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A vortex generator that extends from an inner surface of a housing. The vortex generator cooperates with an air flow generated by a rotating disk of the disk drive to create vortices. The vortices can remove contaminants located on the surface of a disk.
1. A housing for a hard disk drive, comprising:
a plate with an inner surface that has a vortex generator.
2. The housing of
3. The housing of
4. The housing of
5. A disk assembly of a hard disk drive, comprising:
a disk;
a spindle motor that rotates said disk and creates a flow of air;
a head that is coupled to said disk;
an actuator arm that is attached to said head; and,
a housing that is attached to said spindle motor and said actuator arm, said housing having a vortex generator that generates vortices in the air flow created by said rotating disk.
6. The disk assembly of
7. The disk assembly of
8. The disk assembly of
9. The disk assembly of
10. The disk assembly of
11. A method for removing contaminants from a disk of a hard disk drive, comprising:
generating vortices adjacent to a surface of the disk to remove a contaminant on the disk.
12. The method of
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a vortex generator integrated into a housing of a hard disk drive.
2. Background Information
Hard disk drives typically contain a plurality of hard disks that are rotated by a spindle motor. The hard disks spin relative to a plurality of heads. The heads can magnetize or sense the magnetic fields of the disk surfaces to store and retrieve binary information as is well known in the art. Each head typically has a write element to magnetize the disk and a separate read element to sense the magnetic field of the disk. The read element is typically constructed from a magneto-resistive material that linearly varies with changing magnetic flux. This type of head is commonly referred to as a MR head.
Each head is typically gimbal mounted to a suspension arm. A head and suspension arm are commonly referred to as a head gimbal assembly (HGA). The suspension arms are attached to an actuator arm that can pivot about a base plate of the drive. The actuator arm has a voice coil that is connected to a drive circuit (not shown) and coupled to a magnet assembly. The voice coil and magnet assembly are commonly referred to as a voice coil motor. The drive circuit provides a current which excites the voice coil motor and causes the actuator arm to rotate about the base plate. Rotation of the actuator arm moves the heads relative to the surfaces of the disks. Data is typically stored on the disk within annular tracks. Movement of the heads allows the drive to access the different disk tracks.
The heads have an air bearing surface that cooperates with the air flow created by the rotating disks to generate an air bearing. The air bearing prevents mechanical contact between the head and disk surface to eliminate mechanical wear of the head transducers.
It has been found that contaminants such as dust particles will deposit onto the surfaces of the disks. The contaminants create asperities which may come into contact with the heads. This contact will create instabilities in the system. There have been developed filter systems to prevent contaminants from becoming deposited onto the disks. The filter systems are constructed to prevent deposition of contaminants. The filters are typically integrated into the housing of the disk drive. These systems do not actively remove contaminants already on the disks, or prevent deposition of contaminants in close proximity to the disk surfaces.
One embodiment of the present invention is a vortex generator that extends from an inner surface of a housing. The vortex generator cooperates with an air flow generated by a rotating disk of the disk drive to create vortices. The vortices can remove contaminants located on the surface of a disk.
FIG. 1 is a top view of an embodiment of a hard disk drive of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side view of the hard disk drive with a vortex generator.
Referring to the drawings more particularly by reference numbers, FIGS. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of a hard disk drive 10 of the present invention. The disk drive 10 may include a spindle motor 12 that is mounted to a base plate 14. The spindle motor 12 rotates one or more disks 16. The disks 16 rotate relative to an actuator arm assembly 18. The actuator arm assembly 18 includes a plurality of head gimbal assemblies 20 that are attached to an actuator arm 22. Each head gimbal assembly 20 may include a head 24 that is gimbal mounted to a suspension arm 26. Each head 24 is magnetically coupled to a disk surface 28. The disks 16 and actuator arm assembly 18 may be enclosed by a cover plate 30 that is attached to the base plate 14. The cover 30 and base 14 plates form a disk drive housing 32. The disk drive 10 may also have a filter (not shown) to remove particles located within the drive.
