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10 Biggest Regional Economic Stories of 2012
January 14, 2013 /in News, Uncategorized /by bwadmin
Here are the Top 10 economics stories of 2012 in the Upper Midwest, loosely defined as the region from Michigan to the Dakotas, plus northern Illinois and all of Iowa. Please weigh in with a comment.
1. The North Dakota oil boom is attracting capital and population, shifting job markets, reroutingrailroads, helping create frac sand riches and controversy in Wisconsin, and changing the U.S.energy picture. It's clearly the most dynamic and far-reaching story in the region.
2. Labor lost big legislative battles in Michigan and Wisconsin, and employers are locking out workers all over the place. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won his 2012 recall election easily after he championed a law that ended collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Then in December, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a right-to-work law in the home state of the United Auto Workers, which Monica Davey of the New York Times called "a moment startling in its symbolism." In Minnesota, symphony players, sugar workers and NHL players have all been locked out by their employers.
3. Demographics. For instance, in Minnesota, as the population ages and baby boomers cycle into retirement, the state's workforce is shrinking. And the young people that will make up a disproportionate share of the future workforce will be black and Latino, populations that in 2009 and 2010 were graduating from high school at rates of only 51 percent and 52 percent. High school graduation is a minimum standard for adult success that barely even passes muster in the Minnesota of the next 50 years. By 2018, 70 percent of jobs in Minnesota will require some postsecondary education. (h/t Anna Nelson)
4. Midwest farmland prices may have finally peaked. Dan Piller at the Des Moines Registerreports that overseas farmers will ramp up production in response to high commodity prices, and the result will be a gradual decline in prices and therefore land values, which in Iowa hit a record average $8,296 per acre in 2012. "It won't be a crash, like we saw in the 1980s, but a slow decline," said Mike Duffy, an economist at Iowa State University.
5. Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota, generally thought of as an inflation hawk, became one of the most vocal proponents of keeping interest rates low indefinitely. He wanted explicit goalposts for interest rates and inflation to govern Fed monetary policy. He said publicly several times that the Federal Open Market Committee should keep interest rates low until either unemployment drops below 5.5 percent or the inflation outlook rises above 2 percent. Neither has happened yet, and the Fed announced in December it would use a similar national standard – 6.5 percent unemployment and 2 percent inflation.
6. The housing market appears to be improving. National home prices rose 4.3 percent from October 2011 to October 2012, and in Minnesota they rose 9.2 percent over the same period. Housing oracle/blogger Bill McBride said "house prices probably bottomed earlier this year."
7. Minnesota's largest companies face a leadership challenge. Best Buy's turmoil and founder Richard Schulze's attempt to take over the company headline the list. But 3M, Carlson, Supervalu, Medtronic and Nash Finch also have recently-appointed leaders. (h/t Bill Blazar)
8.Two important debates in American manufacturing: 1) Whether there is a skills gap, and 2) Whether companies are bringing jobs back to America. I tend to think the skills gap is less pronounced and more complicated than some manufacturers would like the public to think. At very least, average wage trends don't point to a gap. On the question of jobs returning to the U.S., rising Chinese wages could help move work to other countries, but I tend to agree with Alan Tonelson, who argues the work isn't coming back to the U.S.
9. The drought may not have devastated the farm economy, thanks to crop insurance and resilient seed varieties, but it did squeeze one of the nation's key shipping lanes: the Mississippi River. Low water below St. Louis brought barge traffic to a halt this summer and is still a problem. It's something to watch in 2013.
10. The fight for survival in the region's forest products industry. Reports of innovation at Sappi have been overshadowed by closures in Sartell, Duluth and Brainerd. Both we at the Star Tribune and John Schmid at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel wrote lengthy articles on the forest industries.
Source: Star Tribune
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We all get from time to time those emails purporting to be from people who have stolen loads of money and wish to launder it, if we only hand over our bank account details. Until today, my favourite was last year when I received one claiming to be from the widow of Sam Jonah, ex-chairman of Anglo-Ashanti Gold. That amused me because Sam is a good friend of mine and I had just spent the early evening drinking with him!
But I just received possibly the most hopeless effort yet, claiming to be from…David Trimble! Can anyone beat that?
Well I didn't get it personally, but I thought the scam mail puporting to be from the family of a stranded Nigerian astronaut was pretty special!
I received one a few months ago allegedly from the head of the FBI.
I loved the Patricia Hewitt example, but I can't beat "from someone I was drinking with" for pure insanity.


The new deal will see the company target affluent travellers with onsite activations.
The option launched today in Canada and will include inventory from Clear Channel, Zoom Media, Captivate and Broadsign.
The premium offerings bring in higher ticket revenues, as well as new ad opportunities for the company.
It's not a dimension-hopping spaceship, but it'll do.
Canada's second largest movie theatre chain found a new partner after splitting with Cineplex Media last year.
The place-based media seller has paired with Retail Media Group as it eyes expansion into new areas.
The time comes as COMMB gets more granular with its own digital measurement.
Patrons are spending more money at the box office and concessions, but there's been a slight decrease in ticket sales.


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New Financing to Create 820 Affordable Apartments Statewide, Plus Senior and Community Facilities
Published on October 11, 2019	by Washington State Housing Finance Commission
SEATTLE, WA – The Washington State Housing Finance Commission has approved financing that will build 820 new affordable apartments for people at low incomes and those experiencing homelessness throughout Washington state.
The financing approved in August and September will also expand nonprofit senior living facilities and help finance the new Kent YMCA.
"With the need for affordable housing on a steady rise, we're glad we can help bridge that gap," said Karen Miller, chair of the Housing Finance Commission. "It's also our mission to finance facilities that enhance the community as a whole, such as nonprofit facilities for seniors and families."
The housing projects are financed by federal housing tax credits and tax-exempt bonds or notes. The housing credit program allows developers to raise capital for apartment construction or rehabilitation by selling the tax credits to investors. In exchange, the investors offset their corporate income taxes and gain equity in the project.
The Commission also issues tax-exempt bonds to finance nonprofit housing facilities as well as buildings and equipment for nonprofits in general.
Affordable housing approved by the Commission:
Seattle: Polaris at Rainier Beach, 9400 Rainier Avenue S. (Inland Group, $32 million estimated tax-credit equity, $50 million estimated tax-exempt note)
In addition to 306 affordable apartments, this development includes ground-floor space that will be occupied by an early-childhood and youth mentoring program.
Seattle: Belmont 1, 1717 Belmont Avenue (Pioneer Human Services, $16.4 million estimated tax-exempt bond, $9.4 estimated tax-credit equity)
The Belmont 1 will add 90 affordable apartments to Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Ten percent of the units will be set aside for persons with disabilities. Amenities will include covered and secure bike storage, a media room, and a business/learning center.
Auburn: Legacy Plaza Senior Living, 36 West Main Street (SHAG, $2.7 million estimated tax-credit equity, $38 million estimated tax-exempt note)
This newly constructed 166-unit development across the street from Auburn City Hall will house seniors over age 61 (or those over age 55 with a disability).
Lacey: College Glen Apartments, 4870 55th Lane SE (Shelter Resources, Inc., $8.9 million estimated tax-credit equity, $24 million tax-exempt bond)
An existing property with164 rent- and income-limited apartments will be substantially renovated through this financing, as well as preserved as affordable for decades to come.
Spokane: Jayne Auld Manor, 6228 N Lacey St. (Empire Health Foundation/Spokane Housing Ventures, $8 million estimated tax-exempt bond, $3.9 estimated tax-credit equity)
A joint investment between Spokane Housing Ventures and the private Empire Health Foundation, this brand-new apartment complex in Hillyard will be home to 48 families beginning in October 2020.
Omak: Meadow Point Family Housing, 320 Oak Street (Okanogan County Housing Authority, $619,000 estimated tax-credit equity)
This additional allocation of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (bringing the total credit investment to $9 million) closes a financing gap for this critically needed apartment complex in the town of Omak in north central Washington. Of its 46 units, 36 are reserved for those experiencing homelessness.
Nonprofit senior housing approved for bond financing:
Spokane: Rockwood at Whitworth, 101 E Hawthorne Road, 2903 E 25th Avenue (Spokane United Methodist Homes d/b/a Rockwood Retirement Communities, $40 million estimated tax-exempt bond)
The first phase of a total redevelopment of Rockwood at Hawthorne, this financing will demolish part of the existing facility and build a new three-story health-building, including 24 memory-care units and 48 assisted-living apartments.
Everett: Bethany at Silver Lake, 2235 Lake Heights Drive (Bethany of the Northwest, $4.8 million estimated tax-exempt bond)
The rehabilitation and addition of space through this financing will allow 31 skilled nursing beds to be moved to Bethany from the Province Regional Medical Center in Everett, freeing up space at the hospital.
Seattle: Olympic Tower at Skyline, 715 8th Ave (Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest d/b/a Transforming Age, $150 million estimated tax-exempt bond)
The proceeds of the bonds will be used for the acquisition, construction and equipping of 77 senior (age 62+) independent living units, community and service spaces, and administrative offices.
Nonprofit facilities approved for bond financing:
Kent YMCA, 10878 SE 248th St. (YMCA of Greater Seattle, $8 million estimated tax-exempt bond)
This financing contributes to the financing of the new Kent YMCA, which opened in September with 50,000 square feet of fitness, activity and program space serving an estimated 10,000 community members by the end of 2020.
The Washington State Housing Finance Commission is a publicly accountable, self-supporting team that brings private investment dollars to benefit families and achieve public goals throughout Washington.
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Letter | Published: 14 November 2002
Tristable nematic liquid-crystal device using micropatterned surface alignment
Jong-Hyun Kim1,
Makoto Yoneya1 &
Hiroshi Yokoyama1,2
Naturevolume 420, pages159–162 (2002) | Download Citation
It has long been appreciated that liquid-crystal (LC) devices in which the LC molecules adopt multiple stable orientations could drastically reduce the power consumption required for high-information-content displays. But for the commonly used nematic LCs, which are intrinsically uniaxial in symmetry, no industrially feasible multi-stable LC device has been realized1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Recently we demonstrated how bistability can be robustly engineered into a nematic LC device, by patterning a substrate with an orientational chequerboard pattern that enforces orthogonal LC alignment in neighbouring square domains8,9. As a result of the four-fold symmetry of the pattern, the two diagonal axes of the chequerboard become equally stable macroscopic orientations. Here we extend this symmetry approach to obtain a tristable surface-aligned nematic LC. A microscopic pattern exhibiting six-fold symmetry is inscribed on a polyimide surface using the stylus of an atomic force microscope. The hexagonal symmetry of the microscopic orientational domains in turn gives rise to three stable macroscopic LC orientations, which are mutually switchable by an in-plane electric field. The resulting switching mode is surface driven, and hence should be compatible with demanding flexible display applications.
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Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the alignment pattern and texture of nematic LC on the surface.
Figure 2: Three possible macroscopic orientations of nematic LC on the hexagonal pattern.
Figure 3: Structure of the LC cell and tristable switching behaviours.


