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Four new plasma etchers are now available for use to labmembers willing to beta test them. There are three PlasmaTherm Versaline ICP etchers: Metal, Deep Oxide, and DRIE; and an Oxford III-V system.
The second part of the SNF rate restructuring went into effect on 12/1/12. These rates will be in effect until the end of the fiscal year, on 8/31/13.
Roger T. Howe Roger T. Howe is the Stanford Site Director of NSF's National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and also serves as Director for the NNIN. He is the William E. Ayer Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, as well as the Faculty Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility.
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh resigns in protest against passage of bill for creating new Telangana state.
Kiran Kumar Reddy, the chief minister of India's southern Andhra Pradesh state, has resigned a day after the country's lower house of parliament voted in favour of bifurcating the state to create a new Telangana state.
Reddy handed over his resignation letter to the state governor on Wednesday morning.
The creation of Telangana, India's 29th state, has been a deeply divisive issue. Reddy led a large faction within his ruling Congress party to oppose the move.
The Indian parliament had also witnessed uproarious scenes in recent days over the issue, with irate MPs coming to blows and one particular legislator using a pepper spray on those who disagreed with him.
The bill to create Telangana, however, was passed on Tuesday with a voice vote. Telecast of the proceedings on the state-owned Lok Sabha TV was discontinued during the debate, though authorities blamed it on a technical glitch.
"It is shameful that this bill was presented like robbers, hiding from people, putting off TV, throwing out those who were objecting. The BJP also conspired to harm Telugu people, striking a secret deal with the Congress," Reddy said.
The rebellion by Reddy - who belongs to the Congress which heads the federal government in Delhi - is significant. On Tuesday, Indian federal minister P Chidambaram said Reddy had forfeited the moral right to continue as the state chief minister.
Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament, is to debate the Telangana bill on Wednesday.
While people living in the regions of what would be known as Telangana have welcomed the bifurcation, residents of non-Telangana regions of undivided Andhra Pradesh are opposed to the move. Opponents of the move have called for a day-long strike on Wednesday to protest against the passage of the Telangana bill in the lower house.
Something has been blatantly missing from much of the public debate as to whether Formula One should get rid of grid girls: womens’ opinions.
We’ve heard from a number of male drivers and team heads, who all seem to trot out the same tired arguments about how it’s a tradition, they don’t see the harm and they enjoy it. Autoweek had more of them today, and once again, no one seemed to ring up Claire Williams.
Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne joined the fray this week by supporting the idea of grid girls, and now his Italian colleague and Ferrari F1 team principal Maurzio Arrivabene agrees.
Ross Brawn is F1's managing director of motorsports whose comments that they may drop the use of grid girls set off this whole debate. Of course, it’s entirely F1's business to make sure the sport is welcoming to the wider audience, which is where this debate fits in.
Arrivabene’s statement is an odd one considering that he has more important things to concern himself with than this as well, like building a reliable car and not losing to Mercedes (again).
I just cannot imagine that. In America, cheerleaders appear before, during and after every game, so I see no reason why this should not be done in Formula 1.
I think we have other worries.
Oh boy. I hate the comparison to cheerleaders that inevitably comes up in this debate. While cheerleading has its own set of issues about image, treatment and low pay at the pro level, it’s also a sport in its own right—and one usually open to both genders. Comparing women who mostly stand in one place to a set of precision-choreographed dancers and tumblers is about as apples to oranges as it gets. Worse yet, it implies that cheerleaders exist only for objectification, which isn’t the point of cheer, either.
Yeah, no. Moving on from the weird tradition of using women only as decor doesn’t preclude anyone from working on a team, having a grid pass as a fan, driving or doing any number of activities on the grid. Hell, F1 might even pick up more female fans and participants if they drop the boy’s club veneer.
These disappointingly simplistic takes from men who are smarter than this speaks to the bigger problem: F1 is a bit of an echo chamber. Of course men who are surrounded primarily by other men see no issue here.
The practice of using pretty ladies as decor fundamentally doesn’t affect how anyone treats these men at the track, as it establishes that racing is a straight manly-man activity by default. That’s them! As a result, no one really questions their credentials or motivations for being there merely because of their gender.
