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The Tykes struggled to create chances and extended their winless run at Oakwell to six games with Jermaine Beckford's goal late in the first-half enough for a 1-0 Town win.
Hill said: "It's not about the performance, it's about the result.
"Again, the performance was lacking penetration and I think it's obvious to everyone why we're not winning games and we're losing games. I just want to focus on one thing and it's definitely the result."
"The players are suffering with a lack of confidence. It looks like that, but we've got to pick them up and they've got to pick themselves up. We've got to play with that self-belief; that energy.
"I'm not too disappointed about the performance; it's a results driven business. The players have got to accept the challenges and have got to be able to express themselves with a freedom and no fear. They've got to forget about the pressures of the situation.
"The brain is the athlete and sometimes it plays tricks with your ability and I think we witnessed a little bit of that today."

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UKAYRoC 2008 Finalists
On Thursday 28th February the finalists of UKAYRoC were announced.
UKRA would like to congratulate all the teams who took part in the challenge and wish luck to the 20 teams who have go through to the fly-off which will be held on Friday 28th March at the UK Space conference.
The team who are through to the fly-offs are:
342 (Ealing & Brentford) SQN, Chiswick
Beaumont School, St Albans, Herts
Coombeshead College (Team 1), Newton Abbot
Coombeshead College (Team 2), Newton Abbot
Costessey High School (Team 2), Norwich
Crofton School (Team 1), Portsmouth
Crofton School (Team 2), Portsmouth
Dinnington Comprehensive School (Team 1), Sheffield
Harrogate Grammar, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Holy Wells High School, Ipswich
Horsforth Secondary School, Horsforth, Leeds
Keighley Guides, Keighley
Lancaster School, Leicester
Loreto College, Coleraine, Belfast
Royal Liberty School, Essex
Salt Grammar School, Baildon, Bradford
Shipston High School, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire
Thornton Grammar (Team 1), Bradford
Thornton Grammar (Team 2), Bradford
Wootton Bassett School, Wiltshire
The winning 2008 UKAYRoC TEAM will win an all expenses paid trip to the USA to attend the Team America Rocketry Challenge Finals at Great Meadow, in The Plains, Virginia, USA on May 14-18th, 2008.
Schools and youth groups who are interested in taking part in next years challenge please contact the UKAYRoC Help Desk


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Call of Pripyat Complete is the third entry in the Complete mod series, which is a set of modifications created by professional artists dedicated to enhancing the production quality of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series. The Complete mod series emphasize on improving the original graphics, sound, and atmosphere of each game while preserving the core game elements. Built upon the success of Stalker Complete 2009, which was downloaded by one in every five S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl players, this entry in the Complete mod series is the cumulative culmination of the series' achievements in aesthetically updating the game without changing the original story or gameplay. Designed to meet the desires of new players and veterans alike, Call of Pripyat Complete unleashes the full potential of the latest, climactic chapter in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R and the Complete mod series.
The 1.0.1 version will have a choice of running the mod in Lite and Full mode. The Lite version is designed to stay within original game's hardware requirements...
ArtitstPavel wrote on his Website that he has done the newest versions, but doesn´t know when to release them. He wrote that at 3rd april 2011
Stop whacking those poor scripts - a clean solution to the crash people installing the 1.0.1 LITE experience after the cut-scene of Jupiter Underground.


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First off can you tell the good people who you are ? Record, gym, style, sponsors etc. and where, when and who are you fighting next ?
Hi, my name's Mark Connor, pro record 7/8/1, fighting out of the Griphouse gym/DNFT, my style is "awkward bastard" and my next fight is April 13th on CageWarriors 53 in Glasgow, against Joe Lawrence.
How did you get into Martial arts?
When I was 8 years old, a ninja broke into my house and killed my family. He took me away and raised me as his own, teaching me the way of the ninja.
Favorite martial arts film? And why?
Enter the dragon, because it's just better than all the others.
Are you excited to be fighting for one of the largest promotions in Europe right here in your back garden ?
Yes, CageWarriors is superb and it's always nice to fight on shows who set the standard that others aspire to. The Kelvin Hall is a great venue and I get to spend the night before the fight in my own bed.
How often do you train on the run up to a fight?
9/10 sessions split over 6 days a week.
What sort of weight do you cut? Do you follow any of the major brands of MMA diet (Dolche etc)
The actual water cut could be upto 5kg, the total loss upto 10.
What does your post weigh in meals consist off?
What area of your game do you obsess over ?
As a coach with your experience can you give .
Best advice for an arm chair MMA enthusiast, looking to get into the sport?
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Any final words. Sponsors, FB , twitter
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Country star Miranda Lambert and her fiancé Blake Shelton are grieving over the loss of their dog Steve, who died suddenly on Saturday.
"Please send prayers to our family. We lost our puppy steve yesterday in an accident. He is happy in heaven now," the singer shared on Twitter Sunday, the same day she performed in Sweet Home, Ore., at the 18th Annual Oregon Jamboree.
Lambert, an animal lover who recently adopted a teacup Chihuahua that she found in an Oklahoma Dumpster, posted a picture of Steve on Twitter with the message "R.I.P. My Sweet Angel."
Shelton was clearly very upset by the incident. "Worst day for me in a longtime. Rest in peace Steve...." he wrote on Twitter Aug. 1.
The engaged couple are grateful for the outpouring of support they've received since the dog's death. "Thanks for all ur thoughts and prayers for Blake and I about Steve. And thanks to the most amazing place ever. Sweet Home Oregon," Lambert wrote.
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Chubbock, Idaho
DETAILSLate in the evening on November 6, 2013, or early in the morning on November 7, 2013, three meetinghouses for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) were vandalized in Chubbock, Idaho, near Pocatello. The subject(s) drew several male genitalia on the exterior walls, sidewalks and doors of the churches and wrote several phrases including, "Brigham Young was a rapist," "Sheepole," "Die Mormans," "Burn in Hell," and "Burn!" The subject(s) also drew several inverted crosses on the church buildings and around the church grounds.
REWARDThe FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrests and convictions of the person(s) responsible for the damage to the LDS church buildings.
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the FBI Boise, Idaho, office at 208-344-7843, or the Chubbock Police Department at 208-237-7172, or your local FBI office , or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
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software transfer tiger to leopard- lost dvds!
I've recently purchased a Macbook Pro with Leopard (10.5.2). I have an older desktop running Tiger 10.4.11 and I'm trying to get Final Cut Studio 2 from one computer to the other. I've lost the installation disks. Is there a way, using an external hard drive, to transfer my applications? A friend told me to drag the application from the application menu directly into my external hard drive, and then copy it to my Macbook Pro. This doesn't work for me. Am I missing certain files that need to be transfered? I'm not a Mac person yet, I'm just getting into Macs!
Thank you for your advice!
You may well have to look out for CS3 which is reported to be Leopard compatible as Adobe have advised CS2 will not be updated. Here is a link to Apple Discussions.
Maybe you could try dragging CS2 to the desktop and burning on to a DVD and seeing if this will install?
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By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 18, 2010 The nation's top military officer discussed issues of military policy, strategy and the costs of war with a Harvard University audience here yesterday evening.
"The logic of war is unforgiving -- and not always logical at that -- and may require policymakers to alter their strategic objectives or change their military approach," Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told his audience. Celebrating its 375th anniversary next year, Harvard is the nation's oldest institution of higher learning.
Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a graduate of Harvard Business School's advanced management program, addressed a gathering of about 400 traditional and mid-career graduate students, undergraduates, faculty and members of the public during a John F. Kennedy School of Government Forum.
The United States was emerging from the Gulf War when he completed the advanced management program at Harvard in 1991, Mullen said. Since then, he said, the armed forces have been involved in operations ranging from full combat to disaster relief.
"But we must also scan the horizon for emerging trends as we confront today's challenges at full speed," the chairman said.
Mullen told the audience that during his 42-year military career he has formulated three conclusions about the proper use of modern military forces. First, military power may prove to be the best first tool of the state, but it should never be the only one.
Second, when military power is employed, it should, to the maximum extent possible, be applied in a precise and principled way.
"And third, we must recognize the process of matching military strategy to national policy is iterative," he said. "It must be constantly informed by events on the ground, adapting as necessary to defeat a thinking enemy and achieve our ends."
