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Round-up 2013: Best of semiconductors, electronics and solar
Friends, here's a review of 2013! There have been the usual hits and misses, globally, while in India, the electronics and semiconductor industries really need to do a lot more! Enjoy, and here's wishing everyone a Very Happy and Prosperous 2014! Be safe and stay safe!!
What does it take to create Silicon Valley!
How's global semicon industry performing in sub-20nm era?
Xilinx announces 20nm All Programmable UltraSCALE portfolio
Dr. Wally Rhines: Watch out for 14/16nm technologies in 2014!
Outlook 2014: Xilinx bets big on 28nm
Indian electronics scenario still dull: Leaptech
Connecting intelligence today for connected world: ARM
India poses huge opportunity for DLP: TI
SEMICON Europa 2013: Where does Europe stand in 450mm path?
Apple's done it again, wth iPad Air!
IEF 2013: New markets and opportunities in sub-20nm era!
ST intros STM32F4 series high-performance Cortex-M4 MCUs
Great, India's having fabs! But, is the tech choice right?
Now, India to have two semicon fabs!
Higher levels of abstraction growth area for EDA
Moore's Law could come to an end within next decade: POET
What's happening with 450mm: G450C update and status
Xilinx tapes-out first UltraScale ASIC-class programmable architecture
EC's goal: Reach 20 percent share in chip manufacturing by 2020!
Read more…
Embedded systems trends and developer opportunities
Today, the world is transitioning from independent devices to connected systems. Intel has been inside the embedded systems market for over 35 years, having developed 270+ CPUs and SoCs as well as 100+ chipsets.
Herb Hinstorff, director of Marketing, Developer Products Division, Intel Software, said that Intel has been engaged at all levels of the solution stack. He was speaking at the 13th Global Electronics Summit at Santa Cruz, USA.
There are tools to deliver on developer needs, such as debuggers, analyzers, compilers and libraries. There are tools to provide the deep system-level insights into power, reliability and performance.
On the debuggers side, they increase system and device stability and reliability. There is an efficient system, SoC-wide defect analysis and ultra-fast system-wide tracing for software debug. There is an integrated application level debugger. Overall, it speeds system bring-up and development. Analyzers focus on boosting reliability, power efficiency and performance, enabling differentiated designs, system-wide analysis and deep insights.
Compilers go on to optimize performance and efficiency. There is the industry-leading C/C++ compiler. It boosts system and application performance on Intel Atom, Core and Xeon processors. Compilers also take advantage of the multicore to boost performance.
There are libraries for performance and efficiency. Software building blocks increase the developer productivity and boost performance. There are specialized testing functions that handle signal processing, data processing, complex math operations and multimedia processing. Besides, there is future-proof software investments. The libraries provide an easy way to take advantage of the multicore capabilities to boost performance.
The Intel System Studio is an integrated software tool suite that provides deep, system-wide insights to help accelerate time-to-market, strengthen system reliability, and boost power effiency and performance. The JTAG interface has system and application code running Linux.
There is a continued broadening of the OS support, and a broader range of tools to match the expanding SoC capabilities. There is more extensive software based training and simulation, as well as market-specific libraries and APIs.
Given that the market is transitioning from independent devices to connected systems, more capable SoC platforms and complex software stacks require deeper and broader system-level insights and optimizations. Embedded developers can take advantage of the Intel System Studio to accelerate the time-to-market, strengthen system reliability, and boost power efficiency and performance of the Intel architecture-based embedded and mobile systems.
Embedded software: Next revolution in EDA
There is a key lesson that Mentor Graphics made while trying to deliver solutions that were right for software and hardware developers. The lesson was: tailor the software to the discipline! Make it as similar to their environment as possible!!
Delivering his speech at the ongoing 13th Global Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, USA, Dr. Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, said that 15 years of acquisitions taught Mentor how to think and behave as an embedded software company.
Open systems requires active engagement in software committees. Each open source project has some form of governance to manage contributions, release plans, etc. There is a community peer selection process for each open source project. About 50 Mentor Embedded Sourcerers are actively involved in the open source and Android communities.
There is a need to take the advantage of knowing both worlds. Mentor's Sourcery CodeBench is an embedded C/C++ development tool based on open-source standards. Sourcery CodeBench is a complete development environment for embedded C/C++ development on ARM, Coldfire, MIPS, Power, X86, and other architectures. You can install, flash and debug in minutes!
Sourcery CodeBench
Sourcery CodeBench is now the semiconductor industry's leading embedded toolchain. There is an integrated development environment. It has the GNU compiler (GCC) and optimization tools. It allows debugging and analysis, libraries and QEMU simulator.
There are about ~15,000 downloads per month. There have been ~150,000 downloads and 300 releases per year.
Round-up 2012: Best of electronics, semiconductors and solar
Friends, here is the round-up of 2012, where the best of electronics, semiconductors and solar PV are presented. Best wishes for a very happy and prosperous new year! 🙂
Also, a word on the horrendous Delhi rape that has shaken up India. I am ashamed to be a man and a part of India's society. My family and I are extremely sorry that the brave girl is no more! May her soul rest in peace. May God deliver justice, and quickly!
Opportunities in turbulent PV equipment market
Global semiconductor industry outlook 2013: Jaswinder Ahuja, Cadence
Next wave of design challenges, and future growth of EDA: Dr. Wally Rhines
Global medical image sensors market to grow 64 percent by 2017
Status of power semiconductor devices industry
Global solar PV industry to remain under pressure in 2013!
Dr. Wally Rhines on global semiconductor industry outlook 2013
Focus on monolithic 3D-ICs paradigm shift for semicon industry
Xilinx announces 20nm portfolio strategy
Elliptic intros world's first commercial touchless gesturing technology!
Global semiconductor industry outlook 2013: Analog Devices
IMEC's 450mm R&D initiative for nanoelectronics ecosystem
III-V high mobility semiconductors for advanced CMOS apps
Yet another electronics policy for India?
IEF 2012: Turning recession into opportunity!
Global semicon sales to drop 1.7 percent in 2012?
Virtual prototyping ready for masses
MEMS to be $21 billion market by 2017: Yole
TSMC on 450mm transition: Lithography key!
Cadence Allegro 16.6 accelerates timing closure
Dr. Wally Rhines on global EDA industry
Solarcon India 2012: Solar industry in third wave!
Apple wins big vs. Samsung in patent war!
Can being fabless and M-SIPS take India to top?
Is Europe ready for 450mm fabs?
Xilinx intros Vivado Design Suite
Cadence releases latest Encounter RTL-to-GDSII flow
WLCSP market and industrial trends
Top 10 semiconductor growth drivers: Intersil
Ingredients for successful fabless Indian semiconductor industry: Dr. Wally Rhines
Tariffs will slow growth in domestic demand for PV systems: The Brattle Group
Wireless leads in global semicon spends!
India to allow imports of low-priced Chinese solar cells? Or, is it beaten?
Vision technology can add valuable capabilities to electronic products: Jeff Bier, EVA
Following my post on the formation of the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA), I managed to speak with Jeff Bier, president, Berkeley Design Technology (BDTI), who went on to speak more about the Alliance's capabilities.
