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Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH)
Q3 2012 Earnings Conference Call
October 29, 2012, 1:00 pm ET
Tim Bonang – VP, IR
Rick Doyle – Treasurer, CFO
David Hegarty – President, COO
Michael Carroll – RBC Capital Markets
Robert Mains – Stifel Nicolaus
Tayo Okusanya – Jefferies
James Milam – Sandler O'Neill
Jana Galen – Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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Tim Bonang
Thank you and good afternoon, everyone. Joining me on today's call are David Hegarty, President and Chief Operating Office, and Rick Doyle, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer.
Today's call includes a presentation by management followed by a question-and-answer session. I would also note that the recording and retransmission of today's conference call is strictly prohibited without prior written consent of Senior Housing.
Before we being, I would like to state that today's conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Securities laws.
These forward-looking statements are based on Senior Housing's present beliefs and expectations as of today, October 29, 2012. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results with any revision to the forward-looking statements made in today's conference call other than through filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding this reporting period.
In addition, this call may contain non-GAAP numbers including normalized funds from operations or normalized FFO. A reconciliation of normalized FFO to net income and the components to calculate AFFO, CAD or FAD are available on our supplemental operating and financial data package found on our website at www.snhreit.com.
Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the SEC. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.
Now, I would like to turn the call over to Dave.
David Hegarty
Thank you, Tim, and good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining us today on our third quarter earnings call.
First and foremost, we at SNH hope that each of you and your families are safe and as far from any harm from the hurricane.
I am pleased to report that another active and positive quarter for the company, one of which we increased the dividend and positioned ourselves for continued long-term cash flow and dividend growth.
Over the last decade, we have been consistent in executing our strategy of growing our exposure to private pay real estate by exclusively investing in private pay senior living communities and medical office buildings.
Today, 94% of our portfolio's NOI is derived from real estate where the predominant revenue source is private pay. With uncertainties surrounding the fiscal cliff and the long-term viability of Medicare, we feel that we are in the best position in the healthcare REIT space within any additional Medicare cuts.
Our Senior Housing portfolio and medical office buildings are clearly among the best in their respective industries. We do not discuss this often, but Senior Housing Properties Trust is an ENERGY STAR partner with the US Department of Environmental Protection Agency and is focused on being a partner to reduce global warming.
For the third quarter, we reported normalized funds from operations or FFO $0.43 per share. Subsequent to quarter end, our Board of Trustees increased their quarterly distribution by $0.01 per share to $0.39 per share which represents a 7.2% yield based on Friday's closing stock prices.
Year-to-date, 2012 we have acquired or entered into agreements to acquire $450 million of senior living and medical office properties, $304 million of that being acquisition opportunities that came about during 2012.
We stated at the beginning of this year that we expect we'll acquire $300 million to $400 million of properties. At the end of the quarter, we had achieved that goal. Since July 1st, we have closed on $225 million of acquisitions comprised of seven senior living communities with over 1100 units and three medical office buildings containing approximately 150,000 square feet. All of the activity we closed on during the quarter was previously announced.
We recently entered into agreements to acquire three senior living communities located in three states: Mississippi, Tennessee and Washington with 437 units for $59 million. Two of the senior living communities was leased to our TRS and the other will be triple-net leased to a privately owned senior living operator.
We also recently entered into an agreement to acquire a Class A multi-tenant medical office building located in Tennessee for $9.2 million containing 34,000 square feet.
Including the pending acquisition of the medical office building in Minnesota we announced last quarter for $15 million, we have a total of $34 million of pending acquisitions, which we expect will close by the end of the year.
As we have said in the past, we continue to evaluate individual assets and small portfolios in the senior living and medical office space and are seeing new opportunities from sellers looking to close on transactions before year end.
We are uniquely positioned when compared to the (inaudible) healthcare REITs that we can pursue and win smaller accretive acquisition opportunities that help to grow our portfolio and cash flows.
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Have you ever had one of those Betty Crocker Warm Delights? That's what this recipe reminded me of. It was the kind of culinary pleasure that causes ones eyelashes to flutter, them the lids close and your eyeballs roll up into your skull. Then your throat releases that pleasurable moan as the eyelids open again, just long enough to get the spoon back into the dish and into the mouth again.
Phew… is it hot in here???
Anyway, this week's TWD recipe, Rick Katz's Brownies for Julia, found on page 91, was chosen by Tanya of Chocolatechic. You can get the recipe for yourself by visiting Chocolatechic or opening Dorie Greenspan's fabulous book, Baking From My Home to Yours.
The recipe called for baking these in a 9×9 Pyrex dish, however, mine is 8×8. I put most of the batter into the 8×8, but put some in a ramekin and baked it along side the pan.
I think if I make these again, I'll do them all in ramekins, what a joy! I took the pan of brownies out and let it cool a while, then cut into them and they were runny inside. So I preheated the oven again and popped them in for another 15 minutes. That helped, but I think a 13×9 would have been better. Either way, they were devoured, no leftovers. Very gooey and chocolatey!
As you can see from the photo, I added vanilla ice cream and some leftover ganache I hat in the fridge. Sooooooo goooooood. Thanks for picking this Tanya!
