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Trapeze and Extreme Networks tackle wireless management.With a focus on easing wireless and wire-line management woes, two companies this week will join the movement to build wireless capabilities into the wiring closet.
Startup Trapeze Networks Inc. will announce a wireless switching platform the company developed from the ground up, while Extreme Networks will announce plans to add wireless capabilities to its line of switches. The Trapeze Mobility System features a central switch called MX (Mobility Exchange) and thin access points called Mobility Points, which perform packet encryption but have no local data store. The system also includes a variety of applications, such as one called Ringmaster that automates the site survey process, saving users a great deal of time, according to beta testers. "Being a hospital, we are constantly remodeling," said Irv Hoff, manager of converged networks at San Antonio Community Hospital, in Upland, Calif. "Putting up walls changes the attenuation factor, which blows the last site survey."
"Our initial site survey took four or five days," said Jan Snyder, senior telecommunications consultant at the hospital. "With Ringmaster, it took a few hours."
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Our 2 storey villa is much larger than the standard Orlando rental villa, and is ideal for parties of up to ten people. The living room is open plan and very spacious leading to the dining area and kitchen. Great for families who like to congregate round the breakfast bar and plan the day. The lounge is beautifully furnished and has a 50? LED TV, and we have a selection of DVD's for the family to enjoy on your lazy nights. There is also a separate toilet and washbasin on the ground floor.
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Courtyard villa with landscaped approach and parking.
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Master bathroom wheelchair accessible and incorporating walk-in shower and separate bath.
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Detection of mexA and mexX efflux genes in P. aeruginosa: correlation between QC-RT-PCR and real-time PCR
Abstract number: p1751
Mesaros N., Glupczynski Y., Pierard D., Dediste A., Van Laethem Y., Tulkens P., Mingeot-Leclercq M., Van Bambeke F.
Efflux systems are rarely identified as such in clinical microbiology laboratories. Yet, over expression of transporters such as MexAB-OprM and MexXY-OprM are likely to cause antibiotic multi- and cross-resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, leading to potential clinical treatment failures because of their inducible character. We have previously developed and validated with reference strains a QC-RT-PCR method to quantify mexA and mexX expression levels (ECCMID 2005, P1731). In the present study, we have developed a Real-Time-PCR assay and present here the correlation between both methods using control strains and clinical isolates.
Expression levels of mexA and mexX were measured by both techniques in (i) 4 reference strains expressing only one of these efflux mechanisms [mexA (2) or mexX (2)]; and (ii) 8 clinical isolates, in comparison with the wild-type strain PAO1 (basal mexA and mexX expression levels).
Real-Time PCR showed an inter-day reproducibility of 95 ± 5.3% (triplicates of 10 strains). Among the clinical strains, 5 over expressed mexA and 3 mexX. The Table shows (i) the mean level of overexpression of mexA and mexX in comparison with the wild type strain PAO1 (set at 1), as detected by Real-time PCR for all strains; (ii) the ratio of these values to those observed by QC-RT-PCR for the corresponding transporters.
Both QC-RT-PCR and Real-Time-PCR are potentially useful in clinical laboratories as sensitive and rapid diagnostic tools to quantify the expression level of mexA and mexX in P. aeruginosa. Combined with phenotypic characterization, this approach may help in a better understanding of the resistance mechanisms and epidemiology of resistance in this difficult-to-treat nosocomial pathogen.
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The "revenue from one more unit when 8 units are sold" is R(9)- R(8).a) find the marginal revenue.
b)approximate the revenue from one more unit when 8 units are sold.
c)how might a manager use the information from part b?
As for this one, I figuared out that R'=50q^2+50/lnq+100
but I have no idea for part b and c
Because R'(8)= lim (R(8+h)- R(8))/h, we can approximate R'(8) by taking h= 1. R'(8) is approximately R(9)- R(8). What is R'(8)?


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Mrs. Marie L. Jock, 89, of Rooseveltown
Akwesasne – Mrs. Marie L. Jock, 89, of Sweetflag Estates, Rooseveltown passed away Monday evening, July 15, 2013 at Massena Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient since May 2.
Marie was born January 6, 1924 in Lockport, New York, the daughter of the late Frank and Florence Landow Stapleson. She attended Lyndonville High School in Medina, New York. On December 2, 1933, she married Ivan P. Jock in Freeport, Long Island. He predeceased her on April 5, 1991.
Marie was a cook a various restaurants including the Rainbow at Rooseveltown. She also worked in the soup cannery in Western New York for a short time. Marie enjoyed going with her daughter, Norma to the New Life Christian Church in Hogansburg. She also enjoyed doing crossword puzzles, cross-stitching, and beading fabric calendars.
In addition, Marie loved to feed the hummingbirds, watching other birds, tending to her house plants, traveling and visiting her family around the country, and the beautiful fall sceneries. She had a great love for life and spending time at the St. Regis Mohawk Senior Citizens.
She is survived by her eight children, James Jock of Massena, Francis and Linda Jock of Fort Covington, Norma Jock of Hogansburg, Kathy Jock of Hogansburg, Martin and Barbara Jock of Hogansburg, Heidi Jock of Dundee, Quebec, Juanita and Don Shanklin of Montana and Jerome Jock of Texas; 15 grandchildren and many great and great, great-grandchildren.
Marie was predeceased by her husband, Ivan P. Jock; a son Harvey Jock in 1997; and five siblings, William, George, John, Gladys and Mary.
Friends may call Thursday 7-9 PM and Friday 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Donaldson Funeral Home, Massena, where funeral services will be held at 8:00 PM with Pastor Willy Jock and Rev. Michael Richards officiating. Burial will be held privately in Royalton Cemetery, Orleans County.
Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, or a local Veterans Organization.
Memories and condolences may be shared online at www.donaldsonfh.com.
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Toledo's PET Bull Project will continue its free dog training sessions in City of Toledo Parks this Saturday. Just bring your furry friend to Jamie Farr Park from 2-4 p.m. to learn basic training commands and receive free rabies vaccinations on a first come, first served basis.
Started as a group of pet owners and trainers committed to prevent animal cruelty, including dog fighting, PET Bull Project focuses on pit bulls but also encourages responsible pet ownership of all breeds.
"PET Bull Project stands for Prevention, Education and Training," said Cindy Reinsel, Founder and President of the organization. â??We believe that the best way to change the attitudes toward pit bulls is through education of our youth. Many have been exposed to dog fighting and we use our classes and training to help them understand that animal cruelty is wrong and that there are many joys to responsible pet ownership.â??
PET Bull Project is not a rescue but works in conjunction with many rescue groups. Free training classes will continue to be held monthly through October.
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How to know you need a break from creativity (and what to do instead!)