But it’s frustrating to hear none of them considering why it’s mostly men in F1's upper echelons. Women in motorsport all too often get treated differently because of the perception that this is not for them, which is reinforced by having girls stand around as decor. Even though there’s less pressure for women to fit into certain occupations and interests now, the remnants of the old boys’ club in racing are alive and well.
Some research even suggests that a woman’s atmosphere can effect how women are treated. One study cited by Psychology Today noted that even modestly dressed women can be seen as less competent and intelligent by men who view sexualized imagery of women right before. In other words, those galleries of “paddock beauties” really don’t help.
This isn’t to say that mens’ opinions on the matter are worthless—rather, it’s obvious that they don’t have as much at stake in issues like this as their female counterparts. So, why aren’t we taking womens’ thoughts on the matter more seriously and giving them more airtime?
"Shazam!" is mediocre as a superhero movie but note-perfect as a superhero-tinged remake of "Big," which it imitates down to the giant toy piano rug.
Its premise instantly connects with the fantasies of any child who lives vicariously through the superheroes on screen.
It's easy for kids of any age to identify with Zachary Levi's performance as a wide-eyed teenager suddenly granted a grown-up body, a goofy costume and a seemingly endless array of superpowers.
Director David F. Sandberg ("Annabelle: Creation") leans heavily on established comic book flick cliches, but manages to twist those into takes as fresh as the perspective of his wild-eyed hero.
Asher Angel plays a rascally teen foster kid whose stand against bullies impresses a wizard (Djimon Hounsou), a wizard who lives in a cave and grants him invulnerability, strength and the ability to shoot electricity out of his fingertips. All he needs to do to transform back and forth is shout the word "shazam."
Levi, best known for the TV series "Chuck," convincingly plays a boy coming to terms with his new superhero identity. The problem is that Levi's performance, as relatable as it is, doesn't track with that of Angel, who seems far more somber and mature than Levi.
The film minimizes the disconnect by ignoring it, focusing on Captain Marvel -- which he was known in the comic books before Marvel won the name in a trademark dispute -- and his mishaps as he tries to get a grip on his powers.
Watching him face-plant into buildings when he tries to fly, walk out of a convenience store he saves from robbery with an armful of junk food and shake down photo-snapping down passers-by for tips is a heedless joy.
The villain -- evil megalomaniac Thaddeus Savana (Mark Strong) and a monstrous squadron of Seven Deadly Sins -- is nearly an afterthought, since Shazam's powers are so formidable.
"Shazam" captures the imaginative joy of curling up with a comic book as a 12-year-old and envisioning the boundless superhero dreams that burst to cinematic life.
The fun, breezy film captures the imaginative joy of curling up with a comic book as a 12-year-old and envisioning the boundless superhero dreams that burst to cinematic life.
The BCCLA will be hosting the third annual Liberty Awards Gala dinner on Thursday, June 19th, 2014.
We're hosting our second annual fundraiser on May 23 to allow us to continue our coverage of the overlapping issues of colonialism, racism, gentrification and policing in our city.
Media keep asking who is to blame for the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and what it means for Canadian jobs. But this discourse is misleading and obscuring the real problem, and solution.
No One Is Illegal aims to provide basic legal information to people without immigration status so that they can protect themselves from the risks of immigration arrest and detention.
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) must be replaced, while temporary workers already in Canada should be eligible for open work permits so they can keep their current jobs or seek employment.
A history lesson on Nigeria, now in the spotlight because of the abducted school girls. The country is an artificial creation of colonialism, and had a bloody civil war and decades of military rule.
The firing of Dean Fairbairn for "insubordination" is the clearest evidence yet that something has gone terribly awry with how public universities are being conceived of and run in Canada in 2014.
Co-hosted with Formac Publishing Company, we will be launching 'Academic Freedom in Conflict, The Struggle Over Free Speech Rights in the University' with editor James L. Turk.
Melania Trump joined her husband at the White House Friday morning for tea with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama just hours before she herself was set to become the first lady.
There, she presented Michelle Obama with a Tiffany & Co. blue gift box tied in white satin ribbon.
What was in the box remained unclear as the Inauguration Day events continued Friday. Tiffany said it could not comment.
