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Weeks after other potential 2013 mayoral candidates took positions on police monitoring of Muslims, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio on Wednesday spoke in defense of one of the New York Police Department's most controversial tactics.
In a speech on public-safety issues, de Blasio said he believes police are acting in good faith to protect New Yorkers and follow the law through the surveillance program. He also called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lower the number of "unsubstantiated" stop-and-frisk searches by police, and he urged an independent budget for the Civilian Complaint Review Board tasked with handling noncriminal allegations of police misconduct.
The speech marked the public advocate's first statement on NYPD surveillance of Muslim groups, which has come under fire from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other politicians, including some of his potential rivals in the 2013 mayor race.
"I defend without question the NYPD's obligation to pursue specific and credible threats," de Blasio said Wednesday morning at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He said he had been reassured by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that the NYPD is acting appropriately.
"Based on what I've learned, I believe that the NYPD is currently limiting its work to the pursuit of specific leads and that there is a substantial legal review process connected to those decisions," the public advocate said.
Still, the Brooklyn Democrat said he believes the city and the NYPD are not "working closely" enough with the Muslim community.
His comments come weeks after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a likely mayoral candidate, issued a statement supportive of the monitoring program. Other potential candidates, including Bill Thompson and John Liu, have voiced concerns.
Quinn also managed to step in front of de Blasio's public-safety speech by releasing on Tuesday an agreement allowing the Civilian Complaint Review Board to prosecute police misconduct cases. De Blasio has long called on the city to strengthen the powers of the board.
During the speech, de Blasio said he was "heartened" by the agreement. But he criticized the mayor and the council for slashing the board's budget and insisted its finances need to be independent of politics. Without a proper budget, he said, "the reforms announced yesterday cannot succeed."
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"How do you deny the No. 1 team in the country if we meet the criteria?" Barbour said.
The top-ranked Golden Bears submitted a bid for the first time to the NCAA to serve as a host of the opening week of the national tournament.
In the past, Cal did not meet two critical requirements: providing sufficient locker rooms and a warmup area. Now, with the completion of the Simpson High Performance Center and a durable turf at Witter Field adjacent to the Levine-Fricke softball field, the Bears have addressed the two primary stumbling blocks.
The athletic department also has moved in 1,200 temporary bleacher seats and is prepared to rent lights and a pressbox structure.
The 64-team tournament begins with eight regional events, May 17-20.
The NCAA will announce the tournament field on Sunday at 7 p.m., and Barbour said the university won't know until that time whether its bid is accepted.
In the meantime, the Bears (48-3, 19-2 Pac-12) face No. 2 Arizona State (45-5, 17-2) in a three-game series at Levine-Fricke that will end the regular season and determine the conference title. The first game is Thursday at 3 p.m.
Barbour doesn't believe the outcome of the series will have impact on their NCAA bid.
"We are proceeding as if it will happen. I don't see any reason it won't," she said. "I think regardless of what happens this weekend, we're a top-8 seed. Our season's body of work has earn an opportunity to host."
Cal softball coach Diane Ninemire said she is excited by the prospect of hosting an NCAA regional, but said the team's immediate concern is Arizona State.
"We've been road warriors," Ninemire said, alluding to the team's 36-2 record away from home. "This team will be fine if we're on the road or here at home."
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Thank you for the New Year's wishes. It's great to see a picture of the infamous Boring Scarf. I like the color, and the yarn shows off the stitch pattern nicely.
The knitted cast on has been a new favorite of mine, I cast on tightly though, and this one has some give for me. I like the long-tail cast on, it was what I learned when I first started knitting. It knits up into a nice firm edge, and I use a needle two or three sizes larger for the cast on.
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Your feelings about cast on methods is helpful for me, because I'm pretty sure I'm the opposite - casting on
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The next scarf - I'm basically using the pattern tabsheltie7 posted, which is a Bernat pattern intended for boa yarn, but I'll make it a bit bigger. I bought a bulky yarn, which I've never tried before, and big needles - 9mm - also a new experience. It's kind of a strange yarn, I think - so who knows what I'll end up with, haha, at least I won't be bored!
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When you are an actor or director, there are times during the rehearsal process of a play that you would like just a moment with a playwright.
Most of the time you can't do it because the author is dead, unreachable for some other reason, or just out of your league. In other words, you just don't hit Edward Albee's number on speed-dial and say, "Hey, Ed, there are a couple of things here I just don't get about 'Sylvia.' "
Sometimes, however, you get the rare chance of doing something like that, and of having first crack at a brand-new version of a play -- such as "June in a Box," by Pulitzer Prize-nominated San Francisco playwright Octavio Solis. It's opening Friday at St. Mary's College.
For the past several months, Solis has been working with director Rebecca Engle and her drama department students in the retelling of the kidnapping of June Robles, the daughter of a wealthy immigrant family in Tucson, Ariz. She was kidnapped in 1934 and returned, but the crime haunted her for the rest of her life. Solis' play is a magical version of the story that includes a pair of coyotes and "trickster" spirits (played by Liam Callister and David Silavin), who help the elderly June (Maria Calderazzo), learn more about the kidnapping through a reunion with her younger self (Haley Leitman) and others involved in the story who are represented in the ensemble (James Jones, Frank Moreno, Martin Morales, Tatiana Ray and Oliver Reyes).
With established plays, actors can learn about their roles from seeing how others have played them. With a new play like "June," actors are creating their own blueprint.
"Being in a new play is a lot of fun, because you haven't had prior shows to influence you," Callister said, "but when it's completely new, there's a ton of creativity in the rehearsal process."
Solis describes the tricksters as "dusty men" in his script, and almost every ethnic folklore has some sort of trickster character as part of it. These are spirits or deities who defy the rules of God, man and/or nature to achieve their ends. In the Southwest, Native American tradition mentions coyotes as tricksters. But Callister and Silavin, self-described "blond-haired, blue-eyed men" were unable to assume Native American or Latino characterizations.
"Like Liam said, there is a lot of creative freedom, almost too much," Silavin said, "because the hardest part is taking away and settling on something after the fun of the exploring process."
They ended up creating hobo characters with the magical abilities of tricksters.
