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Football games were a hallmark of the Kennedy family that late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy stood at the forefront of for a generation before his death on Tuesday night.
And Kennedy had a chance to make football his profession before public service.
Kennedy was a starting tight end at Harvard in 1955 when the Green Bay Packers recruited him.
"You have been very highly recommended to us by a number of coaches in your area and also by our talent scouts as a possible pro prospect," Packers coach Lisle Blackbournwrote to Kennedy in a October 1955 letter.
The man who would become the Lion of the Senate declined the Packers' invitation, however. Flattered, Kennedy responded to the Packers that he intended to "go into another contact sport, politics."
USA TODAY has full coverage of Kennedy's passing at age 77 here.
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Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told. The authors include King, Jordan, and Silverberg himself, as well as Terry and Lyn Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, and Raymond E. Feist.
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Major Campbell Newman (Australian Army retired) has embarked on a two-front war that might be described as crazy-brave or foolhardy, depending on your point of view, but battle lines established in Queensland this week have implications far beyond state boundaries.
What Newman's budget-slashing exercise and his willingness to take on the miners foreshadows is a period of budgetary turbulence across the country as local governments, relatively speaking, come to terms with shrinking revenues, increasing demand for services and a Commonwealth that is reluctant – or unable – to raise proportions of the goods and services tax going to the states.
An ageing population adds to the burden when terms of trade are shifting against the Commonwealth, and Treasurer
"We are going into a cycle where governments are going to be much more stretched,'' was how one of the Howard government's most senior economic ministers put it to The Weekend Financial Review.
This might be regarded as an understatement as state finances crumble under the weight of patchy local economies and constraints mount on the ability of a hard-pressed federal government to meet a shortfall from GST revenue.
Demonstrations against government austerity such as those in Queensland this week may well become commonplace in an echo of what is happening in Europe.
In Victoria, where Premier
In NSW, howls of protest greeted news that the government of Premier
O'Farrell has been under pressure to take stronger measures to get NSW finances in order and avoid the credit downgrades that have descended on Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Ratings agencies also have Victoria in their sights.
Western Australia, among the states and territories, is in reasonably robust health financially, running a small surplus in its May budget.
In a thoughtful paper last month to the Australian Institute of Public Administration and the Australian Institute of Management
"Regardless of whether the Commonwealth and states have the sense and courage to rigorously address the funding issue, the scope of the GST needs to be extended to cover everything and most probably the rate needs to be raised to 12.5 per cent,'' Baxter said.
"Concomitantly, many of the complex, inefficient tax-raising measures of the states should be eliminated without delay.''
He added: "There is no national 'Magic Pudding' or serves of individual state 'Magic Puddings'. There is not an endless, overflowing cornucopia of goodies that will adequately cover Australia's future obligations."
Baxter is not alone in raising alarms about the state of public finances across the country. Former Treasury head
Newman's gambit in taking the axe to the state public service with projected savings of $1.2 billion this year and also going after mining royalties in the coal industry has put him at odds with two powerful constituencies at the same time, hence reference to a two-front war that military textbooks caution against.
This is the crazy-brave part of the Newman strategy that will be scrutinised across the country by a political class which understands that what happens in Queensland will resonate federally.
Coalition strategists will be viewing developments in Queensland with a mixture of hope and alarm: hope that Newman, a relative neophyte politically, can execute his austerity drive, including firing 10,000 public servants, without the wheels falling off.
And anxiety that Newman's confrontational approach, including towards the big miners, will provide a narrative for Labor in its efforts to portray the Tony Abbott-led Coalition as bent on following a similar "reckless'' course.
After all, Treasury spokesman
Hockey waded into the debate the day after the Queensland budget, telling breakfast TV: "Campbell Newman, all strength to his right arm. He's showing incredible courage to try and fix up a state government that has been complete chaos and absolute mess during the term of Labor, and Campbell is showing the sort of courage and doing the right thing by the people of Queensland that hopefully gets Queensland back on the rails.''
The Coalition's Treasury spokesman could not be accused of dissembling.
Whether Prime Minister
Like much of the rest of the country, Queensland has been buffeted by a squeeze on its principal sources of revenue, including proceeds from real estate transactions.
A property slump, particularly in south-eastern Queensland, has battered state revenues with no sign of an early improvement.
It is also not clear whether Newman will reap an additional $1.6 billion in mining royalties, as forecast, at a time when coal prices are continuing to decline (Queensland's budget raised royalties from 10 per cent to 12.5 per cent on coal at $100 a tonne).
The Commonwealth might choose to withhold the equivalent in GST transfers to account for royalties deducted by a state government. As we said, battle lines are being drawn.
But having established what a military officer would describe as a strategic objective, Newman appears resolute, warring this week with
Kloppers himself did not respond but BHP chairman
The Financial Review canvassed opinions widely of Newman's budget strategy, on and off the record, with opinion divided between those who believe his lack of political experience, and thus ability to sell his reforms, will weigh heavily on his own popularity and that of his government, and others who are supportive.
Former Victorian premier Kennett, whose "take no prisoners'' 1992 rationalisation of Victorian government services (Kennett got rid of 50,000 public servants over a period of two years) is held up as a model for Newman, is favourably disposed.
"I'm very strongly supportive of what Campbell Newman is doing, but it will take him a couple of years to turn things around given the size of Queensland's debt and its budget deficit,'' Kennett told the Financial Review.
Kennett's advice to Newman is typically to the point. "If he weakens, he will be screwed. If we had weakened, we would have been screwed.'' Kennett served seven years as Victoria's premier and is credited with leaving the state in better shape than when he took over.
His endorsement of Newman could hardly contrast more strikingly with mining heavyweight
Palmer, who could not be said to be lacking self-interest, told the Financial Review the Newman budget was a "disaster'' and would not result in one additional dollar of revenue for the state once GST revenues had been netted out.
He also drew a sharp distinction between Queensland and other states on the basis that his home state was so big, so diverse and so regionalised it needed more public servants per capita than other states to provide services.
The mining identity, who has been noisily at odds with Newman since the election on a whole range of issues, is telling anyone who will listen that he (Newman) will be "gone by Christmas''. We shall see.
Palmer also took a slap at former treasurer
Costello himself was unavailable for comment but he has made no secret of his support for Newman's austerity drive, albeit with some reservations, telling associates that the Queensland Premier's challenge will be to hold his nerve against protests on the streets and nit-picking from his own supporters.
Katter, member for Kennedy in northern Queensland, a former minister in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen governments of the 1980s and more recently convener of his own populist Katter Australian Party, joined Palmer in his assault on Newman's government cuts.
"You're seeing the most severe and most vicious form of marketism,'' Katter told the Financial Review. "You're seeing it in its unbridled brutality.
"In a post-GFC environment, to have these massive cutbacks is extremely dangerous.''
A bloodied Major Newman is finding that the incoming ordnance is proving quite heavy on the way to his objectives.
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@brisbanetimes Graham Quirk The World Health Organization has confirmed that Fluoride is a proven low-dose Endocrine Disruptor Did You Know?
— Geoffrey Norman Pain (@FluoridePoison) February 26, 2013
The World Health Organisation and the Australian Medical Association support the flouridation of the water supply.
Thanks to all the readers who submitted comments and questions today - it was great to see such a high level of engagement coming through all channels. I'm sorry we weren't able to get through every question, but if you've got a particular issue you'd like chased up, please feel free to email me - firstname.lastname@example.com.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Just before I go, I'd like to thank everyone for their questions today. We have a big year planned for Brisbane and if you want to keep up with the latest news and initiatives or raise ideas of your own you can like us on Facebook 'Lord Mayor Graham Quirk', follow us on Twitter or sign up for my newsletter at www.grahamquirk.com.au.
Dear our Lord Mayor
