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I'm holding in my hands a charming and lavishly illustrated book that takes me back to a long-ago childhood brightened by the joyful work of two wonderful illustrators of children's books. Berta and Elmer Hader: A Lifetime of Art is the definitive and long overdue biography of a pair of artists who enjoyed a fifty-year career (the 1920s through the 1970s) and helped to shape children's literature.
Berta Hoerner and Elmer Hader met in San Francisco in the yeasty years before the Great War. Both were already deeply immersed in their art, Elmer as an impressionist landscape artist, Berta as a freelance fashion illustrator. Berta shared a Telegraph Hill studio with Rose Wilder Lane, then moved to New York, where she and Lane shared a flat in Greenwich Village until Elmer returned from military service and they were married. The two moved to Grand-View-on-Hudson, where they began building the Little Stone House on top of Willow Hill, the house that would become both a work of art and the studio where they would work together for the rest of their lives.
Willow Hill was also a place where they could invite their many friends for weekends of music, readings, skits, and Berta's marvelous soups. (It was, for instance, the place where Berta introduced her friend Rose Wilder Lane to Marion Fiery, the Knopf editor who acquired Little House in the Big Woods, the collaborative project of Lane and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. I've often thought that if it hadn't been for Berta and Elmer and their Little Stone House, we might not have Wilder's Little House books today.) The Haders told the story of their house in their imaginative 1944 Macmillan book, The Little Stone House: A Story of Building a House in the Country.
In the early years of their collaboration, Berta and Elmer created children's sections for a number of magazines, including Good Housekeeping, McCall's, The Christian Science Monitor, Pictorial Review, Asia, and Century. Turning to books and producing both text and illustrations, they worked with editors of the newly-developed children's departments of Macmillan, Dutton, Doubleday, Harper, Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner, and others. In 1936, their Macmillan book, Billy Butter, impressed another Macmillan author, John Steinbeck, who requested that Elmer create the cover for The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Elmer later created covers for Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). In mid-career, the Haders were awarded the American Library Association's prestigious Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow, recognized as the most distinguished children's picture book of 1948. They produced their last book, Two is Company, Three's a Crowd in 1964. Elmer died at The Little Stone House on his 84th birthday. Berta continued to live there until shortly before her death in 1976.
A Lifetime of Art is a magical book that tells the full story of the Haders' long and astonishingly productive career with the same playfulness that so endeared their art to so many delighted children and adults. The authors (Joy Hoerner Rich, the Haders' niece and founder of the Hader Connection; Karen Tolley, director of Hader Connection; and book illustrators John and Judy Waller) have created a superb portfolio of artwork scanned from the original documents and have arranged the illustrative material in a way that helpfully illuminates the graceful and informative text. The resource sections include a glossary of art terms that is not incidentally a useful documentation of the Haders' artistic methods and materials; references and credits; a list of archives housing the Haders' extensive works; and a full chronological list of the Haders' books (by itself an indispensable aid).
A Lifetime of Art will be recognized by art historians and students of children's literature as a definitive book that not only tells the story of a unique pair of influential and talented artists but documents the development of children's book art in the formative decades of the twentieth century. Those of us who have been touched by the Haders' magic owe a great debt of thanks to its authors.
The four authors of this book have been intimately related to the Haders' work: Joy Hoerner Rich, the Haders' niece and founder of the Hader Connection; Karen Tolley, director of Hader Connection; and book illustrators John and Judy Waller. The book was published by the indie press Joyful Productions, established by Joy Hoerner Rich. Visit the publisher's website.
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Above is a pic of Lt. Colonel James Galbraith, Regimental Colour in hand, alongside Bobbie the regimental dog and some of the other "Last Eleven" survivors of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment, making their last stand in one of the walled gardens just South of Khig village, a few miles West of the Afghan town of Maiwand.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The Accidental HIll-Fort
I've called this project "The Accidental Hill-Fort" because until literally just before I started building it, I had no intention to, so it virtually came into being by accident!
This past October I put up a post about some figure conversions I'd done that came back with fantastic paint jobs from my favorite painter -- who sadly does almost no painting anymore. Included in their ranks was a pair of British drummer-boys, who I'd converted to represent JAKIN and LEW in a game based on the battle that serves as the finale for the Rudyard Kipling short-story: "THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT." (to visit that post CLICK THIS LINK)
To prepare for laying out the table-top battlefield, I re-read the story, and rediscovered the presence therein of, "a wasp's nest of a small mud fort," which serves to delay the pair of screw-guns that are the only artillery the British have, and which go on to play a vital role in the latter stages of the battle to come.
I own a pair of very nice Afghan/North-West Frontier type forts, but both are far too big to serve this purpose in one corner of the table. I also have a very old school Airfix Foreign Legion Fort, complete with tower -- which is now removable, so it can be used on its own, without the previously attached walls. I also have a large collection of Medieval castle parts, including a bunch of towers... and last but far from least, I have a square "Chitral Tower" purposefully built for Afghan/Frontier games. So one would imagine I could have found an absolutely perfect piece of model terrain to fill the role of that, "wasp's nest of a small mud fort," and yet... after auditioning each and every candidate for the role, none of them really worked. I planned to use the rocky hills I'd built for the battle of Charasiab to build the valley from the battle, complete with its trio of gorges, through which the Highlanders, Gurkhas, and "Fore and Aft" entered the battlefield, but the footprint of the "Chitral" tower was a little too big to fit atop any of them. One of my Medieval towers also almost fit, but its base was just a bit too big, plus it would have needed an "arid" paintjob to look the part and appear like more of an Afghan tribal stronghold than a European baron's or fantasy "wizard's" tower.
This left me with the Airfix FFL tower.
It could have worked... but it would've needed a new paintjob (covering over the yellow sand paint job I gave it some 35 or more years ago!), and I would have had to come up with a solution for the lack of access to the interior -- perhaps just not having access and keeping track on paper of how many defenders were shooting out of how many windows -- and, most important of all... I would have had to accept representing the "mud fort" as a plain and simple tower.
Needless to say, I did not do that.
Instead, I decided to build a mud hill-fort from scratch that would fit snuggly onto one of my rocky hills, but remain COMPLETELY REMOVABLE, so the hill below could still function as a plain hill whenever I wanted it to.
Let's pause in my overwrought and overwritten "Plain Tale From the Hills" to take in some visual reference gathered around the web on Afghan/NWF forts and towers...
I've built a lot of miniature terrain, and done a pretty good job, but it's almost always NATURAL features: ground cover, hills, rocky areas, rivers, swamp, woods, etc. Not man-made buildings.
I've done a decent job on the odd man-made item, like the Kabul gateway I built to fit in with my previously purchased desert fortress wall set, and the c.1840 British Cantonments I built for the same Kabul layout, but both of those were pretty simple. Much more simple than any of the forts and towers shown above.
Still, as a devoted 19th Century Afghan Wars and NWF gamer, it seemed only right that I should have a hill fort that actually fit atop one of my hills. So I decided to give it a shot.
I started out by choosing what I thought would be the best hill from the seven I built.
Then I got some LEGO from where I'd recently packed it away with various other stuff my teenage children never use, and used it to try and work out the best approach to incorporating the theoretical fort into the existing hillside. For better or worse I didn't take any photos of this "LEGO" prototype phase of construction, but when I thought I'd figured out a general idea of how to proceed, I moved onto the CARDBOARD PHASE, and from there on, I took WAY TOO MANY pictures, as you will soon see.
