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I am trying to simulate MAX9643U and EL7202 (using
their Pspice models) as a part of my design, in Virtuoso. While I have
reviewed many similar problems and solutions in this informative website, I still can
not overcome the errors.
1) MAX9643U (the model is available here: http://www.maximintegrated.com/design/tools/modeling-simulation/spice/current-sense-amps/orcad/MAX9643U.LIB)
The problem points to the line:
Fi+ RS+ GND VALUE={-I(Vi+)+20.02u}
I read in one of the posts that I have replace {} by ''. but the error still exists and says:"Expected 1 controlling voltage sources, but found 0"
2) EL7202 (the model is available here:http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/el72/el7202.txt)
The problem (I guess) is related to the lines below:
.model spmod vswitch ron=3 roff=2meg von=1 voff=1.5
.model snmod vswitch ron=4 roff=2meg von=3 voff=2
e1 out vss table {(v(inp)-v(inm))*5000} = (0,0) (3.2,3.2)
and the error says:"Error (CMI-2078): I1016.sn: Required parameter 'file' is missing" "Error (CMI-2078): I1016.sp: Required parameter 'file' is missing"
Any comment is highly appreciated, in advancePolitekniko
I tried both those examples usign the new pspice_include statement that's in MMSIM13.1 and both parse with no issues.
In IC616 (recent ISRs) there's now a pspice_include on the setup environment form in ADE, but if using an older version, create a file called (say) includePspice.scs containing pspice_include "MAX9643U.LIB" (for example). See "spectre -h pspice_include" for more details.
In reply to Andrew Beckett:
Dear Andrew
Hi and thanks a lot for your kind guidance. Could you please tell me how I can Analyze (or Calculate) the overall Efficiency of a circuit, including Op-Amps, FETs, Comparator, ... in Cadence Virtuoso? Is there such simulation in this design environement?
Thanks a lot, in advance.
In reply to Politekniko:
It probably depends on what you mean by "Efficiency"...
If you are talking about PSS analysis (periodic steady state analysis), there is a way to calculate PAE (power added efficiency).
Article 1837740 Power Added Efficiency Calculation after PSS simulation
There is an equation in this reference which shows the equation for efficiency, when defined as "The efficiency, η of the circuit is the proportion of all the energy dissipated in the circuit that is dissipated in the load." You can create a calculator expression for this.
As Andrew mentioned...there are different types of efficiency. A clearer problem description will likely give you better answers. :-)
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In reply to Tawna:
Dear Andrew and Tawna
Thanks a lot for your both helps. I really appreciate it.Actually, my design is an Envelope Modulator for Envelope Tracking Power Amplifier. To find the overall efficiency of PA, we need to know the efficiency of the Envelope Modulator (Am I right?). Because of that, I am looking for a way to analyze / calculate this efficiency.Besides, in many relevant papers, I see they analyze the Efficiency of the Envelope Modulator. So, in this way, there should be a global definition for that.
So, with my explained case, do you have any more guide?Thanks a lot, again
Dear Andrew
Thank you for the link. However, I haven't got the point...
If I couldn't find "pspice_include" on the setup>environment in ADE, my version isn't IC616, right?
Alternatively, I made the following way. But it doesn't work.
1) Create a file called "pspice.scs" which constains the statement as the following. In the Model Libraries in ADE, this file has been included.
pspice_include "mos.lib"
2) Prepre a file "mos.lib" which contains the model in PSPICE format.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any information about "spectre -h pspice_include" for more details.
Where am I supposed to find this information?
In reply to afuno:
You need to be using MMSIM13.1 to be able to use pspice_include. Check what "spectre -W" returns - unless it's a 13.1 version, "spectre -h pspice_include" won't work as it is not in the simulator.
Thank you, again. Unfortunately, I couldn't use MMSIM13.1 because it seems really new.
"pspice_include" is also available in MMSIM12.11?
I would like to ask you about this because you mentioned in the 1st message of this page, which is also shown as the following, that there is a way to use "pspice_include" in an older version.
In IC616 (recent ISRs) there's now a pspice_include on the setup environment form in ADE, but if using an older version, create a file called (say) includePspice.scs containing pspice_include "MAX9643U.LIB" (for example).
Current version in my instition is MMSIM10.11, where I couldn't use "pspice_include". But it can be upgrade up to MMSIM12.11. If I knew "pspice_include" was available in MMSIM 12.11, I will ask my colleague to upgrade to this version.
Best regards,
Yes, but in the same post that you reference, I also said "I tried both those examples usign the new pspice_include statement that's in MMSIM13.1".
However, upon checking, this has also been backported to MMSIM12.1 ISRs from around the same time as MMSIM13.1. MMSIM131 was released in October 2013 (so I wouldn't call that "really new"), but it's also in MMSIM121 ISR13 onwards:
UNIX> spectre -Wsub-version 220.127.116.11.isr13
That's not the MMSIM12.1.1 update release - but a hotfix based on the 12.1.1 update release. This build is dated 27th August 2013.


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First date was 24 October, later – 24 October, now – 7 November. It sounds very familiar (Queens speech this May)… And what next? I became some fear with this strange 'dejavue'.
…later – 31 October…
It doesn't sound like a big delay and it was a bit strange putting the bill out a day before a bank holiday in France when most MPs are probably going to be taking a long weekend off. The 7th sounds like a more practical date? I think most of the mayors and deputies were UMP members so it's not surprising for them to sign a petition.
Another interesting story in france….
meanwhile, anti-gay tweets continue to sky rocket unchallenged…..
Not surprising. I wonder how much coverage this will get in the UK press? I haven't seen much. Let's hope when the French parliament votes yes on November 7, it will make a lot of noise in our media. I can already hear the Anne Widdecombe 'types getting their knickers in a twist or in her case, bloomers.
On November 7 the Socialist government just will gave for the proposal of same-sex marriage bill the 'final approval'. Lower House of the parliament, 'Assemblee Generale', will vote on this as early as February next year, and the Upper House, The Senate,- even later. It will be wonderful to have same-sex marriage in France at least in summer next year…
I don't think this has anything to do with the religious right. I think it has more to do with the French holiday and perhaps even the US election on November 6.
It's only a week delay. This is no time for hysterics.
Keep calm and carry on!
Looks like the god squad been putting their oar in again. Can't believe that the jewish representative is involved though-not after the way the jews were demonised and murdered during WW2. Have they learnt nothing?