Each head 24 may include a write element (not shown) and a read element (not shown) that are coupled to an electronic circuit(s) (not shown). The circuit and read/write elements can magnetize and sense the magnetic field of each disk surface 28 to store and retrieve data within the disk drive. The data is typically stored within sectors that extend along annular tracks of the disks 16. Each head 24 typically includes an air bearing surface which cooperates with an air flow 34 (see FIG. 2) created by the rotating disks 16 to create an air bearing between the head 24 and the disk surface 28. The air bearing prevents contact and wear between the disks 16 and the heads 24.
Referring to FIG. 1, the actuator arm 22 may include a plurality of individual actuator beams 36 that are separated by a slot 38 which allow the disks 16 to spin between the beams 36. The actuator arm 22 may be pivotally mounted to the base plate 14 by a bearing assembly 40 as shown in FIG. 1.
The actuator arm 22 may further have a voice coil portion 42 that supports a voice coil 44. The voice coil 44 may be coupled to a magnet assembly 46 and a driver circuit (not shown). When excited by the driver circuit the voice coil 44 cooperates with the magnet assembly 46 to create a torque that swings the actuator arm 22 relative to the base plate 14. The pivotal movement of the actuator arm 22 moves the heads 24 across the disk surfaces 28 to access different tracks of the disks 16.
As shown in FIG. 2, the housing 32 may have a vortex generator 50 that cooperates with the air flow 34 to create vortices 52. The vortices 52 create a turbulent air flow that may impinge upon the disk surface 28 and remove contaminants on the disk 16. The dislodged contaminants may then be removed by the filter system of the disk drive 10. Additionally, the vortices 52 may prevent contaminants from being deposited on the disk 16.
In one embodiment, the vortex generator 50 includes a first inclined surface 54 that is upstream of the air flow 34 and a second inclined surface 56 that is downstream from the flow of air. The second surface 56 may intersect the first inclined surface 54 at a ridge 58. As shown more clearly in FIG. 1, the vortex generator 50 may extend along essentially the entire radius of the disk. It being desirable to generate vortices at least along the data portion of the disk 16.
It is desirable to design a vortex generator 50 with a height h, a first inclined angle θ and a second inclined angle φ for a generator located a distance x from the heads of the drive. By way of example, the first inclined angle may be approximately 30 degrees, the second inclined angle may be approximately 45 degrees and the height may be approximately 1.5 millimeters (mm) for distance x of approximately 40-55 mm. Such an arrangement will create vortices that flow adjacent to the surface of the disk.
The vortex generator 50 may extend from the base plate 14, the cover plate 30, or both plates 14 and 30. The generator 50 provides a passive means to remove and prevent contaminant deposition on the disk 16.
While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that this invention not be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art.
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3. Frederick (11-0) — Bombers scored 56 points in first half of playoff opener as Trevor Flores now has 45 TD passes.
4. Throckmorton (8-1) —Greyhounds have already beaten bi-district playoff opponent Rotan once this season — 78-40 in the opener.
5. Notre Dame (8-0) — Only three of Knights' games haven't been called early by 45-point rule.
6. Nocona (9-0) — Indians fend off gritty Henrietta to claim first 10-0 mark since 1930.
7. Graham (9-1) — Steers record third shutout and enter playoffs on seven-game winning streak.
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The Chicago Police Department is now the subject of a federal Justice Department investigation into its interrogation practices in at least one case that dates back more than 25 years, 60 MINUTES has learned. The case involves juveniles who were as young as 14 years old. Now, after serving lengthy jail times, they tell Byron Pitts they were picked up on the streets, isolated from their parents and in some cases held for days by the police, who they say forced false confessions from them under harsh interrogations. Pitts' report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Dec. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
"Everything in that confession was fed to us, and myself and my co-defendants by the police," Terrill Swift tells Pitts. He signed a 21-page confession in 1994 admitting to a murder and rape of a 30-year-old prostitute that resulted in a 30-year sentence. Watch a clip here!
"You are being cuffed up and beat on by the police... they can get you to do what they want you to do,'' says Robert Taylor, who would sign a confession in another case that resulted in being jailed for more than 19 years.
