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Kodak Completes $527 Million Transaction Related to Digital Imaging Patents
ROCHESTER, NY—February 1, 2013—Eastman Kodak has completed a transaction for the sale and licensing of its digital imaging patents for net proceeds of $527 million.
The transaction, which achieves one of Kodak's key restructuring objectives, follows other recent major accomplishments that include final Court approval last week for the company's interim and exit financing. Kodak's monetization of IP assets further builds on its momentum toward emergence in mid-2013.
A portion of the $527 million was paid by 12 intellectual property licensees organized by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation. Another portion was paid by Intellectual Ventures, which acquired a substantial majority of the digital imaging patent portfolio subject to these new licenses, as well as previously existing licenses.
"The licensing and sale of our digital imaging patents is another major milestone toward successful emergence," said Antonio M. Perez, chairman and CEO. "We are on track to emerge as a profitable, sustainable company."
The completion of the sale enables Kodak to repay a substantial amount of its initial DIP loan, satisfy a key condition for its newly approved financing facility, and position its core Commercial Imaging business for future growth and success.
Kodak retains significant competitive advantages and strong growth prospects in its core Commercial Imaging businesses. In addition to retaining rights to use the 1,100 digital imaging patents sold in the transaction, Kodak maintains ownership of about 9,600 patents, including many focused on its core business.
The transaction includes an agreement to settle current patent-related litigation between the participants and Kodak, which avoids additional litigation costs and helps to ensure that management and the company's resources focus on enhancing core operations.
About Kodak
Kodak is transforming into a B2B company focused on its Commercial Imaging business. Kodak will be centered on commercial, packaging and functional printing solutions and enterprise services, markets in which it offers customers advanced technologies that give them a competitive edge. The company also offers leading products and services in Entertainment Imaging and Commercial Films. Its Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses are being marketed for sale.
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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that "Republicans have decisively lost the battle of ideas" given that "their major policy moves, on health care, taxes and tariffs, are playing badly with voters."
Krugman points to polling that finds that public approval of Obamacare is high, with many voters now saying that the law didn't go far enough, while support for the GOP tax cuts and President Trump's tariffs is low.
The real question, he says, is why Republican policy ideas were ever popular — and the answer, he suggests, is that "voters didn't see the connections" in the past:
"When [President George W.] Bush pushed through his tax cut, we had a budget surplus, so it wasn't clear to voters that less revenue might mean cuts to programs they count on. When you push through big tax cuts in the face of a budget deficit — and when your own party has spent years warning about imminent fiscal doom and demanding spending cuts — the implications are more obvious."


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Just how far will Lindsay go to prove that she's adventurous enough for Sean?
The Bachelor's Chris Harrison on Des' Exit: I'm pretty sure Sean let the love of his life go
The Bachelor heads to Thailand for overnight dates next week, and Sean & Co. soon learn that the local delicacies are a little different than here in the U.S. We already know that Sean is down for pretty much anything, but how will Lindsay react when he suggests they feast on some bugs? Watch below:
On Catherine's date, she proves to Sean that she's ready to "jump" into something scary. (You can see where this metaphor is headed.)
Finally, watch a clip from AshLee's date, during which she trusts Sean to lead her into a deep, dark cave.
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David Sloan calculates how likely it is that our Universe exists. He explains to us how, and why the answer can help shape our theories of physics.
Geometric hallucinations are very common: people get them after taking drugs, following sensory deprivation, or even after rubbing their eyes. What can they tell us about how our brain works?
In 2004 three physicists decided to dabble in a field they knew little about. Within weeks they had developed a new technique that transforms weeks' worth of computer calculations into something that could be done on a single page in an hour. It's used in particle accelerators such as the LHC at CERN.
The natural logarithm is intimately related to the number e and that's how we learn about it at school. When it was first invented, though, people hadn't even heard of the number e and they weren't thinking about exponentiation either. How is that possible?


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Twenty-Fifth Annual Native Health Research Conference - June 3-6, 2013
Silver Anniversary: 25 Years of Research for the Health of American Indian/Alaska Native People
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Amcor Is Said To Explore Takeover Of Packaging Maker Bemis
Packaging company Amcor Ltd. is considering a takeover of rival Bemis Co., according to people familiar with the matter. Amcor is working with advisers to explore a bid for Bemis, which has a market value of about $4.3 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the details aren't public. Considerations are at an early stage and it's unclear whether Amcor has made an initial approach to Bemis. Amcor said in a statement it was "continually reviewing opportuniti[Leer más]11.09.2017 read more
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Why will Castlevania: Lords of Shadow succeed where other 3D Castlevania titles have failed? For one, producer David Cox looked like this after giving us the actual reason he believes his game will work.