Yes, nothing… Catholics, Muslims and Jews together against gay rights – its like ecumenical wonder for one day.
France is supposedly one of the least religious countries in the world though. Not as much so as Holland and the Scandinavian countries but nonetheless, I think the faith leaders have much less power there than they think.
I hope! But I am not shore… Political elite of 'La Republique' is more or less conservative, including Socialists. And reforms, both economic and social, are beloved by nobody.
"On Thursday, France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim joined other religious leaders in opposing the plans"
When did you ever hear of a chief rabbi approve of SSM? Isn't it taken for granted by now that they are going to disaprove?
Gee whizz another delay on justice, compassion and equality! Sounds like France is having second thoughts hey!?
The left-wing France Socialist Government needs to fully wake up and get their head out of the clouds with stupid french right-wing conservative scumbags and implement what they actually PROMISED now!
Why did they change their mind all of a sudden!?
Or maybe the one week delay on the "Equality In Both Marriage Adoption Bill" should also include amendments to fully allow IVF access and parentage for both single women and lesbians!
Both unmarried heterosexual couples and unmarried gay couples SHOULD be allowed to adopt children as well!
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When founding Pixies member Kim Deal announced she was quitting the band just a few weeks ago, some fans may have wondered whether Black Francis, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering would continue without her. On Friday, the band answered those hesitations loud and clear by releasing the groups first single since 2004s Bam Thwok. The new music is called Bagboy, and the video for the single is pretty strange, just like the music itself.
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While it sounds like Kim Deals voice appears in the song around the 2-minute mark, Black Francis noted via his forum that its not actually Deal on the song. Instead its Francis friend and occasional Pixies collaborator Jeremy Dubs. Since "Bagboy" was created and recorded last October in Wales without Deal, it stands to reason that the group knew Deal was done even before the announcement was made on June 14. If thats true, announcing she was leaving could have just been a sneaky lead-in to publicize this single.
When Bagboy dropped yesterday, the rumor mill abounded once more with hopes that The Pixies might put together another full-length album. However, Consequence of Sound is reporting that wont be happening, at least, according to The Pixies publicist. The more likely hope to hold on to would be that the band decides to go on tour, again. The Pixies have been off of the road since 2011, but the last time the group released a single, there were tour dates galore. Well keep you posted if that happens, and until then you can just watch the Bagboy video on repeat or just download the song for free via The Pixies site. If you are not so down with the new track, you can just check out this live version of Where is My Mind and try to remember why you loved the band in the first place.


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Golf has a tee time for 2016 in Brazil, and top-ranked Tiger Woods can hardly wait.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Golf has a tee time for 2016 in Brazil, and top-ranked Tiger Woods can hardly wait.
The sport returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 amid the spectacular backdrop of Rio de Janeiro's sand and sea, giving Woods the chance to do something even the great Jack Nicklaus never did — win Olympic gold.
Olympic officials had no sooner voted golf in — along with rugby — than Woods and his fellow players cheered their chance to finally compete on sport's biggest stage. They will compete for Olympic medals, but the greater promise is that the game catches on in countries where golfers are few and golf courses are even fewer.
"I think it's great for golf," Woods said from the Presidents Cup in San Francisco. "It's a perfect fit for the Olympics, and I think we are all looking forward to golf getting into the Olympics."
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The vote for golf was expected, after a campaign by the sport's leaders to bring it back for the first time since George Lyon and the United States won gold medals at the Olympics in St. Louis. They promoted it as a way to bring a sport once reserved for the elite to the masses, even though it will add 120 men and women to a sports festival already considered bloated by some in the Olympic movement.
Nicklaus said Olympic gold would not trump the green jacket given the winner of the Masters or the Claret Jug awarded in the British Open, but would be seen as something hugely important in countries where the game doesn't mean nearly as much at this time.
"For most of the world it will be a new game, with a new goal to achieve an Olympic gold medal," Nicklaus said.
Golf was approved 63-27 with two abstentions, while rugby won near unanimous acclaim in an 81-8 vote with one abstention.
They are the first sports added since triathlon and taekwondo in 2000.
• At least a handful of people in the Olympic movement support the U.S. Olympic Committee leadership — members of the USOC board, who voted in support of embattled chairman Larry Probst and chief executive officer Stephanie Streeter. The board also committed to finding Streeter's replacement by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, leaders of America's Olympic sports organizations called for Streeter's and Probst's immediate resignations.
• Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen has withdrawn from the first Grand Prix figure-skating event of the season because of tendinitis in her right calf.
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OK, I know this may be a little bit of a stretch and I'm not saying that without Lean techniques, we would still be using square wheels, BUT the core beliefs of Lean certainly align with those that have enabled us to advance. For instance, the Lean concept of Standard Work forms a foundation for improvement much like any other standard practice. Once a new idea has proven effective, it must be shared. At first, others adopt the practice and learn to apply it. Then they improve on it and the sharing of the new idea starts all over. When work is standardized, the same principle applies. Others can be trained to perform the task in the standard way, and then improvements can be made. If there is no standard method, it is impossible to tell if a change has a positive impact or a negative one.
Another foundational principal of Lean is the implementation of small improvements to our daily work. This concept is often called Kaizen: continuous change for the better. Most of us are continually seeking to improve our daily lives by reducing the amount of time different tasks take. In fact, we spend a great deal of money seeking to make tasks such as cleaning and yard work easier and faster. If we use the Lean principles such as 5S (Workplace Organization) and Waste Reduction, we can eliminate waste in our daily work both professionally and personally.
Standard Work, waste elimination, Kaizen and many other powerful tools of Lean can be applied to our everyday lives to reduce frustration, improve efficiency and increase effectiveness. Maybe in later posts, we will discuss some others. I am pondering a video post on applying Setup Reduction to our daily lives, but let's see what you think of this concept first. Please let me know. Chime in with examples of small improvements to your daily life that fall into this thought process or ideas for future posts on this topic.
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I wanted to let you know about an interactive webinar that I thought you may be interested in called 'The Top 10 Wastes in the Office' on Monday, May 3rd at 2:00pm Eastern.
Waste is any item, practice, task, process, etc. that adds no value to customers or shareholders. It is all around us but we rarely see it as waste. Join us for this free web event on what we consider 'The Top 10 Forms of Waste in the Office'. We will review definitions of value and waste followed by counting down some of the largest forms of wasted found in the office, including waste due to data and information, workflows and employees.