You and the city hall renovation team should be proud of what you have done to preserve our city hall. It will be an icon of the people of Brisbane.
In relation to multicultural hub, we need one that can be yet another icon of our city. Brisbane is a well known multicultural city. You are longstanding and household name among multicultural community
What is your vision for a multicultural hub in Brisbane ?
Part of my commitment to the people of Brisbane was the development of a performing arts centre on the southside of Brisbane. This will act as a hub for a range of cultural events inclusive of the whole of the Brisbane community.
I was recently in Melbourne for the Midsumma Festival which is a queer festival sponsored by the City of Melbourne and Yarra Trams. It was an amazing festival and really great for the LGBTI community. I would love to see festivals like this in Brisbane sponsored by this city council. What are your thoughts on this?
Council does fund a range of festivals across the City. A recent example is the Pride festival.Back to top
I used to travel on from Paddington to the city on the BUZ route which was sometimes crowded in the morning. The new cityglider has relieved this problem and its good that it runs late on Friday and Saturday nights is great as we didn't have that before. I don't know why people were opposing it.
I'm glad you're enjoying the new service. It comes on the back of the West End to Teneriffe CityGlider which has proven to be an outstanding success.
I got a letter from you about a new town plan, but council only did a plan for Manly recently, why are you doing another one?
Peter, the plan we undertook at Manly was a neighbourhood plan. What we are undertaking now is a new Cityplan covering all of Brisbane. The provisions of the neighbouhood plan remain in place and is incorporated as part of the new Cityplan. The new cityplan is neccessary as not all areas of Brisbane have a neighbourhood plan.
Lord Mayor, will the Brisbane City Council address the lack of available scooter and motorcycle parking in the city? There has been a substantial increase in the number of scooter / motorcylce users in recent years and instead of providing more parks they have been removed to make way for city-cycle bays.
Over the last few years we have doubled the number of free motorcycle parking bays in the CBD and surrounds and have a plan to introduce a further 400 this term.
Hi Lord Mayor, two comments rather than questions - I went to the new park at the Tennis Centre which is named after Ken Fletcher, it's a very nice park and a great tribute to Ken's great work. I think COuncil has done a great job getting that park on the river and it saves us locals from having to go all the way to southbank to enjoy riverfront parkland. Also thank you for the Oxley Road upgrade at Clewley St - it has had a big benefit to us locals using the shopping centre. I'm glad Council did that upgrade, it has reduced the traffic levels to what it was before.
Thanks for the feedback Martin. I hope you continue to enjoy the parkland.
I'm pleased also to see the intersection upgrade is working well.
Has there been any damage to the Ferry Network during the recent floods? As a Uni student I rely on the CityCats.
There was no substaintial damage and all terminals are now operating again. At the moment Citycats are running slightly slower due to the debris in the river.Back to top
Hi Graham
I live in Toowong and heard there is going to be a CityCat stop at Park Road? Is this true and when will you build it?
I have committed to delivering a new Citycat terminal at Park Road Milton during this term of Council. It will be a duel berth terminal, which meets disability compliance standards. It should be a great addition to the important Park Road shopping and restaurant precinct.
Re City Hall: That building wasn't worth the money. They should just build something cheap and modern. The old stuff is great when it lasts. Sandstone buildings were cheap to make then, expensive to fix now. The land is a bog, forget it.
It's not like the LNP cares about preserving heritage, look at what they did to the Regent, and check out the concrete jungle *around* city hall. They do like pretending it's 80 years ago though, the whole LNP is like a historical reenactors guild, so who knows....
City Hall is an important part of Brisbane's history and has been restored to last for at least another 100 years and beyond. I invite you to come in and have a look when it opens in April. I think the people of Brisbane will be very pleased with what has been achieved.
The Council opposed the approval undertaken by the former state government.
Hi Mr Lord Mayor
My name is Ronda and I saw a show on TV about the Brisbane Greeters program. I am retired and would like to get involved. How do I go about this?
I lived in England and now live in Australia. Is this still ok?
Thank you
The Brisbane Greeters program is adminstrered through Brisbane Marketing. Can I suggest you go onto their website and register your interest. Thanks for offering!
Lord Mayor, when will City Hall be open again? Will I be able to have my wedding there? I want to get married in June. I've always loved the building and I hear it's going to be a functions space too?
You can book now! City Hall opens on 6 April but we already have 10 weddings booked. We have different sized rooms to meet your needs. We also have a significant number of trade shows and school awards nights booked, together with a number of community events.
Why does the QLD treasury own the buses Brisbane Transport use?
Council build buses in a joint venture arrangement. There is then a financial arrangement with the State Government that sees the ownership of those buses rest with the State Government while Council undertakes maintainance, hiring of drivers and operating the services. Please follow up with me if you want more detail.Back to top
@brisbanetimes Why should locals fund a SCIP when many non residents come to New Farm to enjoy the area? newfarmvillagenews.com.au/new-farm-resid…— Paul Rigby (@paulrigby7) February 27, 2013
SCIP's provide for an upgrade in facilities and amenity at shopping centres. They are undertaken on a shared cost basis between Council and businesses located at that centre. Businesses contribution is by way of additions to their rates over a period of years. SCIP's have demonstrated a capacity to increase business at those centres which is why businesses are asked to contribute.
Council rates are ridiculously high, how do you justify it?
Brisbane City Council rates are amongst the lowest in the nation and we provide a range of services including significant contribution to public transport.
BCC IT Outsourcing:
I am currently going to QUT, this news is disheartening as even organisation like Brisbane City Council are happy to send IT jobs offshore and graduates and experienced IT workers end up with nothing and left on the scrap heap.
What guarantees the workers employed by council are "properly" qualified as the standards in the Australian universities and other intuitions are far higher than in some other parts of the world?
What are the security implications about the data now being shared by an overseas contractor? What possible action can be taken and will it be genuinely effective anyway if data is misused or is stolen from a negligent overseas contracting company?
I am concerned the six layers of management at council didn't review the "dead wood" at council and who was making a valuable contribution to council and who was not.
In my opinion, the council's IT department haven't quite grasped the fact the stone age didn't end as humans ran out of stone … technology in constantly evolving.
This cost cutting and sackings could have been avoided if management had been more pro-active in the first place both with employee management and effective use of technology.
Thank you
Don't be disheartened, Council still has around 500 IT jobs in its organisation.
How about a council pick-up for things that are hard to dispose of in an environmentally responsible way? Batteries, oil, pesticides, paint, etc. Alternately, what about a place in each suburb where they can be dropped?
You have correctly pointed out that these items need to be disposed on in an environmentally responsibile way. I would recommend that you make contact with the contact centre on 3403 8888 to find out ways in which you can dispose of these items in an environmentally friendly way. Council has a range of measures in place to deal with these items.
My question for Lord Mayor Quirk is: Congratulations on implementing the Maroon City Glider. Can you explain why it stops at Stones Corner and doesn't extend down to Coorparoo please?
The maroon glider has been tagged as a food and footy service. It links key restaurant areas and sporting stadiums in our City. The route has been chosen on that basis.Back to top
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RENO, Nev. – University of Nevada senior diver Grace Huang placed 16th in the 3-meter at the NCAA Championship being hosted by the University of Minnesota today to earn honorable mention All-America honors. Teammate Yawen Li was one spot short of earning the same honor tying for 17th in the 400-yard IM.
Huang who was 21st in the Thursday's 1-meter scored 299.10 in the consolation finals today to place 16th. She concludes the championship on Saturday competing in the platform, an event she won at the Mountain West Championship when she earned Diver of the Year honors.
Li swam 4:10.31 to tie San Diego State's Mikael Macklin for 17th in the 400-yard IM today. Spots nine through 16 earn honorable mention All-America honors. She won the event at the MW Championship. On Thursday she was 45th in the 200-yard IM. She competes in her final event the 200-yard breaststroke on Saturday.
Championship central has been setup by the University of Minnesota with live scoring and video streams at http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-swim/spec-rel/2014-NCAA-Championship.html. Updates and links can also be found on the Nevada swimming & diving page at NevadaWolfPack.com. ESPN3 will air the finals on Saturday starting at 5 p.m. PT.