Note to game developers posing for pictures I am taking: You never have to ask, "Should I growl?" Growing is always preferred, and it makes you look extremely distinguished, just like MercurySteam's David Cox, the producer on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
During an interview session today at GamesCom, I asked Mr. Cox why he thought the next 3D Castlevania title would be the one that would make the perspective change work for the traditionally 2D series.
"Mistakes were made, and we've learned from those mistakes," says Cox.
"I think for me, one of the key things that went wrong for those games is that they tried to emulate the 2D gameplay in 3D," he continues. "For us, we haven't really tried to do that. We pretty much designed from the ground up as a 3D game. That meant making decisions and making gameplay decisions and decisions about design that meant we would see new things in Castlevania that we haven't seen before. We've been brave enough to do that."
Cox says that we'll of course be seeing familiar things from the Castlevania series, but we'll also be seeing a lot of new things.
"We've done that because we want to create a game that works in three dimensions."
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1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
2. To move through the air or before the wind; especially, to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (job v. 7)
4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious time, till thou run out thy race. (Milton) The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. (Bryant)
5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See note under Flee. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. (Milton) Whither shall i fly to escape their hands ? (Shak)
6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. To fly about to let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.
Origin: oe. Fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, as. Fleogan; akin to D. Vliegen, ONG. Fliogan, g. Fliegen, Icel. Fljga, Sw. Flyga, dan. Flyve, goth. Us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. To L. Pluma feather, E. Plume. 84. Cf. Fledge, flight, flock of animals.
Origin: oe. Flie, flege, as. Fl?ge, fleoge, fr. Fleogan to fly; akin to D. Vlieg, OHG. Flioga, g. Fliege, Icel. & Sw. Fluga, dan. Flue. 84. See fly.
1. (Science: entomology) Any winged insect; especially, one with transparent
wings; as, the spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly. Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See diptera, and Illust. In Append.
2. A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, used for fishing. The fur-wrought fly.
3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. (B. Jonson)
4. A parasite.
5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the union to the extreme end.
7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
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9. (Science: mechanics) two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See fly wheel (below).
10. (Science: machinery) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
12. A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
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e person who took the printed sheets from the press. A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
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15. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
16. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc, to conceal a row of buttons.
17. A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly. Black fly, cheese fly, dragon fly, etc. See black, cheese, etc.
(Science: botany) fly agaric, still in the air; said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground.


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Wrigley renovation project stalled, to start after season
MESA, Ariz. -- The Cubs had hoped to begin Wrigley Field's renovation plans this offseason, but chairman Tom Ricketts said he hopes the work will get started after the 2014 regular season ends.
The $500 million renovation, which includes a new video scoreboard in left field and a see-through ad in right, has stalled because of opposition by rooftop owners.
"There's no real update," Ricketts said Wednesday. "Like I've always said, I think we have a lot of incentive to get it done. Everyone has incentive to get it done."
It took five years to get Mesa voters to approve the new Spring Training complex and build it. How long can Ricketts wait?
"It's our goal to get the [Wrigley Field] project started at the end of the season," Ricketts said. "I'm not sure if there's a hard date that goes with that."
The team has spent money on repairs and maintenance work this past offseason at Wrigley, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The Cubs intend on having at least the see-through advertising sign installed in right by Opening Day, April 4.
The Cubs also are negotiating new radio and television contracts with WGN, and Ricketts said it was too early to predict what will happen with those.
The Cubs got the Spring Training complex done partly because there was the threat that they could move to Naples, Fla. What if the Cubs threatened to move from Wrigley?
"You can't go back and talk hypothetically about what did or didn't happen," Ricketts said. "You can't just pretend Wrigley Field is another ballpark like something built in some suburb somewhere 20 years ago that nobody cares about."
If the Cubs can't get an agreement and do the renovations, Ricketts said, "I don't know what's going to happen."
"The key is we're committed to renovating and improving the park and saving it for the next generation," he said. "Ultimately, you have to have control of your own field. We can't live for the next 100 years with this kind of situation. We have to know it's going to be over if we're going to invest in the park."


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Peinture (Étoile Bleue), a 1927 painting by Joan Miró is one of Miro's most important works to come to market and it will lead Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in London on June 19, 2012. The painting, set against a brilliant azure background, is part of his 'dream paintings' cycle, a series of works created at the height of Miró's engagement with the Surrealist movement. Others in the cycle are in the collections of the Metropolitan, the Tate Gallery in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The painting, formerly owned by Andre Lefevre, a prominent collector of 20th century art, is estimated to sell for $24-32 million.