THIS IS NOT A TRADITIONAL WEBINAR. Don't expect to simply listen and type in questions at the end. This webinar will include interactive exercises and discussion. Along with slides, you will see the instructor at all times via a LIVE streaming video.
Our goal is for you to start identifying waste in your own workplace immediately after this session.
For more information, please browse the webinar page.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think may be interested.
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If I could only pick one thing to represent the largest mistake a change agent can make when implementing Lean or any other significant organizational change, it would probably be failing to manage the cultural change.
All too often, we fail to consider the impact that a change that will have on the culture of an organization prior to launch. Culture is essentially the sum of all core beliefs, convictions, principles, habits, history and social norms that drive organizational behavior; and every organization has a unique one. If we carefully consider the culture and how a change will be received within the context of it, we can implement countermeasures to address any foreseen issues and tailor our launch plan based on our assessment and observations.
For instance, if an organizational and cultural assessment identifies a strong resistance to ideas that come from outside the organization or from non tenured employees, we may need to include employees with more seniority in each improvement activity and may even need to limit the number of employees with less experience in the initial events/projects. Additionally, if our plan called for the use of outside consultants, we may need to lengthen our implementation timeline to allow internal champions and leaders be indentified and more extensively trained. This approach would allow us to reduce our dependence on outside consultants and resulting pushback.
Alternately, if the assessment reveals a culture that thrives on highly energetic leadership, these same employees may be the wrong individuals to include in our initial events because they may be less likely to try new things.
For another scenario, consider a cultural assessment that reveals a failed change within the past 5 years (such as a false start at a lean implementation). Employees of this organization will likely have a difficult time accepting that the proposed change will be reinforced by management (flavor of the month syndrome). After all, if the last change was allowed to die, what reason do we have to believe that this effort will be any different? In this case, the pre launch communication plan will need to address the history directly and honestly and small wins early on will be needed to gain employee support. Significant effort should be devoted to sustaining early changes as well to prove commitment. Advertising these small wins will also be helpful.
Whatever the history and cultural of an organization holds, the change agent must be careful to study it and develop a culture plan that helps employees understand and embrace the change.
Tags: Corporate culture, transformation, Lean Office, lean Leadership
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Lean is the constant pursuit of identifying and eliminating waste and there are many different tools that Lean practitioners use to accomplish this goal, but they all align with the one guiding principle of identifying and eliminating waste. We will discuss many types of waste in upcoming posts, but we should lay some ground rules and agree on some basic principles before going too deep.
First, let's agree on how to define waste. I will give you the accepted definition, but your input would make this a much richer exploration, so please respond by adding to my definition or challenging it as you see fit. Primarily, waste is the opposite of value. Of course, this leads to the question of what is value. Since value may be a little simpler to get our minds around, let's first define it as anything the customer is willing to pay for. Think of value as something that changes the form, fit, or function of a tangible product that the customer buys, or any service that someone is willing to pay for. Ultimately, this means that waste is any activity that doesn't change the form, fit, function or value of the good or service.
Next, we should discuss waste elimination as a philosophy. I contend that total waste elimination is a lofty goal that can never fully be achieved and is somewhat nebulous and idealistic. It may even be irrelevant. However, we should never accept waste that we see and we should be in a constant battle to eliminate it.
Finally, the relationship between work and waste should be highlighted. Virtually all waste is work, but the opposite is certainly not true. Just because we classify an activity as something that the customer is unwilling to pay for doesn't mean that it isn't work. In fact, the very reason we strive to eliminate it is because work is required to perform the activity, but isn't rewarded by the customer. We must always be mindful of this and be careful how we present our findings as we search for waste. People often take offense when an activity that they exert great amounts of energy to complete, is classified as wasteful. An employee who takes pride in his work will often feel stressed, angry or hurt at such an assessment. Handling these situations with empathy and coaching can make the difference in whether or not someone is willing to help us eliminate wasteful activities or not. After all, they are more than likely tired at the end of their work day, even if the customer is unwilling to pay for their activities. Being sensitive to this and helping employees understand how to eliminate waste without disrespecting their effort will help get everyone on board with our waste elimination efforts and maintain a healthy sense of respect.
This post will be followed by 30 or so more over the next few months which will deep-dive into different forms of waste in the office as well as suggestions on how to remove them. Each post is meant to teach you how to see that particular form of waste. We would love to hear examples for each from your environment one as well as what you did about it.
Tags: Lean, Lean Office, Office Wastes, Value
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There seems to be a consistent theme that resonates with most organizations when they are first exposed to Lean philosophies and tools. Most people seem to think that their organization is different, unique or special in some way that will prevent the Lean concepts from working or limit their impact.
A study of the various change models and philosophies, has led me to accept the fact that Lean practitioners (and change agents of all types) bear a significant burden of convincing others that change is needed and that it will be worth the effort. Deep down, it frustrates me a little, but I accept it as part of the change agent role and realize that without the need for paradigm shifts, my chosen profession would be equally unneeded.
I suppose that the burden of proof is what frustrates me. After all of the literature, conferences, articles and success stories that should have long ago removed any doubt that the Lean tools reduce waste, streamline processes and improve the competitive edge, shouldn't it be up to the individual in doubt to disprove them? Countless capital requests have been rejected because the decision makers lack the vision and understanding to relate the impact of improved flow, velocity and responsiveness to the bottom line. Shouldn't we require the submission of a capital request to continue functioning with the current level of waste instead of seeking approval to eliminate it? Shouldn't doubters be required to prove Lean won't work rather than change agents being required to prove that it will?
I can't think of a single industry that the Lean tools cannot transform (if you can, please post a rebuttal in the comments and we will have some good - and friendly - debate over the question). Continuous process improvement leading to less waste and frustration is a core belief of the Lean practitioner. How can one argue with this basic principle? Didn't it lead to the invention of the wheel? I suppose it is not so much the Lean principles that are hard for people to accept, but the application of these principles that doesn't always seem obvious.
Don't get me wrong, every Lean implementation is indeed different and special, but what must be tailored is the technique of applying the principles, not the principles or tools themselves. With that said, I will wake up Monday morning, get on a plane and go back to the constant process of introducing "new" concepts, convincing, convincing, sales, convincing and implementing change. This is the joy of being a Lean practitioner, and even though it can be frustrating at times, I am passionate about the journey and can't imagine doing anything else.