Policymakers should guide the conduct of war to achieve their political objectives, and the Constitution ensures civilian leaders, not the military, determine national policy and whether a war is worth fighting, the chairman said.
"My primary job is to advise the president -- the commander in chief -- of his military options as he sets policy and approves strategy," he said. "I do this candidly, but privately."
Mullen said he, the joint chiefs, and senior military commanders must be candid when called to testify before Congress, the elected representatives of the American people.
Senior military leaders, the chairman added, also "must be clear and direct" about the limits and risks of military power and what it can achieve within a given timeframe.
"This is all the more difficult," Mullen said, "because war is not predetermined, nor is it linear in shape. It never has been."
The enemy "gets a vote" in deciding how he will respond to U.S. strategy, the chairman said, and while strategic estimates take into account the enemy's leaders, culture and will to fight, such estimates are exactly that.
"You don't know for sure how an enemy will respond, and even then, you can't be certain how long the war will last," Mullen said. "War, then, is discovery of a most-lethal sort."
The Taliban are a case in point, the chairman said. Will they continue fighting to overthrow the government of Afghanistan? Will they turn against al-Qaida and deny terrorists safe haven? How many "foot-soldiers" can coalition forces separate from extremist leaders?
"The reality is, we learn as we go," he said.
It often surprises strategists to find that their politically acceptable ways and means are insufficient to defeat a determined enemy, Mullen said.
"This reveals the creative tension within the policy-strategy relationship that makes the process necessarily iterative, and yet, ultimately triumphant," he said.
Wars are typically the most costly and destructive endeavors a nation may pursue, Mullen said, noting that the cost to the United States for World War II would amount to approximately five trillion of today's dollars.
"In terms of human cost, the toll was much higher, causing more than a million casualties, including nearly 300,000 combat deaths," he said. "All the while, President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt -- like all wartime presidents -- had to balance many other domestic and fiduciary concerns as well."
Achieving this balance is particularly acute in conflicts that are fought for more limited aims or in a more constrained environment, such as those the United States is fighting today, he said.
Mullen said three historical examples highlight how "the logic of war" can cause a change in strategy or military approach. For example, he noted, President Abraham Lincoln said at the outset of the Civil War that if he could save the union without freeing a single slave, he would.
However, after years of bloody conflict, "Lincoln chose to free the slaves, and then only after he knew he had enough military victories behind him," the chairman said.
The Korean War is likewise instructive, Mullen said. Following the successful landings at Inchon in September 1950, he said, the Truman administration developed a new policy goal of unifying the Korean peninsula under a democratic government. When the Chinese intervened and raised the costs of continued conflict, Truman reversed himself and went back to a goal of restoring the boundary at the 38th parallel.
"Finally, there is the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which shows in terms stark and clear why policymakers should approve military strategy," Mullen said. "When the generals recommended an invasion of Cuba, President [John F.] Kennedy refused, deeming it not worth the risk of nuclear war with the Soviet Union."
In each of these examples, the chairman said, military leaders provided their civilian masters with candid professional judgment in a constantly evolving strategy development process. And in each case, he added, a president decided what best served the national interest.
Mullen said that Dr. Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, characterizes such interplay between strategy and policy as a continual process of "sense and adjust."
"That's a great way to put it, and we must recognize that our enemies are doing the same -- adapting to our strategy, as we adapt to theirs," the chairman said.
Mullen said the Cold War, a 40-year struggle against the Soviet bloc, offers a clear demonstration of national leaders' policy and strategy adaptation over time.
The Truman Doctrine gave way to the "New Look" policies of Eisenhower, Mullen said, while Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis was followed within a decade by détente with the Soviet Union.
Finally, the tough Reagan doctrine of the early eighties ultimately yielded to Perestroika and Glasnost in the Cold War's closing chapters, he said.
"As we look back, the end of the Cold War seems inevitable, but to those of us who lived it, it was anything but," the chairman said.
Mullen emphasized that some of the biggest "leaps forward" during the Cold War -- opening relations with China, or brokering the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty with the Soviet Union -– "came when our leaders chose to shift approaches based on changing conditions."
Today, "our nation faces grave challenges that require that same courage and flexibility," Mullen said, "like executing a new START treaty with Russia, finishing our mission in Iraq, and striving for success in Afghanistan."
The correct strategy is being employed in Afghanistan, the chairman said. "I can assure you we have the strategy right," he said. "We have the right resources in place and we have the right leaders in charge. And we are committed to success."
President Barack Obama devoted an extraordinary amount of effort during the Afghanistan strategy review last fall to understand the fight and the direction he wanted that fight to take, Mullen said.
"Together, his national security team took a more narrow focus, identifying very clear goals to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future," the chairman said, noting the strategy also shifted the military's emphasis to training and increasing the size of Afghan security forces so they can eventually take the lead in securing their country.
"Now, as many of you know, we will all be sitting down again next month to evaluate our progress one year later -- again recognizing the need to constantly assess performance," he said.
Mullen said he suspects that if any changes take place at all, they will be in specific areas of implementation rather than to the strategy itself.
"But the fact that the president wants this evaluation, and is willing to make changes should they be warranted, speaks volumes in my view on his firm belief in -- and understanding of -- the changing nature of war," Mullen said.
He said that while the Afghan people are feeling safer and the Taliban's momentum is slowed, "even this progress is not enough."
"Good governance must follow security gains, and while that is the case in some areas, it still lags behind in others," Mullen said. Ultimate success in Afghanistan, he said, will be achieved over time.
"I believe we will meet our operational objectives, just as we
[have] in Iraq," he said. "These wars will end. But we must be ever mindful that successfully ending wars is more difficult than beginning them."
The willingness to review, to reassess and re-decide, is not merely healthy, it is essential, Mullen said, noting, "The day you stop asking the hard questions is the day you start losing."
Mullen then asked the audience to remember the costs associated with "the lofty realms of strategy and policy." The questions aren't just theoretical, and they have real consequences, he said.
"The brutal truth is that this has been a tough fight, and tragically, we've lost some tremendous young men and women," the chairman said.
Servicemembers who do come home find their lives forever changed, "with consequences for our military and veteran health care system, our national employment and homeless rates, and who we are as a nation," Mullen said.
"So at this school and community that personify leadership, service and a commitment to others, I say to you that this will be the defining public policy challenge of this era," the chairman said. "We need your help now, and when you graduate, in supporting our returning warriors, their families and the families of the fallen, whether in your free time and or in your professional life."
Mullen recited a quote from John F. Kennedy: "'A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.'"
The chairman then thanked his audience for "remembering, honoring and supporting our men –- and our women –- in uniform, and their families who have given us so much."
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HT4623 comment Activer l'iPhone 3 GS
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42078 Answered Questions of iPhone 4,3GS,3G
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comment Activer liPhone 3 GS ?
Bonjour à tous,Alors voilà le souci : jai un ami, possesseur dun iPhone 4 (iOS 5.0.1) et il lui est impossible dactiver iMessage, quand il le fait il a un message derreur (voir photo jointe) et effectivement il ne peut pas en envoyer ou en recevoir (les messages que je lui envoie passent en SMS directement et lapp Messages sur Mac me dit que le correspondant ne peut pas recevoir de iMessages...) lorsquil retourne dans les paramètres de liPhone la case iMessage sest désactivée...Impossible aussi dactiver FaceTime, je ne sait pas si cest lié... On a essayé de se rendre sur appleid.apple.com et tous ses mails/numéro de téléphone sont les bons...Avez-vous une piste ?PS : Nous avons le même forfait Orange et le miens fonctionne parfaitement, ses connexions 3G/Wifi fonctionnent à merveille...!
under the hold OS i had 3G turned off due to signal strength. under the new OS the strentgh is better but the battery life is dramatically less.
i realize the battery life may be better comparing apple to apple
iMac 20 2.4 1GB Mac OS X (10.5.4) iPhone 3G & Pods & MobileMe
Since I cant post a reply or comment to my archived post, I thought this might be an alternative.
