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Firefox 188.8.131.52 does not Close all the Gaps and Adds Some New Ones
The update for the Mozilla Firefox browser to version 184.108.40.206 does not remove all of the vulnerabilities disclosed in the changelog, and the update introduces some new bugs.
A hacker group referring to itself as the "Hacktivisten" has demonstrated that a gap supposedly closed by the update to version 18.104.22.168 is still open. Although the exploit failed to crash Firefox 126.96.36.199 in a test, the hackers were able to suppress code components via the "View Page Source Code" function. Users would thus be unable to detect malicious code despite viewing the source code for a site. The exploit is capable of crashing older versions of the browser. The optional script blocker extension for Firefox prevents the attack, and also makes sure that source code displays properly.
The update added a couple of new issues. As the developers disclosed on their website, a couple of bugs were introduced along with the 200 improvements and bugfixes. For example, Cascading Style Sheets are not corretly interpreted in some cases (Bug 400406). Additionally, some extensions will not work with version 18.104.22.168 (Bug 396695). This problem is easy to fix by deleting a couple of files. The third bug, number 400421, is evidenced by incorrect handling of image maps. Two other bugs only affect Windows systems.
Despite the setbacks, an update to the latest version of Firefox is still recommended, as the update removes various security issues. The developers have already announced a new release: version 188.8.131.52 is scheduled for next week. Normally, six to eight weeks pass between Firefox releases. This cycle is not normally changed except for critical vulnerabilities.
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Judge Rules Bronx Political Hopeful Tapia Must Pay Severe Campaign Finance Penalties; City Campaign Funding Unaccounted For
May 10, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Yudelka Tapia's path to becoming an elected official hit a massive roadblock this week when a judge upheld the New York City Campaign Finance Board's decision to hold her accountable for more than $100,000 in penalties and reimbursement payments, stemming from an unsuccessful City Council campaign in 2009.
"We are pleased that the Court upheld the Board's enforcement actions concerning this campaign," said Matt Sollars, a spokesperson for the campaign finance board. "Candidates who violate the City's campaign finance laws face significant penalties and public funds repayment obligations."
During and following her 2009 run in the 14th Council District, Tapia racked up 12 campaign finances violations for a total of $47,774 in penalties. The violations included, among other things, making late filings or not making required filings, accepting money from a corporation, not reporting expenditures and not responding to draft reports.
Though she has already "terminated" her campaign's registry with the city's campaign finance board, Tapia says she will appeal the ruling. Leo Glickman, Tapia's lawyer, released a statement earlier today, saying Tapia is being punished too severely for simply being late in filing documentation. Although the campaign never actually filed documentation accounting for nearly $60,000 in taxpayer funding, Glickman says it would show the funds were spent properly.
Glickman said the filings were late because Tapia's son, Jorge Javier, who was also her treasurer at the time, "became very ill and was repeatedly admitted to the hospital."
The Board, however, didn't buy the excuse, saying it gave Tapia nearly three years to respond to requests for documentation and held a public hearing, which Tapia did not attend, to discuss the matter.
The board upheld the penalties and reimbursement payments during an internal appeal hearing in January, which Tapia and her son both attended. In February, Tapia took the case to State Supreme Court and on Tuesday, Judge Sharon A.M. Aarons upheld the Board's actions against her.
Tapia was one of several candidates looking to replace Joel Rivera in the 15ht Council District.
The penalties don't preclude Tapia from running for office at the city or state level, but she won't be able to participate in the city's matching funds program until she repays $59,930.86 in matching funds that weren't considered "qualified expenditures" and the $47,774 in fines. (Because he was treasurer, Tapia's son is also responsible for paying back the funding and fines.)
Tapia is now turning her attention to the open 86th District assembly seat recently vacated by Nelson Castro, who left office in March after it was revealed that he had become a government informant after being indicted himself on perjury charges back in 2009.
On Wednesday, according to the state Board of Elections website, Tapia filed her January 2013 campaign finance report. She reported $16,378 in contributions and $1,293.33 in expenditures. The state doesn't have a matching funds program.
The violations occurred during her unsuccessful run for City Council in the 14th District, which includes Kingsbridge Heights, University Heights and Morris Heights, when Tapia was awarded $78, 828 from the campaign finance board's matching funds program.
In November of 2009, following the campaign, which she lost in the Democratic primary to Fernando Cabrera, the board began an audit into how Tapia's campaign used the matching funds she received through the program.
When the board asked for documentation, Tapia's campaign didn't respond. The board granted the campaign four additional extensions to allow them to file the proper documents and the campaign failed to file them.
It remains unclear what happened to the funding. In some cases, the board refers violation cases to law enforcement agencies as it did with Queens City Council candidate Al Baldeo, who was indicted this past fall on charges that he paid people to donate to his campaign so he could get matching funds from the city. Under the program, for every donation under $175 reported by the candidate, the campaign finance board matches it 6 to 1. A $100 donation would be worth another $600 in city funding.
The board would not comment on whether Tapia's case had been referred to law enforcement agencies.
Editor's note: More on this story in next week's print edition.
3 Responses to "Judge Rules Bronx Political Hopeful Tapia Must Pay Severe Campaign Finance Penalties; City Campaign Funding Unaccounted For"
Evelyn Rodriguez on
May 12th, 2013 1:40 pm
So who are the choices for the seat besides this lady who already is tainted by corruption? She is probably the worst candidate.
Jason Rodriguez on
February 5th, 2014 1:11 pm
So this continues unresolved? This woman is going to get away with literally pocketing $60,000 of tax-payers' money? Why has she not been referred for criminal prosecution? Is Bronx DA Robert Johnson covering something up or maybe he's waiting for the green light from Bronx Party Boss Carl Heastie? Meanwhile she has over $20,000 in a campaign account. Why not go after these funds? Maybe US Attorney Preet Brahara is the one who needs to get involved since no one at the local has the guts to prosecute or even question this matter.
Jason Rodriguez on
February 5th, 2014 1:13 pm
As an avid reader and fan of Norwood News, I urge you to continue writing about this. We're talking OUR taxpayers' money being used by individuals looking to pocket some of the funds. This is unacceptable!
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Google SMS provided a great way for students to learn right from their phones. Sadly, now Google's SMS solutions are gone. Google's decision to streamline their services leaves behind many of our students who no longer have access to the internet. Fortunately, there are other options.
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The AAP, a leading group of pediatricians, said school "zero-tolerance" policies toward kids' behavior problems do no good.
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Will Harrell entered the grounds of the Giddings State School, a high-security youth lockup in Central Texas, and immediately drove off-road, steering his shiny black Jeep along the facility's fenced perimeter. When he reached a spot behind the athletic fields with a panoramic view, he grabbed a pair of binoculars from the dash and began scanning the grounds, which at that hour—about one in the afternoon on a crisp, sunny October day—seemed mostly deserted. "Just trying to get a sense, brother," he told me.
Harrell, a barrel-chested 41-year-old with a black ponytail, became the first-ever independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission in the wake of last spring's sexual abuse scandal, which began when news reports revealed that two high-ranking officials at a facility in West Texas had been caught molesting students but had never been prosecuted. A cascade of allegations of assaults and neglect at other units followed, until Governor Rick Perry was forced to take drastic action, placing the agency in conservatorship and removing the entire board of directors. In the months that followed, nearly all the agency's top officials were forced out.
The speed at which the TYC imploded was head-spinning. Yet Harrell's appointment as ombudsman has been perhaps the most unexpected result of the crisis. As the head of the Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union for the preceding seven years, Harrell had developed a reputation as the most effective voice for criminal justice reform in Texas. From the governor's perspective, that meant Harrell had more often than not been a source of criticism, on everything from Perry's prosecution of the drug war to his decisions on clemency applications from death-row inmates.
Harrell's impact at the TYC has been immediate and impressive. In his first three months on the job, he made unannounced visits to all thirteen lockups and nine halfway houses across the state and presented his findings to TYC administrators and a special legislative oversight committee. After his internal report about intolerable conditions and mismanagement at the Coke County Juvenile Justice Center, near San Angelo, found its way into the papers, the agency quickly pulled its kids out of the facility.
On this day at Giddings, Harrell carried a legal pad with a list of inmates he wanted to check on, starting with an eighteen-year-old gang member whom Harrell had first met at a unit in East Texas, where he had allegedly started a riot. "I kept hearing 'Gutierrez, Gutierrez'—I wanted to meet this badass," Harrell said. (The names of inmates in this story have been changed to protect their privacy.) During his first six months on the job, Harrell had cultivated relationships with a handful of young men on each campus, boys he calls his "expert consultants." "If you get a few of them, especially the leaders, to trust you, the rest will follow," he said.
As we made our way across a well-kept courtyard of grassy lawns and blackjack oaks, Harrell spotted an inmate he knew on a riding mower and flagged him down, giving him a soul handshake and a one-armed hug. He was a handsome seventeen-year-old Asian American with a sunny smile and fashionable glasses. Harrell had met him at a hearing in McAllen, when the youth had testified about a riot at a facility in South Texas. Legislators had been so impressed that one of them told him he'd have a job for him when he got out. "Heard you were in Coke County," he told Harrell, smiling and shaking his head. They chatted about his upcoming release date, and Harrell said he would inquire about transferring the young man to North Texas, where he would be closer to his mother. He scribbled a note on his pad.
Moments later Harrell came upon two more inmates he recognized. They were both Hispanic, both about eighteen. Neither stood taller than Harrell's chin, and they kept calling him "sir," a convention of incarceration that sounded oddly incongruous in the presence of Harrell and his backslapping bonhomie. They were both about to get out, and Harrell said he would talk to their caseworkers about their parole. He started to make a note on his pad but had to admit he couldn't remember one of their names. "I've met so many of you little jokers," he said in Spanish, and the two young men doubled over laughing.
Harrell was raised the son of a real estate developer in suburban Houston, where he was a standout linebacker at Taylor High School. After earning a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Texas and a J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law, he found his calling doing human rights law in Guatemala in the mid-nineties, when the country was still reeling from a decades-long civil war characterized by countless atrocities against civilians. It was harrowing