So, if someone in your organization comes to you and suggests an improvement idea or that the organization is in the process of launching a Lean transformation process, please research before you respond with a list of reasons why it won't work. Remember that there are probably already a dozen or so examples of how it works in your industry and if there aren't, you may just create a competitive advantage for your organization. If you approach it with an open mind, everyone will learn something along the way. You may even prove that your company is special and different…In the creative ways you find to implement Lean.
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Ok, so slightly late but we finally caught up to the power of blogging. We never thought about using this medium before because we weren't about to employ it as yet another marketing tool. However, after understanding the potential to use it to educate, express our views, test new and innovative ideas with you all and just have conversations with great people, we said, "Now why didn't we ever do this before?"
With that said, we're incredibly pleased to announce our blog. It is our avenue to share new research, old ideas that need to be said over and over, and maybe some general frustrations with continuous improvement that hopefully we all share. We will cover traditional topics on Lean and Lean Six Sigma and will focus on new and unique topics like Lean Office, Lean Software Development, Lean IT and general applicability of Lean and Lean Six Sigma thinking in every department from Sales to Finance to HR.
In the end, we, the principles and associates of VRDS, Inc., will share our thoughts, experiences and insights on how to transform organizations to be more agile, respond to market and environmental changes quicker and deliver the highest level of customer satisfaction.
Our bloggers have decades of industry experience and have seen, heard and battled much in our professional lives. Thorugh our experiences, we hope you will learn, grow and interact with us. Feel free to post examples and pictures on topics that resonate with you or challenge us respectfully on those issues you don't agree with so we can dialog about them. Either way, we'd like to hear from you.
The next few posts will be on a 30+-part series on Office Wastes, a multi-part series on Office (dis)Organization, visual management in the Office and much more. And please, feel free to suggest topics you want to learn about or explore further.
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This is good news for the 'newest' semiconductor device market. But can it continue to grow at this rate?
Market analyst Yole Développement has already warned of price pressures pegging back revenue growth over the next few years.
According to Yole, price pressure will limit market growth and from 2013-2019 consumer market revenue will only grow modestly at 13%.
But MEMS suppliers have a bigger worry. The market is growing largely because of a single product type – the MEMS microphone.
Even more worrying, apart from sales (a few 100,000s a year) for specialist products such hearing aids, the MEMS microphone market is overly dependent on the smartphone and one customer in particular – Apple.
Two years ago, the adoption of MEMS microphones in smartphones, offering both small size and audio quality benefits, has injected the fledgling MEMS market with steroids.
According to IHS, just two suppliers Knowles and Infineon Technologies dominate the market for MEMS microphones.
According to IHS, Infineon's MEMS sales grew by 50% between 2012 and 2013.
But as with such things, the question is how long can it last?
It is never good for a semiconductor market to be too dependent on a single product type.
The hand that so easily giveth can just as easily take away.
The smartphone market is an exacting place to operate if you are a component supplier. Ask flash memory suppliers and look what decimation has happened in the mobile chipset market.
Only the big and powerful survive. And have the MEMS microphone suppliers the strength to stand up to the likes of Apple and Samsung when margins are being squeezed.
MEMS is still a young technology, which means it may not see the cost reduction benefits of maturity fast enough for the smartphone makers.
"The MEMS microphone supply chain must overestimate component supplies in order to ensure it can meet Apple's demand," said Marwan Boustany, senior analyst for MEMS and sensors at IHS. "This, in turn, leads to microphone inventory being accumulated at every point in the supply chain.
One answer to the cost of production issue is the fabless model. It has happened in the chipset market and there is every likelihood it will come to dominate the MEMS market before much longer.
If you cannot rely on the comparative luxury of specialist device markets such as mil-aero, medical and high-rel, then you cannot absorb those extra few dollars a part when fabbing your MEMS microphones.
Consumer markets are unforgiving of cost-inefficiency, and the smartphone market is the most unforgiving market of them all.


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Published 9 July 2012 | TEDxSydney
Geoffrey Garrett on China and the United StatesPolitics
Geoffrey Garrett is a political scientist. He is currently Dean of Sydney Universitys Business School. He is a regular commentator on business, economics and politics and has led senior executive programs on the global economy for Stanford and Columbia Universities and UCLA.
He speaks here at TEDxSydney 2012 on the US-China relationship and what that means for Australia.
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1of7billion :
31 Jul 2012 7:51:20pm
Our home has both German and China manufactured solar arrays. Both are of equal output and quality. Our home harvests more power than we need and will continue to do so 25 years plus.
Meanwhile what has America been doing other than bullying.
If our home needed a Bunker Buster guess we can always give Boeing USA a call.
Product America, who wants that for their kids and grandkids?
Bill :
15 Jul 2012 11:28:02pm
I think the good dean needs to grasp the larger world view here. Take into account what America has done in the past century, see what they are doing to thier population internally, and how they treat other countries militarily and add to the mix the fact that yes they owe China Trillions in debt and cant afford to pay it back on thier own backs.......but they do have 1 trump card, thier military force and that is what they are using.
Look at how many bases they have the world over, research and find what they do to gain control over foreign resources and factor in what that means when you add it all together. I think Mr. Garrett is too deep in his field to appreciate an outside perspective of what this really all means when "everything" is taken into account. America is a stewing pot ready to boil over and it is much better to be prepared now for action than to get taken unawares in the near future.
Chris :
13 Jul 2012 3:58:35pm
This was amusing.
I remember a time, not so long ago, when China's sudden economic rise, and the appearance of the Chinese middle class, came as a *complete surprise* to everyone.
And now people come along and talk, in the vaguest of terms no less, as if they know exactly what's going on and what the future holds. Very amusing.
Nobody knows what the Chinese government has in mind for the future of their country and its economic relations with the rest of us. Except that they don't seem to like the West telling them how to run their country.
As for Australia, Mr Garrett finishes saying it "sits propitiously between" US and China economically. How completely vague and simplistic!
China is making huge investments in Africa. What happens when Australia is no longer such a large supplier of materials to China? I think China is eager to extricate itself from US dependence, which means Australia too, based on our cozy behaviour. We often hear complaints from China about our relationship with the US. They would *love* to replace us with Africa or somewhere politically less inconvenient.
I found Mr Garretts "analysis" to be vague and pretty much stating the obvious as far as it went. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.