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Volume 92, Issue 5, 01 September 2002
The addition of Sb as a surfactant to GaN growth by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495891View Description Hide Description
The role and effect of the isoelectronic center Sb on the structure and properties of GaN epilayers have been investigated. The gas phase Sb concentration was varied by changing the triethyl antimony/trimethyl gallium mole ratio over a wide range of concentrations while keeping other growth parameters constant. The Sb addition slightly improved the optical and structural properties of GaN epilayer at a low level of Sb incorporation, especially for the films grown under a high group V/III ratio conditions. The addition of Sb resulted in changes in GaN surface morphology, which was further explored by the lateral epitaxy overgrowth (LEO) technique through the changes in the growth rates and the facet formation. The presence of Sb in the gas phase greatly enhanced the lateral overgrowth rate and altered the formation of the dominant facets. Vertical facets to the LEO growth appeared with the addition of Sb under conditions that normally produced sloped sidewalls. While Sb altered the growth facet present during LEO, only a small amount of Sb was incorporated into the GaN, suggesting that Sb acts as a surfactant during the GaNmetal organic vapor phase epitaxygrowth.Sb addition produces surface conditions characteristic of a Ga-rich surface stoichiometry indicating both a possible change in the reactivity of and/or enhanced surface diffusion of Ga adatom species in the presence of Sb.
Electron irradiation induced phase decomposition in alkaline earth multi-component oxide glass92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1496148View Description Hide Description
Electron irradiation induced phase decomposition in an alkaline earth multi-component oxide glass has been observed in a scanning transmission electron microscope. Separate regions that are rich and poor in alkaline earths form rapidly during the initial irradiation. In other words, alkaline earth multi-component oxide glasses are intolerant of high-energy (∼100 kV) electrons. This could result from the characteristics of a nonbridging O atom that bound to both Si (covalent) and alkaline earths (ionic). A modified Knotek–Feibelman model has been introduced to interpret the breakaway of cations from the glass network. Driven by electrostatic forces, the cations prefer to segregate, forming a cation rich region to reduce the amount of nonbridging O.
Evolution of -damaged graphite surface during annealing as investigated by scanning probe microscopy92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495892View Description Hide Description
The surface evolution of highly oriented pyrolytic graphiteirradiated with ions of 1.0 keV at doses between and during annealing was investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy(STM) and atomic force microscopy(AFM) in the tapping mode. Hillocks were observed by both STM and AFM after ion irradiation, where the height of a hillock measured by STM was larger than that measured by AFM. The ion-irradiated surface was recovered in three stages during annealing: the first stage at 473–873 K, the second stage at 873–1473 K, and the third stage at 1473–1873 K. In the first stage, many of the ion-induced hillocks recovered rapidly and irregular domelike protrusions were formed due to both the recombination of the mobile interstitial clusters with the immobile vacancies and the aggregation of interstitial clusters. In the second stage, the hillocks recovered slightly and domelike protrusions aggregated to larger domelike protrusions. In the third stage, the hillocks recovered completely and domelike protrusions changed from irregular shapes to regular circles with monatomic step height of graphite due to the change from irregular carbon interstitial clusters to complete extraplane in graphite. Hexagonal hollows were also formed and became larger circular hollows above 1623 K with monatomic step height of graphite due to the vacancy clusters formed by the migration of vacancies and the following collapse of the neighboring layers in graphite.
Surface photovoltage measurements in -Si:H: Manifestation of the bottom space charge region92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495895View Description Hide Description
We discuss results of surface photovoltage (U) measurements for μm thick layers of undoped hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon-Si:H). By applying excitation with low energetic photons (down to 1.1 eV), i.e., with small absorption coefficient α and a large penetration depth a photovoltage peak appears on a curve This peak is located at and its occurrence depends critically on the substrate material. The peak is present in a -Si:H film grown on crystalline silicon (c-Si), on the other hand it is missing in the -Si:H samples grown on c-Si or ZnO film. We present a mathematical model that enables us to link this peak to photocharge separation in the bottom space charge region at the interface -Si:H/substrate. Besides the magnitude of the ambipolar carrier diffusion length L, a parameter particularly critical for the occurrence of the peak turns out to be the ratio n of reverse saturation current densities of the two diodes representing surface and bottom space charge regions. The peak can be observed only when is below a certain threshold value In the simplified case when and when the thicknesses of the upper and lower depletion layers can be neglected, we have found or 1, depending on the orientation of the top and bottom barriers to each other. However, the magnitude of the peak increases exponentially with further lowering of Therefore, the surface photovoltage method is suitable not only for evaluating the minority carrier diffusion length L, but also for detecting the occurrence and properties of the bottom space charge region in thin film solar cells.
Passivation of GaAs(110) with thin films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance plasma reactive molecular beam epitaxy92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497455View Description Hide Description
Gallium oxide thin filmsdeposited by electron cyclotron resonanceplasmamolecular beam epitaxy on GaAs(110) surfaces are reported. Room temperature photoluminescence spectra show an enhancement over as-is surfaces by greater than an order of magnitude for semi-insulating wafers. This enhancement is corroborated by low temperature photoluminescence spectra, showing a reduction in and carbon-related emissions. The bonding configuration at the interface to GaAs was investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy depth profiling and secondary ion mass spectroscopy: Arsenic oxide related compounds were below the sensitivity limits of the former technique, while carbon (both in the film and in the vicinity of the interface) was below the sensitivity limit of the latter technique. Photoluminescence enhancement is also attributed to hydrogen passivation of EL2 defects, which is found to be stable following deposition at temperatures of 400 °C on semi-insulating and p-type wafers.