You'll also see from the pics that the design changed a bit during the building process, with regard to how the lower building and upper tower go together, and a few other details. I think the various changes were for the better. When I was mostly done I added some additional BUTTRESSES. I think more architectural details is a good thing, until you cross a line and the model becomes too busy. The joins provide more layers and shadow and raised edges to highlight with paint, all of which should add to the final look of the model.
My biggest resource through the building process was the pair of great colonial gaming buddies I made at the first ever Colonial Barracks convention in New Orleans, back in November 2011, Jeff "Sgt. Guiness" Baumal (click to visit his excellent blog HERE), and "Last Stand Dan" Gurule (click to visit his blog HERE). Both of them fielded endless questions from me and gave me tons of great advice all along the way. However good, bad or indifferent the Tower looks, without their help it would have looked a lot worse, so thanks again guys!
At a certain point I debated over whether or not to add CRENELLATIONS to the wall around the large lower roof deck. On the plus side I felt it would look very good, but on the minus side I worried it would look too elaborate and over-decorated for a tribal "mud fort," whose purpose would have been almost entirely utilitarian, and which would've been built in a very challenging environment. I did some more research and searched around for more visual reference and was lucky enough to discover the perfect inspiration: a photo of a fortress wall in Khiva, Uzbekistan -- complete with crenellations which were not at all ornamental. I've included that reference pic below, in the spot where it helped me with the build.
When you reach the end you will see the model has yet to be painted. Once that's been done I'll post the second part of this "Towering" chronicle. Until then I hope you enjoy the pics below without overdosing!
With that being said, I will let the pictures tell the story from here on, except for some notes on materials...
1. The Tower walls & floors are made of FOAMCORE, reinforced with bass wood.
(This too was ACCIDENTAL -- when I started building on a whim, I happened to have a box of black foamcore in a corner of my garage. I had never built anything with it before, and if I did it again I WOULD NOT USE BLACK, simply because it's so difficult to visibly mark it with a pencil or pen!)
***DO NOT ALLOW ANY SUPER GLUE to touch the foam sandwiched between the paper shell, as super glue will INSTANTLY DEVOUR the foam!***
2. The doors are balsa wood, scribed with a sharp pencil; the crenellations on the lower roof-deck and the wall around the tower rooftop are blue builder's styrofoam; the "putty" is Elmer's Wood Filler.
3. At different points in the process I used HOT GLUE, SUPER GLUE, WHITE GLUE, and "Aleene's Fast Grab TACKY GLUE" -- a fast-drying white glue.
4. I used PINS to hold the walls together before they were glued; I used DOLLHOUSE HINGES for the 3 working doors.
5. I used offcuts of POLYSTYRENE thin plastic hobby sheets to reinforce the crenellations.
6. I used my trusty GARDEN WOOD BARK CHIPS to more seamlessly blend some building edges into the rocky hillside.
7. Finally I used store-bought CHOOCH ENTERPRISES flexible small random stone wall - with peel-&-stick self-adhesive backing - for the areas of revealed underlying brickwork.

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“On September 9 2022 @Fendi will host a special fashion show in New York City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the #FendiBaguette, designed by @silviaventurinifendi, and two years since @mrkimjones joined the Maison as Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear. #Fendi,”Evangelista wrote in her caption, noting she was “so grateful”To all those who participated in the campaign.
Evangelista became a big news story in September 2021, when she shared her Instagram account revealing why she had stepped away from modeling in recent times. “To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured,”She wrote the following: She said that the procedure was allegedly “increased, not decreased”Her fat cells caused her to be “permanently deformed even after two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries.”The model stated that she was also a “model”. “been left, as the media has described, ‘unrecognizable.'”
Evangelista, who had undergone seven CoolSculpting sessions between August 2015 and February 2016, filed a lawsuit for $50,000,000 against CoolSculpting’s parent, Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. She said that she was unable to work after seven sessions of CoolSculpting from August 2015 to February 2016. PEOPLEAfter she noticed a sudden weight gain, her doctor diagnosed Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia (PAH).
“I was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ And he told me no amount of dieting, and no amount of exercise was ever going to fix it,”The outlet was told by Evangelista. PAH, a rare side effect of CoolSculpting, is reported to affect less than 1% patients. It causes the fatty tissues in the body to thicken and shrink, making them unsuitable for other cosmetic procedures. “I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know,”Through tears, she shared her story with the magazine. “I can’t live like this anymore, in hiding and shame. I just couldn’t live in this pain any longer. I’m willing to finally speak.”

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I'm currently planning a year-long around the world trip and am looking for some advice. My mom passed away a few years ago, while I was in college, and among the things she left me were about 160,000 American Airlines miles, and instructions to use them wisely. I've decided that now is the time and over the past few weeks I have been doing research into volunteer opportunities abroad in the places I would most like to visit. My plan is to take as close to a year as possible to do the trip (although I know that because of the way award tickets work, realistically this will be less).
My tentative itinerary looks like this:
Los Angeles - Lima
Lima - Santiago
Santiago - Punta Arenas (to explore Patagonia)
Punta Arena - Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires - Iguasu Falls - Rio De Janeiro
Rio - London
London - Nairobi (to try and do Kilimanjaro and a Safari, if it's not too expensive)
Nairobi - Amman
Amman - Mumbai (I'd spend about a month in India and Nepal)
Mumbai - Tokyo
Tokyo - Beijing
Beijing - Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Bangkok (2 months in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia)
Bangkok - Sydney
Sydney - Los Angeles
Has anybody been to any of these places and have suggestions for stuff to do, or should I avoid any of these spots? Also, my goal is to volunteer a lot, as well as find some WWOOF farms to work on... anybody have experience with that? I know there's a lot of volunteer organizations preying on naive tourists... definitely want to avoid that whole scene, obviously.
I apologize in advance if these are stupid questions, feel free to jump on me if they are. But thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!
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|Publication number||US6791339 B2|
|Application number||US 10/137,188|
|Publication date||Sep 14, 2004|
|Filing date||May 1, 2002|
|Priority date||May 3, 2001|
|Also published as||CN1252463C, CN1531656A, EP1386134A2, EP1386134A4, US20030016032, WO2002090922A2, WO2002090922A3|
|Publication number||10137188, 137188, US 6791339 B2, US 6791339B2, US-B2-6791339, US6791339 B2, US6791339B2|
|Inventors||Jerome C. Licini, Nikolai Eberhardt|
|Original Assignee||Lehighton Electronics, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (10), Classifications (13), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/288,266, filed May 3, 2001, which application is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The invention described in this patent application relates to nondestructive measurement and mapping of materials, particularly using microwaves in the measurement of carrier concentration and mobility and sheet resistance in semiconductor wafers and flat panel displays.
Existing instruments that employ microwaves in the measurement of sheet resistance in GaAs wafers employ an X-band waveguide configuration with a characteristic impedance of 300 ohms which does not permit accurate measurement of wafers with thin cap layers. Such instruments are discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,605,893, to Norman Braslau. One disadvantage of these instruments is an inability to separately measure the properties of multiple conducting layers in wafers that contain such layers, e.g. a high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) wafer, which contains a two-dimensional (2D) channel layer and a cap layer. Therefore, one must measure the sheet resistance and mobility at temperatures lower than 300 degrees Kelvin, such as at 77 degrees Kelvin, in such existing systems in order to increase the channel-layer mobility relative to the conductance of the cap layer. These instruments also require involved calibration procedures.
Destructive techniques for measurement of sheet resistance and mobility are also known. However, such techniques necessarily damage the wafers or other material being measured.