Even though Tamara had a solution, software now available for the Mac and iPhone gives a more general solution.
iPhone Explorer lets you use an iPhone or iPod touch as a USB or pen drive. You can create, delete, and rename files and folders, and use drag-and-drop. OS X 10.5 or later. From www.iphone-explorer.com (myPodApps) Its free.
Good Reader is one solution to read those files and many others (like e-books and PDFs) on your iPhone. Its in the app store. Normally $4.99, was on sale (may still be) for $0.99.
Ive started to use both. I have no financial interest in either product.
Hope this helps someone else.
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On my Instagram it is letting me follow this one girl but it wont let me like or comment on any of her pictures. Whenever I try it always says error. What should I do so I can follow her?
comment se connecter à internet avec mon Iphone 4S? comment introduire ladresse WI-FI?
BTW - I think Apple has got it wrong on the decision to only provide limited integration between Outlook and iPhone. I am a long time Windows user whos also had many PDAs and SMartphones.
I like the iPhone. I do think its a greta step forward in a personal device/phone. I live in Outlook and spend a lot of time on my phone. I would prefer to live on my phone and the iPhone is close to letting that happen but as I am a sales guy, I need integration to my corp calendar and I need access to notes and tasks that synch to my phone and PC. I dontneed wireless sync. USB based is fine. But I do want all of the Outlook features I can get on my phone including support for meeting requests.
If Apple provided FULL support for Outlook functionality on my phone, theyd be slowly weaning me off the desktop. At least having a Windows desktop would be less important to me. I cant and wont use MobileMe. Like many of my friends - who like the iPhone but are reluctant to move without full corp collaboration support - I work for a global org who will NOT sanction redirecting email or office collab data to external servers. USB sync between my devices once or twice a day though (or even less when I am on the road) would be just fine.
I think Apple should reconsider the limited Outlook support as a way to move more of us road warriors on to the Apple platform....
Whattaya Think?
phhtt Windows Vista
I manually entered about 40 or so addresses for various contacts and noticed something that seemed sort of inconsistent.
When you are in Edit Address mode and you go to the ZIP field the keyboard changes automatically to the numeric keyboard. This obviously makes sense as zipcodes are always numbers. However, when you first enter Edit Address mode and the cursor is at the first Street field, the keyboard doesnt automatically change to numeric, which seems a bit clunky. I think its very reasonable to assume that most addresses start with numbers so I think the keyboard should get set to the numeric keyboard for the first Street field.
Just my $0.02....
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Comment connecter des enceintes BOSE à un iphone par bluetooth ?
jai un iphone 3gs et je veut le restaurer sans faire une mise a jour est ce que cest possible
j ai restoré mon iphone 3gs et je sais pas comment faire l unlock
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when i try to update my iPhone 3G software, the message alert showing (The iPhone iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred). now my iPhone 3G blank display. how can i do then please?
i had to restore my iphone last month because i had accidentally clicked the home and shut off button at the same time. it ended up making me restore my iphone. i lost everything. pictures, contacts, apps, songs, everthing. after i had gotten all my stuff back, i took a picture and everything was fine. a couple hours later, i open my camera to take another picture and it wont open it. it will twitch. i have no idea what to do. i have updated my software on my phone and itunes and im stumped. please help me.
what should i do if the phone is giving the message of inserting the original sim card if i dont have it
I am hoping for some advice on an error message I keep getting-see above. Thanks!
my i phone is not activated. i have i phone 3gs i try to update it to ios 6.1.2 from ios 4.2.1 but when it processed and my i phone restarts, i configure up to the activation step at this theres a msg that sorry we could not activate yr iphone this time try agian with in couple of minutes or contact customer care on itunes, on the other hand iphone has a msg of that appserver is temporarily unavailable try again later blaa blaa...................... bt this not wrks now plzz tell me what can i do, how can i activate my i phone?
I just setup my iphone5s, but I didnt use restore backup from the menu option, I rather chose setup my iPhone. Now I need all the messages on my iPhone 3. What do I do?
i just lost my iphone 3gs a week ago. unfortunately i was not able to download any iphone finder. is there any other options that i can use just to find my iphone?
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Does anyone know whether a virus or spy program could hide in an iPhone outside the iOS? Such virus/spy may be monitoring everything you do in iPhone, including reporting your GPS location and sending pictures taken with iPhone camera to some server over cellular data. The reason I ask about this is owing to mysterious disappearance of over half GB capacity in my iDevices such as iPhones and iPads. You may have the same issue, but you cant find it out as long as your iDevice has a capacity of 16GB or more.
An 8GB iPhone shows a total capacity of 6.7GB, but after being restored to factory settings with the iTunes in my laptop, its total capacity drops to 6.2GB. This is not owing to iOS 6; indeed, I gave a new 8GB iPhone 3GS to another friend last year, and the iPhone also shows a total capacity of 6.2GB despite its iOS4 (not iOS 5 or iOS 6) -- surely I also used the iTunes in my laptop to initialize it and updated it with iOS 4 (the latest version of the time).
Any expert could shed some light on this troubling issue? Thanks!
My iPhone 4 was stolen, and Im considering buying an iPhone 4S but my only concern is that I wont be able to put my iPhone 4 data encryption onto my 4S, will I be able to?
Hello I upgraded my iPhone to version 6.1 and the device does Hfalhsl iPhone and it stuck on can not start the iPhone
Is there a connector from iPhone 5 to iPhone 4, My wife bought me a iPod Dock but it only takes a iPhone 5 connection
help would be great, thanks a lot
iTunes V 10.4.1.10 does not recognize my iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 3 and iTunes Ver 8.0. Since I bought a new iPhone 4, I installed new version iTunes but it does not connect to my iPhone. Why?
My iPhones HOME button stopped working yesterday, and it has been giving me some random error messages. So, I took it to the Apple store today, and was told that it has water damage. Go figure..I surely dont remember dropping it in a puddle. But, anyway...I was told that they could repair/switch it out for $150...still cheaper than getting a new one. However, I had to come back home to back-up my contacts/photos/videos, etc. When I plug it in to my computer, it shows up in iTunes as iPhone, not Jessicas iPhone (the phones official name), and wont let me select Back-Up when I right click on it under Devices. So, I cant back-up my information. I swear I think that it came up as Jessicas iPhone today at the Apple store. What would make it do this, and is there any way to fix it so that I CAN back-up my information?
is ther an iphone 5 to iphone 4 adapter so i can dock my 5 to other iphone
I have a G5 which I intend to keep.
Now that I have updated my iphone 4s to iOS 7.0.
I cannot add music to my iphone or upload photos to iphoto.
I have the last itunes 10.6.3. which was supported by apple.
itunes will not interact with my iphone on any level.
Apple made all the equipment I use.
Bentley and Ferrari etc do not stop making parts for their cars?
The least Apple could is.
A. Update itunes to run on a G5
Regarding iOS 7.0 you have totally lost the plot.
We buy apple why?
Intuitive interface.
Stable software.
All that Steve Jobs consider sacrosanct.
Quality is about ongoing support longevity of product.
Its not about trying to sell to every person on the planet, others are way ahead of you.
So try respective the customers you have, it wont be long before theirs a better operating system and your lead in hardware is marginal.
Glyn Evans
My post on facebook this morning.
If you have an iPhone or iPad do not update to ISO 7 unless you want an operating system that looks like windows 8. The graphics looks like it was designed by a artistically challenged mongoose and the operating system is not intuitive something apple users expect. Overly complicated ugly and generally change for the sake of apples paranoia since the death of Steve Jobs.
I bought a Apple Care Protection Plan for a Iphone 4, but now i dont need it. Can i keep it and use it with a new model Iphone (iphone 5 when it comes out) or are the protection plans generation specific?


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A logic family employing a plurality of two-terminal chalcogenide switches as logic gates therein. Preferably the two-terminal chalcogenide switches are chalcogenide threshold switches. The logic can employ multi-phase clocking such as four-phase clocking.
1. A logic operational circuit comprising:
at least one logic gate wherein each logic gate comprises:
a pair of two-terminal chalcogenide switches in series; and
at least one resistor connected at one end to a point between said pair of two-terminal chalcogenide switches.
2. The logical operational circuit of claim 1, wherein said two-terminal chalcogenide switches are chalcogenide threshold switches.