Physical mechanisms behind the ion-cut in hydrogen implanted silicon92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1494844View Description Hide Description
Hydrogen implantedsilicon has been shown to cleave upon annealing, thus facilitating the transfer of thin silicon slices to other substrates, a process known as "ion-cut." In our experiments 〈100〉 silicon wafers were implanted with 40 keV protons to a variety of ion doses ranging from to and subsequently annealed at 600 °C. The samples were studied before and after annealing by a combination of Rutherford backscatteringspectroscopy in channeling mode, elastic recoil detection analysis,atomic force microscopy, and electron microscopy. Mechanical stresses in the material, caused by proton irradiation, were determined by measuring changes in curvature of the silicon samples utilizing a laser scanning setup. For H doses of ion cutting in the form of "popping off" discrete blisters was obtained. Our analyses of the cleavage mechanisms had shown that the ion-cut location in silicon is largely controlled by the lattice damage that is generated by the H implantation process. At lower H doses, the location of the cut correlates well with the damage peak and can be explained by damage induced in-plane stress and the corresponding elastic out-of-plane strain. However, at higher implantation doses the ion-cut location shifts toward a deeper region, which contains lower damage and a sufficient concentration of H. This effect can be explained by a rapid decrease of the elastic out-of-plane strain coinciding with changing fracture mechanics at high H concentrations in heavily damaged silicon.
On the nature of the low-field electromagneto-plastic effect92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1488253View Description Hide Description
In the present study, reduction in the linear density of twinning dislocations resulting from the simultaneous application of high-density electric current pulses (40 A/mm2 for 400 μs) and constant magnetic field (with induction in 0.2 T) to bismuth crystals has been found. Current pulses and constant magnetic field were applied to the specimen after the deformation was introduced by a concentrated load and pileups of twinning dislocations were created. It has been clearly shown that the decrease in the linear density of twinning dislocations results in the elongation of the deformation twins. This effect occurs despite the increase of the number of twinning dislocations with an increase in the concentrated load. The experimental facts are in good accord with the modern concept of the electroplastic effect.
Thermal diffusivity of porous cordierite ceramic burners92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495071View Description Hide Description
The applicability of the laser flash method for measuring the thermal diffusivity of highly porous cordierite materials is investigated. Due to the surface roughness of the samples, some indetermination in the sample thickness measurement is produced, which induces errors in the thermal diffusivity calculation. This problem was partially overcome by attaching two thin Cu layers to both surfaces of the samples. The thermal diffusivity and conductivity values of two porous cordierite materials (40 and 50 vol % of porosity) are reported using this procedure and results are discussed comparing with data for three-layer models.
Angle-dependent differential-photovoltage spectroscopy for the characterization of a GaAs/GaAlAs based vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser structure92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497697View Description Hide Description
An angle-dependent wavelength-modulated differential-photovoltage spectroscopy (DPVS) investigation has been performed at room temperature on a bare as-grown wafer of GaAs/GaAlAs-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)structure, designed for emitting at a wavelength near 850 nm. The differential-photovoltage (DPV) spectra exhibit both the fundamental conduction to heavy-hole excitonic transition and cavity mode plus an interference pattern related to the mirror stacks. By changing the angle of incidence in the DPV measurements the energy positions of the cavity mode and distributed Bragg reflector features show a blueshift while the excitonic transition remains unchanged. The energies of the excitonic transition and cavity mode are accurately determined from the DPV spectra. The advantages of DPVS in relation to other methods of characterizing VCSELstructures, such as surface photovoltage, photoreflectance, photocurrent, and differential photocurrentspectroscopy, are discussed. The results demonstrate considerable potential of DPVS for the nondestructive characterization of these structures at room temperature.
Photonic breakdown in up-conversion imaging devices based on the integration of quantum-well infrared photodetector and light-emitting diode92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497453View Description Hide Description
We analyze the effect of photon recycling on up-conversion in a heterostructure device including a quantum well infrared photodetector(QWIP) integrated with a light emitting diode(LED). Such a QWIP-LED device converts middle infrared radiation into near infrared(NIR) or visible radiation (VIR) utilizing intersubband transitions in the QWIP and interband transitions in the LED. We show that the reabsorption of NIR/VIR photons in the QWIP can substantially affect the up-conversion of both uniform illuminations and infrared images. As demonstrated, this effect can cause a photonic breakdown associated with a positive feedback between the emission of NIR/VIR photons from the LED and the resulting photocurrent in the QWIP.
Comparison of models of electroluminescence in organic double-layer light-emitting diodes92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497717View Description Hide Description
A theoretical model of leakage and barrier-limited recombination of charge carriers at the interface separating two disordered organic materials in organic light-emitting diodes is formulated. Spatial disorder of molecular materials is reflected in the model by differentiating the hopping distances associated with jumps leading to recombination from those leading to leakage. The former and the latter are determined by the mean intersite distance and by the shortest hopping distance, respectively. It is shown that the effect of the difference between the two hopping distances on the current and recombination efficiencies depends on a barrier height and electric field strength at the organic–organic interface. The results of the models with barrier-limited recombination and Langevin recombination are compared. It is shown that both models yield comparable results for the steady-state recombination efficiency and current, if at least one of the interfacial energy barriers is small enough and the leakage is modeled in the same way. Thus broad applicability of the Langevin model is shown, when a suggested leakage model is used. The importance of microscopic correlations in the relative positions of electrons and holes at the organic–organic interface is discussed.
Reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition of heterostructures for n-type metal–oxide–semiconductor transistors92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497451View Description Hide Description
We have grown by reduced pressurechemical vapor depositionheterostructures for electrical purposes. The incorporation of substitutional carbon atoms into Si creates a carrier confinement in the channel region of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS)transistors. Indeed, tensile strain layers present a type II band alignment with Si, with a conduction band offset of the order of 60 meV per at. % of substitutional carbon atoms. For small flows, all the incoming carbon atoms are incorporated into substitutional sites. At 600 °C, when the flow increases, the substitutional carbon concentration saturates at 1.12%. Meanwhile, the total carbon concentration still increases, following a simple law: This is a sign that a growing number of C atoms incorporates into interstitial sites. The hydrogenated chemistry adopted does not enable one to achieve selectivity over -masked wafers, but does not however generate any adverse loading effect. We have integrated stacks (which have been shown to be stable versus conventional gate oxidations and electrical activation anneals) into the channel region of ultrashort gate length (50 nm) nMOS transistors.Secondary ions mass spectrometry profiling has shown that C atoms segregate from the layer into the Si cap and the gate, but also that they block the diffusion paths of B coming from the antipunch through layer towards the gate, generating very retrograde doping profiles. The addition of C leads to a degradation of the electron mobility which seems to be linked to the high amount of C atoms into interstitial sites.