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Interpreting visual information conveyed by artistic traditions based on culturally different epistemological and conceptual frameworks offers significant challenges. There is a good deal of anecdotal evidence that deeply mono cultural Australian students learning about certain 'Asian' artistic traditions for the first time are particularly susceptible to making serious interpretive errors when reading 'other-culture' visual imagery, despite the fact that such visual information may look - on the surface at least - very similar to imagery in artworks with which they are culturally familiar. This is a problem that goes well beyond the purely pedagogical, affecting all persons working towards an understanding of the visual information conveyed by cultural products outside of their own experience. Furthermore, this applies to digital art as much as to painting and other media. Therefore it is important that when working in such cross-cultural contexts the understanding that there is often a good deal more to understanding visual artwork than the purely visual - or that which meets the eye -- be nurtured and developed. The following analysis of photographic artworks exhibited by South Korean-born, Newcastle-based digital artist Tae Yang ('Sunny') Hong in his recent exhibition WOMEN, TECHNOLOGY, UTOPIA, presents such an interpretive challenge. Sunny Hong uses a blurring technique based on the Chinese philosophical tradition of Taoism, arising directly from the Hun Yuan Qi system. To understand and engage with Hong's oeuvre it is thus essential that one develop a visual and cultural knowledge-based understanding of the belief system underlying Hong's approach. The aim of this paper is therefore to contribute to a greater understanding of the fundamental principle that cultural difference is deeply encrypted in visual information, and that such difference goes beyond the visual, insofar as it resides at the level of the episteme. It should be added that today, as a result of increasing globalization, there is very little visual art that does not draw upon a range of cultural influences, or evince a level of cultural hybridity, and Hong's oeuvre is no exception. Rosenberg's poetic model of research, developed specifically in relation to visual art and design research, will be brought into play here in order to illuminate Sunny Hong's body of visual artwork.
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QUEENSBURY Although Supervisors voted Friday Nov. 16 to approve Warren County's 2013 budget which calls for eliminating 11 jobs, as many as 20 more positions may be in jeopardy if the county can't get concessions in negotiations with its main employee union, county leaders said this week.
County Administrator Paul Dusek told county supervisors Nov. 16 that he'd prepared a "layoff report" that listed positions that could be cut without a favorable contract settlement with the Warren County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association, which rejected the county's contract proposal in October.
Dusek declined to identify the positions at risk, but he did say the county Public Health Department would be spared cuts because it already had several vacant posts open due to a county-wide hiring freeze.
"We're hoping we don't need to employ this list," Dusek said. "If we have to enact layoffs, services will have to be cut."
Since October, negotiations have resumed with the CSEA, Dusek said, adding that he was encouraged with the progress. The county is seeking increased health insurance contributions from employees as well as downsized raises, county officials said.
Despite the jobs at risk, not one government employee or county citizen-at-large showed up at the public hearing on the budget, held just prior to Friday's vote.
For years in Warren County, public hearings on budgets have prompted comments from the public, if not heated protests and demonstrations.
But Friday, the scene was far different.
County Budget Officer Kevin Geraghty was showered with praise from supervisors, both Republicans and Democrats — even from Republican Supervisor-at-Large Mark Westcott of Queensbury, who sought further cuts.
Westcott said that with the county's 2012 sales tax receipts flowing in $2.5 million over predictions, at least $400,000 of that sum could have been employed to keep the 2013 taxes at zero increase.
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The Saint Louis Galleria (or St. Louis Galleria) is a shopping mall in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights. The mall is owned and operated by General Growth Properties. Originally the site of the Westroads Shopping Center anchored by Stix Baer & Fuller, in 1984 the property was sold to Hycel Properties which demolished most of the mall (not the Stix store) and built the Saint Louis Galleria. Dillard's, which had acquired the old Stix chain, expanded the existing location at the same time, while retailer Mark Shale opened a major store. In 1991 an expansion south of the Atrium allowed for a significant increase in mall space. The Clayton Famous Barr store relocated to the Galleria, and the May company also opened a Lord & Taylor store on the south end. The addition also included an emergency electric generator that can supply limited lighting and monitoring functions (but not full operations) during a power failure. The mall receives external electric service from four different points. It adapted the enclosed delivery corridor concept (but very little of the actual structure) from the Westroads design. Trucks enter on the south end and exit on the north end. The original loading dock for the Stix store (which remains in operation) is very similar in design to the loading dock at River Roads Mall, another Stix-developed shopping mall.
The Galleria is where the first Build-A-Bear Workshop opened in 1997. Eddie Bauer opened its first Eddie Bauer Home store at the Galleria in 1991.
The Saint Louis Galleria hosts the flagship St. Louis stores of Gap Inc, Urban Outfitters, Jimmy'z, Janie and Jack, and many other stores, including one of the metropolitan area's two Apple Stores. The shopping center also has an independent movie theater with six screens. The below-ground food court was renovated just in time for the holiday season of 2005; however, controversy exists over the fact that all local and regional restaurants were removed in favor of generic chain restaurants. The Galleria Food Court now offers far less selection than before.
A series of incidents involving law enforcement in 2006 have called into question the safety of the mall's atmosphere. Two brawls less than 6 months apart have occurred between rowdy teenagers, and this has prompted officials to create a parental supervising policy starting April 20th, 2007. This policy states that anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult at least 21 years old on Fridays and Saturdays, after 3 p.m.
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Thousands could be invested in a state of the art regional 911 system.
It's up for discussion at tonight's county council meeting.
The Erie County 911 Center is hoping that county council will allow the county to join Northern Tier A Regional 911 calling network.
This is a move that supporters say could save the state 1.8 million dollars, and the county 358-thousand dollars, and make for easier communication between dispatchers.
County council is expected to vote tonight on an ordinance that would set aside more than 73 thousand dollars.
The money will buy equipment for dispatching centers that are not part of Erie County's 911 Center in Summit Township, helping Millcreek Police, PA State Police, and emergency responders in eastern Erie County to tie into the system.
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Local food producer? NYS wants you
New York State Commissioner of Agriculture Richard A. Ball encouraged companies that make food, drink, and other agricultural products in New York on Monday, Sept. 15 to consider exhibiting their products at the Taste NY Harvest Fest at the New York State Fairgrounds on Saturday, Nov. 1.
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Livingoods Restaurant is open for business, and work on an upcoming brew pub is pressing ahead rapidly.
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The long awaited opening of Buffalo Wild Wings in Plattsburgh will take place on Monday, Dec. 9, at 11 a.m..
Taste of the North Country brings out local flavors and fun
The Taste of the North Country was savored at the North Country Chamber of Commerce's annual fundraiser Nov. 7. "It was bigger than ever, just great food, great people and a chance for people to learn about different area businesses and their services and products," said Jody Parks, Executive Vice President of North Country Chamber of Commerce.
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At The Pepper in downtown Plattsburgh the culinary duties are handled by committee, with three chefs sharing the load.
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Adirondack Harvest, the regional buy-local campaign sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County, recently participated in the acclaimed agricultural event Farm Aid 2013.
Cuomo helps create new "Adirondack Coast Wine Trail"
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Local Flavor Longtime executive chef at Anthony's now at the helm.
If there's something special about Anthony's Restaurant and Bistro, besides the superior quality of the dining experience, it's their consistency. That's exactly how Executive Chef and owner Scott Murray likes it.
Nico's Pizza finds a home in Rouses Point
There's a new place to get pizza in the Northern Tier, since the summer opening of Nico's Pizza on Lake Street, in the heart of the village's downtown section. James Peralas and Chuck Kimble, both veteran pizza makers from Plattsburgh, with 26 years experience between them, realized that they had done and seen it all in the pizza business. They felt it was time to go into business for themselves. "We knew every aspect of the business, we had run and managed businesses, so we decided to make our own money, instead of making money for someone else," said Peralas.