"Peinture (Étoile Bleue) comes to the market," said Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department, Europe, in a statement, "at a time of unprecedented demand for iconic modern masterpieces."


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In our further education programmes, we emphasise precisely the standards which will count in your future career as a manager: quality, service and delivery. With us, you are a valued client, not a number. You can also spare yourself bureaucracy with us, and so we guarantee you an excellent service.
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Gibside, near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, has launched a family competition to design a new adventure playground based on one the garden's lost follies.
Historical documents in Durham County Record Office indicate that there was a structure called the Strawberry Castle there in the eighteenth century. However, it is not clear where exactly it was located or what it looked like.
The landscape garden at Gibside was created by George Bowes (1701-1760), a landowner and businessman, between 1729 and 1760. It was a mixture of formal and informal elements and contained a number of garden buildings by Daniel Garrett and James Paine.
Bowes's support for the Whig party is shown by the Column to Liberty dominating the lower Derwent valley.
George Bowes's daughter Mary Eleanor (1749-1800), a noted botanist, had a Green House built to shelter her exotic plants.
From the late nineteenth century Gibside went into a slow decline. In 1974 the Chapel and the Long Walk were given to the National Trust, which has since gradually been reuniting and restoring the core of the estate. The important early neo-Gothic Banqueting House is owned by the Landmark Trust.
Designs and ideas for the Strawberry Castle adventure playground can be sent to Emily Bryce, Visitor Services Manager, Gibside, nr. Rowland's Gill, Burnopfield, Gateshead NE16 6BG before 28 February 2011.


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In today's society, we all have stresses and crises in our lives that can be alleviated through talking with a trained professional. In the current economic climate, we at PCI Counselling are aiming to make that a possibility for more people. People attend a counsellor for many reasons. These vary from issues around their quality of life to relationship difficulties. We are experienced in dealing with such varied topics as loss and bereavement, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, personal development, self-esteem, sexual / sexuality issues to name but a few.
Counselling is for anyone who wants support, perhaps at a time of crisis or otherwise, who is unhappy with his or her present circumstances and hopes for change, or who wishes to make progress in personal development. It is a valuable aid to personal growth and can help one to develop assertiveness and self-confidence, and improve your sense of well being. It is of particular relevance in times of transition.
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The Family Outdoor Expo Is This Weekend!
Looking for something to take the kids to this weekend? Make plans to attend The Family Outdoor Expo.
This is one of the largest outdoor expos in Texas. It is unique in being a totally free event and offers many outdoor experiences for the whole family.
Kids will be able to fish, shoot pellet guns, climb rock walls, ride ponies, browse educational booths, learn how to fly fish, shoot a bow and arrow, and visit the Texas Parks and Wildlife activities, petting zoo, golf zone and much more!
This outreach event of Man to Man Ministries was created by a team of men who have a desire for kids who may never get to have the experiences listed above to have that right in the middle of town.
The event is this Saturday at the Victoria Community Center from 10a-5pm some of the activities will close at 4 so come early. I hope you get to come and enjoy this event and best of all its free!


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Executive Summary
For this project we want to further improve documentation available for SPI with the Beagle Bone. In the process of our information gathering we will connect two different product that use SPI, one being an SPI radio interface and the other being a SPI LED strand.
So far there exists documentation for the BeagleBoard/SPI. There also exists other documentation regarding the SPI specifications.
The documentation is lacking for the current Beagle Bone platform interfacing with SPI. Additionally there exists virtually no documentation for using a Beagle device with the LPD8806 LED controller.
In conclusion this project should help the Beagle community in general with information sharing and usable research.
Installation Instructions
Give step by step instructions on how to install your project on the SPEd2 image.
- Include your github path as a link like this: https://github.com/MarkAYoder/gitLearn.
- Include any additional packages installed via opkg.
- Include kernel mods.
- If there is extra hardware needed, include links to where it can be obtained.
User Instructions
Once everything is installed, how do you use the program? Give details here, so if you have a long user manual, link to it here.
Here is where you brag about what your project can do.
Include a YouTube demo.
Theory of Operation
Give a high level overview of the structure of your software. Are you using GStreamer? Show a diagram of the pipeline. Are you running multiple tasks? Show what they do and how they interact.
Work Breakdown
List the major tasks in your project and who did what.
Also list here what doesn't work yet and when you think it will be finished and who is finishing it.
Future Work
Suggest addition things that could be done with this project.
Give some concluding thoughts about the project. Suggest some future additions that could make it even more interesting.