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The authors would like to thank members of the laboratory for valuable input that aided in the completion of these studies.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Margaret Sachs's article cited by the U.S. Supreme Court
In its opinion in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court cited with approval critiques of the prevailing approach to the extraterritoriality of Rule 10b-5, including that of Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law Margaret V. Sachs in "The International Reach of Rule 10b-5: The Myth of Congressional Silence" (28 Colum. J. Trans. L. 677 (1990)). Writing for the Court, Justice Scalia noted that Sachs challenged the assumption on which the prevailing approach rested - namely, that the Congress that enacted the Securities Exchange Act lacked awareness of internationalized securities markets.
Read the full opinion for Morrison v. National Australia Bank
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Public Policies for Social Justice
From the Democracy and Social Policy Series
Spring 1994
"The Current Social Situation in Brazil: Dilemmas and Perspectives"
Vilmar Faria
An earlier Portuguese version, "A conjuntura social brasileira: Dilemas e perspectivas," appeared in Novos Estudos CEBRAP 33 (July 1992).
Spring 1995
"The Welfare State in Contemporary Argentina: An Overview"
Rubén M. Lo Vuolo
An earlier version appeared in Spanish, "El estado de bienestar de la Argentina contemporánea" (CIEPP, September 1991).
Spring 1995
"The System of Social Protection in Brazil"
Sônia Miriam Draibe, Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro, and Beatriz Azeredo
An earlier version appeared in Portuguese, "O sistema de proteção social no Brasil" (NEPP-Campinas, September 1991), and some of the material presented here is explored further in Sônia Miriam Draibe, "Brasil: O sistema de proteção social e suas transformações recentes," CEPAL Reformas de Política Pública Series #14 (September 1993).
Fall 1994
"Social Policies in Chile: Origin, Transformations, and Perspectives"
Dagmar Raczynski
An earlier version appeared in Spanish, "Políticas sociales en Chile: Origen, transformaciones y perspectivas" (CIEPLAN 1992), and a revised version appeared as "La política social en Chile: Panorama de sus reformas," CEPAL Reformas de Política Pública Series #19 (1994).
Spring 1995
"A Century of Social Welfare in Uruguay: Growth to the Limit of the Batllista Social State"
Fernando Filgueira
An earlier Spanish version, "Un estado social centenario: El crecimiento hasta el límite del estado social batllista," appeared as PEITHO Documento de Trabajo #81 (1991).
Spring 1994
"Poverty and Social Structure in Argentina: Outlook for the 1990s"
Laura Golbert and Emilio Tenti Fanfani
An earlier Spanish version, "Estructura social y pobreza en la Argentina: Escenario de los '90," appeared as CIEPP Documento de Trabajo #8 (January 1993).
Spring 1994
"Brazil, 1989: A Socioeconomic Study of Indigence and Urban Poverty"
Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes
An earlier version appeared in Portuguese, "Brasil, 1989: Um estudo socio-econômico da indigência e da pobreza urbanas" (CEBRAP, December 1992).
Summer 1994
"Urban Poverty in Chile: Its Extent and Diversity"
Arturo León Batista
An earlier version appeared in Spanish, "Pobreza urbana en Chile: Su magnitud y diversidad" (Santiago de Chile, November 1991), and a revised, shorter version of the Spanish text is forthcoming in Metrópoli, Globalidad y Modernización, ed. Augusto Bolívar Espinoza, René Coulomb, and Carmen Muñoz Bohlken (Mexico/Santiago de Chile: Programa Reencuentro de Dos Ciudades and Azcapotzalco, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana).
Winter 1994
"Heterogeneity and Incidence of Urban Poverty in Uruguay"
Carlos Filgueira
An earlier Spanish version, "Heterogeneidad e incidencia de la pobreza urbana en el Uruguay," appeared as PEITHO Documento de Trabajo #82 (June 1991).
Spring 1995
"On the Brazilian Urban Poor: An Anthropological Report"
Roberto DaMatta
From the Working Paper Series
April 1984
"Democracy and Public Policy Analysis"
Douglas Bennett
Now available in Public Policy Analysis &Management, JAI Research Annual, ed. Stuart Nagel (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press).
July 1984
"On Modernism and Modernization: The Modernist City in Development, The Case of Brasília"
James Holston
Now available in The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília, James Holston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
August 1984
"Centroamérica: algunos rasgos de la sociedad de pos-guerra"
Edelberto Torres-Rivas
A revised version is available in Serie Informes de Investigación 11 (San José: ICADIS, February 1986).
July 1985
"Peasants, Pedagogy, Productivity-Paraguay"
Kenneth P. Jameson
Now available in Latin American Education: A Quest for Identity, ed. Nancy Nystrom, 157-74 (New Orleans: Tulane University, 1985).
July 1985
"Industrialization, Migration and the Informal Sector in Manaus"
Leo A. Despres
A revised version is available under the title "Urban-Industrial Development and the Marginality of Workers in Manaus: Some Theoretical Implications" in Kultur-anthropologie: Beiträge zum Neubeginn einer Disziplin, ed. Werner von der Ohe, 67-88 (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot 1987).
November 1986
"Humanitarianism and Politics in Central America"
Gil Loescher
Now available in Political Science Quarterly 103 (2, Summer 1988): 295-320.
August 1987
"Food Security Trends and Prospects in Latin America"
Solon Barraclough and Peter Utting
A German translation is now available in Aussichten auf die Zukunft: Lateinamerika Analysen und Berichte no.10, ed. Dietmar Dirmoser et al., 102-39 (Hamburg: Junius Verlag, 1986).
January 1988
"'The Rich Have Already Eaten...' Roots of Catastrophe in Central America"
Solon L. Barraclough and Michael F. Scott
Also available as a publication of the Transnational Institute.
February 1991
"Statecraft, Social Policy, and Governance in Latin America"
James M. Malloy
A revised version is available in Governance VI (2, Journal of the International Political Science Association, Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government, Group of IPSA, April 1993).
August 1991
"From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: European Interest Politics and the Single Market"
Wolfgang Streeck
A revised version is available in Participation in Public Policy-Making: The Role of Unions and Employers' Association, ed. Tiziano Treu, 97-126 (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter).
January 1993
"Poverty in Mexico: An Empirical Analysis"
Nora Lustig
March 1996
"German Capitalism: Does it Exist? Can It Survive?"
Wolfgang Streeck
March 1996
"Poverty in Latin America: Issues and New Responses-A Rapporteurs' Report"
Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell and Brenda Markovitz
April 1996
"Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Some Political Reflections"
Guillermo O'Donnell
September 1996
"Accountability for Past Abuses"
Juan E. Méndez
A version of this paper is forthcoming in the February 1997 issue of Human Rights Quarterly.
March 1997
"Indigenous Politics and Democracy: Contesting Citizenship in Latin America"
Deborah J. Yasher
January 1998
"Workshop on the Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America-A Rapporteurs' Report"
Gina Bekker and Robert Patrick
June 1998
"Democratic Consolidation and Human Rights in Brazil"
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
A Portuguese version of this paper has been published as the introduction to Democracia em pedaços: Direitos humanos no Brasil by Gilberto Dimenstein (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996).
June 1998
"The Changing Status of Children in Latin America: Issues in Child Health and Children's Rights-A Rapporteur's Report"
Carol D. Stuart
June 2001
"The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals"
Thomas A. Gresik
June 2001
"Non-Governmental Terrorism in Latin America: Re-Examining Old Assumptions"
Andreas Feldmann and Maiju Perälä
July 2001
"Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: The Argentine Justicialiste Party in Comparative Perspective"
Steven Levitsky
September 2002
"Ámbito y Papel de los Especialistas en las Reformas en los Sistemas de Salud:
Los Casos de Brasil y México"
Raquel Abrantes Pêgo and Célia Almeida
March 2003
"Policy Making Under Divided Government in Mexico"
Benito Nacif
September 2003
"Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda"
Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky
February 2006
"External Pressures and International Norms in Latin American Pension Reform"
Kurt Weyland
J. Samuel Valenzuela
January 2011
"Families, Welfare Institutions and Economic Development: Chile and Sweden an Comparative Perspective"
Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
March 2012
"The Road to Universal Social Protection: How Costa Rica Informs Theory"
Marta M. Assumpção-Rodrigues
February 2013
"Skill Formation, Governance, and Democracy in Brazil: The State of the Art of a Public Policy"
Sanjay Ruparelia
February 2013
"A Progressive Juristocracy? The Unexpected Social Activism of India's Supreme Court"
Amy Reynolds
June 2013
""With or Without Cafta, We Need a Plan": A Catholic Response to Free Trade in Costa Rica"
Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu
October 2013
"Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America"
Matthew C. Ingram and Marcelo Marchesini da Costa
May 2015
"Geographies of Violence: A Spatial Analysis of Five Types of Homicide in Brazil's Municipalities"
Jacopo Bonan, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Douglas Scott, Michel Tenikue
May 2015
"Increasing Anti-Malaria Bednets Uptake Using Information and Distribution Strategies: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Senegal"
Rossana Castiglioni
December 2015
"Building and Sustaining Social Protection: Cross-Class Coalitions, Elite Responses, and Party Politics in Chile and Uruguay (1900–1973)"