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A Mighty HeartTuesday, June 26th, 2007
Angelina Jolie has given her best perforrmance to date in A Mighty Heart. Read on:
Despite its TV-movie-of-the-week title, A Mighty Heart is a compelling docudrama in the vein of Paul Greengrass' United 93: a chronicle of actual events that we kind of know about, but are only now experiencing first-hand… appropriately in cinematic terms. Like Greengrass, director Michael Winterbottom favors handheld cameras and a more immediate approach to documenting his subject, but more than that, the two share a European (or at least non-American) sensibility that lends a greater degree of objectivity and, by extension, a greater universality to the story.
And while it may seem like poor encouragement to compare this to the best movie people were afraid to see in 2006, suffice it to say that A Mighty Heart should be significantly easier for audiences to endure, even if its story is just as powerful.
Told through the eyes of Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart documents the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl and the authorities' (and his family's) subsequent efforts to save his life. Angelina Jolie plays the very pregnant Mariane opposite Dan Futterman's Daniel; true to her account of the events, most of the film is from her point of view, with only a few early scenes and flashbacks showing their interaction. This proves to be one of the movie's strengths, as it refrains from dramatizing Pearl's torture to either speculate what happened to him or to push unnecessary dramatic buttons.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday joined the line of Republicans making pilgrimages to the congressional district of Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., this election season. Although still a freshman, Scott is one of only two African-American Republicans in Congress and is considered a rising GOP star from an important primary state.
Perry addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Horry Georgetown Technical College in Conway, S.C., about a 20-minute drive from Myrtle Beach. The audience, mostly people in their 40s or older, peppered him with questions about Social Security, immigration and other topics. Perry said that although people of his generation have little to worry about, the next generation is being told "a monstrous lie" that the current system will help them in their retirement years.
"I've got a 28-year-old son – approaching 28 – and a 25-year-old daughter. And we shouldn't lie to them and tell them that this system that we have in place today will be there for them. So (we need to) have a conversation with America. How do we make that transition from the system that we've got today? I call it a Ponzi scheme. I call it a monstrous lie.
"Anyone who is running for the president of the United States and wants to keep the status quo on entitlement(s) is suspect," Perry concluded.
On the issue of illegal immigration, Perry shared his belief that a high-tech security fence is not the answer, as some in Congress have suggested, and that "the only way you can truly secure that border is with boots on the ground." As president, he said he would add 4,500 additional federal agents from Brownsville, Texas to Tijuana, Mexico. While those agents were being trained, he said, he would detail National Guard units to protect the border.
Scott told reporters after the morning event that he thought the crowd was impressed with Perry's performance. He has hosted similar meetings for Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, and he is planning an event with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
It was Perry's last campaign stop of the day. He canceled an appearance at a conservative forum hosted for Republican presidential candidates by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina to fly back to Texas to oversee efforts to combat some 60 wildfires threatening several towns and responsible for at least two deaths.
Reuters reported that the Texas Forest Service was battling 63 fires that burned 32,936 acres, including 22 large fires. A 20-year-old woman and her 18-month-old daughter were killed in northeast Texas after becoming trapped in their mobile home by flames. Officials said the worst fires were east of the state capital of Austin, where one fire stretched for 16 miles.
Aides said the governor does plan to attend a GOP presidential debate scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. It will be his first debate since he declared his candidacy.
In South Carlina, among Perry's parting words were, "Pray for rain."


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Ignacio Taboada came in at No. 29 in the latest ITA Rankings released Tuesday.
March 13, 2012
ATHENS-----Following a pair of wins last weekend over No. 12 Mississippi State and 16th-ranked Ole Miss, the Georgia men's tennis team climbed three spots to No. 3 in this week's ITA National Rankings. This marks the Bulldogs' highest ranking since they were No. 3 in April of 2009.
Southern Cal is No. 1, followed by Ohio State, Georgia, UCLA, Virginia, Duke, Kentucky, Pepperdine, Stanford and Florida to round out the top-10.
The Bulldogs are 13-1 this season, including a 4-0 mark in SEC play, with the only loss coming to top-ranked Southern Cal in the National Indoor Tournament.
In the new singles rankings, Wil Spencer is No. 8, followed by Sadio Doumbia at No. 20, Ignacio Taboada at No. 29, KU Singh at No. 50, and Hernus Pieters at No. 70.
In doubles, the tandem of Spencer and Garrett Brasseaux is ranked 14th, Doumbia and Taboada are 20th, Pieters and Taboada are 31st, while Doumbia and Nathan Pasha are ranked No. 52.
Georgia returns to action Wednesday, March 21 against second-ranked Ohio State at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.


