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Government Dithers While Lives are Lost
16 April 2003
Government Dithers While Lives are Lost: One year since 17 April Cabinet Statement and still no treatment
Charlene Wilson: A TAC Leader Dies
List of International Actions Planned for Global Day of Action, 24 April 2003
Government Dithers While Lives are Lost
One year ago, on April 17th 2002, the Treatment Action Campaign welcomed the announcement of the Cabinet's expanded policy on HIV/AIDS. In particular, we welcomed the recognition that HIV prevention strategies would be strengthened by a commitment to the right of all people to have HIV-related opportunistic infections treated, and a recognition of the efficacy of antiretroviral treatment.
We stated that we hoped that the new Cabinet policy would be implemented quickly to save lives.
One year later, approximately 200,000 more people in South Africa have died of HIV/AIDS, including many TAC leaders and volunteers. Government research has confirmed that HIV is the leading cause of death among women between the ages of 15 and 39, of maternal mortality, and is a major factor exacerbating poverty. We are therefore angry and disappointed that, despite these uncontroverted facts, in key areas of the promise of April 17th 2002 there has been no progress. These are:
Treatment of Opportunistic Infections:
Government promised that nobody would be refused treatment for HIV related illnesses, such as TB, shingles and thrush. However, health providers and users all over the country, continue to report that many essential medicines that prevent or treat opportunistic infections are not available, or are sometimes refused to patients. In addition, very few nurses or doctors have received training in the management of HIV. A training, implementation and monitoring plan would start to correct this.
The commitment to a comprehensive response:
Government insists that there is a treatment and prevention plan and has used this to justify five months of inaction at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). They point to the Strategic Plan (2000-2005). However, this 'plan' itself states it is
"a broad national strategic plan designed to guide the country's response to the epidemic. It is not plan for the health sector specifically, but a statement of intent for the whole country, both within and outside government. It is recognised that no single sector, ministry, department or organisation is by itself responsible for addressing the HIV epidemic. It is envisaged that all government departments, organisations and stakeholders will use this document as a basis to develop their own strategic and operational plans so that all our initiatives as a country can be harmonised to maximise efficiency and effectiveness"
If there is an operational plan we call on government to immediately provide it to the public.
antiretroviral treatment:
Whilst increasing numbers of people are receiving treatment in the private sector and through their employment, there is still a policy not to provide treatment in public hospitals and clinics. South Africa has even fallen out of sink with most SADC countries who have commenced treatment programmes. We cannot be reassured by the existence of a secretive committee of the Departments of Health and Finance, whose research cannot be subject to public scrutiny, but which will form the basis for a Cabinet decision of enormous import. This policy causes many preventable deaths.
These facts and failings are causing untold anguish in tens of thousands of households throughout South Africa. TAC calls on government to use the anniversary of April 17th to announce a plan to provide ARV treatment, and to return to and conclude the Nedlac process.
With such a commitment TAC would immediately end its civil disobedience campaign and do all in its power to further mobilize communities in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
To mark the anniversary of April 17th 2002 today TAC supporters have organised activities throughout the country today.
This has included condom distributions, workshops on treatment and prevention, clinic cleanups, mural painting, pickets, presentations to schools and interfaith services. Here is a small sample of some of the events that are taking place today (16 April)
Picket outside the Gauteng Provincial Department of Health and small pickets at major intersections in Johannesburg
Condom distribution and pamphleteering down the streets of Site C, Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Cleanup at Fredville Clinic in Inshanga, Kwazulu-Natal
Interfaith service at 18:00, in Marion Hill hospital in Durban
Clinic cleanups in Mdantsane and Duncan Village, East London
Visiting a hospice for HIV-positive children in Barberton, Mpumalanga
The media are also alerted to the following pending activities:
April 19th: Funerals of Edward Mabundla and Charlene Wilson:
April 24th: International day of action.
April 24th : Day of action focusing on the Departments of Health and Trade and Industry
May 5 & 6th : Health workers days of action.
Charlene Wilson: A TAC Leader Dies
Dear All
Charlene Wilson, a TAC leader, sister, daughter, community activist and our comrade has died. She is survived by her mother, Louisa, her brother Shannon, her sister Megan and her father. Her mother, who proudly wears an HIV-positive t-shirt, is also a TAC activist and a strong supporter of Charlene's work. Charlene was an activist and women's leader who worked as a volunteer at Circle of Life. She lived openly with HIV in a community that was often hostile to her. She fought for openness in her community and worked closely with the nurses and doctors at the clinic in Eersterust ensuring that people living with HIV and AIDS received proper treatment and care for their opportunistic infections.
Charlene started treatment on antiretroviral medicines when her CD4 count was below 10 and she was very ill in October 2002. Recovering from a CD4 count this low, even with antiretroviral medicines, is difficult. Nevertheless Charlene got much better. But in the last few weeks she contracted lactic acidosis as a side-effect of stavudine, one of the antiretrovirals in her regimen. At the point at which this was diagnosed, the condition rapidly became irreversible. She was admitted to intensive care at Helen Joseph Hospital where she died on Monday April 14th. Charlene's mother believes her antiretroviral medicines brought her an extra six months of life. Nevertheless, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recognises, as we have frequently stated, that the side-effects of antiretroviral medicines can be very serious, especially in patients with severely compromised immune systems. This is why it is critical to have good monitoring and support systems in place and for people with HIV to have access to proper treatment literacy.