3. The logical operational circuit of claim 1, wherein said two-terminal chalcogenide switches employ multi-phase clocking.
4. The logical operational circuit of claim 3, wherein said multi-phase clocking is four-phase clocking.
5. The logical operational circuit of claim 4, wherein said four-phase clocking has a fifty percent duty cycle.
6. An INVERSION circuit comprising:
a first chalcogenide threshold switch connected in series to a second chalcogenide threshold switch;
an input point connected to one terminal of an input resistor, the other terminal of said input resistor being connected to a point between the series connected threshold switches;
a circuit powering point connected to the terminal of said first threshold switch opposite that of the junction of said first and second threshold switches;
a ground resistor, one terminal of said ground resistor connected to the terminal of said second threshold switch opposite that of the junction of said first and second threshold switches and the other terminal of said ground resistor connected to ground;
a signal output terminal connected between said second threshold switch and said ground resistor.
7. The INVERSION circuit of claim 6, wherein the resistance value of said input resistor is much greater than the resistance value of said ground resistor.
8. The INVERSION circuit of claim 7, further comprising a second INVERSION circuit wherein said output terminal of the first INVERSION circuit is connected to said input point of the second INVERSION circuit thereby forming a noninverting buffer circuit.
9. The INVERSION circuit of claim 6 further comprising a clocking means applied to said circuit powering point.
10. The INVERSION circuit of claim 9, wherein said clocking means is multi-phase clocking.
11. The INVERSION circuit of claim 10, wherein said clocking means is four-phase clocking.
12. The logic operational circuit of claim 11, wherein said four-phase clocking has a fifty percent duty cycle.
13. A logical operational circuit comprising:
a first chalcogenide threshold switch connected in series to a second chalcogenide threshold switch;
a plurality of input points each individually connected to one terminal of one of a plurality of input resistors, the other terminal of each of said input resistors being connected to a point between the series connected threshold switches;
a circuit powering point connected to the terminal of said first threshold switch opposite that of the junction of said first and second threshold switches;
a ground resistor, one terminal of said ground resistor connected to the terminal of said second threshold switch opposite that of the junction of said first and second threshold switches and the other terminal of said ground resistor connected to ground;
a signal output terminal connected between said second threshold switch and said ground resistor.
14. The logical operational circuit of claim 13, wherein the resistance values of said plurality of input resistors is much greater than the resistance value of said ground resistor.
15. The logical operational circuit of claim 13 further comprising a clocking means applied to said circuit powering point.
16. The logic operational circuit of claim 15, wherein said clocking means is multi-phase clocking.
17. The logic operational circuit of claim 16, wherein said clocking means is four-phase clocking.
18. The logic operational circuit of claim 17, wherein said four-phase clocking has a fifty percent duty cycle.
The instant invention relates to a novel logic family. More specifically the present invention relates to a logic family which employs two-terminal chalcogenide switches as the logic gates therein.
In the field of electronic computers which is constantly striving for improvements in operational speed and performance, the silicon semiconductor devices used in most electronic computers have begun to reach a limit in operating speed and device size/packing density. Computer designers are always looking to reduce the switching time of switching circuits and to increase their packing density so as to permit the execution of the greatest number switching operations per unit time and yet reduce the space occupied by the switching circuits. Josephson devices have attracted keen attention in the past as one potential novel break-through toward satisfying these requirements, and thus logic circuits which incorporate these devices have been heavily studied.
The use of Josephson junctions as electronic circuit elements only became possible after 1962 when the Josephson effect was discovered. At that time the only known superconducting materials had such low critical temperatures (i.e., temperatures below which the material becomes superconducting) that any circuit using Josephson junction elements required a source of liquid helium to maintain the low temperature required. Since that time the improvements in low-temperature technology, and the discovery of high Tc superconducting materials, have made these limitations less sedous, but other practical considerations still plague commercialization of superconducting logic circuits.
Josephson junctions are highly-unusual, nonlinear circuit elements which can be used to design circuits having many interesting properties. The primary advantages of these junctions are said to be their low power requirements and high operating speeds compared with conventional, nonlinear circuit elements. That is, the Josephson device exhibits high-speed switching operations with low power dissipation and high sensitivity in accordance with the Josephson effect produced in a superconductive state at very low temperatures. Therefore, the Josephson device has, in the past, given rise to expectations for materialization of super-high speed computers.
The Josephson device, in its basic construction, comprises two superconductors joined to each other through the medium of a thin insulating film (Josephson tunneling junction) as typified by the Josephson tunnel junction device. In this construction, when the current supplied to the junction exceeds the junction's critical current, the device is transferred from the zero-voltage state to the voltage state (a switching operation). That is, the operation of the device is based on the existence of two states for the gate (Josephson junction) and the fact that the gate can be switched from one state to the other by means of a magnetic field or applied current. One of these states is a pair tunneling state of the junction in which current can flow through the barrier region without any voltage drop. The other state is a single-particle tunneling state in which the current flows with a voltage across the junction equal to 2 Delta, where Delta is the energy gap of the superconductor. For tin, 2 Delta equals about 1 mV at 1.7 K. The transition from one state to the other can be brought about by exceeding the critical current for the Josephson junction. The critical current, Ij, is defined as the largest zero voltage current the junction can carry. Therefore, the device's I-V characteristics are such that the voltage across the junction remains at zero until the current reaches a critical value at which time the voltage across the device jumps to a finite value and thereafter varies slowly with further increase in current. The critical current value is dependent upon the magnetic field applied to the Josephson device.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,626,391; 3,281,609; 3,758,795; 3,825,906, etc. disclose the concept of utilizing a Josephson junction for Josephson circuit devices as, for example, a memory cell, logic gate or shift register.
There are two basic types of Josephson logic gates, current injection gates and magnetically controlled gates. All present day Josephson integrated circuits utilize one or both of these gate types. The fastest logic gates utilize a combination of the two. All of these types of Josephson integrated circuits are subject to the disadvantages described hereinbelow.
Conventional superconductive logic circuits are roughly classified by the input system into the magnetic coupling type and the current injection type. In a superconductive logic circuit of magnetic coupling type, an input signal is magnetically coupled to a loop including a Josephson junction and inductance, and logic operations are performed by transformation of the Josephson junction to the non-zero voltage state as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,978,351. In this example, the Josephson junction and the inductance constitute a magnetic flux quantum interferometer, and the product of the inductance L and the and the critical current Ij of the Josephson junction is selected to be close to one magnetic flux quantum. Therefore, when the critical current Ij is made small for energy consumption, a large inductance L is required, making it difficult to realize a compact circuit and reducing the operating speed. Conversely, when the inductance L is made smaller for obtaining a higher operating speed, the value of the critical current Ij becomes greater and energy consumption increases. Further, the circuit is subject to the influence of external magnetic noise, stray inductance and so on, resulting in extreme fluctuations and unstable operation. Such a circuit is also defective in that uniform and efficient connection of a number of input wires is structurally difficult.
A superconductive logic circuit of current injection type has been an improvement in that it does not involve a magnetic flux quantum interferometer. In a superconductive logic circuit of current injection type, current is directly supplied to the Josephson junction for switching into the non-zero voltage state in order to perform logic operations. A prior art superconducting logic circuit of the current injection type which does not involve a magnetic flux quantum interferometer is shown in IEDM "Josephson Direct Coupled Logic (DCL)" (1492, 12), IBM. According to this example, the defects of the superconductive logic circuit of the magnetic coupling type which involve magnetic flux quantum interferometer are solved. However, the threshold for determining the sensitivity is solely determined by the switching of the non-zero voltage state of a single Josephson junction so that only a current gain of at most 1 may be obtained. Therefore, although it is advantageous to use it as a switch, it is difficult to apply it to various kinds of logic circuits.
In an article entitled "Threshold Logic" by Daniel Hampel and Robert Widner, published in IEEE Spectrum, May, 1971, pp. 32-39, threshold logic gates and means for implementing such gates with large scale integrated circuitry are disclosed. As pointed out in the article, threshold logic gates have increased logic power over standard Boolean logic gates such as AND, OR, NOR gates. Basically, a threshold logic gate receives N logic inputs, weights the N inputs either equally or with unequal weights, sums the weighted inputs, and provides a logic output if the sum is greater than or equal to a threshold weighting factor.