For Solis, who has collaborated on the theatrical project with Engle since 2003, having an early incarnation of his play performed in an academic setting allows much more creative freedom. ("June" had its official public viewing in San Francisco two years ago in a stripped-down version that had only four people in the cast, including the author's daughter.)
"For one thing," Solis said, "you can think bigger, such as in using a large cast because you are not limited to a really tight budget like a lot of theaters have to deal with, and that is very liberating to me."
Solis also finds the opportunity to work with students extremely rewarding.
"I find students young, hungry and energetic, and (they) will work tirelessly with very little sleep," he said, chuckling. "They are there strictly to work on their craft as part of their education. And it's nice to know your play is part of that."
He's looking forward to seeing the play staged with a larger cast, although he liked the notion of having a cast of four with several of the actors playing multiple parts.
"With an actor cast in two or three roles, they are onstage all the time, and it's great to see the transformation they make," he said. "It's something you can't do in the movies, except in those 'Big Momma' movies, where you see one famous actor playing six roles all the time."
Engle said the project has been a great out-of-comfort-zone experience for the young actors.
"I think everyone is thrilled with working on new material, once they're over the shock," she said. "It's fun being at rehearsals and helping the butterfly emerge from the chrysalis."
Solis is an excellent author to work with, Engle said, because he seems to enjoy working with the students, listening to what they have to say and considering their suggestions.
"He was talking to a playwriting class and told them, 'You have to walk a mile in the shoes of the character before you can tell me a line works for you or not,' " she said. "Remember, he was living with these characters at least two years before the show was produced."
'June in a Box'
By Octavio Solis
When: 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and Nov. 18-19; 2 p.m. Nov. 20.
Where: Saint Mary's College, LeFevre Theatre, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga
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TORONTO � Brock Holt created the game-winning run almost singlehandedly for the Red Sox on Monday night, stealing both second base and third base in the top of the 10th inning and putting himself in position to score on a Yoenis Cespedes single.
That came after both Mookie Betts and Daniel Nava had stolen bases earlier in the game. Those four stolen bases in the game were double Boston�s previous season high.
In the month of August, the Red Sox have stolen 14 bases while being caught just once � a remarkable turnaround for a team that saw manager John Farrell issue a universal red light in mid-May because his team�s success rate fall to 50 percent.
Since that day, the Red Sox have stolen 35 bases and been caught 10 times � a success rate of 77.8 percent, much closer to what they deem acceptable.
What has been the difference? Certainly the personnel has to do with it. Holt has stolen four bases in August without being caught, and Betts has stolen three.
�There�s flat-out base-stealing speed more readily available to us,� Farrell said. �Brock Holt has grown in confidence. His game has taken a step forward in every area. When he came to us, when you look back at his minor-league track record, for someone who�s got the speed he has, it didn�t match up. Through games played and experience, he�s picked his spots more effectively.�
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�Since the All-Star break, we�ve done a much better job making sure that we know where our threshold is,� Farrell said.
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SAN JOSE – On June 5, 2003, a prominent North Carolina track and field coach placed a call to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in Colorado.
Hamm helps U.S. shut out Canada
Heather Mitts scored off Mia Hamm's corner kick in the 73rd minute to give the U.S. women's soccer team a 1-0 victory over Canada last night in Nashville, Tenn.
It's Roddick's flash against Federer's dash
WIMBLEDON, England – Swiss precision meets American brute power today as No. 1 Roger Federer meets No. 2 Andy Roddick in the men's Wimbledon final most tennis fans wanted to see.
U.S. crews reach Henley finals
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England – Two crews from Harvard and one from Princeton reached the finals at the Henley Royal Regatta yesterday.
BUSH AND SADDAM: What is wrong with people? Is Matt Bush as bad as Saddam Hussein?
Unheralded Rosales extends U.S. Open lead to three shots
A bottle of nerves even when she's taking a nap, Jennifer Rosales belted a 3-iron and watched it climb the dangerous ridge on the 18th green until it safely stopped 18 feet from the hole. She slapped hands with her caddie and strolled up the fairway, a rare chance to exhale yesterday at the U.S. Women's Open.
Rise of mythic proportion
No matter what happens later this summer at the Athens Olympics, no matter if everything finally gets built and the Games go off without incident, it almost certainly will pale in comparison to what's happening right now in Greece.
Assault and Battery?
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Cardinals 8, Mariners 1
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Riptide misses last-second field goal attempt in loss to Islanders
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Todd Hollandsworth, who has been a valuable spot starter, backup and pinch hitter this season for the Chicago Cubs, was put on the 15-day disabled list yesterday with a bruised right shin.
Cubs 4, White Sox 2 (5½)
CHICAGO – Greg Maddux pitched around three rain delays for his 296th win, and Sammy Sosa backed him with a homer and a great sliding catch on a wet day at Wrigley Field.
Blue Jays 2, Expos 0
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Roy Halladay pitched seven sharp innings in Toronto's victory over Montreal.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a Cubs blog. But yesterday, the Bears acquired Jay Cutler, arguably the best quarterback they've ever had. Who knew he was so jacked? And who knew a Google image search for "Jay Cutler" would yield such surprising results? Anyhow, Roundup time.
- Rick Morrissey is, of course, pissed about the best trade the Bears have ever made. If I were him, I'd be more pissed that my head looks like a thumb.
- Lost in the huge Cutler news is the fact that the Bears also protected their investment by acquiring Orlando Pace yesterday.
- Now, go get Torry Holt, Jerry.
- Tonight starts that extra-special time of the season. The post-pre-season-pre-regular-and-postseason games.
- As predictable as the sunrise, here is your annual, "The Cubs will win it all" article.
- And a bunch of dumb people believe it.
- Thanks to the brilliant Bud Selig, now you'll know how to get cheap Royals, Nationals, and Pirates tickets.
- When I heard the news that the Rockies might want Chad Gaudin, my first reaction was, "What for?"
- Here are five awful words strung together in a headline.
- What are the odds that, when writing this article, The Muskrat actually asked Carlos Zambrano, "So, do you think you can throw another no-hitter against the Astros?" I say 98%.
- Won't it be nice if Derrek Lee is awesome again this year?
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- The Commish asks Paul Bako a totally relevant and timely question on Bako's way out the door (thank God).