Defense attorneys point out that Chicago has had twice as many false confession cases that have been documented than any other city in the country. This year seven men, including Swift and Taylor, were exonerated by a Chicago court of murder and rape charges. It was charged that Chicago police may have coerced confessions out of some of them when they were teenagers. Those men are now free and were given certificates of innocence, but not before they had spent nearly 20 years in jail for crimes they did not commit.
This happens all too often in Chicago, says Peter Neufeld, the co-founder of The Chicago Innocence Project. "Quite simply, what Cooperstown is to baseball, Chicago is to false confessions. It is the Hall of Fame," Neufeld says. "There are more juvenile confessions in Chicago than anyplace else in the United States… It's not because the kids are different… it's because of the way the police keep pounding and pounding and pounding away in those interrogation rooms," he tells Pitts.
Former Cook County Prosecutor Bob Milan says for the first time that he is now convinced some of the convictions his office made were based on false confessions obtained by Chicago Police. "I didn't believe people would confess to rape and murder of a woman. You know, just didn't believe it," Milan tells Pitts. "But based on my experiences, I found it did happen."
It happened in Taylor's case, one Milan was involved in as a young prosecutor. Taylor and his teenage defendants, James Harden and Jonathan Barr, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison based on false confessions obtained by the police.
Milan says it still haunts him that he did not examine the confessions given by some of the defendants at the time - confessions that resulted in their convictions.
"These young men lost a lot of good lives. I was part of it, I didn't mean it, I never would have done that intentionally, but it doesn't make it any easier," he tells Pitts. "There's nothing worse as a prosecutor than playing a role in sending an innocent person or people to prison for many years. There's nothing worse."
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez tells Pitts that she is aware of the federal investigation into one of the cases and is cooperating with their probe. Recently, she has established a new unit within her office to reexamine questionable prosecutions, but defends the action of the police in these cases. "We have not uncovered any evidence of any misconduct, by the police officers or the state's attorneys, that took the statements in these cases,'' she says.
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Julie's tweet adds to what co-exec Kevin Williamson recently shared about having a copy of the script for Season 4, Episode 1 in his hands, and now we're really riled up about the show's October 11 return. From Elena (Nina Dobrev)as a vampire to Klaus (Joseph Morgan) in Tyler's (Michael Trevino) body to Bonnie (Kat Graham) potentially going to the dark side, the new season promises to bring lots of drama for Mystic Falls.
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Subject: Re: [vox] is this too much? [GIS mapping]
I'm a geographer who tries to work mostly with open source GIS tools
though it's hard to avoid ESRI (makers of Arcinfo) altogether.
Briefly: the best catalogue of open source GIS resources is the FreeGIS
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Big Brother: National Biometrics in IsraelDec 30th, 2009 | By Innovya follow-up | Category: News
Interior Ministry officials will be authorized to collect the Biometric data – fingerprints and facial contours – of all residents for the purpose of issuing identity cards, passports or other official documents.
As with similar identity regimes in Australia and elsewhere (eg the latest generation of Australian passports), those documents will feature a microprocessor (ie a chip similar to those used in some credit cards and perimeter access cards) that will contain data based on the individual's fingerprints (two fingers) and facial geometry, eg a unique hash generated from an image of the person's face rather than the image itself. Biometric and other information on the databases will be matched with registration information on national databases. That would permit an official to determine, for example, that the photo on an identity document corresponds to the bearer's face but that the individual is using another name and therefore is engaging in an identity offence.
As yet I haven't sighted the legislation. From media reports it appears that the government has mollified some critics through a statutory commitment to establish two discrete databases: one including the card-bearer's name and the other featuring data from the individual's fingerprints and the face. The databases will be established and maintained in two separate ministries and "will be linked by a code". There seem to be no official statements about sharing data with the private sector.
The 'splitting' of initial plans for a central database was an addition to the draft legislation in November, promoted as a safety measure -
so that anyone managing to penetrate one data bank would have only part of the information and it would be meaningless without the information from the other data bank.
The Chair of the Knesset Science & Technology Committee claimed -
The protection provided for this data bank is among the best in the world. It is protected at a level of 11 on a scale of one to 10
… which sounds impressive but is arguably meaningless. (What's an '11′ when the scale ends at '10′? The Bill's sponsor subsequently explained that "if the databases of the Mossad, the Shin Bet and the Prime Minister's Office are currently protected at a level of 10, then this one will be protected at a level of 11″.)