Watch President-elect Donald Trump speak to the crowd at the Make America Great Again concert on Jan. 19, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
Trump and Obama emerged from the White House together and stepped inside the presidential limousine for the short trip to the Capitol where they joined ex-presidents and dignataries.
Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality television star who upended American politics and energized voters angry with Washington, was sworn in Friday as the 45th president of the United States, putting Republicans in control of the White House for the first time in eight years.
How to Get Rid of Boils. Boils are painful red lumps on your skin caused by bacteria. Boils can occur on the face, neck, breasts and even the genital area. They usually start as reddened areas, then rise into red bumps like pimples, then gather pus, then burst and heal. In extreme cases they may need to be lanced by a doctor. Here is how to get rid of boils.
Soak the boil in warm water or apply warm compresses. This will help bring the boil to a head and drain the pus. Repeat for five minutes a few times a day.
Clean the boil with an anti-bacterial soap. You can also apply an anti-bacterial cream over the affected area to avoid further infection.
Take Vitamin A and Vitamin E supplements after consultation with your doctor.
Keep areas such as your scalp, groin and armpits clean to avoid staph bacteria, which can cause boils.
Meet with your doctor if a boil gets severe. You may need minor surgery to get rid of the boil.
Recurring boils may be a symptom of diabetes.
DUBLIN, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "United States 5G Fixed Wireless Access Case Study Verizon Wireless and the City of Los Angeles, CA" report from EJL Wireless Research has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report provides an analysis of the outdoor 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) network for Verizon Wireless and the City of Los Angeles, CA.
The report analyzes two of the fifteen districts within the City of Los Angeles, CA and how Verizon Wireless deployed its 5G VTF network. The Verizon Wireless 5G Home Service was launched on October 1, 2018. We were able to survey a limited number of the 5G sites concentrated within the Downtown and surrounding areas and see the issues and complications involved in the deployment of a 5G network using mmWave small cell sites.
With the conclusion of the FCC's Auction 101 (28GHz) on January 24, 2019 and start of Auction 102 (24GHz) on March 14, 2019, deployment of 5G networks for both FWA and mobility services will be a key focus for mobile operators in the U.S. in 2019. While recent legislation from the FCC for streamlining aspects of siting and collocation for small cells is now under review from the U.S. Congress' Committee on Energy and Commerce, legal challenges regarding small cell laws continue to gain momentum from municipalities. We believe that small cell siting regulations and laws remain unclear as we enter Auction 102 and may remain cloudy through the remainder of 2019.
Deployment of 5G services using microwave and millimeter wave frequency bands is critical to both AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless' success for 5G. The study of the Los Angeles network correlates with our previous findings for the Sacramento network and continue to highlight serious issues for the deployment of 5G mmWave small cells. While mmWave repeaters may expand the 5G signal coverage zone of the small cell sites such as the central business districts (CBD) of major cities, they will not be able to provide 100% signal coverage, says Lum.
A gene known to be a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease puts out the welcome mat for the virus that causes cold sores, allowing the virus to be more active in the brain compared to other forms of the gene. The new findings, published online in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, add some scientific heft to the idea, long suspected by some scientists, that herpes somehow plays a role in bringing about Alzheimer’s disease.
The work links a form of the ApoE gene known as ApoE-4, which after advanced age is the leading known risk factor for getting Alzheimer’s disease, with the form of herpes – herpes simplex 1 or HSV – that infects more than 80 percent of Americans and causes cold sores around the mouth. The findings from a group at the University of Rochester Medical Center show that the particular form of the gene that puts people at risk also creates a fertile environment for herpes in the brain, allowing the virus to be more active than other forms of the ApoE gene permit.
Scientists have known for more than 15 years that the ApoE-4 gene is a player in Alzheimer’s disease, but the idea that it works in concert with the herpes virus is new.
“This work raises the question whether herpes in concert with ApoE-4 increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The data suggests that ApoE-4 may support the ability of HSV to be a more virulent pathogen,” said Howard Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., the leader of the team and professor of Neurology, Medicine, and Microbiology & Immunology. He worked closely with post-doctoral research associate Renee Miller, Ph.D., on the project.
The findings, which are based on measurements of the activity levels of the herpes virus in the brains of mice with different forms of the human ApoE gene, bring together several lines of research that have pointed toward a possible role for herpes in Alzheimer’s disease.