Charlene will be deeply missed by all at TAC. She joins six other TAC activists and leaders who died in the last three weeks --Kebareng Moeketsi, Edward Mabunda, Mxolifi Kohlakala, Mzokuhle Fanayi and two comrades whose families have not yet given permission for the use of their names. Apart from Charlene, none of the other comrades had access to antiretrovirals. In Charlene's memory and that of all our comrades, we will redouble our efforts to campaign for a decent public health-care system. We will struggle for the implementation of antiretroviral programmes which include voluntary counselling and testing, treatment literacy, support group, monitoring and diagnostic functions and the training of all health care workers.
TAC salutes the courage of Charlene's mother Louisa, her brother Shannon and her sister Megan and our condolences go to her family and friends. We miss her deeply.
In solidarity
List of International Actions Planned for Global Day of Action, 24 April 2003
This is a preliminary list which will be updated and placed on the TAC website. Where two numbers are given next to each other, the first is a phone number, the second is a fax number. Please email corrections and additions to
Belgium: Actions and meeting with SA Ambassador and MPs, as well as press conference in Brussels with TAC rep and other AIDS activists and doctors. Contact: Medecins Sans Frontieres, Alex Parisel
Finland: Letter writing by international student. Contact Daniel Bense
Germany: Letter writing, press statements. Contact: BUKO-Pharma Jörg Schaaber
-- see documents at
Ivory Coast: Being planned. Contact: Social Centre of Koumassi (Abidjan) Soura Besse Diakaridja
225 21 361354 225 20 215619
Jamica/Caribbean: Letter-writing, petition Contact: Olive Edwards
876 9296946 876 9296946
Japan (22 April): Meeting with SA embassy, delivery of petition. Contact: Africa Japan Forum Masaki Inaba
or Kumiko Makino
81 3 3834 6902 81 3 3380 2490 see website for documents in japanese:
Japan (26 April): Showing TAC videos (same contacts as above)
Kenya: Demo at SA High Commission in Nairobi Contacts: Kenya Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines James Kamau
254 722 886694 and Hope Africa Womens Organization Mildred Macharia
254 722 245107 --- Also, another event being planned in Kitale by Sima. Contact Johnstone Sikulu Wanjala
Namibia. Being planned. Contact: Ebenezer Youth Of Namibia, Ernst Xaweb exaweb @ rossing. com. na +264 64 5202506 +264 64 5202259
Netherlands: March to SA Embassy in Amsterdam, Contact: GNP+ Stuart Flavell
31 20 320 8256
Tanzania: Letter-writing, Contact: Pathfinder International, Grace Muro
255 22 211 7088 255 22 211 8283
UK: Being planned. Contact: International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Promise Mthembu
44 20 8 204 4098
USA (16 April): Demonstration at Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel's speech at Harvard University - Contact: Jennifer Selznick
USA (24 April): Picket at SA Embassy Washington DC (1 pm), Contact: Health GAP (NYC) Sharonann Lynch
1 212 674 9598
USA (28 April): Vigil in front of the South African Consulate in LA, 12-2 pm; lining up 600 pairs of shoes to symbolize daily SA AIDS deaths. Contact: Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) and Black AIDS Institute, Deborah Baron


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Judge Faults Merrill Lynch Internet Stock ResearchApr 9, 2002 | EcommerceTimes.com
A New York judge has ordered Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER)to reform its stock research unit after a 10-month investigation by the state's attorney general uncovered evidence that the firm's research on a host of Internet companies misled investors.
The order requires that Merrill Lynch make disclosures to investors about its relationship with investment banking clients and provide more context for stock ratings.
The preliminary order came in response to a 38-page complaint by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Based on 100,000 pages of documents, including thousands of e-mails, the affidavit shows that Merrill analysts publicly maintained positive ratings on stocks while deriding them privately, Spitzer said.
The investigation focused exclusively on the firm's Internet division. Well-known Internet researcher Henry Blodget, who gained fame as an early cheerleader for such Web stocks as Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) , was one of 10 Merrill employees interviewed under oath by investigators.
"This was a shocking betrayal of trust by one of Wall Street's most trusted names," Spitzer said. "The case must be a catalyst for reform throughout the entire industry."
Allegations Denied
Late Monday, Merrill Lynch issued a statement saying there is "no basis" for the allegations.
"We are outraged that we were not given the opportunity to contest these allegations in court," the statement said. "We are confident that a fair review of the facts will show that Merrill Lynch has conducted its research with independence and integrity."
But Spitzer said the investigation revealed a "serious breakdown of the separation between the Merrill Lynch banking and research departments" that resulted in almost exclusively positive coverage of Internet stocks from the spring of 1999 to the fall of 2001.
Familiar Territory
Merrill has been named in earlier lawsuits by investors in dot-com stocks. Among the names Spitzer said Merrill boosted were eToys, Webvan, Buy.com and Pets.com.
Spitzer cited internal e-mails in which analysts referred to stocks as "a piece of junk," "crap" and "a dog," despite publicly maintaining "buy" or "accumulate" ratings.
