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Executive board member Vijay Kumar Malhotra said the horns, the flat drone of which became soccer World Cup's soundtrack in South Africa this year, have no place in India.
"It may be a part of South African culture but it will not fit in here," Malhotra said in a statement, pointing out the horn has been banned from most European sports events.
"It will disturb our players and will be counter-productive," added Malhotra, a senior vice president of the Indian Olympic Association and also head of the national archery federation.
The noisy horns were banned from the Wimbledon tennis tournament and also from UEFA's major soccer competitions such as the Champions League, Europa League and Euro 2012 qualifiers.
Priced at a little less than $4, the vuvuzelas are part of the official merchandise products of the October 3-14 Games.
"We have our own way of drum-beating and other forms of entertainment in the stadiums. We don't need any foreign devise for our sporting festivals," Malhotra said.
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This paper deals with the design of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) with ferrite magnets and their comparison with synchronous machines with NdFeB magnets. In recent years, ferrite magnets have become popular due to their rather low cost and, what is more important, due to increasing of the NdFeB magnets cost last time. The progress in ferrite magnet material properties during the latest decade gave rise to their use in high power applications. Their remanent flux density today reaches values beyond 0.4 T, which allows design electrical machines with acceptable performance. In this paper, three designs of ferrite machines are presented and compared with a real PMSM with NdFeB magnets. Furthermore, the influence of the stator winding type and the shape of the slot opening on the PMSM properties will be demonstrated. All machines are designed for the same output power as the original PMSM with NdFeB magnets. This paper demonstrates that ferrite magnets can, to some extent, be used as replacements for the NdFeB magnets in high-efficiency power applications.
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SAN DIEGO: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection veteran fired one shot at a man who drove a pickup at the officer in a parking garage early yesterday in the Grantville neighborhood.
The shot hit the front of the pickup, but the man was not hit. He stopped the pickup and was arrested, said San Diego police Lt. Terry McManus.
The officer, a supervisor, was in uniform as he was walking about 1:20 a.m. to his vehicle at the La Mirage apartment complex on Ambrosia Drive north of Friars Road. He had been called to respond to an incident at the U.S.-Mexico border.
He saw two men breaking into a vehicle parked in the complex garage and confronted them. One ran and the officer chased him.
When the officer lost sight of the man, he returned to the garage and saw the other man inside driving a white pickup. That was not the vehicle being burglarized, McManus said.
The man refused to stop and drove directly at the officer, who was standing about 50 feet away. The officer feared for his life and fired one round, McManus said.
Nicholas Burnthon, 22, was arrested on suspicion of vehicle burglary and assault on a law-enforcement officer.
San Diego police officers arrested a second suspect at 2:20 a.m. about a half-mile away at Rancho Mission Road and San Diego Mission Road. Andrew Sigsbee, 23, was arrested on suspicion of vehicle burglary, McManus said.
The Customs and Border Protection officer, a 21-year veteran, was not identified.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (619) 531-2293. –A.M.
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LA MESA: A man who gave a limping man with a cane a ride for $50 was robbed at gunpoint early yesterday, La Mesa police said.
The victim was driving with his wife and son in San Ysidro shortly before 2 a.m. when the man flagged them down, police said.
They drove him to La Mesa Boulevard near Palm Avenue, where the robber asked the man to get out of the car and help him look for his mother, police said. Once they were out of the car, the robber pulled out a silver semiautomatic handgun and demanded that he hand over his possessions.
The robber took the man's wallet, cell phone, keys and jacket and then ordered him to lie on the ground. He ran west toward Spring Street, with the jacket over his head.
The robber was described as Latino, about 21 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and thin. He was wearing a black baseball cap, a black sweat shirt, black shorts and was carrying a black backpack. –D.B.
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Bolton take on Swansea City at the Reebok on Saturday with a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup at stake.
Owen Coyle's men needed two bites of the cherry to see off Macclesfield in the last round while Swansea brushed aside Barnsley at Oakwell.
Bolton have won the cup four times, although their last success was in 1958 while Swansea have never reached a final.
Swansea's 3-1 Premier League win over Bolton in October ended the Welsh side's run of nine winless games against the Trotters.
But Bolton have been imperious on home soil against Swansea as they are unbeaten in eight meetings since 1980.
Team news
Bolton will be without new signing Tim Ream for the visit of Brendan Rodgers' troops.
The defender has returned to the US to complete the rest of his paperwork and is also likely to miss Wednesday's Premier League meeting with Arsenal.
A bug has affected a number of Bolton players this week but boss Coyle is hopeful they will all be fit while Jussi Jaaskelainen (thigh) and Tyrone Mears (broken leg) may be involved.
Swansea boss Rodgers has Alan Tate back in his squad as the defender steps up his return from the broken leg he suffered in a golf buggy accident in August.
But on-loan centre-half Steven Caulker is unavailable after parent club Tottenham asked that he be left out to avoid being cup-tied in the event that they need to recall him from his season-long deal.
Chelsea midfielder Josh McEachran, another loan signing, is set to make his first start for the Swans as he will not be eligible to face the Blues in Tuesday's Premier League fixture between the sides.
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The Seven Year Itch, © 1955 Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationAmerican comedy film, released in 1955, that was an adaptation of a hit Broadway show of the same name and featured a memorable performance by Marilyn Monroe.
© 1955 Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationReprising his Broadway role, Tom Ewell played Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book editor whose wife and son are leaving their Manhattan home for the summer. On the evening after their departure, Richard encounters an attractive young woman (Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs. Over the next two days, he begins to spend time with her, even escorting her to dinner and a movie, but he is constantly wracked with nerves as he desperately tries to control his libido. Finally, beset by guilt and fear, he decides to escape the situation and join his family in Maine.