- Greg Couch writes an awful lot of words about a non-issue.
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- I hope you fat slobs were able to take advantage of Domino's before it was too late.
- Strange is coughing a nail out of your nose. Stranger is having no idea how the hell you ended up with a nail in your nose.
- I don't think this commercial is NSFW. And even if it is, it's probably worth it.
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"The fee has been agreed, which we're delighted about," Ferguson said on the United website. The Dutch striker was signed from Arsenal on Wednesday for a reported fee of £24 million.
"He's on his way here from London to have a medical later. Hopefully, that goes according to plan. We hope he will be available for Monday night," Ferguson added.
"It's great to have a player of the quality of Robin van Persie coming into the squad. I'm very pleased."
The 29-year-old Dutch international scored 37 goals last season as Arsenal finished third in the league and reached the last 16 of the Champions League.
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The stunning upset has made Cardinal football relevant again - not only in Palo Alto but throughout the Bay Area and Pac-10 Conference territory.
For six years, the program specialized in losing games, churning through coaches and playing in silent stadiums on its own campus.
It had become a virtual non-entity in the Bay Area sports world, way down the ladder below the pro sports, Cal football and Stanford basketball.
This opinion is based on the trickle of emails I receive about Stanford football, on the absence of Cardinal-related calls on sports talk radio and on the rows and rows of empty seats at Stanford Stadium.
How many fans were there, really, for the ASU game, 18,000, 20,000?
Sure, the Cardinal has a tiny fan base. It's a small private school whose graduates often leave the Bay Area, and the on-field product has been awful since 2001. Stanford was bad and boring - doom for a college sports team in Northern California.
The quest for relevance is one reason Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby hired Jim Harbaugh.
After the nondescript and overmatched Buddy Teevens, and after the charmless Walt Harris, Stanford needed a charismatic figure to rejuvenate its program, and Harbaugh brought charisma - along with his name, face and playing career.
There were more reporters and TV cameras at his introductory press conference than I can remember for a Stanford event.
But not even Harbaugh was going to rescue the program's profile when Stanford was getting walloped every week. It was outscored 141-51 in three conference games and 72-3 in the six quarters leading up to Saturday's kickoff.
The Cardinal needed something to get back on the regional radar, and Saturday's comeback for the ages was it.
A few minutes after the upset, Stanford was on the front page of ESPN.com.
A few hours later, it was on the front page of Yahoo!
Heck, there are two Stanford stories in today's Mercury News. That never happens on a Monday during the NFL season.
The upset brings media exposure, energizes diehards and inspires donors. It might even turn casual fans into season-ticket buyers.
It also gives Harbaugh and his staff something to take to recruits beyond the Stanford-is-a-great-education thing.
Harbaugh can look a prospect in the eye and ask, "When was the last time Cal (or UCLA, Washington, Oregon, Notre Dame) beat USC at the Coliseum?"
My thinking is, Stanford went 1-11 last season, but it didn't have 1-11 talent. That was a three- or four-win team that had everything go wrong and was poorly coached.
This year, same thing: There's enough offensive talent to offset the porous defense and win a few games (not that you expected USC to be one of them).
But to be competitive, to regain credibility, Stanford needed confidence. The players needed to walk on the field thinking they could win, not expecting to get beat 41-3.
Now they have that.
And even if things take another wrong turn and the Cardinal limps to the finish - this remains a multi-year rebuilding job for Harbaugh - Stanford will have the USC upset to take to booster functions, media interviews and into the homes of recruits.
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All my life I have seen girls, and some guys too, freak out at the first sign of a spider. What I failed to learn from their pathetic screaming and flailing of arms is this one thing: spiders are evil.
It took a more direct approach from the eight-legged death carriers for me to understand their true level of evil. And it was this evil that has led me into war.
It all began on a quiet Sunday afternoon. I was crashed on the couch watching golf before heading into the office, caught between awake and daydreaming of hitting a straight drive on the golf course. Then I felt a sharp pain on my stomach, just above the waist line of my shorts.
I quickly ripped off my shirt, as opposed to the normal strip tease I practice when I take off my shirt, and inspected what I assumed to be a gun shot wound. All I saw was a tiny red dot that was a tad swollen.
My first thought was a spider bit me so I started looking for a five pound, eight-legged disgusting spider with fur on its back and fangs the size of fingers. I saw no such monster. But I didn't see a tiny spider either so I just assumed the ninja spider disappeared into the darkness until it was time to strike again.
My next order of business was to check and see if I had any superpowers. Juvenile I know, but it would be very embarrassing to reach out to shake somebody's hand and a web shoot out. Not to mention how awesome it would be to rob banks... um, I mean stop bank robbers with superpowers. Unfortunately no super human strength or increased vision or even intelligence, as shown by this column, was transferred from the gigantic, gruesome bringer of death.
After a few minutes the pain even began to subside and I went to work, forgetting about my bite. Then as the minutes turned to hours the bite began to itch. Still I thought nothing about it and went on with my day and eventually night.
But as the sun went down, things turned for the worse. What was a small little dot became swollen about the size of a dime and was hot to the touch. My entire body ached and my legs cramped while it felt like somebody was sitting on my chest. As I struggled to take a deep breath I decided to take my temperature. I had trouble focusing my eyes on the reading, but there were a lot of numbers and I could swear it ended in some exclamation points.
This is where most people would call someone to help take them to the emergency room. But I am not most people. I did think about driving there, but really didn't think I could make it up the stairs to even get my keys. Living alone, there was nobody there to help and the last thing I wanted to do was wake a friend up with, "Hey, I got bit by a spider and need to go to the ER." They would think I was playing some sort of prank anyway.
So then I decided to self-medicate, go to sleep and hope for the best. I was sure if I could just get to sleep, I would wake up refreshed. I have a quick recovery time from all things anyway, so surely with the superpowers I got from the spider I would fine in the morning. With that in mind a took a couple Benadryl and aspirin and chased it with a shot of whiskey. I'm sure that is what a doctor would prescribe anyway, right?