A device for nondestructive measurement of mobility and carrier concentration in sheet materials includes a microwave source, a circular waveguide configured to transmit microwaves received from the microwave source to a conductive sheet material, such as a semiconductor wafer or flat panel display, a first detector for receiving the forward microwave power, a second detector for detecting the microwave power reflected from the material, and a third detector for detecting the Hall effect power. A circular waveguide, carrying only the TE11 mode, is terminated by the wafer behind which, at a distance of ¼ wavelength, a short is located. Perpendicular to the plane of the wafer (and along the axis of the waveguide), a variable magnetic field is applied. In this configuration, a given incident TE11 wave will cause two reflected waves. One is the ordinary reflected wave in the same polarization as the incident one. This is used to measure sheet resistance. The other reflected wave is caused by the Hall effect. Its polarization is perpendicular to the former wave and this can be separately detected with a properly configured probe.
A device for measurement of mobility and carrier concentration in conductive sheet materials includes a microwave source; a circular waveguide positioned to receive microwave radiation from the microwave source; a mount adapted to position a sheet material item at a measurement location to receive microwave radiation transmitted from the circular waveguide; a magnet positioned to induce a magnetic field at the measurement location; a first detector positioned to detect the power of the microwave radiation source; a second detector positioned to detect the power of the microwave radiation reflected from a sheet material item in the measurement location; and a third detector positioned to detect a Hall effect microwave power. A fourth detector may be provided to detect magnetic field strength at the measurement location.
A method for measurement of mobility and carrier concentration in conductive sheet materials includes generating microwave radiation; transmitting only the TE11 mode of the generated microwave radiation successively to a conductive short and to a sheet material sample; during the step of transmission, applying a magnetic field of selected intensity; detecting microwave field strength at a forward position; detecting microwave field strength reflected from each of the conductive short and the sample; detecting Hall effect microwave field strength; and, based on the detected microwave field strengths, calculating values for mobility and carrier concentration.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a view of a portion of an apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 4 is a cross-section of the apparatus of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a view of an apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart of software used according to the invention.
The present invention includes an apparatus and method for measurement of sheet resistance and carrier concentration in conductive materials. The device includes a microwave source, that has an output coupled to a waveguide configuration in which a small amount of the incident wave is diverted, and the greater portion of the incident wave is transmitted along a main branch. The main branch is coupled to a circular waveguide. The circular waveguide transmits only the TE11 (transverse electric 1, 1) mode of the microwave radiation. The circular waveguide receives radiation at a interface, and outputs radiation to a test region having a mount for supporting either a conductive test item, such as a short, or a wafer or other conductive sheet item to be tested. A magnetic is provided to apply a magnetic field at the test region. At least four values are detected in the calculation of sheet resistance and carrier concentration in a method and apparatus of the invention. A detector is provided to detect the total microwave power output. A second detector is provided to detect the strength of a conventional reflected wave in the same polarization as the incident wave. A third detector is provided to detect a second reflected wave having a polarization opposite to that of the incident wave. There is preferably provided a Hall effect probe to detect this reflected wave, which probe is electrically coupled to a directional coupler. The diverted portion of the incident wave, after passing through an attenuator and a phase shifter, is also coupled to this Hall directional coupler for calibration purposes. The Hall directional coupler is then coupled to a detector. A fourth detector detects the magnetic field strength.
FIGS. 1 and 2 depict schematically the components of an apparatus 10 in accordance with the invention. Apparatus 10 includes microwave source module 15 which may provide microwaves having a frequency of about 10 GHz, although other frequencies may be employed. For example, higher frequencies may be employed to enable a smaller measurement area on the wafer or other item being tested. Source module 15 may include a Gunn diode, for example, and other sources may be employed. Source module 15 includes the microwave source 16, such as a Gunn diode, which is coupled through a waveguide to isolator 17. Isolator 17 may be of conventional or other suitable design to prevent radiation from elsewhere in apparatus 10 from entering source 15. Source module 15 further includes a power detector 18, for detecting the intensity of the microwave field. Detector 18 is also referred to as the forward power detector.
The output of source module 15 may be coupled to means for diverting a small portion of the forward power to a side branch. The means for diverting a small portion of the forward power to a side branch may be coupler 21. Coupler 21 may be, for example, a cross guide coupler, and may be more specifically by way of example a 20 dB cross guide coupler. The diversion of a portion of the forward power is used in properly calibrating the Hall effect probe to zero in the absence of an applied magnetic field. The side branch 22 has a single computer controlled variable attenuator 35 and computer controlled variable phase shifter 40 in order to produce a very small signal of the proper phase that can be used to make an ultra-fine correlation in zeroing the Hall effect probe in the absence of a magnetic field. As the variable attenuator and variable phase shifter are preferably-computer controlled, adjustments are facilitated. It will be understood that, in principle, the variable attenuator and phase shifter could be manually adjustable.
The main output of coupler 21 will be referred to as main branch 24. Main branch 24 preferably has a waveguide for transmission of microwave radiation to transition 25. Main branch 24 may include conventional rectangular waveguide 20. As shown in FIG. 2, reflected power detector 23 is shown in main branch 24. Reflected power detector 23 detects microwave power being transmitted from transition 25 toward coupler 21. Reflected power detector 23 detects power reflected from test items back into main branch 24.
As noted above, a circular waveguide is provided positioned to receive microwave radiation from source 15. Specifically, circular waveguide 50 is coupled through coupler 21 and main branch 24 to source 15. Conventional rectangular waveguide 20 is coupled via a matched transition 25 into circular waveguide 50. Circular waveguide 50 is a cylindrical waveguide with a circular cross-section. Circular waveguide 50 transmits only the TE11 mode of the radiation. Circular waveguide interface 25 is coupled to circular waveguide 50, shown, for example, in FIG. 2. The coupling of the circular waveguide 50 to conventional waveguide 20 must be calibrated carefully to minimize reflection and loss of signal strength. The calibration procedure is set forth below. Circular waveguide 50 is mounted on interface 25 perpendicular to the long axis of conventional waveguide 20. The calibration may be effected by adjustment of the position of circular waveguide 25 along its long axis relative to interface 25. In one embodiment, circular waveguide 50 is mounted in a threaded track on interface 25. A circular waveguide adjustment 55 is provided in the form of a handle that rotates circular waveguide 50, so that the vertical position of circular waveguide 50 may be adjusted.
A mount 60 is provided to hold a sample of sheet material at a measurement location where microwave radiation transmitted from the circular waveguide 50 is received. The sample may be a wafer or other conductive test material 59. Mount 60 may be in the form of a vacuum chuck. Short tuning adjustment 65 is provided to move mount 60 precisely. Mount 60 is adapted to hold a wafer or other material in sheet form at an end of circular waveguide 50 opposite to interface 25. A moving short 58 is provided on the opposite side of the wafer or other material from the opening of circular waveguide 50. The short 58 will be placed ¼ wavelength from the wafer or other material. Short 58 is in the form of a conductive sheet, such as a copper-covered circuit board.
As noted above, a detector 18 is positioned in source module 15 to detect the forward power before division into main branch 24 and side branch 22. A detector 23 is positioned in main branch 24 so as to detect reflected microwave power. The reflected radiation detected by detector 23 has the same polarization as the forward microwave radiation. Hall probe 70 is inserted in circular waveguide 50 positioned to detect Hall effect microwave radiation reflected from material positioned in the vacuum chuck. The Hall effect radiation has polarization perpendicular to the polarization of the incident wave. As discussed below, the calibration process provides that only the Hall effect radiation is detected by Hall detector 95.