Much of the film's humour derives from the contrast between Richard's extreme self-consciousness, manifested in extended soliloquies that reveal his overactive imagination, and his neighbour's seeming obliviousness to her sensuous charms. Offscreen, Monroe's personal problems—including her divorce from Joe DiMaggio—wreaked havoc on the production, and her distractions caused The Seven Year Itch to exceed its budget, though it was quite profitable in the long run. Censors forced a good deal of the suggestiveness to be removed from the script, and several scenes were trimmed to tone down sexual innuendos. Still, the movie is perhaps best remembered for the iconic image of Monroe standing above a subway vent with her dress billowing up from the air blast. The term seven-year itch—referring to the supposed urge to stray from one's marriage after seven years—entered the popular lexicon as a result of the film's success.


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Research certification programs for basic emergency medical technicians (EMT). Get information on program requirements, curriculum, career prospects and salary potential for EMTs with basic certification.
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EMT-B certification programs cover basic emergency care that EMTs provide in response to calls for emergency medical help. A person with an EMT-B certification is generally limited to responding to accidents. Each state has its own list of specific procedures that an EMT-B can and cannot do. For example, in South Carolina, basic EMTs cannot insert intravenous (IV) lines, but they may monitor and maintain an IV that is not administering blood products or medications, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (www.scdhec.gov). States also vary in their certification and program prerequisites, such as education and examinations. Continuing education is required to recertify.
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The focaccia di nonna ($9 small, $19 large) is a perfect evocation of the kind of pizza you might find in Naplesthe crust heavenly brown from a wood-burning oven that flickers on the other side of the room, the crushed tomatoes strewn by a devil-may-care hand, the rich mozzarella profuse and puddled on the surface, with little rivulets of pungent olive oil irrigating the entire pie. Bits of crushed garlic here and there seal the deal. Noting our astonishment at the first bite, the waitress revealed that the whole-milk mozzarella is made on the premises. This "grandma's pizza" deserves to take its place among the city's greatest pies. There were 14 other selections, too, each available in a bewildering array of formatsNeapolitan and Sicilian, large and small, square and round. Plus a list of independent ingredients that can be ganged up on any pie. I girded my loins for the tasting work ahead.
As if the pizza weren't enough at this strange restaurantwhere the tables are topped with brown marble fit for a pastry shop, the interior is paneled in dark wood as in a suburban rec room, the not particularly effective lighting fixtures descend from the ceiling like spaceships, and the decor generally suggests a strip mall in Dallasthere's also an extensive menu of antipasti, pasta, and main courses. We'd preceded our nonna pie that first visit with an antipasto platter that subtended a vast assortment of grilled, pickled, and sun-dried vegetables, plus mozzarella, provolone, and olives, providing a nice three-person feed for only $8.50. Man, this place comes on like gangbusters!
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On subsequent visits, we sprinted from pie to pie, and judged the Romano ($19) second best, a double-crust extravaganza stuffed with fennel sausage, pepperoni, mozzarella, and smoky potatoes that had already been roasted once in the oven. Potatoes? Not sure what this pie has to do with Rome, but it's damn good anyway. Though the pastas were delivered in massive quantities, they were less inspired. Anything done in burning wood rules, especially the soupy lasagna bolognese ($10). The linguine with white clam sauce is tasty, though the use of tiny manila clams seems like a betrayal of Howard Beach's bivalvian heritage. The best main course would make any Sicilian swoon: a quartet of roasted fennel sausages sided with bitter broccoli rabe.
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Schools Coming
Source: Published reports and Je'Nelle Chargois, vice president of Louisiana's NAACP for District D
Some are coming from 20 hours away and others from an hour away.
But college and university students nationwide are joining the rally called to support the "Jena Six."
Fifty students from Washington, D.C.'s Howard University boarded a bus Wednesday at 5 a.m. to make the 20-hour drive to Jena, university officials said.
Coverage of the Jena Six has sparked an interest among college students across the nation as well as in Central Louisiana.
A group from Louisiana State University at Alexandria is expected to attend today's rally.
Spelman College in Atlanta is sending students from its Student Government Association as well as those in a course on social issues, according to the college's Web site.
"This issue is important because it demonstrates to young people that the civil rights movement is not over," Ashley Noelle Johnson, a Spelman College Student Government Association member, said in an online letter to university students. "Young people need to realize that it was our parents' generation that dealt with segregation, integration, and blatant racism. We've significantly progressed in racial relations as a country, but we're generations from where we need to be. It's the mentality that needs to die."
Je'Nelle Chargois, the vice president for Louisiana's NAACP District D, said that Spelman and Morehouse College are expected to have at least 12 buses coming for the rally.
At least three buses are expected from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Chargois said.
"I started to do research on the issue, and since I'm from Natchitoches, it felt so close to home," said Southern student Goldie Davenport. "I think that what really caught my attention once I became aware of all the facts was the tree itself being designated for the whites. I understand we are in the Deep South and that racism is not hiding like in other places across the country, but I thought that was an eyebrow raiser by itself."
Davenport is part of a Southern University television crew that plans to document the march on Jena.
"The focus of this movement is to bring awareness and to force change," Davenport said. "Sometimes the damage is done when outrageous things happen, no one feels support so they become passive and acceptive. In these small towns tucked away under the tree branches, people are mistreated in many ways, but they see no way out when the local, state and national government fly right over their issues because their city does not provide any significant revenue.
"So in all, the movement is a way of saying to the younger generation and the small-town residents that you are somebody and don't let nobody treat you otherwise. You have support, and I say Michael Jackson said it best, 'You are not alone.'"
John Baur with the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. in New Orleans said the organization has been working to bolster support for the movement.
"Our fraternity released a resolution on the national level condemning what has taken place, and several regional and national officers will be in attendance with us in Jena," he said.
The fraternity has been coordinating with Xavier University, Dillard University, Southern University New Orleans, Delgado College, Loyola University and Tulane University for students to come to the rally.
Baur said the fraternity expects at least 600 people, including students from the New Orleans-area universities, to make the trip to Jena.
The Howard University group coming to LaSalle Parish includes undergraduate, graduate and law school students representing the Howard University Student Association, NAACP, Howard University Chapter members and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Even those not able to attend the march have shown their support on college campuses across the nation. Howard University, for instance, held a rally in support of the Jena Six.