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Alon Goldshuv wrote: > Bruce, > > The patch is not there to show that something is "broken" is it there to > show how things could be done in another way, which may or may not be more > desireable. Sure, we are always looking for ways to improve things. > > COPY works as designed. The idea that some guy we have never heard of > > is going to appear and rewrite COPY's processing and tell us that the > > existing code is actually broken seems pretty arrogant to me. If it is > > broken (meaning doesn't work as designed), please show us facts rather > > than conjecture. > > I am sure that the code works as designed. In my previous email I was > referring to the fact that using COPY with a data field that happens to have > backslashes in it, and then querying this data field you will get different > results. For example do COPY of a field "c:\\one\ten\nine" and query for it. > The result will be much different. This is a problem with clickstream data > for example. That's all. It's very possible that there are reasons that I > missed for why things are the way they are. Yep, you have to double backslahses coming in as data so we can use backslash for marking null, delimiters, etc. I see no way around that, and no one since Berkeley has come up with one either. If you have an idea, we would _love_ to hear it. > > (Please explain how you handle literal delimiters and nulls with no > > escape processing.) > Escape processing is done only for these 2 cases. OK, how is that done? How about for newlines in the data? Right now I think that is the only escapes we do. We support more but basically the only required ones are delimiter and nulls. The others are around just for convenience. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
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VDX 7.3 release notes (current version)
New rota options
Along with the current manual rota where users select the locations they wish to send the request to, they also now have the option of a semi-automated and fully-automated rota.
'User' is no longer an available option in 7.3
Your library may wish to maintain several user accounts for the one location. As the function to implement this is no longer available in LADD, please contact the LA Helpdesk for this option.
Requested and Shipped Service Types
The Requested and Shipped service types are now visible on both the Received Action screen and the Request Details screen.
Advanced Request Search Page
Now able to search for multiple locations by Borrower or Lender Code (NUC Symbol) by using 'Other Fields' drop down menu.
Options Available after Logging in to LADD
After logging in the default page is Advanced Search. It is now also possible to have the Standard Bib Search, Standard ILL Request Search or the Work Queue screen display.
History Trail
Due to the previous display of incorrect 'Authorised by' values, incoming messages now have no 'Authorised by' name, and automatically transmitted messages are authorised by 'System' followed by name of program that generated automated message e.g. (system - Auto-Mediator)
Request Screen
When placing a request 'Amount willing to pay' has been removed from the Patron Details section. Borrower is still able to add Patron Name and Patron Email.
Received Screen
If the value of 'Number of Items' is changed by the lender when shipping (e.g. three volumes sent with one request) this is now stored correctly in the 'Number of Items' field in the Borrower Received Screen.
Work Queues
There have been a couple of changes to the Lender work queue. Overdue Today and Overdue > 4 weeks have been combined as Overdue – Due Date Passed. Requests that are in that Work Queue will then move into a new Work Queue Overdue – Actioned once the Overdue action by the Lender has been applied.
VDX 6.0.1 release notes
Unicode compliance
Unicode is now supported throughout VDX
Changes to item format list
The following new item formats are available in the Advanced Request Search screen and the ILL Request form:
- Visual Material
- Music Online
- Spoken Book
- DVD Music
- Blu Ray
The item format DVD Movie has changed to Video DVD. Minor changes to the listed sequence of item formats.
New Sheet Music request form
The new Sheet Music request form includes the additional fields: Opus Number, Key, Instruments, Scope and Type of Score and Number of Copies. Use for imported bibliographic records coded as Printed Music in the leader.
Query details added to the Query Result display
Request Hit List page now includes an identifier that hints at what search generated this listing:
- Work Queue searches display the Queue name
- Saved searches display the Saved Search name
- Simple searches display name of simple search
- Advanced searches simply display the text "Advanced search"
Notes Icon in the brief request form clickable
Pop up window contains the text of the most recent note.
Layout of Standard Request search screen has changed
The Borrower/Lender distinctions have been removed from the Standard Request search screen. The ILL number search also includes the supplier's alternative number if there is one. Users are able to edit which searches appear.
Changes to the Advanced Request search screen
- ILL Numbers option in the ILL Numbers field in the drop-down box now searches Our Number/ILL no and Their Number/TGQ.
- A second Sort by field has been added for complex sort options.
- Ability to sort Search Results list has been added.
- Sort options have been changed to: Current Responder Location; Current Responder Name; Expiry Date; ILL Number; Need Date; Requested Title; Requester Location; Requester Name.
"Foldable" Request screen
Various sections of the full request display and the ILL Request form are now foldable by clicking on arrows at the head of each section. Once a user sets a request form section to open or closed the setting is remembered between requests and across different sessions.
Number of Items field
The Shipped screen now has a new field that indicates the physical number of items being shipped to the borrowing location. The field number is defaulted to "1".
Reply by dates default to seven (7) days
The dates generated with Answer Conditional, Will Supply and Answer Retry messages now all default to seven days.
Popup error message if Shipped action does not include a due date
If there is no due date in the Shipped action screen the system will popup an error message
Retry date now included in the History field when a request is actioned Answer Retry
When Answer Retry is actioned by a Lender, the date inserted in the Retry action screen is now visible in the Request History field on both Borrower and Lender sides of the request.
Volume field for Books added to request entry and display screens:
Book request entry and display forms now always include a Volume field.
Ability to run a selected book-slip report against the current request
A new option on the Request Details page that generates a request specific book slip report dependent upon the role of the request. Typical reports that might appear here could include:
- Requests Awaiting Authorisation
- Standard Received List
- Standard Returned List
- Standard Pick List
- Standard Shipping List
New Report: Requests Awaiting Authorisation
A new report has been added to the list of existing reports. It includes request at 'idle' with an authorisation status of 'For Manual Authorisation'. It will be useful for those libraries that use Enhanced Requesting.
Authorisation statuses 'Acknowledged'/'To Be Acknowledged' changed to 'Read'/'Unread'
1) The Authorisation Status of 'Acknowledged' has been changed to 'Read'.
2) The Authorisation Status of 'To Be Acknowledged' has been changed to 'Unread'.
3) The 'Acknowledge' button on the brief request display has been changed to 'Mark as Read'.
4) The 'Mark as Unread' button on the Request Details screen remains unchanged.