First, the mission and vision of the Alliance. Bier said: "The mission of the Embedded Vision Alliance is to transform the electronics industry with products that–through vision technology–are more intelligent and aware of their environments, and create significant new markets for electronic equipment and components. The goal of the Alliance is to speed the adoption of computer vision capabilities in electronic products.
"The strategy of the Alliance is to inspire and empower engineers to incorporate vision capabilities into their products by providing practical information, insights, skills, and standards."
I asked Jeff Bier whether the Alliance had restricted itself to markets such as automotive driver assistance, home surveillance, and gaming systems? "No," he said! "We believe that vision technology can add valuable capabilities to electronic products in many markets – as well as enabling the creation of entirely new kinds of products. Automotive driver assistance, surveillance, and gaming systems are examples of vision applications where products already exist at consumer price points – and in some cases these products are already shipping in high volume.
"While we certainly believe that there will be more such products in these markets in the future, we also believe that there will be compelling vision-based products in other markets, ranging from smartphones to consumer electronics to medical devices to digital advertising."
In that case, what kind of applications can one expect getting covered in retail and entertainment, medical applications, especially. Bier replied, "The Embedded Vision Alliance doesn't intend to try to pick winners among embedded vision applications – but rather, to enable as many players as possible." Here are some examples (including some existing products and some that are just ideas):
Retail: Digital signs that measure the success of an advertisement in attracting and retaining a viewer's attention – and that select among a number of ads depending on the gender and age of the viewer. Vending machines that exclude minors from purchasing prohibited items, such as alcoholic beverages.
Entertainment: There are some awesome possibilities here, such as toys that recognize which child is playing with them and respond based on that child's preferences. Video games that put the person inside the game, or inside the television program, for example.
Medical: Systems that watch hospital rooms and warn caregivers when they've forgotten to wash their hands, to cut down on infections. Machines that recognize medications and help elderly people take the right medication at the right time. Exercise equipment that detect a person's heart rate and respiration rate without requiring electrodes.
Now, implementing embedded vision is going to pose a challenge! I asked Bier how the Alliance will overcome this. He replied: "We don't expect to overcome it all by ourselves, but we hope to help, by providing design engineers get the kinds of practical information, insights, and skills required to implement embedded vision—and by providing a centralized place for such resources. This kind of information is difficult to come by today – by far the majority of computer vision information available today is theoretical, academic work.
"The first project of the Alliance is the web site, http://www.embedded-vision.com. The web site will deliver a variety of information including technical articles, product information, discussion forums, and demonstrations. In the near future, we will begin to deliver additional resources, such as newsletter and online seminars."
Finally, the Alliance needs to create opportunities for technology providers to reach out to embedded vision system designers in the coming months. "Definitely", said Bier. "The web site is already beginning to provide such opportunities, and we will continue to do so there as well as with other initiatives, such as educational seminars and on-line conferences."
Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA) is born!
The Embedded Vision Alliance is born! Over 15 leading technology companies, including some really big names in semiconductors, have come together in Oakland, USA, to ' speed the adoption of computer vision capabilities in electronic products'.
BDTI, Xilinx, and IMS Research initiated the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA) and are being joined by Analog Devices, Apical, Avnet Electronics Marketing, CEVA, CogniVue, Freescale, National Instruments, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Tokyo Electron Device, MathWorks, Ximea, and XMOS as founding members.
According to a release, the ability of machines to see and understand their environments—what we call "embedded vision"—promises to transform the electronics industry with products that are more intelligent and aware of their environments, and to create significant new markets for electronic equipment and components.
This new consortium, called the Embedded Vision Alliance, will enable the proliferation of embedded vision technology by providing design engineers with information, practical know-how, and industry standards.
Tim Erjavec, senior director, FPGA Platform Product Marketing, Xilinx, said: "It was clear to both BDTI and us that the adoption of an array of technologies in intelligent video, video analytics, computer vision and other complementary technologies are making their way into many more application than ever before. In looking at integrating the right solution to a given problem in various applications, the lack of readily available information to get started or evaluate is apparent.
"Further, what is available is very diverse, in many cases very complex and not aggregated at any one place. So, in order to help system designers in designing-in "vision" into their applications, we saw the opportunity to aggregate many of the contributing technologies, products, companies and expertise into one place. Thus, the alliance and new website was formed and launched last week."
While the participants in this Alliance need to be congratulated for their foresight, one wonders what took them so long!
Also, I do not see any Indian company in the list, although, the embedded systems and software industry here is quite large. Names, such as Ittiam, Tata Elxsi, etc., should be part of this Alliance, but they are absent, as of now!
Now, the EVA's commitment is to vision technology and enabling customers to develop the industry's most innovative hardware, development tools and software to make vision application development easier. One of the founders has commented that embedded vision will be used on automobiles to prevent accidents and to security cameras to prevent crimes. Should this happen, embedded vision will surely proliferate across a multitude of markets! We are all waiting really patiently for such days!
No real fun being at DAC or ESC! Seriously!!
The 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC) kicks off in about a month's time in San Diego, California, USA. I have been flooded with invites. There's also an Embedded Systems Conference starting tomorrow, in San Jose. However, I will give both of the events a miss! Why? Simply because of one fact! The EDA industry has stopped surprising me! And, so has the embedded systems industry!!
I an very well aware of the changing and 'challenging' trends in the global semiconductor industry. I should also add that I do have at least some knowledge of the global EDA industry in 2010 and its expectations for 2011.
I am aware of the fact that product lifecycle management involves reducing the time-to-market cycles for new product introduction. Industry folks have, time and again, apprised me of the fact that there is a need to bridge the gap between software and hardware – and growing the IT and VLSI industries.
Cadence, for instance, will share a new technology that addresses some of the toughest challenges detailed in the EDA360 vision at ESC 2011. For how long will the challenges be met? Synopsys seems to be raking in the dollars, year after year. Mentor, despite its 'current issues', has been doing fairly well. So, what's new over here?
In embedded, it is very well known globally, that India is an emerging leader. Otherwise, there is hardly any electronics or semiconductor related manufacturing happening in India, despite the best efforts of the ISA.
So, why isn't all of this being viewed as industry growth? Maybe, you have all the answers! I will only try to sound more optimistic, without creating additional pain!
Almost all of the new techniques and technologies to be announced at either conference, will or already have made their way to India. Or, the companies using them are not allowed to speak about them, at best!
Top 10 Indian embedded companies!
It has been over two years since I wrote the piece — Top 10 embedded companies in India! It has been the most read, and by far, the most commented. Now, it is time to do a review, or, more suitably, a recap!
First, who are the top 10 (Indian) embedded systems and software companies in India? My list, in no particular order, would read something like this:
1. Ittiam
2. Sasken
5. L&T EmSyS
6. ProcSys
7. eInfochips
8. Mistral
9. iWave Systems/Global Edge
10. Vayavya Labs
There are several firms in Pune and Hyderabad, who probably deserve a name. There may be some folks may not agree with this list, but I would go with these, for now. The next change could be two years down the road!
Some may even question the presence of CMC and C-DAC in this list. However, CMC has well over 30+ years of extensive experience in providing consulting, design and development services and testing services in real-time systems.