Hall probe 70 is coupled through coaxial line 75 to an input of directional coupler 80. Directional coupler 80 may be a 20 dB directional coupler. The output of branch 22, after passing through the attenuator module and variable phase shifter, is connected to an input of directional coupler 80. The output of directional coupler 80 is coupled to Hall detector 95. The calibration process, as described below, provides that the Hall detector 95 detects only radiation having a polarization perpendicular to that of the forward radiation. This radiation detected by Hall detector 95 is thus Hall effect radiation reflected from a sample.
Details of an exemplary embodiment of the transition, circular waveguide, and mount will now be described. FIG. 3 is an isometric view, with partial cutaway, of interface 25. FIG. 4 is a sectional view along line 4—4 of FIG. 3. Interface 25 has a primary rectangular chamber 100 coupled at one end thereof to conventional waveguide 20. On an upper side of rectangular chamber 100 an aperture is provided to which circular waveguide 50 is attached. Interior to interface 25, opposite to conventional waveguide 20, there is provided a beam stop 115 completely filling an opening, and having a tapered face, preferably at an angle of 30 degrees to vertical, at 120. It will be appreciated that interface 25 may be modified by those of skill in the art by alternative designs to minimize reflection and loss at the interface between circular waveguide 50 and conventional waveguide 20. In FIGS. 3-4, it may be seen that circular waveguide 50 includes a probe flange 107 at an upper end thereof which has therein an opening for a probe at 110. A Hall probe may be inserted at 110.
FIG. 5 is a side view depicting an exemplary arrangement including circular waveguide 50, holder or mount 60, and related exemplary hardware. Holder or mount 60 serves to position a sheet material item to receive microwave radiation from circular waveguide 50. Conventional waveguide 20 is shown coupled to interface 25. Interface 25 is shown coupled to circular waveguide 50. Probe flange 107, located at an end of circular waveguide 50 opposite the coupling to interface 25, is opposite holder 60, in the form of a vacuum chuck. Vacuum chuck 60 is supported by an arm, which is chuck holder 62. Chuck holder 62 is supported by adjustable screws 121, 122, thereby permitting adjustment of the position of vacuum chuck 60 in two axes. Screws 121, 122 are supported on bridge 124, which is itself adjustably mounted as shown at 125, 126. Spring 123 may be provided on screw 122 to reduce the transfer of any vibrations in bridge 124. It will be understood that other configurations may be employed for the positioning of holder 60 relative to circular waveguide 50. FIG. 5 also shows generally the position of magnet 130 which provides the necessary magnetic field. The magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane of the wafer or other sample and along the long axis of circular waveguide 50. The design of one or more suitable magnets to provide the desired magnetic field strength is within the level of ordinary skill in the art. As noted below, in one example, the magnetic field strength at the wafer or other item positioned in the holder is desirably up to 9 kG.
The calibration and operation of the apparatus will now be discussed. This entire process may be carried out at room temperature. Room temperature is understood to include a range of temperatures at which humans may comfortably work. Room temperature excludes low temperatures, such as the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen at atmospheric pressure. Voltmeters are preferably connected to the Hall detector cable, an input or forward power location, and a reflected power location. A gauss meter is provided to measure the intensity of the magnetic field. Commercial meters with RS232 or IEEE 488 bus communications are preferably used. A short 58, such as a copper coated PC board, is placed on the vacuum chuck and positioned. The computer controlled attenuation adjustment 35 is increased to a maximum. The position of the circular waveguide 50 is adjusted to obtain minimum voltage at Hall detector 95. While monitoring the Hall detector voltmeter, the computer controlled attenuation adjustment 35 is then adjusted, preferably automatically using the computer software, to bring detected voltage to a minimum. The computer controlled phase adjustment 40 is then adjusted, preferably automatically using the computer software, to obtain a minimum on the Hall detected voltage. The attenuation adjustment and phase adjustment are automatically adjusted using the computer software, to obtain a minimum here. The Hall detector voltage, forward detector voltage, and reflected detector voltage are recorded. The short is removed and replaced with the sample to be checked. The short tuning adjustment 65 of the vacuum chuck position is adjusted to obtain a minimum reflected power. The circular waveguide adjustment 55, attenuation adjustment 35 and phase adjustment 40 are all adjusted for a minimum on the Hall detector. The three voltages are then recorded for 0 magnetic field, and then at successive incrementally greater magnetic field strengths. The field strength ranges from 0-9 kG as a minimum. Preferably, the magnetic field is automatically varied using computer software that controls the magnet power supply to obtain the desired magnetic field. In principle, with further developments, significantly lower magnetic field strengths could be used in accordance with the method. The number of magnetic field values and the spacing between magnetic field values can be optimized to maximize analysis accuracy.
The data are then interpreted to obtain mobility and sheet resistance readings. Referring to FIG. 6, an overview of the software is provided. The software may be written for a personal computer using an Intel Pentium or compatible chip as a processor, and the DOS or Windows operating systems. The hardware system described above is indicated generally by block 600. The first module, 605, is a signal acquisition and control module. This module receives signals from the detectors in the apparatus described above and controls the variable phase shifter and attenuator module as well as the magnet. The received signals are: Hall Power detection; Forward Power detection of Cu Short and Wafer; Reflected Power detection of Cu Short and Wafer; and Magnetic Field Strength detection. Those signals are passed through analog to digital converters and module 605 obtains values from the digital output. Once these signals are acquired the corresponding voltage input values are passed on to the Signal Correlation Module 610 for further processing.
Signal correlation module 610 receives inputs from the signal acquisition module 605 as raw input voltages. These voltages are input into algorithms to obtain values in correct engineering units. This step is a straightforward correlation.
The output of the signal correlation module 610 is received by the transformation module 615. The transformation module converts the output to Sigma Output file structure 625 which is then read by the Mobility Spectral Analysis Module 630. The Sigma Output file is composed of 14 lines of general test information, typically including the sample name, date, and similar information, followed by a line containing the sample thickness, followed by a line for each magnetic field at which Hall data was collected. Each of these data lines contain tab-separated entries for the magnetic field, Sigma_XX, SD_XX, Sigma_XY, and SD_XY, where SD_XX and SD_XY are the standard deviations for the Sigma_XX and Sigma_XY values, respectively. All entries are in MKSA units, i.e. thickness in meters, magnetic field in Tesla, and conductivities in Siemens/meter. This file is used as input for the Mobility Spectral Analysis Module in order to obtain the final mobility values and charge carrier densities. This module is composed of two separate program executables, which perform a variety of mathematical calculations in order to analyze magnetic field-dependent Hall data. These modules read input data from the Sigma Output file and generate a mobility spectrum output file 635 which includes a mobility spectrum whose peaks indicate the presence of discrete carrier types and a Multi-Carrier-Fit file 640 which includes the most likely mobility and charge carrier density values for those carrier types.
The only way to find solutions that are more precise or quantitative than the mobility spectrum peaks is to restrict the range of possible solutions by making assumptions about the carriers in the specimen. For example, the Multi-Carrier fitting technique makes the explicit assumption that there are a fixed number of carriers—each with a discrete mobility.
The calculations carried out by the software involve the following principles. When the microwave short at the back of the cavity behind the wafer is adjusted to the proper distance, the relationship between an amplitude reflection coefficient Γ, the sheet resistance of the wafer R, and the impedance Z of the circular waveguide for the TE11 mode is:
For a circular waveguide of radius 1.045 cm, the impedance has been found to be 697.5 Ohm/square, which enables accurate measurement of a thin cap.
