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Nikon and Intel Announcements Highlight 450mm News from Japan
By editor, 450 Central
In a significant announcement during the SEMICON Japan 450mm Transition Forum that sheds new light on the availability of 450mm wafer processing lithography capability, Kazuo Ushida, president of Nikon Precision Equipment Company, said that the company plans to ship high-volume manufacturing (HVM) lithography tools in 2017 through a joint development effort with a chip maker. Nikon plans to have ArF immersion 450mm prototype tools in 2015-16.
Ushida said that requirements for 450mm lithography include higher throughput, improved overlay accuracy, and improved imaging performance. The industry's expectation for high-volume 450mm EUV lithography insertion in 2018 will likely be delayed due to insufficient light source progress, mask infrastructure and EUV photoresist development challenges. Furthermore, Uchida said that the very steep curve of EUV technology improvement required is not realistic in the timeframe.
Lithography has been a serious concern among other wafer process equipment tool providers, who have been reluctant to invest in 450mm research and development ahead of a viable advanced node patterning solution. Other equipment companies have been interested in a 450mm litho solution for process development reasons and also as an assurance that chip makers will actually be ready to implement a complete manufacturing line in the timeframe that tool development is being requested.
Ushida's pledge aligns with the G450C roadmap. G450C vice president and general manager Frank Robertson, also speaking at SEMICON Japan, said that the consortium plans for nano-imprint litho and pitch doubling capability over the next two years and "real" 193 immersion litho capability for tool demonstrations at the unit process level by mid-2014.
Robertson said that G450C has now negotiated a full set of wafer process and metrology tools with the exception of lithography. In addition to 14nm tool demonstrations, G450C is focused on providing test wafers. Test monitor 450mm wafers are expected to be available in 2Q13, prime wafers in 2Q14 and epi wafers in 1Q15. G450C is giving priority to consortium members and the participating tool makers. They will also provide 450 test wafers to others via a wafer loan program. Robertson pointed to a wafer loan request process on the G450C website.
According to economic analysis from Akira Minamikawa, vice president, IHS iSuppli Japan, NAND memory and microprocessors warrant the larger wafer size, but DRAM will not require 450mm manufacturing. Minamikawa estimates that twenty 450mm fab lines (to as many as 50 "at the most") will be built in a ten-year period. He contrasts that figure to 160 fab lines for 300mm and 240 8" fab lines that were built in a similar timeframe.
The need for innovation and collaboration to achieve the cost and time objectives was a common observation from G450C, Nikon and TEL representatives speaking at the Forum. Each speaker pointed to the important role of SEMI Standards in achieving a successful transition and the need for chip makers, consortia and equipment companies to collaborate in new ways.
Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) VP and general manager Akihisa Sekiguchi commented that equipment makers face inordinate challenges in the 450mm transition. Concurrent 300mm/450mm R&D and prolonged 450mm startup impose significant financial risk and he warned that it may take years for equipment makers to see an ROI. TEL's proposal is to unify its various internal platforms for 450mm, and establish an open platform alliance to share previously proprietary information with the supply chain. Concepts for harmonizing facility connections have been well-received by the G450C as a means to reduced installation costs and complexity.
Other 450mm-related news during SEMICON Japan came from Opening Keynote speaker Kazumasa Yoshida, representative director and president of Intel, K.K., who confirmed Intel's new 450mm Japan Metrology Center (JMC) in Tsukuba. Although referenced in an earlier industry presentation at SEMICON West and operational since July, the JMC has not been publically announced. Yoshida said that mission of the new facility is to support the 450mm network by providing "quick turn" metrology, improved supplier R&D velocity and a link to the G450C activity in Albany, New York.
Yoshida said that the semiconductor industry is spurred by silicon innovation and penetration. He referenced smartphone demand, which is expected to grow at a 24 percent compound annual growth rate over the next several years, and tablets with a 53 percent CAGR, as key market drivers. He further commented that 15 billion intelligent connected devices will be present by 2015 and contribute to an estimated 35 trillion GB of data traffic. He said that the combined market drivers potentially yield semiconductor industry sales with greater than 50 percent upside by 2020 — meaning a worldwide market of about $450 billion. He anticipates that Intel products will represent a 25-26 percent share of the total and therefore the company requires aggressive investment to increase capacity.
The next SEMI 450mm Transition Forum will occur at SEMICON Korea on January 30, 2013. SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the micro- and nano-electronics industries, including: Semiconductors, Photovoltaics, LED, Flat Panel Display, MEMS, and Printed and Flexible Electronics. For more information on SEMI, visit www.semi.org.
For important news and perspectives on 450mm wafer processing, visit the SEMI 450 Central — a comprehensive website with industry viewpoints, industry news, new product announcements, technology information, SEMI Standards updates, presentations, and other relevant information on 450mm wafer processing. For more information on 450 Central, visit www.semi.org or contact email@example.com.
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Oskar Lange
Oscar Ryszard Lange (born July 27, 1904 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland - died October 2, 1965 in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is probably most known for his work On the Economic Theory of Socialism published in 1936. He was an advocate of using market tools (especially the neoclassical pricing theory) in economic planning of socialism and communism. He also worked on integrating classical and neoclassical economics into a single theoretical structure. In terms of economic philosophy, he is sometimes considered to be a "market socialist".
Lange emigrated to the United States in 1937, was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1938, and became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Lange served as a go-between for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin during the post-war discussion on Poland. Lange returned to the United States at the end of May, met with Free Polish London Exile Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk, who happened then to be in Washington, and stressed how reasonable Stalin was prepared to be, and asked the State Department to pressure on the exiled Poles. Lange's covername with the KGB was FRIEND.
Stalin had personally asked Presidential adviser Harry Hopkins for Lange to participate in the Communist dominated Lublin regime.[1] Lange renounced his American citizenship and returned to Poland. In 1946 Lange arrived again in Washington as the Lublin Committee's first Ambassador to the United States from 1946 to 1947.
A university in Poland is named after him, the Akademia Ekonomiczna we Wroclawiu im Oskara Lange (the Wrocław University of Economics of Oskar Lange).
- ↑ Roosevelt and Hopkins : An Intimate History, Robert E. Sherwood, New York Harper and Brothers, 1948, pgs. 934, 941 pdf.
- Charles Sadler, Pro-Soviet Polish-Americans: Oskar Lange and Russia's Friends in the Polonia, 1941–1945, Polish Review, 22., no. 4 (1977), 25–39.
- Venona 956-957 KGB New York to Moscow 6 July 1944 states that KGB agent Boleslaw Gebert had reported on 30 June 1944, "the other day Lange presented to the State Department and to Roosevelt's Secretariat a report on the journey to the USSR and the conversation with Comrade Stalin. Gebert read this report." [1][2][3]
- FBI Silvermaster file Vol. 83, pgs. 83 -84 pdf, Hottel to the Director, January 8, 1947. Nathan Gregory Silvermaster with "the Minister" and Oscar Lange. Poles are negotiating for a loan and Silvermaster is conferring with them for disposition of surplus materials to be purchased through private firms.

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Bangor Police Chief Recovers from Gunshot Wound to Hand
Bangor's newly appointed police Chief Mark Hathaway is recovering today from a gunshot wound.
This from a press release issued this morning from Bangor City Manager Catherine Conlow:
On June 24, 2013 at 5 p.m., members of the Bangor Police Department had completed firearm transition training in Brewer.
At approximately 5:15 p.m., while officers were cleaning their new guns at the Bangor Police Station, Chief Mark Hathaway sustained a non-life threatening injury to his left hand in what appears to be an accidental discharge of his duty weapon.
He was transported to Eastern Maine Medical Center and treated and released. The incident remains under investigation by Lt. Tim Reid, the Bangor Police Department's shooting incident supervisor.
"At first blush it appears to be an accident. We have consulted with the AG's Office and DA's Office and who have indicated that it is a matter to be investigated internally. Lt. Tim Reid will be conducting the investigation and reporting the findings of that investigation directly to me. Although it appears to simply be an accident, we will investigate all potential causes for the discharge. I will then determine what, if any, follow-up action is appropriate. We are thankful that the injury was non-life threatening and that no-one else was hurt," stated Conlow.