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We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another. (NSFW)
It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're just absolute horseshit. But every Friday until we get sick of running them, we'll present to you some of these not-so-shiny gems. All items should be treated as [Sic'd]. Enjoy...
I'm Still Unconvinced It's Not Him
PHOTO: This fine establishment
Excoriating Bill Simmons For His Lack Of Commitment
see espn.com front page today... the most important column of the last
5 years; he could've written something spectacular about David Ortiz's
steroid revelations - but no, he struck out ... hell, he didn't strike
out, he put the bat down and did the chicken dance and sodomized
himself at home plate on a 0-0 pitch and the umpire was forced to
eject him on grounds of utter embarrassment.
he made it a fucking *podcast*. *spit!* *fuck!* you goddamn asshole, Bill!
really, he could've made it a column, but he made it a podcast. allow
me to compare the two forms of expression by analogy. a column is the
Sistine Chapel. A podcast is someone shitting himself with diarrhea
in a fit of epilepsy, and calling it art. And he stooped to it - in
the most anticipated column everyone was expecting him to post, he
denatured himself into going with that lowest form of human
expression; the fucking podcast - proudly making twitter resemble
Dostoyevsky since 2006.
Lazy, lazy, lazy sack of shit. What a waste ... he always gives the
shout-outs to those who print out his long columns and read them on
the john ... how can I possibly read his f'n "podcast" bullshit. No
transcription available, just audio because he is too lazy to put his
words into writing, too lazy to put in the effort, but damn glad that
his fuck-assed "podcast" made the front fucking page ... the BS
report, proudly hosing those that want a column full of real words and
actual English, since 2005.
Fuck your self-serving elitist bullshit. Fuck your demented laziness.
Fuck your weaseling through your contractual obligations with ESPN by
putting in the minimum effort, and occasionally submitting these
sub-worthless defecations known as "podcasts" when your audience
expects actual content. Fuck Jack O, fuck your dialogue, fuck you
being a sorry assclown who can't be bothered to sit down and type up a
real column. Fuck your audio, and fuck the valueless godfucked
goddamn fuck out of your PODCASTS! (spit! cough! fuck you!)...
until it becomes available in honestly written form, I declare it
entirely valueless, just a pathetic substitute for his columns, every
time he is too sorry and stupid and lazy and fucked to take the time
and effort to make something of value, he falls back on his fucking
podcast, mails in the whole performance, and calls it a job well
done... well a big fucking fucked "fuck you" to you too, you goddamn
pile of worthless clowns.
he could've made the grand slam by writing as little 500 or 1000 words
about his perspective, given that he was the #1 Red Sox fan in the
time that they won that World Series in '04 and put him on top of the
world - either way he could've gone with it, whether to endorse and
forgive, or to condemn and denounce, the use of steroids by his team
... either way, all he had to do was do some writing - and he failed
to do that. Not only did he fail, he refused - he passed on the task,
thinking that with his magical mystery oh-so-amazing podcast it
absolves him to be devoid of any and all responsibility towards the
readers, towards the ideal of writing anything of substance.
again, he made a fucking goddamn motherfucked podcast. I'd rather he
come to my house and personally shit on my head and stab me; that way
at least I'd know he understands how much he is hurting his loyal
audience and knows how much it is a conscious choice... this way, by
eschewing accountability and yawning towards the soma and the
dereliction and the death that is the podcast, the opiate of negated
responsibility ... by noting that he can make off like a bandit by not
putting in effort, not writing columns, not doing anything to fulfill
any expectations that his readers may have ... he makes himself dead
and uncomprehending, a waste of flesh and all physical reality - his
opinion reflected solely through his idiotic, banal, demented,
lowest-common-denominator "podcast" mentality ... he is left
unconsiderable and deceased and worthless, all because he couldn't be
bothered to sit in front of a computer and type up 1000 words on the
topic, and instead he jacks off with Jack O, sits back, relaxes, takes
the total easy way out... indeed, he keeps defecating harshly on his
loyal readers, and he makes his the most important statement of the
last 5 years by skirting every value at hand and reducing himself to a
"podcast" instead of a column ... noting that that is all we are
worth; recipients of an idiotic stream of babble - not a real column,
not what we have grown to expect, just nothing, just shit, and we'd
better learn to smile when we are forced to swallow it down.
fuck your podcasts, Bill ... fuck you for defecating and selling out
on the literary tradition that, at the absolute very minimum,
specifies a dialogue with your readers.
A Thoughtful Observation About Antoine Walker's Financial Troubles
live in the building across the street from Antoine Walker's downtown Chicago house. I have decided that there is no way that he is completely out of money, considering I see hookers leaving his place 3 at a time at 8am on weekdays.