C-DAC has capabilities in high-performance computing as well as grid computing. It also has unit focusing on professional electronics, including embedded and VLSI products.
Ittiam and Sasken remain in the top 5 category. ProcSys is a new entrant, besides iWave, Global Edge and Vayavya Labs.
Now, may I know if you have any doubts, as well as moves, additions and/or changes (MAC)? 😉
Women power, RVCE rule at first annual Karnataka VLSI and embedded systems awards
It is always a pleasure to witness women power in technology! More especially, in India!! To my pleasant surprise, and am sure, of many others present, women power was aplenty at the first annual Karnataka VLSI and Embedded Systems Awards distribution ceremony held today at the RV-VLSI Design Center, Bangalore.
First, the winners! Congratulations to each one of them on their achievement!
VLSI category
Winner: Suraj H, Vinay R, Vinaya Ajjampura and Vasudev Pai M, RVCE, E&C.
Title: Design and verification of 16-bit pipelined microcontroller.
Runner-up: Deepika, Deepthi MN, Divya V Nayak, RVCE, Telecom — an all-women team!
Title: Design and verification of stand-alone DMA controller.
Embedded category
Winner: Praseed Chandriki, Prashant Bhat, Anup Reddy, Manoranjan S, RVCE, E&C.
Title: Implementtion of media transport in VoIP and performance analysis through measurement of QoS.
Runner-up: Ashwini HV, Sayak Bhowmick, Shruthi BR, Shruti S. Rao, Global Academy of Technology, E&C.
Title: DARAM driver for VoIP router.
It was announced that Mentor Graphics, along with STMicroelectronics, will be sponsoring next year's awards.
This year's contest was initiated by RV-VLSI in close association with VTU, and sponsored by Mentor Graphics. Dr. Walden C. Rhines, CEO and chairman, Mentor Graphics, graced the occassion. Dr. V.S. Acharya, the Honorable minister for Higher Education, Planning and Statistics, Government of Karnataka, who could not make it to the event owing to pressing official work, had his message read out.
Other digitaries present on the occasion included Hanns Windele, VP Mentor Graphics (Europe & India), Ian Burgess, Higher Education Program, Mentor Graphics, CV Hayagriv, Trustee, Rashtreeya Sikshana Samiti Trust, and chairman, governing council, RV-VLSI Design Center, AVS Murthy, honarary secretary, Rashtreeya Sikshana Samiti Trust, and Dr. MK Panduranga Setty, president, Rashtreeya Sikshana Samiti Trust (RSST).
RV-VLSI can tape-out multi-billion transistor chip today!
Venkatesh Prasad, CEO, RV-VLSI Design Center, said it was his interaction with a visionary like Dr. MK Panduranga Setty, and the support of the board of trustees of RSST that made it easy for him to transition out of the industry and start RV-VLSI. The vision of RV-VLSI is to create a steady stream of well trained professionals with a low TTP (time to be productive). To achieve a low TTP, it had to do things different from a traditional academic institution.
That differentiation started with the name, RV-VLSI Design Center itself, rather than RVDI. Next, the institute procured a Sun data center to meets its complex needs. Next, it gained access to foundry technology from Tower Semiconductor and EDA software from Mentor Graphics. Prasad added, 'RV-VLSI has the infrastructure to design and tape-out a multi-billion transistor chip today." Read more…
Is the Indian semicon industry losing the plot?
Every time I see a new electronics or related segment being talked about in India — be it medical electronics/healthcare, RFID and smart cards, or for that matter, telecom, why do I get this feeling that the Indian semicon industry is slowly losing the plot? One hopes not!
The Indian technology industry is talking about practically everything, except semiconductors. Yes, I know we have a great pool of designers who work in the MNCs. Also, there are plenty of Indian design services companies doing excellent work (for others?). India's strength in embedded is folk lore. Despite all of this, we are, where we were a few years ago!
Back in 2007, I'd done a story on how there were very remote chances of having a fab in India. Back then, some industry folks expressed optimism that the fab story was not dead! However, that story is well and truly dead and buried, as of now! Today, no one wants to talk about a fab — fine, then!
Let's do a reality check on India's semiconductor score-card!
So far, India has not even managed to have a small foundry, forget about having a fab! Nor has the Indian industry managed to develop, nurture and build many (or any?) fabless companies of note. Can you tell me how many Indian fabless semicon companies have come up in the past five years? How many globally known Indian semicon product start-ups are there in our country for that matter? Okay, how many Indian semicon product start-ups are there in our country?
For that matter, how many ATMP units have come up in India? I do recall some industry folks mention in the past that there will be some ATMP units happening. Where are they? Okay, who, in India, is even trying to develop IP libraries?
Even if there is some success in building electronic product companes — that is and will be limited success! Neither is there any evidence of cutting-edge R&D being done in India. Please do not mix this up with the work being done by the Indian arms of the various MNCs.
Why, I don't even think that the industry-academia partnership has developed substantially, leave alone mature!
If medical electronics, or some other related area, were to go on and succeed in the near future, it would be counted as a success for the Indian electronics industry, and not for the Indian semicon industry! Even if this did happen and it was counted as a 'semicon success, can anyone make a guess as to how many of the chips going into such devices would be actually made in India – by Indian firms?
I had mentioned back in Feb. 2009 that "Can the Indian semicon industry dream big? (And even buy Qimonda?)! To refresh your memory, there was a large 300mm fab up for sale in Dresden, Germany. Well, even that never happened, or well, the Indian industry did not think it to be of much importance!
Back in August 2009, there was news about Texas Instruments (TI) placing a bid of $172.5 million for buying Qimonda's 300mm production tools from its closed DRAM fab. While this highlighted TI's focus on building the world's first 300mm analog fab, I can't stop wondering: what would have happened had an Indian investor actually bought Qimonda's fab!
Perhaps, it would be better for the Indian semicon industry to stick to its globally known strengths of providing excellent semiconductor design services and embedded design services. At least, there will be clear direction in these areas.
Of course, there exist huge opportunities in all of the areas (or gaps) that I've touched upon.
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Anglo-Saxon Coin Found near York
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We describe a patient with myasthenia gravis and thymoma who developed recurrent severe myasthenic crises associated with the use of combination chemotherapy.
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an uncommon immunological disorder of the neuromuscular junction that is characterised by abnormal weakness and fatigability of some or all striated voluntary muscles. It is the most common autoimmune disorder in patients with thymoma, in whom the incidence is 30%–50%. 1
In patients with MG, up to 90% of their acetylcholine receptors may be destroyed by autoantibodies, predisposing them to disease exacerbation by any agent that impedes neuromuscular transmission.2
In February, a 49-year-old self-employed builder developed MG and was subsequently found to have invasive thymoma. This was incompletely excised. The surgical procedure was complicated by left phrenic nerve palsy.