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge held a forum on the Jena Six case that discussed the issue and how the community can reconcile. The forum also discussed racism and how the town has been portrayed.
At least four buses of LSU students are expected at the march.
Two hundred students at the Atlanta-area colleges --- Spelman, Morehouse and Clark Atlanta University -- marched this week in support of the Jena students.
This week, the Unified Omegas of Louisiana, an organization of college-educated men from across the state of Louisiana, voted to support the efforts of syndicated radio show host Michael Baisden and to support a peaceful march and demonstration in Jena.
"By unanimous vote and consent of all delegates present, the Unified Omegas of Louisiana voted to denounce the apparent racial injustice that has occurred in the town of Jena, Louisiana," officials said in a news release.
Marsha Sills of the Lafayette Advertiser contributed to this story.


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Documentation Preserved: Report from the International Catalog of Sources for
History of Physics and Allied Sciences
This is our regular survey of archives and other repositories giving information on materials of interest to historians and others. Many of these are new deposits not yet processed, but we also include collections that were accessioned years ago but not previously reported here. Some have restricted access. Please contact the repository for further information.
Simon Fraser University. Archives Department 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 (contact: Frances Fournier).
Records of the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology. The society focuses on providing a support network to practicing women scientists and technologists and encouraging young women to maintain interest in math and science and to consider careers in these areas. 1981-1995. 15 ft. textual materil, 29 audio cassettes.
University of Aarhus. Institute for the History of Science. Aarhus, Denmark (contact: Helge Kragh).
Papers of Jens Lindhard, 1922-1997. Danish professor of theoretical physics. Includes correspondence, mainly from 1975 to 1995, notes, calculations, drafts, newspaper clippings, etc., and many boxes with preprints and reprints. Preliminary review found that most of the material is quite recent with little relating to the period 1945-1965 (there appears to be no correspondence with either Niels or Aage Bohr). 1945-1995. 100 archival boxes.
Imperial College of Science and Technology. Imperial College Archives. London SW7 2AZ England, UK
Papers of Brian Hilton Flowers, 1924-. Worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell in the Nuclear Physics and Theoretical Physics Divisions (1946-1950); University of Birmingham (1950-1952); head of Theoretical Physics Division, AERC Harwell (1952-1958); University of Manchester professor of Theoretical Physics (1958-1961) and then Langworthy Professor of Physics and head of the department (1961-1967); chairman of the Science Research Council (1967-1972); rector of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1973-1985); vice-chancellor of the University of London (1985-1990); chancellor of the University of Manchester (1994- ). Biographical material documents most stages of Flowers s career from 1958 to 1990, and includes papers relating to his various appointments, honors and awards, photographs and press clippings. His undergraduate studies at Cambridge are also represented through five notebooks from the early 1940s. There is material reflecting his concerns for science education and research, his political interests, and his career at the University of Manchester. Also included are speeches, lectures and broadcasts, and his contributions to House of Lords debates from 1979. There are also lecture courses from the University of Birmingham (1950-1952) and the University of Manchester (1958-1967), and broadcasts for BBC radio (1957-1983). Flowers s involvement in numerous UK and international bdies is documented, particularly his association with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority between 1958 and 1977. Political concerns are reflected through correspondence and papers relating to Pugwash Conferences (1962-1967). The principle component of Flowers s correspondence is an extensive sequence of "personal correspondence" whose subject matter covers a wide range of professional issues and more personal matters relating to colleagues, friends and family. There are also day files (1990-1997), and correspondence with J.W. Bray MP (1966) and Lord Rothschild (1970s and 1980s) which were kept as separate sequences. 1940s to 1998.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F"rderung der Wissenschaften. Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Boltzmannstrasse 14, Berlin-Dahlem D-14195, Germany (contact: Marion Kazemi).
Papers of Theodor Förster, 1910-1974. Physical chemist. Scientific member (from 1950) and external scientific member (from 1952) of the Max-Planck-Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Göttingen. Research on fluorescence, quantum mechanics, and theoretical chemistry. Manuscripts of his lectures. Available for use in 2004. 1953-1955. 1 bundle.
Papers of Albert H. Weller, 1922-1996. Physical chemist. Director and scientific member of the Max-Planck-Institut fÅü Spektroskopie, Göttingen (1965-1990). Research on spectroscopy and photochemistry. Includes scientific correspondence, some records of his activities at the institute and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, and also material relating to his honors. Available for use in 2020. 1963-1995. 5.4 m.
Rijksarchief in Noord-Holland te Haarlem. Kleine Houtweg 18, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Papers of Siegfried A. Wouthuysen, 1916-1996. Physicist. Born in Amsterdam, he studied at Leiden University prior to World War II. After the war he studied with Robert Oppenheimer and received his PhD in 1948 from the University of California at Berkeley. He returned to the Netherlands in 1949 and joined the new Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica of the University of Amsterdam as professor of physics where he continued to work until 1984. He also served on the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN in the early 1960s, and served on the Pugwash Committee, contributing to the Pugwash Statement of 1962. The papers concern Wouthuysen s education, his work as a professor of physics, his scientific work, and his many secondary activities, and testify to his many friendships in the international physics community. They contain a series of correspondence (1935-1996) and a series of scientific notes (1950-1996). His student years are documented by notes taken at Ghent and Leiden and files relating to the debating society "Christiaan Huygens." His teaching career is documented by lecture notes and files relating to the supervision of students. Also included are files on conferences in which Wouthuysen participated and files relating to CERN and the Pugwash Committee. Some of the topics covered in the papers include his work in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. 1934-1996. 39 lin. ft.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow Branch. Archive. Ul. Novocheremushkinskaia, 34, Moscow 117218, Russia (contact: Elena Curapova).