We Miss Greg Wyshynskii, Too
Subject: HOCKEY EXISTS: You guys are doing a bad job at promoting the world's greatest sport: hockey. No news about Alex Burrows accusations? WTF. If he was a baseball minor leaguer you'd be on 24/7 watch. STEP THE FUCK UP.
-An angry canadian
Subject: JEREMY ROENICK RETIRES: Today, one of the cockiest human being that ever lived, Jeremy Roenick retired from hockey without winning a cup. Where's the deadspin article, Patrick Roy stanley cup rings joke and A GODAMN ARTICLE ABOUT HOCKEY!!!!!
P.S. He's from the USA if that helps him making the main page.
There Are Worse Ideas (blows out)
I hope this is the right place to send this...
I'm fairly good friends with "Studs." I've been privileged enough to read his work at a couple websites (footballguys.net and establishedboard.com),
Here are some of his NFL picks from a couple years ago:
He's been at it for a couple years now, and it's literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen/read/heard anywhere. The problem is that whomever's been submitting his stories to you guys has been editing them slightly, which has disgruntled Studs a little.
I don't know if S&D would be willing to do a weekly thing for you guys, but he's obviously great. His email address is email@example.com if you'd like to get in touch with the man himself.
Uh, Oof...
Hey AJ,
So this past weekend, I went to the Yankees/White Sox game at U.S. Cellular (horrible ballpark). My buddy "MM" had a keen eye as we were filling into the stadium. He took this photo of a Sox fan shortly before we took our seats. Yes, the shirt reads "Happy Birthday 2 My Little N*ggers" and has photos of the two kids blown up on it. To think there would be such race retrogression in the land of Ozzie and Obama!


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Mick McCarthy says uncapped Tottenham teenager Troy Parrott will stay in his Republic of Ireland squad for the vital Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark.
The 17-year-old, who has played only one competitive game for Tottenham, was named in an extended squad last week.
The Republic boss revealed on Monday that Parrott will make the cut when the squad is reduced on Thursday.
"I can confirm Troy will be on the list," McCarthy told the Football Association of Ireland website.
"I spoke to [Republic of Ireland Under-21 manager] Stephen Kenny at our monthly manager's meeting in Abbotstown on Monday and told him that Troy and Aaron Connolly will be with the senior squad next week."
The Republic host New Zealand in a friendly four days before the crunch 18 November contest against the Danes.
"Troy has been pushing for this step up for some time now and I look forward to seeing him on the training ground ahead of the New Zealand game. I hope he pushes me to include him in that game," added McCarthy.
The Republic boss said he was optimistic injury doubts Darren Randolph, Glenn Whelan and Matt Doherty would all be fit after speaking to all three players.
Whelan and Doherty both had to be substituted because of injury during their clubs' games at the weekend while keeper Randolph has missed Middlesbrough's last three matches because of a thigh injury.
"I have been in touch with all three players and they assure me they are confident of being fit to play against Denmark," said McCarthy
Veteran Whelan was substituted in the first half of Hearts' Scottish League Cup semi-final defeat by Rangers on Sunday because of a hamstring issue while Doherty was forced off during Wolves' Premier League draw against Arsenal after suffering a recurrence of a knee problem.
The Republic boss was pleased to see Robbie Brady get more game time for Burnley over the weekend after his injury problems this season while David McGoldrick was back in action in the same encounter as he helped Sheffield United clinch a 3-0 victory.
A Republic win on 18 November should be enough to secure them a spot at Euro 2020 although McCarthy's side will need a 2-0 victory to qualify if Switzerland pick up only four points from their final two games against Georgia and Gibraltar.


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Louis Pasteur (Dec. 27, 1822-Sept. 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist. He is most famous for inventing the process that keeps milk from going sour, which is now known, in his honor, as pasteurization. He also performed experiments that confirmed the germ theory of disease, created the first rabies, anthrax and chicken cholera vaccines, was a founder of bacteriology and made numerous discoveries in chemistry. Pasteur described on a scientific basis the process of fermentation, wine-making, and the brewing of beer. "He debunked the widely accepted myth of spontaneous generation, thereby setting the stage for modern biology and biochemistry." [1]
Pasteur was also the Dean of the faculty of sciences at Lille University. He founded on June 4, 1887 the Pasteur Institute, a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, a forefront of the battle against infectious disease.