Ability to publish saved request searches as Work Queue items
Saved ILL searches can now be published and will be visible in the new Published Saved Searches' section of the Work Queue. Libraries who have multiple LADD signons will be able, on application to the LA Help Desk, to share their saved searches with other User Accounts within the same Library.
VDX 4.1.4 release notes
Cancelled requests
Cancelled requests are now included in the requester's end of rota work queue.
Note replication
Item and public notes sent by ISO sites were replicating with all subsequent actions. This resulted in requests containing notes with more than 1000 characters sometimes creating looping requests on the gateway.
Suspension Icon
The suspension icon and accompanying details which appear next to the holding information in LADD bibliographic searches are now displaying correctly.
Public notes
Public notes now include the NUC of the location which sent the note and the correct date and time.
Answer Nonsupply action
When a responder actions Answer Will Supply to a request and then follows this action with an Answer Nonsupply, this Answer Nonsupply will NOT be overridden by another Answer Will Supply action.
Calculate new cost button
Changing the cost of an item about to be shipped and using the 'calculate new cost' button does not 'reset' other fields that have previously been altered such as delivery method or due date.
Mark as unread button
When a responder accesses a new request, this changes its authorisation status from 'To Be Acknowledged' to 'Acknowledged'. If the responder wishes to return a request to authorisation status of 'To be Acknowledged,' selecting the 'Mark as Unread' button will now return the request to its original status in all circumstances.
Control numbers
Control numbers in bibliographic records (eg 001, 010, 035 fields) now display in the requester/borrower and responder/lender views for both copy and loan requests.
Bulk actions and the Rota
The rota now remains unaffected when performing bulk actions on requests.
Subtitle display
The subtitle now displays correctly for all item formats in Copy non returnable requests.
Item and public notes in print screen format
Item and public notes are now visible in the print format screen.
Item and public notes in copy requests
Item and public notes are now visible in all copy requests.
Item and public notes retained in re-requests
Item and public notes are now retained in a request when re-requesting an item with new locations added.
Modifying item format or service level in a new request
Modifying item format or service level in a new request does not result in the screen focussing on the rota search box
WebPDF delivery method
Selecting WebPDF as a delivery method for a copy request does not now result in the processed request arriving at the lender location with a different requested delivery method.
Client note display
client notes (in requests for manual authorisation) are displaying correctly in the request action screen when a request is authorised.
Page item counts in PDF reports
The PDF reports in the report section of the work queues now display correctly at the top of the page, the number of items on that particular page.
LADD 4.1.4 (Released 5 Dec 2011)
These notes refer to VDX 4.1.4, the Libraries Australia Document Delivery production service and are valid as of the 5 December 2011.
Libraries Australia Document Delivery Browser Compatibility - Browsers
Libraries Australia Document Delivery Browser Compatibility - Platforms
Differences between VDX 3.2.1 and VDX 4.1.2
The Requester is now known as the Borrower and the Responder is now known as the Lender.
Audit Details
Previously the Audit Details and now known as the History, this lists the sequence of action and action-indications for each request
ILL No/TGQ
The ILL Number is now known as 'Our Number' and the TGQ (Transaction Group Qualifier) is now known as 'Their Number'
When attaching a TIFF document via the DocStore, the document is automatically converted to a PDF document
'Complete' Action
Previously an Authorisation Status, 'Complete' is now an Action that can be performed at any stage of the request lifecycle by either the Borrower (Requester) or Lender (Responder)
Request Screen
When creating a new request the Request screen display changes for a copy or a loan request, with appropriate fields displaying for the service type. The Request screen display is now on one screen, and there are no longer tabs for Main/Rota and Main/Documents.
WorkQueue Users are now able to edit the display of the WorkQueue. Also there is no longer a waiting column, just a total column for requests in that status.
ISO ILL requests
When a request is received from an ISO ILL location there will only be one request number appearing, which is the requesting ISO ILL sites Their Number (previously the TGQ).
ISO ILL locations
ISO ILL locations no longer appear with the 'I' prefixing the NUC. For example the University of New South Wales previously displayed as 'INUN', while they now display as 'NUN'. There is no change in placing requests to ISO ILL locations.
Any dates that are included in responses, for example the answer date in Answer Will Supply or Answer Conditional actions, the Due Date, Local Due Date, Shipped Date or Desired Due Date for Renewal actions, now display under the Additional Service Details section in the ILL Request Details.
Users are able to send a Public Note associated with a request, which is viewable by both the Borrower (Requester) and Lender (Responder), or a Private Note which is viewable only by the library who attached the Private Note to the request. When creating a request the Borrower (Requester) is able to place an Item Note which is viewable by the Lender (Responder). The Public Note, Private Note and Item Note replace the Message action. When a note has been sent with an action, this action appears in blue in the History (audit trail). When clicking on this blue action, the note appears in a new window. The note is also able to be read within the body of the request itself.
Local library suspensions have been merged with system configured local calendar holidays (e.g. Melbourne Cup Day). Local calendar holidays are unable to be altered, however local library suspensions can be created, edited and deleted.
Default loan days
When shipping a loan request the due date is defaulted to 28 days in the future. Lenders (Responders) are able to change this due date before actioning shipped.
Enter key executable
On screens that have a 'submit' icon this action can be executed by the user hitting the 'enter' key on their keyboard.
Local Number
When creating a new request the Borrower (Requester) is able to use the Our Local Number field to record a locally defined running number for the request.
Amount Willing to Pay
When creating a new request the Borrower (Requester) is able to enter in the amount the patron is willing to pay for the item. This amount must be either blank, zero (0.00) or less then the Max Cost field, otherwise the request will go into Check Error. This patron amount is not taken into consideration during the Libraries Australia Document Delivery Payments Service report is generated.
Rota management
When creating a new request the Rota section now contains two tabs, Holdings and Found, to better manage the selection of the rota. The Holdings tab contains all of the LADD locations that hold the item. The Found tab will contain the locations that are located via a search in the 'Library Symbol or Location Name' field. When selecting locations to add to the rota the Borrower (Requester) is able to toggle between the Holdings and Found tabs.
Location details
Users are now able to click on the Location listed within the History (audit details) of a request, which opens a new window containing the current details of that location, including suspension status and delivery address.