I can tell you that I did fall asleep and obviously I woke up, but the pain and aching were still there and my legs felt like I ran two marathons in one day. But I am a tough guy and showered and went to work just like any other day. I did get lost on the way to work but that is because I couldn't cross river with the big purple dragon staring at me. Or maybe that was just a hallucination.
I made it to work and decided if I wasn't better by the end of the day I would go to the doctor and get myself checked out. Fortunately my breathing improved and after researching spider bites online and getting my doctorate in all things spiders, I just figured I needed time. But still at the end of the day I wasn't any better and my legs were beginning to turn bright red.
Keeping my promise to myself I went to the doctor after work, only to find the waiting room full of sneezing children and coughing adults. They obviously needed a doctor more than I did so I went home to allow myself more time to heal. After all, I was feeling a bit better as long as I didn't want to move.
That night my fever spiked again and the sumo wrestler started sitting on my chest again. My legs even went from red to bright purple and my toes started tingling. The Benadryl, aspirin and whiskey I prescribed myself didn't work on the second night and I started filling out my will, leaving all my possessions to my dogs. As the world was spinning around me and the purple dragon was sitting in the corner of my bedroom, I realized there was somebody who could help: a doctor.
The next morning I walked into the doctor's office, shoved aside the sneezing children and coughing adults, and visited the doctor. I didn't even care when they shoved the needle in my arm although I was a bit surprised and a little disappointed when whiskey wasn't part of the prescribed medicine.
Even with my superhuman healing power it took me almost a week to get rid of all the symptoms and start feeling better but it didn't stop me from going home and declaring war on all spiders. I had my house sprayed and I will sit for hours in my carpet-colored camouflage waiting for the ninja spider that tried to take my life.
I only thought I didn't get any superpowers when that demon of death bit me, but I did. I am now a bonafide spider killer. So if you are scared by a spider and nobody is there to help, I'm your man. All I need is a spider signal to shine in the sky like Batman.
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Is this the same Iraq where the "successful" surge took place or a parallel Iraq where the payoffs to make the surge "look" successful didn't get to the Sadr militia on time.
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Glad that John McShame visited during the latest firestorm so that he had first hand evidence that the surge is indeed working - better than expected!
Too bad that he couldn't go out for a stroll through his favorite market place with his idiot friend from Indiana - guess that the military is otherwise occupied.
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"Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric with close links to Iran…."
Am I missing something here. It is my understanding that al-Sadr is primarily a nationalist; Maliki and his allies have the close ties to Iran
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It sounds as if the US is siding with the Sunnis against the Shiites. Iraq is predominantly Shiite, as is Iran. If the Shiites come out ahead in the upcoming elections, an independent Iraq might seek favorable relations with Iran. Is it the intention of the US occupation to maintain a Sunni-dominated Iraq (as was the case under Saddam Hussein) as a bulwark against Iran?


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how can I copy/paste text from Microsoft Word or a web site maintaining its formatting? (e.g. italic, bold etc)
A specific thing I'd like to maintain is the paragraph division, in order to avoid to do it manually.
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You can try writer2latex, which works nicely with Libreoffice (which is free software, so you can give it a try without having to pay a cent). I've found this solution to be quite satisfying. However, be aware that sometimes resulting .tex file can be pretty messy, depending on the complexity of the source document.
Regarding paragraph separation, I'm not sure what's the deal? If you want paragraphs to be separated by vertical space instead of first line indent, simply redefine parindent and parskip lengths, e.g.:
Maybe I wasn't very clear, I beg your pardon for my poor English.
What do I have to do?
I have to copy text FROM word TO LaTex (in my case, I'm using TeXnicCenter)
What's the problem?
The problem is that, after pasting it in TeXnicCenter, I have to manually modify it. I've got to put the bolds, italics etc, to change all the ' ", to separate manually the paragraphs, inserting a blank line among them.
When I copy some text from word to TeXnicCentre, the result is text without formatting and without line breaks.
Is there a way to automatically obtaining formatting in TeXnicCentre?
Ok I'll try you tip.
About paragraph separation: my problem is that when I past the text I have to manually insert paragraphs breaks (I do it putting a blank line between them), it's not about the separation in pts.
Your understanding of how TeX works is wrong. It processes files which are written in plain text. Did you try to copy formatted text from a word processor into a simple text editor? Did it preserve the formatting? I guess not. And even if it would do so, this wouldn't help you. (La)TeX is a typesetting system with a markup language that passes its formatting by commands to the compiler. And by the way, this isn't really a LaTeX problem but more a problem between an editor and a word processor. LaTeX editors simply neglect all formatting tags from the clipboard. And what did you expect? That after you copied italicized text from a word processor to your LaTeX editor and this would insert \emph{italicized text} or \textit{italicized text} to your source code? Then you are off the track.
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I understand your point, but I'm afraid you don't get mine.
I have to convert a lot of text in TeX and right now if I copy:
I obtain (in the PDF):
So in TeXnicCenter I have to put:
When you have to do it manually one thousand times, it's a bit annoying..
But I think I got you at least halfway. And in your initial post you talked about italics and bold text. TeX interprets the contents of input files in a certain way. And this is one of them. New paragraphs are introduced by a blank line, not only by a carriage return. Conversion tools may help. Otherwise I'm afraid you will have to live with it if you want to continue using TeX.
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Simply put:
1. If you want to preserve formatting completely or partly, conversion is probably the only way.
2. If only paragraph separation is important, you can use regular expressions to replace carriage returns with carriage return + an empty line. E.g., in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org that is achieved by searching for $ and replacing it with \n\n (of course, with "regular expressions" activated in the search dialog).
You can use regular expressions to mark italics/bold too, e.g.
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Sorry i haven't really been on for a while.
Me and Hubby decided to ttc for the past 3 months for number 2, since i have only had one AF as i have long cycles.
But i don't know what to do now as he has been made redundant and he is the main earner, plus we don't get any help from tax creds either. He has been miserable and grumpy for the last month and things are just a bit wierd at the moment.
We have recently fallen out too, and i just feel like giving up. As much as i want another baby i just wonder is there any point in having a baby if we aren't strong enough as a couple. After my first DD which took a year to get a BFP, we have kind of drifted apart. I feel he wasn't as supportive as he could have been after she was born and i think i resent him for that. He feels i have no time for him, but i just get caught up in work, looking after DD, Household and GYM (trying to loose some weight too after i've put on alot after number 1). Its hard managing everything, plus we have a whole lot financial mess and redundancy won't help.