May 7, 2014 By Marianne Mullen Leave a Comment
Sometimes your creativity needs to just take.a.break. EVERY creative needs to build in time to refresh. Renew. Relax. Refocus. Reimagine. Rework. Revitalize. When you have been putting your creativity into overdrive (everything from production to problem solving), there comes a time when you just want …and NEED…to take a break. Avoid getting burned out from your >>Read More
What To Say To Non-Creative People
February 3, 2014 By Marianne Mullen Leave a Comment
Um, you know there aren't any real "non-creative people", right? I was being tricky here. I am a staunch believer that EVERY person is creative but there are plenty of people that still think and actually venture to say outloud "I'm not creative". Some say it as a badge of honor as in "Oh, I >>Read More
What does creativity & 40 feet have in common? 2 BIG Lessons
November 6, 2013 By Marianne Mullen 1 Comment
If you had asked me a few years back if I would be actively engaged in the creative process 40 feet up in the air, I would have told you that would never happen…you were delusional…and obviously didn't know me too well. Yet, recently, I found myself confronting my fear of heights while simultaneously thinking >>Read More
Bringing more courage to your creative work
September 3, 2013 By Marianne Mullen 2 Comments
To be creative is to be courageous. We all know that thinking outside the box, taking risks, playing big, and being truly creative means you have to move out of your comfort zone and do something, well…. courageous. It might be throwing paint on your *almost perfect* canvas. Maybe it's picking up the phone to >>Read More
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May 29, 2013 By Marianne Mullen 2 Comments
Has this ever happened to you? You are plugging along creating something joyfully, filled with fireworking ideas, or you are developing a new, amazing product/service and then BOOM…all of a sudden, IT HAPPENS. It's almost like clockwork. Just when you are on a verge of something that REALLY matters for yourself and your creativity….you feel >>Read More
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March 20, 2013 By Marianne Mullen Leave a Comment
Recently I was talking with a client who has big ideas. When I say big, I mean BIG (huge, ginormous, majorly abundant, overwhelmingly expansive BIG). This incredibly confident, creative, fearless woman started sharing this life long dream she wants to create and then…BOOM…it happened. By "it" I mean…she began talking herself out of creating the >>Read More
Carpe Creativity
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Simply put: Ask yourself. What does it mean for you to carpe creativity? NOW DO IT. Today. Tomorrow. The next day. And the day after that. Carpe creativity as if your life depended on it. It does.
Reflecting on 2012 – what did YOU create?
December 30, 2012 By Marianne Mullen Leave a Comment
This time of year is perfect for going in and reflecting on the year behind us. A year ago I wrote a post on what I wanted to create, and I'm happy to say…I accomplished it all and then some! In the next few days, take the time to think about 2012 and what you >>Read More


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Keller makes mark among Warhawks' elite
NOW All-Suburban Player of the Year Brian Keller led his team to its best season ever and staked a claim to being the best pitcher to ever come out of Germantown.
NOW All-Suburban Player of the Year Brian Keller led his team to its best season ever and staked a claim to being the best pitcher to ever come out of Germantown.
2012: Brian Keller, Germantown
2011: Alex McRae, New Berlin Eisenhower
2010: Tyler Zemla, Oak Creek
2009: Kevin James, Whitefish Bay; J.T. Schneider, Oak Creek
2008 (tie): Mike Bogard, Brookfield Central; Alex Erdmann, Menomonee Falls
2007: Doug Dekoning, Menomonee Falls
2006: Sam Sivilotti, Nicolet
2005: Tony Butler, Oak Creek
2004: Matt Kitzke, South Milwaukee
2003: Tony Harper, Oak Creek
2002: Mike Rohde, Brookfield Central
2001: Johnny Meier, West Allis Central
2000: Shane Davis, Brookfield Central
1999: Marcellus Dawson, Wauwatosa East
1998: Cliff Radliff, West Allis Central
1997: Tim Meinecke, Wauwatosa East
1996: Chad Sadowski, Cudahy
1995: Ken Poniewaz, West Allis Central
1994: JJ Kotarak, Cudahy
1993: Matt Tyger, Franklin
1992: Steve Grzeszkiewicz, Brown Deer
1990: Danny Winn, Nicolet
2012: Scott Holler, Oak Creek
2011: Jim Hughes, Franklin
2010: Scott Holler, Oak Creek
2009: Dick Sykes, Nicolet
2008: Mike Donahue, Brown Deer
2007: Paul Dooley, West Allis Hale
2006: Mike Lessard, Cudahy
2005: Jack Ward, Thomas More
2004: Jim Dorlack, St. Francis
2003: Tom Farina, New Berlin West
2002: Ben Westphal, Brookfield East
2001: Tom Farina, New Berlin West
2000: John Galewski, South Milwaukee
1999: Dave Weber, Menomonee Falls
1998: Ernie Millard, Homestead
1997: Dave Sadowski, Cudahy
1996: Jim Pease, Muskego
1995: Greg Brock, Muskego
1994: Jim Hughes, Franklin
1993: Mike Hart, Greenfield
1992: Jim Hughes, Franklin
1991: Jerry Toubl, Wauwatosa East
1990: Dave Sadowski, Cudahy
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STBTechAL655 wrote:I liked a lot the Ghost In The Shell series...
Tiggerz wrote:What about the pink panther movie with david nivin and peter sellers. Havnt seen the new one yet.
I'm not a real fan of modern movies. Usually the first one in a genre is pretty good, then the rest seem to be pretty average. The thing is that I prefer a movie made on a proper set without much in the way of special effects or cg, being that once you know what to look for, its pretty annoying stuff.
Not sure when the last modern funny one I saw was. Would have had to have been the first scary movie I think.
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In previous projects we have worked with Jasper Reports Server Community Edition. From our experience, we have revealed that, it is a standalone report server i.e. a reporting container bundled in a Web Server. We can design the reports using IReport Designer and can deploy those reports in JasperReports Server.
We can have out-of-the box functinalities like PDF, DOC exporting option in Jasper-Report Server while displaying the reports without any coding.
We can run scheduled report generation from Jasper Reports Server by enabling schedule on it.
Also we can authorise users to view the reports and make the logical groups of reports.
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Husband-and-wife team Tuan Truong and Lien Pham knew they would have to do something a little different to stand out amid the hundreds of Asian restaurants in Broward. So their East West Cafe covers a lot of territory, with stops in Thailand, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Korea and the couple's native Vietnam. What also helps separate the 50-seat restaurant from the pack is that the sauces and vegetables (from Whole Foods) are organic, MSG isn't used, and you can order dishes like pho, a traditional Vietnamese soup, with tofu. About the only major Asian item noticeably missing at East West is sushi, but one of Broward's best Japanese restaurants, Marumi Sushi, is in the same Plantation plaza.
Pham admits she doesn't know much about wine, so "I tell people they can bring their own," she says, with no corkage fee. You will find sake, plum wine and a few Asian beers including China's Tsingtao and Vietnam's 33 (the name, we've read, has something to do with the original bottle size). If you're overwhelmed by the extensive menu, pictures of several dishes are posted at the booths in the center of the restaurant
Ambience: Open nearly seven months, East West looks like a basic storefront, but inside it's cheery and colorful, with brick walls, abstract art and red paper decorations you might find in a Chinese restaurant. Servers are charming and helpful, and keep the meal well-paced, with water glasses always full.