The same e-mails also seem to show that some analysts, including Blodget, eventually grew weary of promoting unworthy stocks.
Late in 2000, Blodget threatened in an e-mail to "just start calling stocks ... like we see them, no matter what the ancillary business consequences are." Fellow analyst Kristen Campbell said in a separate communication, "We are losing people money and I don't like it."
Process Faulted
For its part, Merrill faulted the investigation for relying so heavily on e-mail messages.
"The allegations reveal a fundamental lack of understanding of how securities research works," the firm said. "E-mails are only one piece of a continuous conversation, isolated at a single point in time -- not the end conclusion."
Merrill also argued that the e-mails show healthy debate among analysts about the companies they were assessing.
Examples Cited
Spitzer focused on two cases, involving GoTo.com (now known as Overture) and InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP) , as examples of the breakdown.
In the GoTo example, the complaint alleges that Merrill initiated coverage on the search engine shortly after the firm was hired to help manage an equity placement from European investors. At the same time, Blodget told a client in an e-mail that there was "nothing" interesting about Goto.com beyond "banking fees."
Merrill later downgraded GoTo on the same day that Credit Suisse First Boston won the right to handle a follow-on stock offering, beating out Merrill Lynch.
In the case of InfoSpace, the complaint charges that Merrill held off on lowering its rating on the stock until Merrill's banking unit successfully completed the sale of Go2Net to InfoSpace.
The judge's order is designed to protect investors while the investigation continues, Spitzer said.


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VIENNA (AP) A senior U.S. envoy will sit eye-to-eye for the first time with a top Iranian nuclear negotiator Saturday, a sharp reversal in U.S. policy that aims to entice Tehran into ending activities that could be used to make atomic arms.
The move to send Undersecretary of State William Burns to the Geneva nuclear talks has raised the hackles of Washington hardliners who say it signals U.S. weakness. But supporters say because both Tehran and the United States want to ease tensions, the move could breathe life into deadlocked nuclear talks.
Initially, they say, the U.S and its allies could agree to stop pushing for new U.N sanctions if Tehran stops expanding its uranium enrichment capacities — setting the stage for fuller negotiations and what the West hopes will be agreement from Tehran to dismantle its enrichment program.
Uranium enrichment can produce both reactor fuel and the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Iran says it has a right to enrich for peaceful uses and continues expanding its program despite three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions sparked by concern that Iran's ultimate goal is to make weapons.
The Americans are part of a six-nation effort — the permanent Security Council members plus Germany — trying to encourage Iran to suspend its nuclear efforts in exchange for economic and political incentives.
On the eve of the meeting, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the talks themselves give hope "that there can be a peaceful solution" to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program.
But he also told reporters he expects no quick changes from Iran, which has said "the essentials" — an apparent reference to suspending uranium enrichment — will not be on the table.
"After the Geneva meeting, we must not hope for an improvement, a change of attitude, right away," he said in Paris.
Still, the venue of Saturday's talks reflects the potential significance of the meeting.
The Hotel de Ville, or city hall, stands at the top of Geneva's Old Town. Its neoclassical rooms have hosted important international negotiations since 1872, when an arbitration tribunal ordered Britain to pay the United States US$15.5 million in Civil War damages. It was also the first home of the League of Nations, predecessor of today's United Nations.
The all-day talks, formally led by EU envoy Javier Solana and Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili, start at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT).
American officials have insisted that Burns' presence will be a "one-time event" and he will listen to the Iranians but will not be negotiating.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the decision to send Burns proved the U.S. is committed to diplomacy and is "firmly behind and unified with our allies."
Policy hawks disagree. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and undersecretary of state in charge of Tehran's nuclear file, said the move represents a "U-turn" in U.S. policy.
"To the Iranians, it will send a sign of the political weakness of a (U.S.) administration in its last days and desperate for a deal," he told The Associated Press.
The United States and its five partners (Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) remain committed to getting a full halt to Iranian enrichment. Still, Burns' decision to attend the Geneva talks shows that Washington may accept something less than full suspension, at least as a first step, to achieve its ultimate goal under a "freeze-for-freeze" proposal.
"Freeze-for-freeze" envisions a six-week commitment from both sides. Preliminary talks meant to lead to formal nuclear negotiations would start, Iran could continue enrichment but only at its present level, and the U.S. and its allies would stop pushing for new U.N. sanctions.
If this results in the start of formal talks, the Iranians would stop all enrichment temporarily. Those talks, in turn, are meant to secure Tehran's commitment for an indefinite ban on enrichment.
"The Iranians have always wanted the Americans at the table," and Burns' presence is meant to help them warm to the "freeze-for-freeze" idea, said a senior European official, who demanded anonymity in exchange for divulging confidential information.
If that happened, the U.S. presence at the negotiating table would end and resume only if "freze-for-freeze" talks resulted in an Iranian agreement to stop all enrichment activity for a certain period in exchange for incentives, the official said.
Burns' presence also may reflect the desire by both sides to ease tensions in the final months of U.S. President George W. Bush's term.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, speaking in Ankara on Friday, said the talks could also result in agreements to open a U.S. interest-protection bureau in Iran and have direct flights between the two nations.