Conventional threshold logic is implemented by using either of the current sources and a threshold detector, or magnetic flux summing techniques described above. Current summing techniques and magnetic flux summing techniques require precision in generating the analog quantity which will be compared to the threshold. Precision is also required when Josephson devices are used. The source of analog precision is provided in the Josephson case by voltage referred to above as Delta. The parameter Delta is essentially the gap in the energy spectrum of the conduction electrons of the superconductor being considered and as such is a material constant.
Logic circuits incorporating Josephson junctions have other disadvantages in addition to those discussed above. For instance, some switching circuits in Josephson junction technology have the severe disadvantage of not being automatically resetting, thus requiring additional switches for their reset operation. While this would not pose a technical problem, the economics of any device incorporating the state of the art switching circuits must suffer considerably through long cycle times. Another disadvantage is the problem of eliminating cross-talk between Josephson devices in Josephson logic arrays, which are due to current transients when a device switches. Also, the current-voltage characteristic of a Josephson tunnel junction device is known to have an unstable region at low voltages. If one attempts to voltage bias the device in the unstable region, its operating point jumps back and forth between the supercurrent state (V=0) and the finite voltage state (V not=0, typically V=2 DELTA, the gap voltage of the superconductor). This problem is known as relaxation oscillation.
Therefore, the conventional Josephson device has been unable to simultaneously satisfy three conditions, i.e., (1) the size reduction of the device which permits integrated circuits in high density, (2) the high sensitivity which produces wide operation margin, and (3) perfect isolation between the input and output signal currents in the device. The three conditions are indispensable to the components of future electronic computers to obtain stable, high-speed logic circuit operation.
Another disadvantage of Josephson junction technology is the large number of processing steps required to produce the devices. A primary factor determining the efficacy of integrated circuit processes and the concomitant yield thereof is the number of steps comprising the process. For example, if a process consists of twelve steps and the expected yield of each of the steps is ninety percent, then the yield of operative devices at the completion of the twelve step process is 0.912, or approximately 28%. If, however, the process consists of eight steps, each with a yield probability of ninety percent, then the final yield for the eight step process is 0.98, or 43%. Thus by eliminating steps, an improvement in yield is achieved without any improvement in the quality of the processing. Additionally, large numbers of processing steps engender problems with adhesion, step coverage and damage to prior deposited layers. The longer the fabrication sequence, the lower is the device throughput of the process.
Josephson junction logic integrated circuit fabrication involves approximately 12 deposition steps, 12 photoresist steps, an anodization step and a junction barrier formation step. Typically the process comprises depositing four superconducting layers, viz., the ground plane, the lower Josephson electrode, the Josephson counter electrode and the control lines. Interconnections, interferometer loops and other circuit elements are formed from the last three layers. Each superconductive layer is separated from an adjacent superconductive layer by an insulator layer that is patterned to form vias which provide required electrical connections between layers. The deposition of resistors, additional insulator layers for increased inductance, passivation layers and anodization are steps utilized to complete the circuit. Thus it is appreciated that a minimum of nine separate thin films and patterning steps are required in this process. Therefore a reduction in the number of processing steps required to form the logic circuits is desirable.
A switching technology which is similar to Josephson junction technology and which has been around for 30 years is the Ovonic threshold switch. This device starts in the "off" or non-conducting state and a critical voltage is required to switch it on. Its I-V characteristic looks like that of the Josephson junction, but the current and voltage axes are transposed. Its switching speed, like that of the Josephson junction, is also limited by the device capacitance, but since the devices are thicker, it exhibits a lower capacitance for a given lithography. Additionally, the speed/power potential of the Ovonic Threshold Switch compares favorably with the silicon and gallium arsenide technologies as well as the practical implementations of Josephson logic.
Now that the end of the dramatic density increases in silicon technology is at hand, the real need in advanced logic is to find a superior future technology which can replace silicon transistors.
Therefore the object of this invention is to define a novel logic family which employs chalcogenide Ovonic threshold switches as the logic gates therein.
The present invention defines a logic family employing a plurality of two-terminal chalcogenide switches as logic gates therein. Preferably the two-terminal chalcogenide switches are chalcogenide threshold switches. The logic can employ multi-phase clocking such as four-phase clocking.
FIG. 1 depicts the power cycling of a four-phase clocking cycle for instituting two terminal logic, specifically shown is a four-phase clocking cycle where each subsequent clocking wave is 90 degrees out of phase from the previous clocking wave;
FIG. 2 depicts the manner in which four-phase clocking allows the logical output of a logic circuit to be passed to the next logic circuit in a logic chain without affecting other logic circuits in the logic chain;
FIG. 3 depicts a single input inverting buffer by inverting the input and providing the boosted inverted signal as the output;
FIG. 4 depicts a multiple input logic circuit which performs a logical operation using two terminal chalcogenide switches, this circuit also preforms an inversion and provides gain;
FIG. 5 depicts a non-inverting buffer which is formed by joining two of the inverter circuits of FIG. 3 together such that the output of the first inverter is fed to the input of the second inverter, using this configuration, the input signal is essentially passed through the total circuit and is merely boosted in power.
A logic family is defined as a set of all possible logic circuits which can be formed using a particular logic gate or switching element. The present inventors have developed a logic family based upon two-terminal chalcogenide switches. The materials and processes for constructing these switches and their electronic characteristics are well known in the art and, as such, will not be repeated herein.
A logic family has a number of fundamental requirements necessary to it's use in computers. The most fundamental of these requirements is the ability to convert a binary "one" to a binary "zero" and vice versa. This ability is known as inversion. The second most important consideration is the ability to perform a logical operation. Common logic operations are AND, OR, NAND, NOR, etc. There are others, but any one of these will be sufficient. The third major consideration is that the logic family must have the ability to produce gain. That is, the output from one logic circuit must have the ability to provide input for more that one other circuit at the same time. Finally, if the logic gate or switching element has a latching property (i.e. the device does not automatically shut off, but must be turned off), means must be provided for resetting the gate/switch for subsequent switches. Having exhibited all of these requirements, a gate/switch and the logic family derived therefrom will have the ability to be used as computer logic.
While these are the only technical requirements for a logic family, there are other important engineering criterion which must be placed upon the gate/switching device for the purpose of practical implementation. First, it should be noted that the switching speed of the gate/switch is directly related to the speed of the computer and therefore, the lower the switching speed of the gate.switch, the faster the computer can be. Next, the size of the device directly determines the maximum possible density of the circuitry. Also, the power dissipated by the device must be considered in the design of the circuit so the thermal energy generated may be removed properly. Additionally, the logic circuits must be fairly resistant to noise. That is, the gate's/switch's noise immunity must be high enough that no false signals are introduced into the system. Finally, the costs of production (i.e. cost of raw materials, manufacturing, labor etc.) are another constraint to practical implementation of any new logic family.
The present logic family based on two-terminal chalcogenide switches meet all of the technical requirements, as well as, all of the engineering requirements.
First we shall discuss the technical limitations of a logic family in comparison with the capabilities of the threshold switch logic family of the instant invention, with reference to the figures.
One of the technical considerations mentioned above is a gate's/switch's latching property. A two-terminal chalcogenide threshold switch, such as the Ovonic Threshold Switch (OTS), has the latching property. That is, once it's threshold voltage is reached, the OTS switches on and current is allowed to pass therethrough. Once switched on, the OTS remains on until the current passing therethrough falls below a critical value known as the holding current.