In May, the patient commenced his first cycle of chemotherapy, which was to comprise doxorubicin 50 mg/m2 Day 1, cisplatin 100 mg/m2 Day 1 and etoposide 120 mg/m2 Days 1, 3 and 5, with dexamethasone 20 mg, ondansetron 8 mg and metoclopramide 10 mg administered before chemotherapy to control nausea. His MG had been well controlled on pyridostigmine 60 mg twice daily. However, within 24 hours of the first dose of chemotherapy, he developed a severe myasthenic crisis with respiratory failure requiring intubation. This was managed with dexamethasone 8 mg daily and plasmapheresis, and was thought to be due to the high-dose dexamethasone given prior to chemotherapy. In addition, he had developed a chest infection a couple of days before starting chemotherapy, which may have contributed to the respiratory failure. A methicillin-sensitive Staphyloccus aureus was isolated from sputum cultures. This was managed upon hospitalisation with intravenous ceftriaxone 1 g daily for 7 days.
In June, the patient received his second cycle of chemotherapy, this time without dexamethasone. Within several hours, he developed increasing breathlessness with bulbar dysfunction and generalised weakness. Despite treatment with steroids and intravenous neostigmine, his respiratory state continued to deteriorate, necessitating intubation and subsequent plasmapheresis.
No further cycles of chemotherapy were administered. A restaging computed tomography scan at the time revealed minimal residual tumour and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. In August, he completed a course of mediastinal radiotherapy that was complicated by mild radiation pneumonitis.
A review of the literature revealed no previous report of MG unmasked or aggravated by chemotherapeutic agents. However, several other classes of drugs have been associated with exacerbation of pre-existing MG. Aminoglycosides have been most frequently associated with drug-induced neuromuscular blockade. However, agents most likely to cause aggravation of MG when overused are anticholinesterase drugs, high-dose prednisolone, anaesthetic agents and neuromuscular blockers. Immunosuppressive drugs have also been implicated,3 and transient worsening of MG by high-dose corticosteroids is commonly encountered.4 Miller and colleagues5 found a positive correlation between serum methylprednisolone sodium succinate concentrations and deterioration in neuromuscular transmission. No effect on acetylcholine-receptor antibodies was noted. They speculated that the effects of steroids on MG arise from dissociation of nerve excitation and muscle contraction.
Our patient developed recurrent severe myasthenic crises despite the omission of steroids in his second cycle of chemotherapy. It is highly likely that at least one of the three chemotherapeutic agents used had a direct inhibitory effect on neuromuscular transmission, aggravating pre-existing MG. The adverse drug reaction was assessed as "probable" based on a score of 5 on the Naranjo Adverse Drug Reaction Probability Scale.6 The exact mechanism for the neuromuscular blockade is uncertain, but may be due to disrupted calcium entry into the presynaptic nerve terminal, inhibiting presynaptic acetylcholine release. Alternatively, it may be due to postsynaptic blockade, the drugs may bind competitively to the acetylcholine, or may interfere with ionic conductance across the muscle membrane.7 A combination of pre- and post-synaptic blockade may also occur.
- 1. DeVita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, editors. Cancer: principles and practice of oncology. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1997.
- 2. Maselli RA. Pathophysiology of myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton syndrome. Neurol Clin 1994; 12: 285-303.
- 3. Victor M, Ropper AH, Adams RD. Adams and Victor's principles of neurology. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- 4. Wittbrodt ET. Drugs and myasthenia gravis. An update. Arch Intern Med 1997; 157: 399-408.
- 5. Miller RG, Milner-Brown HS, Mirka A. Prednisone-induced worsening of neuromuscular function in myasthenia gravis. Neurology 1986; 36: 729-732.
- 6. Naranjo CA, Busto U, Sellers EM, et al. A method for estimating the probability of adverse drug reactions. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1981; 30: 239-245.
- 7. Barrons RW. Drug-induced neuromuscular blockade and myasthenia gravis. Pharmacotherapy 1997; 17: 1220-1232.
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ― Isaac Newton
Sunday, 18 October 2009
After awhile she turned to look at him. 'Oh Bobby,' she said.
'We've made such a mess of things, you and me. What are we going to do?'
'The best we can,' he said, still stroking her hand. He raised it to his lips and kissed the palm where her lifeline and heartline tangled briefly before wandering away from each other again. 'The best we can.' – Stephen King, Low Men in Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis)
Warning: Listening to William Hurt read this in his rich and textured voice is enough to break your heart.
For the last few weeks my life has been like A Series of Unfortunate Events – minus the weird, but undeniably cool, siblings. I've been working harder than I ever have in my whole (and quite short) life – what sucks though is the fact that I get no satisfaction from it because most of my work consists of marking first year students' assignments and tests and I've never met people who are as apathetic as the first year students at UJ. Tolkien must have been made of ridiculously tough mental stuff to mark exams for so many years and still be sane at the end of it all... then again students were much brighter back in his day. Perhaps if I continue on this course I'll get so bored that my mind will be forced to come up with a story so brilliant that it parallels The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings to try and stop itself from withering away.
One of my life goals is not to live a mediocre life, so being surrounded by so many students who just don't give a damn is rather shocking! I struggle (and fail most of the time) to be the best Charlie® I can be every day but these people don't even seem all that bothered about trying. The whole business makes me think of Jagang's Imperial Order in Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth novels in which Jagang and his men try to make it seem that people who try to aspire to be better than their fellow men are being full of themselves and selfish. The sad reality is that we live in world where mediocrity is not enough to get you to the top – bearing in mind that my definition of the top is probably drastically different from yours... mine involves a huge library.
Anyhoo, I'm tired and need to be heading to Slumber Land to rest my weary body. In a few hours it's my birthday and I'm looking forward to being twenty-two – it's exciting I think, what being a full blown adult person and all.
Good night furry friends :)
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Saturday, 28 July 2012
Hi, guys, I'm back!
Now that I'm home I see I have some new followers - Welcome! I hope you enjoy this madcap corner of blogland! Let me put the kettle on.
One of the lovely ladies I travelled with is moving tomorrow, which obviously calls for a card. I will get to the one I made today anon, because I want to show you a card I don't like!
You see, I saw on Kim Reygate's Blog that the challenge at Our Creative Corner is to show one of your cards that you don't like and give it a 'makeover.' That actually inspired me to have a go at some self-improvement!
This was going to be sent to my sister when she moved earlier this year. Now, the photo isn't so bad, but irl the colours just shriek at each other! The colouring of the image is blotchy, too, and the layout is unbalanced, there's too much space on the right. I only like the ribbon and the flower and the stamp!
So here is the new version:
I've kept the flower and ribbon ideas, and the paper is very bright and sunny but a better size of design for a smallish card, toned down with greeny-blue mats. I prefer this one!
I used a Polkadoodles stamp that came free with 'Papercraft Essentials' magazine some time last year of this neat little house with hearts and a wiggly chimney stack, coloured with Speccies. The berries on the topiary have been stickled. I used a Nestie (Lacey Square) to cut it out and frame it at the same time.
The papers are also from a magazine last year, they are by Kate Knight, I do like her designs! The 6 little stars and the pearl brad are by Papermania and I've had them forever. The blossoms from stash have been sprayed with Old Lace Glimmer Mist.
Whaddaya think, chums?
I'm entering Our Creative Corner Challenge oops, no I'm not, I've missed the boat! Curses! Foiled again!
and also Sweet Sketch Wednesday whose awesome sketch I used.