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What to Expect With a Child in Therapy
When a parent decides to take a child to therapy for behavioral or emotional issues for the first time, he or she may have concerns about what role they will play in the counseling process. Although every situation is different, the following is a guideline on what parents can expect their involvement to be during the therapeutic process:
Preschool – Elementary School
For a young child, a parent's participation and follow-through is essential to the therapeutic process. Not only will the behavioral health professional need a report on the child's behavior in between sessions, but it is also important for the participating parent to learn skills to help his or her child succeed in therapy.
In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an empirically-supported treatment for conduct and emotional disordered young children, parents are just as involved as the child in therapy. During sessions, parents are coached by the therapist and are taught new ways of interacting with his or her child. The goal is to establish a nurturing and secure relationship while increasing the child's positive behavior and decreasing negative behavior.
Preteen - Middle School
For children falling in between and early adolescent age group, parent involvement during therapy sessions is still necessary, but there is more confidentiality between the child and therapist. Having a foundation of trust between the child and the therapist is very important in making progress, and the child being able to speak freely without his or her parents around helps build that rapport.
Although the majority of the session is spent with the therapist and child alone, the therapist will usually meet with parents at the end of each therapy session or set up a separate meeting to discuss concerns and strategies to implement at home.
High School – Late Teens
Depending on the concern, typically, for high school students and older teenagers the parent involvement in therapy is much less. Although an individual in this age group still relies heavily on his or her parent, it is a phase a life where one begins to transition from a child to an adult and is learning to reflect on problems and come up with his or her own solutions.
Although older teens have a lot of independence and adult-like qualities such as driving, making his or her own money, and keeping a schedule, a parent staying engaged and keeping the therapist updated on his or her teenager's life is important. There will always be situations where a teen will need his or her parent's help or be in a situation where a parent will need to assert authority.
In general, the most important thing a parent can do to help the therapeutic process is follow-through. The more a parent commits to his or her 'homework assignments' issued during counseling, the more likely the child is to succeed. At any age, children thrive on consistency!


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Mark Buchholz, a former Clemson kicker, soccer star, satisfying his competitive urges through golf.
Mark Buchholz is the kind of monumental achiever that can inspire equal amounts of inspiration and jealousy from elite collegiate athletes down to your basic weekend warrior.
If something is worth doing for the former Clemson football kicker and soccer player then it's worth taking to the extreme in pushing up to and beyond personal limitations.
"All my friends or anyone remotely close to me knows how addictive my personality is competition-wise," Buchholz said. "No matter what I get into I've always dove in 110 percent as far as if I'm going to play something I want to be the best at it or the best I can be at that particular endeavor.
"I don't know where I get it from, maybe from competing against two older brothers who played every sport imaginable."
Of course the 27-year-old is blessed with a high level of natural athleticism that provides a basis for his intense competitive nature to allow him to have success at most anything he chooses. The most recent case would be his surprising qualification for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, an event so prestigious the winner annually receives an invitation to play the Masters.
Buchholz took second place by three shots with a 68-68 last month to become one of only three to advance through qualifying in Canton, Ga. That gave him a total of 12 tournament rounds for his entire life, a number he will now expand starting Monday at Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, Va.
"Most of what I've played has been qualifiers for shot-in-the-dark tournaments like this one or the U.S. Amateur qualifier," Buchholz said. "I think every official round I've played I've shot between 75-78 and just could never piece it all together. With the two days for the Public Links I was just much more relaxed than I had been before and made a tournament I never really thought I had a realistic chance of qualifying for.
"I'm honestly lucky if I play a practice round once a week and it's definitely no more than four times a month. I do live on a golf course and am about a mile from the range so I do get to practice there about two or three times a week and I will go out to the green near my house and just chip and putt some until dark to keep my feel."
So what would induce a guy who is married with a child due in September to burn a few precious vacation days from his corporate job by taking on such a long-shot, one that evades even the most seasoned amateur players on a yearly basis?
"Just because I've shot some really good numbers the last few years on some tough courses when I do get to play so I know the ability is there," Buchholz said. "These one-day qualifiers are really the only feasible tournament rounds I can play with my job schedule and I don't have the golfing resume to get invited to some of the bigger amateur events in the Southeast because I never played in any junior events and nobody in the golfing world has any idea who I am."
He was certainly anonymous during his first big-time foray into golf when he attempted a U.S. National Amateur Championship qualifier and was paired up with Harris English, then a top-15 amateur in the world and currently a PGA Tour winner ranked 21st on the money list with $1.8 million.
"I get on that first tee with him and I'm thinking to myself I hadn't prepared much over my life for that moment. I snap-hooked that first tee shot into the river on the left and made double-bogey before making three consecutive birdies and was actually tied with him through about 14 holes before I collapsed a bit down the stretch. That opened my eyes that I might be able to be pretty good and compete at golf."
But the main inspiration was a full-blown case of the butterflies, something Buchholz hadn't recalled experiencing since he was a 14-year-old playing on a soccer all-star team against the world's best young strikers over in England.
"That's part of the excitement I get from playing in these tournaments because that nervousness and feeling is something I hadn't felt in over 10 years. Now all my competitive drive that I had toward soccer and then football is toward golf mostly because of that unique feeling."
Buchholz said he never experienced that angst while he was Clemson's two-year starting kicker and making 37 of 57 career field goals (including a walk-off 35-yarder that ended a 23-21 victory at South Carolina in 2007) and a school-record 88-for-88 in extra-point tries. He never felt such pressure as a four-year starter on the soccer team where he helped lead the Tigers to the 2005 Final Four and a final No. 9 ranking the following season.
His motto has always been if you are confident that you've prepared to your utmost capacity for whatever it is you are trying to achieve then nerves shouldn't come into play. But then again that's a little easier to believe when things just seem to come natural to you and you're willing to put in the work.
"He's the most athletic person I've ever met in my entire life and he's got such a competitive attitude no matter what he does," former Clemson golfer and S.C. Amateur champion Luke Hopkins said. "He's just determined he's going to be the best and he's going to do something until he gets good at it."
Hopkins laughed as he remembers their epic college battles at video games such as Halo or Guitar Hero and once his good friend took up golf and began to get close with many on the Clemson team, he took the competitiveness up a notch.
"He was probably a 10 to 12 handicap starting out as a sophomore in college and he was always wanting to go to the range with me," Hopkins said. "I went to visit him after college and he shot 68 both days we played and I laughed and asked him how in the world he could be beating me at my own sport. It honestly blows my mind how he can do things when he puts his mind to it."
Buchholz would play only a handful of times a year growing up before the lure of having Clemson's golf course close to his apartment was too much to pass up. He began giving it a try and suddenly golf became his respite from soccer, football and studies while spending up to six hours a day practicing when the time was free. He also found the time to be an intramural champion in both basketball and badminton at Clemson in addition to being selected to multiple All-ACC Academic teams.
Now a sales rep for Sherwin-Williams in Georgia, Buchholz has won the company's prestigious President's Club Award two years running which earned him and his wife, Katie, a pair of free trips to Hawaii. He even squeezed in three triathlons over the past few years, including one last month. If you think that competitive streak might be tough for a wife to handle at times, think again.
"When it comes down to being a husband and about to become a dad, I think his drive to be the very best spills over into those areas as well," Katie Buchholz said. "He wants to do fantastic at work and practice golf, but then still come home and be a good husband at night. He always makes time for things like going to every one of my prenatal doctor appointments and doing projects for the nursery.
"I don't know how he gets it all accomplished and I think it might begin to wear me down if he didn't put as much effort into our relationship as everything else so it's never taken away from anything we have."