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D is operator? If the problem is like that you shouldn't separate from variable!
ok im not sure if im doing this right, my numbers are getting a little funky i was wondering if someone could check my work and let me know if im doing it right. this is the problem
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im not done with the problem, i jus wanted to know if i was right up to the point of where I am. thanks in advance.
Yes, "D" is the derivative operator. But it is common notation in linear differential equations with constant coefficients to write, say, as . As long as the coefficients are constant, the " " can be treated like a polynomial (if the coefficients are not constant, you run into problems with commutativity).
Slapmaxwell1, that is not what I get. Differentiating the second equation, . From the first equation, so . From the second equation, [tex]2x= (D- 9)y[tex] so [tex]-10x= (-5D+ 45)y. Then . You appear to have dropped the "14y".
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The new season of Scandal is officially back and with Kerry Washington aka Olivia Pope getting very scandalous on set she must have been taking the heat to her own bedroom too! Its been a couple of months since we found of Kerry got married to her baller boo and since we had questions if she may be preggo, well after seeing her belly during a press conference my vote is in! Check out the pics below & you be the judge is Kerry preggo or not?
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Lollipop Chainsaw Gameplay Preview: Hippie Zombies Offer Hilarious TimesBy Adam Rosenberg - Posted Apr 06, 2012
I learned two things about Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games' Lollipop Chainsaw during a recent demo session in New York City. First: when Suda 51 gets together with a writing talent like James Gunn, magical things happen. Second: when we get to play Lollipop after it's released on June 12, 2012, we're all going to walk away with a significantly enriched vocabulary of profanities.
Seriously. There are words uttered in this game that simply can't be repeated here on G4. Though I'm confident that once the game is out, we'll all be hearing them bellowed through the headsets connected to our online gaming network of choice.
For those who aren't clear on what Lollipop Chainsaw is, here's a brief refresher. The hack-and-slash zombie-killing game features a story penned by Gunn, the writer of Slither and Troma Studios veteran. You'll play as Juliet, a blond-haired, chainsaw-toting high school cheerleader who comes from a family of zombie hunters. She's joined on her journey by the head of her boyfriend Nick, who can constantly be seen dangling from her hip.
This framework and the larger story that fits into it was actually developed before work started on the game. The kernel of the idea was born in Suda's head and from it he developed an outline that he passed along for Gunn to turn into an actual script. All of the deranged pieces that we'll see on the screen in June fell into place from there.
The eyes-on demo I checked out dropped in on an earlier part of the game. Juliet is out, along with Nick of course, to pay her sister Rosalind a visit at O'Bannon Farm. The name O'Bannon is a nod to Alien screenplay writer Dan O'Bannon. There's a lot of this self-referential winking going on in the game. Such as Julia's high school, San Romero High School, which is an obvious nod to Night of the Living Dead director and creator of the modern zombie myth George Romero.
The stage begins with a fakeout dream sequence in which Juliet wakes up in an empty clearing with Nick no longer at her side. She soon finds him with his head now settled back on its body, though unfortunately it's now a zombified body. She awakens as he moves to attack her, finding herself in the exact same clearing as before, only with Nick's head still at her side.
A yellow school bus comes barreling onto the scene, honking and swerving, with Rosalind behind the wheel. There's some talk from the 16-year-old about the vehicle being out of control, but she doesn't seem terribly worked up over it. In fact, she's more concerned with hearing about the new partial man in Juliet's life. At one point, she asks what the bottom of his disembodied head looks like. "Awesome," she adds. "It makes me want to throw up."
This is the sort of humor we're working with in Lollipop Chainsaw. Totally out there and crass. All of it is also backed by an unusually pop-laden soundtrack featuring a song selection picked out by none other than Akira Yamaoka. The Silent Hill and Shadows of the Damned composer fills more of a music coordinator role for Lollipop, since many of the tunes you hear are licensed. It's jarring when you realize that the man who built such dark, disturbing soundscapes for Silent Hill also chose to play the '80s New Wave pop song "Mickey" behind Juliet's semi-common invulnerability sequences (triggered by press RT when an on screen meter fills up).
The core of the game's hack-and-slash combat is built around the idea of racking up combos and performing multikills. When a group of zombies spawn, your best bet is to run circles around them until you can get them grouped up, and then attack the mass of living dead shamblers as one. If you can pull off at least three decapitations in a multi-kill (or as many as seven), then you're awarded a Sparkle Hunting bonus, which helps you level up Juliet's skills all that much more quickly.
Replayability is a big factor here. At the end of each stage, you'll receive a set of letter-based scores based on your performance in different categories. There are also three difficulties to start with -- Easy, Normal, and Hard -- as well as a Very Hard mode that unlocks once you've completed the game. There's also a New Game+ option. Harder difficulties introduce tougher enemies and in greater numbers, as well as more complex patterns to learn during boss fights. The difficulty setting is stage-specific too, so you can pick and choose any stage to play on at any difficulty once you've unlocked them all.
The level proceeds through different parts of the sprawling farm. The focus is mostly on the hack-and-slash -- though Juliet can also use her chainsaw like a gun when she's got the ammo for it -- but some other sequences appear occasionally to break things up. There are a few moments when Juliet plops Nick's head onto a headless zombie body. A button-pressing minigame follows during which the newly re-bodied Nick dances to a point and does something -- it's entirely contextual -- to open up a new part of the stage.
At another point, Juliet hooks back up with Rosalind and her out-of-control bus. An escort sequence follows in which you need to use the chainsaw's gun attack to keep the bus safe from boulders chucked by zombies. At higher difficulties, this section would pit players against more zombies and more frequently thrown boulders.
You'll also occasionally encounter zombies with names floating above their heads, marking them as mini-bosses. Defeating one unlocks it as a sort of collectible in your constantly growing library. This info is of practical use too, since the miniboss zombies you encounter all have particular weaknesses that become easier to exploit once you know what they are.
I see two vastly different mini-boss fights during the demo. One is against Mark, a portly, tank top-wearing mountain of undead dude. He's a hardy fellow in melee combat, but he falls quickly under the sustained fire of Juliet's chainsaw/cannon/gun/thing. Later on in the stage she takes on Chut, which hatches out of an egg during a playable psychedelic dream-trip sequence. Chut is a giant-sized undead chicken.
Then there's the level's final boss, Mariska, a sitar-playing hippie zombie who flies around inside a shiny, rainbow-reflecting bubble. Mushrooms of the magical variety play a big role during Juliet's visit to O'Bannon Farm, in the form of multiple trippy sequences. The journey culminates in this boss fight, which plays out in a circular arena in which the "floor" is made up of a ring of school buses. There's a pit in the center, and that's where Mariska floats around and does her boss thing.