Ellipsometric study of the polysilicon/thin oxide/single-crystalline silicon structure and its change upon annealing92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497694View Description Hide Description
Polysilicon/thin oxide/single-crystalline siliconstructures used as emitters of bipolar transistors were measured using spectroscopicellipsometry. The thin layer was deposited on the substrate in a rapid thermal processing chamber, then polysilicon was deposited, implanted with As, and annealed. During annealing the layer dissolves to islands retarding the diffusion of As, which results in a shallow junction. The process—and as a consequence, the device performance—depends sensitively on the thickness of the oxide layer. We developed optical models to measure the thickness of the layer at each process step, i.e., after deposition, after polysilicon deposition, and after annealing. The structure, the surface quality, and the homogeneity of the polysilicon layers were obtained from the same optical model. The thickness of the initially 0.76–0.86 nm layer decreased to the detection limit of about 0.2 nm during annealing, together with a significant crystallization of the deposited amorphous Si resulting in a perfectly smooth surface with a native oxide layer. The uncertainty of the measurement of the layer after annealing was typically 0.2 nm even below the polysilicon layer of about 150 nm. Our results show that ellipsometry is a proper tool for the measurement of the thickness of the buried boundary layer, which can be applied as an in line or in situ measurement as well.
Crystallinity of films by epitaxial growth with a self-buffer-layer92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495530View Description Hide Description
Naturally modulated structures,films of were epitaxially grown by rf magnetron sputtering on (0001) sapphire substrates. The crystallographic and morphological features of the films were characterized by using x-ray-diffraction and electron-diffraction patterns. The deposition of strongly c axis orientated films of was achieved by epitaxy with a self-buffer layer (SBL). A film of of approximately 10 nm in thickness was initially deposited as the SBL. This initial film was annealedin situ for 10–15 min, after which the bulk of the film of was grown. Finally, well-crystallized films were obtained by annealing the resultant film at The electrical properties of the synthesized film are discussed in relation to the mechanism by which the modulated structure is formed.
Formation of misfit dislocations in GaAs/InGaAs multiquantum wells observed by photoluminescence microscopy92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1496121View Description Hide Description
We have investigated the formation mechanism of misfit dislocations of GaAs/InGaAs multiquantum well structures by means of photoluminescence (PL) microscopy using the scanning near-field optical microscope. In the PL images, dark lines appeared along both [110] and directions. From comparison with the surface topographic images, we found that these dark lines correspond to misfit dislocations, which give rise to nonradiative recombination centers in the InGaAs well. The density of dark lines in the 〈110〉 directions as a function of the total layer thickness shows the existence of two critical layer thicknesses for the formation of misfit dislocations. The two distinct critical thicknesses are explained in terms of the modified J. W. Matthews and A. E. Blakeslee, [J. Cryst. Growth 27, 118 (1974)] model in which a lattice frictional force proportional to the In mole fraction is taken into account.
Enlargement of step-free SiC surfaces by homoepitaxial web growth of thin SiC cantilevers92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497456View Description Hide Description
Lateral homoepitaxialgrowth of thin cantilevers emanating from mesa patterns that were reactive ion etched into on-axis commercial SiC substrates prior to growth is reported. The thin cantilevers form after pure stepflow growth removes almost all atomic steps from the top surface of a mesa, after which additional adatoms collected by the large step-free surface migrate to the mesa sidewall where they rapidly incorporate into the crystal near the top of the mesa sidewall. The lateral propagation of the step-free cantilevered surface is significantly affected by pregrowth mesa shape and orientation, with the highest lateral expansion rates observed at the inside concave corners of V-shaped pregrowth mesas with arms lengthwise oriented along the direction. Complete spanning of the interiors of V's and other mesa shapes with concave corners by webbed cantilevers was accomplished. Optical microscopy, synchrotron white beamx-raytopography and atomic force microscopy analysis of webbed regions formed over a micropipe and closed-core screw dislocations show that c-axis propagation of these defects is terminated by the webbing. Despite the nonoptimized process employed in this initial study, webbed surfaces as large as more than four times the pregrowth mesa area, were grown. However, the largest webbed surfaces were not completely free of bilayer steps, due to unintentional growth of 3C-SiC that occurred in the nonoptimized process. Further process optimization should enable larger step-free webs to be realized.
Characterization of GaN-based metal–semiconductor field-effect transistors by comparing electroluminescence, photoionization, and cathodoluminescence spectroscopies92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1495536View Description Hide Description
We report on a methodological comparison between photocurrent (PC), electroluminescence(EL), and cathodoluminescence(CL) investigations on GaN metal–semiconductor field-effect transistors. The purpose of this work is to show the effectiveness and the complementarity of these experimental techniques and to investigate the presence and nature of electron traps which limit the performances of the devices. PC measurements reveal four distinct energy levels, located at 1.75, 2.32, 2.67, and 3.15 eV, responsible for current collapse. The 1.75 eV level has also been observed in low temperature EL curves. The 2.32 and 2.67 eV levels, on the basis of the comparison with CL and EL results, can be correlated with the so-called "yellow band," located at 2.2 eV. The origin of 1.75 and 3.15 eV levels is at present unknown, however a nonradiative nature has been attributed to the 3.15 eV level, due to the absence of this signature in both CL and ELspectra. The luminescencemeasurements also reveal the presence of the donor–acceptor pair emission at 3.27 eV and the near-band-edge transition at 3.45 eV. ELmeasurements show a series of emission peaks in the energy range between 1 and 1.4 eV, while the CLspectra reveal a broadband at 2.8 eV, which arises mainly from the semi-insulating layer. This result has been obtained by increasing the energy of the CLelectron beam, allowing us to investigate both the conduction channel and the layers underneath it.