Papers of Antolii Petrovich Aleksandrov, 1903-1994. Physicist. Research on nuclear physics, solid state physics, physics of polymers, and nuclear reactors. Worked as a researcher and later as laboratory director at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute (1930-1946), director of the Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow (1946-1955), director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow (1960-1988). Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and its president from 1975 to 1986. Papers include manuscripts of scientific papers; lectures (including popular lectures) on nuclear energy, the organization of Soviet science, and space research. Also includes recollections about A.F. Ioffe, I.V. Kurchatov, and others; documents relating to his activities as president of the USSR Academy of Sciences; correspondence with various academic institutions; personal correspondence with S.I.Alikhanian, N.M. Emmanuel, G.N.Flerov, B.E. Paton, N.N. Semenov, V.V. Shuleikin, and E.P.Velikhov among others; and biographical documents (1973-1985) including diplomas, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Papers open for research. 1933-1985. 5.6 lin. meters. Papers of Aksel Ivanovich Berg, 1893-1979. Physics and technology of radio and microelectronics; leader of Soviet research on cybernetics and electronic devices. Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Navy admiral. Navy service (1918-1922), commander of the Scientific Research Institute on Communications of the Red Navy (1932-1940), director of the Scientific Research Institute of Radioelectronics (1947-1957), deputy minister of defense (1953-1957). Papers include: works and lectures (published and unpublished) on cybernetics and radio technology (1940-1978); lecture courses (1922-1959); official reports about research work (1945-1977); correspondence on administrative and editorial matters; biographical documents (1908-1979) including diaries, notebooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings; personal correspondence (1941-1979) and drafts of letters with A.I. Adzhubei (Editor of the newspaper Izvestia), A.P. Aleksandrov, N.N. Andreev, D.L. Armand (geographer), O.K. Antonov (airplane designer), M.Kh. Bagramian (marshal), O.M. Belotserkovsky, A.N. Frumkin, A.A.Grechko (marshal, minister of defense), I.S. Isakov (Navy admiral), P.L. Kapitza, M.D. Millionschikov, and A.L.Mints, among others. Papers open for research. 1908-1979s. 9.6 lin. meters.
Papers of Alexandr Iosifovich Frumkin, 1895-1976. Physical chemist, director of the Institute of Electrochemistry. Personal papers, correspondence, and a book manuscript. Closed until processed. 1930s-1970s. 0.3 lin. meters.
Papers of Vitalii Iosifovich Goldanskii, 1923-. Physicist (nuclear physics and physical chemistry). Papers include mostly correspondence with foreign colleagues and scientific institutions. Closed until processed. 1970s - 1990s. 1.5 lin. meters.
Papers of Antolii Alekseevich Logunov, 1926-. Physicist (theoretical high-energy phyics and experimental nuclear physics. Documents mostly cover Longunov's activites as vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Closed until rocessed. 1960s-1980s. 5 lin. meters.
Papers of Ivan Vasilevich Obreimov, 1894-1981. Physicist (spectroscopy and molecular physics, nuclear physics). Organizer and the first director of the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute (1929-1932). Papers include scientific manuscripts and correspondence. Closed until processed. 0.3 lin. meters.
Papers of Aleksandr Iosifovich Shalnikov, 1905-1986. Physicist (low temperature physics, superconductivity). Discovered intermediate state of superconductors in 1941. Personal papers include scientific manuscripts, patents, correspondence. Closed until processed. 1930s-1980s. 0.8 lin. meters.
Papers of V. V. Shuleykin, 1894-1979. Geophysicist and the founder of Soviet oceanography. Personal papers include manuscripts of scientific papers, foreign correspondence, photos, and diaries of expeditions on oceanographic ships. Closed until processed. 1920s-1970s. 0.8 lin. meters.
Papers of Sergei Arkadevich Vekshinskii, 1896-1974. Physicist (applied physics), specialist in physics instruments and electrovacuum technology. Personal papers include laboratory notebooks, manuscripts of unpublished and published reports, patents, scientific correspondence, and paintings. Closed until processed. 1900s-1970s. 3.8 lin. meters.
Papers of IAkov Borisovich Zeldovich, 1914-1987. Physicist ad astrophysicist. Produced classic works on chemical physics, nuclear physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. Personal papers include documents from 1930s to 1980s, including working notebooks, drafts of scientific papers, lectures and correspondence. Closed until processed. 1930s-1980s. 2.1 lin. meters.
American Philosophical Society. Library. 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA (contact: Robert Cox).
Papers of Edward Granville Ramberg, 1907-1996. Physicist. Over half of the collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, and subject files on Ramberg s work with Amnesty International, American Friends Service Committee, and local peace groups. The rest of the collection contains correspondence, research notes, lab notebooks, technical reports and reprints generated during his years as an RCA research physicist (1935-1972), and as a student. Of particular interest is correspondence, 1946-1951, between Ramberg and his professor at Munich, Arnold Sommerfeld. Most of these letters are in German. Also important is the material produced while Ramberg was an active member of the Society for Responsibility in Science. 1921-1994 (bulk, 1940-1994). 11 lin. ft.
Catholic University of America. Department of Archives, Manuscripts and Museum Collections. Muller Library, Room 5 Washington, DC 20064, USA (contact: Timothy Meagher or William John Shepherd).
Papers of Clyde L. Cowan, 1919-1974. Physicist and educator. Physicist at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1949-1957) where he became a group leader in the Nuclear Weapons Test Division; joined the physics faculty at the Catholic University of American (CUA) as an ordinary professor in 1958. A co-discoverer of the neutrino in 1956, he was a pioneer in the technique of particle detection used in elementary particle physics, the monitoring of low levels of radioactivity, and the medical uses of radioactive isotopes. Correspondence, research notes, published articles, public lecture slides, and blueprintsrelating to both his work at Los Alamos and CUA. Additional CUA material include Student examinations, dissertation research, class notes, and computer readouts. 1952-1974. 9 ft. (7 boxes).
Hawaii State Archives. Iolani Palace Grounds. Honolulu, HI 96813, USA (contact: Patricia Lai).
Records of Governor George Ariyoshi. Correspondence with State Executive Departments (Series 236, box 236-90) contains records relating to Mauna Kea land use issues and the Mauna Kea Observatory. 1974-1982.