Ruth Itzhaki of the University of Manchester has led the way with several studies showing a correlation between herpes and Alzheimer’s. She has shown that Alzheimer’s patients who have the ApoE-4 form of the gene have more herpes DNA in the brain regions that are affected by Alzheimer’s, compared to Alzheimer’s patients who also have herpes but who have a different form of the ApoE gene. And she has shown that people with the ApoE-4 version of the gene who are infected with herpes are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease than people infected with herpes who have a different form of the ApoE gene, or than people who have the ApoE-4 gene but who don’t have herpes.
Other scientists have found that a herpes infection is active more often – causing the tell-tale cold sores around the mouth – in the 25 percent of people who have a copy of the ApoE-4 gene. In other words, people who are frequently troubled by cold sores are more likely to have the gene that makes them more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease.
Cold sores that come and go are the outward sign of the two different phases of the virus’s life cycle. Herpes simplex is a chronic infection that lives in a person for a lifetime, periodically flaring up in a “lytic” phase where it causes cell damage, then retreating and seeking safe harbor within the body’s nerves in a “latent” phase. The virus spends most of its time in the latent phase, sequestered in cells, not active and not replicating. But occasionally, when triggered by factors like stress, fatigue, certain foods, or even sunlight, the virus becomes active, traveling from its hiding places in the nervous system to cells around the mouth, damaging cells and causing cold sores.
It was this cycle of activity and latency that Miller and Federoff focused on while looking at the brain cells of mice with different forms of the ApoE gene. They looked at four groups of mice: Some had ApoE-3, which is what the majority of people carry; some had ApoE-4, which in people makes them more likely to get Alzheimer’s; some had ApoE-2, which makes people less likely to get the disease; and some had no ApoE gene at all.
The team found that the virus infiltrates brain cells about the same no matter which gene is involved. But they found that the subsequent activity level of the virus generally mirrored the disease-causing potential of the gene. They found that in animals with the ApoE-4 gene, the virus is less likely to be in the quiet, latent stage of its life cycle, suggesting it has more of an opportunity to replicate. In animals with the ApoE-2 gene, the virus was less active.
The work suggests that ApoE-4 may alter the balance between the HSV life cycle forms. It’s possible that the ApoE gene works as a sort of bodyguard that tries to keep cells safe from herpes, perhaps by facilitating latency. Somehow the ApoE-2 version is extremely effective at keeping the virus at bay, while in this study, the ApoE-4 version wasn’t any more effective than not having an ApoE gene at all.
The ApoE gene is well known to Alzheimer’s researchers. The gene, which normally plays a role in ferrying cholesterol around the body, is associated with both the cellular tangles and amyloid plaques that are found in the brains of patients with the disease. Researchers have found several ways in which the gene might make a person vulnerable to getting a disease like Alzheimer’s. In people with the ApoE-4 gene, brain cells don’t seem to recover as well from injury, and the cells don’t form new connections as well as cells equipped with either ApoE-2 or ApoE-3. Other scientists have shown that the gene plays a role in clearing toxic amyloid beta from the brain.
The team is exploring different ways that herpes might affect the development of Alzheimer’s disease. In one study the team looking at the role of Nectin-1, a cell adhesion molecule that herpes uses as one route to infect a cell. Nectin-1 plays a crucial role in forming synapses, the structures between brain cells that move information and signals from one cell to the next. The team is studying whether herpes somehow disturbs the receptor, possibly altering the structure and function of the synapse. Damage to synapses is one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Another possibility is that the body’s immune response against herpes somehow damages the brain, and that such damage is worse in people with the ApoE-4 copy of the gene. Earlier this year Federoff’s team published a study that showed inflammation is the earliest change that could be detected in a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, before any of the hallmark plaques or tangles and certainly long before any behavioral changes are seen. Such inflammation often is a byproduct when the immune system fights an infection.
Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund, where 62,200,000 units were destroyed, or a 6.0% decrease week over week. Among the largest underlying components of XLF, in morning trading today Berkshire Hathaway is off about 0.2%, and JP Morgan Chase is up by about 0.1%.
And on a percentage change basis, the ETF with the biggest outflow was the Columbia Beyond BRICs ETF, which lost 1,100,000 of its units, representing a 37.9% decline in outstanding units compared to the week prior.