Debate about development of the new regime featured the usual claims. A government spokesperson claimed that "there are 350,000 people living in Israel with fraudulent documents including tens of thousands with forged passports" and that forgery of the 'smart' documents will be impossible.
One former police executive offered an exceptionalist argument, commenting that -
in a normal state that does not face the enemies we face, there is no need for such a system. But here we are in an intolerable situation, facing internal and external enemies. The ease with which current Israeli documents can be forged is an enormous problem.
[Identity documents] are so easily faked. For us, this is an existential issue. There are thousands of people walking around with fake IDs or with no IDs whatsoever. Some are criminals, and others are hostile elements. You would not believe how many suspects we have found who changed their identities to hide previous convictions. Many identities have also been stolen.
He noted that the danger of official misuse of information is present with existing databases.
Critics expressed concern that information will be leaked or misused, eg "Criminals could steal fingerprint information and use it to incriminate innocent people". Likud Minister Michael Eitan indicated that -
Not only will the system threaten the privacy of all Israelis, but even worse, it will create an atmosphere in which everyone will feel their privacy is being invaded….
Eitan was not however planning to vote against the law. (???!!!)
Implementation of the law involves a two year trial period, during which participation in the biometric database/s will be voluntary. Three months prior to the end of trial, the government will formally re-assess the regime's effectiveness, with the Prime Minister and Interior minister reporting to a special ministerial committee and to a Knesset committee. If the trial is deemed successful, Interior Ministry officials will be mandated to collect the biometric information without consent. The legislation allows some wriggle room: the Interior Minister will be empowered to extend the trial by an additional two years after provision of the reports, with a requirement that a 'final decision' must be made within four years after initiation of the databases.


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Consider the request from the Trump Organization to rename Ocean Trails Drive, Trump National Drive.
The City has a request from the Trump Organization to rename Ocean Trails Drive, Trump National Drive. In a May 19, 2004 letter, see attached, the Trump Organization explains that they are underway with a program to have references of Ocean Trails renamed.
On January 7, 2003 the City Council adopted City Council Policy Number 37, regarding the naming of public facilities and placing of monuments and other memorials. Included in that policy are the following policy matters:
Respectively submitted,
Dean E. Allison
Director of Public Works
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Les Evans, City Manager
May 19, 2004 Correspondence from Trump National Golf Course
City Council Policy Number 37
SUBJECT: Naming of Public Facilities and Placing of Monuments and Other Memorials
It shall be the policy of the City Council to name City facilities in the following manner:
The policy of the City is to name facilities in a manner that will provide an easy and recognizable reference to the City's residents and visitors.
Whenever possible, City facilities will be named for their geographic location. The geographic location may be based on the identification of the facility with a specific place, neighborhood, street, topographic or other natural feature, such as a drainage course, tree or plant species, or historical precedent.
The naming of City facilities in honor of individuals or community organizations will be a rare event, and will be considered under the following conditions: The individual, a family or a community organization has made exceptional contributions to the City, including one or more of the following: a) financial gifts, b) public service as an elected official,
c) public service as a community volunteer, or d) long term sponsorship agreements.
There should be a well-defined connection between the contributions of the individual or community organization and the City facility.
The significance of the contribution from the individual/organizations needs to be evaluated in relation to the impact of the City facility. Individuals and organizations that have made contributions of regional or community-wide significance may be considered for naming of facilities that serve the entire City. Individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to a particular area or neighborhood may be considered for the naming of facilities that serve these areas or neighborhoods within the City, including recreational and other amenities within City parks.
Only a current Mayor or City Councilmember may nominate an individual to have a City facility named in his or her honor, and the determination will be made by the City Council.
City policy does not preclude additional opportunities for recognition that may be created in the future. For instance, the Point Vicente Interpretive
Center is planned to include exhibits that may be funded by individual or corporate donations. Recognition of such donations may include a donor wall within the Interpretive Center, or recognition of a contributor's sponsorship of a specific exhibit.