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Ben and Kate
Premieres Tuesday, September 25, 8:30pm ET on Fox
Sandwiched nicely between Raising Hope and New Girl, Ben and Kate follows the trials and tribulations of a pair of mismatched siblings forced to live under the same roof. Dakota Johnson (the celebrity offspring of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith) stars as Kate, a young, sensible single mom working hard as a bar manager to make ends meet and support her 5-year-old daughter, Maddie. Kate's big brother Ben, who never managed to grow up, worms his way back into his sister's life – and home – and plays "Mr. Mom" to let Kate let loose and finally enjoy life. The show is getting buzz for its charming characters and talented cast (including raves for Maggie Jones' portrayal of Maddie andLucy Punch's turn as Kate's best buddy and co-worker) and is helping Fox establish Tuesdays as a solid night for comedy. If you can't wait until September, Fox is giving you an early look at the pilot episode, which will be available online via Hulu and Fox.com for two weeks starting on August 27.


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Greetings just wondering how are the efforts going on the FreeBSD port.
here in Mexico there is a lot of people wanting the zimbra port in order to get rid from Exchange.
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Greetings just wondering how are the efforts going on the FreeBSD port.
here in Mexico there is a lot of people wanting the zimbra port in order to get rid from Exchange.
I'm voting for Solaris. I actually have no solaris boxes (though I think there are some sparcstations under the house running. I'm actually wondering how many linux permutations are going to be required before we're all satisfied, indeed I think we never will.
Solaris is not just a different linux port, (eg ubuntu or suse), unix-like platform (freebsd) but also an entirely new enterprise-class community. Entering this field puts zimbra in an area with other competing collaboration software, not just exchange. I've yet to note anybody else making the obvious java connection with zimbra.
Personally I'm really interested in how the vmware/software appliance (SA) stuff is going, I think that gives users the flexibility of running whatever flavour they want, and just dropping in the SA as required. It's scalability is questionable because I would imagine cluster admins may roll their own more carefully, so I think SA is destined for small installations, but I could be underestimating the power of zimbra
I love working in linux, but I also have an enormous amount of Solaris clients that keep asking me what solution there is other than Exchange. Sun will tell you their collaboration suite is great - but let's face it, it's no Exchange. Zimbra is phenomenal and does everything our customers are asking for in a Solaris package that can and will eliminate Exchange. By porting to Solaris, you're going to get PAYING customers, not just the opensource community looking for a freebee collaboration suite that rocks. (no offense to anyone here - I want it for my personal linux server also). Porting it to Solaris will surely bring in revenue to help assist with other ports. Here's also a few other reasons:
1) Solaris x86 is becoming more widely used - Oracle, Symantec (Veritas) and numerous other major players are porting their software to Solaris 10 x86 because of the huge popularity that is gaining with their new AMD/Intel based servers.
2) Sun will offer any developer a free server if they port their software to Solaris (no, I do not work for Sun). I develop some code on the side and am registered with their developer site - which is why I got this link in a recent email:
3) Enterprise acceptance. Let's face it, very large corporations are running Solaris - a solution like this in their datacenter is priceless. As I mentioned above, I know many Global Enterprise customers (some with tens of thousands of seats) who have been waiting for years to move off of Exchange.
Just my .02 - Hope it helps!
Awesome product!
I agree with a lot of the other posters who are recommending a port to Solaris.
I believe Zimbra availability on Solaris will open a large existing education/corporate/carrier/ISP customer base who are definitely willing to pay for worthwhile products but don't want to have to support an additional OS in order to run your product.
I would like to see a Sparc Solaris 10 port of Zimbra as well. Sun's collaboration suite is too complicated for smaller shops or those that don't want to dedicate administrative staff to the task.
We can run and do run Gentoo / Ubuntu on Sparc hardware also. Haven't evaluated the Zimbra vs Scalix source build procedures (yet) for Ubuntu/Gentoo on Sparc but we're looking at doing so in the next month.
We've run FreeBSD for many, many years as our mail server platform. The filesystem (UFS2) combined with the soft-updates feature, along with FreeBSD's legendary stability make it _the_ choice for the next Zimbra port (IMHO) :-) Also, the FreeBSD ports system makes installing the Zimbra dependencies effortless. The majority of the other choices in the poll are simply different Linux distro's, which IMHO are just variations of the same ol stuff. Be different, lets see a FreeBSD port!
Centos so there is a free cut od RedHat afert all it is just compliled SRPM's so it should be very easy. Not really a port at all. Lost of hosters like CentOS but are not wrapped with RedHat
Just curious here.... this post has been open for 2 years... Is Zimbra really going to port something soon? I'm very appreciative of their efforts to port to another OS, but 2 years is really a long time to get results... so what say ye Zimbra? Can you port something soon???
Ye/we say:
Mandriva - BETA
Ubuntu - Done
Debian - Done
Gentoo - Some members of the community have gotten it to work
Solaris - dijichi2 is has dome some work on it.
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Thanks for the quick post John - glad to see Solaris up there too!!!! Any estimated timelines for completion on Solaris?


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Article #342 • Written by Alan Bellows
It was the summer of 1936 when Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the atom-smashing cyclotron, received a visit from Emilio Segrè, a scientific colleague from Italy. Segrè explained that he had come all the way to America to ask a very small favor: He wondered whether Lawrence would part with a few strips of thin metal from an old cyclotron unit. Dr Lawrence was happy to oblige; as far as he was concerned the stuff Segrè sought was mere radioactive trash. He sealed some scraps of the foil in an envelope and mailed it to Segrè's lab in Sicily. Unbeknownst to Lawrence, Segrè was on a surreptitious scientific errand.
At that time the majority of chemical elements had been isolated and added to the periodic table, yet there was an unsightly hole where an element with 43 protons ought to be. Elements with 42 and 44 protons—42molybdenum and 44ruthenium respectively—had been isolated decades earlier, but element 43 was yet to be seen. Considerable accolades awaited whichever scientist could isolate the elusive element, so chemists worldwide were scanning through tons of ores with their spectroscopes, watching for the anticipated pattern.
Upon receiving Dr Lawrence's radioactive mail back in Italy, Segrè and his colleague Carlo Perrier subjected the strips of molybdenum foil to a carefully choreographed succession of bunsen burners, salts, chemicals, and acids. The resulting precipitate confirmed their hypothesis: element 42 was the answer. The radiation in Lawrence's cyclotron had converted a few 42molybdenum atoms into element 43, and one ten-billionth of a gram of the stuff now sat in the bottom of their beaker. They dubbed their plundered discovery "technetium" for the Greek word technetos, meaning "artificial." It was considered to be the first element made by man rather than nature, and its "short" half-life—anywhere from a few nanoseconds to a few million years depending on the isotope—was the reason there's negligible naturally-occurring technetium left on modern Earth.