U.S. interests in Iran are now represented by the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
Iran and the United States broke off diplomatic relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Official contacts between the two countries are extremely rare.
If Iranians fail to seize the chance at Geneva, the White House will have some tough decisions to make, including whether it should pull out of the six-nation group trying to entice Iran into negotiations.
That would surely cripple the diplomatic effort to engage Tehran on the nuclear front — and increase fears of a U.S. military option, something the Bush administration has refused to rule out.
Tensions over Iran's nuclear activities began five years ago, with revelations that it had hidden enrichment activities for nearly two decades. A U.S. intelligence estimate last year says Iran tried to make nuclear weapons at least until 2003 — charges Tehran vehemently denies.
Iran suspended enrichment that year but resumed in 2005 after rejecting EU incentives for a long-term enrichment stop. The Geneva talks are based on a revamped version of the 2005 incentive package.
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Then again, traversing train tracks may be nothing compared to the social risks of moving to Brooklyn.
Extended colonnades were frequently connected with them, traversing the principal streets.
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While traversing a gloomy forest in search of game he encountered a merchant beset by a ferocious lion.
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After traversing several hundred yards of this primeval forest I called a halt, and drew Pio close up to the side of my mule.
When traversing Illyrian and German ground, it was the same as in our own country.
Jimmie Dale only caught a word here and there—his faculties for the moment were concentrated on traversing the bathroom silently.
The country we were now traversing was as wild as any in Ireland.
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I had the procedure done 5 days ago and I notice that I feel sharp pain and tingling in my stomach when I eat. My stomach is very sensitive to the touch.
Feeling Pain and Tingling After I Eat Since Cool Sculpting
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Pain after Zeltiq Coolsculpting
The feeling of sharp pain and discomfort following the coolsculpting procedure is normal. This should subside within 1 month. It is recommended for you to wear a compression garment/ girdle to make it more comfortable for you. The reason you are felling more pain after you eat is due to the stomach expanding which is normal. Hypersensativity is common, massaging the area also helps with a moisturizer to speed up your recovery period.
Pain can happen after coolsclupting
It is not common, but not rare to have some persistent pain when treating the abdomen. This will subside and can usually be treated with ibuprofen. Were you thin to begin with? Some people believe the risk for post-procedural pain is greater in thinner people. On the other hand, pain with eating is not something I can explain from coolsclupting and I believe may be unrelated.
It is not uncommon to have delayed onset pain after a Coolsculpting procedure. This pain is more commonly experienced with abdominal Coolsculpting. It starts 3-5 days after the procedure and can last 10 days or so. This pain is nerve based and is best treated with Neurontin. Ask your physician to prescribe you som
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Cool Sculpting recovery of the tummy
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The discomfort from treatment does resolve. Taking over the counter tylenol or naproxen resolves this in the majority of cases. If you have swelling that is persistent then a waist binder is helpful.
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Pain & Tingling After CoolSculpting can be common
Pain and Tingling after CoolSculpting
Pain, tenderness, tingling or hypersensitivity after having the CoolSculpting procedure are normal, common, side effects of the treatment. Both of these side effects typically resolve within about 2 weeks, though the numbness can take upwards of 2-3 months to fully resolve.
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It is common to experience some tenderness following CoolSculpting for 1-2 weeks. An altered sensation (numbness) can also occur up to one month after treatments. Typically there is no interference with any activity, but immediately after a procedure it is not uncommon to feel more heightened discomfort. This should resolve itself within a couple days.
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Thank you for your question.
Patients may experience the pain and tingling that you are describing (usually not specific to only after eating). These will subside with time (usually 2-3 weeks) and no action is needed. You may want to take some over the counter pain medication for relief.
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Tingling and pain can occur temporarily after Zeltiq
CoolSculpting does create a significant amount of inflammation in the subcutaneous fatty compartment of tissue underneath the skin. this is how its freezing accomplishes fat reduction, by killing the fat cells and then dissolving them. Why you notice this pain more after eating is unusual and not easily explained.
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I know coffee is primally endorsed, but I wonder if I drink too much.
I brew a pot a day and generally have 2-4 8oz cups with it being reasonably strong. I suppose that comes out to about 500mg of caffeine a day. There is so much conflicting information on the internet...what better place to ask then here. Is this too much? I generally have it throughout the day. Any tips on how to ween off a caffeine addiction? I feel like I shouldn't be so reliant on it for energy. I'm getting enough sleep these days so that's not the problem.
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WP. still down (8 days) – Zend optimiser?
Firstly, I have a back up database on Go Daddy and made some on my Wp. db. plugin but cannot access these because my blog is down. I have tried to restore the Go daddy back up on a new WP set up in my databaes on Go Daddy, however, while I can export the database to notepad and save in my docs Im having problems importing it back into the new WP. I get this message:
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You attempted to load file with unsupported compression (application/zip). Either support for it is not implemented or disabled by your configuration.