Louisiana State University. Hill Memorial Library. Special Collections. Lousiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections. Baton Rouge, LA, USA (contact: Jo Jackson).
Papers of Joseph M. Reynolds, 1924-1997. Physicist (low temperature physics, measuring gravitational waves, superconductors) and university administrator. Professor of physics, vice president for Graduate Studies and Research, and vice president for Academic Affairs, Louisiana State University. The collection documents Reynolds s personal, scholarly, and administrative activities at Louisiana State University, and his extensive involvement in groups that directly influenced national and cooperative efforts in space science. Correspondence, meetings, agendas and minutes, speeches, publicity materials, research papers, reports, photographs, films, clippings, and personal papers span his entire career, but are primarily focused upon the period 1962-1985. Groups represented include the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences Naval Studies Board and Space Science Board, Gulf Universities Research Consortium, the Organization for Tropical Studies, and the Consortium for Superconducting Materials and Instrumentation. 1924-1990 (bulk 1962-1985). 5.3 lin. ft.
National Archives and Records Administration. Archives II. College Park, MD, USA (contact: Civilian Records).
Additions to records of the National Science Foundation (RG 307). Includes minutes and related records of the National Science Board. 1952-1955. 1 cu. ft.
National Archives and Records Administration. Pacific Region (San Francisco). 1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
Addition to records of the Atomic Energy Commission (RG 326). Includes Super-Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator drawing lists (1953-1972) of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Bevatron Spectrometer (MK) I-VIII files (1956-1972) and Unilac German plans for a Wider"e Linac Injector (1968-1972) of the Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. 1956-1972. 3 cu. ft.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Central Library. 1315 East-West Highway, SMC, 2nd Fl., Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA (contact: Doria B. Grimes).
Bruce C. Heezen Collection, 1924-1977. Geology, oceanography; studied the dynamic processes of the ocean floor and documented turbidity currents using the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. In 1957, in collaboration with Marie Tharp, he also documented the existence of the ocean rift and related seismic activity. The papers include a complete collection of cable company reorts, maps, and log books used to document the speed, location and destructive power of turbidity currents, including the Grand Banks earthquake. Other non-primary materials in the Heezen collection include 50 boxes of printed material and approximately 2,500 books, notebooks and company reports, and 250 maps.
Ohio State University. University Archives. 169 Converse hall, 2121 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210, USA (contact: Raimund Goerler).
Papers of Richard H. Rapp, 1937-. Geodesy (research on earth s gravity field and earth measurement). Professor of geodetic science at Ohio State University (1964-1992), emeritus professor from 1992; used Ohio Supercomputer Center to process data from several million points on the earth to determine within 8 inches the position of the Geosat satellite. Papers include correspondence, presentations, and publications. Ca. 1964-1969. 22 cu. ft.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Archives. P.O. Box 4349 MS 82, Stanford, CA 94309, USA (contact: Jean Deken).
Papers of Max Dresden, 1918-1997. Physicist (statistical mechanics, superconductivity, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics). Stanford University professor emeritus. Also a historian of modern science, he researched, lectured and wrote about great scientists of the 1920s and 1930s. While a member of the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1964-1989) Dresden helped to found and served as executive director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. After retiring from Stony Brook, he moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where he continued research, teaching, and lecturing. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, research notes and drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts, including the biography of H.A. Kramers, and drafts and notes of lectures. 1924-1997. 32 cu. ft.
Stanford University. University Archives. Stanford, CA 94304, USA (contact: Margaret Kimball or Patricia White).
Additions to the papers of Robert Hofstadter, 1915-1990. Includes lab notebooks (1943-1955), book drafts and articles, papers concerning the Gamma Ray Observatory and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experimental Telescope, research files on angiography and other topics, and class preparation notes. Unprocessed. 24.5 lin. ft.
Papers of Arthur Schawlow, 1921-. Papers primarily document Schawlow s career at Stanford and include correspondence (1951-1995); lecture notes and class files (1980-1988) containing problem sets and solutions, exams, and other information; grant files; records from participation in professional societies; and reprints of his and his student s articles. Also includes materials pertaining to autism (1981-1989) including a typescript of "Our Autistic Son" by Aurelia T. and Arthur L. Schawlow. 1949-1995. 96 lin. ft.
University of California, San Diego. Archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. University of California, San Diego Mail Code C-075-C. La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, USA (contact: Deborah Day).
Papers of Nancy Amanda Bray, 1952-. Physical oceanographer. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; assistant to associate research oceanographer, (1982-1996); Director, Physical Oceanography Research Division, (1992-1996); CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: visiting scholar, (1996-1997), Chief of Division of Marine Research, (1997-present). The papers document Bray s education especially at Woods Hole Oceanography Institution and her research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Includes correspondence, reports, scientific papers, research notes, data, and material documenting major ocean circulations studies in the Strait of Gibraltar, the Gulf of California, the Gulf ofMexico, the Indonesian Archipelago and other areas. The papers include documentation of the Northern California Coastal Circulation Study (NCCCS). 1976-1997. 27 cu. ft.
Records of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scripps Industrial Associates (SIA). SIA was organized in 1969 and became inactive in 1991. Membership was by subscription and consisted of companies with an interest in geophysics and oceanography, including many petroleum companies. Member organizations were entitled to attend seminars at SIO which described the latest research findings in marine geology, geophysics, and oceanography. Membership fees were used to support graduate students and research in the SIO Geological Research Division. The records include correspondence, records of program manager John E. Bennett and administrator George Shor, records of member organizations, contributions and seminars. The records also include research proposals, membership files, and tape recordings of meetings and seminars. 1969-1991. 11.25 lin. ft.
Records of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Office of the Director. These records were generated by the office of the director during the administration of Edward A. Frieman and document all aspects of the administration of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography during that period. 1983-1998. 51 cu. ft.
University of Nevada, Reno. Library. Special Collections Department. (contact: Karen Gash).