2019 Moab Senior Games is coming soon!
We are so happy that the Moab Senior Games was a success this year!! We hope that all the participants from this year and the previous years will join us in the year 2019! Each year it gets better than the last!


Motion: A motion was made by Mr. Spoerl to approve the above resolution. Ms. Wexler seconded the motion. ROLL CALL: WEXLER - Y, THEOBALD - Y, SPOERL - Y, HACK - Y, ROLANDO - Y. Passed.
Motion: Ms. Wexler made a motion to approve the minutes, above. Mr. Hack seconded the motion. ROLL CALL: WEXLER - Y, THEOBALD - Y, SPOERL - Y, HACK - Y, ROLANDO - Y. Passed.
Motion: Mr. Tadrick made a motion to approve the above listed Board fees. Mr. Rizzuto seconded the motion. All were favor.
Motion: Mayor Marotta made a motion and Mr. Tadrick seconded the motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:18 p.m. All were in favor.
These minutes were transcribed by Cynthia Davis on January 20, 2014.


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Unbelievable that I have been blogging about my Cuba research trip for just over a month now and there is still so much to share! For example, on the left is an amazing poster celebrating the founding of Baracoa by the Spaniards as the first Cuban city 505 years ago this coming August 15th.
The artist, Jehovanny Guilbeaux Rodríguez, was able to visit Florida last month as part of a Cuban Art Exhibit at the Nuance Galleries in Tampa, Florida (nuancegalleries.com).
I encourage you to visit their website and see Jehovanny's art and learn about other Baracoan artists who make up this amazing and vibrant artistic community in this First Cuban city.
Notice Jehovanny's French last name, Guilbeaux. Baracoa has deep 19th century roots with Caribbean island French immigrants.


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Augustin, Chrysostom, Eusebius, Cyril, Eustachius, Gregory, Epiphaniu Theodoret, Basil the Great, Theophylact, Hilary, Origen, Nicephorus, Nyssenius, Virgilius Leo, see page 840, 878. It is also confirmed from the Word, in many places, see pages 608, 844, 847, 852, 861, 863, 869. That Christ's human nature has received the most excellent, the greatest and supernatural properties, and the celestial prerogatives of majesty, strength, and power, page 774. Moreover, the spirit of all wisdom, page 781. That Christ operateth in, with, and through, both natures, and through the human, as by the organ of Deity, see page 773, 779, 847. That this takes place by the hypostatic union, glorification, and exaltation, page 774, 779. That in the state of humiliation, He emptied Himself, and did not put forth and manifest that majesty always, but when it seemed good to Him, until He put off the form of a servant, after the resurrection, and entered into the very Divine Glory and Majesty, see pages 608, 764, 767. That by virtue of the hypostatic union, He wrought miracles, even in the state of exinanition, see pages 166, 767. That Christ is our Redeemer, Mediator, Head, High Priest, and King, as to both natures, page 773. That Christ was essentially exalted to the right hand of God, according to His human nature,
That He is at the right hand of God, that He hath risen above all the heavens, and actually filleth all things, and ruleth every where, not only as God, but also as man, as the prophets have prophesied concerning Him, into the possession of which he actually came, according to the Human nature, page 768. That the right hand of God is every where, and that Christ according to His humanity governs all things by His presence, and holdeth all things under His feet, see page 600. That through the unity of the person were given to Christ, as to the human nature, majesty, glory, omnipotence, and omniscience, with the most inward dominion of all things, see pages 737, 608, 834. App page 147, 148. That Christ, by the personal union and exaltation according to the flesh, being seated at the right hand of God, received all power in heaven and upon earth, 833. That Christ, even according to the human nature, has all power in the heavens and the earth, see p. 775, 779. This is confirmed by passages from the Scriptures, see page 775, 776, 780. That Christ, according to the human nature, is omnipotent, see page 3, 10, 611, 768, 783, 785. App. page 150. That the regal office of
Christ is this, that as God-Man, in both natures, as King and Lord of heaven and earth, He might govern, by His most presence, all things in the kingdom of power, grace, and glory, see page 787, 876. App. page 149. That the flesh of Christ is vivifying, and that Christ possesses the power of vivifying according to the human nature, see page 6, 776, 777, 783. App. 152. That Christ, according to both natures, is to be adored and worshipped, agreeably to the Augsburg Confession, see page 276. App. 151. That Christ overcame the devil, hell, and damnation, see pages 767, 613, 614, 788. App. 150. Should double the number of quotations from the Formula Concordiæ be required, concerning the person of Christ, as well as concerning justification by faith alone, they shall be produced the next opportunity.
EMAN. SWEDENBORG.
Amsterdam, May 22nd, 1769.
P. S. This original letter, or a copy thereof, please to deliver to the venerable Consistory; it might also be proper, that the Right Reverend Bishop should have one presented to him.
CEREMONY Of the Dedication of the New Jerusalem Temple, in Philadelphia.
Agreeably to the promise contained in the first number of the Repository, we now proceed to lay before our readers a brief account of the ceremony of consecrating the New Jerusalem Temple, in the city of Philadelphia, which was performed by the Reverend John Hargrove, minister of the New Jerusalem Church in Baltimore, assisted by the Reverend Maskell M. Carll, of Phila, delphia.
On the morning of the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the members of the congregation, together with a number of strangers, convened, for the purpose of wit. nessing the interesting ceremony. At the usual hour of morning worship, the people being assembled, the officiating and assistant ministers, clothed in appropriate garments, entered the temple, reading alternate verses of the twenty-fourth Psalm. A hymn, adapted to the occasion, was then sung; after which, the following address and prayer were delivered by the officiating minister:
" Dearly beloved in the Lord, " Forasmuch as divine order requireth that houses, or temples, should be erected, for the public service of God, and separated from all common and profane uses, in order that our minds may be filled with greater reverence for the glorious majesty of heaven, our hearts affected with more solemn devotion, and a deeper sense of the Divine Presence ; and that in our humble worship, there may be a fulness of conjunction with our Great Creator ; (which pious works have ever been graciously approved by Him)
" Therefore we are met together here this day, in His name and holy fear, to set apart and dedicate this house, in solemn manner, to the pious observance of the several offices of religious worship; agreeable to, and as permitted by, the laws of our free and happy country.
In order, therefore, to proceed with that piety and humility, which become us as Christians, we affectionately and respectfully invite you all, who are here present, to join with us, while we address the throne of heaven for a blessing upon our present services and offerings.
60, Thou greatest and best of Beings! The Creator of all worlds, and the Redeemer of all men ; JEHOVAH Jesus, mighty in power, and of majesty incomprehensible, whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, much less the walls of temples made with hands; and who, notwithstanding, hast been graciously pleased to promise Thy special presence, in whatever place two or three of Thy faithful servants shall assemble in Thy namne, to offer up their praises and supplications unto Thee ; vouchsafe, O Lord, to be present with us, who are here met together, with humility and readiness of heart, to consecrate this house to the honour of Thy great and divine human name, separating it, henceforth, from all unhallowed, ordinary, and common uses, and dedicating it to Thy service, for offering up to Thy glorious majesty the sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving; for celebrating Thy holy sacraments; for reading and preaching Thy Holy Word; for blessing Thy people in Thy name, and for the performance of other holy ordinances belonging to Thy house. Accept, O Lord, this service at our hands, and bless it with such success, as may tend most to Thy Glory, and the furtherance of our happiness, both temporal and spiritual, now and evermore. Amen."
The Lord's Prayer then followed, and was succeeded by ano. ther appropriate hymn; after which, the morning service, in conformity with the Liturgy, lately adopted by the churches at New York and Philadelphia, was performed by the assistant minister, selecting, for the lessons, the beautiful and impressive recital of the dedication of Solomon's Temple, as recorded in the first Book of Kings, chapter viï. from the 22d to the 62d verse, and the glorious description of the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, recorded in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelations. A sermon, from these words, 6 God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth," was then pronounced by the officiating minister; and the service concluded with a solemn hymn and benediction.
The excellent discourse, the appropriate selection of the hymns and music, rendered delightful by the melodious notes of a sweettoned organ, united to the feeling and devotion, which were apparent throughout, all conspired to render the ceremonies of the day in a high degree solemn and impressive.
[From the Intellectual Repository, No. 1.]
SERIOUS CHRISTIANS, OF ALL DENOMINATIONS.
LETTER I. Permit me, before I call your attention to the subject of Baron Swedenborg's pretensions, as a divinely commissioned teacher, to remind you of the great importance of heavenly and eternal truth, and how much it is the duty of every individual to be earnest and sincere in his inquiries after it. For if there be any such thing as truth, as most assuredly there must, of what infinite moment must it be to an intellectual being, to be rightly informed con
cerning it. We boast of our reason, as being the distinguishing prerogative of man; but if this faculty, instead of leading us to adopt the dictates of truth, is perverted to favour erroneous conclusions, we have little ground to be proud of our pre-eminence. The instinct of inferior animals is indeed very limited, but it never errs: the superior powers of man are capable of taking the most unbounded range, and of penetrating to the inmost recesses of science and intelligence; but they are liable, and in the present degraded state of human nature are very prone, to take a devious course : and it is vain to talk of the superiority we derive from reason, unless it discharge its proper office, in conducting us to the temple of real wisdom. Nothing that we hear or read is of any real utility, unless it enlarges our knowledge of truth; except so far as, by exercising our faculties of reason and judgment, it prepares us for a more perfect apprehension and reception of truth, when it is offered to our acceptance. Even in things of a temporal and worldly nature, in matters of history and human science, it is discreditable to a rational being to hold wrong sentiments. These, however, are subjects in which but a comparatively small number of mankind is interested to any great degree; but things of a spiritual and eternal nature are equally important to all. On a right apprehension of these momentous concerns, our progress in the regeneration, and possibly even our salvation itself, depends. It is here, therefore, that we should be most on our guard against delusion, and should prosecute our inquiries after the truth with the most serious solicitude ; for respecting these, if the light that is in us be darkness, how great is that darkness ! We who profess the doctrines of the New Church, do not, indeed, with some sects of professing Christians, consign to perdition all those who differ from us in opinion; for we are aware that, great as the importance of truth is, there is another heavenly principle, of which the regenerate man is made a partaker, the importance of which is still greater; and this is good; and we are assured that whoever is really principled in the latter, will, sooner or later, in this world or the next, gratefully acknowledge the former. But we are deeply sensible that to be principled in good is not the lot of man by birth. We admit, with the generality of Christians, that our hereditary nature, however it became so, is nothing but evil. We acknowledge that this nature is to be changed and renewed, and its corruptions renounced and


