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Leiden University and Delft University of Technology jointly organize a master track in Bioinformatics as part of their MSc programmes in Computer Science. The focus of this new track will be on Data Analysis and Modeling, combining the strenghts of the two universities. Students will take courses in both Leiden and Delft.
Co-operating partners
The Bioinformatics track is organized by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) at Leiden University and the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of Delft University of Technology (DUT) in close co-operation with three of the four centers of excellence of the Nationaal Regie Orgaan Genomics:
- Centre for Medical Systems Biology
- Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
- Cancer Genomics Consortium
Moreover. internationally well known research centers will be participating in the program by organizing courses and facilitating high level research projects:
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Mathematical Institute
- Leiden University Medical Center Bio-Statistics
- Institute of Biology
- LACDR Medicinal Chemistry
- Department of Biotechnology Delft
- Imaging Science and Technology Institute (DUT)
- Center for Human and Clinical Genetics LUMC
- Netherlands Cancer Institute
Information for New Students (2014/2015)
CS Bioinformatics Kick-Off
Monday September 1st 2014 a Kick-Off Day will be organized for all new CS Bioinformatics Students. An introduction to the study, some talks, a short tour and other practical information will be given during this day. We will start the day in Leiden and will continue the afternoon in Delft.
Time and date: 10.00 - 17.00, Wednesday September 1st 2014
Place: Room 402, Snelliusgebouw, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden.
New Leiden University students: Upon arrival please contact Dr. Erwin M. Bakker (E-mail: erwin@, Phone: +31 6 81 553 284). A study-plan and further information about the track will be discussed during a personal meeting. liacs.nl
New Delft University of Technology students: Please contact Prof.dr.ir. M.J.T. Reiders (E-mail: M.J.T.Reinders@, room HB13.070, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Sciene, Phone: +31 (0)15-2786424). tudelft.nl


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For the first 2 quarters, the game was relatively close, up right through the half-time buzzer, at which point the Kings had evened the game up at 50. This was a huge disappointment to most Jazz fans, because it wasn't expected to be this close. The Kings had been struggling all season, and were still without their star player. The Jazz had their key player back (even with 1 guy still out), and are supposed to be championship contenders. These are the type of games you're supposed to win with relative ease, aren't they?
Fortunately, there was still a half left to play. Well, fortunately for the Jazz, at least. The Jazz absolutely exploded in the 3rd quarter (you know, the quarter that has been killing them for most of the season), rolling up a 44-17 (!!!) advantage in the quarter and rolling to a 26 point win (120-94). Yeah… I'm not quite sure what happened during halftime, but it worked well. Hopefully (for the players sake) J-Slo didn't pull a Mike Singletary.
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The Jazz got 8 players in double-digits. Three players finished with double-doubles. The Jazz shot 40% in the first half… and finished with a 53% mark for the game. (the Kings dropped from 55% to 48.8%). The Jazz missed 12 of their 34 free throws… the Kings only took 12 free throws. The Jazz were 6-11 from long range in the first half, and 10-17 overall. That's twice as many long balls made as the Kings… in just 1 more attempt. And this blowout… not only was it without Booze, but 'Sap had one hell of a bad first half. And key players (read Deron) got a ton of rest in the process. Not much else you could ask for.
Deron Williams: 4-8 shooting, 2-3 from long range. 13 points. 15 assists. And he has absolutely made this team just get up and run with his return. Alley-oops galore. Fast break points like none other (31 today for the Jazz). Not only his offense, but his presence on the defensive end… it's been huge for the Jazz. And he was able to sit out the entire 4th quarter, giving hope that he'll be able to go tomorrow as well. Oh, and the 9 assists in the defining 3rd quarter… that's huge!
Ronnie Brewer: Another solid performance, with 18 points on 7-13 shooting. He also made 4 of his 5 FTs, and finished with 2 boards, 2 assists & 1 steal. And he played 30 minutes, which is always good to see.
CJ Miles: 18 points on 6-8 shooting (1-2 from long range) and a 5-5 night from the line. 3 rebounds, 2 steals. And the 3rd quarter of his life, where he picked up 16 points, throwing down alley oops, dropping the trey and draining his FTs. He's been amazing offensively this year.
Paul Millsap: Everyone has an off night. Luckily, 'Sap's "off-night" came in the first half, where he went 1-6 and picked up 2 fouls. Luckily he had 7 rebounds. He ended up finishing 5-11 from the field for 11 points, and added 11 boards (4 offensive) and 2 assists, while only picking up 1 foul in the 2nd half.
Mehmet Okur: He's been feeling it pretty much since he got back from Turkey (save the 1st game back). Tonight, he went 8-10 from the field (3-4 from downtown). He had his own double-double (20 & 12), but also had 1 assists & 3 steals. Yeah, when the starters combine for 80 points, that's big.
Andrei Kirilenko: 12 points, 6 boards, 3 assists. He only took 5 shots, but the 5-6 from the FT line really helped.
Kyle Korver: 12 points, including 2 treys, but it came on a 4-10 shooting night. His shot has been way off this year. On the plus side (I think), he added 2 boards & 2 assists.
Ronnie Price: He was just 1-3 from downtown, but shot 5-9 from the field and also got 12 points. He also threw in 4 assists, 3 rebounds & 3 steals. This is the role that really suits him… spark-plug off of the bench. That's what he was today.
Morris Almond: 12 minutes, 5 shots… 4 of which were missed. Not good. He finished with 2 points, 2 fouls & 1 board. That's it on the stat sheet.
Kosta Koufos: In just 4 minutes (not enough, given the nature of the 2nd half), he took 3 shots, missing 2 of them. Along with his 2 points, he had 2 boards (both offensive) and a block. Why he's not getting more time in blowouts is really confusing… it's not like he played horribly on the road trip when he was starting.
Kyrylo Fesenko: In 4 minutes, he missed 1 shot & 2 FTs. But he did pull down a board (offensive) and did have an assist. He was the only Jazz player that played and didn't score.
Yeah… that 3rd quarter. The play-by-play can be found here (after scrolling down a bit). Look at it quickly, and you'll see that the Jazz had put 13 points up in the quarter before the Kings finally got on the board. The Jazz added 6 steals in the quarter, and got plenty of fastbreak points as a result. Game. Set. Match.
The Jazz did give up 20 points to John Salmons, but he didn't get nearly enough help this time around. Beno Udrih hit double figures as well, as did Jason Thompson & Spencer Hawes off of the bench, but that was it. Brad Miller added 9 and 6 assists.