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- Pasteur met with violent resistance from the medical men of his time when he advanced his germ theory. [2]
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By Mehroz Baig, Butler Koshland Fellow, Commonwealth Club
In a world of Silicon Valley technology where tourists take photos using iPads and Google Glass can practically read your mind, it may sound surprising that there remains a sector of our population that is only now beginning to learn about the Internet. Yet that is true of older Americans. According to a 2012 Pew Research study (link opens a PDF), 53 percent of Americans aged 65 or older use the Internet or at least email. But once they get online, 70 percent use it on any given day. It is likely that more and more older adults will begin to use the Internet and use it more extensively as our demographics shift toward an older population.
Between 2000 and 2010, the number of people aged 65 or above rose by 15.3 percent in the U.S. and 18.3 percent in California, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. A United Nations Population Fund report (link opens a PDF) reports that "around the world, two persons celebrate their 60th birthday every second." And over the next 20 years, the Stanford Center on Longevity projects that California's older adult population will double, from 4.3 million in 2010 to 8.4 million in 2030.
As prevalence of Internet use increases among older adults, so does the possibility of scams and frauds, many of which lead to financial abuse of the elderly. "It's surprising how many elders are on their computers and on their iPhones," said Talitha Guinn, director of the Elder Abuse Prevention program at the Institute on Aging. "It opens them up to a whole level of exploitation." The losses from and the impacts of financial elder abuse are increasing. According to a MetLife Mature Institute report, the estimated loss due to elder financial abuse in 2011 was $2.9 billion, a 12 percent increase from 2008.
Martha Deevy, director of the Financial Security Division at Stanford's Center on Longevity agrees. "Fifteen years ago, email didn't exist, so the fact that almost 45 percent of these incidents are originating from the Internet is pretty profound." A study (link opens a PDF) by the Center on Longevity found that "the means by which fraudsters contact targets and obtain money mirror trends in everyday transactions, with the Internet outpacing all other mechanisms." However, Deevy is quick to point out that there is no profile for victims; different people can be defrauded under different circumstances. "There's a myth that older people are more susceptible to being victims of financial fraud, but we find that older people are more targeted."
During the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the San Francisco Police Department received and assessed 445 cases of elder and dependent adult financial abuse, according to a report by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. This was the third year in which the percentage of cases increased. However, crimes like these are difficult to prosecute: Of the 100 elder abuse cases received by the San Francisco District Attorney's office, only 35 were filed. Of those, 29 led to convictions by guilty pleas, two were brought to trial and one conviction resulted from those trials. This data includes all cases of elder abuse, not just financial abuse cases.
Elder financial abuse as a category is highly complicated, with abuse taking place in many forms and through many people. Guinn notes that family members perpetrate 90 percent of all abuse, but financial abuse provides more avenues for stranger involvement. Though email is one way through which scams advance and are perpetrated, social networking sites also offer another outlet, especially as increasing numbers of older adults use sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. According to Pew, one in three seniors uses Facebook and LinkedIn and for adults over 50, the main reason for using social networking sites is to stay in touch with family members. That opens the gates for scams such as the "grandson scam," where a perpetrator pretends to be a grandson or granddaughter in an emergency and asks for money, targeting potential victims through spam emails or through viruses that hack into social media accounts.
Experts simply suggest being extra vigilant and realizing that your information may not be as private as you might imagine. "We believe that self awareness is really the best prevention," Deevy said. Additionally, there are a myriad of resources available for older adults to learn more about online safety as well as to report any incidents of abuse. Guinn encourages people to be familiar with Adult Protective Services and other resources such as those available through the Institute on Aging. Additionally, Facebook has information on security measures — however, their advice is targeted to a general audience and is not specific to older adults.
Guinn adds that in addition to being aware of resources, preventing isolation can also prevent elder abuse. She notes that isolation is the greatest risk factor for abuse. Ironically, for many older adults, it is perhaps that isolation that pushes them to learn and use the Internet in the first place.
Recent news on elder abuse in the Bay Area:
- 2 charged in Berkeley elder abuse embezzlement case
- East Bay banker charged with stealing $2 million from elderly clients
- Millbrae caretaker to stand trial on assault, elder abuse charges
- "Blessing scam" suspects convicted of swindling Chinese seniors in San Francisco
- Woman sentenced to jail for 'sweetheart scam' that targeted Campbell man
Additional resources:
- To report abuse or neglect in San Francisco: (415) 355-6700 or (800) 814-0009 (24 hours)
- San Francisco Department of Adult & Aging Services
- California Department of Aging Resources Section
- California Area Agencies on Aging by County
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- Stanford's Center on Longevity
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The group led by Marco Milán, researcher at IRB Barcelona, discovers that microRNAs control the levels of the oncoprotein Myc in Drosophila.