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Dr. Ivey's research focuses on the regulation of cardiac-cell fates. She uses both animal models and cultured cells to study normal and pathological developmental processes. As the Director of the Gladstone Stem Cell Core, she oversees training, equipment and other resources for cutting-edge stem cell research used both by investigators at both Gladstone and UCSF.
Dr. Ivey came to Gladstone as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2005, and trained in stem cell biology as a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scholar for three years. During that time, she applied her knowledge of the processes governing normal heart development to direct the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into the cardiac lineage.
In 1998, Dr. Ivey earned a bachelor's degree at Texas A&M University. In 2004, she earned a PhD in molecular and cell biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she studied transcriptional regulation of the developing heart.
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The heart develops and functions through the precise actions of myriad factors at specific moments in response to signaling and transcriptional networks. microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small, non-coding RNAs, regulate the dosage of such factors and are critical contributors to cardiac development and function. Building on my published work, which uncovered the role of miRNAs in various cardiogenic processes—including formation of cardiac cells from embryonic stem cells—I am continuing in two major areas of investigation: 1) Directed differentiation of cardiovascular cells from human ES and iPS cells and 2) Posttranscriptional regulation of miRNA activity.
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- What are the extracellular matrix proteins that promote human iPS cell differentiation into various cardiovascular lineages?
- What are the mechanisms for post-transcriptional regulation of bicistronic cardiac miRNAs?
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Gladstone offers a unique environment that brings together strong, talented scientists performing at the cutting edge of basic research, while also creating the opportunity for them to work together under the umbrella of a specific human disease focus, applying their science to solve questions about important illnesses of our time. Gladstone also values community outreach and I am thankful to be part of our efforts to share current science with members of the public and especially local youth.
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- Uncovered the ability of cardiac-enriched miRNAs to direct cardiac differentiation from pluripotent embryonic stem cells.
- Developed an automated miRNA target prediction algorithm, helping to uncover the role of miRNAs in the formation of cardiac cells.
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International Society for Stem Cell Research
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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- Outstanding Poster Award, UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute (2005)
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A workshop and specially called meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Sunset Beach Town Hall.
Town council will discuss a StreetScape design for the island causeway and hear a request for additional funding from Scott Kucera, director of Ingram Planetarium.
All interested citizens are encouraged to attend.
By the end of a season, teams have established their identity.
Conference champions or conference patsies. Overachievers or slackers. Good sports or disgusting rogues.
When the West Brunswick High School football season ended Friday night after a 51-27 loss to Overhills in the first round of the NCHSAA Class 3-AA playoffs, West coach Jimmy Fletcher felt good about these 2008 Trojans.
And he was especially grateful for the way the seniors played.
A Shallotte man has been sentenced to four months in prison for the 2006 shooting death of 43-year-old Harry Robert Ponds.
Steven Woods, 30, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Monday in Brunswick County Superior Court. Superior Court Judge Gary Locklear sentenced Woods to 16-20 months, which was suspended for five years. Woods will serve four months in the department of corrections as a condition of his suspended sentence, assistant district attorney Lee Bollinger said.
Fourteen years ago this past June, Birdie Frink lost her daughter Amy to a violent murder. Since then she has been active in victims' advocacy and pushing for legislation to help victims of violent crimes and their families.
On Friday, The Citizens for Justice group, a nonprofit victim's advocacy group, will host the 13th Annual Candlelight Memorial Service Honoring Victims of Crime.
The memorial service is free and open to the public. The service begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Leland Baptist Church on Village Road.
The Brunswick Community College men's basketball team made school history Saturday afternoon when it beat Wilkes Community College 113-83 and improved to a record-setting start of 8-0.
Five Dolphins scored at least 10 points against Wilkes: Mi'kyel Nero had 18, Lamonte Theus 15, Jeremy Basnight and Andrew Jackson 14 each and Isaac Nixon 10.
BCC won the game without 6-foot-9 center/forward Jamar Taylor (ankle injury) and 6-9 center Jeffery Monk (funeral).
The game was close late into the first half before the Dolphins built a big lead.
BEULAVILLE—Cougars 24, Panthers 8: That was the score in 1986, when South Brunswick High School won it first football playoff game, against East Duplin.
JACKSONVILLE—You can see it in his face, the excitement, the happiness, the relief. You can feel the emotion as coach Garry Bishop clenched his fist and raised an arm in triumph.
The North Brunswick football team beat a higher ranked, highly touted Southwest Onslow football team. It took overtime to achieve this as the 10th-seeded Scorpions beat the seventh-seeded Stallions of Onslow 21-14 in the first round of the NCHSAA Class 2-A playoffs.
The Brunswick Bulldogs finished second in a recent two-day tournament in Pembroke. The Bulldogs, who consist of five West players, five South players and three North players, beat the Bladen Spinners 10-1 Nov. 8.
Blake Norris pitched first three innings. He faced 14 batters and threw 63 pitches. He struck out one and walked six. He gave up two hits and no runs.
Robert Jones pitched the fourth and fifth innings to complete the game. He faced eight batters and threw 33 pitches. He struck out three and walked one. He gave up two hits and one run.
In the final NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race of the season, Chad McCumbee finished 13th and failed to finish in the top 10 in points.
In the Ford 200 race Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, McCumbee was trying to earn enough points to finish ahead of Terry Cook, who was 10th in points. But Cook finished ninth and secured the top-10 finish.
McCumbee finished 11th in points, 73 behind Cook. In 25 starts, McCumbee finished in the top five twice and in the top 10 eight times. He failed to finish two races.
Myrtle Beach Speedway's traditional November race has picked up the support of Seneca Tobacco Co., based in Hartsville, S.C. The Seneca 400 is Nov. 20-23 and includes a $10,000 first-place payout.
The weekend will feature the Seneca 250 for NASCAR Late Model Stock Cars, along with the Don Brewer Memorial 100 for the Super Trucks.
Supporting races will be 50-lap Limited Late Model, Mini-Stock and Street Stock races.
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President Barack Obama, who began his Asian tour last week by declaring U.S. readiness to defend Japan in its conflict with China over islands in the East China Sea, ended it Monday by rebuking his foreign policy critics for being "so eager to use military force." At a joint press conference with Philippine President Benigno Aquino in Manila, Obama cited the "disastrous decision to go into Iraq," and claimed his critics at home "haven't really learned the lesson of the last decade."
"Typically, criticism of our foreign policy has been directed at the failure to use military force," Obama said. "And the question I think I would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we've just gone through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget?" The president noted he has been criticized for not taking military action against Syria over charges that the Damascus regime had crossed what Obama had said was a "red line" forbidding the use of chemical weapons in the war against insurgents attempting to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.
"Well, perhaps you should have taken a strike in Syria to get chemical weapons out of Syria," Obama said describing the action urged by some Senate Republicans and media commentators. "Well, it turns out we're getting chemical weapons out of Syria without having initiated a strike. So what else are you talking about? And at that point it kind of trails off." The United States last year joined Russian efforts to persuade Assad to get rid of his chemical weapons, and as of last week, Obama said, the Syrian president had reduced his inventory by 87 percent. "The fact that we didn't have to fire a missile to get that accomplished is not a failure to uphold those international norms, it's a success," the president said, adding, "It's not a complete success until we have the last 13 percent out."
Obama appears to be giving himself too much credit, however, for averting military action against Syria. The administration was poised for a military strike before opposition in Congress and in public opinion surveys showed the unpopularity of such a move, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's diplomatic initiative offered a way out. Concerning Russia, Obama said his administration has succeeded in efforts "to mobilize the international community" to join in applying both economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure with the goal of forcing Putin to remove Russian troops from Ukraine.
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By: Travis Dill
Berlin got her first chance to splash in the pool of her new exhibit on Thursday, but it is down in Kansas City, Mo.
It was a bittersweet occasion for staff at the Lake Superior Zoo. Especially for Director of Zoo Operations Peter Pruett.
"It's always mixed emotions. Of course you don't want her to be away from her home in Duluth," Pruett said.
He said Berlin going on display in Kansas City brought out many emotions.
"It's great that she went to [Kansas City]. It eases the loss tremendously, but you're right it is still a little sad that she's gone," Pruett said.
Staff at both zoos are hoping for a love connection between Berlin and Nikita, a male bear at the Kansas City Zoo. But Thursday was just the beginning of a long introduction.
"If it's a good positive reaction that will of course speed up the whole introduction process. If Berlin decides that Nikita is not for her, the introduction process will slow down a little bit," Pruett said.
For safety reasons the two bears will be separated for weeks, but they will be able to see and smell each other.
"There is a significant amount of space around them in the wild, and so if on wants to leave they can. There's only finite space on an exhibit so you really have to be careful," Pruett said.
If Berlin does get pregnant she may be away for years, but Pruett said they hope she will return to Duluth.
Staff at the Lake Superior Zoo have considered plans for a new exhibit that would keep her safe from any future flood problems.
"Also looking at moving a polar bear exhibit so we would never have to go through what we went through this summer," Pruett said.
Berlin is a star, and even though she's shining 600 miles away, she is still beloved by many here in the Northland.
To see Berlin in Kansas City check out this webcam feed of her new exhibit. Berlin and Nikita will be rotated in and out of that exhibit.