The idea is to keep shooting at Mariska until you can knock her down into the outer circle, at which point you have 10 seconds to run up and chainsaw her in the face. She doesn't make it easy for Juliet though, summoning threshing machines and giant hands out of thin air while also shooting projectiles of her own.
The fight unfolds in typical boss fashion, with Juliet knocking Mariska out and chainsaw slicing her three times before she finally falls. She bids the undead hippie adieu with a fairly awesome parting slam: "Choke on your Birkenstocks, you psilocibin-munching moron!"
Suda and Gunn, together at last.
Lollipop Chainsaw is looking like good, hilarious times. It definitely feels like the B-movie version of a video game in some ways. There's lot of excessively repeated incidental dialogue. The art style is eye-catching, but the textures themselves are good rather than great. There's still a few months to go for polish before the game arrives. Even if these minor issues aren't addressed, it likely won't matter. Grasshopper Manufacture games are as much about the charm as they are the gameplay, and Lollipop Chainsaw's own deranged charm feels in its current form like a perfect fit for the Suda studio.
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Lollipop Chainsaw looks like a cross between Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad and No More Heroes.Posted: April 6, 2012 2:44 PM
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Volume 114, Issue 20, 28 November 2013
We report a study of materials recovered from a uranium-containing plasma generated by an electric arc. The device used to generate the arc is capable of sustaining temperatures of an eV or higher for up to . Samples took the form of a -thick film deposited onto 8 pairs of -thick Cu electrodes supported on a -thick Kapton backing and sandwiched between glass plates. Materials recovered from the glass plates and around the electrode tips after passage of an arc were characterized using scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Recovered materials included a variety of crystalline compounds (e.g., UO2, UC2, UCu5,) as well as mixtures of uranium and amorphous glass. Most of the materials collected on the glass plates took the form of spherules having a wide range of diameters from tens of nanometers to tens of micrometers. The composition and size of the spherules depended on location, indicating different chemical and physical environments. A theoretical analysis we have carried out suggests that the submicron spherules presumably formed by deposition during the arc discharge, while at the same time the glass plates were strongly heated due to absorption of plasma radiation mainly by islands of deposited metals (Cu, U). The surface temperature of the glass plates is expected to have risen to ∼2300 K thus producing a liquefied glass layer, likely diffusions of the deposited metals on the hot glass surface and into this layer were accompanied by chemical reactions that gave rise to the observed materials. These results, together with the compact scale and relatively low cost, suggest that the experimental technique provides a practical approach to investigate the complex physical and chemical processes that occur when actinide-containing material interacts with the environment at high temperature, for example, during fallout formation following a nuclear detonation.
- Lasers, Optics, and Optoelectronics
Laser-induced breakdown and damage generation by nonlinear frequency conversion in ferroelectric crystals: Experiment and theory114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4832484View Description Hide Description
Using our experimental data for ns pulsed second harmonic generation (SHG) by periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3 (PPSLT) crystals, we consider in detail the mechanism underlying laser-induced damage in ferroelectric crystals. This mechanism involves generation and heating of free electrons, providing an effective kinetic pathway for electric breakdown and crystal damage in ns pulsed operation via combined two-photon absorption (TPA) and induced pyroelectric field. In particular, a temperature increase in the lattice of ≈1 K induced initially by ns SHG and TPA at the rear of operating PPSLT crystal is found to induce a gradient of spontaneous polarization generating a pyroelectric field of ≈10 kV/cm, accelerating free electrons generated by TPA to an energy of ≈10 eV, followed by impact ionization and crystal damage. Under the damage threshold for ns operation, the impact ionization does not lead to the avalanche-like increase of free electron density, in contrast to the case of shorter ps and fs pulses. However, the total number of collisions by free electrons, ≈1018 cm−3 (generated during the pulse and accelerated to the energy of ≈10 eV), can produce widespread structural defects, which by entrapping electrons dramatically increase linear absorption for both harmonics in subsequent pulses, creating a positive feedback for crystal lattice heating, pyroelectric field and crystal damage. Under pulse repetition, defect generation starting from the rear of the crystal can propagate towards its center and front side producing damage tracks along the laser beam and stopping SHG. Theoretical analysis leads to numerical estimates and analytical approximation for the threshold laser fluence for onset of this damage mechanism, which agree well with our (i) experiments for the input 1064 nm radiation in 6.8 kHz pulsed SHG by PPSLT crystal, (ii) pulsed low frequency 532 nm radiation transmission experiments, and also (iii) with the data published for other nonlinear crystals and operated wavelengths.
Delay time calculation for dual-wavelength quantum cascade lasers114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4829914View Description Hide Description
In this paper, we calculate the turn-on delay (tth) and buildup (Δt) times of a midinfrared quantum cascade laser operating simultaneously on two laser lines having a common upper level. The approach is based on the four-level rate equations model describing the variation of the electron number in the states and the photon number present within the cavity. We obtain simple analytical formulae for the turn-on delay and buildup times that determine the delay times and numerically apply our results to both the single and bimode states of a quantum cascade laser, in addition the effects of current injection on tth and Δt are explored.
Low threshold for optical damage in AlGaN epilayers and heterostructures114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4834520View Description Hide Description
Laser pulses with duration much shorter than the effective carrier lifetime cause permanent photoluminescence (PL) quenching and enhancement of PL decay rate in bare-faceted and capped AlGaN epilayers and multiple quantum wells at pulse energies about an order of magnitude lower than those causing the surface to melt and degrade. In contrast, GaN epilayers exhibit no photomodification in the same excitation intensity range. PL spectra and decay kinetics show that lattice heating is not responsible for the observed changes in AlGaN, which result from the formation of nonradiative recombination centers via recombination-enhanced defect reactions occurring at high nonequilibrium carrier densities.
Influence of chromium interaction with native and impurity defects on optical and luminescence properties of ZnSe:Cr crystals114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4837596View Description Hide Description
Luminescent properties of the chromium doped zinc selenide crystals with various concentrations of the doping impurity in 0.03–0.30 at. % range within the temperature interval from 6 K to 300 K were studied. Chromium doping was performed in various technological processes: during the growth by chemical vapor transport method; during the growth from melt; by thermal diffusion from the Bi + Cr melt or by thermal diffusion from gas. Possibility of chromium-bound excitons formation was shown, as well as chromium impurity participation in formation of emission bands in IR spectral region. A mechanism of chromium doping impurity interaction with uncontrolled background impurities and zinc selenide structural defects was proposed based on experimental data. An assumption about resonant energy transfer between double charged chromium ions and complexes based on crystals vacancy defects was made.