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I have reviewed the entirety of this incident. It is the customers responsibility to maintain their website and keep backups of their information. We will not be able to restore your account free of charge. If there is a problem with the actual server we would be more then happy to assist in this issue. However, nothing indicates there is a problem with the server. Your other sites appear to be functioning without issue. The only site with a problem appears to be the one you attempted to edit and make configuration changes. Changing the domain name within the WordPress Administration panel will bring down the site and make the content appear out of the ordinary. Changing the password for the database will break the connection the site has to the database server. To resolve this you must update your configuration file to the new password.( I have resolved this issue)
Reviewing the site it does not appear that the current issue is related to these updates. You are now receiving an Internal Server error. To determine the cause of this error you need to review your Error Logs. I have reviewed the error logs and they indicate the below error message.
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I have removed theme and plugins.
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I would appreciate any assistance
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The Hoth's Brand system, also known as the Ruusan system, contained the planet Ruusan. It was located in Teraab sector. Most of the bodies of the system were named after Jedi who fought in the Battle of Ruusan.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Ambush" (Appears in flashback(s))
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- Kyle Katarn's Tale, Mission 5 on Wizards.com (original article link, backup links on Archive.org) (First identified as Hoth's Brand system)
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Improvements to spin-torque transfer (STT) MRAM bring technology closer to market readiness
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The UCLA team says the new storage nanocells represent a 10 to 1,000 times power efficiency bump over traditional MRAM designs during the power-intensive write cycle.
Unlike traditional flash memory, which operates using cells that stored values via charge, MRAM cells consist of little nanoscopic "sandwiches", stacks of specially prepared materials. Typically these materials contain a pair of tiny magnetic plates, one permanent, and one adjustable. To write to MRAM, a current induces a shift in polarity, which will remain fixed until the next write.
MRAM is expected to enjoy longevity and speed advantages over NAND or traditional hard-drive-based magnetic storage (which is inherently very slow due to the need for moving parts).
The new MRAM is part of a collection of emerging circuit technologies called "spintronics". Spintronics involves tweaking electron spins to generate novel behavior.
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MRAM was first developed in the 1990s. A major improvement arrived more recently with the development of spin-transfer torque (STT), a special MRAM technique that uses polarized electrons to trigger a cascade effect and "write" the magnetic value to a nanoscopic in-cell plate.
STT is attractive because unlike with older MRAM designs, it does not require significantly more power to perform a write cycle. However, it still suffered from heat and leakage issues due to the fact that it still required a fair amount of current.
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To tackle that challenge, Professor Wang's team modified MRAM cells to use voltage -- a potential difference -- rather than direct current to perform an STT-style write.
Pedram Khalili, a project manager at UCLA-DARPA who participated in the research
, "The ability to switch nanoscale magnets using voltages is an exciting and fast-growing area of research in magnetism. This work presents new insights into questions such as how to control the switching direction using voltage pulses, how to ensure that devices will work without needing external magnetic fields, and how to integrate them into high-density memory arrays."
"Once developed into a product. MeRAM's advantage over competing technologies will not be limited to its lower power dissipation, but equally importantly, it may allow for extremely dense MRAM. This can open up new application areas where low cost and high capacity are the main constraints."
By using voltage instead of current, UCLA researchers have greatly improved write power performance for MRAM spintronic cells. [Image Source: UCLA]
STT MRAM is often referred to under the
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Industry observers are clearly pretty interested in the more refined recent iterations of MRAM. Among the participants in the project was Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,
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Quantification of Hemodynamic Wall Shear Stress in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Using Phase-Contrast MRI
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is often concomitant with aortic dilatation, aneurysm, and dissection. This valve lesion and its complications may affect positional and temporal wall shear stress (WSS), a parameter reported to regulate transcriptional events in vascular remodeling. Thus, this pilot study seeks to determine if the WSS in the ascending aorta (AAo) of BAV patients differs from control patients. Phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) was used to perform flow analysis at the level of the AAo in 15 BAV and 15 control patients. Measurement of the aorta dimensions, flow rates, regurgitant fraction (RF), flow reversal ratio (FRR), temporal and spatial WSS, and shear range indices (SRI) were performed. The BAV and control group showed a significant difference between the circumferentially averaged WSS (p = 0.03) and positional WSS at systole (minimum p < 0.001). Regressions found that SRI (r = 0.77, p < 0.001), RF (r = 0.68, p < 0.001), and WSS at systole (r = 0.66, p < 0.001) were correlated to AAo size. The spatial distribution and magnitude of systolic WSS in BAV patients (−6.7 ± 4.3 dynes/cm2) differed significantly from control patients (−11.5 ± 6.6 dynes/cm2, p = 0.03). The SRI metric, a measure of shear symmetry along the lumen circumference, was also significantly different (p = 0.006) and indicated a heterogenic pattern of dilatation in the BAV patients.


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- Click on the connections number OR scroll down to their connections
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- Type in your search keyword or phrase
- 1st level connections will show up first
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- Ask your connection first if they are willing to introduce you, and then click on your connection's connection and the "Get Introduced" link.
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Eigenharp has announced that it will be adding the Pico, to its lineup of instruments that were inspired by the Cantina Band in the first Star Wars movie. The Pico is the baby brother to the Alpha, a £4000 experimental musical instrument that utilizes a breath controller to shape software-driven sounds.
Eigenharp claims the Pico is simple to use and anyone can play it. You can play it solo by jamming along with recorded loops, and it allows you to change scale and key, transpose, alter tempo, program beats, create arrangements, switch and layer multiple sounds, all while playing live.