Therefore, to insure that the logic gates/OTS's of the logic family of the instant invention turn off when required, the current passing therethrough must be stopped. To accomplish this the instant inventors have turned to a four-phase clocking system. FIG. 1 shows the power signals for a four-phase clocking system. It can be seen that the four stages of the clocking system are each 90 degrees out of phase from the stage preceding it. This four-phase clocking system allows for proper transfer of data from one logic circuit to the next. To visualize just how this is accomplished, look at the flow chart depicted in FIG. 2. The clock cycle is at a point at which both the stage 0 and stage 1 clocks are powered and the stage 3 and stage 4 clocks are unpowered. At this point the logic circuit being supplied by clock 0 have performed their logical function and are transferring their output to the next logic circuit(s) in their logic path, which are powered by the stage 1 clock. Therefore, the logic circuits powered by the stage 1 clock are said to be "being set". It should be noted that since both the stage 2 and 3 clocks are unpowered during this time period, the logic circuits and their OTS's are closed and no information is passed into or out of these circuits (thus aiding in providing for noise immunity). Once the stage 1 clock logic circuits are set, the stage 0 clock is powered down and the stage 2 clock is powered up. Now the logical output of the stage 1 clock logic circuits is passed to the stage 2 clock logic circuits. Then the stage 1 clock is powered down and the stage 3 clock is powered up. The cycle is then completed by powering down the stage 2 clock and powering up the stage 0 clock again. While FIG. 1 depicts four-phase clocking of equal on and off duration (i.e. a 50% duty cycle) with each phase being offset by 90 degrees from the preceding clock, there are many other ways to implement four-phase clocking. Four-phase clocking is well known in the two-terminal logic art and is described by W. F. Chow, "Principles of Tunnel Diode Circuits", John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1964, pp. 253-254.
Another one of the technical requirements is the ability to convert a binary "one" to a binary "zero" and vice versa. This is known as INVERSION. FIG. 3 depicts a circuit which provides the instant logic family with the INVERSION ability. This circuit may also be thought of as an inverting buffer, since the signal is merely inverted and passed to the next circuit, having had no logical operation performed upon it. The circuit includes two OTS's OTS1 and OTS2 which are connected in series. A data input point A is connected to an input resistor R1, which is in turn connected between the two OTS's. The power clocking signal is input at the CLK terminal of OTS1 which is opposite the junction point of R1, OTS1 and OTS2. The terminal of the second switch OTS2 which is opposite that of the R1-OTS1-OTS2 junction point is connected to ground (GND) through a resistor R3. A data output point is connected between the second switch OTS2 and the R10 resistor. In general, the resistance value of R1 is much greater than the resistance value of R3. During the operation of this circuit the clock is high, i.e. the circuit is powered and the potential at CLK is high. Accordingly, if the input signal at A is also high, there is not enough potential across OTS1 to cause it to switch, i.e. exceed its threshold voltage. There is also not a large enough potential across OTS2 to cause it to switch. Therefore, the potential of the output at OUT is low. Conversely, if the input signal at A is low, there is a large enough potential across OTS1 to exceed its threshold and the impedance of the switch drops. This then creates a large enough potential across OTS2 to allow it to switch and the potential of the output signal is pulled high.
Yet another of the technical requirements for a logic family is the ability to perform a logical operation. FIG. 4 depicts a circuit within the instant logic family which fulfills this requirement. The circuit is basically the same circuit as the INVERSION circuit of FIG. 3 except that there is an additional input B with its attendant input resistor. Therefore, there are two inputs A and B each having their respective input resistors R1 and R2. The ground resistor has been designated R3 in this circuit. As in the INVERSION circuit, the resistance values of resistors R1 and R2 are much larger than the resistance value of ground resistor R3. This circuit operates in much the same manner as the INVERSION circuit of FIG. 3, the main difference being that there are now two inputs and a logical operation is performed upon the inputs. Again during operation of this circuit the potential at CLK is high. If the input at either A or B is high or the input at both A and B are high, OTS1 does not switch. Therefore OTS2 does not switch and the output is low. However if the input at both A and B is low, OTS1 switches. This causes the potential across OTS2 to be high causing it to switch and pulling the output at OUT high.
Therefore, depending upon the nomenclature used, this is either a NOR gate or a NAND gate. That is, if a low potential is a logical "0" and a high potential is a logical "1" then the circuit acts as a NOR gate. Conversely, if a low potential is a "1" and a high potential is a "0" then the circuit acts a NAND gate.
A final example of a logic circuit from the logic family of the instant invention is the non-inverting buffer depicted in FIG. 5. This is essentially two inverting buffers connected such that the output of the first inverter is fed to the input of the second inverter. Thus, the signal is inverted and re-inverted in a single clock cycle. Therefore, the signal is passed essentially unchanged through this circuit. Again the resistance values of input resistors R1 and R2 is much larger that the resistance values of ground resistors R3 and R4.
The last technical consideration is that the logic family must have the ability to produce gain. The circuits described above inherently produce gain. That is, the output at OUT of each of the aforedescribed circuits is pulled to nearly the potential of the clock powering signal, i.e. the potential at CLK, with an impedance substantially lower than the input impedance. Therefore, no special additional gain circuitry is required.
Therefore, all of the fundamental requirements of a logic family have been met. While the instant disclosure has presented specific circuitry which belongs to the present logic family, they are merely exemplary and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. One skilled in the art will recognize that there are a multitude of other circuits within the instant logic family which can be created to perform similar tasks to those disclosed.
As pertains to the engineering criterion which must be placed upon the gate/switching device for the purpose of practical implementation. First, it should be noted that the switching speed of chalcogenide threshold switches can be tailored to be much faster than the practical implementations of any known switching devices. Also, the size of the OTS device can be much smaller than any conventional switching elements now in use. Also, the power dissipated by the OTS device is very small because the power is directly related to the devices size and the OTS can be made very small. Additionally, the OTS is not susceptible to minor voltage fluctuations or outside magnetic fields which makes them fairly resistant to noise. Finally, the costs of production of OTS devices is much less than other technologies in use.
While the invention has been described in connection with preferred embodiments and procedures, it is to be understood that it is not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments and procedures. On the contrary it is intended to cover all alternatives, modifications and equivalence which may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims appended hereinafter.
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This week marks the district's first six-day school week since 2011. Monday was marked as a holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but local school districts held classes to make up the snow days from winter storms in December.
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Winners of UT business plan competition announcedWritten by Duane Ramsey | | email@example.com
Three budding entrepreneurs were winners in the first Innovation Enterprises Challenge Business Plan Competition conducted by the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo.
The top three business plans were announced Dec. 2 in the PNC Entrepreneurship Lab at the Savage & Associates Complex for Business Learning and Engagement on the main campus.
"We want to see these ideas and business plans effectively implemented, creating jobs and enhancing the economic growth of the region. The award money will be used to start businesses in Northwest Ohio," said Sonny Ariss, professor and chair of the Management Department in the UT College of Business and Innovation, who presented the awards to the winners.
The first place winner of a $10,000 prize was Minal Bhadane of Smart Orthosis for its creation of a "Hybrid Active Ankle Foot Orthosis" used to treat patients with drop foot condition.
Bhadane, a graduate student at UT, was in India so her advisor, Mohammad Elahinia of the College of Engineering, accepted the award on her behalf.
Second place and a $5,000 prize were awarded to Sarit Bhaduri of Regentiss, LLC that is developing advanced technologies for the treatment and re-generation of both hard and soft tissues such as bone and cartilage.
Bhaduri said he has submitted a business plan and proposal to pursue funding with the U.S. Army to use his process to treat combat casualties. He is a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Medicine at UT.
Third place and a $2,500 prize were won by Jessica Reese's team of Three Sisters' Bakery that makes naturally sweetened baked goods with no sugar added. Members of this winning team were unable to attend the award ceremony.
The competition was open to UT faculty, staff and students with a goal of encouraging a spirit of entrepreneurship within the University, said Ariss. Prize money for the first Business Plan Competition was provided by the office of UT President Lloyd Jacobs.
The competition was announced in April and 49 entries were submitted by the September deadline with 12 semi-finalists chosen in October. Those finalists made presentations before an independent panel of judges in November.
Honorable Mention awards with a $500 prize each were presented to the other nine finalists that included:
- The Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory and Cory Chapman for a device to improve upon current spinal fusion procedures by making them less invasive and decreasing the patient recovery time.
- HbA1c Monitor and Rui Zheng for developing the first fiber optics based commercial optical biosensor for accurate real time monitoring of blood proteins for clinical and home use by people with diabetes.
- Saltron Medical and Amanda Szalkowski for creating a hand-held device that will measure the dilation of the female cervix in order to monitor the progression of labor accurately and comfortably.
- Elarya Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Jerzy Jankun for developing a haemostatic agent designed to tame bleeding as a clot protecting agent or target angiogenesis in cancer.