The microwave electric field at the wafer must be determined. The electric field amplitude in various axes, Ex, for example, are represented as Ex=(1+Γ)(Pincident/A)1/2, and Ey=(PHall/A)1/2. In the x direction, the amplitude is the sum of the incident and reflected wave amplitudes or the amplitude of the transmitted (standing) wave. For the y direction, the only propagating microwave signal is the Hall wave, which is generated at the wafer and detected in the reflected direction. The value A is a constant, which may be determined by integration across the circular cross section of the waveguide mode. The conductivity, σxx, or σxy, depending on the axis, can be represented, using these values, as σxx=(1/Z)(1−Γ2−F2)/((1+Γ)2+F2), and as σxy=(F/(2Z(1+Γ))((1+Γ)(3−Γ)−F2)/((1+Γ)2+F2), where F+E− y1/E= x1. There is also a constant coefficient used to multiply the theoretical values of F since the currents that are locally perpendicular to the excited TE11 mode do not couple exactly to the orthogonal TE11 mode. The constant can be obtained by integration and has a value between 0 and 1. The previous analysis assumes that additional TE11 modes that are generated near the wafer are negligible. In some cases that is not valid. For those cases, a multi-mode analysis has been developed and can be used to determine Sigma_XX and Sigma_XY from the reflected microwave powers.
In order to obtain the mobility, the results of the calculations above are employed together with the detected magnetic field intensity B. For one carrier species in a single conductive layer, the carrier mobility is given by μ=(σxy/B)/σxx.
The multi-carrier fitting procedure works as follows: First, the program determines the best fit for a single carrier using the Simplex method to minimize the least-squares deviation between the fitted and measured Hall data (σxx and σxy). The uncertainty in each of the measured data is used to weight the terms in the least-squares sum and thereby obtain the most-likely solution. The uncertainties in the derived mobility and carrier density are estimated from the components of the Hessian matrix at the minimum (at the solution).
Next, the program determines the best fit using two carriers. The starting values for the Simplex procedure are obtained by displacing the previously-determined single carrier to slightly higher and lower mobilities. The Simplex procedure is identical to the procedure for a single carrier, except that there are now two mobilities to vary. The uncertainties in the derived parameters are again determined as in the description for a single carrier. The program also uses the statistical F-test to estimate the significance of the second carrier, i.e., it estimates whether addition of the second carrier improved the fit by enough to conclude that a second carrier probably exists. This is a very useful feature since it permits the user to estimate the number of statistically significant carriers that are present in the sample. The procedure continues, adding one carrier at a time and estimating the significance of the added carriers, until the number of carriers exceeds half the number of magnetic fields, at which point the procedure is terminated.
A summary of test results comparing the foregoing techniques to known destructive techniques, namely the contacted single magnetic field DC Hall technique, are set forth below:
PHEMT TEST RESULT SUMMARY
Sheet Charge X E12
THIN CAP PHEMT SAMPLES
THICK CAP PHEMT SAMPLE
A-CONTACTED SINGLE MAGNETIC FIELD DC HALL
B-NONCONTACT MULTIPLE MAGNETIC FIELD RF
Analysis software may be provided for use in non destructive, noncontact measurements of full semiconductor wafers or flat panel display materials for use by operators with minimal training. Experienced researchers are provided with the capability to perform in depth studies by varying readily accessible test parameters. Such test parameters include the magnetic field strength, the attenuation and phase of the microwave signal along the branch. The software also may provide graphic display including plots of the mobility spectra with conductivity and concentration as a function of mobility.
Plots of carrier concentration and mobility as a function of magnetic field may be displayed using a single carrier solution to the data of each field. The single carrier solution is used as a general check of the analysis; a sample with a single carrier should exhibit the same carrier concentration and mobility irrespective of the magnetic field. Conversely, a sample with more than one detectable carrier should exhibit variations as a function of the magnetic field.
All results may be displayed as sheet concentration numbers in the text window of the software. A calculation of the volumetric concentration of electrical carriers can be launched by checking the window of the result-screen of the software. If this operation is selected, the one-carrier solution is extracted by the multi-carrier technique and displayed in a separate window together with the entry fields for layer thickness and carrier type. This information is then used to calculate the depletion widths from the top surface and epi-substrate interfaces, so that the true thickness of the conductive layer can be obtained.
It will be appreciated that variations in mobility and carrier concentration across a layer may be obtained by conducting a test on a sample, then moving the sample in the mount in the plane perpendicular to the central axis of circular waveguide 50, and then repeating the test. This process may be repeated in order to obtain a map of mobility and carrier concentration.
While the invention has been described above with respect to particular embodiments, modifications and substitutions within the spirit and scope of the invention will be apparent to those of skill in the art.
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A Delhi court on Saturday granted anticipatory bail to Lok Janshakti Party MP Prince Raj in a rape case.
Special judge Vikas Dhull granted the relief to the politician on a bond of Rs one lakh and one surety of like amount, saying there was “unusual delay” in lodging the FIR against Raj by the complainant.
"In the event of arrest of the applicant, investigating officer (IO)/ station house officer of Connaught Place police station is directed to release the accused on his furnishing a personal bond of Rs one lakh with one surety in the like amount,” the judge said.
The judge also directed Raj to join the investigation as and when required by the IO and not “threaten, pressurize or contact the prosecutrix in any manner whatsoever i.e. through phone, WhatsApp, email, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, etc.”
Raj, the nephew of the late Ram Vilas Paswan and cousin of Chirag Paswan, is a Member of Parliament from Samastipur in Bihar.
In its 25-page order, the court accepted the argument made by senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, counsel for Raj, that the complainant and her male friend were extorting money and blackmailing his client since 2020.
READ MORE: LJP MP Prince Paswan booked for rape
The judge played an audio recording before the court in which her friend Amar was heard threatening to upload objectionable videos and pictures of the accused on Facebook and noted that the call, according to Raj, was made to his relative.
The court also noted that the transcripts of another audio recording show the alleged victim had told Amar that whatever happened between her and Raj “was as per mutual understanding and with the consent of each other.”
"In another transcript of audio recording filed on record by accused along with bail application, prosecutrix is threatening to make a video viral which she had prepared to put the reputation of accused at stake,” the court noted.
It noted from the arguments of advocate Nitesh Rana, also appearing for Raj, that there were more audio and video recordings of such nature.
"All the aforementioned facts show that it was prosecutrix, who was trying to threaten the accused to defame him by circulating his picture/video which was in her possession and she also corroborated the allegations made in the FIR lodged by accused that they had a consensual physical relationship,” the judge noted.
The court further observed that the FIR was lodged by her after 16-17 months of the alleged incident and after more than three months of another FIR lodged by Raj at Parliament Street.
"No explanation has been provided by the prosecutrix in her complaint...as to why she did not lodge the police complaint regarding the alleged offense of rape promptly,” the judge noted. He said that the possibility of “falsely implicating” Raj could not be ruled out.
“The custodial interrogation of the accused is not required in this case as nothing is to be recovered from him...or at his instance,” the court said. It also noted that there was no possibility of tampering with the evidence as all the evidence relating to this case had been seized by the police.
The judge also noted that the accused was having clean antecedents and the possibility of him fleeing from justice was also quite remote as he was a sitting Lok Sabha member and has got deep roots in the society.
It also said the possibility of Raj threatening the complainant was quite remote as a court earlier this month directed police to provide adequate security to her.
In the order, the judge also accepted the argument made by Rana that allegations of the complainant that she visited Raj's official residence here, where the offense allegedly took place on the date claimed by her in February 2020, “is not corroborated by the visitor's register.”