Up tomorrow is the 2nd part of the back-to-back… a home date with the Nets (coming off of a win against the Kings in Sacramento a couple days back). Hopefully Deron will be able to go… he only played 27 minutes today. The Jazz are now 11-6, still tied with the Blazers, who beat down the Hornets tonight. The Nets are 7-7.

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02/15/2007, Atwood Harbor
We left Flying Fish late (see a trend here?) and with a long day ahead. The problem is that I listen to weather on the SSB at 06:30 and it lasts for an hour. If we try to leave earlier, say 6AM, so that I can listen underway we have to leave in the dark. The sun is rising at about 6:30 these days. If we leave after the weather it is 8AM before we get going, and that's if everything is already ship shape. I know, excuses, excuses...
Our goal was to get to West Plana Cay for a short anchor so that we could get a nap and make Provo by 1PM the next day. Getting to the Sand Bore entrance to the Caicos Banks by 1PM was important because the bank is a 2 hour transit marked with language such as, "numerous shallow coral heads", on the charts. As we got under way I started to do some ETAs. Plana was looking like a pretty serious stretch. If we could get a bit of lift from the wind we would be able to average close to 11 knots and then it would work out. Otherwise, Plan B. We always have a plan B and often a plan C, D and E. You have to have ditch anchorages for various eventualities when cruising (weather not as forecast, lazy crew, etceteras).
We were clanging along, motor sailing, at marginally better than 9 knots and the wind was not doing much of the work. I love just sailing. It's nice to be able to motor fast and get there when you need to but there's nothing like shutting off the racket and just sailing. The racket continued and as the day drew on we began to consider Atwood harbor more seriously. Atwood is a great little harbor on the north east end of Acklins Island with perfect protection from everywhere but North and North West. We wanted coverage from the South to South East but in reality the wind was so light we could have hove to in the middle of the Atlantic and slept like logs. The problem with Atwood is that it left us with a 112 mile day on Friday, and that with an arrival target of 1PM.
As we were discussing whether to shoot for Plana or not, Hideko caught her first fish! While getting ready earlier that morning Hideko ran across a sport fisher skipper. As always she grilled the poor guy for fishing tips. He basically said, "put something in the water and the fish will bite it out here". Florida and the near Bahamas are hammered by fishermen year round. The fish there are gone or have evolved in such a way as to not bite lures much. In the far Bahamas there's no one much fishing. He said 9 knots was about perfect for trawling, we were doing 9 knots. The guy she cornered in Bimini said to use a steel leader so that the Barracuda and Wahoo don't take your lure, check. The guy she drilled in Great Harbor said to try areas between 60 and 100 feet, we were in just such a place off of the north coast of Acklins. We had 150 feet of line out to keep the lure well back of the clanking coming from the engine rooms. Everything came together.
We put the boat in neutral so as not to tear the hook out of the fish and Hideko reeled him in. When I saw it jump I knew it was a Mahi Mahi, one of our favorite fish. As Hideko got it near the boat it looked like a giant blue and green flash in the water with polarized sunglasses. I grabbed the gaff and after a couple 7 attempts finally got the fish on board. We popped him in the dinghy and got back underway. Atwood Harbor was the only sensible choice at this point.
What an amazing place. There's an outer reef that you can't see and an inner reef that breaks the surface around the opening into a perfect white sand crescent bay. We anchored smack in the middle of Atwood Harbor and had the entire place to ourselves. I took a snorkel to ensure the anchor was well set while Hideko got ready to cook dinner. Our Rocna was well buried in 10 feet of sand. When I got back aboard I cleaned Hideko's prize and threw the scraps overboard and watched a barracuda eat the big pieces while a nurse shark snarfed the little bits up off of the sand.
We watched the sunset in a flat calm with our wonderful fresh caught meal out in the cockpit. It was a magical night.
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02/14/2007, Long Island
We have finally left Emerald Bay! I realized that it was time to go when I started knowing the first names of all of the employees. It was a great stay at the nicest and cheapest ($0.75 a foot, even for cats!) marina we have yet been to.
We had planned to leave very early but as often happens, we didn't. We need to get better at leaving with the sun rise. Spending time with friends is one of the most important things to us. So when the opportunity presents itself we typically trade good conversation with interesting people for a bit of sleep. A Pizza party with Shazza got us into the sack a little late last night.
After checking up on the weather we scrambled to get the boat fully ready to go. The boat was tied up 6 ways to Sunday due to the 30 knot winds that had come through several days back. It was blowing a little bit but lots of folks came out to see us off and help out, so we had all of the dock hands we needed. It was an easy exit into the Exuma Sound.
We had a three day weather window to get to Providenciales (Provo) in the Turks and Caicos. A big front was predicted for Friday night to Saturday and full protection harbors are hard to come by in the far Bahamas. We broke the trip up into three 80 nautical mile legs: Exuma to Long Island, Long Island to West Plana Cay and West Plana Cay to Provo.
We motor sailed at 9 to 11 knots in fairly calm seas through the Exuma Sound. They call it the Exuma Sound but it is basically the Atlantic Ocean as far as sea state is concerned and it can get quite nasty, and even nastier than the prevailing seas in the funnels between islands. While the flat water was nice there just wasn't enough wind to sail without the engines if we were going to arrive by nightfall. We ran both diesels at 2,500 RPMs which kept the speed mostly over 10 knots.
Hideko put out the hand line and the trolling line but other than losing a lure to something with a good set of teeth we got no action. Next leg we decided to go with all stainless leaders rather than the mono filament we were using today. The Barracuda and Wahoo go right through the mono filament. The hand line doesn't seem to really work while motoring because we only have about 70 feet of line. The engines are too noisy for anything to bite unless you get the lure back close to a couple hundred feet, or so it seems. We have also been advised to fish right around the 60 to 100 foot zone. We were in a few thousand feet most of the day.
We arrived in Clarence Town about an hour before dusk kinda tired. Rather than anchor in the harbor, get down the dinghy, put on the outboard, go ashore, put away the outboard, put the dinghy away, etceteras, we just made for the marina. The Flying Fish Marina can only handle about 12 boats but it is quaint and better equipped than some places we'd been. They don't allow you to run your generator (which I found out while I ran our generator trying to get email over the SSB) and so the place is really quiet at night.
Clarence Town is a sleepy town on a sleepy island. It is amazing how distant you feel from civilization just one island down from Georgetown. There are only a handful of cruising boats south of Georgetown and they are all serious cruisers bound for the Caribbean and points beyond. We had a nice valentine's dinner there at the marina restaurant.