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An agreement announced last week by the St. Joe Company could have a major impact on the growth of the Port of Port St. Joe.
An agreement announced last week by the St. Joe Company could have a major impact on the growth of the Port of Port St. Joe.
St. Joe announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Green Circle Bio Energy, Inc., a maker of wood pellets used for energy, particularly in European markets.
The deal is perfect symbiosis for the companies: Green Circle Bio Energy needs sustainable forest products; St. Joe has tens of thousands of acres of timberlands.
In the LOI, Green Circle and St. Joe expressed intent in entering into a wood fiber supply agreement as part of a formal agreement still to be negotiated.
The release details that the LOI �anticipates several potential new business development opportunities to create jobs in Northwest Florida.�
Green Circle is interested in leasing a site from St. Joe along the Genesee Wyoming railline, formerly the Apalachicola Northern Railroad, to develop a wood production facility, the release continues.
Those pellets, under the LOI, would be shipped through the Port of Port St. Joe.
"The relationship between Green Circle and St. Joe is a step toward creating jobs and revitalizing the Port of Port St. Joe," said Park Brady, CEO for The St. Joe Company.
The key for the Port of Port St. Joe is that the LOI changes the dynamics on maintenance dredging, a top priority for the partners, St. Joe and the Port St. Joe Port Authority, in growing the port.
The plans to ship through the Port of Port St. Joe are contingent on the maintenance dredging which has become a top priority for St. Joe and the Port St. Joe Port Authority.
"This is exciting news for the Port Authority," said Leonard Costin, Chairman of the Port St. Joe Port Authority. "With the commitment from Green Circle Bio Energy, the Port Authority can now move forward with grant proposals for funding the ship channel dredging."
The partners in developing the Port of Port St. Joe have been lobbying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Department of Transportation concerning the maintenance dredging.
A FDOT grant of some $1 million is available for the Port of Port St. Joe pending a local match. There are also some federal monies available if dredging moves forward.
St. Joe has already secured a FDOT grant for improvements to the old AN Rail line, work that should be completed sometime early next year.
The LOI with Green Circle anticipates that some time will be required to secure the permitting, permission and execution of dredging, but in the LOI the obligations of either party are contingent upon the Port of Port St. Joe receiving funding to complete maintenance dredging of the shipping channel.
And that changes the narrative for dredging. No longer is it �if� dredging is completed a customer will come. Now, the port and St. Joe can argue a customer is present and waiting.
"A viable business is ready to use the Port and rail access to the Port site is being improved; the missing link to an operational Port is the necessary dredging improvements to the shipping channel," Brady said.
The port has a navigational channel that is federally-authorized to a maximum of 37 feet. Dredging to the authorized depth has been the top priority of the Port Authority and St. Joe in luring customers.
Once dredging has been completed, the port�s options will only grow, said port director Tommy Pitts.
According to Pitts, the commitment of tonnage through the port, though still conditional, �is a phenomenally huge step in the efforts to revitalize port activity here.�
Once a commitment to dredge and the dredging is accomplished, Pitts said, other opportunities that were previously out of reach come closer.
Green Circle operates the world�s second-largest wood pellet plant in Cottondale. The company employs 81 at the plant with several hundred indirect jobs and more than $70 million injected into the local economy, according to the release.
The wood pellets produced at the new production facility can be transported via truck or railway to the Port of Port St. Joe for shipment to overseas markets, particularly Europe where the consumption of wood chips for energy is exploding.
"We are excited about the possibility of leveraging our strong presence in Northwest Florida, further job and economic development in the region, and look forward to the successful dredging improvements of the shipping channel," said Morten Neraas, CEO for Green Circle Bio Energy, Inc.
Additionally, bulk cargo port facilities are being considered for development at the port site to accommodate Green Circle's shipping needs. The Florida Ports Council, in its annual report, noted that the Port of Port St. Joe is positioned for bulk cargo shipments, offering access to rail, the U.S. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and state and federal highways.
State and federal elected officials also weighed in on the announcement.
"This is great news for Port St. Joe and our surrounding region," said Congressman Steve Southerland. "By building upon Northwest Florida's tremendous potential, both as a world leader in biomass production and a natural fit for rail, road, and waterway shipping, The St. Joe Company and Green Circle have made an important commitment to growing jobs and strengthening our local economy."
Gov. Rick Scott this week vetoed a $2 million appropriation which would have helped the Port Authority meet mortgage requirements on the barge terminal parcel. The effort sponsored by Capital City Bank and supported by the Port Authority, was aimed at providing time and space for the port to grow. The case now returns to its previous status, heading to a Circuit Court hearing at which each Capital City Bank and Port Authority are seeking summary judgments in their favor. A court date is not known at this time.


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Torquay task Knill with stopping the rot after appointing ex-Bury boss until end of season
Pete Evans, Press Association
12:08 GMT, 20 February 2013
12:08 GMT, 20 February 2013
Torquay have appointed Alan Knill as their interim manager until the end of the season.
The former Rotherham, Bury and Scunthorpe boss will work with assistant Shaun Taylor, who has been managing the Gulls for the last six games while manager Martin Ling has been absent on sick leave.
Knill faces a tough task at Plainmoor as he inherits a side who have lost their last five matches, the most recent a defeat at Aldershot last night.
New man: Alan Knill (right) watched Torquay lose to Aldershot
Torquay stand just five points clear of the npower League Two relegation zone ahead of the visit of Port Vale on Saturday.
'Alan was suggested to us by some people in the football industry,' chairman Simon Baker told the club's official website.
'We had drawn up a shortlist and we checked up on Alan with people he had worked with, and they all gave him a glowing reference.
'We met him at Aldershot yesterday and we are delighted he has decided to come in and help us. He comes across as a very agreeable man but there is an edge of steel in him, which is what we need.'
On the slide: Torquay have struggled for form in recent months
Ling has been away from the club since the day his side recorded their last victory, a 1-0 win at Exeter on January 28, and Baker revealed the latest update on the former Leyton Orient manager's condition.
'The last I heard from Mrs Ling was that Martin is making progress and we will see how it all pans out,' Baker added.
'We will cross that bridge when it comes but our focus at the moment is between now and April 27, when the season comes to an end.'