In the years since this discovery scientists have employed increasingly sophisticated apparatuses to bang particles together to create and isolate increasingly heavy never-before-seen elements, an effort which continues even today. Most of the obese nuclei beyond 92uranium are too unstable to stay assembled for more than a moment, to the extent that it makes one wonder why researchers expend such time, effort, and expense to fabricate these fickle fragments of matter. But according to our current understanding of quantum mechanics, if we can pack enough protons and neutrons into these husky nuclei we may encounter something astonishing.
Better Call Sol
Article #335 • Written by Alan Bellows
On 10 January 1709, pioneering weather observer William Derham recorded an historic event outside his home near London. He examined his thermometer in the frigid morning air and jotted an entry into his meticulous meteorological log. The prior weeks had been typical for an English winter, but overnight an oppressive cold had lodged itself over the Kingdom. As far as Derham was aware, London had never experienced so few millimeters of mercury as it did that morning: -12º C.
The remarkable cold lingered in Europe for weeks. Lakes, rivers, and the sea froze over, and the soil solidified a meter deep. The cold cracked open trees, crushed the life out of livestock huddling in stables, and made travel a treacherous undertaking. It was the coldest winter in the past 500 years, and one of the coldest moments in a larger global phenomenon known as the Little Ice Age. Likely causes include volcanic activity, oceanic currents, and/or reforestation due to Black-Death-induced population decline. It is nearly certain, however, that it has something to do with the unusually low number of sunspots that appeared at that time, a phenomenon referred to as the Maunder minimum.
We now know that such solar minima correlate quite closely with colder-than-normal temperatures on Earth, but science has yet to ascertain exactly why. Solar maximums, on the other hand, have historically had little noteworthy impact on the Earth apart from extra-splendid auroral displays. But thanks to our modern, electrified, interconnected society these previously innocuous events could cause catastrophic economic and social damage in the coming decades.
The Martian Express
Article #313 • Written by Alan Bellows
On the 5th of February 1974, NASA's plucky Mariner 10 space probe zipped past the planet Venus at over 18,000 miles per hour. Mission scientists took advantage of the opportunity to snap some revealing photos of our sister planet, but the primary purpose of the Venus flyby was to accelerate the probe towards the enigmatic Mercury, a body which had yet to be visited by any Earthly device. The event constituted the first ever gravitational slingshot, successfully sending Mariner 10 to grope the surface of Mercury using its array of sensitive instruments. This validation of the gravity-assist technique put the entire solar system within the practical reach of humanity's probes, and it was used with spectacular success a few years later as Voyagers 1 and 2 toured the outer planets at a brisk 34,000 miles per hour.
One of the more intriguing theories to fall out of the early gravity-assist research was a hypothetical spacecraft called the Cycler, a vehicle which could utilize gravity to cycle between two bodies indefinitely— Earth and Mars, for instance— with little or no fuel consumption. Even before the complex orbital mathematics were within the grasp of science, tinkerers speculated that a small fleet of Cyclers might one day provide regular bus service to Mars, toting men and equipment to and from the Red Planet every few months. Though this interplanetary ferry may sound a bit like perpetual-motion poppycock, one of the concept's chief designers and proponents is a man who is intimately familiar with aggressive-yet-successful outer-space endeavors: scientist/astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin.
Transforming the Earth
Article #300 • Written by Matt Castle
Humanity's home is far from factory-fresh these days. Frankly, the Earth has received its share of scratches and dents, including large asteroid impacts, megavolcanoes, earthquakes, ice ages, and heat waves. It's to be expected. There are over four billion years on the clock, after all.
Though it has long been clear that Earth 1.0 is in need of an upgrade, it was not until a few years ago that someone began to take the notion seriously. In 2004, at a respected international design exhibition called the Venice Architecture Biennale, a young artist and architect named Christian Waldvogel displayed his plans for total global annihilation and the creation of Earth 2.0.
The Mechanical Battery
Article #289 • Written by Christopher S. Putnam
In a world where everything from our automobiles to our underwear may soon run on electricity, more efficient portable power is a major concern. After a century of stagnation, chemical and ultracapacitor batteries have recently made some strides forward, and more are on the horizon. But the most promising way of storing energy for the future might come from a more unlikely source, and one that far predates any battery: the flywheel.
In principle, a flywheel is nothing more than a wheel on an axle which stores and regulates energy by spinning continuously. The device is one of humanity's oldest and most familiar technologies: it was in the potter's wheel six thousand years ago, as a stone tablet with enough mass to rotate smoothly between kicks of a foot pedal; it was an essential component in the great machines that brought on the industrial revolution; and today it's under the hood of every automobile on the road, performing the same function it has for millennia—now regulating the strokes of pistons rather than the strokes of a potter's foot.
Ongoing research, however, suggests that humanity has yet to seize the true potential of the flywheel. When spun up to very high speeds, a flywheel becomes a reservoir for a massive amount of kinetic energy, which can be stored or drawn back out at will. It becomes, in effect, an electromechanical battery.
Beware the Dangers of Oxygen
Article #270 • Written by Jason Bellows
There's a caustic substance common to our environment whose very presence turns iron into brittle rust, dramatically increases the risk of fire and explosion, and sometimes destroys the cells of the very organisms that depend on it for survival. This substance that makes up 21% of our atmosphere is Diatomic oxygen (O2), more widely know as just oxygen.
Of course, oxygen has its good points. Besides being necessary for respiration and the reliable combustion engine, it can be liquefied and used as rocket fuel. Oxygen is also widely used in the world of medicine as a means to imbue the body with a greater amount of the needed gas. But recent studies indicate that administering oxygen might be doing less good than hoped—and in fact be causing harm. No one is immune to the dangers of oxygen, but the people who might most suffer the ill effects are infants newly introduced to breathing, and those who are clinically dead.
Half Science and Hafnium Bombs
Article #268 • Written by Alan Bellows
In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a groundbreaking experiment. Within a large outbuilding marked with a slapdash sign reading "Center for Quantum Electronics", the team powered up a makeshift x-ray emitter and directed its radiation beam at an overturned disposable coffee cup. Atop the improvised styrofoam platform was a tiny smear of one of the most expensive materials on Earth: a variation of the chemical element hafnium known as Hf-178-m2.