I just feel so [*@!#%*] and low and don't know what to do. I go through phases where i just want to call it quits with my marriage but don't have the guts to do it. Then other days we are totaly fine. Things have just changed so much.
Sorry for the rant, i just feel i need to let it out.
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The day I got married my boss at the time who very old and wise said to me the secret of a happy marriage was to always find time for each other no matter what (kids/money worries/careers) gets in the way! I didn't take his words too seriously at the time but I realise now that he meant the harder it is to have quality time together the harder you have to push to make it happen! I don't know if that can help you guys but maybe some quality time just the 2 of you could help you get back on track?
Oh and I agree with the others, another baby won't help matters it's best if you sort it out first xxx
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Thanks for the advice.
i do agree with you all i think it would be best to keep things on hold till we sort ourselves out.
On the bright side we did make up this morning. But i still want things to settle before we decide we really want baby number 2 now.
Going through redundancy has been tough on him, so it would be best to wait till he is back on his feet again. we will just have to wait and see if AF arrives now, and then go from there. Either way we will both be happy if i do get a BFP its just going to mean we will have to work harder to make things work.
I do feel alot better than past couple of days.
MrsZargon - I agree we do need some quality time together, we barely spend time with each other lately, it will do us some good.
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We were in a similar situation a couple of months back. OH got made redundant over a year ago (luckily he wasn't the main wage earner) but it does put such a lot of stress on the relationship. If he is used to bringing in the money and supporting his family it will really affect his pride. He will be feeling fairly down I'm sure so try to be as supportive as you can, and as MrsZargon says, spend some quality time together. If you can get away for a night, or even just go out for a nice meal and enjoy each others company.
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Vietnam Arrests Former Chief of Shipping Company
Vietnamese police arrested the former chief of a debt-laden state shipping company after he was extradited from a neighboring country, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Duong Chi Dung fled Vietnam in March when police began investigating allegations of corruption at Vietnam National Shipping Lines and detained several of its top executives, the report said. The probe followed a public outcry over the state of the country's economy after a decade of rapid growth.
Police have accused officials at the firm, also known as Vanalines, of mismanaging its resources by spending $5 million on a floating dock, the Journal report said.
Dung had managed to flee from his home just before investigators arrived, the report said, prompting widespread accusations that he had been tipped off in advance about the looming raid. Police quickly got a warrant for his arrest, and the Journal report cited a government statement that he was extradited and taken into custody Tuesday.
The Journal report said state media didn't name the neighboring country from which he was extradited. Dung couldn't be reached for comment.
If convicted, he potentially faces a lengthy prison sentence, the Journal said.


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Bad flickering/artifacts while scrolling in form on Windows 7Posted Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 - 07:34 by DamienDe in
I have a flicker problem with OpenTK in my C# Winforms application under Windows 7.
When I put a GLControl somewhere on a Form and enable autoscroll on the Form and arrange everything so I got some scrollbars and then finally scroll the form, the GLControl will be filled with garbage until I refresh it manually or by resizing the form.
The same problem occurs on a panel.
In Windows XP everything is fine, so I suspect that this is a problem with the Aero mode from Windows 7. I disabled Aero by switching to the basic mode and the flicker is gone.
So what are my options? Is there any way at all to get a garbage free GLControl under Windows 7 while scrolling.
I could not find anything about this problem, but I can´t be the only person using OpenTk in Windows 7.
The graphics card is an ATI 4600 with the newest 10.7 drivers.
Well everything else is fine, as I made the control draggable, resizable etc. it always looks perfect, just not when using a scrollbar.
Thanks for listening :)
If the GLControl is partially or totally obscured, then this behavior is normal and expected (the contents of the OpenGL framebuffer are not guaranteed on obscured pixels). Does this also happen while the GLControl is 100% visible?
Yes it happes for GLControls which are in the middle of the form.
I created a test project with a panel on a form. The panel is anchored top/left and much bigger than the form, to enable the scrollbars from the form. On the panel a GLControl is placed so it appears in the middle of the form at application start.
When I now use the scrollbars, the content of the GLControl disappears.
I am not really sure, that it is the same behaviour as in my real application, but anyway in both cases the GLControl displays garbage or nothing at all, while scrolling with the scrollbars.
I attachted a zip file with the test project.
Edit: When I disable Aero the test project works fine.
I can confirm this on my Nvidia card (Win7 64bit). Happens with Aero, works fine without.
A partial workaround is to handle the Form1.Scroll event and call glControl1.Invalidate() from there. The contents show correctly in this case, but some flicker remains.
I don't know why this happens, I'll let you know if I manage to find anything.
Edit: this seems to be a widespread issue (it's not just OpenTK).
Thanks for investigating so far.
I already tried updating my OpenGL stuff in the scroll event, well its better, but still very bad.
I hope there is a way around this, if not I have to find another solution, like DirectX and WPF. But I would really hate that, as I already build quite some GUI content for the application with Winforms and I dislike WPF and its forced XML code.
I checked the GLControl implementation and everything is set up as recommended. I tested all available ControlStyles but nothing seemed to help. The only thing I have not tried is setting the PFD_SWAP_COPY and PFD_SUPPORT_COMPOSITION flags explicitly - unlikely to help but you never know.
What's worse, this seems to be a pretty common complaint on the internet but noone seems to know how to make it work. This wouldn't be the first time I've encountered issues with OpenGL on Aero so I'm pretty sure this can be fixed somehow - but I don't know how exactly, yet.
Is this a problem with all programs using Toolkits which are not "accelerated" like WPF and use 3D controls on their forms ?
This would essentially somehow break every 3D application, which does not run fullscreen. This is just crazy, what was Microsoft thinking?!
Okay, I played around with SlimDX now and have a Direct3d9 control which does not has the garbage/flicker problem.
So I assume it must be a OpenGL vs Aero problem and not a global Hardware Rendering vs 2D GDI thing.
But I hate to have to switch to direct3d as I never coded anything with it and I finally loose compatibility across other operating systems.