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Friday Fares: Cabo, Barcelona, Vegas, Rome, Hawaii, Taipei, Phoenix, Singapore and more.
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These images focus on the 27th floor outdoor terrace of a proposed 525,000 square foot office tower and emphasize the unobstructed, panoramic views of Washington D.C.'s monumental core.
Design presentation and marketing renderings depicting buildout of a typical office floor and conversion of an existing terrace into an outdoor amenity space.
Early design process imagery for what began as a 200' tower proposal at 437 W. 13th Street in NYC's Meatpacking District. The project was finally constructed at a more modest 10 stories.
A multi-story dichroic glass art wall proposed for Devon Energy Corp.'s headquarters complex.
Large format (~14,000 pixel) accurately scaled renderings showing facades and immediate context on either side of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Produced for use in evaluating the visual impact of modifications to certain facades.
Interior and exterior remodel of Brookfield Place's Liberty Street entrance showing retail and commercial tenant branding opportunities.
Design presentation images for a two-floor, 22,000 square foot office build-out.
Marketing images for The JBG Companies' 1.8 million square foot mixed-use development in Washington, D.C.'s NoMa neighborhood.
Design presentation renderings depicting a proposed 40 story, million square foot office tower addition to the existing Allen Center complex.


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Next Generation of Monolithically Integrated Mobile Phone Chip is Optimized for Lowest System Costs and a Five Times Better Performance; And Infineon Offers Ultra-Low Cost Dual SIM Integrated on a Single Platform
Nov 18, 2008 | Market News
Neubiberg, Germany and Macao, China – November 18, 2008 – Today at the GSM Asia, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) introduced its latest chips for Ultra-Low Cost mobile phones, optimizing the system performance by factor five and also again reducing the bill-of-material (BOM) by almost 10 per cent compared to currently available Infineon platform solutions.
Infineon's single-chip solution, the X-GOLD™102, enables handset manufacturers to differentiate in the market by providing the lowest cost solutions based on technologies already available in high volume production. The Chip will be provided as part of a platform solution XMM™1020 which encompasses a comprehensive suite of development tools and a support package to customers for shortest time-to-market. This enables customers to bring mobile phones to the market within a time frame of only 5 month compared to the industries usual 10 to 12 month. This pre-tested platform delivers best-in-class RF performance, highest voice quality, well-proven protocol stack, smallest form factor (chipsize: 8mm x 8mm) as well as lowest bill-of-material thereby creating highest customer value and differentiation in the market.
The X-GOLD102 single chip includes the baseband processor, the radio frequency (RF) transceiver, RAM memory and the entire power management unit for the mobile phone. It supports MP3 Audio (Basic Multimedia Phone), colour display, FM Radio interface, USB charger and is based on 130nm technology (CMOS SoC) for enhanced monolithic integration. Additionally the XMM1020 platform can be realized in a 4-layer PCB and low via count, in a modem area of less than 5 square centimetres and a component count of less than 50 devices.
Dual-SIM XMM™1028
Infineon today also announced its new Ultra-Low Cost Dual-SIM platform. The XMM1028 based on the X-GOLD™102DS and is a cost optimized single baseband solution for Dual-SIM platforms. Negating the need for either a second modem on the platform or complex mechanical switching the XMM1028 provides a fully capable Dual-SIM solution based on a single baseband device.
The Infineon XMM1028 reference platform comprises of one Single-Chip that integrates baseband, power management, RF and two SIM interfaces. This allows the user to benefit from the offerings of two Network operators at the same time, without needing to switch the SIM-card. It offers voice call and SMS for both SIM and features unique applications for dual SIM such as Phonebook or Call log. It furthermore allows automatically switching between operators.
The XMM1028 platform also needs less than 50 components (Modem) in a PCB mounted area of less than 6 square centimetres and furthermore offers a clean migration path for developers familiar with the XMM1010 platform with fast time-to-market and industries lowest system BOM, which enables manufacturers to offer best possible cost effectiveness in the Dual-SIM segment.
Availability of XMM™1020 and XMM™1028
Volume production of the XMM1020 and the XMM1028 has already started.
You can find further information on Infineon's products for mobile communications at: www.Infineon.com/Baseband_2G
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, communications, and security. In the 2007 fiscal year (ending September), the company reported sales of Euro 7.7 billion (including Qimonda sales of Euro 3.6 billion) with approximately 43,000 employees worldwide (including approximately 13,500 Qimonda employees). With a global presence, Infineon operates through its subsidiaries in the U.S. from Milpitas, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore, and in Japan from Tokyo. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX).
Further information is available at www.infineon.com.
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8 causes and symptoms of eye cataracts - Cataracts are one of the disorders of the eye health often affects elderly people, sometimes to a younger person. Eyes is a gift that God should we care, we are given free eye, but we are not going to want to sell it if someone wants to buy our eyes, at any price.
Therefore, it is appropriate that we are to always maintain eye health, in order to avoid the various health problems of the eyes, one of them is cataracts. Basically, cataracts occur due to the presence of protein in the eyes so you can not see objects clearly even eye cataract is already very severe levels can lead to blindness. This time the admin wants to share 8 causes and symptoms of eye cataracts.
Can not be denied when the eye cataract is commonly seen in adults, the more we age, the lens proteins will also decrease so that not a few adults will experience eye cataracts in his old age. Therefore, it would be wise if you are already getting used to since childhood to always eat foods rich in vitamin A, such as carrots and various kinds of vegetables and other fruits so that when you get older, your risk of developing eye cataracts also slightly reduced.
Trauma that occurs will lead to many bad things for your eye health conditions, among others, you will experience swelling, thickening and the occurrence of white color on the lens fibers. The white color is what ultimately causes your eye cataracts.
Chromosomal abnormalities that occur as a result of genetic factors, is considered as a symptom and a causes eye cataract. This happens due to chromosomal abnormalities are considered to affect the quality of a person's eye lens.
Leprosy, toxoplasmosis, and other eye infections, is considered capable of triggering the appearance of cataracts. Therefore, if you have an eye infection caused by the disease, immediately treated so that they would not cause eye cataracts are certainly far more worrying because you may experience blindness.
Deliberately manufactured drugs to treat eye sore eyes, but the drug is a type of corticosteroid eye medication that has proven capable of making healthy eyes and normal to eye cataracts. Thus the first read the material composition of eye drops that you want to use, make sure safe or not, have expired or not.
The symptoms of eye cataracts are often itchy eyes. When you feel the intensity growing itchy eyes, you should immediately consult an ophthalmologist to the eye, because the eye itching, eye continually water, eyes that could not withstand the glare of his eyes light or decreased quality of vision when the night before, all it is a symptom and a causes eye cataract attacking your eye health. Eyes tested regularly, to prevent further loss of quality eye increased.
Of course you ask - ask why diabetes can be one cause of cataracts. Because if you are suffering from the enzyme aldose reductase diabetes can trigger the appearance of cataracts in the eyes.
You must have heard of skin disease chickenpox that can grow in the eye. Similarly, the skin disease atopic dermatitis, eczema, ichthyosis and pemphigus.
How viewers? Hopefully for those of you who do not suffer from cataract could be spared, and which have had a cataract soon get relief, so that the healing process can be faster and easier. Thus 8 causes and symptoms of eye cataracts can we share, hopefully useful. See also 5 Due to Health for Less Drinking Water.