Gosh, this is a lengthy post! Thanks for sticking with me, and thanks for looking!
love Mags B x
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14 comments:
- Sue said...
I'm really pleased that you had a good week Mags and that the weather was kind to you.
Both of your cards are lovely but I have to agree that the second one is loads better!! You have coloured the image beautifully and I love the bright colours and the layout.
Hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend
Hugs Sue
- Saturday, July 28, 2012
- Lynne in NI said...
Great job Mags, love your new card - gorgeous choice of DPs too. Glad to hear your conference went well, great you got a tan, I think I have rust! :)
- Saturday, July 28, 2012
- Heide said...
What fun papers, lovely cards. Thanks for joining us at SSW.
Hugs, Heide SSW-DT
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- coops said...
so gorgeous mags.fab image and i love the bold colours :D
xx coops xx
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- Simple and Sweet said...
Beautiful job on both cards! The colors are just gorgeous! Thanks for joining us this week!
Erika SSW DT
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- mulberry station said...
it is always so good to get away and relax for a few days. I am glad you were able to do that. Your cards are gorgeous and I really love the bright fun papers you have used on your card. They are really fun. Thanks so much for joining us.
Nancy SSW-DT
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- coldwaters2 said...
Two fabulous cards Mags I do love these images they are such fun and quirky, the papers you have used with them are just perfect.
Lorraine x
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- Sharon Basel said...
Terrific cards Mags! I love the fun, bright and happy papers on each of them. That freebie image is delightful too. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!
Sharon, SSW-DT
- Monday, July 30, 2012
- Linda Anderson said...
Two lovely cards, for sure!! Love your images and mix of papers, something I love to do too! Thanks for joining us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
- Tuesday, July 31, 2012
- Jeannie said...
These are both really adorable and I really like the fun and fresh papers and colors! Thanks so much for joining us this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
Peace & Luv,
- Tuesday, July 31, 2012
- Kathie said...
Oh Mags I love your card especially your card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday. This is such a cute image and such pretty girlie colours. It such a fun card. Great card and thanks so much for sharing your card with us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and good luck.
Kathie SSW-DT
- Wednesday, August 01, 2012
- Arlana 11426 said...
Such a cute house card. Love your fun colors and sweet papers. Have a sweet day!!! Arlana@SSW!!!
- Wednesday, August 01, 2012
- Shell Shearer Swinscoe said...
Glad you had a fab week hun!
Card are gorgeous, fab colours & papers!
Hugs Shell xx
- Wednesday, August 01, 2012
- Annmaree of Oz said...
oh I love these wonderful bright colours, my favourites!
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This is going to be a long winded post! But I just can't tell the story of Emma and Cody's wedding day any other way. It deserves a lot of photos! Emma and Cody's ceremony was held at the The Arts Center in Jamestown, ND. Emma's mom works there, and it was a gorgeous, unique location for a ceremony!
Emma and Cody chose to see each other before the ceremony, and Patrick and I were able to capture that moment, which we call "The First Look." This is one of my favorite parts of the day! It's an intimate moment between the two of them, and we just stand back and capture it.
After the ceremony we headed out with the wedding party bus to visit the world's largest buffalo! This was the first time I'd ever been there! The view was pretty amazing though!
The reception hall for the wedding dinner and dance was beautifully decorated in purples, golds, and greens. Everything went together so perfectly!
To say that Emma loves dessert would be an understatement… Their reception had not only the best cake I've ever eaten in my life, but also an entire dessert bar. Everything was made by Nichole's Fine Pastry in Fargo, ND. I didn't want any of the dessert to feel left out, so I decided to try a little bit of everything. (Sadly, I didn't make it through even half of them though!)
Their dance was rocking with the band Power of 10 performing! The first time I had ever heard them, they're out of Minneapolis and they're FABULOUS! You should definitely check them out! They had the dance floor moving all night!
Man these guys were amazing!!!!
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On the video "Corrupted Life Debt - The Hanharr Story" the character Mira tells the story her history with the wookiee Hanhar. When she talks about the time she saved Hanharr's life, I noticed something that I was surprised I hadn't noticed before.
When Hanharr was hunting Mira, she managed to trick him into running into his own minefield. Hanharr was critically injured, but alive. Mira expresses that she should have killed him, but for some reason, she couldn't. She said that she could hear him speak, but that what she heard was less of a roar and more an echo of it.
We all know that this kind of thing happens all the time, but we never got this clear an example of it. Jedi and other force users frequently say things like: "The force has led us here for a reason." Now we're getting an example of how the force can directly and invasively manipulate separate individuals.
Mira says that she thinks that Harharr was begging her to let him live. But we all know that is the last thing Hanharr wants. In his mind, if his life is saved, the life debt he would have to pledge would turn him into a slave again. So how could it be that Mira was hearing this? She said that Hanharr's voice wasn't a roar, but an echo of it.
In terms of sound, an echo is when noise hits a hard surface and reflects back to listeners. You could imagine that the force is that hard surface. But that would suggest that the force is manipulating sound waves, and I don't think it is. I believe that the force manipulates living beings, in this case, Mira. More specifically, the force is manipulating her senses. She heard Hanharr beg for his life because that's what the force wanted her to hear.
The Miraluka species perceive the world through the force in an even more extreme way. It's the only thing they could possibly know throughout their entire lives. Which means that if the force has a will, the Miraluka always see what the force wants them to see.
Being force sensitive, the Jedi are much the same. They perceive the world through senses that are filtered through the force. It was those who disconnected from the force, like Kreia and the Exile, who saw their surroundings for what it was.
I mention force sensitivity, but in reality it makes me wonder. The force flows through all living things. The reality that all the people in this galaxy perceive; what they see, hear, smell, is it really how they think it is? I can't say that the force is micromanaging the senses of trillions of people, but with something that's seemingly omnipotent, I can't rule it out either.
I have to maintain that people who are balanced within force alignment can't be directly controlled by the force. If I had to guess, I would say that most people who don't believe in the force would be balanced, or at least closer to balanced than others. But that begs the question, are most people balanced or do most people align to a side?
Mira leans quite a bit towards the light, so she heard "save me". If she leaned to the dark, would she have heard "kill me"? That's in question because the force seemingly wanted Hanharr alive. So instead I would have to guess that she would have heard "enslave me" instead. Why would the force what him alive? No one can be sure. The force's motivation and end goal? No one knows.
The Jedi perpetuated the idea that the force wants balance. In the opinion of the Jedi, the definition of "balance" is light side supremacy. The Sith say that it's a force of nature that should be harnessed, exploited, and used for one's own ends.
Personally I think they're both wrong. No one knows what the force wants and it's obviously not like a piece of firewood. No one has ever, or can ever speak to it directly. All we see are the effects of it pursuing its secret objective. Galactic manipulations that constantly lead to war. Which means it's goal must include senseless war. Senseless to us because we don't know the purpose of it, and whether it's Jedi and Sith or otherwise, it's almost always a conflict between the two extremes of light and dark. There's never any synthesis from these conflicts.
Once it's over, no one ever learns anything about how to avoid it next time. They just go back to whatever it was they were doing before and they "watch out" for the enemy. But no one ever tries to solve the problem of why the enemy exists or why they hate each other or why you have to fight.