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Florida Affordable Care Act Insurers Accused of Discriminatory Practices Against HIV Patients
June 9, 2014
The AIDS Institute and the National Health Law Program (NHLP) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s Office for Civil Rights on May 29 charging four insurers (CoventryOne, Cigna, Humana and Preferred Medical Plan) in Florida with violating the antidiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reported The New York Times. All four insurers have instituted restrictions on HIV drugs, and/or placed them on the highest payment "tier" of the midlevel "silver" exchange plans, causing patients' medication costs to skyrocket.
The AIDS Institute conducted an analysis of the prescription drug formularies and cost structure for all silver-level Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) operating in Florida. The analysis found that, of the 36 plans reviewed, the QHPs offered by the four companies charge inordinately high co-payments and coinsurance for HIV medications. According to the Times, all four companies claim that their HIV drug coverage is "in line with accepted medical practice and met requirements." However, other Florida insurers offer plans with reasonable co-pays, though a high deductible may also need to be met.
People living with HIV, as well as those with cancer, multiple sclerosis or other conditions that require expensive drugs to be taken regularly, may be forced to learn the unfortunate truth that coverage does not equal care. Practices such as these that result in driving HIV-positive people away from the most affordable plans -- known as "lemon dropping" -- are the insurance industry's answer to the provision of the ACA (or "Obamacare") that prohibits discrimination against people with preexisting conditions. Many people who purchased these plans are now facing higher out-of-pocket costs than they are able to pay -- deductibles starting at $1,000, as well as 40%-50% co-pays.
While this case pertains to the Florida exchange, similar practices have been reported elsewhere, including the 20 states (mostly in the South and the West) that have refused to expand Medicaid. According to Jennifer Kates, the director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, this case will be watched closely, not only by the HIV community, but also by those living with other serious illnesses and their advocates. If the HHS sides with the HIV advocates, it would mean "this couldn't happen for those with diabetes or any other kind of condition."
Advocates have noted that all who shop for exchange policies, HIV positive or not, must take time to understand exactly what they're buying. Too often, shoppers look for the lowest monthly premium, not realizing that they may end up paying for insurance they can't use due to high deductibles, co-pays and coinsurance.
The Florida case reinforces that all who depend on adherence to a medication regimen to control their medical condition must also check the formulary of the plan they're considering to make sure their drugs are covered and to find out exactly how much they can expect to pay.
"We trust the Administration will take immediate action against these four insurance companies and send a strong message that this practice is illegal and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS will not be tolerated," said Carl Schmid, the deputy executive director of The AIDS Institute, in a press release. "If they do not, other plans in Florida and across the country could adopt these very same discriminatory practices. This would make insurance coverage impossible for people with HIV/AIDS, and jeopardize their health and well-being."
Sue Saltmarsh has worked in the HIV/AIDS field for over 20 years, the first 10 as an herbalist and energy therapist at Project Vida, the last six as a writer and copy editor for Positively Aware magazine. She is now a freelance writer and editor and is also able to devote more time to her passion as founder and director of the Drive for Universal Healthcare (DUH).
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The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was charged on Monday with using an improvised explosive device that killed spectators at the historic race on Patriots Day.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., was also charged with malicious destruction of property by means of an explosion that resulted in death.
Both charges carry a potential death sentence.
The action came almost exactly a week after two homemade bombs ripped through the crowd near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 200.
Mr. Tsarnaev was informed of the charges during an initial court appearance conducted by a federal judge in his hospital room.
"Although our investigation is ongoing, today's charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
The charges resulted from the work of a team of investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Boston Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, and a range of other federal investigative agencies.
According to a sworn affidavit filed with the charges, investigators used video and still photographs taken near the finish line of the marathon to identify two suspected bombers. The 10-page affidavit provides the most detailed statement to date of how law enforcement officials were able to identify and arrest the suspects.
"At approximately 2:38 p.m. (based on the video's duration and timing of the explosions) – i.e., approximately 11 minutes before the first explosion – two young men can be seen turning left (eastward) onto Boylston from Gloucester Street. Both men are carrying large knapsacks," the affidavit says.
The affidavit identifies the men from the color of their hats. Bomber One is wearing a black baseball style hat, and Bomber Two is in a white hat. Federal officials have identified Bomber One as Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Bomber Two as his younger brother, Dzhokhar.
"After turning onto Boylston Street, Bomber One and Bomber Two can be seen walking eastward along the north side of the sidewalk towards the Marathon finish line. Bomber One is in front and Bomber Two is a few feet behind him." The affidavit continues: "At approximately 2:42 p.m. (i.e., approximately seven minutes before the first explosion), Bomber One can be seen detaching himself from the crowd and walking east on Boylston Street towards the Marathon finish line."
"Approximately 15 seconds later, he can be seen passing directly in front of the Forum Restaurant and continuing in the direction of the location where the first explosion occurred," the affidavit says. "His knapsack is still on his back."
The affidavit continues: "At approximately 2:45 p.m., Bomber Two can be seen detaching himself from the crowd and walking east on Boylston Street toward the Marathon finishing line. He appears to have the thumb of his right hand hooked under the strap of his knapsack and a cell phone in his left hand. Approximately 15 seconds later, he can be seen stopping directly in front of the Forum Restaurant and standing near the metal barrier among numerous spectators, with his back to the camera, facing the runners."
The FBI agent who filed the affidavit, Daniel Genck, then uses an unusual word in his description of the unfolding drama. That word is "apparently."
The affidavit continues: "He [Bomber Two] then can be seen apparently slipping his knapsack onto the ground. A photograph taken from the opposite side of the street shows the knapsack on the ground at Bomber Two's feet."
The agent notes that video from the Forum Restaurant shows that Bomber Two stood in the same spot for approximately four minutes. He occasionally looked at his cell phone.
"Approximately 30 seconds before the first explosion, he lifts his phone to his ear as if he is speaking on his cell phone, and keeps it there for approximately18 seconds. A few seconds after he finishes the call, the large crowd of people around him can be seen reacting to the first explosion. Virtually every head turns to the east (towards the finish line) and stares in that direction in apparent bewilderment and alarm."
Genck's affidavit notes that Bomber Two was the only person in front of the restaurant who appears calm.
"He glances to the east and then calmly but rapidly begins moving to the west, away from the direction of the finish line. He walks away without his knapsack, having left it on the ground where he had been standing. Approximately 10 seconds later, an explosion occurs in the location where Bomber Two had placed his knapsack."
In addition to the bombing, the affidavit also details key portions of events on Thursday and Friday when the two men appeared to be in the midst of a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to flee Boston.
The formal charge against Tsarnaev is using a weapon of mass destruction. Although those are the words in the applicable statute, the law covers improvised explosive devices (IEDs) such as those allegedly used at the Boston Marathon. It does not mean that Tsarnaev and his brother were attempting to destroy the entire city.
The charges were filed as officials acknowledged that Tsarnaev was responding to inquiries from federal agents although he cannot talk and is still listed in serious condition in a Boston hospital.
The suspect is described as unable to verbally communicate after sustaining injuries to his throat and elsewhere during the massive manhunt on Thursday and Friday. But a special interrogation team is said to have started efforts to elicit key information about the bombing and the two brothers at the center of the alleged plot.
Officials are relying on a public safety exception to the usual rule that criminal suspects be advised of their right to consult a lawyer and their right to remain silent during police questioning.
The so-called Miranda warnings are intended to ensure that any statements made by a suspect are made knowingly and without coercion and, thus, may be admitted as evidence against the suspect in an eventual court case.
But that is not the only reason US officials want and need information from Tsarnaev. Federal officials are seeking critical intelligence information from him. They want to know if there are accomplices who might seek to carry out additional bombings. They also want to know if the Tsarnaev brothers were working in concert with any organized group in the US or overseas.
The public safety exemption as advocated by the Obama administration would allow such intelligence gathering without a Miranda warning, and might even allow the information to be used as evidence in an eventual trial.
Tsarnaev's case could become a test case for that proposition.
Nonetheless, many legal analysts say federal agents and prosecutors may already possess more than enough evidence from other sources to convict Tsarnaev at trial without having to rely on how he might nod or shake his head or move his eyes while lying sedated in a hospital bed.
The initial contacts with the suspect took place as the Obama administration effectively ended what had been an ongoing debate over how best to handle and interrogate Tsarnaev.
White House spokeman Jay Carney said earlier on Monday that the administration had concluded that the suspect would not be treated as an enemy combatant. He said it would violate US law to place a US citizen on trial before a military commission rather than in federal court.
Mr. Carney said the nation's civilian federal court system had repeatedly proved to be effective in trying and convicting suspected terrorists.
Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had urged that Tsarnaev be classified as an enemy combatant and shifted to military custody to facilitate open-ended interrogation without interference from defense lawyers or the courts.
Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and others said there is no legal basis to detain Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant because there is no evidence – at this stage – that he was part of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or an associated group.
Under US law, individuals suspected of a crime who are taken into police custody are either charged or released. The defendant's case is presented to a neutral judge, who ensures that the defendant's rights are being respected.
That is true in all criminal cases, from the lowly tax cheat to the most sophisticated mass-murdering terrorist. The US Constitution and its protections do not come with an on-off switch.
But there is one important exception. After the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). The law empowered the US military to take action against Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and any associated forces. That provision has been interpreted to authorize the military detention of terrorism suspects.
It is under that authority that the 166 detainees at Guantánamo are being held in a US military prison camp.
Less clear is whether the AUMF authorizes open-ended military detention without charge of a US citizen arrested on US soil for suspected involvement in a bombing in the US.
Tsarnaev is believed to be a naturalized US citizen. Federal agents are expected to ask him – prior to advising him of his right to remain silent – whether he or his older brother have any connection to Al Qaeda or Islamic militants in Chechnya who in the past have maintained an association with Al Qaeda.
Without such a connection, Congress's Authorization to Use Military Force would not appear to apply to an individual who acted outside of any such group.