I loaded the test project into monodevelop and tried it with mono 2.6.7 and the flicker was gone. Mono uses normal GDI+ rendering on Windows doesn´t it ?
So why doesn´t the glcontrol flicker there too ?
Well at least this gives me hope, that there is a way around the flickering with the normal .net framework.
This is an interesting twist. I do not know why Mono behaves differently than .Net here but this might help come up with a solution. Nothing concrete yet but I have some ideas on what is going on and what to test for.
Have you tried scrolling without using a panel? Does the GLControl still behave this way?
I know this is an old issue, but I'm getting exactly this. I have a Panel containing my GLControl. When I scroll the Panel (using the scrollbars) there's a weird flickering. It doesn't seem to be related to OpenGL, since I'm not clearing the buffer at all. The flciker is also only visible for 99% of the height, the top and bottom have a couple non-flickering regions. I use double buffering, but that doesn't seem to change anything. I tried all the combinations of double buffering in opengl, in the glcontrol and the container control. There's either nothing showing up, or flickering.


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Can Andy Grove keep profits up in an era of cheap PCs?
It wasn't too long ago that Intel Corp. executives were so dismissive of personal computers priced below $1,000 that they called them Segment Zero--a dumping ground for inventory close-outs and bottom-feeding PC cloners selling yesterday's technology. Instead, Intel held to the high ground, pushing pricey chips that could run the newest, coolest software. Not coincidentally, those chips helped produce the juiciest gross profit margins, some 60% overall, one of the highest in high tech.
And why not? That bedrock strategy had turned Intel into a precision profit machine, growing almost as fast as the number of transistors on its slivers of silicon. With a 90% market share in PC processors, Intel's sales have headed skyward, growing 30% to 50% annually for the past four years. That made it the eighth-most-profitable company in the world in 1996, with earnings of $5.2 billion, not far behind Exxon Corp. and General Electric Co. GE sales, however, dwarfed Intel's $20.8 billion.
ABOUT-FACE. But that was last year--when the average PC was still a pricey $2,000. In February, Compaq Computer Corp. changed everything when it became the first top-tier PC maker to hawk powerful, dirt-cheap computers. Using the Pentium-compatible MediaGX chip from Intel rival Cyrix Corp., Compaq shipped a $999 Presario (that now sells for $799)--and the sub-$1,000 market exploded. Today, almost all big PC makers are pushing inexpensive gear, and sales in the segment have surged from just 7% of U.S. retail units in 1996 to an estimated 25% this year.
Suddenly, Segment Zero looks like priority No.1 for Intel. For the first time in its history, the world's largest chip company is launching an all-out crusade to create processors specifically for the low-cost PC market, which it now calls by the more politically correct term "basic PCs." More surprising, in the past two weeks the company has staked out even cheaper ground--chips for everything from $500 network computers to $300 digital-TV set-top boxes. And behind Intel's deep-blue glass walls, engineers are designing processors for so-called backseat PCs--computers for playing games and cruising the Internet that could be built into cars by 2000.
If the Silicon Valley giant's grand plan to move beyond PCs hits the mark, the company's signature slogan could become Intel Inside Everything. Says Intel CEO Andrew S. Grove: "For us to walk away from a market whose size is going to be measured in tens of millions of units per year, maybe bigger, is inconceivable."
But what will selling cheaper chips do to Intel's amazing profit machine? Clearly, the strategy is a marked change in the company's longstanding practice of unveiling new processors at sky-high prices and then dropping them over a period of months or years. If low-cost gizmos become a big chunk of Intel's business, the company that set the standard for spinning silicon into gold could find itself grappling with lower gross margins--and massive changes in its vaunted business model.
That could be tricky. Intel spends big bucks to stay ahead of its rivals--some $4.5 billion this year on new chipmaking plants. Capital expenditures are forecast to climb even higher in 1998, to $5.3 billion, three times that of any other chipmaker in the world. That will help catapult Intel from No. 7 in worldwide production capacity today to No. 2 by 2002, analysts figure. But for Intel's bet to pay off in an era of lower-cost chips, the company must spit out even higher volumes. "It's a risk to go out and spend billions of dollars on these manufacturing plants," concedes Intel President Craig R. Barrett. "But if we didn't, we couldn't possibly reap the benefits. We're going down the road at 150 miles per hour, and we know there's a brick wall someplace, but the worst thing we can do is stop too soon and let somebody else pass us."
Grove has no intention of leaving the fast lane. His strategy is to keep Intel ahead of the pack while keeping profits high. The plan: adopting a tactic like that of scrappy PC makers such as Compaq and Hewlett-Packard Co., which have kept their gross margins well above ground while selling bargain-basement PCs. The trick is to compensate for thin profits on the low end with higher volumes--and with pricier models aimed at the lucrative technical workstation and server markets.
MARKET JITTERS. Grove has a high-powered arsenal ready to go. He plans to counterbalance cheap chips with soaring sales of powerful Pentium IIs, such as a 400-megahertz version scheduled for release by mid-1998, a 450-Mhz model later in the year, and the highly promoted 64-bit Merced chip expected in late 1999, all of which will be used in workstations and servers and could boast 90% margins. "It's very important for us to participate at both ends of the wire," says Grove. "I think the formula is going to work out."
Still, Wall Street is jittery. Only last April, analysts predicted Intel would post sales this year of $27.5 billion and earn $8.1 billion, up 56% from 1996, putting it on a path to become the world's No.3 profit maker. But since then, stock watchers have pared back projections: They now anticipate revenues of $24.9 billion. The revised earnings estimate, $6.8 billion, is still up a strong 31% from last year but short of the 44% and 54% growth spurts of the past two years.
Moreover, analysts figure that Intel's 1998 earnings will expand even more slowly--by 11%, to $7.6 billion, according to consensus estimates from First Call Corp. "The stock won't do well with that kind of earnings growth," says analyst Charles F. Boucher of UBS Securities Inc., who pegs Intel's 1998 profit growth even lower, at just 7.6%. Intel shares have already been hammered from an all-time high of $102 in early August to $77 today.