Roquefort had a nice walk and then joined us for dinner. The marina owners have a couple of dogs that wander around the area and one of them is a little scrappy. Their fine with people and the golden mix is great with other dogs, but keep you pooch away from the brown Sheppard mix, she's got a bad attitude.
We chatted with a guy on a nice Ketch named something I can't pronounce. We told him that we were thinking of going to Little Harbor, a beautiful but deserted harbor a ways south on Long Island instead of Clarence Town. He then told us that he and a friend were on their way there three days before. His friend in a newly setup Beneteau 473 turned into what they thought was the cut and ran hard aground. The swell quickly pushed them up onto the reef. After futile efforts to get the boat off over the next day a front came and destroyed the boat. Scary stuff. If you're headed for Little Harbor on Long Island in the Bahamas, make sure you go in the third (southern most) cut, which is the only navigable cut into the harbor. Probably would pay to make a complete pass of the place prior to making a go of it. The sailor we talked to reported that the Explorer chart waypoint was off. Another good argument for visual navigation when the depth gauge isn't reading no bottom.
We talked to another fun couple on Fram, a Valiant 42, during dinner. They had been sailing the south Caribbean over the last few years and were just bringing their boat back up to Florida. They were a wealth of knowledge and had been all of the places we want to go this season. Their top recommendations were the anchorage between the twin peaks on Saint Lucia, Bequia and Saint Martin. All three are on our itinerary.
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02/13/2007, North Great Exuma
There are two kinds of restaurants in most of the Bahamas (outside of Nassau). The first kind is the typical Marina/Beach Bar and Grill. Some local fish with burgers and sandwiches. The second is the typical family run outfit with fish, lobster, conch and other Bahamian style fair.
A family out of Nassau has moved to Exuma with the goal of bringing some cosmopolitan influence to the South East Bahamas. They have staked their claim in the shopping center just outside of Emerald Bay with a Pizza/Ice Cream shop.
I love local food, and burgers, but a nice pizza pie and some mint chip ice cream is never bad. We joined the Shazza crew for a night out and had a great time. The family running the shop will rent cars for a good price and deliver pizza to the marina as well. Nice to see the entrepreneurial spirit alive and well in the Exumas!
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02/12/2007, Emerald Bay
So we didn't leave.
It would have been an ok day to go but the front that came over night brought some rain that didn't wrap up until the morning. Hideko and I went to get some breakfast and then, well we just didn't want to leave. Did I mention how nice it was here at Emerald Bay?
We were also looking forward to getting to know the Shazza crew better. We played bridge with Bob and Sharon on Volley Ball beach a few weeks ago. Bob was the guy who gave the tour of the Stromatalites (rare bacteria that have recently been discovered in the Bahamas that formed some of the more ancient reefs of the world). Shazza is a Hylas 46. These are beautiful boats and one of the mono hulls that we considered before we switch to the multi hull dark side. We joined Bob and Sharon for a sun downer on Shazza and had a great evening.
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02/11/2007, Emerald Bay
We have had a great stay at Emerald Bay. It has been pretty deserted with no more than 10 occupied boats (many folks leave boats here to travel home). We are often outnumbered by the staff when we visit the pool or one of the restaurants. It is time to move on however and tomorrow we head south.
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02/10/2007, Emerald Bay
If you are in a beautifully quiet anchorage and you see one of these (see photo) pull in next to you, move. No "these" is not the mono hull. No "these" is not a Canadian flaged vessel. "these" is the old AirX Wind generator. They are famously loud.
Wind generators are not all bad though, and to be fair the new Air X units have gotten quieter. Many wind generators are unpleasantly noisy however. One of the great things about sailing is the peace and quiet while under sail and while at anchor. A loud wind generator can really shatter the serenity. Wind generators can also be dangerous (consider a tall person standing up on the coming just underneath the blades in a strong breeze...). Many are failure prone because they provide poor control for over charging in high winds, some are susceptible to corrosion, some use brushes (which can generate radio interference) and other parts that wear out. Some don't get going until the wind is 15 knots and then they shut down as soon as it blows over 25.
After inquiring after many cruising wind generators in various anchorages I have come to believe that modern wind generators do not need to be noisy to produce great power. Amp Air and a few other brands actually pride themselves on their low decibel output. Getting high current, quiet and reliable power is not easy to do but there are some products offering a fair set of trade offs.
Our solar panels are great for generating clean quiet power. We have 7 x 75 Watt panels and we can run our fridge and freezer 24x7 without starting the motor indefinitely, as long as we don't get a lot of overcast weather. Our fridge and freezer run about 5 amps (rounding up) and have about a 50% duty cycle. So we typically burn 5 amp hours per hour, or about 80 per night. The 525 Watt solar array peaks at a little over 20 amps mid day and tapers off on both sides which easily makes up for the daytime load and overnight draw. Run a cloud or low flying plane overhead though and the current vanishes.
While the fridge is great, we like to use other electrical things as well and, contrary to popular belief, it is not always sunny down here (almost always though). When it is overcast it is often windy. When it is dark it is windy sometimes. When the sails are up and shading the panels it is definitely windy. A good wind generator seems like the perfect complement to a solar array for a lot of reasons.
Amp Air and Fourwinds II are well liked by their owners and have some of the more desirable features, including quiet operation. KISS wind generators also have a good reputation and they are in Trinidad. I think we'll stop in to discuss matters with them when we get down there.
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02/09/2007, Emerald Bay
Roq has met several dogs in his travels aboard Swingin' on a Star but he seems to have formed a special bond with Dante. Dante did a good job of defending his end of the dock but always had time to come down to visit Roq. Dante is an athletic 4 year old Jack Russell. Roq is a decrepit 12 year old something or other (consensus is Sheppard, Blue Healer, Coyote). Dante was too respectful to jump on another boat uninvited and Roq was too old to jump off, but they still managed to spend time together.
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- Tuesday November 20th, 2012 :: 02:46 p.m. MST
An acquaintance of a man suspected in this weekend's kidnapping was charged with breaking into the arrestee's home.
Man Charged for Breaking into Arrestee's Home
An acquaintance of a man suspected in this past weekend's kidnapping and sexual assault has been charged with breaking into the arrestee's apartment where he stole electronics and keys to the incarcerated man's vehicle.
Jeremy Lopez Robledo, 25, of the 1400 block of Durazno Drive, is charged with one count each of residential burglary and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.