Hollow cathode sustained plasma microjets: Characterization and application to diamond deposition92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497719View Description Hide Description
Extending the principle of operation of hollow cathode microdischarges to a tube geometry has allowed the formation of stable, high-pressure plasma microjets in a variety of gases including Ar, He, and Direct current discharges are ignited between stainless steel capillary tubes which are operated as the cathode and a metal grid or plate that serves as the anode. Argon plasma microjets can be sustained in ambient air with plasma voltages as low as 260 V for cathode-anode gaps of 0.5 mm. At larger operating voltage, this gap can be extended up to several millimeters. Using a heated molybdenum substrate as the anode,plasma microjets in mixtures have been used to depositdiamond crystals and polycrystalline films. Micro-Raman spectroscopy of these films shows mainly carbon content with slight shifting of the diamond peak due to internal stresses. Optical emission spectroscopy of the discharges used in the diamond growth experiments confirms the presence of atomic hydrogen and CH radicals.
Thermodynamic and kinetic studies of laser thermal processing of heavily boron-doped amorphous silicon using molecular dynamics92(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497459View Description Hide Description
Laser thermal processing (LTP) has been proposed as a means to avoid unwanted transient enhanced diffusion and deactivation of dopants, especially boron and arsenic, during the formation of ultrashallow junctions. Although experimental studies have been carried out to determine the efficacy of LTP for pure Si and lightly B-doped junctions, the effects of high concentrations of dopants (above 2% B) on the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the regrown film are unknown. In this study, a classical interatomic potential model [Stillinger–Weber (SW)] is used with a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics computer simulation technique to study the laser thermal processing of heavily B-doped Si in the range 2–10 at. % B. We observe only a small effect of boron concentration on the congruent melting temperature of the B:Si alloy, and thus the narrowing of the "process window" for LTP is predicted to be small. No significant tendency for boron to segregate was observed at either the regrowth front or the buried c-Si interface during fast regrowth. The B-doped region regrew as defect-free crystal with full activation of the boron atoms at low boron concentrations (2%), in good agreement with experiments. As the concentration of boron increased, the number of intrinsic Si defects and boron interstitials in the regrown materials increased, with a minor amount of boron atoms in clusters (<2%). An instability limit for crystal regrowth was observed at around 8%–10% boron atoms during fast regrowth; systems with 10% B showed partial amorphization during regrowth. Comparison with tight-binding quantum mechanical calculations showed that the SW model gives similar diffusivities in the liquid and tendency to cluster, but the lifetimes of the SW clusters are considerably too long (>150 ps, compared to 5 ps in tight binding). The importance of adequate system size is discussed.
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Citi is not ready for prime time if it's still raising funds using the FDIC's bond guarantee facility. Why would Parsons shift his focus just when Citi is in negotiations with the government to start weaning itself from its help?
It seems that Parsons is more interested in satisfying his own need to be part of the media industry rather than the needs of Citigroup and its investors. Parsons was the former chief executive of Time Warner and is a close friend of Providence's founder Jonathan Nelson.
Providence owns media companies like Metro Goldwyn Meyer, Hulu and Univision. Its investment success has been mixed. It has money makers such as Hulu and the Education Management Corporation while its investment in MGM appears to be underwater. Some analysts have raised questions regarding whether Univision can be successfully turned around.
Citigroup has been a lender in previous Providence deals, so Parsons will have to recuse himself when Providence issues come to the board at Citigroup. Parsons currently had no role in making loans or renegotiating the terms of previous loans.
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Jul 28, 2014 | By Sister Simone Campbell
Earlier today, I sent the following important letter to Members of Congress calling on them to not weaken the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
Jul 25, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein
Congressman Paul Ryan's "Opportunity Grant" is an attempt to re-conceptualize the federal government's role in providing a safety-net for people in poverty. This first step in a journey towards evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the social safety net leaves much to be desired, but as a discussion draft one can hope there remains room for compromise and change. Read more
Jul 25, 2014 | By Sister Marge Clark, BVM
Congressman Paul Ryan says he wants to start a conversation about repairing the safety net and helping families get ahead. We at NETWORK look forward to this conversation – and hope the Congressman is sincere in wanting to dialogue. And since conversations need to be two-way, here are some first thoughts that I hope Congressman Ryan will listen to. Read more
Jul 23, 2014 | By Marge Clark, BVM
NETWORK stands in strong opposition to this bill (H.R. 4935, the Child
Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014). The CTC, as revised in 2009, should
be made permanent, with the indexing suggested in the House bill. But,
the less just aspects need to be eliminated. Read more
Jul 21, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
Allen Sloan, a business writer for the Washington Post
and hardly a flaming liberal, wrote a long blistering attack in the Post's
July 13 edition on the U.S. stampede of "corporate inversions." One
might expect a liberal organization to write such an article, but not Allen
Sloan! Read more
Jul 18, 2014 | By Simone Campbell, SSS
A couple of months ago I met Robin, a young woman in her mid-twenties,
who works for minimum wage in a profitable clothing store chain. We were at the
White House for President Obama's signing of the executive order to raise the
minimum wage for federal contract workers. She was excited that a good friend
of hers would receive a raise because of this order. Her hope was that
eventually she too would be able to get a raise.