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Corpus Christi manages just 4 hits in shutout
After all, they ranked last in the league in wins, saves and strikeouts and have given up the most hits, home runs and walks. To boot, Arkansas' staff earned-run average of 5.76 was nearly a run and a half higher than Wichita, the second-worst team in that category. And in all of pro baseball, only the Mexican League's Rioleros de Aguascalientes and the Kansas City Royals are worse in terms of ERA.
However, none of that seems relevant when Jesse Smith faces the Hooks. Smith continued his mastery of Corpus Christi this season, tossing eight shutout innings as the Travelers rolled to a 7-0 victory over the Hooks at Whataburger Field.
Smith (4-8) had lost seven of his previous eight starts, but muzzled Corpus Christi's offense, holding the Hooks to four hits. He improved to 3-0 in as many starts against the Hooks, having yielded six earned runs in 21.2 innings.
"I don't know (how to explain it)," Smith said. "I like pitching against the best teams. The last two outings, I threw really well against them. Coming into the game, I had a lot of confidence knowing what I did to some of the batters and how I got some of them out."
It definitely was a welcome sight to Travelers manager Ty Boykin, who saw his staff ripped for 15 runs in the first two games of the series, both won by Corpus Christi (2-1 second half, 43-29 overall), which lost for only the fourth time in the past 16 games. The Hooks were shut out for only the fourth time this season.
"It was very nice," Boykin said. "He's been throwing the ball pretty well all season, but it's been good seeing him continue to have some success. He's been one of our most consistent starters."
While Smith cruised, Hooks left-hander Josh Muecke's trying season continued.
Trying to get up to speed after an arm injury suffered on opening day sidelined him for six weeks, Muecke lasted only 3.2 innings against Arkansas, giving up six hits and four runs, all earned, to fall to 0-4 with a 13.02 ERA.
Muecke retired the side in order in the first inning, but put the first two runners on base in each of the next three frames, leading to three runs and an early exit.
"He's just going through a difficult time right now," Hooks manager Dave Clark said. "If you asked me what we're going to do (with him) in five days, I couldn't really tell you right now, but he is a part of this club. It's unfortunate he got hurt early in the season, but our job is to get him going again."
The Hooks' offense didn't help matters, with only one runner getting to third base the entire night.
"(Smith) did a good job," Clark said. "We just didn't do anything offensively."
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Improvement works costing £850,000 are set to be carried out at Stansted Airport railway station.
Rail operator Abellio Greater Anglia will spend the money upgrading lights at the station.
The work will improve lighting levels and brighten the platforms and waiting areas, which do not get any natural light.
A total of 250 new lights with energy efficient bright LED bulbs will be fitted with some on every column in the station.
The work, which is expected to continue until the end of April, is being carried out by Spence Ltd on behalf of the rail operator.
A team of specialist cleaners also recently targeted the station to do a deep clean.
Dirt, gum and grime from all floors, tiles, waiting rooms and toilet facilities were removed in the operation.
To complete the station's smart new appearance it has also been fitted with brand new signage in the Abellio Greater Anglia colours.
Flavio Lopes, area customer service manager, said: "I look forward to welcoming customers to a brighter, cleaner and much more appealing station environment as this upgrade is completed over the coming weeks.
"Investing in upgrades to stations across the network is extremely important to Abellio Greater Anglia, demonstrating our commitment to providing excellent facilities and service to our customers."
Abellio Greater Anglia has agreed with the Department for Transport to roll-out a series of improvements to services and facilities across the region.
A recent plan drawn up with Network Rail also includes a review of contingency plans to restore services to normal following disruption, while carriages will be improved on the West Anglia route.
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From Ipswich we have to change at Ely to get to Stansted, with infrequent connections, so the train is not very practical. The direct National Express bus is the better option.
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I couldn't agree more with IpswichMan... its either a coach or transfer at Ely or London - the regional airport was only ever designed for London and not for the East. There used to be a railway heading that way from Braintree I believe. It didn't close before Stansted Airport (previously an RAF base) was developed to be the third airport. We have the conservatives to thank for that.
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I have 24 years of teaching experience all of which are at Iola Roberts Elementary. During this time, I have grown to love and feel a part of the community. I have taught Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade,and 3rd grade. I want to thank my former students and parents for allowing me to be a part of their lives. I want to express my sincere committment to positively impact the lives of my students.
I live in Lincoln with my husband and daughter. I enjoy reading, exercising , and spending time with my family and friends. I'm a member of First Baptist Church.
I enjoy working with children. Teaching them and learning from them has truly been a blessing in my life.
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The O.D.T. was founded in purpose of bringing together people of diverse spiritual paths under the same Order, and the cause of that Order is Spiritual Evolution.
The concept that unites us is this,
We start off as a spiritual seed, a particle of information in a single celled organism, to some this cell is a Heaven or God, to others it is a prison, and a Hell. Eventually the cell develops, and it divides into new cells. Each with a consciousness of its own but connected all the while. The particles in the cells grow and develop into larger parts of the cell, until eventually becoming a cell unto themselves, and this growth of self consciousness becomes more rapid at this point and through the evolution of these cells into larger beings & through many stages of life, grow into a God or Goddess through the Evolution of the Soul(energy) & matter.
Drasik translates to Hathatos, meaning in Hungarian; Effective, which is exactly what we seek to be, regardless of our life path, Religion, or practices, so long as it, as you are, effective, then you are a Drasikian by definition. We do not limit, but instead liberate our members from stigmata, and social boundaries that hinder us from following the path of the individual. We seek to become an Official religion, but, because our beliefs are diverse, we are having a few difficulties in the layout of the basic tenets, to see more on the development of this see our section titled " our beliefs".
Also, we are currently reforming our site and you may find many things changed, gone, or new altogether, please help keep the site as the members prefer it, message us of any changes that you feel were inadequate.~~ Longfang
The Drasikian Energy System or Des, as we Drasikians deify our energy body or soul as our higher being or God/dess, and view it as a cosmic reflection of Creation and Destruction. it is similar to the Chakra systems of the East, and the Tree of Life in the Qaballah. The practical study and application of this cosmic body is called Des Khu. Within Des there are 25 primary Energy Processing Centers, known as Chakras, that regulate, process, and run the life energy known as Prana, Ki, Chi, Vril, Ka, and Mana. the locations of which are given above, one half of your energy body governs the receptive side of your chi and the other half governs the projective side. The overlapping area is your center, and governs the neutral chi, which is a balance of projective and receptive energies.
The Drasikian Ankh symbolizes Death and Rebirth with the dual Ouroboros serving as the loop of the ankh. The Scarab at the heart of the Ankh symbolizes spiritual transformation and change. The Angel and Eagle Wings represent our freedom of spirituality and our ability to rise above the limitations of others. The 13 pointed star in the center is an Aztec star of life energy or Prana, engraved with the pentacle (Spirit presiding over the other elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.) for protection. Last but not least the Scorpion's Tail to serve as a reminder that Death walks with us always, and that people are in the process of crossing the threshold of Life and Death, to pay respect to them both, and remember that we are the guardians of that veil.