In real life, the synthesis of conflicts resulted in the formation of the United Nations. It isn't perfect, but it's something. It may not seem this way, but there's a lot less conflicts in the world today than there were in the past. The only reason it doesn't seem like it is because information is easily distributed now. So to an extent, we did learn from history and that's what history is for. So we can look back and say: "Let's not do that again."
A recent debate I had with someone led me to conclude that it is possible for the force to manipulate people who are disconnected from it. But only indirectly. It can't control the exile's actions, but it can control the actions of the people around the exile. However, it would have to be people who are not the exile's closest allies. It manipulated Mira, but only before she joined the Exile.
Meetra Surik creates very strong force bonds and even disconnected from the force, she's a natural leader, and people feel compelled to follow her. In a way, the exile flows through all of her party members, just like the force. It might have been a constant tug of war match between the exile and the force. A tug of war to claim the souls of the people around the exile. Perhaps the amount of influence you have with someone is the game mechanic that reflected this.
Even if she failed to do this or came into contact with people who aren't bonded to her, in other words, people who the force could use to influence her actions indirectly, Kreia was teaching the exile to stay true to herself. Sometimes even suggesting that the exile use and discard these people as tools. All to avoid outside influence? Perhaps.
The writer for Rockstar games, Dan Houser, said that he avoids watching television shows that resemble the themes of the Grand Theft Auto franchise too closely. He hasn't seen Breaking Bad for instance and I completely understand. He doesn't want his writing ending up being hindered by or overly resembling the narratives presented in those shows.
There is a video on YouTube that is famous within the KOTOR community. "The Philosophy of Kreia: A Critical Examination of Star Wars" has almost 2 million views and I haven't seen it.
At first it was the two hour mark that was daunting. But after starting the Kreia's Conundrums series I decided that I can't watch it. The numbers and its reputation tell me that it is worthwhile. I've also interacted with the creator in the comments section of some of my own videos. He's obviously an intelligent individual, so I have no doubt that it's a good video. But I'm too worried that it might influence my own thoughts on Kreia too much.
It's not inherently a bad thing to quote someone or to retell what someone else said if it's because it adheres to what you truly believe. But when it comes to this series, I want to see where my own thoughts take me and tell you what I think. The last thing I would want is for my words to merely be an echo.
I wonder my words be echoed someday. If so, will the echo be accurate or will it go through a filter and come out the other end as a tool to serve one's purposes?
Papito Qinn is into the whole YouTube thing, is the winner of the 2016 SpookTAYcular Scary Story Contest, and a twitter incompetent. "Batman has qualities that Kreia would respect."


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First of all we normalize the physical, and if it is necessary the client's mental state. Even in the most severe cases, we achieve rapid normalization of body weight. The diet selected individually. Nutritionist, physiotherapist, nursing staff and a psychiatrist are taking part at eating disorders treatment. Client receives the constant support of specialists.
When the condition is stabilized, the client included in rehabilitation of anorexia within the therapeutic environment. Interaction with psychologist and psychotherapist individually and at group format leads to deep changes. Fitness trainer and nutritionist will teach the client a healthy lifestyle and getting pleasure from a healthy diet.
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Both websites will be closed for online ordering for our yearly summer hiatus. We close one or both websites from ordering, for a period every year, so that we can take care of all outstanding custom orders before accepting new ones. This year both websites will be closed from ordering. It is our 11th year for our summer ordering hiatus.
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This is necessary to ensure we take care of any existing MJOLNIR custom orders that are still open for our clients, before we will accept any new orders or clients. It also allows us to clear the decks for our in-house manufacturing so we can stock up, especially on our labor intensive advanced items for Mjolnir.
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Seafood Feast @ Suang Le River, Bagan Pasir, SelangorNovember 4, 2009 | 26,561 views
Suang Le River @ Bagan Pasir, Tanjung Karang -The idyllic by-the-river 'floating' (?) restaurant, serving fresh & affordable seafood
Countless doses of poisons over the months had me drooling, enticed and craving desperately for a taste of Kuala Selangor's seafood. Previous experience of Sekinchan's seafood delights promises a whole different level of expectation for Kuala Selangor's seafood, and we vowed for a stopover at any of the seafood restaurants along the Hutan Melintang-Sabak Bernam-Sekinchan-Kuala Selangor route for some form of reprieve, for God knows how long has it been since I've tasted REALLY fresh seafood. (Maybe since the lunch at Men Lok in Hutan Melintang?)


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This class is intermediate level that builds lead/follow skills as well as solo movement. Students will learn classic swing choreographies as well as an original, that will be performed around town at local events as well as at regional competitions. This class will also include instruction on dips, tricks, and lifts as they pertain to the choreography.
- Adult, some experience with swing dancing is a prerequisite
- 12 classes
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Ha Long Bay shines in Around DB's list of best holiday places with wow factor
Around DB, an original and leading community magazine dedicated to the residents of Discovery Bay, has named Ha Long Bay in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province the number one destination among five Asian holiday places with wow factor.
Ha Long Bay
"Few places have been photographed as much as UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay famed for its towering limestone karsts and isles surrounded by emerald waters. Home to almost 2,000 islands and countless species of wildlife, such as the endangered golden-headed langur. Ha Long is a nature lover's paradise," Around DB wrote.
Swimming in the bay is banned for environmental reasons, however you can still immerse yourself in the mesmerizing nature while kayaking or walking through the many caves, Around DB said.
On the list, Ha Long Bay is followed by Zhangjiajie (China), the Himalayas (Nepal), Palau, Mount Bromo (Indonesia).
Earlier, The New York Daily News, a US newspaper based in New York City, has just named Ha Long Bay the number one destination among 15 natural wonders to see before they disappear.
People go to Ha Long Bay expecting an active adventure. The UNESCO World Heritage Site puts explorative kayakers amidst striking limestone islands, rugged rock formations and low caves as a must do activity when visiting Ha Long Bay. The bay in the Gulf of Tonkin includes 1,600 islands and islets. Most of them are uninhabited and unaffected by a human presence.
"Unfortunately, increased flooding in the region has caused coal-fired power plant run-off to stream into the bay. Also, extreme weather contributes to quicker erosion," The New York Daily News wrote.
In 2017, Quang Ninh welcomed a total of 9.87 million tourists, including 4.28 million foreigners, according to Quang Ninh provincial Department of Tourism.
The province aims to attract over 12 million visitors in 2018, including five million foreigners.


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Brewery Openings in Philly, NYC and Beacon, NY
Second location for Dock Street
It's a new chapter for veteran Dock Street Brewing Co. as they open a second
location in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Dock Street South is a 10,500 sq-ft production facility and taproom situated at 2118
Washington Avenue that serves as an anchor for neighbors in Point Breeze,
Graduate Hospital, Greys Ferry, and beyond. Dock Street President and Co-founder
Rosemarie Certo says the new location marks a new era of expansion for the
beloved brand. "Basically, we are quadrupling our brewing capacity and it also
marks Dock Street's return to the east side of the Schuylkill since our original
location at Two Logan Square in 1990."