- Plasmas and Electrical Discharges
Generation of cumulative jets during underwater explosion of copper wires in the "X-pinch" configuration114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833553View Description Hide Description
The results of experiments with underwater electrical explosion of 0.1 mm diameter copper wires in X-pinch configuration are presented. A pulsed generator producing a ∼30 kA-amplitude current with a ∼65 ns rise time was used for the explosion of the wires. Shadowgraph and shearing interferometry techniques were applied for optical diagnostics. Evidence of fast-moving copper jets, originating from the location of the intersection of the exploding wires, is reported. Simultaneous measurement of the expansion of the wires, shock waves, and copper jets showed that the dynamics of the jets strongly resemble the classic problem of a collision of two planes, producing two consecutive cumulative jets.
Dynamics of femtosecond laser produced tungsten nanoparticle plumes114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833564View Description Hide Description
We investigated the expansion features of femtosecond laser generated tungsten nanoparticle plumes in vacuum. Fast gated images showed distinct two components expansion features, viz., plasma and nanoparticle plumes, separated by time of appearance. The persistence of plasma and nanoparticle plumes are ∼500 ns and ∼100 μs, respectively, and propagating with velocities differed by 25 times. The estimated temperature of the nanoparticles showed a decreasing trend with increasing time and space. Compared to low-Z materials (e.g., Si), ultrafast laser ablation of high-Z materials like W provides significantly higher nanoparticle yield. A comparison between the nanoparticle plumes generated by W and Si is also discussed along with other metals.
- Structural, Mechanical, Thermodynamic, and Optical Properties of Condensed Matter
Optical mode confinement and selection in single-crystal sapphire fibers by formation of nanometer scale cavities with hydrogen ion implantation114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833240View Description Hide Description
The excellent material properties of single crystal sapphire fibers promise great advantages in applications related to harsh environment optical sensing, high laser power delivery, and high-resolution/sensitivity optical spectroscopy. However, the lack of viable cladding for confining light propagation in sapphire fibers with negligible transmission loss has restricted their practical applications. Despite great efforts in engineering either a low-refractive-index cladding layer or highly reflective mirror layer as sapphire fiber surface coatings, confining light propagation within sapphire fibers remains difficult in practice since such surface coatings fail to function due to increased thermal stress and fast erosion in environments with extremely high temperatures (>1000 °C) and chemically reactive species/gases. Here, we demonstrate a method for creating nanoscale cavities/voids in sapphire as effective fiber cladding structures that are thermally robust even at 1700 °C using hydrogen ion implantation. Material analysis of implanted sapphire crystals indicates that such nanoscale cavities play a key role in reducing the refractive index in sapphire crystals.
Influence of thermal history on the photostructural changes in glassy As15S85 studied by Raman scattering and ab initio calculations114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4832830View Description Hide Description
Photostructural changes—the hallmark of non-crystalline chalcogenides—are in essence the basis of a number of photoinduced effects, i.e., changes of their physical properties, which are exploited in a variety of applications, especially in photonics and optoelectronics. Despite the vast number of investigations of photostructural changes, there is currently lack of systematic studies on how the thermal history, which affects glass structure, modifies the extent of photostructural changes. In this article, we study the role of thermal history on photostructural changes in glassy As15S85. This particular sulfur-rich composition has been chosen based on the colossal photostructural response it exhibits under near-band gap light irradiation, which inherently originates from its nanoscale phase-separated nature. To control the thermal history, the glass was quenched to various temperatures and each of these quenched products was annealed under four different conditions. Off-resonant Raman scattering was used to study the equilibrium study of each product. Structural changes of interest involve changes of the sulfur atoms participating into S8 rings and Sn chains. Their ratio was found to depend on quenching/annealing conditions. Near-band gap light was used to perturb the rings-to-chain ratio and at the same time to record these changes through Raman scattering, revealing an intricate behavior of photostructural changes. Ab initio calculations were employed to determine the stability of various sulfur clusters/molecules thus aiding the correlation of the particular photo-response of glassy As15S85 with its structural constituents.
The effect of nanoscratching direction on the plastic deformation and surface morphology of InP crystals114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833237View Description Hide Description
The microstructure of (001) InP crystals scratched with a sharp diamond tip depends strongly on the scratching direction. The scratch surface is found to conform to the radius of curvature of the tip (∼60 nm) by the formation of atomic crystal steps produced by dislocation glide along {111} planes. ⟨110⟩ scratches lead to coherent local crystal lattice movement and rotation causing deep dislocation propagation into the crystal and irregular pileups at the sides of the scratch surface. ⟨100⟩ scratches lead to incoherent lattice movement causing dislocation locking that inhibits their propagation and results in regular pileups.
Determination of the direct to indirect bandgap transition composition in Al x In1− x P114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833540View Description Hide Description
Al x In1− x P semiconductor alloys grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on InGaAs graded buffer layers with varied aluminum compositions that span the transition from a direct to indirect semiconductor alloy are explored. The direct and indirect band gap transitions are observed in a single Al x In1− x P sample with 40.8% allowing for a precise determination of the direct-indirect cross-over composition, xc . The direct and indirect nature of observed luminescence peaks is verified using time-resolved photoluminescence. At low temperatures, xc is determined to be 40.5% at a corresponding direct band gap energy of 2.34 eV.
In situ study of e-beam Al and Hf metal deposition on native oxide InP (100)114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833569View Description Hide Description
The interfacial chemistry of thin Al (∼3 nm) and Hf (∼2 nm) metal films deposited by electron beam (e-beam) evaporation on native oxide InP (100) samples at room temperature and after annealing has been studied by in situ angle resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and low energy ion scattering spectroscopy. The In-oxides are completely scavenged forming In-In/In-(Al/Hf) bonding after Al and Hf metal deposition. The P-oxide concentration is significantly decreased, and the P-oxide chemical states have been changed to more P-rich oxides upon metal deposition. Indium diffusion through these metals before and after annealing at 250 °C has also been characterized. First principles calculation shows that In has lower surface formation energy compared with Al and Hf metals, which is consistent with the observed indium diffusion behavior.
Ordering-enhanced dislocation glide in III-V alloys114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833244View Description Hide Description
Ordering-induced effects on dislocations in metallic alloys have been extensively studied due to their importance in technology applications. We demonstrate that dislocation behavior in ordered III-V semiconductor alloys can be drastically different. This is because ordering in bulk metallic alloys is generally stable, whereas the surface-stabilized group-III sublattice ordering of a III-V alloy is only metastable in the bulk. Here, we show that dislocation glide can release some of the energy stored by ordering of III-V alloys, enhancing the glide of any dislocation which cuts through the ordered layers to create an antiphase boundary in the ordering pattern. This leads to an experimentally observed glide-plane switch which is unique to ordered III-V alloys. Implications for other unique strain-relaxation processes in III-V ordered alloys are also discussed.