It shall be the policy of the City Council to allow the placing of monuments and other memorials on City properties under the following guidelines:
Monuments in honor or in memory of persons may be permitted, in rare cases, on City property with permission of the City Council under the following conditions:
Benches or trees in honor or in memory of deceased persons may be placed in City parks, or other City spaces, at the discretion of the City Manager under the following conditions:
It shall be the policy of the City Council to establish a "Wall of Honor" under the following guidelines:
The Wall of Honor will memorialize the names of distinguished community leaders who have made substantial contributions to the City of Rancho Palos Verdes under the following conditions:
1. Persons nominated for the "Wall of Honor" shall have been dedicated community leaders who have contributed significantly to the quality of life offered by the City and realization of the vision expressed in the original General Plan. The honoree must have had a significant presence in the community throughout a good portion of their life and should have made notable impacts on sustaining the quality of life of the residents of Rancho Palos Verdes.
The City of Rancho Palos Verdes has lacked a uniform policy to assist the City Council and to guide staff in the naming of City facilities, including parks and open space areas, buildings, streets and other public amenities. In addition, there have been no formal policies or guidelines for honoring City leaders, nor for memorializing persons whose loved ones simply want to provide a remembrance in the form of a bench or tree.
Although the City has had no formal policy for naming public facilities and sites in honor of persons, there are precedents. Fred Hesse Park and Community Center is named for a City founder, Robert Ryan Park is named for a former Mayor and Councilmember and Vanderlip Park is named for an original Peninsula landowner. There is a GPS monument at Portuguese Point named in honor of Dr. Perry Ehlig. There is a trail below Ocean Terrace Drive known as the McBride Trail in honor of the man who constructed it. There are also three small memorials, one near Ladera Linda Community Center, one at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center and the other near Inspiration Point that honor persons who died prematurely. Finally, there have been numerous requests from individuals to install park benches or plant trees in memory of deceased loved ones, many of which have been granted.
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Basketball Pick: Michigan vs. Michigan State
- Updated: January 25, 2014
Matchup: Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans
Date/Time: January 25th, 7:00 ET
Television: ESPN
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One of the Big Ten's oldest rivalries will commence when the Michigan State Spartans play host to the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday night at 7:00 ET on ESPN inside the Jack Breslin Student Events Center. The Wolverines got the best of the Spartans 58-57 in the last meeting on March 3rd, 2013 in Ann Arbor.
Michigan comes into this game at 14-4 SU winners in nine of its last 10 contests. The No. 21 Wolverines pulled a small upset on Wednesday night as they defeated the No. 10 Iowa Hawkeyes 75-67 at home to run their conference record to a perfect 6-0 on the year. Michigan's top performer was G Nik Stauskas who had 26 points, five rebounds, and five assists in the win. The sophomore is averaging 18.0 points and 3.8 assists per game for the Wolverines who got their eighth straight victory Wednesday. Michigan F Glenn Robinson III chipped in 14 points and nine boards making it three straight games in which he scored in double figures and posted at least seven rebounds. The Wolverines come into this contest just 2-3 ATS on the road this season, but have covered two of their three conference road games. Michigan is 9-6-1 ATS overall this season as they're trying to keep stringing wins together to improve their ranking. It's a tall order to ask the Wolverines to cover, much less beat two Top 10 teams in a matter of four days, but that is what they are trying to accomplish against arch-rival Michigan State in this one.
Michigan State is having an outstanding season at 18-1 SU and it plays in front of one of the most raucous crowds in all of the Big Ten who will surely be amped up to see rival Michigan. The No.3 ranked Spartans held off a serious threat from the Indiana Hoosiers on Tuesday as they escaped with a 71-66 win on their home floor. Sophomore G Gary Harris had a big night for Sparty putting up 24 points and was on fire making four of his six three point attempts. Harris is Michigan State's leading scorer averaging 18.3 points per game. The Spartans have not been great at covering spreads at home they're just 4-5 ATS to this point. The last time Michigan State hosted Michigan it turned into a blood bath for the Wolverines who were blown out 75-52 on February 12th, 2013. Harris was a key player for the Spartans in that game scoring 17 points and he will need to do that again if his team is to prevail on Saturday.