With 18 playing keys and 4 mode keys, a strip controller and breath pipe, the smaller Pico has the majority of the playing features of the Eigenharp Alpha. It plays an unlimited range of sounds and is available in two finishes. The Eigenharp Pico, with its ease of playing and transformational approach to learning scales and music theory, represents a new and easier way to learn to play a musical instrument.
» 18 playing keys; Sampled at 2000 samples/second, per key; 10 bit (1024 values) resolution; Sensitive to direct pressure and to lateral pressure in both directions.
» Breath pipe; Sampled at 2000 samples/second; 10 bit (1024 value) resolution.
» Sensitive to blown and drawn breath
» Removable, interchangeable mouthpiece
» 180mm Strip Controller; Sampled at 2000 samples/second; 10 bit (1024 values) resolution
» 4 Mode Switches
» USB powered
» Conformable, height adjustable thumb hooks
» Neck strap
You can load and play your own Soundfonts, Audio Unit Plugins and MIDI instruments with the Eigenharp Pico. In addition, the Pico comes with its own native instruments (at present a software model of a Cello, Clarinet and a Synth engine). The Pico also ships with a collection of loop libraries and several acclaimed instruments from our partners including:
— 1500 AIFF format (timestretch and tempo change capable) varied Percussion and Drum loops.
— Sampletekk 'Black Grand Steinway D, sampled at 20+ levels in a 6 Gigabyte set that includes three recordings from dry to highly ambient.
— Sampletekk 'Tubed Rhodes', a multi sampled Rhodes Electric Piano.
— Sampletekk 'Tubed Wurli' electric piano in a Gigabyte multi sample set.
— Camel Audio's Eigenlabs Player version of "Alchemy" – The sample manipulation synthesizer
Eigenharp's Pico prices costs £399 and requires a Mac computer to run. More information on the Eigenharp Pico.


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text: Posted March 26, 2009 That would be pretty expensive, are you willing to have your taxes raised for that? Also, pretty sure that this would add a lot more people to rehab programs, ready to pay for that too? Don't think a urine drug test costs all that much. Its cheap enough for each applicant to pay for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Thanks Keith, I was just trying to decide what would make a robot female, on a rainy day, and got ever so slightly carried away.
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Thanks RP, this is just the beginning, check out the little guy's SCREEN TEST
OH!!!!! This is the coolest!I love these guys!She does look a bit….frisky……………………….!!!!
Here's a hint – This Guy might just need a new partner, and MEPS might just stand for Mechanical Employee of Police Squad… maybe…
Sid – you have done it again – no you have exceeded yourself mate. Works like this are why I got into digital art to start with.
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Just getting warmed up for something! Thanks Lance!
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Hello M******,
Sorry it has interpreted me so extended to act. Hopefully what I have to say will fulfill for your duty assignment.
[1] What was your babyhood like? Parents, hole enthusiasm etc . . .
First, I suppose you are interrogative this as it pertains to my decent a attribute academic. Thus suchlike Jung whose curate father's loss of principle unnatural him for his full-page life, my mother's holy zealism had a alike feeling on me. In fact, I have pictures in my cranium of me at age seven close by her legroom to say goodnight to her but knowing that I could not and should not trouble her prayers. Not the record-breaking use for a religious studies.
My mother's intellectual qualification too lastingly moved me, creating an continuous be looking for in me to understand quality nature. As quality as I can hypothesize then, she had some eating disorder (which she died from at age 48) and a signifier of schizophrenic disorder wherein her senses were suchlike the disturbance and female sibling in Poe's book, Fall of the House of Usher. To wit, I grew up in a magnificently uncluttered and clearly wash down but acoustically unfertile marital. Neither my little sister Teresa nor I were of all time allowed to talk, in certainty. Let unsocial to ask questions. Silence then was the gilt bylaw and even from the clip I was unmoving in a crib, I can envisage this human being the way it was. Break the silence and get exactingly penalised.
As you could imagine, this act of flawless silence had a profound feeling on me. Not the least of which was that it prevented me from acquisition how to socially link up to others. This after inhibited me to outer shell elsewhere for connections, pushing me, fairly by accident, to learn how to affix to outlook itself. Trees. Clouds. The undersized purplish flowers that grew squally in our meadow. I had conversations next to all of them. And everything other I could body.
Fortunately for me I grew up in a very, drastically scenic section. On the side of a crest commanding the Hudson River. I even summon up at cardinal close into the watercourse practical our lodging one day in my Sunday selected situation. Somehow I had get so delighted by the Spring dampen rush fuzz the mountain sidelong that I accurately stood in the stream, leaned over, and had a discourse beside the miniscule green nonvascular plant group who lived underneath the hose. Tiny sui generis stemmed beings beside weeny ball-shaped heads was what I saw. A unharmed open of shrimpy culture who could in some manner suspire below hose down was what I suggestion.
Of course, because I was not allowed to talk, I never got to detail a person this anecdote. Until I became a attribute theoretician that is.
Finally, my father was a firm working, not smooth two-handed wagon operator - applied scientist mechanical whom I stationary can envisage perusing by the buoyant of a one-person level hurricane lantern next to an ginger coloured hue. Not personality, worry you. Mostly change integrity views of "engines man repaired" kinds of books.