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Plan has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1986, helping poor children to access their rights to quality education, food, health services and safe water.
One of the key activities in Zimbabwe over the past decade has been to help address the food shortage that is affecting almost half of the country's 13,000,000 population.
We have been providing emergency food relief to children and families affected by the shortage, which has been partly due to low rainfall leading to a succession of poor harvests.
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Plan joined the Coca-Cola Company at the commissioning of two boreholes as part of a joint venture to improve water access, sanitation and hygiene at five schools.


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Hard-hitting, beautiful video from AG Rojas. Here is "Cody"
AG Rojas has always been a little rebellious with his filmmaking. From making Jack White run about with some dangerous kids to making a short film about aliens and drugs, he knows how to keep his audience clawing at him for more. His latest piece is part of TRIBUTE, a "series of short films about youth" that has been recently debuted on Dazed Digital. In Cody, Rojas focuses on a boy who, we find out, is involved in a rather sinister turn of events
"Shot in Taft, California, AG's Cody continues his vein of lyrical, poetic and complex narratives about youth outsiders. This time, though, it's an all too real tale of youth and reticence he documents."


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Step 3: Butts
You can choose between the 2 butts.
If you are building the pistol, then check the last picture for reference.
Step 6: Other bits
2) Rails (make the gun stronger)
3) Hopper cover (highly recommended)
4) Pin
Step 7: Monopod
You can design your own monopod base if you like, I prefer the simple option.
Step 8: Firing
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|Una Faye Claypool McGuffey
|Monday, 04 February 2013 08:10
Una Faye Claypool McGuffey, 83, of Scottsville, KY died at 10:05 a.m. Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Cal Turner Rehab & Specialty Care. The Scottsville, KY native was a homemaker and a retired manager for Super X Drugs. She was a daughter of the late John Henry Claypool and Beulah Mae Tabor Claypool and wife of the late Buel D McGuffey, Sr.
She is survived by 3 sons: Dr. Ken McGuffey and wife, Pat, Indianapolis, IN; Thomas Claypool McGuffey and wife, Rita, Brandenburg, KY and Rev. Buel D McGuffey and wife, Gail, Settle Community;
1 daughter: Pamela McGuffey, Settle Community;
1 niece: Phila Hinton, Scottsville, KY;
2 nephews: Mike Mitchell, Mt. Sterling, KY and John Mitchell, Bowling Green, KY;
8 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and 2 step grandchildren;
She was preceded in death by 1 sister: Willa Mae Mitchell.
Funeral services will be 12:Noon Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at Goad Funeral Home with Bro. Wayne Keen officiating and burial in Crescent Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3:00 p.m. Monday at Goad Funeral Home. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the Alzheimer's Association. Donations may be made at Goad Funeral Home.