Nature of size-dependent lattice distortions in doped CeO2114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4834537View Description Hide Description
Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of Gd3+ probe ions is used to investigate the nature of size dependent lattice distortions in bulk and nanocrystalline CeO2 with crystallite sizes of 600 and 10 nm, respectively, and doped with 0.5 and 1 cation% Y. The Gd3+ ions in bulk CeO2 are primarily located in almost perfect cubic crystal field, and the presence of the nearest neighbor vacancies results in trigonal distortion of this crystal field. In contrast, for nanocrystalline ceria, although the long-range symmetry remains unchanged, decreasing size results in local distortion of the crystal-field that is significantly different than that induced by the presence of nearest-neighbor oxygen vacancies. Different types of distortions are observed for the cation sites in the core and the surface regions of the nanocrystallites. Such lattice distortions at short-range are fundamental to the nanocrystalline state, being related to the increased ratio of the surface:bulk energy at nanometer length scales and provides mechanistic understanding of previously reported lattice parameter changes and phase transitions in nanocrystalline oxides.
Laser thermoelastic generation in metals above the melt threshold114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4832483View Description Hide Description
An approach is presented for calculating thermoelastic generation of ultrasound in a metal plate exposed to nanosecond pulsed laser heating, sufficient to cause melting but not ablation. Detailed consideration is given to the spatial and temporal profiles of the laser pulse, penetration of the laser beam into the sample, the appearance and subsequent growth and then contraction of the melt pool, and the time dependent thermal conduction in the melt and surrounding solid throughout. The excitation of the ultrasound takes place during and shortly after the laser pulse and occurs predominantly within the thermal diffusion length of a micron or so beneath the surface. It is shown how, because of this, the output of the thermal simulations can be expressed as axially symmetric transient radial and normal surface force distributions. The epicentral displacement response to these force distributions is obtained by two methods, the one based on the elastodynamic Green's functions for plate geometry determined by the Cagniard generalized ray method and the other using a finite element numerical method. The two approaches are in very close agreement. Numerical simulations are reported on the epicentral displacement response of a 3.12 mm thick tungsten plate irradiated with a 4 ns pulsed laser beam with Gaussian spatial profile, at intensities below and above the melt threshold.
Sensitization of Pr3+ ions by Eu2+ ions in CaF2 thin films deposited by evaporation114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4836856View Description Hide Description
In the present article, we analyse the possibility of sensitizing the 3P j levels of Pr3+ ion with Eu2+ ion in CaF2 thin film deposited by evaporation. Indeed, the forbidden nature of the 4f-4f transition of Pr3+ ion makes its absorption too weak for thin film applications, while materials doped with the Pr3+-Yb3+ couple are promising candidates for the achievement of efficient down-converter systems and could allow strong reduction of thermalization losses in silicon solar cells.
Broadband three-photon near-infrared quantum cutting in Tm3+ singly doped YVO4114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4836897View Description Hide Description
An efficient three-photon near-infrared (NIR) quantum cutting (QC) is reported in Tm3+ singly doped YVO4 polycrystalline phosphors, where an optimized content of Tm3+ is determined to be 1.0 mol. %. Upon the absorption of a visible photon around 473 nm, three NIR photons emitting at 1180, 1479, and 1800 nm can be obtained efficiently by the sequential three-step radiative transitions of Tm3+. The underlying mechanisms are analyzed in terms of the steady and dynamic fluorescence spectra measurements. Internal quantum yield is calculated to be 161.8% as a theoretical value when luminescence quenching due to defect species can be overcome. In addition, the broadband ultraviolet (UV)-excited [VO4]3− can strongly sensitize the 1G4 level of Tm3+ in the wavelength range likely from 250 to 360 nm, greatly increasing the UV photo-response and NIR fluorescent intensity of Tm3+. The further development of this broadband three-photon NIR QC material would explore the new route to improve the photo-response of novel photoelectronic devices, particularly in 250–360 nm.
- Electronic Structure and Transport
Electrical conductivity in oxygen-deficient phases of tantalum pentoxide from first-principles calculations114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4829900View Description Hide Description
We apply first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, ab-initio molecular dynamics, and the Kubo-Greenwood formula to predict electrical conductivity in Ta 2Ox (0 ≤ x ≤ 5) as a function of composition, phase, and temperature, where additional focus is given to various oxidation states of the O monovacancy (VO n; n = 0,1+,2+). In the crystalline phase, our DFT calculations suggest that VO 0 prefers equatorial O sites, while VO 1+ and VO 2+ are energetically preferred in the O cap sites of TaO7 polyhedra. Our calculations of DC conductivity at 300 K agree well with experimental measurements taken on Ta 2Ox thin films (0.18 ≤ x ≤ 4.72) and bulk Ta 2O5 powder-sintered pellets, although simulation accuracy can be improved for the most insulating, stoichiometric compositions. Our conductivity calculations and further interrogation of the O-deficient Ta 2O5 electronic structure provide further theoretical basis to substantiate VO 0 as a donor dopant in Ta 2O5. Furthermore, this dopant-like behavior is specific to the neutral case and not observed in either the 1+ or 2+ oxidation states, which suggests that reduction and oxidation reactions may effectively act as donor activation and deactivation mechanisms, respectively, for VO n in Ta 2O5.
Incomplete ionization of aluminum in silicon and its effect on accurate determination of doping profiles114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833242View Description Hide Description
We present a detailed study on incomplete ionization (i.i.) of aluminum acceptors in highly aluminum-doped p + silicon formed by alloying from screen-printed Al pastes. We apply electrochemical capacitance-voltage (ECV) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) measurements to detect the Al doping profiles and discuss key aspects necessary for a precise determination of the profiles. The excellent accordance of ECV- and SIMS-measured acceptor profile curves allows for the accurate investigation of Al acceptor ionization. We review the physics of i.i. and verify a simple quantitative model for incomplete Al acceptor ionization by comparing measured and calculated sheet-resistances of Al-doped p + Si surfaces. We thus show that the electrically active Al doping concentration is nearly two times lower than the total Al concentration, so that i.i. of Al acceptors has to be considered for the correct description of highly Al-doped p + Si regions. Therefore, our results allow for an improved quantitative analysis of n- and p-type silicon solar cells with Al-alloyed p + rear emitter or back surface field, respectively.
Composition dependence of band alignments in heterojunctions lattice matched to GaSb and InAs114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4834536View Description Hide Description
A theoretical model utilizing a universal tight binding method and a correlated function expansion technique is presented to calculate the valence band maximum (VBM) and the conduction band minimum (CBM) of the binary (GaAs, InAS, GaSb, and InSb) and quaternary alloy systems. By organizing the relative positions of the VBM and CBM between semiconductors, the band alignments and band types in the heterojunctions are determined. A straddling (type-I) band alignment in InAs/GaAs, InSb/GaAs, and GaSb/InSb, staggered (type-II) band alignment in GaSb/GaAs, and broken (type-III) band alignment in InSb/InAs and InAs/GaSb are found respectively. In addition, the compositional variations of VBM, CBM, valence band offset, conduction band offset, and band type for the alloy lattice matched on GaSb and InAs are obtained as increasing the composition x. A pronounced upward bowing for the VBM and a very slight upward bowing (almost linear) for CBM are found, respectively. By controlling the compositions (x, y), band type transitions occur. The heterojunctions lattice matched to GaSb changes their band types from type-III at to type-II at x = 0.07, and to type-I at x = 0.38. In contrast, the heterojunctions lattice matched to InAs changes their band types from type-II to type-III at x = 0.32. Reasonable agreement is obtained between our theoretical results and existing experimental data.