The researchers' contraption— cobbled together from a scavenged dental x-ray machine and an audio amplifier— bombarded the sample with radiation for several days as monitoring equipment quietly collected data. When the experiment ended and the measurements were scrutinized, the project leader Dr. Carl B. Collins declared unambiguous success. If his conclusions are accurate, Collins and his colleagues may have found the key to developing fist-sized bombs which can deliver destruction equivalent to a dozen tons of conventional explosives. Despite considerable skepticism from the scientific community, the US Department of Defense has since spent millions of dollars probing the physicist's findings.
A Walk in the Valley of the Uncanny
Article #267 • Written by Marisa Brook
In June 2006 at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Keihanna, Japan, reporters and scientists gathered for the unveiling of a major new project by Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro. Once everyone had arrived, an assistant pulled back a curtain to reveal…another Dr. Ishiguro? Certainly the second figure had a very strong resemblance to Dr. Ishiguro, wearing the same glasses and dressed in the same clothing. Seated in a chair, the duplicate was rocking one foot back and forth, blinking and adjusting itself. It looked around and then, in ordinary Japanese, introduced itself; it was named Geminoid HI-1.
For the reporters, up to that point virtually the only clue that Geminoid was an android had come from knowing that Ishiguro is a prominent roboticist. Ishiguro's creation is more a puppet than an android, strictly speaking; Ishiguro speaks and acts through it via the Internet. As well as transmitting his voice, a motion-capture system allows Ishiguro to project the movements of his mouth and upper body onto Geminoid. The android itself is built of silicone and steel, and based on casts taken from Ishiguro's body. Regular, small actions such as blinking are controlled by autonomous programs.
The strikingly realistic robot has since been met largely with wonder and admiration, which could mark success for Ishiguro in more ways than the obvious. Although Ishiguro's earlier android projects were only a little less realistic, they tended to disturb viewers. This is consistent with a 1970 hypothesis by Dr. Masahiro Mori, another Japanese roboticist. Although not yet well-investigated by science, Mori's "Uncanny Valley" theory holds that as a simulation of a human being's appearance and/or motion becomes increasingly accurate, there is very suddenly a point at which humans' interest in the creation turns into utter repulsion.


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Update on HildaHilda buys and sells a variety of locally-made products that include knitted clothing pieces and decorative items. She sells her merchandise in some of the city's many crafts markets. Hilda started the business several years ago and her earnings from the business are now her family's main source of income. Hilda is applying for a loan that she will use buy leather purses, costume jewelry and other artisanal products that she will then resell.
Previous Loan DetailsHilda is a member of the "LOS DIAMANTES" communal bank in the city of Cusco – Peru. She continues to sell arts. She makes, buys, and sells imagery, clothing, decorations, and other things and sells them in different art markets in the city. Hilda has been doing this for many years and it's the... More from Hilda's previous loan »
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Asociación Arariwa is a large non-governmental organization that started offering microcredit in 1994 to improve the quality of life, skills and equity of the population in the rural Cusco region of Peru. Arariwa serves the southern Andean provinces of Peru, and is distinguished by its efforts to reach the very poor, who often live in isolated rural areas. Arariwa fosters village banking, supports savings accounts, promotes access to education, and empowers women entrepreneurs (who make up 78% of its borrowers).
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Recently I participated in a tweetchat with Liz Weston, J.D. Roth, MP Dunleavey and other personal finance geeks. One of the questions was:
I'm in my 40s and just started saving. What advice would you give beginners to make the most and try to catch up?
An onslaught of 140-character advice poured out, but J.D. Roth summed it up best of all:
The best thing when starting to save late in life is to just DO it. Don't worry about lost time. Just save.
Easier said than done, to be sure. But necessary nonetheless.
I can testify, having run through my own savings in my 40s while waiting for a divorce to go through. At my lowest point I had $130 in cash and a boatload of lawyer debt on my credit card.
These days I'm debt-free and have rebuilt my savings almost to the point they were when I left my marriage. It was easier for me than for some because I no longer had kids in the home, and because my needs were relatively few.
But this rebuilding was also due to determination. I refused – and still refuse – to let current wants/needs overshadow future wants/needs.
A few strategies
That means saving. I'm funding an individual retirement account but I'm putting money in the bank too.
One of the pieces of advice I gave in the tweetchat was:
Stay focused on goal. Celebrate every deposit. Look for ways to trim budget, earn more money.
Trimming the budget is rarely easy or fun, but every dollar you can coax away is a dollar you can keep. Whether that's for an emergency fund, debt repayment or investing for retirement is up to you.
Not everyone can get a second actual job, but there are other ways to earn money:
- Online surveys. Pick your spots, but these really can pay.
- Swagbucks. You can cash in your points for PayPal or for gift cards to use instead of cash at stores.
- Microjobs. Short-term or one-time gigs that can pay surprisingly well.
- Selling stuff online. I sold a little plastic baseball statue for $1,200. No, I couldn't believe it either. If you don't have any heirloom or special-interest items, maybe you can take clothes to a consignment store or put unneeded electronics on Craigslist.
- Baby sitting. No, really. I used to get paid $10 an hour or more, even when the kids were sleeping and I was doing my college homework.
- Odd jobs. Instead of going through a microjobs site, find out what people around you need – or don't want to do – and offer your services.
Getting started
Believe me, I know this is not easy. Being in your 40s with basically no savings is terrifying – and at times paralyzing. But nothing will happen unless you cause it to happen.
Put another way: I've talked with people about going back to school in midlife. Some have said something along the lines of, "I couldn't do that. I'd be 55 before I finished!"
My inevitable reply: "Well, how old will you be if you don't get a degree?"
It's the same for saving. You might think there's no point in trying if you can put aside only a few bucks here and there. I once interviewed a woman who, just out of graduate school in her early 30s, did a meticulous budget and found she could save, at the most, $10 per month.
Temporarily discouraged, she decided to go ahead – and to get creative. Among other things, she recycled cans and bottles, held garage sales, banked her coupon/rebate savings, saved spare change and dollar bills, and sometimes rented her condo or her parking space to weekend travelers.
Within a few years she had not just a six-month emergency fund but also separate funds for vacations, retirement and a down payment on a someday home.
Don't know where to begin? Use some of her tips. Or check a piece I wrote for Get Rich Slowly, "Stealth Savings: Sneaky Ways to Fatten Your Account." Maybe there's something in there to get you started.