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Santa Paula celebrates Labor Day
Working men and women were honored at the eighth Labor Day Parade on Monday in Santa Paula where busy people took a moment to celebrate on a clear, sunny day.
Javier Gastelum of Santa Paula was working his shift at the Goodwill store as the parade passed by outside. "It's interesting. I liked the entertainment the Zumba dancers and the horses, when they made them dance, that was fun," Gastelum said, adding that the parade was a welcome diversion during his eight-hour shift.
The Labor Day parade had more than 35 entries, according to Anita Gonzalez, a member of the parade's organizing committee. The event was sponsored by a collection of local businesses and clubs.
Hannah Grant of Ojai opened the parade with an a cappella rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner," which she completed in a clear soprano voice after initially flubbing the lyrics. "I figured, 'Oh well, I'll just start over. Everyone knows I messed up,'" she said, adding that she sings at her church Catalyst.
As members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Mercer Prieto Post 2043 marched past, parade announcer Peggy Kelly noted, "We're celebrating people who work for us and that includes those in the military."
Gabriella Estrada was at the parade with her family before heading to work later in the day. "I'm going to work with my mother catering at a barbecue," she said.
Her two children Johnny Rodriguez Jr., 6, and Audrina Rodriguez, 4, were enjoying the parade before heading to the beach with their dad Johnny Rodriguez. "We're going to have our own barbecue there," Johnny Rodriguez said. Johnny Jr. said he liked the horseback groups best. "I like the riders on the horses," the boy said. Audrina said her favorite part of the parade was the Santa Paula High School Band and Color Guard, which played after the parade ended in Railroad Plaza Park.
George and Ruth Owens of Ventura came to the Santa Paula to enjoy the parade for the first time. "I really enjoy looking at the old tractors," George Owens said after the Topa Topa Flywheel Tractors group with its antique machines had passed by. After the parade the Owens were planning to head to Vince's Coffee Shop across the street for brunch.
The Owens ended up sharing a spot on the sidewalk along parade route Main Street between Seventh and 10th streets with Peter Ruiz who came with his wife and sister-in-law. "We got tired of staying around the house looking at each other," he joked. "No. We came because this is always such a happy event. We see all the people from around town enjoying themselves."
There were a number of labor unions represented including The Laborers International Union of Santa Paula, which chanted "everywhere we go people want to know who we are, so we tell them," as the members marched.
"Labor Day is a special day for us because we are laborers. This union is made up of hardworking Americans," said Ivan Briggs, who was furling up the group's banner at the end of the parade. "We have 80 years of history here in Ventura County and in Santa Paula." After the parade, the members of LiUNA were planning to have a "good, old-fashioned barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers."
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Emergency Medicine Journal, 04/25/2012
Schleder S et al. – In major trauma patients, examination with hand–carried ultrasound (HCU) according to the 'focused assessment with sonography for trauma' principles for the diagnosis of organ lacerations and free intra–abdominal fluid is a reliable and rapid alternative to multidetector CT (MDCT) scans and can help save precious time in emergency situations, and should, additionally, be evaluated in the pre–clinical workflow.
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A fuse cell comprises a plurality of fuse elements, a plurality of cascode configuration programming circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements, and a plurality of cascode configuration sensing circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements.
1. A fuse cell comprising:
a plurality of fuse elements;
a plurality of cascode configuration programming circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements; and
a plurality of cascode configuration sensing circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements.
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13. A method of operating a fuse cell comprising:
during a programming operation of a fuse element utilizing a first cascode configuration circuit to program the fuse element; and
during a sensing operation of a fuse element utilizing a second cascode configuration circuit to sense the fuse element.
14. The method of
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16. A system comprising:
a semiconductor component including:
a fuse cell comprising:
a plurality of fuse elements;
a plurality of cascode configuration programming circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements; and
a plurality of cascode configuration sensing circuits correspondingly coupled to the fuse elements;
a mass storage device; and
at least one bus coupled between the semiconductor component and the mass storage device to facilitate data exchange between the semiconductor component and the mass storage device.
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The present invention relates in general to the field of integrated circuits and, in particular, to fuse cell design in integrated circuits.
Data may be stored in integrated circuit elements of various types. When power is applied to a circuit, the data operated on by a controller may be stored in temporary, volatile memory. When the power to the circuit containing this temporary, volatile memory is removed, however, the data in the temporary, volatile memory is lost. Other types of non-volatile, but rewritable, elements such as EEPROMs and NVRAMs are utilized to store information that is maintained after power is removed from a circuit containing these elements. Another type of element that may be utilized in integrated circuits to store information are one time programmable elements. These one time programmable elements may contain information that has been written to the elements once and then used in a read-only manner. Such one time programmable elements may be implemented utilizing various technologies.
One type of technology utilized to provide one-time programmability is fuse cells. Fuse cells typically provide the ability for a logic value to be determined by programming the fuse cell by "blowing" or programming one or more fuse elements. An ideal fuse element may be one that acts as a short circuit when not programmed and an open circuit when programmed. Actual fuse elements, however, may only approximate short circuits and open circuits when not programmed and programmed, respectively. That is to say that actual fuse elements typically have associated with them a low resistive state and a high resistive state.
Embodiments of the present invention will be described referencing the accompanying drawings in which like references denote similar elements, and in which:
Various aspects of illustrative embodiments of the invention will be described using terms commonly employed by those skilled in the art to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced with only some of the described aspects. For purposes of explanation, specific numbers, materials, and configurations are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the illustrative embodiments. However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without the specific details. In other instances, well-known features are omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the illustrative embodiments.
The phrase "in one embodiment" is used repeatedly. The phrase generally does not refer to the same embodiment; however, it may. The terms "comprising", "having" and "including" are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise.
Feature sizes for microelectronic circuits continue to shrink. Coinciding with this shrinkage in features size is a reduction in the operating voltages of these microelectronic circuits. As previously mentioned, in circuits containing fuse elements, the actual fuse elements may only approximate short circuits and open circuits. As such, the native fuse elements assume a low resistance value while programmed fuses assume a high resistance value approximating the short and open circuits, respectively. As the feature sizes and voltages decrease, however, challenges arise as it becomes more difficult to differentiate between the low and high resistance values. Such challenges may create problems in distinguishing a proper logic value associated with a fuse element after the fuse cell has been programmed. For example, in one embodiment of a fuse cell, two fuse elements are utilized. Prior to programming, both fuse elements have a low resistive value. During programming of the fuse cell, one of the two fuse elements is programmed, i.e. set to a high resistance state, and one of the two fuse elements is unchanged, i.e. left at a low resistive state. Depending on which of the two fuse elements are set to a high resistive state, the fuse cell can determine a logic "0" value or a logic "1," value. When the fuse cell is read, the two fuse elements may be "sensed" by, for example, determining a voltage drop across the fuse elements relative to one another.
There are times when programming of fuse elements of fuse cells in microelectronic circuits does not program the fuse elements in a manner to sufficiently distinguish a properly programmed logic value. This may result from a number of issues. For example, this may be due to an insufficient programming voltage being applied across a fuse element during programming. Frequently, in order to assure the proper programming of a fuse element, the programming of fuse elements involves the use of voltages that are higher than voltages used in a normal operation of the fuse cells containing the fuse elements to be programmed. For example, in sense, or read, operations of circuits containing programmed information in fuse cells, the sense operations may utilize a supply voltage, VCC. In contrast, during a period of programming of the information in the fuse elements of the fuse cell, a supply voltage different from VCC may be utilized in the programming process. For example, in one embodiment, the supply voltage utilized when programming fuse elements of a fuse cell may be twice a supply voltage used during a sensing operation. To provide the ability to operate with voltages as high as e.g. twice the normal supply voltage, various circuits have been devised. As many of these circuits require special manufacturing steps during the manufacture of these circuits, difficulties sometime arise in their implementation.
This higher voltage which may be utilized during a programming operation may be problematic for standard metal oxide semiconductor devices due to, among other things, the stress they bring to a gate oxide layer. For a given technology, a gate oxide thickness may be designed to provide certain features. These features may not support an ability to have voltages across a gate/drain or gate/source that are over a certain value. For example, if twice the supply voltage (VCC) is applied to the drain of an NMOS device while the gate of the NMOS device is biased with a ground reference voltage, this VGD voltage equal to 2*VCC may likely induce a failure of the NMOS device through, at least, the stresses on the gate oxide layer. Thus, care should be taken in the design of circuits utilizing a programming voltage higher than a normal operating system voltage.
The embodiments herein disclose the use of a cascode configuration for, among other things, the programming and sensing of fuse elements. As illustrated in the embodiment of
During programming, however, when one of the program signals 138 148 is asserted, the voltage levels on the corresponding cascode midpoints 134 144 may drop to effectively a ground potential. This turns-on the corresponding upper cascode device 132 142 resulting in a voltage at nodes 114 124 of effectively a ground potential. Thus, a substantially full voltage of 2*VCC occurs across the fuse elements 110 120 during programming which may provide for a more completely programmed fuse element.
Other portions of fuse cell 100 of the embodiment of
In the embodiment illustrated, the margin mode control circuit utilizes a cascode configuration. Referring again to
In various embodiments, system 500 may be a hand held computing device, a mobile phone, a digital camera, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a set-top box, a CD player, a DVD player, or a server.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein for purposes of description of the preferred embodiment, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that a wide variety of alternate and/or equivalent implementations calculated to achieve the same purposes may be substituted for the specific embodiment shown and described without departing from the scope of the present invention. Those with skill in the art will readily appreciate that the present invention may be implemented in a very wide variety of embodiments. While the above circuits have been described with reference to particular logic levels, it is recognized that logic levels are arbitrary and the above circuits may be been described using different logic elements. It is to be recognized that other devices may be utilized without deviating from the scope of the embodiments presented herein. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the embodiments discussed herein. Therefore, it is manifestly intended that this invention be limited only by the claims and the equivalents thereof.
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What to drink for Easter? I know, it's the looming question on everyone's mind right now…ok, maybe not everyone's, but I'm a Sommelier, so I just figure we're all on the same page. Easter Dinner; some have ham, some roast lamb (wow, I'm starting to sound like a Dr Seuss book!) and some have a purely vegetarian meal. Fish is poached often, salmon mostly, which is great because we have started to see the Wild Kings coming in.
So it's difficult to fit in wines that will go with the meal. My suggestion is pair course to course. Gone are the days (hopefully) of just bringing a bottle that will go with the entire spread! Let's be adventurous. You know me; I like to start every celebration with bubbles! Rose would work. (Hey, we're coloring eggs and pretty baskets, the wine may as well have a pretty color!) Try a Spanish Cava, or Prosecco from Italy. There are some beautiful Roses from Champagne if it fits in the budget.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post7248076885863208404..comments2013-10-25T23:22:53.538-04:00Comments on L'Hôte: that was unexpectedFreddiehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-58909999081496219042013-08-09T20:08:59.352-04:002013-08-09T20:08:59.352-04:00"At the request of the NFL Players Associatio..."At the request of the NFL Players Association, government scientists compared the death rates for almost 3,500 of the league's retirees to those for age- and race-matched non-athletes over the same years."

This is a bad comparison.

You should compare 3,500 of the league's retirees to 3,500 other athletes.