Papers of Patrick Squires, 1914-1990. Meteorologist. Leading researcher in cloud-seeding and charter member of the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno s Desert Research Institute (1966-1977); director of Convective Storms Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1977. Contains records on cloud and weather data, correspondence, and material pertaining to the Atmospheric Sciences Center directorship. Closed until processed. 15 cu. ft.
University of Washington Libraries. University Archives. Mail Stop #0-10. Seattle, WA 98195, USA (contact: J. Karyl Winn).
Papers of Joseph Edmunds Henderson, 1901-1994. Physicist. Assistant, associate, and full professor, University of Washington (1929-1942), director Applied Physics Lab. (1943-1969). Correspondence, writings, reports, minutes, photographs, memorabilia, one videotape, clippings. Access restricted. 1935-1970. 29.33 cu. ft.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Archives. Mail Stop 8, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1539, USA (contact: Margot Garrett).
Papers of Henry M. Stommel, 1920-1992. Physical oceanographer (founder of the field of dynamical oceanography). Employed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) from 1944-1959 (with two leaves of absence), working first with Maurice Ewing and then with Jeffreys Wyman. Appointed professor at Harvard University (1960-1963) and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. of Meteorology (1963-). Stommel returned to WHOI in 1978. The collection is organized into nine series: biographical; correspondence; National Science Foundation; scientific experiments and expeditions; drafts of and research for article; book drafts; data; notebooks, lectures, exhibits; and book compilation materials. The collection reflects Stommel s varied scientific interests. A large portion of the collection consists of drafts and research for scientific books and articles, most of which he wrote after returning to WHOI in 1978. His correspondence, with scientific figures of the day, is wide-ranging. 1946-1996 (bulk 1970-1992). 11 record cartons, 3 boxes.


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Xbox 360
This is a split board - You can return to the Split List for other boards.
Why are there so many huge backlogs with so many total cheapskate gamers?
Gear is right though - I need to find a good chunk of time somewhere so I don't pop in one of my go-to, half hour games ^_^
Here's a thought:
Games are more important than subscriptions for a service which you don't use enough to make worth it's price of admission, especially when it's features are available for free elsewhere.
If I have to budget my entertainment purchases, games always go first.
And a system is only as good as the games you can get for it. It needs a lot of strong titles if it's going to sell at a higher price point than the standard.
And not all games are worth $60. Those that are, I get. Those that aren't, I get later. Games keep being released, I keep buying games, I get a backlog.
It's not rocket science.
Know that if you allow someone to take advantage of you, they might make it a habit.
ajzoot posted...
I don't even know where to start questioning the financial sensibilities of these people... Then there's the word backlog itself. Just a question, but does anybody that has ever experienced a proper job refer to having unplayed games as a backlog?
A backlog is an accumulation of something, not specifically work. Therefore it's a reasonable term to use here. What else would you call it?
I have a backlog of MS points I bought at half price recently. At my rate of spending I figure it'll last me a couple of years. If instead I chose to buy MSP when I want something later, it would cost me double. So which makes more financial sense, especially given that the cash I spent on MSP would earn roughly zero interest in a bank?
I bought games I wanted around Black Friday and Xmas which I haven't played yet, but I definitely will. Even now, not a single one of them is cheaper than what I paid.
My mad face and my happy face are the same.
I guess TC you have never experienced Steam holiday sales.
You end up buying the complete game series for cheaper than you can buy just the first title in that series. Combine several buys at once, or spread across the many sales. Anyone can gain a backlog, but it costs you next to nothing.
For $60 you can almost get a year`s worth of games, if you know what you are doing on Steam.
XBL GT: CoryStarkiller
SoF-Rambo posted...
I bought Star Wars: The Old Republic strictly for the statue (Collecters was $25.) The game is just sitting there, because I have no PC to play it on.
You and me both.
A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me...you didn't pay money for this.
http://tinyurl.com/45pdkzf http://oi48.tinypic.com/ip48x1.jpg http://oi40.tinypic.com/8x7i8o.jpg
What I never understood are people who buy a bunch of games full price and never play them... If I buy full price I play and beat it. The cheaper ones I play but I don't always finish them.
There's a guy who posts here who has every single disc release, all bought day 1... it confounds me as well.
Quote:gabrius posted...
Dude. Stop playing shmups and play them games!
Why? The shoot-em-ups are better and have far more replay value.
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what you are seeing is the difference between hardcore gamers and casual gamers.
hardcore gamers are the ones that don't have huge backlogs because they play everyday.
casual gamer play when they can..in between work, family, and other social activities...basically gaming is not at the center of the casual players universe...which is why they are called casual...they pick of the controller when it's convenient...
Hardcore gamers will be camped out for the 720 no matter how much it costs, because gaming is central to their lives.
casual gamers can afford to take their time, and wait for price drops because it's not THAT important to have the newest technology day 1...they don't even play that much. Think about it, would you be willing to pay $699 for the newest bowling ball when you only go once or twice a month?
People get offended when you call them casual as if it's a reflection of their gaming choices...when it really has to do with their gaming patterns
then their are just plain ole cheap folks who waste time equal to the money they save, and call it a deal...worse than women when they see the words S-A-L-E
The Closest You'll Ever Come to Afghanistan in Gaming...
^^ what an ignorant load of fail ^^


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Dirt-Cheap 3-D Spatial Audio
We tested the hardware design of our 3-D spatial audio system by integrating the hardware with our four-wall immersive virtual reality room at the Virtual Reality Laboratory, part of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. We arranged the speakers in a cube array and placed them at the corners of the immersive room, as shown in Figure 5. We designated a 1.2GHz Red Hat Linux machine as an audio server and installed an Audigy 2 ZS card. We connected the speakers using the cabling described before and tried the system both with and without the mixing board mentioned earlier.
While Mustajuuri was running with three audio sources in motion, CPU utilization on this machine generally was less than 20%, and the memory usage was negligible. Further savings could be realized, of course, by using optimized compiler settings rather than the debug settings we used.