Las Cruces Police detectives learned that on Monday, Nov. 19, two days after 21-year-old Jeremy Leshawn Davis was arrested on charges related to a kidnapping and sexual assault, Robledo broke into the man's residence and stole two laptop computers and other electronics. Robledo also took keys belonging to Davis' 2000 Ford Crown Victoria and then drove off in the vehicle.
Robledo was arrested shortly after he returned the vehicle to Davis' apartment.
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serious options this weekend.
Lions Gate Films is going forward with its release of Stephen Frears'
"Liam," which world premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival. British
director Frears returns to the socially-conscious British dramas of his
early career ("My Beautiful Laundrette," "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid," "The Snapper") with this small, riveting tale of a poor Catholic family in 1930s
Liverpool, told from the perspective of a 7-year-old boy (young first-timer
Anthony Burrows has been universally hailed for his performance). As a
result of the poverty, the boy's father (Ian Hart) joins a fascist group as
a way to vent his frustrations. In a conclusion that feels especially
poignant right now, the group blames the neighboring Irish and Jewish
communities for their problems, which eventually leads to violence. Eddie
Cockrell's review from Toronto 2000 will appear in tomorrow's indieWIRE.
After screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
earlier this year and receiving a short theatrical run in New York,
Stephanie Black's documentary "Life and Debt" will receive an official
theatrical release through New Yorker Films. Opening Friday at New York's
Cinema Village and Long Island's Cinema Arts Centre, the film documents the economic repercussions of globalization in Jamaica. In indieWIRE's coverage
of the Human Rights Watch fest, critic Mia Mask spoke of Black's work with
clarity. "'Life and Debt,'" writes Mask, "links Caribbean colonial history
to current economic conditions, reminding us that existing debtor nations
are former colonies whose arrested development has been exacerbated by
global fast food chains, not-so-free-trade agreements and un-payable loans."
Other politically minded documentaries will also see screen time this
weekend: New York's Film Forum opens Edet Belzberg's bracing first film,
"Children Underground," which observes the lives of Romanian street children
in a Bucharest train station. For more on Belzberg's powerful debut, which
premiered at Sundance 2001 where it received a Special Documentary Jury
Prize, read indieWIRE's interview with the filmmaker today.
Mini-distributor Seventh Arts Releasing will put out the aptly titled
documentary "In Search of Peace, Part One: 1948-1967," a chronicling of the
first two decades of Israel's existence, at the Quad in Manhattan. Less
timely is "Won't Anybody Listen," a humbling account of two musicians'
struggle for a record deal, opening at NYC's downtown venue The Pioneer
Theater. Also opening around Manhattan are a trio of ultra-independent
releases: Paul Leaf's comedy "God, Sex, & Apple Pie," Shanti Guy's
surrealist "Texas Night Train" and Geoff Cunningham and Nicole Smith's film about interracial dating, "Rocky Road."
Originally scheduled for this Friday, both Corey McAbee's black and white
space cowboy musical "The American Astronaut," and George Butler's survival documentary "Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" were pushed to later release dates by distribs Artistic License and Cowboy
Pictures, respectively. "Astronaut" will come out later this fall;
"Endurance" is looking at an Oct. 5 or Oct. 12 theatrical outing.
While Hollywood's guilt-ridden reactions to last week's tragedies have
already been well documented (the shelving of "Collateral Damage," the
digital removal of the World Trade Center from such films as "Spiderman" and "Zoolander"), indies are facing the same need for cultural sensitivity. Last
week's atrocities have lead Lot 47 Films to postpone the release of Gary
Burn's Canadian comedy "waydowntown" because of "darkly comic images,"
according to the film's publicist, "that may be upsetting to some,"
including fantasy sequences of an employee jumping out of an office
building. Originally scheduled for next Friday, the film is now scheduled
for release in early 2002. [Anthony Kaufman]
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Triumph and Backdam record opening victories
Competition in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter-Block Football tournament for 2009 kicked off at the Beterverwagting (BV) Community Centre ground with two matches accompanied by an exhibition Under-15 game.
Attended by several ministry officials, the programme got off to a competitive start with the Under-15 contest which resulted in East BV beating their counterparts from the West 2-0 thanks to a double from DeShane Garnett. These youth games are being used by Coach Joseph 'Bill' Wilson to showcase and spot talent in the area and give the younger players much needed exposure.
The main action opened with Triumph (block B) getting the better of their opponents, Sideline (block C) 2-1. Devon Williams was on target for the winners in the 15th minute, however, Romel Gordon equalised for Sideline in the 38th. Yannick Smith (45) put his team in front with the eventual winner.
Backdam or Market Street (block D) enjoyed a much easier passage, brushing aside Housing Scheme (block A) 4-0. Kevin Smith slotted home a double (10, 58), Delroy Deen (45) and Akeem Murray (55) completed the rout.
The competition continues on Friday at the same venue with one match at 4:00pm featuring Sideline against Backdam. That contest however, will be preceded by an Under-15 game in the East Coast League pitting Buxton against host BV.
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Born on July 9, 1951 and raised in Kansas City, MO, Cooper spent his summers on a cattle ranch owned by his father, Charles, a military doctor, and his mother, Mary Ann, a homemaker. He had his first brush with performing as a singer in the Country Club Christian Church choir, where his father served as deacon. When he was in his mid-teens, Cooper began spending time at the Barn Player's Theater, where he started sweeping floors and changing sets between scenes. He soon worked his way up to the workshop by building sets until switching to the Resident Theatre, where he became shop foreman while moving toward acting with occasional walk-ons. After graduating Southwest High School, he enlis... Continue Bio >>
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An idea I've come to take a liking to would be a sibling rivalry. I feel like we've played the childhood friend rival antic for so long now, that I wouldn't mind trying something new, and a sibling rivalry could be just that. I can already picture the constant teases, the sibling squabbles coming from our older sister or brother. Then there's a certain taste of sweet satisfaction that comes from beating your older sibling every time. Oh joy! However, since in my head I picture the sibling to be older, then a childhood rival who's starting their journey at the same time as the player could probably still be used in this situation.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Angel Pagan had a go-ahead triple among his four hits to help back Ryan Vogelsong's first victory in three starts, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 5-3 on Friday night for their fifth straight win.
Pablo Sandoval hit an RBI double and also scored the tying run for the NL West-leading Giants on a wild pitch in the third, and Buster Posey doubled in a run after missing the previous two games with tightness in his right hamstring.