Former Asante Kotoko goal poacher Dauda Mohammed has joined Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem from Anderlecht for the rest of the season.
The Arnhemmers rent Dauda Mohammed from Anderlecht until the end of the season, reports the French-speaking newspaper Le Soir.
Vitesse would also have an option to buy if the striker's performances catch the eye of the technical handlers of the club.
The 20-year-old joined Anderlecht youth academy in January 2017 after scouting him from Kumasi-based Asante Kotoko.
Dauda was considered a great talent and scored on the conveyor belt with the promises, but could never break through in the first team due to the big competition.
In the first half of the season, Dauda only featured five times in the Belgian league and started once from the base. He did not score in a total of 2017 minutes in all competitions. Ivan Santini and Landry Dimata were preferred at the forefront of Anderlecht.
Dauda did not make the squad to travel to their winter training at Spain, San Pedro Del Pinatar.


PuntoSub, located in Playa del Carmen, Mexico (a short ferry ride west of Cozumel and about 30 miles south of Cancun) is an Ocean Reef International Training Center and Bob is the only year-around IDM Trainer who works with PuntoSub. Bob was born in St. Louis and grew up in the US so the classes will be taught in English, not Spanish. You need to be fairly fluent in English to take the class.
The FSC is an intensive two-day program and when completed you will be an expert in the use of Ocean Reef IDMs. The FSC contains presentations, workshops and plenty of time in water going through all aspects of using an Ocean Reef IDM and communication systems for regular diver training. The program finishes with a practical and theoretical exam and when successfully completed you will receive a diploma that can be presented to your certification agency so you can obtain your appropriate Instructor certification. We often do our training in the crystal clear (but cool) waters of the Cenotes where you will find no current, no waves and 100+ foot (30 meter) visibility year around. It is a vastly enhanced experience for training over that offered in a traditional pool or through ocean diving and with depths up to 60 feet (18.5 meters) you will be able to put your IDM through all possible tests and experiences.
If you are a dive shop or you have some other instructors who want to take the class at a time other than our regularly scheduled sessions please feel free to ask about a training program designed for your group. We do offer a discount for the class for groups of 3 or more.
Snorkel with Whale Sharks (Whale Shark season runs from around May 20 until mid-September and it is not uncommon to see 50-200 Whale Sharks at one time.
Reef diving off the coasts of Playa del Carmen or Cozumel.
Finally, the PuntoSub ITC can help you arrange all your lodging and transportation needs. We work with local travel agencies who will help you find accommodations and arrange ground transportation to meet your time and budget needs.
If you have questions about our ITC or the FSC please feel free to fill out the Contact form on this web site, send an email to bob@scubabobphoto.com or call Bob at 301-789-7685. We are here to help you make the most of your trip to Mexico.


Cities can create on-demand hubs, for workers, and provide workspace and training facilities that help on-demand companies provide support for workers. This is a step in a good direction for Uber, but it needs to be for more than Uber workers to support multiple career tracks.
Thomas Madden said the Greenlight Hub, a central help facility for Uber's drivers in Connecticut, also plays a role in making Stamford more attractive for businesses.


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The Colquitt County School System is committed to the daily pursuit of excellence in student achievement while working with parents and the community to serve the needs of all children in a positive and safe environment.
With all schools accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Colquitt County School System places priority on academics. Approximately 9,600 students are served by the district's ten elementary schools, one middle school (grades 6-7), one junior high school (grades 8-9), and one high school( grades 10-12). Alternate programs enhance educational services. Classes typically begin in early August.
Schools & Facilities Assessment Budget
Size: 552 square miles
Population: Approximately 46,000
Schools/Programs
Total Schools: 13
Elementary: 10
Middle (6-7): 1
Junior (8-9): 1
High: 1
Achievement Center(6-12)
GEAR - Gifted Center (3-5)
Student Population: Approximately 9600
Georgia Milestones
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End-of-Grade FY2020
Colquitt County buses transport an approximate 11,100 students per day (morning and evening routes combined), 8500 miles per day totaling 1,512,000 miles per year.
Colquitt County School Nutrition:
served approximately 22,000 meals during the 2018 Summer Feeding Program.
served 1,328,536 Lunch Meals in SY 17-18.
served 777,416 Breakfast Meals in SY 17-18.
served 111,887 After-School Snacks in SY 17-18.
CEP Participation SY17-18: Community Eligibility Provision Program - All school sites qualify to receive meals at no charge for breakfast and lunch. No applications required.
Employees - Approximately 113 trained food service professionals in 13 school locations, three satellite sites, and average three employees per site who are ServSafe Certified by the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Colquitt County Board of Education is one of the largest employers in Colquitt County, with approximately 1,500 employees.


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Q: Bing maps - how can I turn off street labels in Bird's Eye view? For a client I need to show a static Bing map, in Bird's Eye view, with the street labels turned off.  I can accomplish Bird's Eye view with no labels for dynamic view by just clicking the toolbar buttons for Bird's Eye view and labels off.  But my goal is to show this for a static map, on load, without the need to click any buttons.
Thank you!

A: I'm putting everything in the  for demonstration purposes. You'd probably put the loading of the external mapcontrol library and your GetMap() function in the . You might even want to put your own script in an external file.

The parameters for VEMap.LoadMap(VELatLong, zoom, style, fixed, mode, showSwitch, tileBuffer, mapOptions) are:
VELatLong A VELatLong Class object that represents the center of the map. Optional.
zoom The zoom level to display. Valid values range from 1 through 19. Optional. Default is 4. Note that VEMapStyle.Birdseye seems to only support two zoom levels: 1 gives you the wide view, anything else gives you the close-up view.
style A VEMapStyle Enumeration value specifying the map style. Optional. Default is VEMapStyle.Road. I changed this to VEMapStyle.Birdseye as documented at VEMapStyle.
fixed A Boolean value that specifies whether the map view is displayed as a fixed map that the user cannot change. Optional. Default is false.
mode A VEMapMode Enumeration value that specifies whether to load the map in 2D or 3D mode. Optional. Default is VEMapMode.Mode2D.
showSwitch A Boolean value that specifies whether to show the map mode switch on the dashboard control. Optional. Default is true (the switch is displayed).
tileBuffer How much tile buffer to use when loading map. Default is 0 (do not load an extra boundary of tiles). This parameter is ignored in 3D mode.
mapOptions A VEMapOptions Class that specifies other map options to set.