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Task Force Currahee Public Affairs
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers from Company B, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, launched the experimental unmanned aerial vehicle, Shadow 200 Increased Endurance, for its first official Task Force Currahee mission Sept. 8.
"We are very impressed with the aircraft," said U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Travis Baxter, the Shadow platoon leader and a native of Clarksville, Tenn. "So far, we are the first in the U.S. Army to fly this aircraft in combat in Afghanistan."
The Shadow 200 I.E. has several redesigned features enabling increased endurance during flights.
The updated Shadow now uses an electronic fuel injection engine and fuel system instead of a carburetor engine, said Baxter. "Using the fuel injection system allows us to fly the Shadow during the winter months, which had been an issue with the previous style of engine."
Other changes made to the aircraft include adding a laser designator and updating the payload (software and equipment used to broadcast live video feed).
The UAV also has a wider wingspan that increases the amount of fuel the UAV can carry, allowing for a flight length up to nine hours and a radio system that can be used as a communication relay.
"In this terrain, sometimes soldiers may not be able to get a clear [communications] signal," said U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Pardo, a Company B UAV maintainer and a Kingsville, Texas, native. "Now they can use the radio in the Shadow as a relay to get their signal over a mountain so they can get the information they need and continue more safely on their mission."
These updates to the Shadow system are new essential assets to help get soldiers home safely.
Increasing the time the Shadow can fly to nine hours means the aircraft can be up scanning an area longer, said Pardo.
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A protein concentration measurement system with two-port flexural plate-wave (FPW) biosensors using a frequency-shift readout technique is presented in this paper. The proposed frequency-shift readout method employs a peak detecting scheme to measure the amount of resonant frequency shift. The proposed system is composed of a linear frequency generator, a pair of peak detectors, two registers, and a subtractor. The frequency sweep range of the linear frequency generator is limited to 2 MHz to 10 MHz according to the characteristics of the FPW biosensors. The proposed frequency-shift readout circuit is carried out on silicon using a standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The sensitivity of the peak detectors is measured to be 10 mV. The power consumption of the proposed protein concentration measurement system is 48 mW given a 0.1 MHz system clock.
With the booming demand in the field of biomedical electronics,
Molecular self-assembly monolayers (SAMs) are spontaneous organizations of molecules into stable, structurally well-defined aggregates. The basic principles of molecular self-assembly are found throughout biology: protein folding and aggregation and pairing of base pairs in DNA are two well-known examples. SAMs were preceded historically by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayers, which have been studied extensively and are useful for many applications. LB films, however, are neither convenient to prepare nor sufficiently robust for most applications. SAMs, by contrast, are more robust and simpler to generate, inamuch that they can be formed from a wide variety of ligands and supports. SAMs can be immobilization on Pt [
IgE antibodies exploit SAMs to immobilize on the flexural plate-wave (FPW) sensor surface, which is required to achieve high selectivity of an immunosensor. Utilizing the highly specific IgE antigen-antibody interaction is a good candidate for the IgE molecular recognition process. To ensure IgE molecules with low non-specific binding of other biomolecules, an appropriate self-assembled monolayer must be developed. In this study, the well-bonded cystamine SAM/glutaraldehyde cross-linking layers are proposed for the immobilization of the IgE antibody. The highly ordered cystamine SAM can be nucleated on a (111) gold surface and utilized for modification of a gold surface to introduce amino groups on it. The amino groups can provide reaction sites for covalently bonding with glutaraldehyde. The purified mouse anti-human IgE antibodies are then immobilized through Schiff bases via glutaraldehyde cross-linking, as shown in
In the last decade, many acoustic microsensors have been developed for molecular mass detection, such as shear horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW), surface transverse wave (STW), love wave (LW), shear horizontal acoustic plate mode (SH-APM), layered guided acoustic plate mode (LG-APM) and FPW [ Low energy loss of acoustic transmission in liquid medium Low design complexity of the oscillator Isolating the electrical circuit from the liquid medium
Low energy loss of acoustic transmission in liquid medium
Low design complexity of the oscillator
Isolating the electrical circuit from the liquid medium
Besides, since the FPW device can be fabricated by semiconductor technology, which allows batch processing that is very cost effective. Generally, the structure of the FPW device is composed of a group of input interdigital transducers (IDTs), a group of output IDTs, and an acoustic waveguide material between the input IDTs and the output IDTs. Notably, the acoustic waveguide material is made of a piezoelectric material. The FPW device's performance is determined by the quality and the membrane thickness of the piezoelectric layers. Therefore, the FPW device needs an excellent micro-fabrication technique to be realized by the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and piezoelectric films. The mechanical deformation of the piezoelectric material is caused by the piezoelectric effect when the signal is given by the input IDTs, which generates an acoustic wave at the input IDTs in the meantime. Then, the acoustic wave is propagated to the output IDTs through the piezoelectric films and restored into an electrical signal by the piezoelectric effect. To improve the performance of the FPW device, piezoelectric films with uniform microstructures and textures are a basic requirement. Moreover, the smoothness of the piezoelectric films would also enhance the acoustic transmission efficiency.
The FPW allergy biosensor propagates an acoustic wave via a mechanical thin plate. The resonant frequency,
To improve the adhesion between the gold layer and the silicon substrate, a 500 Å-thick Cr layer is deposited onto the backside cavity of the FPW device before the 2,500 Å-thick Au layer deposited by an E-beam evaporator. To achieve a hydrophilic surface, the backside gold layer is pretreated with 'piranha' solution (70 wt% H2SO4–30 wt% H2O2) for 30 min, and then rinsed with deionized (DI) water three times and dried at the room temperature. An immunoaffinity layer for the effective recognition of IgE antigens is generated through the following steps [
By the above steps, the purified mouse anti-human IgE antibodies are then immobilized through Schiff base via glutaraldehyde cross-linking.
In this section, we investigate the sandwich format shown in
In this paper, we propose a novel frequency-shift readout system for a pair of two-port FPW biosensors. The FPW allergy biosensor adopts the Cr/Au-based IDTs to be a transmitter (Tx) and a receiver (Rx), which are, respectively, placed on the right and left side of a thin plate. The sensitivity of the FPW allergy biosensor is −4.68 × 109 cm2/g according to previous results [
As mentioned, a frequency-shift readout circuit is needed to measure the amount of the frequency shift according to the characteristics of the FPW allergy biosensor.
A sine wave frequency generator is required for the FPW allergy biosensors to generate the frequency sweep signal in the pre-defined range. Referring to