Jul 14, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
The Bureau of Labor
Statistics released a surprisingly strong jobs report on July 3 that clearly
indicated that employers added jobs at a robust clip in June. While payroll
employment jumped by 288,000 in June and unemployment fell to 6.1% (20% lower
than a year ago), there was hardly any real growth in the labor force, leaving
the percentage of people with a job well below where it was at the start of the
Great Recession.
Jul 14, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein
The surge of undocumented children crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border, most from the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El
Salvador, has created a full-blown immigration crisis. More than 52,000
youngsters have poured across these borders since last fall. While the number
of children apprehended at the border averaged 6,800 annually between 2004 and
2011, the total jumped to over 13,000 children in 2012 and over 24,000 in 2013.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates that well over 60,000
unaccompanied minors could enter the U.S.
Jul 08, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
Christians in Iraq are one
of the oldest surviving continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast
majority are Aramaic-speaking Assyrians, Armenians, Arabs, Kurds and Turcoman.
These are the lands in which Jesus's apostles and their disciples made some of
the first Christian converts. In an interview in Christian Today (July
2, 2014), Iraq's leading bishop, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I.
Sako of Baghdad lamented, "We are losing our community.
Jul 07, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
If you are not already familiar with the CDF's nationwide
campaign, launched back in 2007, we urge you to check out the its website
for national and state-level information -- as well as CDF President Marian
Wright Edelman's weekly Child Watch column in the Huffington Post.
Not only do I support this ongoing campaign for social justice, but I notice
how it dovetails with so many of NETWORK's own initiatives, primarily our
efforts to reduce inequality in this country.
Jun 23, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was strongly supported by
NETWORK, which played an important role in getting it passed by both houses of
Congress despite its unanimous rejection by congressional Republicans. It was signed
into law in March 2010 by President Obama. Without doubt, it is the most
significant overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of
Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
Jun 20, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
The House passed its version of the Transportation, Housing
& Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations bill on June 10 and, as of this
writing (June 19), the Senate is handling housing within a "minibus" (including
Commerce-Justice-Science (S-2437), Transportation-HUD (S-2438) and Agriculture
(S-2389). The Senate T-HUD bill is less damaging to low-income households than
is the House bill. But dozens of amendments have been offered by both parties, some
damaging to housing vouchers and to providing additional housing units.
Jun 19, 2014 | By Carolyn Burstein, NETWORK Communications Fellow
June 19 Update
Jun 18, 2014 | By Marge Clark, BVM
I am befuddled each time I read a commentary tracking our
war in Iraq to 2003. I vividly remember January 1991 when the U.S. led a
massive offensive against Iraq. The intense destruction of facilities such as
airports – and hospitals, schools and water purification plants – was enhanced
by the U.S./U.N. sanctions prohibiting trade with Iraq. This resulted in the
Iraqi people being denied the means to rebuild hospitals and water treatment
facilities, obtain necessary medications, and so many other life-saving items.
Jun 16, 2014 | By Marge Clark, BVM
One of the ways criminals get guns is to have someone else,
who is able to legally own a gun, purchase for them. This is called "straw
purchasing." In a 5-4 decision, the court just concluded that this is NOT
LEGAL: "one legal gun owner may not acquire a firearm on behalf of another." The
case is known as: Abramski v. United States.
This is one success in the attempt to reduce the number of
guns used for criminal purposes. It is one step toward creating stricter
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INDUSTRY MOVES: Erin O'Neil has been named VP of creative advertising for Warner Independent Pictures. O'Neil's new position will start October 20. She will report to Warner Indie's executive VP of marketing and publicity, Laura Kim. O'Neil had been director of marketing at United Artists.
Patricia Finneran has been named festival director at the AFI Silverdocs Film Festival, which will have its sophomore run June 16-20 in Silver Spring, MD. Finneran, who had worked at the IFP/New York, replaces Nina Gilden Seavey, a documentarian who will still serve as executive producer of Silverdocs.
Dan Gurlitz has been named VP of video for Koch Entertainment Distribution and also general manager of Koch Vision and Koch Lorber. Gurlitz had most recently been Wellspring Media's VP/GM of Home Video.
HAMPTONS TOASTS ACTORS: The Hamptons International Film Festival's Rising Stars program, which introduces emerging actors, was celebrated on Wednesday night in Manhattan with a party at Bungalow 8 in West Chelsea. The second year program is showcasing Dean Wareham and Savannah Haske from "Piggie," Elisabeth Moss from "The West Wing," GQ, the writer/director of "Just Another Story," and Mylika Davis from "Far From Heaven." Actress Joan Allen, recipient of the Golden Starfish Award for Career Achievement in Acting this year at the Hamptons will mentor the Rising Stars. Notably this year, Rising Stars honorees will also be welcomed to the new Talent Campus at the 2004 Berlinale. Revelers toasted the five thespians on Wednesday with wine, Grey Goose and complimentary Stella Artois, that is until the bouncers forced everyone to leave, saying that another party about to begin. The festival kicks off next week in the Hamptons.
FLYIN' HIGH FILM: If there's just not enough Cheech and Chong in your home video library to keep you entertained, it turns out that High Times magazine is releasing its first film. Written by Victor Colicchio and Nicholas Iacovino, "Pot Luck" marks the directorial debut feature by Aussie filmmaker Alison Thompson. The ensemble cast includes Jason Mewes, Sylvia Miles, Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling, and Tommy Chong himself. (Where, for the love of God, is Snoop?) The film is about a mob soldier who meets a punk rock chick who "turns him onto some killer weed." Sounds like the makings of a beautiful relationship. "Pot Luck" opens in New York and other select U.S. and Canadian cities on October 17. The cast and crew and High Times staffers will attend "a real happening" at every 4:20 p.m. showing from October 20-23 at Manhattan's Village East. For details, visit http://www.potluckmovie.com.