Advanced performance and scalability of Si nanowire field-effect transistors analyzed using noise spectroscopy and gamma radiation techniques114(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4833567View Description Hide Description
High-quality Si nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) were fabricated using thermal nanoimprint and chemical wet etching technologies. FET structures of different lengths demonstrate high carrier mobility with values of about 750 cm2/Vs and low volume densities of active traps in the dielectric layers of 5 × 1017 cm−3 eV−1. We investigated the transport properties of these n-type channel structures using low-frequency noise spectroscopy before and after gamma radiation treatment. Before gamma irradiation, FET structures with lengths of less than 4 μm exhibited noise from contact regions with 1/(L2) dependence for the relative 1/f noise. After gamma radiation, the spectra reflected the priority of channel noise with 1/L dependence for all samples. The transport characteristics show that the fabricated nanowire FETs improved scalability, decreased parameter scattering, and increased stability after treatment. The results demonstrate that these nanowire FETs are promising for nanoelectronic and biosensor applications due to the cost-efficient technology and advanced performance of FETs with improved stability and reliability.


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Skip to comments.Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows
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The ancient people who have long been thought to be the first humans to colonise North America were actually johnny-come-latelies, according to scientists who have comprehesively analysed the ancient fossilised poo of their predecessor Americans.
The new revelations come to us courtesy of Copenhagen university, where some of the investigating boffins are based. The scientists say that their results demonstrate conclusively their somewhat controversial thesis: that the "Clovis" culture dating from around 13,000 years ago - which has long been thought to be the earliest human society in the Americas - was actually preceded by human habitation at the Paisley caves in Oregon.
"When we published the first DNA results from the Paisley Caves four years ago it caused an outcry," explains Dr Paula Campos, one of the prehistoric poo experts.
"Many archaeologists felt that our results must be wrong. They considered it an established fact that Clovis were the first Americans. People would come up with any number of alternative explanations to our data in order to repudiate our interpretation. Today we demonstrate that our conclusions were right."
The so-called "Clovis First" theory had until 2008 been accepted as unquestioned truth among archaeologists, who considered that the Clovis people - so called from 13,000 year old archaeological finds near the village of Clovis in New Mexico - were the true native Americans. When the still more ancient 14,000-year-old excrement was found at the Paisley caves, it was pointed out by disgruntled boffins that no stone tools or other evidence of the type seen at Clovis had been found, and that the DNA poo evidence could have been erroneous.
Dr Dennis Jenkins of Copenhagen uni was having none of that, however, and he continued to poke about in the caves. Now he and his team are back, this time packing stone artifacts including "Western stemmed" stone projectiles and new, more comprehensive DNA dating.
According to a Copenhagen uni statement:
The new study refutes every one of the critics arguments and uses overwhelming archaeological, stratigraphic, DNA and radiocarbon evidence to conclusively state that humans and ones totally unrelated to Clovis peoples were present at Paisley Caves over a millennium before Clovis.
"During our excavations in the Paisley Caves weve found a completely different type of dart points," enthuses Jenkins.
"These new points are of a completely different construction from those found in the Clovis culture. As our radiocarbon dating shows, the new finds are as old, or possibly older than the Clovis finds, this proves that the Clovis culture cannot have been the 'Mother technology' for all other technologies in America. Our results show, that America was colonized by multiple cultures at the same time. And some perhaps even earlier than Clovis."
"Humans were present in North America at least one thousand years before Clovis and these earlier peoples probably had no technological or genetic similarity to the iconic Clovis Culture," adds the prof's colleague Thomas Stafford. "The Clovis First debate has ended. The theory is now dead and buried."
So there. ®
Can reparations to Paisley-Americans be far behind?
"The theory is now dead and buried."
Contrary facts have a way of doing that. Even to "settled science".
It's a dirty job but some body's gotta do it.
With that declaration, a colleague, pronounces the matter is closed. DOES ANYONE SEE A RED FLAG HERE? I suggest that we keep looking at this evidence. I would like to keep the debate open. We have the time to get it right.
And they should return the fossil poo to her for a proper burial.
Everyone born in America is a native American—American Indians were here before Columbus but there is no evidence ANY of them were in America before others...
...there are no scientifically empirically proven original humans any where on earth so the term "Native American" as popularly used is a politically motivated mendacity.
Which would you prefer?
Seems about right!
Mexican footprints cause scientific stir
Posted on Thu 18 Aug 2005 09:21:43 PDT by gnarledmaw
AP LONDON - British scientists claimed on Tuesday to have unearthed 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico, challenging previous studies that put the arrival of the first humans in the Americas at about 13,500 years ago.
I've always inclined to the theory that they were made by Paleo-Merovingians.
Well...surprise....the deeper they dig, the more they will find.
Humans are humans since they became humans, whenever that was. There have always been engineering types, geek types, inventors and builders...that's what humans do.
There also have always been deadbeats, of evolutionary name:
They developed early and have remained unchanged.
"I've always inclined to the theory that they were made by Paleo-Merovingians"
Wasn't one of their famous leaders somebody named "Frank"?
The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.
Many things have happened since then but it appears the spawn of Spain are fulfilling the papal bull to the detriment of the English experiment called the US Constitution.
There are always exceptions but on average,which colonies have become the most successful countries—the Spanish or the British? I would prefer to to live under what works but that was and is still a revolutionary thought.
Lamanite ping
The most recent discoveries at this site are even more advanced than expected.
Poo don't lie.
So where does that leave "Wrong-Way" Heyerdahl?
Native Americans arrived ...
Huh? If they arrived from wherever then they quite obviously were not native.
Granted that the countries started by settlers from the British Isles have tended to turn out better than the former Spanish colonies, there are a number of reasons--not all going back to the differences between Spain and England in 1492 (since England itself had a lot of developing to do before absolutism was defeated there). The former British colonies in Africa and Asia, where the English were a small minority, and often left afterwards, have not done as well as the countries created by settlers--the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The former Spanish colonies generally had a minority from Spain ruling over a larger indigenous and impoverished population who had little chance at economic betterment.
I would not expect DNA residue on the actual points, but maybe some have been found in conjunction with human remains.
Was thinking the same thing!!
And they should return the fossil poo to her for a proper burial.
Along with her BS!!
Interesting. Seems like I had read similar suggestions a number of years back. I don't track this stuff as a hobby.