There was also no electronic evidence of her visit to Raj's residence since the CCTV recordings were preserved only for a month, the court noted.
The possibility of the victim mentioning her visit to Raj's official residence as an afterthought or after having gathered information about the room number of the applicant at Western Court, New Delhi, cannot be ruled out, the court said.
The Delhi Police filed an FIR on September 9 against Prince Raj on the directions of a court here. The woman, who claims that she was an LJP worker, has accused Raj of raping her while she was unconscious.


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Pros: Fantastic approach to a wonderful premise; incredible characters and relationships; wonderful dialogue
Cons: I imagine some people might want a higher action-to-talk ratio
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Blood Brothers is the first book in Nora Roberts’s Sign of Seven trilogy. I ended up reading the second book first (The Hollow), and had to immediately run to the store to pick up book one. While book two was wholly readable on its own, there were definitely some pieces missing (the trilogy is clearly meant to be read in order), and I just had to follow the whole story from the beginning.
The basic premise of Blood Brothers sounds intriguing and fascinating, but not altogether unusual: Three boys, Cal, Fox, and Gage, accidentally release a demon on their tenth birthday. Every seven years thereafter, for seven days around their birthday, the demon haunts their town. It infects people with madness, causing them to harm and kill each other and themselves. When the week is over, most people don’t remember much of what happened. The three do their best to protect their town, but the demon’s getting more powerful—and they’re fighting a losing battle.
It’s been 21 years since they first released the demon. Quinn Black, a writer, has asked to interview Cal for her research into the ‘phenomena’ surrounding the Hollow. Desperate for a new perspective, he agrees to her request. Before he can even talk to her, she glimpses the demon—and as far as he knows, she’s the first person outside of their group of three to do so. Soon she’s joined by another outsider, Layla, and Quinn’s friend Cybil. All three seem to share an odd connection to the town, the demon, and the men—who soon realize they have no choice but to share their knowledge in the hopes of defeating the demon.
That’s where any resemblance to other demon-haunting books I’ve seen ends. Other books would focus on the details of the demon’s attacks on the town, the ‘infection’ and madness, suicides, rapes, assaults, murders. Instead, while these come up now and then, they aren’t the focus of the book. After all, that’s been done before (I can’t help thinking of Douglas Clegg’s The Abandoned, which wasn’t even half as good). Instead, Blood Brothers is as much a mystery as it is a horror novel.
You could say that this series was written for those of us who chuckle every time we read one of those ‘lessons learned from a horror movie’ emails that goes around, or who swear when the girl in the horror movie freaks out and runs straight into the bad guy’s arms. It’s for all of us who want to know why the good guy imprisoned the bad guy centuries ago, risking release centuries later, rather than eliminating him. It’s for all of us who get frustrated with horror characters that run around getting mown down by evil rather than fighting back.
When the demon tries to drive the women away from the town they’ve been drawn to, they don’t run away. They decide it’s time to find out why things are happening they way they are and how to end them. The whole group goes into research mode, interviewing Cal’s 97-year-old great-grandmother, reading the journals of an ancestor, consulting with experts on demonology in Europe, figuring out the women’s connection to the town, and trudging out to the Pagan Stone in the forest where everything started.
This being a Nora Roberts book, characterization is beautiful, and key to the story. Every character is fascinating and unique, from Cal and Quinn (the foreground characters in Blood Brothers) to Cal’s extended web of relatives and acquaintances, and yes, even his dog. I’ve often wondered how Ms. Roberts can keep up such entertaining and fun descriptions and dialogue for book after book; it feels as though she writes them with every bit as much joy and mirth as radiates from the lines she’s written. I had to struggle not to keep quoting lines to my husband as I read:
“Is your dog in a coma?” Quinn asked when the dog didn’t move a muscle.
“No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.”
There’s also a strong element of romance to the plot, and yes, sex, although it isn’t incredibly explicit. It’s a little hard to describe if you aren’t familiar with Nora Roberts’s writing, but she has an amazing knack for employing metaphors and euphemistic description that avoids being incredibly explicit yet doesn’t fall into eye-rolling giggle-inducing ‘rod of love’ territory.
Blood Brothers is part horror/paranormal, part mystery, part romance, and all amazing. Due to the research angle I imagine there are some people who might find it too ‘talky’ if that isn’t what they’re in the mood for. However, the plot & background are so fascinating as they get teased apart, and the characters and their dialogue so interesting, that I daresay as long as you aren’t specifically in the mood for something else, you’ll get quite a charge from this engrossing story.


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Zidane watches Bale in action against Lyon as Real keep up the chase for Welshman
Real Madrid director of football Zinedine Zidane watched Gareth Bale on Thursday night as the Spanish champions maintain their pursuit of the Tottenham midfielder.
Bale is Madrid's number one transfer target for the summer and the 23-year-old is expected to follow former team-mate Luka Modric to the Bernabeu once his £55million valuation is met.
Bayern Munich and Barcelona also want Bale but his price tag is prohibitive considering their self-imposed budget constraints.
One to watch: Zinedine Zidane was in Lyon to watch Gareth Bale and Tottenham
Bale played 90 minutes at Lyon as Tottenham progressed in the Europa League thanks to Mousa Dembele's late equaliser.
Bale has struck seven goals in his last six games for club and country, with 21 goals from 38 for the season in all competitions. Madrid are wary that Cristiano Ronaldo may yet leave this summer with Paris St Germain and Manchester United monitoring developments and Bale's capture would help appease demand for a star name.
They have monitored his progress for the past three seasons. Zidane's views are highly regarded and he has helped to recruit some of Madrid's brightest stars.
Sitter: The France legend saw Bale miss from close range during the match
Star in white: Former Real player Zidane (left) is the club's director of football
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In the dynamic world of public safety, the Autel Dragonfish stands as a beacon of innovation, bringing a new era of efficiency and effectiveness to police and first responder operations. This sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is not just a tool; it's a game-changer, transforming the way we think about law enforcement and emergency services.
At the heart of the Dragonfish's prowess is its state-of-the-art design. This UAV is a blend of aerodynamic efficiency and robustness, capable of enduring the harsh conditions often encountered in emergency situations. Its sleek, fixed-wing design enables extended flight times, a critical feature for prolonged operations.
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For first responders, the Dragonfish is more than just a surveillance tool; it's a lifeline. In disaster scenarios, such as wildfires or floods, it provides critical information that helps in strategizing rescue operations. The UAV's ability to reach areas that are otherwise inaccessible to humans or ground vehicles significantly enhances the safety and effectiveness of first responders.
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The Dragonfish's ability to quickly cover large areas and provide real-time, high-quality aerial footage makes it ideal for search and rescue missions. It can reach inaccessible locations, aiding in locating missing persons or assessing the extent of natural disasters, thereby significantly reducing response times and increasing the chances of successful rescues.
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When deploying the Dragonfish, law enforcement agencies must consider privacy laws and regulations regarding surveillance. It's essential to ensure that the use of such drones complies with legal frameworks that protect individual privacy rights, and that appropriate measures are taken to minimize unwarranted intrusion into private life.
Future developments for the Dragonfish may include advancements in artificial intelligence for autonomous operations, improved battery life for longer flight times, and enhanced sensor technology for more detailed environmental analysis. These advancements will likely expand its applications and effectiveness in various public safety scenarios.


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And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
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A key to feeding the hungry of the world can be found in an award-winning documentary filmed in Southern Arizona.
“Man in the Maze,” one of five films to win the Sundance Short Film Challenge, takes the viewer from the devastating dumping of fruits and vegetables into the Rio Rico landfill to the Borderlands Food Bank in Nogales and on to Southern Arizona communities working to save the food from waste, and to grow their own.