I, myself, have affected as well all my life, and while the books I chamber are not roughly speaking machinery per se, they are roughly the machine enclosed of us all. Peoples' cultures. Religions. Philosophies. Human discipline and frailties and misconceptions and such as. I bring up this as this image of my begetter highly untold enthusiastic me to get who I am. Especially my victimization books to educate myself what another inhabitants feel roughly speaking human character.
I supposition if I was to summarize this, what I have been language is, it was from these 3 foundations that I came to keep up a correspondence an full proposal of personality; my mother's warmth of her religion; my confidential existence beingness supported on anthropomorphic conversations beside nature; and my father's worship of books and research done how-it-works self propaganda manuals.
[2] If you could sum up how you consistency going on for human nature, how would you do it? I cognise this is hard, but I am retributive enquiring :)
Again, I guess you are interrogative as it pertains to my becoming a self-worth academic. Thus, like Freud, who lived in modern world wherein anyone widely physiological property was outlawed but discoveries in natural science were plainly worshiped, I am a trade goods of my times. Reading James Gleick's book, Chaos, for instance, masses geezerhood ago was for me similar Freud discovering the labour of the Nineteenth Century physicists. And patch I so agree next to Freud that energies created inside a heed cannot simply go distant and so therefore, at hand must be an cold (an impression he calculable from The First Law of Thermodynamics), we greatly baulk in that I see human humour as someone fractal, spell he searched it for one-dimensionality. Which means, spell I completely substantially credit the hard work of others in my field, at the aforementioned time, I likewise see investigation based on attempts to lever quality spirit into a linearity (for instance, applied mathematics as the way to turn out something is true in human nature; traits as a way to exposit human humour) as anyone an completely spurious labor. Entirely
As for my individualized gist of human nature, I brainstorm it and society colossally beautiful, in the aforementioned way all holding form are delicate. For instance, can you cognizance the divergence in beauty relating a textile rose and a existing one? Here, the cloth rose is even ready-made of form materials. Still, it in no way compares to the appearance of a concrete roseate.
Similarly I see attempts to cut quality nature, and quality beings, into wieldy chunks of notes as human being as unavailing as dissecting a lepidopteron in order to cognise it's humour. Dissecting the lepidopteran destroys its temperament. So does dissecting self-image. Thus I see therapies which do this as bordering on hard-hearted.
This leaves us beside lonesome one reliable research bit. Creating fractals which visually indicate quality personality. Thus, my use of Russian Nesting Dolls to stand for the artefact of self-image. Ten, nested, biological process layers of mutually beneficial aesthetic. Or my ten stratified Onion of Personality which is simply another vacillation of this self shape temperament.
[3] What is the supreme stimulating uncovering you have ready-made latterly in your work?
Only weeks ago I discovered a set of two fractals next to which I can term the complete scented oil of all holding addicting. The oldest form describes how what we get dependant to is the ability to change our mind's mental representation of occurrence. The 2d reveals wherever high spirits (getting illustrious) comes from.
With high regard to the front fractal, the Time Addicts Fractal, I see it as no fortuity that we baptize our addictions, "uppers," and "downers." Both spoken language have in mind to how every selective dependency allows us to somewhat predictably modify our mind's perception of time. Moreover, this applies to everything from drugs and drug of abuse to concluded consumption and card-playing.
With admiration to the 2d form then, the Body / Mind Euphoria Fractal, I have found that in whatsoever about witching way, Descartes was correct. Mind and organic structure are in several alpha way abstracted. And at the same time, they are the selfsame thing, a individual person's nature. (Descartes would in all likelihood gag if he detected what I honorable aforesaid. Oh okay.)
What I am dictum is, it turns out we all have two senses of time; the one we gist in our bodies and the one we consciousness in our minds. And if we do something which creates a hastily growing peculiarity linking these two clocks, we consistency the premonition of high spirits. Or as addicts beckon it, we consistency "high."
Equally stimulating is the notion that when we learn, heal, dive in love, or turn more conscious, we submit yourself to a like entry solitary it is more than a sort of "double" elation. What I plan is, whenever we have an aha, we feel a concurrent stock up in the velocity of both our organic structure and awareness erodium cicutarium. This then creates the epitome of what numerous folks would call, a spiritual submit yourself to. Or as my theories call it, the undertake of an "emergence."
Finally, yet other deduction of this thing timepiece / be bothered clock form point is that we now have a way in which expound the gist of all intellectual illnesses. In essence, on one end of the array is cacoethes which is simply a clause wherein our think about timepiece is athletics far in the lead of our organic structure chronometer. On the separate end afterwards we have depreciation which is simply that our thing clock is athletics far leading and quicker than our nous timepiece.
BTW, at a conference this period front by my helper and lad sense of self explorer, John Ortiz, John and I had a two extremely small speech more or less these recent discoveries. An hr later, he and I had the synchronized realization that folks who same stim (such as those next to Asperger's and some other Autism) are doing this because physically simulating themselves brings their body heron's bill up to zoom with their athletics knowledge filaria. That this happened eye to eye, exactly there in the thick of him openhanded one of his lectures ready-made it even much fantastic.