American Water unveils its new headquarters on the Camden waterfront.
American Water Works Co. executives joined government officials Tuesday to mark the official opening of the utility’s new Camden headquarters, the first project to reach completion on a 26-acre waterfront development site seen as key to the struggling city’s revitalization.
The publicly traded utility chose the site because of its Delaware River views, the opportunity it offered to participate in formerly industrial Camden’s hoped-for turnaround, and the branding synergy of a “1 Water St.” address, chief executive Susan Story said in an interview after the ribbon-cutting.
American Water previously had corporate offices spread among multiple South Jersey locations. It also had considered headquarters options in Camden’s Gateway District office park — formerly a Campbell Soup Co. plant — and at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.
It was awarded $164.2 million from the state’s Grow New Jersey Assistance Program to support the five-story, 220,000-square-foot Camden waterfront project.
Other projects in the works in the waterfront development, which remains largely controlled by the Wayne-based developer Liberty Property Trust, include an 18-story headquarters building for South Jersey firms Conner Strong & Buckelew, the Michaels Organization, and NFI, and a 156-apartment housing complex being developed by Michaels.
After the planned construction of a 180-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel by the Phoenix-based Ensemble Investments LLC on a waterfront parcel just north of the American Water building, three development tracts will remain available at the site, Liberty chief executive William P. Hankowsky said after the ribbon-cutting.
Liberty, which announced in October that it was phasing out its office-construction business to focus on warehouse projects for shipping-and-logistics tenants, will seek buyers for the remaining sites, rather than developing them for future occupants itself as had been part of its plan when it entered a deal for the property in 2015, Hankowsky said.
The company’s last remaining office-development project after its completion of the American Water building is a research-and-development facility for the Shanghai-based pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec at the Navy Yard’s central business park, where Liberty completed its first of 12 buildings in 2015.
A slopeside location-based social networking service came to five ski resorts this season, allowing skiers and boarders to track their Vail Resorts vertical feet, earn virtual ski pins and connect with friends. Called EpicMix, Vail Resorts rolled the system out to mountains in California and Colorado, covering 17,000 acres or about 70 square kilometers of terrain.
The most important part of the system is the RFID lift ticket, which stores customers' ski passes and data. Vail Resorts CIO Robert Urwiler explained that when the resorts began using the passes in 2007 they chose the UHF version so it could be read from several meters. Not only did that mean increased convenience for skiers in having their passes read and verified, but it opened the door for programs like EpicMix.
See EpicMix in action on the slopes of Vail Mountain.
Before skiers sit down on a chair lift or gondola they pass through a metal structure called a gantry, off which four RFID readers hang, explained Mike Slone, Vail Resorts interactive director, speaking slopeside.
"Gantries are these metal structures of sorts that people don't typically notice, but as they ride a lift they go through these gantries and we scan them so we know where they're at on the mountain," Slone said. The gantries, some in very remote areas of the mountain, are connected through a Wi-Fi mesh network.
"From there the gantries then connect to a database and a Web app that allows us to calculate vertical feet and then we award digital ski pins for exploration on the mountain," said Slone, clad in a bright yellow jacket and sporting wide powder skis.
The digital ski pins are of course a reference to physical pins that skiers collect from different mountains. With après ski tales filled with bragging about double black diamond trails and knee deep powder, skiers and boarders can pull up their latest conquests on an iOS or Android device app or through the Web. EpicMix is similar to location-based social networking application FourSquare, but one way it differs is that manual check-ins are not required.
"It doesn't require that you have a mobile phone or that you get your mobile phone out or have a GPS device," he said. "You go about your day as you've always done; you ski, you have fun and then if you chose to you can log into your Epic Mix account."
The data is updated within minutes of passing through a gantry.
EpicMix is available at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly. It will come to Northstar-at-Tahoe next season. Urwiler said that while Vail Resorts considered licensing the technology to other mountains, it eventually decided against it, keeping it as a competitive advantage.
Slone said that in the first few months that the service was available some avid skiers earned several hundred thousand to a few million vertical feet. To put that in perspective, the typical vertical rise on a mountain in the western U.S. is 3,000 to 4,000 feet.