Freddie Freeman hit two solo home runs for his third career multihomer game and Jason Heyward also connected for the Braves, who lost for the sixth time in seven games. Freeman hit his 16th and 17th homers of the year. He connected twice at Arizona on April 19.


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American Idol 9: Top 24 Haeley Vaughn
It is now up to the American voters. Which males and which females from the American Idol top 24 will make it into the top 12? That decision will be made over the next 5-6 weeks, so until then get to know your American Idol top 24 and pick your favorites. Who will you vote for?
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Douglas Southall Freeman
Not Enemies, But Friends
When writing about the Civil War I always marvel that it did not inflict mortal harm on this Republic. That it did not do so, was because many good men and women, on both sides after the War, lived up to the prophetic words of Lincoln, uttered at the end of his First Inaugural Address:
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
This was all put nicely in a conversation that Douglas Southall Freeman, the great Civil War historian, had with his father Walker Freeman, a Confederate veteran who had served in the Army of Northern Virginia, while Douglas was writing his magisterial four volume R.E. Lee. Continue reading
General Lee and Guerrilla War
Hattip to commenter Dennis McCutcheon for giving me the idea for this post. We Americans today view the Civil War as part of our history. If different decisions had been made at the end of that conflict, the Civil War could still be part of our current reality. Just before the surrender at Appomattox, General Porter Alexander, General Robert E. Lee's chief of artillery, broached to Lee a proposal that the Army of Northern Virginia disband and carry out a guerrilla war against the Union occupiers. Here history balanced on a knife edge. If Lee had accepted the proposal, I have little doubt the stage would have been set for an unending war between the North and the South which would still be with us. Douglas Southall Freeman, in his magisterial R. E. Lee, tells what happened next, based upon Alexander's memoirs, Fighting for the Confederacy.
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Dunnellon decks halls for Victorian Holiday
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For those longing for an old-fashioned holiday, shop owners in Dunnellon's historic district are planning their 14th annual Victorian Holiday festival on Saturday complete with a snow slide, caroling, carriage rides and plenty of twinkling lights.
14th annual Victorian Holiday
When: 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday
Where: Dunnellon historic district, along West Pennsylvania Avenue, Cedar Street, Walnut Street and Chestnut Street
Admission: Free (465-9200)
"We're having six tons of snow from Gainesville Ice delivered that day, and this really is a big hit with children," said Nancy Myers, co-owner of Grumbles House Antiques & Garden Shop.
Myers said she usually serves hot spiced apple cider if the evening is cool, or iced apple cider if it's warm. She and her husband, Dane Myers, came up with the idea for Victorian Holiday, along with several other merchants now gone, who owned shops 14 years ago. Initially, they agreed that, on that one evening each year, they would dress in Victorian-style clothing, Myers recalled.
"But then we found ourselves trying to do all the chores that it takes to make sure the evening goes smoothly, and we kept tripping over the long dress," Myers said. So, that tradition fell by the wayside.
Nevertheless, visitors seems entranced by the sprawling street fair, said Clovis Sawyer, owner of Creations by Clovis, a beaded jewelry shop across from Don Pepe's Mexican Restaurant.
"There is just a really good feeling of community that night. You see families walking up the street together in the cool of the evening as they enjoy the Christmas lights," Sawyer said.
Dunnellon is one of this nation's truly delightful small towns that lends itself to family holiday events, she said.
"This is America," she said.
In addition to the snow slide and carolers, there will be food kiosks along the streets selling treats such as kettle corn, funnel cakes, hot dogs and sausages.
"Some of the shop owners might serve cookies and perhaps even hot chocolate. Victorian Holiday is kind of a way for all of us to show our appreciation to our customers and all other visitors to our wonderful little town, our way of giving back," Sawyer said.
One important person who visits each year during the old-fashioned Christmas festival is Santa Claus. He will greet all his young friends at the Bob Rodgers Real Estate parking lot near the intersection of U.S. 41 and County Road 484, said Sam Scott, a spokesman for the Historic Village Merchants Association.
"I'll be so busy, I doubt I will even have time to walk down to see the kids trying out the snow slide," said Santa, during a brief telephone interview.
He also said he looks forward to returning to the area for his annual pontoon boat ride up the nearby Rainbow River next month. He and Mrs. Claus always anchor Santa Over the Rainbow at Rainbow Springs State Park for two weekends in December.
"During Victorian Holiday, parents can get professional photos of their children with Santa, who also is called Father Christmas, you know. Julie Mancini will be on hand for photos, or parents are welcome to bring their own cameras if they prefer, said Scott.
"I have a niece who just loves this festival," noted Diane Robbins of Williston. "She comes up from West Palm Beach every year because she loves Victorian Holiday."
It's just a wonderful, old-fashioned Christmas event, Robbins added, and a time when many other of her family members travel to this area to get together each year.
"The shop owners all decorate so beautifully inside the shops. I like it because it's not commercial and it just reminds me of how things were years ago," Robbins said.
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Agra, Davenport teaming to help Griffen Melson and raise awareness for Polycystic Kidney Disease
Agra's Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Davenport Public Schools are teaming up to help Davenport third-grader Griffen Melson and raise awareness for Polycystic Kidney Disease on Friday when Agra and Davenport meet in high school basketball.
Melson was diagnosed in 2010 with PKD and will be treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The schools are asking all fans to wear black to Friday's games, which start at 6:30 in the Wes McFarland Center in Agra.
During the girls game there will be a silent auction on various items.
A live auction during halftime of the boys game features framed autograph photos of former Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford; former Oklahoma State receiver Justin Blackmon; former OSU quarterbacks Zac Robinson and Brandon Weeden; and a cowboy hat signed by both Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton.


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During his keynote address at PAX last week in Seattle, Wa., Junction Points founder and Deus Ex creator Warren Spector warned the crowd that they must help fight against the California video game law set for review before the US Supreme Court November 2. The court will rule on an earlier ruling of the California Appeals Court, which struck down the law as unconstitutional.
Spector said that it was important for the games industry and gamers to embrace the mainstream to achieve "social acceptance" and become "an art form worthy of study."
"We spent 20 years trying to convince people that we were cool trying to show them just how cool games were … and we won," Spector said. "But we need to get past not wanting to let other people in the club. We won, and we feel bad about it."
"When your grandmother and little sister are playing games, it's harder for people to look at it as a way to make political points," he added.
He has a point. But by the same token, politicians aren't trying to control games like Epic Mickey or Super Mario Galaxy 2; they are looking at games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever…
But his main point is that "November 2nd could be the start of a timeline where we're the first entertainment medium denied first amendment protection."