Lastly, the Bing Maps Interactive SDK is a great resource for playing around and trying to figure out how things work and the Bing Map Control Class Reference documents the entire API.

A: The drop down menu that you pick either Birds Eye or Aerial from has a tick box under it saying "Show labels"
Simply untick it

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Q: Having trouble with Endless Scrolling in Rails 4 Hey I'm trying to add endless scrolling to a rails app...i followed the tutorial by ryan bates but im still having some trouble getting the next page content to load.
So you get a clue about the structure im using...i have a controller called Static Pages which mainly has static pages plus a few other nonstatic pages...one of those pages is called 'feed' so within the static_pages view i have a feed.html.erb
It's a feed page that shows users updates
here is the controller (static_pages)
def feed
  if signed_in?
    @update = current_user.updates.build
    @feed_items = current_user.feed.page(params[:page]).per_page(5)
  else
    flash[:error] = "Please sign in."
    redirect_to login_url
  end

  respond_to do |format|
    format.js
    format.html
  end
end

here is the feed html view

  <%= render partial: "shared/feed_item", collection: @feed_items %>

    <%= will_paginate @feed_items %>

Here is my static_pages.js.coffee (from ryan bates)
jQuery ->
  if $('.pagination').length
  $(window).scroll ->
    url = $('.pagination .next_page a').attr('href')
    if url && $(window).scrollTop() > $(document).height() - $(window).height() - 50
      $('.pagination').text("Fetching more products...")
      $.getScript(url)
  $(window).scroll()

and finally here is my feed.js.erb (in the static_pages view folder)
$('#feeds').append("<%= render partial: 'shared/feed_item', collection: @feed_items %>");
  <% if @feed_items.current_page < @feed_items.num_pages %>
  $('.pagination').replaceWith('<%= will_paginate(@feed_items) %>');
<% else %>
  $('.pagination').remove();
<% end %>

does anyone want to take a stab and try to figure out whats going on here? I'm sure it's something easy that im not seeing. (by the way, the paginate works great before i started working on the endless scrolling)
and when i try to access the feed page and scroll to the bottom, the texts (Fetching more products) does get rendered, but the new feed_items do not.
EDIT for trueunlessfalse
Static_pages coffeescript
jQuery ->
  if $('.pagination').length
    $(window).scroll ->
      url = $('.pagination .next_page a').attr('href')
      if url && $(window).scrollTop() > $(document).height() - $(window).height() - 5
        $('.pagination').text("Hello world!")
        $.getScript(url)
    $(window).scroll()

feed.html.erb

  <%= render partial: "shared/feed_item", collection: @feed_items %>

    <%= will_paginate @feed_items %>

feed.js.erb
$('#feeds').append("<%= j render partial: 'shared/feed_item', collection: @feed_items %>");
  <% if @feed_items.next_page %>
    $('.pagination').replaceWith('<%= j will_paginate(@feed_items) %>');
  <% else %>
    $('.pagination').remove();
  <% end %>


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High Testosterone Traders and Methane on Mars
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This week, we find out why you should measure your broker's fingers before handing over any cash, discover a whole new family of proteins to help in the war against superbugs, and the methane on Mars - we know it's there, but what's making it? Find out on this Naked Scientists NewsFlash...
01:34 - Fingers and Traders
The length of your fingers determines whether you've got the Midas touch...
Fingers and Traders
Scientists have revealed this week that the relative lengths of a persons' fingers can predict money-making ability on the financial markets. Cambridge University Judge Business School researcher John Coates and his colleagues, who also made headlines last year by showing that testosterone levels amongst city traders were linked to their daily profits, took photocopies of the palm-prints of 44 financiers. The researchers measured the lengths of the index and ring fingers to find a strong association between the finger length and profit or loss.
Traders with an index finger shorter than the ring finger were more successful, on average, and the larger the ring finger relative to the index finger - known as the 2D:4D ratio - the more money they made.
"This is an index of testosterone exposure during development," points out Coates. "Some of the same genes that control limb and hand development in the embryo are also involved in the development of the urogenital system, so finger length is an index of pre-natal testosterone levels. Testosterone therefore seems to pattern the body and behaviour later in life; we see the same relationship amongst sportsmen playing testosterone-charged sports."
In the present study the researchers looked at a specific group of traders who aim to profit by gambling on second-by-second and minute-by-minute fluctuations in the values of certain assets.
"These high frequency trades require the same testosterone-fuelled rapid reactions that benefit an athlete on the sportsfield," says Coates, "although not all financial roles benefit from high testosterone. Some money-making schemes require traders to take a much longer-term view and high testosterone is unlikely to be of benefit under those circumstances." So the bottom line is, when making short-term bets on stocks and shares, measure your brokers' fingers; ideally before you threaten to break them!
03:49 - Miniature water creatures harbour antibacterial secrets
Miniature water creatures harbour antibacterial secrets
As you can read in any paper, there are big problems today with hospital-acquired infections - people picking up nasty bugs in hospital - along with antibiotic resistance, meaning we have fewer weapons in our fight against bacteria. So the search is on for new antibiotics.
Now scientists at the university of Kiel in Germany have found an unexpected source of new bug-busters - tiny animals known as Hydra. These tiny creatures, just a few millimetres long, live in freshwater ponds and streams. Writing in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Joachim Grötzinger and his colleagues have discovered a new protein in Hydra, which they've called hydramacin-1. And it has powerful anti-bacterial action.
What makes hydramacin-1 unusual is that it isn't at all similar to most of the other anti-microbial proteins that scientists have previously discovered, and seems to be part of a new protein family. Looking at the 3-D structure of hydramacin-1, the team found that it is most closely related to a superfamily of proteins including some found in scorpion venom, and also two leech proteins. This is potentially powerful, as it means that it's a new angle to try in the war on bacteria.
Lab tests showed that hydramacin-1 could kill a wide range of different bacteria, including bugs called Klebsiella oxytoca, which are a common culprit in many hospital-acquired infections. The researchers found that hydramacin-1 works by sticking to the surface of bacteria, causing them to lump together, then breaking the bacterial cell membranes so they are killed.
Although this is a long way from being a commercial microbicide or treatment, it's yet another small step forward on the human front in our war on bugs.
06:04 - Rheumatoid Arthritis B-Cell Breakthrough
Rheumatoid Arthritis B-Cell Breakthrough
A new discovery has shed light on the mechanism by which joints are damaged by rheumatoid arthritis, scientists announced this week.
Writing in this week's edition of the journal PLoS Medicine Barts and the London Medical school researcher Constantino Pitzalis and his colleagues collected samples from the inflamed joints of patients affected by the disease, which affects about 1% of the adult population and occurs when the immune system mistakes healthy joints for hostile tissue and attacks them.
"What we have found is that a class of infection-fighting white blood cells, called B lymphocytes, make their way to affected joints where they set up structures called germinal centres. These function as antibody factories, producing antibodies that then attack the joint tissue," says Pitzalis.
To prove that this was the case the team injected immune cells from rheumatoid patients' joints into the skins of mice genetically programmed to lack an immune system of their own. For 90 days the team were able to detect the antibodies in the blood of these so-called SCID (Severe Combined Immuno-Deficiency) mice.
"This shows that the germinal centres are sufficient to produce the antibodies directly in the joint," Pitzalis explains.
Apart from providing new insights into the mechanisms of rheumatoid arthritis, which costs the NHS more than £1.2 billion per year to treat affected patients, the new research may also help with the development of better drugs and better use of the drugs we do have to control the disease.
"To stop the damage done by rheumatoid arthritis we need to selectively kill the B-cells making the rogue antibodies," says Pitzalis. "This animal model can help us to do develop cost-saving ways to do that."
08:58 - Talking about post-natal depression
Talking about post-natal depression
Post-natal depression affects a significant proportion of new mothers. Some studies suggest one in twenty may be affected, while others show it could be as high as one in four. Not only can this be a problem for the mother, but it can also have an impact on her child and its care, and in the worst cases can lead to women taking their own lives. New mums with post-natal depression may be offered anti-depressants, but many don't want to take them, especially if they're breastfeeding.
Now researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that talking things through with someone who understands what you're going through can cut the chances of post-natal depression by around half.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, Dr Cindy-Lee Dennis and her team used a web-based tool to screen more than 21,000 new mothers in the Canadian province of Ontario, to find those who seemed to be at risk of developing post-natal depression. Then they recruited around 700 women, and divided them randomly into two groups. One group got standard post-natal care, while the other group got the same care, but also had telephone support from a volunteer who had also gone through post-natal depression.
The researchers found that the mums who got support over the phone had half the risk of developing depression three months after their birth than the women who just got standard care. And eight out of ten of them said they were happy with it, and would recommend it to a friend. Dr Dennis says that women and their families need to know more about post-natal depression, and that putting new mums at risk in touch with women who've been through it could be a significant way to help. But this needs doctors, nurses, midwives and other health professionals to be aware of the risks an symptoms, so they can offer the right support at the right time.
11:01 - Does methane on Mars mean life?
Scientists have discovered methane on Mars, which comes and goes with the seasons. Could this be evidence of methanogenic bacteria beneath the surface of the red planet?
Does methane on Mars mean life?
Dr Mike Mumma, NASA Goddard Centre for Astrobiology
Chris - Tell me about this methane, how did you find it in the first place?
Mike - Well, we were searching for it since 1999, actually. We are using a spectroscopic technique from the summit of Mauna Kea which is a very high volcano in Hawaii, 14,000 feet, where unlike most of Hawaii it actually snows once in a while. In any case we started then and by 2003 we had actually detected the gas using a technique called infrared spectroscopy and looking for vibrational bands of methane and of water at the same time.
Chris - Why did you go looking for it in the first place?
Mike - Of course, one would not expect to find methane on Mars because it's an oxidising atmosphere. Unless it were released very recently, otherwise the lifetime of methane would be too short to have a significant abundance in the atmosphere. The general view if methane is released it could only be coming from one or two potential sources: one being geochemistry of one or two kinds and the other being biology of one or two natures.
Chris - So you think that in the same way that the early Earth was populated by methanogens, bacteria that make methane and actually were quite beneficial to us because they warmed up the Earth and made it the propitious environment for other kinds of life like us to exist later, you think the same thing might be happening on Mars?
Mike - It very well could be. In fact, we can take a message from the deep biosphere below South Africa where scientists have discovered that there are bacteria down there which actually metabolise in total absence of sunlight. They use radiolysis to break water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen and then the bacteria basically eat that hydrogen and use a gas called hydrogen sulphide as a result. It's not a great stretch to imagine that a methanogen might exist in the environment in Mars and using energy from radiolysis at least and then excreting methane which is then released into the atmosphere.
Chris - So having identified the fact that you've got this methane signal in the atmosphere around Mars how did you then further develop the investigation to try and work out where it was coming from?
Mike - We used a spectrometer that has a long entrance slit and we placed that slit along the north-south meridian of the planet, the midline dividing east and west hemispheres. Then we take 50 spectra at 50 locations along the slit and a cadence of every 60 seconds. So every sixty seconds we get a new set of spectra. Depending on how we combine those spectra we can choose the range of longitudes that will pass under the slit during the interval. For example, in the case of a 5 or 6 hour interval Mars will rotate approximately 60-80 degrees of longitude in that time. This way we can then later convert the measured spectra taking latitude from the top and bottom of the slit and longitude with time and develop a map of methane.
Chris - So the planet effectively, because it's rotating, surveys itself which is very convenient. What did this tell you? What did you see?
Mike - The big surprise was not just that we had detected methane but actually we see three regions of active release which are fairly closely grouped, to within 500,000km of one another. One region is over the district called Nili Fossae. This is a canyon system which is known to be a site where phytosilicates - clay minerals that form in liquid water - and also carbonates are found by Mars Express and also by an instrument on the Mars observer craft. What's interesting is that this is also a region of intense release of methane. Of course methane could be associated with water early in Mars' history or even now below the surface.
Chris - Is the release that you're seeing constant? Are you continuously seeing methane pumping out or does it come in spurts?
Mike - In fact it does not come out continuously. We find that between midsummer in the north when we see the maximum release and the next equinox season the methane is largely destroyed by a factor of 2 on Mars by a process we think is related to airborne dust. This methane is being released now in midsummer in the north. That's what we reported this week. Indeed, we think this is a very important window into an active Mars which we had not had before.
Chris - So the obvious question is now you've got two choices. It's either life or it's not life, it's something geological. You've gotta answer that question, how are you going to do it?
Mike - Well, we've started the test of these two hypotheses. One is to look for geological gases which would accompany either a geochemical production or biological production. So we've started a deep search for those gases in 2006. Unfortunately that's the season of equinox when we don't see the methane ever. They weren't so meaningful then so we'll be beginning again this fall, August 2009, at the very large telescope.
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"They're melting your brain". "They're ruining your eyes". "They're turning you into a violent person".
The criticisms levelled against video gaming are so common, so ubiquitous, that some can border on clichés. But are these worries founded in actual science?
A new study suggests some concerns may be.
The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Montreal, revealed that playing "shooter" games can damage the hippocampus area of the brain, causing it to lose cells.


