast bipolar transistors can be used for high speed low noise amplifiers. The selection of primitive devices is completed by accurate standard models. X-FAB's technology libraries contain a selection of different pre-designed operational amplifiers.
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Depending on requirements Analog Digital Converters can be designed by using the standard core or additional modules for reduced noise, trimming devices or memory.
Use of junction isolated devices makes the ADC design robust versus substrate noise.
Zener zaps and fuses are available for trimming of parameters like offset during wafer probing or final test. Several robust ADCs (SAR until 10Bit) can be selected from X-FABs analog standard cell library.
Logic Control
Different digital libraries optimized for speed, low power, low noise and low threshold available in different technologies allowing optimized designs. For low noise/low leakage applications special junction isolated digital libraries can be used. To store firmware for controller or other data a portfolio of non-volatile memories can be used. Unique for X-FAB is the possibility to use EEPROM and FLASH on the same chip. Hard-, software co-design allows fast, reliable and flexible creation of memory cells.
There are I/O libraries for core or pad limited designs available. For high ESD required applications special high ESD resistance I/O libraries can be selected. RF I/Os supporting different metal layers allowing flexible designs. Special high-voltage I/Os are also selectable.


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Please note, I'm using the Fedora 17 Beta, but this should work on older versions as well. Each of these commands should be run in a Terminal window.
First, ensure you have your Fedora install up to date:
sudo yum update
Next, let's install the prerequisites we will need:
sudo yum install git-core curl make bzip2 gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel zlib zlib-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl openssl-devel
We are now ready to install RVM:
bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
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echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bashrc
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Finally, reload your
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Ensure that RVM is loaded with the following command, which should output "rvm is a function":
type rvm | head -1
The following steps will install Ruby, Rails and the Sqlite3 gem. Execute these in order:
rvm install 1.8.7
rvm use 1.8.7 --default
and then...
rvm install 1.9.3
after that...
rvm use 1.9.3 --default
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gem install rails
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gem install sqlite3
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Shannon Shark of Metspolice.com has released an eBook entitled Send The Beer Guy.(Hey wait, aren't I the beer guy?) I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, got a library book under the gun, but it's on deck. I've heard it's good, and Shannon was teasing some of the stories at the Mets Police awards in January.
I've joined Jeff Paternostro and Rob Castellano on the Amazin' Avenue Audio the past two weeks. This week we talked about a whole bunch of stuff, from Sandy's culpability for the current roster, the catchers, Stub Hub, some Mets prospects, and a bunch of other things. Check it out. If you haven't been paying attention, I've been writing for Amazin' Avenue a bunch too, so check that out as well.
Opening Day tickets will go on sale next Friday at 10am. There will be various pre-sales earlier in the week as well, and while most games won't be that high in demand it's still nice to get your tickets in hand sooner rather than later, especially if you know you want to get to one of the promotion dates such as Banner Day or David Wright Bobblehead Day. Of course, Opening Day tickets will be expensive as well given that it's one of three premium games. Expect the cheapest seats to be at least $50. Dynamic pricing may make the price spike as tickets go on sale, and certain sections may drop in a couple of days after the initial rush dies down. Last year's Opening Day was a record crowd though, so if you're set on Opening Day or the Subway Series, don't hesitate.
I've been kind of quiet this offseason, but baseball season is so close I can smell the Shake Shack so expect more posts, both here and at Amazin' Avenue, which you can find a link to my posts on the right sidebar. Follow me on Twitter (Follow @Ceetar), and you can find Optimistic Mets Fan on Facebook and Google+ as well. I've also been known to post a lot of Mets pictures to Instagram.


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After about six hours of debate and failed efforts by Democrats to add more money to key programs, the Texas House tentatively voted 100-46 for the bill to enact a net $853 million in cuts to help meet a $4 billion deficit this fiscal year.
House Bill 4 would formalize $1.5 billion in cuts to state agencies, universities and colleges. The net savings is reduced because part of the money is re-allocated to programs that need it, including public schools.
This year's deficit is part of a shortfall through the next two years estimated at $15 billion to more than $27 billion, with the bigger number taking into account the money needed to maintain the current level of services to a growing population.
The vote came after Democrats repeatedly tried to add money — or at least the hope of more funding — to programs including the schools for the blind and deaf, human services and higher education, often trying to reach into programs overseen by Gov. Rick Perry to do so.