That's some strong medicine. You can check out Spector's full PAX keynote address here.


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Flight combat romp Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will land in U.S. stores on October 11, Namco Bandai's announced.
The game will launch in Europe a few days later on October 14. The news comes following Namco's Level Up press event in Dubai earlier today.
Elsewhere, the Japanese giant also slapped an early October date on Dark Souls for western territories, and teased that gamers can expect "excellent" pre-order incentives for the brutal RPG. A Collector's Edition is also in the pipeline.
Finally, Namco also revealed that Tekken: Blood Vengeance, a CG animation flick, is in the works and will hit cinemas in 3D this summer. The movie takes place between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, and is being billed as a "suspense action film."
Furthermore, series producer Katsuhiro Harada also encouraged everyone to put the recent Hollywood adaptation to the back of their minds:
"That doesn't have anything to do with it this time," Harada said. "We're not trying to rewrite those wrongs. Fans are always asking us for a 3D movie. This is our response to them... We want to make a movie that everyone can enjoy, though. Not just Tekken fans."
We'll be sure to keep you up to date on all Namco's latest projects in the coming weeks and months.


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Fresh Android Apps for Nov. 28: AirDroid, Songza HD, Desert Bus, Extreme Road Trip
by Ian Black
Hope you enjoyed your time with family over Thanksgiving! If you're like me, all that family time has made your ready to hit the road, as in road trip. Two of today's fresh apps – Desert Bus and Extreme Road Trip – put you behind the wheel for a virtual getaway.
AirDroid lets you control your device from a PC and Songza HD queues up some tunes on your Android tablet.
AirDroid (Free)
Even with the easy Android user interface, it's still challenging to do all you need to over a small screen. With this app, you can control your Android through a web browser.
Manipulate files on your device including the ability to transfer them between your computer and your Android, cut, paste and copy them, or rename and delete them, even from an SD card. Read and send text messages, install and uninstall applications, preview and delete photos, search and create contacts, customize ringtones and alarms, and much more.
The service supports Android devices of version 2.1 or higher (but not yet 4.0) and the modern web browsers like Chrome 12 or higher and Firefox 3.6 or later.
Songza HD (Free)
Haven't settled on a music streaming service? Give Songza a try.
In case you didn't know, there are music experts out there and many of them work, or at least contribute, to this service. They create thousands of playlists across a wide variety of genres, ready for you to enjoy. The playlists come with descriptive names like "cocktail party," "drinking at a dive bar," and, special to nerds, "coding."
The service catalogs over 14.5 million songs if the mood to build your own playlist strikes, and the app allows you to share your favorite playlists over Facebook and Twitter.
Desert Bus ($0.99)
Can a game be so real that it's boring? Hmmmm.
This app simulates driving a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. It's you, a bus, a pine tree air freshener, and 360 miles of desert road. This app was first released as a mini-game in the 1995 Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors video game, so you know to whom you can attribute the snark.
The reviews say it's as realistic as it gets – a few recommend playing the app rather than doing the actual drive. All proceeds benefit Desert Bus for Hope charity for Child's Play.
Extreme Road Trip (Free)
Your gas pedal is stuck! That's the introduction to this car stunt game.
You have no choice but to drive your car off the precipice and hopefully land safely on the road, platform, forest path or dirt hill in front of you. Tilt your phone to set the best angle for your landing. The better your landing, the more you increase your odds of gaining a turbo boost for your next dangerous stuck-pedal run.
Once you're over the fear, you can attempt crazy stunts in the air for extra points. Different cars provide unique aerodynamics and the explosions for poor landings are a total blast. Use OpenFeint to taunt your friends.


text: Autocar can reveal that, contrary to what Fiat's adverts would have you believe, former doyen of F1 Michael Schumacher is neither delivering TVs nor chauffeuring school children around in his abundant spare time; he's helping Ferrari to develop their road cars. Or at least he was yesterday.Autocar's Nurburgring spies took these pictures of a red Ferrari 599 GTB lapping the Nordschleife yesterday afternoon (May 24). Awestruck by the driving they witnessed, they report realising the identity of the driver only on closer inspection. Check out our wallpapers section, or click here, to see a version of their shots at larger scale; we think you'll agree that the evidence is almost indisputable.


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By Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY
WHISTLER U.S. bobsled pilot Mike Kohn relied on an old Olympic expression and a cartoon to get here.
The USA's No. 4 bobsled driver at the start of the 2009-10 season, Kohn didn't make the World Cup circuit. He bounced around bobsled's minor league, racing in the America's Cup.
"I was halfway through those races and felt it was pointless," Kohn said.
Class A baseball looks like Yankee Stadium compared to minor league bobsledding. Kohn even purchased his own runners — blades attached to the sled and slide on the ice — at $6,000 a set.
"It's the lower tier of everything," Kohn said.
Sitting in Calgary for a race in December, Kohn looked at the mathematical possibilities and knew there was no way he could surpass USA-1's Steven Holcomb, USA-2's John Napier and USA-3's Todd Hays for an Olympic spot.
Kohn didn't quit. He couldn't live with himself if he did.
"I could have justified walking away," said Kohn, who has been with USA Bobsled for 20 years. "But it's an Olympic year, and crazy things always happen in an Olympic year. I call it 'five-ring fever.' Someone told me that years ago, and I like it."
Something did happen, and he made the team with his two-man and four-man sleds. Kohn and Nick Cunningham finished 12th in the two-man Sunday.
"For being 37 years old and not even supposed to be here, pound for pound and man for man, (brakeman) Nick Cunningham and I did a pretty good job," Kohn said.
USA-1 pilot Steven Holcomb missed a chance to give the U.S. its first Olympic medal in two-man bobsled since 1952, and gold-medalist Germany-1 driver Andre Lange and brakeman Kevin Kuske became the most successful bobsledders in Olympic history.
Holcomb entered the final two heats in fourth place, just .12 second behind Russia-1 Alexsandr Zubkov. On Saturday, Holcomb said he wanted to put pressure on Zubkov. Instead, Zubkov had a strong third run, Holcomb wasn't as good and Switzerland-1 Ivo Rueegg and Canada-2 Pierre Lueders passed Holcomb, who finished sixth.
"It's a disappointment. We were in reach (of a medal)," said Holcomb, who is a medal favorite in the four-man race. "You kind of got to suck it up and move on to the next race."
Germany-2 Thomas Florschuetz won silver and Zubkov took bronze.
The four-man event begins Friday, and Kohn can try again for a medal.