Yah... This is not news. The author needs to upgrade his sources. Even when I was studying this sort of thing at grad school in anthropology in the mid-80s, there were several sites dated much older than Clovis: Meadowcroft Rock Shelter in Pennsylvania, at least 16,000 years BP, perhaps 19,000 years BP; Monte Verde in Chile (way south in Chile!), perhaps 33,000 years BP, at least 15,000 years BP). Clovis is not the first culture of humans in the new world, just one of the easiest of the old ones to identify. This "established fact that Clovis were the first Americans" crap is just that: crap. (Think global warming...)
"Would not ALL of them be called Native Americans whether they came across the land bridge, down the coast by boat or of Polynesian descent across and up from South America."
Or, if standard theories persist, someone might say no, those we call "Native Americans", from any source, were really "Asians" in "origin" and they, not even "Native Asians" as, in the entire human race there are only "Native Africans", the ancestors of us all - if standard archaeological theories were to persist. O.K. don't shoot the messenger!!!
If standard evolution and archaeological theories were to persist, then in the human race there can only be "Native Africans", as every other group of humans, anywhere else, were immigrants (not 'native') to other lands, from Africa, or immigrants - to additional lands - of those first immigrants; leaving only Africa as a source to be called "first humans here". O.K. again; don't kill the messenger!!!
I am, tongue and cheek, trying to hit on any idea of "first" peoples; as the story of humanity IS a story of migration, settlement, death, starvation & extinction, migration, settlement, conquest and merging cultures, migration, settlement, migration settlement - over and over. The ancestors of everyone's ancestors came from somewhere else, if we go back far enough.
LOL, no argument from me on that. I seldom use the term "native American" as you and million of others born here fit that term. I call myself American Indian and even that is because a misguided explorer thought he was somewhere else in the world. I'm even wondering if "Aboriginal American" is correct.
First After The Last Ice Age Western Hemisphere Dude.
I prefer paleo-American.
I suspect there's a very good reason Paisley Man died out...At least one of 'em is still around.
I don't post much on that subject anymore.
Brad Paisley is what you call a C&W GLBT.
Well, coprolites....
Well, coprolites....
you mean lisbon and madrid...
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Thanks Ernest.
LOL with you, and thanks.
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Khar, Pakistan, May 4, 2012 (AFP) - A teenage suicide bomber targeted police in a bustling Pakistan town square on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens in the tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted the local chief and deputy of a tribal police force who were recruited by the government to help defeat an Islamist insurgency in the northwest.
Only a day earlier, documents released by the United States showed that Osama bin Laden had been unhappy with the Pakistani Taliban for killing civilians and that Al-Qaeda leaders wrote to its chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, urging him to mend his ways.
The bomber, who intelligence officials said was aged 14 to 16, detonated explosives strapped to his chest in Khar, the main town of Bajaur district. Bajaur has been one of the toughest battlegrounds in Pakistan's fight against a northwestern Taliban insurgency.
It was the deadliest bombing in Pakistan since March 2, when at least 22 people were killed by a suicide attack on a mosque in the tribal district of Khyber.
"Twenty people, including five policemen, were killed and 46 others were wounded. Some shops and a restaurant were destroyed," Islam Zeb, the administrative head of Bajaur tribal district, told AFP.
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Many of you – a full 37% according to one survey – are quite okay with Uncle Sam having a complete record of your lives. Some of you even go beyond that; so far as to say that you'd be okay with giving your Government your DNA.
Some of you have argued that we need to appease the Government Gods now, lest there be another attack that will utterly destroy whatever freedoms and liberties we have left and make things much worse.
I am here to tell you that this is utter madness.
Consider this scenario: you are at the DMV, to obtain or renew a driver's license, something that a vast majority of Americans have or have had. Along with the form, you are given two other things: one waiver form and one swab. It is now a condition of obtaining a driver's license or any other form of government ID or assistance that you sign a waiver and provide a swab of DNA. The waiver states that you hereby give the United States Government and all its agencies and its employees and its departments the authority to obtain, monitor, record, collect and store your phone calls, your text messages, your passwords, your emails, your photos, your music and your thoughts. You further waive all Fourth Amendment challenges and Fifth Amendment privileges and Sixth Amendment rights. You can keep your gun.
Do you sign that piece of paper?
I can sense some of you shivering. Why is PRISM any different? Why is Maryland v. King any different?
Consider what the Government can do today: it – if you are a Verizon customer – knows who you called, when you called and for how long you called them. It knows who you're emailing, what you're buying, what you're selling, what you eat, where you eat, when you eat, who you text and quite possibly what you text.
They say they're doing this legally – although the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just managed a big win – but it's in a court you can't see or can't go to or can't be told about. A court, by the way, that has rejected only 0.03% subpoenas, which aren't based on the tried and true standard of probable cause, but an even lower – if that's possible -standard.
"But it's legal" some of you say and so Snowden is a traitor, guilty of espionage. True. But anti-miscegenation laws were legal. Anti gay-marriage laws are legal. The death penalty is legal. Abortion is legal.
What's legal isn't always right. And it's certainly not right when it's done in secret unbeknownst to the vast populace.
So what, you say. I haven't done anything; so I have nothing to hide. Take my phone calls. Take my DNA.
To which I say, great, can I have your credit card numbers and your social security number too? No? You mistrust me, a solitary individual against whom you have recourse, yet you willingly subjugate yourself to a faceless, untouchable government?
All it takes is an accusation. J'Accuse and now you're condemned to navigate the panopticon, where they know everything and see everything. You know who decides what is a crime and what isn't? The government. You know who decides who has broken the law? The government. You know who decides whether to prosecute an individual? The government. You know who puts on evidence to prove that someone is guilty of a crime (and usually wins)? The government. You know who uses DNA to prove guilt? The government. You know has people (jurors) blindly following its dictates? The government. You know who you signed over your privacy, your personal information, your DNA to? The government.
Think they won't use it against you tomorrow if they suddenly dislike you?
If you answer yes, ask yourself why. Is it because you trust the government to do the right thing? Or is it because you're privileged and you don't think this sort of thing will happen to you?
But the Government isn't seeking data on "non-privileged" people. It's all of us. You. Me. The guy down the street. You may think you're different than me or my typical client. The government doesn't. They're the ones who you think will protect you, yet they've already proven that they see no difference between you and a criminal.
And your blind obeisance isn't helping. The greater deference you give to the government, the more emboldened it becomes. There aren't, it seems, any more internal checks on the abuses of power by politicians. In that we are becoming like the rest of the nascent countries in the world. But for them it's a progression; for us it's a regression.
When you let all governmental action pass unchallenged, without critique or scrutiny that is more than perfunctory lip service. When you refuse to stop and really think about what your Government is doing in your name – not to you, but to others – that you are doing a disservice not only to yourself, but to everyone else. If you stop believing in the Constitution, why should those in power continue to?
Unfortunately, the more rights you give up, the less rights you retain. So where are you going to hide now, now that you've given away all your rights? Maybe you can join Ben Franklin, in his grave, while he rolls, because you've just given up your liberty for some temporary safety and you're never getting it back.


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