Does Grove agree that competing at the low end could douse Intel's earnings growth? "I don't know," he says with atypical uncertainty. But his usual go-for-the-jugular style quickly returns. "We are going to be motivated by participating in each of these segments to the fullest extent of our technical and marketing capabilities," he says.
Intel may have little choice. Analysts figure sales of sub-$1,000 PCs will climb 33% next year vs. growth of 20% for the PC market as a whole. Even more telling, computers selling for $1,500 or less could mushroom from 39% of the U.S. consumer market this year to nearly half of the market by 2001, according to market researcher International Data Corp. (IDC).
At the same time, longtime rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and upstart Cyrix Corp. have marked this territory as their own, rolling out processors priced well below Intel's chips and grabbing market share--together some 20% of the low end vs. 10% in 1996, according to IDC. "It's the first time in many years that there has been a viable alternative [to Intel] at the low end," says IBM Senior Vice-President Samuel J. Palmisano, who has chosen AMD's K6 chip for IBM's new line of sub-$1,000 machines.
Grove is determined to cede no further ground. The hyper-aggressive CEO is legendary for his bet-the-company turnabouts. In 1985, when the market turned sour, Intel walked away from the business that launched the company two decades earlier: memory chips. And in 1994, Intel reversed itself to replace thousands of Pentium chips containing a minor flaw, a move that cost it $475 million. Grove has turned this tactic into a management philosophy that he calls "Only the paranoid survive."
Once again, Grove is showing his stripes. On Nov. 24, Intel was reorganized into five marketing and product groups, including a consumer unit to address the no-frills market. The company's next big step is expected in February. That's when analysts predict the chip giant will cover its flank from Cyrix and AMD by slashing prices by as much as 40% on its oldest Pentium MMX chips, to as low as $70, a price not seen since the waning days of the 486 chip.
But that's just the warm-up. Intel's real assault on the low end will center, oddly enough, around the company's thoroughbred, the Pentium II. Instead of pushing older technology, Intel will throw nearly all of its weight behind the Pentium II, even if that means eating a bit of crow and slashing prices faster than planned. In the first half of the year, Intel plans to ship a stripped-down Pentium II that forgoes the "cache" memory packaged alongside the chip, which speeds performance by keeping frequently used data close to the processor. Removing the cache will slow down the Pentium II but will shave about $15 off Intel's $103 manufacturing cost, estimates consultant Micro Design Resources Inc.
Intel could sell this chip initially for around $200, half its current price and low enough to be used in PCs costing less than $1,500--but not in rock-bottom models. A $200 price would take a toll on profits anyway. Instead of the estimated 74% margin that Intel earns on its cheapest Pentium II today, a stripped-down model could gross less than 60%. Later in the year, Intel will ship a redesigned Pentium II that restores up to half of the missing cache by building it directly into the processor. This design could largely restore the Pentium II's performance without adding cost.
Will less powerful versions damage the gold-plated Pentium brand? Not at all, say Intel execs. "It's like Coke," explains Paul S. Otellini, Intel's senior vice-president for sales and marketing. "One brand, many different products."
But why use the Pentium II at all? Why not crank up the Pentium MMX, barely a year old and scheduled to be put out to pasture by the end of 1998? Intel favors the Pentium II because it gives the chipmaker an edge over rivals. It sports a new scheme for connecting to a PC's main circuit board that cannot be copied by other chipmakers. If PC makers adopt the Pentium II, from servers on down to network computers, that could lock out Cyrix and AMD.
THE HITCH. Of course, the cheaper Pentium IIs would still cost twice what competitors charge for their chips aimed at the low end. "You can't give lip service to this market," says Steve Tobak, Cyrix' vice-president for marketing. "All Intel is doing is window-dressing."
Intel has an answer for that, too. It's planning to wring costs out of other parts of the PC so that computer makers can afford Intel's chips. In mid-1998, for example, Intel will unveil a range of new products, including chip sets, the companion to the processor, that will combine many PC functions into fewer chips. These products could slice the cost of making a PC by $50. That means Intel would only have to cut its Pentium II price to $150 to match $100 rivals.
There's a hitch, however. As sub-$1,000 machines become a bigger part of the market, analysts figure that the average selling price of Intel's chips will sag--from $235 this year to $220 in 1998. Every $10 fall in Intel's overall average selling price chops $900 million off its bottom line, according to analyst Vadim Zlotnikov of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Grove is banking on different arithmetic. Intel already is making a dent in the server market, although mostly at the low end. This year, 97% of servers priced below $10,000 will have Intel Inside, as will three-quarters of machines costing $10,000 to $25,000. But Intel is only a bit player in an even more profitable segment: industrial-strength models costing up to $250,000. There, it competes against the muscle of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
That's where Merced comes in. This powerful 64-bit processor, which was co-designed with HP, features radically different technology that speeds software by running multiple tasks simultaneously. Merced will likely cost some $1,200 or more and will be aimed initially at top-dollar computers. By 2001, Merced could help Intel grab 41% of the high-end server market, predicts IDC.
The workstation market could be yet another cash machine. The fast rise of Microsoft Corp.'s heavy-duty Windows NT software is pulling Intel processors along with it. Indeed, from around 50% of the workstation market a year ago, Intel/NT-based systems will surge to 86% by 2000, says IDC. Revenues from workstation and server chips over the next three years could total $26 billion, analysts say.
Will that be enough to make up the margin squeeze from low-end chips? A BUSINESS WEEK analysis suggests that it may. Selling just one Pentium II for $750 produces up to 10 times as much gross profit as a $150 Pentium II. If Intel sells 36 million high-end chips in the next three years, it could reduce the average price of every other chip in its portfolio by an average of $80 and still come out ahead.
Indeed, Intel execs insist that their gross margins will remain above 50%. But, says one Intel insider, "if the sub-$1,000 category grew to more than 50% of the PC market, we couldn't sustain our gross margins."
Fear of collapsing computer prices at first drove Intel into denial about the low-cost-PC phenomenon. Until November, the company stuck to its well-honed marketing message, enticing customers to buy Intel's latest chips. That included a $100 million ad campaign this quarter to promote the Pentium II, including TV ads of chip-plant workers in clean room "bunny suits" dancing on Broadway.