However, the codes to drive the DAC, particularly the most significant bits (MSB), are easily affected by the process variation [
OTA_vb is biased externally to ensure correctness of the OTA's functionality. Gm1, Gm2, Gm3, and Gm4 are identical OTA (operational transconductance amplifier) like the one shown in
However, the transconductance of Gm1 can be adjusted by tuning the bias, DAC_out. Referring to
The output signal of each FPW allergy biosensor in
By the above steps, the peak detector can generate the enable signals, EN (En1 or En2 in
As the IgE antigen concentration of allergy patient is usually higher than 100 IU·mL−1 the FPW allergy biosensor developed in this study is coated with 73.6 IU·mL−1 (non-allergy) and 294.4 IU·mL−1 (allergy) IgE antigen and their frequency responses are measured. The center frequency of the implemented FPW allergy biosensor is measured by the Casecade RHM-06/V probe station and the HP8714ET network analyzer. Two cascade coplanar 150-GSG probes are used to be coupled with the input IDTs and output IDTs of the FPW sensor, respectively. Notably, all the measurements are proceeded at the room temperature. As shown in
The proposed frequency-shift readout circuit for FPW allergy biosensors is fabricated on silicon using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology.
The FPW sensors are coupled to the proposed readout system as shown in
By measurement, the frequency resolution of the proposed system must be smaller than 35 kHz. The typical 8-bit counter can generate a 0 to 256 counting signal to drive the DAC. Based on the output digital code of the counter, a corresponding bias voltage generated by the DAC is given to the OTA-C oscillator, which is in charge of delivering a 2 MHz to 10 MHz sine wave. By calculation, the frequency step of the proposed linear frequency generator is 31.25 kHz, which provides enough frequency resolution for the proposed system. When the input frequency equals to the resonant frequency, the output signal of the FPW allergy biosensor reaches the peak voltage. The accuracy of the proposed peak detector is measured to be 15 mV.
Since the INL and DNL are measured to be both smaller than 0.5 least significant bits (LSB), the proposed DAC with the current complementary circuit is able to provide an accurate voltage output to the OTA-C oscillator. The measurement results of the OTA-C oscillator is illustrated in
This paper presents a frequency-shift readout circuit and system for a two-port FPW allergy biosensor. The linear frequency generator generates a linear frequency sweep fed into the FPW allergy biosensor. The peak detectors are used to detect the resonant frequencies of the Experimental group and Control group of the two-port FPW allergy biosensors. The detected resonant frequencies are stored in the registers, reg1 and reg2, respectively. The frequency-shift amount is measured by the proposed prototype system correctly. The proposed prototype system just needs less than 10 min operation time to produce the protein concentration measurement result. Furthermore, the proposed prototype system is very cost effective compared to the traditional methods and existing systems. Therefore, the proposed technique should be an attractive solution for protein concentration measurement.
This investigation is partially supported by National Sun Yat-Sen University and National Science Council under grant NSC 99-2221-E-110-081-MY3, NSC 99-2923-E-110-002-MY2, NSC 100-2221-E-110-021 and NSC 101-2221-E-110-080. Besides, this research is supported by the Southern Taiwan Science Park Administration (STSPA), Taiwan, under contract No. EZ-10-09-44-98 and EI-28-05-10-101. It is also partially supported by Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, under grant 99-EC-17-A-01-S1-104 and 99-EC-17-A-19-S1-133. The authors would like to express their deepest gratefulness to Chip Implementation Center (CIC) of National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for their thoughtful chip fabrication service. The authors are indebted to the National Nano Device Laboratories (South Branch) in Taiwan for their assistance in providing the access to their processing facilities.
Proposed structure for the SAM.
Schematic diagram of the integration of cystamine SAM.
Layout of the FPW biosensor with grating electrode design.
Cross-sectional structure of the FPW-based allergy biosensor.
Schematic diagram of the integration of cystamine SAM, glutaraldehyde and IgE antibody/antigen in multilayers.
Schematic diagram of the integration of cystamine, glutaraldehyde, IgE antibody/antigen, and IgE antibody-FITC on the slide.
Fluorescence microscopic image of sandwich format (with IgE antigen concentration 294 IU·mL−1) on the gold/glass microscope slide.
Block diagram of the frequency-shift readout system.
Schematic of the 8-bit DAC.
Illustration of DNL and INL error (Adapted from [
Schematic of the current complementary circuit.
Schematic of the OTA-C oscillator.
Schematic of the operational transconductance amplifier.
Schematic of the peak detector.
Photograph of the implemented FPW sensor.
Frequency responses of the FPW allergy biosensor.
Die photo of the proposed frequency-shift readout circuit.
Prototype of the protein concentration measurement system.
Curve of frequency
Frequency shift
Frequency shift of the FPW allergy biosensor coated different IgE concentrations in human serums.
Measurements of the frequency-shift readout circuit.
Comparison with commercial allergy detectors and the proposed FPW-IgE microsystem.
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|Automated Latex Enhanced Immunoassay
|Acoustic/piezoelectric Microsensor
|Streptavidin Biotin Based Sandwich Assay
|Streptavidin Biotin Based Sandwich Assay
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|Calibrators (IU·mL−1) (in human serum)
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Specifications of the FPW-based allergy biosensor.
|Wavelength (Periodicity)
|Enzyme Immunoassay Colorimetric
|No. of finger pairs
|Finger width/finger spacing
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|Acoustic aperture
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Comparison with prior work.
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|system on chip
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|phase detection
|Process (μm)
|Supply voltage (V)
|+5, −5, and 3.3
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Benefit Screening for Harry Potter — Support Park City Schools and see the new Harry Potter movie one day before it's released nationally. The Park City Education Foundation will host the benefit screening of "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince" Tuesday, July 14th, at the Redstone Cinema 8. Details and tickets online soon at http://www.pcef4kids.org.
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LeeAnn Rimes with the Utah Symphony — World-famous LeAnn Rimes joins the Utah Symphony with songs that will have you dancing in the Deer Valley moonlight, stirring your soul and making you fall in love all over again. Known for "Blue", "You Light Up My Life" and "How Do I Live". Saturday, July 25th, 7:30pm at the Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheatre. For ticket information for this and other Utah Symphony concerts, go to: www.deervalleymusicfestival.org/concerts.
2009 Park City Jazz Festival — 12th annual Park City Jazz Festival presented by Mark Miller Subaru on August 21-23, 2009 at the Deer Valley Resort Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater. The 2009 PCJF will feature: Al Jarreau, Esperanza Spalding, Poncho Sanchez, Anna Wilson and many other outstanding artists! Tickets are on sale now and are available at www.parkcityjazz.org or call 435-640-1362.
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{{Warning| '''This article uses Portage. Do not proceed if you have no idea what Portage is.'''}}
 '''How to install the PyKaraoke application for playing karaoke files under Sabayon Linux'''