Pure Forged are Scotland's leading custom fit premium golf equipment specialists.
Owned by husband and wife team Jamie and Lynne McCormack, Pure Forged excel in innovation, technology and quality products, all of which are provided with our ethos of excellent service and customer satisfaction.
James McCormack is our product specialist who is a certified club fitter and professional master clubmaker having trained at Golfsmith Europe. Lynne McCormack is also a product specialist as well as being our sourcing and logistics manager. Lynne has over 20 years experience in buying and logistics, specialising in luxury golf components for the last 10 years.
Based in the UK, PURE FORGED are specialists in Premium Golf Equipment. We deal in component form which means we can offer a vast range of custom build options from a wide range of high end products. At our Custom fit centre and workshop in Irvine, Scotland, we offer a full service of custom fit, Tour quality assembly and customisation service. We are worldwide distributors of Chikara Designs products as well as being an authorised dealer for premium brands including PXG, Miura, Epon, Honma, OnOff, Alpha, YU-GA and Vega. Pure Forged supply the best shafts in golf, including Shimada, KBS, Accra, UST Mamiya, Graphite Design, Nippon, Oban, Matrix Ozik, True Temper and many more.
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To me, the strategy Never Settle for Success means that your ultimate goal has no number attached to it. Your ultimate goal and your short, medium and long term goals all become essentially the same—to simply see how well you can perform if you perform as well as you possibly can; to utilize every ounce of talent you can muster in every applicable situation, each day, each week, each month. And after each significant interaction, you evaluate yourself to fine-tune your course.
So you don't slack off when you're surpassing goals, so you don't give up when you're falling far behind.
Never Settling for Success is about being unwilling to settle for less.
Great leadership is about showing your people that there is more in them than they know—so they'll be unwilling to settle for less.
Great leadership is also about helping your people to overcome the fear of failure, the fear of giving their best and proving to themselves, to you their boss, and to those around them that they do not have the potential they all want to believe they have.
Of course, you can't help your people overcome their fear of failure unless you first overcome your own. If you're afraid of failure your people will be afraid.
Pollyanna positive thinkers will tell you that you can do whatever you think you can, that you have no limits. And that can work, until you run head first into one of those limits and crash and burn.
You have limits. I have limits. We are human beings, we are limited, we are fallible. That's reality. Never mind the pat little bromides that try to convince us otherwise.
Here's my pat little bromide. You can do far more than you think you can. You have limits but they're expanding limits, and running up against those limits can be the best practice for expanding them in the future. In all likelihood you've never pushed those limits anywhere near as far as they can be pushed. Most of the time, we're stopped by the limits we impose on ourselves long before we'd ever be stopped by the limits imposed by reality.
I don't know what your potential is. If you don't know either, maybe it's time you should try to find out. With the possible exception of daytime TV, potential is the most useless thing on the planet—if it remains only potential.
By any standard, one of the most successful people this country ever produced was Ben Franklin. Every night before sleeping—and not just on those rare nights when he was sleeping alone (because he was very successful at that, too)—Franklin would review his entire day. He'd evaluate everything he'd done and try to puzzle out how he could have done it better.
The truly successful, in any field, never settle for success.