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Dear Amazing Friends,
This has been a very hard time and you have all helped me tremendously. If not for you I would have given up on the fight to stay in my home. I would not have had the strength or faith to fight without your support, guidance, and practical help, including getting the word out. I've always believed in the power of the word but now I believe even more.
Yesterday I received the final word from Bank of America that they are temporarily reducing principle, with a lower interest rate and a monthly payment much less than what I have been paying. In 2037 it will balloon again and I will have to pay off the principle. They say I can refinance then, or who knows...that is a long time. I still have a second smaller loan that will balloon shortly and can go up to a much higher rate of interest, and I will have to fight that one next (it's also still in my mom's name) but for now this is a victory.
Once again, I am deeply grateful. My children and I want to thank Change.org and everyone who signed this petition. When I felt like giving up, you gave me the strength to go on and every morning I wake up in my faerie cottage for the next 25 years I will think of you with gratitude. I am honored to consider myself an example of a Change.org victory. You have renewed my faith in life on a profound level.
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Making it nearly impossible for politicians to raise taxes may sound like a good idea. But Proposal 5 on Michigan's November ballot would also make it extraordinarily difficult to cut taxes, or to put in place reforms that make the state more competitive. That makes it bad policy.
The proposal, sponsored by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, is financed almost entirely by Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun. This is one of two ballot measures Moroun is funding; the other would preserve his monopoly over Detroit River crossings. In bankrolling this measure, Moroun is repaying AFP for its support in blocking the second Detroit River bridge pushed by Gov. Rick Snyder and the state's business community.
Passage of Prop 5 would make Michigan more like California in its governance structure. California lawmakers are so limited by constitutional amendments that responsive governing is almost impossible.
Prop 5 would require a super-majority vote of the Legislature to pass a tax bill. That means that 13 senators could block a measure supported by most lawmakers and the governor. That's too much power in the hands of a minority.
The measure would effectively lock in the state's tax code in its current form, since no tax measure in Michigan history has ever garnered two-thirds support of the Legislature. Lansing could make no changes to the fuel tax, sales tax or state income tax, even to make them lower or more efficient. Lawmakers would be unable to close loopholes, including the ones benefitting Moroun and his company, or end special tax breaks.
It would also make it harder to respond to Michigan's urgent needs.
Michigan needs to fix its roads and bridges, and can't do that without raising more state revenue. A gasoline tax increase may not be popular, but it is a vital option for repairing the crumbling infrastructure.
Likewise, Michigan's sales tax collection system is in need of major updating. Currently, state retailers are at a major disadvantage to online outlets that don't collect Michigan's 6 percent sales tax.
That's hugely unfair, and cheats the state of revenue. Neighboring states, including Indiana, have reached collection agreements with out-of-state online retailers, leaving Michigan at a competitive disadvantage.
Michigan also needs to reform its personal property tax to attract more job-creating businesses. It wouldn't be able to do that if Prop 5 passes.
This proposal would not force fiscal responsibility on the state. Instead, it would excuse elected officials from the responsibility of setting policy that serves the citizen's best interests.
The ballot box is the most important tool the people have. They should use it to elect representatives who serve them well, and get rid of those who don't.
Limiting the authority of those officials once they are chosen by the people will decrease the power of voters and increase the influence of special interests.
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Solar Genesis II is a piece that I will be developing during the Music 220C class. This piece follows my compositions for the Music 220A class, Heliocentric Harmony, and for the Music 220B class, Solar Genesis I.
- 1 Project history and inspiration
- 2 Project objectives
- 3 Blog
- 4 References
Project history and inspiration
Heliocentric harmony
This first part of this project, leading to the production of Heliocentric Harmony was the sonification of some concepts of the Harmony of the Spheres discussed in the texts by Pythagoras and Kepler. The system consisted in a solar system where each planet was playing a particular note when an eclipse was happening. The system was spatialized with Doppler effect so that the public would locate the planets around him. This spatialization was made by stereo panning on pairs of loudspeakers.
Solar Genesis I
Solar Genesis I was the first attempt to extend Heliocentric Harmony into a full piece, based on a fictional storyline of the life of the solar system. The piece consists in three main parts picturing the birth, life and death of the sun. The main component is an improvised piano piece on a Disklavier. The MIDI messages were used to control the progression of a computer-generated accompaniement and a visual part. The three component are used to create and reinforce the affects related to each part of the piece. The spatialization existing in Heliocentric harmony was converted to Third-Order Ambisonics to improve the spatial sound impression.
Project objectives
Solar Genesis II is meant to develop the ideas expressed in Solar Genesis I, and especially its affect.
Instrumental Piece
The instrumental piece is meant to feature a duet between the piano (Disklavier) and another instrument played or simulated. The piece will be written with the assistance of Prof. Aquilanti.
Computer Music Accompaniement
The computer music program is meant to play sound sequences clarifying and reinforcing the emotions conveyed by the instrumental piece. The triggering process implemented in Solar Genesis I will be complexified. An alternative triggering event will be investigated for the solar system since the present one has been too difficult for the public to understand.
The visualization already developed for Heliocentric Harmony and Solar Genesis I is meant to evolve into a 3D visualization. Challenges in this process are to develop a new point of view from the 3D perspective since the video won't anymore show the whole system so we would like to avoid empty screens.
The computer-generated sound will be generated by Third-Order Ambisonics (TOA) similarly to what was made in Solar Genesis I, to provide a full 2D sound field. The new Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system will be used to play with the location of the instrumentists. The exact form of this has not been finalized but two main ideas are on the table:
- Acoustic images of the two performers,
- Virtual second performer interacting with the pianist.
The difficulty in the second option would be to develop a complex but robust synchronization between the performer and the virtual instrument while keeping the spirit of the instrumental piece.
April 10
- Demonstration of the WFS system in the Listening room and the Fantasia video in class.
April 12
- First discussion about the piece with Prof. Aquilanti. The other instrument will probably be a cello.
April 16-17
- Meeting and discussion with Jens Ahrens at the Linux Audio Conference
April 19
- For next class:
- Check Risset's pieces,
- Create a test for the WFS in the listening room.
- Idea: conversion of the trajectories in the solar system to Bezier curves for a smoother contour.
April 23
- Tested the MIDI samples salamander (with Qsampler) for the virtual instrument with Nando.
April 25
- Implemented a simple plane wave WFS (16 channels) in ChucK.
- Note: ChucK can't handle 32 channels
Ahrens, Jens. Analytic Methods of Sound Field Synthesis. Berlin: Springer, 2012.
Ahrens, Jens, Matthias Geier and Sasha Spors. The SoundScape Renderer: A Unified Spatial Audio Reproduction Framework for Arbitrary Rendering Methods. Audio Engineering Society Convention 124, 2008.
Stravinsky, I., W. Disney et al. "The Rite of Spring." In Fantasia, 1940.
Risset, J.-C. "Huit esquisses en duo pour un pianiste," In Electronic Music III. Acton, MA: Neuma, 1994.


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Taffy & Benny
Miss Piggy & Booper
Dumb & Dumber
Not Nice..
But, you know, sometimes they are..
Pretty DUMB
Yes, Dumb.
But VERY CUTE!!!
Booper on the trail...
He likes to check things out.
It's a BIG WORLD out there!
Life sure is interesting. And frustrating. I wonder what Booper was thinking while he was looking out over that incredible view. I kind of feel like that picture right now... looking out over the possibilities before me and wondering which trail to take.