In December, Hays suffered what originally was thought to be a concussion during a training crash in Winterberg, Germany. After evaluation in the USA, doctors diagnosed Hays with intraparenchymal hematoma, or bleeding into the brain tissue caused by trauma to the head. His career was over.
Hays called Kohn and told him to get ready. Even then, an Olympic spot was not guaranteed. Just two nations qualify three sleds, so Kohn headed to Europe to gain enough points and make the Olympic team. Germany qualified three sleds. It was between Canada and the USA.
For inspiration, Hays sent Kohn a cartoon of a pelican trying to eat a frog, with the caption "Never give up." The frog is halfway in the pelican's mouth but is choking the pelican. "I'm a fight-to-the-death kind of guy," he said. "I like that cartoon."
In the final World Cup event of the season in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Kohn needed a 13th-place finish in the two-man bobsled race. He was 12th. He needed a 14th-place finish in the four-man race. He was sixth.
This is the final Olympics for Kohn, who won a bronze medal in Salt Lake City in 2002. A member of the Virginia Army National Guard, he said he is retiring from bobsled and wants to attend Officer Candidate School and deploy.
"I've been trying to represent the Army National Guard on the Olympic front, and they're representing it on the ground," said Kohn, who is part of the National Guard's Outstanding Athlete program. "I need to get over there and help those guys out. That's my goal, that's my plan and that's what I am going to do.
"For me, there's not a bigger honor in life. I am a soldier in the National Guard and also an Olympic athlete. I couldn't be more happier to represent the United States in that way."
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Dear Workforce:
Why do companies restructure, and what problems do they typically face duringthe process?
-- Pondering change, human resources, manufacturing, Triolet, France.
A Dear Pondering in France:
Companies restructure for many reasons, including:
- Cutting costs
- Improving competitive advantage
- Sharpening strategic focus on key accounts, core products, and new technology
- To better leverage talent.
Problems typically faced
"The more you change, the more you stay the same." Sources ofcost inefficiencies and strategic misalignment are often rooted in the cultureand habits of both leaders and followers. Their line of attack may carry theseeds of the same weaknesses they seek to correct. Social systems are complexand self-correcting, like thermostats set on one temperature. The culture (andoften inadvertently its individual members) resist change rather effectively.Sometimes the most important changes are the ones least contemplated, such asseeking a new CEO, a new chairman, even a new board of directors.
The goal of cutting costs is often driven by an immediate, even urgentneed for change, particularly in public companies concerned with their EarningsPer Share, share price, and vulnerability to takeover. Unfortunately, thisimmediate problem may be the outcome of long-term trends in the industry thathave changed the rules of the game, leaving a once-viable business modelfloundering. Typically, once-successful organizations do not scrap theirbusiness model at the first sign of trouble, nor should they. However, it is notuncommon to see organizations rely too heavily on old tactics that, rather thancorrecting the problem, actually aggravate it. This path of action and reactionsets the company on a viscous downward cycle. By the time the truth is accepted -- that the old solutions no longer work -- the changes required may be morethan can be absorbed.
Companies in the U.S. in particular are quick to cut costs, especially byreducing their workforce. While this ruthless nimbleness may allow the companyto limit its short-term losses, it rarely creates competitive advantage in andof itself. Many sage consultants observe that you don't save yourself to growth.Typically, the most successful changes require more than mere cost reduction.The best companies combine strategic refocus with organizational realignment inroles, processes and structure, thereby rationalizing a targeted reduction inforce. This is like trying to ski faster downhill while resetting yourwristwatch and calling the ski patrol on your cell phone. Not many leadershipteams can pull it off.
Organizations are often not well informed about their own talent. Thetalent they need most during restructure is often invisible to senior leaders.These people are found in the middle levels; they are found in outside fieldsthat may not be considered; they show a different profile of style and talentthan what the senior leaders are used to appreciating; and they come fromdifferent angles and experiences than those that shaped the last generation. Ittakes a bold leadership team to reorganize a company around the young Turks, oddbirds, and raw potential they actually need to call on to lead new change.
SOURCE: David J. Armstrong, senior consultant, Personnel DecisionsInternational Corporation (PDI), Organizational Solutions Group, Minneapolis,Minnesota, June 22, 2001.
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Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
2,968 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
ProPublica, a non-profit journalistic organization, launched a new crowdsourcing tool yesterday to help identify which organizations are buying up political ads as the American presidential elections draws near.
The initiative was made possible by a recent Federal Communication Commission (FCC) ruling that ordered TV stations from the top 50 markets to make information about political ads available online. Previously, individuals could only access the files by going to the TV stations themselves.
ProPublica's new tool, which is a part of the organization's Free the Files series, collects documents from the FCC's database and asks users to answer basic questions about them.
"Our developers have set up a system to pull those documents from the FCC site so we can make them a little bit more accessible," Amanda Zamora, ProPublica's senior engagement editor, told Crowdsourcing.org. "Now, if you search the FCC site… it's not really possible to find filings by keyword or by group. As we annotate the documents, we're making it a lot easier for people to find them by location or by the name of the group that's buying the ad."
The journalistic organization is especially interested in examining ad buys in swing states, which will be crucial in deciding November's election.
So far, ProPublica has gathered 14.8 thousand documents, and it plans to add more as the FCC receives them. The files, it should be noted, do not show money definitively spent, but only orders placed.
When we spoke with Zamora, she said over two thousand documents had been reviewed, though only around 950 had been verified (since then, that number has gone up). Because the quality of some of the documents can be poor, ProPublica doesn't confirm any file's information until it has been reviewed by several people.
"One person can't 'free a file,' multiple people have to agree on a data point," Zamora explained. "The documents, frankly, are messy and kind of hard to read, and we wanted to make sure that we were trying to build the clearest picture that we could."
Users have to answer only five simple questions – which candidate or committee bought the ad, what advertising agency bought the ad, the contract number, how much money the ad package cost, and whether there is anything else notable about the document.
Zamora said asking so few questions was meant to encourage participation. To that end, ProPublica also created a leaderboard (which can be linked to one's Facebook account) that shows the top file free-ers. Given the sensitivity of the issue, however, it isn't hard to imagine people volunteering their time to dig through the files.
While political ads are always a hot issue during campaign season, it is especially important this year. This is the first time so-called 'super' political action committees (PACs) are spending money on political ads during a presidential election. Zamora, however, emphasized that ProPublica isn't looking just at super PACs, but also at a number of non-profit groups and the politicians' campaigns themselves.