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December 5, 2018 | The Daily Iowan
A new way to travel has rolled into Iowa City, giving customers an opportunity to be productive on their commutes to work and other business destinations.
Quad Cities company Landjet offers transportation in the form of offices on wheels. Riders can practice a business pitch on the TV projector screen in the company's "rolling boardroom" or print important documents in the smaller "rolling office."
Quad City entrepreneurs Mark Ross and Jim Thomson and their business partners want to offer an alternative to travel methods unsuitable for doing work, such as cramped flights with long waiting periods and commuting alone, Ross said.
"Using Landjet's service, you wouldn't have that unproductive downtime," said Steve Thornburg, one of the founding members of the company.
Landjet has expanded to Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines.
Ross said Landjet launched in October in the Quad Cities, sometime after he and Thomson discussed turning Thomson's personal method of transportation into a business. Thomson said he had purchased a Dodge Caravan and had a carpenter friend convert it into an office so he could continue to work on his commute to his workplace in Madison, Wisconsin.
"I hired a couple drivers, and they took me all over. It worked great," Thomson said. "I got hours of my life back because of it."
After a period of research, the two entrepreneurs discovered a similar service called Landjet in Indiana, which sold customized mobile offices but did not offer rental rides. After running the initial idea for the company through the University of Iowa Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the beginning of 2018, the two purchased Landjet in the spring.
Landjet offers two unique transportation vehicles. The first is the Rolling Board Room, set up with a full-size desk, a TV projector screen, and charging stations. At $200 an hour, Ross said, the vehicle seats four to six people and is equipped with enhanced WiFi. Inside, riders can complete work while relaxing in comfortable seats in blue and purple mood lighting.
"It's a perfect environment to be productive in a meeting setting," Ross said.
The smaller Rolling Office serves one to three riders for $125 an hour. In it, users who prefer to work alone or in a smaller setting can use the vehicle's desk, printer, shredder, and TV monitor, Thornburg said.
"Anything you can do in your office, you can do in a Landjet," he said.
As of Sunday, the company had hired a new president, Nick Thul, who plans on helping the company grow from the Quad Cities and secure itself as a franchise in the future.
Thomson said the service has been well-accepted so far in the Quad Cities and elsewhere. From there, the company hopes to expand further. Thomson said he and his partners think, without question, that Landjet could eventually become a national service.
"It's been a lot of fun; we're really looking forward to the next phase in 2019," Thornburg said.
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Warning: What you're about to see is deeply disturbing, that is, if you consider crimes against your favorite foods disturbing, which I think we all do. The image in question appeared on Reddit, and seems to be of Justin Bieber eating a burrito. And when I say "eating" a burrito I am being incredibly generous.
Because while most people eat their burritos, you know, from the top-down LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, this human being who is potentially Justin opted to turn his burrito sideways and go at it like an ear of corn. Honestly, that poor burrito didn't know what was coming, and clearly did nothing to deserve such treatment.


Is your business on track to achieve success? Key Performance Indicators For Dummies covers the essential KPIs that are useful to all kinds of businesses, and includes more than 100 different ways leaders can monitor and drive performance in their organisations.
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Supercomputers Assist Doctors to Search Better Cancer Drugs
Surgery and radiation remove, kill, or damage cancer cells in a certain area. But chemotherapy – which uses medicines or drugs to treat cancer – can work throughout the whole body, killing cancer cells that have spread far from the original tumor.
Finding new drugs that can more effectively kill cancer cells or disrupt the growth of tumors is one way to improve survival rates for ailing patients.'Finding new drugs that can more effectively kill cancer cells or disrupt the growth of tumors is one way to improve survival rates for ailing patients.'
Increasingly, researchers looking to uncover and test new drugs use powerful supercomputers like those developed and deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
"Advanced computing is a cornerstone of drug design and the theoretical testing of drugs," said Matt Vaughn, TACC's Director of Life Science Computing. "The sheer number of potential combinations that can be screened in parallel before you ever go in the laboratory makes resources like those at TACC invaluable for cancer research."
Three projects powered by TACC supercomputer, which use virtual screening, molecular modeling and evolutionary analyses, respectively, to explore chemotherapeutic compounds, exemplify the type of cancer research advanced computing enables.
Shuxing Zhang, a researcher in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, leads a lab dedicated to computer-assisted rational drug design and discovery of novel targeted therapeutic agents.
The group develops new computational methods, using artificial intelligence and high-performance computing-based virtual screening strategies, that help the entire field of cancer drug discovery and development.
Identifying a new drug by intuition or trial and error is expensive and time consuming. Virtual screening, on the other hand, uses computer simulations to explore how a large number of small molecule compounds "dock", or bind, to a target to determine if they may be candidates for future drugs.
"In silico virtual screening is an invaluable tool in the early stages of drug discovery," said Joe Allen, a research associate at TACC. "It paints a clear picture not only of what types of molecules may bind to a receptor, but also what types of molecules would not bind, saving a lot of time in the lab."
One specific biological target that Zhang's group investigates is called TNIK (TRAF2- and NCK-interacting kinase). TNIK is an enzyme that plays a key role in cell signaling related to colon cancer. Silencing TNIK, it is believed, may suppress the proliferation of colorectal cancer cells.
Writing in Scientific Reports in September 2016, Zhang and his collaborators reported the results of a study that investigated known compounds with desirable properties that might act as TNIK inhibitors.
Using the Lonestar supercomputer at TACC, they screened 1,448 Food and Drug Administration-approved small molecule drugs to determine which had the molecular features needed to bind and inhibit TNIK.
They discovered that one — mebendazole, an approved drug that fights parasites — could effectively bind to the target. After testing it experimentally, they further found that the drug could also selectively inhibit TNIK's enzymatic activity.
As an FDA-approved drug that can be used at higher dosages without severe side effects, mebendazole may is a strong candidate for further exploration and may even exhibit a 'synergic anti-tumor effect' when used with other anti-cancer drugs.
"Such advantages render the possibility of quickly translating the discovery into a clinical setting for cancer treatment in the near future," Zhang and his collaborators wrote.
In separate research published in Cell in 2013, Zhang's group used Lonestar to virtually screen an even greater number of novel inhibitors of Skp2, a critical oncogene that controls the cell cycle and is frequently observed as being overexpressed in human cancer.
"Molecular docking is a computationally-expensive process and the screening of 3 million drug-like compounds needs more than 2,000 days on a single CPU [computer processing unit]," Zhang said. "By running the process on a high-performance computing cluster, we were able to screen millions of compounds within days instead of years."
Their computational approaches identified a specific Skp2 inhibitor that can selectively impair Skp2 activity and functions, thereby exhibiting potent anti-tumor activity.
"Our work at TACC has resulted in multiple potential drug candidates currently at the different stages of preclinical and clinical studies," said Zhang. "We hope to continue using the resources to identify more effective and less toxic therapeutics."
Described as "the guardian of the genome", tumor protein 53 (p53) plays a crucial role in multicellular organisms, conserving the stability of DNA by preventing mutations and thereby acting as a tumor suppressor.
However, in approximately 50 percent of all human cancers, p53 is mutated and rendered inactive. Therefore, reactivation of mutant p53 using small molecules has been a long-sought-after anticancer therapeutic strategy.
Rommie Amaro, professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego has been studying this important molecule for years trying to understand how it works.
In September 2016, writing in the journal Oncogene, she reported results from the largest atomic-level simulation of the tumor suppression protein to date — comprising more than 1.5 million atoms.
The simulations helped to identify new "pockets" — binding sites on the surface of the protein — where it may be possible to insert a small molecule that could reactivate p53. They revealed a level of complexity that is very difficult, if not impossible, to experimentally test.
"We could see how when the full-length p53 was bound to a DNA sequence that was a recognition sequence, the tetramer clamps down and grips onto the DNA – which was unexpected," Amaro said.
In contrast, with the negative control DNA, p53 stays more open. "It actually relaxes and loosens its grip on the DNA," she said. "It suggested a mechanism by which this molecule could actually change its dynamics depending on the exact sequence of DNA."
According to Amaro, computing provides a better understanding of cancer mechanisms and ways to develop possible novel therapeutic avenues.
"When most people think about cancer research they probably don't think about computers, but biophysical models are getting to the point where they have a great impact on the science," she said.
EVOLUTIONARY COMPARISONS
Chemicals created by plants are the basis for the majority of the medicines used today. One such plant, the periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), is used in chemotherapy protocols for leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A completely different approach to drug discovery involves studying the evolution of plants that are known to be effective chemotherapeutic agents and their genetic relatives, since plants that share an evolutionary history often share related collections of chemical compounds.
University of Texas researchers — working with researchers from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, the University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal — have been studying Rhazya stricta, an environmentally stressed, poisonous evergreen shrub found in Saudi Arabia that is a member of the family that includes the periwinkle.
To understand the genome and evolutionary history of Rhayza stricta, the researchers performed genome assemblies and analyses on TACC's Lonestar, Stampede and Wrangler systems. According Robert Jansen, professor of Integrative Biology at UT and lead researcher on the project, the computational resources at TACC were essential for constructing and studying the plant's genome.
The results were published in Scientific Reports in September 2016.
"These analyses allowed the identification of genes involved in the monoterpene indole alkaloid pathway, and in some cases expansions of gene families were detected," he said.
The monoterpene indole alkaloid pathway produces compounds that have known therapeutic properties against cancer.
From the annotated Rhazya genome, the researchers developed a metabolic pathway database, RhaCyc, that can serve as a community resource and help identify new chemotherapeutic molecules.
Jansen and his team hope that by better characterizing the genome and evolutionary history using advanced computational methods, and making the metabolic pathway database available as a community resource, they can speed the development of new medicines in the future.
"There are a nearly infinite number of possible drug compounds," Vaughn said. "But knowing the principles of what a good drug might look like – how it might bind to a certain pocket or what it might need to resemble – helps narrow the scope immensely, accelerating discoveries, while reducing costs."
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The term impregnation temperature designates the temperature at which vaporisation takes topographic point.
For H2O at 99. 6 C the impregnation force per unit area is 0. 1 M Pa. and for H2O at 0. 1 Mpa. the impregnation temperature is 99. 6 C.
If a substance exists as liquid at the impregnation temperature and force per unit area it is called concentrated liquid.
If the temperature is of the liquid is lower than impregnation temperature at the bing force per unit area it is called sub-cooled liquid or compressed liquid.
1. When a substance exists as portion liquid and portion vapour at the impregnation temperature. its quality is defined as the ratio of the mass of vapour to the entire mass. 2. If a substance exists as vapour at the impregnation temperature. it is called a concentrated vapour. 3. When the vapour is at a temperature greater than the impregnation temperature. it is said to be as superheated vapour. 4. At the critical point. the concentrated liquid and saturated vapour province are indistinguishable. 5. At supercritical force per unit areas. the substance is merely termed fluid instead than liquid or vapour. 6. If the initial force per unit area at –200C is 0. 260 kPa. heat transportation consequences in addition of temperature to –100C. Ice passes straight from the solid stage to vapor stage. 7. At the ternary point ( 0. 6113 kPa ) and a temperature of –200C. allow heat reassign increase the temperature until it reaches 0. 010C. At this point. farther heat transportation may do some ice to go vapour and some to go liquid. The three stages may be present at the same time in equilibrium.
Tables of thermodynamic belongingss of many substances are available. and in general. all these have same signifier.
Steam tabular arraies are selected because steam is used extensively in power workss and industrial procedures. The steam tabular arraies provide the information of utile thermodynamic belongingss like T. P. v. u. H and s for concentrated liquid. saturated vapour and superheated vapour.
Since the belongingss like internal energy. heat content and information of a system can non be straight measured ; they are related to alter in the energy of the system. Hence one can find ?u. ?h. ?s. but non the absolute values of these belongingss. Therefore it is necessary to take a mention province to which these belongingss are randomly assigned some numerical values.
For H2O. the ternary point ( T = 0. 01o C and P = 0. 6113 kPa ) is selected as the mention province. where the internal energy and information of saturated liquid are assigned a zero value. In the concentrated steam tabular arraies. the belongingss of concentrated liquid that is in equilibrium with concentrated vapours are presented.
During phase passage. the force per unit area and temperature are non independent of each other. If the temperature is specified. the force per unit area at which both stages coexist in equilibrium is equal to the impregnation force per unit area.
Therefore. it is possible to take either temperature or force per unit area as the independent variable. to stipulate the province of two-phase system.
Depending on whether the temperature or force per unit area is used as the independent variable. the tabular arraies are called temperature or force per unit area tabular arraies.
The two phases- liquid and vapour can coexist in a province of equilibrium merely up to the critical point.
Therefore the listing of the thermodynamic belongingss of steam in the concentrated steam tabular arraies ends at the critical point ( 374. 15o C and 212. 2 saloon ) .
If the steam exists in merely one stage ( superheated steam ) . it is necessary to stipulate two independent variables. force per unit area and temperature. for the complete specification of the province. In the superheated steam tabular arraies. the properties- v. u. h. and s- are tabulated from the impregnation temperature to some temperature for a given force per unit area.
V = ( 1-X ) vf + Xvg. u = ( 1-X ) uf + Xug. H = ( 1-X ) hafnium + Xhg = hafnium + Xhfg. s = ( 1-X ) sf + Xhg where hfg = mercury – hafnium = latent chapeau of vaporisation.
The venue of all the saturated provinces gives the concentrated liquid curve AC and the venue of all the saturated vapour provinces gives the concentrated vapour provinces gives the concentrated vapour provinces gives the concentrated vapour curve BC.
The point C represents the critical point. The difference between vg and vf reduces as the force per unit area is increased. and at the critical point vg = vf.
At the critical point. the two phases-liquid and vapor- are identical.
The pressure-volume ( P-V ) diagram for a pure substance is shown in Figure. The curves AC and BC represent the concentrated liquid curve and saturated vapours curve. severally. and C is critical point.
The country under the curve represents the two-phase part. Any point M in this part is a mixture of saturated liquid ( shown as degree Fahrenheit ) and saturated vapour ( g ) .
The h-s diagram was introduced by Richard Mollier and was named after him. It consists of a household of changeless force per unit area lines. changeless temperature lines and changeless volume lines plotted on enthalpy versus information co-ordinates. In the two-phase part. the changeless force per unit area and changeless temperature lines coincide.