“Man in the Maze” will make its world premiere Tuesday on the Arizona Daily Star’s website, tucson.com, where it can be seen exclusively for a week before it heads for wider distribution.
The film, made by New York City-based Greener Media, heavily features Tucsonan Gary Nabhan talking about ways to rebuild food systems.
Sounds dry, maybe, but this 8-minute film is anything but.
It begins with an aerial scene of the dumping of the produce from Mexico. Red tomatoes, yellow peppers and green cucumbers tumble over the landfill, most looking fresh and eatable. Nogales is the largest inland entry port for fresh produce in the world, Nabhan says in the film, and the third largest port of entry in the country.
“Twenty-five to 30 percent of all the produce that we eat year round comes from the border towns,” Nabhan goes on to say.
“With that is a tremendous amount of food waste, because if the Florida tomato prices drop on a certain day, 120,000 pounds might be thrown into a landfill just because of the pricing.”
The filmmakers, Phil Buccellato and Jesse Ash, follow some of the food that is spared from the landfill and distributed through the Borderlands Food Bank. They also talk to residents of the rural town of Amado who feel passionately about growing their own food for their families and their community.
The result is a documentary that is beautifully shot, focused on a complex problem, and offers compelling stories and thoughtful solutions.
Ash and Buccellato, who through Greener Media produce works that address social issues, worked closely with Food Tank, a food think tank with programs and a presence around the world.
When the filmmakers heard about the Sundance competition, underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and geared toward addressing such issues as poverty and hunger, they brainstormed with Food Tank.
They found out about Nabhan, one of the founders of Native Seeds/SEARCH, an author, food advocate and 1990 winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant. They were convinced they found the subject of their documentary.
Then they landed in Southern Arizona.
“I think this story unraveled in a way that wasn’t expected,” says Buccellato in a phone interview with the Star. “I wouldn’t have expected to do the Rio Rico landfill. You reach out to one person, and they refer another, and another.”
That referral chain resulted in a poignant interview with Christina Natalini, a mother who is teaching her young daughter to grow her own food; another with Arturo Lopez, who maintains a community garden in Amado, and another interview with the people at The Avalon Organic Gardens, a community-supported agriculture program in Tumacácori.
“This is an important story that impacts billions around the world — how do we sustainably feed a growing population,” says Ash.
The Sundance Institute’s Mike Plante says about 1,300 films had been submitted for the competition, which has five winners — each pocketing $10,000. Those initial entries were culled down to about 15, which were then sent to the Gates Foundation for the final selection.
“Quality factors in, but most important to us was what the story was,” says Plante. Ash and Buccellato “took on a very gigantic issue and overwhelming problem and boiled it down to a story,” says Plante. “They told the story with style and information.”
The filmmakers — who financed the film themselves with some help from the Food Tank — are grateful for the award. But that’s not why they made it.
“The documentary has great power to change the conversation about the issues,” says Buccellato. “If we can be a catalyst for someone to make a donation, or get involved in some level, that would be greatly satisfying.”
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:46
A Granite Falls company will receive a 1.8 million
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The grant is part of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that
President Bush signed on Tuesday. U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry announced
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|Onion||1 Small, diced|
|Chili powder||2 Teaspoon|
|Canned tomato sauce||8 Ounce (1 Can)|
|Canned chopped green chilies||4 Ounce (1 Can)|
|All purpose flour||1 Cup (16 tbs)|
|Yellow cornmeal||1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)|
|Cheddar cheese||2 Ounce, shredded|
|Shortening||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)|
|Cold water||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)|
1. In 10-inch skillet over high heat, cook ground beef and onion, stirring occasionally, until all pan juices evaporate and meat is well browned. Spoon off fat in skillet if any. Stir in chili powder; cook 1 minute. Stir in tomato sauce, green chilies, sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt; over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Kann es im Zeitalter des Pluralismus noch gelingen, eine hinreichend komplexe Theorie politischer und sozialer Gerechtigkeit mit Hilfe eines einzigen normativen Grundsatzes zu begründen? Dieses Buch unternimmt einen solchen Versuch, indem es die wesentlichen Elemente einer 'autonomen' Konstruktion der Gerechtigkeit zusammenträgt. Grundlegend ist dabei ein individuelles, moralisches Grund-Recht auf Rechtfertigung, das in den Kapiteln des ersten Teils in moralphilosophischer Perspektive expliziert wird. Im zweiten Teil werden dann die zentralen Bestandteile politischer und sozialer Gerechtigkeit - hinsichtlich der Grundbegriffe von Freiheit, Demokratie, Gleichheit und Toleranz - analysiert und verknüpft. Sie fügen sich zu einer kritischen, politischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, in der die Frage der 'Rechtfertigungsmacht' zentral ist. Dies gilt auch, wie die Beiträge im dritten Teil zeigen, für die Gerechtigkeit auf transnationaler Ebene.
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: Series Cultural Inquiry
Release Date: 2014-03-01
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of de-politicization? Two major theoreticians of tolerance debate the uses and misuses of tolerance in a dialogue that is rich in critical and conceptual reflections on power, justice, discourse, rationality, and identity.
Author: Bernhard Platzdasch
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date: 2014-08-06
Genre: Social Science
"This book fills a gap in authoritative analyses of the causes of inter-religious conflict and the practice of religious toleration. The rise of more overt expressions of Islamic piety and greater bureaucratization of Islam in both Indonesia and Malaysia over several decades have tested the "live and let live" philosophy which used to characterize religious expression in these nations. The analyses in each chapter of the book break new ground with contextualized studies of particular and recent incidents of conflict or harassment in a variety of areas – from urban centres to more remote and, even complex, locations. As these studies show, legislation stands or falls on the ability and determination of local authorities to enforce it. This volume is essential reading for understanding the dynamics of state-religious interaction in Muslim majority nations and the crucial role civil society organizations play in negotiating interfaith toleration." - Emeritus Professor Virginia Hooker FAHA, Department of Political & Social Change College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University "A most welcome contribution to the academic discourse of political Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia! For this volume focuses not on Islamic resurgence as many others have done, but on the impact of Islamic resurgence upon its non-Muslim minority counterparts - Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and also the Syiah Muslims - in the two plural societies, and the varying responses of those minorities, themselves often fragmented, to Islamic resurgence. The rich case studies highlight the changing character of politics in the two countries and their capacities to deal with religious diversity, an aspect of politics often ignored because of the usual concern for economic and political institutional capacities. The juxtaposition of Malaysian and Indonesian cases in a single volume and comparisons of contrasting developments in the two countries, challenges readers not to resort to easy conclusions and overgeneralizations about rising inter-religious tensions, but to give more scholarly attention to this politics-religion diversity nexus." - Emeritus Professor Francis Loh Kok Wah, Department of Political Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Author: Elazar Barkan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2014-11-11
Genre: Political Science
This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not—by conflict, and the policy consequences. These essays map the choreographies of shared sacred spaces within the framework of state-society relations, juxtaposing a site's political and religious features and exploring whether sharing or contestation is primarily religious or politically motivated. Although religion and politics are intertwined phenomena, the contributors to this volume understand the category of "religion" and the "political" as devices meant to distinguish between the theological and confessional aspects of religion and the political goals of groups. Their comparative approach better represents the transition in some cases of sites into places of hatred and violence, while in other instances they remain noncontroversial. The essays clearly delineate the religious and political factors that contribute to the context and causality of conflict at these sites and draw on history and anthropology to shed light on the often rapid switch from relative tolerance to distress to peace and calm.