- Solar Engineering Solution and Ningyuan Li for delivering new technologies that serve the heating and cooling needs of buildings with technologies based on new solar innovations.
- Conservation Consulting and Daniel Kory to provide energy consulting services to intermediate-sized commercial users on how to reduce their energy costs.
- Resonance Group and Jason Owens for an energy control system that integrates its new controller with pulse motors and power management technologies for improved performance of electric motor-driven products.
- Team ShrivIt and Brett Chany for developing an Internet-based review site using short videos to share one's experiences with others by posting videos and blogs of experiences with a place, product, service, or event.
- WhatsUpDirectory.com and Josh Weinstein for creating a national events directory to provide users with a geographically filtered and categorized view of events.
The incubators at UT are offering six months free rent for any of these businesses to locate in those facilities. These businesses are good candidates for additional funding with Ignite grants or Rocket Ventures of the Regional Growth Partnership, said Ariss.
"The quality of presentations was unbelievable. You're right up there with professionals in the field. We want to applaud and recognize your entrepreneurship," said Greg Knudson of RGP and Rocket Ventures who served as a judge of the final business plans. "We're already talking to some of these entrepreneurs about working with them."
"This competition reflects UT's belief in innovative thinking and is intended to advance a creative culture of growth in all areas of the University. These diverse and technologically oriented business plans clearly demonstrate innovative thinking within UT," Rick Stansley, chairman of Innovation Enterprises, said in a statement.
Stansley was in Washington, D.C. and was unable to attend the award ceremony.


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Bring Zen to your presentations
Presenting the ideas you develop to a big audience in most cases is a pain. Most of the time the layouts you make (unless they are screen-designs) don't feel right, you cannot go through the pages of a folder for example. Therefore is even more important that you engage your audience. Same thing for powerpoint presentation you get to pimp. The most of time are just plain awfull. The following book gives you in an easy and understandable language the basics on how to structure presentations, not just powerpoint. It's caled "PresentationZen" by Garr Reynolds and a foreword from Guy Kawasaki. Don't get fooled by the title – it's nothing esoteric. It helps you bring your audience to go out of the presentation wanting for more. It also helps you to guide the authors of the powerpoints, if you are just the one who overhauls them, to get you better material to work beforehand.
I use this approach with quite some success, by getting into the process of structuring a presentation right when the authors has his material togheter. This is even before they make their manuscript. Try it – it's just a few bucks investet in the right place.
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I have that book too. Didn't find the time to read it completely but I can recommend it !


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Its a minority owned business.
Liberal Logic
Ceo -- makes millions = Greedy
Hollywood Movie Star -- makes millions = earned every penny
Finally, a logical decision by a council member. These are the type of people who need to look at this. These people run a business with a profit margain in mind. I can assure you, most of them know how to turn a profit and can tell you where to reduce cost. For most of them, used there own money to reep profits and know the ins and outs. Accountants are strictly debits and credits, and cant really tell you what the best course of action should be. BRAVO Reggie enjoy your honeymoon!!!
"$10 million in sales the first year" ??
Who did your business model ?
Willie Robertson was never a quarterback at La Tech, but his daddy Phil was.
That pretty much just ruined my day!! Damn
Please do not refer to this piece of work as a "hunter". He had a notoriety as an outlaw and a loser. Not a hunter by any means.
Vivian Figures needs to keep her mouth shut. Her district is the most crime ridden district in Alabama. Stay out of it Vivian. You need to take care of your own battles in your district, that is a digrace to Mobile County. You should be ashamed of the crime and drugs and murders that go on daily in your district, while you sit back and get the "aborigine" vote. Love to hear a week of recorded conversations of your daily talk. Pick a different fight Vivian!
Georgia Thumper!
They should take these so called "zombies" off the grid for a week, and see how they like the dark.
What they need to do, is control burn during the winter months. Its forestry 101
13NCnow, I agree, but people should understand that this is not an infrequent action by lobbyist and legislators. If they do think that they are very gullible citizens. These types of things are done daily by lobbyist. They just happened to get caught. Both parties have lobbyist who wine and dine frequently.
I am not saying that its right whats happening. But dont think for one minute that every legislator in this state doesnt get this kind of treatment from lobbyist. From the NRA to the Sierra club. So before you judge, remember this goes on every day for every legislator in this country period. Its called business.
I wouldnt.
Let me just start by saying nothing was done illegal here. What you dont know, is this tape has been cut and edited to show just kinda of a highlight factor type of thing.The video doesnt show the initial rise of the alligator. This only shows when the gator came adjacent to the boat for the shot, and he was adjacent to the boat, he was maybe two feet at the most. This wasnt intended to show the whole ordeal. Also the alligator did have a 3/8 rope around his back leg and back. The third hook that we had in him was on a 3/8 rope. As the alligator came to the top the first time, he rolled a couple times and actually noosed himself around the back foot and tail. We made the decision that we thought he was sufficiently secured. So we said if we can get him to the boat we will take him.How do you think we pulled a 700 pound alligator to the boat. We knew if the hooks came out of his head that he couldnt be lost because we had him with the rope. Also what you dont know, or maybe you do, that alligators this large are usually quite lethargic and not that aggressive especially when we havent given him any time to rest or get sufficient breaths. This is probably the reason we were able to get him adjacent to the boat so easily and quickly.
Disgrace to hunters, come on guys. You should be a disgrace for speaking out of context on something that you dont have all the facts on.
Gatorwatcher, goodeye. What! Sounds like you have nothing better to do but bash a fellow hunter. Dont be a hater.
Auburn65,. You noticed because your jealous and incompetent in your gator adventures. Sorry. We gave it to the reporter to post because, we thought it would be cool. Not to be critiqued.
Freet40, . What we did was not wrong. "Spread on the shotgun". Have you ever used a shotgun. Apparently not!! The spread on a shotgun at 18 inches is about the size of a fifty cent piece. The same size hole that is in the gators head.
Final note. Dont be a killjoy and haters. I know its tough for some of you to face defeat, but get over.
By the way, There is no "official record", it just an unwritten record. So theres nothing to strip us of. Its not even in the books. Alligators are not considered game animals. There considered a menace to society.
One more note. For the record, I have hunted over corn in Texas. You big haters. 13'5 701 pounds baby!!!!!


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Comment Re:This is not how you inspire confidence (Score 2) 151 151
In this particular case, yes. There will always be non-exploitable bugs.
The problem is that when you begin to dismiss bugs as non-exploitable (whether you've fixed them or not) and their reports as "overblown," you put yourself in the unfortunate position of only needing to be wrong once. Specifically, dismissing bug reports with the notion that the bug would never be exploitable—not because the bug is "beyond the airtight hatchway," but because no one would be dumb enough to write an application in a particularly boneheaded way discounts decades of examples of people writing software in amazingly boneheaded ways.
Whether it's true or not (and, in this case, it seems true), this is not a way to inspire confidence, and an SSL implementation needs every bit as much community confidence as it does technical correctness.


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Wildcat World Champion: Joe Blanton
Photo Gallery | Wallpaper | Part I: Rajon Rondo | Part II: Jared Lorenzen | Part III: J.B. Holmes | Part V: Andy Gruenebaum | Part VI: Tayshaun Prince
Part four of a six-part series.
Over the next six weeks, UKathletics.com will be showcasing six former Kentucky student-athletes who have gone on to win major championships in their respective professional sports throughout the past year. Each Thursday, a new player will be profiled.
Never before has Kentucky athletes reined as world champions in football, baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and Olympics concurrently until now. Being a Kentucky Wildcat has become synonymous with being a champion more so now than perhaps ever. The list of former Wildcats who have won a championship this year is simply staggering; gold medal winner in the Summer 2008 Olympics Tayshaun Prince, game-four starter for the World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies Joe Blanton, U.S. member of the 2008 winning Ryder Cup team J.B. Holmes, starting point-guard for the world-champion Boston Celtics Rajon Rondo, goalie for the Major League Soccer champion Columbus Crew's Andy Gruenebaum and quarterback for the 2008 NFL world-champion New York Giants Jared Lorenzen.
As Joe Blanton stood at the plate, few in the crowd of over 45,000 people expected the pitcher to do any offensive damage.