We tested the outputs from each speaker to determine the range of intensities that could be played on each channel. We listened to each speaker individually for sound quality, sound balance and percussive resonance. The easiest aspect to listen for is the sound balance between treble and bass. If one of the two obviously is higher than the other, adjust the related frequency filters as needed. For example, if there is too much bass, decrease the bass and/or increase the treble. If there seems to be excessive low-end or high-end noise, adding a low-pass or high-pass filter may be necessary.
Another easy aspect to listen for is speaker distortion. Simply put, if the speakers are so loud that the sound produced is bad, lower the volume of the speaker. If a given set of speakers cannot produce quality sound at an acceptable volume, it may be necessary to acquire more powerful speakers.
One of the hardest aspects to listen for is the resonance of percussive sounds generated by a speaker. This quality basically is how much the sound echoes from where the speaker is located. Adjustments have to be made if it sounds like a speaker is reverberating with percussive sounds. Depending on the quality of the speaker and the quality of the mixer board, this problem may be corrected to some degree by continuing to filter the signal. For excessively bad cases, hard objects such as exposed metal, concrete, hard plastic and even glass should be covered with a sound dampening material such as cloth or foam.
Once each speaker is calibrated, the entire setup has to be balanced. This can be done either by using devices designed to measure acoustic levels or by listening to the speaker from the predetermined center of the 3-D speaker array. Either way, the gain of each speaker should be adjusted until the same audio intensity level is received from each channel. Keep in mind that the outputs for each channel of the audio card were customized by the manufacturer for the intensity requirements for each type of speaker—satellite, center and subwoofer—normally attached in a surround configuration, and the intensity output for each type differs. There are many published methods for dealing with this problem, but we went with the low-tech solution of having someone stand and listen at the center of our speaker array. We set the software control to maximum gain and adjusted the mixer board based on feedback from the listener. Remember that these changes can be made in software with the ALSA drivers and Mustajuuri if a mixer is not available.
We tested the software by integrating sound into an existing in-house simulation platform, BARS-Utopia, that operates on a Linux visualization cluster from ORAD Incorporated, which drives our immersive room. BARS-Utopia supports several virtual world databases, interaction methods and spatial audio. However, no support was available for interacting with the Mustajuuri API in particular, so we implemented a plugin to bridge the BARS-Utopia spatial audio support with Mustajuuri. BARS-Utopia already contains all of the information needed by Mustajuuri, such as sound source positions, listener position and orientation and sound source creating/deletion notifications—the plugin simply translates that data into a form that Mustajuuri understands.
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Never before had Chevron experienced such a situation, spokeswoman Carla Musser wrote in an email, adding that the company extends its condolences to the family of the man who died.
An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday but no findings, including the man's identity, had been released by Wednesday night.
The body of the veteran oil field construction representative had been retrieved Wednesday morning after what Chevron said was a 17-hour effort prolonged by difficult site conditions.
Chevron and a spokesman for the county Fire Department said the accident happened at about 10:50 a.m. Tuesday when the man and three other workers were doing routine work off Midoil Road in the Midway Sunset oil field.
"As the employees walked through the site, the ground beneath one employee gave way," Musser wrote in an email. "The employee fell several feet below ground level into a hole that contained steam and hot water. Efforts to help the fallen employee were not successful."
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Some people in the oil industry wondered Wednesday whether the sinkhole may have resulted from the use of steam injection, a decades-old oil recovery pioneered in Kern County.
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Musser said Chevron employs various technologies to make sure the ground is stable when using steam in an oil field.
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But in fact, there are three companies in that equation. Left mostly unsaid throughout the merger celebrations was exactly how Jobs would balance his new role as board member at Disney and his job as chief executive of Apple Computer.
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As Apple has moved into video distribution--using Disney content as its first centerpiece--those two companies' fates have become increasingly entwined. Some corporate governance experts say that puts Jobs in a deeply uncomfortable position, particularly as Apple and its rivals seek to distribute Disney and Pixar films online.
"It's like sitting on both sides of the table when negotiating," said B. Espen Eckbo, the director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Dartmouth University's business school. "The only issue is whether the degree of conflict of interest is large enough to raise a red flag."
This kind of interlocking board of directors is far from rare, but the phenomenon remains a serious concern for the advocates of corporate reform who have gained influence since the costly collapse of companies such as Enron and WorldCom in the early part of the decade.
No one argues that Jobs, Disney or Apple fall in the same category as companies whose executives have been indicted for fraud. But the worry is that Jobs--soon to be the largest Disney shareholder, along with his 1 percent share of Apple as chief executive--is taking on the difficult task of representing two separate sets of shareholders whose interests may not always be identical.
The most obvious flash point will be the development of Apple's iTunes video business. Jobs and Disney CEO Bob Iger launched this new service together late last year, with Disney-owned ABC Television content such as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost."
Though Apple has not disclosed its future plans for the service, it is widely expected to seek an expansion of the video service to provide feature films as well as television shows and music videos. The ability to distribute classic Disney and Pixar films to the video iPod or other future Apple devices would represent a coup for the computer company.
"The big picture is that obviously Apple is going to try and make an assault on the living room in 2007, and they need to increase the amount of content they are selling in order to make it work," said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
Indeed, in a press conference on Tuesday, Jobs was optimistic about the ability of the new Pixar-Disney match to distribute its content increasingly to new devices, although he stopped short of mentioning Apple or the iPod by name.
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Jobs may also be in a position to gain knowledge about his competitors such as Microsoft, with which Disney has intermittently had a close working relationship on issues such as digital rights management and digital content delivery.
Disney also has a long-term technology agreement with Hewlett-Packard, in which the computer maker provides the studio with a wide range of hardware. The two have done extensive
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- Think Again
- I don't think anyone has ever really thought about calling something a "Mickey Mouse" operation or product. The rodent made Walt and company millions, so I, for one, would be more than happy to be part of a Mickey Mouse operation.
I hope the Disney - Pixar merger brings more quality products to the public. Something really needed in todays entertainment world.