After a hiatus Certo revived the brand in West Philadelphia when it opened in a
restored firehouse at 50th & Baltimore in 2007.
No. 2 for Industrial Arts
Located at 551 Fishkill Ave, in Beacon, Industrial Arts Brewing Co. will officially
open its "brew deck" and taproom to the public this Thursday, Aug. 15.
"The space is a clean and modern take on our brand and we worked with long-time
Beacon artists for unique bar top and custom-made hexagonal tiles," said GM Sofia
Barbaresco. "We've built a roomy deck filled with German-made beer garden tables
so you can enjoy our expansive mountain views with your brew. The afternoon light
that fills the space has to be seen to be believed."
While brewing is not yet happening in Beacon, all IA's beers that are brewed in
Garnerville are there, including their just-released anniversary beer, WEEK 156.
They will have 11 beers on tap to open and several more to come, including some
fun collaborations with other breweries.
The grand opening in Beacon coincides with IA's 3rd Anniversary, and they will be
having a pizza party at the Garnerville brewery this Saturday, Aug. 17.
Evil Twin on the Horizon
No official date yet (they just postponed a media preview) but Evil Twin New York is
very close to opening its first brick and mortar brewery at 1616 George
Street in Ridgewood, Queens.
Evil Twin's renowned (former) gypsy brewer Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergso says one of the
goals is to invite some of his former brewery hosts to brew at the new facility. They
include Prairie, Equilibrium, The Veil, Angry Chair, Omnipollo, Other Half, Trillium,
J. Wakefield and Monkish and will be featured in a 12-pack this December. While the
brewhouse has been active for several months, finishing touches to the tasting room
are being completed.
Blue Point Expands into Brooklyn
Blue Point Brewing is opening a new underground location in Dumbo, BK called The
Hull, which is taking over a former burlesque club and sugar factory to create a
unique underground-style brewpub. Found in the basement of Seamore's, Blue
Point will be teaming up with this sustainable seafood restaurant to present a
unique collaborative food and drink menu, made with the help of Blue Point Chef
Charley Sinden and Seamore's Chef Chris Cryer.
Blue Point Brewing, acquired by brewing giant A-B InBev in 2014, opened a $2
million plus brewery in Patchogue, LI earlier this year.


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Thousands of tenants illegally occupying government staff quarters in Nakuru have 21 days to vacate or be evicted at the expiry of the notice.
The County Commissioner (CC), Joshua Nkanatha has also directed occupants of over 500 State owned housing units to demolish unauthorized extensions or any other structure whatsoever erected within their compounds.
Addressing departmental heads when he chaired the County Service Delivery Committee meeting, the administrator said he would undertake random door-to-door visits in Molo, Njoro, Nakuru, Gilgil and Naivasha sub counties as part of an audit of people occupying State owned units meant for civil servants.
These units have been illegally occupied for periods ranging from a few days and months, to even years, even after the transfer, retirement or dismissal of those who were legitimately allotted the houses. We even have situations where houses previously allocated to now deceased public servants are occupied by strangers, observed the administrator.
His move comes barely two weeks after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) moved to court in a bid to recover 24 government houses valued at Sh.420 million and land in Nakuru Town.
The anti-graft agency has filed five suits at the Environment and Lands Court sitting in Nakuru to recover the land and houses located within the Central Business District saying they were illegally acquired.
Nkanatha claimed that despite acute shortage of housing for public servants, some of the civil servants had connived to be allocated more than one unit while scores of others had rented out the houses to non-civil servants after they were transferred.
This, he said, has contributed to a high number of 'strangers' living in government staff quarters.
On expiry of the notice, we will be tracking illegitimate occupiers and evicting them. It is our duty to repossess government houses in wrong hands. We want to create a situation where all deserving public servants reside in government quarters. We would not want strangers to live in staff quarters, noted the CC.
The administrator said he was aware that some unscrupulous elements were working out schemes to illegally acquire the units, while others were holding onto the houses anticipating a disposal by the government.
Those holding the houses for speculative purposes should drop the hope that they will be given priority once the government disposes off the units. As a matter of fact, the government is very keen on providing more housing units for public servants. There will be no sale of any unit, he affirmed.
The EACC has obtained court orders to restrain nine people and three companies from taking over the property which it says belongs to the Ministry of Housing.
The defendants are hereby barred from alienating, selling, transferring, charging, developing, leasing, sub-dividing or dealing with any of the properties pending hearing and determination of the suits in court, read part of the court order dated July 31.
The EACC filed the suits before Justice DalmasOhungo on July 24. Individuals sued include, former Lands Commissioner, Wilson Gachanja while companies comprise Pembeni Ltd and Liberty Assurance Company Ltd.
Justice Ohungo certified the matter as urgent and directed that the application be served to each party before it is heard.
It is hereby ordered that an inhibition be registered against the properties pending further orders by the court, ruled Justice Ohungo. The court further ordered that the matter be heard on October 4 and 5.
Nkanatha said according to the rules, in event of transfer, retirement or dismissal from service, a State employee has to vacate staff quarters within a clearly specified period.
The CC also indicated that the State would also evict any public servant found to have either illegally transferred or sublet the quarters.
It is illegal to irregularly transfer, trade in, assign and sublet any government housing unit. Any transfers done are un-procedural, null and void. Such transfers will be revoked, houses repossessed and re-allocated to other deserving civil servants, he asserted.
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The never-ending battle for snowboarding glory, fame and fortune ended the way it usually does these days: with Shaun White taking a victory lap to the top of the podium, this time at the U.S. Open in Stratton, Vt.
White took the titles for slopestyle and superpipe at the annual event that registers second only to the Winter X Games in terms of rider prestige. The 2007 Open pipe champion posted a repeat performance to pick up the $20,000 winner's check, along with a new Volvo for his overall riding at the event created by his snowboard sponsor, Burton.
The halfpipe win was White's third at the Open, this one over 2006 Olympic teammate Mason Aguirre of Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
Australian rider and reigning X Games champ Torah Bright continued her impressive competitive roll with back-to-back Open titles of her own in the pipe. Her run was good enough to top American Olympic medalists Kelly Clark of Vermont and Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen, who finished second and third, respectively.
Kevin Pearce, another Vermonter, also had a big day as he took third in the U.S. Open halfpipe competition and was crowned the new '07/'08 Men's Swatch Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour Champion, earning $50,000 for the season-long effort.
Webcasts and highlights of all U.S. Open competitions are available for on-demand viewing on Go211.com.
Morello takes freeskiing telemark.
Crested Butte free-heeler Ben Morello won the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Championship in his hometown. Seaton MacMillan, also of Crested Butte, finished second in the two-day event, followed by J.T. Robinson of Fruit Heights, Utah.
Boulder teleskier Megan Michaelson took top honors among the women, with Paige Brady of Anchorage second.
Jewell, Klug place 2-3.
Colorado snowboard racers Tyler Jewell of Steamboat Springs and Chris Klug of Aspen finished second and third, respectively, in parallel slalom competition at last weekend's U.S. National Championship races in Mount Hood Meadows, Ore.
Space is still available for intermediate to expert riders ages 10 and up interested in attending Klug's annual snowboard camp at Buttermilk this Friday-Sunday. Halfpipe, park, boardercross, giant slalom and slalom training will be offered.