In all cancers, whether in kidney, breast, lung, colon, skin or any other tissue, cells show high Myc protein levels. Excess Myc causes cells to multiply in an exaggerated manner, giving rise to the development of tumours. One of the most pressing questions about Myc is how healthy cells keep the expression of this protein in check. In a study using the Drosophila, researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) headed by ICREA scientist Marco Milán have discovered that the microRNA machinery controls the levels of Myc through the molecule Mei-P26, thereby conferring microRNAs unexpected importance. The study is published this week in EMBO Journal, a scientific journal of high impact in basic biomedical research that belongs to the Nature group.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small molecules that account for less than 1% of the human genome; however, they play a key role in cell function because they have the capacity to disable or modify a great number of genes. High levels of certain miRNAs cause cancer. In previous studies conducted in mice, it was demonstrated that the Myc protein controls the expression levels of miRNAs. Now scientists have discovered in Drosophila that miRNAs affect the levels of Myc. "We propose that there is a finely tuned mechanism by which miRNAs and Myc are mutually controlled", explains Milán. The researchers suggest that the cell uses this mechanism to maintain optimal levels of miRNA and Myc, indispensable for the proper functioning of the organism, while preventing their becoming dangerous.
The researchers discovered this new regulatory mechanism by removing Drosophila's 150 miRNAs from a developing wing. Without miRNAs, they obtained a tissue with similar characteristics to that attained when Myc is removed: the wing is smaller and the cells are also smaller and do not divide well. "Myc is like an orchestra conductor that guides the growth of tissue, including healthy tissue, and since the wing characteristics in both cases were similar, we thought that the miRNAs and Myc were related; and we were right", explains Héctor Herranz, post-doc researcher fellow in Milan's lab and first author of the article.
The dissection of the molecular mechanism revealed that the key piece in the regulation of Myc by miRNAs is Mei-P26, a molecule known to target Myc in mice. Cells lacking miRNAs show increased Mei-P26 levels and decreased Myc expression. "We have closed the circle of this regulatory mechanism, positioning the miRNAs in the diagram".
Given that miRNAs, Mei-p26 and Myc have homologues in mice and humans, and alterations in the expression of these homologues cause tumours, the researchers propose that this same regulatory mechanism of Myc could be present in higher organisms. Confirmation of this notion would open up new avenues in the study of cancer.
Reference article
The miRNA machinery targets Mei-P26 and regulates Myc proteína levels in the Drosophila wing.
Héctor Herranz, Xin Hong, Lidia Pérez, Ana Ferreira, Daniel Oliveiri, Stephen M Cohen and Marco Milán.
EMBO Journal (2010) doi: 10.1038/emboj.2010.69


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Former Colorado men's basketball coach H.B. "Bebe" Lee, who guided the Buffaloes to the 1955 NCAA Final Four, died Sunday night at a hospice facility in Southport, N.C., the University announced Monday. He was 96.
Lee, who coached CU legend Burdie Haldorson, led the Buffs for six seasons from 1950-56. Lee turned the Buffs around from a program that was 14-22 in its first three seasons in the Big Seven to a conference champ — twice. He left Colorado with a 63-74 record, but made two NCAA appearances including the 1955 Final Four.
"He was a great man to play for," Haldorson, CU's All-American center on the 1955 squad, said. "He got the team ready to play during the week and just directed things from the bench during the game, much like Mike Krzyzewski. That's why I like Duke so much, Mike coaches like Bebe did."
In the 1954-55 season, Colorado finished 19-6 and won the Big Seven title outright at 11-1. The Buffs beat Tulsa and Bradley in the West Regional in Manhattan, Kan., to advance to the 1955 Final Four in Kansas City. CU fell to eventual champion San Francisco in the semifinals and defeated Big Ten Conference champ Iowa in the consolation to finish No. 3 in the nation.
Shortly before the end of the 1955-56 season, Lee announced he would resign from CU to take the athletic director position at Big Seven rival Kansas State. He finished the season with the Buffs, leading them to a 11-10 record, including a win over Phog Allen's Jayhawks in his final game as head coach.
"He was a terrific recruiter," Jim Jochems, who played for Lee for three years, said. "I overheard my parents talking after he left our house. My dad was in charge of 30 salesmen, and I heard him say, 'I wish I had one salesman as good as him.' Just a very nice man and a wonderful coach. We hated to see him leave."
Lee was born Dec. 3, 1916 in Dallas, but grew up in California, graduating from Hollywood High School where he lettered in basketball and baseball. He went on to play basketball at Stanford where he helped the "Indians", win three-straight Pacific Coast Conference championships from 1936-38.