But behind the scenes, Intel's managers were already hashing out a response to a market shift that had clearly caught them by surprise. The PC price collapse had been stunning. In January, 1996, a $1,300 machine from Circuit City Stores Inc. wasn't enough to run Windows 95 well: It bought only a 75-Mhz Pentium PC with 8 megabytes of RAM. A year later, the same money bought a 150-Mhz Pentium with 16 MB of RAM--ample enough to run Windows 95 and cruise the Internet. "Now, there's real meaty value available for less than $1,000," says Greg Gonzales, general manager of AES Technology, a small PC maker in Austin, Tex.
"GENIE IS OUT." Intel concedes that a permanent change has occurred in low-end PC pricing--similar, perhaps, to the 40% price drop triggered by Compaq in 1992 that slashed margins for both PC makers and retailers. "Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't put it back in," says Otellini. Now, bargain-basement PCs are catching on in other countries and in businesses. PC makers, for example, plan to roll out $800 machines for corporate buyers after the New Year. But the crucial question, Otellini says, is whether low-cost PCs are bringing new buyers into the market.
Preliminary data from Compaq and Packard-Bell/NEC Inc. suggest that 40% of consumers are picking up their first PC. The rest are split between people replacing old machines and those buying a second or third PC for kids or parents. What's unclear--and worrisome to Intel--is how much cheap models are cannibalizing sales of costlier ones. "We won't really know this for two years," says Grove. But IDC analyst Kevin Hause disagrees. "It's absolutely happening," he says.
Cyrix and AMD couldn't be happier. Cyrix, for one, has developed a chip tailor-made for this market. Cyrix' MediaGX, at the heart of Compaq's Presario 2200, is not just a processor but also contains some chip-set and multimedia functions. Putting more features onto a thumbnail-size chip lets Cyrix market a product for just $81 that matches the oomph of $130 worth of Intel and third-party chips. Some analysts and executives argue that in the low-end market, all-in-one chips are more important than top performance. "The whole system has to go onto a single chip," insists Brian L. Halla, the CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., which recently acquired Cyrix.
Nonsense, says Grove. Intel tried combo chips in the late 1980s when it developed the 386SL for notebooks. But instead of making buckets of money, the 386SL was a disappointment because PC makers shunned it as too expensive and clumsy. Today, Grove keeps a poster of the 386SL on the wall of his conference room as a reminder of what not to do.
NEW TACK. There's another reason for his disdain. Putting extra chip functions into the processor makes it bigger, taking up valuable real estate on a wafer--the disk of silicon on which chips are etched. The more chips you can produce per wafer of silicon, the more money you make. Case in point: One eight-inch wafer of Intel's tiny 233-Mhz Pentium MMX chips contains an estimated 211 chips worth $125,000. The same size wafer of larger 180-Mhz Cyrix MediaGXs is worth only $8,100, says Micro Design Resources. That's why Intel doesn't want to squander space by adding features such as multimedia and networking.
Despite Intel's aversion to chip integration, the company may be forced in that direction anyway. The target wouldn't be basic PCs, but far cheaper devices such as set-top boxes and information appliances. "They can't afford to sit on their hands," says analyst Drew Peck of Cowen & Co.
Chips for these gizmos cost a fraction of PC chips. Players such as Hitachi, ARM, and MIPS Technologies sell processors costing just $15--and dominate the new markets for handheld PCs, smart phones, and digital cameras. To compete, Intel could be forced to opt for low price over the latest technology. But for now, Grove is sticking to his more-is-better philosophy. He argues that the growing processing demands on new devices will require the power of a Pentium-class chip.
Take next-generation TV set-top boxes. In a consortium with Cisco Systems, Oracle, and Netscape Communications, Intel is proposing a design for these new devices. Intel envisions a range of set-top boxes, from $300 models that will receive TV and offer basic menus to $500 models that add Net cruising, E-mail, and PC games. Initially, Intel plans to pump out Pentium MMX chips for set-tops, moving upstream to Pentium IIs by late next year.
The giant chipmaker will try an entirely different approach for network computers (NCs)--stripped down PCs that leave most of the heavy lifting to servers. Intel's pattern is to retire old chips and then rechristen them for use in products such as printers and network switches. But in a surprise twist, Intel now says it will use rechristened versions of the Pentium for NCs.
Why even muck with such low-margin devices, given that PC sales are on a rip? Because, even with burgeoning PC sales, penetration into U.S. homes will barely hit 60% by 2000, leagues behind TVs, VCRs, and CD players. "Our business depends on expanding the market," says Ronald J. Whittier, an Intel senior vice-president. "We want to be in living rooms, cars, appliances."
Now, Grove just has to make sure his formula works for keeping the Intel profit machine in overdrive at the same time.


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Tripathi, SN, Dey, S, Chandel, A, Srivastava, S, Singh, RP, Holben, BN (2005). "Comparison of MODIS and AERONET derived aerosol optical depth over the Ganga Basin, India". ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE, 23(4), 1093-1101.
AbstractThe Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrora-diometer (MODIS) onboard EOS Terra measures global aerosol optical depth and optical properties since 2000. MODIS aerosol products are freely available and are being used for numerous studies. In this paper, we present a comparison of aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved from MODIS with Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data for the year 2004 over Kanpur, an industrial city lying in the Ganga Basin in the northern part of India. AOD retrieved from MODIS (tau(a MODIS)) at 0.55 mu m wavelength has been compared with the AERONET derived AOD (tau(aAERONET)), within an optimum space-time window. Although the correlation between T alpha(MODIS) and tau a(AERONET) during the post-monsoon and winter seasons (R-2 similar to 0.71) is almost equal to that during the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons (R(2)similar to 0.72), MODIS is found to overestimate AOD during the pre-monsoon and monsoon period (characterized by severe dust loading) and underestimate during the post-monsoon and winter seasons. The absolute difference between tau a(MODIS) and tau a(AERONET) is found to be low (0.12 +/- 0.11) during the non-dust loading season and much higher (0.4 +/- 0.2) during dust-loading seasons. The absolute error in tau a(MODIs) is found to be about similar to 25% of the absolute values of tau a(MODIS). Our comparison shows the importance of modifying the existing MODIS algorithm during the dustloading seasons, especially in the Ganga Basin in northern part of India.
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