For more information, visit www.chrisklug.com/camp.html. For reservations, call 1-877-282-7736 (970-923-1227).


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Strong competition for top suckled calves
By Jeremy Hunt
Suckled calf producers have been relieved that prices at the start of the autumn sale season haven't been hit by the finished cattle trade.
In fact strong competition for the best calves has taken prices above last year at some sales.
Top quality calves coming forward after the prolonged good summer – and an acute awareness among buyers of fewer opportunities to source cattle of this calibre in good numbers – have helped maintain prices similar to last year for many vendors.
Auctioneer Andrew Barry of Lanark described the market's sale of 2,000 suckled calves as "the best show of cattle we've had for a long time."
"Prices were around £10 down on the year, but these cattle have done really well this summer and were weighing about 25kg heavier," said Mr Barry.
The 1,084 bullocks at Lanark averaged 236.1p/kg and the 893 heifers averaged 227.9p/kg. Prices reached 286.1p/kg for a Limousin bullock.
"But buyers were being careful. Anything up to £1,100 was selling but up to £1,200 and it had to be something special or you hit a brick wall," said Mr Barry.
"One vendor was down £6 on the year for 100 calves, but he was relieved it wasn't lower. Back in the spring he was expecting prices to be back a lot further than that," added Mr Barry.
There was keen bidding at Hexham in Northumberland: "Some calves have been dearer and some a bit cheaper but the finishers are wanting cattle and it has created a strong trade," said a spokesman for Hexham and Northern Marts after their sale of 800 stores and suckled calves.
The 13-14-month-old stores were making £1,100-£1,200 at Hexham. "Big, strong Charolais and Limousin bullocks showed just how well these calves have summered. This was a confident start to the season."
At Cutcombe Market, Minehead, Somerset the annual sale of 360 suckled calves produced a brisk trade according to Gethin Rees of Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions.
Steers averaged 244p/kg and heifers 206p/kg." That's very similar to last year, but the steers are up a touch. Some of the smaller calves looked the dearest and were up to 306p/kg for a 200kg Charolais calf.
"The beef job isn't where the finishers want it to be, but most still want to fill up their yards for the winter – and this year they've got the chance to buy some really good calves after such a long summer," said Mr Rees.


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Moon phase on 9 August 2095 Tuesday is First Quarter, 8 days young Moon is in Scorpio.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 8 August 2095 at 09:19 UTC.
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Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1893".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2095 after 6 days on 15 August 2095 at 17:13.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1182 of Meeus index or 2135 from Brown series.
Length of current 1182 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes shorter than next lunation 1183 length.
Length of current synodic month is 53 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠110.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠142.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
3 days after point of apogee on 5 August 2095 at 19:19 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 17 August 2095 at 18:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Moon is 398 297 km (247 490 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 281 km (225 111 mi).
13 days after its ascending node on 27 July 2095 at 11:36 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 August 2095 at 21:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
11 days after previous North standstill on 29 July 2095 at 04:07 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.923°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.989° in the next southern standstill on 12 August 2095 at 16:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 6 days on 15 August 2095 at 17:13 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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When I finished reading this post, I was inspired to write a similar letter to my most difficult class of high school ESL students. The majority of them have extremely low English skills, and consequently, even lower motivation. I wanted to address their lack luster enthusiasm, and make it clear that I'm not here to make them miserable, but to help them; and that even if they have no aspirations for becoming a fluent English speaker, they can still get something out of our class. So in addition to writing the letter below, I took it one step further and actually read it to them. I arranged the desks in a circle, found a seat among them, and (with the help of direct translations from my co-teacher) talked with them. Here's what I had to say:
For starters, I hope you know that I care about you. And I care not just about your ability to understand and use English; I care about you as people. I truly believe that you are all smart, interesting and talented individuals. I admire your dedication and commitment to athletics, and I am amazed by how hard you all work to reach your sports-related goals.
Now I'd like to talk about why we should have that same kind of passion in the classroom.
But before we get to that, what do you think the purpose of school is? Learning to read and write, solving math equations and studying history? Yes, we are here to learn about those things. There is value to all of that. But there's also a bigger skill we develop along the way. It's not listed in your textbook and you won't find it as a question on a test. The skill is: not giving up. In general, school is about learning how to solve problems and learning how to accomplish things we never thought were possible.
You already practice this skill every day in your sports training. When you are totally exhausted and your coach asks you to do something one more time, do you lie down on the floor or shake your head "no?" No, you do it. Because you know he or she has your best interests at heart, and because you want to be the best you can be in your sport.
Now it's time to practice not giving up in the classroom. Some of you are already doing this. I see you putting in effort, participating and trying your best. But others are giving up. You're quitting without giving yourself a chance to succeed.
In what ways do we quit as students? What does quitting look like? Sleeping during class, refusing to engage in an activity, choosing not to write a sentence or answer a question. Why do we quit? Because we're exhausted, tired, bored, scared of making a mistake, feel like we're in over our heads or believe we're so behind that there's no point in trying?
As much as I can, I understand that you're exhausted. I'm not in your position, so I don't fully know what it's like. And it would be unfair of me to simply tell you that balancing the demands of your training with your schoolwork is not that hard.
But I do want to ask you to try harder. Don't give up. Try to bring the same amount of passion and focus to class that you have in the gym; because if you do, you will improve. And, you might even have some fun! Are you familiar with the expression, "A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step"? Well, the same is true with our class. The end result of understanding and speaking English starts with showing an effort or interest in communicating, even if it means asking a friend or teacher to help translate. Then, slowly, we start to use basic words and body language, and our language ability grows from there.
And who knows, one day you might find yourself traveling and competing in an English-speaking country, or interacting with English-speaking athletes at an international competition! Wouldn't it be cool to have a short, simple conversation with them? Wouldn't you feel proud of yourself?
English may not be something that you need in your everyday life now or in the future. But you will need tenacity, the ability to work hard and thrive in the face of adversity. So whether you're motivated to learn English to one day use it outside of school, or you're just here to develop your work ethic and courage, it's important that you find a reason for being here. It doesn't matter how fragmented your sentences might be or how many mistakes you make. It matters that you try.
In return, I promise to be here and support you. I will push you and encourage you, and work with you to help you reach your goals; because I believe you have far more potential than you might give yourself credit for.
So let's do this. Let's work together to overcome the language barrier so we can keep getting to know each other and learn from each other. It's time to step up our game and forget about excuses. Quitting is not an option. Let's sit up straight, open our eyes and learn some English.


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ID Sweater
A knit sweater with sporty details.
This crewneck sweater incorporates athletic elements into a minimalist design. Soft and slightly stretchy, it features knit 3-Stripes on the sleeves and different knit patterns on the upper back. The top is cut in a relaxed fit that slims down through the sleeves.
- Relaxed fit drapes at the shoulders for total comfort
- Crewneck
- Long sleeves with ribbed cuffs
- 68% polyester / 30% cotton / 2% elastane
- Lightweight, super-soft feel
- Drop shoulders; Ribbed hem
- Product colour: Black
- Product code: DI0221