You're trying to find out if football is dangerous among other sports, not if it's more dangerous to be a footballer with a few million dollars in the bank than a couch potato who lives on the average wage.padraighttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-36908112401549884662013-01-10T15:49:58.877-05:002013-01-10T15:49:58.877-05:00Along with this record, you should also ask for th...Along with this record, you should also ask for the ownership details. warehouse operations The temporary agency or the contracting employer may conduct the training and evaluation of operators from a temporary agency as required by the standard; however, the host employer (or other employer who enters into a contract with the temporary agency) must provide site-specific information and training on the use of the particular types of trucks and workplace-related topics that are present in the workplace. These training courses offer several benefits for both the employee and the company. An employee evaluation is necessary before an organization assigns the certification to employees to avoid expensive penalties.Longhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-2001505892301013652012-05-14T13:39:22.120-04:002012-05-14T13:39:22.120-04:00I just wanted to thank you for two very interestin...I just wanted to thank you for two very interesting blog posts, on football and "Fight Club."

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-16931495646840928542012-05-11T20:52:15.547-04:002012-05-11T20:52:15.547-04:00I can't speak for Freddie here, but regarding ...I can't speak for Freddie here, but regarding the "workers safety" aspect of college football, the difference in my mind is that no one can *only* play football and nothing else to make a living.

With workers safety issues in factories, mines, construction etc., those aren't highly specialized jobs, so anybody in decent physical shape can do them. Football is a specialty you need to be athletically gifted and specially trained for.

Bottom line: almost everyone who can play football (maybe not Defensive Tackles) has recourse to some other line of work, but workers in other areas may not have the same choice.Mysterious man from the Shadowshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-18603258113620327432012-05-11T09:15:40.167-04:002012-05-11T09:15:40.167-04:00HOW TO SAVE FOOTBALL: Have the same 11 guys play ...HOW TO SAVE FOOTBALL: Have the same 11 guys play offense and defense. You know, like in basketball and baseball. The status quo, in which 300-lb defensive tackles get to rest for half the game so they can be all fired up to tear receivers in half when they take the field, would end. As would the ability of running backs to sprint into them at top speed all day. As would the incentive for defensive players to cultivate the physique of water buffalo. We'd have a manly, brutal game, but one in which athletes were a bit too fatigued to hammer each other like they do now.Paul Sherrardhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-89829567980051534172012-05-11T09:07:33.069-04:002012-05-11T09:07:33.069-04:00I'm making predictions, here, not describing m...I'm making predictions, here, not describing my ideal situation. I don't know, I'll have to think about it.Freddiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-24909509217856422632012-05-11T08:27:07.525-04:002012-05-11T08:27:07.525-04:00I'm surprised by that last bit Freddie. Where...I'm surprised by that last bit Freddie.

Where does coercion and workers rights fit into college football? The ones putting on the show aren't even considered workers, let alone paid.

Is this a new found respect and support for free enterprising exploitation?Ethan Gachhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-73045532860837215402012-05-11T04:44:18.086-04:002012-05-11T04:44:18.086-04:00I'd be interested to hear you try to reconcile...I'd be interested to hear you try to reconcile this idea of football always being violent and the violence being the joy with the fact that I always seem to hear that people are turned off by soccer and hockey because they are too violent. Indeed, my own impression of soccer was that fans hate truly violent matches, as you don't get to see real play of the game, but rather, a bunch of thugs wail on people. Ditto w/ hockey, but these might just be my own anecdotes.

And I've heard no talk of banning football at any level; rather, of making it clear the dangers associated, and in the case of college football, seeing players rewarded for their work, and seeing taxpayer subsidies of these activities disappear.Adam Burchhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-69325937879970701052012-05-10T15:51:23.482-04:002012-05-10T15:51:23.482-04:00That's fair. "Injurious", "info...That's fair. "Injurious", "informed" and "consenting" are all probably all complicated as well.

There's something awful about the thought that your job is destroying your brain (as opposed to your lungs or hands or knees) that causes some of this rush to judgment.

But (to draw from my own experience), scientists often do not wear enough PPE to adequately protect themselves. Some worker safety types (most of them, it seems) believe that the law states that it's the employer's legal responsibility to do Whatever It Takes to make their employees protect themselves. (How often that actually happens, of course, is a different story.) -firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-55343551381903109812012-05-10T15:34:13.079-04:002012-05-10T15:34:13.079-04:00I think the self in self-injurious part is importa...I think the self in self-injurious part is important, and complicated.Freddiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-2103032956163529292012-05-10T14:58:10.022-04:002012-05-10T14:58:10.022-04:00"the government has no business regulating th..."the government has no business regulating the self-injurious behaviors of informed, consenting adults"

The entire worker safety movement of the US just coughed. -firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902617359729115650.post-81924144860555296582012-05-10T14:40:48.517-04:002012-05-10T14:40:48.517-04:00To my mind, the fact the Seau's suicide may ha...To my mind, the fact the Seau's suicide may have been caused by head trauma sustained during football was portrayed as symptomatic of a larger point: hat people are realizing that a game where you get hit in the head repeatedly may not be good for your brain.

Most of the stories I've seen haven't said "football players are more likely to kill themselves"; they've said "football players are more likely to suffer brain damage."

Whether causes a person to suffer mental illness leading to suicide, or simply day-to-day difficulty with seeing, hearing, thinking etc. the moral of the story is "football can hurt your brain. What results from that is anyone's guess, but it's never good."

You're right that people are being a bit hasty in assuming Seau's suicide was the result of head trauma--although the manner in which he took his life leads one to suspect he thought so--but that doesn't change the broad conclusions.

All that said, I think your prediction is exactly right: the NFL will move to a point where the only way to make the game safe is to make changes that will end its popularity. (Not only that, but a 'two-hand touch' league would see an influx of mediocre players who would never make it the present-day league.)

You're right--there is no way to reduce the risks other than to eliminate the game.Mysterious man from the Shadowshttp://email@example.com


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While there were no police dogs, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, an official from the Kennedy administration sat by a switch to turn off the sound system if the government thought any speaker was inciting violence.
President Kennedy watched from the Oval Office.
"I remember Dr. King when he saw all this before he went on. He looked out. His eyes filled up. It was beyond anything I've ever, ever experienced," Belafonte said.
With his speech in his hand and people as far as his eye could see, he began.
"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation."
Young said, "It was hot and I was very uncomfortable, until Martin started speaking, and then the thing took on a new, a new character."
"The whole crowd just hushed and just something came over and everybody was just spellbound," Gregory said.
King was nervous. Looking down repeatedly at what he had written, some people thought at first that he was not his preacher self that day. He followed his prepared text closely.
King had been speaking for a bout 10 minutes and was getting to the end of what he had written — when sensing something in the crowd, he later said, he put the text aside.
'I Have a Dream'
King never fully explained what happened to him that day, but the speech he had prepared was no longer enough.
King had spoken of the dream many times. But now the world was listening, and he uttered the lines that have quoted countless times since.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
"We knew America was listening. We could hear America dropping every other thing to pay attention to what was going on. And there we were and the whole world looking at us and all of us speaking together out of one man's mouth," Ossie Davis recalls.
King knew the crowd was with him. This was no longer a speech. This was a Baptist sermon.
President Kennedy had never seen King speak before. "He's damn good," the president said.
Lewis said, "For the first time in people's living room they saw, they heard, they could almost feel and touch what the movement was all about."
But the civil rights leaders knew that all Americans weren't watching with support. Gregory said, "Why did white folks look at it? Not because they wanted to hear what niggas had to say. They thought it was going to be a bloodbath. They thought it was going to be violence and so they listened all the way to the end. If you would've told white folks we have a very eloquent Negro that's going to give a very eloquent speech, we want you to listen. They would've broke the TV, and so we were so happy when it was over that there was no violence."
As soon as the speech was over, King and the other leaders were taken to the White House to see the president. It was a moment that had great meaning.
A Dream in Progress
But America did not change overnight.