Lenzburg Castle is one of Switzerland's oldest and most historic hilltop castles. For a thousand years it has played a part in many important events in politics and history across Europe.
The early history of Lenzburg Castle belongs to the fog of time. Historians suggest it was originally built as a refuge fort in the Early Middle Ages. The "castellum lenciburg" is first mentioned in connection with Ulrich II, Count of Lenzburg, in a document dated 1077. When Ulrich IV died without heirs in 1173, his estate passed to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Barbarossa, and then to the Counts of Kyburg.
The last Count of Kyburg died without a male heir. His daughter Anna was married to a nephew of Rudolf IV from the family line of Habsburg-Laufenburg. In 1340, the Habsburgs built the Knight's Hall and granted Lenzburg Castle to their liegemen as residence and seat of the Habsburg administration.
In 1415, the Bernese invaded the former Habsburg territory, and from 1444 onwards Lenzburg Castle served as the residence of the Bernese bailiffs. During the turmoil of the Reformation and in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the fortifications of Lenzburg Castle were strengthened. The occupation of what is today Canton of Aargau by French troops, in 1798, ended the Castle's history as a feudal seat.
In 1803, Lenzburg Castle was taken over by the recently formed Canton of Aargau, which was at loss with what to do with the Castle. In 1823 it was leased to Christian Lippe, a German theologian and pedagogue, who ran a school for boys here until 1853. The Canton later sold the Castle in 1860.
Lenzburg Castle was purchased by the Pestalozzi-Scotchburn family, who in 1872 sold it to Friedrich Willhelm Wedekind, a German physician and father of two famous artists: Frank Wedekind, a writer, and Erika Wedekind, an opera singer. In 1893, Lenzburg Castle was acquired by Augustus Edward Jessup, an American who renovated the Castle as a modern residence befitting the family's social stature: his wife, Lady Mildred Marion Bowes Lyon, was related to the English royal family. In 1911, an American industrialist, by the name of James W. Ellsworth, acquired the Castle and later bequeathed it to his son, Lincoln Ellsworth, a polar explorer, in 1925.
In 1956, the City of Lenzburg and Canton of Aargau acquired the Castle, establishing the Lenzburg Castle Foundation. Since then, the Castle and its grounds, including the Knight's Hall, courtyard and garden, have been open to the public.


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Q: Edge module import or export unexpected I used Microsoft Edge Extension Tookit to port a Chrome extension into Microsoft Edge.
When i load the extension in Edge, the console send me an error :

SCRIPT1086: SCRIPT1086: Module import or export statement unexpected
  here

It point to the first statement of the source code (background.js) who looks like :
import ClientManager from './services/ClientManager'

and ClientManager is a class in a services subdirectory :
class ClientManager {
    [...]
}

export default ClientManager;

so i don't know what is wrong with that, i'm using the last version of Edge (not insider)
Microsoft Edge 41.16299.15.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 16.16299
EDIT: problem solved. Apparently the Edge extension converter tool didn't save the manifest file updated, i just copy and paste manifest from the tool and now it works.


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Whether for lunch or diner, Grand Harbour Chinese Restaurant has become Auckland's premier source for fine Chinese dining with a host of delicious traditional recipes, specializing in duck as well as a wide range of seafood, including lobster, fish and crab dishes.
Hong Kong trained chefs bring a wealth of knowledge to the kitchen. While old favourites are popular, these chefs are always trying to improve their techniques, most notably with the Chef's'Specials. Changing every 3 months, these signature dishes offer a new innovative take on traditional Chinese food. With live seafood, including blue cod, crayfish, paua and baby abalone, Grand Harbour offers a seasonal selection of delicious dishes that other places simply do not have.
The staff at Grand Harbour are quick, friendly and attentive. Service is the number one priority here, and one of the many things the restaurant prides itself on – including being voted Metro Magazine's 2004, 2005 and 2006 Chinese Restaurant of the Year.


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-RESHOOT: OVSH double Charlotte looking through clothes; she moves clothes, uncovers binder, moves binder out of way and picture of young Sawyer falls out.
-TV for burn in of Little House on the Praire.
The call sheet is for February 10th.
-we're going to see a nail scratching day marks into wood, there's going to be 6 scratch marks, so I'm assuming it's 6 days.
-Alpert rides to Doctor's house.
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