Voltaires 1763 erschienenes Plädoyer für Toleranz zwischen den Religionen war nie so aktuell wie heute. Seit den Anschlägen auf die Redaktion der Satirezeitschrift Charlie Hebdo hat sich seine Kritik des religiösen Fanatismus wie ein Lauffeuer verbreitet, er selbst gilt als zentrales Symbol für die Freiheit des Geistes: Voltaire-Plakate, versehen mit dem Slogan »Je suis Charlie«, sind in ganz Paris zu sehen. Seine Streitschrift Über die Toleranz wird zusammen mit Kugelschreibern und Stiften als Mahnmal auf vielen Straßen Frankreichs platziert und ist zur Schullektüre avanciert. 250 Jahre nach ihrem Erscheinen ist Voltaires Kampfansage an den Fanatismus und den Aberglauben brisanter und dringlicher denn je. Höchste Zeit, sie zu lesen! Mit einem Vorwort von Laurent Joffrin (Chefredakteur "Libération")
Author: Rainer Forst
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2011-12-27
Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt School's newest generation of philosophers, conceives of an "autonomous" construction of justice founded on what he calls the basic moral right to justification. Forst begins by identifying this right from the perspective of moral philosophy. Then, through an innovative, detailed critical analysis, he ties together the central components of social and political justice freedom, democracy, equality, and toleration and joins them to the right to justification. The resulting theory treats "justificatory power" as the central question of justice, and by adopting this approach, Forst argues, we can discursively work out, or "construct," principles of justice, especially with respect to transnational justice and human rights issues. As he builds his theory, Forst engages with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Amartya Sen, and critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth. Straddling multiple subjects, from politics and law to social protest and philosophical conceptions of practical reason, Forst brilliantly gathers contesting claims around a single, elastic theory of justice.
More than anything, diversity is what characterizes societies of the 21st century. Our contemporary societies are marked by ethnic, religious, racial, ideological, moral, and sexual diversity. Cultural, moral, and ideological pluralism is a fact of our lives. While some people see this phenomenon as a source of richness and thus welcome it, others feel threatened by it. Those who feel threatened have two options before them; they will either learn how to live with diversity or look for ways to suppress it. While, this latter option causes social conflict, the former ameliorates social conflict. This option is called 'toleration.' Toleration: The Liberal Virtue is a defense of toleration as a remedy to societal conflict caused by differences. It examines four prominent grounds of toleration: skepticism, prudence, autonomy, and conscience which are illustrated through the works of four pioneering liberals, namely, Michel de Montaigne, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and Pierre Bayle, respectively.
Author: Dario Castiglione
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2013-03-09
Genre: Political Science
This book brings together a group of international scholars, many of whom have already contributed to the debate on toleration, and who are offering fresh thoughts and approaches to it. The essays of this collection are written from a variety of perspectives: historical, analytical, normative, and legal. Yet, all authors share a concern with the sharpening of our understanding of the reasons for toleration as well as with making them relevant to the way in which we live with others in our modern and diverse societies.
Recently, there has been a notable rise in interest in the idea of "toleration", a rise that Ingrid Creppell argues comes more from distressing political developments than positive ones, and almost all of them are related to issues of identity: rampant genocide in the 20th Century, the resurgence of religious fundamentalism around the world; and ethnic-religious wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In Toleration and Identity, Creppell argues that a contemporary ethic of toleration must include recognition of identity issues, and that the traditional liberal ideal of toleration is not sufficiently understood if we define it strictly as one of individual rights and freedom beliefs. Moving back and forth between contemporary debates and the foundational writings of Bodin, Montaigne, Lock, and Defoe, Toleration and Identity provides a fresh perspective on two key ideas deeply connected to current philosophical debates and political issues.
Author: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002-06-20
The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression towards greater religious toleration, and instead place religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts.
Author: Mark E. Kann
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date: 2013-04-01
“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual repression back to revolutionary America, Kann asks highly contemporary questions about the boundaries between public and private life, suggesting, provocatively, that political and sexual freedom should go hand in hand.” —Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington The American Revolution was fought in the name of liberty. In popular imagination, the Revolution stands for the triumph of populism and the death of patriarchal elites. But this is not the case, argues Mark E. Kann. Rather, in the aftermath of the Revolution, America developed a society and system of laws that kept patriarchal authority alive and well—especially when it came to the sex lives of citizens. In Taming Passion for the Public Good, Kann contends that that despite the rhetoric of classical liberalism, the founding generation did not trust ordinary citizens with extensive liberty. Under the guise of paternalism, they were able simultaneously to retain social control while espousing liberal principles, with the goal of ultimately molding the country into the new American ideal: a moral and orderly citizenry that voluntarily did what was best for the public good. Mark E. Kann, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, held the USC Associates Chair in Social Science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Republic of Men (NYU Press, 1998) and Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy (NYU Press, 2005).

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With the No. 27 pick in the NBA draft, the Miami Heat got a bit of financial flexibility.
Archive for: June 28th, 2012
It’s the Summer of Law for the NFL, and the latest piece of legal news relates to a fascinating case that somehow has remained off the radar screen for more than a year. Redskins tight end Fred Davis was sued in early 2011 by Makini Chaka, a 33-year-old self-described “celebrity broker,” who says she organizes…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Sam Mikulak walked down the hall after arguably the biggest day of his life, oblivious.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After a couple of epic duels with his biggest rival, Michael Phelps made this one look easy.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Danell Leyva reasserted his place on the U.S. gymnastics landscape Thursday, moving ahead of teammate John Orozco after the first day of the U.S. Olympic trials. Leyva, the 2010 national all-around champion, scored 91.700, a point more than Orozco, who stunned Leyva at nationals in St. Louis earlier this month but faltered on pommel horse and vault in San Jose.
To little surprise, the biggest NFL stadium will be trying to finagle an opportunity the biggest games in college football. Officials in Dallas-Fort Worth already have formed a new entity, dubbed the Stadium Events Organizing Committee, for the purposes of competing for the NCAA semifinals and/or championship game, according to the Houston Chronicle. And, naturally,…
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mario Balotelli flexed his muscles in more ways than one.
(AP) — Sidney Crosby wants to be a Pittsburgh Penguin “forever.”
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired the rights to center Tyler Zeller from the Dallas Mavericks for the Nos. 24, 33 and 34 picks in the NBA draft.


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Only 1,5 km far from the entry of Bisceglie and 2km far from the central part of the town, almost 350 m far from the seaside and 400 m far from the nearest beach.
The closer market (DOK) is far 1,5 Km and the hospital is far 1,3 km and the restaurants are far almost 400 m from the hotel.
|How far away from:||Distance||Tempo|
|Molfetta Outlet||9,5 km||12 min by car|
|Miragica – Amusement Park||9,7 km||12 min by car|
|Castel Del Monte – Andria||36 km||40 min by car|
|Cathedral||6,9 km||16 min by car|
|Airport of Bari – Karol Wojtyla||33,5 km||29 min by car|
|Train Station FS Bari Center||42 km||40 min by car|
|Train Station FS Bisceglie||3 km||7 min by car|
|Train Station FS Trani||6,2 km||12 min by car|
|Bus – STP Line||20 metri||1 min on foot|
|Bus – Orange line (Area Bisceglie)||20 metri||1 min on foot|
|Private beach “Matinelle” – Trani||2,2 km||3 min by car|
|Tollbooth (Trani)||9,5 km||12 min by car|
|Tollbooth (Molfetta)||18,4 km||17 min by car|

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