Blanton is a pitcher not a hitter.
His lifetime batting statistics were a measly 2 for 33 in the big leagues, his first hit was a bunt single against Livian Hernandez of the Washington Nationals and the second was a ground-ball single against Johan Santana of the New York Mets on his first day as a Philly, July 22, 2008.
It was 96 days and 79 games later, when in the bottom of the fifth in Game Four of the World Series, Blanton found himself ahead in the count as the 2-1 pitch came in from the Ray's Edwin Jackson.
In his third at-bat that night, after striking out and fouling out to first baseman Carlos Pena, No. 56 closed his eyes on the high fastball and heaved his 256 pounds forward, quickly turning and with a Ruthian blast tattooing the hardball over the left-field wall. In a moment history was made as a new Broad Street basher rounded the bases while the 50 foot Liberty Bell lit up marking Blanton as the first pitcher since Oakland's Ken Holtzman, hit a homerun in the in the third inning of Game 4 of the 1974 World Series.
"I just close my eyes and swing hard in case I make contact, that's about all I can really say about my technique," Blanton said. "I don't think I opened my eyes again until I went out and had to throw the first warm-up pitch in the next inning,"
It was Blanton's first homerun of this millennium.
By his own admission, he claims it was his first round tripper since graduating from Franklin-Simpson High School in Franklin, Ky., in 1999. It had been over 10 years since Blanton had his chance to tangle with opposing pitchers after hitting .344 with 36 RBI his senior year of high school.
�The two things that really stand out about him, when he was in high school was that he was a great competitor and he had a fantastic fastball,� Madison recalled. �You put those two things together and you have a pretty good prospect. He had a great arm.�
While at Kentucky from 2000-2002, he had no at-bats, the story was the same in the minor leagues and once he was drafted by Oakland in 2004, he was able to take full advantage of the designated-hitter rule in the American League.
�During my career at Kentucky, we were fortunate to have some great pitchers at UK,� former head coach Keith Madison said. �We weren't really surprised he led the SEC in strikeouts in 2002 because he was such a great competitor and like all really good pitchers, he had a mean streak in him. He was never afraid to pitch inside to someone where a lot of college pitchers are afraid to pitch inside because of the aluminum bat. The thing that really helped him while he was here at Kentucky was his ability to locate his pitches. He came here with a good curveball but while he was here he really learned how to throw that pitch. A lot of his strikeouts, when he pitched for us, came from his increasing ability to locate his fastball.�
Although his Herculean effort at the plate in Game Four of the 2008 World Series will be remembered for years to come by baseball fans everywhere, it is Blanton's presence on the mound in the Bluegrass state that has paid the way for his professional career.
�I think it really help lay a foundation. Joe came from Edmonson County which is a very rural area,� Madison said. �The competition in areas like that is not as good, most of the time, as it might be in places like Lexington. He needed a transition. As far as ability, he was probably good enough to sign out of high school. Coming to a great league like the SEC really helped him learn how to pitch to some great hitters. The level of competition and playing in some great stadiums where they have some big, tough crowds really helped him mature. It was really neat getting to recruit Joe because his dad and I both played on the same high school team. I would get really mad as I watched the World Series everytime they would say Joe was from Nashville, Tenn., because he grew up here in Kentucky. He is a Kentucky boy and we are very proud of him.�
In high school, under the tutelage of Greg Shelton, Blanton led the charge to put Franklin-Simpson as the state leader in strikeouts in 1999 with 427. It was the second time in his high school career that his high school led the state in strikeouts, after the Franklin-Simpson Wildcats led the state in 1997 with 333.
After arriving at the University of Kentucky to pitch for then-coach Keith Madison, Blanton was able to continue his dominance on the rubber. In his third and final season in a Kentucky Wildcat uniform, Blanton led the Southeastern Conference in strikeouts with 133, good enough for eighth in the entire NCAA.
�He made a great impact. We were very successful his freshman year, but we struggled in his sophomore and junior years. He was the anchor his last two years where he was on the same roster as Brandon Webb his freshman year, so he had some help that year. He had a lot of responsibility his last two years because we had a tough time with injuries and all of those things. Every time he had the ball in his hand we felt like we had a tremendous opportunity to win so he was a great asset to have around.�
Throughout his college career, Blanton had several highlights that Madison is quick to remember.
�It was his last start against Florida and he pitched so well. He had at least 12 strikeouts. He was dominating Florida and they had a great hitting team that year. I left him a little too long and everything that could go wrong went wrong, but until that point he just dominated that game. He really made Florida look like a Little League team that game.
Another game I remember was against Ball State in Joe's junior year. He was going against another guy that was projected to be a first-round draft pick. There must have been 30 pro scouts there that day and we won 1-0. It was one of the best games I have ever seen a player in a Wildcat uniform pitch and I have had 14 pitchers to go on and pitch professionally while I coached here. It made me really proud of him. He stepped up in a situation where it would have been easy to fold under the pressure because of all the scouts there. �
Selected by the Oakland A's during the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft, Blanton found quick success in the minor league ranks. In 2003, he finished second in the minor leagues in total strikeouts with 174 after pitching for the Single-A Kane County Cougars and Double-AA Midland Rockhounds.
During the 2004 season, while tossing for the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, Blanton helped lead the River Cats to a Pacific Coast League Championship. In 176 innings, he struck out 143 batters for an 11-8 record, with 26 starts and a 4.19 ERA.
On Sept. 18, 2004, after proving himself as a high commodity on the mound, Blanton was called up for active duty on the Oakland roster. During the remaining 2004 season, Blanton made three appearances, pitching eight innings.
In five seasons with Oakland, Blanton proved to be a workhorse. In five seasons he pitched 752 2/3 with an astonishing 424 strikeouts. Twice in 2005 and 2007 he threw in over 200 innings, 201 1/3 and 230, respectively.
In July of 2008, Oakland decided to trade Blanton to the Philadelphia Phillies for then-second Phillies baseman Adrian Cardenas, pitcher Josh Outman and outfielder Matthew Spencer. It didn't take long for Blanton to record his first win with a Phillies uniform. In only his third start with Philadelphia, the St. Louis Cardinals became the unlucky victim of his low-90's fastball and a curveball that leaves the best in the game befuddled, winning the game with a final score of 2-1. It was the first sign for Philadelphia that they had a made a trade that would help them make a deep run in the post-season.
In Blanton's first postseason game in 2008, he went six innings, only allowing one run in the divisional series against the Brewers. In his second postseason outing, Blanton again went six innings, allowing two runs before leaving the game up 6-2, allowing the bullpen to finish the game and the win.
In Game Four of the World Series, Blanton got the nod for the start after already pitching a perfect post-season, going 2-0. After his fifth inning solo blast to center field, Blanton then had more hits than the two best Tampa Bay Rays hitters, their four-hole hitter Carlos Pena and their five-hole hitter Evan Longoria, who both were hitless in the series at that point. Blanton pitched six innings in Game Four, finishing with four hits, allowed two earned runs, two walks and seven strikeouts in the Philly 10-2 victory.
After the Game Four, it was Blanton's pitching that he was most excited about that night.
"That meant that I did the job," said Blanton. "The home run was great, but they don't pay me to hit home runs. They pay me to pitch. If I can go out there on a night when we score six and I can give up five or less runs and we win, that's all that matters."
Madison was just as stunned as the Philly nation When Blanton smacked Jackson's 2-1 offering over the left field wall.
�My niece got married that day and I had my entire family at my house during the game,� Madison recalled. �We were all in my den watching the game. When he hit that homerun my entire den exploded and I came out of my seat. I was so excited. I talked to his dad the next day and I asked him what it was like in the stadium when he hit the homerun. He told me when all the other Philly hitters were at the bat, the crowd was loud and there was a lot of electricity. When Joe came up to bat, the crowd sort of settled in and it was much quieter. His dad said it was so quiet he actually heard the crack of the bat and the crowd erupted. He said it was the most exciting thing he had ever seen.�
Blanton won all three games he pitched during the 2008 postseason run, finishing with 17 innings pitched, 18 strikeouts, two walks, a 3-0 record and a 3.18 ERA.
Most importantly, Blanton won a World Series Championship.


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