We expect to see a back and forth competitive basketball game from both sides in this one. Michigan State's inability to cover spreads at home has us just a little more than worried about their chances of beating a fired up Michigan squad. Look for the Wolverines to get another big performance from Stauskas and Robinson III to pull another upset on Saturday and keep a perfect record in the conference. b>Michigan 76 – Michigan State 75
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Just what the people of Haiti did not need. There was another earthquake in Haiti yesterday, an aftershock which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale.
This was the strongest aftershock yet from last week's devastating 7.0-magnitude quake.
More here: Haiti Earthquake
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Port-au-Prince and was 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) below the surface.
Last week's horrific temblor killed about 200,000 people in Haiti, left 250,000 hurt and mleft about 1.5 million homeless.
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guage, and geography of ethnic minority groups, including those who live in the grassland areas; these series include (1) an introduction to the minority nationalities of China; (2) introductions to each of the autonomous areas (regions, prefectures, and counties); (3) histories of each minority group; (4) introductions to the language of each minority group; and (5) social science research carried out in the 1950s, but not previously released. Material from the first series has been condensed and translated into English (Ma Yin, 1989). Items from the second, third, and fifth series, which have provided many valuable historical records, research reports, and current statistics related to the grasslands, appear in the second section of the references.
During this period, Chinese scholars and experts in four fields or disciplines have contributed to the study of grasslands:
Natural scientists, working in institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, local academies and universities, especially in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, geography, and grassland construction, have published research in university and academic journals. (Scholarship in the natural sciences is reviewed in Chapters 2–7.)
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Economists in universities, institutes under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and local academies of social sciences, have published studies related to grassland areas that have appeared in university and academic journals. During the first three decades of the People's Republic (1949–1979), economists in China adhered to Marxist economic theories and focused on problems posed by Soviet-style central planning. They studied issues such as the efficient allocation and distribution of resources or ways to organize a command economy, while ignoring questions raised by Western economics, such as household production strategies, risk management, allocation of labor, and the role of competitive markets and prices. Around 1980, this situation began to change. During the past 10 years, Western economic theories and methodologies have been introduced into China and applied to the study of the Chinese economy. Because this period has been brief, however, publications of this type remain limited in both quantity and quality.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Somewhere lost along the way of the James Harden talk and the chemistry and temperature of the Thunder, there are some real issues that need to be addressed. Like when is this team going to start holding onto the ball? But maybe it doesn't even matter. Twenty turnovers against Atlanta, 17 against Toronto and a ridiculous average of more than 17 per game so far through four games this season. A season ago, Oklahoma City was last in the league in turnovers, last in the league in assists and made it all the way to the NBA Finals. So why would anything change this year? After all, it's essentially the same group who made it through Dallas, Los Angeles and San Antonio in the playoffs, minus Harden, of course. The Thunder rank 24th in the league in turnovers, up from last year's 16.3 per game, and 26th in the league in opponent's turnovers, benefitting from just 13.3 per game. "Definitely, we have to stop turning the ball over," coach Scott Brooks said. "It's tough...
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Argentina fielded a weakened team but still eased to a 2-0 win over Slovenia, before heading to Brazil for what many expect to be a strong challenge for the FIFA World Cup.
Ricardo Alvarez scored the first goal and Lionel Messi added the second off the bench as coach Alejandro Sabella chose to give breaks to a number of his leading stars. Sabella decided against starting with Messi, Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel di Maria and the decision did not cost him.
Alvarez quickly put Argentina ahead when, in the 11th minute, he scored from the edge of the penalty area. Maxi Rodriquez then had a chance with a long-range shot, before the same man hit the post.
Sabella made changes in the second half and sent on Messi, from which point the Barcelona man took control. He put in Real Madrid's Di Maria who in turn crossed to Aguero. The Manchester City striker flicked a header to Messi and he wrapped things up.
"We have a great group and team, a World Cup is very tough and we will have to fight a lot for it," Messi said. "We arrive with the right age, with most of us playing in the best leagues of Europe for years. Winning it is our target, but it will be very hard."