"It's groups we're not accustomed to hearing about that are doing a significant amount of spending, in addition to the super PACs," she said, referencing a colleague's article on "dark money groups" in Albuquerque.
Indeed, raising awareness of just how much money is being spent by politically motivated organizations and super PACs is one of ProPublica's goals.
Among other aims, Zamora listed "increasing transparency around the documents" and "having an alert system to help us identify some of the groups that we haven't necessarily heard of before." She also hopes that local news organizations will be able to use the information to do their own reporting on campaign ad spending.
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|METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTER-COMPONENT PHASE DIFFERENCE SOLITON AND INTER-COMPONENT PHASE DIFFERENCE SOLITON CIRCUIT DEVICE - A control method is proposed that controls inter-component phase difference solitons by using splitting or fusion caused by the interaction between inter-component phase difference solitons themselves, without the need for application of external energy. By using a line structure (
|SRAM CELL AND SRAM DEVICE - In an SRAM cell including a first to a fourth semiconductor thin plates which stand on a substrate and are arranged in parallel to each other, on each of the four semiconductor thin plates being formed a first four-terminal double-gate FET with a first conductivity type; a second and a third four-terminal double-gate FETs which are connected in series with each other and have a second conductivity type; a fourth and a fifth four-terminal double-gate FETs which are connected in series with each other and have the second conductivity type; a sixth four-terminal double-gate FET with the first conductivity type, wherein the third and the fourth four-terminal double-gate FETs form select transistors, and the first, the second, the fifth and the sixth four-terminal double-gate FETs form a CMOS inverter, logic signal input gates of the first and the sixth four-terminal double-gate FETs are arranged on the side facing the second and the third semiconductor thin plates, respectively, while threshold voltage control gates of the second to the fifth four-terminal double-gate FETs are arranged on the sides facing each other and are commonly connected to a first bias line. Threshold voltage control gates of the first and the sixth four-terminal double-gate FETs are commonly connected to a second bias line. A word line, the first bias line and the second bias line are arranged orthogonally to the direction of arrangement of the first to the fourth semiconductor thin plates.
|METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The object is to provide a method for the fabrication of a semiconductor device having undergone an anneal treatment for the purpose of forming such ohmic contact as enables decrease of ohmic contact resistance and being provided on the (000-1) plane of silicon carbide with an insulating film and provide the semiconductor device. The method for the fabrication of a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes the steps of performing thermal oxidation on the (000-1) plane of a silicon carbide semiconductor in a gas containing at least oxygen and moisture, thereby forming an insulating film in such a manner as to contact the (000-1) plane of the silicon carbide semiconductor, removing part of the insulating film, thereby forming an opening part therein, depositing contact metal on at least part of the opening part, and performing a heat treatment, thereby forming a reaction layer of the contact metal and silicon carbide, wherein the heat treatment is implemented in a mixed gas of an inert gas and hydrogen.
|SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A field-effect transistor for nonvolatile memory holding use and a field-effect transistor for logical operation use are manufactured in the same structure on the same semiconductor substrate without separately providing manufacturing processes for the field-effect transistors for the two uses. Both a memory circuit and a logic circuit of a semiconductor integrated circuit are composed of n-channel and p-channel field-effect transistors including a memory holding material in a gate insulating structure. A logical operation state, a memory writing state and a nonvolatile memory holding state are electrically switched by controlling the level and application timing of a voltage to be applied between a gate conductor and a substrate region of the n-channel and p-channel field-effect transistors including the memory holding material in the gate insulating structure.
|PHOTO-FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR USING THE SAME - A photo-FET based on a compound semiconductor including a channel layer formed on a substrate constituting a current path between source and drain electrodes, serving as part of a photodiode and a photosensitive region. A back-gate layer that serving as a substrate-side depletion layer formation layer is disposed between the substrate and the channel layer, and applies to the channel layer a back-gate bias by photogenerated carriers upon illumination. A barrier layer is disposed on the front side of the channel layer that causes one of the photogenerated carriers to run through the channel layer and other of the photogenerated carriers to sojourn or be blocked off. A front-side depletion layer formation layer is disposed on the front side of the channel layer brings the front-side depletion layer into contact with the substrate-side depletion layer without illumination to close the current path in the channel layer, bringing the photo-FET to an off-state.
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Proclamation by the President.
Whereas, information has been received that sundry lawless persons, principally
persons of color, combined and confederated together for the purpose of opposing
by force the execution of the laws of the United States, did at Boston, Massachusetts,
on the 15th of this month, make a violent assault on the Marshal or Deputy Marshal
of the United States for the district of Massachusetts in the court house, and
did overcome the said officers, and did by force take from their custody a person
arrested as a fugitive slave, and there and then a prisoner lawfully holden
by the Marshal or Deputy Marshal of the United States, and other scandalous
outrages did commit in violation of law.
Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the law may be maintained,
and those concerned in violating them brought to immediate and condign punishment,
I have issued this, my proclamation, calling on all well disposed citizens to
the support of the laws of their country, and commanding all officers, civil
and military, who shall be found in the vicinity of this outrage, by aiding
and assisting by all means in their power in quelling this and other such combinations,
and assisting the Marshal and his Deputies in recapturing the above named persons.
And I do emphatically direct, that prosecutions be commenced against all persons
who shall have made themselves aiders or abettors in this flagitious offense.
And I do further command that the District Attorney of the United States, and
all other persons concerned in the administration or execution of the laws of
the United States, to cause the foregoing offenders, and all such as aided,
abetted, or assisted them, or shall be found to have harbored or concealed such
fugitive contrary to law, to be immediately arrest and proceeded with according
to law.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, this 18th day of February,
DANIEL WEBSTER, Sec'y of State.
There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: President Fillmore issued this proclamation following the arrest and subsequent rescue by a mob of fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins in Boston on February 15, 1851. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by congress on September 18, 1850, as part of a compromise allowing California to enter the Union as a free state and ending the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The act made the federal government responsible for tracking down and apprehending slaves who had escaped to the northern states. Boston authorities did not come to the aid of the federal marshals when a mob broke into the courtroom and rescued Shadrach. In this proclamation, President Fillmore commands "all officers, civil and military," to aid and assist the "Marshal and his Deputies in recapturing the above named persons." He also compels the arrest and prosecution of all the people who helped in Shadrach's escape.
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Excerpts from "Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston"
"Several Fathers" article re: Clay, Webster and Fillmore and Fugitive Slave Law in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
"The Boston Mob" article to the Mayor in Gazette and Courier newspaper
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