And you must start. Start now. Today. Even if all you do is throw your pocket change into a Miracle Whip jar every night, you're taking charge. You're making it happen. You're taking care of the future you – and believe me, the future you will be glad you cared enough to try.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon House has unanimously approved a bill that would offer low-cost loans to retrofit schools with energy efficient technology.
The House's approval on Monday sends the measure to the Senate. The measure is known by supporters as Cool Schools and is aimed at helping school districts afford the high upfront cost of energy efficient technology.
Proponents hope schools could improve the efficiency of aging buildings and save money on energy bills while employing people to make the upgrades.
The legislative initiative would offer low-interest loans from the state that would be paid back with energy savings. It draws largely on existing funding.
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There is so much to say about Istanbul, and so much I am sure has been said, that I don't yet know where to begin. At the moment, though, this picture helps: three bodies of water meet at this point, and many more cultures have done so over the millenia, making a place that is like no other in the world and truly wonderful.
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Thanks very much indeed for this post. I went there as well, but I'd forgotten the name. You're right about how good the shop is. I'd have added how courteous and kindly they are. The son speaks a little English.
Lots of things I never got to see. Maybe next time...
Thanx for your comments on my pages about Amasya.i am sure you will like it more after your trip... regards from Turkey
Some great tips about Istanbul, which I think is my fave city that I've visited! Happy travelling, Sue.
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SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, October 08, 2010 – John D. Brewer, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service, and Dr. Victor M. Villalobos, director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), announced a joint effort to raise the technical capacities of the IICA and increase the number of agricultural experts working at the Institute's headquarters in Costa Rica.
"Since 1942, USDA and IICA have built a strong and lasting partnership," said Brewer. "Placing more agricultural experts at the Institute through the Associate Professional Officer Program helps promote stability in agriculture and trade among the IICA's 34 member countries. I commend Dr. Villalobos for his vision and commitment to strengthening agricultural cooperation within the Western Hemisphere."
Brewer and Villalobos also announced a joint USDA and IICA effort to assist in the recovery and revitalization of the agricultural sector in Haiti. With USDA funding, IICA will implement a program of training and technical assistance for the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Natural Resources, as well as non-governmental organizations and the private sector.
Administrator Brewer and Dr. Villalobos are participating in the 30th meeting of IICA's Executive Committee in San Jose, Costa Rica.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).


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Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation announces $2.8 million in awards
Twenty-five journalism organizations nationwide, including four in Oklahoma, have received $2.8 million in grants from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation (EEJF), the foundation announced last week.
Founded by Edith Kinney Gaylord, the Oklahoma City-based foundation's mission is to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills and opportunities needed to advance principled, probing news and information.
"New models are necessary to continue the important work of investigative journalism in the public interest," Bob Ross, president and CEO of the foundation, said in a news release. "We are pleased to partner with the organizations announced today as they work to stimulate positive change through innovative models."
Oklahoma Watch, an investigative and in-depth reporting team, received the biggest grant of $750,000.
The organization collaborates with other news organizations and higher education to produce journalism that makes a difference in the lives of Oklahomans, the news release stated.
The Friends of the Oklahoma History Center also received one of the larger grants — for $300,000 — to archive, digitize and create an online, searchable database of The Oklahoman's collection of 1.4 million photographs, including some that predate statehood.
"This is the most important photo collection of the history of the state of Oklahoma. ... The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society is to collect, preserve and to share the history of Oklahoma," said Chad Williams, deputy director of research at the Oklahoma Historical Society. "There are some wonderful old photographs."
Also receiving funds from the foundation in Oklahoma are:
$85,000 to University of Oklahoma for the Oklahoma Scholastic Media Initiative, providing grants for equipment, software and training to high schools starting or improving online newspapers; and
$150,000 to Oklahoma State University for a new facility for KOSU radio on historic Film Row in downtown Oklahoma City to include state of the art production studios, an expanded newsroom and a public performance space.
Other grants went to the following news organizations, listed by categories that are the foundation's core areas of focus:
Investigative reporting
$200,000 to Investigative News Network of Encino, Calif.; $100,000 to Fund for Investigative Journalism, Washington; $100,000 to InvestigateWest, Seattle, Wash.; $100,000 to Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, Iowa City, Iowa; $100,000 to The Lens, New Orleans, La.; $100,000 to Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, Denver; $100,000 to Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, Madison, Wisc.; $75,000 to Center for Media Change, Oakland, Calif. $75,000 to FairWarning, Encino, Calif.; $75,000 to Vermont Journalism Trust, Montpelier, Vt.; $50,000 to American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, Washington; $50,000 to City Limits, New York; $25,000 to Texas Tribune, Austin, Texas;
Professional development
$100,000 to Investigative Reporters and Editors, Columbia, Mo., $100,000 to Online News Association, Washington; $42,300 to National Press Club Journalism Institute, Washington; $25,000 to Associated Press Managing Editors Association Foundation, New York; $25,000 to Society for News Design Foundation, Orlando, Fla.
Youth education
$40,000 to Fund for American Studies for the Institute on Political Journalism, Washington;
Special opportunities
$25,000 to Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va.; and $20,000 to American Copy Editors Society, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Banville, John
John Banville, 1945–, Irish novelist. His novels, which stress language over plot and narrative, are written in a dense, elaborate, and highly original blend of poetry and prose. They are allusive, frequently filled with digressions, and often exhibit a corrosive wit. His best-known novel is The Sea (2005, Man Booker Prize) in which an elderly art historian returns to a seaside town where he mourns his dead wife and examines his past life. The early novels Nightspawn (1971) and Birchwood (1973) follow the decline of Irish families. Other novels include a trilogy based on the lives of scientists, Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1983), and The Newton Letter (1982); a second trilogy, The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993), and Athena (1995); The Untouchables (1997); Eclipse (2000); Shroud (2002); The Infinities (2009); and Ancient Light (2012). Banville also was an editor at two newspapers, the Irish Press (1969–83) and the Irish Times (1986–99). As the mystery writer Benjamin Black, he has written Christine Falls (2006), The Silver Swan (2009), A Death in Summer (2011), Vengeance (2012), The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014, in which the main character is Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe), and other thrillers.
See studies by R. Imhof (1989), J. McMinn (1991, 1999), D. Hand (2002), B. McNamee (2006), and S. Fiorato (2007).