Their efforts failed, although a handful of Republicans joined them on efforts for the schools for the blind and deaf and college financial aid.
Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, succeeded in adding an amendment that would freeze the money in the Emerging Technology Fund overseen by Perry while lawmakers take a look at how it's spent.
Republicans offered — then withdrew — amendments to cut salaries of state employees making $60,000 or $100,000 or more, and to transfer money that was collected for electric-bill discounts for elderly and poor Texans. The latter money won't be spent for that purpose due to a reduction in the discount, according to Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center.
Democrats emphasized that the cuts are a choice, noting among other things that Republicans have only agreed to spend about $3.1 billion from the rainy-day fund, which is expected to have $9.4 billion.
"These cuts … do not have to take place. They are painful," Turner said.
Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, said community colleges and their students are among the ones who will pay the price for a state government providing less money.
"We have been told, and we will be told, that this bill is about making state government more efficient… All we're doing is kicking it (the problem) down the road to somebody else and making it their problem," said Hochberg said.
Pitts said, "House Bill 4 is a bill that pays our current bills."
House members immediately began discussion of HB275, to spend money from the rainy-day fund to close the rest of the current deficit.
UPDATE Rep. Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville, was the only Democrat to vote for HB 4. The former Ways and Means chairman, he said he had joined GOP state leaders more than a year ago in asking the agencies to make cuts due to the budget crisis.
"My obvious preference would be that we not have these cuts, but I couldn't be a hypocrite and say when I joined them and asked for them, now not vote for them," "Oliveira said.
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Martin Schanche had just crashed out of yet another heat in the European Rallycross Championship. So he walks back onto the track and gets all the other cars to crash, too. It might be the most hilariously unsportsmanlike moment in motor racing history.
As our friends at Axis of Oversteer point out, the Norwegian driver also known as "Mister Rallycross" wasn't just famous for his six European championships from 1978 through 1995, but also for crashing. None were quite as spectacular as this definitive moment in being a sore loser.
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CHICAGO - A trial of Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga in certain prostate cancer patients showed that it doubled the amount of time they lived without the disease getting worse, potentially offering new hope for patients who see their cancer return.
The trial, involving 1,088 patients who had stopped responding to traditional hormonal drugs but had not been treated with chemotherapy, found that Zytiga slowed the spread of the disease by 58 per cent.
Zytiga is one of several new prostate cancer treatments that may significantly prolong the life of patients by zeroing in more closely on certain mechanisms that help tumors proliferate. New data on the medications are being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago.
The drug's robust results in earlier-stage cancer - it is already approved for men with prostate cancer who previously received chemotherapy - have implications for companies like Dendreon, which sells therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine Provenge, and Medivation, which is developing a drug with a mechanism of action similar to Zytiga's.
The Zytiga trial found that patients given a placebo and the steroid prednisone went a median of 8.3 months before their disease worsened. Patients treated with the steroid and Zytiga were still faring better at the time the data were analyzed, so a comparable statistic was not yet available.
The study's lead investigator, Dr Charles Ryan of the University of California, San Francisco's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, estimated that the Zytiga patients would enjoy at least 16 months of progression free survival (PFS).
The trial also found that prednisone-only patients lived for a median of 27.2 months. Overall survival for patients treated with Zytiga had also not yet been reached, but J&J estimated that it improved their survival by 33 per cent, or 9 months.
That would clearly surpass the 4.1 month survival benefit demonstrated by Provenge, which was tested in a similar patient population.
"We believe the perception is that this is clearly negative for Provenge," JP Morgan analyst Cory Kasimov said in a research note, while emphasizing that he believes physicians will still see a place for using immunotherapies such as the Dendreon drug.
The Zytiga pre-chemotherapy trial was stopped ahead of schedule in March after it became clear patients were benefiting from the drug, a member of a new class designed to work inside cancer cells to block the production of testosterone, the male hormone that fuels prostate cancer cell growth.
Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in men, with some 30,000 dying from the disease each year in the United States alone and 250,000 globally. Around a third of patients need no treatment, because their disease does not metastasize, or spread, while another third are treated and cured.
But for the remaining patients, the cancer will recur following treatment or spread to the bones, lymph nodes or other parts of the body. Prostate cancer can turn lethal when it spreads and when it resists standard hormonal therapy.
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Research presented at ASCO showed that a pivotal trial of Medivation's enzalutamide met all of its secondary goals - including improvements in quality of life.