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Body Maintenance with Physical Therapy - Health Matters
Date: 5/21/2009; 29 minutes
Physical therapy is an instrumental tool in keeping us healthy. Just like your car, our bodies need regular maintenance to perform optimally. Physical therapy improves strength, balance, mobility, and overall fitness as well as injury prevention and treatment. In this program Reece Jensen, DPT, joins our host David Grant, MD, for an overview of body maintenance. (#16062)
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Leaves generally palmately compound; stipules conspicuous, partly fused to petiole; leaflets generally 3, sometimes 59, ± serrate or dentate
Inflorescence: raceme (often umbel-like), head, or spike, axillary or terminal, generally many-flowered, often involucred, generally peduncled; flowers bracted or not
Flower generally spreading to erect, often becoming reflexed; corolla generally purple to pale lavender, sometimes yellow, persistent after flower; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like
Seeds 16
Etymology: (Latin: 3 leaves)
Reference: [Gillett 1980 Can J Bot 58:14251558; Zohary & Heller 1984 Genus Trifolium]
Annual, glabrous or puberulent
Stem decumbent to erect
Leaves ± cauline; stipules conspicuous, lanceolate to ovate, lower often overlapping, upper generally sharply cut; leaflets 1.52.5 cm, oblanceolate to obovate, tips sometimes notched
Inflorescence: head, 525 mm wide, 5many-flowered; involucre bowl-shaped, sharply toothed or deeply cut, generally puberulent
Flower: calyx tube 5-veined, lobes simple, entire, terminal bristle 34 mm, plumose, or lower lobes divided near base into 23 bristles, each 34 mm, generally plumose; corolla pink-purple or 2-colored (white and purple), rarely all white, lower portion of banner inflating
Seeds 12
Ecology: Wet meadows, ditches, foothill slopes to pine woodland, open, disturbed places
Elevation: generally < 700 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, n&c Sierra Nevada, Great Central Valley, Central Western California
Distribution outside California: Oregon
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Burmese pythons have invaded regions of Florida. Specimens as long as 15 feet have been found in the Sunshine State. "Expert" guesses as to the current population of those scaly invaders range from 4,000 to 100,000. Zoologists acknowledge that there is no known methodology that can reliably estimate the number of Python molurus bivittatus crawling and hunting inside state borders. A 15 foot python can easily kill most humans.
A Swedish director hopes to release his movie Amblancé by the year 2020. I mention this movie because it is intended to be 720 hours (30 days) long when completed. The "trailer" is to be one hour and 12 minutes.
A minor league baseball team in Portland (Maine) has scheduled at least one game in August when the team will wear uniforms inspired by the Chewbacca character from Star Wars.
Shortly after Hostess ceased making Twinkies in 2012, Twinkie hoarders sold the must-have treats to some "desperates" for as much as $60 per box. The Twinkie black market crashed when the freshly baked cream-filled delights returned to stores in 2013.
World-wide, farmers and ranchers produce more tons of both fish and poultry than tons of beef. One factor in this data could be that 6.8 pounds of protein is required to produce one pound of beef. On a similar scale, only 1.7 pounds are needed to produce one pound of poultry and 1.1 pounds of protein can produce one pound of ichthyoid (fish) for human consumption.
Several breeds of dogs possess a sense of smell that is at least 100,000 times more acute than that of the average human. Some amazing canines have been trained to hunt upwind and can still detect drugs, explosives, escapees from 3 miles away.
Bubbles were fun to chase when I was a child. At family gatherings, I often open one of those plastic bottles and flail a bubble-wand. I still chase and laugh amongst others blessed with immature brains. Bubbles are actually very complex features of nature. A Boston University professor: "I could teach an entire course on bubbles." New technology called supercavitation is used to create vapor bubbles in front of torpedo heads; enabling torpedoes to zip along at 230 mph. One variety of computer bit is composed of bubbles and can be utilized as logic gates, whatever those are. Well, bubble up some happy and have a great week.
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Alcohol is included, isn't it? Do you still drink?
Winny wrote:Drinkers should answer:
1. why are you addicted to alcohol? Is it just for fun/ kinda escape when you got stressed?
2. do you intend to stop your addiction? do you think you can beat alcoholism?
hope we all stay healthy


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Current and former U.N. Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan rubbed elbows with Variety, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other honorees at the U.N. Foundation's annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan.
This is the same event where Ted Turner 15 years ago announced his historic $1 billion U.N. donation. At the Oct. 16 gala, he said it had been "by far the best investment I ever made, and I made some good ones."
Brian Gott, who has spearheaded Variety's philanthropic efforts for the past six years, accepted the prize in his last public appearance as Variety publisher. He promised the U.N. that Variety would "continue to be your partner in mobilizing this industry, to shine a spotlight on the issues that all of us need to solve together."
Tutu, the anti-apartheid hero turned advocate for girls' education, got the biggest laugh by pretending to reprimand the moderator: "I think we have to be careful. You said I was passionate about women." He then jokingly tapped his watch vigorously as a reminder to her that the 9 p.m. presidential debate was looming.


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Chase Haslett would like to make things easy for UCF. If the Knights would have him, he'll be on the next plane.
Yes, if the name sounds familiar it is. Haslett is the son of former New Orleans Saints and Florida Tuskers head coach Jim Haslett, now the defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins. The younger Haslett is a baseball pitcher and football quarterback at Clayton (Mo.) High School just outside St. Louis.
And he would like to take both of those skills to the next level at a place like UCF ... if not UCF itself.
" I like Central Florida a lot," Haslett said. "I've looked at their facilities and it's really nice. Central Florida has always interested me. I e-mailed them a few times, but never really heard anything back.".
Haslett was one of about 75 participants Sunday at ESPN's Wide World of Sports for the EA Sports Elite 11 Quarterback Camp, a two-hour succession of drills that will be held in various locations across the country. From these sessions, the top players will being chosen to compete for the Elite 11 top prize this summer in California.
"I didn't think I had a very good day. It was pretty windy out there and I hadn't really thrown like that in about three months," Haslett said. "But I don't want to make excuses. All around, it was a good day."
He did well enough to end up in the "A" group at the end of the day with the likes of Oviedo Hagerty's Jeff Driskel, Miami Northwestern's Teddy Bridgewater, Quinton Williams of Tampa Jefferson, Phillip Ely of Tampa Plant, Ryan McGriff of Gainesville, Kyle McDorman of Niceville, Sam Richardson of Winter Park, Steven Hughes of Melbourne Palm Bay, Kevin Sousa of Lake Nona and Jovani McCray of South Dade.
All of those players are in the Top 15 of the Sentinel's Pre-Spring Top 25 QB Rankings for the class of 2011.
Haslett missed the beginning of last football season after breaking his ankle in the final game of the 2009 baseball season. He tried to make up quickly for time missed with a 330-yard, three-touchdown performance in his first game back. He played five games and threw for almost 1,000 yards.
"The weather started to get cold and nasty up here and we ended up running in a lot of our last few games," Haslett said.
Ahh yes, the cold weather.
"We don't see a lot of warm weather up here in Missouri," Haslett said from Clayton on Sunday night, having already returned from Orlando. "I got a sunburn from down there today though."
Haslett said his high school starts baseball practice on Monday. "Coach is going to have us in sleeves, so we'll be able to practice a bit," he said.
Haslett pitches and then plays anywhere else the coach needs him on the baseball field. He said he hit .360 last season and was 5-2 on the mound with about 60 strikeouts and a 2.50 ERA. His fastball clocks in at 88 mph and he said he throws a "two-seam, four-seam, curve, change and a cutter."
The weather in Orlando, which allows for year-round training, is one of the intriguing factors about UCF, among other things for Haslett.
"Facilities, the area around it, and I heard that fans are great .. they have pretty good student support for football and baseball," Haslett said. "Just to play there would be nice. UCF's in Conference USA and playing against teams like Alabama-Birmingham, Tulane and Rice ... I'd love to love to play in that conference."
He's quite set on trying to find a school that will allow him to play both sports. He said he doesn't prefer one over the other.
"It would be really hard to give up something you love," he said.
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By Nick Brown
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Patriot Coal on Tuesday lost a bid to keep its bankruptcy case in New York, after the United Mine Workers of America argued that the proceedings should be transferred to a venue closer to the company's operations.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley Chapman in Manhattan moved the case to St. Louis, Missouri, where the company is based. As part of the bankruptcy, Patriot is expected to seek significant cuts in retiree pension and health benefits.
Patriot, the judge said in her ruling, incorporated two units in New York in the weeks leading up to its bankruptcy, essentially for the purpose of establishing venue there - a move that, while technically legal, was "simply not fair."
Patriot filed for bankruptcy in July, five years after being spun off by Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.
The union had wanted the case transferred to West Virginia, the hub of most of the company's operations but said it was satisfied with St. Louis.
"Nobody has ever mined one ounce of coal in Manhattan," the union said in a statement on Tuesday. "This decision brings the case to the heart of the Illinois coal basin, home to many of our active and retired members and their families."
Patriot had sought to keep the case in New York, a major site for corporate bankruptcies and the home of most of Patriot's lawyers and bankers. The company said it respected Chapman's decision.
"We remain focused on using the reorganization process to ensure the company's future viability as a competitor and employer in a challenging market environment," it said in a statement.
Chapman also criticized the union in her 62-page ruling, which she said aimed to define "the meaning of justice."
The union wanted to move the case to a West Virginia court where it felt judges would be more sympathetic to its cause, Chapman said.
"It is not in the interest of justice merely to swap one party's perceived home field advantage for another," the judge said, citing court hearings in which union lawyers expressed a desire for judges who "understand" and "worship" coal miners.
In court papers, Patriot has said its current labor obligations are "unsustainable" without cutting some benefits as it restructures.
The Mine Workers union has more than 10,000 retiree members whose pension and health obligations are administered by Patriot, though many never worked for Patriot and retired before the Peabody spin-off.
The union has vowed to protect its benefits through the bankruptcy, and has also sued Peabody Energy, saying it should cover benefits if Patriot cannot.
Chapman chose St. Louis, she said, because Patriot and many of its officers are based there. She added that she was influenced by hundreds of "compelling" letters from retirees, widows and families who wish to participate in the case.
"While St. Louis may not be as convenient as Charleston for some employees and retirees, it is by no means remote from coal country," the judge said.
The case is In Re Patriot Coal Corp et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-12900.
(Reporting By Nick Brown; Additional reporting by Billy Cheung; Editing by Bernard Orr and Steve Orlofsky)