FRENCHIFIED: Francophiles, take note: the first run of the "On Set with French Cinema" series will open in New York on October 20. The series is geared towards students in MFA programs at universities across the country. In New York, participating schools are New York University, Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts, and the City University of New York. As a whole, the series will last two months as French directors give lectures and present films to the American students. The filmmakers coming to New York for the program are Patrice Chereau, Cedric Klapisch, and Catherine Breillat. Others will be added to the U.S. tour.
"ANIMAL" DEAL: Milestone has acquired the North American rights to Jerzy Stuhr's "Duze Zwierze" (The Big Animal). The film is based on a script by the late master Krzysztof Kieslowski, and it is shot by cinematographer Pawel Edelman ("The Pianist"). Director Stuhr also stars as Zygmunt Sawicki, a small town Polish bank clerk who has to fight his community to keep a strange pet camel. Milestone plans a U.S. theatrical premiere in early 2004 at New York's Anthology Film Archives, followed by dates in other U.S. and Canadian cities. A TV showing and DVD/VHS release will happen before the end of 2005. "This funny and humane film shows another side of Kieslowski's enormous talent," said Milestone VP Dennis Doros. American fans of the great filmmaker will love his wonderful blend of pathos and humor."
OH, GOD: THINKFilm's "The Gospel of John," which it opened small in markets like Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., has done well in its initial box office showings, so the company is planning an expansion for an additional 25 nationwide cities throughout October and November. The three-hour film, narrated by Christopher Plummer and starring Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus, is described as "a word-for-word dramatization drawn from the American Bible Society's 'Good News Bible.'" Future Bible films are planned by the Toronto-based production company, Visual Bible International, and THINKFilm has the North American rights to the next nine films.
FONDA IN NYC: Peter Fonda, who directed and starred in the 1971 film "The Hired Hand," will appear in person after a screening of the film in Manhattan tonight. The actor/director will speak after the 7:30 screening of the movie at the Cinema Village downtown. Co-star Verna Bloom will also be in attendance. Sundance Channel is planning a DVD release of the restored picture.
MORE TREMBLING: The DVD and VHS versions of Sandi Dubowski's "Trembling Before G-d" will hit stores on October 21. The DVD is a two-disc set including three additional hours of special features, including deleted scenes, conversations with subjects and crew, and Dubowski's first film that he made with his 88-year-old grandmother. For details on the DVD release, visit http://www.tremblingbeforeg-d.com.
HOUSE HUNTING: The NYC Mayor's Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting announced a new locations service for film and television productions, which lets private property owners make their homes available for shoots through real estate company Douglas Elliman. At http://www.elliman.com, location managers can search available private properties that owners are offering. Homeowners can list their properties through Elliman's Adrienne Cleere, 212-891-7246. Somehow, BUZZ thinks her ghetto fabulous Brooklyn apartment won't be seeing the likes of Brad Pitt anytime soon.
BACHELOR BID: Following in the, uh, esteemed footsteps of Bachelor Alex Michel who made his acting debut in an indie flick called "Our Very First Sex Tape," another TV Bachelor, Aaron Buerge, is turning to the indie film world. Buerge has joined the cast of Cactus Animal Productions' "Antlers," a romantic dramedy that revolves around a "long distance dedication" made to radio guru Casey Kasem. Steve Pullen is directing from a script by R. Scott Murphy. The project is scheduled to start shooting next year around the University of Missouri. The producers hope to get "Mizzou" alumni such as Sheryl Crow and Tom Berenger to participate as well; one can only hope that bachelorette Trista Rehn can join the gang. For details, visit http://www.antlersmovie.com.
BOY TALK: Picture This! Entertainment, an L.A.-based distributor of gay arthouse films, has launched a new product label to "showcase some of today's hottest young male actors." The not-so-subtly titled division, "It's All About the Boy" will focus on films that "are not exactly gay themed...but might have inherent gay audience appeal." The first offering will be Denis Langlois' "Danny in the Sky," coming to DVD and VHS on November 25. The boy in question for this film is Thierry Pepin, who plays Danny, the son of a closeted father and drug addict mother who falls into the pitfalls of fashion modeling. The film played well on the festival circuit earlier this year.


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TRAINER Paul Messara conceded Ortensia is only a 50-50 chance to clash with champion Black Caviar in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington next week.
Ortensia pleased Messara with her closing second behind Mrs Onassis in a 900m barrier trial at Rosehill yesterday.
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|Oh, I Know All I Owe I Owe Ioway: "Leaving Iowa," at the Playcrafters Barn Theatre through November 20
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|Written by Mike Schulz
|Monday, 14 November 2011 06:00
It doesn't happen often, especially if you attend a lot of local theatre – where the on-stage faces tend to become familiar ones. But every once in a while, you'll be at a production that you're really enjoying, and gradually realize that you're routinely focusing on one performer above the others – and asking yourself, with a grin, "Who is that?"
Granted, in the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's current Leaving Iowa – the first theatrical collaboration between the organization and Black Hawk College – this might not happen to you if you're already familiar with the work of Dana Moss-Peterson. And if you have a good memory for past Playcrafters shows, you might very well be familiar with his work; among the man's credits are roles in 2003's Amadeus (for which he played Mozart), 2002's Harold & Maude, and 2000's intriguingly titled Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts. Yet as someone who hadn't seen any of Moss-Peterson's portrayals prior to his mid-decade move to Philadelphia, Playcrafters' latest was my introduction to the actor. And now that he's returned to the area, and to an area stage, I only have one question for him: "What the hell took you so long?"