Medivation and development partner Astellas Pharma, which previously said the experimental drug improved survival by nearly 5 months in a trial of advanced prostate cancer patients, filed in May for US regulatory approval of enzalutamide.
Details released on Saturday included data showing that the Medivation drug, designed to block testosterone from binding to cancer cells, reduced the risk of skeletal-related events, including fractures, by 38 per cent.
Data will also be presented at ASCO from trials of alpharadin, a drug designed to deliver minute, highly-charged doses of radiation to secondary tumors in the bone that is being developed by Bayer AG and Algeta ASA.
J&J expects to file in the second half of this year for US regulatory approval of Zytiga, also known as abiraterone, as a treatment for men with metastatic prostate cancer who have not yet received chemotherapy.
"Clearly, if we're showing greater benefit in the pre-chemotherapy population ... I don't think its unreasonable that they (clinicians) would move it up," said Michael Meyers, head of the drug's development at J&J.
The study also showed that Zytiga significantly delayed the need for pain drugs taken to reduce side effects and eventual chemotherapy.
The drug is currently given for eight months at a cost of around US$44,000 (S$57,000). Barclays estimates peak US Zytiga sales of US$1.5 billion by 2015, with US$700 million from cases where it is used after chemotherapy and US$800 million from patients who have yet to try chemo.
Side effects associated with the drug included cardiac disorders, high blood pressure and increased liver enzyme levels.
J&J's Meyers said the safety profile seen with Zytiga in the latest trial was similar to earlier studies, even though patients were exposed to the drug for nearly twice as long.
He said the side effects "for the most part did not disrupt treatment and were easily managed by routine medical interventions."


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The fashion evolution of today's barely there bikini
THE first recording of swimwear being used was the bathing suits used in public bath houses. Prior to that people swam in the nude.
By the end of the 15th century more people started to cover up while swimming but mostly in bloomers and black stockings rather than swimsuits.
In the 18th century most men were still swimming in the nude but women wore long linen shirts.
The first bathing suits were made of wool and cotton in either red, blue or black and were quite heavy when wet.
The suits covered the whole body as getting a tan was not fashionable.
The one-piece suit was quite popular by the end of the 19th century and had a collar and pants reaching the knees.
While the swimsuit evolved slowly through the ages it wasn't until just after the Second World War and the invention of the bikini that the industry was revolutionised.
French engineer Louis Reard named his invention after Bikini Island, the site for nuclear testing in the hope it would be just as explosive.
The bikini shocked and titillated at the same time and was banned in several countries.
The 1950s saw the addition of lycra, while men started wearing nylon trunks.
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We are disappointed to announce that the FRA-law that we discussed in yesterday's blog was actually accepted as law by the Swedish Riksdag (national government) yesterday. The number of delegates voting for the new law was 143 and the number of delegates voting against the law was 138. The number of delegates that were absent, and therefore did not vote, was 67. Only one delegate refused to vote on the matter. Apparently, there was "no time" to wait for a proper investigation of the entire proposal and the addendum, and the decision was to accept the law quickly and then wait for an extra addendum proposal this autumn. The fast process was highly criticized but the directive was to come to a resolution before the summer holidays.
It is easy to believe that a hurried decision was made before the pressure against the law became too much to handle. It certainly isn't the norm when a proposal of this importance is first heavily criticized, spawning a quick addendum proposal that proposes only additional control of the controllers, and finally results in such a hasty acceptance as law.
The addendum proposal that "turned the ship into the harbor of surveillance" states that the Swedish Data Inspection Authority (Datainspektionen) will monitor the activity of FRA, from a privacy perspective, until the year 2011. The Swedish Government is also putting in place a special committee to control FRA from a privacy-invasion point of view. Additionally, the committee should identify if additional measures must be implemented in order to protect the privacy of the Swedish people. The committee has also been directed to appoint a "Privacy Safety Officer" that will guarantee that the privacy of all Swedish inhabitants is maintained. And finally, a board will be formed to manage permissions and determine if special criteria are met in order to allow direct searches against selected persons.
The biggest risk is that those being appointed to control the controllers will not have the full picture, and will receive "filtered" information regarding the activities of FRA.
The result of the new law is that almost all telecommunication- and Internet-traffic within the Swedish national networks may be monitored and it is, realistically, FRA's prerogative - with its love of secrecy - to decide when to do it. The deed is indeed done!


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