 {{Note|The two alternatives for playing karaoke files in Linux are KMid and PyKaraoke. Earlier versions of KMid did not support international characters or diacritics (accents), but the latest versions do. PyKaraoke also supports international characters and diacritics.}}

 PyKaraoke can play CDG (.mp3+.cdg, .ogg+.cdg, .wav+.cdg), MIDI (.mid/.kar) and MPEG (.mpg) karaoke files. You can read about PyKaraoke (Python Powered Karaoke) on its home page http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

 Open a Terminal window, log-in as the root user and follow the steps below.

 1. Install the Timidity MIDI player if it is not already installed:

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emerge -1v timidity++
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 2. Install the Timidity patches required by PyKaraoke:

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emerge -1v timidity-eawpatches
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 3. Install sdl-mixer with the timidity USE flag (and mp3 USE flag if you will want to play mp3 files using PyKaraoke):

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USE="mp3 timidity" emerge -1v sdl-mixer
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 {{Note|The package sdl-mixer was already installed when I installed Sabayon Linux, but I was getting the message "Error opening file. <class 'pygame.error'> Module format not recognized" from PyKaraoke when I tried to play a .mid or .kar file. It was because sdl-mixer had been compiled without the timidity USE flag, hence the recompile of sdl-mixer shown above.}}

 4. Use your favourite text editor and add the following line to /etc/make.conf if it's not there already:

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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/"
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 5. Create a directory to store a local ebuild for PyKaraoke:

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mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-sound/pykaraoke
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 6. Download the ebuild file pykaraoke-0.7.1.ebuild from Gentoo Bugzilla Report No. 137415 and copy it to /usr/local/portage/media-sound/pykaraoke/pykaraoke-0.7.3.ebuild (notice that it is renamed).

 7. Download the file pykaraoke-0.7.3.zip from the Download page of the above-mentioned PyKaraoke Web site and copy it to the directory /usr/portage/distfiles/

 8. Install the PyKaraoke package:

 {{Console|
emerge -1v pykaraoke
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 If an error message is displayed stating that the pakage is masked by missing keyword, edit as root user the file /etc/portage/package.keyword and add the following line:
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~media-sound/pykaraoke-0.7.3 **
}}

 {{Note|A PyKaraoke icon will automatically be added to Kickoff > Applications > Multimedia, so you can launch PyKaraoke using that, or just enter the command pykaraoke at the command line if you prefer.}}

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