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Stockton, CA
Charles Ray Isaacs
Dec. 9, 1920 - Feb. 6, 2013
Charles entered into his Heavenly rest on February 6, 2013, there to be reunited with his beloved wife
Irene, who he missed so much.
Together again they will spend eternity in the arms of God,
reaping the rewards of lives lived for Him. Charles was born December 9, 1920 in Arkansas to parents Dennis and Opal Isaacs. He married Irene Southern in 1940. They raised their family in Modesto, California, and lived in Stockton for the last 36 years. A painter by trade, Charles retired from the State of California. Irene preceded him in death on April 3, 2007.
Charles leaves behind 4 generations of children and grandchildren, a large extended family and many friends to cherish his memory.
Survived by children Carolyn
(Horace), JoAnn, Elden (Arlene), Darrell (Donna), 10 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, 3 great great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Charles was loved by many and will be sorely missed. Our loss is Heaven's gain.
Visitation will be at Cooley Funeral Home, 640 N. California St., Stockton, on Sunday, February 10, 3:00 to 8:00 pm. Services are 11:00 am, Monday, February 11, Christian Life Center, 9025 West Lane, Stockton.


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BOSTON (AP) — State Rep. Martin Walsh and City Councilor John Connolly emerged from a crowded field Tuesday to spots in the November election that will determine a successor to Thomas Menino, Boston's longest-serving mayor.
Unofficial returns showed Walsh and Connolly as the top vote-getters among the dozen candidates who hoped to succeed the popular Menino, who first took office in 1993. Menino announced earlier this year that he would not seek a sixth term following a series of health problems and hospitalizations.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Walsh had 20,838, or 18 percent of the vote, while Connolly had 19,420, or 17 percent.
Tuesday's result ensures a Democrat, either a union labor favorite with working-class roots or a former school teacher who made education a primary focus of his campaign, will become only the city's fourth mayor since 1968.
A Dorchester resident and son of Irish immigrants, Walsh, 46, has attracted strong labor backing for his campaign. He worked as a union laborer before being elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1997 and remained active in union affairs as a lawmaker.
Walsh called Tuesday's vote "a great start" but reminded supporters there would be a lot of work ahead in the six weeks before the Nov. 5 general election.
"What makes this election so big and so important is that after two decades of Mayor Thomas Menino, his trusted leadership, we are stepping into a new era," Walsh said. We recognize the next 20 years will be different from the last — new problems, new opportunities and new challenges."
Walsh survived cancer as a young child and overcame a bout with alcoholism as a young adult, mentioning both struggles in his signature TV ad during the preliminary election campaign.
Connolly, a 40-year-old father of three and former schoolteacher, has made education the central focus of his campaign. Among other things, he advocates extended learning time at every Boston public school and the development of a "principal pipeline" to make sure all schools have strong leaders.
"I have never been so glad to be in second place in my life," Connolly told jubilant supporters Tuesday.
The son of former Massachusetts Secretary of State Michael Connolly, he said he grew up in a very different city, one "deeply and bitterly divided along class and race lines," a reference to the aftermath of court-ordered school desegregation in the 1970s.
"I received the best this city had to offer, but I was always mindful that so many in our generation did not," said Connolly.
In what many at the time viewed as a politically bold — if not daring — act, Connolly declared his intention to run for mayor before the popular Menino announced he was retiring — the only candidate in Tuesday's field to do so.
Menino opted not to run again as he battled a series of health problems in recent years, including prostate surgery in June and a fractured leg in April. He was hospitalized for about six weeks last year with a respiratory infection and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Walsh and Connolly's nearest contenders were former state Rep. Charlotte Golar Richie and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.
The other hopefuls included City Councilor Felix Arroyo; former school committee member John Barros; radio station owner Charles Clemons; City Councilor Robert Consalvo; City Councilor Michael Ross; community organizer Bill Walczak; former schoolteacher David Wyatt; and City Councilor Charles Yancey.
Menino has pledged to stay neutral in the race.
Turnout was modest, although up from the last preliminary election for mayor in 2009, when Menino faced three challengers.
Among the challenges facing the next mayor will be choosing a new police commissioner to replace Edward Davis, who announced Monday he would be stepping down later this year after seven years in the post.


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The commercialization of innovation: an education on intellectual property
The Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic at Penn Law is designed to set a new standard for legal education providing hands-on, practical experience along the technological, legal, and business pathways that comprise the commercialization of innovation.
Cynthia Dahl, Practice Associate Professor of Law and the inaugural director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, talks to Penn Law's Office of Communications about the interdisciplinary opportunities the Clinic offers, and what makes it unique.
My name is Cindy Dahl and I am a Practice Associate Professor of law here at Penn and the inaugural director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic.
The Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic is the newest clinic offering in the Gittis Center. It is a unique experience that combines both a seminar and real client experiences to let students begin to practice law.
Clients will cross different industries and also be different sizes to give different experiences to the students. The cases will run the gamut: some students will have very technology-focused cases where they may be helping to prosecute a patent, or they may be helping to draft a patent licensing deal; or they may be looking at an inventor's new technology to give advice on whether it could be patented at all and then if it can be patented what to do with it as a business idea.
Other students will be involved with copyright-focused cases where they might look at an artist's work and give them advice about how to copyright it; or they might help them to license it to someone else who might want to perform their work. Still other students will be involved with trademark work where they may advise a company on how to protect their trademark rights.
This is a really unique program. Unlike other clinics that are focused on IP around the country, we have two unique opportunities here at Penn. First, we can work with the very powerful Center for Technology Transfer and second, we have wonderful professional schools that are literally down the block that will provide for the students to have a truly interdisciplinary experience. When lawyers practice in the real world, in a business setting, especially in a technology or artistic business setting, they meet different voices around the table. And they have to learn how they can add value to business situation, to an artistic situation, to a technology situation and work well with those other voices.
Having these other schools that are right down the block from us gives us an opportunity to bring those voices into the classroom and have the lawyers interact, before they are professionals out in the world, with people with different viewpoints, and different perspectives, and learn how to add value in those situations.
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Baseball Fan Catches Foul Ball While Holding Daughter
We've pulled off some impressive examples of multitasking ourselves. (You should see us type and eat at the same time.) But this dad, who catches a foul ball during a game between the Giants and the Pirates while simultaneously holding his daughter, puts us to shame. Oh, and did we mention that he catches the ball one-handed? He must be some sort of super dad!
During a game at San Francisco's AT&T Park over the weekend, Pirate Alex Presley tips a foul ball into the stands. Video shows the dad calmly standing up and nimbly snagging the foul while still holding onto his daughter. What's even more impressive is that he doesn't bobble the ball or his child.
Surrounding fans are so amazed by his prowess that he gets a slap on the back and a congratulatory high five. We agree! This guy definitely gets our vote for Dad of the Year.