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Nick Jonas might be the youngest of the Jonas Brothers, but he's the first one to attempt a solo career without his brothers backing him up. What's more impressive is the fact that Jonas' new band, called Nick Jonas & The Administration, is made up of three members of Prince's band, The New Power Generation, as well as the JoBros' producer, John Fields. Is he going to become the artist formerly known as Nick Jonas?? Or maybe he'll start Prince-ifying song titles like "Can't Have U" and "Time 4 Me 2 Fly." We can only hope!
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The Sustainable Territorial Development Committee of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, meeting at the Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, on 24 June 2009, with Anne-Marie Chavanon in the Chair:
1. Adoption of the agenda [CONF/TER(2009)OJ3]
adopted the agenda as it stood.
2. Approval of the synopsis of the meeting held on 28 April 2009 [CONF/TER(2009)SYN2]
adopted the synopsis as it stood.
3. Contributions made for the committee or the INGO Conference
3.1 European Landscape Award
was informed, by the Chair, panel member for the INGO Conference, of the aims, procedures and criteria for conferring the European Landscape Award;
was informed of the entries submitted and took note of the fact that the winners could not be announced until after they had been approved by the Committee of Ministers.
3.2 International symposium of the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning (CEMAT)
heard Patrice Collignon's report on the symposium and the meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials which were held in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 15 and 16 June 2009 on "A comprehensive approach to balanced sustainable spatial development of the European continent" in preparation for the Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning to be held in Moscow in 2010;
noted that three members of the committee had spoken at this symposium: Anne-Marie Chavanon, for the INGO Conference, during the opening session, Robert Lafont and Patrice Collignon in their capacity as experts, one on behalf of IFHP (International Federation for Housing and Planning) on the subject "How to reconcile the growth of metropolitan areas with balanced territorial development on a wider scale?", and the other on behalf of the RED (International Association "Rurality-Environment-Development") on "innovative approaches to comprehensive, balanced and sustainable territorial development". Patrice Collignon had provided three examples of the integrated approach: Roufach (France), la Maremma (Italy) and Bekerich (Luxembourg).
4. Committee projects
4.1 Survey of substandard housing
discussed the progress report presented by Anne-Marie Chavanon on behalf of the IFHP and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), following the work begun by the NGO-Towns Grouping;
noted the wide range of approaches adopted by the different countries and local authorities with regard to substandard housing and agreed on the need to channel the efforts of all public and private partners into tackling this growing cause of exclusion.
4.2 2009 European Local Democracy Week (12-18 October 2009)
held an exchange of views with Jos Lemmers, Head of the Department for Democratic Participation, on possible participation by the NGOs;
took note of the activities developed by NGOs represented on the committee and specialising in local democracy.
4.3 Biodiversity at global level: possible action in 2010
discussed the action to be taken in preparation for a major event on the subject of biodiversity in 2010;
heard Edith Wenger explain the importance of this issue for the European continent;
set up a working group consisting of Jean-Pierre Ribaut, Patrice Collignon, Malou Weirich, Heleen Jansen, Jean-Philippe Durrenberger, Noel Orsat, Danièle Levy, Monique Bouaziz, Gérard Valette, François-Xavier Goettel, Françoise Ferrey, Georg Mäschig and Anne-Marie Chavanon under the leadership of Edith Wenger.
5. Working tools being developed
5.1 duly noted the progress made on the committee blog;
5.2 discussed the Who's Who directory being developed by Georg Mäschig, Vice-Chair, to facilitate communication between committee members.
6. Next meeting
Members were reminded that the next meeting would be held on 30 September 2009, in Strasbourg, from 9 am to 12.30 pm. This second session, focusing on governance, would deal with "participation tools".
"This is an unadopted draft document. Under no circumstances shall it be considered binding on the persons referred to therein.".
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Ch. 2 Locating Rhymes in Society 23
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Ch. 4 Wanksta Feminism: Reinforcing the Stereotypes 89
Ch. 5 In Search of the True Bards 113
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She was born Oct. 17, 1928, in Chicago. According to a biography on Gebauer's website, she earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Northwestern University. In the 1950s, Gebauer moved to Seattle with her husband, Fred, who worked at Boeing. She taught Spanish at a junior high school.
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