Lee was an assistant at Stanford before taking over Utah State. Then he left coaching for three years. He returned to the college ranks to lead Colorado A&M (now CSU) for one season before taking over the Buffs.
Lee spent 12 years as athletic director at Kansas State before returning to the private sector again.
He is survived by two daughters, Vicki of Southport, N.C., and Barbara of Wilmington, N.C., two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He preceded in death by his wife Jean and one son, Gary, who passed away in 1987.


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IntellaSys has unveiled its SEAforth 40C18, a 40-core multicore processor designed for embedded wireless, portable, and distributed data processing applications. The SEAforth 40C18 is an array of 40 fully functional CPUs operating asynchronously, each of the cores a complete computer, with its own ROM, RAM, and interprocessor communication. Together they can deliver up to 26 billion operations per second.
With what IntellaSys claims is the smallest core size design (0.13 mm2), the SEAforth processor consumes 28 times less power while running 240 times faster than competing architectures. By creating a RAM and ROM on each core, individual cores run at the full native speed of the silicon instead of being throttled down to a slower external system clock frequency. The automatic synchronization feature between cores allows the processors to share the computing load by talking to each other to pass data, status signals and even code blocks. When individual CPUs are not active, they automatically shut down or sleep.
"The beauty of this single-chip 40 CPU processing solution is that it is completely programmable -- meaning if a spec changes, it is a code issue, not a silicon turn," said Chuck Moore, CTO of IntellaSys and inventor of the Forth programming language. "With 40 cores operating independently on the chip, designers can dedicate groups of them to handle specific tasks. For example, some could be assigned compute-intensive Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) while others handle wireless connectivity, standard I/O interfaces or drive external memory."
The processor will be offered with VentureForth, a Forth-based IDE that includes fully interactive programming, testing, and debugging facilities. VentureForth includes compilers for both Windows and Linux and a simulator for debugging, and contains low-level primitives as well as the high-level tools necessary to map programs across the array of cores in a SEAforth processor. The SEAforth 40C18 is capable of executing 80 percent of its VentureForth instructions in 1.38 nanoseconds while drawing 7mW of power or less per CPU.


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NHP scores second black jack in traffic arrests
A total of 21 motorists were arrested in the greater Reno-Sparks area by the Nevada Highway Patrol over the Thanksgiving holiday. Twelve of the arrests were for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs with one being a felony DUI. Eight others were for misdemeanor traffic warrants stemming from failing to appear for a traffic citation or failure to comply with the court. One person was arrested for failure to maintain travel lane, felony possession of a schedule I & II controlled substance with the intent to sell, trafficking, and conspiracy to violate the uniformed controlled substance act.Last year on this same holiday, a total of 21 motorists and one pedestrian were arrested. Those arrests included 10 for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 10 for warrants, one stolen vehicle, and one pedestrian for felony probation violation.


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Tiffin dedicates 'Pat DeMonte Way' to honor longtime United Way director
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Barnes & Noble to Evaluate Strategic Alternatives, Including Sale
NEW YORK, NY—August 3, 2010—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that its Board of Directors intends to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, in order to increase stockholder value. The Board came to this decision based on the price of Barnes & Noble shares in the marketplace, which the Board believes are now significantly undervalued.
The process of evaluating strategic alternatives will be overseen by a Special Committee of four independent directors: George Campbell Jr., William Dillard, II, Margaret Monaco and Patricia Higgins, who will serve as Chair of the Special Committee. The Special Committee will consider all alternatives to increase stockholder value and will recommend a course of action to the company's full Board. The Special Committee has selected Lazard to serve as its financial advisor and Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP to serve as its legal advisor.
The Board stated: "As the world's largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble has an iconic brand and unique competitive advantages we believe will position the company to succeed over time in a rapidly changing market. The Board is confident in Barnes & Noble's strategy and fully supportive of the senior management team, which is delivering explosive growth in our fast-developing digital business. The Board has concluded that a review of strategic alternatives is the appropriate next step to take full advantage of our compelling digital opportunities and to create value for shareholders, customers, and employees."
Leonard Riggio, the company's founder and largest stockholder, has informed the Board that, in light of its decision to explore strategic alternatives, he intends to consider the possibility of participating in an investor group to acquire the company.
Riggio stated: "I fully support the Board's decision to evaluate strategic alternatives at this time. Regardless of whether I participate in an investment group that buys the company, I, as well as the entire senior management team, am willing and eager to remain with the company and see it through the challenging years ahead." Riggio continued: "Having spent a lifetime in bookselling and building this great company, I am as committed as ever to the future of Barnes & Noble."