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- A bad article all around
- This article was weak and biased. Bottom line, Steve Jobs started
a company that was better at doing Disney's job than Disney
itself. Pixar was not the only asset that Disney got, they got one
of the most successful corporate leaders in the world. He now
has the largest private stock portfolio of Disney. To be honest,
Pixar had to be bought out before they were competing with
Disney. Giving Steve Jobs a reason to care about Disney's
fortunes is part of the end goal. Apple Computer (Under Jobs)
has innovated the distribution system for video. How is an
Apple/Disney alliance a conflict of interest? It isn't. It is
something for other companies to wish for upon a falling star.
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- I Agree.
- This seems to be the article's premise...
"Jobs has more influence than before, so you should all be wary of the evil/unfair things he might plan."
I think it's fine if Disney and Apple help each other, as long as they continue making good products.
On the other hand, if they squeeze out competition so they can stop innovating (ala MS I.E.), or squeeze out competition so they can price gouge (ala MS Office), then I will have a problem with their actions.
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- Jobs did not start Pixar,
- he bought it as an investment for $10 million. The company was in
in existence before Mr. Jobs bought it and if memory serves me
correctly was started by one George Lucas.
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- Apple/Disney Alliance
- The point of the article is that there is no Apple/Disney Alliance. It is Disney and Pixar that have merged.
So the shareholders in Apple and Disney have two different agenda.
Disney will want to make the most profit from their content while Apple for their Video distribution will want to but the content for the best price possible. If Steve Jobs is on both sides of the table during the discussions who will win? Will there be a bias? Will Apple's profitability be affected in the interest of growng Disney or will Disney's profitability be affected?
The heart of the matter is relevant, but I agree that it is badly presented.
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- He owns shares of both companies...
- ... as he owned shares of PIXAR and APPLE. JOB is probably doing what's best for him AND the companies. Apple and PIXAR are both his babies, he will try to do what is best for them. Disney buys PIXAR, so he should get some controll inside of DISNEY to keep his baby alive.
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- Or Apple/Disney lead the industry...
- Or maybe this is what's needed to get a 'traditional' industry off it's butt and moving in the right direction.
So what if the Apple/Disney relationship gets closer, everyone else seems to be sitting on their hands not really doing anything (just talking).
Perhaps they'll lead by example and we'll all be better off for it (including competing companies who will obviously waiting to follow any successful model Apple/Disney create because they can't come up with strategy on their own. And then they'll complain about conflict and fair terms for content and wah-wah-wahhhhh!!!!).
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- What about Sony?
- Take it one step further. Sony bought up a movie studio and
brought BMG Music on board as well. Rather than a conflict of
interest, this was supposed to be a brilliant move. It hasn't
worked out that well, of course.
Nevertheless, Sony/BMG definitely has mixed incentives in
negotiating with Apple and other companies that operate music
download services and make mp3 players, since it competes in
the same markets. It is not surprising that Sony is/was the big
holdout in Australia and Japan for getting music to the iTunes
music store. Sony would surely prefer to be the dominant
So, to me, if Jobs now sits on the Disney board, it is not such a
big deal. These sorts of alliances are not uncommon.
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- Re: Sony
- Agreed, the Sony electronics-music-film combination is far
more strangled together than the Apple-Disney situation.
Apple just won't get big discounts and such but if Disney treats
Apple equally fair with other tech company's then thats more
than enough. At least there won't be an exclusive contract with
MS over the content. :)
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- It started as the computer graphics division of Lucas Film...
- ...and Jobs did a buyout for 10 MUSD. You can read the history of PIXAR at http://www.pixar.com.
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all my friends siad if you bring her back they aint going to watch it because of what miley did gross?
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FORT KENT – Funding for the Canadian half of the new Fort Kent / Clair international bridge planned for next spring is "on the radar" but has not yet been approved, leading to the cancellation of last week's public meeting in Fort Kent that was called to gather input on final plans for the bridge design.
The bridge project is still in a design phase, however the process is different in New Brunswick than in the U.S., according to Sarah Ketcheson, communications director for the New Brunswick Department of Transportation.
"We can do the design work in advance of doing the funding," Ketcheson said. "It's still a project that is a priority. It's on the radar."
The budget for the N.B. transportation department, she said, depends on which projects are getting priority – however, it will most likely only be finalized next month.
Ketcheson also said the funds are allocated year to year, but once a project is approved, the budget for that project can extend over a number of years. The capital budget for the province comes out next month, she said, and then the province will announce its projects for the coming year.
The temporary hold on N.B. funding will not affect similar projects planned for the other ports of entry in the Valley, as work is only being scheduled for the U.S. side of those border crossings.
Maine Department of Transportation Project Manager Joel Kittredge said Monday that the recent budget review in N.B. may be due to the recent elections in that province, with new ministers coming into office and being faced with challenges.
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Kittredge contacted John Bannen, director of Economic and Community Development, on Monday, Nov. 29 to call off the planned public hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 30 in Fort Kent, due to the lack of confirmation that the other half of the price tag would be available. The hearing had been scheduled by the MDOT to seek public input on the bridge replacement and highway improvements at the intersection of the international bridge and Route 1.
MDOT planner Nathan Howard, at a business breakfast at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in mid-August, said that there are 400 bridges in Maine that are now structurally obsolete, and that obsolescence coupled with structural deficiency puts bridges higher on the priority list.
The Clair / Fort Kent bridge is one of four ports of entry that will receive upgrades, he said. The others are Van Buren, which will get a $31 million rebuild of the port-of-entry structure damaged in the 2008 flood, Madawaska, which will get a new $50 million port-of-entry station, and Hamlin, which has a $19.5 million border crossing project planned for next summer.
The Canadian funding for the project to replace the Fort Kent bridge, which was described by Kittredge in a planning meeting at UMFK last month as "functionally and structurally obsolete," was scheduled to cover half of the nearly $11 million cost, and may still be approved by the Canadian government.
Construction on the Fort Kent bridge is scheduled to begin in spring of 2011, about 30 feet downriver from where the bridge now stands.


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