M*******, I belief what I have graphical satisfies your lesson requirements. And if you or somebody you cognize has much questions, keep happy do consistency free to create once more.
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Bummel replied to ReDevilGames's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have trouble understanding where your problem lies then. You basically use the iFFT to efficiently sum a large amount of sine waves. That's it. The paper covers mainly how to calculate the complex coefficients of those waves. The Phillips spectrum really only provides a weight for each wave depending on its frequency/wavelength. Therefore, you get a radially symmetric frequency space texture at this point (considering the weights/coefficients of the low-freq waves are towards the middle of the tex. A 1D slice of the Phillips spectrum looks something like this then: __...----==._.==----...__ ). Next you add some Gaussian noise since nature is never perfectly regular. You might also want to multiply with a directional weight to give the resulting waves a primary propagation direction. Up to this point you have calculated the magnitude of the complex coefficients - the height of each sine wave. But you also want the waves to actually move (I assume). For that you have to alter the phase of the wave by rotating its complex coefficient depending on a time variable. Here you want to consider that dispersion stuff which describes the relation of propagation speed to wavelength (low-freq waves travel faster). Also, adding a constant random offset to the phase angle might be a good idea (to break up regularities). Now perform an iFFT and you have got your height field. If instead of just sine waves you want to to sum Gerstner waves (which you totally want) you have some extra work to do. Basically you need two more textures + iFFTs to compute a horizontal offset vector in addition to the scalar height offset you already calculated (if I remember correctly the paper mentions something of multiplication with i in this context - this is really just a 90° rotation of the phase angle, nothing fancy). To ensure your FFT works correctly you could try to reproduce the low-pass filter results from the Fourier Transform section of this talk: http://www.slideshare.net/TexelTiny/phase-preserving-denoising-of-images It might also help if you could show us your frequency space results.
Bummel replied to jt.tarigan's topic in Graphics and GPU Programming[url=http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=406621#Post406621]Papers about Rendering Techniques[/url]
Bummel replied to LHLaurini's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIf you should decide to try Voxel Cone Tracing do it on (nested) dense grids. A Sparse Voxel Octree while not really being affordable performance-wise in a setting where you do other stuff beside dynamic GI is also a pain in the butt to implement and maintain. Trust me, I have been there. :\
Bummel replied to Nathan Drake's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingBecause radiance is flux differentiated with respect to two quantities (projected solid angle and surface area) which gives you two differential operators in the denominator and therefore two in the numerator as well. Radiometry isn't really that hard once you got it but it can take some time and practice(!) depending on your foreknowledge and basic intelligence. :)
Bummel replied to LucasGH's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingTo be physically plausible, Bloom/Glare/Glow should added before tonemapping since it simulates scattering due to diffraction effects in the eye/camera lens, which are wavelength but not intensity dependent. Usually the wavelength dependency is neglected too, though. Tonemapping happens as soon as the photons hit the sensor (or later as a post-processing step if the sensor supports a high dynamic range as it is the case with our virtual sensors) and therefore after the scattering events.
Bummel replied to NathanRidley's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI might by wrong here, but isn't Hi-Z about culling whole triangles before they are even passed to the rasterizer? With other words based on the depth values of the three vertices of a triangle? But for intersecting triangles that doesn't work...or does it somehow?
Bummel replied to ReaperSMS's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI'm by no means an expert with regard to SHs, but I think what you are doing is correct. A directional light is basically described by a delta function which you can not reproduce with a finite amount of SH bands. Intuitively spoken, the best you can do with just two bands is to set the 'vector' part (2nd band (index 1)) to the direction of the delta function and use the constant SH term (1st band (index 0)) to account for the clamping in the negative direction. This is basically the same you do to represent a clamped cosine lobe with SHs (I'm not sure whether the weights are exactly the same, though). All you could therefore do to increase the quality, is to increase the number of used SH bands. I think.
Bummel replied to bjarnia's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingGreat! Thank you very much!
Bummel replied to bjarnia's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI'm searching msdn but can't find any source I could cite in my thesis that explicitly states this. Can anyone help me? Thx.
Bummel replied to Volgogradetzzz's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingStream Out from geometry shader is ordered as far as I remember.
Bummel replied to wilfrid's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingAbout the physics behind alpha: https://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps296.8/spring03/papers/max95opticalModelsForDirectVolumeRendering.pdf
Bummel replied to Bummel's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThat's it. Thanks!
Bummel posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIs there an API call to do that? Or at least an elegant hack? Besides unanswered questions I wasn't able to find anything on that topic. Thanks. EDIT: One idea I have would be to issue an indirect draw call which produces the appropriate number of vertices which will be rendered as points so that I can decrement the counter in the pixel shader by 1 for every point (I'm working with 11.0 so I have no access to UAVs in the vertex shader).
Bummel replied to toto5100's topic in Graphics and GPU Programming@MJP: Do you use a single curvature map regardless of facial animations?
Bummel replied to toto5100's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIf you calculate your curvature map using screen space derivatives of lerped normals then it is only to be expected that the curvature values are constant over individual polygons. Normalizing your normals beforehand could help a bit, I'm not sure how much though. EDIT: Ok, the prob is that you have to consider the change in position too, which is constant over triangles anyways.