I don't mean to suggest that Moss-Peterson, although a tall individual, towers over his co-stars or the presentation itself. Written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, director Tom Naab's fizzy, buoyant comedy is a thorough delight, boasting dozens of inventively silly grace notes and numerous performers who appear to be having, and are certainly delivering, a terrific time. Yet in his role as Leaving Iowa's lead – a young man who, like his portrayer, returns from Philadelphia (albeit Boston in the original script) to his old Midwestern stomping grounds – Moss-Peterson offers so many exquisite variants on comedic incredulity and exasperation, and performs them with such physical and vocal confidence, that it's nearly blindsiding. Not long after he first appears on-stage, you find your eye instinctively going to the actor for whatever hilarious reading or reaction will come next, and at Friday's sold-out performance, I'd doubt I was in the minority on this; I can't be the only one who missed portions of dialogue because I was still laughing at the Moss-Peterson lines or looks that preceded them.
And trust me, it's a shame to have to miss any of Leaving Iowa's dialogue; Clue's and Manton's script could almost be the blueprint for mixing family-friendly sentiment and laughs without the material curdling into either saccharine excess or eye-rolling corn. With Moss-Peterson's Philly reporter Don Browning routinely providing first-person commentary, the play's arc follows him in two dovetailing narratives. In one, Don treks along Iowa highways and rural roads in search of a suitable place to dispose his father's cremated remains; in the other, the teenage Don endures an excruciating road trip with his family (Don Faust's Dad, Pam Kobre's Mom, and Hannah McNaught's Sis), with Pop seemingly intent on visiting each of the most boring "points of interest" in the Midwest. Naturally, in the course of his travels and reminiscences, elder Don grows to appreciate his father's misguided but undeniable enthusiasm, and to regret not appreciating it – and all those youthful outings with the family – sooner. But in Leaving Iowa, as with many vacations, the destination is less important, and ultimately less enjoyable, than the trip itself. And thanks to the show's authors, director Naab, and Playcrafters' other participants, that's one enjoyable trip indeed.
To be sure, Clue and Manton poke a lot of good-natured fun at cultural clichés and figures well-known to Midwesterners; there's a particularly rewarding running gag about the Brownings' (and John Wayne's) home town of Winterset, Iowa, being "Home of the Duke!", and more than one farmer that the family encounters turn out to be missing some fingers. (One of the digit-deprived characters in Playcrafters' production, played by Taylor Apple, scares the Browning kids further by greeting them in a Jason Voorhees-style hockey mask.) The playwrights, though, are also exceptionally, comically well-tuned to the region's conversational quirks – especially in characters' habitual repetition of things just said – and the prickly ways that parents and children, stuck in too close a proximity for too long a time, can strain each other's last nerves, intentionally or not. (Here, mostly intentionally.) In Leaving Iowa, the family sounds like family. In Playcrafters' presentation, happily, they also feel like family.
Naab's cast of veteran and student actors offers a series of wonderfully eccentric, oftentimes hysterical turns: Tom Morrow, whose college professor hates Iowa almost as much as he hates his students; Jane Schmidt, whose brazenly drunken motel guest can't find the room key she's holding in her fist; Nicholas Waldbusser, whose motel clerk blithely swats flies and tosses all irritants (ice cubes, the guest-registry bell) into a desk drawer; Josh LeFebvre, whose energetically inept battlefield-re-creation soldier mortifies Don and exhilarates Dad; Ariel Schronick, whose vivacious, loquacious waitress helpfully wipes Don's teaspoon on her apron and plops it in his coffee cup. But with Moss-Peterson joined by the spirited, radiantly funny McNaught, the alternately understanding and aggrieved Kobre, and the indefatigably cheerful Faust (he's like an even peppier Clark Griswold), it's the quarrelsome, nattering, utterly recognizable family dynamics that provide most of Leaving Iowa's biggest highs. You're simultaneously thrilled to spend time with this clan on their journey and also relieved that, during your formative years, you weren't forced to. (Kudos, by the way, to Naab for the makeshift car that carries our travelers, which the director smartly positions so that every audience member, at some point, is treated to a head-on view.)
Given the episodic nature of the script, Leaving Iowa's storyline frequently shifts between past and present during blackouts, and it would've helped the momentum in Playcrafters' production if more of them were covered with dialogue or music. (Perhaps tunes or news broadcasts on the car radio?) Yet while it features its share of awkward presentational touches – Why are characters standing in the car? Why does Mom never answer the phone with a "Hello?" – the show remains topnotch. Jacque Wamer and Sara Laufer, respectively, deliver impressive sound and lighting effects, Stephanie Naab's costumes are sharply rendered, and Tom Naab deserves more than a few ovations for his happy parade of aural and visual gags. (Grant Wood's American Gothic has rarely been used to such amusingly cheeky effect.)
Plus, he earns major thanks for the casting of Moss-Peterson, and the actor earns huzzahs for being so spectacularly, riotously believable as both a comically anguished adolescent and a sardonically reflective adult. (Commenting on Dad's conviction that his travel plans are always spontaneous, Don laments, "Elections in Cuba are more unpredictable.") Whether joining Sis in a goofy dance at the heart-stopping prospect of visiting Ghost Caverns, or offering sweetly rueful acknowledgment of his ties to the state he eventually escaped, Dana Moss-Peterson is a wholly satisfying presence in a wholly satisfying entertainment. Early in the production, we're told, "Adventures in Iowa, like steep hills, are hard to come by." In Playcrafters' Leaving Iowa, happily, that's absolutely not the case.
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On Thursday, Ebay published a diversity report on
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Ebay is the best of the technology giants when it comes to hiring
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The industry doesn't appear to be making progress on racial
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Ebay's U.S. racial diversity profile looks much the same as
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