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Quantified contexts
From HaskellWiki
1 The problem
The base library currently contains (essentially) the following classes:
class Monoid a where mempty :: a mappend :: a -> a -> a class MonadPlus m where mzero :: m a mplus :: m a -> m a -> m a class ArrowPlus c where arrowZero :: c a b arrowPlus :: c a b -> c a b -> c a b
If you look closely 'these are all the same. The only difference is in the superclasses and in the arity of the argument. You will find that any class that is an instance of MonadPlus can be made an instance of Monoid. In fact, some types such as lists, are indeed instances of both classes.
This leads to duplication of code and of extra names for what is essentially the same thing.When should you use
class Typeable a where typeOf :: a -> TypeRep class Typeable1 t where typeOf1 :: t a -> TypeRep class Typeable2 t where typeOf2 :: t a b -> TypeRep -- etc.
2 Chained instances
This Typeable library comes with instances
instance (Typeable2 t, Typeable a) => Typable (t a) instance (Typeable3 t, Typeable a) => Typable2 (t a) -- etc.
class Monoid2 t where mempty2 :: t a mappend2 :: t a -> t a -> t a class Monoid3 t where mempty3 :: t a b mappend3 :: t a b -> t a b -> t a b instance Monoid2 t => Monoid (t a) where mempty = mempty2 mappend = mappend2
class (Monad m, Monoid2 m) => MonadPlus m
A big disadvantage of these instances is that it is an all or nothing aproach.It is no longer possible to declare an
For example there is currently an instance
instance Ord k => Monoid (Map k v)
This would become imposible, because the instance would need be
instance Monoid2 Map -- we need Ord
3 Quantified contexts
An alternative would be a small extension of the Haskell language to allow quantifiers in contexts. Where we now write
function :: (Class a, Another (t a)) => Type a
We would also allow
function :: (forall b. Ctx => SomeClass b) => Type
The meaning is simple, to satisfy this context, an instance
instance Ctx => SomeClass b
is needed (or a more general one).We can use these quantified contexts in the
class (Monad m, forall a. Monoid (m a)) => MonadPlus m
or without the superflous extra class, for example
guard :: (Monad m, forall a. Monoid (m a)) => Bool -> m ()
The compiler will never infer a quantified context; the above type is not the most general type of guard. If you gave no type signature the compiler would infer
guard :: (Monad m, Monoid (m ())) => Bool -> m ()
4 Response from SimonPJ
I didn't see how Section 3 addressed the issues raised in Sections 1 and 2. For example, to avoid the cascade of `Typeable2`, `Typeable3` etc classes the solution is presumably polymorphism at the kind level. (Tim Sheard's language Omega has this.)
Still, I recognise the merit of quantification in contexts. Indeed, Ralf Hinze and I suggested it back in 2000 in Section 7 of [[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/derive.htm Derivable type classes]]. (This section is rather independent of the rest of the paper.)
However, attractive as it is, it's quite a big step to add something akin to local instance declarations. Our ICFP'08 paper [[http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/assoc-types/index.htm Type checking with open type functions]] relies rather crucially on not having such local instances. (We've managed to simplify the algorithm quite a bit since then, but it still relies on that assumption.)
So I'm not sure I see how to make quantified contexts compatible with type functions, and all the other stuff in Haskell. But their lack is clearly a wart, and one that may become more pressing.
Meanwhile, clarifying the proposal would be a good thing, even if it's not adopted right away.


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Metallica's Kirk Hammett: 'We Have To Start Working on the Album'
Even though Metallica haven't released a new studio album since 2008's 'Death Magnetic,' they've kept plenty busy. Between global touring (they played all 7 continents including Antarctica in 2013) and making the 3D movie 'Through the Never,' they have remained in the spotlight. The question on everybody's mind is when that elusive next album will be recorded.
Guitarist Kirk Hammett has shed some light on the subject in a new interview with Kerrang! [via NME]. He says it looks like Metallica have no other choice now but to get started on it. "We cannot think of any other reasons to procrastinate," Hammett says. "We're kind of backed up into the corner now, so yes, we have to start working on the album. And I'm excited. James [Hetfield] has, like, 800 riffs. I only have 400, but there's not going to be any shortage of ideas. It's going to be interesting to see how it turns out."
And while there's an ample supply of riffs, Hammett reveals there aren't any completed songs yet: "We have little bits and pieces of music earmarked to become songs, and really that's all I can say about it. We're pretty psyched about it. We're only procrastinating because we love being at home with our families, but we really do love writing songs together and making an album."
The band still has some time to get at least one new song done in time for their summer European tour. At those shows they say they'll be playing a new song along with a different setlist at each show, which will be voted on by ticket holders. It kicks off May 28 in Helsinki, Finland.


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Can someone caffinnate me?(lol)
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Can someone caffinnate me?(lol)
Ok, yeah it's a weird title..(Caffinate?!) But what I mean is can any one explain to me this. I was in chick'fil'a once and saw only drink by the Cocacola company being sold. Except Dr.Pepper. so i thought maybe coke is owned my Cocacola until I saw Dr.Pepper in a Pepsi machine. And looking at Pictures of Japanese vending machines that sell coke I find alot of pics that also have Dr.Pepper. Where as I can't find a one picture of a Cocacola machine or irl that sells Dr.Pepper only Mr.pibb.. Sp??? Can someone explain this to me?
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I really have no idea what you just said.
Two muffins were baking in an oven. One turns to the other and says "sure is hot in here." The other replies "AH TALKING MUFFIN!"
二つのマフィンがオーブンで焼かれていた。片方のマフィンがもう一方のマフィンに向かって、"暑いね"と言った。すると、話しかけられたほうのマフィンは"アッ!喋るマフィンだ!"と驚いた。 :)
二つのマフィンがオーブンで焼かれていた。片方のマフィンがもう一方のマフィンに向かって、"暑いね"と言った。すると、話しかけられたほうのマフィンは"アッ!喋るマフィンだ!"と驚いた。 :)
RE: Can someone caffinnate me?(lol)
Well Mr. Flammable hippo what I'm asking is why do I see Dr. Pepper being sold in Coke machines in japanese vending machines and not american ones? Or why does chick fil a(a restruant) only sell 1 Pepsi product. And / or who owns Dr. Pepper?
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Coke owns most of the non-USA rights to the Dr. Pepper name.
According to Wikipedia:
It is notable that Dr Pepper almost became a Coca-Cola brand in the mid-to-late 1980's. Dr Pepper became insolvent in the early 1980's, prompting an investment group to take the company private. Several years later, Coca-Cola attempted to acquire Dr Pepper, but was blocked from doing so by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Around the same time period, Seven Up was acquired from Phillip Morris by the same investment company that bailed out Dr Pepper. Upon the failure of the Coca-Cola merger, Dr Pepper and Seven Up merged (creating Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., or DPSU), giving up international branding rights in the process. After the DPSU merger, Coca-Cola obtained most non-U.S. rights to the Dr Pepper name (with PepsiCo taking the Seven Up rights).
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